The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

You can't see the sky outside in the basement, and you can only rely on the clock on the wall to know the time.The stone chamber is isolated from noise, only the regular ticking of the second hand can be heard.

Sissy counted Merlin's beard and fell asleep. As time passed, a flood of pain suddenly came from her body, pulling her out of her sleep abruptly.

She opened her eyes, and saw Snape standing in front of the bed in black, his cold face illuminated by the insufficiently bright light, and Sissy was terrified.

"What... What's the matter, Professor?" Sissy felt a wound on her back was opened, and the hot feeling went straight to her forehead.

"Change the dressing." Snape's voice was a little tired.

Sissy looked at the clock in doubt, twelve o'clock?Obviously it couldn't be noon.

"Professor, it's night now. Next time, can you consider waking me up first?" Sissy asked tentatively in a low voice. The pain of waking up was not very good when someone ripped open her wound while she was asleep.

Snape snorted disdainfully and said lightly, "I can't wake you up, add a few drops of strong sleeping pills to the water you drink before going to bed."

No wonder Merlin's beard counted to the third, and Sissy didn't remember it anymore. The professor actually gave him the medicine without even saying hello.Sissy felt uneasy about being manipulated wantonly, but facing Snape, the aroused dissatisfaction in her heart disappeared in an instant.

"Professor, how often do I need to change my medicine?" Sissy asked, turning her back to Snape.

"Once every six hours."

Before Sissy could speak again, Snape tapped the wand with one hand to open another wound, and quickly dripped the silver liquid with the other hand, shortening the time Sissy grinned as much as possible.

"Okay, just lie down after drinking." Snape handed over the water glass, no need to guess, there must be another drug in it.

Sissy took the cup and hesitated for a moment. She noticed that Snape was holding three or four small empty bottles in his hand, and it obviously cost a lot to change her medicine once.

"I'm sorry, Professor, I've caused you a lot of trouble." Sissy didn't know if the raw materials for making this unknown potion were easy to get, and she didn't know if the production process was cumbersome, but just changing the potion every six hours was enough. It's troublesome.

Snape didn't answer this, and watched Sissy drink the potion silently, took the cup, turned off the light and left.

At six o'clock in the morning, Snape came more on time than the alarm clock.The effect of the sleeping pills gradually faded, and Sissy felt that her body had recovered a little bit. Sitting on the chair still hurt a little, but sitting on the quilt was no longer uncomfortable. She guessed that the strange silver potion was added with white fresh essence, which had a miraculous effect on wound recovery. .

There is no need to go to class, just stay in bed and read books all day long, three meals a day are delivered by Dudu.

"Huh, it's so cool!" Cici subconsciously wanted to stretch, but considering that the wound had just begun to heal, she suppressed this inappropriate thought.

For a whole day, Sissy finished reading "The Medicinal Value of Fantastic Beasts" that Voldemort had photographed in one sitting.

Just as school was over, Snape returned to the office with a smile on his face. He was very satisfied with the performance of some students in the continuous class just now, so his mood improved a lot.

He went straight into the study, while Sissy was concentrating on reading "A Little Thought with the Wand".

The potion book seemed quite labor-intensive, and it took Sissy a whole day to finally get it done, so it should be something relaxing to stop her racing head to rest.

"Ravenclaw students are indeed to be commended for their eagerness to learn."

Snape thought this in his heart, and was also curious about what book Sissy was reading, so he closed the book in Sissy's hand without any explanation, and glanced at the cover.

"Magic wand, be careful? Nowadays, books are becoming more and more unscrupulous in order to attract people's attention." He said disappointedly.

Then his gaze swept over the book of medicinal value that Sissy put on the bedside, and the original smile on his face turned cold in an instant.

"If you don't read the good ones, you can read these messy things!" Snape grabbed the thick book and threw it in front of Sissy with a "snap", his tone slightly sullen.

Sissy was stunned, and quickly explained: "Professor, I finished reading that book. I was reading this book before you came back. I just started reading the other one. It just so happened that you..."

In this regard, Sissy's luck was as good as ever. After studying hard for a long time, no one saw her, and she was sure to be caught when she first started fishing.

"Really?" Snape, "What's the use of Morat's juice?"

"Cure abrasions and cuts, and relieve pain." Sissy had the impression that Morat rat juice also had the effect of removing pustules, but it was not mentioned in this book.

"Well, then what kind of treatment does the obtained Morat rat juice need to go through before it can be used?" Snape nodded slightly, and then asked the previous question.

"Filtration and pickling, but I don't know exactly how to do it."

In fact, Sissy was confused by the description of pickling. According to her knowledge, pickling is used to remove the oxide film or rust on the metal surface.As for how to wash a liquid like Morat rat juice, she was completely at a loss.

"Then let me ask you another question. If your garden is full of hawklaps, what can you use to kill them?"

Sissy couldn't help imagining the scene:

Blobs of fleshy pink mushroom-like things with prickly black hairs wriggling through the garden, poking holes in the ground with their disgusting tentacles, tying up twisted earthworms and sucking them inside The juice is sucked dry.

This thing has a very strong reproductive ability, and there are so many pink and black-haired monsters, big and small, that people dare not walk around.

"Giant color-changing snail venom!"

This is too scary, Sissy hastily interrupted her imagination, and began to think about whether to keep a few color-changing giant snails at home as a backup. The scene of the garden being crawled by Hawklap made her scalp tingle.

"Okay, five points for Ravenclaw." Snape didn't intend to make things difficult for him. There were all the questions in the book, but he just wanted to test whether Sissy had really read it carefully.

"You mean—you've finished reading all of them, so you're here to read idle books?"

Sissy nodded, and pointed to the "Contribution of Ore to Potion" on the table: "This is the only one I haven't read. I borrowed these five from the library and read the rest."

Snape rolled his eyes at Sissy, "Since you are still wasting time here? You can only read it before you go to bed, and I will come over to check the reading results. For me, don't take any chances."