#291 - Chapter 291 Glory to Hogwarts

Harry's performance had been attracting the attention of the audience outside the arena.

After all, only four contestants were left in the third round.

Moreover, Hogwarts had been in the limelight the day before, and the audience's discussion of the Hogwarts contestants had never stopped.

However, after hearing that Harry and Theodore were brewing the Draught of Living Death, almost no one in the audience was optimistic about them.

It wasn't until Harry extinguished the flames under the cauldron that he noticed the audience's discussions from outside the arena.

"Do you think those two students from Hogwarts succeeded?"

"Hard to say, that's the Draught of Living Death, a potion strictly prohibited from circulation on the market. It is said that many potion masters have not brewed this potion."

"If they can succeed, wouldn't that mean they are better than many potion masters? Then Hogwarts would be too heaven-defying."

"But, that kid with the scar on his forehead looks a bit confident."

"Don't worry, they won't succeed. How old is he? If he succeeds, I'll streak in front of everyone."

Many spectators looked at Harry with a hint of mockery, and few really believed he could succeed.

Harry ignored those gossips directly. He stood quietly in front of the cauldron, waiting for the judges to come and score.

At this time, the judges were surrounding the super beautiful girl from Beauxbatons, checking her potion and constantly exchanging opinions.

They exchanged glances, picked up a stirring rod and gently stirred the potion, or leaned in to smell the aroma.

"This Veritaserum is of excellent quality, both in color and aroma."

Afterwards, they summoned a house-elf and dripped three drops of the potion from the cauldron into the house-elf's mouth.

After repeatedly asking the house-elf some questions, the judges unanimously determined that this was a very successful potion.

After some discussion, the judges gave their scores one by one, and then the staff calculated the average value.

After announcing that the Beauxbatons girl had obtained a score of 96 points, cheers and applause erupted from the audience.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, the judges came to the cauldron of the Ilvermorny contestant.

The potion brewed by this student was Amortentia, the most powerful love potion in the wizarding world.

The difficulty of brewing this potion is much higher than ordinary love potions. Of course, the admiration it produces in the user is also stronger, even to the point of obsession.

Even after stopping the potion, this crazy obsession can last for one to two weeks.

Looking at the potion in the cauldron, the judges began their professional comments again.

"The quality of this Amortentia is good. Look at the unique pearly luster and the spiraling steam."

"This potion is too dangerous. I suggest we don't test it. Let's just judge its effectiveness by the smell."

"Absolutely effective. I can already smell treacle tart."

"That's right, I also smell my favorite scent, the scent of sunshine on cotton blankets."

The judges exchanged the scents they smelled and gave extremely high evaluations.

When the staff announced that this student had obtained a score of 97 points, the Ilvermorny students directly erupted. They cheered and jumped, seemingly celebrating their victory in winning the Golden Cauldron in advance.

The judges, with smiles on their faces, came to Theodore's table. After observing the quality of his potion, they gave him a score of 90 points.

Theodore barely completed the brewing of the Draught of Living Death, and the potion in the cauldron was undrinkable.

Therefore, he had no objection to this score.

Finally, the judges all gathered in front of Harry's cauldron and began to discuss this controversial Draught of Living Death.

As early as when they learned that Hogwarts students were preparing to use the Draught of Living Death to participate in the competition, the judges' first reaction was that these two students were preparing to give up.

After all, no one believed that students could brew this high-difficulty potion.

Theodore's potion had also proved the judges' guess.

What is the Draught of Living Death?

That is a potion that can permanently improve the memory of the user.

Every parent hopes that their child's starting point is higher than other children's, so a large number of wealthy wizards in the wizarding world are willing to spend a lot of gold Galleons to buy this potion.

Therefore, the perfect quality Draught of Living Death has always been speculated to a sky-high price.

However, the difficulty of brewing a perfect potion is too high, and buyers cannot distinguish the quality of the potion they buy.

Therefore, even if the Draught of Living Death appears on the market, wizards are unwilling to take this risk without the guarantee of a master.

Every potion master who can brew the perfect Draught of Living Death will become the object of admiration and pursuit by countless wizards.

It's not that no potion master wants to make a fortune by brewing the perfect Draught of Living Death. After all, the recipe for this potion can be found by anyone.

However, to achieve this, one needs to constantly brew the Draught of Living Death to accumulate experience.

However, the ingredients for this potion are extremely expensive, and practicing is purely throwing money into it.

For potion masters with ordinary family backgrounds, they will not be able to afford it after practicing a few times.

Therefore, even if many wizards grow into potion masters, they do not have the experience of brewing the Draught of Living Death.

At this time, looking at the potion in Harry's cauldron, the judges' discussion never stopped.

"This color looks exactly the same as described in the book. It's too accurate."

"Judging from the quality alone, this is undoubtedly a successful potion."

Faced with the Draught of Living Death, and a Draught of Living Death brewed by a third-year student, the judges had no intention of trying the potion themselves.

They discussed for a long time, and finally decided to let a house-elf try the potion.

Soon, a house-elf tremblingly took a test tube and poured the diluted Draught of Living Death into its mouth.

Many people guessed that the house-elf would soon cover its head and wail on the ground.

However, after waiting for a long time, nothing happened.

"How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable? Tell the truth."

"Feel?" A hint of excitement flashed across the house-elf's face. "I feel very energetic, my thinking is very clear, and my brain has never been so useful."

Seeing this scene, the judges had no more objections and immediately announced that Harry had successfully brewed the perfect Draught of Living Death and gave him a perfect score.

"Congratulations to Mr. Harry Potter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for winning the Potions Championship!"

"Glory belongs to Hogwarts!"

The audience was convinced and gave their applause without hesitation.

"Amazing, this young man is amazing, he can actually succeed!"

"His potions professor must be an excellent potion master. I really want to get to know him and learn some advanced teaching experience."

"Look, among those people from Hogwarts, the one wearing a black robe and smiling is him."

"This professor is quite calm. If I were him, I would definitely be cheering and hugging my student now."

Accompanied by warm applause, Harry came to the podium and took the Golden Cauldron symbolizing the championship and a heavy bag of gold coins from the headmaster of Ilvermorny.

In the continuous flashes of lights, he ran quickly to the audience with the Golden Cauldron and put the Golden Cauldron into Snape's hands.

"Professor, we won!"

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