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Regarding Newt's character, Aileen had already learned quite a bit from Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
And now, Old Freckles' direct answer is just further confirming the information she received.
Newt Scamander is not a "small animal protector" in the traditional sense, nor is he a "pet rights protector" like in later generations. Strictly speaking, he is a neutral nature conservationist – purely out of love and rational research.
In this regard, he and Aileen's familiar Rubeus Hagrid can actually be seen as two different types of people.
For Newt Scamander, he never denies the dangers of magical creatures, nor the potential threats they pose to social systems or the Statute of Secrecy. The current magical creature classification system in the wizarding world was established with his personal involvement.
You know, unlike Rubeus Hagrid's "loving way" of living and eating with magical creatures since childhood.
Newt Scamander's love for magical creatures was mainly inspired by his mother, who used to breed hippogriffs. As a result, at the age of seven, he began dissecting Horklumps (a pink, bristly, mushroom-like animal) in his bedroom, and often "played" for hours.
Later, whether it was the Werewolf Registry, the "Ban on Breeding for Experimental Purposes" edict, the Dragon Breeding Area, the "House-Elf Relocation Act," the Horned Serpent Sanctuary... all of these are reflections of his own philosophy.
Newt advocates a rational and benevolent way of understanding the world, neither fearing rejection nor advocating superstition.
Because of this, he has been constantly revising and supplementing "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" for so many years.
However, besides that, Newt Scamander has indeed consistently refused to participate in any commercial magical animal profit-making projects. Therefore, Aileen's suggestion of mass breeding of chameleon lizards was just a trial question... what if he had changed?
"Lawful Neutral? Truly the standard Hufflepuff Druid school..."
Aileen raised her eyebrows thoughtfully, took Luna and Hannah's hands, and quickly followed Newt's footsteps.
Newt Scamander's attitude reminded Aileen of the alignment chart she had seen in her previous life. A researcher, a guardian, adhering to his own bottom line, resisting those behaviors that violate his own values, but keeping a distance from certain ambiguous things.
She wondered if Newt would spark more interesting ideas if he met Soviet biologists.
But before that, she first had to use this time together to find a way to raise Newt Scamander's favorability, even if she couldn't win him over to her camp, but at least become a relatively friendly academic partner.
As for how to achieve this, Aileen had already prepared many plans before coming here.
Now she just needed to try them one by one, to find the most effective one...
In the next period of time, under the leadership of Newt Scamander, Aileen and the others completely experienced what is called the professional breeding base of the world's top magical animal master (unquestionably).
"This is a Knarl, which exists only in a few parts of Western Europe, mainly distributed in rural Russia and America."
Newt Scamander pointed to a seemingly underdeveloped piglet and introduced:
"They usually sneak into pigpens as piglets and compete with other ordinary piglets for the sow's milk. If allowed to grow freely, it will quickly grow up and cause extremely troublesome damage on the farm. If Muggles can keep a pure white dog on the farm, it can prevent and drive them away."
"This is... an American Long-Legged Pig? It's not short at all?"
Seeing this Knarl with long legs, a short, thick tail, distinct muscles, and full of vitality, Aileen instinctively licked her lips, swallowed, and then quickly asked a new question in order to divert Newt's attention.
European farms, especially in England, do not have such a high preference for pork.
Compared with the top meat in China, the British prefer veal, lamb, and fish. Even in Germany and Austria, which have a preference for pork knuckles, the utilization rate of pigs is not very high – for them, the only edible parts of the pig are its four legs and those fatty and inflexible pieces of meat on its body.
The biggest difference between this Knarl and ordinary domestic pigs is that its legs are not so much hams as they are long legs similar to deer legs, which are powerful and good at running. There is not much fat accumulation on its body, and it looks particularly chewy.
"But its legs are very short when it's young. And when it lurks in the pigpen, it mostly crouches among the pigs to avoid being discovered and driven out by wizards or Muggles... so the person who named it in the beginning called it that."
"I see, so they are the legendary Voldepigs, no wonder their noses are so short."
Aileen nodded, and continued to ask with some interest.
"Anything else?"
"Huh? What? Anything... else?"
Newt was slightly taken aback, looking at Aileen with some confusion, not understanding what she was talking about.
"I mean, besides the information you just mentioned, have you not collected their living habits, dietary preferences, taste and meat quality, growth cycle... um, I mean physical parameters and lifespan range?"
Aileen bit her tongue and quickly glossed over the place she accidentally misspoke, listing them one by one.
"Well, they should have about the same eating habits as ordinary pigs, as for other things... they run very fast. Most ordinary hounds can't catch up with them, but their impact is roughly the same as common wild boars."
Newt Scamander touched his nose, and answered uncertainly.
These Knarls living in the underground animal area are mostly descendants of magical animals from Tina Scamander's hometown. Compared with their parents, this batch of Knarls who grew up in this area since childhood do not have much vigilance against humans.
On the other hand, Knarls are not magical creatures like Horklumps, and there is not much need for dissection.
Therefore, even Newt Scamander could not give too many detailed answers in this regard.
"If you are interested in these contents, perhaps you can study it yourself later."
Newt Scamander shrugged his shoulders, not paying too much attention to Aileen's question, passed the Knarl habitat, waved his arms, and motioned for the three girls to continue following him forward. The underground animal area was extremely large, and they might not be able to finish visiting it today.
Next, Aileen and the others also saw the Bowtruckles guarding the wand trees.
These peaceful and extremely shy little creatures seemed to be made of bark and twigs. They are perhaps the most beloved magical creatures of wandmakers – not all trees are suitable for making wands. Even trees planted in the same forest may have different magical properties.
And Bowtruckles will not choose to live in trees without magical properties.
This also means that the trees they guard are usually suitable for harvesting to make wands. However, Aileen and the others learned from Newt Scamander's introduction that even ordinary trees can gradually be transformed into trees with magical properties if a certain number of Bowtruckles are willing to live in them for a long time.
In addition to that, they also saw Augureys.
Augureys represent the number "4" in ancient runes. Their brightly colored and magically durable feathers have always been sought after by the magical community as excellent materials for making high-quality magical quills.
However, for safety reasons, Newt did not allow them to approach those beautiful African magical birds.
Because the cry of an Augurey can cause people to lose their minds. Most of the Augureys sold on the market have been cast with the Silencing Charm, but Newt Scamander would naturally not cast spells on these beautiful birds.
Newt Scamander is indeed a top wizard in the field of magical creatures.
Even if they only visited a small part of the underground animal area, the variety of magical animals living there and the high degree of rarity were enough to keep all the little witches, including Luna Lovegood, in constant amazement.
There is probably no magical animal master in this world who can surpass Newt Scamander.
Aileen even suspected that perhaps only researchers like Professor Oak in the "Pokémon series" could barely surpass Newt Scamander. Of course, considering the age gap between the two, the results might be reversed.
As for Aileen's own positioning – as a seeker of love and peace, having money and ideals is enough.
Along the way, most of the magical creatures raised by Newt Scamander made Aileen a little envious.
However, as the ancients said, "A little impatience spoils great plans." Although these magical creatures are indeed very rare and possess all kinds of wonderful futures that have not been fully developed, if compared with the value of Newt Scamander himself, it is far too different – as long as Newt is captured, all of this will be available.
After visiting the first two floors of the underground magical animal area, the scheduled visit time was almost used up.
According to the schedule set by Tina Scamander, they should now start to return and go to the bedroom upstairs to wash up and prepare to rest, after all, Aileen and the others still had to participate in the British Quidditch National Team trials the next day.
In Aileen's opinion, there were not too many magical animals that needed to be fully understood today.
Just then, Aileen suddenly narrowed her eyes, she felt a slight movement in her chest.
At first, she thought that the reserve food was stretching or turning over inside, but the next moment Aileen instantly reacted – her chubby chicken with a round face was still urging "Dumbledore" to write an explanation letter at Hogwarts. At the earliest, it was on the way back, and it was impossible to shrink in her chest as a demon king's accessory as usual.
Aileen subconsciously lowered her head. A little creature covered in black fluff, like an echidna, was crawling out of her neckline, clutching a goblin money bag filled with galleons in its little paws, temporarily filling the empty space.
The little guy raised his head and stared blankly at Aileen, as if he didn't realize that he would be suddenly caught red-handed.
Noticing that Aileen's footsteps suddenly stopped, Newt Scamander turned his head, his face changed.
"This is..."
"Oh? This should be the Niffler that Mr. Scamander keeps, right?"
Before the little guy could spread his four paws and escape, Aileen smiled slightly, skillfully pinched the scruff of the Niffler's neck, which had somehow jumped onto her and wanted to steal the money bag, and shook it meaningfully in her hand.
"Looking at this fur color, it's quite good..."