The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

"Everything is ready, Professor, a bathtub of disinfectant." Eugenie happily pointed to the bathtub and a row of large and small silver knives on the table.

Today was her turn, and her whole body needed to be disinfected. She didn't want to apply it slowly, so she simply took a bath to get the full disinfecting effect.

Her mind was filled with thoughts about the next steps - shaving her hair, soaking it in, making sure every corner was soaked, and not missing anything, otherwise it would affect the fit of the fake skin and bring higher risks to subsequent transfer steps.

The fake skin will make her body look bigger, so today she specially chose a particularly wide black nightgown. The skirt was comically put on her body like a bag and dragged to the ground. Of course, there was a reason for choosing black.

Snape opened his mouth and reminded tactfully, "I think you still need a covering. If it is not the necessary contact during the treatment-you may also remember that you will not stay three years old forever."

"Oh, yes." She turned the temporarily useless wooden blocks on the shelf into several screens to surround the bathtub that suddenly appeared here. "It would be great if I were a boy. I wouldn't have to avoid it, and I would It will be much easier to trim your hair and grow it back to its original length.”

She walked to the mirror, grabbed the scissors with one hand, and held up her long hair with the other. The hair that had been left for a long time had some weight, but she had to say goodbye to it today.

"No one has ever been able to decide their own birth. With the help of hair growth potions, you can be back to your original shape in a week."

The chestnut curly hair fell down in large handfuls and was cut like a dog's gnaw.

Snape saw her clumsily reaching behind her head and quickly took the scissors.

After cutting it short, I shaved it carefully with a razor.

Eugenie looked at the mirror and blinked, then stretched out her hands to touch her bare head curiously, "So it looks like this without hair."

It really looked like an egg. She touched her head again in the mirror.

I always think of some damn noseless bald guy~

Snape covered the mirror with a piece of cloth, and then said, "We used Lockhart to gain some processing experience, which is very helpful for you to capture the situation inside your own body. As for the differences, you need to pay special attention."

"Professor, I'm a little nervous, but I actually think my curse will be easier to deal with than Lockhart's. You see, the location of the curse has been determined. It's on the skin, so we don't need to look for it."

"Yes, this is one of the favorable conditions. In addition, although it is vicious and has a high fatality rate, it is currently in an inactive state through a series of measures taken previously."

"Yeah, indeed, what about the unfavorable conditions? What should I pay attention to?"

"After luring it into the outer skin, how to peel it off quickly is a big problem. As you can see, the prosthesis is not easy to come off after it is tightly attached to yourself. You used a spell to cut off Lockhart's prosthetic limb directly. .”

Eugenie frowned, "And the time is limited. After the prosthetic limb was injured, I recorded the time for it. It was effective for 28 minutes. After the time passed, it returned to its original shape. And we know from the memory of the elf that these curses can be left temporarily. body - then it has the ability to escape back to me after discovering that the parasitic part is damaged..."

"Not only that, but peeling the skin off causes a lot of damage to it, so I think the expected timeframe should be shorter."

"Skin faster," Eugenie's eyes fell on the row of knives. She had some experience skinning mammals, and this time it was her turn to skin her own fake skin.

"The last step of stripping is not optimistic. If something unexpected happens, I may take some emergency measures. What I want you to do is to stay calm. You know the reason very well."

Eugenie nodded, "We can't let emotional fluctuations activate the curse. Professor, I would like to ask if we can use small pieces of skin at the beginning and then peel them off one by one? Like a puzzle."

"No, its spell rules determine that even in a dormant state, it will automatically spread and connect with other parts, completely wrapping you up, and is always ready to squeeze the magic power in your body to achieve its goal. So the method you mentioned is only It can reduce its strength, but cannot eradicate it. Even if there is only a little bit of this cruel thing left, it will be a future problem."

"I understand." Eugenie put her left arm into the bathtub and soaked it for a while, then disinfected the knife again.

The situation inside the crucible was the same as yesterday, with bottomless black liquid.

However, before adding the salamander blood this time, the professor carefully took out a leather bag. It should be an anti-theft bag made of deformed lizard skin. The leather looked very old. It could be speculated that it was decades ago, or even older. An old object from hundreds of years ago.

He poured out some small green gemstones and placed them on the weighing paper.

Eugenie took a closer look and saw that each of those small gems was a square biconical standard crystal. She used the Scapin Revealing Spell to feel their energy.

"Is it zircon?" She wasn't sure. Various characteristics showed that it should be zircon, but she always felt something was different.

"It's Zircon - it's been treated in some ancient ways and I've tried adding it to the potion to create some attraction for damaging spells and temporarily trap them in its own tiny structure, further enhancing the plans we're using. The success rate." Snape picked with tweezers, "Mr. Fusco provided it for you, for the sake of her granddaughter, without asking for any compensation."

"Helen's grandfather? I owe her a lot of favors this time." Eugenie tried to push her hair back on her shoulders out of habit, but found that there was no hair. "So Helen knows about my situation."

"She doesn't know, she just suspects that her grandfather didn't tell her the facts in order not to worry her." Snape carefully added the selected zircons into the medicine. "I don't want to comment on what you have done in the past. Some friends, but Miss Fusco is definitely worth it.”

"She did—I won't forget it."

The salamander blood is added to the crucible after the zircon. The following steps are the same as yesterday. Next, a fresh human tissue is required.

Snape picked up the long-handled knife and looked down at her disinfectant-soaked hands with hesitation.

"Professor, let me do it myself." Eugenie was already prepared.

She folded the small white towel and put it into her mouth, bit it, put the tweezers on her right hand, put her left arm flat on the table, picked up the long-handled knife in her right hand, cut out a neat square frame under the barrier of blood, and then The knife was replaced with tweezers, and a piece of structurally intact skin was peeled off.

Snape had already turned his back. He silently opened the bottle with a narrow mouth, and when he saw the tweezers handing over the blood-stained skin, he immediately fed Phoenix Tears into her mouth.

The wound disappeared immediately, and only some of the blood that had gushed out was still dripping down the finger and onto the ground.