Chapter 29: Compound decoction

"Do you know Colin Creevey?"

"Kind of impression...... It looks like a short Gryffindor first-year freshman. ”

"He was attacked by a monster in the secret room, in front of the school hospital...... Now lying in bed like a dead man, turned to stone like Lady Loris!"

"Oh my God! I remember Creevey seemed to be of pure Muggle blood...... Is it true that the heirs of Slytherin are going to drive all Muggle-born wizards and squibs out of Hogwarts, as legend has been said?"

"It's horrible!"

Ever since the attack on Lady Loris, the discussion about the Chamber of Secrets in the Hufflepuff Common Room has not stopped.

However, with the appearance of a second victim, panic began to spread.

"Potter must have done it!" said Ernie McMillan confidently.

"How can you say that......" Hannah Abbott, with her blonde ponytail, tried to retort.

"Potter and Filch had a fight, and then Filch's cat was killed, and Potter was the first to 'discover'; first-year Clevey harassed Potter every day, angered him, and then turned to stone in front of Potter's hospital room......" McMillan deduced as a detective:

"I still can't believe it, considering that Harry has stopped the mystery man......" The kind-hearted Hannah is unwilling to accept this "reality".

"Don't be stupid! No one knows how he escaped death when he was attacked by a mysterious person. I mean, he was a baby when it happened, and he should have been blown to pieces...... Only the truly powerful Dark Wizard can escape the spell of the mysterious man. Ernie said mysteriously: "So ......"

......

Jon didn't try to stop the spread of the rumors or refute them.

Almost everyone in Hufflepuff was at risk, especially Justin Finch-Finchrie, who had been so pale these days that he didn't even dare to go to class...... He is said to have told Harry Potter about his lineage during an unintentional conversation after the start of the school year.

And Jon Hart, although a first-year freshman, is almost the most stable in the whole house in this matter.

His daily life is still the same as usual, except when he goes in and out of the common room and chooses to be with his classmates.

But when Professor Sprout came to collect the list of students who would stay on campus for Christmas...... He was almost the first to sign the column for students leaving school.

Like him, most of the students chose to leave the school, fleeing Hogwarts like a plague god, fearing that the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets would escape at any moment and give them a fatal blow.

However, just before the Christmas break, Jon receives an email from an owl.

It contains a lot of shiny, delicate-looking, but worthless trinkets. He asked Eric to buy it for him and send it to him.

He took these trinkets to the kitchen, and he gave them all to the house-elves in the kitchen.

"This is a Christmas gift for you in advance, although it is not a precious thing!" In the kitchen, he said earnestly, "Thank you for taking care of me in the past half school year, and giving me so much delicious food......

The house-elves were almost silently crying, and they quickly brought these trinkets with them, although they looked a little nondescript when they were dressed.

Klein hugged Jon's calf and cried, and Jon persuaded him almost ten times before he let go.

"This is the first time a wizard has given Klein a Christmas present...... Thank you, Mr. Hart......"

Eventually, the house-elves stuffed Jon's pocket with all sorts of snacks until they couldn't fit it all before letting him go.

......

Of course, before leaving Hogwarts, there is one last thing -

The compound decoction has now been configured.

For the last week or so, he has added 2/3 ounce of full moon weed, half an ounce of powdered ammonium chloride, two ounces of grass leaf powder, 1 teaspoon of bicornus horn powder, and an appropriate amount of saltpeter, mercury, iron file, and dried African tree snake skin.

Although the formula of the compound potion is extremely complex, the process of preparing it is not too advanced, which is also the reason why it is a high-risk potion that can be successfully configured in the first and second grades.

Black smoke was now rising from the cauldron, and there was a pungent smell from the black smoke.

This proves that there shouldn't be any major problems with his configuration.

Jon carefully placed the polyjuice potions into small crystal bottles, which looked like black, sticky mud.

"Now, then, it's time to test its effects!" he muttered to himself, pulling out a few yellow-black hairs he had kept in another crystal bottle.

Carefully adding hair to the polyjuice potion, the crystal bottle hissed and began to foam...... After only a few seconds, its color changes to a rich earthy yellow.

With only one small sip, it can last about ten minutes of deformation.

Jon closed his eyes and poured the potion into his mouth.

Although I had a certain amount of mental preparation, the taste was almost as bad as I imagined...... It's like drinking a glass of gas, it's disgusting.

The internal organs quickly began to churn, as if he had just swallowed a few live snakes!

Jon bent down and took off his clothes as fast as he could.

Then, a burning sensation spread rapidly from his stomach to his body, and he felt his body melt again, as if the skin of his whole body was bubbling like hot wax......

Jon lay on the ground, watching as his hands began to grow larger, his fingers thicker, his nails wider, and his shoulders began to stretch......

A minute later, he stood up...... His head was taller than before, his arms and calves were thicker, his hair was messy black, and a few freckles appeared on his smooth face......

He hurriedly put on the large Hogwarts robes that he had prepared before.

If someone else is here, it's easy to recognize:

He became the Hufflepuff prefect, Gabriel Truman.

Gabriel's hair was secretly plucked out by Jon when they were celebrating their victory in a Quidditch match...... Just to test the effect of the compound decoction.

He wanted to get a teacher's hair, but the only normal adult male wizards at Hogwarts were Dumbledore and Snape, both of whom were too difficult to deal with...... I had to settle for the next best thing and get a senior student's hair.

Jon, who had transformed into Gabriel, raised his wand, and a moving dummy immediately appeared in front of him.

"Reducto!" said Gabriel's deep, slightly magnetic voice.

However, the wand only flickered a faint blue light, and there was no other reaction.

Gabriel was a sixth-year Hogwarts student and an honor student, and it was impossible for him to fail to control the Crush Charm, the basic spell for Defence Against the Dark Arts on the OWLs exam......

So, as expected, using Polyjuice Potion doesn't have any effect on your mana, and you can't use powerful spells just because you've become a powerful wizard.

It's normal to think about it, if the compound potion has the effect of replicating the magic power, won't the Order of the Phoenix vs. the Death Eaters become a hundred Dumbledore versus a hundred Voldemort?

If that's the case, the Order of the Phoenix has an overwhelming advantage!

With a wave of his hand, the movable dummy vanished, and in its place, a large stone slab appeared.

Jon set his wand aside and bent down......

Expected surprise!

This slate, which weighs nearly 30KG and was difficult for him to move no matter what, before he transformed, was easily lifted by him!