Study Days at Hogwarts

Potions class was still going on, and Snape was instructing everyone to make a potion that could cure scabies. After explaining how to prepare the potion to treat scabies, he divided the class into pairs and asked everyone to start preparing the potion to treat scabies.

Naturally, Albert and Li Jordan were grouped together, so they were at the same table.

"Let's read the steps several times before we start preparing the potion to treat scabies to avoid making mistakes in the preparation steps." Albert reminded, "As long as the steps are correct, the finished product will not be too different from what is in the book."

The most fearful thing about brewing potions is adding random ingredients and stirring them.

Albert opened "Magic Potions and Potions" and memorized the configuration of the potion to treat scabies. He didn't pay attention to Snape who walked behind him dragging his black cloak.

After Snape walked away, Albert took out the needed medicinal materials from his medicine box: a few snake teeth, a pongo onion, some bundled dried nettles, a jar of horned slugs, a few A porcupine quill.

"You are responsible for cooking the horned slug. This thing needs to be cooked for at least 33 to 45 minutes." Albert handed his tweezers to Lee Jordan.

"Okay, leave it to me." Li Jordan had no objection. He took the tweezers handed over by Albert and picked out the disgusting horned slugs from the jar.

By the way, a jar of this stuff costs 1 galleons in a drug store.

"Remember to clean it first. You don't need to put a lot of water in the crucible. Be careful if it boils and overflows." Albert added.

He then began grinding the venomous snake teeth in a mortar. The book required grinding the venomous snake teeth into a fine powder, which was a laborious task.

Compared to Albert's hands-on ability, other students are a bit scumbag.

Of course, this may be related to Albert upgrading his potion making to level 1.

Snape was still lingering in the classroom, watching the students weighing dried nettles and grinding snake teeth. Almost all the students were criticized, except for Albert and George.

After all, Snape couldn't find anything to criticize, except that their progress was slightly slower than the others.

"Next, weigh the dried nettles." Albert looked at Snape's retreating back and whispered, "Pay attention to the weight, don't weigh it wrong."

"Okay." Li Jordan was in a good mood, and Snape didn't come to trouble them.

Albert struggled to slice the pongo onions into thin slices.

Half an hour later, Li Qiaodan reminded aloud: "The horned slug is boiled."

Albert immediately went over and stabbed the horned slug with a glass tube. After making sure it was completely boiled, he poured out the water in the crucible, leaving the boiled horned slug.

After the materials are prepared, all that remains is to prepare the potion to treat scabies.

First add the venomous snake fang powder into the crucible, slowly stir it and mix it with the water. The medicine inside the crucible will gradually turn dark blue.

"Is it dark blue?" Li Qiaodan leaned his head over to see the color of the potion in the crucible.

"It's dark blue." Albert neatly put the thinly sliced ​​pongo onion into the crucible and continued to heat it for about ten seconds. The potion gradually turned from dark blue to red as recorded in the book.

After the color stops changing, the next step is to slowly sprinkle in the dried nettles and stir the potion to turn the color to pink.

"Continue to add a small spoonful of Florob caterpillar mucus, and then continue to stir. The medicine inside will turn green." Albert muttered the steps while operating. "Next is to add a tablespoon of stewed horned slugs and stir until the potion turns blue-green."

After completing the previous step, Albert took the crucible away from the fire.

If you don't remove it from the fire, adding porcupine quills directly will cause the potion to fail. Snape also specifically reminded everyone.

Albert took the two porcupine quills handed over by Li Jordan, slowly put them into the crucible, and then began to stir clockwise three times, causing the originally blue-green potion to gradually turn blue.

Finally, wave the wand over the cauldron to complete the potion.

"Did it succeed?" Li Qiaodan asked nervously.

"What do you think?" Albert asked to pick up a spoonful, put it into the crystal bottle, and handed it to Li Qiaodan next to him, so that he could see the color of the potion clearly.

"Successful." Li Qiaodan looked at the scabies treatment potion in the potion bottle excitedly. The color of the potion was basically consistent with the description in "Magic Potions and Potions".

"Yes, it was successful. It's not easy." Albert put out the fire. However, he still had some doubts about the effectiveness of the potion to treat scabies.

While bottling the potion and writing his name on it, Albert suddenly smelled a disgusting smell. He turned his head and saw that Fred and George's crucible was bubbling, and the potion in the crucible was bubbling. It's a very disgusting brown color.

"Wait a minute, take the crucible away from the fire before adding the porcupine quills." Albert stopped George from making a fatal decision that might burn through the crucible.

However, this still did not save their scabies potion.

"Weasley, tell me, what are you talking about?" Snape walked behind the twins expressionlessly.

"Potion for scabies," George muttered under his breath.

Snape asked indifferently: "What is the color of the scabies potion in the book when it is finished?"

"blue."

"I dare say that if I drink this potion of yours, I will poison myself first before curing my scabies." Snape waved his wand and swept away the potion in the cauldron.

"Anderson, where's your potion?"

"Here he is, sir." Li Jordan quickly handed over the blue scabies treatment potion, and when Snape wasn't paying attention, he wagged his index finger at the twins proudly.

"Barely passed." Snape picked up the glass bottle and glanced at the scabies treatment potion inside.

“What does it mean to barely pass?”

After class, Li Qiaodan said to the twins angrily, "What does this mean? In fact, all the potions prepared by humans to treat scabies fail? And...why do we have to write an article after we successfully prepared a potion to treat scabies? 2 A foot-long paper.”

"Keep your voice down, if you want to get yourself into trouble." Fred pointed at Snape, who was walking this way.

"Ahem." Albert cleared his throat and said to Li Jordan, "Maybe Professor Snape thinks we are very talented in potions and wants to cultivate us well."

Albert deliberately kept his voice low enough that Snape could hear it.

"You see, no one else is treated like this, right?"

"I hope your paper on the potion for curing scabies won't disappoint me, Mr. Anderson." Snape turned to stare at Li Jordan and said, "As for you, there is no need to write a paper."

"What does he mean?" Li Jordan murmured, looking at Snape's retreating back.

"Of course you mean you don't deserve special care." Fred finally couldn't help laughing after Snape left. He raised his hand and patted Albert on the shoulder and said, "It seems that Snape The professor really plans to give you special care, maybe he wants to invite you to join the Potions Club!"

"Then I can only refuse. After all, I have joined the Transformation Club." Albert said seriously.

The next moment, all three of them laughed louder.

Of course they could guess that Snape was unhappy with Albert, but had nothing to do with him, so he had no choice but to give Albert the so-called special care.

After all, few students like doing homework, especially extra homework.