Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 281 Illegal Animal Breeding

With the help of Sainz, Hagrid's work became much easier. With free time, he started to make trouble again.

One day he said to Sainz very excitedly, "Sainz, come and see, I have a surprise for you!"

"What surprise? So mysterious? Could it be that there is news about the bird-snake?"

"Uh... that... there will be news later. This one today is not the one. This one is cuter than the bird and snake. You will definitely like it."

Hagrid said it so confidently, but Sainz was not sure in his heart. The cuteness he mentioned must be different from the cuteness in the general sense. He followed Hagrid to an open space next to his hut, where there was a big box.

"Look what this is?" Hagrid lifted the lid of the box proudly.

In the box with the lid opened, there was a pile of grayish-white, sticky bugs, which looked like shelled lobsters.

Sainz was somewhat speechless and annoyed, "You still did it. This is not a wise decision, Hagrid!"

Hagrid seemed to have not heard his displeasure at all, "This is a very interesting innovation. Look how cute they are, and they can even spray sparks!"

"Such hybridization experiments are extremely dangerous and illegal!"

"Don't lie to me, Sainz. I don't believe you are not interested. You once said that you wanted to cultivate a flying unicorn!"

He remembered this clearly.

"Hagrid, let me ask you, how many fire crabs did you use for these things?"

"60, but that shouldn't be counted that way!" Hagrid still insisted that he was right.

Seeing him like this, Sainz was a little angry, "So, are they all still alive?"

"..."

"How many are still alive?"

"...well, you know, this is a new magical creature..." Hagrid was still quibbling.

Sainz said calmly, "You are too embarrassed to speak up? It seems that you know that this is wrong."

"I thought you'd be as pleased as I am!" muttered Hagrid.

"Hagrid, now that it's happened, I won't say I warned you." Hearing him say this, Hagrid became lively again. "What do you think of them?"

Sainz ignored him and continued, "Hagrid, as your teaching assistant, I formally give you a suggestion. These things are absolutely not allowed to appear in public, let alone in the classroom!"

"But they need care!" Seeing Sainz's serious look, Hagrid's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he said dissatisfiedly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

"It's good that you think this way. It saves me from having to report it to the vice-president's wife."

Hagrid looked around guiltily. He might not be afraid of old Dumbledore, but he definitely didn't want to be lectured by Professor McGonagall.

Sainz was unhappy and helped Hagrid move the big box to a room in a corner of the fence without a smile, and asked him to lock the door.

"Hagrid, you may think I'm making a big deal out of nothing."

Hagrid didn't say anything, and you didn't even need to use Legilimency to tell from his expression that he really thought that.

"I know that's your personal hobby, and maybe you think I'm being too nosy, but I hope you'll think twice before making a decision, not just for yourself, but whether it will have a bad impact on Dumbledore!

Just like what happened today, you have seriously violated the "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments" decree. A professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry actually took the lead in illegal animal breeding. If this matter were to be exposed, do you think you can still stay in your position as a professor?

Can you even stay at Hogwarts?

Have you ever thought about how passive Dumbledore would be if he were exposed?

Didn't last year's Buckbeak incident serve as a warning to you?

Do you know how Malfoy ridiculed Dumbledore because of that incident?"

Sainz's questions made Hagrid look embarrassed and he almost cried, "I'm sorry, Sainz, I didn't expect it to be so serious. I didn't know it would cause so much trouble for Dumbledore."

He glanced reluctantly at the boxes thrown in the corner, "Should we get rid of them?"

"That's not necessary," Sainz said in a softer voice, "Are you sure no one knew about this before?"

"Absolutely not. I wanted to give you a surprise. I did all the work by myself. I also informed you immediately after they hatched. No one else knew."

"That's good. Now that it has been cultivated, let's carry it through to the end."

Hagrid was delighted, but Sainz's next words made him feel troubled again. "But it's just you. I won't help you with this matter, and don't even think about asking other students to help you. Otherwise, what's the point of keeping it secret!"

Sainz deliberately refused to help in order to let Hagrid know that he had to take responsibility for his own problems and finish his own experiments by himself, or give up halfway.

"Oh, Hagrid, we can't disrupt the students' classes!"

Leaving Hagrid alone there in distress, he turned around and prepared to leave, and whispered, "Hagrid, 60 fire crabs, I don't know how many of them are still alive. Is it worth such a huge price just for these things?

Aren't fire crabs magical creatures? Are their lives so insignificant to you? Aren't they life?

Hagrid, shouldn't we weigh every decision carefully before making it? "

This matter was indeed as Sainz said, he had warned in advance, and after returning to Hogwarts, he found that Hagrid was still conducting the hybridization experiment of the manticore and the fire crab as before.

I really don’t know what he was thinking. The size difference between the two is several orders of magnitude!

After discovering his actions, Sainz warned Hagrid that this was illegal and very dangerous, and he also promised not to do it again.

Now it seems that he didn't listen at all and still bred the blasting-tailed skrewt.

Sainz is not against animal breeding; he is against purposeless animal breeding.

In Sainz's opinion, the exploding-tailed slug was just a random experiment without purpose or safety measures, and it was just a forced pairing by the experimenters in a fit of rage.

This is not to say that this method of cultivation is necessarily wrong. After all, magic experiments do require an open mind. However, it must be admitted that aimless cultivation is like shooting at random, full of uncertainty.

Biological experiments are already extremely dangerous. If we just do them without any preventive measures, we might end up creating something like the "T virus". We would be completely shocked!

Sainz kept his word and never asked about it if he said he would not ask. Hagrid was beaten up by those guys every day, and his initial enthusiasm for the experiment had obviously faded a lot.