Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

"Harry?"

The savior had a froze face, and behind him stood Aerys with an expectant face. The two held hands, but Harry didn't look like he was bringing Iris over, and the corners of his mouth twitched in embarrassment as if he had completely petrified: "Hey!" Min, help me make a potion."

At first, Ron and Hermione were very strange when they saw Harry meeting in Myrtle's bathroom. After waiting for a long time, they saw Harry dragging Iris over, with weird and distorted expressions.

Especially Ron, he thought of his little sister Ginny who always liked to peek at Harry and inquire about all the news about Harry, so he couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth, dragged Harry aside, and solemnly called out: "Harry, It's a basilisk."

The savior looked at his friend strangely. Could it be that Ron lost his memory for a long time? Of course he knew that Aerys was a basilisk. In fact, there was only this basilisk in the whole of England.

"You can't! I mean you can't have anything to do with her..."

Ron hurried his words, careful not to let Hermione and Aerys hear: "I mean, you should find a girl, a really good girl, not—"

Harry was still in a daze before, but when he heard it, his whole face flushed and he growled angrily, "Ron!"

"Harry, don't listen to me!"

"It's you talking nonsense!"

Both of them raised their voices, Hermione and Iris looked over curiously, Ron and Harry quickly shut up, each a little angrily.

In the other hand, Aerys held a very old parchment book, the cover and bottom of which were mostly torn.

"Aerys has taken three exams today. Defense Against the Dark Arts practice is T, Potions exam...cough, the cauldron blew up, Herbalism is a written exam and I don't know the results, but if this continues, Iris probably will have to make up half of the exams. , and there is no way to pass the make-up exam..."

"...What does this have to do with us!"

"Ron!"

"I'm telling the truth. Even if my brother messes with those messy things all day long, there are a few things that are useful, and even if they are useful, he can't bring them in." Ron scratched his hair. He didn't know, how many students in Hogwarts tried to cheat and which one succeeded?If it was useful, he would grab it and use it without waiting for the basilisk to come.

"Aerys is different from us, Ron, most of the time she can't pronounce the spells smoothly, and tomorrow's test is Charms and Transfiguration... If, Hermione, look at this potion."

Harry took the half-torn book from Aerys.

The cover is pitch black and red, and the name is "The Encyclopedia of Thousand Potion Formulas", which Hermione is very familiar with, but it is completely different from the one sold in Diagon Alley. It is much thinner and old. Spreading out like intertwined branches, the paragraphs that are slightly paused are full of such dense annotations.

Hermione took it suspiciously, but almost dropped the book when she heard the next sentence.

"Be careful, this book is more than 1000 years old, and Iris and I stole it from Snape."

"It's Professor Snape, Harry! Oh, forget it..."

Hermione held her forehead in distress, but soon she was occupied by another joyful emotion.

"Professor S-Nyx to Professor Snape?"

Aerys nodded, reached out to turn the book to the back, and pointed to a line.

"Iris, you should know that even if there is a potion that can help, the more powerful the potion, the longer it will take to brew. A few years ago we made the polyjuice potion here, and it took a whole month. And the exam is going to be tomorrow—eh, just three hours of potion?"

Hermione carefully distinguished the writing on it.

"Hermione, I've read it carefully, Tongsheng Potion..."

"I've never heard of this potion!" Hermione said eagerly.

"...Maybe it's lost?" Harry shrugged his shoulders. "Anyway, there's a recipe here now, and notes."

"Two potions, one of which is mixed with the other party's hair, hell, why is it hair again!" Ron also leaned his head to look, "For a certain period of time, the other party's voice will be controlled, specifically—that person can only follow Pronunciation of what you say? Merlin! Sure enough, it is a good thing for cheating in exams! How could there be such a medicine in the Middle Ages, and they didn’t have to take exams at that time!”

Hermione sneered, still distinguishing the text line by line

Harry didn't say a word either. Orphans who grew up in the Muggle world knew better than Ron. Many people even believed the rumors told behind their backs, let alone what they heard with their own ears. It would be useless to explain it afterwards.

The savior still had a simple idea. In fact, 1000 years ago, just because of this potion, countless wars and death fights between families could be caused.

"The side effects of the potion can cause a hoarse throat, and you can't speak for three days, Harry!"

It is precisely because of this that Simultaneous Potion and Compound Potion are not things that can deceive all wizards.

"Hermione, don't worry, there's more to come."

"The bottom is gone, it's another potion!"

"Over here, there is a note written..."

"The dark part of the stem of the water hyacinth that grows in the swamp has a neutralizing effect, which can prevent hoarseness of the throat and completely erase the traces of the use of the same medicine. Well, since you think so, then bring it."

"What?" The savior looked at Hermione stupidly.

"Potion ingredients!"

"...I'll steal from the potions storeroom."

"Not this, Harry! Water hyacinth is an aquatic plant without any potion value, at least in my memory, so it is not used in modern common potion ingredients, even Snape's potion storage There may not necessarily be a room!"

Aerys, who had been silent all this time, suddenly tugged at Hermione's sleeve: "There is a swamp in the Forbidden Forest, I'll find it!"

Turning around and going out, he recovered his huge body in an instant.

——Will the basilisk gather potion ingredients correctly?

The eyes of the three people were very puzzled thinking about this matter, but soon they calmed down, since it was a Slytherin snake, it would definitely be, well, set up the cauldron, sit here and wait, they are going to carry out The most successful cheat in Hogwarts history!

In the early morning, Ron had already slept on the side and didn't know anything.

Hermione took the blue-blue potion from the cauldron and filled it into two bottles.

"Okay, Harry, Aerys, take one each, Iris, and put your hair in this bottle in front of Harry. Huh?"

The three of them showed strange expressions at the same time.

Do basilisks have hair?

The snake certainly didn't, and neither did the basilisk, but what was Aerys' jet-black hair now?

"Iris, are you sure this potion is also effective on magical creatures?"

The little basilisk girl nodded vigorously:

"The Sorting Hat said that Godric used this potion to cheat away half of Graie's treasure!"

"Greyer?"

"That broken dragon that is dying and can't even change its Animagus-like state now! It also said that Rowena didn't think it was enough for the other half of the treasure, so the four of them went back and snatched it." The little girl pouted.

Harry and Hermione were speechless at the same time, not knowing whether to pay homage to the founder of Hogwarts who dared to develop the idea of ​​​​the dragon's treasure or a black thread.

The Savior watched as Aerys threw a hair into the bluish liquid, which instantly melted, and his hands stiffened with tension.

"Why don't I come, I'm also curious about this potion!"

Hermione saw that Harry's hands were shaking, because she was very confident in herself, and she was not afraid to try: "And I'm more proficient at pronouncing spells than you!"

"Hermione, I really want to, too, but you know, I'm afraid that Aerys will meet Snyx before the effect of the medicine wears off—Professor Nyx, you can't speak Parseltongue, what will Aerys do?"

"All right!"

Harry closed his eyes, enduring the unknown rotten smell, squeezed his nose and gulped down the potion in one breath.

Aerys also endured the taste and gulped down the potion.

Because Aerys was shorter than Harry, after Harry finished drinking, resisting the urge to retch, he stumbled to the side and accidentally bumped Iris on the shoulder.

"Oh—the smell!"

Aerys stopped to look at Harry with a grimace, and nodded in agreement.

None of the three noticed that a small hair on Harry's shoulder fell into the bottle of Aerys's fifth potion and melted silently.

Aerys lowered his head and finished drinking the potion.