Hogwarts Kryptonian.

Chapter 305

"You've been waiting. Ollivander's got a little crowded."

"fine."

Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded to Slughorn.

The Leaky Cauldron is still very lively, but it is actually not easy to find a place in the store where three people can sit and have a good chat.

But it was not difficult for Lu Yunkai.

Tom had easily cleared a place for him to sit quietly.

"I heard from Severus some time ago that you went back to Hogwarts once?" Slughorn sat opposite Lu Yunkai and waved to Tom at the bar.

Tom also nodded naturally.

He knows exactly what the regular customer wants to drink.

"Well, I was a bit busy at the time, so I didn't go to see you specifically." Only then did Lu Yunkai realize this.

In Hogwarts, the familiarity between his adoptive father and him may be ranked sixth or seventh, so he really can't think of going to see him.

"It's okay, even if you go to see me, it seems that we don't have much to talk about." Slughorn waved his hand and said with a smile, "I'm fine and I don't want to disturb your life."

After speaking, he glanced at Daphne.

"……Um."

"I'm looking for you because I arranged a dinner party, the day after tomorrow." Slughorn looked at Lu Yunkai and Daphne looking embarrassed, and brought the topic down to business with a smile: "I have invited some potions Friends from the Association are going to Liverpool. Come too!"

"Dinner? Good." Lu Yunkai agreed very simply, "Can I help with anything?"

It's not that he hasn't attended the dinner party of the Potionists Association, Snape took him to a similar occasion before.

"Well." Slughorn nodded, "You prepare a little bit, and come to give a speech."

"...Speech??" Lu Yunkai was taken aback.

The help he said should be like preparing the venue and food, or receiving some visiting guests on the spot.

Why did you still have a speech?
"This is a dinner party, but it's actually an exchange meeting." Slughorn said with a smile, "Why don't you want to gather so many famous potion masters just for a meal? No one will come!!"

"That's right." Lu Yunkai thought about it, the dinner he attended before was actually very boring.

"And no matter whether the mysterious man is really dead or not, we have to return to normal life." Slughorn continued, "Whether it's a banquet or an academic exchange, it's all part of normal life."

"But as a wizard apprentice who hasn't graduated yet, is it appropriate for me to speak in front of a group of potions masters?"

"There's nothing inappropriate. You have to have confidence in yourself. Your current attainments in Potions, I heard Severus tell me, have you improved Wolfsbane Potion before?" Slughorn put away his smile and said: "You just prepare this topic, and then make a report! From how you discovered the problem of Wolfsbane Potion, to how you thought about improving it, and what attempts you made... a little more detailed, but don't cover everything, than you write It would be nice if the treatise on Potions should be a little more refined."

"Okay." Lu Yunkai thought for a while and nodded.

"Very good." Slughorn was very pleased to see that Lu Yunkai agreed without asking why or saying there was any difficulty, "Of course, if you have other interesting ideas, you can also mention them." carry."

"Interesting...does the improved burst corrosion potion count?" Lu Yun joked with a smile.

"You haven't graduated yet, don't rush to touch these things restricted by the Ministry of Magic. Wait until you have been a teacher at Hogwarts for a few years before talking about these taboo things!" Slughorn waved his hand, "This time The reason why I came to you alone for the speech is that I hope you will take it seriously and treat it as an important matter. For you, if you do a good job in this report, you will be fine if you don’t take the NEWTS exam. Understand?"

"I don't quite understand." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "NEWTS..."

"It's just a certificate." Slughorn said seriously: "You have also met Grindelwald. He is a wizard apprentice who was expelled by Durmstrang, let alone NEWTS. Does he take it seriously?"

"..."

"Whether the mysterious person is dead or not, this matter has come to an end."""

"After what happened a while ago, you will definitely not think about working in the Ministry of Magic anymore. The NEWTS certificate is no longer useful to you. If you want to learn more, you can read it. If you don't want to learn... this You can completely throw away all these things in one year." Slughorn looked at Lu Yunkai's speechless expression, and continued to say with a serious face: "If you can, I would like to suggest that you can get a lot of NEWTS It is best to give up a few certificates."

"Ah? Why?" Lu Yunkai couldn't understand more and more.

Can take the exam or not? ?
"For your own good." Slughorn shook his head as if he didn't want to say more, "Whatever it is! These are things for later, you should seriously prepare the speech for me the day after tomorrow! It can be a blockbuster, understand?"

"Oh." Although Lu Yunkai was still confused, he still nodded in a daze.

Although he is not very familiar with this adoptive father, Lu Yunkai believes that he will not harm him.

"By tomorrow morning, can you prepare the paper for your speech?" Slughorn glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and then asked Lu Yunkai, "I'll take a look at your speech at noon tomorrow."

"I wrote the paper on Wolfsbane before, but Professor Snape said that it was not convenient for me to publish this kind of paper that might make some people uncomfortable, so I withheld it." Lu Yunkai thought for a while, " That paper should still be in my bag."

"Then you go and show me." Slughorn nodded.

"...Why don't you come with me to sit at home? It's better than here." Lu Yunkai glanced at the Leaky Cauldron, which was full of people.

"No, I'll just wait for you here!" Slughorn smiled, "I don't want to disturb your life anymore."

"What's the trouble!" Daphne quickly interrupted, "Professor, you and Lu Yunkai are too polite, aren't you?"

"I'll wait for you here!" Slughorn insisted with a smile and shook his head.

Lu Yunkai took a look at Daphne, and could only go back home through the fireplace alone. He dug out the thesis written a few years ago from the space bag, and took it back to the Leaky Cauldron.

Daphne stayed and chatted with Slughorn. When Lu Yunkai hurried back, she was smiling and discussing with Slughorn what happened at Hogwarts last year.

After getting the paper written by Lu Yunkai, Slughorn stopped chatting with Daphne and began to read it seriously.

The afternoon of that day was spent in the noise and silence of the Leaky Cauldron.

Slughorn, like Snape, gave a very high evaluation of Lu Yunkai's paper, and even agreed that Lu Yunkai would give a speech at the dinner according to this paper without any modification.

And Lu Yunkai did not disappoint him.

At the dinner that followed, Lu Yunkai gave a wonderful speech in front of nearly twenty potion masters whose age span was over a hundred years old, winning full applause.

This included Slughorn, and Snape, his true Potions teacher.

It even included the inventor of the original wolfbane potion who was invited here.

The guest applauded very graciously that he would not have any opinion on him because his discovery was improved by Lu Yunkai.

Or maybe, because of Slughorn's presence, he had to hold back when he was upset.

After finishing his speech, Lu Yunkai also listened to the speeches of two other guests who were invited to give academic reports at the dinner.

They are all discussions about the mechanism of action of potions, which are much more profound than what Lu Yun said.

And this is the first time that Lu Yunkai participated in this kind of "academic exchange meeting" in the true sense. During the interval between speeches, Lu Yunkai was also led by Slughorn to chat with all the guests who came.

Slughorn did not show the attitude of "I don't want to get too involved in your life" at the Leaky Cauldron before, and he was not stingy at all to praise his adopted son to every guest who came to the dinner.

This somewhat made Lu Yunkai, who was used to being low-key, uncomfortable, but he still tried his best to deal with it decently.

And he also noticed that what Slughorn praised him seemed to be a little bit different from what he was proud of.

The winner of the Triwild Cup and the outstanding OWLS are the two things that Lu Yun is most proud of besides the communication mirror, but Slughorn didn't say a word to these people who came to the banquet.

On the contrary, Lu Yunkai felt that he had nothing to say, and Slughorn kept bringing it up.

For example, his research on the magic circle is a necessary topic for Slughorn to show off to every guest.

Even in Slughorn's mouth, the communication mirror is just a by-product of his research on the magic circle, not worth mentioning.

So much so that when Lu Yunkai and Blaise talked about it in the communication mirror when they returned home after the dinner, the two laughed together for a long time.

After talking, laughing, this "report dinner" that Lu Yunkai carefully prepared really didn't just end after it passed.

At the dinner party, he exchanged communication mirror numbers with some guests, and these potions masters, who he thought might be very cold, turned out to be surprisingly talkative.

The two wizards who gave reports at the dinner party like him were even worse. One of them specially invited Lu Yunkai to his house as a guest, wanting to discuss with Lu Yunkai about the improved burst and corrosion potion that he accidentally leaked...

As for reciprocity, Lu Yunkai also invited him to his home as a guest.

After seeing the large area of ​​Lu Yunkai's backyard that was carefully looked after by Irene, the blooming herbs, the envious potion master even wished to become a brother of the opposite sex with Lu Yunkai (he was older than Snape) a little bit bigger)...

It was also under the reminder of Irene, who had watched a good show, that Lu Yunkai realized why these potion masters were so interested in Lu Yunkai, and why Slughorn always used his magic circle and Let's talk about it in the communication mirror: Irene didn't learn potions well at the beginning. Apart from hating Snape, there was another very important reason, which was that potions were too expensive.

As the developer of the communication mirror, Lu Yunkai is already well-known as the richest wizard in England. Even if those wizards don't consider Slughorn as the former president, they will definitely have a good relationship with Lu Yunkai for the sake of Jin Gallon. of.

After understanding this point, instead of looking down on these potion masters because of their realities, Lu Yunkai felt that these people who usually only deal with crucible potion bottles are straightforward and cute...

He was not short of money at all, and he showed his "arrogance" in a timely manner, and generously gave away a lot of expensive or even priceless potion ingredients to some new friends he met.

This made his reputation in the circle of potionists suddenly reach a height that even Slughorn was a little envious of (this is what he said in the communication mirror), and Snape, as the headmaster of Hogwarts, also He told Lu Yunkai very clearly that as long as he is willing, he will be the Potions professor at Hogwarts by this time next year...

In this way, Lu Yunkai's last summer vacation started in a calm and peaceful way, and came to an end amidst the bustle and bustle.

Finally, Lu Yunkai, who had been away from Hogwarts for half a year, came to Hogwarts as a student for the seventh and last time in a special express train.

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(End of this chapter)