Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 24

Neville looked a little nervous, but he seemed to be a different person when he was speaking. His knowledge of herbal medicine was extremely rich, and his speech became much more confident.

"Professor Theodore greeted me and said that your freshmen will use the beard root in the first week of class, so I will explain the characteristics of the beard root to you today. The beard root is a very magical plant. If the growth environment is not suitable They like it, it will run away, so everyone must be careful when taking care of Qiuxugen."

Neville showed everyone what the beard grass looked like. These beard grasses were cultivated in flowerpots, and each flowerpot was covered with glass to prevent them from escaping.The beard grass was only one inch long and had two green leaves. When Neville approached a pot of beard grass, the beard grass suddenly closed its leaves, quickly burrowed into the soil of the flower pot and disappeared.

"It's shy and has a strong sense of self-preservation." Neville put on his gloves and explained to everyone. "If you want to attract it, you need to use unicorn manure. They like unicorn manure."

Neville picked up a small shovel, shoveled some fertilizer, opened the glass cover, and piled the fertilizer on the flowerpot. Soon the beard grass came out from the middle of the fertilizer, stretching out two leaves again.Neville quickly reached out and grabbed two leaves of the beard grass, and pulled it out.

The rhizomes of the beardweed were tangled together like tangled beards, each one writhing like an earthworm, struggling desperately to get back into the manure.

"See the tubers in these rhizomes? This little ball is what we're going to use in herbal medicine class, so does anyone know what these tubers are for?" Neville asked.

No one raised their hands, and basically no one had previewed the textbook.

Neville looked a little disappointed, and said, "I thought you would read the textbook before class. When I was in school, there was a girl who previewed every class and knew everything."

"He's talking about my mother." Hugo whispered triumphantly, then remembered something, curled his lips, "Maybe Rose."

Carlo asked in the crowd: "Professor Longbottom, why do we need to know what the function of these earthworm-like grasses is?"

When Neville saw that it was Carlo who asked the question, he dodged his eyes for a moment, as if he was caught by the question. He hesitated for a while, and when he was thinking about how to answer, Maureen had already said for him: "Because this is a herbal medicine class! Carlo , you have to know what Qiuxucao is when you take herbal medicine class, otherwise you don’t have to come to class, you can go home now.”

"That's right, you can learn your magic knowledge at home, otherwise what's the point of you coming to school? To be funny?" Lily also echoed.

Carlo was choked, and glared at Maureen and Lily, but Molin and Lily looked at him without fear. Carlo wanted to laugh at Neville in the herbal medicine class, but Maureen repeatedly stopped him. It annoyed him very much.

Neville nodded, and finally found the words to refute Carlo, and said, "He's right, the knowledge of sarcophagus may be tested in the final exam, everyone, please remember, don't ask such stupid questions next time."

Neville cast approving glances at Maureen and Lily, and then he began to talk about the functions of the tubers of the beard grass. This herb has a wide range of uses, and the most common ones are boiled healing potions and tracers.The former is specially used to treat wounds, and the latter is a potion used to track odors.

Neville asked the students to choose a pot of beard grass, loosen the soil and fertilize them, making everyone smell like unicorn excrement. When the class was over, Neville took a bottle of special freshener and sprayed it on everyone.

"These fresheners are also made from the tubers of the beard grass, and they will absorb the smell of unicorn droppings, so you won't get all smelly when you go to other classes later," Neville said understandingly.

"Thank God, this is really good stuff." Hugo sprayed a few more times.

The teacher of the Potions class was Professor Theodore, a brown-haired man with black-framed eyes, who looked extraordinarily energetic, humorous, and the obscure Potions class made everyone look not so bad.

"My dad said that he didn't like Potions class the least before, probably because he didn't meet Professor Theodore." Hugo said, "I think Potions class should become my second favorite class."

Hugo was stirring in the crucible. They had to cook a simple wound healing agent at the beginning of school. This healing agent was particularly effective for minor scratches, and the cooking steps were not complicated.Hugo glanced at the cauldrons of Maureen and Lily, and said in surprise, "Huh? Why is yours green and mine is red?"

"Maybe..." Molin hadn't finished speaking when Hugo's cauldron suddenly burst into flames, and a cloud of smoke billowed in. Molin took a breath and stepped aside .

"...Your steps are wrong." Mo Lin finished the rest.

Hugo's eyelashes were also burned off.

"Hugo, are you fighting with the flames?" Lily said angrily, the ash from Hugo's smoke fell into her cauldron, and the potion in her cauldron also turned red.

Hugo stuck out his tongue, trying to flick off the ashes on his clothes, but the ashes fell into Molin's cauldron, and Molin's potion also turned red.

"I was completely defeated by you." Mo Lin shook his head helplessly.

Needless to say, none of the three of them had grades in class this time, and Professor Theodore asked them to go back and find some time to re-boil the healing potion and hand it in next week.

When I returned to the Gryffindor lounge after dinner, I found that many people were whispering and discussing something.Nelson, the prefect of Gryffindor, specially called all the freshmen together and asked solemnly, "Which of you watched Wright Mosby yesterday afternoon?"

"Who is Wright Mosby?" Morin asked.

"I'm also a freshman with you, but he belongs to Hufflepuff. He didn't go back to the dormitory last night, and he didn't go to class in the morning. Now the prefect of Hufflepuff is looking for him, and asked me to ask if you saw him missing. said Nelson gravely.

"Missing?" All the freshmen looked at each other in blank dismay. Why did they disappear on the first day of school?

"When did you disappear?" Lily asked.

"It can't be said that he is missing, maybe he got lost or something. He didn't go to class for the last two classes yesterday afternoon. Gryffindor didn't have classes for the last two classes yesterday afternoon, right? Has anyone seen where he went?" Nelson said. asked.

The classes of the four colleges were staggered. There were classes for Hufflepuff freshmen in the last two classes yesterday afternoon, but there were no classes for Gryffindor.

Everyone shook their heads, because it was only the first day of school and they were not familiar with each other. Freshmen would not pay special attention even if someone was missing, let alone Wright Mosby was still a Hufflepuff freshman. Everyone hasn't recognized them all yet, how would they know which one is Wright Mosby.

"If anyone of you sees Mosby, tell me, don't wander around until you are familiar with Hogwarts school, if you get lost, it will be very troublesome." Nelson instructed before leaving.

Maureen fell into deep thought. Did he disappear yesterday afternoon when there was no class?

(End of this chapter)