Chapter 169
【What a polite junior! I didn’t expect you to get the notebook so quickly. It seems you are also an activist! That warehouse room? You mean the porch, right? Of course it can be used! 】
Wizette replied: [Okay, thank you! 】
[Just call me Serena next time. Besides...you're still up so late, are you feeling the joy of night travel? 】
[Yes, I found a lot of interesting books in the restricted book section. 】
[Restricted Book Zone... It’s such a nostalgic time. That’s right! The door key in the notebook not only targets the secret room behind the corridor, but also has another place to go. 】
【Another place. 】
[That place is called the Map Secret Room. I spent a lot of time looking for the Map Secret Room. If you are interested, you can check it out when you have time. 】
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Considering the ancient magic armor that exists in the mysterious corridor, perhaps if you want to enter the secret room on the map, you will also need to face a similar test.
Wizette remembered that Dumbledore told him at the end of last school year that he would teach him how to cast armor magic.
He planned to wait until he learned armor magic before exploring the secret room on the map.
In this way, you should be able to better master armor magic from another angle by facing the ancient magic armor directly.
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He spent most of Sunday morning working on potions, brewing a large cauldron of developing potion, enough for a semester.
However, everything is as planned.
After brewing the developing potion, he still had time to borrow Colin Creevey's Polaroid and took a lot of photos with Luna by the Black Lake.
Soaking the photos in the developing solution for a period of time will make the scenes and characters in them move. It is very interesting to retain the emotions during the shooting in the photos.
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At one-fifty in the afternoon, still ten minutes early, Weizet came to Professor Snape's office.
There are not many changes in the office, except that there is an extra cover in the corner, and a faint rustling sound can be heard, like the sound of a creature eating...
Chapter 109 The Basics of Potions
Snape was still wearing pure black robes, crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows, "Developing potion?"
"Yes, Professor Snape." Weizet nodded, "I wanted to send some postcards home, so I brewed some."
"Developing potion? Inferior potion, a cost-cutting trick!" Snape smiled coldly, "That's all! Let's start with armadillos today!"
The armadillo is a seemingly majestic animal, covered in bone armor, but it is very timid;
It will stay in the cave during the day and come out to look for food at night. When in danger, it will roll up its body and use its bone armor to resist attacks;
For the wizarding world, the gallbladder of this animal, which may carry leprosy bacteria, can be used to create intelligence-enhancing agents.
Snape started with the dissection of an armadillo. He held the wand with ease, as if holding a sharp scalpel, and every movement was extremely precise.
He made a small incision from the abdomen, touched the wound with his wand, and used the cutting spell to continue deep inside, separating the armadillo's bone armor from the flesh and blood.
Gather the blood, remove the meat, remove the bones, separate the internal organs...
While Snape used magic to separate the armadillo into its parts, he could also give lectures on what effects these parts could have in potions.
Weizet could tell that this was more basic, back-to-nature knowledge.
Just like the foundation before building a building, it is buried deep underground, but it is a project that must be carried out.
It is about tracing back to the source, exploring the effects of the drug itself and why it has such effects.
If you want to understand this part of knowledge, it will naturally involve ritual magic. You need to use this ancient magic type as a starting point to truly understand the various properties of a certain material.
This is a very interesting process, somewhat similar to "Shennong Tasted Hundreds of Herbs".
Ancient wizards also found the first few materials through personal experience, and used these materials as "media" to carry out various ritual magics.
After these basic materials are determined, several types of materials will be summarized based on this.
After these types are determined, the original materials will be replaced with the newly discovered materials, ritual magic will be performed again, the characteristics of such materials will be observed, and then classified into the corresponding types.
This is a very complicated process that requires countless personal experiments by ancient wizards and corrections time and time again in order to obtain a more objective and accurate classification.
For example, the original material "medium" for armadillo bile used to make intelligence enhancers is oak;
Oak is widely used in ritual magic and has properties such as strength, courage, and wisdom;
These characteristics can also be reflected in armadillo bile, which is why it can be used as an intelligence-enhancing agent.
As more and more materials are summarized, in addition to this way of dividing types, more diverse ways of classification are extended.
Through the color, smell and taste, appearance, shape, place of origin, growth status and other characteristics of the material, "analogies" are made to summarize the characteristics of the material.
Of course, "taking analogies" cannot be applied to all newly discovered materials, and this method will also make mistakes, so practice is the only truth;
When encountering materials that cannot be "analogized", ancient wizards would go back to the starting point, either verifying the characteristics with ritual magic or taking the newly discovered materials to experience the specific effects in person.
The second method is risky, so ancient wizards found a substitute and would apply the materials on the back of a toad to observe what changes would occur in the toad;
It was also from that time that wizards began to raise toads as pets.
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If you cannot understand and master these knowledge of returning to the basics, it is extremely difficult for a potion master to become a potion master.
Because he only knows how to copy, but does not understand "why to do this" and "whether another way or material will be better."
Snape said in a low voice: "Explore their original principles, and if you can figure this out, it will be easier to mix potions directly."
He glanced at Vizet's notebook, which was densely written with a lot of content. In addition to the knowledge he just taught, some of the content was Vizet's personal understanding.
It saves worry and does not have to waste words to repeatedly mention the key points, which is why he is willing to maintain private lessons.
Vizet wrote down the last paragraph and shook his sore wrist, "Professor Snape... I want to ask you a question."
Snape said concisely: "Go ahead!"
During the private teaching stage, there were not many rules between them. They could solve problems by asking and answering them immediately, which would be much more efficient.
"It's about what you said at the beginning..." Vizet said, "You said that the developer is a low-quality drug, a trick to cut costs."
"Can I understand it this way? This drug can only serve photos, and the birth time of photos and this kind of handheld camera... is about these decades..."
He speculated and said: "In other words... before that, the developer actually had a more complex version. If we continue to explore along this line of thought..."
"The developer should be able to work on the canvas, that is, it can draw the kind of portrait that can move and go around! Professor Snape, can I understand it this way?"
Snape still spoke very little, "Yes!"
"Professor Snape, I also found a paragraph from the notes..." Vizet picked up the notes, flipped a few pages forward, and found the record he wanted.
"In addition to the 'creative' properties similar to rosemary, the scarab also has the 'revitalizing' properties similar to birch sap..."
"If the intelligence enhancer is combined with the developing potion, can it make the picture more lively, or even produce simple thinking?"
Snape did not speak, but puffed his cheeks, stared at Vizet for a long time, and uttered the same word again, "Yes!"
Sometimes knowing too much and having too strong associative ability is not a particularly good thing.
He took a deep breath and dispelled such thoughts.
Wouldn't it be more convenient to be able to do it in one step?
Wouldn't it be possible to impart more knowledge?
With this thought in mind, he continued: "In this, some materials are needed as a blend, and the two potions are forcibly combined in a rough way."
Hearing this, Vizet immediately became very curious.
He has always been curious about the vivid portraits in the castle and wanted to know how these paintings were made.
Now that he can finally touch them, he naturally has to be very alert and understand them clearly.
"Hiss!"
At this moment, Snape suddenly took a breath and subconsciously covered his left arm.
He opened his eyes wide, with a flash of disbelief in his eyes, staring at Vizet...
Chapter 110 Patronus Charm
Just before Snape took a breath, Vizet suddenly had a feeling and received a message.
He felt a kind of lazy, perfunctory flattery from it, as if saying-
"Yes, you are right!"
"Yes, no one will dare to mention your holy name!"
"No problem, I will do it according to your wishes!"
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The last time he got similar information was when he met Draco's father, Lucius Malfoy.
Professor Snape and Lucius reacted very similarly, almost at the first time, they stretched out their right palms and placed them on their left arms.
Vizet quickly stood up and asked with concern: "Professor Snape, are you okay?"
