Chapter 6: Potions
Gloria and Zoe, who had a very poor sense of direction, were the last to arrive in the classroom, fortunately the first period was Potions class, and Professor Slughorn was the head of Slytherin, so he didn't say anything, and asked them to sit down quickly, Zoe looked at a boy in the middle who waved at him, and glanced at Gloria with some hesitation, Gloria smiled and nodded at her, she smiled apologetically, turned around and ran over.
Gloria looked around, only a gloomy little boy sat on the empty table at the front, it was Mr. Snape, Gloria looked at him pursing his lips and was silent, thinking that he was excluded again, and there was no one she knew around, so she walked over, "Excuse me, can I be here?"
Snape looked at her a little helplessly, and hummed in a very low voice, Gloria only barely heard a little nasal voice, she smiled, didn't say anything more, put down the book and sat down, the boy next to him was obviously a little uncomfortable with someone sitting so close, he tensed up and skewered to the side, Gloria noticed, but didn't care, she didn't pay attention, and began to listen to the lecture motionlessly.
"What we're going to do today is a scabies potion, which is a very rudimentary but useful potion that needs to be ......."
Professor Slughorn recounted that Gloria was a little confused, and that there were many things he dealt with differently than what was written in his own books, and that he seemed to be more ...... Well...... More civilized, Gloria jot down the professor's method as she marked her memory with a quill next to her.
"Below, in pairs, start with each other. ”
Gloria looked at Snape next to her, "I'll take care of the herbs, can I boil you in the cauldron?"
Snape nodded silently.
Gloria tried to dispose of half of the materials in each of the two methods, and found that the methods recorded in her home were more primitive, or rather, they did not require tools, which was more convenient and easier, and relatively speaking, more dangerous, while the methods described by the professor were very safe and complicated, after all, for example, the degree of crushing of snake teeth could not be controlled with tools, and it was obviously easier to use her own hands, so she decided to follow her own thoughts, after all, these materials were not dangerous.
Snape's eyes lit up when he saw Gloria's unusual method, and when he looked closely, he found that this method was more detailed, and she was obviously a little rusty at the beginning, but she quickly became familiar with it, much faster than the people next to her who were still slowly sharpening the dried nettles with knives, and when the others were still crushing the snake's teeth, they were about to turn off the fire and release the porcupine thorns.
Snape carefully stirred the potion in a circle, and quickly turned off the fire when the color changed, Gloria looked at Snape's very standard method and was a little surprised, sure enough, it was not useless, he had already counted the potions in his hand when he saw it in the car.
Gloria watched the color change of the potion, and added porcupine thorns in due time, the potions quickly turned orange and gave off a bitter taste, Professor Slughorn turned to them with a smile, a little surprised, "Very perfect scabies potion, Miss Pendragon, Mr. Snape, for your excellent performance, Slytheringa ten." ”
Snape bowed his head slightly at Slughorn in respect, and Gloria smiled sweetly, "Thank you, Professor." ”
Slughorn, apparently grateful to the beautiful girl, smiled, and turned to look at the other tables.
Snape took out his notebook and jotted something down with a feather, and Gloria took out the notebook and carefully noted the differences in the way the material was handled.