Hogwarts wizards who signed in to Middle-earth

When Dui returned to Hobbiton from Buckstown, he did not go directly back along the straight east-west road. Instead, he took a detour from the north and went to Hard Summer Town and Long Bluff Town in the northern part of the Shire to check in.

Signing in at Long Bluff Town will get you a "History of Magic", and signing in at Hard Summer Town will get you a "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration".

"A History of Magic" has basically no use to Dui except to kill time and learn about the history of the magical world.

But the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" is different. As a guide to Transfiguration for first and second graders at Hogwarts, the textbook content mainly covers some basic Transfiguration techniques, such as transforming everyday objects.

What made Dui even happier was that in addition to the transformation spell, there were also summoning spells, such as clear spring water, orchid blooming, and disappearance spells, which were useful spells.

Transfiguration is different from Charms, which requires firm belief and magical power to be successfully performed.

However, Transfiguration is a very delicate subject that tests imagination and magical control, so it is more difficult to perform than Charms.

The primary stage is mainly about changing objects, such as changing an inanimate object into another inanimate object, and the second stage is changing a living object into an inanimate object.

At the intermediate stage, it is about transforming animals, such as turning dead things into living things, or turning living things into living things.

As for the advanced stage, it involves human body transformation, including the highest achievement of transfiguration - Animagus transformation.

The "Basic Transfiguration Guide" that Dui has now obtained only contains basic content on transfiguration, but it is a timely rain for him who is thirsty for knowledge.

With the help of the magic wand, it was not difficult for Dui to perform some of the simplest transformations, such as transforming a small match into a needle in one go. However, as the size of the transformed object became larger, the difficulty of the transformation became greater, and more magic power was consumed.

"Fla~Dimension"

Dui cast a spell on the small bed in the guest room, and the small wooden bed quickly expanded and deformed, turning into a large bed more than two meters long. The quilt on the bed also turned into comfortable velvet and silk.

Dui nodded with satisfaction. Now he didn't have to worry about sticking his feet out of the bed when he slept.

Then he turned around and asked Bilbo, who was standing with his mouth wide open, with a smile: "Do you want me to help you change your bed covers?"

"Yes!" Bilbo came back to his senses and nodded quickly with shining eyes. This was more magical than the previous magic.

A few days after returning to Hobbiton.

After mastering the basic Transfiguration technique, Dui began to prepare for the task of making potions.

Potions is different from other subjects, as Professor Snape said:

"You have come here to learn the precise science and rigorous craft of potion-making. Since there is no foolish waving of wands here, many of you do not believe in magic.

I don't expect you to truly appreciate the beauty of a simmering cauldron, emitting white smoke and wafting fragrant aromas. You won't truly understand the magical power of the liquid flowing into people's veins, which can make people's hearts and minds wander and their minds bewildered...

I can teach you how to increase your reputation, brew glory, and even prevent death - but only if you are not the stupid fool I often encounter. "

Dewi didn't know whether he was the kind of fool that Professor Snape mentioned, but he knew that potions were very important. If he could master the subject of potions, he would have more power to protect himself in the world of Middle-earth.

After all, potions have effects that spells cannot achieve, such as healing injuries. Many injuries that would be fatal to ordinary people can be instantly revived just by taking potions.

There are also polyjuice potions that can transform people into other people and cannot be detected by spells, truth serum potions that can make people spit out secrets, fortune potions that can make people lucky, and even the elixir of life.

The only problem is that many of the materials used to make potions cannot be found in Middle-earth, so if you want to make these magical potions, you have to find alternative materials.

This requires the level of a potion master to achieve.

However, these questions are too early for Dui, who has not even started learning potions.

"Magic Potions and Liquids" only contains basic potion content. The materials required for some of these potions are not special, so they can also be found in Middle-earth.

This was the first time Dui actually made a potion. As a beginner, he chose the simplest scabies potion to practice.

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Duy set up a silver crucible and preheated it with a kerosene lamp.

Then put the prepared 6 portions of snake teeth into a mortar and pestle and grind them into fine powder. After preheating the crucible for 1 minute, pour them into the crucible and stir and simmer.

Waving the magic wand, the kerosene lamp under the crucible turned into a high fire. After heating for 10 seconds, it was changed to medium heat, and then 4 slugs were added to steam.

During this process, Dui followed the instructions in the book step by step.

Only when the liquid in the crucible began to boil and smoke did Dui extinguish the flame and let the crucible sit for a while.

Add two more porcupine quills, and then stir clockwise for five turns with the magic wand. While stirring, the magic power will be evenly and continuously diffused into the liquid in the crucible along the magic wand. The liquid will gradually change color and eventually turn blue, while pink smoke will rise.

At this point, the scabies potion is ready.

The scabies potion is not complicated to make, but Dui is very satisfied that it was successful in one go.

Using Transfiguration, he conjured up a crystal bottle and poured the scabies potion into it.

"Is it ready now?" Bilbo, who had been quiet all the time, finally asked. He had always been curious about how Dui made the potion, so after getting Dui's permission, he watched from the side.

Now, seeing with his own eyes that Dui used snake fangs, slugs, and porcupine quills to make the magical blue potion, he was shocked.

"Of course." Dui nodded with a smile, then handed him the potion bottle. "This is scabies potion. It has a miraculous effect on scabies. You can give it to someone with scabies to try."

The scabies potion is a potion specifically used to treat scabies. It has a single purpose, and Dewy only uses it as a practice to get started with potions, so he gave it to Bilbo without hesitation.

Then he started preparing the potion again, and it was still the scabies potion.

But this time his purpose was different, so he used an iron pot that Bilbo didn't want as a crucible.

He followed the instructions in the potion textbook step by step until the step of adding porcupine quills. Instead of extinguishing the fire, Dui threw the porcupine quills directly into the boiling liquid.

In an instant, thick sour green smoke emerged from the liquid in the pot, and a sharp hissing sound was heard. The green liquid reacted violently, quickly corroding the bottom of the pot and splashing everywhere.

Chapter 29 Shrinkage Potion

"Armor protection!"

Dui was prepared and immediately added a layer of protective barrier to the pot as soon as he threw the porcupine quills in, covering the liquid in the pot and preventing it from splashing.

After the liquid in the pot calmed down, Dui produced a glass bottle and floated the highly corrosive liquid into the bottle.

Looking at the iron pot again, it was already corroded and riddled with holes, and was completely unusable.

Even if Dui tried to repair it with a repair spell, the iron pot could not be restored.

Seeing this result, Dui was not surprised but happy.

The potion book specifically reminded that when making scabies potion, you need to stop the fire before adding porcupine quills, otherwise the potion will dissolve the crucible and become a highly corrosive liquid.

But Dui had a different opinion after seeing it. Although this failed scabies potion couldn't be used on humans, it was extremely corrosive, far more powerful than sulfuric acid. If used on an enemy, it would definitely be a deadly weapon.

Bilbo, who also saw this scene, looked at the green liquid in the bottle in awe and didn't dare to get close to it, for fear of being contaminated by it and dying.

After making the scabies potion and the finished and failed products, Dui began to try to make another magical potion - the shrinking potion.

A shrinking potion is a magical potion that shrinks creatures or reverts them to their younger state. It typically appears as a bright green, acidic liquid. It can be used against large monsters that are resistant to spells, or to transport livestock—shrinking entire herds of pigs, cattle, and sheep into a wizard's pocket.

Similarly, if a wizard drinks a shrinking potion, his body will shrink rapidly, and the stronger the potency, the smaller the shrunken individual will be. This is often used by some bad wizards to shrink their bodies and sneak into other people's homes or vaults to steal.

The ingredients of the shrinking potion are not too complicated. The materials include shrinking figs, daisy roots, caterpillars, wormwood, leeches, mouse spleens, and poison hemlock essence.

Except for the poison hemlock essence which needs to be extracted from poison hemlock, Dui has all the other ingredients.

Dui first set up a silver crucible, then cut the hemlock into pieces and ground it into powder in a mortar, then poured it into the crucible and boiled it, constantly stirring with his magic wand, constantly adjusting and controlling the heat to ensure that the essence in the hemlock could be fully dissolved in the solvent.

"Separate left and right!" With a wave of the magic wand, the liquid and powder residue in the crucible automatically separated. The residue was filtered out and cleaned up, leaving only the medicine juice to continue boiling.

Eventually, the juice was boiled dry, leaving only a layer of grayish-white mud paste at the bottom of the pot. This was the hemlock essence needed to make shrinking potions and other magic potions.

With the hemlock essence, Dui officially began to make the shrinking potion.

The shrinking potion is part of the second-year Potions course. It is more complicated to make than the scabies potion, requiring ingredients such as shrinking figs, daisy roots, caterpillars, wormwood, leeches, mouse spleens, and hemlock essence to be blended and added one by one.

It also takes longer to make and requires more focus and care.

Dewy first squeezed the juice from the shrunken figs, retaining the skin and flesh, and added the juice to a crucible and simmered it over low heat for 20 minutes.

Add the daisy roots and caterpillars and let the potion boil until it turns dark green. Then, after the potion is concentrated to half, turn off the heat and let it cool for 30 minutes.

Once the cooling time is up, add 24 drops of wormwood infusion, one at a time, stirring with your wand in alternating directions after each drop. Before adding the last drop, stir vigorously to create a foamy potion, until the surface is covered with foam.

Dui stopped and did not continue, and started to do other things.

Because the potion needs to sit for 24 hours and wait for all the bubbles to disappear before you can continue.

At the same time the next day, Dui reheated the potion and added leech juice, then stirred it carefully and slowly. The color of the potion began to fade.

When the potion turns light green, add the mouse spleen and hemlock essence and cook over high heat for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, the potion turned bright green and took on the consistency of a thick syrup.

Looking at the potion in the crucible, Dui leaned over to observe it carefully, comparing it with the description in the book one by one.

"This should be a success, right?" He murmured uncertainly.

To know the effect, you need to experiment. Dui took a drop from the crucible, dropped it on a carrot, and then went out with the carrot.

Curious Bilbo followed closely.

Dui arrived outside Bag End and saw a pony grazing outside. He immediately shook the carrot in his hand at it and said, "Hey, Derpy, look here!"

The dwarf pony Xiaodai was a substitute tool given by the head of the Tuk family to Dui when he was in Tuk Town. Although he was very obedient, he always looked stupid and silly, so Dui called him Xiaodai.

After returning to Hobbiton, Derpy was basically taken care of by Bilbo. Compared to Dewy's irresponsible owner, Bilbo was more dedicated and treated Derpy like a third member of the family. He even built a simple stable for Derpy himself.

Seeing the carrot in Dui's hand, the dwarf horse Xiaodai's eyes lit up. He immediately gave up the fresh grass in his mouth, ran over happily, and then bit the carrot and started chewing it.

Bilbo was too late to stop him. He looked at Derpy with a worried look on his face and condemned the bad master Dui for testing the medicine with his eyes.

Dewi rubbed his nose guiltily. They were the only three living creatures here. Could it be that instead of using Derpy, he or Bilbo would be the one to test the potion? Besides, he was confident in his potion; it certainly wouldn't kill Derpy.

At the same time, his attention was always focused on Xiaodai, observing its changes.

After the dwarf pony Xiaodai ate the carrot containing the shrinking potion, Xiaodai's body began to change in less than two seconds.

"Whisp, whack, whack!" Xiaodai became panicked. In his eyes, everything around him, including his two masters, became huge.

In the eyes of Dewi and Bilbo, the dwarf pony Derpy was getting smaller and smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a palm-sized pocket pony, looking like a living figurine.

Dui picked up Xiao Dai and looked at the pony flailing its legs in panic in his hands with a look of surprise. "It seems that the potion is quite effective. One drop can shrink it to this size. If I add a few more drops, it should be able to get even smaller."

Bilbo looked at the potion in Dewi's hand and was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Although he had seen many of Dewi's magic, such a magical potion still shocked him.

Seeing that he was staring at Xiaodai, Dui handed Xiaodai to him.

Bilbo carefully took Derpy and held it in his hands. Feeling its weight and warmth, he realized he wasn't dreaming. He stared blankly, then looked up at Dewi and stammered, "D-Dewi, will Derpy always be like this?"

Dui shook his head. "Of course not. Once the effect of the drug wears off, it will return to its original state. So you have to be careful not to get crushed by the horse after the effect of the drug wears off."

Bilbo quickly put Derpy on the ground after hearing this. He didn't want to experience the feeling of being crushed by hundreds of pounds of weight.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, the effect of the medicine on the shrunken Xiaodai wore off, and he quickly expanded and returned to his original size.