Chapter 199 "Shock Me" Chocolate (Frog)

After returning from the Forbidden Forest, Harry seemed a little...no, very worried.

He is actually a parselmouth...

He once again recalled the words of the Sorting Hat during the sorting ceremony.

"well……"

Harry couldn't remember how many times he sighed.

Ever since he first came into contact with the wizarding world, he has been taught that there are few good things in Slytherin, and the two people he dislikes most in school, Malfoy and Snape, are also from Slytherin.

Now that he discovered that he was probably a descendant of the founder of Slytherin, Harry felt very complicated.

"Okay, man, it's not a big deal."

Ron came over and patted Harry on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "And this is cool, isn't it? You can talk to snakes! Before this, only Fish among us could do it."

Didn't you warn me before not to reveal that you are a Parseltongue?

Harry rolled his eyes and muttered in his mind, but did not really refute Ron.

Because he also knew that Ron said this to make himself feel better. It would be too shameless to really care about this.

"Don't think so much, what if you are really a descendant of Slytherin? Now you are a Gryffindor! I bet that if other Slytherins, especially Malfoy, find out, they will I’ll be mad and jealous of you.”

Ron's words, especially the last sentence, really made Harry feel a lot better. He imagined Malfoy's furious expression when he found out that he was a Parseltongue, and couldn't help but grin. .

"That's right." Seeing that his friend's mood had improved, Ron also smiled and handed a chocolate frog over, "Here, have a piece of chocolate, we have Quidditch training tonight."

Yesterday morning's training was not only disrupted by the Slytherin group, but most of the team members complained about getting up so early. Not many of them listened to the tactics he had been talking about for a long time, so Wood changed the training again. The time was changed to evening.

After handing the chocolate frog to Harry, Ron himself took a chocolate frog from the snack pile on the bedside, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

Because of Fish's existence, there was never a shortage of snacks in their dormitory. Ron also knew for the first time what it felt like to be tired of eating snacks... This was really so happy!

Harry opened the box of the chocolate frog, and skillfully caught the chocolate frog inside before it jumped out, and then gnawed off its head. The struggling chocolate frog immediately stopped moving. .

"Whose picture did you draw?"

Ron stretched out his neck and asked, shaking off the picture in his hand in disgust, "I have Alberic Glenion again, the guy who invented the dung egg."

He didn't have much money for snacks before, and he didn't have the financial strength to collect all the pictures.

Before entering Hogwarts, most of the pictures Ron collected were duplicates from his brothers, so they were thrown to him, so what he had were basically some crappy pictures...

For example, Dumbledore, and the Alberic he currently holds.

Now that they have more snacks than they can finish in their dormitory, Ron finally sees hope in collecting all the chocolate frog pictures. Last year alone, he collected more than twice as many new pictures as he did in the previous years combined.

The desire to collect is a desire shared by most humans and even animals. Even Fish is collecting chocolate frog pictures... Although he soon lost interest, he still collected them anyway. His magic bag In the corner, there are still many pictures collected at the beginning.

Harry is no exception, and as he is relatively new to the wizarding world, he can learn more about the wizarding world from the pictures, so last year he joined the group of chocolate picture collectors, and the picture in his hand now The number is no less than Ron's.

After putting the chocolate frog in his hand into his mouth in a few clicks, Harry puffed his cheeks and pulled out a picture from the box...

"Let me take a look...it seems like a picture I've never seen before!"

Harry was delighted.

In the picture, there is a sinister-looking old man with a grass ring on his head and a cane carved into the shape of a snake in his hand...

Harry's eyes twitched slightly when he saw the cane, and the joy he had just raised disappeared instantly. He was now a little allergic to snakes.

Moving his eyes downward, Harry looked at the name at the bottom of the picture...

"Called... despicable Haierbo? Who is this?"

"Oh! Haierbo! This is a super rare picture!" Ron had never seen this picture before, but that didn't stop him from cherishing these pictures. He shouted excitedly: "He's even better than Aggrieved." Liba is even rarer!”

Harry remembered the name Agripba. When he first met Ron on the Hogwarts Express last year, he said that he wanted a picture of Agripba... Unfortunately, he has not been able to collect it until now. arrive.

"Look at what he said, despicable Haierbo...it doesn't sound like a good wizard."

Ron urged enthusiastically. Although he knew the names of all the characters in the Chocolate Frog cartoons, he didn't know the specific introductions.

And the selection of people on the Chocolate Frog card is very arbitrary. There are famous wizards like Dumbledore, singers like the members of the Weird Sisters, and even ordinary wizards like Chauncey Aldridge, who has nothing to say except that he is the first patient of Dragon Pox.

But alchemist and owner of the Philosopher's Stone like Nicolas Flamel was not included.

I don't know what the selection criteria of the card are.

Harry, who was also very curious, turned the card over. On the back of the card was written the introduction of the character of Herbo the Despicable.

"Herbo the Despicable is a dark wizard in ancient Greece. He is one of the earliest known dark wizards. Many of his research still affects the dark magic. In addition, he invented many evil curses..."

Harry read the introduction on the back. Herbo is not a good person. He curled his lips and continued to read: "And he is also considered the first wizard to breed a basilisk, one of the early Parseltongues..."

"Pah!"

Harry subconsciously threw the card in his hand to the ground.

This is a pitfall!

I just can't stand the Parseltongue today, right? !

"..."

"..."

After throwing the picture card, Harry and Ron fell silent at the same time.

"Ahem, it's nothing," Ron was the first to break the silence, "Maybe you are not a descendant of Slytherin, but a descendant of Herpo."

Harry looked down at the picture card he threw on the ground, and then looked at Ron who was actually comforting him kindly...

This old man is not as good as Slytherin!

After all, before Slytherin broke up with the other three giants, he was barely a wizard in the justice camp.

Ron scratched his head, and he realized at this time that what he said just now seemed to be a bit problematic.

"Well... anyway, you at least got a rare picture card, right?"

After thinking for a long time, he really couldn't think of any words of comfort, so Ron could only say this dryly.

Harry rolled his eyes again. Although he felt very uncomfortable with the picture card, he leaned down honestly, picked it up and put it away.

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In the original book, Ron said that he had collected almost 500 pictures, only Agrippa and Portolomeo were missing.

Let alone whether the Weasley family could afford so many snacks, Ron kept staring at the chocolate frogs on the train with greedy eyes, and it didn't look like he had eaten them many times.

Although it is also possible that he collected cigarette cards like I did before and asked adults for them everywhere, according to the official setting, there are only 104 chocolate frogs, including the Harry trio who joined later.

Ron collected 500, which means that at least 400 were duplicates. Why did he need so many duplicates?

Of course, it is also possible that there are more than 104, but Ron also said at the time that he already had six Morganas, so there must be a lot of duplicates among the 500.

Moreover, by the time of the Goblet of Fire, Hannah and Macmillan were still exchanging cards. If even Ron could collect almost all the cards before entering school, it would be unreasonable for Macmillan, who was also a pure-blood and had a better family background, not to have collected all the cards by the fourth year.

Of course, there is also a possibility that some new cards were added every period of time, and I personally prefer this situation.

But it’s still the same question as before. I don’t think the Weasley family’s financial resources can afford Ron to eat 500 chocolate frogs... unless he has basically only eaten this kind of snack since he was born.

So I made a slight modification here to make Ron’s progress in collecting cards more in line with his personality.

In addition, regarding Nicolas Flamel’s cards, I guess he didn’t want to be targeted by people who coveted the Philosopher’s Stone, so he didn’t give authorization or something like that.