Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

The next morning, Harry, because he went to bed too late and was physically and mentally exhausted, obviously didn't have enough sleep when he got up the next morning. During breakfast, he almost dozed off several times and threw himself into the cereal box. Inside the basin.

Although Harry was not late for falling asleep at the dining hall table with the help of Ron and Hermione, he snored during the Transfiguration class, which made the furious Professor McGonagall almost stay in hospital due to high blood pressure. Enter the school infirmary.

Originally, after Zhang Xu found Harry asleep, he wanted to find an excuse to report to Professor McGonagall that he was sick and to ask him to go to the school infirmary to catch up on his sleep. However, before Zhang Xu could raise his hand, Harry's classmates started snoring. coming.

Another consequence of Harry's snoring in class was that he originally planned to find time in the evening to find Zhang Xu to learn something about the gem hanging around his neck. As a result, he was punished by Professor McGonagall and placed in solitary confinement. He was dealing with various things in his office, which forced him to postpone his search for Zhang Xu.

On the evening of the last Friday in January, Harry was in the Potions classroom helping Professor Slughorn with the fresh herbs sent by Professor Sprout.

In the past, confinement to help the Potions Master would have been the biggest punishment for Harry.

There was a new professor in this classroom this year, and Harry didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing for him.

Slughorn's preference for outstanding students is perfectly reflected in Harry.

Because Harry performed well in class with the help of tips from second-hand textbooks, Slughorn remembered the ingenious girl in this classroom many years ago, and the two preferences of the mother and son overlapped. , this double preference brings more and more preferences.

In the end, Slughorn's preference for Harry even reached the level of doting.

After Slughorn learned that Harry was detained by Professor McGonagall, he applied to Professor McGonagall for Harry's nearly eighth-floor detention time.

In the Potions classroom, Slughorn was not so much punishing Harry for working as he was giving him a chance.

Harry, who relied on the wisdom of the "Half-Blood Prince" to thrive in class, exposed the weakness of his lack of foundation when faced with super-class knowledge.

Whenever Harry made a mistake here or there, Slughorn always looked helpless.

At this time, Harry, who had made another mistake, was lying on his side on a desk in pain. Slughorn took a large teapot with a slender spout and poured potion into one of Harry's nostrils.

The potion controlled by the magic on the teapot flowed from Harry's nostrils into his lungs and swirled around,

The foreign matter cleaned from the lungs is passed through the throat and spit out from the mouth.

Just when Harry thought he was about to drown in the Potions classroom, Slughorn finally ended the treatment.

Harry vomited out the potion in his lungs and lay limply on the desk, gasping for air.

"You didn't swallow the potion in your stomach, did you?" Slughorn asked concerned.

Harry shook his head feebly.

Just now, he accidentally sneezed when he was introducing the spores of the giant mushroom into the crucible for dry frying, and then accidentally inhaled a lot of the spores blown up by the sneezing.

"Alas~" Slughorn sighed and said, "I thought you knew that you need to use the Bubble Charm when dealing with the spores of the Spray Mushroom."

Slughorn continued: "When the spores of the spray mushroom fall on the ground and encounter moisture, they will immediately and slowly secrete a toxin. This toxin will poison the surrounding plants in a small area, which makes the surrounding areas No other plant competes with itself for growth resources.”

"After these spores are eaten by an animal or inhaled into the lungs, the toxins it secretes will cause the animal to run wildly until it dies of exhaustion, and then new mushrooms will grow on the animal's corpse using the corpse as nutrients. "

"If you encounter an Inferi and zombies, these spores will fall on the dead wood and immediately start to grow rapidly. The hyphae they produce can destroy the body structure of the Inferi and zombies within a few minutes."

After Slughorn finished explaining the characteristics of the giant mushroom spores, Harry thought of his own corpse covered with mushrooms, and couldn't help but shudder.

After a while, Slughorn saw Harry recover and smelled: "Then do you know why these spores must be dry-fried in advance?"

Harry thought for a moment and asked in a very uncertain tone: "Is it because we want to inactivate the spores so that the toxins can be easily extracted?"

"Put the living spores into the water and let them secrete the toxins on their own. Wouldn't it be more convenient and faster to extract the toxins?" Slughorn asked.

Seeing Harry keep answering wrong answers, Slughorn gave up and gave him this question as extra homework.

"Why is this? Your talent in Potions class is not like your mother's, but like one of her good friends." Slughorn looked at Harry and said strangely, "If it's not impossible, I thought you were her child."

"You know, your mother has shown talent in potions since the first grade."

"As for your mother's friend, her performance in Potions was very bad at the beginning. She would make the cauldron explode almost every month. She got a 'good' in her Ls exam. But she has been with you since the sixth grade. She also suddenly became enlightened in Potions. Although her outstanding performance was not comprehensive at first, when she graduated from seventh grade, her test scores were 'excellent'."

"So, keep working hard."

Slughorn stood up on tiptoes and patted Harry's shoulder, who was sitting on the table, and then turned around and went about his own business.

Harry also got down from the table, cast a Bubble Charm on himself, and continued to fight against the spores of the Big Spray Mushroom.

For the next half hour, the only sounds in the Potions classroom were the flames under the cauldron and the sounds of the two men performing various operations.

"Harry, did you get extra help somewhere, and the help was limited to textbooks?" Slughorn asked suddenly.

"What?" Harry's hand shook when the secret in his heart was revealed, and he almost dropped the crucible containing the processed spores to the ground.

"If that's the case, you don't have to worry." Slughorn's words made Harry feel relieved.

Judging from Harry's reaction, Slughorn knew that the sudden guess in his mind was very likely to be correct.

But this kind of thing had happened several times in his teaching career, so he didn't think it was strange.