Section 241

The flame that was originally burning normally converged, and its shape continued to become rounder, like a red snake egg.

A bulge appeared in the egg-shaped flame, and a mini flame snake emerged from the egg-shaped flame, twisting and twisting in the air.

Wizette looked at the dexterous flame snake, but frowned, "It doesn't feel like it did at that time... It's too stiff... There's something wrong with the method, not just the fire-making spell and the transformation magic..."

"What did Professor Snape do at that time? After all, it was a duel with classmates... That flaming snake is definitely not a black magic... There is no need to use black magic..."

He continued to recall the scene at that time, "Could it be...the Patronus Charm!"

After some long thought, he picked up the wand and put it close to the flame snake's forehead, "Call the gods for protection!"

The wand drew a round trajectory, and the tip of the wand emitted a warm silver light. The flame snake followed the tip of the wand, twisting its body in a circle as if it really came alive.

At this moment, Snape's cold voice sounded, "Vizet, why are you... here?"

Chapter 14 The Secret of Potions Master Snape

Weizet turned his head and looked at the spiral staircase. Snape in black robes stood there.

Snape held a cup of potion in his hand. It looked like it had just been brewed and was still steaming out.

The potion was a clear emerald green, with a faint and soft milky white halo scattered on the surface of the cup along with the heat.

This is the Buffy Awakening Potion that Madam Pomfrey often mentioned and that Vizette warned against taking at will.

The soft halo on the surface of the cup is one of the characteristics of Baffy's Awakening Potion, but as the potion cools, that halo will disappear.

"Professor Snape," Weizet said with a slight salute, "It was Principal Dumbledore who asked me to come here."

"Your hand..." Snape narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the palm of Wizette's hand that maintained the fire-making spell. "Use the Patronus Charm to give it spirituality... Is this your own idea?"

"Yes, Professor Snape." Weizet nodded, "The duel you gave me, I could feel something different from the flaming snake."

"That flaming snake is very special. My original idea was... it should combine fire-making spells and transformation magic... but it doesn't feel right. The flaming snake is not spiritual enough."

"I tried to try to restore that feeling as much as possible from another angle. So I thought of the Patronus Charm. After all, it was your guidance that allowed me to explore my soul."

"At that time, you told me that by chanting mantras, you can consciously explore the inside. So I tried to change my thinking and still consciously empower the outside by chanting mantras."

"But the process of giving it an external appearance is more difficult than I imagined, so what I can do is actually not too much. But at least... it looks much more flexible now."

He raised his arm. As he said, the flame snake was much more agile than before. It also emitted weak heat and wrapped around his arm along the palm of his hand.

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Snape's voice was still cold, and he said in a low voice: "The general idea is correct."

I don't know why, but compared to the cold tone in the past, Weizet always felt that Snape's words at this moment were still mixed with a bit of stiffness, as if he was unwilling to talk about these contents.

Wizette wanted to say something, but Snape continued, "Observe... you need to continue to observe."

"For example, if you want to observe the flame snake, you need to observe the snake and learn as much as possible about it, including what it can do and what its habits are."

"Give it what you have learned through the Patronus Charm... and it will have increasing similarities with what you have observed and learned..."

Wizette swallowed his saliva and reorganized his words while thinking: "Professor Snape, is this a process of turning from fiction to reality?"

"Suppose I am observing a fire-ash snake, from its birth to its disappearance... As my understanding of the fire-ash snake deepens, coupled with the spiritual endowment of the Patronus Charm..."

"Can I really...transform into a fire-ash snake? Even make the fire-ash snake lay eggs...and use them as potion ingredients?"

…

Snape's eyes widened, and he looked at Wizette again, and finally said slowly: "This is the realm of a potion master, and it is not a real ash snake."

"What we need is the properties of the 'Fire Ash Snake Egg'... I don't know how other potion masters do it. At least I use the Patronus Charm to complete the process of giving properties."

"Of course, no potion master will have that much free time. Usually, it is done in this way because of the lack of certain necessary materials or the temporary need to change the formula."

"So that's it!" Weizet let out a long breath, "Only by constantly understanding the potion materials and studying the properties of the potion in depth can you go further on the road to potion!"

He suddenly remembered some books he saw in the library. Although they were classified into the history of magic section, the contents were extremely magical, the kind of magic that even wizards found magical.

The book mentions that there once was such a wizard named Gobalot, who could create potions with various effects using only a crucible, water and sugar.

If you become a potion master and know everything in the world well enough, you may be able to do this. You only need water and sugar, a crucible and fire to make all kinds of potions.

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Although he understood this, Vizet still had other questions in his mind.

"Professor Snape, we talked about potions before... Then can we make further progress in transfiguration magic by giving spirituality through the Patronus Charm?"

"Still not giving up? What do you want to do?" Snape raised his eyebrows, his eyes became more complicated, "The real fire ash snake is a living life, it can also continue the living life!"

"Life is an extremely complex existence, so complex that..." He hesitated, "Anyway, don't think about this kind of thing! The so-called transformation of the real fire ash snake is just your wishful thinking!"

"What you can observe is only one side of the fire ash snake. How can you be sure that it has no other side? Life is vivid and three-dimensional... No one can really grasp it!"

"Even if you can transform the fire ash snake in your memory..., so what? It's just a thin puppet that acts according to your wishes... There is no practical meaning!"

Snape's voice became higher and higher, and finally it was like a scolding.

When he finished the last sentence, his face showed great pain.

But in just a moment, he returned to his original appearance, his eyes full of coldness, gloom, and inhumanity.

Vizet blinked his eyes, feeling a little dazed, as if what he had just seen was just an illusion, "Professor Snape..."

Vizet was about to speak when he was interrupted by Snape, "Do you know what this potion is?"

Vizet immediately said: "Professor Snape, it's the Buffy Brain Refresher."

The halo on the surface of the cup became weaker, and even the heat was reduced a lot.

"Very good! Ravenclaw deducts one point!" Snape stuffed the potion to Vizet, "Since you are here, give it to Dumbledore, Ravenclaw plus one point!"

...

One point was deducted for answering the question correctly...

Then this point was added back...

Looking at Snape's hurried back, Vizet felt a little confused.

This is probably the special feature of the hawthorn wand, right?

He exhaled a long breath, dispelled the flame snake in his hand, glanced at the slightly shaking potion, and walked into the principal's office with both hands holding the cup.

Dumbledore should have gone out to pick someone up, so the door of the principal's office was open.

Vizet looked at the bird stand next to him. The old Phoenix Fawkes was not there, but there was a pile of ashes on the ground...

Chapter 15 Professor of Werewolf Research

The principal's office was filled with a light smell of smoke. The ashes had not been completely extinguished, and occasionally a few sparks would burst out.

With the splashing of sparks, the ashes would occasionally emit a fiery red light that would appear and disappear from time to time, just like breathing.

"It's really nirvana!" Vizet put the potion on the desk and hurried to the pile of ashes under the bird stand, "No wonder there is such a special situation..."

When he saw the Phoenix mark on the palm of his hand, he had already confirmed his thoughts. The connection between the mark and the phoenix has always existed, so he was able to experience the moment of the Phoenix's nirvana.

After all, Phoenix Fawkes has maintained that appearance for a long time, and it is possible to embrace the flames and complete the rebirth of the fire at any time.

The fiery red light that flickered in and out completely disappeared, and it was like the completely cooled ashes suddenly trembled, and a wrinkled little head poked out from inside.

The head had already poked out, and Phoenix Fox had found the right direction, and just twisted out of the ashes.

It looked in the direction of the ashes, and those ashes seemed to respond to some kind of call, and flew into the air with a "whoosh", and then fell on Phoenix Fox's body and merged into the bare skin.

Just as Vizette stretched out his hand and wanted to pick up Phoenix Fox, there was a fine metal collision sound and a hoarse and vicissitudes voice from outside.

"That... I should kill it! That thing just now looked disgusting, it's definitely not a good thing!"

Dumbledore's kind and patient voice sounded, "Altom, thank you for your kindness, but there's no need for that, we're almost there..."

An old and gentle voice said, "Albus, is it really possible for his memory to be restored? In fact, I have found many wizards, but they are all helpless."

"Marlowe, at least we should have hope, right?" Dumbledore said in a calm tone, "According to Altom's current situation, if we don't think of a solution..."

The voice was getting closer and closer, and Vizet took the phoenix Fawkes back to the bird stand, tidied his clothes a little, and waited for Dumbledore to return to the principal's office.

...

Dumbledore walked into the principal's office first, smiled slightly when he saw Vizet, and began to introduce, "Vizet, this is Professor Marlowe Ffon, and this is Altom Avakian."

Marlowe Ffon has gray hair on his temples, a thick silver-gray beard, and dark circles under his eyes, looking a little tired.

Artom Avakian was older, with unhealthy gray hair and beard, and he was wearing a faded thick black robe, with various scars on his exposed skin.

It can only be said that this robe used to be black, but now it is a chaotic color of black, white, gray and yellow intertwined due to various dirt. As the hem of the robe shakes, it will continue to make metal collision sounds.

Before Vizet could speak, Artom shouted first, but he didn't roar at Vizet, but at the portrait of the headmaster at the end of the room.

"So many mermaids! These things are lying in ambush here, they must be preparing to attack us! It doesn't matter! Watch me kill him!"

He shouted and reached into the pocket of his robe, took out a piece of newspaper rolled into a stick, waved his wrist wildly, and chanted the spell decisively: "Locomotor Inimicum!"

"Ah! No effect, right? It seems that he is a tough guy with rich chips! It's a bit tricky! Locomotor Revelio!"

As if he noticed that there was no response, he repeated the action of chanting the spell just now, and chanted a slightly different spell.

Not only was the spell different, but even the target he was targeting at this time was transferred from the headmaster's portrait to the cabinet next to it, as if locking the sorting hat placed inside.