Chapter 181
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 181 After-Class Conversation
Three days after the second project, that is, Friday, February 2.
On this day, in Potions class, Snape entered the next potion in the teaching content of this semester - intelligence enhancer.
He has already taught the basic antidote, and the more esoteric antidote is in the scope of the improvement class after the sixth grade.
Incidentally, in the last class before Christmas, Snape really did what he said, choosing a student to poison.
As expected by Schelling, Snape chose Harry as the target of poisoning.But to Schelling's surprise, the poison Snape chose was actually a "gender-changing potion", which was a potion that could cause male-to-female and female-to-male effects, and the effect lasted for two hours.
Ah this!
If Harry's antidote doesn't work, wouldn't he become "Harry"?Snape is going to...
I can't tell that Snape has such dark and dirty thoughts deep in his heart... Schelling said secretly.
Fortunately, with the secret help of Hermione, Harry managed to make the antidote with full effect and drank it.When Harry drank Snape's poison in full view, other than a loud belch, Harry didn't experience any physical abnormalities.
Schelling was almost certain that, at that moment, a flash of disappointment flashed across Snape's eyes.
Let's talk about this class.
Intelligence enhancer is a medium-difficulty potion. Its effect is not to improve people's IQ, but to make people's thinking process clearer.Therefore, it is also used as an antidote for people who have been cursed with confusion, or who have drunk potions of confusion.
The normal refining process is to first put ginger slices into a solvent to turn the medicine green, then add anteater bile continuously until it turns blue, and then add scarab ground powder until the medicine turns red.The same steps need to be repeated many times, and each time it is repeated, the amount of raw materials must be increased by 20.00% until the medicine is truly formed.
The real difficulty lies in that if the little wizards are not concentrated enough, it is easy to forget how many cycles they have repeated, so they will not be able to deduce how many times the amount of raw materials in this cycle should be compared to the first time.
For Schelling, who had previously refined Buffy's brain-boosting potion, the difficulty of the intelligence-boosting potion was actually just that.
He used both hands, one hand kept stirring the potion, and the other hand used the Summoning Charm to control three different raw materials and jumped into the crucible one by one. After three cycles (the total number of cycles was related to the pharmacist's own proficiency), his potion was almost formed. He added a small piece of Moonstone the size of his tail knuckle.
Snape's bat-like figure walked quickly and strode to Schelling's desk. He looked at the potion that Schelling had made, tightly pursed his lips, and said nothing.After at least 5 minutes, Snape seemed to be suppressing his throat, and said in a low tone: "The moonstone was added well, did you come up with it yourself?"
Schelling nodded, "Yes, Professor. Because I am interested in potions, I have read the potions textbooks at the NEWT level. I found that this ingredient is used in the Draught of Peace taught in the fifth grade class, which shows that it can help to achieve the effect of meditation and tranquility. We all know that fluctuating emotions are not conducive to thinking, so I think we can try to add the effect of moonstone to the intelligence enhancer."
Then he lowered his body, approached Xie Lin suddenly, looked at him and said, "Stay after class, I have something to say to you."
Then Snape straightened up and shouted, "Slytherin plus five points, Malfoy made a perfect intelligence enhancer, and the moonstone at the end was a stroke of genius. By comparison, let's look at Potter again? Don't you? You messed up again, Potter?" He continued to laugh at Harry.
Harry had indeed forgotten which cycle he was in. At this moment, he had given up on himself and resigned himself to fate to guess the amount of raw materials added in this cycle. Sure enough, the potion gave off a foul smell and turned into a black viscous liquid after a while.Whether it's poisonous or not, even fools like Goyle and Crabbe wouldn't put it in their mouths just because of its appearance.
There isn't much else to note about the rest of the class - unless one wants to know how Neville burned his eighth cauldron (Schelling: good guy, averages two per year), how Seamus Figani accidentally caused his 24th explosion since joining the school, how Hermione made a passable potion but was ignored by Snape, and how Ron was laughed at for making a disgusting potion that could poison people into the school hospital...
After class, everyone left the Potions classroom as usual.
In the classroom, only Sherin and Snape were left.
Although Snape was used to having a cold face, at this moment his face was even more gloomy, as depressing as the clouds before the rainstorm. He looked back and forth at Schelling with the gloomy eyes of an eagle.
After a while, his cold voice sounded faintly: "You did it?"
It is never necessary for smart people to talk to smart people. Schelling can understand such an endless sentence in one go.
"Yes, Professor." Schelling put away his usual cynical smile, and became unusually serious.He stared closely at Snape's eyes that were as deep as a pool of water, and their gazes intersected in mid-air. The temperature in the basement classroom dropped suddenly, and the air seemed to freeze at this moment.If someone else is here at this moment, I am afraid that even breathing will become a very strenuous task for him.
After a long while, the corners of Xie Lin's mouth twitched slightly. He looked at Snape as if there was lightning flickering in his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Professor, will you expose me to Dumbledore?"
Snape avoided answering, but looked away, looked elsewhere, and said coldly, "Occlumency is good."
"This little achievement, how can it compare to Professor you?" Sherin smiled, and he had already understood Snape's meaning, "Professor, you kept me here just to ask me such a question, right?"
"Dumbledore is suspicious of you." Snape said coldly: "Although it cannot be ruled out that these students had an accident in the Forbidden Forest or Hogsmeade, your suspicion is still the biggest. Among many students, you are the only one with this strength and this motivation."
"So what? Professor—" Xie Lin said playfully, "I don't think you don't know, that person has returned, right? Didn't the Dark Mark tell you?"
Snape frowned, but he didn't show any surprised expression. In his opinion, it was perfectly normal for Schelling, who had a powerful family background and connections, to know that he had been a Death Eater in the past.As for knowing that the Dark Mark was changing, he secretly guessed that it was Lucius who revealed it.The problem was, he couldn't figure out what the relationship between the change of the Dark Mark and these missing students was.
Seeing that Snape was silent, Schelling was obviously waiting for himself to continue, so he said, "Professor, you were a student in Slytherin, and now you are the head of Slytherin. Don't you know about the Ghost Society?"
"You mean..."
"These missing students are all members of the Ghost Society. You should know that the Ghost Society is actually a quasi-Death Eater in a sense. They failed to recruit me, and then attacked me at the bottom of the black lake, but I took care of them all. Otherwise—" Schelling sneered, "How do you think Potter returned to the shore before me?"
"I see..." Snape frowned even deeper, "What are you going to do?"
"Dumbledore can't help me. Voldemort is his confidant. The importance of these students in his eyes may not be as important as Potter's finger. As for his Legilimency, Professor, you have just experienced it yourself. Do you think he can break through my mental defense?" Schelling said calmly, but his tone was full of unquestionable confidence.
"Even if there is no problem with Dumbledore," Snape said in a low voice, "Those pure-blood families and the Ministry of Magic will not give up easily... Those who disappeared are all their precious elite children, and Foley is even the appointed heir of the family. The Ministry of Magic also needs to give an explanation to the public..."
"Don't worry, Professor." Sherin smiled, "As long as you don't tell me, and I don't tell you, how can they suspect me? With Dumbledore's character, it is even more impossible to shake me out for a mere suspicion. Professor——"
Xie Lin's gaze suddenly became very sharp, "I just need you to help me with this. You just have to pretend that you don't know anything. I will figure out the investigation by the Ministry of Magic myself."
Snape looked at Schelling meaningfully, and he suddenly understood where Schelling's confidence came from - he was in the Ministry of Magic!Moreover, he might be among the two Aurors sent over!
After a long while, his lips that had been tightly shut all the time finally said softly, "Yes."
(1) The calming effects and uses of moonstone come from the official design of the original book, which is a 5th grade course.
(2) Snape was a Death Eater with a record in the Wizengamot, and Dumbledore helped him clean it up on the grounds that he was an undercover agent.
(End of this chapter)
Three days after the second project, that is, Friday, February 2.
On this day, in Potions class, Snape entered the next potion in the teaching content of this semester - intelligence enhancer.
He has already taught the basic antidote, and the more esoteric antidote is in the scope of the improvement class after the sixth grade.
Incidentally, in the last class before Christmas, Snape really did what he said, choosing a student to poison.
As expected by Schelling, Snape chose Harry as the target of poisoning.But to Schelling's surprise, the poison Snape chose was actually a "gender-changing potion", which was a potion that could cause male-to-female and female-to-male effects, and the effect lasted for two hours.
Ah this!
If Harry's antidote doesn't work, wouldn't he become "Harry"?Snape is going to...
I can't tell that Snape has such dark and dirty thoughts deep in his heart... Schelling said secretly.
Fortunately, with the secret help of Hermione, Harry managed to make the antidote with full effect and drank it.When Harry drank Snape's poison in full view, other than a loud belch, Harry didn't experience any physical abnormalities.
Schelling was almost certain that, at that moment, a flash of disappointment flashed across Snape's eyes.
Let's talk about this class.
Intelligence enhancer is a medium-difficulty potion. Its effect is not to improve people's IQ, but to make people's thinking process clearer.Therefore, it is also used as an antidote for people who have been cursed with confusion, or who have drunk potions of confusion.
The normal refining process is to first put ginger slices into a solvent to turn the medicine green, then add anteater bile continuously until it turns blue, and then add scarab ground powder until the medicine turns red.The same steps need to be repeated many times, and each time it is repeated, the amount of raw materials must be increased by 20.00% until the medicine is truly formed.
The real difficulty lies in that if the little wizards are not concentrated enough, it is easy to forget how many cycles they have repeated, so they will not be able to deduce how many times the amount of raw materials in this cycle should be compared to the first time.
For Schelling, who had previously refined Buffy's brain-boosting potion, the difficulty of the intelligence-boosting potion was actually just that.
He used both hands, one hand kept stirring the potion, and the other hand used the Summoning Charm to control three different raw materials and jumped into the crucible one by one. After three cycles (the total number of cycles was related to the pharmacist's own proficiency), his potion was almost formed. He added a small piece of Moonstone the size of his tail knuckle.
Snape's bat-like figure walked quickly and strode to Schelling's desk. He looked at the potion that Schelling had made, tightly pursed his lips, and said nothing.After at least 5 minutes, Snape seemed to be suppressing his throat, and said in a low tone: "The moonstone was added well, did you come up with it yourself?"
Schelling nodded, "Yes, Professor. Because I am interested in potions, I have read the potions textbooks at the NEWT level. I found that this ingredient is used in the Draught of Peace taught in the fifth grade class, which shows that it can help to achieve the effect of meditation and tranquility. We all know that fluctuating emotions are not conducive to thinking, so I think we can try to add the effect of moonstone to the intelligence enhancer."
Then he lowered his body, approached Xie Lin suddenly, looked at him and said, "Stay after class, I have something to say to you."
Then Snape straightened up and shouted, "Slytherin plus five points, Malfoy made a perfect intelligence enhancer, and the moonstone at the end was a stroke of genius. By comparison, let's look at Potter again? Don't you? You messed up again, Potter?" He continued to laugh at Harry.
Harry had indeed forgotten which cycle he was in. At this moment, he had given up on himself and resigned himself to fate to guess the amount of raw materials added in this cycle. Sure enough, the potion gave off a foul smell and turned into a black viscous liquid after a while.Whether it's poisonous or not, even fools like Goyle and Crabbe wouldn't put it in their mouths just because of its appearance.
There isn't much else to note about the rest of the class - unless one wants to know how Neville burned his eighth cauldron (Schelling: good guy, averages two per year), how Seamus Figani accidentally caused his 24th explosion since joining the school, how Hermione made a passable potion but was ignored by Snape, and how Ron was laughed at for making a disgusting potion that could poison people into the school hospital...
After class, everyone left the Potions classroom as usual.
In the classroom, only Sherin and Snape were left.
Although Snape was used to having a cold face, at this moment his face was even more gloomy, as depressing as the clouds before the rainstorm. He looked back and forth at Schelling with the gloomy eyes of an eagle.
After a while, his cold voice sounded faintly: "You did it?"
It is never necessary for smart people to talk to smart people. Schelling can understand such an endless sentence in one go.
"Yes, Professor." Schelling put away his usual cynical smile, and became unusually serious.He stared closely at Snape's eyes that were as deep as a pool of water, and their gazes intersected in mid-air. The temperature in the basement classroom dropped suddenly, and the air seemed to freeze at this moment.If someone else is here at this moment, I am afraid that even breathing will become a very strenuous task for him.
After a long while, the corners of Xie Lin's mouth twitched slightly. He looked at Snape as if there was lightning flickering in his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Professor, will you expose me to Dumbledore?"
Snape avoided answering, but looked away, looked elsewhere, and said coldly, "Occlumency is good."
"This little achievement, how can it compare to Professor you?" Sherin smiled, and he had already understood Snape's meaning, "Professor, you kept me here just to ask me such a question, right?"
"Dumbledore is suspicious of you." Snape said coldly: "Although it cannot be ruled out that these students had an accident in the Forbidden Forest or Hogsmeade, your suspicion is still the biggest. Among many students, you are the only one with this strength and this motivation."
"So what? Professor—" Xie Lin said playfully, "I don't think you don't know, that person has returned, right? Didn't the Dark Mark tell you?"
Snape frowned, but he didn't show any surprised expression. In his opinion, it was perfectly normal for Schelling, who had a powerful family background and connections, to know that he had been a Death Eater in the past.As for knowing that the Dark Mark was changing, he secretly guessed that it was Lucius who revealed it.The problem was, he couldn't figure out what the relationship between the change of the Dark Mark and these missing students was.
Seeing that Snape was silent, Schelling was obviously waiting for himself to continue, so he said, "Professor, you were a student in Slytherin, and now you are the head of Slytherin. Don't you know about the Ghost Society?"
"You mean..."
"These missing students are all members of the Ghost Society. You should know that the Ghost Society is actually a quasi-Death Eater in a sense. They failed to recruit me, and then attacked me at the bottom of the black lake, but I took care of them all. Otherwise—" Schelling sneered, "How do you think Potter returned to the shore before me?"
"I see..." Snape frowned even deeper, "What are you going to do?"
"Dumbledore can't help me. Voldemort is his confidant. The importance of these students in his eyes may not be as important as Potter's finger. As for his Legilimency, Professor, you have just experienced it yourself. Do you think he can break through my mental defense?" Schelling said calmly, but his tone was full of unquestionable confidence.
"Even if there is no problem with Dumbledore," Snape said in a low voice, "Those pure-blood families and the Ministry of Magic will not give up easily... Those who disappeared are all their precious elite children, and Foley is even the appointed heir of the family. The Ministry of Magic also needs to give an explanation to the public..."
"Don't worry, Professor." Sherin smiled, "As long as you don't tell me, and I don't tell you, how can they suspect me? With Dumbledore's character, it is even more impossible to shake me out for a mere suspicion. Professor——"
Xie Lin's gaze suddenly became very sharp, "I just need you to help me with this. You just have to pretend that you don't know anything. I will figure out the investigation by the Ministry of Magic myself."
Snape looked at Schelling meaningfully, and he suddenly understood where Schelling's confidence came from - he was in the Ministry of Magic!Moreover, he might be among the two Aurors sent over!
After a long while, his lips that had been tightly shut all the time finally said softly, "Yes."
(1) The calming effects and uses of moonstone come from the official design of the original book, which is a 5th grade course.
(2) Snape was a Death Eater with a record in the Wizengamot, and Dumbledore helped him clean it up on the grounds that he was an undercover agent.
(End of this chapter)
