Chapter 296 Hufflepuff: Come! Cheers, Slytherin!

"Hurry up and eat." Hufflepuff smiled kindly, urging the others to eat like a grandmother urging her grandson to eat.

"Thank you, Professor White."

"It smells so good!"

The two defenseless girls picked up their knives and forks and prepared to eat, but Rice, who was sitting next to them, had no intention of doing anything.

He looked at Hufflepuff with a smile: I won't pick up the cutlery until you reveal what ingredients you use.

He knew his old friend too well. Helga was normal when she was young, but after entering middle age, as her cooking skills became more and more perfect, she let herself go. She liked to cook with all kinds of strange raw materials, and then coax others to eat it - even Rowena was fooled by her several times.

However, although the raw materials are not ordinary, Hufflepuff's principle is "making delicious food", so the dishes she served must be delicious, safe and non-toxic, and definitely rich in nutritional value, which is why he brought Daphne and Astoria here.

He believed that it would be good to let them taste Helga's cooking skills. The only thing they had to do was to overcome their psychological barriers.

Hufflepuff saw through Les's thoughts. She leaned back on the armchair calmly and asked Les why he didn't move his fork.

Daphne and Astoria stopped their actions at the same time. Somehow, they felt a little uneasy: Why didn't Les start eating? These three dishes were so delicious!

"Did you go to the Forbidden Forest?" Les answered Hufflepuff's question with a question.

Hufflepuff nodded slowly.

Les thought for a while and forked a piece of carrot out of the salad - he was sure that the carrot was really a carrot.

Hufflepuff sighed: She understood that the old venomous snake would not start eating before she introduced the dishes in detail.

Where is the trust between people? Didn't he just trick them into eating some rare ingredients before?

But in Les' eyes, in the field of food, Helga's reputation was limited to Rowena's. Perhaps she should reflect on why her old friend of many years has no trust in her.

"This is vegetables mixed with cheese. The vegetables are grown by me - I used a little simple magic to ripen them. The cheese is also homemade cheese. It tastes quite good."

Under the gaze of Les, Helga finally revealed what kind of milk was used to make the cheese.

"You use unicorn milk to make cheese?!" Daphne accidentally dropped her fork on the ground.

Many wizards have never seen a magical animal like a unicorn in their lives. How could she eat cheese made from its milk? Also, who is Professor White, and how can he get unicorn milk?

"I am a person who is good at socializing with magical animals." Helga told Daphne that the trick to dealing with magical animals is to be bold, careful and thick-skinned.

Les watched coldly and felt that this statement also applied to hunting.

"The blood of unicorns carries a curse, so..." Unlike her sister, Astoria is more worried about food safety. She is a little worried about the legendary curse of the unicorn.

"Don't worry! I got the permission of the unicorn! There was no killing or torture, it was completely a voluntary dedication. The materials obtained under such emotions will not be cursed."

While Helga was comforting the Greengrass sisters, a somewhat strange idea arose in Les' heart: If I use magic to control the unicorns and let them "voluntarily" dedicate, will the materials obtained in this way be cursed?

He thought about it and felt that the key point was whether the unicorn was killed.

"This soup is cream of mushroom soup. The mushrooms are wild mushrooms I picked from the Forbidden Forest, and the cream is extracted from the milk of the unicorn."

Professor White's introduction made Daphne and Astoria's appetite soar that they wanted to eat more bowls.

But Les would not be confused by appearances. His focus has always been on the rather suspicious plate of meat. Judging from the color of the meat, it seems to be some kind of seafood, but he can't be sure.

Especially after knowing that Hufflepuff had been deep into the Forbidden Forest, he had a bold guess.

"As for this..." When talking about the third dish, Hufflepuff hesitated for a second, and then told the girls that it was the crab legs of a hairy terrestrial shellless crab.

"Is that so? It's a magical animal that I've never heard of!" Daphne was even more excited, and she ate several pieces of "crab meat" in a row. She felt that the shell of the "crab meat" was fried and crispy, and the taste inside was sweet and juicy, which was a rare delicacy.

Les knew the nature of the "crab meat" on the plate just by hearing the name. Astoria, who was sitting next to him, took a moment to react, and then she stopped touching the plate of fried meat.

"You should have cleaned this, right?" Les had no dislike or disgust for the eight-eyed giant spider. In his eyes, they were all moving little cuties. But to be on the safe side, he still had to ask Helga if she had properly handled the spider's venom sac.

High temperature cannot remove the toxicity of the eight-eyed giant spider's venom, and it must be supplemented with specific potion ingredients.

"Of course, I only took the leg meat."

"What about the rest?" Les suddenly thought of something.

"Throw it away."

Les: ...

Hufflepuff:?

Les raised his eyebrows: He decided to tell Helga the news, he wanted to see her expression.

He picked up the fork, took a piece of "crab meat" and put it in his mouth to chew in Astoria's shocked eyes. Don't say it, the taste is really great.

"Oh, by the way, Professor White, in the era you lived in, were there magical animals like the eight-eyed giant spider?" When the dinner was coming to an end, Les brought up this topic on purpose.

"Unheard of." Helga shook her head, but now she knew what the big spider she killed was called.

"So, it's a magical animal bred by wizards in the past few hundred years. The venom extracted from its venom sac is very valuable. A pint can be sold for one hundred Galleons, and it is still in short supply." Like a person who loves popular science, Les gave Hufflepuff a "kind" popular science.

After hearing what Les said, Helga was struck by lightning and froze in her seat. It took a long time for her to recover.

"Then this venom, after leaving the spider's body..."

"It will be killed. If you want to collect it, you must act quickly." Les interrupted Hufflepuff's thoughts.

Hufflepuff's mood suddenly became depressed until the end of the dinner.

After the last bit of food residue was consumed, Hufflepuff stood up with a wine glass in his hand.

"Before the end of this wonderful dinner today, please allow me to toast to a sage, that is the great Salazar Slytherin! I heard from Flitwick that he [invented] the human form restoration spell, making it possible to completely eliminate werewolves. Such a person is really great!" Helga said, glancing at Les. Seeing that the smile on his face froze, she felt happy from the bottom of her heart, and her bad mood just now was swept away.

Les: ? ? ?

"Let's toast to Slytherin!" Hufflepuff raised his glass: "Cheers to the great Slytherin!"

Daphne and Astoria didn't understand, but the atmosphere had already been set, so they started to "Cheers to the great Slytherin".

Les: ...

He finally squeezed out a sentence from his teeth: "Cheers to the great... Slytherin!"

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