Harry Potter and Shafik

Chapter 41 Healing Potion
Thursday, September [-], [-], the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.Mooncake Festival.

On this day, the students in the Hogwarts castle suddenly discovered that the professors today are somewhat different from the past.

All busy with one thing.Even the students who are usually closest to each other did not say hello.

First Potions class in the morning.Still learning to make shrink potions.Neville was still wrong.The Slytherins headed by Draco still looked at Neville with a smile.The students of the Lion Academy were uneasy.Because there was a faint bewildered smile on Snape's face.When Neville made a mistake, instead of getting angry, Snape pointed out the mistake patiently.Just like he usually mentions Draco Malfoy.

This sudden change terrified Neville, so much so that the potion in the crucible that should have been stirred clockwise was stirred counterclockwise twice by him, making him the first person in the class to perfectly concoct the potion. student.

So Snape also gave the Lion House a point for the first time.

Potions class ended in such an atmosphere that terrified the students of Lion Academy and Snake Academy.

Then, on the way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Hilbert ran into Astoria and Aleena.Astoria said that Professor McGonagall's transfiguration class was incoherent today.And it's full of mistakes.Daphne felt that with Professor McGonagall's decades of knowledge, how could he make mistakes?Aleena said it was the same for today's Charms class.He was supposed to learn the Levitation Charm, but Professor Flitwick taught him the Explosion Charm instead.

What happened to Hogwarts today?
After arriving at the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.Professor Lupine is not here again!Instead, Godfather Snape!

Standing on the podium of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that he had dreamed of for many years, Snape felt that the sky at Hogwarts was clear today, and Snape liked it very much.Then began the indiscriminate bombing of Gryffindor.The previous extra points were multiplied by thirty times and deducted back.

"Where's Professor Lupine?"

"He said he was too sick to be in class today," said Snape, grinning. "

What's wrong with him?"

Snape's black eyes glowed.

"No life threatening," he said, as if wishing so. "Another five points from Gryffindor. If I tell you to sit down again and you don't sit down, it's fifty points." Harry walked slowly to his seat and sat down.Snape looked around the class. "Before Potter interrupted me, I was saying that Professor Lupine didn't leave a record of your class's progress—" "Sir, we've learned Boggarts, Red Caps, Kabbahs, and Grindylows," Hermione said. Said quickly, "We're just getting started—" "Quiet," said Snape dryly, "I didn't ask you. I was just commenting on Professor Lupine's disorganized teaching."

"He's the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher we've ever had," said Dean Thomas boldly, and the rest of the class murmured agreement.Snape looked more menacing than usual.

"You guys are easy to please. Lupine doesn't expect much of you - I think you should be able to handle Red Hood and Grindylow in first year. Today we're going to talk about -"

Harry watched him flip through the textbook quickly, right down to the last chapter, and he must have known they hadn't learned it yet.

"—a werewolf," said Snape.

"But, sir," said Hermione, seemingly unable to contain herself, "we shouldn't be like werewolves yet, we should start being like Hinkpunk—"

"Miss Granger," said Snape, in a tone of deathly calm, "I feel as though I were teaching the lesson, not you. I tell you all, turn to page 394." He looked around again. "You all !Now!"

Many in the class exchanged painful glances, some grumbled sullenly, and opened their books.

"Can any of you tell me how to tell the difference between a werewolf and an Animagus?"

Everyone sat there in silence, motionless; except for Hermione, whose hands were held upright in the air as usual.

"Who can answer?" said Snape, ignoring Hermione.He grinned again and said.

"Miss Greengrass, get up and answer this question!"

"Animagus is transformed by the wizard's own choice, while werewolves are forced to transform, and the current name of werewolves is actually wrong. They should be called wolf slaves. Werewolves are extremely afraid of "silver". Werewolves hate Anything made of silver can cause them pain just by skin surface contact, which can be used as a way of distinguishing them from ordinary people."

"Listen, perfect answer, fifty points for Slytherin. What do you think, Miss Know-it-All!"

The bell finally rang, and Snape didn't let them go.

"Each of you write a paper for me on methods of identifying and killing werewolves. There should be two parchments on this topic, due Monday morning. Someone should take care of the class.

Harry and the others, who were worried about Professor Lupine, wanted to greet him during dinner.As a result, they did not find Professor Lupine in the cafeteria, and not even Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and other professors appeared in the cafeteria, and even everyone's favorite Professor Lingxu did not appear at the table. Hagrid is here.

"Lupine...werewolf...Lupine...I see!" Hilbert suddenly shouted.

"What do you know?" Daphne said, startled.Hilbert pulled Daphne to a secluded place.Said "I know what Professor Lupine means!"

"What do you mean?"

"Professor Remus John Lupine is a werewolf!"

"What's the evidence?"

"Name!" Hilbert said firmly.

"name?"

"That's right, the name. Remus John Lupin." Hilbert spelled out the English letters "Latin Lup is the root of wolf, and English Lupine means "related to wolves. In the dialects of some French regions, Lupine is the word for werewolf mean.And Remus (the other is Romulus) is the name of one of the legendary twins raised by a she-wolf. These two brothers founded the Roman Empire. Among them, Remus is the younger brother of Romulus. Lupine also means "lupine" in English, and the flower language is bitter.Because the seeds of lupine are extremely bitter, it often makes people frown in the mouth.In Greek, Lupine means bitter.And today, Godfather Snape asked us to learn about werewolves.So I'm sure.Professor Lupine is a werewolf"

At the same time, the professors who did not appear in the cafeteria collectively appeared on the roof of the reading room.

It is night now.

"Drink, Professor Lupine!"

Lupine drank the chamaejasme potion, which treats the symptoms but not the root cause.Transformed into a werewolf while remaining sane.

In the center of the rooftop is a cauldron set on a fire, constantly bubbling with steam.

On the long table next to the cauldron, there were several silver bowls emitting magical light.One of the bowls contained more than half of the blood that had just been drawn from Lupine's body, and the other bowls contained various herbal medicines.

Beside the long table, a wolf-like humanoid creature was sitting on a chair, stretching out its hand, asking Snape standing next to him to draw blood with a syringe.

Around the roof, there were sofas and coffee tables in a circle. The professors were sitting on the sofa, watching Snape and the werewolf in the middle of the roof.

"I think we are trying to treat Professor Lupine as the main course tonight." Professor Lingxu said, who was eating a piece of peach cake.

"It seems that the pot is not big enough." Dumbledore said while biting a piece of sweet and greasy rose bean paste mooncake.That's right.This is exactly the potion that Lingxu came up with to completely cure the werewolf after thinking hard in retreat.And the one next to it is according to the production method proposed by Taoist Lingxu at noon today.Mooncakes and peach cakes with various fillings made by more than 100 house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen.This moment is being shared by professors.And Professor Binns was gnawing on a piece of fragrant peach cake, that is, peach cake with the aroma of peach cake extracted.Or the soul of Peach Crisp.

Snape drew a syringe of Lupin's werewolf blood and filled it into a pre-prepared bowl.

Then it was time for Potions Master Snape to perform.

"In the pot is the potion that has been simmering for half a month on a high fire, emitting bursts of tempting medicinal fragrance. At this time, Snape, the potion master, added two important ingredients .Werewolf blood and human blood. Stir evenly When Snape poured the blood of Lupin who had turned into a werewolf on the table into the pot, and then stirred thoroughly, the whole pharmaceutical process came to the last and most important step.

Snape picked up the lid of the pot from the table next to him, closed the lid and tightened it with a "snap". After confirming that the handle on the lid was aligned with the handle on the body of the pot, he finally put the pressure limiting valve on the pot Cover on the exhaust pipe.

Then Snape cast a spell on the body of the pressure cooker, and after the body of the pressure cooker became transparent, he could see that the potion inside was changing color rapidly.Almost done. "

The above is the idea in the mind of Taoist Lingxu.And it was recited exclusively by Li Lihong, the Chinese narrator on the tip of his tongue.

After half an hour of boiling.Snape turned off the pressure cooker.open the lid.There was a strong medicinal fragrance, and the medicine in the pressure cooker emitted a light green fluorescence, and the water vapor continued to rise under the illumination of the fluorescence.

Snape used a spoon to scoop the viscous fluorescent light green potion in the pressure cooker into the cup, then picked up the cup and walked in front of Lupine.

"Drink, Lupine—it's the fate of werewolves."

"Wait a minute, the medicine must be cold."

"Quick cooling!"

Dumbledore waved his wand.The temperature of the potion was cool enough to drink.After Lupine drank the potion that Snape handed him, he changed back to his original human appearance at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"You have to drink this medicine for a month. Wait until the moon appears in front of you. You will fully recover when you don't feel the discomfort of being forced to transform!"

In the last week of October, the students once again discovered that the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts had been replaced by Snape. At this time, Lupine stayed in the headmaster's office all day, under the supervision of Dumbledore, preparing to Spend the night of the first full moon after treatment.The professors once calculated that the profits from treating werewolves in the British magical world could double their bonuses and benefits.Not to mention the werewolf village in the United States, and werewolves all over the world.

The salary of professors at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry consists of basic salary, teaching seniority salary, class hour salary, performance salary, special allowance and welfare allowance.Among them, the basic salary, teaching salary, class hour salary and performance salary are borne by the Ministry of Magic, special allowances are borne by the school board, and welfare allowances come from Hogwarts' small coffers.And Hogwarts' profits from the transformation of scientific research results all went directly into the school's small treasury, and then part of it became the welfare allowances of the professors.It is this part of the welfare allowance that makes the total income of the professors keep going up.

But people's desires never stop in order to cut off Hogwarts' desires.Taoist Lingxu said.Again and again and again.He himself helped Hogwarts twice.He will not study the antidote for the third time in the future!
Besides, this medicine is only suitable for bitten werewolves like Lupin.It is not suitable for a race that is born a werewolf.Like the giant wolf from Twilight.However, after excluding these races, the profits that can be brought are also very considerable.

(End of this chapter)