A day at Hogwarts

The Potions Tournament was over, and Charles' life at Hogwarts was back on track.

For him, there are four most important things at present: Snape's potion flow chart, planting the seedlings of the flowers and plants in the second greenhouse into the ground, destroying the acromantula's lair in the forbidden forest, and inspecting the house.

Now that the weather has warmed up, the acromantula is arranging its nest and preparing to lay eggs, Snape's work can take its time, and Fudge is willing to help inquire about buying a house, so he can take advantage of this time to plant the flowers and plants that he has been thinking about all along .

The place where the garden is located was burned down before, and the soil was turned over once with the earth-digging spell. After a winter and half a spring, the seeds brought by the wind and bird droppings made the weeds pop up again. Come on.

Now we need to weed first, then divide the area, then apply base fertilizer, plow the ground again and water according to the situation before transplanting the seedlings.

The land is 50 meters square, and Charles felt that since he is such a good student, it should not be a problem to expand the area in the future.

During Charles' time in Africa, Neville helped with the plants in the greenhouse.

The Moondewflower seeds that Charles ordered were sent to Hogwarts after he went to Africa. Neville helped raise the seedlings, and now they can be transplanted.

On the first Saturday morning after returning from Africa, Charles, Neville and Seamus came to the site of the future garden and began to divide the area with rope and white lime.

"Look." Neville touched Charles with his arm, "They're here today too."

Charles thought he was well-informed, but it was still miraculous to see Malfoy squatting in the field with Crabbe and Goyle to help weed.

"It's a good thing." Charles thought of the Malfoy family's behavior, "It's good kids who are willing to help."

Simo said disdainfully, "I don't want to get along with that kind of person."

Charles smiled and said to him, "He would definitely like to make friends with His Excellency Seamus Finnigan, the first class medalist of the Order of Merlin."

Seamus looked disgusted.

"Come on," said Charles, "just treat them as good people before they do bad things."

After he finished speaking, he went to greet Malfoy and the others.

Malfoy looked very nervous when he saw Charles coming over, he forced a blunt smile on his face, and responded very deliberately.

Crabbe and Goyle continued to squat aside, shoveling out the emerging weeds with a small shovel, not daring to look up.

Charles chatted with him about the weather for two minutes, thanked them for their help, and went about his business.

It can be seen that what Xiao Ma is doing now must be taught by Lao Ma, just because of that large medal.

Malfoy looked relieved, hesitated for a moment, and continued to squat down to weed.

Charles and the others started to lay out the lines, and arranged the flower belts in a circle within a circle according to the design. In the middle is a circular lawn with a diameter of 6 meters. A gazebo will be planted here. There is a circle of more than 1 meter every 2 meters on the grass road facing outward. Wide flower belt, flower belt has 7 layers, and the whole garden has a channel like the Union Jack pattern.

In the flower belt, nearly 60 kinds of plants that glow at night will be planted in sub-areas. The dwarf moon dew flowers will be used to divide the areas, and the rest of the areas will be planted with grasses that are resistant to trampling. But now there are only less than one collected in the Forbidden Forest, and the rest have been entrusted to friends such as Fang Yan, Furong, Valentina and Lily to purchase luminous plants suitable for growing here.

It is estimated that it will take two years for the entire garden to take shape.

Now only Neville and Seamus are the ones who really help Charles build a garden. Neville is interested in planting plants. Seamus came here purely to help friends, and secondly, the professors repeatedly hinted that Charles would lead him to this place that would not explode. field.

The three of them started to work. Charles first nailed a wooden stick in the center, and then Neville supported him. Then he tied a rope and used a tape measure to measure different lengths for Seamus to hold as a human compass. He went behind Seamus. Talcum powder was sprinkled on the ground to mark it, and everything used was prepared during the Christmas holidays.

The laying-out work is very simple, it is less than 1500 meters, and it was completed in half a morning.

The total area of ​​all flower belts is about 450 square meters, and 3m of dragon manure is needed for composting. Calculated by the trolleys on the side of the greenhouse, it needs to pull about 15 carts.

At this time, Malfoy and the others were of great help, each of them only needed to pull two or three times, and it was finished by noon.

Seeing that it was lunch time and Charles had no intention of leaving, Malfoy was a little hesitant to leave, Crabbe and Goyle looked at him.

Charles asked Malfoy: "Let's go to the barbecue, will you come?"

The long-term workers help the landlord with work, and the landlord also provides food. These three guys have helped a lot objectively, and it is appropriate to treat them to a meal.

Malfoy hesitated, then nodded.

Charles took them to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and took out a barbecue stove and charcoal by the water, as well as a basket of potatoes and vegetables, and asked them to peel potatoes and light up the charcoal fire.

"You wait," Charles said, "I'll get some meat."

Neville immediately said, "It's against school rules to enter the Forbidden Forest!"

Charles replied with a smile: "It's okay, I'm allowed."

After speaking, he took out his broomstick and flew into the Forbidden Forest.

Malfoy said thoughtfully from the side: "I heard from my father that Smith is now an official of the Ministry of Magic."

Everyone in the Ministry of Magic knew about the replacement of the director of the Centaur Liaison Office, but the name Charles Smith was also popular, and no one paid attention to this fringe department. No one knew that the director was still a first-year student at Hogwarts.

The Ma family was well informed, so Ma naturally knew who the new director was.

It's just that this matter is too outrageous, both Neville and Seamus think that the pony is talking in his sleep.

Charles returned shortly after, with a large bundle of spider legs.

He is not afraid of falling out with Hagrid now, and he has the ability to sue the Ministry of Magic.

Today's spider legs are cut into small pieces and shelled, brushed with oil and then sprinkled with some mixed spices brought back from Africa. Together with potato skins and vegetables, they are wrapped in aluminum foil and placed on a charcoal fire. Grill until the meat in the middle is just cooked.

The Malfoy trio tasted the local Hogwarts delicacies cautiously, compared to those who came over just to eat happily.

Not only did Ruby come over by himself, he also called Fox over.

Charles looked at the two phoenixes and wondered if they could mate and lay a few eggs?

But he couldn't figure out the gender of Ruby and Fox, and couldn't tell from the outside. As for the body shape, Ruby was fat and had no reference value.

Several people continued to work after finishing their lunch, spreading the compost of dragon manure into the flower belt, and Charles sprinkled some Muggle compound fertilizer into it, and he was busy all afternoon.

The next morning, when a group of people came here, they were taken aback because a ditch two meters wide and one meter deep had formed on the outermost edge of the flower belt overnight, leaving only a passage near the greenhouse.

Charles just smiled. This was dug out by the time-turner and the Flying Curse last night. Nearly 300 cubic meters of soil was not easy.

He didn't think about how to water it at first, but decided to build a ditch outside last night to attract water from a nearby river. First, he would raise some aquatic plants, and second, ensure the soil moisture. Maybe he could raise some small fish.

Next, he began to use the earth-digging curse that he had just learned not long ago, and the soil kept turning, pressing all the fertilizer spread on the ground yesterday to a depth of about 30 cm underground.

Neville and the others moved the plants to be planted from the second greenhouse and placed them in the place marked by Charles in the garden. They first got used to the outside climate and then planted them in the ground next weekend.

This evening, Ruby's dinner was extraordinarily sumptuous.

After eating and drinking, the fat phoenix hiccupped there.

Charles took out a special backpack and put it on its back, Fat Phoenix felt something was wrong.

Three days later, in a middle school among the 100,000 mountains in southern China, Ruby, who had lost two catties, fell on the playground with a plop, and the inter-class exercises had to be stopped.