Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

Snape said nothing, as if he was dismissive of the shopkeeper's comments about his potions.

However, there was no need for him to communicate on this matter. Sherlock was the one responsible for the negotiation.

"Fifty percent is too little, we want 70%. Of course, the extra 20% is not in vain. If any of the subsequent potions cannot reach the level of the intelligence enhancer, then we will pay the production fee of 1 knut None."

Sherlock had specifically investigated the market situation before coming here. The 70% quotation was actually a bit high, but it also gave the other party room for counter-offering.

The final production fee they settled on was 60% of the profit, but they needed to pay a deposit of ten galleons in the store first, which would be refunded after three normal cooperations.

After all, the potion materials are provided by the store, which prevents them from running away after rolling up the materials.

After detailing the specific matters, the shop owner drew up a magic contract, and Sherlock and Snape signed it.

Even if they use fake names, this contract will be binding on both of them.

This type of magical contract directly affects people, and it is effective for whoever signs it. It is similar to the "Regulations Prohibiting the Use of Magic Outside the School during Holidays" signed by freshmen at Hogwarts when they first start school.

After everything was ready and the shop owner provided them with the materials for the first potion and agreed to deliver it in three days, Sherlock suddenly remembered something.

He took out a bottle of colorless water-like potion from his pocket and handed it to the witch.

"Please help me see what price I can set for this bottle of potion if I sell it."

The witch got the potion from him, opened the lid and smelled it, but she didn't smell anything, and she couldn't tell anything from the color.

"What does the potion do?"

"Healing has a wide range of practicability. It can have some effect on any injury on the body. However, it can only relieve serious injuries and cannot cure them immediately."

This bottle of medicine is naturally a healing potion made from fragments of the magic stone, which is a simplified version of the elixir of life.

Its manufacturing method is extremely simple. Just prepare a cup of water, put the fragments in for three seconds, and when the water turns pink, a bottle of healing potion is ready.

Although it doesn't have the heaven-defying effect of immortality, the healing function is also very good. The truth serum used to deceive Sirius was disguised as this medicine. He was beaten by Lupine with a bruised nose and face, and the wound was healed immediately after drinking it. It'll be fine after a while.

But the evaluation of potions is naturally not based on what Sherlock says, and the witch will not be stupid enough to take a sip directly to test the effect. This requires a professional pharmacist to follow a rigorous process.

Simply put, it takes time.

"When you come to deliver the medicine in three days, I will give you an answer. If its therapeutic effect is good, we will give you a reasonable price."

Naturally, Sherlock had no objection to this. The healing potion produced by the magic stone did not require any cost or technology. No matter how low the price was on the market, as long as it could be sold, it would be a profit.

Walking out of the potion shop with Snape, they wandered around Diagon Alley casually.

Sherlock also bought two ice creams and forced one into Snape's mouth when he refused.

"I don't understand what you people think? Why is ice cream just for children? People as old as Dumbledore still like to drink lemonade. One of us is in our twenties and the other is in our thirties. What's wrong with eating ice cream? "

Sherlock babbled against Snape's prejudice and returned to the guest room of the Leaky Cauldron with him.

Snape ended up not eating the strawberry-flavored ice cream that Sherlock bought for him before entering the room. He stuffed the melting ice cream back into Sherlock's hand.

"Don't disturb me when I'm refining the medicine. Just do whatever you want."

After he finished speaking with a cold face, he closed the door and hid in the house to be a homebody.

Sherlock held an ice cream in one hand and shrugged.

He felt that Snape's temper was very similar to those arrogant golden retrievers that often appeared in Japanese comics, and in the end, he happened to be defeated by the sky and became a defeated dog. He was really miserable.

Just when he was about to go back to the house, he suddenly found that in the room No. 10 next to him, a gap had secretly opened. A pair of big blue eyes were looking at him quietly through the crack in the door.

Sherlock looked into those eyes for a moment, and then stretched out the strawberry-flavored ice cream that belonged to Snape.

"Do you want to eat?"

However, the only response he received was the slamming of the door.

Sherlock smacked his lips and bit into the tip of the strawberry-flavored ice cream that was about to melt.

"I won't even eat it. I can eat two by myself."

He suspended the ice cream in the air, opened the door and walked into the house.

Snape wanted to make medicine to make money, and Sherlock was certainly not idle. He was mainly studying the pocket watch around his neck that could be taken off.

During the time travel, after Sherlock forcibly terminated its journey, it became that tattered and rusty appearance again.

But it is obvious that it is still recovering on its own, and when it is fully repaired again, it will inevitably continue to set back time.

However, Sherlock has figured out a way to suppress it. He only needs to use a large number of advanced curses on it every once in a while to destroy it and delay its repair.

It was this pocket watch that brought them to this time, so if they wanted to go back, they would naturally have to find a way from the pocket watch.

At the moment, he doesn't have any ideas. What is clear is that professional matters need to be solved by experts.

The time converter is already a non-reproducible alchemical prop. Sherlock doesn't know whether it is due to gaps in the skills or the lack of alchemical substances, but there are still wizards in the magic world who are studying converters.

The place with the largest concentration of high-level talents is naturally the Ministry of Magic, especially the Department of Mysteries.

Things like prophecy and time fall within the scope of this department's research.

This is the only direction that Sherlock can think of for the time being, and there is no other better choice.

But even if I have an idea, things are not going in a good direction.

People in the Department of Mysteries are not so easy to get in touch with. The employees there are also called silent people. Few people even know their identities or what they study all day long.

Sherlock, who had just arrived and was still using a false identity, naturally had no way of contacting these people.

But people come up with solutions. He had just stayed at the Leaky Cauldron for a day, so he was not in a hurry.

In addition, Sherlock also bought three previous issues of the Daily Prophet from the junk shop in Diagon Alley to understand the current situation in the wizarding world.

Today's British wizarding world is when Voldemort is at his most powerful.

Hogwarts has become a talent transfer base for Death Eaters. Every year, most Slytherins and a very small number of pure-blood students from the other three houses are attracted to Voldemort's ideas after graduation, and then Join their ranks.

No, he was attracted by Voldemort's thoughts.

The power base established by Tom Riddle from the beginning has sufficiently attractive theories.

The so-called pure-blood theory, what I want to emphasize most is that pure-blood wizards will have more power than other non-pure-blood wizards.

The Death Eaters did not initially intend to destroy all Muggle-born wizards.

The standard for a wizard to determine whether a person is a pure-blooded person is to see if there are any direct Muggle relatives in his ancestors for three or five generations (the concept of a pure-blood family is another).

As long as Muggle wizards continue to combine with wizards, they will gain their recognition after three or five generations.

But they extremely hated the union of wizards and Muggles, believing that it polluted the noble bloodline.

After all the magic world is required to implement the pure-blood theory, the relationship between the magic world and the Muggle world will also be eliminated. After that, wizards can continue to control the world, and Muggles are the conquerors of humans.

This was Voldemort's theory when he first formed his team, and it is also the general direction of future actions.

From a theoretical point of view, this scheme is quite reasonable. After all, the main reason why Grindelwald did not let wizards become the masters of the world was that there was a large number of resistance forces within the magic world.

Voldemort was well aware of the principle that "to fight against external forces, one must first settle within", so he first proposed the pure-blood theory and united with the pure-blood faction in the wizarding world, which had a small number of people but was the most powerful and influential.

After the internal struggle is successful, it will be used to completely disconnect the wizarding world from the Muggle world, integrate the wizarding forces into a whole, and finally invade the Muggle world to complete what Grindelwald has never accomplished.

A sane, organized and perfect plan with the possibility of success

But although the plan is good, when it is actually implemented, the taste becomes worse and worse.

As the number of pure-blood wizards under him gradually increased, so did the number of bastards and lunatics, and he became more and more careless about attacking Muggle wizards.

In addition, Tom's own brain seems to have some problems, and he has become abnormal, crazy, and cruel.

Just as there are leaders, there are also subordinates, and the Death Eaters have become more unscrupulous. Since 1970, they have carried out terrorist attacks on various places in the wizarding world and resisted the rule of the Ministry of Magic.

It was at this time that Dumbledore founded the Order of the Phoenix.

To put it simply, Tom had a reasonable and feasible theory at the beginning, but he did not act according to this theory at all. The violent and high-pressure terrorist attack caused a backlash in the entire magical world.

After all, half-blood and Muggle-born wizards account for the majority of the wizarding world, plus a very small number of "second-five" pure-blood factions like the Weasley family, and finally counting Dumbledore in Hogwarts Castle. This sea-fixing needle is here.

The Death Eater group, which uses black magic unscrupulously and has a nearly invincible dark wizard like Voldemort, is still only at a small advantage in the current situation, and is far from forming a crushing trend.

But even if it was just Xiao Yu, the cruel methods of the Death Eaters made every wizard deeply afraid.

The Ministry of Magic uses stun, petrify and disarm to catch Death Eaters.

The Death Eaters used to attack the Ministry of Magic using life-killing, heart-crushing and soul-stealing methods.

It is clear at a glance which side has greater deterrence.