Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 237 Sleeping Dragon Do Not Disturb (Part 2)

  If she can have her own secret garden, Pomona hopes to be filled with beautiful flowers, such as begonias, hydrangea, jasmine, geraniums, instead of poisonous plants like poisonous beard.

  It is very expensive, but Pomona has never sold it, because these plants are used to deal with eight-eyed spiders in the forbidden forest.

  Poison in the spider’s food. When one spider dies, its carcass will be eaten by the same species, so that another spider will also be poisoned. It’s just that Aragog’s children have thousands of them, and just one or two poisonous beard plants is not enough, so her garden is full of these highly poisonous plants.

"You take good care of them, Neville." In the greenhouse full of water vapor, she checked the conditions of these plants. They were growing strong, and their tentacles stretched slowly, as if they were stretching, Pomona herself. Taking care of them is at this level.

   "This is what I should do." Neville said, "Can I ask why you plant these poisonous tentacles?"

"If you want peace, you must prepare for war. They came in handy on that battlefield." Pomona put on dragon leather gloves. "And it is also an important ingredient in pesticides. You never thought of using it to deal with eight. Is the eye spider right?"

   "Oh." Neville suddenly realized.

"Since I planted it, I have to feed in the forest every once in a while, so as to ensure that the eight-eyed spiders are controlled in a certain number. You have not been pests in the past six years, and they reproduce fast. That’s why it became the situation it is now." Pomona sighed, "I'm so sorry, I didn't even tell you."

  "Professor Slughorn is needed for pesticides, right?" Hermione asked, "because it is a high-level potion?"

"Not exactly." Pomona put on her dragonskin gloves. "Do you know how much the venom of the eight-eyed spider costs a bottle? A pint of 100 gold gallons. Now the school needs money. We will take advantage of this hunt to kill the eight-eyed spider. The spider has the opportunity to collect more spider venom so that funds can be raised. It must be collected when it is fresh."

   "Why making money is so easy for you." Hermione said with a wry smile.

   "Because I am Hefpaff, there are many rich people in our college."

   She proudly said that the armor made of basilisk skin also sold for a good price. It was almost the same as dragon skin. Except for the mouth and eyes, the basilisk had almost no weaknesses. This is why the eight-eyed spider is afraid of the basilisk.

   "I heard that Ron is most afraid of spiders, right?"

   "Yes, that's right, he graded the spider at level 9 in the book, even Bogut is it." Hermione replied.

"Bogut can see the fear in people's hearts, but it's much worse when facing the person who is really afraid. If you are short of money, you can call him." Pomona said cruelly, "It's time for him to be a bit manly. Up."

   "I'll talk to him when I go back tonight." Hermione said calmly, "Can I ask you a question, Professor?"

"You ask."

   "Will you deal with Hagrid?" Hermione stared into Pomona's eyes and said.

"He is a troublesome guy, but I have known him for a long time. Many of my friends are also his friends. He introduced me to them." Pomona said with a bit of exhaustion. "He is like a young man. Children, always need someone to worry about."

   "So you plan to cover him?"

"Yes, that's the case." Pomona pointed to Neville's nose and said, "And you, just as if this didn't happen, this time I saw that after I finished poisoning the eight-eyed spider, it was you and Slughorn’s problem, Professor Longbottom, a female spider can lay 100 eggs at a time and can hatch in about eight weeks. It is a type A traded product. The same thing will happen again if you don’t control their number. ."

"It's not Neville's fault. It wouldn't be the case if you told him the secret earlier." Hermione defended and said, "I don't blame you for abandoning everything you eloped with Professor Snape, but why after you settle down? Don't even send us a letter?"

  Pomona was speechless.

  At that time, she just wanted to get rid of everything she had in the past and live a simple life. She even opened up a vegetable plot by herself and was as self-sufficient as the nursery in Hogwarts.

Occasionally, they would go to the forest to gather honey or catch wild animals. They would exchange the materials with others after drinking the compound decoction and exchange them at the nearby Muggle market. She was busy with happiness every day. , There is no time to deal with these annoying things.

   "You guys had a great time outside school, right?" Neville suddenly asked, "So you don't want to come back?"

"Navi, you are just a class teacher. You don't know the situation of the dean. Even if you don't have the three of them, it will be a lot of trouble. You at least have a vacation to rest, we don't have." Pomona sighed, "I need a long vacation. "

   "Then how long will you stay away this time?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know, Hermione, maybe this time we are not as lucky as the last time, and we can't leave alive." Pomona said frustratedly. "Even I was exposed. You can see how bad the situation is now. "

   "We can cooperate with the Muggle government." Hermione said.

  "You discuss this with Kingsley. Don't involve me. Now he is dealing with the night call. Do you know what happens in the Muggle world if the power goes out?"

  Pomona recounted the information Severus had told her.

"And we have to deal with a silent, it attacked Diagon Alley, Arthur's idea that Muggles are weak and need protection is wrong, they are dangerous, and they are numerous, our population is sparse, even The mystery also agreed to stop the war mainly by handing over Harry, and not to waste the blood of the wizard. I am tired of persecuting each other for politics."

  "Do you need help?" Hermione asked, "There are many horsemen in the Forbidden Forest, and one of them is taking a fortune telling lesson in the castle."

   "You mean Firenze?"

   "Yes." Hermione said.

   "He is also an outlier among the horsemen. I doubt how much he can play a role."

   "At least I should try." Hermione said.

   "Let's see the effect after we put the poison on it, I don't want the conflict to escalate."

   At that moment, footsteps came from outside the greenhouse. Slughorn and Master Malfoy appeared together. The colorful bird and snake were on Draco's chest, which looked like a nice badge.

   "Merlin's beard, is it really you?" Slughorn looked at Pomona incredulously. "Have you been there all these years, Pomona?"

   "Want to make a fortune, Professor?" She smiled and said, "There is a big business, how about our cooperation?"

  Time back to ten years ago, it was still the same greenhouse, except that the plants planted here were all kinds of plants, not just the poisonous beard.

  "Open it and see what's inside?" The potion professor who seemed to be recovering from a serious illness handed her a small box, which was making a rattling sound.

   "Seed?" she said in surprise.

  "It is the seed of the poisonous beard." He explained lightly.

   "That is a Class C prohibited trade item."

  "This is a school, not just for teaching, but also for my own subject. I want to use this grass as an insecticide to deal with the spiders in the forest."

She understood his intention. This was the biggest difference between him and Slughorn. He would explain to her what he wanted to do with these plants. Slughorn just explained to her that he wanted to use these things. As if she should serve him.

   "Where did you get it?"

  "A gift from a student." Severus said with a ugly smile, "Have you heard of the Weasley brothers' quick-acting skipping candy? Those two boys almost used it as a material."

   "I thought the purpose of designing this candy was to make it look like students could not continue in class." Pomona shook her head and sighed, "They almost poisoned people to death."

"The twins will test on themselves before experimenting with skipping class candy on others. They are smart boys, much better than the rest of the Weasley family." He grabbed her hand and said softly, like a butterfly Waving wings "I'm glad you are back, Pomona."

   "Why don't you attend Sirius' funeral?" She asked softly, "Everyone else has gone."

   "I think no one would want to see me there, especially Harry Potter." He continued in a gloomy voice, "He hates me very much."

   "You understood his information and saved his life, Severus. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have received the information and rushed to the Department of Mystery in time."

  "Did you go that day?" He asked immediately.

   "No, that kind of building with floor tiles everywhere is not suitable for me."

  She is more suitable for the forest, where there are magic plants everywhere, where is her home field.

   "Neither did I, Sirius Black did not kill me."

   "I know, it's his cousin, Bellatrix."

  A madman who treats human life as a trifle.

  The Quidditch stadium in the distance came to cheers of victory. The game seemed to be over, and soon there would be people everywhere in the castle.

  He wanted to speak for a long time, but he didn't say a word.

   "Come to me at night." She finally said, "No one will disturb us."

  The breath he exhaled became hot.

  But he didn’t do anything. He pulled his robe and left. Slughorn’s clothes were very close to Muggle-style formal wear. They weren’t like his robes and mopping the floor. They were like ancient sacrificial offerings. This was Voldemort’s style.

  No one could tell that he was a hybrid. The first thought when Severus Snape saw Severus Snape was the dark wizard, he didn't hide his love for dark magic at all.

  After touching the necklace, although Katie Bell was still alive, she lived in Saint Mungo. The curse on the necklace was so powerful that she might not be able to come back and continue learning until she found the cure.

  Don’t touch things of unknown origin, no matter how beautiful it looks, why don’t people listen to it.

  (End of this chapter)