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First year, Potions classroom, Kevin's "out of class" time.

Kevin was finishing the "homework" assigned by Snape, brewing a potion for scabies.

This is the first potion brewed by the students of Hogwarts. It is very simple, but it has the same strict requirements on the process and carefulness.Many great potion masters started their legendary experiences with this potion.

Kevin carefully picked up a cleaned tentacled slug with tweezers...

"bump!"

A book hit Kevin right in the back of the head, little damage but great insult!

With an upset and puzzled look on his face, Kevin asked, "Why did you hit me again? Professor."

Snape said with a dead face, "Why use tweezers?"

Kevin was dumbfounded. He picked up the book and pointed to a line, and said, "It's in the book! It's in the book! It's in the book! I'm doing it strictly according to the procedures in the book, professor!"

In the textbook: Choose a slug with tentacles, wash it, and squeeze the juice into the crucible with tweezers!

Snape didn't read the book at all, and said deadpan, "Why don't you stretch out your pathetic hand and squeeze the juice?"

"Eh! Can it still be like this? But in the book... I know!"

Just as Kevin was about to say that the book didn't say so, Snape lifted the book in his hand, and Kevin quickly closed his mouth and squeezed out the juice with his hands.

He felt aggrieved, when had he ever been disciplined by a teacher like this.But at Hogwarts, he couldn't accept it, and he had no room to fight back against Snape.

Just as Kevin picked up the slug, the book fell down again.

Kevin got really angry and yelled, "What are you doing? I'm doing what you say!"

Snape said coldly: "Dirty hands will affect the effect of the potion!"

"..."

"Fake!"

Kevin laughed back angrily: "Hehe! You're playing with me, aren't you? You asked me to use my hands, but now you say I can't use them."

Snape said indifferently: "Why don't you consider wearing a glove, or wash your dirty hand clean!"

"..."

Kevin is speechless, really speechless!

For the next process, Kevin still followed the instructions in the book, otherwise, what else could he do?Before that, he had never been in contact with the refining of potions, but the result was that he was constantly scolded!

"bump!"

"Why put the porcupine quill whole? Don't you know how to grind it up?"

"bump!"

"Why don't you boil it over a low fire for a while!"

……

In a word, it is not enough to follow the textbook!

In the end, Kevin put the newly brewed scabies potion in front of Snape exhausted physically and mentally, which was completely different from the situation in class.

In class, Snape didn't say anything at all according to the textbook, and even satirized those who failed why they didn't read the book.But when it came to him, the book became wrong.

Snape glanced at Kevin's scabies potion and nodded, affirming his hard work.

"Continue tomorrow! You can go! Remember to put the copied content on my desk next week." Snape said lightly.

Kevin didn't leave, but asked, "I want to ask, Professor. I clearly made the potion according to the content in the book..."

Before he could finish speaking, Snape interrupted him and said, "There is a better way, why not use it."

"But that's a book!" Kevin asked puzzled.

Snape said indifferently: "Books are written by people, so his method must be the best method?"

It is better to have no books than to believe in books!

Kevin understands this truth, but the key is that he has never been exposed to potions at all. Does it have to be randomly generated without reading books?

Kevin smiled wryly, "I'm Muggle-born, Professor! I had never been exposed to potions before."

"Then why don't you go and try it yourself? Don't you already have access to it now? I don't think you're short of the money you spent on materials, right?"

Snape's parallel questioning left Kevin speechless.

Although Snape's teaching method is very fucked, Kevin has to admit that he has benefited a lot.And the most important thing is that he pointed out an attitude to Kevin, the attitude of daring to question, and dare to try after questioning, and dare to challenge.

From then on, Kevin will no longer stick to the textbook when brewing potions, he will make changes by himself.

Change the chopped potion into powder, change the frequency of stirring, increase or decrease the cooking time, or even replace certain materials.

Just small changes can get unexpected results,

Of course, potion brewing is dangerous, and not all of Kevin's changes are correct. A "little white" who changes the brewing process rashly will definitely have bad things happen.

Neville put in the porcupine quills before turning off the flame while making the scabies potion. As a result, the caustic potion splashed all over his body, and his whole face was covered with scabies.

Kevin also encountered this situation in the process of trying, even worse than Neville.

But the effect is gratifying. After a long time, his understanding and mastery of potions has reached a point where other students are far behind.

The most important thing is that Kevin has learned to change from Snape. It is very difficult and remarkable to learn to change in a precise discipline and still be successful.

……

Facing Hermione's doubts, Kevin smiled and said, "It's better to have no books than to believe in books, Hermione! Sometimes the content in textbooks is not the best method."

Books are a kind of "faith" to Hermione, so she doesn't agree with what Kevin said.

"You're just a coincidence!" Hermione replied.

"Wow!"

At this moment, Ron on the side let out an exclamation, and the two found that Harry had also succeeded, and the method was exactly the same as Kevin's!

Hermione joked, "You're a quick learner, Harry!"

"What?" Harry asked in surprise when he heard Hermione's words, "What are you talking about? Hermione."

Hermione said speechlessly: "I mean you have learned Kaiwen very well, keep working hard!"

I didn't think much about continuing my cooking.

Harry glanced at Kevin, puzzled, and said, "What does she mean?"

Kevin replied, "You'd better keep your fire down!"

Harry glanced at his textbook and said, "This... I don't think so!"

Kevin laughed, Harry had moments of confidence in Potions.

In the classroom, everyone is working hard to get the Felicity Elixir.Soon, because Ron imitated Kevin's method and succeeded in getting Sleepy Beans, the others followed suit and completed the first step.

The next step is to make the soup in the crucible turn light blue, and this step requires waiting.Many people couldn't wait to increase the flames, but it backfired, and the potion became a pot of ink.

But this reminded everyone, everyone dared not move any more, and waited honestly for the color of the potion to change.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Slughorn shook his head helplessly.Just as I was about to give a reminder, I found that there were actually two people who were not waiting, but were preparing the materials needed next.

Kevin and Harry!

Potions are very important to the timing of material selection, and even slight oxidation may lead to greatly reduced effects, or even failure.So the teaching in the book is step by step, but in fact, many times it can be prepared in advance, and some materials will be more effective if left for a period of time.

But it's normal for everyone not to do this. After all, not everyone will pay attention to the details, not to mention that many details are contrary to the knowledge in books, which requires a long time of trial and error to discover.

Slughorn saw Kevin and Harry nodding in satisfaction as they prepared to take the next step. His eyes were still vicious, and the two students he had his eyes on were indeed talents.

But Kevin went one step further than Harry, and turned down the flames!