Chapter 347: New Speculation
"Could it be that there is not enough time?"
"Continuing to refine will only spoil the active ingredient in it, and this is already a finished product!" Snape hated to be questioned.
"Then why is it this color?" Lockhart asked, "Does that mean we're already partially right?"
"Well, I suddenly had an idea, maybe we thought the other way around in the first place, that unicorn blood without the power of the curse does not exist, but that there is a substance in the body of the pregnant female unicorn that can invalidate the curse!" said Snape, "As for the reason-"
"Yes, it must be so!" Hermione also became excited, "It must be because the unicorn fetus is not resistant to the curse in its mother's blood before it reaches maturity, so the pregnant female unicorn will secrete something to make sure that the newborn unicorn will not suffer from anything!"
"Sounds so much more reliable than 'unicorn blood without the curse'. Luo Ha nodded, "Then why is this magic stone still like this, is it because the blood is not enough, I will go and tie up the unicorn, take as much as you want, and even raise it to draw blood slowly!"
"Don't-" Hermione was a little anxious.
"It's useless, we can't figure out what the ingredients are working now...... Snape shook his head, "There should be two options, one is to remove the curse in it, and the other is to extract the curse suppression ingredient in it......"
"Can't you just concentrate the blood and reuse it?" Lockhart asked.
"Stupid ......," Snape said unceremoniously, "I can't figure out what ingredients work, and in the process of concentrating, you will bring both ingredients into the concentrate, and whether you can make a philosopher's stone or not will definitely be cursed." ”
"Oh...... yes, I'm so excited," Lockhart said. "Then you should quickly determine the active ingredient and then purify it!"
"You say it lightly. Do you know how much it takes to determine the active ingredient in a substance, and you think that the blood of a unicorn is a mixture of water and a curse ingredient plus a substance that inhibits the curse?" Snape chattered, "Do you know how long Dumbledore and Lemay determined the use of dragon blood for more than a dozen purposes and their corresponding active ingredients, how many wizards participated in the experiment, how many dragons were killed, and fortunately, the blood of a dragon is enough to be tested many times, otherwise there may not be a few dragons left in the world-"
"You don't have to say so much, you just say how long you can finish. Lockhart interrupted Snape's broken thoughts and gave Hermione a few more rubs on her shoulder. Hippie smiled and said, "If you work hard." ”
"Hmph...... My answer is no, in this case, I can't turn to the well-known alchemists, the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries is barely functioning, I can't hunt unicorns indiscriminately, and I can't care about the Dark Lord's surveillance sites for day and night experiments. Snape placed the Philosopher's Stone on the table and tapped it on it. "Under such harsh conditions, it would be impossible to conduct such a complex study. If you insist on it, it will take at least several years. And I'm sure Nicol Lemay didn't figure out what it was, otherwise he wouldn't have ruined the method of making the Philosopher's Stone. Because the discovery of this substance is no less than a great achievement of the Philosopher's Stone......"
"The war was over for a while," Hermione pouted, "and another idea, this substance in the body of a pregnant unicorn." Will it be distributed differently as the fetus grows, or even with different parts of the fetus - for example, a certain period of the fetus is the most important stage of development. At this time, the mother's body secretes the most ingredients to suppress the curse, and it can perfectly suppress the curse......"
"Then you'll need to raise a unicorn, get her pregnant, and have blood tests at every stage—"
"Listen to me, there's a possibility, we just took blood from the unicorn's body, but maybe as the blood vessels get closer to the fetus in the body, the ingredients that suppress the curse will increase......" Lockhart and Snape are friends and comrades-in-arms, and Hermione, as Lockhart's wife, seems to have gradually forgotten that Snape was once the professor she hated the most, and began to behave naturally. "There's a saying in the Muggle world that baby cord blood has a special function, and maybe a unicorn baby's cord blood will have something special - for example, the curse will be completely suppressed......"
Snape's mouth was slightly open, and although it was still a conjecture, he had also heard of the peculiarities of cord blood, and his intuition told him that Hermione's conjecture was getting closer and closer to the truth.
"Then I'll have to tie up that unicorn, and then...... Dig out the fetus?"
"No, can't you wait for her to be born......" Hermione turned her head and grabbed Lockhart's hand, looking at him with pleading eyes, as smart as she had noticed that her words were particularly good these two days.
"Well, listen to you. Lockhart pinched Hermione's face, "But I'll have to go back and talk to the horses first to make sure I can get the cord blood of the unicorn when it gives birth." ”
"What are you going to do to get them to tell you to go get blood when the unicorn is about to give birth?" Snape asked, glancing at him, "and you're really powerful." ”
"Hmph, as long as you give the condition of 'hard to refuse', there is nothing in the world that cannot be done. Lockhart smiled a little arrogantly, "I'll go now, or the horses will be in trouble if they hide the unicorn." ”
"What do you want to do, Gildero......" Hermione asked uneasily, "don't hurt them." ”
"As long as they don't know what to do, why should I bother them?" Lockhart gently brushed her hair, "You stay here for a while, take a look, I'll be right back, Severus, you don't go." ”
"Don't go. ”
"Hmm. Hermione nodded.
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Lockhart left Snape's office with the Cloak of Invisibility, theoretically speaking, after the control of magic power reached a certain point, wizards could use the illusion charm to have the same effect as the invisibility cloak, but no matter how strong the illusion charm was, it could be played by the human form, and the effect of the invisibility cloak could never be replaced.
After leaving the castle for a distance, he felt that there was no one around, so he simply activated his magic power and turned into a black light and shot towards the Forbidden Forest, although it looked like a villain and consumed a lot of mana, but it did fly extremely fast.
According to the memory, he quickly flew to the place where he had attacked the unicorn before, and saw a bunch of centaurs gathering in mid-air, as if discussing something, the unicorn should have been sent back to the lair.
This place is already far away from Hogwarts, he attracts the magic of heaven and earth within a distance of thousands of meters around him, and even the air is driven by him, and the wind and clouds change color with a huge aura, and he directly descends to the side of this pile of centaurs more than ten meters away. In such an arrogant way that even a Muggle should have seen a powerful wizard present, not to mention the magical creatures of the Forbidden Forest, all the centaurs nervously raised their bows and aimed them at him.
"Stranger, did you attack the unicorn couple!" a centaur led by him stepped out from among his companions and asked Lockhart in a loud voice, "We have already reduced our range of activities according to the regulations of the Ministry of Magic, why are we still struggling?
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――(To be continued......)