hogwarts shady

"You have such a scary laugh, Ryan."

Goosebumps broke out in Justin's skin. He looked at the food in his hand uneasily, suspecting that Ryan had tampered with it.

"Sorry, I remembered something happy." Ryan came to his senses. "Eat quickly. There is Potions class in the morning. I heard from the seniors that Professor Snape has a bad temper. It is safer to get to the classroom early to prepare."

"Okay, stop laughing, I thought you were having some crooked idea."

Ryan glanced at Justin strangely, when did this guy become so sharp?

He was indeed gossiping about Cedric's relationship in his mind, and planned to go to the Quidditch pitch to squat in the grass in the next few weeks to see if the sullen senior would act boldly.

Alas, it is so... enviable that everyone fails to learn well at a young age.

"Good morning, Ryan and Justin." Ernie yawned profusely and walked out of the room.

"You don't have much time, Ernie, hurry up and wash up." Ryan reminded, "Also, don't go to the auditorium to get breakfast, there are owls everywhere, and I saw a lot of bird droppings and feathers."

Ah, Justin's eyes are dead.

Ryan rolled his eyes at him: "Don't worry, I got your breakfast directly from the kitchen."

Justin's eyes regained their vitality, and he patted his chest in fear: "It's so scary, I almost thought... Ryan, do you really don't need to tell other people?"

"If you want your classmates who have already had breakfast to come to class with a smile on their face, keep the truth in your heart."

Ernie was still awake. He seemed not to hear Ryan's warning at all. He only caught the word "breakfast" and wandered straight to the auditorium.

Justin watched Ernie leave with the eyes of a strong man seeing him off, and he was even more grateful that he had found such a careful and good friend like Ryan.

"By the way, have you found the kitchen yet?"

"I happened to meet Senior Cedric and the others this morning."

Ryan did not answer directly, he easily misled Justin.

"It's great. I should have known I would be with you." Justin sighed, "This way I can go to the kitchen with my senior."

After finishing breakfast in a hurry, Justin dug out his crucible, medicine bottle and scale from the box, and took "Magic Potions and Potions" from the bedside table.He stuffed all the broken things into the crucible and picked them up.

"I suggest you get the book A Thousand Magic Herbs and Fungi," Ryan said. "Snape might let us use this book."

"Okay." Justin followed suit. He now trusted Ryan's words blindly. After all, Ryan never made mistakes.

After Justin finished packing, Ryan calmly returned to his room, picked up the books and equipment he had packed up earlier, and left the dormitory with Justin.

Hufflepuff students are very lucky because their common room and potions classroom are on the ground floor, very close to each other.

The Ravenclaws who attend classes together are having a hard time. Their dormitory is the farthest away from the teaching building. They need to get down from the tall tower and cross a long stone bridge to reach the quadrangle building of the teaching building, and then pass through A complex spiral staircase descends four floors to the foyer, and finally enters the underground through a trap door to reach the Potions classroom.

The whole journey was not much easier than the uphill road when entering school, so when Ryan walked into the classroom, he found that the Ravenclaw students all looked disheveled, looking at the Hufflepuff students with some envy and resentment.

"What happened to them?" Justin asked Ryan quietly.

"If you go to class every day like climbing a mountain, you will have the same expression." Ryan said, "When you go to astronomy class, you will be able to understand how Ravenclaw feels now."

"Fortunately, there is only one astronomy class per week." Justin said happily. He pulled Ryan and wanted to sit down in the back row - there were not many seats there, which showed that many students had heard about Snyder. They all want to occupy a good position due to Pu's reputation.

"Let's go up and sit in the middle." Ryan stopped Justin.

"Why, didn't you say Snape was scary?"

"That's why I have to sit in the middle." Ryan said. "The front row is always under the professor's sight, and it is difficult for you to desert. The back row is too far away from the professor. Although the position is good, the professor obviously knows this. , so I will definitely pay special attention to it. In this way, the middle position will not easily attract attention..."

"Oh?" A deep voice came from behind Ryan, "You know it very well, but it won't work in my class."

Cold sweat broke out on Ryan's back immediately. Damn it, does this old bat make no sound when he walks?

Justin shrank his neck and huddled together with Ryan, trembling, like two quails frozen in the cold wind.

"What's your name?" The deep voice came from above Ryan's head.

"Lian...Lian Franklin..." Ryan buried his head deeply, like a timid student who was caught in a crime.

"Very well, Franklin, I will test you in class to see if you really have the extra time to focus on Professor Takuma."

After he finished speaking, he walked past Ryan, sat down on the podium, picked up the textbook and flipped through it, frowning from time to time with an expression of disgust.

Ryan looked around, only a few Ravenclaw students were secretly laughing, which made Ryan sigh.

Unfortunately, Harry La Hatred Potter was not here today, so he had to bear the firepower of the old bat's poisonous tongue.

When the nine o'clock bell rang, Snape immediately spoke in his cold voice: "Everyone sit down! Let's start the roll call now. I hope there are no late fools among you."

He quickly announced his name, and after confirming that everyone was present, he said in a slightly fluctuating tone: "Very good, it seems that you all understand the necessity of being on time, unlike some stupid, empty-minded senior students. . Potions are precision craftsmanship, and I don’t want any of you to lose their lives because the time is wrong..."

Snape obviously had a formidable low pressure. When he spoke, every little wizard involuntarily straightened their backs, stared straight ahead, and acted obediently.

"I will not be like some rigid scholars who only know how to copy books. In my class, I put more emphasis on operation. Put down your books and set up your crucible. Today we are going to make a boil remover. This is the simplest medicine. Even a fool can do it well, I hope you won’t be worse than a fool.”

The students immediately set up the crucible in a panic.

"Franklin!" Snape raised his voice, "What's the recipe for boil remover?"

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and said slowly: "Dried nettles, snake teeth, horned slugs and porcupine quills."

Snape paused, his voice becoming smooth again: "What would I get if I added snake fangs to Billywig stings?"

"The sobering agent, Professor, it counteracts the effects of the sleeping agent."

"Sit down, Franklin." Snape said expressionlessly, "Now in pairs, come to the podium to receive your materials. I will write the key points on the blackboard."

The little wizards began to stir.

"You cook the horned slugs...forget it, leave it to me." Ryan looked at Justin's disgusted look and shook his head, "I'll leave the task of crushing the snake teeth to you. Grind it as hard as possible. Be more detailed, you took science practice classes in elementary school, right?"

Justin nodded immediately. He picked up the mortar, put the snake teeth into it with tweezers, and pressed it with the pestle to crush it.

Ryan watched the flame carefully, raised the stand of the crucible, heated it evenly with the external flame, and constantly stirred the sticky liquid in the pot with a long stick to make even and fine bubbles appear on the surface.

"I'm done here, Ryan." Justin rubbed his sore fingers and put the mortar aside.

"Please weigh out another portion of dried nettles and crush them in my mortar." Ryan stared at the pot intently. The viscous turbid liquid had turned into a clear light blue. When the color turned into deep blue, You can proceed to the next step.

He began to like the feeling of boiling medicine. Just like doing chemical experiments before, watching the fusion and change of different substances really gave people a unique sense of accomplishment.

As soon as the heat arrived, Ryan immediately added nettle powder and snake tooth powder to the pot, making the viscous potion become as thin as water. Then he lifted the crucible away from the flame, and added porcupine quills while it was still warm, successfully completing the potion. .

Snape stayed beside them for a moment without saying anything, then walked to the other group and began to criticize viciously. Many Ravenclaw girls were already quietly wiping tears.

"Franklin, what are you looking around for?" Snape said. "After you finish the potion, can't you help the classmate next to you? MacMillan! Turn off your fire, you idiot, the bottom of the pot is already burnt!"

"I know, Professor." Ryan replied obediently.

Snape was a little suffocated. He couldn't find a reason to deduct points - Vice Principal McGonagall issued the "Student Management Handbook" before the start of the school year, which clarified the restrictions on points addition and deduction, which made Snape quite uncomfortable.

Ryan first helped Ernie adjust the flame, and then asked Justin to instruct the Ravenclaw girl next to him on how to use the mortar and scale. Soon, many people around him had successfully completed the potion.

"It seems that you have a good grasp." Snape said dryly, "Or should I have higher expectations of you? Franklin, tell me, if I combine Hawklap juice, lavender, mistletoe berries, salamander What magic potion can you get by putting the blood and aloe root together?"

Ryan frowned. He didn't remember that this kind of potion was recorded in the books he had read.

"Sorry, Professor, I don't know." Ryan said calmly, "But these drugs are generally used for treatment and detoxification, so it may be possible to make related potions."

"Let me tell you." Snape stood behind Ryan, leaned over and whispered, "Potion is a precise subject, not a simple superposition of medicinal properties. Put away your reckless and childish cleverness, if you tell me what Put drugs together, and at best you're going to get a pot of boiled-down, pointless stuff, and at worst, you're going to get a dose of poison."

The corner of Ryan's mouth twitched. Is it interesting that you, a big shot in the potions academic world, are competing with me, a newbie who has just entered school?

He raised his hand and almost poked Snape's nostril.

Snape frowned again. He originally wanted to deduct a point from Hufflepuff because Ryan didn't raise his hand when arguing, but Ryan seemed to predict his thoughts.

"What questions do you have, Franklin."

"That's right, professor, I read about a mysterious prescription from an ancient oriental book, which has the power to turn decay into something magical. Its formula is: ten karat khao, shishami, kakule, Cinnamomum, clove, rue, fennel, amaranth, aromatic, aniseed, galangal, galangal, white ginger, do you know what kind of magic potion that is?”

Snape's face froze, and he subconsciously began to analyze the properties of the medicine, thinking that it might be some kind of essence because there were too many spices in it, but several types of ginger made him hesitate, suspecting that it was some kind of cough medicine.However, he soon realized that Ryan might just imitate his behavior just now and randomly ordered some medicinal materials.

"Franklin - Clint -" Snapra said slowly and in a long voice, "What gave you the courage to tease and question a potions expert?"

Ryan put on just the right look of confusion: "What are you talking about, Professor?"

"I've warned you, Franklin." Snape sneered, "Stop your reckless and childish cleverness! Because of your actions, Hufflepuff will lose one point."

"This makes no sense, Professor." Ryan said without hesitation, "If you cannot give a reason for deducting points, I will complain to Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore about your behavior."

"Because the magic potion you mentioned doesn't exist at all..."

"But Professor, the potion you tested me for doesn't exist at all." Ryan's words made Snape's face grow even more ugly. "What's more, the prescription I mentioned does exist. Of course, it is not a potion. , but... just food seasoning.

"For an unknown formula, instead of using experiments to confirm its efficacy, you directly deny it. I think this kind of behavior is reckless and childish, Professor!"