dumb wizard

Wednesday.

Hugh was having dinner in the Great Hall, noticing that there was a vacant seat at the teacher's table, and Snape didn't show up.He quickly finished the food in front of him, ignored the actions of the students around him who wanted to talk to him, and left the auditorium quickly.

He came to the cellar and stood at the door. The Medusa on the door made a "hissing" sound, spitting snake letters. Xiu thought that he would often come to the cellar to close it, and it was necessary to establish a good relationship with it, so he told him He smiled, then raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Soon, the door was pulled open from the inside, and Snape's tall figure enveloped the petite Xiu.

Xiu looked up at him, Snape's face was so dark that Xiu couldn't help but wonder if he had interrupted his fun of brewing potions.

"Come in!" Snape dropped two words, turned and walked in, Xiu hurriedly followed.

Xiu looked at the somewhat dark cellar. There were two large bookshelves filled with books. The stacked books on the small wooden table next to them covered most of the windows.In addition, there are many glass bottles on the wooden shelves against the wall, soaking various disgusting specimens in them.Xiu turned his eyes away unaccustomed.

Next to the shelf is a long wooden table with some potion ingredients on it. There are two barrels under the long wooden table. Xiu knows that most of the students must be confined in it.

There are also several tall stacks of books and three or four stacks of parchment on the desk, which should be the students' homework.A few steps away from the desk is a sofa set that should be comfortable to sit on.

Xiu's eyes stopped on the doors on the other wall, wondering if Professor Snape's room was also so gloomy and annoying from the bottom of his heart.

Correcting his cranky thoughts, Snape whispered sarcasm in his ears, "Mr. White, is there something in my office that attracts you, so that you completely forget the purpose of coming here?"

Xiu quickly retracted his gaze, lowered his head and pretended to be innocent.

Snape sat back at his desk, took out a piece of parchment and began to read, "Mr White, I don't have time to guide you now, take out your wand and practice by yourself first, what you need is to experience and get used to it. That feeling of controlling the magic."

Xiu nodded, and obediently repeated the movements of waving his wand, transforming, and floating, and he didn't feel bored.After all, when he was a soul for decades, he couldn't even do such boring movements, except for being in a daze.

An hour passed before he knew it, and Xiu peeked at Snape behind the desk. He lowered his head, his brows were tightly frowned, and his half-length greasy black hair hung down on both sides of his cheeks, making his complexion even paler.

He was holding the quill pen, and from time to time he scratched the parchment with the sharp tip a few times. The force made Xiu suspect that he wanted to pierce the parchment.But he looked at each piece of parchment very carefully, and it was filled with densely packed annotations. Of course, the final score would definitely not be much better.

Xiu curled his lips, most of the students' papers were made up indiscriminately, and they were rushed out of work, which was not worthy of his serious correction.And correcting papers wasted so much time brewing potions, Xiu decided that he must have spent time sleeping and eating to make up for it.

No wonder he looks so bad!

Xiu looked at Snape in a daze, his thoughts had wandered off to nowhere.

"Mr. White, may I ask your humble Potions Professor what is it worth your attention, or even forgetting your mission?" Snape suddenly looked up, Xiu's gaze was too obvious, he couldn't even pretend he didn't feel it.

Pulled back to his thoughts by his voice, and meeting those cold black eyes, Xiu inexplicably felt hot on his face, and quickly shook his head.

Snape stood up and walked towards him, pointing to a sofa: "Sit down."

Xiu Xiang took two steps back, his calf just touched the pier of the sofa, and he sat down with his knees bent.

Snape sat on the other sofa, "Mr White, then let me see your work now."

Xiu was a little nervous, he didn't know why, he shook his head to get rid of that feeling, took a deep breath, waved his wand, turned the notebook he just used for practice into a cup, and then floated up.

Snape was a little surprised, and the way he looked at Xiu also changed.In less than three days, it was not easy for a young Muggle wizard who had never been exposed to magic to be able to use silent magic to this extent.

Xiu swallowed carefully, looking at Snape with big amber eyes expectantly, hoping he would give him a compliment.

He spent almost all of his spare time practicing these two basic spells, and even in his dreams, he dreamed that he was constantly transforming and floating to reach this level.

Faced with Xiu's expression of "I'm great, right? Compliment me!", Snape couldn't say anything too harsh, and could only say dryly, "Not bad."

Xiu laughed until his eyes became slits, and Snape poured cold water on him again, "Is this enough? Don't you think you can pass the final exam, OLWS and NEWTS, with these two most basic magics?"

Xiu suddenly became depressed, drooping his little head, looking listless.

Snape snorted coldly, "Don't you have any bones in your neck? Look up, the Flying Curse is what you're going to learn today."

Xiu looked up, and Snape summoned a piece of parchment and put it in front of him, "Mr White, as you can see, the Flying Curse can summon what you want, today I just ask you to let this parchment fly In your hands, I believe it will not be difficult for you."

The distance is very close, and the parchment is not heavy, so it is really not difficult.

Snape's silky voice seemed to ring in his ears, "Close your eyes, trace the parchment in front of you, imagine it flying into your hand, pay attention to controlling your magic, and then wave your wand."

Xiu did as he said, the first few times were unsuccessful, the eighth time the parchment finally flew up, but it hit him in the face sullenly.

"Stupid!" Snape scolded bluntly, "are you so eager to suffocate yourself?"

Xiu tore off the parchment, and looked at the gloomy Snape with aggrieved expression.He didn't do it on purpose, it's normal for accidents to happen occasionally when practicing spells.

Snape turned a blind eye to his pitiful expression, left the sentence "Practice by yourself" and returned to his desk to continue grading papers.It's just that Xiu always feels that the strength of scratching the parchment is stronger this time.

The two hours of tutoring passed quickly, and Snape just finished grading those incomprehensible papers, rubbing his temples, "Mr. White, it's time, go back to your dormitory!"

Xiumo dawdled and refused to leave, and looked at him with a pitiful look that was close to accusation, as if he had done something wrong to him, and saw the veins on Snape's forehead throbbing.

This guy is not as docile and harmless as he appears at all. The Sorting Hat is really in disrepair and something is wrong. Hugh White is an out-and-out Slytherin snake!

Apparently our professor forgot that Xiu is a Muggle wizard. Slytherin has never accepted a Muggle wizard for thousands of years. Mixed blood is the limit they can tolerate.

"Professor, can I stay until curfew? Don't worry, I won't disturb you. Maybe I can help you with those potion ingredients?" Xiu handed the notebook to Snape with an irresistible look of expectation look at him.

Snape really couldn't understand Xiu's way of thinking. His cellar was always a place that everyone avoided, but he actually begged to stay? !But since there are free laborers, Snape certainly won't refuse, "Squeeze those two buckets of toad juice." Then he passed him, opened a door and walked in. Xiu guessed that it must be his laboratory .

Seeing the two buckets of disgusting wriggling toads, Xiu was a little depressed. He volunteered to help anyway. At least Snape should arrange some less disgusting materials for him!

Xiu had read the toad's handling method several times in the book, and he was already familiar with it. Although he was a little unskilled at the beginning, his speed increased a lot soon, and the two barrels of toad were squeezed out of juice in no time.

It was almost curfew time, and Xiu wanted to knock on the door to say goodbye, but he was worried about disturbing Snape's brewing potion, and Snape suddenly opened the door and walked out, "Mr White, you should go back , if you don't want to deduct twenty points for Ravenclaw."

He raised his hand, and the two books flew towards Xiu, who hurriedly caught them, looking at the titles, "Theoretical Basis on Controlling Magic Power" and "The Use of Silent Magic".

"In two weeks' time, give me two books of [-] inches each, together with the book." Snape said coldly, Xiu was not affected by his tone at all, and smiled at him holding the book as if he had found a treasure nod.

Having chased away the Ravenclaw trolls, Snape turned back to his laboratory.