Chapter 144: The Dark Wizard's Successor and the Antidote to Wolf Poison
Snape has been in a very happy mood lately, which can be seen in the hourglass in the Great Hall, less than a week after the start of school, there are more than ten rubies in the Gryffindor hourglass! This is a very unbelievable thing, and Tosnep's blessing has had to wait at least until the end of the first week to break this number in previous years.
However, some of the careless lion cubs are not aware of this, and naturally they will not notice Snape's recent changes, and if someone reads Snape's mind at this moment with a super strong dementor, you will most likely hear him humming in a small tune.
Although as a professor of Potions, Snape has always wanted to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and although his attainments in charms are a little worse than in Potions, he still has a deep study of them, and he has studied such a powerful spell as Shadowless in school when he was a student, and he is also qualified to be a genius in charms.
Lockhart was expelled, and Dumbledore gave him an extra two days to give a lesson to students from years one to seventh, but Van Lockhart had such a real skill that he couldn't get a 98 percent bad rating for his course, and even his die-hard fans couldn't give his Lockhart Giegie a clear conscience O (excellent).
This guy didn't do anything about Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching, but instead did a test paper about his own interests and hobbies, which he did very seriously, with 54 questions, each of which was a test of the loyalty of his fans, and had nothing to do with Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Lockhart, who had lost face, had to leave Hogwarts with hundreds of brand-new autobiographical textbooks, and as for the cost of the books, he naturally had to pay out of his own pocket, and the compensation of Wangalleon squeezed out the last Nat in Lockhart's arms.
"Shouldn't it be the end of evil, Professor Dumbledore?"
In the Headmaster's office, Harry teased Fawkes and asked Dumbledore curiously, "Isn't it best that he stole those stories, expose him, and then bring him to ruin and imprison him in Azkaban?" ”
"Leave a little tail there, maybe he'll come back one day and stumble."
"yes, I know."
Dumbledore looked at Fawkes who was eating fragrantly on the side with some pain, and a wisp of blue flame was sucked into it in small bites, the Gublé Immortal Fire is not an ordinary flame, this is an eternal flame that can burn forever and will not be extinguished, which involves advanced alchemy, even Dumbledore himself is not easy to make, but at this moment Harry got Fawkes as a snack
The tragic image of the bird teasing me with my things made Dumbledore really not want to see more, but he couldn't help but watch it.
Dumbledore, who was inexplicably irritable, waved his hand, "Sometimes you don't have to be in such a hurry, if you finish everything at Hogwarts, it's hard to say what kind of things people who are cornered will do." ”
"I'll send him in when the time is right, after all, the stories he stole include the adventures of friends I know."
"That's amazing."
Sure enough, Dumbledore is not as bright and kind as he seems on the surface, but it has to be said that the old man is more thoughtful than the younger.
"Why are you so hostile to Lockhart?" Dumbledore asked suddenly.
"Isn't it to prevent this misguided waste from delaying the precious youth of the whole school, didn't I say it?" Harry looked at Dumbledore a little strangely, what kind of temptation was this?
"That's the only one?" Dumbledore asked with a smile.
"Okay, okay." Harry said a little helplessly, "I just don't like him, a little deflated person I have never heard of, and he still has the idea of rubbing my fame on the top, and if he is not trampled into the mud puddle, I can still be regarded as Professor Grindelwald's proud student?" ”
"I'm the future candidate to succeed Professor Grindelwald as a good Dark Wizard, Professor Dumbledore."
"You guy."
Dumbledore smiled helplessly, Gale really didn't see the wrong person, the little bastard in front of him was too similar to him, but what worried Dumbledore was that Gale had him, and who did Harry have?
If there is no restraint in this wantonness, which no one can control, it is really possible to cause a big mess.
But maybe I'll be dead by then. ’
Dumbledore thought silently to himself, 'Let him be, the child will always grow up.' ’
"Now that Lockhart has also been driven away, and the werewolf has also been arrested, I will make up for the missing classes in the past few days."
Dumbledore waved his hand, "Severus asked me to tell you to go find him when I get back." ”
"What's the matter with Godfather Snape looking for me?"
"I don't know."
An old man and a young man rolled their eyes at the same time, and at first glance there was quite a tacit understanding.
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Hogwarts basement level, Potions Office.
Severus Snape is most likely a cat faction, so when facing dogs, wolves, and other canines, his patience is always extremely limited, which is definitely not because of the unhappiness of watching Sirius and angering Lupin by the way, Snape and Lupin's relationship is okay, when Snape and Sirius were fighting, Lupin did not go to be a peacemaker.
After all, Jaime would only go up and pull the shelf, Peter wouldn't have time to run, and Lily would pack them all up and pack them up, and the only one left could do the job was Lupin.
When Harry first told him that he wanted to improve the wolf poison potion, Snape refused, although Harry was his godson, a good young man who treated him as his own son, but he couldn't just do it himself, in that case, where was his majesty as a godfather.
But on second thought, there were few people who had anything to do with him at the beginning, and for the sake of his former face, Snape reluctantly agreed to improve the wolf poison potion, which was not difficult for him, and in fact it was.
After paying all the price of taste, the wolf poison potion whose potential has been almost completely tapped is no longer the half-finished product that barely worked at the beginning, as long as it is drunk before the full moon, the werewolf will be able to maintain a clear sanity when the full moon comes, and the side effects that would have caused physical weakness have also been cut away, the original version of the wolf poison potion relied on weakening the body to suppress the beast nature and threat brought by the wolf, Snape felt that this idea was too bad.
The root cause of werewolfization is, to put it bluntly, that very special contagious werewolf curse is at work, so why not suppress the curse effect straightforwardly? Snape, who was a scholar of the dark arts, also had a knack for dealing with curses.
The werewolves in the Forbidden Forest were tied up from the woods by Snape, and after two months of careful research, Snape figured out the root of the curse, which was an evil human transfiguration similar to that of Animagus.
This curse drains the mana from the wizard's body and stores it, and when the full moon arrives, the switch is activated, and the werewolf curse enters a highly active state, and the forced human body transformation begins, forcing the wizard to transform into a half-human, half-wolf form.
But what made Snape puzzled was that if it was just a simple human transformation, the transformed wizard would not lose his mind because of the beast, and the transformation of the werewolf was more like the state of keeping the Animagus transformation for a long time and completely forgetting his human identity.
This does not conform to the basic laws of transfiguration, even if you are infected with the werewolf virus at birth, you will become a werewolf as soon as you are born with a full moon, and you will be transformed twelve times a year, and the duration of each time is mostly within six hours, and it is only seventy-two hours in a year, and it is only seven hundred and twenty hours in ten years.
Peter has been a mouse for ten years, and he has only become like a mouse, a little far from the stage where he lost his mind and forgot that he was a human and not a mouse.
"The only possibility is that." Snape got up in his armchair and wrote a line on the blackboard beside him, "Bloodcursed Orcs." ”
"The original birth of the werewolf curse is likely to be based on the improvement of the orc blood curse, or in other words, the guy who created the werewolf curse brutally printed the orc blood curse on the body of a guy who completely turned into a wolf, and spread it as a plague in the world."
"Interesting idea, after giving up the bloodline transmission, the werewolf curse does have a stronger spreadability than the blood curse, but unfortunately after the transformation, it can't cast spells, has no brains, and only relies on bloodthirsty instincts, there is no way to spread this plague on a large scale."
"This kind of curse with no beauty is really boring."
"Godfather, you mean to say. Can you get rid of the Werewolf Curse? ”
Harry, who looked surprised, almost didn't hold back his expression after understanding what had happened, was his godfather so awesome?
“6!”
Harry gave a thumbs up, and although Snape couldn't figure out what 6 meant, the look of adoration on Harry's face was still very useful to him.
"But don't be too happy, I'm not the first to discover all this, the wizard who invented the wolf poison potion actually noticed this, but his level is not enough to make a potion that directly suppresses the curse, so he can only start from weakening the body's strength and restoring human reason."
"There is almost no way that Lupin will turn back into a human, the werewolf curse has taken root in him, and if it is the early stage of infection, then there is still a little chance of saving."
Snape poured cold water on Harry, the werewolf curse is like cancer, if it is detected early, then there is a possibility of cure, but if it comes to an advanced stage, then it can only wait for a miracle to happen, Lupin has missed the best treatment period, although the werewolf curse will not kill, but it will still accompany him for life.
"All I can do is that after he drinks my wolf poison potion, he can maintain his human form at the full moon, pretend to be a normal person, and integrate into society."
"It's already remarkable, Godfather, and it's a miracle for them, isn't it?"
"Then you have to be able to afford it."
Although he was very useful in his heart, Snape was a pragmatic character, "My improved wolf poison potion is indeed very useful, but werewolves are almost all poor, and not a single gold galleon may be able to get it, not all werewolves can afford to drink this potion, even if it is only the cost, it is worth a month's salary of an ordinary employee of the Ministry of Magic." ”
"Fifty Galleons."
Snape opened his right hand and held it gently, as if grasping a miserable and bleak life, no one wanted to be werewolves, they were a group of poor people who were abandoned by social discrimination.
"It's a pity that most werewolves don't have the value of selling their bodies" Harry said with some pity, he is not a great virgin, if there is a use value, he doesn't mind making a deal with wolf poison potions to buy their lives, but werewolves have lost too much, and there are very few lucky ones like Lupin, most of the werewolves can't even use the simplest magic tricks, and they don't even have their own wands if they don't get a magical education.
"But whatever, at least Lupin can afford it, and the Defence Against the Dark Arts class has a salary of five hundred Galleons."
"You're good to him." There was a hint of vinegar in Snape's words, it was the first time he had seen Harry care about someone like this, and he had never even seen Lupin's face.
"He's a good friend of my mother, isn't he?" Harry smiled and fed Snape candy, "Mommy would be happy to know that Godfather had done such a great thing." ”
Snape was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly, and spoke in a very gentle voice: "Yes, Lily has always been a very gentle and considerate girl. ”
"Those werewolves gave them to me for study, and I don't want to use some special methods to test them in the Forbidden Forest, and no one cares if they die."
"And then we'll keep Lupin's identity secret?"
"Yes, as long as you drink the medicine on time, he is no different from a normal person, and no one will find out."
Harry also breathed a sigh of relief, if it weren't for Snape's current version of the wolf poison potion, he would still need to pave the way for Lupin a little more, after all, once his werewolf identity was revealed by someone who cares, his professor would not last long.
Lupin has been out of sight for more than a decade, but the worst still needs to be prepared.
"Then I wish you a medal of the Order of the Order of Merlin?"
Harry pulled out a bottle of spirits that made Snape's brows jump, his godson is good at everything, but the habit of pulling people to drink must be changed, and the 95-degree base of alcohol mixed with water is something that people can drink?
"Merlin?" Snape pursed his lips, revealing a hint of disdain, "The first-class medal is still a little collectible, and with this spare time, I might as well use this potion to add a star to my Potions Master certification." ”
"There's nothing to celebrate." Snape waved his hand and began to chase people, "I still have to prepare a substitute for Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Lupin doesn't know how to come to work early." ”
Looking at Snape, who had begun to prepare the courseware, Harry quietly pushed the door and left, but he muttered with some confusion: "How many Defence Against the Dark Arts classes do you still have to prepare the courseware?" ”
Quan Dang was his godfather a good teacher who was serious and responsible, and Harry strolled around the castle while drinking a small wine.
(End of chapter)