Chapter 181 After-Class Conversation

Three days after the second project, it is Friday, February 27th.

On this day, Snape entered the next potion in this semester's teaching content in Potions class-the intelligence enhancer.

He has already finished teaching the basic antidote science, and the more profound antidote science is the scope of the advanced classes after the sixth grade.

By the way, in the last class before Christmas, Snape really did what he said and chose a student to poison.

To Schelling's surprise, Snape chose Harry as the target of his poison. But to Schelling's surprise, the poison Snape chose was actually a "gender transfiguration potion", which was a potion that could cause the effects of male to female and female to male. The effect of the drug lasted for two hours.

Ah this!

If Harry's antidote doesn't work, won't he become "Harry"? Snape is going to...

I couldn't tell that Snape had such dark and dirty thoughts deep in his heart... Xie Lin secretly told the evil story.

Fortunately, with the secret help of Hermione, Harry managed to make a fully effective antidote and drank it. When Harry drank Snape's poison in full view of the public, he did not appear to have any abnormality other than a loud burp.

Schelling was almost certain that at that moment, a fleeting flash of disappointment flashed across Snape's eyes.

Let’s get back to this lesson.

The intelligence enhancer is a medium-difficulty drug. Its effect is not to increase a person's IQ, but to make a person's thinking process clearer. Therefore, it is also used as an antidote for people who have been hit by a confusion spell or drank a confusion potion.

The normal process of refining medicine is to first put ginger slices into a solvent to make the medicine turn green, then add anteater bile until it turns blue, and then add scarab beetle powder until it turns blue. The potion turns red. The same steps need to be repeated many times. Each time it is repeated, the amount of raw materials must be increased by 20% until the potion is truly formed.

The real difficulty is that if the little wizards are not concentrated enough, they can easily forget how many cycles they have repeated, and thus they will not be able to deduce how many times the weight of the raw materials in this cycle should be compared to the first time.

For Schelling, who had once refined Bafe's brain-boosting potion, the difficulty of the brain-boosting potion was actually just that.

He used both hands together, one hand constantly stirring the potion, and the other hand using the summoning spell to control three different raw materials to jump into the crucible one by one. After three cycles (the total number of cycles and the pharmacist's own (depending on proficiency), his potion was almost ready. He added a small piece of moonstone the size of his knuckle, and the potion suddenly emitted a faint milky white halo and a strange fragrance. , immediately attracted the attention of the whole class.

Snape's bat-like figure quickly and strode to Xie Lin's desk. He looked at the potion made by Xie Lin, pursed his lips tightly and said nothing. At least five minutes later, Snape seemed to be suppressing his voice and said in a low tone: "The moonstone is good. Did you come up with it yourself?"

Xie Lin nodded, "Yes, Professor. Because I am interested in potions, I once looked through the NEWT level potions textbook, and I found that the Draught of Peace was taught in the fifth grade class. The use of this raw material shows that it can help achieve the effect of meditation and peace of mind - we all know that fluctuating emotions are not conducive to thinking, so I think we can try to add this effect of moonstone. "In intelligence enhancer."

Then he lowered his body, suddenly approached Xie Lin, looked at him levelly and said, "Stay after class. I have something to tell you."

Then Snape straightened up and shouted loudly: "Five points for Slytherin. Malfoy has made a perfect intelligence enhancer. The last moonstone is a miracle. In comparison, let's look at Wave." Really? Have you messed up again, Potter?" He continued to laugh at Harry.

Harry had indeed forgotten which cycle he was in. At this moment, he had given up on himself and resigned himself to randomly guessing the amount of raw materials added in this cycle. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the potion to emit a foul smell and turn into a black and viscous liquid. . Poisonous or not, even stupid people like Goyle and Crabbe wouldn't put it in their mouths just because of its appearance.

There's nothing else particularly noteworthy about the rest of the lesson - unless one wants to know how Neville burned his eighth cauldron (Shelling: Well, that's an average of two per year) , how Seamus Feigani accidentally caused the 24th explosion since he entered the school, how Hermione made a qualified potion but was ignored by Snape, and how Ron was laughed at for making a potion that could The disgusting medicine that poisoned people into the school hospital...

After class, everyone left the Potions classroom as usual.

Sherrin and Snape were the only two people left in the classroom.

Although Snape was usually used to having a cold face, at this moment his face was even more gloomy, as depressing as the clouds before a rainstorm. He looked back and forth at Xie with sinister eyes like an eagle. Forest.

After a while, his cold voice sounded faintly: "Did you do it?"

A conversation between a smart person and a smart person never requires more words. Schelling understood such a meaningless sentence in one go.

"Yes, Professor." Xie Ling put away the cynical smile that usually hung on his face, and became serious for a rare time. He stared at Snape's eyes as deep as a pool of water, and their sights crossed in mid-air. The temperature of the underground classroom suddenly dropped, and the air seemed to be frozen at this moment. If there were others here at this moment, I'm afraid he would even have a hard time breathing.

After a while, Xie Ling's mouth corners slightly raised, and he looked at Snape with lightning in his eyes, and whispered: "Professor, will you expose me to Dumbledore?"

Snape avoided answering, but looked away, looked elsewhere, and said coldly: "You have learned the brain block technique well."

"How can this little achievement compare to you, professor?" Xie Ling smiled, he had understood Snape's meaning, "Professor, you kept me here, didn't you just ask me such a question?"

"Dumbledore is suspicious of you." Snape said coldly He said: "Although we cannot rule out that these students had an accident in the Forbidden Forest or Hogsmeade, you are still the most suspicious. Among the many students, only you have the ability and motivation."

"So what? Professor--" Sherin said playfully: "I think you know that the man has returned, right? Didn't the Dark Mark tell you?"

Snape frowned, but did not show any surprise. In his opinion, it was normal for Sherin, who had a powerful family background and connections, to know that he had been a Death Eater. As for knowing that the Dark Mark was changing, he secretly guessed that it was revealed by Lucius. The problem is, what is the relationship between the changes in the Dark Mark and these missing students, he can't figure it out.

Seeing that Snape was silent, obviously waiting for him to continue, Xie Ling said, "Professor, you studied in Slytherin, and now you are the dean of Slytherin. Don't you know the Ghost Club?"

"You mean..."

"These missing students are all members of the Ghost Club. You should know that the Ghost Club is actually a quasi-Death Eater in a sense. They tried to recruit me but failed, and then attacked me at the bottom of the Black Lake, but I took care of them all. Otherwise--" Xie Ling sneered, "How do you think Potter got back to the shore before me?"

"I see..." Snape frowned even deeper, "What are you going to do?"

"Dumbledore can't do anything to me. Voldemort is his biggest concern. The importance of these students in his eyes is probably not even comparable to a finger of Potter. As for his Legilimency, Professor, you just saw it yourself. Do you think he can break my mental defense?" Xie Ling said calmly, but his tone was full of unquestionable confidence.

"Even if there is no problem with Dumbledore," Snape whispered, "those pure-blood families and the Ministry of Magic will not give up easily...the missing ones are their precious elite children, and among them, Fry is even the designated heir of the family. The Ministry of Magic also needs to give an explanation to the public..."

"Don't worry, Professor." Xie Lin smiled, "As long as you don't say it and I don't say it, how can they suspect me? With Dumbledore's character, it is even more impossible for him to expose me for a mere suspicion. Professor--"

Xellin's eyes suddenly became very sharp, "I just need you to do me this favor, you just need to pretend that you know nothing. I will find a way to investigate the Ministry of Magic myself."

Snape looked at Xie Lin meaningfully, and he suddenly understood where Xie Lin's confidence came from-he has his people in the Ministry of Magic! And he probably has his people among the two Aurors sent over!

After a long while, he uttered a soft "Yes." from his tightly closed lips.

(1) The calming effect and use of moonstone are official settings in the original novel and are a fifth-year course.

(2) Snape was a Death Eater and there was a record in the Wizengamot that he was a Death Eater. Dumbledore helped him clear his name by claiming that he was an undercover agent.