Chapter 18: Potions
However, this is only the first day of school, and everyone has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, Hermione only comforted Li Lin a few words, and after finishing dinner in the cafeteria, Hermione had to go back to the common room alone, because. Li Lin was going to Professor Snape's office.
"Hello, Professor Snape."
"Hello, Mr. Lovegood."
It's still that indifferent tone, and it doesn't seem to care. However, Professor Snape was cautious in his heart as he carefully examined his surroundings and cast a spell on the door.
"Now you can talk about your nonsense, Mr. Lovegood."
Professor Snape had his back to the locked door, his wand clenched tightly in his hand, and the look looked as if he was about to cast a spell at the slightest disagreement.
Li Lin took out a biology book from his pocket, which contained two papers.
In 1952, respectively, Robert Briggs and Thomas Briggs J. King successfully cloned a paper on the northern leopard frog.
and 1963, Tong Dizhou's paper on the cloning of carp. However, this paper is in Chinese, so Li Lin had to translate it.
That's right, what he wanted to introduce to Snape was clones. First, he was convinced that without adequate scientific literacy and bioliteracy, Snape would never be able to tell the difference between cloning amphibians and cloning mammals and cloning humans. Second, he was to draw a large loaf of bread for Snape, just as he had hung a carrot in front of a donkey when he was riding a donkey. In this way, he was going to tie Snape to his chariot.
What about giving Snape a hope? Anyway, in a few years, the cloned sheep Dolly will also appear. And the place of birth is still in the United Kingdom. This hope is still real.
Professor Snape took the article, then frowned and said nothing, but his gaze shifted to indicate that he was trying to read it.
"Well, Muggle stuff, is that credible?"
Professor Snape asked, even though his eyes were still hollow, and they didn't look any different than before. But Li Lin maliciously believed that he had absolutely not read these papers.
"These are published in Muggle scientific journals. It is highly valued, and it will only be honored if it has been verified. ”
Snape nodded, not saying a word. There was silence for a long time before he spoke slowly.
"Mr. Lovegood, do you want to do anything by giving me such a method?!"
The tone looked weak, but Li Lin hurriedly said that he had no dissent.
"No, it's not, it's just that when you introduced potions, you thought it was impossible, so I wanted to show you these papers."
Although he said this, Li Lin didn't think so in his heart.
"That's right, I'm tempting you, do you want to resurrect Harry Potter's mother? Oops, it doesn't seem to be enough, we need to add more fire! ”
Suppress the thoughts in his heart for the time being, after all, what he is in front of is a master of the Regents. Li Lin hinted in a puzzled tone.
"By the way, Professor, doesn't the Ministry of Magic have a time turner? I remember writing a book called "The Ring of Time", and the effect of the time turner was very similar to the abilities of the main character in the book I wrote. ”
"Look, I didn't know there was a time turner at the time, so it's a coincidence, so something like a knight potion should have a certain degree of feasibility, Professor, why don't we try it?"
seems to be a natural whisper, but it is actually fueling the flames, and "The Ring of Time" is also a novel from the light of civilization. The protagonist in it has the power to travel through time. There is one such plot where the protagonist travels to the time when the heroine is 17 years old. Rescued the heroine under the army of evil wizards.
Li Lin is deliberately naming this novel to tell Snape that there is nothing to despair, it really can't be done, you still have the road of a time converter, even if you use a time converter, it will cause irreversible consequences, but, in terms of consequences, Snape is absolutely happy to accept it.
Because Snape used the time turner, it was definitely for Lily, and it was normal to travel back to the time when Lily had not yet empathized with each other, of course, it was really hard to say whether there was a love affair between the two of them. Go crazy and travel back in time to when Lily was three or four years old.
And at this point in time when both Snape and Lily already existed, the worst effect was that Voldemort was still alive, and Harry Potter was naturally gone.
However, Li Lin never wanted Snape to choose this path, he was just giving Snape a direction. He wasn't worried that someone would use the time turner against him, because it wouldn't be long before the time turner would be destroyed, and Li Lin, as a place half a dimension higher than the Harry Potter world, fell down, and was born a high-latitude existence.
He only exists on one timeline, this timeline, so anyone who uses the way to jump the timeline will not find him again, they will be offset to other timelines. Unless Li Lin is downgraded, in that case, from the time of his birth to his death, and then on all timelines. will all be forced to exist.
Li Lin tactfully reminded Snape that the time-turner was just a line of insurance for Snape. lest he lose his mind in anxious waiting.
The time turner is kept in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic.
The Daily Prophet once interviewed Professor Saul Crocker of the Department of Occult Affairs. He had spent his life studying the magic of time. He said in the interview.
"According to our current research, the maximum time to travel through time is about five hours, otherwise there is a risk of serious harm to the time traveler or to time itself. We can already wrap up a single Hour Reversal Spell, as this spell is not very stable and needs to be suppressed with a small hourglass that has been enchanted. Wizards wear these small hourglasses around their necks and turn them according to the number of hours the user needs to convert.
"Wizards who tried to stay longer in the reversal of time have been badly hurt, and for many years we have wondered why many of the time-travelers who have traveled for long periods of time have not been able to return alive. From 1899 onwards all such experiments were forbidden, as Elois Mintenburg was trapped for five full days in 1402. Now we understand that her body has aged for five centuries since she crossed over, and that the damage is irreparable, and she died in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries before we could find a way to save her. To make matters worse, the five days she lived in the distant past had a serious disturbance with the life trajectories of all those she knew, so much so that more than twenty-five of their descendants had vanished into thin air in the present space-time and became "never born".
Eventually, in the days following Ms. Mintamburg's return, alarming signs emerged: time itself had been disrupted, and the rules had been grossly violated. The Tuesday after she reappeared lasted two and a half days, and Thursday was only four hours later. The Ministry of Magic ran into a lot of trouble trying to quell the matter, and since then they have adopted the harshest laws and penalties to regulate the study of time travel. ”
At the end of the interview, Saul Crocker said.
"Just as the human mind cannot comprehend time, we cannot comprehend the damage caused by our tampering with its laws."
Under the management of the Ministry of Magic, even the use of a time turner to reverse even a minimum of time is subject to hundreds of regulations. While the danger of reversing an hour is not as great as traveling through five centuries, it can still lead to some serious consequences, and if the Ministry of Magic approves the use of these rare and powerful magic items, it will definitely make the user make the strictest guarantees. For most magical organizations, it's inconceivable to use a time turner to address something as trivial as time management.
Light from this interview. Li Lin got a lot of information, such as the time turner can only travel forward for five hours, because of the restrictions of the Ministry of Magic, so how strong is the restriction spell on it? Snape is a Potions professor, but he has always wanted to be a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, how good is his level? Can you break the curse of the Ministry of Magic?
Li Lin only gave Snape a direction and a reminder that if Snape made up his mind and resolutely violated hundreds of rules of the Ministry of Magic, he could see her Lily again.
But whether Snape made up his mind or not, he would definitely get his hands on a time turner first. By the time the Ministry of Magic had destroyed the time-turner, it would be the only one in the world.
Because Li Lin is a high-dimensional existence, he has uniqueness, no matter which time node he uses the time turner to go, as long as he exists at that time node, no matter how old he is at that time, the future memory will cover the past self.
In this case, it can be used as insurance. For example, if the plan fails, use a time turner to go back to the point in time when he was born. Then you can be a reborn.
In other words, this is not only the safety line that Snape kept in his hands, but also the consideration of Li Lin before he can win.
At this time, Professor Snape's mood is difficult to judge, after all, he is the first person to use Occlumency, and in the following conversation, in the face of Li Lin's self-promotion, Snape unusually did not fight back with a poisonous tongue, but listened.
Eventually, the first Hogwarts potions man came to an agreement with Li Lin, who was responsible for providing the ideas and gold gallons, while Snape was responsible for the experiments.
The goal is to make three potions, the first one, which can have high magic resistance for a short time after drinking, but from the effect, Snape has already provided four or five solutions, what dragon's scales grind, what giant's toes. Just looking at the price of materials, Li Lin's face turned green.
The second type, the potion that can increase people's strength and speed after drinking, in fact, there are already spells that can do it, but Li Lin would rather believe in the potion in his hand now, and there is no ally who can be trusted to cast a spell on him.
The third is the Lucky Potion, the Elixir of Fortune, the formula is ready-made, but it is not sold on the market at all. I had to ask Professor Snape, the master of potions.
Even if Li Lin emptied all the gold in the vault, Gareon, he would have to boil out these three potions, especially the above two potions, and he must find the formula.
He trusted Snape's potions, but he was still very wary of Hogwarts as a whole, for example, even if Snape, the master of potions, stood in front of him, he didn't ask Snape to develop a potion similar to wolf poison, which was extremely beneficial to vampires.
Even when Snape asked him why he needed these three potions, Li Lin blamed him for his terrible talent.
Then Snape's expression became sympathetic.
Li Lin was very helpless, but this matter was also very beneficial to Snape, first of all, he willfully used materials to make formulas, and he didn't even need a penny, and secondly, after creating the potion, although the formula was shared by the two of them, but when it was sent to academic papers, the naming right would only have Snape, which meant that the patent rights belonged to him.
After receiving information that was extremely important to Snape, he was able to do it, both wealth and fame. Snape agreed.
And Li Lin finally experienced the feeling of lack of money for the first time. Now all the money in his coffers, Galleons, no longer belonged to him, but to Snape's material fees.