Chapter 10: Potions Talent

"Why, are you surprised that your father is still alive?"

Looking at Lu Yunkai's complicated expression, Snape could understand what Lu Yunkai was thinking even without using magic.

"He pretended to be dead and left me to his brother..."

"That's not his brother, just an ordinary Muggle." Snape shook his head, "He modified the Muggle's memory a little, and then handed you over to him."

"..."

Lu Yunkai didn't know what to say for a while.

In his vague memory, he had infinite affection for the gentleman old man, but now... Lu Yunkai felt abandoned.

"Without the guardian's permission, the letter you wrote cannot allow you to enroll in Hogwarts." Snape continued to explain.

"But……"

"You will have Potions class tomorrow." Snape interrupted Lu Yunkai, "I will tell you about your adoptive father during class, so that no one will doubt whether you are worthy of Slytherin. Academy. But I hope you also understand that if you resist from the bottom of your heart, you'd better get out of Slytherin."

"Of course not." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "As long as Malfoy and the others don't cause trouble for me, I will definitely not have trouble with them."

"Well, that's good." Snape nodded, "I'm looking forward to your performance in Potions class tomorrow. Your adoptive father was once my Potions teacher."

"This...I will work hard."

Lu Yunkai was confused when he walked out of Snape's room.

What Snape said to him just now caused him to have a huge resistance from the inside out, and Lu Yunkai understood that that resistance came from the original owner of this body.

For the current Lu Yunkai, this is a huge happy event that fell from the sky, but for the previous Lu Yunkai, he may not be able to accept emotionally that his adoptive father is still alive and was once the dean of Slytherin.

"Meow, what did that dead face tell you?"

At this time, Chris jumped on Lu Yunkai's shoulder and asked.

"Professor Snape told me that my adoptive father was once the Head of Slytherin House."

"Isn't your adoptive father a Muggle?"

"Not only is he not a Muggle, he is still alive, and he even wrote to Professor Snape asking him to take care of me."

"Meow?" Chris was obviously a little surprised, "Then why did he send you to that scumbag?"

"How do I know!" Lu Yunkai sighed, "Forget it. I'll go back and rest first. You can call me at night when no one is around."

"Meow? Aren't you no longer in a hurry to find identification? Why do you still need to go to the Room of Requirement?"

"How curious! Aren't you curious about why the Room of Requirement can grant some requests but not others?"

"Meow, I'm curious." Chris nodded, "Then you go and rest!"

"Um."

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"Put away your wands! You won't have any use for them here. I don't expect you to truly understand the beauty of the slow-simmering cauldron with its white smoke and fragrance. The fluid in your veins, the miraculous magic that makes your mind wander and blur your will... I can teach you how to confuse your mind, confuse your senses, win fame, brew glory, and even prevent death, but there must be one thing, that is, you are not me. Just the kind of idiots you often encounter.”

The next morning, the Potions classroom.

Like a huge black owl, Professor Snape walked into the classroom.

His eyes swept over the anxious and excited faces of the thirty or so first-year students present.

He paused briefly on the faces of two of them. One is Harry Potter, and the other is Lu Yunkai, who is sitting alone in the back row.

His unique deep voice said words full of bewitching meaning, which made the whole classroom feel suppressed and agitated.

Malfoy, with his slicked-back hair, even looked at the attendant beside him excitedly.

"I know that some of you came to Hogwarts with some fame, so that you didn't take anything I said seriously. For example..." Snape took a few steps and came. Arriving in front of Harry, "Harry Potter, our new celebrity."

The atmosphere in the classroom suddenly became tense.

Does Snape have a grudge against Harry? This sounds like a mockery!

Looking at what was happening in front of him from a distance, Lu Yunkai frowned slightly in the last row.

"Tell me, what would I get if I added narcissus root powder to an infusion of wormwood?" asked Snape.

"..." Harry opened his mouth, unable to answer.

Hermione, who was sitting next to him, suddenly raised her hand.

Only Snape couldn't see her.

"If I asked you to find me a piece of bezoar, where would you look for it?" Snape asked the second question.

Harry still didn't answer.

"What is the difference between Aconitum scaphoides and Aconitum wolfsbane?" Snape asked again.

"...I'm sorry, Professor, I don't know." Harry replied quietly.

"Unfortunately, fame and ability are sometimes not equal." Snape still had a dead expression on his face. He seemed completely unable to see the tall Hermione holding her hand next to him. He glanced around the room again, "We It’s better for famous Harry Potter celebrities to learn from others and not always try to rely on their fame to swindle.”

"I didn't!" Harry argued angrily.

"No?" Snape glanced at Lu Yunkai, and then continued to stare at Harry, "One of our Slytherin students has a very remarkable father, but he has never told anyone about it... I'm not talking about you, Draco."

As he said that, he glared at the self-righteous Malfoy.

The scene was a little awkward for a while.

"Compared to the famous Harry who knows nothing, he got the talent for Transfiguration from his father, and successfully turned the key into a teacup in the first Transfiguration class... Well, I believe that he will definitely make achievements in potions, because his father was my potions teacher and the former dean of Slytherin. Lu Yunkai!!"

"Yes!" Lu Yunkai, who was embarrassed, was suddenly called out and startled.

"Don't let your father be ashamed of you. Prove that our Slytherin students are not relying on false reputations to cheat."

"...Yes." Lu Yunkai glanced at Harry awkwardly.

I said, Snape, are you sick! ! What are you doing? Although Harry and I are not from the same college, we are still friends, okay? How can I associate with him after you do this? ?

You are too much, aren't you?

Although he had a lot of complaints in his heart, he couldn't say it in front of Snape, who was like the god of death.

"Open the book to page 37." Snape returned to his seat on the podium coldly and sat down, glancing at the students present, "Scabies treatment potion. This is your teaching content today. Look carefully at the operation steps in the book. Okay, let's get started."

The sound of flipping books rang out in the classroom, and no one dared to speak.

Dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, and steamed slugs with tentacles, boil together for half an hour, then remove from the heat and add porcupine quills.

The production method is very clear in the book, and the precautions are also very clear, except for one thing.

Fangs are sold whole in pharmacies, and they need to be ground by themselves, so the question is, how fine should they be ground?

The book didn't say it very clearly, because the finer the powder, the better. It has something to do with the toxicity of each fang.

Although this will not affect the potion, it will affect the grade of the potion.

Whether you can grasp this degree is the so-called "talent".

However, Lu Yunkai felt that it was better to call this thing luck than talent.

So, he didn't bother or think about it, but just boiled it step by step according to the steps in the book, cooled it, and then poured it into the red crystal potion bottle.

With a faint blue smoke coming out of the potion bottle, with a faint buzzing sound, he became the first person to complete the potion.

"Lu Yunkai, have you finished it?"

While the students were trying hard to make potions according to the steps in the textbook, Snape sat quietly on the podium, holding a pen in his hand and writing something, but Lu Yunkai's potion had just been completed, and he raised his head.

"I don't know if it's done." Lu Yunkai shook the potion bottle in his hand.

This was just politeness, but he already knew it.

[Level 1 scabies treatment potion, one Galleon. For sale? ]

"Let me see..." Professor Snape said as he stood up and walked to the last row of the classroom.

All the eyes in the classroom followed Snape to Lu Yunkai.

After taking the crystal bottle from Lu Yunkai, Professor Snape first looked at it carefully, then put it under his nose and smelled it.

"Very beautiful! This bottle of scabies treatment potion has reached the level of top grade." A light flashed in Snape's eyes.

"Thank you, professor." Lu Yunkai smiled a little embarrassedly.

I just did it casually, so why was I praised so much?

"Since the scabies treatment potion is not difficult for you, and there is still some time before the end of get out of class, are you interested in challenging another slightly more difficult potion?" Snape looked at Lu Yunkai with admiration in his eyes.

"This... OK." Lu Yunkai glanced at the other people in the room and could only nod.

"Turn to page 177. Anti-swelling agent."

"...I'm sorry, professor, this seems to be a second-year potion. I don't have the ingredients..."

"It's okay. I'll give it to you." Snape took out his wand and waved it.

A pile of potion materials flew over from the shelf in front of the classroom and landed on Lu Yunkai's desk.

"Professor, this is a potion that can only be prepared in the second year..." Lu Yunkai backed out.

He was actually a little tired.

After all, he got up before three o'clock this morning to test the Room of Requirement.

"Just try it, it's okay." Snape's tone sounded extremely amiable, making Lu Yunkai embarrassed to refuse.

"Yes."

Lu Yunkai took the potion bottle back from Snape's hand, yawned secretly, and then got busy again according to the method of making medicine in the textbook.

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