As soon as he opened the door of the dormitory, Albert saw a dark shadow rushing past his feet, which scared him. He thought that his Tom was going to slip away when the door was opened, so he instinctively reached into his pocket, ready to take out his wand to summon Tom back, but he found a furry thing rubbing against his ankle.
"Okay, I'll go prepare lunch for you."
Albert bent down, picked up Tom, and closed the door with his foot.
He opened the drawer, which was filled with cat food and cat cans, reached out and pushed Tom's head away, took out a cat can, opened it and mixed it with the cat food and put it in the bowl. Then, he waved his wand, emptied the water in another bowl, and replaced it with a new one.
"It seems I need to ask other people how they keep cats in school." Albert waited until Tom finished eating, then picked it up and shook its weight. It was still as heavy as ever.
"You should lose weight. Come on, I'll take you to the common room. That will be your activity space for a long time from now on."
After Tom is familiar with the dormitory, Albert will let it move around in the Gryffindor common room, and then slowly expand the space for its activities, so that it can gradually become familiar with the environment of the castle, come into contact with more students, and distinguish other people's good and evil attitudes towards it, so as to avoid suffering losses in the future.
There were not many people in the Gryffindor common room at noon. Albert found an empty seat and sat down. He took out his pocket watch from his pocket and checked the time. He was ready to let Tom move around in the common room under his supervision, but he soon discovered that his cat did not seem to have any intention of wandering around. Instead, it jumped onto the table next to Albert and took a nap there.
"You're really good at sleeping after eating!"
Albert raised his hand and rubbed Tom's head, then sighed softly, "If you don't exercise, you'll become fat as a ball."
Someone nearby was laughing and looking at the fat cat curiously, whispering. Albert turned his head and saw two young girls talking. He didn't know them.
Well, they should be freshmen in the first or second grade. When the other party noticed Albert turned his head to look over, he felt a little embarrassed and quickly turned and walked away.
Albert looked away, took out a cat toy from his pocket, and tried to get his cat to move.
After spending nearly an hour in the common room, Albert took Tom back to the dormitory and used the time converter to go back an hour.
He went directly to the school library, but found that Fred, George and Lee Jordan had not arrived yet. Now he had to save seats for the three of them.
Not long after, the three of them walked into the library one after another, still surprised that Albert had arrived at the library before them.
On the first day of school, the school library was packed as usual, with a bunch of people busy doing their holiday homework.
Fred was somewhat gloating about this matter, and he completely forgot that he had once been one of them.
In the afternoon, the first class was Care of Magical Creatures, which was held in an open space on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Professor Kettlebur had a very good reputation in the school, and many students signed up for this course.
The elderly professor had taught at the school for many years and knew exactly how to spark students' interest in the care of magical creatures.
With the help of Hagrid, Professor Kettlebur prepared a bonfire for everyone and told them that there were a bunch of salamanders inside. Learning about salamanders was the content of today's event.
Everyone sat around the campfire, observing the salamanders in the fire and listening to Professor Kettleber explain this magical animal.
The way of teaching was very interesting and it immediately aroused everyone's interest.
Professor Kettlebell pointed at the salamanders in the campfire with a branch and told everyone: Salamanders are born from fire and feed on fire. As long as the campfire in front of them is not extinguished, they will continue to live.
"What if the flame goes out?" a Ravenclaw girl asked, raising her hand.
"After leaving the flames, the salamanders will die quickly."
"Aren't they too pitiful?"
Sooner or later, the campfire will go out, which means the salamanders in the campfire will soon die.
Professor Kettlebell raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.
"If you feed the salamanders away from the flames with an appropriate amount of chili powder regularly, you can delay their death, but they can only live for six hours at most." He said to everyone, "I will take the salamanders here back after the bonfire goes out. They usually need wizards to create a special environment for them to survive."
Albert knew this because salamander represents the number 6 in the runic alphabet.
"Of course, when feeding chili powder to salamanders, you can't feed too much." Professor Kettleber demonstrated to everyone why you can't feed salamanders too much chili powder.
The skin of the salamander that eats a lot of chili powder will become brighter, and sparks will continue to come out of its mouth, igniting Professor Kettleber's white beard.
"That's it. You need to feed it chili powder every ten minutes." Professor Kettlebur slapped out the sparks on his beard and threw the salamander back into the bonfire. "By the way, keeping a salamander alive for more than an hour at room temperature is one of the questions in the final exams every year."
In the following time, Professor Kettleber asked everyone to go to the edge of the forest to collect firewood and leaves to make the fire burn more vigorously so as to observe the color changes on the salamander.
The color of the fire salamander will change with the change of flame heat. If the flame temperature is high, it will tend to be blue. If the flame temperature is low, it will gradually become bright red. At room temperature, it will be a bright orange-red.
Everyone felt that this was a very interesting lesson, watching the salamanders jumping around in the crackling firewood.
Albert used his magic wand to pull a salamander out of the campfire. After leaving the flames, its skin immediately turned bright orange-red and was still a little hot in his palm.
Fred and his companions immediately came over to observe the reaction of the salamander and felt as if its body was burning with flames.
The salamander quickly broke free from Albert's hand, fell to the ground, and tried to run towards the campfire, but was caught by Fred's tail.
The poor salamander broke off its tail and escaped, and soon disappeared into the campfire.
Fred looked at the twisting lizard tail in his hand and suddenly didn't know what to say.
"Hey, the scales of a salamander are rotten, and its tail has fallen off." Professor Kettlebur said in surprise when he saw the tail in Fred's hand.
The latter had a bit of embarrassment on his face, as the salamander's tail falling off was obviously not related to its rotten scales.
"Salamanders, like dragons, can also have their scales rot. Once their scales rot, their tails will fall off. If you raise salamanders and encounter this situation, you only need to apply some chili powder to treat it." Professor Kettlebur said to the students who were chatting and laughing, "Why don't you write it down?"
"Sir, what's so special about salamanders?" Fred threw away the tail and changed the subject. "I mean why wizards keep them."
"Salamander blood has strong healing and recovery properties, and can also be used to make a variety of potions. This is one of the reasons why wizards raise salamanders," Professor Kettleber explained.
"How do we get blood from salamanders?" Albert asked. "They don't look like they have a lot of blood."
"Very good, this is something you were supposed to learn next year. Of course, if you want to know." Professor Kettlebell waved his wand, and a salamander flew out of the fire and landed on his hand.
"We have said before that the salamander will die soon after leaving the flame, so we have to be quick when taking blood." Professor Kettleber took out a knife and a test tube and demonstrated to everyone how to take blood from a salamander.
The method is very simple. Just make a cut on the salamander's hind legs near the tail, and then milk it from head to tail like milking.
Yes, it is that simple and crude.
As for stopping the bleeding
Well, the blood of the salamander has strong healing properties, and the wound will heal automatically in no time.
"You have to use moderate force, otherwise it will cause the internal organs of the salamander to rupture. Although this will not kill them, it will make the salamander very uncomfortable." Professor Kettleber threw the salamander whose blood had been taken back into the campfire and continued, "It is best to wear gloves when taking blood, otherwise you may get burned."
"Of course, if you need salamander blood, you can buy it at the pharmacy. A small bottle costs ten Sickles."
“…” George muttered something.
"Salamanders are easy to raise. The only problem is that the process of drawing their blood is rather complicated. Many wizards are reluctant to do this job, but salamander blood is needed in many places." Professor Kettleber expressed his concern. He signaled everyone to continue observing the salamanders, and it would be best to observe how they eat.
Fred and George wanted to "save" the salamanders from the Care of Magical Creatures class, but Albert scoffed at this. How could he not know Fred's character? So he simply refused to help them make bottles and blue flames that could be put into the bottles.
Finally, the twins gave up and took the salamander away, as it wouldn't survive long.
"We just want a salamander," Fred muttered. "You have cats, Lee Jordan has spiders, and we don't have any pets of our own."
"I don't think Snape would like you to bring that thing into the Potions classroom." Albert reminded, "Also, what do you want to feed it?"
"We just wanted to see what would happen if we fed the salamanders with the Filibuster fireworks," George said honestly, blinking. Fred's words could not fool Albert at all.
"That's a good idea." Lee Jordan's eyes lit up and he agreed, "We can get a salamander to try next time."