Dudley spent two days on the weekend with Snape, studying potions for more than 8 hours every day, from afternoon to evening. During this period, Dudley experienced the baptism of 'venom' again and again. If Snape The connotation of yin and yang's strange energy can really make a person angry to death.
After all, it was his first time making an unfamiliar potion, so it was inevitable that Dudley would make slight mistakes in the details.
Decocting, brewing, macerating, ointments, poultices, tinctures, lotions, there's more to potions than just boiling something in a cauldron, and that's just one of the seven ways to make a potion.
During Snape's demonstration, he used six methods to make the finished uplifting potion, which was an eye-opener for Dudley.
These have never been imagined before.
After all, the first-grade textbook only teaches one method: decoction.
Snape's demands on Dudley were incredibly high.
More than ten times stricter than others.
It's so outrageous that his mother opened the door for outrageous things. It's so outrageous.
Snape only demonstrated it once, and then gave Dudley a homework... asking Dudley to use at least three of the above methods to make the uplifting potion.
Then he just let Dudley start making it by himself according to the method he taught.
When Dudley put the ordinary-level uplifting potion that he had made using three methods in front of Snape, he was sprayed by him as worthless.
"Are all the trolls dancing in your head?"
"Maybe the troll isn't dancing in your head, you're just a troll."
"What's on your mind? Troll's snot?"
"..."
Snape seemed to link Dudley to the troll, and he would bring the troll with him every time he sprayed.
Dudley always felt that this guy was secretly referring to his body shape.
'If it were me...if it were Lily...I would definitely be able to make a better potion. '
After Snape entered the teaching state, he had only this thought in his mind.
Completely ignoring the fact that they were about to graduate and Dudley was only a first-year wizard now.
If you think about it, you can understand. Who would subconsciously treat a 180cm tall man as an eleven-year-old wizard?
However, this ultra-high standard and strict requirements also aroused Dudley's competitive spirit that refused to admit defeat.
It completely clashed with the invigorating potion.
Taking advantage of the data magic eye, he began to work hard to improve his proficiency in uplifting potions. Anyway, there were not many other things in the potion classroom, but a lot of materials.
How could such a good opportunity be wasted.
So Dudley completely entered the pharmaceutical state.
By Sunday night, the table was already covered with finished uplifting potions.
From the beginning of using three methods to make ordinary grade, to now being able to use five methods to make perfect grade. Only Dudley himself knows how much he has gone through in just two days.
Just relying on this perfect level of uplifting potion, if Dudley graduates from Hogwarts, he can even go directly to St. Mungo's Hospital to find a job.
However, this only satisfied Snape.
"It took me two whole days to barely pass. I really suspect that a troll sneaked into your mind at night. Your talent has really tarnished your aunt's reputation. Don't mention it outside that I taught you."
Snape stared into Dudley's eyes and put away the perfect level of uplifting potion on the table with an expressionless expression.
"If it were your Aunt Lily, she could make it seven ways in just one day."
Ever since Dudley called Lily his aunt many times in front of Snape, Snape gradually accepted the title and started to use it, and the name became more and more fluent.
Dudley didn't know how talented his little aunt was in potions, but through the side descriptions and words of praise from Petunia and Snape, she was definitely a top potion master.
On the journey of potions, it seems that there is no potion that she does not know how to do, and there is no potion that she cannot make well.
This aroused Dudley's inner desire to compete with her.
Although Snape claimed that he could make an uplifting potion in seven ways in just one day, it is not ruled out that Snape was bragging.
But who was Thadali? But the challenger Dudley who likes to say 'NO' to self-righteous people the most and never admits defeat!
Only the higher the goal is set, the more valuable it will be to achieve.
Dudley has found two small goals at Hogwarts...
The physical quality is based on Hagrid, and the potion level is based on Professor Snape's Aunt Lily.
"Next weekend we will learn about shrinking potions and vitality tonics. I hope you can use these few days to preview them and don't act as ignorant as a troll today."
Dudley didn't answer, and he didn't even bother to talk to him. After two days of getting along with him, he already understood that for Snape, the angrier you were, the more energetic he would be.
The shrinkage potion is a part of the third-year study at Hogwarts. It is a magical potion that can shrink creatures or return them to a younger state. It can even knock a group of pigs into the wizard's pocket. In terms of difficulty of making, the shrinking potion is inferior to the uplifting potion, but since it was made by Snape, it is definitely not as simple as an ordinary shrinking potion.
As for the Vitality Tonic, it was a fifth-grade potion course that could replenish the vitality of the user. The potion Dudley gave Malfoy before was a simplified version of the Vitality Tonic, a physical supplement.
"Dursley, why don't you leave? Do you want me to keep you for dinner?"
Seeing Dudley staying in the potions room and not leaving, Snape said impatiently: "Then I'm going to disappoint you. I don't have enough food here to satisfy you, a giant monster."
"Professor Snape."
Dudley still maintained a respectful attitude, but Snape was serious about teaching him knowledge even though he was venomous. Although Dudley thought that he was a vulgar person and a rough man, he knew that reverence for a teacher meant a lot.
He slowly took out a book from behind and placed it in front of Snape.
This is an old potions textbook that looks a bit old, and it is for senior students. This can be seen from the title "Advanced Potion Making".
On the corner of the yellowed page, there were the words "Half-Blood Prince" signed in small letters.
"Can I take this book back? The annotations written on it will be very helpful to me."
Dudley gently wiped the dust off the textbook as if holding his first love.
Perhaps it was due to Dudley's emphasis on potions textbooks, or perhaps because Dudley always refused to comment and always maintained a respectful attitude towards him, Snape's tone gradually softened, and it was rare that he did not rant.
"Where did you find it?"
Dudley pointed to the bookcase with a pile of old books in the corner of the potions room: "There, Professor."
"This book is too early for you..." Snape paused as soon as he started speaking. He seemed to think that he was also teaching upper-level content, and then shook his sleeves: "You can take it if you want. Go back and take a look first.”
