Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 347 Snape's Intentions (Happy New Year's Eve!)

Most of the time, the wounds caused by werewolves do not heal themselves, and the victim's life can only be lost with the blood over time, but when this stage is passed, even a Muggle can become a new werewolf.

Of course, most of the victims died at this stage due to excessive blood loss.

There are many ways to heal the wounds bitten by werewolves, among which the medicine mixed with silver and white fresh is the most effective and simplest one.

This is also the reason why silver can deal with werewolves in the Muggle legend.

(It should be pointed out that dealing with werewolves can only be dealt with by powerful wizards, or with a powerful wolf hunting team, especially if there are more than one werewolf army.

In the dark age of the Middle Ages, the main task of the Ministry of Magic's Law Department was to deal with dark creatures such as vampires and werewolves.

Some wizards who are proficient in the [Restore Human Shape Curse] may be able to restore the transformed werewolf to its original state, but this requires the original werewolf to have such a consciousness in their hearts, and those werewolves who hate wizards cannot restore their original state through spells.

Generally speaking, strong irritating smells and loud noises can temporarily drive away or prevent werewolves from attacking. The big dung eggs in Zuko's joke store are a powerful weapon against werewolves, but they are only temporarily driving them away.

If the werewolf got used to it, whether it was a wizard or a Muggle, it would be best to hide until dawn or prepare to fight it. )
Although there are many ways to treat werewolf bites, once infected by wolf disease, no matter Muggles or wizards, their werewolf transformation cannot be reversed at all.

— there is no cure.

The night of the full moon is more or less guaranteed to transform into a bloodthirsty beast.

There is a reason why wolf disease, bloodthirsty of vampires, and the magic black death that once spread in the Middle Ages are listed as the three major incurable contagious magic curses.

Even a vicious curse like [Blood Curse], people would not say that it was unsolvable.

But wolves, until now... People haven't heard that it can be completely solved.

The only potion that works is the wolfsbane potion invented by potion master Damocles in recent years.

It can keep werewolves rational even when the moon is full, and it can also help werewolves suppress transformation to a certain extent. Although they will transform in the end, it can already solve the biggest problem in werewolf transformation.

Because usually werewolves don't have a choice whether to transform or not, and when transformed they usually lose their minds and become a bloodthirsty, manic, maniac beast that attacks humans, and usually they will plague the nearest human cub, bite (not fatally), and turn it into a werewolf.

——This is also the main reason why wizards speculate that wolf disease is a kind of magic curse created by goblins (who hate human wizards).

(Another reason is that when the wizard becomes an Animagus, the werewolf will automatically give up the original attack target, and even the lycanthropy curse contained in their claws, blood, and saliva will lose its effectiveness, unable to cause damage and infection)
Of course, the main reason why lycanthropy is compared with bloodthirsty disease and the Black Death—except that it is indefeasible and highly contagious, the most important point is the blood and darkness caused by the werewolf after becoming a werewolf... All kinds of memories will rush into the mind the moment the werewolf regains its human form.

Under this kind of impact, if one does something wrong in the werewolf state, it can destroy the entire werewolf mind, turning ordinary people in the original human form into demons.

Therefore, in the general perception of the wizarding world, people believed that the wolfsbane potion solved the greatest hardship faced by werewolves.

"However, due to the complex ingredients of the wolfsbane potion, it is also very difficult to brew. Only a few potion masters can make it, and the price is very expensive. For most werewolves who can only make a living in the dark area on the edge of the wizarding world, this potion is like a box of gold coins in the desert."

"It's just a waste potion used by potions masters to show off their skills!"

McGuffin stood in front of Snape and answered coldly, his face very ugly.

As expected, after taking the Defense Against the Dark Arts class for Professor Lupine, Snape immediately announced that he would turn the textbook to page 390 to talk about werewolves.

He mocked Professor Lupine's lecture progress, and asked the students how to identify a real werewolf.

Then... for some reason, McGuffin was suddenly called up, and kept pressing him, asking him for detailed information about werewolves.

Has Snape already noticed that... he knew Lupine's identity as a werewolf, so he made things difficult for him on purpose, and wanted him to reveal Lupine's identity as a werewolf, and search Lupine's house and drive him out of Hogwarts.

Fuck, sure enough, the flaws revealed in Lupin's office last time were too big.

When Snape's attention was diverted from Harry, he should have immediately realized the suspicion on McGuffin.

After a second thought, McGuffin decided that this could not go on.

So at the end, he deliberately changed the topic, talked about Wolfsbane Potion, and laughed at Wolfsbane Potion as a useless waste potion, a product used by potion masters to show off their skills.

Sure enough... After hearing these words, Snape couldn't care less about looking at Harry's grinning sneer.

He turned his head, looked at McGuffin directly, and finally said coldly, "It seems that our Mr. Albert has a good idea to deal with werewolves...Maybe when Professor Lupine resumes class, you can tell him...Right!"

Hearing this sentence, Hermione's face turned pale, and she looked at McGuffin in surprise.

The look on Snape's face was utterly smug.

He had confirmed that Hermione understood, and then there was...

He looked around, and the little wizards stared at him one by one with extreme disgust, obviously not listening to the question and answer between him and McGuffin just now.

Especially Harry that idiot, and his friend Weasley with the eyes full of anger.

idiot, idiot...

Snape felt that his efforts were wasted again, and he looked angrily at the two little wizards who discovered Lupine's identity.

That McGuffin Albert guy can't be counted on at all, and he certainly won't reveal Lupine's identity as a werewolf.

And Hermione Granger...

Would she tell her friends that Lupine Remus was a werewolf?

No,... most likely not.

Snape made up his mind that he would assign a lot of werewolf homework to let these little wizards discover Lupine's identity as a werewolf.

"Alright, sit down, Albert! Maybe you can invent and refine an alchemy item against werewolves, just like the heroic deed of your broom that disabled most of the Slytherin team!"

Snape sneered coldly.

These words angered Harry and Ron, who almost sacrificed almost half their lives for the competition and Quidditch training.

"Sir, the McGuffin's alchemy broom has been adopted by all four college teams, only Slytherin..."

Harry stood up and tried to point that out.

Snape's dark eyes flashed dangerously, and he interrupted Harry directly, saying, "Potter, I don't think I told you to stand up and say something unrelated to class! Five points from Gryffindor, if you..."

Before the words fell, Ron whispered next to Harry. (Although it was a low voice, under Snape's threatening voice, the air in the classroom was almost condensed, and there was silence. Everyone could hear these words clearly.)
"Only those sissies in Slytherin changed the game schedule because of their injuries, and you have the nerve to say it..."

— Chi!

Almost everyone in the class couldn't bear this 'whispering whisper' and burst out laughing.

They exchanged cheerful glances, and some even poked their heads into the floor of the table to bite something, so as not to offend Snape by laughing.

Parvati, Dean, and Simoni even erected the books directly, covering their distorted and uncontrollable faces.

"Weasley, Weasley, do you think you're smart?"

"You and Harry, you must personally deliver to me a paper on how to identify and kill werewolves by ten o'clock tonight...two parchments."

"Remember not to let Miss Granger and Mr. Albert ghostwrite, or I will mix some interesting little potions into one of your food."

Snape walked slowly between the desks, as if with an icy temperature, freezing the smiles of all the students at once.

"Oh, by the way, and you, Mr. McGuffin Albert, who is not ashamed, show off your ingenuity... Before the end of this semester, you must invent an alchemy item or potion that can deal with werewolves... It's better to be much more effective than the Wolf's Venom potion that abolishes the magic potion in your mouth. Before the end of this semester... that is, you must let Professor Lupine and I have a look..."

"Otherwise, you'd have a share of that funny little potion. I think you should understand what that would do."

Snape walked into several people, bent down, approaching them with a dangerous smile on his face.

Everyone started to tremble.

"As for the other papers, one for each, the same paper is due on Monday."

All of a sudden, there was no sound in the classroom after that, and everyone even took a breath carefully, for fear of attracting Snape's attention.

Everyone sat up straight and took notes about werewolves according to the textbook.

From time to time, Snape pointed out the little wizard's usual homework mistakes and growled loudly.

"The explanation is very poor... Kabbah is more in Mongolia...Professor Lupine said it is [-] out of [-]? I said it is less than [-] out of [-]..."

"The kappa mainly lives in China?...It's a big mistake. This kind of creature mainly lives in island countries with humid air, volcanic hot springs, and many rivers, such as Japan, or Southeast Asia..."

"I really don't know how Professor Lupine taught you?"

"Grindylow, those water monsters are indeed distributed all over the world... But the most concentrated places should be the Great Lakes of the United States and the coastal edges of Australia... A large part of these carrion monsters live in places with carrion in the water. It is obvious that the corpses piled up after the massacre of Muggles in modern times... That should be the most suitable place for them to survive and multiply..."

The get out of class bell finally rang.

Snape stared at the young wizards coldly for a while, and then emphasized the thesis on werewolves and the alchemy items of MacGuffin.

"Don't think that Professor Lupine can change anything after he comes back...Harry, Ron, McGuffin, especially the three of you, you should remember that my other identity is the Potions professor! You can't avoid it..."

"Someone should take good care of you little wizards who have no rules..."

After that, he turned and left.

Everyone watched in silence as Snape's figure slowly disappeared outside the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, waiting for the footsteps to disappear step by step. After a few minutes, they could hear the noisy voices of other little wizards in the corridor.

——Boom, the originally peaceful classroom seemed to explode.

No one left the room, and everyone huddled together and cursed Snape loudly.

There are all kinds of bad things.

Some people even muttered, calling for Black and the Dementors, hoping that they could get rid of the old bat for the little wizards before Monday.

Harry looked at Hermione with some concern. She looked particularly worried, flustered and tired, especially looking at McGuffin with a suspicious expression, and from time to time flipped through the description of Wolfsbane Potion in the last page of the textbook about werewolves.

McGuffin understands... It seems that this clever little witch has indeed noticed Lupine's identity as a werewolf.

Ron and Simone got together, spitting stars flying all over the sky, pointing out the door and cursing Snape loudly.

"Two pieces of parchment are due on Monday...it's still about werewolves. Why didn't he get bitten by a werewolf, otherwise, we can identify this guy well."

Simone was furious, and swung his fists and cursed Snape.

After two or three minutes, the little wizards finally vented their anger, and everyone started to leave the classroom together.

At this time, Hermione pulled McGuffin away from Harry, Ron and the two of them seemed to want to talk about Lupine.

(Harry also wanted to say something to McGuffin, but after a few words, Wood ran over again, pulling Harry and starting to discuss tactics against Cedric Diggory... Ron was still walking in front with Simone and Dean, scolding Snape. He scolded Snape very badly, so he avoided Hermione.)
Hermione pulled the McGuffin to stagger the distance from others, and asked in a low voice until she felt that the others could not hear her.

"McGuffin, you already know, right? That's why Snape made it difficult for you to answer questions about werewolves, and you still know so much about werewolves...I remember that you went to the library to find relevant information some time ago."

"I should have thought of it a long time ago... the boggart that turned into the moon, the potion that only a potion master can brew, all of these... can identify a werewolf, right?"

Hermione didn't say it clearly, but just stared at the expression on McGuffin's face.

— Hope to get a clear answer.

"Hmm! Hermione, you have to keep it a secret. It's best not to tell Harry and Ron...the two of them..."

The voice of Ron swearing loudly came from the front of the corridor, and this guy was not afraid of being heard directly by Snape.

Hermione understood what McGuffin meant, and she fiddled with the hem of her wizard robe with a tangled expression, but didn't speak.

"Hermione, that's why I guessed that Professor Dumbledore should know about this too...don't worry, with him around, plus the wolfsbane potion... nothing will happen."

"You won't let us lose such a good Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, will you?"

asked McGuffin.

"No, I don't..."

Hermione forced an ugly smile, and agreed with a somber expression.

At this time, Ron finally realized from the front that Hermione and McGuffin hadn't caught up, and hurried over, "What are you two doing? Hermione, McGuffin, hurry up."

"We still have to go to the library. You two can't do nothing. Those two papers from Harry and I have to be handed over to Snape tonight..."

"Merlin, bless us!"

Ron prayed almost like all the famous wizards he knew, even the Slytherin wizard.

　happy New Year!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)