016: Potions class
Joel also rushed over, just too engrossed in his reading, or the boy in the seat next to him got up to watch the landlord, and he realized that something was wrong with the game: everyone gathered behind one seat, and there was no one behind Sergey and Allen.
What's going on?
He's too short and too late to get around, unlike Eddie who got a seat next to Haylis, who was already surrounded by water when Joel got to the couch.
He couldn't see the details of the game, he could only hear the exclamations of the onlookers and the voices of the three players.
Haylis won the game again, she felt that it was really boring to win the game all the time, and the crowd of onlookers made her already introverted and uneasy, and when she saw Eddie lying next to her, she shook her head and doubted her life.
"You're back...... Here. She quickly shoved the card into Eddie's hand, then got up and ran away from the crowd.
Eddie took Helis's hand, "I'll go!" ”
He exclaimed, and the corners of his mouth lifted high.
Robbed the landlord, and as soon as he lifted the other three cards, the corners of his mouth collapsed a few points.
But Haylis left him with a hand that was too good, and despite the ups and downs, he still won the game.
The next few sets saw no one draw a good hand in a row, which was an even more challenging one, with Sergey and Allen winning a few sets each, which was a bit of a face-saving experience.
There are many students who are very interested in playing cards and fighting landlords, and they ask for a detailed explanation of the rules when ordering playing cards.
Eddie responded one by one, and it wasn't early, and the few of them returned to the dormitory with a tired body.
"Whew!" Eddie threw himself onto the bed and let out a sigh, "I'm exhausted!" ”
Alan packed up his toiletries and trotted into the bathroom with his slippers, and Joel leaned on the head of the bed to continue reading his Guide to Elementary Transfiguration, as he indulged in how to turn a dinner plate into a goblet.
Sergey returned to the dormitory and began to make playing cards, "Can you give me a copy of the manual?" ”
He asked Joel back.
"I'll write now," Joel jumped out of bed, "I'll write a few more for backup." ”
"One copy is fine, I can use 'copy into two', and I can keep the manual for a day."
Joel froze for a second, and the quill dipped in ink to write all the rules in his mind on the parchment.
The parchment paper bought by the original owner of the body was very cheap, the color of the paper was darker than ordinary parchment, and there were some spots on it, and the quill pen felt very rough when writing on it.
He tried to keep the rules as simple as possible, after all, Hogwarts students had never been exposed to the game of Landlord Fight before.
The skills of planning in his previous life were displayed at a glance, but in just ten minutes, he handed over the written rules to Sergei.
"Copy in pairs." Sergei muttered, wand lightly tapping on the parchment.
An identical piece of parchment appeared on the table, a copy spell that turned mana into a replica with a limited duration, perfect for items that didn't need to be held for a long time, such as the gameplay manual.
Joel raised an eyebrow, thinking that this kid was really talented.
Over the next two days, Eddie wandered around the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff common rooms with dozens of decks of playing cards made by Sergei (along with instructions for new gameplay).
The students of both houses were very welcoming to Eddie, and many of the young wizards were from the Muggle world and had some prior knowledge of playing cards, and they were interested in the new ways to play with Eddie.
With the cooperation of Eddie and the Weasley twins, who were willing to demonstrate, the young wizards of Gryffindor purchased a lot of poker.
Eddie thanked the Weasley brothers by giving them two playing cards after the sale.
Playing card sales were growing rapidly, and soon Friday was coming, and today they only needed one lesson – Potions with Hufflepuff.
Professor Snape walked into the basement classroom with a vigorous stride, and then slammed the door shut, the taxidermy around the classroom revealing a cold and eerie atmosphere.
"I'm going to call you by name in every class, if you don't want me to lock you up and clean up the dead animals...... It's best to be honest and come to class on time. Snape's voice was deep.
He was dressed in black as in the original book, with black hair and black eyes, and there was no trace of emotion in his eyes, which was obviously the appearance of the brain occlusion technique practiced to the extreme.
The classroom was silent, and the children were frightened by Snape's words.
Snape continued, "Potions is the most difficult art of all, and the white smoke of the cauldron, the fragrance of potions lingering in the nose, and the gurgling sound of boiling potions are so fascinating......"
"As a professor, I will teach you the content of the textbook, but this is far from enough for Potions, a lot of knowledge and tricks are not written in the book, you need to think hard and do more on your own, in order to appreciate the mystery and fun of potions."
"Of course, the premise is that you have to have a bright brain, I've taught quite a few students before, and their brains are just like trolls - except that their heads are much smaller."
With that, Professor Snape began his first lesson.
"Scabies potions, I think the textbooks have written in quite detail," Professor Snape told them to make potions in the first class, "porcupine spines, snake fangs, horned slugs...... There are stocks in the cabinets in front of the classroom, what are you waiting for, why don't you hurry up? ”
Everyone rushed forward, and Joel memorized the grams of ingredients needed for the scabies potion, and slowly stepped forward to weigh the ingredients and returned to his seat.
After weighing it again with the second-hand balance he had brought with him, and after confirming that the gram count was accurate, he began to try it out.
The snake's fangs are crushed into pieces with a silver knife, and then the horns on the horned slugs are cut off.
The process was extremely difficult, and Joel had never actually seen a slug, and was resistant to such a greasy species.
Disgusted to disgusted, in the spirit of completing the task without Snape judging him negatively, he honestly cut off the horns of the five slugs.
According to the textbook practice, the next step should be to erect the crucible and start ignition, and Joel made a mistake in this step.
The textbook "Magic Potions and Potions" also has instructions on how to light a fire: poke the wand into the space between the cauldron and the base, and then gently tap the pot upwards, and the magic will automatically guide the spark to complete the ignition.
He followed the instructions and stabbed his wand into the cauldron, then stabbed it.
Sporadic sparks erupted from the base of the crucible, faint flames slowly emerged, and Joel measured the temperature of the water little by little.
When he poured the first potion material into the cauldron, Alan on the side had already begun to skillfully stir the cauldron, and a fragrance had already emitted it, and it seemed that he had completed a small step.
The temperature of the flames he created was really low, and at this pace, he might not be able to complete the pot of potions by the end of class.
"Alan, can you help me turn the fire up a little bit?" While Professor Snape was wandering around with his hands behind his back, Joel hurriedly asked Alan for help, "I'll have to grind the snake's teeth to some more pieces." ”
Alan nodded, took out his wand and stabbed Joel's cauldron twice, his eyes kept staring at the crucible in front of him, and the white smoke from the potion almost buried his face in it.
The flames began to burn at the base of the old crucible, giving Joel a hint of warmth in the clammy underground classroom.