Magical Studies at Hogwarts

"Bang, bang, bang"

"Come in!"

Pushing open Snape's office, Ike immediately saw the Potions Professor sitting at the table grading homework.

Although young wizards generally dislike Snape, it cannot be denied that his teaching ability is indeed very strong, and he is also very serious about grading homework.

Of course, it would have been better to ignore his annotation.

"Does your head belong to a troll? The answer is on line 374 on page [-] of the textbook!"

Ike stepped forward and saw Snape finishing this line of text and then writing a big D.

Completely consistent with his usual style.

"Mr. Strider, if you continue to read, I won't rule out that I will keep your eyeballs here forever." Without raising his head, Professor Snape opened the next assignment, glanced up and down, and then Write a vicious comment.

"Professor Snape, I just have something to confirm with you." Ike replied, "I heard that your private collection was stolen?"

Putting down his quill, Professor Snape looked at Ike with his cold eyes and said word by word: "So, our great Mr. Strider knows who the shameful thief is? Do you need me?" Points for Ravenclaw?”

"Of course Professor." Ike did not avoid Snape's eyes, his tone was very calm, "It's the one who must not name."

"Hmph!" Snape obviously didn't believe what Ike said, and immediately replied, "Dark Lord? So you think it was the Dark Lord who released the monster in the secret room and caused the attack?"

"Yes, Professor Snape."

Ike nodded, and Snape showed a hint of sarcasm, and replied in a sinister manner: "I thought you were so smart, being able to defeat the Dark Lord, but now it seems that you are no different from the idiots I often see. What a difference."

"As far as I know, your great teacher is now lingering in the forests of Albania!"

"I'm not talking about the poor guy waiting to be saved by his loyal servant." Ike shook his head, summoned a chair with a wave of his left hand to sit on, leaned forward slightly, and asked softly, "Professor Snape, you Do you know about Horcruxes?"

"Horcrux..." Professor Snape still looked cold, but Ike saw it clearly and his hand shook.

Ike smiled, took out the charred notebook from his robe, put it on the table, and pushed it forward.

"About two weeks ago, I picked up this notebook."

"It's a very magical thing. It can talk to me and wants to teach me some magic."

He gently opened the title page and pointed out the still vaguely visible name to Snape.

"Something happened after that. I had a fight with the guy in the diary, and I accidentally ended up with this thing like this."

"Professor Snape, the only thing I can think of that can contain a person's soul and allow him to retain a certain amount of memory and spell-casting abilities is a Horcrux."

"Besides, it belongs to..."

"Tom Marvolo Riddle..." Snape muttered the name on the title page, then took out his wand and clicked on the notebook.

Ike shook his head: "It's ruined, Professor."

"Mr. Strider!" Snape stood up, tossed his robe and put the notebook away, "Do you know what you did?"

"Of course, Professor." Ike nodded, "I discovered the secret that the Dark Lord cannot be killed."

Ike could clearly see the excitement and anger in Snape's eyes. He knew very well that after that night 12 years ago, the man in front of him was still alive only to kill the Dark Lord.

Now he knew the answer. Even though he was an outstanding occlumency master in the world, he still couldn't completely hide his emotions.

"You shouldn't have told me, Ike..." Snape waved his wand, and a white light quickly rushed into the fireplace and disappeared, "Dumbledore needs to know this."

"Of course, the principal will know." Ike replied, "But the guy inside was not killed, he ran out..."

"What!" Professor Snape's pupils shrank, and he couldn't help being stunned. Then he turned around and opened the door of his private collection room and strode in.

"Follow me! Ike."

Ike was shocked when he walked into Snape's private collection room.The first thing that caught the eye was an adult Ukrainian iron-belly corpse fixed in the air. The ferocious appearance was very terrifying.

The surrounding walls were filled with cabinets, containing large and small glass bottles, soaking the corpses of large and small magical creatures.Unicorn heads, complete invisible beasts, cat cats, birds and snakes, everything written in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is here, and there are also some that have not been recorded.If it weren't for some herbs, it wouldn't look like a storage room for potion ingredients.

Professor Snape stood under the Ukrainian iron belly, raised his wand in his right hand, and made several sharp circles in the air. The cabinets around him opened, the materials inside moved, and then red-lit numbers appeared one by one. .

After comparing them one by one, Professor Snape waved his wand again, and everything returned to the same state as before.

"Mr. Strider, what do these things remind you of the horn of a bicorn, the skin of an African tree snake, the blood of a unicorn, half a dragon's heart, a pint of dragon's blood, and two pints of viper's venom?"

"Professor, does the blood of a dead unicorn also have the ability to extend a person's life?"

Professor Snape showed a look of contempt at the right time and replied: "No matter whether the unicorn is alive or dead, as long as you drink its blood, you can continue your life."

"Mr. Strider, I didn't expect you didn't know such a simple thing."

"Yes, Professor, I don't know." Ike said calmly, "That's why I need you to answer it for me, isn't it?"

Snape snorted coldly, waved his dark robe and walked out of the collection room first, followed closely by Ike.

Back in the office, the two sat opposite each other.

Snape hid his hands in his wide sleeves and looked cold again.

"Mr. Strider, is there anything else you need to tell me?"

"No, Professor." Ike shook his head and then asked, "Do you know what he is going to do with these materials?"

Snape nodded and said in an unchanging tone: "You already know what unicorn blood is used for. Dragon heart and blood will enhance the wizard's physique due to the characteristics of the dragon itself. Of course, this is just the most obvious way to use it.”

"If you add the venom of poisonous snakes, the skin of toads, the bones of centipedes, the silk of spiders, the shells of venomous scorpions, the eyes of pufferfish and the eggs of birds and snakes, you will get a powerful magic potion after brewing..."

"Drinking this magic potion can extend a person's life, so it is called a life-extending potion."

"Of course, the life-extending potion is not as powerful as the elixir of life. It can only extend your life for one year at most, and it is only effective when you drink it for the first time."

"The development of this potion is very complicated and takes several months."

"So Professor, what you're saying is that he won't take any more action for the time being?"

Snape nodded.

"Yes, Mr. Strider."