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Chapter 281 Incomplete Potion Recipe

The method is good, but it is too dangerous. Not all wizards can uphold their sense of justice and courage at the last moment like Ron.

Ryan had no intention of retracting his previous assessment of Ron, mainly because Ron had come for fame in his first year, and his words revealed cowardice and incompetence. At the time, Ryan couldn't see any redeeming qualities in Ron, nor could he imagine what field would be suitable for him.

"This is truly remarkable; one should look at a person with new eyes after three days' absence."

He picked up his pen and wrote this line of comment on Ron's exam paper, then asked the house-elf to deliver the paper and an invitation to the Adventurers' Club to Ron.

He learned from Ron's article how to replenish the magical world's scarce manpower and how the magical world was about to enter the era of intelligent military operations.

Imagine a genie golem wielding genie weapons, dominating the battlefield – that sounds incredibly exciting.

He picked up his quill, spread out the parchment, and began sketching out equations, listing all the ideas that came to mind. Then he put the things aside and continued to see how many surprises this year's Adventurers' Club assessment paper would bring him.

Fleur's description of the importance of propaganda platforms in her article likely stemmed from her taking over the Daily Prophet's work, and how she would later facilitate communication between the wizarding world's and Muggle world's propaganda platforms.

Qiu Zhang's article seems to have some of Cedric's influence, but very faintly. The main idea is still her own unique thoughts—after all, Cedric has no idea what talismans are.

She proposed simplifying alchemical matrices into runes or other small stamps, which led to a boom in the enchanting industry. (Autumn)

In his article, Zhang said that enchanting is an extremely simplified form of alchemy, so the goal should be to make it easy for everyone to learn, rather than to make the content profound.

She emphasized that ordinary wizards, especially magic wizards, would inevitably use enchanted items to assist their actions after Ryan established an industrialized magic production base. Therefore, she simplified the process to an extreme degree, and at the end of the article, she included a simplified rune she had developed based on her family's talismans and alchemy; the effect of this rune is to make objects bearing it glow.

"It's hard to evaluate. The effect and the idea are very good, but the only drawback is that I really don't know how to use talismans."

Ryan covered his face and, after calming down for a while, also sent an invitation to Cho Chang.

Subsequently, two more senior students received invitations in their final year before graduation, laying an extremely solid foundation for their future career development.

He then began to calculate the feasibility of Ron's proposal and tried to improve the golem.

While he may not be as creative as the top geniuses in terms of spell design, he can still improve and modify a spell once it's in his hands.

"We can also incorporate Qiu Zhang's idea: enchanting golems with specific functions during production to create different types of golems."

This is one of the reasons why he convened the Adventurers' Club. After all, one person's plan is limited, but many people's plans are more comprehensive. As long as the feasibility can be initially demonstrated, he can use this idea to introduce a brand-new school of magic into the magic world.

After all, he is perhaps the only one in a thousand years who can enter the ranks of the Great Wizard with pure magic. This means that he can achieve all-round development in a certain aspect by relying on his magic. He knows a little bit about everything, but not much.

"Professor Slughorn, what do you think of the potion recipe Ryan gave me?"

Snape slowly observed the sweating Slughorn, studying him for a long time before forming a guess in his mind.

However, he felt he would need the help of a potions master of equal caliber to fully replicate this incomplete formula.

"That's impossible!"

Slughorn did not waste his life's learning; after receiving it, he realized what he was holding in his hand in just over ten minutes.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt his understanding of potions had been overturned: "Werewolves can be healed! How can werewolves be healed?"

"That's right, this is a potion for healing werewolves, and it's not the kind of potion the healers have proposed before, not the kind that can only suppress werewolf venom on the night of a full moon —"

Snape also found it outrageous, firstly because he found the potion formula that Lane had produced outrageous, and secondly because he found the old professor's reaction speed outrageous—how could his brain react so quickly at such an old age?

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Slughorn looked up abruptly, completely forgetting what Snape had just told him: "How did he get it? Does he have the complete version?"

“Professor, I’ve already said it. Lane obtained this half of the formula from a prophecy; he knows nothing about it himself, and he just showed it to me.” Snape shook his head. “Therefore, perfecting the formula is our responsibility.”

"I heard that a pharmacologist is researching wolfsbane medicine, and perhaps it will be effective soon."

Slughorn suddenly mentioned a wizard in the British apothecary circle.

"That just means he was very unlucky. Wolfsbane potion is no match for our werewolf healing potion."

Snape chuckled twice and took out his draft: "This is a draft I wrote after my previous research, but there are three points that cannot be logically proven."

Slughorn took Snape's draft and compared it with his own newly formed ideas, reading the draft with questions and doubts.

The two then started arguing in the office.

This argument is not a personal attack, but an academic debate, as each side has its own ideas.

Snape's idea was to start with the werewolves' exotic magic and use potions to soothe it.

Slughorn's idea was to use this half of the recipe to create a potion lock to lock in the infectiousness and toxicity that werewolves carry after they transform.

The former approach is closer to completely eradicating werewolves, while the latter aims to preserve the werewolves' inherent characteristics and render them harmless.

However, the Hogwarts students passing by had no idea that the two scholars in the room were having an academic discussion.

After all, most young wizards don't have the concepts of academics at all; they only have gossip and pranks in their minds.

Furthermore, some pure-bloods have revealed details of Slughorn's life, saying that he was once the head of Slytherin and Snape's Potions professor.

Thus, new rumors and gossip began to circulate at Hogwarts.

For example, Professor Snape was treated unfairly by Professor Slughorn during his student days, which led Professor Snape to use some unconventional methods in recent years to force Professor Slughorn to leave the school.

While in a sense the rumor is true that Snape did indeed use unconventional methods to bring down Voldemort, thus allowing Slughorn to leave the school satisfied.

For example, Professor Slughorn. He couldn't stand Slytherin under Professor Snape's leadership, so he returned to Hogwarts to lead Slytherin back to the era of pure-blood glory.

This rumor was fabricated by purebloods who never imagined their own backyard was about to catch fire.