The Legend of Harry Potter Schoolmaster

The ant-sized Horace Slughorn had strode into the gate of the castle.

Just as Jon was about to follow, he suddenly felt Lady Diana Greengrass holding him gently behind him.

"Are you sure?" Mrs. Greengrass lowered her voice and asked with some concern.

"To be honest, no." Jon shook his head calmly: "But it's not completely impossible."

Mrs. Greengrass hesitated for a moment, then asked again in a low voice: "Is the locket you took out just now really a relic of Salazar Slytherin... If it is true, it would be too precious !"

"It should be true, but it shouldn't be as precious as you imagined." Jon smiled reluctantly: "Even if you lose to him, it doesn't matter!"

A Slytherin relic is indeed valuable, but when it has been turned into a Horcrux for a while, and it has left a lot of dark magic marks on it, its value will be greatly reduced; Voldemort, Voldemort is not dead yet!

So Jon has already made up his mind, and it doesn't matter if he loses the bet this time...

It's just that it's even more difficult to find a chance to get Slughorn to speak.

"Jon, I wish you good luck!" Mrs. Greengrass sighed softly: "Let's go, let's enter that castle..."

"...just walk forward with your eyes closed, don't look back." She added.

...

According to Mrs. Greengrass' instructions, Jon closed his eyes, and then strode towards the location of the "toy" castle.

At the moment when he was about to step on the city wall with one foot——

He suddenly felt that his body was continuously descending, like taking an elevator going down the stairs rapidly... When he opened his eyes, he realized that it wasn't falling, but his body was getting smaller.

The world around him began to magnify dramatically, turning into Jon the size of an ant, looking around in a panic. The city wall that could be stepped on just now has become taller than two floors; things like desks and wardrobes have become like mountains; let alone Mrs. Greengrass who is like a giantess...

Horace Slughorn was inside the city gate, seeing Jon's embarrassed face, he laughed and said: "It seems that you are not used to this kind of journey!"

"Yes!" Jon nodded embarrassingly.

Mrs. Greengrass also followed, but she was much more elegant than Jon.

"Come with me!" Professor Slughorn said triumphantly, "It's been a long time since anyone visited the castle of the Slughorn family!"

Walk across the suspension bridge over the moat, enter the city gate, and then there is a path. The left side of the path is covered with dense and low thorns, while the right side is a tall and neatly trimmed hedge.

The sound of "buzzing" suddenly came from the sky.

The two visitors looked up quickly, and saw a huge mosquito flying towards this side. It looked as big as a small helicopter, and the compound eyes and parasites on its body were clearly visible, which was a bit disgusting.

"Damn bug!" Slughorn's face changed, he quickly took out his wand, and shouted:

"Stupefy!"

A red light brushed against the mosquito's wings, and the mosquito was driven away.

Judging from such a violent reaction, Slughorn in the "ant" form may have suffered from mosquitoes... Jon thought to himself.

"What a disgusting creature!" Slughorn put away his wand, frowning, and then turned around: "Come on, guys...we're almost there!"

...

They entered the castle and walked through several empty halls... A few minutes later, Horace Slughorn led them through a brass gate and into the castle's basement.

In the basement, it looks like a small library... Densely packed shelves are neatly arranged in rows, but the things placed on them are not books, but potions and medicinal materials that have been processed one by one.

"On top of the first row is a bicorn horn. I got it from an old Tanzanian witch. It weighs twenty-six pounds. I swear it's the biggest bicorn horn in the world. One of the..."

"...and the small bottle on the far left in the second row, which contains the venom of the blood viper. It is very, very precious. A pint is worth a thousand Galleons..."

"There is also the bottom row, the small box that is packaged in glass, there is one in it..."

Horace Slughorn, who knows all about his treasures, introduced his precious collection with two visitors:

"If we want to prepare Felicity Elixir...the ingredients of Felicity Elixir..." He began to shuttle between the shelves, and at the same time he said to himself:

"First of all, we need the eggs of the gray snake... and the anemone-shaped tumor on the back of the motra rat... and a bottle of thyme tincture..."

Mrs. Greengrass obviously didn't know much about it, so she stepped back knowingly... while Jon lowered his head solemnly, as if he was thinking about something, or remembering something.

...

Soon, Slughorn had commanded his wand, took out dozens of large and small bottles and jars, and placed them in turn on several potion tables behind the shelf.

"Shall we begin?" He turned to Jon and said:

"The eggs of the fire ash snake have been treated for three months with cruciferous root, turnip and Gublai fairy fire; the mixture has also been warmed for more than two months with pickled motla tumors; material I have almost prepared the pretreatment in advance... Of course, if you want to handle it yourself, I have no objection, but then you will have to stay in my castle for nearly half a year!"

"No problem, just use your preprocessed materials, Professor Slughorn." Jon nodded: "I believe that there will be no problems with your processed materials."

"Naturally!" Slughorn raised his head confidently, then waved his wand.

Then, a brown glass bottle flew towards Jon... Jon took it, and opened it lightly; after glancing at the squished ball in the glass bottle, he quickly closed the cap again, and put It was placed back on the potions table in front of it.

"Let's get started!" Jon said proactively.

He bent down and lit the cauldron.

"Remember to be more cautious when handling it, and don't blow up my potion laboratory later..." Slughorn looked at Jon with some anxiety, and his expression changed immediately.

He screamed, "Oh, Merlin's beard... what are you doing?"

"Do you want to destroy my castle?"