Chapter 563: The Good Student, Gabrielle

In general, Gabrielle's magical power was very good. She had a lot of knowledge. But in some respects, she really needed Ivan's care.

She had probably been under Fleur's protection all along, and lacked some common sense.

She was somewhat like Hermione and very fond of learning.

For example, Hagrid once approached them in the Care of Magical Creatures classroom swinging a teetering tower of boxes, each of which contained an oversized Scryer.

Everyone else hurried away, and Gabrielle, the young foreign girl, was the only one who looked up at the boxes curiously.

Ivan quickly pulled her along. When normal people saw this terrible monster, shouldn't their first reaction be to avoid it out of fear? It was not a wise decision to take the initiative to approach the explosive-tailed Escregutos that could burn people at any moment.

Now, under Hagrid's careful nurturing, the remaining Escregutes were three feet long. They had become immensely strong. They no longer had shells or color, but had developed a kind of thick, grayish, shiny armor. They looked like a cross between giant scorpions and elongated crabs, but still had no recognizable head or eyes.

"Ivan, what are these?" whispered Gabrielle, curiosity shining in her light blue eyes.

"Exploding-tailed crabs!"

"I've never seen..."

"That's because Hagrid developed them himself!" said Ivan, "Well now stay away from them."

Hagrid placed the shaking boxes on the floor in front of the students in turn.

"I've studied it carefully. The reason the Scrygutes have been killing each other is an excess of pent-up energy that they needed to release."

Ivan doubted this. wasn't it because of their inherent fierce nature?

"To solve this problem, every other student should attach a leash to a Skrew and take it for a little walk," Hagrid said and he specially pulled out a Skrew and showed it in front of Gabrielle. "I tried it out in the morning class and it worked very well."

Looking at it, he wanted to make a good impression on Gabrielle. He knew she was a student of Madame Maxime.

Sure enough, Hagrid then asked Ivan and Gabrielle to help him demonstrate how to attach a leash to the Screw.

"What are we supposed to do?" asked Gabrielle, eager to try.

"Where exactly are we supposed to attach the leash? Around the stinger where the explosions are generated or the bloodsucker?", Ivan said reluctantly.

"Around the middle," said Hagrid. "You two need to put on the dragonskin gloves, just as an extra precaution."

Hagrid's beetle-black eyes glittered with excitement under his wild eyebrows. He proudly explained to Gabrielle the creatures' body structure, habits, parts to watch out for, etc.

You could tell Hagrid was proud to be able to cultivate a new species.

Gabriel asked many questions, which made Hagrid very happy.

A few minutes later, both Ivan and Gabrielle took a giant Skrew out for a walk on the lawn.

Every step was very difficult. The Escreguto was so powerful that it was difficult to control and it did not listen to their commands at all. On the contrary, both had to be attentive at all times.

From time to time, with an alarming roar, the end of the Escreguto would explode, causing it to shoot forward several meters. Although the leash was quite long, Ivan and Gabrielle had to run fast to keep up with the Escreguto.

It was a unique experience to be pulled and run by an exploding-tailed Escreguto.

As for the other students, many of them were being dragged upside down, desperately trying to get to their feet.

If at that moment, the Escreguto suddenly turned around, the consequences would be simply unimaginable.

The lawn was in disarray and Ivan watched as Colin and Ginny were dragged away by a Skrug.

They all had a hard time, but Hagrid thought they were having fun.

In fact, maybe only Gabrielle was really happy. The girl was running after the Escrew, giggling.

"They're interesting, aren't they?" Gabrielle giggled and said, "Hagrid's really good. He can raise magical animals all by himself. I've never heard of anyone who's done it before. It's amazing."

Indeed, very few people can do it like Hagrid, as it is illegal and the breeding process is very dangerous.

Those Scrogutos, for example, were the cross between the Manticore and the Fire Crab. Being the most dangerous and amazing animal, no one could dare to come in contact with the Manticore.

Of course, omitting the legitimacy and danger, from a zoologist's perspective, the Fire Manticore was still of great research value.

Gabrielle clearly thought so. She would never see this magical creature at Beauxbatons.

Her bravery and eagerness to learn was not only reflected in the Care of Magical Creatures class, but in other courses as well.

For example, in Potions class, even though Snape seemed cold and horrible, he turned a blind eye and kept raising his hand to ask questions.

The Potions class teacher at Beauxbatons may have liked it when students did this, but Snape definitely didn't like it. In his class, there was an unspoken rule: no questions were allowed.

He would write on the board all the potion-making processes and materials and ask the students to study them on their own.

However, there was clearly a problem. Most of the potion formulas and brewing steps written by Snape on the board were different from those in the textbook. They had all been optimized and improved by him. If they were published abroad, they would be absolutely astounding achievements.

But Snape had no intention of explaining to everyone how great this was, and the young wizards did not have the ability to distinguish accordingly.

They just had to do it, and in practice they understood why Snape had improved so much.

"Professor, I've already learned this antidote formula, and I haven't ground the moonstone into powder..."

"Evidently, Miss Delacour," Snape said coolly, "you need to flip through your Potions book."

"But..." Gabrielle wanted to ask further. It wasn't even written in the textbook.

Ivan tugged her arm discreetly; couldn't she see how the others were looking at her?

After Ivan stopped her, Gabrielle soon raised her hand again. Snape explained something completely different from what she had learned before.

Those who dared to interrupt Snape over and over again ended up in a miserable situation.

Everyone was sweating over Gabrielle. This cute angel-like girl could not be Snape's opponent.

Fortunately, Snape was more concerned about the fact that Gabrielle was a Beauxbatons student. His face was grim and terrible, but he didn't say many of the words he usually did.

He preferred to ignore Gabrielle, as he had always ignored Ivan and Hermione.

But the other Gryffindor students were out of luck, and Snape had no scruples about them.

To get Gabrielle to stop asking questions and challenging Snape's background, Ivan had to explain to her personally after class.