A few hours later......

Jon finally understood why Snape had just "escaped" here in such a mess!

It's a nightmare to shop in Diagon Alley with a little girl who is like a blank slate......

Natalie Pavlova knows almost nothing about the wizarding world, but at the same time she is curious about everything.

What's more important is that in the face of that innocent look, it is difficult for you to cruelly refuse her question......

All afternoon, he was forced to babble on and on about Natalie science about the basics of the wizarding world.

Jon couldn't help but be glad that most of the shops in Diagon Alley were closed today, otherwise she would have been introduced to these magic shops and the goods inside in the same way, and it would have been dark for her!

But Jon kept an eye on it.

Whether it's buying a textbook, a potions bottle, or a brass balance with Natalie, or helping her buy a dark brown spotted owl as a pet...... He was so attentive to his words that he did not show the fact that he had ever seen the little girl and her family.

At the same time, when it came time to send Natalie back to Newham after buying everything, Jon was also quite cautious, always letting the little girl lead the way.

After all, he didn't know if Snape had tested his "intentions" with this little girl, so it was better to be careful.

......

Arriving at the small bungalow in Newham in East London for the second time in a day, the door had just been opened, and Natalie had already run in with a couple of large bags.

"Thank you, Jon!" she grinned and waved back to Jon.

"Goodbye!" Jon said weakly.

It was getting late, so he hurriedly made a phone call from home at a nearby phone booth and called a taxi to take him back to King's Cross Station.

By the time we returned to 86 Eastleigh Road, it was almost 11 o'clock...... This was when Eric drove to pick him up at Southampton train station.

"What's wrong, son?" Eric asked with some curiosity when he saw Jon looking so tired.

"Nothing......" Jon said helplessly.

Sergei Pavlov can't just go there...... He is now a parent of a Hogwarts student, and has a lot of practice with the wizarding world, and if he comes into contact with him, he may expose himself.

The use of the identity of Varian-Ureon should also be reduced, after all, Snape is likely to be suspicious of this "former Soviet man".

It wasn't all for nothing, though, as Jon pulled a crumpled piece of parchment from his pocket.

Here is some information that Sergei gave him, the comrade-in-arms of the KGB special forces......

There is no doubt that these once brave Red Army soldiers are now living in a rather bad situation, both in Russia and in Western and Southern Europe.

Jon carefully tucked the parchment into the innermost compartment of the suitcase.

......

For the rest of the summer holidays, Jon obediently stayed on Eastleigh Road in Southampton and did not continue to run around.

Every day, he locked himself in that rented hut and made all sorts of potions.

Chief among them, he spent it concocting a potion that was strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic and had extremely complex preparation steps......

When he was in the first grade, he memorized two recipes in the book "Powerful Potion"...... One is a compound potion, and the other is his latest target: a truth potion!

It takes half a month for a pharmacist to fully mature a potion for a confession, and it takes a month for a potion to fully mature, and a month for a dispenser.

Most of the time, it is a very effective agent. Of course, it is not entirely useful, and some experienced wizards will carry the antidote of the elixir with them and even take it at any time, so that the results obtained by the elixir will not be accurate.

The materials needed for the elixir include Burok summer grass, half-eared grass sprouts, Icelandic Ulris stalactite blocks, salamander serum, and more...... Most of them were quite expensive magical materials, which meant it was expensive, but it was nothing for Jon now.

He first crushed the Burok summer grass into a green juice and stored it in a frozen state.

The sprouts are then cut into one-centimeter-long pieces, soaked in salamander serum, and boiled over low heat for 30 minutes every 10 hours...... This needs to last a week.

Finally, the stalactites are ground into a powder, placed in a dry flat-bottomed glass dish with the ferret's heart tendons, and soaked in water for two weeks.

After the steps of the above three parts are completed at the same time, it is theoretical that the above three solutes are poured into the crucible, baked, and after adding glycerin and stirring for 5 minutes, the solution will turn purple-green......

This purple-green solution is known as the first liquid of the Truth Teller on the Powerful Elixir, and is the most important ingredient of the Truth Teller.

It adds the feathers of the stunted bird ground into powder as an adjuvant and adjusts for one month, which is the truth telling, and adds sugar as an adjuvant and adjusts for two weeks to be an efficient antidote to the truth spitting.

But here's the problem!

On two occasions in a row, Jon had a bit of a problem preparing the three solutes and preparing the initial solution of the elixir......

Inexplicably, the three solutes did not dissolve in glycerol, but gradually precipitated, and soon turned from purple-green to a strange black.

Undoubtedly, the subsequent preparation could not be continued!

A failure is undoubtedly a waste of half a month...... After all, the solute blended between stalactites and ferret's heart tendons can only be stored for 10 minutes, after which it immediately loses its effect.

"Could it be that there is a problem with the instructions on the Potion of Power?" Jon repeatedly analyzed the reasons for his failure.

Since I first came into contact with potions two years ago, with a lot of experience in handling them and a little bit of intuition, the process of preparing potions has been unstoppable...... The truth spitting agent was the first trouble he encountered.

When he got back to school, he asked Snape for advice, after all, he was quite experienced in the preparation of truth potions...... But wouldn't that expose the fact that Lockhart helped him hide before, borrowing "Powerful Potion" in the first grade!

Jon sighed, and had to wait until school started to check the library to see what was wrong.

However, he has not been idle this semester, except for the elixir, and he has also managed to concoct several potions that are quite difficult for students who have obtained their Potions OWLS certificate!

For example, revival potions, a potion that can restore a lot of strength to wizards;

Rejuvenation potions, which can make newly dead plants sprout and grow again;

Confusion potion, a potion that can temporarily dull and confuse humans or other artifact animals when splashed......

He packed them and put them in his backpack in case he needed them. I want to talk about "The Legend of Harry Potter" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~