The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

When John returned Scabbers to Ron and arrived at the Potions office, Snape was pacing back and forth in the office holding a bottle of blue potion.

When he saw John come in, he couldn't even wait for John to finish saying hello, and then directly put the bottle of magic potion into John's hand.

"Drink it!"

Without any hesitation, John pulled out the cork and poured the potion into his mouth.

"Tsk tsk-"

John commented, "It tastes as bad as ever. Professor Snape, you should really read the paper I published. It not only contains knowledge about making magic dishes, but also how to improve the taste of magic potions. I believe you……"

Hearing this, Snape's breathing became heavier little by little.

It was like an active volcano preparing to erupt, gathering strength.

But soon all his anger dissipated.

Because before John finished speaking, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Snape quickly supported John and carefully placed him on a recliner. Then he opened John's eyelids and checked. After confirming that John had really fallen asleep, he sat next to him and guarded John.

It wasn't until the sky turned dark that John finally stretched and woke up.

At this time, Snape asked a little eagerly:

"how do you feel?"

John turned around and said with a smile:

“This was the best sleep I’ve had in the past few days!”

John told the truth.

Snape had previously given him a way to mix the Dreamless Sleeping Potion and the Water of Life and Death.

This did alleviate John's resistance to the Dreamless Sleeping Agent, but it also made John's sleep quality extremely poor.

The potion that Snape gave him today had no shortcomings at all.

Hearing this, Snape finally breathed a sigh of relief.

His originally stiff body became relaxed again, and he leaned back on the chair and said lightly:

"This is a new drug I developed based on the Dreamless Sleeping Potion. It is more effective than the original Dreamless Sleeping Potion."

"As expected of you, Professor Snape!" John praised with a smile, "I knew you could do it!"

There was no trace of joy on Snape's face as he continued:

"Don't be too happy! Madam Pomfrey and I can almost conclude that your condition is continuing to worsen. This means that we are now racing against your condition, do you understand?"

John also suppressed his smile and nodded.

"No, you don't understand at all."

Seeing this, Snape snorted coldly, "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking. You are planning to leave the mess to us to deal with, and then be lazy yourself.

You are just being whimsical! "

As he spoke, Snape handed over a piece of parchment, "Next, all the potions you need to use must be made by yourself! As for Ms. Pomfrey and I, we need to develop the next potion. A new drug with stronger effects!"

John did not refute, but silently took the parchment.

He could see a hint of fatigue on Snape's face.

Sighing, John said sincerely:

"Thank you, Professor Snape."

"Stop talking nonsense! Let's get started!" Snape turned around and began to read a thick potion book again, "If you can't learn the formula of 'Powerful Sleeping Potion', you won't be able to do anything after school. It’s time!”

Curling his lips, John sat directly opposite Snape and began to read the parchment.

He didn't find it difficult just to learn the potion recipe.

After all, his ability to 'chew' not only absorbs and transforms magic power, but also allows him to 'taste' the approximate ingredients of the potion, and even the production steps.

It was precisely with this ability that he was able to directly study the entire OWL level Potions course in just over a year.

However, when John really began to learn more about this 'powerful sleeping potion' and tried to make it himself, he suddenly discovered that things were not as simple as he had expected.

The 'Powerful Sleeping Potion' developed by Snape is an absolutely advanced potion!

The difficulty of making this kind of potion has far exceeded John's current level.

It was completely impossible for John to learn it in a short time.

Even if you bypass the theoretical knowledge and memorize it by rote, it will not work.

Because it involves the use of magic power and a large number of refined operations, it requires extremely high proficiency.

There was no other way, John could only start from scratch and slowly learn more NWET-level potion knowledge, and try to break it bit by bit.

And Snape fulfilled his previous warning to John.

He directly deprived John of all his spare time. As soon as class was over, he would find someone to take John back to the office and ask him to continue researching the 'Powerful Sleeping Potion'.

This made John very helpless.

Because Snape's move directly interrupted his plans for "Tom Riddle's Diary".

John even suspected that the reason why Snape did this was simply because researching new drugs was too hard and he was mentally unbalanced, so he wanted to drag him into the water.

Fortunately, John didn't suffer either.

In the process of researching the 'powerful sleeping potion', John's potion level was rising rapidly.

At the same time, the magic power contained in the 'Powerful Sleeping Potion' is far higher than that of the Dreamless Sleeping Potion. It is the magic potion that John has consumed so far, with the magic power content second only to the Fortune Elixir.

After John drank a large amount of the finished 'Powerful Sleeping Potion' and the waste products that John made using the 'free' materials in Snape's office, John's magical talent directly increased a lot.

Not only that, while John was studying potions, he was also practicing magic spells under the pretext of 'increasing exercise and improving sleep quality'.

This content is what he values ​​most.

Currently, he still uses the duel wizard system.

Just in terms of spell selection, John is ready to make some changes.

The first is [Split], which he currently regards as his main damage skill.

[Cutting Curse] has proven its usefulness in the past time.

But as the main damaging skill, its destructive power is still too weak.

In comparison, the destructive power of [Shattered to pieces] is much stronger.

This magical power can be used to blow up most solid objects, including the human body, and its power will vary depending on the user's magic level, with an extremely high upper limit.

It is precisely because of its powerful destructive power that many wizards firmly believe that it is a black magic.

John has been practicing against it and is preparing to use it to replace the position of "Fragmented" in his duel wizard system.

In addition, John also started learning [Expelliarmus] and planned to use it to replace [Strength Release].

And after being forced into seclusion by Snape for more than a month, John finally successfully refined the first pot of 'powerful sleeping potion' in his life.

As soon as all the potions were bottled, John subconsciously shouted loudly:

"Ha! Professor Snape! Look! I succeeded!"

The voice echoed in Snape's office, but there was no response.

Only then did John realize that Snape was going to the Halloween dinner.

Without any hesitation at all, John walked out of the office carrying a bottle of 'powerful sleeping potion'.

Over the past month or so, Snape's greatest pleasure every day was the slow progress of Weird John's research.

This afternoon he even directly threatened that with John's skill, he might not be able to actually make the 'Powerful Sleeping Potion' by Christmas.

Now John couldn't help but want to punch Snape in the face.

Anyway, the Halloween dinner incident in the original work should have happened on other floors, and John expected that he would not encounter those bad things in the original work.

However, it turns out that one should not take anything by chance.

Because John had just taken a few steps towards the foyer, he bumped into a wizard who was hidden under a wide black robe and exuded a strong aura of 'Tom Riddle' magic!