Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 123 The visitor is evil

Although "deceit" is a strategy that Slytherin himself does not dislike, he also emphasized that communication skills should be emphasized when communicating with smart people, rather than making up lies that can be easily exposed.

Because the latter means stupidity.

You can spur a lazy person; encourage a cowardly person; but only a stupid person is hopelessly stupid.

Blaise Zabini's quibbling in front of him, in Snape's opinion, was a complete stupidity opening the door to stupidity - extremely stupid.

Or worse, the guy mistook him for a curly-haired baboon who was just as mentally retarded as himself, and for two little Gryffindor wizards.

Snape, who had always been proud, felt like his lungs were about to explode.

"Is this how I usually teach you?" He grabbed Blaise Zabini by the collar, held the little wizard in front of him, and looked at him condescendingly with squinted eyes.

"Should a little wizard with no talent arbitrarily research dangerous and despicable love potions? Put it aside for now. What confidence do you have to think that this bullshit 'Water of Life and Death' lie can be hidden from me?" The Potions Professor at Hogwarts?"

"Moreover, you are the youngest wizard in history to win the title of 'Potion Master', and you have also won the championship of two International Potions Championships at the age of 16 and 17? That is Zygmunt, the author of "The Book of Potions" What Bucky has always wanted to achieve, you have achieved twice."

Bourne made a comment from behind and added a solid assist.

Look at people! Snape thought. And this also caused him to feel disgusted when he looked at the two stupid faces of Blaise Zabini and Theodore Nott, and he even couldn't help but have the idea of ​​​​slapping them.

But he still restrained his impulse. After all, these two people were just two little wizards.

But when he thought again, they were still young wizards of the great Slytherin House, Snape's mood hit rock bottom again like he was on a roller coaster.

"Give me the formula you made," he said viciously: "Don't tell me the formula is in your heads - you are improving the love potion, adding several messy new materials, each of which is... The materials and every step of adding ingredients must be tested for effects—those are quantitative experimental records. If you want to remember them with your brain, you can’t rely on two Florber caterpillar-like brains.”

This time, even those two people who were students of Slytherin House were not immune to Professor Snape's vicious attack, which was famous in Hogwarts.

In the end, Nott and Zabini, who could not bear the pressure, honestly took out their experimental records and explained why they wanted to improve the love potion.

"This potion is of great value," Zabini said.

Nott, on the other hand, explained their goals from a more professional perspective: "Its raw materials are not expensive, and there are two main reasons why its market price has remained high.

In addition to the fact that the Ministry of Magic has only granted franchise manufacturing rights to a few potion shops, it also takes a long time to brew and cannot be turned off for a full week.

Therefore, we replaced the horseradish with powder, learned from the method of shortening the production time of plant rejuvenation agents, and added some catalysts to the ingredient list.

However, the love potion brewed in this way has no pink and dizzying smoke when it first comes out of the crucible.

Brace gave me a suggestion and added two materials to it, which together with the pearl powder in the original formula became the active ingredients of the beauty potion. "

Hearing his partner mention him, Blaise Zabini said quickly: "I don't think it is a good idea to directly make high-quality love potions, because unauthorized use of such potions will violate a series of magic laws.

Therefore, my idea is to transform the love potion into a new magic potion with beauty effects. After taking it, it can not only make people look radiant, but also attract the attention of the object of admiration to a certain extent. "

After listening to the two people's explanations, Snape's expression did not change at all.

He just asked calmly: "Mr. Slughorn, what do you think of their innovation?"

What do I think? I'll keep my eyes open and watch.

Of course, Bourne would not tell such a cold joke. He just said: "Why do some people always feel that some of the things they think of have not been thought of by smarter people in the past?"

"Do you understand?"

Snape was furious, and of course, the targets of his anger were two students from his own college.

"Are you a Gryffindor who values ​​brute... courage?
You are Slytherins!
Does the "College Code" stipulate the rule of 'plan before taking action'?
The development of potions today is completely different from the past development method of "wizards accidentally discovered it while making potions". It has become a very rigorous magic.

Every magic potion experiment and every standard formula determination is supported by a large number of magic potion theories. The prerequisite for optimizing the formula is that you must master more potion knowledge than your predecessors, and only a handful of the most talented people have the qualifications and ability to do so.

But just the two of you... Humph! "

Because he probably remembered that Snape had optimized many standard potion formulas in textbooks when he was in fifth and sixth grade, and also wrote all the steps in a second-hand potion textbook that also recorded the Divine Edge Shadowless Curse. Therefore, Bourne had reason to suspect that while scolding the two young wizards bloody, the professor was also secretly praising himself.

And just when Snape was about to continue scolding Nott and Zabini, Neville, who had been silent as if he were a little transparent, suddenly said: "S-Professor Snape, you have already Got the formula, my Leif..."

Snape frowned. He felt a little uncomfortable being interrupted, but he really didn't feel good about it. Because, it has now been proven that this little chubby Gryffindor is the victim, and he did not deceive himself.

"Hmph! Wait for me." Snape said angrily. This was not only a reply to Neville, but also to Zabini and Nott.

He held up the potion experiment record that contained the "rich plan" of the two Slytherin wizards, looked at it and threw it aside, and then carefully speculated on the effects of various potions and their production methods. reaction, which was then derived quantitatively.

It can only be said that Snape is indeed worthy of the title of "Potion Master". Just by looking at the formula and experimental records, he had an idea on how to treat the half-dead Leif.

"Levicorpus!"

He just waved his wand slightly and cast a spell silently, and the toad suddenly flew out of Neville's arms with its head facing down and its legs in the air.

"Quack~~!" Leif opened his mouth and let out a bark.

Immediately afterwards, it opened its two big watery eyes. Before that, it had been squinting its eyes as if sleeping for an hour or two.

"Do you understand?" Snape asked Bourne again, with a hint of complacency in his tone.

At the same time, he also took out the main ingredients of the "Poison of Hate" and a small piece of dung stone that he had already prepared. After using a crushing spell to smash them all, he used a floating spell to forcefully pour the powder into Leif Zhang. Open your mouth.

He did not wait for Bourne's answer, but directly issued an eviction order: "The two potions that can cause adverse reactions have been solved. What to do with this toad next is your own business. Now, the two of you, Get out of the Slytherin common room."

Then, Snape looked at Nott and Zabini again: "As for you two Slytherins... you are not allowed to have dinner today. You will all go to my Potions office to receive punishment in the evening. There are still a few barrels there. Florob caterpillars need to be made into sauce embryos, and this job is just right for the two of you!"

After saying that, the Slytherin headmaster left the four young wizards and Toad Leif where they were, and strode towards the door of the common room.

"professor……"

Bourne wanted to remind Snape that he had just ordered Draco to "stand here and don't move." However, he gave up after a second thought, because he felt that a genius wizard who could memorize a good Potions and Pharmacopoeia from beginning to end would not forget such a small thing...right?

In fact, before leaving the Slytherin common room, Bourne only did one thing.

He used "Petrify All" on Theodore Nott and Blaise Zabini with lightning speed - allowing them to experience Neville's previous predicament - and it was also a plus version.

Although he wanted to use the "Leg-locking Curse" at first, he still used "Petrify Everything" with a wave of his hand. There is no other reason, it's just that he can use this spell so easily.

As for whether the two people who were motionless in the tea room would delay going to Professor Snape's office to receive punishment, and then receive a more severe punishment...

What about them?

However, Bourne did not expect that the person who really broke the appointment a few hours later would actually be Professor Snape.

Unlike Neville, who was happily teasing his pet, Bourne was thinking about the question that Snape had just asked him on his way to the Hogwarts Hall for dinner.

"Just by casting a spell on Lefu, it offset the influence of the 'unqualified elixir' ingredients. Why is this? What principle is contained in it?"

After arriving at the restaurant, Bourne and Neville saw that Harry and Ron had reserved seats for them, and the two of them had already begun to feast.

Hermione was looking at her notes while sipping a bowl of pumpkin porridge with nuts and dried berries. Worry about the exam week that is "coming soon" has made her have little appetite recently.

Seamus Finnegan was chatting animatedly about trains with Dean Thomas.

The two of them were very interested in the "Flying Dutchman" flying on the Great Northern Line.

Seamus felt that the "Hogwarts Express" might be the reason why the Ministry of Magic would send someone to borrow the car, re-brand it, and use it twice every year during the school term and holidays.

Otherwise, the two operators of the "Hogwarts Express" train - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the Ministry of Magic - would not be allowed to build a separate railway just to transport one or two hundred young wizards every year before school and holidays. My uncle's family suffered a loss to my grandma's family?

Dean, whose mother is a Muggle and his father is a wizard, thinks Seamus' idea is too unmagical. "Couldn't that train be created by a powerful wizard using the transformation technique?"

The question was very interesting, and Bourne found it very interesting to listen to the debate between them. For a while, he temporarily put aside his deep thoughts on Professor Snape's question.

He also shared his own experience.

At the beginning of school, because he failed to master the "Petrify All" spell, he not only released a psychic lightning that knocked down many people, but also caused a small explosion in the locomotive's boiler.

As a result, he was "lucky" to see some angry dwarves. It was those intelligent humanoid creatures who were responsible for driving the Hogwarts Express.

Because there was proof that Principal Dumbledore deducted points in front of everyone at the school opening party, no one could question the truth of what he said.

"Dwarf...is this another rare magical animal?"

Dean Thomas said that he had never heard of this term, and he wanted to go back and consult Professor Kettleburn of the Care of Magical Creatures class.

Professor Scamander, who was invited by Principal Dumbledore to take over as substitute teacher, has now left his post. After the vampire attack, Professor Kettleburn, who had recovered from his injuries, returned to Hogwarts at the beginning of the spring semester and took over the reins again.

"Well, you can ask, but just don't make a big deal about it," Bourne gave him a piece of advice. "The dwarfs don't seem to like wizards classifying their research into the field of magical animals."

And just as these little wizards were chatting enthusiastically, the door to the castle auditorium was suddenly pushed open from the outside. A dozen people were wearing the same duffel plaid windbreaker, leather shoes on their feet, and detective hats on their heads. The wizards in hats all rushed in.

At the same time, the four deans of Hogwarts also walked out of the small door on the inside of the auditorium. Dumbledore left the temporary castle due to something, so several deans, led by Dean McGonagall, who was also the vice-principal, came over together.

"Why are there so many Aurors here?"

Ron held up the fried chicken leg that he took a big bite of, looked at the visitor, and said in surprise.

"What is an Auror?"

Hermione and Harry were both curious.

"It's the Scotland Yard personnel for wizards." Ron's words were a little slurred because he had chicken stuffed in his mouth. "Fred told me the last word. He said that Muggles also have Aurors who are responsible for solving cases. At that time, I was surprised."

(End of this chapter)