Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 561 New Discovery

  The sky in October was gloomy, with faint signs of rain. The bad weather did not affect everyone's good mood, nor could it stop the students from going to Hogsmeade.

  No student would refuse to go back to school for a Halloween feast after a fun day at Hogsmeade, so that

   This great feast just got even better.

   On the way to Hogsmeade, Albert and Isobel chatted about the topic of Wolfsbane potion, but they didn't think the road was boring.

  Suddenly, a group of Ravenclaw girls walked by, Katrina and her female companions. The girls giggled and spoke in a low voice, as if they were talking about Albert and Isobel. Some girls even kept looking back at Albert and Isobel.

  However, the two didn't pay much attention to it, ignoring the girls' scrutinizing gazes, and continued chatting about the topic just now, until they entered Hogsmeade village.

   "Let's go to Honeydukes Candy Store first!" Albert took Isobel's hand and turned into the candy store filled with the smell of toffee, which was crowded with students.

  In the corner of the candy store, Albert saw several people sucking on a ball of ice cream, letting their feet float a few inches off the ground.

   "Let's go and have a try."

  When the two of them were just going to the corner, they met Katrina and her female companions again by chance. One of them ran over to greet Isobel enthusiastically while he was picking candy.

   "You are really welcome." The girl said softly.

   "It's not good to be too famous." Albert sighed faintly, walked to a cotton candy machine, and fiddled with the cotton candy, "Have you ever eaten this thing?"

   "What are you doing?" Isobel noticed that Albert was shaping the marshmallow, and asked curiously.

   In a short while, a flower made of cotton candy quickly took shape, and Albert gave it to Isobel next to him.

   "Muggle tricks."

   "I'm a bit reluctant to eat it." Isobel looked at the flower made of cotton candy and said softly.

   At this time, several girls came to talk to Albert, hoping that Albert could help them get the same flower.

   "Sorry, we have something to do and we have to go."

   Albert tactfully refused, and went to the counter to check out with the pile of candy he just bought. Then, he left the candy shop under the bitter eyes of a group of girls.

"If you are willing to teach this little trick to the owner of the candy store, he might be happy to give you a 5% discount when you buy candy." Isobel looked at the cotton candy flowers in his hand, feeling very happy .

   "Forget it, I'm not Professor Lockhart, I don't like being surrounded by a group of people."

The two went to Madame Puddife's teahouse, where couples always like to date, and met Percy and his female companion there. Miss Penello seemed to be very interested in the cotton candy flowers in Isobel's hands. West took him to the Honeydukes candy store, and seemed to be planning to buy a copy for his girlfriend.

   "Penello will be disappointed." Isobel put the marshmallow on the side, ordered two cups of milk tea, and chatted with Albert about the beauty potion.

In fact, there are quite a few similar beauty potions in the magic world. This thing was originally proposed and developed by a witch named Sacrisa Tagwood in the last century, but none of the beauty potions can Keep people young.

  In the United States, Miss Catherine has also made no progress. It is by no means an easy task to develop a medicine that can keep people looking good.

   Research on potions sometimes requires a little luck.

   Albert intends to find inspiration from the raw materials of beauty potions and Mandrake roots. After all, Mandrake roots can brew potions that can delay aging through complex potion techniques.

  However, whether this thing works or not, Albert is not clear, but it does not affect him to reveal some research directions to Isobel.

   At this moment, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and there was a faint sound of thunder in the distance.

  Dense raindrops fell, pedestrians on the street were looking for shelter from the rain, and many students sheltered from the rain poured into the teahouse.

  Stayed in the store for an hour, waited until the rain subsided, and then left the teahouse, intending to buy something in the Devis Bans store.

  As soon as he paid the money and walked out of the teahouse, Albert saw an acquaintance.

   "Mr. Hutok Dagworth," Albert took Isobel's hand, walked quickly forward, and greeted the figure who was about to cross the corner.

"It turned out to be Albert!" Hetok stopped, looked at Albert with a little surprise, his eyes fell on Isobel beside him, and asked with a smile, "Why don't I introduce the lady next to you ?"

"This is Isobel, my girlfriend," Albert began to introduce the two parties, "This is Hetok Dagworth, a famous master of potions, I mentioned it to you before. "

"How will you be here."

   "I need a bird snake egg. Stop by to see Mr. Kettlebur. I heard he is ill."

   "You sold that house to Mr. Ketelber?" Albert had already guessed the reason.

"Yeah, I heard him say that I was going to retire, so I gave him the house on the Hogsmeade side." Hetok said with a smile: "You know, I rarely come here, the house stays It's a waste."

   After Albert asked for Isobel's opinion, the two followed Hetok into a remote street and came to the house from last time.

  It has been carefully taken care of here, the weeds in the garden have turned into flowers, and a shed has been built next to it.

   "I thought Professor Kettlebo would stay in the hospital to recuperate."

   "Mr. Kettlebur was not worried about his cuties, so he came back."

   It was a house elf who opened the door for them, probably sent from Hogwarts to take care of Professor Ketelber's daily life.

  Professor Ketelber was very happy that someone came to visit him, and chatted casually with them about some recent events.

   "I read in the newspaper that Mr. Damocles released the wolfsbane potion." Mr. Kettlebo looked at Hetok with puzzlement and confusion. He thought that the wolfsbane potion was invented by Hetok.

"It was Damocles who first proposed to use the toxin of chamaejasma aconitum to make chamaejasma potion for restraining werewolves. The potion appeared a long time ago, but there was a problem with the raw materials and configuration." Hetok explained with a smile, "later , he invited us to help improve this potion, I remember Albert helped a lot back then."

  Professor Kettlebo looked at Albert in surprise, and the latter shook his head, saying that he had made some suggestions at that time.

   "However, the price is a bit expensive. I don't think werewolves can afford it." Professor Kettlebo shook his head and said, "By the way, how many snake eggs do you need?"

   "One... no, two." Hetok thought of the need just in case, so he changed his words temporarily.

"I asked Clark to bring it to you." Professor Kettleber did not refuse, but just sighed softly, "There should have been eight bird snake eggs, but for some reason, when I checked, I found that two were missing .”

   "Has it been stolen?"

   "I don't know, I don't remember." Professor Kettlebo said.

  Albert raised his brows slightly, which reminded him of Lockhart, after all, he needed bird snake eggs to make his bird snake egg yolk shampoo.

"Maybe, you gave it to Professor Lockhart? I remember that his bird snake egg yolk shampoo needs to use bird snake eggs." Albert unceremoniously buckled the pot on Lockhart's head. Who is the most suspicious guy?

   "Snake egg yolk shampoo?" Hetok raised his eyebrows slightly.

   "Professor Lockhart gave me a bottle last time. I haven't used it yet, so it's here." Albert said as he took out the shampoo from the deformed lizard skin bag.

"I've heard of this stuff, and it's sold in the black market. It's said that it's a bit dangerous to use, but it works really well." Hetok took the shampoo, looked it up and down, and commented, "However, this stuff is not even a semi-finished product. It doesn't even count."

"That's a shameful waste. I really don't know why Dumbledore would agree with him to become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Kettlebo had a problem with Lockhart's bird snake egg yolk shampoo. The main ingredient of this thing is bird snake The yolk of the egg.

"Okay, don't get excited, you should recover from your illness first." Hetok comforted. After the house elf brought the bird and snake eggs, the few people didn't bother Professor Kettlebo anymore, got up and left .

   "You think it's Professor Lockhart?" Isobel suddenly asked after separating from Hetok.

   "Don't you think the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is suspicious every year?" Albert changed the subject after finishing speaking, "Is there any place you want to go?"

   "Go to the Three Broomsticks for a drink, and then go back." Isobel hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Have you ever asked that Mr. Hetok about beauty potions?"

"Of course I asked." Albert didn't hide it, "He said that the Sacrisa Tagwood witch, who used to specialize in beauty potions, also had a similar idea, and even spent a lot of time doing research, but It never worked out."

   "That's right, it's impossible to succeed so easily."

   "If you want, I can ask for you." Albert said suddenly, "The descendants of Witch Sacrisa Tugwood may still keep the previous research materials."

   Albert felt that he could find some inspiration from others, maybe he would succeed?

  Although it is not good to take chances, it is not a bad idea to try.

   "Actually, you want to see it yourself!"

  Isobel looked at Albert rather speechlessly, but nodded, fearing that all the notes and research records at that time would be lost.

  Most wizards don't pay as much attention to knowledge as they think, especially things that can't make money. The beauty potion invented by witch Sacrisa Tugwood is hardly a secret these days.

  (end of this chapter)