Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 61 Potion for Scabies

   Potions class was still going on, and Snape was instructing everyone to make a potion that could cure scabies. After explaining the preparation method of the potion for treating scabies, he divided the whole class into groups of two and asked everyone to prepare the potion for treating scabies.

   Albert and Li Qiaodan are naturally in a group, who made them be at the same table.

   "Let's read the steps a few times before starting to make the potion for treating scabies, so as to avoid mistakes in the preparation steps." Albert reminded, "As long as the steps are correct, the finished product will not differ too much from the book."

  The most fearful thing about boiling medicine is adding medicinal materials and stirring randomly.

   Albert opened "Magic Potions and Potions", memorized the configuration of the potion for treating scabies, and completely ignored Snape who walked behind him with a black cloak.

After Snape walked away, Albert took out the medicinal materials he needed from his medicine chest: a few venomous snake teeth, a pongo onion, some bundled dried nettles, a jar of horned slugs, a few A porcupine quill.

   "You are responsible for boiling the horned slug. This thing needs to be boiled for at least 33 to 45 minutes." Albert handed Lee Jordan his tweezers.

   "Okay, leave it to me." Li Qiaodan had no objection, he took the tweezers that Albert handed over, and picked out the disgusting horned slug from the jar.

   Having said that, it costs 1 Galleon to sell a can of this stuff in pharmacies.

   "Remember to clean it first. You don't need to put a lot of water in the crucible. Be careful to boil it and overflow it." Albert added.

   Then, he began to use a mortar to grind the venomous snake teeth. The book called for grinding the venomous snake teeth into a fine powder, which was laborious work.

  Compared to Albert's hands-on ability, other students are a bit scumbag.

   Of course, this may have something to do with Albert raising his potion production to level 1.

  Snape was still lingering in the classroom, watching the students weigh dried nettles and grind the fangs of poisonous snakes. Almost all the students were criticized, only Albert and George survived.

   After all, Snape couldn't find anything to criticize, except that their progress was a little slower than the others.

   "Next, weigh the dried nettles." Albert looked at Snape's retreating back, and reminded in a low voice, "Pay attention to the weight, don't make a mistake in weighing it."

   "OK." Li Jordan was in a good mood, and Snape didn't come to trouble them.

  Albert struggled to slice the pongo onion into thin slices.

   Half an hour later, Li Qiaodan reminded: "The horned slug is boiled."

  Albert immediately leaned over and stabbed the horned slug with a glass tube. After making sure it was completely boiled, he poured out the water in the crucible, leaving the boiled horned slug behind.

  After the materials are prepared, the only thing left is to prepare the potion for treating scabies

  Put the snake fang powder into the crucible first, stir slowly to let it mix with the water thoroughly, the potion in the crucible will gradually turn dark blue.

   "Is it dark blue?" Li Qiaodan moved his head closer to see the color of the potion in the cauldron.

   "It's dark blue." Albert neatly put the thinly sliced ​​Pongo onion into the crucible, and continued heating for about ten seconds. The potion gradually changed from dark blue to red as recorded in the book.

   After the color stopped changing, the next step was to slowly sprinkle in dried nettles and stir the potion to turn the color into pink.

   "Continue to add a small spoonful of Flobber caterpillar mucus, and then continue to stir, and the medicine inside will turn green." Albert muttered the steps while operating. "The next step is to add a tablespoon of stewed horned slugs and stir until the potion turns blue-green."

  After completing the previous step, Albert removed the crucible from the fire.

  If you don't remove it from the fire, adding porcupine quills directly will cause the potion to fail directly, Snape also specifically reminded everyone.

   Albert took the two porcupine quills handed over by Li Jordan, slowly put them into the crucible, and then began to stir clockwise three times, making the original blue-green potion gradually turn blue.

  Finally wave the wand over the cauldron to complete the potion

   "Did it succeed?" Li Qiaodan asked nervously.

   "What do you think?" Albert wanted to pick up a spoonful, put it into a crystal bottle, and handed it to Li Qiaodan next to him, so that he could see the color of the potion clearly.

   "Success." Li Qiaodan looked excitedly at the potion for treating scabies in the potion bottle. The color of the potion was basically the same as the description in "Magic Potions and Potions".

   "Yeah, it's successful, it's not easy." Albert put out the fire. Still, he was a little skeptical of the potion for scabies.

While bottling the potion and writing his name, Albert suddenly smelled a disgusting smell. He turned his head and saw bubbles bubbling in the crucible of Fred and George. The potion in the crucible A very nasty brown color.

   "Wait, remove the cauldron from the fire before adding porcupine quills." Albert stopped George from making a death decision that might burn through the cauldron.

   Still, it didn't save their scabies potion.

   "Weasley, tell me, what are you guys?" Snape walked behind the twins expressionlessly.

   "Potion for scabies," George whispered.

  Snape asked indifferently: "What is the color of the scabies potion in the book after it is finished?"

"blue."

   "I dare say that if you drink this potion of yours, you will poison yourself to death before curing the scabies." Snape swung his wand and swept away the potion in the cauldron.

   "Anderson, where's your potion?"

   "Here it is, sir." Li Qiaodan quickly handed over the blue scabies cure potion, and smugly waved his index finger at the twins where Snape didn't pay attention.

   "Barely passed." Snape picked up the glass bottle, glanced at the scabies potion inside and said.

   "What is barely passing?"

After class, Li Qiaodan said angrily to the twins, "What is this? In fact, the potion for treating scabies made by humans failed? And... why do we have to write a 2-foot long essay."

   "Keep your voice down, if you want to get yourself into trouble." Fred said, pointing to Snape who was coming this way.

   "Ahem." Albert cleared his throat and said to Li Jordan, "Maybe, Professor Snape thinks we are talented in potions and wants to cultivate us well."

   Albert purposely suppressed his voice so that Snape could hear it.

   "Look, no one else is treated like this, is it?"

   "I hope your thesis on potions for treating scabies won't disappoint me, Mr. Anderson." Snape turned his head to stare at Li Jordan and said, "As for you, you don't have to write a thesis."

   "What does he mean?" Li Jordan murmured looking at Snape's back.

"What do you mean? Of course you don't deserve special attention." Fred finally couldn't help laughing after Snape left. He raised his hand and patted Albert on the shoulder and said, "It seems that Snape Professor Pu really intends to give you special attention, maybe he wants to invite you to join the Potions Club!"

   "Then I can only refuse, after all, I have already joined the Transfiguration Club." Albert said solemnly.

  The next moment, all three of them laughed louder.

  Of course they could guess that Snape was unhappy with Albert, but he had nothing to do with him, so they could only resort to this trick and give Albert the so-called special care.

  After all, few students like homework, especially extra homework.

  (end of this chapter)