Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

Since this was the first Potions class, Snape just asked everyone to prepare the simplest potion to treat scabies.

Even so, it still stumped most of the freshmen, even Hermione.

She flipped through the potion book anxiously, trying to find the imperfections in her preparation.

Dean found it uninteresting. Although he was also a novice, "potions expertise" gave him a rather high horizon. In his eyes, Hermione's preparation techniques seemed so jerky and clumsy.

"Miss Granger, don't you think the amount of dried nettles is a bit too much?" Dean finally couldn't help but noticed that when Hermione weighed the dried nettles, the amount was a quarter too much. reminded.

The experience of the "potion expert" told Dean that adding such a large amount of dried nettles to the potion would definitely cause the crucible to explode.

"I know, I know, I weigh so much to leave room for possible waste during the preparation process." Hermione replied irritably.

Dean appreciated Hermione's idea of ​​leaving room for room, but - Potions are one of the few subjects in the wizarding world that pay attention to precise measurement, and there is no room for room like this.

Dean thought for a while, and based on the tips from "Potion Expertise", he found a little pus from the bubble stem used for dilution. If Hermione were to prepare the potion and it unfortunately exploded, she could just add this "potion expert" in time. Thinner" can avoid disaster.

Snape, who happened to be passing by, noticed Dean's little movement and glanced at him unexpectedly. His lips moved and he wanted to say something, but he held back.

Dean didn't notice Snape's expression. All his attention was focused on Hermione, ready to check for her mistakes at any time - he had to admit that this was a very tiring job.

Dean believed that Snape's choice of this potion in the first class was definitely to make things difficult for the new students: although this kind of potion is not difficult to prepare, if something goes wrong, it will cause innocuous but very painful damage to the new students. This is definitely an unforgettable lesson, but I don’t know who the unlucky guy will be.

As expected by Dean, just when Snape was praising Malfoy and showing everyone how perfectly Malfoy cooked slugs with tentacles, a burst of acidic green smoke suddenly appeared in the classroom, and there was a burst of A very loud hissing sound.

Neville had somehow burned Seamus' cauldron into a crooked piece - it seemed that Mundungus had not deceived Dean at least on this point, as the chance of damage to the new cauldron was indeed frighteningly high.

The potion in the crucible spilled onto the stone floor, burning holes in the shoes of several new students; Neville was soaked in the potion, and his arms and legs were covered with red and swollen scabies, which made him scream in pain. .

Within seconds, the entire class was on their stools.

When the pot was knocked over, Dean could see clearly that Neville had put too much dried nettles in and had put the porcupine quills in before taking the pot off the fire - unfortunately they were a little far apart, Dean had no time to remind and remedy the situation, and the disaster happened.

"Idiot!" Snape roared and rushed over, waving his wand to sweep away the potion spilled on the ground, "You must not have followed the steps in the book!"

Neville cried aggrievedly, and many painful scabies suddenly appeared on his nose.

"Send him to the school hospital ward," Snape snapped at Seamus, who was in the same group as Neville.

Then he moved around Harry and Ron, who were working right next to Neville. "Potter, why didn't you tell him not to add porcupine quills? Do you think he made a mistake just to show you? Gryffindor lost another point because of you."

Snape said, looking towards Dean, hoping that this accident would give Dean a warning not to always be so self-righteous.

However, Dean didn't notice Snape's painstaking efforts at all. He took advantage of everyone's attention being attracted by Neville and quickly completed the preparation of the scabies treatment potion based on Hermione's work.

What shocked Snape was that Dean's preparation was so perfect that he couldn't have done it better.

Dean carefully put the prepared medicine into a glass bottle and cleaned the crucible before anyone noticed.

Unfortunately, what Dean didn't know was that his little actions were seen by at least two people, one was Professor Snape and the other was Hermione. When Hermione looked away from Neville, she happened to see Dean cleaning the cauldron. scene.

"Dean, what did you do?" Seeing that the results of most of her hard work for most of the class were cleaned up mercilessly by Dean, Hermione was furious - she didn't realize that Dean had actually prepared it successfully before, and only cleaned up Just residue.

"Miss Granger, you have been distracted for so long that the best time for the medicine has passed. If I hadn't taken action in time, the medicine you prepared would have the same result as Neville - I guess you don't want to Go to the school hospital to keep Neville company, right?" Dean touched the medicine bottle hidden in his pocket and asked with a smile.

He planned to try the effect of the potion on Neville after returning to the dormitory. He hoped that Madam Pomfrey would not let Neville stay in the hospital for observation.

Hermione stared at Dean angrily for a long time. Just when Dean thought she had seen through, the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

The Gryffindors who had long been fed up with Snape dispersed in a hurry. Only Hermione still didn't want to believe that the potion she had worked so hard to prepare for a lesson ended in failure. details, trying to find the reason for the failure.

Seeing Hermione's unwillingness, Dean felt a little unbearable and couldn't help but slow down. He was not sure that when Hermione faced Snape alone, Snape would find a reason to buckle Gryffindor. How many points.

"Miss Granger, I am very happy that you are so enthusiastic about Potions class, but unfortunately, I think you are not suitable here." When the classroom was almost empty, Snape's greasy voice said rang in their ears.

Hermione seemed to be greatly frightened and humiliated - the know-it-all lady who was praised by almost everyone had never encountered even a professor being so rude to her - her eyes immediately filled with tears. Tears, but they held back and did not fall.

"I understand, Professor, see you in the next class!" Hermione hurriedly said goodbye and rushed out of the classroom without looking back - in the eyes of others, this was a normal thing, except for a few Slytherin students. Almost all the girls in other houses have the experience of being scared to tears by Snape.

Dean sighed helplessly when he saw this. Snape was such an awkward guy. Why did he have to give everyone such a bad impression?

"Mr. Thomas, I would like to ask you to stay for a while to deal with the mess here." Just when Dean was about to leave, Snape suddenly said.

Dean looked at Snape in surprise. This was the last class of the day, but Dean didn't want to waste his dinner time cleaning up the Potions classroom.

"I just noticed that you have mastered the cleaning spell proficiently, so-" Snape pointed around, "I leave this place to you. If you can't finish cleaning up, you can continue after dinner."

After saying that, Snape shook his cloak and slid towards the classroom door like an old bat.