Chapter 28: Potions Class
"Roque Anderson! If I asked you for help finding a piece of dungstone, where would you go to find it? ”
Roque was a little helpless, he didn't expect that he would be the lucky one.
"In the goat's stomach, Professor."
Snape nodded, then looked back at the young wizards around him.
Feeling Snape's cold gaze, the little Ravenclaw wizard on the side immediately picked up the pen and began to memorize, and the Hufflepuff badger immediately followed suit.
But Snape didn't stop asking:
"If I'm going to make an uplifting potion, what are the main ingredients I need to buy?"
"Hoklap juice and white fresh leaves, Professor."
Snape was slightly surprised, but continued to ask:
"What are the seven ways to make potions?"
"Decoctions, brews, macerations, ointments, dressings, tinctures, lotions. From page 7 of Magic Potions and Potions. Professor. ”
These questions are not difficult, they are all first-grade knowledge, and there is nothing super-curricular.
Snape smiled lightly, he didn't expect that this little wizard seemed to have a little talent for more than just charms.
He immediately jumped over the difficulty and vowed to make a disgrace in the Potions class: "If I'm going to make a polyjuice potion, then how do I do it?" ”
Hermione's eyes widened suddenly.
She began to rejoice that she had learned a little bit about it after Roque mentioned it.
The teacher really asks questions! She guessed it!
Snape had already closed his eyes and began to look forward to the other person and asked, "Professor, what is a polyjuice potion?" ”
But no.
Roque answered the question flatly.
"The raw materials needed include lacewings, leeches, weeds, amphoras, powdered bicornus horns, and fragments of African tree snakeskin. To make it, add three parts of liquid grass picked at the time of the full moon to the crucible......"
Snape was stunned, he didn't expect Roark to answer the question.
Then he remembered what Dean Flitwick had said in the common room, who said that Roque had taught himself all the standard spells from grades one to seven, and had mastered the silent spellcasting without a wand.
It's ridiculous, you just say he can graduate early.
Snape continued to ask, "What are the properties of the main ingredient of the Elixir, the acacia flower?" ”
"Acacia flowers like warm, moist and sunny environments, with a slight fragrance and a light taste. It also has a calming effect, mainly for the treatment of depression, chest tightness, insomnia, forgetfulness, eye diseases, neurasthenia and other effects. ”
All right! Snape was now a little bit more convinced.
"How many portions of Spotted Mango do you need to add to the Fox Seed Exterminator?"
"Five, Professor."
"How many copies of vanilla skins do you need for an invisibility potion?"
"You don't need a single one, just the Stealth Potion, the parachute jumping bacillus, the trollwigs, and the troll's snot, Professor."
……
The students on one side couldn't keep up with Snape and Roque's questions and answers, and the pen in their hands was about to smoke!
You two talk slow!
In the cold Potions Room, Snape felt a little hot as the questions and answers continued.
The other party deliberately added a sentence of "professor" at the end of each time, which looked very well-behaved, but that bland expression made him extremely uncomfortable, as if he didn't understand and came to ask him.
"One last question, Anderson!"
"What's the recipe for the Elixir?" Snape felt a little embarrassed.
"Fireash snake eggshells, horseradish, onion bulbs, anemone stems, motra rat bile, thyme tincture. Professor. ”
Roque answered the question plainly and respectfully.
Ok, good, good!
Snape was speechless.
He could only wave his robe and "snort" heavily, then turned back to the podium.
The Hufflepuff badgers on the side looked stupid, answering so many questions, and my hands were sour, and they didn't add points?
If this were to be left to our dean, the first question would have been added by five points.
Snape also seemed a little nervous, so he had to slowly say under the gaze of the little wizards, "Ravenclaw plus a point." ”
"The Potions class is still more hands-on and practical, but knowing that theory is not enough!"
Snape's eyes gradually sharpened, "I'm going to teach you a simple potion for scabies." ”
"I don't want anyone to do anything stupid along the way."
Snape looked around at the group, only this time his gaze deliberately skipped over Roque.
Then Snape began to talk calmly about the process and precautions.
And the little wizards were disappointed, weren't they? Our feelings for the bunch of compound decoctions, joy potions, and elixirs we just now have all been remembered in vain.
Although there are quite complaints, the little wizards actually like to practice in their hearts, at least better than the smoke of the pen just written.
crucibles, balances, mixing bars...... Arrange them according to what the professor said.
Aside from the virtues, there is indeed no problem with Snape's strength and potions.
A simple scabies treatment potion, the points that should be paid attention to have been basically mentioned in advance, and the actual operation of the potion is not difficult, as long as you follow the steps told by the professor.
The only thing worth noting is that potions are also a type of magic, and only wizards can make potions, and Muggles don't have any magic even if they follow the script.
Conversely, potions made by powerful wizards sometimes work better.
So every Potions Master, like Snape or Slughorn, is very good in their own right.
In the original book, the demolitionist Simo often makes explosions when he is in the crucible because of his unstable magic.
Roque, on the other hand, has his own unique magic power in potion practice, and naturally has no reason to fail.
……
After class, Snape floated away quietly like a big bat.
The students also walked to the auditorium together.
"Oh my God! It was so tiring to take his class, I felt like I couldn't breathe when I was around him. Michael had to see Snape walk away before he dared to gasp for air.
"Roque, you're so good, you can answer all the tricky questions. But Professor Snape is really ......" Hermione also expressed her opinion indignantly, she didn't expect Roark to answer so many questions, and Snape actually added so many points.
Walking to the auditorium, several people were still talking around Roque, when suddenly two red-haired boys hugged each other, they looked exactly the same, Weasley twins.
"Hey! We just heard that a handsome little wizard had broken the face of that big bat in Potions class! ”
They leaned against Roque on the left and right, and immediately began to introduce themselves:
"I'm George, and his name is Freddie."
Not a George, a Peppa?
"Hello, I'm Roque." Roque crossed his hands and shook hands with Weasleys on his left and right, "I've heard Harry and Ron mention it before. ”
George naturally knows Roque as well, to be precise, many people know Roque now.
However, with Ron's relationship, George and Roque are still closer.
"In return for the big bat's face, we decided to tell you a secret message." George whispered mysteriously.