The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

The practice plan is interconnected, and some flexible tasks are methodically inserted, such as making mugwort essential oil and learning wolfsbane potion.

Even these additional learning contents can form a mutually reinforcing relationship with the main direction, such as wolfsbane potion, whose effect is to retain the wizard's will as a human during the process of wolf transformation, rather than preventing the physical transformation into wolf.

Correspondingly, the laws of pharmacological action are the same as the complex neural structures in the mind. The selection of raw materials is bold and cautious, and the magic ingredients are complex but implicitly connected.

The timing of the operation requires high precision. Even if the production seems to be almost synchronized by others, if you hesitate even slightly when adding the drops, the smell and color of the decoction will quickly deteriorate.

Eugenie had never failed so many times to tame a potion recipe.If the spell exercises the magic power in one's body, then the magic potion deals with the magic power of many different materials. When to take the next step and how many ingredients to add all depend on the adjustment.

She was now looking at the first successful potion in the crucible, which was impossible to drink, with great curiosity.

All sources say it tastes bad. How bad is it?The smell alone is acceptable. It smells bitter and sour, not too strong, and slightly fishy.

Snape saw that she was hesitating around the cauldron for a long time, so he simply encouraged her, "Try it if you want."

It’s not possible without making many detours, and all the seniors who simply left the word “bad taste” on their materials are no exception.Anyone who is suitable for embarking on this path and has a very inquiring spirit will have to hit the south wall once before they will understand that it is okay to use this tongue.

Eugenie took out a drop, dabbed a little with the pad of her little finger, and applied it to the tip of her tongue hesitantly and expectantly. Then she made something that she regretted all day in the faint sweetness coming from the tip of her tongue. Action - closed his mouth.

Sour, salty, astringent, bitter, spicy, the strong stimulation scares the taste buds to the point where they stand like goosebumps;

Then the salty and pungent smell entered the nasal cavity and went straight to the top of the head, making the brain throbbing with pain;

Dots of numbness, mixed with the astringency that rubs the taste buds, dance like popping candy on the tongue and throat, splashing all the flavors together, constantly stimulating the tongue and never letting it give up and fall into paralysis.

The taste of a single raw material is within the acceptable range of ordinary people, and then as the quantity is superimposed and the fusion reaction occurs, the degree of unpalatableness takes off directly on the coordinate axis.

She was already rinsing her tongue with clear water like a spring. The adhesion of the mixture of various flavors was quite strong, and she would not let go of it as she picked at her tongue.When most of the smell had finally faded away, the coughing and retching while rinsing had already made the tip of her nose red and her eyes moist.

"I understand 'bad taste' now." Snape gave her a handkerchief.

Eugenie covered the bridge of her nose and sniffed a few more times, "You should have stopped me, Professor."

Snape didn't reply, but wrinkled his nose in sympathy and took out a bag of sugar from his pocket.

I advised her not to drink it today, but she will still want to drink it tomorrow.

After tasting it, they will come to a highly unified conclusion: it tastes terrible!

It can be regarded as a necessary experience in stages.

Eugenie easily took the sugar and sprinkled it on her tongue. Chew it, chew it, spit it out, do it again, chew it, chew it...

"Better?" Snape looked at her and asked.

"Well, much better."

"Next check your Patronus Charm to determine if the positive emotions are enough to support moving to the next step. You have gained enough practice time since the beginning of the summer vacation."

Eugenie nodded. In order to reduce the number of demonstrations the professor had to give, her time allocation was once tilted towards this spell.

The most pleasant memory has also been selected. It is not something that exists in reality for the time being, but it can take effect as long as the thoughts are strong enough.

"Then, let's get started." Snape waved his wand, and all the equipment used in making Wolfsbane potion began to tidy up and make room.

Concentrate, let happy imagination fill the active thinking space, draw circles in the air with your arms, "Call God——", the power is accumulated in the wand with the guidance of spells and gestures, "——Guard", until the last syllable is said Finally, the silver color jumped out from the tip of the staff impatiently.

A dazzling big bird spread its wings silently with silvery white light.

Its body length and wingspan far exceed that of a snowy owl.

Silver passed through the wall and soon returned from the higher glass windows, hovering low around her.

"It's a white-tailed sea eagle, I think." Eugenie put down her wand, and the shape of the patron saint blurred into bright smoke, and then the light slowly disappeared beside her. "You think it's okay, Professor, I'm personally quite satisfied."

"Well, if you want to deal with Dementors, you still need to be more familiar with how to maintain the strength of the spell under its influence and adapt to the cold and fear it brings to people. However, since the goal we urgently need to achieve is to further learn the curse, I can assume you're ready."

Snape walked to the window, and Eugenie followed within half a step with her wand in her pocket. The sudden cool breeze outside the window knocked the withered yellow leaves stained with drizzle onto the glass and pasted them into window grilles.

Eugenie spread her fingers flat against the glass, touching the dead leaves across the window, and the coolness of autumn passed through that barrier to her palms.

Snape told her everything she needed to know:

The strength of the spell itself and the user's magic level jointly determine the upper and lower limits of the actual use of a certain spell, and the mind determines how much magic power can be converted into the type of spell required at one time.

Proficiency also has an impact on this, mainly reflected in the conversion efficiency, but it is also related to the intensity of the idea...

For lower-level curses, just using exciting emotions such as anger and hatred can convert enough magic power for use in spells, which is the level she currently masters.

However, for higher level, complex, cunning or overwhelming ones, such as the Unforgivable Curse, their use requires calm, intense and pure malice.

People who overuse dark spells are called dark wizards, and this is the reason why most dark wizards will be eaten by maggots once they use the Patronus Curse——

After their first attempt, they greedily celebrated that they had gained greater power - in a way that should not be accepted, and then they became obsessed with this wonderful experience like drug-addled Muggles.

Then the brain is covered with pure evil thoughts that are repeated for a long time, getting closer and closer to perfection, and gradually loses normal perception ability.

Torture for the sake of torture, kill for the sake of killing, no need for hatred or any reason.

They are cruel and mean, but their chests are numb and empty.

Of course, Eugenie doesn't want to be that kind of killing machine, raising her hand with Avada Kedavra to experience the Azkaban speedrun, so she must have a patron saint.

For most people, the Patronus only serves to ward off dementors.But for those who need to be close to the darkness, the unseen positive power hidden in the mind is the only way to protect the brain from being corroded by the darkness - just like Snape did, yearning for the hard-to-reach Light is how to sink into the quagmire but not into the abyss.

She had to learn to do something similar.