Chapter 18: The Demise of Alchemy

In Potions class the next day, looking at Snape, who was still limping with dark circles under his eyes and a pale face, Sivin clearly knew what was going on, and the half-blood prince of Potions had apparently carried his injuries and studied the life potion for a night. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It's a pity that the melon-eating wizards below who don't know what's going on are terrified, the usual Snape is already gloomy and terrifying enough, and today is even more terrifying, constantly patrolling everyone's actions, even George Fred quietly coaxed, silently following the tutorial in the textbook to configure the potion.

"Angelina Johnson, do you only have that empty Quaffle in your head? Are you using this potion to detoxify or poison people?" Johnson, who was still about eighty percent complete, shook the materials in his hand and completely destroyed a pot of potion. Snape cleaned it up mercilessly. In this class, it was clear that Gryffindor's Quidditch vice-captain scored a direct zero.

George Fred silently say Rest in peaceAngelina, our revered and great Quidditch chaser of Gryffindor, who died heroically to stop the evil boss.

"You two, get distracted! look at your crucibles!" he slammed the twins' heads against the table, knock, looking at the cleaned cauldron and Snape's old bat's back, the two brothers touched their red and swollen foreheads and looked at each other with a wry smile.

"Swift, the potion succeeds. Snape couldn't find fault with the West Side after picking up the potion and checking the color and fragrance over and over again, Snape stared at the West Vine with no fluctuations on his face, and even wanted to laugh in his heart. After a sharp twist of the muscles in his face, "Swift, Ravenclaw plus 1 point." You stay after class. ”

When class finally ended, the students still didn't dare to come out, but they sped up the speed of packing up their things. The Potions classroom was soon empty, but Xiwen stayed. Seeing George Fred's sympathetic eyes disappear into the classroom door, Sivin stood up, "Is there something wrong with Professor Snape?"

"I suppose you managed to come into contact with that knowledge of pharmacy?" Snape's dark eyes glared at Sivon in depth.

Siwen shook his hand like a fly, "Please don't use boring mental magic like the Dementor, I don't want to make the already weak Hogwarts education system another amnesiac fool because of my counterattack." ”

Snape snorted, the glint in his eyes seemed to diminish at once, and he narrowed his eyes and wrapped his robes tightly like a bat that had wrapped itself in wings to protect itself. "Then Mr. Swift can you explain to me the doubts in my mind? ”

"Drink it" tossed Snape another potion, and a dazzling look erupted in Snape's eyes, for a man who had studied potions all his life, nothing made him feel more charming than a brand new potion. Snape opened the lid, sniffed at the potion's alluring breath of life, and watched the liquid float with brilliance, and he carefully savored the potion.

"It's a really good feeling. Snape watched his arm turn bloody again, feeling the warmth of the potion rush through his body. Taking a deep breath, it was good, and Snape locked his gaze on Sivin's body again, "What kind of potion is this?"

"It's just the lowest level of life regeneration potion. "Xiwen doesn't seem to think much of this potion," is just an introductory potion for novices in alchemy. ”

"Alchemy!" Snape's face began to twist extremely, and the hand holding the empty potion bottle seemed to tremble, and the back of his hand burst with green tendons and veins from overexertion. After a few breaths, Snape took a deep breath, as if to stop the mood swings in his heart, he hadn't been so upset in a long, long time.

Snape looked at the West in front of him with complicated eyes, "Swift, I don't know where you've heard this word, alchemy, it's just an ignorant and ignorant superstition in ancient times, I hope you don't preach this kind of thing to the public." ”

"Why? If others don't know, I don't think Professor Snape, as a Potions Master, would be so rejecting alchemy. ”

"It's impossible to accept, Severn Swift, that you do have your own merits in Potions and beyond, but I hope you don't go astray. Alchemy, this evil thing,"

"Why evil? I don't know who instilled this opinion in you, but if I remember correctly, it seems that one of the most important achievements of our Headmaster Dumbledore was that he and that French mystery, Nicolale May, had made a significant contribution to alchemy. ”

Snape seemed to be thinking about how to refute this view, he let out a long sigh, shook his head and seemed to laugh at himself for saying so much today, "That's Dumbledore, Nicolame, but Severn Swift, you're just a student, and there are some things that those people do that can be praised and touted and ignored, and if you try, then it's the beginning of a nightmare." ”

Snape's hands clenched into fists, even the palms of his fingernails embedded in them.

"Alchemy" Snape looked at Siwen, "It is indeed the ancestor of a series of disciplines such as Potions, and it is an indispensable part of ancient wizards, and even the study of this far exceeds that of other magic and other directions. Everyone thinks that alchemy is a magical way to peek into the origin of the world, through which herbs, ores, and even other materials are mixed and refined, and they can obtain the potions, poisons, and even stones they want. ”

"But the terrible thing about alchemy is that its potential is too great, it is too terrible potential, no one can see where the end of alchemy is, although not everyone, but mainstream alchemists and apprentices believe in their hearts that the only problem why alchemy has developed to a bottleneck and why its power is no longer improved is - materials. ”

"They are no longer confined to their materials planted on manors, grown in fields and woodlands, buried deep in mountains and rivers, animal remains. They began to reach out to animals, living animals. In the living state, dissection to obtain organs and materials, to obtain blood donations, to obtain the tears of dying animals. They found that the effect of the potion had actually improved somewhat. ”

Snape didn't seem to know whether he should go on or not, but there seemed to be a voice in his mind encouraging him to continue.

"Now that you already know about alchemy, you should have heard of the rest of the matter, those alchemists who are crazy about pursuing the origin, the origin of the world, have finally discovered that there is a type of material that no one has ever tried and no one has tried...... That's themselves, human beings. Those people, like slaughtering those animals, began to extend their butcher knives to their own compatriots and began to slaughter, no, slaughter. ”

"When the unattended civilians were almost dead and wounded, these frenzied alchemists finally reached out to the high ones or the powerful wizards and warriors. Thus began the wars of the Middle Ages. The power of those alchemists was terrifying, terrifying, and their potions continued to eat away at the earth and everyone on it like maggots even after their deaths. Nearly 200 million people died in Europe. And the main body of the alchemist has largely died out. ”

"So, later, the wizarding world reached a consensus that it was strictly forbidden to use humans as any experimental materials, and at the same time, an unwritten rule suppressed alchemy. Only basic Potions research and teaching is permitted. Even if Nicolamet lived for 600 years, he was not allowed to leave France, nor was he allowed to pass on the knowledge of ancient alchemy to others. For 600 years, Nicolamay had no more than four apprentices. ”

Snape's expression was a little complicated, alchemy has never died, and every dying person will use it as their last straw, how can people in this situation still care about those restrictions and those bottom lines.