Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 243 How Can a Unicorn Not Fly?

"No, none of the unicorns here have wings, Hagrid!"

"But I just heard you say a unicorn had grown wings!" Hagrid swore, "I absolutely heard it."

"Hagrid, I once read in a book that there are many kinds of unicorns, one of which has wings, so I was asking Mateus if he knew where one was."

"Is there?" Hagrid asked the unicorn leader in surprise. Matthaus rolled his eyes at him and turned away. "By the way, Sainz, which book did you read this in? How come I have never heard of it?"

"Well... from a Muggle book." You can't say it was from a book in your previous life.

Hagrid's expectations immediately disappeared without a trace, "Sainth... uh... I know you... I know you like reading books... but... but Muggle books... You can't trust what's in Muggle books... You've been deceived by them."

After saying this, he looked at Sainz with pity, patted him on the shoulder gently, and very considerately did not continue talking about this topic. He gave him an encouraging look and staggered away.

Sainz was a little "comforted" and even wanted to cast a tripping spell on his big feet.

Never mind. He is so big that he would not be able to bear a fall. Sainz chose to forgive him, which is a good deed for him.

He was so upset about this loss that he lost his temper. After all, there was no magic in the world of his previous life and all magical creatures were imagined. It was normal for the same unicorn to appear in different images in different works.

But now he lives in a real world, where there are real creatures like unicorns. Because of the existence of real creatures, people's imagination is constrained and their images become monotonous.

Sainz looked at Matthäus who ran around him to the side to eat, and then looked at Hagrid who occasionally stole glances at him from a distance. For a moment, his desire to win rose a little.

"How about someone show them a special skill? Create a group of winged unicorns, so that these walking animals can only look up to them, and let some ignorant wizards have a good look at them?

Where is my notebook? Write it down! "

Sainz wrote this down and planned to study it when he had free time.

The hybridization experiment of magical creatures is something that needs to be taken seriously. In the original trajectory, Hagrid used a human-headed sphinx and a fire crab to breed a blast-tailed skrewt.

As a result, the blasting-tailed skrewts look nothing like their sire or damselfish relatives. Instead, when young, they look like shelled lobsters and smell like rotten fish and shrimp.

When it grows up, it looks like a giant scorpion with its tail stinger curled on its back, and its body is covered with hard armor and sharp thorns.

Not only do they look nothing like their parents, they don't even have anything to do with their names.

I don't know what kind of imagination Hagrid had when he came up with this idea. First of all, the sizes of the two are very different. The name of the manticore suggests that it is not small in size, while the fire crab is a turtle with jewels on its back.

Sai is definitely not as cruel as Hagrid. There are plenty of horses of similar size to unicorns.

The Talisman Horse is a giant Pegasus, about the same size as an elephant, with golden and silver mane and flaming red eyes. It was this type of Pegasus that pulled the carriage for Beauxbatons School during the Goblet of Fire Tournament.

Iseron is a common Pegasus in Britain and Ireland. It is slightly smaller than the Rune Horse, but similar in size to Mateus.

Iserlongs have many different fur colors, but all Iserlongs have chestnut manes.

Similar to the above two types of Pegasus is Graling, which is generally gray. Among all Pegasus, their movements are the fastest, not only in flying speed, but in all speeds, including reaction speed.

Professor Rosario Gratton, Sainz's first-year Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, escaped the attack of a Chimera with the help of a loyal Graling when he was young.

Although the three types of Pegasus mentioned above have their own merits, they all look somewhat similar, and their wings are all broad.

There is another type of Pegasus that is completely different from them, and that is the Thestral.

Yes, in the Ministry of Magic's classification, they also classify the Thestrals as a special type of Pegasus.

But Sainz didn't quite agree with this classification in his heart. He felt that they were just being lazy and wanted to reduce a species of magical creature in order to cut costs.

Thestrals really don't match the other Pegasus species at all, even though they are equine in appearance and can fly.

All of the winged Pegasus mentioned above are in the fences of Hogwarts. Sainz has come into contact with all of them since he became an assistant teacher. He has also come into contact with the Thestrals tribe in the Forbidden Forest.

Their behavioral and eating habits are completely different, and just because the wings of the Thestrals are not feathered, Sainz does not believe that they have any genealogical relationship with other Pegasus.

In terms of rarity, Thestrals are far superior to other Pegasus, and in terms of magical power, they are also far superior to other Pegasus.

It can be seen from the commonly used materials of magic wands that in addition to dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns, thestrals are also often used as wand cores, but it is rare to hear of Pegasus being used as a material.

Even though Sainz despises unicorns as ground-moving animals, their magical power is real.

Among the four types of Pegasus classified by the Ministry of Magic, the Thestrals are at the top in terms of magical abundance.

Looking at all the magical creatures Harry encountered in Harry Potter, basically all of them showed high intelligence and stable emotions.

Only the fire dragons with the strongest magic power behaved like brainless beasts. Sainz guessed that it might be because the magic was too strong, affecting and blinding their brains, making their intelligence lower than that of other large magical creatures.

Another creature that shows high intelligence but malicious intent is the eight-eyed spider raised by Hagrid. That old and blind spider is the only magical animal Harry has seen in the original trajectory that can communicate directly, and it can speak.

None of the other magical creatures, including Old Dumbledore's phoenix, spoke a word.

As for the talking centaurs, although they have never admitted that they are "humans", Sai does not think that they are "beasts" like Pegasus in his heart.

We can only say that they are another kind of intelligent creatures with social structure and legal morals. Even if they are unwilling to admit that they are "human beings", they can be completely compared to "aliens" and other intelligent creatures that are completely different from "human beings".

A similar situation is the mermaid tribe, which also has language and social structure.

In fact, strictly speaking, giants can also be compared to this category, but giants are too low in intelligence and too confused to coexist peacefully with humans. It’s okay for them to exist as a protected species, but as neighbors... it’s better not to talk about them.

Matthäus in the distance was feeling uneasy being stared at by Sainz, which could be seen from his hooves that occasionally pawed the ground.

"Xilulu~" It ran over on its own initiative.

"Oh, I'm really not thinking about anything dangerous, believe me~"