Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 429 Neville Becomes Strong

After a long silence, Harry finally said, "Ron, do you know in which school year we came into contact with the Shrinking Potion?"

Looking at Ron who was rubbing the back of his head and grinning, he continued, "Third year."

"It means something, it's simple to grasp."

"Listen to the steps: 1: Process the daisy roots and chop them into equal sizes."

“2: Peel the shrunken figs.”

“3: Slice the caterpillar.”

"4: Add five caterpillar slices to the crucible and heat the crucible until the potion turns red."

“5: Add peeled shrunken figs until the potion turns yellow.”

"6: Heat the potion until it turns purple."

"7: Add a small piece of mouse spleen to the crucible."

"8: Add chopped daisy roots until the potion turns green, then add five drops of leech juice."

“9: Add more crinkly figs, this time until it turns pink.”

"10: Add a chopped caterpillar. Add hemlock essence. Heat until it turns green."

"It's pretty simple, right? I won't go into the details of how many times to stir it and when to stir it."

"Ron, you want to make money from the shrinking potion? It's impossible to earn money from those old people."

"Because it's too simple, and this potion only works when it's boiling."

"Once it cools down, it loses its effectiveness and needs to be boiled again to be useful."

"And its effects are divided into two types, depending entirely on luck. If you're lucky, you'll become younger, but if you're unlucky, you'll become the size of a thumb."

"Plus, it lasts a long time, unless you apply a shrinking potion to cancel the effect."

"Obviously, it's dangerous. The famous pharmacist who invented it, Zygmunt Bage, once gave the Tertius brothers a shrinking potion, and they both shrunk to the size of beetles and hid under a cupboard for days to avoid being dug out and eaten by their cat."

"Putting all this together, you understand that the profit from selling it is not as high as you think." Harry stretched out his right index finger and swung it left and right to indicate that it was unreliable.

“Isn’t this a good solution?”

"My aunt Muriel used to do this. Before taking the shrinking potion, she would stand on a low chair with a small basin of anti-shrinking potion under the chair. If she became smaller, she would jump into it."

"If she hadn't taken to raising cats later, I would probably have continued to see the young and beautiful Aunt Muriel." Ron said, his eyes becoming blurry, as if he was fantasizing about something.

"That's why you keep a picture of Aunt Muriel under your pillow," Draco said sarcastically.

"Shut up!"

"Apply your fertilizer!" said Ron, throwing the fertilizer to Draco.

Draco threw the bag of fertilizer into the trash can in the corner, and the trash can swallowed the bag and burped loudly.

Ron looked at Harry again, looking at him with hope, "What about the Buffy Brain Stimulant?"

"It? You might as well buy a bag of dragon claw powder. After eating this, it can improve your memory and make your brain become extra sharp within a few hours."

"And the Bafe Brain Stimulant is just as effective as this, and it can also permanently improve your brain's thinking a little bit."

"But it's too difficult. And it's hard to configure. It's not even taught at Hogwarts."

"Because once it is prepared incorrectly, the potion will be harmful to the brain. The most important thing is that unlike other potions, you can't tell whether it is successful or not by its color or smell." Harry shook his head.

"But you're different Harry. How could you fail?"

"Toadstools are easy to get, too." Ron said to Harry in an almost flattering tone.

Draco on the side pretended to vomit.

"I'll tell you the recipe: runespoor eggs, dragon's claw powder, jumping mushrooms, and frog's brains." "Instead of preparing it, I might as well eat the dragon's claw powder directly."

"And it also consumes runespoor eggs, which are also expensive."

“It’s a thankless job.”

"You have to understand, there's a reason why a potion isn't a big seller on the market," Harry said to Ron earnestly.

"Merlin's beard!"

"Why is it so hard for me to get rich?" Ron said this simply because the market for his smoke bottles has become saturated.

Although the monthly profit was stable at around 100 gold galleons, it was still not enough for Ron, who even used dragon skin to make magic tape.

This made Draco, who prided himself on being extravagant, couldn't help but give Ron a cold look.

Just as Harry and the others were talking, Neville walked past them carrying a jar of Abyssinian shrunken figs and walked towards Professor Sprout with great ease.

"When did Neville become so strong?" Ron couldn't help rubbing his eyes.

Only then did he realize that Neville's round face was gradually showing some contours, and his round belly had become flat.

"Why didn't I notice it?" Harry was so startled that he dropped the dead branch in his hand to the ground.

She completely forgot that she used to get up at 6 o'clock every day to take the digestion potion, and spent her spare time accompanying Ginny and looking for Lupin.

In early spring, thick clothes under the robe will make the changes in body shape less obvious.

"Could Neville have learned Fenir's transformation by contracting lycanthropy?" Draco speculated.

Some students in Slytherin had taken half a month off to practice this magic.

This magic has a particularly significant effect on the physical improvement of wizards.

"That's impossible, Neville didn't ask for leave." Ron shook his head.

For some reason Neville has become unsociable recently and is often nowhere to be found.

But Ron, his roommate, knew his whereabouts.

"What are you looking at?" Anthony, who had just become interested in what Harry and the others were discussing, walked forward.

"Look at Neville again. He's gotten a lot stronger." Harry said bluntly.

He thought he saw traces of Dudley in Neville.

Neville, like Dudley, suddenly became like this from being fat.

"You don't know?" Anthony looked surprised.

"He's been training lately." Michael popped up.

"He got hold of an unopened iron sword from nowhere and practiced outside the castle all day."

"Most of the time, he would sit on the grass in a weird posture, with his sword on his legs and his eyes closed, and no one knew what he was doing."

"Maybe he's read too many knight novels," Terry complained.

His favorite thing on weekdays was astronomy. After asking his astronomy teacher Aurora Sinistra for permission, he was attracted by Neville in a corner of the bushes in the castle during his free time after observing astronomy through a telescope.

"I said Neville has lost weight, do you want to--" Anthony looked at Ron and teased.

As a loyal fan of Harry, Anthony has always wanted to replace Ron's position beside Harry.

At this moment, Ron's figure, which had gained some weight because he had made money recently and often bought snacks in addition to meals, became the focus of his ridicule.

After all, Harry has become much stronger recently, and he also started exercising and gained some muscles. Anthony, who thinks he has more topics to talk about with Harry at this moment, thinks so.

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