Chapter 6: Going to School (3)
Krieze didn't care about everything that was going on around him, including what Professor McGonagall was talking about, it was similar to a top student in an ordinary class, the top student had already taught everything on his own, but the teacher needed to take care of most of the students from the very beginning, so he didn't even raise his head, he was working on an article about the transformation of the Animagus, and it was amazing that the author of the article was Minerva McGonagall.
"Mr. Wicks, it's not a good habit to listen to my lectures, Transfiguration is a very esoteric subject." Professor McGonagall was a little angry at this point, as if she thought Kritz was a little arrogant: "In this lesson, we are going to turn matches into silver needles. As he spoke, he placed a match in front of Kritz.
When Kritz saw the match handed over, he felt that he had to show his hand, and after thinking about it, he took out his wand and touched it lightly, and the match turned into a silver fluid and then into a thin and long silver needle.
"Perfect Transfiguration, Gryffindor plus 5 points, can you get better? Mr. Wicks. Professor McGonagall was surprised, but she never hid her praise for good students.
Kritz listened to her words, and the wand was a little bit more, and the silver needle in front of him tumbled into a paper straw, and then into a tiny silver bead, and then turned him into a match, not that he didn't want to go on, but he couldn't.
"I'm sorry Professor, but my success rate of turning dead into living things isn't very high." Kritz said, this is not a lie, dead things into dead things, living things into living things, that is, human body transformation is relatively simple, but dead things into living things are a kind of texture that can give life meaning to objects, with Kritz's current magic is obviously incomplete.
"It's already great kid, Gryffindor plus five points."
In the whole transfiguration class, except for Kritz who got ten points, Hermione also got two points for turning the match's appearance into silver, and there were no other points.
Then they went to Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, and Professor Flitwick gave Creez a good sense, but Quirrell was terrible, and the smell of garlic was hard for him to accept.
"Hey our good brother."
"We have to remind you that your next class is Potions."
As soon as they arrived in the auditorium, the twins gathered around, one on the left and one on the right, two tall and one short, which was a little funny anyway. Kritz didn't speak but quickened his pace, he didn't want to have much to do with these two people, mainly because of yesterday's events, their nonchalant look made Kritz hate it.
"We want to apologize for what happened yesterday."
"Yes, yesterday we were filled with the smell of mischievousness."
"But we have repented last night and reflected on ourselves."
"We sincerely ask for your forgiveness."
These two living treasures, if they don't look like they are hippie and smiling, Kritz may forgive them, but, well, these two are pure living treasures.
The Potions classroom was in the basement, and the professor was Severus Snape, who was actually curious as to why Snape chose such a place to refine potions, if it was because he had been in Azkaban before and was used to this feeling. Anyway, the surroundings made Kritz feel comfortable.
The door slammed shut, and Snape flew in like an old bat, and as soon as he came on stage, he began to call Harry, pausing like Flitvier and whispering, "Yes, Harry Potter, this is our new name." ”
"You've come here to learn the exact science and rigorous craftsmanship of the subject of potions." He continued, his cold, godless eyes scanning his surroundings and speaking in a voice more serious than Professor McGonagall's, "Since there is no stupid wand-waving 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 with white smoke and bursts of fragrance. I can teach you to increase prestige, brew honor, and even stop death..."
Kritz is a little interested in Potions, because there is no flow of magic in the production process that has no rules at all, so Kritz is a novice in Potions, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything.
"Ah, it seems that fame doesn't mean everything, right? Mr. Potter. ”
Snape began the process of embarrassing Harry after his opening remarks, and it was clear that Harry did not know anything about these issues, how to make water of life and death, how to obtain dung stone, and aconite.
"Maybe Hermione knows, you can ask her." Harry didn't understand why he was the only one being questioned of all of them.
"Oh, sit down you silly girl, you don't need to raise your hand to answer questions here, Wicks, you answer them."
"Mercury root powder added to wormwood infusion will give you a powerful sleeping pill, which is the water of life and death. Dung stones can be found in the stomach of goats, and that is a good antidote. There is no difference between lupus venom and scaphoid aconitum aconitum and they are both aconitum. Kritz calmly answered the question, for this kind of rote memorization, there is nothing else in prison except reading books over and over again.
"Why don't you all write it down, do you all know it?" Snape flung his robe back to the podium, "Gryffindor will be deducted a point because of Mr. Potter's confrontation with the teacher, and then because of Mr. Wicks's perfect answer, S... Gryffindor plus one point. ”
The whole class was spent in an inexplicable atmosphere, because Snape was like a ghost, wandering around the students without the slightest sound, and once anyone misconfigured, they would inevitably have a face of venom, and this class was to make a potion that could cure boils, but I don't know why Neville burned the crucible of Seamu, who was in his group, into a crooked piece, and the potion flowed to the ground, which Kritz didn't want to care, but it all flowed under his feet, no matter how bad it was, so he took out his wand and used it for a freezing charm, well, Freeze all the potions, and then go back to your work.
All the Gryffindor students walked out of the Potions classroom with a bitter look on their faces, because of Neville's mistake, Snape sprayed Gryffindor with venom in the face, and even found a reason to deduct another point from Harry, and of course added another point to Kriez, but it wasn't just that, but it wasn't the only one that made them uncomfortable.
They had developed a tendency after hearing that one of Kritz's parents had died in Azkaban, an isolated act of cold violence, manifested in the fact that they were reluctant to approach him and talk to him except for the twins and Hermione, but were slapped in the face on the first day, and the man they isolated earned the house 12 points on the first day of school, which might have been higher if it weren't for the fact that Professor Flitwick didn't ask Krieze questions the whole time, or even what he was doing.