Hogwarts: Harry Potter and the Glock 18.

Chapter 148 The successor of the black wizard and the antidote to Wolfsbane

Snape is in a very happy mood recently, which can be seen from the hourglass in the auditorium. Less than a week after the start of school, there are actually more than ten rubies in the Gryffindor hourglass!This is a very extraordinary thing. Thanks to Tosnapp, if he wants to break through this number in previous years, at least he has to wait until the end of the first week.

However, some careless little lions have not noticed this, and naturally they will not notice Snape's recent changes. If someone uses the super Legilimency to read Snape's heart at this moment, you will probably hear He hummed a little tune.

Although as a professor of Potions, Snape has always wanted to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Although his attainments in Charms are not as good as Potions, he still has a deep research on it. When he was a student, he developed super powerful spells like Shenfeng Wuying, and he is also qualified to be a genius in charm science.

Lockhart was expelled, and Dumbledore gave him an extra two days to teach a class for students from grades one to seven, but even if Lockhart was so capable, he couldn't get a bad review With a course rating rate as high as 90.00%, even his loyal fans can't give his Lockhart giegie an O (excellent) with a clear conscience.

This guy didn't make any preparations for teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Instead, he did a test paper about his own hobbies very seriously. There are 54 questions in total, and each question is to test the loyalty of his fans. It has nothing to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts.

The disgraced Lockhart had to leave Hogwarts with hundreds of brand new autobiography textbooks. As for the cost of the books, he had to pay for them out of his own pocket. Squeezed out the last Nat in Lockhart's embrace.

"Shouldn't it be the eradication of evil, Professor Dumbledore?"

In the principal's office, Harry teased Fawkes and asked Dumbledore curiously, "He stole those stories, right? Expose him, and then let him be ruined. Being locked up in Azkaban shouldn't be the last thing." Is it a good result?"

"Leave a little tail there, maybe one day he will come back and make trouble."

"Yeah, I know."

Dumbledore looked at Fawkes, who was eating deliciously, with a bit of pain. A wisp of faint blue flame was sucked in by it. The Gubley Immortal Fire is not an ordinary flame. It can burn forever. The eternal flame that will be extinguished, which involves advanced alchemy, is not easy to make even by Dumbledore himself, but at this moment it was brought by Harry as a snack for Fox
Dumbledore really didn't want to watch the tragic scene of teasing my bird with my stuff, but he couldn't help it.

Dumbledore, who was inexplicably agitated, waved his hand, "Sometimes you don't need to be so anxious. If you finish everything at Hogwarts, it's hard to say what people who are driven to a dead end will do. .”

"I will send him in when the time is right. After all, the stories he stole include the adventures of friends I know."

"That's great."

Sure enough, Dumbledore was not as bright and kind as he appeared on the surface, but it had to be said that the old man was more considerate than the younger one.

"Why do you have so much hostility towards Lockhart?" Dumbledore asked suddenly.

"Isn't it just to prevent the precious youthful time of all the students from being wasted by this misleading trash, didn't I say so?" Harry looked at Dumbledore a little strangely, what kind of temptation is this?
"Only this?" Dumbledore asked with a smile.

"Okay, okay." Harry said helplessly, "I just don't like him, a little bastard I've never heard of, but he still wants to use my fame and position, don't He stepped into the mud, can I still be regarded as Professor Grindelwald's proud student?"

"I will succeed Professor Grindelwald in the future and become the chief candidate for an excellent dark wizard, Professor Dumbledore."

"You guy."

Dumbledore smiled helplessly, Gail did not misunderstand the person, the little bastard in front of him was too similar to him, but what worried Dumbledore was that Gail had him, but who did Harry have? Woolen cloth?

This kind of wantonness that no one can control, if there is no restraint, it is really possible to cause big troubles.

’ But by then I might be dead. '

Dumbledore thought silently in his heart, 'Let him go, the child will always grow up. '

"Now Lockhart has also been driven away, and the werewolf has also been arrested. I will make up for the lessons I missed these days."

Dumbledore waved his hand, "Severus asked me to tell you to go find him when he comes back."

"What's the matter with me, Godfather Snape?"

"I don't know that."

The old and the young rolled their eyes at the same time, and at first glance they seemed to have a tacit understanding.

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Basement level of Hogwarts, Potions Office.

Severus Snape is likely to be a cat, so when facing dogs, wolves, and other canines, his patience is always extremely limited. This is definitely not because of seeing Sirius upset. Without Lupine, the relationship between Snape and Lupine is not bad. When Snape and Sirius had a fight, Lupine often served as a peacemaker.

After all, James will only go up and pull the sidelines, Peter will have no time to run, and Lily will pack them all together and clean them up. The only one who can do this job is Lupine.

When Harry told him at the beginning that he wanted to improve Wolfsbane Potion, Snape refused. Although Harry was his godson and he treated him like his own son, he couldn't just fart as soon as he opened his mouth. Do it smugly, in that case, where is the majesty of myself as a godfather.

But after thinking about it, there are not many people who have anything to do with him at the beginning. In view of his previous face, Snape reluctantly agreed to improve the Wolfsbane Potion, which was not difficult for him. And that's true.

After paying all the taste price, the wolfbane potion whose potential is almost fully tapped is no longer the semi-finished product that barely works. As long as it is drunk before the full moon, the werewolf will be able to maintain clear sanity when the full moon arrives, which would have caused The side effects of physical weakness have also been cut completely. The original version of the wolf's poison potion relied on weakening the body's strength to suppress the beastliness and threat brought by wolf transformation. Snape felt that this idea was too bad.

The root cause of the werewolf transformation is the very special contagious werewolf curse. If so, why not directly suppress the effect of the curse?Snape, who has a lot of research on black magic, also has a lot of experience in dealing with curses.

The werewolf in the Forbidden Forest was tied out of the forest by Snape. After two months of serious and careful research, Snape figured out the root of the curse. The curse of the werewolf was similar to Animagus' unholy body transfiguration.

This curse draws the magic power from the wizard and stores it. When the full moon arrives, the switch is activated and the werewolf curse enters a highly active state. The mandatory human transformation begins, forcing the wizard to transform into a half-man, half-wolf form.

But what Snape couldn't figure out was that if it was just a simple transformation of the human body, the transformed wizard would not lose his mind due to animalization. The state of forgetting one's own human identity.

This does not conform to the basic law of Transfiguration. Even if one is infected with the werewolf virus at birth and becomes a werewolf at the full moon, the transformation will take place twelve times a year, and most of the duration of each time is within six hours. There are only 72 hours in a year, and only 720 hours in ten years. Even if all the time for this animal transformation is put together, it is still not enough time for rationality to disappear and animal nature to prevail.

Peter has been a mouse for ten years, and he has only become like a mouse, and he is still a little far from the stage of losing his mind and forgetting that he is a man and not a mouse.

"The only possibility is." Snape got up from the armchair and wrote a line on the blackboard beside him, "Blood Curse Orcs."

"The birth of the werewolf curse was probably based on the improvement of the orc blood curse, or in other words, the guy who made the werewolf curse roughly rubbed the orc blood curse on a guy who had completely turned into a wolf, and used it as a plague , spread throughout the world."

"An interesting idea. After giving up the bloodline transmission, the werewolf curse is indeed more contagious than the blood curse. Unfortunately, after being transformed, you can't cast spells. You have no brains and only rely on your bloodthirsty instinct. There is no way to spread it. This plague is spreading on a large scale."

"This kind of curse without beauty is really boring."

"Godfather, what do you mean...you can fix the werewolf curse?"

The surprised Harry almost didn't hold back his expression after learning the whole story, is he as awesome as his godfather?
"6!"

Harry gave a thumbs up. Although Snape couldn't figure out what the special meaning of 6 was, the admiration on Harry's face was still very useful to him.

"But don't get too excited. I'm not the first to discover all this. The wizard who invented the wolfsbane potion also noticed this, but his level is not enough to make a potion that directly suppresses the curse. , so we can only start from the aspect of weakening the body and restoring human rationality."

"It's almost impossible for Lupine to turn back into a human. The curse of the werewolf has already taken root in his body. If it's the initial stage of the infection, there is still a little possibility of saving it."

Snape poured cold water on Harry. The werewolf curse is like cancer. If it is detected early, there is a possibility of cure, but if it is late, it can only wait for a miracle to happen. Lupine has already missed it. The best treatment period, although the werewolf curse will not kill him, it will still accompany him for life.

"What I can do is, after he drank my wolfbane potion, he can maintain his human form during the full moon, pretend to be a normal person, and integrate into society."

"This is already remarkable, godfather, this is already a miracle for them, right?"

"That has to be affordable."

Although it is very useful in his heart, Snape is a down-to-earth character, "My improved wolfbane potion is indeed very useful, but almost all werewolves are poor, and they may not be able to get a single Galleon, not all werewolves can drink it Even considering the cost of this potion, it is worth a month's salary of an ordinary employee of the Ministry of Magic."

"Fifty Galleons."

Snape opened his right hand and held it lightly, as if grasping the tragic and bleak life. No one wants to be a werewolf, they are a group of poor people abandoned by social discrimination.

"It's a pity that most werewolves are not worth selling themselves." Harry said with some regret, he is not a great saint, if there is value, he would not mind making a deal with Wolfsbane potion to buy theirs But werewolves lost too much, and there are very few werewolves who are as lucky as Lupine. Most werewolves can't even use the simplest magic tricks. Those who haven't received magic education don't even have their own wands.

"But who the hell, at least Lupine can afford it. Defense Against the Dark Arts is five hundred Galleons."

"You are very kind to him." There was a trace of jealousy in Snape's words. It was the first time he had seen Harry care about someone so much, obviously he had never even seen Lupin's face.

"He's my mother's good friend, isn't he?" Harry smiled slightly, and fed Snape the irresistible candy, "If my mother knows that you have done such a great thing, Godfather, she will be very happy. "

Snape was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly, and said in a very gentle voice: "Yes, Lily has always been a very gentle and considerate girl."

"Give those werewolves to me for research. I can't use some special methods to test the drugs on those in the Forbidden Forest. If you catch the few werewolves, they will die and no one will care."

"And then we keep Lupine's identity secret?"

"Yes, as long as he takes the medicine on time, he is no different from a normal person, and no one will notice."

Harry also heaved a sigh of relief. Without Snape's current version of Wolfsbane Potion, he still needs to pave the way for Lupine. After all, once his identity as a werewolf is revealed by interested people, his professor will not last long.

Although Lupine has disappeared from people's sight for more than ten years, he still needs to prepare for the worst.

"Then I wish you a medal of the Order of Merlin in advance?"

Harry took out a bottle of spirits that made Snape frown. His godson is good at everything, but the habit of pulling people to drink has to be changed. The 95-degree alcohol mixed with water is drinkable of?
"The Medal of Merlin?" Snape curled his lips, showing a touch of disdain, "The first-class medal is still worth collecting. With this spare time, I might as well use this potion to add a star to my potion master certification."

"There's nothing to celebrate." Snape waved his hand and began to chase people away. "I still have to prepare a substitute class for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Lupine doesn't know how to come to work early."

Seeing Snape who was preparing the courseware, Harry pushed the door quietly and left, but he muttered with some doubts: "How many Defense Against the Dark Arts classes do you have to prepare the courseware?"

Assuming that his godfather is a conscientious and responsible teacher, Harry strolled around the castle while drinking some wine.

(End of this chapter)