Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

Thursday, September 30, 1993, Mid-Autumn Festival.

On this day, the students in the Hogwarts castle suddenly discovered that the professors today are somewhat different from the past.

Potions class, the students of the Lion Academy found that Professor Snape wore a faintly bewildered smile throughout the class. And in this class, Professor Snape didn't grab the students of the Lion Academy as usual.

When Neville was about to make a mistake, Professor Snape even mentioned something aside, just like he usually mentioned Draco Malfoy.

This sudden change terrified Neville, so much so that the potion in the crucible that should have been stirred clockwise was stirred counterclockwise twice by him, making him the first person in the class to perfectly concoct the potion. student. So Snape also gave the Lion House a point for the first time.

Potions class ended in such an atmosphere that terrified the students of Lion Academy and Snake Academy.

On the way to the cafeteria, the three of Harry met Ginny. Ginny said that in the Transfiguration class today, the rabbit conjured by Professor McGonagall had a longer tail.

The three of Harry were shocked, and realized that this matter was not simple. With Professor McGonagall's decades of transfiguration skills, it was impossible for him to make such a mistake.

Combined with Snape's performance just now, the four little wizards murmured together, could it be that something happened between Professor McGonagall and Snape? For example, Snape proposed to Professor McGonagall.

In the afternoon, Harry and the others stopped gossiping because they already knew the answer.

In Defense Against the Dark Arts class, it was not the former Professor Lupine who stood on the podium, but Professor Snape, whom no one expected.

Standing on the podium of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that he had dreamed of for many years, Snape felt that the sky at Hogwarts was clear today, and Snape liked it very much.

Then Professor Snape began to yell at the students of the Lion Academy, and the points that were awarded to Neville before were doubled and deducted.

Harry and the others, who were worried about Professor Lupine, wanted to greet him during dinner. As a result, they did not find Professor Lupine in the cafeteria, and even Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and other professors did not appear in the cafeteria, and even Zhang Xu did not appear at the table. Only Hagrid was on the professor's seat.

The students in the cafeteria soon discovered this situation and started talking non-stop.

At the same time, the professors who did not appear in the cafeteria collectively appeared on the roof of the reading room.

In the center of the rooftop is a cauldron set on a fire, constantly bubbling with steam.

On the long table next to the cauldron, there were several silver bowls emitting magical light. One of the bowls was filled with more than half a bowl of blood, and the other bowls were filled with various herbs.

Beside the long table, a wolf-like humanoid creature was sitting on a chair, stretching out its hand, asking Snape standing next to him to draw blood with a syringe.

A circle of sofas and coffee tables were placed around the roof. The professors were sitting on the sofas, watching Snape and the werewolf in the middle of the roof.

"I think we're trying to treat Professor Lu Ping as the main course for tonight," said Zhang Xu, who was eating a double-yellow mooncake with white lotus paste.

"It seems that the pot is not big enough." Dumbledore said while biting a piece of sweet and greasy rose bean paste mooncake.

Sitting on a chair and turning into a werewolf, Lupine had already taken the medicine before, and now he can naturally understand the conversation between Zhang Xu and Dumbledore while maintaining his sanity.

Lupine grinned reluctantly, but in his current werewolf state, it could make people cry.

Snape drew a syringe of Lupin's werewolf blood and filled it into a pre-prepared bowl.

Then it was time for Potions Master Snape to perform.

Inside the cauldron on the fire was the potion that had been boiled for half a month.

After half a month of continuous addition of medicinal materials and water for boiling,

Now the potion has shown a strange yellow color.

Snape first poured into the cauldron a bowl of blood drawn from when Lupine hadn't turned into a werewolf, and stirred it up with a stick he manipulated with his wand.

Then Snape saw the timing and put the remaining several medicinal ingredients into the cauldron in the next hour or so.

The surrounding professors, as well as Lupine who was sitting on the side, were silently watching Snape processing the potion smoothly. No one said a word, for fear of disturbing him.

When Snape poured the blood of Lupin who had turned into a werewolf on the table into the pot, and then stirred it thoroughly, the whole pharmaceutical process came to the last and most important step.

Snape picked up the lid of the pot from the table next to him, closed the lid and tightened it with a "snap". After confirming that the handle on the lid was aligned with the handle on the body of the pot, he finally put the pressure limiting valve on the pot Cover on the exhaust pipe.

Then Snape cast a spell on the body of the pressure cooker, and after the body of the pressure cooker became transparent, the color of the potion inside could be seen.

There are two major problems in the production of the werewolf antidote developed this time.

One is that when making the potion, the last step needs to add the blood of the person who takes the potion on the day when there is no moon, and the blood of the person who turns into a werewolf on the night of the full moon.

In the past, the blood was preserved by magic, and as a result, it was easy to cause the blood to be affected by magic energy for half a month, resulting in a certain level of blood pollution.

This time, the blood was preserved at a low temperature made of ice cubes to avoid contamination of the blood.

Another problem was discovered only recently. Some potion materials need to be heated above 110 degrees Celsius to react with other potions.

According to the previous practice, the open crucible used in the past could not heat the medicine inside to this temperature.

Not to mention that Hogwarts is located in the Scottish Highlands, and the boiling point of water usually does not even reach 100 degrees Celsius.

So what Zhang Xu used to make the potion this time was an extra-large Double Happiness pressure cooker that Zhang Xu bought from a supermarket in London. The hand-made red copper and carved dragon hot pot presented to Nixon who visited China as a national gift was made by this manufacturer.

Soon, through the magically transparent body of the pot, one could see that the potion in the pressure cooker began to gradually change color.

When the moon was in the mid-heaven, the potion began to emit a faint fluorescence, which meant that the potion was successfully made.

When the brightness of the fluorescence in the potion stopped increasing, Snape moved the pressure cooker to the table and began to cool down the pressure cooker.

After the pressure in the pressure cooker dropped, Snape opened the lid.

At this time, the see-through magic on the pot has been lifted, and the medicine in the pressure cooker emits light green fluorescence, and the water vapor continues to rise under the light of the fluorescence.

Snape used a spoon to scoop the viscous fluorescent light green potion in the pressure cooker into the cup, then picked up the cup and walked in front of Lupine.

"Drink, Lupine—this is the fate of werewolves."