Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

Not all students are as rich and willful as Zhang Xu, so they all work hard to give it a try. ｛ щww{suimеng][lā}

Harry Potter is one of them.

Harry flipped through his dirty old textbook, looking for a reference to brewing a potion of living hell.

However, when Harry opened the textbook, he found that it was filled with words and there was almost no blank space.

Under Harry's careful analysis, he recognized that most of the added words were notes on the ingredients and production process of the potion.

Harry was having a headache with these annotations at this time. When he finally identified the ingredients of the raw materials and took them back from the storage cabinet and started rough processing, Hermione's progress bar for refining the medicine was already nearly halfway.

When Harry finished handling the valerian root and looked at the next step in the textbook, he fell into confusion.

The person who scribbled in the textbook took issue with the method of handling sleepy beans described in the textbook, and wrote another note in the margin next to it: "Squeeze with the side of a silver dagger to get the juice out more easily than slicing."

Under this note, there are several notes with obviously different handwriting:...

"I think it's more convenient to use a juicer."

“If you don’t have a juicer, you can cut the sleepy beans in half and squeeze them with a vise.”

"You can squeeze it with your hands if you have the ability."

"It is forbidden to consume the juice of sleepy beans directly, unless you ask someone to borrow money before letting them take it, because it can cause people to lose their memory."

Harry was at a loss for a moment, so he immediately asked for help from Grandpa Gandalf in the glasses.

Grandpa Gandalf told Harry that these methods were correct.

So Harry decided to do it according to the method in the textbook first, except that the shriveled beans were not easy to cut, and he felt that it would be faster to cut them with a saw.

At this time, Harry planned to try the method in other people's notes in the book, but he didn't have a juicer or a vise on hand. These things should be available at Privet Drive, but they should be found at Hogwarts. No, and he didn't think he could squeeze it by hand.

Harry turned to Hermione and asked her to borrow a silver knife.

Hermione, whose progress bar was stuck at 98%, impatiently agreed to Harry's request.

Harry hurriedly squeezed out a large amount of bean juice from the sleepy beans according to the notes in the textbook.

Seeing that the notes were useful, Harry felt confident and started the next step.

Next, Harry saw another note appearing next to the next item in the textbook that said the potion must be stirred counterclockwise.

The note just now about using the handwriting of a silver dagger says that you should stir it counterclockwise seven times and then stir it clockwise.

However, the note written in another handwriting below contained several lines of words.

The first line just says "separation", and then draws a ? after it.

At the back, there are words such as "Stirring in one direction will cause the precipitate to be less disturbed, the molecular chain will be longer, and the filament will be more obvious", "Stirring in the opposite direction will break and degrade the long polymer chain", "Strong stirring effect will cause large "Stress changes in molecular chain segments" can be understood individually, but cannot be understood when connected together.

Harry understood what was written on the penultimate line, "You can perform '∞' type stirring throughout the entire process."

Harry once again asked Grandpa Gandalf for help. Unexpectedly, Grandpa Gandalf said that the first one was theoretically feasible, and the following ones could be tried.

Harry was also caught in a conflict at this time. These notes should have been left by students who used this textbook before, and both students should be very talented in potions.

Just now, the success of squeezing sleepy bean juice showed that the first student was reliable, so is the second student's method equally reliable?

Harry looked at Hermione's cauldron next to him and found that her progress had reached 98.5%, while Malfoy's progress bar had not yet reached 90%.

"Anyway, if Hermione gets the elixir, she won't refuse if she borrows it." Harry thought in his mind.

So Harry decided to take a gamble and try the stirring method mentioned by the second student.

Harry stirred according to the method in the notes, and the potion in the crucible turned light pink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"How did you do that?" Hermione asked in surprise as she looked at the potion in Harry's cauldron that was 99.9% complete.

At this time, the potion in her cauldron was still purple.

"Stir counterclockwise seven times and then stir clockwise, or stir like butterfly wings like I do," Harry whispered to her.

Then Harry looked at the last line of notes in the textbook and deliberately said in a voice that could be heard by Malfoy at the next table: "The potion can be stirred very vigorously counterclockwise."

Meanwhile, Harry is talking to Hermione.

But Hermione didn't notice Harry's little movement. She just looked at her textbook and said, "No, no, no. The textbook says to stir counterclockwise."

Harry did not continue, but continued to stir the potion according to the method in the book.

Harry took a look at Ron's condition. Judging from the color of the potion in the crucible, he had obviously failed.

Soon, Slughorn said loudly: "Okay! Time's up! Everyone, please stop stirring!"

(;●_●)ヘ?···Boom

At this moment, Malfoy's cauldron exploded, and Malfoy, who was vigorously stirring the cauldron, was blown into a big black face.

Harry turned back and smiled at his pony classmate. The last line of the notes in his textbook read "No vigorous stirring, it will explode!"

Slughorn walked over and checked on Malfoy. After seeing that he was fine, he said, "You stirred it too vigorously."

Then Slughorn began to examine the objects in the students' cauldron. Although he did not make any verbal comments from me, his inner evaluation could be seen in his expression.

When Slughorn walked to Harry's table, the expression on his face began to improve.

He nodded with satisfaction as he walked to Hermione's cauldron.

The next second, when he saw the potion in Harry's cauldron, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Perfect potion of living hell!" Slughorn said loudly, "Excellent Harry! You inherited Lily's outstanding talent! Your mother's soul is possessed at this moment! Take it, this is for you The elixir of blessing, make good use of it!"

After handing the elixir to Harry's hand, Slughorn continued to walk to the next table of students.

When Slughorn came to the last table and saw the potion in Zhang Xu's crucible, he said loudly again: "Oh my God! I can't believe it, it's another perfect potion of living hell!"

"Wait!" Slughorn suddenly discovered something novel. He used a silver spoon to stir the potion in Zhang Xu's crucible, then took a spoonful and put it under his nose and smelled it for a long time. .

"You made some changes to it?" Slughorn said with his eyes widened and looking at Zhang Xu in surprise.

"Yes, Professor." Zhang Xu nodded and replied, "I added a little Ningshencao juice to it, which can make people fall into deep sleep. Then I added some more that will not affect the efficacy of the medicine and can improve the taste. The herbs are used to neutralize the bitterness of the Ningshen grass, turning the medicine into a better-tasting strawberry flavor. You know, I need them to coordinate with the treatment recently."

Slughorn looked at Zhang Xu in surprise and said to him: "Can you give me half of the potion? If you still need it, you can come to me. I will allow you to use the Potions classroom to refine it."

"No problem, professor." Zhang Xu replied.

"You are also today's winner, and you can also get a bottle of Felixir!" Slughorn said.

When he saw Harry's potion just now, he couldn't help but think of Harry's mother, so in a moment of excitement he gave out the good ones without reading all the students' potions.

Now that he has seen something better, it is naturally impossible for him to give the elixir he gave to Harry back to Zhang Xu, so he just fills another bottle and gives it to Zhang Xu. After all, there is still a pot there.

But Zhang Xu said to Slughorn: "I have a small request, Professor. I don't want a ready-made blessing elixir. I want to refine the elixir myself under your guidance."

Slughorn looked at Zhang Xu again seriously, then nodded and agreed: "Very good, you are a very motivated student, Mr. Zhang. When you think you are ready, you can come to me at any time. .”

The students in the classroom looked at Zhang Xu with envy, because just now Slughorn gave the Yingyuan fifty points for his Living Hell Potion..., while Harry's original version only got twenty points. .