Chapter 22: Potions Lesson
Hermione became increasingly unhappy with Maple as she went to the library less and less. But what made her most angry was not that she had to go to the library alone without Maple by her side, but that she guessed what Maple was thinking. Maple was preparing for the weekend, and no matter how much she asked, Maple wouldn't speak.
"Sir, where can I get a broomstick?" Maple asked, finding Nick, who was almost headless.
"Isn't there a broomstick shed in the school?" Nick replied suspiciously.
"I'm a first-year freshman, so I'm not allowed to hold a broomstick. What I wanted to find was a way that wouldn't alarm teachers and students, you know, Jazz? Maple asked.
"Since the school doesn't allow it, then don't you do it?" Nick, who was almost headless, persuaded.
"This isn't a Muggle school, you haven't broken the rules a few times, what kind of wizard is it?" Maple snorted.
"Sir, do you want to cut off your head completely? I can help you! Seeing that Nick was unmoved, Maple directly came up with a killer idea. With Uncle Jiu's Maoshan technique, as long as he studies it in depth, or directly possesses the five-star card, Maple can immediately cut off Nick's head, and there are too many ways to deal with evil spirits and demons in Maoshan technique.
"Really!" Nick, who was almost headless, immediately said with a trembling eye.
"As long as you can help me find the room in the castle where the broom is hidden without alerting the professor, I will grant your request. But I'll tell you something, that magic is not yet mature, and it will take some time to perfect. Maple said.
"Is one year enough?" Nick, who was almost headless, said. Hearing this, Maple immediately thought about next year's Halloween, and Nick seemed to want to fulfill his wish before that important holiday.
"Absolutely enough, Sir!" Maple said.
"That's good." Then Nick leaned over to Maple and whispered, "I know there's a secret room where you should have what you need." ”
"It's on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle with a troll stick across from Barnabas's tapestry!"
With all that to spare, Maple wasn't just for the weekend hunt, but for the secret room itself.
There is a room for requirement, and you have it! Without revealing his prophet, in fact, Maple had long forgotten where the Room of Requirement was located.
"Thank you, Sir, I'll get your business done as soon as I can!" Maple thanked Nick.
Knowing the location of the Room of Requirement, Maple was ready to explore after the final lesson of the week.
"What lessons do we have today?"
"Two Potions lessons with the Slytherin students."
While eating in the dining room, Harry received a letter from Hagrid, inviting Harry to come down to him for tea, which Harry happily agreed and wrote back.
"Yo, Professor Snape, long time no see, have you missed me for the past two years?" Upon entering Snape's classroom, Maple greeted Snape familiarly. And then not only Gryffindor, but even the Slytherin students were godlike.
"Find a place to do it." And Snape unexpectedly did not choose to scold, which made the group of young wizards look suspicious.
Instead of immediately coming to his seat and taking a seat, Maple walked to the classroom storage room and rummaged through the old Potions textbooks.
Snape kept the Half-Blood Prince's Potions textbook in the storage room in order for the students to find it. It's just a pity that Snape underestimated his deterrent, who in his class is not an honest good baby. So it wasn't until the course changed professors that Harry unexpectedly got the high-level potions making of the half-blood prince he had deliberately left behind.
But the greedy Maple was obviously not satisfied with this book, he rummaged through it again, and sure enough, it was not only advanced potions making, but also elementary potions making, and it seemed that he had left all the potions textbooks from his school days here.
Maple stuffed all of them into his waistpack with the Traceless Stretching Charm, and then took the elementary Potions class in his hand before finding a seat to sit down.
Snape saw all of Maple's movements, showing a hint of surprise and a rare smile, if the twist of the corners of his mouth could be considered a laugh.
Seeing that there was an empty seat next to Hermione, Maple walked over and sat down.
"What are you doing?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Pick up a few treasures!" Maple said with a grin.
Potions class is held in an underground classroom. It's darker than the main castle building above. Glass jars are lined up along the walls, and the soaked taxidermy insides make you shiver.
In this environment, Snape's eerie Potions class atmosphere did not change in any way because of Maple's presence.
Snape, like Flitwick, picked up the roster as soon as class started, and, like Flitwick, stopped when Harry's name was called. It's just that compared to Professor Flitwick's excitement, Snape was mean and sarcastic—
"Oh yes, Harry Potter, it's our new arrival—the famous one."
He probably thought that James Potter's nasty face hanging on Lily's eyes was an insult to Lily's beautiful eyes! If only Lily's appearance was inherited, I'm afraid Snape would have liked to raise Harry like his own son!
It's just that God played a cruel joke on him and left him with only Lily's eyes, and the man he hated the most inherited something more from Lily's child.
So, in the struggle between love and hate, he guards Lily's eyes as if they were treasures, and then vents his frustration and anger at Potter's stinky skin in addition to these eyes.
After Snape's taunt, Draco Malfoy and his two henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle, laughed with their hands over their mouths. What are you laughing at, if you know that your life's lines are not much other than giggling, I don't know if you still laugh or not.
When Snape finished the roll call, he looked up at the class, his eyes as black as Hagrid's, but without Hagrid's warmth. His eyes are cold and hollow, reminding you of two tunnels in total darkness.
"You've come here to learn the exact science and rigor of this potion." He spoke, almost a little louder than a whisper, but everyone could hear every word he said. Like Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape has the deterrent power to keep the classroom in order effortlessly.
"Since there is no stupid waving of a wand here, many of you will not believe that it is magic. I don't expect you to really appreciate the beauty of the simmering cauldron of white smoke and wafting with the fragrance wafting out of it, you won't really understand the magic of the liquid that flows into people's veins, the magic of the heart and mind... I can teach you how to increase your prestige, brew glory, and even stop death—but one thing has to be, and that is that you are not the kind of fools and fools I often encounter. ”
After his short opening remarks, the class fell silent. Harry and Ron raised their eyebrows and exchanged glances. Hermione Granger almost moved to the edge of her chair and leaned forward, seemingly eager to prove that she wasn't a fool.
The show begins, and Maple has deep sympathy for Harry.
"Potter!" Snape suddenly said, "What do I get if I add daffodil root powder to wormwood infusion?"
What grass root powder is put into what solution? Harry glanced at Ron, who was just as stunned as he was; Hermione's arms were raised high into the air.
"I don't know, sir." Harry said.
Snape pursed his lips disdainfully.
"Tsk, tsk - it seems that fame doesn't mean everything."
In Victorian, Asphodel is a lily in the shape of a narcissus, and its flower language is "My remorse follows you to the grave"; And Wormwood is "bitter grief", and Lily Potter's death is a bitter grief and desperate remorse that he will never recover.
After vaguely expressing his thoughts and remorse for Lily, and then sarcastic and mocking of Potter, who made Harry a combination of Lily and James?
Snape, bullying Jaime in the face as much as you want, is it cool?
"Let's try again. Potter, if I asked you to find me a piece of bezoar, where would you find it?" Hermione tried to keep her hands high without leaving her seat, but Harry had no idea what a bezoar was. He tried not to look at Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, and the three of them trembled with laughter.
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't think you opened a book before school started, did you, Potter?"
Harry forced himself to stare straight into his cold eyes. He did turn over all the books when he was at Dursley, but could Snape ask him to memorize all the contents of A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms? Snape still ignored Hermione's trembling arm.
"Potter, what is the difference between scapular aconitum and wolf venom aconitum then?" At this point, Hermione stood up, her hand reaching straight for the ceiling of the basement classroom.
"I don't know," Harry whispered, "but I suppose Hermione knows the answer, so why don't you ask her?" A few students burst out laughing. Harry met Seamus's gaze, and Seamus winked at him. Snape, of course, was upset.
"Sit down," he yelled at Hermione, "let me tell you, Potter, Narcissus Root Powder, and Wormwood together make a very potent sleeping pill, a dose of life and death water. The bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a cow and has a strong detoxifying effect. As for Aconitum scaphoida and Aconitum lupus, they are the same plant, also collectively referred to as Aconitum sinensis. Do you understand? Why don't you write it all down?"
While the rest of Gryffindor looked at Harry sympathetically, Maple stared straight at Snape with interest, noticing that when Snape looked at Harry, his eyes were focused on Harry's eyes most of the time.
He was probably too obsessed with Lily's eyes, and it was almost at the end of the first bullying process that he finally discovered this annoying gaze.
So Harry lay down again, and in the rustle of fumbling with quills and parchment, Snape said, "Potter, Gryffindor will be deducted ten points for your confrontation with the teacher." ”
Harry was only deducted one point, presumably for Lily's sake, and Harry made him see Lily's eyes again. It's just that on this plane, after noticing Maple's scrutinizing gaze, Snape felt offended and directly deducted Harry by ten points.
Potions classes continued, but the situation for the Gryffindor students did not improve. Snape divided them into pairs and instructed them to mix a simple potion for scabies.
Maple looked through the textbooks and found that the Potions textbooks for the lower grades hadn't been changed much, and there weren't as many spells as the Potions Maker for the Advanced.
"Pay attention to the order of addition, as well as the thorough crushing, and the powder that has been loaded once should be thoroughly cleaned, once it is mixed with other powders, even if there is only a trace, it will affect the efficacy of the medicine." After Maple's prophetic mention of a little detail, Hermione, who was already a top student, immediately made the most perfect potion.
Maple's potion is slightly worse than Hermione's, and it seems that the girls are still more careful than the boys. But Snape turned a blind eye to Hermione's perfect potion and complimented Maple's potion a little-
"Yes, Slytheringa ten!"
"Hey, Professor, you're mistaken, I'm a Gryffindor student!"
"You were already my disciple before you entered the school, Maple!" Snape said stiffly.
Then he dragged his long black cloak and turned away, and then praised Malfoy's potion, and added another ten points to Slytherin, which made the Gryffindor little lions angry, but in the face of Snape's obscenity, the Gryffindor little lions did not dare to tease his tiger whiskers.
That's when Neville finally had an accident and began his hellish career in Potions class. Luckily, Maple and Hermione were right behind him.
"Armor protection!"
"Clean it up!"
Maple cast the Iron Charm just in time to block the splashing potion. But the Maple Iron Armor Charm could only protect one person, and Neville was not injured at all, but several of his classmates around him were splashed with the potion. And because of the rebound of the Iron Armor Charm, more potions splashed on the ground than before.
It's just that no matter how bad the situation is, it will only burn their shoes, and at most burn their feet after burning their shoes, it's better than Neville having his whole body burned!
Ding, get a little Xueba value.
Hey, yes, it's a good feeling. It seems that in the future, he will have to sit closer to Neville, and deal with the disaster that Neville has to come out of every Potions class at any time, and the school tyrant will not be sent to the door in an uproar.
You're my baby, Neville!
Maple looked at Neville with shining eyes, and seeing Hermione's strange eyes beside her, Maple quickly withdrew her expression, I'm not gay, don't get me wrong!
"Back to normal!" Seeing that the one who had burned Seamus's pot crookedly, Maple cast the Recovery Charm again. It's just that the power of the spell is not strong enough, and it just barely restores the kan pot to the shape of the pot, and does not make the kan pot fully recover.
"Idiot!" Snape roared.
"I guess you put the porcupine thorns in without putting the pot off the fire, did you?" Neville sobbed and cried, apparently frightened.
"Gryffindor deduct ten more points!" Neville cried even harder.
"Back to normal!" Snape gave Seamus a little bit, and Seamus's pot miraculously returned to its original appearance when it was burned out. Maple smiled, Snape seemed to be deliberately demonstrating to himself, otherwise he wouldn't have been kind enough to fix the Greenffindor student's things.
"Maple, good handling, Slytherin plus twenty points!"
Sure enough, is that really good? Having earned so many points for Slytherin, shouldn't you keep a low profile in Potions class in the future? But my own academic dominance is also very important, what a dilemma! It's hard, I'm so hard!
"Potter, why didn't you tell him not to add porcupine thorns? Do you think he's going wrong and showing you? Gryffindor lost ten points again because of you. He then circled around Harry and Ron, who were right next to Neville, and Snape found another chance to deduct points from Gryffindor.
It was so unfair, and Harry was about to defend himself when Ron kicked him from behind the pot.
"Don't be nonsense," he whispered, "I've heard that Snape is particularly unreasonable. ”
After a while, the bell rang for the end of class. It's finally over, and Gryffindor has just been freed from hell. After Snape announced the end of class, Gryffindor collected things as quickly as he could, and then hurried to reincarnate and left the Potions classroom in the blink of an eye.