"The frozen ash snake eggs are of great value and can be used to make emotional drugs. If swallowed whole, they can also treat fevers." Newt handed over a box filled with ash snake eggs.
Give it to Snape. Snape put the box in his arms and prepared to return to Hogwarts Castle.
When he walked to Tom, he paused. Luna, who was shrinking next to Tom, was shocked: she had just been too fascinated by watching the ash snake laying eggs, and forgot that she was not supposed to be here...
"Ten points from Ravenclaw, you know why." Snape left these words softly and left.
Looking at Snape's retreating back, Hermione gently patted Luna on the shoulder, "That's a pretty good result. I only deducted ten points and didn't put you in solitary confinement."
In Hermione's opinion, the scenes of the Ash Snake's birth, laying eggs, and death are very precious, but it cannot be used as a reason or excuse to skip class. This time I skipped class because of the Ash Snake, and next time Professor Scamander will do it.
If you get a fire dragon egg, why don't you skip school? What about next time you get a three-headed dog that's pregnant?
Skipping class is like a crack in a dam. If it is not repaired in time, it will only get bigger and bigger. There will only be more excuses, and this hole should not have been made in the first place.
Luna nodded, seeming to agree with Hermione.
After Snape left, Professor Scamander's class was coming to an end.
Tom looked at the traces left by the fire-ash snakes, and his mind was full of questions. He didn't understand where the fire-ash snakes came from? And what is the reproduction method of the fire-ash snakes?
"Professor Scamander——" Tom stopped Newt who was about to leave and asked him his question.
"How were the Ash Snakes born?" Newt paused, "They are created when the demonic fire burns unchecked for too long."
Ever since Tom asked the question, Hermione had frowned. It wasn't because the question Tom asked was too complicated, but because the question was a little too basic, and it seemed like he wasn't paying attention to the class at all. It was like the teacher had just taught you something in class.
After the atom is completely formed, you can ask about the same arrangement of electrons outside the nucleus.
Tom didn't care that the question he just asked was very basic. He continued to ask persistently: "Don't they lay eggs?"
This was what he was puzzled about: If the ash snakes were born out of thin air from demonic fire, why would they lay eggs?
In the non-magical world, there are also many insects with very "short" lifespans, but this is actually just a human illusion. What people see is only the last adult stage of these insects. In fact, their lifespan is not just a few hours or more.
Just one day and night. In the dark places where humans can't see, these bugs may have survived for several years, burrowing out of the ground and exposing themselves just to reproduce.
Tom suspected that the same was true for the fire-ash snake, which had a lifespan of only one hour. What the wizards saw was only the last stage of the fire-ash snake's life. But this was very unreasonable, because as far as Tom knew, the fire-ash snake's eggs were not
Little ash snakes cannot be hatched. So what is the significance of their behavior? Do they appear out of thin air?
"The eggs of fire ash snakes cannot hatch into young fire ash snakes." Newt understood what Tom meant.
"The research on fire-ash snakes is still blank at present. We know almost nothing about them. We don't know how they reproduce, and no one has seen the complete life cycle of fire-ash snakes. We only know that the devil
When a fire is lit, it can attract ash snakes to come and breed, but the eggs they leave behind have no other effect besides causing fires." Newt spread his hands and said, "Tom, you have stopped me.
There is currently no answer to this question in the magic world.
"There are two conjectures. Some people think that fire ash snakes are not real magical animals. They are more like elemental creatures, 'souls' formed after the uncontrolled burning of magic fire. They are composed of pure fire elements.
The process of laying eggs only enriches the fire element, so their eggs can cause fire."
"Another conjecture is that fire ash snakes do not belong to this world. They have a strong "fire" tendency and will be attracted by magic fire. Their reproduction requires specific substances, and we do not have such substances here.
Therefore, the ash snakes attracted by the demonic fire cannot leave any real offspring."
"Both conjectures have a certain truth. We can't make a judgment. This is also the charm of magical zoology." Newt blinked and left with his suitcase - he wanted to go back to the castle and have a good sleep.
Sleep.
Newt didn't have a clear answer here, but he told Tom everything he knew.
"So what do you think? Which conjecture do you think is true?" Hermione was thoughtful on the way back to the castle. Tom's question brought her a new perspective. Hermione couldn't help but think carefully.
stand up.
"I think experiments are needed." Tom said seriously.
When faced with a conjecture, the best way to prove it is to conduct experiments rather than imagination. Just like whether two iron balls with different masses will fall to the ground at the same time, Aristotle thought about it and intuitively believed that they would not fall to the ground at the same time.
Galileo did an experiment and proved that they would fall to the ground at the same time.
"We can try to communicate with the fire ash snakes. If they are just elemental creatures that act on instinct, then they should be unable to communicate. As for the conjecture that the fire ash snakes come from another world, it is difficult to verify... but it is
It’s not impossible.”
"Huh? How can you prove this?" Hermione's curiosity was aroused by Tom. The conjecture of a different world is simply a fool's errand. Unless that different world is found, it cannot be proven at all.
"There are two conjectures A and B. If conjecture B is too difficult to prove, we can prove that conjecture A is correct." Tom stretched out his hand and made a circle, "We can ignite the same size of magic fire at the same place. If the same
The demonic fire gave birth to a very different number of fire ash snakes, which means that the fire ash snakes are not elemental creatures, but come from an unknown place - that is, the other world you call it."
"But if the numbers are the same, they might be elemental creatures from another world." Hermione found a small loophole in Tom's theory.
Tom:……
It's really good...
"Then we can just take the Exquisite Ball and ask the Fire Ash Snake!" Tom had an idea and suddenly discovered a shortcut that was like cheating.
"What a great idea!" Hermione's eyes lit up. She wished she could find a fire-ash snake now and ask about its origins.
Hermione's eyes were filled with curiosity.
"Next time...haven't you seen how tired Professor Scamander is? It's very difficult to artificially breed a fire-ash snake." Tom poured cold water on Hermione.
"Alas..." Hermione sighed. She understood that now seemed not to be the time to study the Ash Snake.
When the two walked into the castle, a figure stopped in front of them.
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