Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 20 A feeling of failing

Hardy flicked his wand lightly, and the parchments neatly stacked on the table rattled, and the pages floated into the air one by one, arranged in a random order, like a semi-curved wall of books.

He first tapped the three pieces of parchment in the upper left corner with his wand, and a pea-sized ink blot poured out, forming an oval potion bottle in front of him.

Potion, Sphyll potion.

After taking one drop, the wizard can speed up the recovery of his own magic power in a short period of time, and the effect will not be doubled if he takes it multiple times at the same time.

Side effects: It will affect some physiological functions within a week, and the more times you take it, the greater the impact.

Hardy shook his head, swung his wand instead, and clicked on the information on the right side of the Sfell potion.

The seven pieces of parchment rattled, projecting an emerald green vine as thick as a thumb in mid-air, occasionally twisting irregularly, like a young snake.

Fantastic Beasts, suck vines.

It is naturally sensitive to magic power. After entangled with wizards and other magical creatures, the peculiar leaves will curl into lips, sucking out part of the magic power of the trapped person. It is not aggressive and can easily break free.

Hardy sat on the fabric sofa, his eyes flickering.

This sucking vine is exactly what I used when I made the unicycle device in Ollivander's wand shop.It is only by it that the magic power in those Aurors can be channeled out.

However, the use of this sucking vine is too limited. Not only is it difficult to feed, but also to rely on it to absorb magic power, you have to get the target to cooperate obediently. The extremely long time-consuming and low efficiency are also its main shortcomings.

Hardy browsed through the information on the parchment one by one. In the whole morning, he only read less than [-]% of the information. The professors sent a lot of materials with high gold content, but Hardy never saw the most suitable one for him.

After eating lunch, Hardy rubbed the center of his brows, swung his staff to gather the parchment that filled the room on the table, then picked up the course handouts that had been prepared, and walked towards the alchemy classroom of the first grade.

Today, the alchemy course taught by Ollivander has become a source of happiness for young wizards.

Who got what Eudemons card today, where did Professor Ollivander tell Aiden's adventure story in class, who has reached the seven-game winning streak of Eudemons duel... These are the daily A must-talk topic for little wizards.

Right next door to Hardy's class, Snape was also announcing his new classroom rules in his second-year Potions class.

"Given that Professor Ollivander's teaching method has achieved good results, for the sake of your Potions class results, I have made some changes to the future courses."

Snape waved his wand, and the windows of the entire classroom were closed tightly. The heavy curtains blocked the daylight, revealing a gloomy atmosphere everywhere.

Seeing Snape's tense face, Ron and Harry swallowed their saliva in their seats. "Hey, Harry, I have a bad feeling." Ron whispered.

Snape waved his wand, and a bottle of mysterious potion with black bubbles flew out from the cabinet at the front right of the classroom.

When the cork of the potion bottle was opened by Snape, a smell like animals rotting in the swamp quickly spread, making all the little wizards present turn blue and retch.

"My God, what does this smell like?! I feel like I can't breathe anymore..." Harry pinched his nose, and his brows would frown even more every time he took a breath.

Snape held up the black potion in his hand, looked around the audience, and said with a sneer, "Look at you now, the smell of potion is just like killing you."

Snape quickly walked up to Hermione, and said in an unremarkable voice, "Miss Granger, since you like answering questions quickly, please tell me what potion this is."

Hermione bit her lip tightly, her face turned blue, she stood up slowly, and looked into Snape's eyes in fear, feeling terribly disgusted.

"Professor Snape, this is, vomit dream water! It will bring a nightmare to anyone who takes it!!"

Hermione suppressed the retching in her heart and persisted in answering Snape's question. Ron's arm next door had already been pinched by her and was shaking violently due to the severe pain.

"Correct answer, five points for Gryffindor." Snape quickly turned and walked to the podium. Hermione breathed heavily in relief, but quickly pinched her nose again.

"That's right, what I have in my hand is the nightmare water."

Professor Snape said: "True wizards dare to face the most real fear in their hearts. With the help of nightmare water, your will will become rock-solid in one dream after another. Maybe even Veritaserum can't get you out of it." You keep a little bit of secret out of your mouth."

Re-capping the cork of the nightmare water, Snape's voice fluctuated slightly, and said: "From today onwards, I will use the nightmare water as a means of motivating you to learn about potions."

"Those who perform well in class can get one bottle, and those who finish the potion thesis excellently can get two bottles... By the way, I will set aside extra time outside of class to guide you to fully utilize the effect of nightmare water..."

"I have to say, this is really a great opportunity... My potions professor back then didn't give us such preferential treatment..."

Everyone: "..."

silence.

The entire potions classroom was dead silent at the moment.

When Snape finished announcing his new classroom rules, everyone's faces were extremely pale.

Did Professor Snape misunderstand the word "reward"?At this moment, everyone is asking this question in their hearts.

"I...I think I might fail my Potions class this school year..." Hermione's lips trembled slightly, as if she was about to cry.

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After the regular alchemy class ended, Hardy walked out of the jubilant classroom.

Because of Ginny's outstanding performance in mastering the general knowledge of alchemy, she got the 1-star Eudemons card Melee Witch in Hardy's hand, and she seemed to become the focus of attention of the entire classroom.

In the corridor outside the classroom, Hardy met Snape who also just finished his lecture.

The other party raised his chin slightly, and nodded to Hardy's greetings in a rare way, instead of maintaining an indifferent face as usual.

"Professor Snape seems to be in a good mood today?" Hardy was puzzled to see the other party walking briskly and his black clothes fluttering.

Since he knew each other, he had almost never seen Snape in such a happy mood as today.

Hardy didn't notice the still dead Potions classroom after class, and went straight back to his lounge.

For the next two days, apart from regular lectures, Hardy devoted himself to studying the documents sent by the professors.

After excluding 35 unfeasible methods, Hardy set his sights on an alchemy product called the Demon Gathering Cup.

In the lounge, [-] pieces of parchment were neatly suspended in front of Hardy, and faint lights were faintly visible on the paper, interweaving into a cup in mid-air.

This is the material sent by Professor Flitwick from the restricted section of the library, which records a special vessel that can gather the scattered magic power around it.

According to records on parchment, this vessel called Jumo Cup originated in Africa and first appeared in Ouagadou.

Waggadu is a magic school located in Moon Mountain, Uganda, Africa. It recruits students from all over Africa. It was originally formed by several wizarding tribes with a long history.

One of the wizarding tribes brought the method of making magic cups to Ouagadou for use as sacrificial objects on special festivals.

The magic-gathering cup can attract and collect the magic power in the surrounding environment caused by wizards using magic, or escaping from magical animals and other reasons, and turn it into a nectar-like liquid in the center of the cup.

On the day of the festival, some colleges in Ouagadou will hold a special gratitude ceremony, allowing all teachers and students to drink the magic nectar formed in the magic cup to remind themselves not to forget the natural gift, understand the rareness, and refuse to waste.

After Hardy's repeated thinking, he believed that the nectar formed in the magic gathering cup could quickly accumulate the magic power rippling in the air.

It's just that the noisy stone and Zhangzui wood among its production materials are not easy to find.

(End of this chapter)