Chapter 334 Neville's counterattack in potions, Lupin's tricks, Black's news

In Potions class, everyone's companions basically remained the same.

Lin Xia has been teaming up with Neville since the first year. Now in the third year, most of her courses overlap with some Gryffindor students, so she still forms a team with Neville.

At this time, the two of them already had a good understanding.

Normally Neville would handle the materials, while Lin Xia would calmly dictate the next steps. Neville was concentrating on the process and did not look at the other little wizards.

In this state, he was able to configure the potion very smoothly.

By the time Snape reached Neville, he had almost completed all the steps.

Snape was silent for a while, standing behind him and observing silently, and left again without Neville noticing.

"Congratulations, Neville, you completed the shrinking potion and learned another magic potion."

Lin Xia handed Neville a tissue, and Neville took it, said thank you, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

In the process of refining the potion, he found that his chaotic and complicated thoughts always jumped out, and he ushered in a long-lost peace.

Magic potions are different from other magic spells. Magic potions have traceable changes. They follow rules and can be refined according to the rules.

Although Mikel told him that the same is true for learning magic spells. As long as the voice is standard and the movement of waving the wand is standard, the wand can basically be used.

But compared to potions, Neville felt that he obviously had no talent in the accuracy of magic spells.

Lin Xia shook the bottle of bright and dazzling green potion in his hand. From the perspective of a potion master, this was a very standard potion, and there was not a single mistake in the preparation process.

Even Draco, who likes to delve into potions, the shrinking potion he refined is nothing more than this.

Lin Xia asked: "Neville, may I know the overall evaluation of your Potions class last school year?"

Neville nodded, his slightly dull eyes flashed with excitement, and his whole person became alive, "A! That's the only A I got!"

"I shared my results with my grandma, who was very happy and said that I could finally take over my parents' classes!"

Lin Xia smiled: "Your talent in the herbal medicine class is not bad, and your talent in potions should not be too bad either. As long as you maintain a calm attitude when preparing potions, you will be able to do better in potions in the future." Far."

Neville said hesitantly: "Lin Xia, if I prepare the magic potion, will it become as powerful as you?"

There was a flash of hope in his eyes.

Lin Xia nodded and said with certainty: "I will not delve very deeply into the field of potions. If you continue to delve into it, your achievements will definitely exceed mine."

Neville was a little in disbelief: "Really!"

Lin Xia smiled slightly and asked, "When did you see me lying?"

Neville nodded excitedly.

On the other side, Mikel, who had been observing them, was a little depressed.

He worked hard to build a good relationship with Neville in the past two years, arranged many study plans for him, and even went to the library to read with Neville.

As for Harry and Ron, he couldn't penetrate them to increase their favorability. The two were too inseparable.

As for the hidden protagonist Tuan Nawei, he is still a pitiful one. I originally thought that as long as I got close to him, I would be able to establish a good relationship with him immediately.

But I don’t know why, but the affinity between him and Neville given by the system has always been stuck at “Friends”.

"Friends" sounds very good, but the prerequisite is that he does not let him see the subsequent favorability upgrade to "good friends", "best friends", and "life and death friends".

The system prompts that you must reach the level of good friends with Neville before you can randomly obtain one of Neville's skills, so this makes Mikel extremely depressed.

This favorability level cannot be improved life and death!

But now Neville and Lin Xia are chatting happily, and it seems that they have reached the category of "good friends". Mikel can't help but think:

Lin Xia had always been instructing Neville to do things. She never did anything in Potions class and only told the steps verbally, but Neville was completely devoted to her.

Could it be that Neville is a masochist instead?

The more you boss him around, the better will you be able to have a good relationship with him?

Out of the urgency to improve his strength, Mikel decided to try another method.

According to his memory, no deaths occurred in the third year, but the stain on Black's body was simply washed away.

Except for the protagonist group, other little wizards will not be harmed in any way.

But for some reason, the uneasiness in Mikel's heart became more and more serious day by day. Only by gaining more strength could he feel more at ease.

Although Snape was in a bad mood during this Potions class, no wizard was affected.

Even Ron, who was severely targeted by Snape, after carefully preparing the potion, he actually prepared a bottle of light green potion.

Although there is still a long way to go compared to the standard green, it has improved a lot compared to its previous capabilities.

This made Snape look at Ron a few more times.

He stared at Ron's bottle of potion, twitching the corners of his mouth, and sneered, but it quickly dissipated, and his expression turned into something like a smile, but it was indifferent, but not indifferent.

He eventually turned and left.

Ron quietly asked Hermione: "Did Snape just want to deduct my points?"

Hermione: "Judging from his expression, it should be."

Ron felt a little uncomfortable. It was very un-Snape to not buckle at the end even though he was going to do so.

Does the dignified Snape still care about the self-esteem of a young wizard?

"Why didn't he deduct my points in the end?" Ron asked.

Harry replied: "Maybe the professor cured my eyes. Your potion is better than some Slytherin's. How can he deduct points? After all, he occasionally adds points to Slytherin."

Ron said happily: "In this way, I just need to make potions better than Slytherin every time."

Harry reminded him: "But it's not easy. We have different educations. Slytherin students basically hire tutors for tutoring during winter and summer vacations."

Ron said without thinking: "Then I will go to Lin Xia's laboratory to help. Who can get such an honor?"

Harry: "That's true."

The potion class passed without any danger. When the class was dismissed, Snape hurried away without paying attention to the little wizard behind him.

Ron paid attention to Snape instead. It was rare for another wizard to leave so quickly after class. He didn't know what he was going to do.

Because the potion class went smoothly today, there was still time after class, so everyone went to the laboratory first.

Ron was very ambitious today and wanted to learn one more alchemical rune.

Lin Xia said that as long as he could master 50 runes, he could try to make some alchemical products by himself, and he had already learned 20 of them.

Runes are very difficult knowledge. Even if they only learned the basics of the basics, the changes in them are very complicated and cannot be remembered by rote memorization.

Ron and Harry have both learned 20, which is considered to be talented in runes.

As for Hermione, her talent is in spells, and her progress in learning runes is not so fast.

After discovering that Ron and Harry were so far ahead in progress, Hermione also secretly started to roll up, hoping to catch up with them in three months.

At lunchtime, the group went to the Great Hall to eat again.

Wizards of each grade ate in the Great Hall, and occasionally they could see the figures of school professors. It is said that they have special house elves to provide services.

And this time, they saw Professor Lupin sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall.

He ate a lot, and the plates around him were piled high, almost covering his face.

Even the most daring little Gryffindor wizards would leave a circle of seats for him, several seats away from the professor.

Lupin was like a traveler who had been hungry for a week and finally found a paradise that could give him endless food and water.

Draco noticed this scene, turned his head to look at Lin Xia, and whispered: "Does he have any disease, so he needs to eat so much every day?

I also saw him eat a lot yesterday, and today, and even more so at the dinner the night before yesterday."

Lin Xia glanced at Lupin, "I can't tell without his physical information."

Halfway through their meal, Professor Lupin burped heavily, and finally ate.

When he left, he passed by the Hufflepuff table, suddenly turned his head, walked to Draco, and said in a low and hoarse voice:

"Draco, I heard that you are an excellent student who has been promoted since the second year, and you have an unusual ability in potions. I also feel like I am sick, suffering from a disease that I can never eat enough.

If you need to study me, welcome to my office to find me."

Draco was about to say something, but met Lupin's narrow eyes that seemed to be smiling, and he immediately felt something was wrong, and wisely stopped talking.

After he left, Draco asked Lin Xia, "What did he mean just now? Is he really seeking my help?"

Lin Xia asked back: "Did you notice his expression? Do you think he was looking for help?"

"I noticed it, I feel like he was playing with me." Draco said with a frown.

Lin Xia said calmly: "Is there a possibility that he heard our conversation and your speculation about him, so he - well, just played with you."

Draco:...

He was a little annoyed. He didn't expect Professor Lupin's ears to be so sharp that he could hear from so far away!

But he soon thought of Lin Xia, and his heart trembled.

Lin Xia also often used the ESP spell, and her eyes and ears were very good.

Now he just hoped that the professor would not make things difficult for him during the Defense Against the Dark Arts class later.

During the meal, a student with a plaster arm appeared, attracting many people's attention.

The student was from Ravenclaw, and he went to the Ravenclaw table.

His right hand was injured, but it did not affect his ability to pick up a spoon with his left hand to eat.

The Weasley twins immediately approached to inquire about the news.

Hogwarts is very safe.

But it is too safe. Even if you are injured, you can get help quickly, and you can often recover in a few hours, so you don't usually see injured people.

It is unusual for this little wizard to come here with a plaster arm.

After a while, George and Fred, who knew the inside story, spread the reason why the little wizard was injured.

George: "It was an accident during the Care of Magical Creatures class this morning."

Fred: "He was picked up by a hippogriff and taken to fly in the air, but because he was too nervous, he grabbed the feathers on the inner circle of the hippogriff's neck. The hippogriff felt itchy, so it threw him down."

George sighed: "He is so lucky. If he was thrown down while visiting Hogwarts, no one could save him."

Fred echoed: "Oh, dear George, but he was so lucky that he threw it down when he had already returned to Hagrid's cabin and was about to come down."

George: "Poor Hagrid, he used his armor to protect himself in advance, trying to catch the little wizard with his huge body."

Fred looked regretful: "But unfortunately, the little wizard got hung on the branch himself, so his arm was broken."

George: "Hagrid cast a temporary healing spell on him."

Fred smiled strangely: "Then the bones in his arm disappeared completely!"

Ron looked at Harry when he heard this.

Harry had also used this kind of healing spell that made bones disappear.

Hagrid's healing spell is very unreliable!

After listening to it, the little wizard felt that this was more of an accident caused by the little wizard himself, so he didn't care much.

And the little wizard from Ravenclaw also looked indifferent, so the matter was over.

Hermione said, "After the Defense Against the Dark Arts class this afternoon, I want to visit Hagrid. Are you going? Although it's not his fault, it was an accident in his class after all. I'm afraid he will think too much."

Several people looked at each other and nodded to go. Draco and Lin Xia received the news and also said they would go.

When lunch was about to end, Lin Xia looked at the window of the Great Hall and heard some intensive flapping of wings. A large wave of owls was about to arrive.

Dementors have been patrolling the periphery of Hogwarts, but they rarely appear during the day. The owls got into the window without any hindrance.

"Plop, plop, plop..."

The sound of throwing and dropping sounded one after another. Many newspapers were thrown on the table. Several newspapers fell in front of Lin Xia, and she immediately caught them with the levitation spell and floated in front of her little by little.

The first page that came into view was a few big black bold words--

[Witnesses claim to have seen Sirius Black! 】

Lin Xia quickly looked down and scanned the content. The location was not far from Hogwarts, in a small village. This was seen by a Muggle.

The Muggle thought Sirius was just an ordinary criminal. He immediately called the phone after seeing it. When the Auror of the Ministry of Magic arrived, the man had already run away.

In this page, two photos of Sirius Black were placed again. One was a photo of him recovering and vigorous, and the second was a photo taken in Azkaban, showing him extremely thin and haggard.

It was exactly the same as the wizard she saw in the Fuqi.

Lin Xia's eyes flickered.

Sirius Black's Animagus was probably the big black dog. She instantly thought of Professor Trelawney's fable to Harry. Her intuition told her that the two might have some connection.

A Slytherin student suddenly walked up to Harry and said nervously, "Harry, are you proud from time to time?"

Harry was confused: "What proud?"

"Sirius Black... he must be coming to find you, and you have to order him to kill us from time to time..."

Harry frowned, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying."

The little wizard trembled all over and said excitedly: "You are lying, you know... he will definitely come back to find you, but he is a murderer, maybe he even wants to kill you, even if he is your nominal..."

Suddenly, the little wizard rolled his eyes and fainted. (End of this chapter)