Professor Snape is indeed one of the youngest potion masters. It can be said without any hesitation that you can completely throw away the textbook when taking his class, because Professor Snape's ideas are definitely not bound by the stereotyped knowledge in the book.
Although Professor Snape speaks coldly, is always sarcastic, and has a very venomous tongue, you have to admit that everything he says is right, and you can't refute it even if you want to. Hope thinks this is Professor Snape's Unique teaching style, just like the always enthusiastic Professor Flitwick and the stern Professor McGonagall.
Good professors can always make students remember the knowledge they teach, although Professor Snape's method may be a bit crooked.
Hope couldn't help but sigh: "Look how normal Professor Snape is without Harry Potter."
Professor Snape glanced at Hope and said, "Why are you muttering if you don't pay attention to the class? If it affects classroom discipline, Hufflepuff will deduct one point."
F*** like he didn’t say it.
After explaining the theoretical knowledge and demonstrating the preparation of scabies potion, Professor Snape divided the little wizards into two groups to prepare the potion.
Because it was a random operation, Hope was not assigned with a Hufflepuff friend but with a Ravenclaw girl.
Hope looked at the elegant little Loli next to him. She still had an Asian face and felt very friendly. Before Hope could introduce herself, the little Loli introduced her first: "Hello, my name is Qiu Zhang. I like others to call me Zhang Qiu."
"My name is Hope Lloyd, just call me Hope."
"I know you, the little professor of Transfiguration. We had the Transfiguration class together last time, and I asked you for advice." Zhang Qiu covered his mouth with his hands and said with a smile.
Hearing someone call him his nickname, Hope scratched his head in embarrassment. He really didn't remember it. "My transfiguration is actually only average. I just learned a little more during the vacation. Please give me some advice on this class." ”
Seeing Hope's shy look, Zhang Qiu said mischievously: "Me too, please give me some advice, little professor~"
The difficulty of making scabies potion is still very low. After all, it is a first-year course, and the materials required are also very common, including slugs, snake fangs, dried nettles, and porcupine quills.
The medicines were all placed in the medicine cabinet. Only then did Hope discover the use of the biological specimens in the glass jars. The little wizards who had just arrived in the classroom were already afraid of these specimens and had been deliberately avoiding them. Now they are going to Taking potion materials will inevitably lead to close contact with these specimens.
Some were timid and frightened and just grabbed a handful of materials and left. I don’t know if Professor Snape did it on purpose. Although there were many materials, most of them were mixed with good and bad. The quality of the materials was not Affects the success rate of potion configuration.
Hope was indifferent to this kind of thing, so he carefully selected three relatively high-quality materials. These materials were basically native. After all, how to handle materials well is also the skill of an excellent potion master.
The reason for picking three copies is that one of them is for himself, and the other one is for Zhang Qiu. The remaining one is used as insurance. He has made scabies potion at home without any difficulty, so It was easy to refine two portions in one lesson, and he was confident that he could complete it in one go, so the other two portions were better prepared for Qiu Zhang.
Seeing that Hope easily brought the potion ingredients, Qiu Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and praised: "You are so brave, I don't even dare to approach that medicine cabinet."
The processing of materials is relatively simple. Hope skillfully used a knife to cut open the slug's belly, clean out the slug's internal organs, and then put it into the basin. The slug's mucus is the key to the potion. Improving the quality of potions was something Professor Snape focused on.
This series of operations left Zhang Qiu, who was crushing the snake's fangs, stunned. She didn't want to touch that disgusting slug.
After dealing with the slugs, Hope saw that Zhang Qiu was still dealing with the fangs, which was a bit slow. In fact, the fangs did not need to be ground into powder. The reason why they had to be ground into powder was actually to allow the fangs to be better integrated into the potion, but Hope has special processing skills that don't require grinding. He saw this method in a book with a weird name called "Thirty-Six Taboos on Potion Preparation".
Hope thought for a while and said: "Zhang Qiu, I'm going to start configuring the potion. You can do it again after I finish configuring it, okay?"
Zhang Qiu nodded and said, "Of course, but I haven't finished processing the fangs yet. You have to wait for a while."
Hope skillfully set up the crucible and said mysteriously: "No, I have special handling skills!"
Hearing this, Zhang Qiu curiously came over while grinding his fangs, wanting to see how Hope dealt with it.
While the two were happily configuring potions, others had already begun to suffer. If Professor Snape seemed normal during theoretical teaching, then Professor Snape completely transformed into a poisonous snake during practical teaching.
How can I put it this way? It's like a master-level figure watching a layman misbehave in his best field. It feels awkward no matter how you look at it.
If anyone made a mistake, he would swoop up to that person and mock them coldly.
However, the serious Hope did not notice all this. After setting up the crucible, Hope put the dried nettles directly into the crucible. Professor Snape said that the dried nettles should be cut into the same size with a knife and placed in the crucible. The purpose of the crucible is to prevent some reactions from being completed after heating and some not yet, so as to avoid waste and make the potion more effective.
Hope doesn't have to be so troublesome. If you look carefully, you can see a faint green magic on Hope's hands. Each dried nettle is more or less contaminated with some. This is used to speed up the reaction of materials.
As for why Hope can do this accurately with magic power, Hope said that he has been exercising his magic control since he awakened his magic power.
This is the core of the potion. Without the participation of magic power, what you end up refining is just a pot of soup that is difficult to swallow.
After putting the dried nettles away, Hope picked up the snake's fangs again. Looking at the crystal-clear fangs in his hand, he always felt that they looked familiar. They looked like the teeth of the white snake he kissed last night. Could it be that Yulin's white snake was Stolen from Professor Snape?
It couldn't be a gift from Professor Snape, and Hope even laughed at the thought of it.
He carefully broke the fangs into pieces and put them into the crucible, and then heated the crucible to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Zhang Qiu on the side was even more dumbfounded. He looked at Hope in confusion and said, "That's not what the professor taught you, right? Are you sure you can do it?"
Hope patted his chest and said confidently: "Don't worry, everything is under control."
Zhang Qiu frowned, obviously not believing it. Although Hope was very good at transfiguration, potions were not transfiguration. Didn't you listen to Professor Snape? This is a precise and strict process. It seems that she can only rely on her in the end. By myself.
Not only did Zhang Qiu think he was 'making trouble', Snape also felt that Hope was 'making trouble'. In fact, he was very angry now.
When Hope started configuring the potion, his series of speechless operations immediately attracted the attention of Professor Snape, so Snape came to them quietly.
He originally wanted to taunt him, but Hope's actions became more and more outrageous, which made Snape angry and silent.
As a potion master, he had long noticed the faint magic power in Hope's hand, so what? "Thirty-six Taboos on Potion Preparation" clearly states that allowing magic power to intervene in materials prematurely can accelerate the reaction between materials and ensure that the medicinal properties of the materials will not be lost, but the impurities in the magic power will contaminate the materials. The final effect of the potion is unknown. This related paper was published when he was in school.
He wanted to see what Hope could finally concoct, and then force Hope to drink it.
