New Professor at Hogwarts

Xia Ran didn't answer and asked: "How is your training going?"

"Not bad." Snape nodded slightly, withdrew his wand and motioned for Xia Ran to sit on the sofa.

Xia Ran sat down unceremoniously and took the glass that Snape brought from a tray, which was filled with mellow-tasting wine.

"Professor Frémont."

Percy sat down on the ground, gasping for air, breathing rapidly, and his face was particularly pale. He didn't even look at Professor Snape at this time.

"It seems that Percy adapted very quickly." Xia Ran raised her eyebrows. Percy Weasley was willing to join the Ministry of Magic as an undercover agent, and deliberately broke with the Order of the Phoenix and his family. In order to keep it secret, Percy Weasley He must learn Occlumency, otherwise if he meets a master who is proficient in Legilimency, he may be very prone to problems.

Voldemort himself is a top Legilimency master!

As for the magical attainments of Occlumency, Snape was even better than Dumbledore, not to mention that he was an undercover agent and was proficient in the art of undercover, so Snape took the time to train Percy.

Occlumency is a profound magic that can seal the brain to resist the invasion and influence of magic. It is a magic that every undercover agent must master.

As for Legilimency magic, some wizards who are proficient in this magic can use this magic to learn many useful or useless things from other people's minds and obtain their emotions and memories.

Snape is an Occlumency Master, and almost no one in the wizarding world is better at this magic than him.

Although Xia Ran also knew Occlumency and Legilimency magic and had certain attainments, it was not worth mentioning compared to Snape.

"Stop talking, Professor Frémont, it's too painful." Percy said with a bitter smile, "Learning Occlumency is really... very uncomfortable... having those memories read wantonly by others..."

"Hmph." Snape snorted slightly and said, "I did not read your memory. I am not interested in your memory at all. The sooner you learn Occlumency, the sooner I will be freed."

Percy suddenly smiled.

"By the way, Xia Ran, what are you doing here?" Snape looked at Xia Ran and asked, "You came here specifically to inspect?"

Xia Ran waved her hand and said with a smile: "How can you? Professor Snape's ability is better than mine, not to mention I'm not the leader of the Order of the Phoenix - that's Dumbledore's position - why am I here to inspect? "

"Then you come here..."

"It's mainly about the Wolfsbane Potion." Xia Ran said straight to the point, "Do you know the latest news today? It was published in the Daily Prophet."

A slight smile appeared on Snape's lips, and he said: "Lupin's identity as a werewolf was revealed? It will happen sooner or later. No one else is to blame."

He was happy to hear about it.

"The position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is really cursed by a mysterious person. Every professor can't hold the position for more than one year. Even a man as knowledgeable as Professor Lupin cannot escape the power of this curse. "Percy sighed. Like most students at Hogwarts, he recognized Professor Lupin very much, especially after experiencing Professor Quirrell and Professor Lockhart.

It is rare to find a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor as dedicated and capable as Professor Lupine!

"What you said about Wolfsbane Potion is somewhat vague, but Wolfsbane Potion itself is a very complete potion. It is easier said than done to improve it?" Snape said.

"Completely solve the problem of werewolf transformation..." Xia Ran tried.

Snape said flatly: "That is absolutely impossible! The transformation of werewolves is mainly due to the fact that they were bitten by the original werewolf and have werewolf genes flowing in their bodies. This is a fact that no medicine can and cannot change."

He paused for a moment before continuing: "At most, it can be like the wolfsbane potion, which can suppress the ferocious habits of the werewolf after he transforms."

"Can we go one step further and directly let the werewolf retain the memory and sanity of his human form after transforming into a werewolf?" Xia Ran asked expectantly.

"You said it's easy, but it's not that simple?" Snape said coldly, "Werewolves and werewolves, in wolf form or human form, have different habits. They can even be said to be two species of life."

"When not transforming, a werewolf is no different from an ordinary human being. There is no difference at all, and there will be no difference. But if it transforms into a wolf, it will be ferocious and violent, and any reason and memory in the human form will be lost. Then it disappeared, and there may not even be any memory left in my mind, only the instinct of a wolf is still there.”

"I'm not talking about human instinct, but wolf instinct." Snape said specifically.

"You mean..." Xia Ran said thoughtfully, "Werewolves, if they have different shapes, are even two different lives?"

"That's right."

Snape nodded and said: "Wolfsbane potion can suppress the ferocious habits of the wolf form. It has been a great invention of potions for thousands of years. If we want to go one step further and completely bridge the gap between the human form and the wolf form, There is almost no hope, and maybe in a few hundred or a thousand years, there may be a little hope.”

He is not optimistic about it anyway, because he himself is the authority in the magic world today.

"Human form... wolf form..."

Xia Ran thought: "The human form can retain reason and memory, but the wolf form has lost reason and memory, but has a strong body. If the two can truly merge into one, maybe we can truly be called a werewolf." "

"What you said makes sense, but how can you maintain the strength and strong body of the wolf form in the human form, or how can you still have a clear memory and reason in the wolf form?" Snape shook his head and said, "I didn't think of any good way anyway. I can only try to improve the effect of the wolfsbane potion."

Xia Ran rubbed her forehead and felt a headache. This request was very simple and clear, but the actual operation was unclear at all.

"A werewolf bites a normal person, and then the normal person will have the shape of a werewolf. It is obvious that the genes have been changed." Xia Ran said slowly while thinking, "I wonder if we can find out the genetic template, and Or an altered DNA sequence?"

Snape said angrily: "Have you read too many Muggle books? I admit that genes and DNA do exist, but if you want to change...how to change? And how can you ensure that the direction of the change is good? What if it becomes What's worse? Like actually becoming a wild wolf and never being human again.

"Surgery on the genetic level is taboo for everyone. It is the domain of the gods."

"Huh?" Xia Ran exclaimed, glanced at Snape in surprise, and said, "I didn't expect Professor Snape to research the science and technology of the Muggle world?"

Xia Ran wanted to say, you wouldn't backhand a diploma from the Department of Biology of Cambridge University and slap it on my face, would you?