Chapter 892 Birch

He hesitated for a moment, because she had just received news from Hermione that she and Harry were rushing to Hagrid—Hermione also informed Alan of Harry's borrowing of her Felicia through the Omniscient Mark, which made Alan Lun finally suppressed the idea of ​​inviting Snape to participate in the banquet, after all, this bleak old bat is not very flattering.

After leaving Professor Snape's office, Allen's figure appeared behind the castle, where herbalism classes were held, where various magical plants were cultivated, and Allen's goal was the first greenhouse.

Although it's early spring, the UK is still cold, and the humidity and temperature in the air make some corners still a little frosty. Looking at the explosion of life everywhere, Allen unconsciously noticed it because of the material of Snape's wand. Several birch trees.

He recalled that last month, that is, in January, the entire Hogwarts was covered in white due to the snow that had not completely melted. From a distance, only the tops of these birch trees could be seen slightly in the forest. Green - Birch trees always start to germinate before the cold winter.

Arriving at the first greenhouse, this is the place where first-year freshmen learn herbalism. This greenhouse is full of harmless creatures. These magical creatures are relatively common and not precious.

Allen yelled around and searched for some who didn't see Professor Sprout and found no one else. Allen planned to take it directly and tell Head Hufflepuff afterwards. She would not mind if she was mild-tempered. , anyway, the medicinal materials I need are very common and common plants, even if I take them away, it will not be a problem.

And there are some things that Hufflepuff students use the vacant space to plant some ingredients that they will use when cooking, so that they can pick some fresh ones when they need it—Alan thinks that he is a Professor, if you pick some vegetables grown by these students, they won't have any opinion.

Picking out some tender coriander and putting them in his pocket, Allen, who was squatting on the ground, returned to Snape because of the tender shoots—although he sympathized with Snape more, he didn't have any special emotions for him, because this Whatever the reason, it was his own fault for calling out Mudbloods and obsessing over women's loathsome arts of black magic and foolishly trying to get her involved.

The reason why Allen put his thoughts on him is because his avatar has been researching the secrets in the Department of Mysteries recently. Recently, he has begun to have some experience in mastering fate, and Snape is officially a good research target, except In addition to the meanings discovered through his name and the name of Shenfeng Wuying's spell, today Snape's wand and Snape's birthday made Allen feel that he had some new discoveries about fate-the wand can always reflect a person's personality. In some aspects of personality, birthday is always one of the most important information in divination.

The Celtic tree calendar is a calendar adopted by the ancient Celts, which divides a year into the first day and 13 months; Druid wizards who are proficient in natural magic believe that trees are the ancestors of human beings, and each tree has It has unique magical properties, so each month is named after a tree and given a rune. According to the Celtic tree calendar, birch 12.24~1.20 is the birch month.

And on January 9, 1960, in a dilapidated room in Spider's End, Severus Snape was born, and just now seeing Snape's wand, Alan, who recently studied fate Realized that Snape had a deep connection to what the birch tree represented.

In Celtic culture, the birch tree is a goddess and is often called the mother tree. Many infertile women will pray under the birch tree for pregnancy or better growth of their children, just like when two When the opposite sex is found standing under the mistletoe, it is compulsory to kiss.

Birch is the caretaker and guardian of children, and presides over the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth in the land—this is the relationship between Snape and Harry.

In European folk, whether it is the wizarding world or Muggles, there has always been a custom to carefully peel off the birch bark and use it to write love letters and send them to lovers who miss them in the distance. Therefore, the birch tree symbolizes consistent love.

A life dedicated to love - this is exactly the relationship between Snape and Harry's mother Lily, even if it is one-sided by the man.

Children born in Birch Moon tend to value rules, but they also have creative ability, and the characters of this group of people are those who endure hardships and work hard to move forward-this confirms Snape's creation in potions class. Those personal skills and the ability to invent powerful black magic such as Shenfeng Wuying.

Alan, who was in deep thought, although he was not sure of the material of its core before checking it, but now as he has a better understanding of the room in the Department of Mysteries, especially his current research on prophecy, he is doing a short divination In the end, although he couldn't guarantee the accuracy 100%, he judged that the core of Snape's staff should be the nerve of the snake—because the prophecy is very likely to be presented in a completely different way of interpretation by the fortune-teller.

Snake is one of the important totems of Celtic in England. Due to the habit of hibernating, shedding, and tail-biting, the primitive ancestors in many cultures believed that snakes are a symbol of regeneration and healing, and snakes are indeed powerful as potions. With some therapeutic effects, even the mysterious man relied on Nagini's venom to maintain a simple physical body before he was fully resurrected. Whether it is the wizards of ancient Egypt or Kate, or the legendary god of healing Asclepius in ancient Greece, in these cultures, snakes have such a close relationship with medicine, and in the Muggle world. Affected by this, the snake wrapped wand became a medical symbol and spread all over the world, and the most common conspicuous symbol of European pharmacies is a snake wrapped around a goblet - and birch sap can also cure diseases, Their bearer, Snape, had been Potions as a hobby and occupation until this term.

Starting from the simplest information such as name, birthday, and wand, which are relatively easy to interpret, Allen, who started to see his fate, picked in the greenhouse absently, put away the cropped medicinal materials, and planned to find what had already been found here when he went back. Luna, who has some achievements above, judges the correctness of it.

After stealing some parsnip that should be grown by students, Alan, who had completed the goal of the trip and left the first greenhouse, paused. He noticed that there seemed to be some movement in the third greenhouse next door.

He walked by, and saw a window in the middle of the right side of the third greenhouse opened to the outside and upwards. The lower body of a very obese man was left outside the window, and the upper body was left in the room. The half-squatting legs were very thick, and judging from the figure with the raised upper and lower part of the moon, it matched the one in Alan's heart.

Allen strode over and walked to his side. Slughorn, who was stretching out his hand to cut a leaf on a twisting branch, yelled in fright and slammed it on the low window sill. Then, he twisted violently. Turning around, seeing that it was Allen, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, he took out a handkerchief and wiped it, and said with a smirk, "Ah, it's you, Professor Harris."

"I'm sorry to scare you. Maybe I should clear my throat and cough to remind you in advance? Professor Slughorn." There was no apology in Alan's tone, "Don't worry, I'll pick some Herbs for a small banquet, just a few things to spare and don't want to bother going to Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley."

"Aha, what a coincidence, I also came to pick some poison beard leaves. The potion I want to brew needs this medicinal material." Slughorn took advantage of the situation to explain, and he said his purpose of coming lightly.

Allen squinted his eyes and gave Horace a funny look, and joked half-truthfully: "But I didn't find Professor Sprout, so I just secretly picked these herbs and used them as spices."

Slughorn gave a dry laugh, trying to hide the embarrassment on his face, "I didn't see it when I came..."

"Poison beard leaves are very precious. If you find the right buyer, a small leaf can sell for 10 Galleons—of course, let's treat this as our little secret." Allen pointed at Slug In the small box in Professor Horne's hand, several leaves have been stacked inside.

Seeing that Alan is so clear about the trading prices of these magical medicinal materials on the black market, I want to perfunctory Alan and let him ignore the poison beard leaves. Professor Slughorn, who was well aware of the preciousness of these medicinal materials, blushed for his greedy behavior, and hesitated to speak.

"I'm here to eat, and I want to teach you that your interest in this is purely academic?" Alan waved his hand nonchalantly, thinking of the task Harry had completed after taking Felicia, Alan wanted to observe the effects of Felicia at close range. Affected by luck, he paused and said to Slughorn, "This little banquet is held at Hagrid's cabin because one of his pets died, and Hagrid wants to hold a funeral and banquet for it. You know Hagrid's character, I think he'd like more, Professor Slughorn, shall we go?"

Slughorn's behavior of picking poison beard leaves just now was exposed by Allen. It was not easy for him to refuse Allen's invitation, so Slughorn decisively agreed: "The relationship between humans and the animals they raise is so harmonious. , which is touching, and of course I would love to participate.”

Alan smiled, and made an invitation gesture to the Potions professor, and the two began to move towards Hagrid's hut—Alan became more interested in the principle of Felix Elixir, because Harry used this potion to directly I went to Hagrid's hut, and I invited Horace because of this. What kind of power is in this, or what kind of power is fate working with?