Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

There was a sudden heavy snowfall last night. When the moon came out and the snow stopped, the snow could reach people's calves.

When Zhang Xu, Harry and Slughorn walked into the Forbidden Forest, they couldn't help but feel embarrassed when they saw the snow on the ground.

Snow has covered the ground of the Forbidden Forest, and the paths, ravines, tree roots and vines on the ground are no longer visible. It is easy to fall if you walk on it.

In this case, even the centaurs were too lazy to go out. This would be more convenient for Zhang Xu and the others, making their actions less variable.

As for the thrilling ground every step of the way...they can fly!

I have to lament the Weasley family's flying car that settled in the Forbidden Forest. It is now about to evolve into Kitt in "Knight Rider". After the Weasley twins overhauled it once before graduation, it is now so rampant that it has become a tyrant in the Forbidden Forest. Even centaurs have to avoid it when they see it.

However, Harry knew how to control the car, so the group of them avoided the trouble of trekking in the snow after finding the car covered in snow.

Slughorn was confused about cars. Harry had sat in the back seat of the Dursleys' car, and the last time Zhang Xu drove was a lifetime ago.

In this case, Zhang Xu could only bite the bullet and drive.

Fortunately, Mr. Weasley did not remove the seat belt of the car, otherwise Zhang Xu would not dare to drive around in the Forbidden Forest. Slughorn, who sat in the front passenger seat out of curiosity, felt his bulging belly being pinched painfully when he was learning to put on his seat belt. So after less than ten minutes of driving, Harry sat in the passenger seat.

"What are we looking for?" Harry asked, holding a map to show the way.

Zhang Xu, while driving attentively to avoid hitting a tree, replied: "We are going to find native sheep."

"The tree with the same fruit as a sheep?" Harry asked.

"That's right." Zhang Xu replied, "Slughorn needs part of this plant."

"I need the juice in the fruit." Slughorn, who was sitting in the back seat, answered, "that is, the blood of that sheep."

"What's the use of its juice?" Harry asked curiously.

"It is a very versatile medicinal catalyst." Zhang Xu replied, "Some drugs require several hours or even half a day to fully exert their effects after taking them. If it is added to the medicine,

This allows the drug to take full effect within minutes or even seconds. "

"Then it would be best to use him as an antidote." Harry said suddenly excitedly.

"Yes, it can allow some drugs that were not suitable as antidotes because they were too slow to take effect to be reused." Slughorn said to Harry, "It's just that the research on it has just started. Are you willing to come?" Will you work on it with me, Harry? I can make you second author on the paper."

"Well, let me think about it," replied Harry, who was still a little resistant to Potions.

"You'd better not think about it." Zhang Xu said, "Aren't you going to be an Auror in the future? As an Auror, you will inevitably need to deal with poisons and antidotes. You can use this opportunity to strengthen your knowledge in this area."

Hearing that this would be useful for becoming an Auror, Harry agreed after thinking about it for a while.

Slughorn told the handyman who had just been fooled that he would contact him as soon as possible after the research began. Then he tried to trick Zhang Xu into joining the handyman team, but Zhang Xu passed him by with a "haha".

"Professor, how do you know that the juice of the native sheep fruit has this effect?" Zhang Xu asked curiously, because there has never been any research in this area before. What Zhang Xu said to Harry just now was the same as before. Ghorn told him while showing off his knowledge.

"A few years ago an old friend of mine got sick and asked me to help him make a potion," Slughorn said.

"After drinking that potion before going to bed, you will be cured by sleeping until noon the next day."

"On that day, my friend ate a meal of five-ripe mutton chops fried with native sheep fruits before going to bed. After drinking the medicine and changing into pajamas, he discovered that his illness had disappeared. alright."

In the following conversation, Zhang Xu found that Slughorn seemed to be deliberately making friends with Harry and kept showing Harry his personal connections during the chat, but Harry was not sensitive at all in this regard.

The group of people were talking and laughing, but they all deliberately avoided one question, which was what would happen if the juice of this fruit was used in poison.

According to the text on the map provided by the horse people, the native sheep closest to them grew on the bank of a stream. About one mile upstream of the stream was a small waterfall two or three meters high.

The car stopped when it reached the bottom of the waterfall. The three people in the car got out of the car to stretch their muscles.

Since the maps provided by the centaurs were in the Impressionist style, they had no concept of scale, which forced the group to first find reference objects such as rivers, streams, and pools on the drawings, and then follow the water.

Coupled with the heavy snow cover today, it is easy to get lost if the car flies above the treetops.

Therefore, the car has been flying slightly higher than the ground. In order not to hit a tree, Zhang Xu's speed has been low.

As a result, the car turns left and right, which is a bit unbearable for the people on the car.

After getting out of the car and stretching his stiff body, Harry asked: "Why did we stop so far away from the target?"

Slughorn shook his stiff legs and replied: "The fruits of the native sheep are ripe now, and they will leave when the weather gets warmer. This car is too noisy and will destroy the fruits." Scare it away in advance, so we have to work hard to catch it."

"There's something going on!" Zhang Xu, who was standing aside, suddenly shouted.

Harry and Slughorn were startled. They immediately took out their wands, and then looked at Zhang Xu, who was twitching his nose and inhaling continuously.

"The wind brings some smell." Zhang Xu pointed to the downstream direction where the wind blew. "The smell of roasted lamb seems to be tinged with cumin."

The other two people were stunned. They didn't smell anything, but it didn't look like Zhang Xu was joking. After thinking about Zhang Xu's small and practical magic, they no longer doubted that Zhang Xu was wrong, and then they immediately thought Someone got there first.

"Let's go take a look first." Slughorn said a little angrily, "Everyone, grab your wands."

He had nothing to say if something he thought was in his pocket was taken away without him knowing, but if someone roasted it in front of him first, it would be annoying.

The three of them quietly walked downstream along the frozen stream. As they approached their target, Harry and Slughorn began to smell the scent of mutton in the air.

When they reached the edge of a clearing, they saw a blond man wearing strange-colored clothes roasting a leg of lamb by a bonfire in the center of the clearing.

The strange color of the clothes was reminiscent of Slughorn's, and Harry remembered that he had seen soldiers on TV wearing such clothes called snow camouflage uniforms when he was at No. 4 Privet Drive.

Zhang Xu grabbed Harry and Slughorn who were about to say hello, and then shouted to the man who was roasting the leg of lamb: "Bell, these are my professors and classmates. Call your two friends Come out, we don’t mean any harm.”

Bear Grylls, who was roasting a leg of lamb, breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted to the surrounding open space: "Everyone, come out, they are professors and students of Hogwarts."

As soon as Bell finished speaking, two people emerged from the snow on both sides of Zhang Xu and the others.

If Zhang Xu and the others took a few steps forward, they would fall into the opponent's triangle ambush circle.

Zhang Xu saw the two men who had just been ambushing take off their hats and hoods, and found that they were acquaintances whom they had met during the last operation together, so he greeted them: "Long time no see, Simon and Kevin."