The day of the duel at Hogwarts

"Sean, please make preparations recently. At the end of this month, you are going to the Ministry of Magic. I will follow you to attend the triennial Golden Crucible Awards Ceremony. There is a high probability that you will win the award. You must be mentally prepared. Prepare."

"Award-winning? Is it because of the new wolfsbane potion?"

"Not only the new wolfsbane potion, but also the new mental recovery potion you had before. Of course, it also has a bit to do with improving the forgetfulness potion, but this is secondary. The main issue is the new wolfsbane potion and the new mental recovery potion. The improvement of these two potions is a major contribution to the magic world, so you have a high probability of winning the prize."

Sean didn't have much idea about the Golden Crucible Award Ceremony, but it wasn't too big of a deal to have his dean find out what he was talking about.

"I understand, Professor, I will prepare carefully."

"Well, that's fine. Also, what are your plans next?"

Sean knew very well that what his Slytherin Snake King was talking about was the next research project. It was just a research project. How could it be so easy to find it? Besides, his next focus was not on the new research project. The thesis has exhausted Sean's accumulation. He needs to continue to enrich his knowledge reserve so that he can have new ideas and research directions.

Sean didn't hide anything from his dean. Except for preparing research on transfiguration and alchemy, he told Snape everything.

After hearing what Sean said, Snape also nodded, thinking that what Sean said made sense.

So Snape recommended some books to Sean.

"I have a book list here. Take it back and look at it. This semester is indeed a good accumulation time. From now on, I will give you a book list every month. You have to read all these books."

"..."

Sean was speechless. He knew how his dean could let him go so easily.

When it comes to Sean's current magic potion level, it has really reached a very high level, and he is qualified to be called a master. Coupled with his unconstrained ideas and the new magic potion brewing method created by comprehensive chemistry, The name of master is well deserved, but when it comes to the reserve of potions knowledge, Sean still has many shortcomings, and there is also a huge gap in experience, especially when compared with Snape.

Whenever Sean went a long way in Potions, he became more aware of Snape's attainments in Potions.

It's like a mountain in the distance. When you walk towards the mountain, you always feel that it is close in front of you and you are almost there. But as you walk, you find that you are still so far away from that mountain, as if you have never been close. have to.

Snape looked at Sean who was leaving his office with a grimace and a faint smile on his face.

Of course he knew that Sean still had a thesis on transfiguration, and that he also needed a lot of time to study in alchemy, and was about to reach the point where he would start to study in depth and write a thesis. He knew this, but he didn't say it.

It’s okay if you want to study other things.

But you must first read the book I assigned you.

No matter what, Potions must come first!

after all……

Your time may be running out.

Thinking of this, Snape raised his hand and grabbed his left arm. Everyone who has the mark of the Dark Lord on his left arm knows very well that the Dark Lord has returned, and his power is gradually recovering. Once the Dark Lord really returns, , then what awaits Snape will be the most dangerous life of a double agent.

At that time, it was absolutely impossible for him to have time to teach Sean anything.

Moreover, Sean's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and he has faced off against the Dark Lord before. There is no guarantee that he will not become the target of the Dark Lord and other Death Eaters. When the time comes, he and Sean will be enemies rather than friends, so the only way is to fight against the Dark Lord as soon as possible. After teaching Sean everything he knew, Snape could relax and continue to be his double agent.

Early the next morning, Sean got up and ran outside for a while, then had breakfast and prepared for his first class.

The classes in the morning of the first day were all outdoor classes. The first period was a Divination class, and the second period was a Care of Magical Creatures class with Gryffindor.

In addition, it must be said that when school started early in the morning, Sean got his time turner again from Snape to use it to attend classes that still had conflicts.

However, there were no conflicts in the morning classes. Only in the afternoon did the two classes collide.

Sean, who had a whole year of experience in the last school year, is completely used to this.

On the first day of class in the morning, Divination was pretty good. With Sean's ability, he could handle the Divination class with ease.

Instead, it was the Care of Magical Creatures class. Sean looked at the Explosive-Tailed Skrewt that Hagrid took out and couldn't help but sigh. He thought that if he eliminated the Buckbeak incident last year, Hagrid would change somewhat, but now it seems, He really hasn't changed at all. Sean really doesn't want to touch something that is so disgusting that it makes people feel physically uncomfortable.

As if he saw the uncontrollable disgust on Sean's face, Harry nuzzled up to Sean and whispered to him: "Sean, I know this thing is disgusting, but Hagrid doesn't mean any harm, does he?"

Sighing helplessly, Sean looked at Harry and said, "If it's malicious, I can use my wand and fists to fight back. But it's this kind of disgusting without malicious intent that makes people most helpless. It seems that he didn’t listen at all to what I asked you to tell Hagrid last year.”

Harry was also speechless after hearing Sean's words.

In fact, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were already trying their best to make themselves like Hagrid's courses, but even so, they couldn't help feeling disgusted by the Blast-Ended Skrewt, let alone other people.

On the Slytherin side, if Sean hadn't been standing here, Malfoy and the others would have been furious, and even so, they just stood aside and looked at the Blast-Ended Skrewts indifferently, not obeying Hagrid's words at all. To engage with the idea of ​​a Blast-Ended Skrewt.

Soon, Hagrid also noticed the resistance of everyone on the Slytherin side, as well as more than half of the people on the Gryffindor side. This made Hagrid very confused and very sad. He had thought that he had been feeding a novelty since he was a child. Cute magical animals can make students more interested in class. However, Hagrid obviously did not realize that his standards for the cuteness of magical animals are really different from ordinary people. He felt that the cute Explosive-tailed Skrewt was in the eyes of the students. It's just a disgusting thing that I don't want to touch.

The first lesson was in vain.

Sean and others returned to Hogwarts directly, while Harry and others had to stay to help Hagrid deal with the blast-ended skrewts, even though they also found the blast-ended snails very disgusting.