Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 198 Rafflesia Flower

— Wardfark!
All these bizarre scenes actually made Professor Sprout swear.

(At least the MacGuffin looks like she mouths that way)

Because everyone was wearing earmuffs, there was no way to restore calm by ordinary methods, and the brothers who took off the earmuffs and lay on the ground were role models, so the chaos continued.

In the end, she had no choice but to get the chaotic little wizards out of the greenhouse one by one with her own hands.

Some of these little wizards were running around with their heads covered, and some were tightly entwined by red vine tentacles (Professor Sprout hit these tentacles hard with his wand, and they gradually faded away, letting go of the little wizards),

Some had their earmuffs knocked off and fainted after hearing the cries of mandrakes

(Teach her to wave the magic wand to float these fainted little wizards in the air, like a balloon pulling a rope, to float them in mid-air and always pull them out of the door)

After waiting outside, she directed a few young wizards who seemed relatively calm to return to the greenhouse, and it took a long time to replant all the mandrakes into the flowerpots
(Of course, this is mainly planted by Professor Sprout, and other students are mainly responsible for finding the Mandrake from various corners).

When all this is done, it is almost time for the second class.

Only then did Professor Sprout learn from the crowd who the culprit of all this is? !

At this time, McGuffin was still working hard to get rid of the pollen on his body.

Just sneezing, no way to successfully cast the spell

"Clean-(Ah-choo!)-new!"

Another unsuccessful spellcasting.

A spark shot out of McGuffin's wand, almost hitting Ron nearby.

Frightened, Ron hurriedly wanted to cast a spell to help McGuffin.

(Only his wand is still...

Although they borrowed some unicorn tail hair from Hagrid according to Professor Flitwick's suggestion, and then tied the wand that was about to be shortened in two from the break, it was barely tied up.

——Because it is made of magic material, there is no way to repair the wand with a repair spell, and it cannot be easily connected with glue,
Only by connecting the tail hairs of unicorns, which are also magic materials, can the magic power flow and cast magic
——But this kind of connected wand, although it can cast spells, the spells it emits are often in the opposite direction, and the discipline of various accidents is very high.

That's why... After Harry saw this scene, he quickly stopped Ron's actions.

But Harry himself had cast the Cleansing Charm a few times to no avail, and McGuffin could not stop sneezing uncontrollably.

When he wants to cast it again.

Professor Sprout frowned and came to several people.

"Clear water slowly!"

She waved her wand, and the tip of the wand was like a water spout, and a stream of water rushed out, drenching the McGuffin.

Strange to say.

In this way, the hard-to-dispel scent of flowers on McGuffin's body gradually disappeared, and the originally colorful, shiny and reflective pollen was also washed and flowed to the ground.

Then the professor waved his wand again.

A gust of hot wind hits,
No, or the clothes on him began to heat up automatically, and the moisture on the clothes turned into water vapor, which was slowly dried little by little.

"Thank you Professor!" McGuffin said in a low voice.

At this time, he was finally able to utter a complete sentence, he sucked his nose hard and said.

"you……?"

"what happened?"

Originally, Professor Sprout wanted to come over and ask the little wizard why he threw the Mandrake in Longbottom's face, but when he saw the situation of McGuffin, he immediately understood.

"pollen allergy?"

"Albert...have you been sprayed with pollen from the male Rafflesia?" the professor asked continuously.

"Male... Rafflesia?" McGuffin asked hesitantly.

——Are there male and female plants?

A MacGuffin (⊙o⊙)? ? ? (foggy water)

"The huge flower hanging from the big net in the middle of the greenhouse is the male Rafflesia flower."

"The pollen it produces is mixed with the juice of the female Rafflesia flower. It is the most effective natural medicine for curing most dizziness spells or awakening fainting caused by the cry of the mandrake."

"Because it has a certain degree of inhibitory effect on the Mandrake, I transplanted it to the third greenhouse -- above the Mandrake. Otherwise... I usually cultivate a piece of land in the Forbidden Forest for open-air planting!"

Professor Sprout came to McGuffin and ran his index finger through his hair, then put his finger under his nose and took a few sniffs.

"Sure enough... that's right, it is indeed the smell of male Rafflesia pollen."

McGuffin tried it himself.

——There is no strange smell!
It was the smell of pollen in the greenhouse just now.

Seeing McGuffin's bewildered attempt, Professor Sprout chuckled, and continued.

"Rafflesia pollen is commonly found in women's perfumes in the wizarding world, and after being adjusted, this perfume itself has a strong and attractive smell... It is the top magic perfume in the wizarding world, it can be called liquid gold... and it also has a certain effect of seducing wizards!"

"Moreover, most of the enchanting potions in the world,...for example, the infamous love potion has this Rafflesia flower as an ingredient..."

Ron's eyes lit up when he heard the words liquid gold.

He was very troubled by his wand that had been broken in two.

, if you have this money, you can...

"Ron Weasley! Don't waste your time, I don't mean the pollen of the male king, but the juice of the pollen of the female king is the main raw material... Pollen alone cannot be made into perfume, and the production of magic perfume requires a very professional potion pharmacist to succeed,"

Professor Sprout was dumbfounded.

——Ron looked excitedly at the ground that had become shiny after the pollen had merged into the water.

Turning her mind around, she knew what this little devil wanted to do.

Professor Sprout poured cold water on Ron.

"However, the female Rafflesia is not mature. It stands to reason that the male Rafflesia has not yet bloomed...how come it bloomed early? Could it be..."

"Which one of you threw dragon dung compost at that big flower on the ceiling!" Professor Sprout asked, staring at the other little wizards with stern eyes.

Everyone looked at each other in dismay - the culprit, Seamo's earmuffs, had already been knocked off in the chaos and fell into the comatose army.

"Um! Well..." Seeing that no one admitted for a long time, Professor Sprout also realized that it was very likely that the guy had been 'brought down'.

She looked around, and seeing that McGuffin was almost dry, she waved her wand and put a [Bubble Curse] on McGuffin's head.

- Used to purify the air.

This made McGuffin feel bad.

"Albert, come with me, we need to find some female Rafflesia juice mixed with the pollen of the male Rafflesia, and wake up these unlucky little wizards!"

"My Merlin! What's the matter today!"

Sprout whimpered and led the way.

After McGuffin Lu Wei hesitated, he had no choice but to follow.

Although he had a very bad feeling in his heart, there was no way to refuse - after all, a large part of the current situation was caused by McGuffin himself.

After entering the greenhouse, this time they did not follow the middle path.

As soon as he entered the door, Professor Sprout turned left.

She waved her wand at the position of the magic air wall.

There was a passage blocked by finger-thick iron chains, and those red tentacle-like guard vines also slowly retreated from the iron chains.

Soon, the iron chain broke in two from the middle, and the yellow wooden sign with the warning 'Danger' on it also fell to the ground.

McGuffin followed Professor Sprout along this path into the depths of the greenhouse.

The path is paved with some kind of gray-blue, rough-grained stone slabs, winding and winding.

Both sides are black and brown soil, and the air here is like the Forbidden Forest, with a very moist, life-rich soil smell.

McGuffin carefully avoided the branches of various types of plants hanging down in the air, and followed closely behind Professor Sprout.

He felt as if he had entered the Amazon jungle or traveled through those ancient jungles of the Cretaceous period.

Although the trees here are not the kind of towering giant trees, they are full of emerald green and exude all kinds of strange fluorescent lights, as if they have strayed into an illusion.

It's not like coming to a greenhouse at all.

This is a completely different magical feeling from Hogwarts Castle.

Those plants and trees each have their own characteristics, and the only thing they have in common is that they are unreasonable.

Most of the plants here are constantly wriggling. It is said that the plants actually feel more like animals,
The rest are all kinds of strange shapes, there are trees with a texture like metal, and some flowers emit fluorescence even in the daytime.
Others are either extremely huge (McGuffin even saw a mushroom house more than one meter high, and some elves like fairies came and went back and forth in it, but they are cute and have blue skin),
Either it violates the principle of plant evolution in the ordinary nature (for example, there is even a plant goblin who looks like a 'naked alien' jumping back and forth in the open space)...

In the end, Professor Sprout led him through this weird "forest secret", and came to a certain kind of plant that was very strange even here.

The plant has no stems on the ground, leaves grow, and only a huge inflorescence emerges straight from the ground.

At the bottom, there are countless purple-green vines extending from the ground in all directions.

(McGuffin looks along the vines. These branches spread along the walls and the shed supports to the mid-air and extend to form the giant net of plants. Those umbrella-like rafflesias (male) grow from here.

But I don't know if Professor Sprout has cleaned it, or it is the nature of the plant's original growth.

Only here is a circular hollow in the sky. )
McGuffin realized immediately—

Is this the female Rafflesia flower?

He carefully observed the group of plants.

The short and thick inflorescence stalk of the female Rafflesia stretched out wide purple bracts, tightly wrapped together, standing upright naked, almost as tall as Hagrid, estimated to be about three meters.

This strange-looking unbloomed flower, like a shriveled thin gourd, has a flat curve from top to bottom.

— cough cough

Professor Sprout coughed slightly, and McGuffin turned to look at her.

The professor's face was a little reddish, his eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to look directly at McGuffin.

"Albert, we must find a way to wake up those fainted students."

"Just now you should also know that the juice of the female Rafflesia flower mixed with the pollen of the male Rafflesia flower can wake up those little wizards who have fainted..."

"But now the rafflesia flower has not yet reached the flowering period, and the juice in the female rafflesia flower will only volatilize when it is fully mature..."

Professor Sprout paused and continued,

"A strange taste!"

"It prompts the male rafflesia to bloom and spread pollen from the sky. At the same time, the female rafflesia is stimulated by the fragrance of the pollen itself, and will continue to secrete juice, and the pollen along with the juice will gradually flow into the core of the underground stamen to breed seeds... until the seeds mature, they will be ejected from the female rafflesia like a volcanic eruption."

When Professor Sprout talked about the characteristics of Rafflesia, a strange plant, his eyes glowed, and he was very excited.

"Oh! Look, why am I telling you this?..."

"Anyway, it's because you have the pollen smell of the male Rafflesia flower on your body... That's right, I didn't completely eliminate the pollen smell from your body just now."

McGuffin suddenly felt bad.

——Wouldn't she want me?

"It's just right...you can put your hand into the female Rafflesia flower, so that you can take some of the juice secreted by the female Rafflesia flower with the smell of the male Rafflesia flower on your body."

What Professor Sprout said was beautiful and simple.

But McGuffin always felt that there was something wrong with it that he didn't know.

But when things came to an end... there was no other way.

And to a certain extent, he is self-inflicted.

McGuffin had to put on a set of long-sleeved dragonhide gloves that Professor Sprout had brought him, and then carried a crystal glass flask with a lid.

Teach her to wave the wand to float the McGuffin to a height of more than three meters, which is the entrance to Huaguduo.

After he sighed, he resignedly moved the head with the [Bubble Head Curse] towards the flower, then leaned sideways and stretched his right arm through the narrow opening of the flower bud into the passage...

Oily, slippery, filled with some sort of oily juice.

After about two or three minutes, McGuffin shook the flask and felt a lot heavier.

So he hurriedly took out the flask and covered the mouth of the bottle.

(The juice in the flask is a piece of green oil, with some faint fluorescence, and the texture is very viscous, like honey.)
Professor Sprout dropped him from mid-air.

(I don't know when, she also cast the [Bubble Head Curse] on herself.)
After returning to the outside of the greenhouse, McGuffin saw where he had passed, and all the 'scholars' retreated.

Every time he took a step, all Hufflepuff and Gryffindor students took two steps back, except for the little wizard who fainted, and some even turned and ran away. They stared at McGuffin with unspeakable eyes.

——There is fear in the shock.

What the hell?
With a twitch in his heart, McGuffin thought of something...

He waved his wand to release the [Bubble Curse] on his head,
vomit--

McGuffin finally realized the psychological shadow that those two big shits had caused on the professors last semester.

——This smell of bull nose, damn it...it's so powerful!
——It’s so damn high!

(End of this chapter)