Chapter 165: Asking for the Formula
In this potions class, they learned how to make a shrinking potion, and although Maple had already learned how to make it through the notes given to him by Snape, he still made it as honestly as the other students in Snape's class.
Due to the time constraints of some of the potions, it took Maple half the time of the other students to make the potion.
It was cut in half, and the level of production far exceeded that of the students, but there was no praise or acknowledgement from Snape.
Snape only glanced at Maple for the entire lesson, and when he realized that he had lived up to his notes, he ignored them. And as usual, he went on his after-show in Potions class, mocking Harry and bullying Neville.
"Orange, Longbottom!" Because of a mistake in adding the rat's spleen and leech juice, the potion that was supposed to turn green turned orange.
"What am I going to say to make your elm head understand, Longbottom?
Maybe we should feed your pet toad a few drops of these potions and see what happens, so that might motivate you to make the potions right. ”
Under Snape's oppression, Neville was so frightened that he couldn't breathe.
"Can anyone help me!" The six gods of Neville asked for help.
Snape went a little too far, but with Hermione's help, Maple didn't have to do it herself.
Maple didn't help directly, but he did.
"Whisper!" This is a whispering little magic invented by Maple, and the magic is not very difficult, but no wizard has ever bothered to delve into these little magic.
With Maple's whispering magic, Hermione had no scruples about giving Neville instructions as she disguised her mouth opening and closing.
Towards the end of class, Snape had everyone gather around Neville's cauldron to experiment with Neville's pet on his potion.
Although Neville's potion had turned normal green under Hermione's correction, Neville's heart was still uncertain, and his face was terrified.
Snape grabbed Neville's toad, Lev, and Neville didn't dare to resist, and then Snape took the liquid from Neville's cauldron with a spoon and poured a few drops into Leavel's throat.
The Gryffindor students were all watching worriedly, while the Slytherin students were all as excited as if they were celebrating the holidays, and they all had a schadenfre到这里 smirk.
It's just that their smiles quickly froze, and they all showed disappointed expressions, because Riffford was not poisoned by his master's potion, but turned into a tadpole Reefer after a few trembles in Snape's hands.
The Gryffindor students cheered excitedly, but Snape's face darkened as he took a recovery potion of shrinkage potion from his body and turned Lyford from tadpole back to toad. Even though Snape didn't see Hermione help, he deducted points for Hermione -
"Gryffindor deducts five points, I told you not to help him, Miss Granger! Class is out now! ”
After class, Maple noticed again that Hermione, who had always been with Maple, seemed to be deliberately avoiding him. Maple didn't mind at all, he knew that Hermione was hiding the time-turner thing. It's just that the strangeness between them is misunderstood by Harry and Ron, and the two impure-minded little ones exchange an uneasy look with each other, and they seem to think that something unpleasant is going on between Maple and Hermione.
Maple walked over to Hermione, who had appeared at the bottom of the stairs at some point, and after a few words with her, the two separated, which further reinforced the misunderstanding between Harry and Ron.
The reason why Maple wasn't with Hermione or Harry Ron was because he was going to Snape's office. Even Hermione, who is very close to Maple now, is probably reluctant to go to this place with Maple.
"What are you doing here again?" Snape didn't seem to welcome Maple's arrival.
"I want to know the recipe for the Wolf Poison Elixir!" Maple told Snape that Damocles Marcus had invented the potion not long ago, for which he had been awarded the Order of the Merlin, Second Degree.
"What do you want this for?" Snape looked suspicious.
"I took in a bunch of werewolves in Tumbledown Alley." Maple simply recounted his encounter with the werewolf as a chance encounter to save Mary from Tumbledown Alley, not on purpose. Despite this, Snape was shocked by Maple's attempt to take in the werewolves.
Although there were some criticisms of Maple's behavior, Snape himself did not like or dislike the werewolves as a group.
All he hated was Lupin!
"Since you care so much about werewolves, then the potion of a certain werewolf in the school will also be prepared by you in the future!"
Maple didn't expect Snape to tell him the recipe and preparation method of the wolf poison potion without refusing, but he didn't expect Snape to give Lupin's wolf poison potion to Maple as well.
Probably under Dumbledore's watch, Snape had at best added some weakness to Lupin's wolf poison potion, and all he thought was that poisoning him would never be possible.
In the face of the former enemy, if you can't take revenge, you have to boil medicine for him personally. Rather than the trivial pleasure of adding ingredients to Lupin's potion, Snape wanted to put off the unpleasant errand of boiling potions for his enemies.
That may be a good thing for Lupin, but not for Maple.
Because Snape refused to provide him with potions materials for free, it also meant that Maple's burden increased a lot.
Although it was not a direct purchase of the finished Wolf Poison Potion, which allowed Maple to save some gold, the cost of the materials required for the Wolf Poison Potion's potion alone was a lot of money.
Besides, this potion is still going to be once a month, and Maple suddenly feels Alexander, it seems that the eight-eyed giant spider will also need to take care of it this semester, and I hope the basilisk activity last semester didn't scare them all away.
The configuration of the Wolf Poison Potion was somewhat complicated, and even with Snape's notes on improvements, Maple was not sure that he would be able to successfully concoct the potion in three or two attempts.
Maple struggled, but he couldn't get any sponsorship from Snape. However, after declining the sponsorship, Maple did not refuse when he asked Snape for advice on how to handle the ingredients for magical creatures.
From Snape, it was determined that Maple was right to use ingredients instead of a potion's ingredient to absorb the energy of the ingredients, but all of what he had made was useless, except for a blind cat that touched a dead mouse.
There are dozens of materials for a potion of magic, including main ingredients and auxiliary materials, and the main materials may be able to use most of the magical properties, but the auxiliary materials may only use one of the medicinal properties, or they may not be retained at all.
Adding it to a potion may only neutralize the toxicity or impurities of other materials!
Although he was a little unhappy with Snape's stinginess, after getting a few recipes from Snape, Maple was in a good mood when he left Snape's office.
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