Chapter 353 The nature of potions, Snape’s shock

"In your eyes, what is the essence of potions??"

Snape looked at Vera, Ian and others and asked slowly.

Regarding Snape's problem, Wanda had never been in touch with it and was a little confused.

Ian, Vera, Remy and three other people had attended Professor Snape's potions class, but their exposure to potions was not in-depth, so they did not answer immediately and were thinking over and over again.

They are not in the habit of speaking big words.

Rigorousness - this was the first lesson taught to them by their mentor Lockhart.

Seeing that the three of them were thinking, Snape was not in a hurry.

He was quite satisfied with the quality of Lockhart's group of students.

If it were those little wizards, they would either not dare to say anything, or they would just talk casually.

Well, maybe this is the difference between being beaten up by society and not being beaten up.

Ian pondered for a moment and said calmly: "Professor Snape, under your guidance, I have refined some preliminary potions such as the joy potion."

"I personally feel that the essence of magic potion should be the collision of materials, allowing the magic materials to produce strange changes to each other, and finally produce potions with different effects."

In response to Ian's answer, Snape neither nodded nor shook his head, but focused on Vera.

Vera's female identity, coupled with her excellent potion talent, reminded him of an old friend, and naturally he had some preferences in his heart.

Seeing that the professor was focusing on her, Vera also began to express her opinions.

"Professor, I agree with part of Ian's point of view. The change of materials is the key to refining potions."

"But I personally think that will and emotion play an important role in it."

Speaking of this, Vera cited a case to explain: "Professor, didn't you ask us to refine the joy potion before? I have experimented with it before."

"If I refine the joy potion very calmly, I find that the probability of success becomes very small and the quality is also very low. I even deliberately control my sadness, anger and other negative emotions to refine it, but I find that it has side effects and even fails directly."

"The method I can only teach you is to use a joyful and joyful attitude to refine the elixir of joy."

"So I think the material may be a deeper medium, and our will, our emotions are the key."

Snape's eyes lit up when he heard Vera's explanation.

As expected of the genius he was optimistic about, he had already begun experiments related to potions without mentioning anything. Although his views were a bit biased, his approach was correct.

Then, Snape turned his attention to Remy.

Feeling Snape's gaze, Remy felt as if he was carrying a thousand pounds of weight on his shoulders and was under great pressure.

Who knows that he has average talent and wants to learn potions, but he really can't get into it.

at last.

"me too!"

Seeing that Snape's face turned a little dark, Remy quickly added: "Professor Vera is right. I share the same view as Vader. Emotions are very important. Yes, emotions are very important for refining potions."

snort!

Snape snorted coldly, as if he saw those ignorant little wizards.

He turned directly to Wanda and asked: "Wanda, you haven't been exposed to potions yet."

"But I also want to hear your opinion on potions."

"Ah!" Wanda was a little confused about Snape's question, but she also noticed that Snape was not happy with Remy's unassertive answer.

After thinking for a while, he said cautiously: "Professor Snape, I saw this potion just now and you drank it with my brother."

“It felt like magic.”

"I personally feel that this potion is like magic."

As soon as Wanda finished speaking, she noticed that Snape's sharp eyes were staring at her, which made her a little uneasy.

Just when she thought she had said the wrong thing, she noticed that Snape's eyes softened a lot.

This made Wanda feel relieved.

Then, immediately after, Snape was heard speaking.

"I'm quite pleased to hear the answers from the three of you."

Well, this uneducated Remy is automatically excluded.

Then, Snape began to praise and comment one by one.

"Ian, although your potion talent is not top-notch, it is still very good."

Then, he said meaningfully: "If you have the opportunity in the future, you can study more potions. It will be of great help to you."

Hearing Snape's compliment, Ian's face lit up with joy and he nodded.

Then he quickly retracted and said calmly: "Okay, I understand, professor."

Seeing Ian's performance, Lockhart nodded with satisfaction. He still preferred calm children.

If he had been less extreme in the past, perhaps he would be more of the same in the future.

Then, he said to Vera: "Vera, your potion talent is very good, don't waste your talent."

"If you have any questions about potions in the future, you can come to me directly."

Regarding Professor Snape's unabashed preference, Vera smiled with her eyes as wide as the moon, very happy.

Remy on the side lowered his head in embarrassment.

He was somewhat self-aware, but Snape didn't have a good impression of him.

Sure enough, Snape looked directly at Remy and Wanda with a cold face.

However, Snape did not speak directly about Wanda's evaluation. Instead, he pondered deeply and then said after a moment: "Wanda, I know that Lockhart still values ​​you quite a lot."

"I hope you will live up to Lockhart's intentions for you."

"Although you haven't touched the potion, I like your answer just now very much."

At the end, he paused, as if hesitating, and continued to give his promise.

"When you first start refining potions, read more books. If you have any questions, you can ask me."

Wanda was a little surprised when she heard this.

Then Snape looked at the four people in front of him and seemed to sigh with emotion: "Actually, there is a very typical case in the wizarding world, but few wizards know about it."

"Dumbledore, everyone knows that he is very powerful. He has defeated the first and second generation Dark Lords, but many people have forgotten that he is also a top potion master."

"Among his series of achievements, at the forefront is his discovery of 12 uses of dragon blood."

Hearing this, Wanda was still a little confused, but the expressions of Ian and the three of them became serious.

Before Ian and others could ask questions, Snape said again: "As for the first generation of Dark Lord Grindelwald, it has been a long time ago, and you may have forgotten it."

"However, he was also a top potion master back then, but it was just overshadowed by his reputation as the Dark Lord."

"Similar to this, there is the second-generation Dark Lord Voldemort. His attainments in the field of potions are not low, especially in dark-type potions, which are among the best in the world."

Hearing this, Ian and the other three seemed to understand something, but they didn't understand it completely.

Then, Snape continued: "Although Wanda has not been exposed to potions yet, I really liked Wanda's answer just now."

"The essence of potions is another form of magic."

Hearing this, Ian Villa and the other two seemed to have been hit hard on the head, and became a little confused, which seemed to conflict with their cognition.

As for Remy, his eyes shone quietly, as if he didn't understand, but he seemed to have understood some key points.

He didn't understand potions, but he was quite talented at magic spells.

Among the three, he dared to say that he was the first, and no one dared to say that he was the second.

"If you look at the history of wizarding spellcasting, you'll find that in the early days, wizards mostly cast magic, neither with a wand nor with a spell."

"It's more about using various magic materials as a medium to cast magic."

"And this method of using magic is quite powerful, and the magic is very strange, but the probability of success is low, and it is slow to perform, so it was later abandoned."

"Of course, it has not completely disappeared, but has continued to evolve, and a large part of it has become a magic potion."

"If you analyze it carefully, you will find that when we perform magic, emotions and magic are indispensable."

"But when refining the potion, it also contains these two factors, but it is more complicated. It requires us to mobilize the magic power of the potion material itself, as well as more complex emotions and more magical rituals."

Hearing Snape talk about the history of the formation of potions, Ian and the others' eyes became brighter and brighter, and Wanda also listened more and more fascinated.

Her instinct told him that what Professor Snape said was very important and crucial.

"So you will find that a top potion master like me is not bad at all, and a top wizard like Dumbledore also has deep knowledge in the field of potions."

"The two are interconnected."

Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!

As soon as Snape finished speaking, there was a round of applause.

Only then did everyone react and looked sideways. Unexpectedly, Luo Hart was applauding beside them, with a look of approval on his face.

"Professor Snape speaks well. He is indeed a top potion master. This view is very beneficial to me."

At this moment, Lockhart had a faint smile on his face, and there was some surprise in his eyes.

Sure enough, different people have different views on magic.

His thinking is influenced by researchers in previous lives, and he prefers to analyze from a scientific and systematic perspective.

Snape, a pure wizard, received traditional magical education. His views on potions touched Lockhart's heart.

It seems that he has seen a glimmer of light, a hope of breaking through the current bottleneck of magic research.

"Snape, you made a good point."

"However, can you share your understanding of the nature of magic from your perspective?"

Snape could easily see the anticipation in Lockhart's eyes, although he was a little surprised when Lockhart showed up.

However, there was nothing to hesitate about Lockhart's question, but he did not answer, but asked directly: "Lockhart, how about you first tell me your views on the nature of magic."

Upon hearing Snape's question, Wanda and Ian's eyes lit up and they looked at Lockhart expectantly.

Seeing two very powerful wizards communicating with each other suddenly aroused their inner excitement and anticipation.

It was as if fans were witnessing a deep interaction between their two favorite celebrities.

Well, not the male and female kind.

After Lockhart heard this, he spoke directly without any hesitation.

"Snape, you know that I have also studied Karma Taj's magic, and recently came into contact with a magic system similar to ours - Chaos Magic."

"I gained a lot from it, and it also deepened my understanding of magic."

Hearing this, Snape was also looking forward to it. He knew Lockhart's strength and was much stronger than himself.

But in the wizarding world, being strong does not mean that one must have a deeper understanding of magic than oneself.

Mastering profound and lost spells, awakening certain talents, or even mastering certain magic items may increase your combat power.

But Lockhart is obviously different. Among other things, he is exposed to one or more new magic systems.

He was looking forward to Lockhart's understanding of the nature of magic.

"Snape, in the eyes of most people, magic is actually the control of magical energy. This is very obvious in Kamathaj's magic system."

Hearing this, Snape nodded. He had read Karma Taj's magic book and it was indeed true.

"And this kind of magic has an obvious advantage. If it has sufficient energy, it will be very powerful. It is no joke to destroy the world."

"And our magic is also very powerful, but it tends to be very strange and even unpredictable."

"For example, the repair spell can be easily cast by a little wizard waving his wand. But with Kama Taj, although the same effect can be achieved, the price paid is very high."

"I have explored the differences between the two, and combined with my recent research on chaos magic, I found that the essence of our magic is not to mobilize energy."

"It's about mobilizing a deeper power, or in other words - influencing the concept!"

Having said this, Lockhart took out his wand, under the gaze of Snape, Ian, Wanda and others.

Point lightly towards the ground.

As the weak magic power emerged, the weeds on the ground suddenly rose as if they had taken medicine.

When we reached half a person's height, suddenly the tips of the weeds began to rotate and slowly came together.

The next moment, a red rose with long thorns appeared.

Seeing this scene, Wanda's eyes were filled with shock, and Ian and the other three were also very surprised.

After Snape saw it, he raised his eyebrows, took a step forward, and reached out to touch the red flowers of the rose.

His fingers touched the thorns on the rose lightly, but Snape still pressed down.

Her fingers felt the tender touch of the petals, and at the same time, the sharp thorns pierced the skin, and a drop of bright red blood fell into the stamens.

This blood-stained rose is even more charming.

"It's not an illusion, it's a bit similar to the Transfiguration Curse, but there seems to be a problem in nature." Snape muttered to himself while studying.

Lockhart stood aside and slowly explained: "Just now, I added the concept of growth and rose to this weed."

"That's why, just like the Transformation Spell, when I cast the Transformation Spell, I actually discovered that we are also adding a new concept to things through magic."

"Our magic is very special. It can easily communicate with deeper powers and affect conceptual changes, so our magic will look even more magical."

Hearing this, Snape also nodded and analyzed with approval: "Lockhart, this is indeed true."

"For many powerful magics, he needs some symbolic concepts and rituals to succeed."

"For example, Animaeus needs to hold the mandrake leaves in his mouth for a month. The subsequent rituals require dew, moon, thunder and lightning and other factors to be successful."

The more he talked, the brighter Snape's eyes became. He found that Lockhart's angle was very novel and helpful to him.

However, it feels a bit like a Muggle.

The word concept seems to have been invented by Muggles.

The thought flashed through Snape's mind, and he had to think about it in his mind, corresponding to Lockhart's point of view.

I found that a lot of magic can indeed be explained clearly through the perspective Lockhart said.

"Snape, tell me your point of view. How do you understand the nature of magic?"