A Salon of Wisdom

Besides Schubert's Serenade, The Trout was also very famous.

Every year, from November to February, trout returned upstream to spawn. But not all trout needed to migrate. Cissy had hooked a trout; it was said to be enormous, and she simply lacked the strength to reel it in. Franz happened to be passing by, so he helped haul the fish onto the shore.

Under Muggle law, fish in the lake could not be caught, but Pomona still found a way to make it her dinner.

Grilled trout with potatoes, drizzled with lemon juice until it was fragrant and crisp, charred outside and tender within, paired with Austria's famous sweet wine—it was simply delicious!

Severus, meanwhile, had a particular fondness for braised venison. Though the waiter strongly recommended eating it raw, he still had his thoroughly cooked.

The people at the next table were eating venison. The marbled meat looked extremely tempting, but with the Remora incident as an example, she did not urge him to try it.

Austrian desserts were so sweet they made one question one's life. Besides the Chocolate Frogs common in Britain, the train also served Swiss liqueur-filled chocolate balls. Bite one open, and it would play beautiful music, but they had never sold as well as Chocolate Frogs.

Sometimes children bought Chocolate Frogs to collect Chocolate Frog Cards, not because they truly wanted to eat chocolate. And compared with listening to world-famous classical pieces, they preferred trendy music like the Weird Sisters.

Even Selena was considered outdated, let alone Chopin. In truth, much of what was now regarded as "elegant music" had been unconventional in the composers' own eras. There were not many musicians like Johann Strauss, who gained recognition while still alive.

Most people, such as Bach, were only understood and accepted many years after