Communication is not just about survival, it's also the way we know ourselves, the way we know us with the world – in fact, the only way.

However, not all of them have a very strong level of affinity and communication.

In fact, most people have some communication barrier to some extent, and in order to avoid trouble and harm, they usually choose one or two fixed postures: for example, they only know how to remain silent, or they will always only hint, or they will avoid, or they will deal with it emotionally, or even put on a poker face that will never change and freeze themselves behind their expressions.

They are like pianists who can only play one melody, or chefs who can only make a few dishes, and they are forced to respond in a pitiful way, just like Severus Snape.

However, on the other hand, as long as such a person is willing to take the initiative to communicate, the sensory improvement effect can be the most obvious - this is actually very similar to the contrast that people often say in later generations.

After a brief conversation between Elena and Snape, the tense and cold atmosphere that had been lingering in the Potions classroom gradually dissipated, and although the faces of the young first-year wizards were still a little restrained, the previous fear and resistance were completely gone.

"Very well, remember your companions right now, this is the Potions class grouping this semester. ”

Snape finished the roll call, looked up at the orderly classroom, and at the childish little faces that were raised up, and a slight hint of an inaudible smile appeared on the indifferent face, and his mood became much better—this was probably the only cute freshman who hadn't seen him as the Great Demon King in all these years, and I hope this situation will continue.

"You have come here to learn the precise science and rigor of the craft of making this potion. ”

Snape put down the roster in his hand, his arms folded around his chest, and he was shrouded in black robes like a giant bat, his gaze slowly swept across the classroom, and he whispered.

"First of all, I want you to learn to control your overly strong emotional ups and downs and stupid wand-waving desires - you can free your nature when you walk out of this classroom. Of course, even in today's wizarding world, there are quite a few idiots who don't want to admit that it's magic. So I don't expect you to really grasp the simmering cauldron......"

At this point, Snape's face suddenly froze, and he stopped his opening remarks unusually abruptly, and looked at Elena Kaslana, who was sitting next to his podium, with a complicated expression—hell, he had almost subconsciously imitated the little girl's words complimenting him.

I have to say, even if the subjective factor is removed, the silver-haired little witch's previous description of Potions is too much in line with Severus Snape's inner definition of Potions.

As time passed, the phrase did not dissipate, but became more and more deeply imprinted in Snape's mind.

"Professor Snape?"

Elena tilted her head innocently, and the little hair on top of her head jumped playfully - of course she knew why Professor Snape was suddenly stuck, after all, poor Professor Snape's opening line was preemptively dropped by her, and it was a little too difficult for an otaku who was not good at words, whether it was an on-the-spot adaptation or a casual play.

"Ahem......"

Snape cleared his throat to hide his embarrassment, and quickly looked away from Elena's face - perhaps he could try to include that in his opening remarks against Gryffindor and Slytherin this weekend.

Looking at the rest of the classroom with curious little wizards on their faces, Snape continued dryly.

“...... In short, Potions is full of fascinating charms. This will be the most loyal and fair subject you will face in the whole school, and it will also be the most fantastical course. Diligence, imagination, patience, and meticulousness, as long as you put these into this course step by step, it will faithfully give you wonderful results. ”

Oh –

Hearing Professor Snape's words, Elena raised her eyebrows and smiled as she sat in the Potions classroom [SVIP - Iron Throne] with her cheek and playing with a quill.

As it turned out, Professor Snape's opening remarks for the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students ended differently than the words addressed to the Gryffindor and Slytherin students—but also to think that the phrase "raising prestige, brewing glory, and even preventing death" had no appeal at all to the invincible badgers and eaglets.

Although the opening sentence was a little flawed in Snape's eyes, he was still satisfied with the pleasant interest and the strong desire to learn in the eyes of the little wizards.

"Now, take out your crucibles, your scales, your pen and paper...... Let's start today's lesson. ”

Snape waved his wand, and a set of potions of the same size as everyone appeared on the podium.

Next, it's time for the proper Potions lesson.

What can you do in the first lesson? It's the most basic things, how to set up a pot, how to light a fire, the most basic actions in configuring reagents, and so on, most of the operations have to be involved, and they can't be too profound, and Snape never expects much from the first lesson.

However, the quality of this year's first-year cohort clearly exceeded Snape's expectations.

For the first time ever, from the erection of the crucible to the ignition of the heating, from the basic cutting position to the cleaning of the instrument...... Almost all of the young wizards completed all the operations at once, without any mistakes, as if everyone had already done a certain amount of basic Potions class practice before the class.

"Unbelievable ......"

Snape dragged his long black cloak around the classroom, his eyes full of admiration, his lips squirming slightly, and he let out a silent exclamation - there was no shortage of wonderful little wizards in Potions classes, but everyone in the class had a very high operating limit, which was as incredible as a troll starting to write poetry with a quill.

As for Elena Kaslana, who he focused on, on the contrary, did not complete all the preparations in the first place, however, this is not to say that there is anything wrong with the girl's operation.

To be precise, Elena's actions really exceeded Snape's expectations, and even some of them made him a little puzzled - but, based on some strange hunch, Snape did not directly question and refute as usual.

From some small details, Snape could clearly feel that if the rest of the young wizards had some shallow foundation, many of Elena's actions were actually closer to a strict Potions Master who was almost artistic.

For example, she was the only wizard in the class to consciously tuck her hair behind her back, and the only one to deliberately adjust the height of the cauldron when it was heated to ensure that the heat and observation were at the most comfortable angle......

"Elena, can you tell me why you're doing so many repetitive operations?"

Snape narrowed his eyes, if he remembered correctly, Elena had cleaned her pile of measuring cups for the fourth time, something he couldn't understand.

"Because I don't think it's clean enough, Professor Snape. ”

Elena picked up the measuring cup in her hand and looked at it carefully, and replied with a serious face, "Actually, in my opinion, the most suitable way is to use the cleansing charm. However, you've said you won't use spells today, so I'm trying to wash it as clean as possible. ”

"It's not clean enough, do you want to wash them to be completely clear?"

Snape raised an eyebrow, and in his opinion, the poor cups were so clean that even those with a cleanliness fetish would not find anything wrong with it—the main reason, of course, was that, as a Potions professor, he felt the need to raise a few deficiencies.

It's finally here-

"No, Professor Snape. In fact, my criteria are not all measured by the clarity of the naked eye. ”

Elena breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and it was in vain that she had been washing here for almost ten minutes, and her fingers were almost white, and finally attracted Professor Snape's attention, smiled slightly, and whispered confidently.

"In my opinion, the water attached to the inner wall of the container is only clean if it is evenly distributed and does not appear to condense or run down in strands. ”

There was no doubt that the basics of chemistry experiments were a perfect recipe for clearing the levels in Professor Snape's Potions class, and in order to quickly gain the favor of the legendary Potions master, Elena had been preparing strategies for a whole month.

"Why do you think that? I don't think it appears in any potions books. ”

Snape frowned, as a Potions Master, he naturally understood the state described by Elena's mouth.

In fact, this is what all glass containers should look like when the Cleansing Charm is applied. It's just that, no one in the wizarding world has ever summed up and summed this up separately before this - after all, the results that can be achieved by a single spell don't seem to need to be elaborated on any matter how you think about it.

Well, it seems, she has managed to pique Professor Snape's curiosity.

And human beings, as long as they begin to be curious, will have flaws, and Professor Snape will never face an ordinary Elena, he will face the whole terrible think tank of high school teachers.

The power of the chemistry teacher, Elena has already used, and the next thing is the power from the physics teacher.

"It's simple. This is because, depending on the surface tension of the liquid and the nature of the glass, the glass can be wetted with water. If there are water droplets or strands flowing down, it means that there is a substance on the surface of the glass that does not allow water to infiltrate, which indirectly proves that the glass is not clean. ”

Elena stood up and explained with a look of course, as if to say something very simple.

"Infiltration?"

Snape's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, and he quickly grasped the strange word in Elena's mouth, and subconsciously asked, he felt as if the door to a new world was slowly opening.

"Well, infiltration. A definition from the non-magical world. ”

Elena shrugged her shoulders, pulled out her wand casually, aimed it at the glass in her hand, looked at Snape, and asked tentatively, "Professor, if you can......"

"Of course. Snape nodded.

Because of the smooth movements of the rest of the first-year students, there is still a lot of surplus time for the whole course stage.

Elena cleared her throat, tapped her glass with her wand, and recited the third spell she had learned with great difficulty.

"Clean up. ”

A magical glow flashed through the glass, and all the tiny stains and water droplets on the glass disappeared in an instant.

"The so-called infiltration is a drop of water placed on a clean glass plate, which will adhere to the glass plate to form a thin layer, and a clean glass piece will be taken out of the water again, and the glass surface will be stained with a layer of water. This is because the molecules of the attached layer of the liquid are denser than the inside of the liquid, which is manifested as repulsion and has a tendency to expand, and infiltration occurs. For example......

Elena explained as she demonstrated with the glass in her hand.

"However, if it is the other way around, if it is mercury, it will not infiltrate because the molecules inside the liquid are denser than the liquid in the layer. ”

With Elena's voice, the eyes of the young wizards who were still listening to the conversation between the two with great interest began to look confused, even the young wizards of Ravenclaw House were no exception - in fact, due to the sudden madness of the Bronze Eagle Ring this year, many young wizards are currently sleeping on the floor outside the door more often than in the lounge.

Of course, for others who chose to give up from the beginning, there is more to talk about.

"Elena was saying things she didn't understand, but it made sense. It's so amazing, I didn't expect even the professor to know. ”

Hannah, who was sitting in the middle of the classroom, rubbed her head with a headache and said to Susan beside her.

Although she didn't know what the two were talking about since Elena's last sentence, it didn't prevent her from looking at Elena with envy and adoration in her eyes.

"Of course, that's Elena's eldest sister! However, I'm more concerned about the magic that my eldest sister just performed than those things. I don't know how many spells Elena has mastered, but with Elena here, we can definitely get a lot of extra points in the Charms class. ”

Susan Bones nodded seriously, looking at the wand in Elena's hand, and the tone of Elena was like Elena's little fan girl.

Molecular tension and density?

Is this child really speaking English, and why the more these things are explained, the more difficult things to understand.

"Good, good, I see. It's a very valid criterion indeed. ”

Snape gently pressed his slightly aching temples, nodded calmly, and raised his hand to stop Elena, who was about to continue with excitement, "On these issues, after class, come to my office to continue the discussion—of course, not closed." I thought, okay, Hufflepuff plus a point. ”

Seeing the emotion on Elena's face, the corners of Snape's mouth twitched, and he added a little reluctantly.

As a Potions professor, Snape couldn't do anything to go back on his word, and since he said that he would give extra points to such things that exceeded expectations, Snape naturally wouldn't break his promise.

"Wow, Elena is amazing. ”

"The eldest sister has a great head. ”

"I knew it was Moonlight Kaslana. ”

As Snape's voice fell, the classroom instantly remembered a burst of whispers, as an extremely rare student to get extra points from Professor Snape, Elena's behavior undoubtedly greatly strengthened the confidence of all young wizards.

Almost everyone, including the young wizards of Ravenclaw, had excitement and pride on their faces, eager to share the great news with the students of the other houses and grades.

- These little guys really need a little banging.

Turning around, Snape raised his eyebrows, looked at a group of little ones with happy faces, and snorted coldly.

"So, do you think you've done all your preparations? Got it? Why don't you write it all down?"

"From now on, that's one of the criteria for Potions class - unless each of you is proficient in the Cleansing Charm, I don't want to hear anyone holding a measuring cup and asking me if I've cleaned it at all!"

Accompanied by one wail after another, the classroom resounded with the rustle of quill pens and parchment.

However, neither the young wizards nor Severus Snape realized that this was just the beginning.

In order to standardize the operation of the Potions class, as well as to maximize the deception of points, Elena has prepared a complete "Chemical Laboratory Safety Management System" and "Self-inspection Management Specifications", since Professor Snape has promised to give points according to each change point or the number of effective suggestions, she naturally chooses to slowly put forward opinions one by one.

After all, if the entire text was sorted out and handed in at once, it would not be a loss of blood if Professor Snape was so stingy that he only gave five points. In contrast, she naturally earned one point at a time, anyway, there is no decimal no matter how many points are added or deducted, and the lowest is one point.

Snape nodded in satisfaction after touring the classroom again.

If you just look at the operation of the crucible and the use of fire sources by these children, the probability of accidents has dropped by more than ten times compared with previous years.

"Very well, now, please turn to the first page of Magic Potions and Potions, and let's start learning about one of the most basic potions: potions for scabies. Please note that the procedure I described was followed – even if it was slightly different from the textbook, as I said. After all, the author of the book, Mr. Arseny Spoh, is not the one to rate you. ”

With a wave of his wand, Snape unfurled a large piece of parchment from the front of the lectern and hung on the wall at the very front of the classroom, and with Snape's voice, rows of handwriting and patterns automatically appeared on the polished parchment.

"Scabies treatment potion, this is the most basic medicine. As long as you practice potions a little, you can make it with your eyes closed. None of the potion materials are dangerous, and the process is only grinding and boiling, and there is no other complicated process. Therefore, as long as you listen carefully, you will be able to complete the boiling smoothly. ”

Snape slowly walked to the right side of the classroom next to a row of huge cabinets, the cabinets were standard with various potion labels, because many potion materials had shelf life issues, so most of them needed to be adjusted in advance according to the content of each day's lessons.

"The potion materials we need for each class in the future can be found in this potions cabinet. ”

As he spoke, Snape expertly opened the potions cabinet and tilted it slightly, trying to make his movements as clear as possible to all the students - since the first class was a first-year freshman, he had already taken most of the high-level potions in advance.

"Now let me explain the four potion materials you will need for this lesson: dried nettles, pit viper's fangs, slugs with tentacles, porcupine stings, ......"

Looking at the empty potions cabinet, the expression on Snape's face froze completely, his voice stagnated in his throat, and he let out an extremely strange gurgling sound, and his eyes gradually bulged outward, looking particularly scary and hideous.

"Who?!Who touched my potion this time!?"

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This time, it's really a super big chapter!

Straight!

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