Harry Potter and Shafik

Chapter 8 Potions Lesson

After breakfast, Hilbert took out the schedule from his pocket and looked at it

Monday morning: Charms, Herbalism.Afternoon: History of Magic.

Tuesday morning: History of Magic, Charms.Afternoon: Herbalism.

Wednesday morning: Herbalism class, Defense Against the Dark Arts.Afternoon: Transfiguration.Evening: Astrology.

Thursday morning: Transfiguration.Afternoon: Defense Against the Dark Arts, and an hour of flying lessons.

Friday morning: All Potions.

After packing up his textbooks, Hilbert went to the Charms classroom alone. Since he was the first one to arrive and the professor hadn't come yet, Hilbert practiced the Levitating Charm by himself first.

"Wingardim Leviosa"

"It's Yuga-Dim Levi-O-Sa, the word 'jia' must be said long and clearly." Hilbert turned his head, no one?
"Look down, classmate, I'm here."

Hilbert looked down, and Professor Filius Flitwick looked at him with a smile on his face,

"Very good, now only you are practicing spells, that, Hilbert, can you help me pile up the book? Then carry me up?"

"Happy to oblige, Professor."

After a while, people walked into the classroom in twos and threes.

"Quiet, I will add 10 points to Slytherin today, because their classmate Hilbert arrived first, and he is still previewing today's new lesson."

Draco turned his head, "Well done!"

"The spell class is an easy class. You only need to pay attention to pronunciation and movements. But please don't ignore it. Sometimes a small spell may be your life-saving straw. Today we will learn the floating spell."...

Every Wednesday night, they use a telescope to observe the sky and learn the names of the different stars and the orbits of the planets.Three times a week, they would be taken by a pudgy witch named Sprout to a herbal class in the greenhouse behind the castle, where they would learn how to grow these exotic plants and fungi and understand their uses.

Probably the most annoying class was History of Magic, the only one taught by ghosts.Remember that Professor Binns fell asleep in front of the fireplace in the staff lounge, and forgot to bring his own body when he went to class the next morning, which shows that Professor Binns was indeed very old when he was alive.During the class, Professor Binns kept talking in a monotonous voice, and the students scribbled down names and dates, and confused Merrick the villain with Urick the weirdo.Professor McGonagall was different from all of them.Hilbert was right.He could tell at a glance that the professor was difficult to deal with.She was strict, smart, and she gave them a run for their money as soon as they sat down for their first class.

"Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous form of magic you will study at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone who misbehaves in one of my classes will be asked to leave and never again." Come in. I warned you." Then she conjured up a projector and pulled back the white cloth.The projector automatically played one after another pictures of people turning into animals on the white cloth.

Professor McGonagall: "As the first transfiguration class, what I want to teach you first is not magic, but the most important quality of transfiguration—discretion."

McGonagall: "In Transfiguration, some wizards have gone further than ordinary people. All the great changes you can think of have been tried by various wizards. However, some wizards succeeded, and more Many wizards have failed in the process of seeking knowledge.

The reasons for failure, without exception, were all due to lack of caution. "

"In 2000 BC, the great shapeshifter of ancient Egypt, the Sphinx, reached the extreme in his pursuit of transformation. It is a pity that he still confused the difference between structure and essence in the process of transformation. , turned himself into a half-man, half-lion monster, and lost his sanity."

The picture on the projection screen changes again.

A banshee with a human face and a bird body appeared with a painful expression.1000 BC, the greatest witches of ancient Greece, sirens.In the process of pursuing flying, she sacrificed her sanity and completely stripped her humanity, thus turning into a monster with a human face and a bird body. To this day, her descendants are still wandering in pain on the Greek Peninsula. "

The projection turned again into a hand-drawn half-man, half-bull. "In AD 13, the famous wizard Minotaurus tried to turn into a bull during a duel with a human being, but unfortunately, his mind was dazzled by anger, so he could only be a creature that was neither human nor bull for the rest of his life. Living off my own vomit." Hilbert felt a little uncomfortable.

"But you don't need to learn these advanced transfiguration techniques now, you first learn how to turn matches into needles." By the time the class was over, only Hermione Granger had changed her matches; Ben saw how the match turned into a shiny silver needle, and one end was still sharp, and gave Hermione a rare smile.At this time, Hilbert raised his hand: "Professor, look at Draco's matches."

"Perfect Transfiguration, 5 points for Slytherin." Everyone followed the prestige, and saw that Malfoy's match turned into a shining golden needle. pattern. .

"It's only five points, can't we add more?"

"Okay, okay, Professor McGonagall is so strict, it would be great to get extra points."

It's finally Friday, the Godfather's Potions class!Hilbert took out his notebook, which was densely packed with notes from Severus' school textbooks.There are quite a few improved potion recipes.

Potions class is taught in an underground classroom.It's colder here than the castle main building above, and there are glass jars along the wall, and the stuffed animals soaked in it make you shiver even more. "You have come here to learn the ingenious art of medicine," said Snape.His voice was low, almost a whisper, but everyone could hear every word clearly.

The students are very quiet, perhaps this is the unique aura of a strict teacher.

"Since there's no foolish wand waving here, many of you won't quite believe it's magic. I don't expect you to really understand the beauty of pharmaceutical technology. Think about it, simmering herbs in a big steamer When the potion boils slowly, white smoke curls up. There is also the liquid flowing in the veins of the human body. The liquid with incomparable subtle power can simply make your heart drunk and fascinate all your senses! I can teach How do you increase your reputation, how do you brew glory, even say... prevent death, as long as you don't be as stupid as the bunch of fools I used to teach."

"Plus, some of you are famous before school even starts, so defiant that you don't even bother to listen!"

"Potter!" said Snape suddenly, "what would I get if I added powdered daffodil root to an infusion of wormwood?"

"Daffodil root powder and wormwood can be mixed together to make a powerful sleeping pill, which is a dose of water of life and death."

If I asked you to find me a bezoar, where would you find it? "

"From the stomach of a goat."

"Potter, what's the difference between the boat-shaped aconite and the wolf-venomous aconite?"

"Aconitum acanthus and Aconitum chamaejasma are the same plant, and they are collectively referred to as aconitum."

Hilbert asked Harry to memorize these three questions last night.

"That's all. One point for Gryffindor." The class gasped. Snape never gave Gryffindor points.

"Good job, Harry," said Ron.

"Ten points deducted from Gryffindor!" Snape said suddenly. "No talking in class."

In class, Seamus and Neville were divided into one group. Seamus made a mistake, but Snape reprimanded Seamus and deducted 5 points.

There was a sudden puff of acidic green smoke and a loud hissing sound from the dungeon.Neville somehow burned Seamus' cauldron into a crooked mass, and the potion in the cauldron spilled on the flagstone floor, burning holes in the shoes of his classmates.Within seconds the whole class was on the stools, and Neville was drenched in the potion when the cauldron was knocked over, and by this time he was screaming and screaming in pain with red, swollen boils all over his arms and legs.

"Idiot!" Snape growled, wielding his wand and sweeping away the potion on the ground.

Neville was sobbing, with boils popping out of his nose. "I suppose you put the porcupine quills in the cauldron without taking it off the fire, didn't you?"

Neville was sobbing, with boils popping out of his nose.

"Hilbert hurriedly brought over the scabies potion that had been prepared. Harry, who was on the side, didn't stay in a daze at this moment, thanked him, and immediately helped Hilbert apply the potion on Neville's red and swollen skin And after Hilbert released several catalytic spells and healing spells, the swelling on Neville's body has basically subsided.

"Take him to the infirmary, he needs to lie down for a while, the scabies potion lasts for two hours, and he'll be fine after that," Snape snapped at Seamus.Then he circled around Harry and Ron, who happened to be operating next to Neville.

"Potter, why didn't you tell him not to put the porcupine quills in? You thought he'd show you when he made a mistake? Another point for Gryffindor because of you." That's not fair, ha Leigh was about to defend himself when Ron kicked him behind the cauldron.

"Don't be silly," he whispered, "Snape is very unreasonable, I hear."

Hermione shouted indignantly: "Why is Professor Snape so partial!"

"Who knew? I heard that Snape is the most protective of calves, and Slytherin has never been deducted."

"How could he do this, this is not a professor I have seen at all."

"Have you seen him?"

"Didn't Hilbert tell you? Hilbert and I are classmates. When I had a magic riot, he was the one who took me to find his godfather, Professor Snape."

"I knew that Hilbert is not a good thing either! Indeed, there are always a few people who are different in such a big college. But I heard that he became the head student of Slytherin. From this point of view , There is no doubt at all, as a Slytherin, he definitely has the commonality of Slytherin! Treacherous, shameless, unscrupulous!" Ron said through gritted teeth. "

"Ron! Hilbert is not like that! He helped us save Neville just now!" Hermione said.

"Although he looks okay, he has become the head student of Slytherin. If he is not the same kind of person as other Slytherins, will he be recognized by others?" Harry whispered from the side, obviously, Even he himself is not very convinced of his own words.

At the end of get out of class, Slytherin was very successful in making potions for Pansy, Blaise, Draco, and Hilbert. Snape added 40 points, but Gryffindor had Hermione's successful potions. Added 10 points, but still deducted the most, a full sixty points! !

Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were each deducted 20 points.

An hour later, they climbed the steps out of the dungeon, Harry's mind racing and feeling down.Gryffindor had taken so many points off him the first week of school, and he didn't know why Snape hated him so much.

　Three shifts a day, exhausted, asking for a reward, monthly ticket, recommendation ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)