Hogwarts: I Raise Bowtruckles

After transmigrating into the Harry Potter world, Cress Selwyn becomes, from the start, Slytherin’s youngest History of Magic instructor.

As he watches The Chosen One put on the Sorting Hat and hears the cry of "Gryffindor" ring through the Great Hall, he takes a sip of red wine without changing expression.

As a Slytherin, with Dumbledore watching him and Snape suspecting him, he is destined to find it difficult to approach the protagonist.

That is, until the Fantastic Beasts Breeding System activates and issues a mission: make contact with a Fantastic Beast within three days.

So, while everyone assumes Professor Selwyn will only bury himself in old books...

He successfully "bribes" his first Bowtruckle with woodlice on the edge of the Forbidden Forest;

In the dungeon classroom, he quietly guides the evolution of a star spider;

And, to everyone’s astonishment, he gets a temperamental Hippogriff to lower its proud head...

Dumbledore considers him a promising scholar, Snape finds him hard to read, and Malfoy tries to recruit this "one of our own."

As for Cress, he is simply focused on building a Fantastic Beasts compendium of his own.