Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 215 A False Alarm

  The Potions class in the afternoon was a torment for the students. There was no way for them to face Snape's gloomy face without fear. Some students even suffered mental breakdowns.

  Many students were afraid of Snape, afraid of being watched by Snape when they brewed potions, and also afraid of being called up by Snape to ask questions during class.

  In the entire magic world, there are actually very few wizards who are really good at brewing potions, and there are even fewer potions masters like Snape, so it is unrealistic to expect everyone to be like him.

  The two classes in the afternoon went smoothly, and Snape taught everyone how to prepare hair growth potions in class. In Albert's opinion, this potion is simply the gospel for middle-aged bald men. If this potion is improved and brought to the Muggle world for sale, it is estimated that it will be snapped up like crazy.

   "Anderson, stay after class." Snape stood behind Albert and watched him brew the potion, and suddenly said softly after a long time.

   "Hmm!" Albert responded casually, and cast a look at Fred and the others beside me that I was fine. Although Albert was indeed a little guilty when facing Snape, he was sure that Snape would not be able to see through his thoughts.

   After all, no matter what he said, he was already a man of level 3 Occlumency. Even if Snape directly pulled out his wand and used Legilimency on him, he might not be able to dig out the desired memory from Albert.

  The get out of class bell rang, and the students in the classroom couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After hastily handing in the potion samples, they left the potion classroom as if fleeing.

   "Did you add too much **** root to the hair growth potion?" Snape asked, staring at Albert's potion sample.

   "Twice added, five tablets." Albert curled his lips and said, "The effect of the hair growth potion is obviously more significant."

  Snape stared at Albert for a long time, and there seemed to be a strange light in his eyes. Then, he took out a folded parchment from his pocket and handed it to Albert, and said in a strange tone, "It seems that you are famous now?"

  Albert was a little dazed, but he still reached out to take the parchment that Snape handed over, but he heard the other party say again: "Do you know what happened last night?"

   "Are you referring to a Slytherin student who was arrested at night?" Albert looked away from the parchment, and happily raised the corners of his mouth, "That's really a regrettable thing."

   "Now take your cleverness and disappear from my presence." Snape motioned Albert to get out.

  Albert shrugged his shoulders, stuffed the parchment into his pocket, turned around and left the gloomy and cold potion classroom, and hurried forward. After a while, he caught up with the three who deliberately slowed down and waited for him.

   "The old bat didn't do anything to you, did it?" Fred asked worriedly, remembering what happened not long ago.

   "What can happen." Albert said with a smile.

   "What did Snape want from you?" George asked curiously.

   "He gave me a letter of introduction!" Albert took out the parchment and explained: "A famous pharmacist is interested in me, probably to see if he can establish a correspondence."

   "You have a lot of pen pals." Fred glanced at the parchment and asked, "They actually want you to write a manuscript for "Master of Practical Potions?"

"It's probably related to Hetok Dagworth!" Albert guessed, if Dagworth accidentally mentioned himself to others, the editor-in-chief of "Master of Practical Potions" confirmed the matter through Snape The truth of the matter is not surprising.

   It is well known that quite a few academic journals are associated with Hogwarts professors.

   "Your future is brilliant." Fred couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "The only question is when will you become the Minister of Magic."

   "The Minister of Magic is a trap." Albert couldn't help but rolled his eyes at the three of them, and said with disgust, "Whoever wants to jump can go."

   They couldn't help laughing.

   "Today's hair growth potion is pretty good, but you seem to have added **** root slices twice." The four walked and chatted, heading towards the library on the fifth floor.

   "Well, five tablets, if it can eliminate that annoying spicy, I think the hair growth potion will definitely sell well in the Muggle world."

   "Muggle world?" Lee Jordan looked at Albert in astonishment. He knew that his roommate did have the idea of ​​selling potions to Muggles, but this idea is too strange!

   "There is no good way to cure baldness in the Muggle world." Albert explained with a smile: "A bunch of rich people will rush to buy it, and they don't lack money anyway."

  The three of them looked at each other, not commenting on Albert's thoughts.

Most wizards seldom use Muggle money, even though they know that they can use Muggle money to exchange Galleons from Gringotts, but... In fact, most pure-blood wizards don’t even have Muggle coins I don't know, let alone think about making money in this way.

   "You should first find the information on the jumping toadstool from "Toadstool Encyclopedia." Albert said to Fred and the others, "I want to write a letter to Hetok Dagworth."

  Albert is going to discuss with this potion master to see if he can further improve or dilute the hair growth potion to ensure that it can take effect slowly without being suspected when used on Muggles.

  Of course, Albert also wanted to buy dried Mandrake roots through Dagworth. Ever since he knew that Mandrake roots could be used to make powerful amulets, he couldn't help but want to try it.

"found it!"

   Not long after, George interrupted Albert's contemplation with a loud voice, and placed the page of information about the jumping toadstool in front of everyone.

"Let me see." Fred read ten lines at a glance, and muttered while reading: "When picking, you need to be careful not to inhale too many jumping toadstool spores, otherwise you will fall into confusion. ...It is best to wear dragon leather gloves, Avoid the skin and toadstool spores, causing redness and swelling of the skin...It needs to be taken away with the root, otherwise the jumping toadstool will easily wither and rot..."

  As a kind of poisonous mushroom, there are indeed many precautions for picking the jumping toadstool. If you are not careful, you may really be unlucky because of it.

  As for the jumping toadstools cultivated in the school's greenhouse, the safety is naturally higher.

   Well, the best way to catch jumping toadstools in the wild is by food baiting.

"It seems that the difficulty is higher than expected!" Albert put away the half-written letter, and leaned over to read the information he found. He thought for a while and said, "The food lure method is a bit difficult for us. , now we can only try our luck in the forest during the rainy season.”

  If you can't find it, you can only buy it from the pharmacy.

   Moreover, as long as things related to dragons are not cheap, dragon claw powder is no exception.

  If you add the cost of buying the dried mandrake roots, your wallet will probably be greatly reduced. Albert couldn't help but sighed, he suddenly realized that he didn't have enough Galleons.

   It seems that I have to find a way to earn more Galleons.

  (end of this chapter)