Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

There is no doubt that among many countries in the world, the British love of fish can definitely rank in the top three. Although most of their cooking methods for fish are only fried or fried, this does not affect their love for fish.

Know that for the dividend of fish exports, and to feed more people. For more than 20 years from 1944 to 1976, the British government even spared no effort to launch the navy to carry out the "war of cod".

The Loch Lomond, which carries the supply of fresh water throughout Scotland, is the largest lake in the entire UK.

Surrounded by dozens of other lakes and fifty rivers, most of the cold water contains a variety of fish, salmon, sea trout, rainbow trout and grayling, and sometimes brown trout. Swim in with snakehead fish.

However, it is regrettable that the government explicitly banned all fishing vessels for fishing, and then because of some "little accidents" a year ago, a lot of additional items such as [prohibited throwing anything] [prohibited power supply to the lake], etc. Wait for weird terms.

Nowadays, if you want to taste the delicious Lomond Lake fish, all you have to do is to honestly hold the fishing rod and sit on the lake to fish. All other methods will be regarded as stealing fish.

However, Elena, who prides herself as a senior foodie, has always been very resistant to fishing.

Is different from normal people: normal fishing steps for bait, hook, and pole.

Elena usually still needs to pray for this hooked fish before harvesting. It will not happen to be the dozens, or it may be hundreds of large and fat guys wandering in Loch Lomond-the strength is too small Silver-haired little Lolita, who was dragged into the water in shame by the hooked fish more than once.

The most miserable time, she was even "fished" into the water four times a day at most, so that the last little angry Loli directly turned into the town's stone workshop overnight, using science to complete the revenge.

However, today is obviously her lucky day.

After leaving Benitez's hut and coming to the lake with fishing gear, Elena caught three salmon and one grayling in less than an hour. Although compared to professional fishermen, the number is not too much, but for the orphanage, it is more than enough.

Oh no, to be more precise, a little more.

Elena glanced at the small plastic bucket placed on the river bank. After putting four big fish, it was indeed a little too narrow. The most important thing is that she doesn't want to go back to the orphanage so early. If she just hits Benitez, her mood hasn't changed, and a nagging is definitely inevitable.

"This fish looks so beautiful."

The girl squatted down and stretched her finger in the cold bucket to gently fiddle with the grayling, which looks different from the rest of her buddies, with a faint glow on the outside, a greenish brown back, and a white belly.

Fish head and back of fish body, dorsal and pectoral fins have irregular black spots; side, dorsal and caudal fins have green, red and black spots, the color is extremely bright and beautiful.

"It looks so pretty, if you put you and three of them together, you will definitely fight."

Elena skewed her head for a while, held out her hands, grasped the fat fish tail skillfully, and fell **** the ground.

Pia ~ Pia ~ Pia ~

The big fish fluttered on the ground symbolically for a few times, and felt a little tired, and fell asleep.

Grayling, also known as catfish, Yadong salmon, is a very common edible fish in Scotland and Ireland. It has delicious meat, sweet and warm, and few thorns. It can be harvested all year round. After fishing, scales and bones are removed. Wash fresh.

Whether it is deep-fried, soup, or grilled, it can perfectly reflect its deliciousness.

If there are any shortcomings, then Yadong salmon will be a little more troublesome to cook. If the fish glands are not cleaned, it is still easy to cause diarrhea.

Of course, this is not a big problem for Elena. After all, it is not the first time you have encountered such a situation where you are forced to cook ingredients in the wild.

Elena stood up and found some stones by the river, forming a small pile of stones, and found some dry branches on the shore to light the bonfire with a lighter. Then open the fishing tackle bag set aside, take out the kitchen knife accidentally placed inside, and skillfully begin to remove the scales and offal of grayling.

……

Crackling, nourishing ~

The flames burned out the dead branches and made a crackling sound. The fat fish juice dripped on the red stones, making it tickling.

The branch by the lake is actually not very suitable as a fire source for barbecue, because the smoke it raises will be more choking than other fire sources, and thick smoke will inevitably affect the taste of some grilled fish.

However, Elena squatting on the floor and turning the grilled fish intently, obviously did not care about these insignificant small flaws.

"Wow, this one is really beautiful."

Elena licked her lips, her little nose twitched, and she watched the grilled fish in her hands gulp down.

The skin of the white and tender fish has been baked into a golden yellow color. Because of the fishing ban of Loch Lomond, the graylings in the lake are significantly fatter than those sold on the market. Jin Cancan's fish oil slowly oozed from the cracked fish belly, making people unable to resist the movement of his index finger.

"It smells so good, the saliva is almost coming out. However, there is one last step."

Looked carefully at the browned fish that had been roasted, and Elena tried to suppress the idea of ​​biting directly.

The girl happily picked up the salt shaker and pepper shaker placed next to the pile of stones, quickly sprinkled on the fragrant grilled grayling, and then picked up a small oil brush and brushed the whole fish body to make the taste as much as possible. Evenly.

"Hey, hey, you're done, let's eat!"

Elena rubbed her hands contentedly, picked up the grilled fish from the fire, closed her eyes and took a breath of roasted fish with a fragrant aroma, shaking her head back and forth intoxicatedly, opened her small mouth and couldn't wait Bite it down.

At this moment, Elena vaguely heard the voice of a slightly familiar adult woman beside her, and she felt the right hand holding the barbecue sign suddenly empty.

"Grilled fish flying!"

Ooo ... Oh, huh? !

Bit an empty one, Elena opened her eyes in confusion, her hand was empty, and even the iron sign wearing a fish disappeared without a trace. And not far from her right front, Professor McGonagall, wearing a Scottish plaid coat, held up her wand in one hand and pinched a roasted fish still roaring in another.

——OVO——O-O——O_O

"My fish ..." The silver-haired little Loli looked dumbfounded, her eyes moved back and forth between Professor McGonagall and her hands, and finally reflected what happened just now.

Her grilled fish was taken away by Professor McGonagall with a flying charm.

There are people in this world who use flying to curse to grab food! The noble wizard would actually use magic to grab a Muggle girl's grilled fish!

"Robber! You return my fish! That's when I caught it myself, and then worked hard for more than ten minutes before baking!"

Elena's delicate little face was flushed in an instant, stood up angrily, and flew in the direction of Professor McGonagall to get back her labor.

Pia 叽 ......

Hasn't made two steps yet, Elena only felt a bit of numbness in her two legs, and then the young girl stepped on her left foot without a teacher's self-consciousness, and slammed on the grass beside the lake.

"嘤, it hurts ... squatting too long, the leg cramps."

Elena sat up and pricked her calf carefully with her fingers. A burst of current-like soreness caused little loli to burst into tears.

Helplessly kept the original posture and dared not move again, Elena sat on the ground and raised her head, crying with a small face in tears, unwillingly looking forward to Professor McGonagall, shouting angrily.

"Return me! What the **** do you want to do !? I said, I will never go to Hogwarts!"

old woman? ! Forget it ... don't care about children.

Professor McGonagall could not help shaking his eyebrows and looked at Elena who fell on the ground and fell to the ground. She was so angry and funny-really a stubborn little girl, and her tears were about to fall, but still Keeping a super fierce look with open teeth and dancing claws, his mouth refused to be soft.

"Relax, Hogwarts has always been voluntarily enrolled, I came here this time, just want to talk to you again."

During the speech, Professor McGonagall pointed at Elena ’s calf and asked gently.

"Does it hurt? Or should I take a look at you first."

Although gloating at this time seems to be excessive, Professor McGonagall's mood really eased a lot with Eileen's flat fall.

No matter how precocious she is, she is still just a child under the age of eleven, the most childish, the most willful, the most arrogant, but also the cutest and easiest to correct.

As if feeling the smile in Professor McGonagall's sight, Elena gritted her teeth, stretched out her hand to pull up the sore calf, hugged her knees with both hands, and looked up hostilely at the wizard in front of her.

"Return me! Otherwise everything is free!"

"If you promise to follow me to visit Hogwarts, then I will give you the grilled fish on my hand."

Professor McGonagall walked towards Elena. The grilled fish in her hand swayed back and forth intentionally or unintentionally, observing the little girl sitting on the ground quietly.

This time the communication with Benitez was beyond the expectation of Professor McGonagall. After she briefly introduced the idea, Benitez showed exceptional cooperation.

Sure enough, as Benitez said, Elena's biggest weakness lies in its deliciousness.

As the grilled fish in McGonagall's hands swayed left and right, the eyes of the little silver-haired Lori did not consciously follow the grilled fish slightly.

"really?"

Hearing Professor McGonagall's words, Elena hesitated a little and repeated it with a suspicious tone.

"Just go to visit, nothing else?"

"Just a visit, and I will send you back here again."

Professor McGonagall nodded and answered seriously.

"Deal!"

Elena's eyes rolled slyly, and he agreed without hesitation, and at the same time, her small hands spread forward, and the expression repeated again seriously.

"Return the fish to me!"

"Good ..."

McGonagall shrugged and reluctantly stuffed the grilled fish into Elena's hands. To be honest, she couldn't understand why a clever little girl was so obsessed with eating.

After a little talk with Benitez, she discovered that maybe Dumbledore was thinking a little bit more complicated-the reason why she ate the owl might really just be greedy.

"Okay, can you follow me to Hogwarts now?"

Stood silently until Elena finished eating the grilled grayling, Professor McGonagall asked gently.

"Hiccup ~"

The silver-haired little Loli narrowed her eyes, happily hit a small hiccup, wiped the corner of her mouth, stood up and patted the grass scrape sticking to her body, and the corner of her mouth was bent. your."

Anyway, according to the Muggle Protection Act, as long as Elena did n’t actively attack Professor McGonagall, then Professor McGonagall could not use any magic to deal with her-the deputy principal of Hogwarts, if she did magic on minors Wanted by the Ministry of Magic, that's the real joke.

Elena looked at Professor McGonagall with fear, and her small face was filled with a smug smile, looking forward to seeing the witch Lu in front of her with an error and a helpless look.

"It doesn't matter, I know."

"Hey?" Elena froze, suddenly feeling awkward.

Professor McGonagall smiled and said flatly, "So I put a few drops of diluted life and death water on the grilled fish."

On how to persuade Elena to go to Hogwarts, Benitez emphasized only three things from beginning to end.

First, don't try to reason with Elena.

Second, you can never convince Elena.

Third, even if you persuade her, she will find a way to cheat.

"Life and death ... what ?!"

Silver-haired little loli eyes glared round and pointed at Professor McGonagall in disbelief.

Hadn't finished speaking yet, a sudden strong sleepy attack on her, the two eyelids became extremely heavy, the body was soft, and fell asleep in Professor McGonagall's arms.

"The next thing is up to Professor Dumbledore." McGonagall hugged the girl who was sleeping in her arms and raised her wand in her right hand.

After a crackling sound in the air, the figures disappeared by the lake.

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(Meng Meng Da You Meng wants to have a meal, the new book asks for a recommendation ticket support, bang bang bang, a big chapter of more than 3,800 words! The protagonist is finally going to Hogwarts.)