The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

"Very well, Sissy." Snape held his wand in front of him like a sword, "Then from now on, I am your opponent. Raise your wand."

Sissy's heart was pounding, and she raised her wand just like the professor did.

"Take a few steps behind you, turn your head again, and when I count to 'three', quickly say your spell."

Sissy took a few steps back and turned around, staring intently at Snape, breathing more rapidly.

"one two Three"

"Expelliarmus!" they yelled almost simultaneously.

But Sissy's movements were stiff, and before she could cast out the spell, Snape's spell had landed on her hand impartially.

"Why so slow, pick it up and continue." Snape frowned, glanced at the wand on the ground, and started counting again involuntarily.

Sissy quickly picked up her wand and resumed her ready position.

This time she adjusted her mentality and chanted the spell at the speed she should have practiced in the previous practice, but she was repelled just as the red light collided with Snape, her hand still hurt, and the wand flew out of her hand .

"Didn't I let you eat today? It's soft, use some strength, and continue."

Sissy didn't dare to delay, and was hit one after another.

Every time, Sissy obviously tried her best, but Snape was always faster and stronger than her.

If she had enough time to condense the magic power in her body like she did when she practiced the spell herself, she might be able to overwhelm the power Snape was using on her now.

But the professor obviously wants to train her speed, and she can only start to move at the moment of counting to three. If she gathers strength in advance, the meaning of training will be completely lost.

Qian Qian was beaten more than ten times on her right hand, but she couldn't change the other hand, so she had to rub it twice and continue to be beaten.

She tried her best to bring out her power at that moment, but Snape could see the change in her, and even the silent spell could overwhelm her.

Therefore, the more Sissy tried her best, the more force she received when she was hit, until these few times when she was hit, her steps were unsteady and she staggered a few steps backwards.

"Don't disappoint me," Snape said suddenly.

Sissy pursed her lips tightly and focused her attention on Snape's wand again. When she heard the count of "three", she burst out with all her strength and collided with Snape's spell.

Her red light finally flew in the direction of the professor with a slight advantage, causing his wand to come out of his hand and fly up a little distance.

"Not bad," Snape snapped up, and the wand returned easily to his hand.

Sissy heaved a sigh of relief, but she could feel that the strength of Snape's last two shots was almost the same, and he did not continue to increase the size as before.

"Professor, you did it on purpose." Sissy said softly with a tired smile.

The corner of Snape's mouth slightly raised, "At least you didn't live up to my expectations, let's call it a day."

"It's okay, professor, I'm fine." Sissy felt that she could persevere a little longer. It was mainly because the professor let her off the hook that she barely passed the test. This speed of progress was obviously not enough.

"Forget it, your hand is swollen."

Sissy's hand hurts all the time anyway, she was being beaten all the time, she didn't care about it at all, and now she only noticed it when she looked up.

"Oh, it's become a steamed bun." It's good that Qianqian didn't look at it, but it hurt even more when she glanced at it.

"Professor, you are really ruthless. I fell down the stairs and didn't get so swollen." Sissy deliberately raised her right hand.

"Then you asked to continue. I should have agreed to your request just now, right?" Snape frowned and glanced at the back of Sissy's protruding hand, then quickly looked away.

"It's a good thing there's some detumescence potion left." Sissy murmured with her head lowered. She never thought that practicing the disarming spell would be able to achieve this.

"Huh? I seem to hear that you don't like this kind of training, is that true Sissy?" Snape just took out the potion when he heard Sissy muttering.

"No, I really like it. The training should be like this. You can't just learn some kung fu and embroider your legs. When you really need to use it, you can compete with each other."

Sissy said that, what she is most grateful for now is that she proposed to practice the Disarming Curse early, and at most she was beaten.

It’s a good thing I didn’t practice fainting, otherwise, if I followed the training method taught, if I fainted and then pulled up to continue, one of the head and the floor tiles would be unable to hold it first and would burst.

Sissy saw that the bulge on her hand disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. The effect was really insignificant. Even if she was beaten with a bruised nose and a swollen face, she would probably be able to recover immediately.

"Professor, you haven't told me how to pre-process the ingredients. After processing, even if I use the same method to make it, the effect will be many times different."

Sissy wanted to ask a long time ago, although she felt that this must be an advanced method, after all, she had never seen an introduction in any book she had read.

Snape smiled, put away the detumescence potion and put it back.

"I'm still wondering why you haven't come to ask." Snape picked up one of Sissy's bags, and took out a pack of herbs.

"Actually, it's not difficult. As long as you have learned the Scaping Mantra first, and memorized the properties of various medicines, you can start using it. This is a method I created myself, and it can be used in most cases. .”

Sissy's heart sank, it was really too early to learn this, Scarpin appeared to curse her and she still couldn't do it.

"But professor, I don't know that yet, so I must not be able to learn it. Is there any other way?"

Sissy looked at Snape eagerly. With such a high attainment in teaching potions, there might be an alternative. I wondered why she didn't come to ask earlier.

"No." Snape put all the clutter on the desk aside, and replied without looking up.

"Ah?" Sissy's hope was extinguished just now, "But, didn't you just say why I didn't come to ask? I knew that I would definitely not be able to use the Appearance Curse."

"Thinking too much, I just want you to be motivated to learn quickly, I don't believe that you will not be interested in this method that can greatly improve the quality." Snape paused and said, "If you are not interested, I don't have to bother gone."

"Actually, Sissy, your own method is also good. It is somewhat similar to the Appearance Curse. I have also used a similar method when I was groping for it before."

"Really?" Sissy suddenly became excited again, similar to what the professor did, then I am a genius!

"But your technique is too clumsy." Snape caught a glimpse of Sissy's expression and wanted to add this sentence.

"Okay..." Sissy has calmed down after this ups and downs. Even if the professor says something to praise her now, she probably won't be interested anymore.