If we count from the beginning of his enrollment, Albus Dumbledore has spent almost a hundred years in Hogwarts Castle. In his long life, he has witnessed various banquets and emergencies.
Condition.
However, there has never been a time like tonight...like a nightmare, but full of fun and adventure.
Everyone seemed a little in a hurry. The dinner lasted for nearly three hours, so that the evening class time had to be adjusted accordingly.
There were too many impressive scenes on this chaotic night.
Seamus Finnigan accidentally burned off his eyebrows while casting a spell to grill fish. At the same time, he also set fire to the tablecloth on the Gryffindor table, triggering a waterfall summoned by dozens of students to extinguish the fire.
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Due to the lack of ingredients for the main course, the faculty and staff rarely enjoyed a feast of condiments, such as fried shallots with garlic, crispy devil peppers, stewed cheese with ginger, and barbecued leek skewers, which greatly enriched the imagination of the professors;
Zacharius Smith cooked a pot of whole fish soup with all the five flavors of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty". The big herring without the guts and gills was sunk at the bottom of the crucible, exuding an ominous and strange fishy smell;
Gryffindor's Percy Weasley is one of the few little wizards who has completed most of the process of "Looking up at the stars". The only regret is that he accidentally mixed the salt and sugar and made a sweet dish.
cloying fish pie;
Inspired by Elena, Slytherin House set up at least four or five fires, half of which were used to roast fish and half to roast durians. The entire auditorium was filled with the terrible smell of a burst toilet drain pipe.
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Most of the Ravenclaw girls had tears in their eyes, and the backs of their hands and cheeks were covered with traces of being "snapped" by big herrings. Many of the big fish hit by the stun spell woke up in the boiling hot soup.
Several cauldrons were knocked over, and the splashing soup caused chaos throughout Ravenclaw House...
Fortunately, after experiencing some failures and struggles, both professors and students have found a balance.
For the young wizards at Hogwarts, surrounded by dozens of dark dishes, they quickly determined the most suitable method of cooking and filling their stomachs through elimination methods - boiling everything in a white water crucible, and then cooking everything.
Eat with dipping sauce.
But on the other side, the atmosphere at the faculty table was obviously much more relaxed and cheerful.
As long as you cross the hurdle in your heart, except for the strange taste and ingredients, under the double insurance of "special chef" Elena and "potions master" Snape, it's generally pretty good.
A pretty good dinner.
And more importantly, Elena actually generously shared her birthday cake with everyone on the staff table - this was indeed beyond the expectations of Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
According to their original idea, given Bai Mao Danzi's habit of eating glutinous rice dumplings, the most they could do was give them to a few close friends.
Dumbledore glanced at the harmonious atmosphere at the staff table, turned his head and quietly asked Grindelwald behind him.
"Elena, this kid... actually gave up the cake, did you teach her?"
"You know I don't care about these things, and I don't think they can be taught."
Grindelwald shrugged his shoulders, glanced at the white-haired dumpling that could switch between "ferocious" and "well-behaved" with a rather satisfied look, and said with emotion, "Perhaps, this is the so-called
It’s a talent.”
While tasting the delicious jam cake and admiring the energetic students below, the small complaints in the hearts of many professors also disappeared, and almost everyone had a gentle and kind smile on their face.
There are several types of dark cuisine, and not all categories have a strong visual impact similar to "Looking Up at the Starry Sky".
In fact, for beginners, except for those that are obviously burnt, most dark dishes seem to be barely acceptable before they are tried in person - especially when the cook is a magic wizard.
There are many ways they can make the dish in front of them look less intimidating, at least in appearance.
This is one of the reasons why the professors are so calm.
In the eyes of the professors, apart from not being as exquisite as the dishes cooked by Elena, most of the food cooked by other students at Hogwarts actually looks pretty decent - at least not poisonous.
As for the exaggerated expressions of the students... After tasting the craftsmanship in the Hogwarts kitchen, it is understandable that they are a little picky about food. After all, there is still a certain gap between the two.
Besides, this is also part of the punishment for students who steal the vegetable garden.
"It's great to be young."
Professor Sprout picked up a piece of raspberry jam cake in front of him, which happened to be in the shape of Gryffindor Tower. He looked around the auditorium, which was ten times more lively than before, and said with a smile.
"I suddenly felt that letting children master some basic life skills may be more important than simply letting students learn knowledge from books - in this way, they will at least know how to support themselves."
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The rest of the week was spent in a particularly magical atmosphere.
Hogwarts seemed to have once again returned to its former peace. The peaceful campus life that Dumbledore expected, this time he really returned to this ancient magical castle.
However, in some subtle places, Hogwarts has undergone some small changes.
All the points in the hourglasses of the four colleges were cleared, and all colleges returned to the same starting line.
Potions class has become the most popular class in the entire school, and the unknown cutting magic invented by Professor Snape has now become one of the most coveted spells among the young wizards in Hogwarts.
"This is an extremely dangerous curse. For those of you idiots who can't even tell the difference between salt and sugar, how to use knives safely and effectively is what you should focus on now!"
After being asked about the curse by a student for the nth time, Professor Snape answered coldly, with murderous intent in his eyes.
However, since the students tasted the delicious potions and food that Professor Snape occasionally cooked in Potions class, this level of displeasure and coldness was completely unable to repel the young wizards. (Although Snape
The original intention is just to hope that students can accumulate experience in handling and brewing magic potions in the process of cooking ordinary dishes)
Severus Snape soon discovered that using the dishes he and Elena cooked as a reward could stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning Potions class more than using the threat of deducting points.
Therefore, although he still felt a little awkward, this dedicated Potions professor would cook a delicious dish every time he taught class as a reward for the student who performed best in the class.
Under the advice of an enthusiastic teaching assistant who did not want to be named, the student with the worst performance in each class will also receive a special gift - a [True·
Dark Cuisine], or another student’s failed cooking work.
At the same time, with the updated rules of "Hogwarts Happy Farm", vegetable growing has gradually begun to become standardized.
The vegetable gardens of each college have been expanded at least three times compared to the original area, and a rotation responsibility system has been assigned in terms of the precision of planting and the patrolling and handover at various times of the day.
Potatoes, as the basic currency, have become a crop that every college must grow.
According to the latest rules, each house can purchase a complete version of the recipe list based on the recipe list provided by the Hogwarts kitchen by paying a certain amount of potato products, and load it into the three meals for the next period of time.
If they are willing to pay a certain amount of extra potatoes, they can even purchase and add exclusive recipes from other colleges. After deducting a certain handling fee, the Hogwarts kitchen will purchase the required ingredients from the vegetable gardens of other colleges through deductions.
crops for cooking.
For example, Slytherin House's durian pancake has now become one of Ravenclaw House's favorite desserts.
As a result of the failure of the previous "food-stealing war", at least a quarter of the labor force and potatoes of Gryffindor House, which was "ceding territory to compensate people", were converted into various desserts and exquisite snacks.
Disappeared into the bottomless appetites of the Ravenclaw girls.
On the other hand, cooking and food are things with inertia.
Since the self-service cooking activity in the auditorium that day, many little wizards seemed to have opened a door to a new world. Whenever they had time, they were thinking about cooking something in a crucible or roasting something by the fireplace.
If you are willing to pay for the potatoes, the Hogwarts kitchen can even provide a barbecue guide, free bamboo skewers, seasoning powder, barbecue tools, matching condiments, and even process it for you.
The most obvious change among these is undoubtedly the Slytherin house that lives by the lake.
As far as Elena knows, the fishman tribe in the Black Lake of Hogwarts has protested to Professor Dumbledore several times.
When many Slytherin students can't sleep at night, they like to lie on the outer wall of the common room and swallow their saliva while watching the magical creatures swimming at the bottom of the lake. This makes the fish people feel very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
Fear - those hungry eyes with a faint green light in the middle of the night are really frightening.
If it weren't for the dangers hidden in the mysterious black lake, fishing poaching might have already occurred on a large scale.
Of course, there is another reason because Slytherin College, which has a large number of specialty crops, quickly realized its competitiveness. With its innate shrewdness and skill, it quickly became a leader in the "potato standard" system.
Under the gameplay, a relatively immature business elite model was first launched.
Through sales, publicity and transactions, Slytherin College quickly harvested a large number of "Hogwarts Kitchen Vouchers", which can be redeemed for delicious dishes that satisfy most people even without having to go fishing in the lake in person.
Relatively speaking, Gryffindor House, which is at the bottom of exploitation, is much simpler and rougher.
From the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch to the blank cordon near the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the little lions of Gryffindor reclaimed and utilized this vast open space, burying seeds in every square of the soil.
Cute potato sprouts.
With the help of the broomstick, the work of sowing, harvesting, and patrolling is not as troublesome as imagined.
The restless and exploratory Gryffindor little lions soon learned how to fly slowly while releasing planting magic towards the land below. The incredible potato yield was enough to support their debts and poverty.
Most normal meal purchase needs.
As for Hufflepuff House, they chose another method...
"Starting today, we will comprehensively clean and map the first three floors of [Helga's Dungeon], and strive to open the first three floors for basic crop planting before Halloween."
Professor Sprout stood in the Hufflepuff common room, glanced at the entrance to the unfathomable underground botanical garden, and said with a serious face to Cedric and other senior students of Hufflepuff House.
"In addition to common plants, there are also many magical plants hidden in the underground botanical garden, as well as magical insects and magical creatures. Although most of them are not dangerous, I still hope that you can be more vigilant."
"The seventh- and sixth-grade students will work with me to transplant the original plants on the first three floors to the lower floors. At the same time, we will also plant and cultivate some protective magic plants around the ground vegetable garden."
"By the way, Elena Kaslana... she is not allowed to go to the Underground Botanical Garden area alone - this is what Professor Dumbledore specifically ordered. I hope all students can help supervise and remind her."
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I can finally fast forward the timeline, I’m so excited~ Time will go by so fast~
Dear fat chickens, don’t worry that you won’t see the end of the first school year~