Chapter 158
Chapter 157 Wolf Poison Potion
Professor Lupin conquered the little wizards in Hogwarts in just a few lessons.
If possible, everyone hopes that Professor Lupin can break the long-standing and suspected curse tradition of “defence against the Dark Arts class professors can only serve for one year” and stay forever.
Following the very successful first Defence Against the Dark Arts class on Bogut, the next few classes are as lively and interesting as the first.
After Bogut, he took the little wizards to study the red hat, which is a kind of unpleasant little guy like a monster. Wherever someone bleeds, they are lurking somewhere. In the main building of the castle, in the potholes of the deserted battlefield, they waited to violently attack those who lost their way.
Then, the content of the class became Kabbah again.
This is a crawling aquatic animal that looks like a scaly monkey with webbed hands, busy strangling the waders walking in their ponds without knowing the depth.
The little wizards opened their eyes and thought of Professor Quirrell and Professor Lockhart in the previous two years.
The little wizards look forward to every Defence Against the Dark Arts class. It has been a long time since this course has brought you such a feeling.
However, compared with the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Hagrid’s class of protecting magical creatures looked terrible.
Draco was still in bandages after being kicked by the eagle-headed horse-winged beast. Hagrid also seemed to realize that taking dangerous magical creatures out of class was inappropriate. He taught the little wizards how to take care of the Flobber caterpillars one after another. Stuffed in the throat.
So now the little wizards want to vomit when they see this fluffy thing.
But Ulysses didn’t take this matter to heart. He and Hagrid were just nodding acquaintances. It was Saturday, and he was walking on the way to Professor Snape’s office.
Professor Snape’s mood has been particularly bad recently. In addition to the unknown reason why he had to boil the wolf poison potion for Professor Lupin, it is also related to Neville.
In the third grade Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Neville made Bogut look like Professor Snape and dressed him in his grandma’s clothes.
Professor Snape was almost mad when he knew it, and he became more troubled by Neville’s troubles, and whenever he heard someone mention Professor Lupin’s name, he would stare at them fiercely.
Ulysses stood at the door of Professor Snape’s office and paused for two seconds before bending his fingers and tapping gently.
“Come in.”
Professor Snape’s cold voice came from inside. Ulysses opened the door and walked in.
Ulysses glanced away, and Professor Snape was standing in front of the jars filled with bottles, fiddling with several potions. The medicine bottle was still bubbling, and at first glance it was not a medicine for normal people.
His office is exactly the same as his clothes. All kinds of potion bottles are randomly placed, and some drawers are half open, revealing the messy potion materials inside. The air was filled with inexplicable gas, and the indoor lighting was slightly gloomy.
“professor.”
Ulysses yelled softly.
Professor Snape raised his eyes, nodded at random and said:
“Have you seen the book I showed you last year?”
Ulysses squinted his eyes. In the potions class shortly after school last year, Ulysses concocted his own choke-throat poison, which was taken by Professor Snape. As compensation, he gave Ulysses an old textbook, and after reading it, Ulysses realized that it was the textbook of the half-blood prince who originally appeared in Harry’s hands in the sixth grade.
Through that textbook, Ulysses’ potion level has improved a lot, and he has learned the magic spell created by Professor Snape.
“Look.”
Ulysses nodded honestly.
“Since you haven’t come to me for inquiries, it means you can understand.”
Professor Snape waved at him and said, “Come here.”
He threw a piece of parchment to Ulysses, which was written in dense fonts. Ulysses glanced at it. This is the precise refining process of a kind of potion. The letters “Wolf’s Venom potion” are burned in the most conspicuous part of the parchment.
“This is……”
Ulysses was slightly stunned, faintly understanding why Professor Snape had put him in confinement for a trivial reason.
This is catching coolie.
“Since you can read the book, I think you have a sufficient level to refine this medicine.”
Professor Snape said nonchalantly, “I have to try my best to resist the idea of not mixing the poison in when refining the wolf’s poison potion.”
“Why refining wolf poison potions?”
Ulysses asked knowingly.
“With your strength, it’s okay to tell you.”
Professor Snape glanced at him, and a touch of hatred appeared on his thin face, “Professor Lupin, who has been widely praised by you recently, is a werewolf.”
“what?”
Ulysses just right showed a hint of surprise, “Then why did Professor Dumbledore let him take the post…”
“Lupin and the other three were Dumbledore’s darlings when they were in school…”
Professor Snape snorted coldly, “No matter what mistakes you make, it’s a big thing and a small thing… It’s not too strange to let him go to school even knowing he is a werewolf. …”
However, his face was full of anger and unwillingness.
“Forget it, tell you what to do.”
He shook his head and waved his wand, “How to make a wolf poison potion, I will only demonstrate it once for you. I am optimistic.”
Professor Snape didn’t care what Ulysses was thinking, he looked at the boiling bubbles in the cauldron and started to do it.
Ulysses looked at it slightly in amazement. It was only now that he discovered how crude the previous technique of refining potions was. In contrast, Professor Snape’s mixing potions is like art.
When Ulysses refining potions by himself, he always chopped up each portion of the material and weighed it, always observe the color of the bottom liquid in the crucible, and then follow the steps in the textbook step by step.
Although the final potion was the same as the finished product described in the book, the process inevitably stumbled. Professor Snape was different. He held a magic wand in his right hand and gestured freely, like the conductor of a symphony.
The materials such as grass dragon’s edge, moonstone powder, figs, and armadillo bile were extracted by Professor Snape extremely accurately, and they lined up in mid-air.
Professor Snape tapped his wand lightly. Then, the medicinal materials are like divers, entering the cauldron in an orderly manner.
The cauldron bubbled regularly, and Professor Snape said without looking back:
“Just let it boil for half an hour. Have you seen it clearly?”
Seeing Ulysses nodding hesitantly, he went on to say, “You will refine the wolf’s poison potion from now on, is it okay?”
“no problem.”
Ulysses thought for a while, but agreed. Anyway, he did not produce the material, so I can take this opportunity to hone his own potion level. After all, the wolf poison potion is a very difficult potion.
“By the way, adding sugar will completely lose its efficacy… Of course, if you really add it, I would love it.”