v3 Chapter 195： unreasonable fire snake

, the day of the card draw at Hogwarts

"Frozen ash snake eggs are of great value and can be used to make emotional drugs, and if swallowed whole, they can also treat fever." Newt handed the box full of ash snake eggs. to Snape. Snape took the box into his arms and prepared to return to Hogwarts Castle.

When he came to Tom's side, he stopped. Luna, who was huddled beside Tom, was shocked: she was too fascinated to watch the fire snake lay eggs, and she forgot that she should not be here...

"Ravenclaw deducted ten points, you know why." Snape left after leaving such a sentence in a low voice.

Seeing Snape's retreating back, Hermione lightly patted Luna on the shoulder, "This is a good result, only ten points were deducted, and you were not put in confinement."

From Hermione's point of view, the scenes of the birth, spawning, and death of the ash snake are very precious, but they can't be the reason or excuse for skipping class. This time, you skipped class because of the fire snake. Next time, Professor Scamander brought a fire dragon egg. Will you skip class? What about the next time you get a three-headed dog pregnant with cubs?

Skipping classes is like a crack in a dam. If it is not repaired in time, it will only get bigger and bigger. . There will only be more and more excuses, and this should not be opened in the first place.

Luna nodded, seemingly echoing Hermione.

After Snape left, the course taught by Scamander was drawing to a close.

Tom looked at the traces left by the ash snakes and was full of doubts. He didn't understand where the fire gray snake came from? And what is the reproduction method of fire gray snakes?

"Professor Scamander—" Tom stopped Newt, who was about to leave, and asked him his own question.

"How on earth did the ash snakes come into being?" Newt paused. "When the magic fire burns unchecked for a long time, they are created."

Hermione frowned ever since Tom asked a question. Not because Tom's question was too complicated, but because it was too basic, as if he didn't pay attention to the lecture at all. It's like when a teacher just finished explaining the atomic composition to you in class, and you are there to ask about the rules of electron arrangement outside the nucleus.

Tom didn't care that the question he just raised was very basic. He continued to ask persistently, "Aren't they oviparous?"

This is what he is puzzled about: If the fire gray snakes were born out of nowhere in the magic fire, then why do they lay eggs?

In the non-magical world, there are also many insects with very "short" lifespans, but this is actually just a human illusion. What people see is only the final adult stage of these insects, and in fact their lifespan is not just a few hours or a day and a night. In dark places where humans can't see, these bugs may have lived for years, burrowing out of the ground and showing up just to reproduce.

Tom suspects that the same is true for the one-hour ash snake. What the wizards saw was only the final stage of the ash snake's life. But this is very unreasonable, because as far as Tom knows, the eggs of fire ash snakes cannot hatch small fire ash snakes. So what's the point of their behavior? Did they just pop up out of nowhere?

"The eggs of a fire grey snake cannot hatch into a young fire grey snake." Newt understood what Tom meant.

"The research on the ash snake is still a blank, we know almost nothing about it. We don't know how they reproduce, and no one has seen the complete life cycle of the ash snake. We only know the magic When the fire is lit, it can attract the fire ash snakes to come and breed, but the eggs they leave have no other effect except to cause the fire." Newt spread his hands, indicating that Tom, you have caught me, There is currently no answer to this question in the magic world.

"There are two conjectures. Some people think that fire snakes are not really magical animals. They are more like elemental creatures. They are 'souls' formed after the uncontrolled burning of magic fire. They are composed of pure fire elements. The process of laying their eggs just enriches the element of fire, so their eggs start fires."

"Another conjecture is that fire ash snakes do not belong to this world. They have a strong tendency to "fire" and are attracted by magic fire. Their reproduction requires specific substances, and we do not have such substances here. Therefore, the Fire Ash Snake attracted by the Demon Fire cannot leave true descendants."

"Both conjectures have some truth. We can't make a judgment. This is also the charm of magical zoology." Newt blinked and left with his suitcase - he wanted to go back to the castle to sleep well. Sleep.

Newt didn't have a clear answer here, but he told Tom everything he knew.

"So what do you think? Which conjecture do you think is true?" On the way back to the castle, Hermione thought. Tom's questions brought her a whole new perspective. Hermione couldn't help but think carefully.

"I think an experiment is needed," Tom said seriously.

In the face of conjectures, the best way to prove them is to conduct experiments, rather than imagining them out of thin air. It's like whether two iron **** of different masses will fall at the same time. Aristotle thought for a while, and intuitively thought that they would not fall at the same time. Galileo did an experiment that proved it would land at the same time.

"We can try to communicate with the fire gray snake. If it is only an elemental creature that acts by instinct, then they should not be able to communicate As for the conjecture that the fire gray snake comes from another world, it is very difficult. It's verified...but it's not impossible."

"Huh? How does this prove?" Hermione was aroused by Tom's curiosity. This kind of conjecture of another world is simply lying, unless you find that other world, it will not be proved at all.

"There are two conjectures a and b. If conjecture b is too difficult to prove, we can prove that conjecture a is correct." Tom stretched out his hand and made a circle, "We can ignite a magic fire of the same scale at the same location, if the same However, the fire of the fire gave birth to a very different number of fire ash snakes, which means that the fire ash snakes are not some elemental creatures, but come from some unknown place - that is, the other world in your mouth."

"But if the number is the same, it may also be an elemental creature from another world." Hermione found a small loophole in Tom's theory.

Tom: ...

It's really good...

"Then we can directly take the Delicate Ball and ask the Fire Ash Snake!" Tom had an idea and suddenly found a shortcut like cheating.

"Good idea!" Hermione's eyes lit up, she could not wait to find a fire gray snake now and ask about its origin.

Hermione's eyes were full of curiosity.

"Next time... Haven't you seen how tired Professor Scamander is? It's hard to artificially breed a fire-ash snake." Tom poured cold water on Hermione.

"Ah..." Hermione sighed. She understands that now does not seem to be the time to study the ash snake.

When the two entered the castle, a figure stopped in front of them.

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