Snape has been in a very happy mood recently, which can be seen from the hourglass in the Great Hall. Less than a week after school started, there are actually more than ten rubies in the Gryffindor hourglass! This is a very big thing. Thanks to Tosnape, if you want to break this number in previous years, you have to wait at least until the end of the first week.
However, some careless little lions did not notice this, and naturally they would not notice Snape's recent changes. If someone used super Legilimency to read Snape's heart at this moment, you would probably hear it. He hummed a little tune.
Although he is the professor of Potions, Snape has always wanted to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Although his attainments in curses are somewhat inferior to those in Potions, he still has in-depth research on it. When he was a student, he developed super powerful spells like Shen Feng Wu Ying, and he was also qualified to be a genius in the study of magic.
Lockhart was expelled, and Dumbledore gave him two extra days to teach a class for students from grades one to seven. As long as Lockhart had some real ability, he wouldn't get a bad review. With a course rating as high as 98%, even his die-hard fans can't really give their Lockhart giegie a clear O (excellent).
This guy didn't make any preparations for teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Instead, he took a test paper about his own interests and hobbies very seriously. There were 54 questions in total, and each question was to test the loyalty of his fans. Degree has nothing to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts.
The disgraced Lockhart had to leave Hogwarts in disgrace with hundreds of sets of brand-new autobiography textbooks. As for the cost of the books, he could only pay the compensation out of his own pocket, which was more than ten thousand galleons in compensation. Squeezing the last Knut out of Lockhart's embrace.
"Shouldn't it be to eliminate evil, Professor Dumbledore?"
In the principal's office, Harry asked Dumbledore curiously while teasing Fawkes, "He stole those stories, right? Exposing him and then ruining his reputation. Being imprisoned in Azkaban shouldn't be the last resort." Is it a good result?"
"Leave a little tail there, maybe one day he will come back and cause trouble."
"Yeah, I know."
Dumbledore looked at Fawkes who was eating deliciously with some pain. A wisp of blue flame was sucked in by him in small mouths. The Gubler Fairy Fire was not an ordinary flame. It could burn forever. The eternal flame that can be extinguished involves profound alchemy. It is not easy for even Dumbledore himself to make, but at this moment, Harry got it and gave it to Fox as a snack.
Dumbledore really didn't want to watch the tragic scene of NTR in front of me, using my things to tease my bird, but he couldn't help but watch it.
Dumbledore, who felt inexplicably irritable, waved his hand, "Sometimes you don't have to be so anxious. If you finish everything at Hogwarts, it's hard to say what people who are cornered will do. .”
"I will send him in when the time is right. After all, the stories he stole include the adventures of friends I know."
"That's great."
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 young man.
"Why are you so hostile to Lockhart?" Dumbledore suddenly asked.
"Didn't I say it to prevent this useless waste from ruining the precious youth time of all the students in the school?" Harry looked at Dumbledore strangely. What kind of temptation was this?
"Only this?" Dumbledore asked with a smile.
"Okay, okay." Harry said helplessly, "I just don't like him. A little brat that I've never heard of actually wants to take advantage of my fame. If he steps in a mud puddle, can I still be considered Professor Grindelwald’s proud student?”
"I am the chief candidate to succeed Professor Grindelwald and become an outstanding dark wizard in the future, Professor Dumbledore."
"You guy."
Dumbledore smiled helplessly. Gale was indeed right. The little bastard in front of him looked so much like him. But what worried Dumbledore was that Gale had him, but who did Harry have? Woolen cloth?
If there is no restraint in this wantonness that no one can control, it is really possible for big troubles to occur.
'But maybe I'll be dead by then. '
Dumbledore thought silently in his heart, 'Let it go, the child will always grow up. '
"Now that Lockhart has been driven away and the werewolf has been captured, I will make up for the missed classes in the past few days."
Dumbledore waved his hand, "Severus asked me to tell you to go find him when you get back."
"What does Godfather Snape want from me?"
"How could I know that?"
The old man and the young man rolled their eyes at the same time. At first glance, they seemed to have a tacit understanding.
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The Potions office on the ground floor of Hogwarts.
Severus Snape is most likely a cat person, so when facing dogs, wolves and other canines, his patience is always extremely limited. This is definitely not because he is unhappy with Sirius. The relationship between Snape and Lupine was not bad. When Snape and Sirius fought, Lupine often acted as peacemaker.
After all, James would only go up to distract, and Peter would not be able to run away in time, while Lily would pack them all up together, and the only one who could do the job was Lupine.
When Harry first told him that he wanted to improve the wolfsbane potion, Snape refused. Although Harry was his godson and a good young man whom he treated as his own son, he couldn't just give up as soon as he opened his mouth. If you do it recklessly, then where is your majesty as a godfather?
But after thinking about it, there were not many people who had some relationship with him anymore. For the sake of his past, Snape reluctantly agreed to improve the Wolfsbane potion. This was not difficult for him. In fact, That's true.
After paying all the price in terms of taste, the Wolfsbane Potion, whose potential has been almost fully exploited, is no longer the semi-finished product that barely worked. As long as it is drunk before the full moon, the werewolf can maintain clear sanity when the full moon comes. It would have caused The side effects of physical weakness were also eliminated. The original version of the Wolfsbane potion relied on weakening the body's strength to suppress the beastliness and threats brought about by lycanthropy. Snape felt that this idea was terrible.
To put it bluntly, the root cause of werewolf transformation is the very special contagious werewolf curse. If this is the case, why not directly suppress the curse effect? Snape, who is very knowledgeable about dark magic, also has considerable experience in dealing with curses.
The werewolf in the Forbidden Forest was kidnapped by Snape. After two months of careful research, Snape figured out the root cause of the curse. The werewolf curse was similar to Animagus' evil body transformation technique.
This curse will extract the magic power from the wizard's body and store it. When the full moon arrives, the switch is activated, the werewolf curse enters a highly active state, and the forced human transformation begins, forcing the wizard to transform into a half-human, half-wolf form.
But what Snape couldn't figure out was that if it was just a simple human body transformation, the transformed wizard would not lose his mind because of the beast transformation. The werewolf's transformation was more like the kind of Animagus transformation that remained for a long time, completely The state of forgetting one's own human identity.
This is not in line with the basic rules of transformation. Even if you are infected with the werewolf virus at birth and turn into a werewolf as soon as the full moon is full, you will transform twelve times a year, and the duration of each time is usually within six hours. There are only seventy-two hours in a year, and only seven hundred and twenty hours in ten years. Even if all the time of animal transformation is put together, it is not enough time for rationality to disappear and animal nature to take over.
It has been ten years since Peter became a mouse. He has only become like a mouse. He is still a little far away from the stage where he lost his mind and forgot that he is a human being and not a mouse.
"Then the only possibility is..." Snape stood up from the armchair and wrote a line of words on the blackboard beside him, "Blood Curse Orcs."
"When the werewolf curse was first born, it was probably based on the orc blood curse. In other words, the guy who created the werewolf curse roughly imprinted the orc blood curse on a guy who completely turned into a wolf, and used it as a plague. , spread throughout the world.”
"Interesting idea. After giving up blood transmission, the werewolf curse is indeed more contagious than the blood curse. Unfortunately, after the transformation, he cannot cast spells, has no brain, and only relies on bloodthirsty instincts. There is no way to This plague has spread on a large scale."
"This kind of curse without any sense of beauty is really boring."
"Godfather, are you saying that you can handle the werewolf curse?"
Harry, who looked surprised, almost lost his expression after learning the whole story. Is his godfather so awesome?
"6!"
Harry made a thumbs up gesture. Although Snape couldn't figure out what the special meaning of 6 was, the admiration 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 wolfsbane potion actually realized this, but he was just not good enough to make a potion that directly suppresses the curse. , so we can only start by weakening physical strength and restoring human rationality."
"It is almost impossible for Lupine to turn back into a human. The werewolf curse has already taken root in his body. If it is the early stage of infection, there is still some possibility of salvation."
Snape poured cold water on Harry. The werewolf curse is like cancer. If it is discovered early, there is still a possibility of cure, but if it reaches the advanced stage, then you can only wait for a miracle to happen. Lupine has already missed it. During the best treatment period, although the werewolf curse will not cause death, it will still accompany him for life.
"What I can do is that after he drinks my wolfsbane potion, he can maintain his human form during the full moon, pretend to be a normal person, and integrate into society."
"This is already amazing, Godfather, this is already a miracle for them, right?"
"Then you have to be able to afford it."
Although he was very happy with it, Snape was a pragmatic character. "My improved wolfsbane potion is indeed very useful, but almost all werewolves are paupers. They may not be able to get a single gold galleon, and not all werewolves can drink it." The cost of this potion is equivalent to one 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 he was grasping the tragic and gloomy life. No one wants to become werewolves. They are a group of poor people abandoned by social discrimination.
"It's a pity that most werewolves are not worth selling themselves," Harry said with some pity. He was not a majestic saint. If there was value in using it, he wouldn't mind making a deal with Wolfsbane potion to buy them. Life, but werewolves have lost too much, and there are very few who are as lucky as Lupine. The vast majority of werewolves cannot even use the simplest magic tricks, and they do not even have their own wands because they have not received magic education.
"But what the heck, at least Lupine can afford it. The salary for Defense Against the Dark Arts is five hundred galleons."
"You're quite nice to him." There was a hint of jealousy in Snape's words. It was the first time that he saw Harry caring about someone like this, and it was obvious that he had never even seen Lupin's face.
"He is my mother's good friend, isn't he?" Harry smiled slightly and gave Snape some candy that he couldn't refuse. "If mother knows that you have done such a great thing, godfather, she will definitely be very happy. "
Snape was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly and said in a very gentle voice: "Yes, Lily has always been a very gentle and considerate girl."
"Those werewolves were given to me for study. I can't use special methods to test the ones in the Forbidden Forest. The ones you captured will not be cared for even if they die."
"Then we'll keep Lupine's identity a secret from now on?"
"Yes, as long as he takes the medicine on time, he will be no different from a normal person and no one will notice."
Harry was also slightly relieved. Without Snape's current version of the Wolfsbane potion, he would still have to pave the way for Lupine. After all, once his werewolf identity was revealed by someone with intentions, his professor would not last long.
Although Lupine has disappeared from people's sight for more than ten years, we still need to prepare for the worst.
"Then I wish you in advance a medal of the Order of Merlin?"
Harry took out a bottle of strong liquor that made Snape's brows jump. His godson was good at everything, but he had to change his habit of inviting people to drink. Alcohol with a base of 95% water mixed with water was something people could drink. of?
"The Medal of Merlin?" Snape curled his lips and showed a hint of disdain, "The first-class medal still has some collection value. If I have this spare time, I might as well use this potion to add a star to my Potion Master certification."
"There's nothing to celebrate." Snape waved his hand and started to chase people away, "I still have to prepare a substitute lesson in Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Lupin doesn't know how to come to work early."
Looking at Snape who was starting to prepare course materials, Harry quietly opened the door and left, but he muttered in confusion: "How many Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons do you still have to prepare course materials for?"
Guessing that his godfather was a good, conscientious and responsible teacher, Harry strolled around the castle while drinking some wine.
(End of chapter)
