Luo Fu's little calculation is indeed shocking, but it is actually understandable.
For a magizoologist, magical creatures are like beauties who are thin and fat, each with their own merits. Who wouldn’t want to take them all into the “harem” and pamper them day and night?
Rolf wants it too much!
Not to mention, the snail was someone else's "daughter-in-law", so he was even more excited and wanted to tell the snails right away:
"My box is quite big. It's okay to sleep when you're tired from playing."
If there was a mistake, it was just a mistake that all magizoologists in the world would make!
However, when Wednesday's Care of Magical Creatures lesson came, Rolf saw a blast-ended skrewt outside Hagrid's cabin and was immediately bored.
It’s so ugly…I can’t stop talking about it!
They look like deformed giant lobsters with their shells removed. They are white and gray, sticky, and have many fleshy legs that grow diagonally upwards. It's hard to tell whether they are legs or antennae.
They also give off a very strong smell...much like dead fish and shrimp that have been exposed to the sun for days.
Compared with the Blast-Ended Skrewt, the ghoul can be considered pretty, the wart-faced hag is considered gentle and charming, and the dementor's passionate kiss doesn't sound that scary at all.
Luofu only glanced at it a few times, and waves of nausea came over him one after another, and he suddenly gave up the idea of adopting the snail into his box.
Shirley looked at Luo Fu and secretly became happy. He gently poked the girl's cheek with his finger, making her smile even happier.
Many students were disgusted by the snail, but Hagrid obviously didn't think so. He even thought the snail was an interesting and cute creature.
"It's very beautiful, isn't it?" Hagrid looked at his squid with fascination and said softly: "A group of weak and docile little guys are really a miracle of life."
But the reality is just the opposite. Those snails are neither beautiful nor docile. They are already stacked on top of each other and fighting. I don't know whether it is the anus or the head, and they are constantly spraying sparks.
As for being weak... everyone really wanted to step on the Blast-Ended Skrewt to help Hagrid prove this point.
"Your task is to feed them!" Hagrid pointed to the food on the shelf in the distance and said:
"After the lessons of the past few days, Gryffindor and Slytherin students have confirmed that snails don't like eating eggs and beetles, and eating rat offal will cause diarrhea."
"You need to try something else today - I prepared ant eggs, frog liver and green snake - try a little of each to see if they eat it."
But the students were all rushing to get the rat's internal organs, as if they were preparing to kill the snails in this way.
During the feeding process, everyone discovered another problem, that is, the snail seemed to have no head.
After careful study, the students discovered that they eat and excrete in the same place, and they eat and excrete at the same time.
Blast-ended snails will also shoot out some sparks from time to time, and with a popping sound, their bodies will push forward a few inches.
"The sparks burned me!" Justin said angrily, showing Hagrid a burnt patch on his hand.
"Ah, yes, their sparks are indeed dangerous." Hagrid nodded and said, "But they are also very beautiful, just like fireworks, aren't they?"
Seeing Hannah wanting to touch the sucker of the snail, Hagrid reminded: "That thing sucks blood."
Hannah quickly retracted her hand and said in horror: "It's so scary!"
Not only are snails dangerous, they are also picky eaters.
Neville threw the greasy frog livers into the box, but they refused to eat and screamed and exhaled, spitting out a cloud of sparks.
Luofu quickly replaced the green snake and threw it into the box. Seeing this, the snails let out noisy screams and scurried around in the box, grabbing food and tearing the snake meat into pieces not much bigger than knuckles.
Small pieces.
Two larger snails fought each other for a piece of good meat, and sparks flew for a while.
Luofu had no choice but to stretch out his hand to separate them, but in the process of pulling, he used too much force and broke the claw of one of the snails with a "snap", and blood flowed gurglingly.
There was a sudden "ding" in the young man's brain.
[An injured snail was detected, triggering a side mission:]
Help the Blast-Ended Skrewt reattach the broken leg, and you will be rewarded with magic:
【Brilliant Fireworks】
[Use magic to create flames and spray them out from the anus. Each time you spray the flames, your body can jump forward a short distance. The bigger the flame, the farther the jump distance will be.]
[Side mission]
Capturing a Blast-Ended Skrewt will reward you with magic:
【Female to male conversion】
[Blast-tailed snails do not have a fixed gender. When two fried-ended snails duel, the one who loses will become a female and can become pregnant.
When the host is fighting a wizard of the same sex, he will use the 'male-male transformation'. Under the stimulation of magic, when the opponent is defeated, there is a certain chance of transforming into the opposite sex]
"..."
Luo Fu stared at the magic of "male-male switching" and couldn't help but be stunned. Could this be the legendary saying that there are rewards for winning and punishment for losing?
It's really perverted...but he likes it!
Luofu remembered that he had obtained the magic of a civet cat and could create a clone after being attacked.
If he uses "male-male switching" in a battle with his clone, and he wins in the end, will the clone turn into a girl?
Rolf's thoughts were wandering further and further, and he was even thinking about a female succumbing to Voldemort, or making a deal with Snape to get him a Harry Potter for fun.
Hagrid walked around in the crowd, and soon came to Rolf's side. He smiled and said, "How is it? This class is a surprise, isn't it?"
Luo Fu and Shirley exchanged a look, which was more like being frightened.
"Hagrid, how were these snails bred?" Rolf asked.
Hagrid glanced around and lowered his voice: "It took me sixty fire crabs to get the manticore pregnant and give birth to these blast-tailed snails."
"..."
Sixty fire crabs versus a manticore
Hagrid, you are such a beast!
Luofu thought for a while and asked again: "Is it the manticore that you found in the Forbidden Forest before?"
"Yes." Hagrid nodded and sighed: "After she gave birth to these blast-ended snails, her temper became more and more violent. Now she doesn't even dare to come near me... You'd better not go to the Forbidden Forest recently.
"
Luo Fu secretly cursed, having encountered a fire crab in a wheel battle, how could that manticore not have a bad temper?
"Hagrid, you have violated the "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments" law." Shirley reminded:
"If the Ministry of Magic finds out, you may lose your job or even be imprisoned in Azkaban."
Hagrid glanced around furtively and whispered:
"No, if others ask, I will say that manticores and fire crabs breed spontaneously in the wild and have nothing to do with me."
Hagrid looked at Rolf with a sly smile in his eyes and said:
"I asked your grandfather, and he said that it is not illegal to pick up hybrid magical creatures."