Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

What others say, you need to come up with a basis that convinces her, otherwise she won't follow blindly.

"Yes, that's what the book says, but our method has been verified." Ai Wen continued to persuade, "It's more effective to do this. It's not wrong to keep stirring counterclockwise, but it takes a long time to change the potion. And the sleepy beans in your potion..."

Harry shrugged and continued working on his own potion.

Stir counterclockwise seven times, clockwise once, pause, then counterclockwise seven times, clockwise once.

While Ivan was adding sleepy bean juice to the panicked Hermione's cauldron, Ron on the other side of the table kept cursing in a low voice. Just can't figure out where the error occurred.

Harry raised his head and glanced around the classroom, but he didn't see any of his classmates whose potion had turned a light color like his.

He felt refreshed, something he had never experienced before in the dungeon.

"I think I must be crazy!" Seeing that her potion began to change after adding the sleepy bean juice, Hermione, who was flushed, hesitated to stir the wand as Harry and Ivan said, and looked at the potion in surprise. Variety.

Harry smiled knowingly, Hermione was stubborn about it.

However, whenever Aiwen comes forward, she will eventually make changes.

Chapter 1301 Hermione's Doubt

When Hermione's potion finally turned pink, Harry's potion was as clear as water.

"Now, time!" cried Slughorn. "Stop stirring, please!"

He moved slowly between the tables, examining each cauldron in turn.

Probably because the overall situation did not satisfy him, Slughorn made no comment.

He just stirs it occasionally, leans in to smell it, or shakes his head in disappointment.

Finally, he walked to the table of Alvin, Harry, Hermione and Ron.

He first smiled wryly at the asphalt-like things in Ron's crucible, and then looked at Ivan and Hermione's potions in surprise.

Both of their potions are now pink, and Ivan's is lighter and closer to completion.

But none of them were finished, mainly because Sleepy Beans had too many ingredients.

In order to speed up, both Aiwen and Hermione's potions added a few drops of sleepy bean juice to the original sufficient amount of sleepy bean slices, which needed to be boiled for a while.

"Not bad, really good. The two of you have found the trick and it's almost finished. The rest is just a matter of time. I think Aven Potion's may be closer to completion, so..." Slughorn said approvingly , his eyes finally landed on Harry's cauldron, and the expression on his face immediately revealed an expression of incredible joy, "Wait, what did I see, an undisputed winner!"

The whole class turned their heads to follow Slughorn's gaze at Harry's cauldron.

"My God, Harry! My God, that's brilliant! You obviously inherited your mother's talent, Lily was so ingenious in Potions class!" he shouted to the class in the dungeon, and put the vial He took out the Felix Elixir, "Here, take it, I mean what I say, I'll give you a bottle of Felix Elixir, use it well!"

Harry stuffed the vial of golden liquid into the inside pocket of his robes, with mixed emotions.

He felt guilty that he won the bottle of Felix Felicia without his true strength, but to be honest, the annoyed expressions on the faces of those Slytherin students simply made him elated...

……

"Harry, how did you do it?" Ron asked impatiently as soon as he left the dungeon.

Harry had been stunned when Slughorn announced the winner just now.

Ron knew Harry's potion level, so he was so surprised.

If it was Ivan and Hermione, he wouldn't be so shocked.

"That's right, tell me, what's going on with you two?" Hermione also asked.

She squinted her eyes halfway, looking at Ivan and Harry with scrutiny.

The group of them avoided the crowd and after confirming that no one was eavesdropping, Ivan and Harry told the whole thing.

It was mainly Harry who said it, and Ivan added a few more sentences.

He felt that the owner of this book still had the identity of the half-blood prince, and it was better for Harry to discover these by himself.

This incident did not affect the overall situation. It was a personal grievance between Harry and Snape, and it was not good for others to get involved.

And to be honest, Ai Wen had a rough look at it just now, but he still hasn't found the signature of the Half-Blood Prince.

In the corridor leading to the Gryffindor Tower, Hermione listened to Harry's narration, her face became more and more gloomy.

"Perhaps you thought I was cheating?" Harry asked, annoyed by the look on her face.

"Yeah, you didn't do it on your own, did you?" she said stiffly.

"Why didn't I do it by myself." Harry asked angrily.

"He just operated in a different way from the book, and obviously those annotations are very useful." Ai Wen said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Hermione turned to him aggressively.

"Annotation is very useful?! This is really a good explanation, I can't believe it, Ivan, you actually follow Harry to perform those dangerous operations that have not been verified, instead of stopping him." She said, "You I know, these annotations that seem to be useful to you can be dangerous at the same time!"

"I don't see any danger in changing the direction in which the wand stirs," interrupted Harry. "I just tried a few tips written in the margins, Hermione, and there's nothing wrong with it, honestly." .”

"But..." Hermione was a little discouraged, as if she wasn't sure how to refute.

Indeed, what danger can there be in simply changing the direction in which the wand stirs?

"Those improvements to the operation method of making potions do not seem to be dangerous at present." Ivan said, holding Hermione's hand.

He felt that it was right to be vigilant, and if he didn't know the specific reason, he would be careful.

And having said that, it seems that Snape's notes on it were not just improvements to the potion formula.

In addition, there is some magic that he studies, the real black magic.

Those things are very dangerous. If they are used indiscriminately, accidents are easy to happen.

Therefore, Hermione's worry is necessary.

As for why black magic is recorded in "Advanced Potion Making", it involves Snape's other hobby, or most talented wizards are like this, especially Slytherin students, they are very interested in powerful black magic. Magic always has a yearning and desire to study secretly.

At schools like Durmstrang, such behavior is encouraged, not forbidden.

At Hogwarts, students learn Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Starting from the sixth grade, professors will also teach some black magic knowledge in class or ask students to read black magic books as a supplement after class.

Only when you have a real understanding of black magic, can you better defend against them and fight against black wizards.

If you think about it that way, there's actually nothing wrong with learning about the dark arts rather than using them for your own personal gain.

"Seriously, why are we discussing this kind of topic, in my opinion, that book is just too good!" Ron sighed, "Slughorn might have handed me that book, But, alas, no one wrote in my textbook. It looks like someone spit on it, judging by the situation on page 52, but . . . "

"You didn't grasp the crux of the problem at all, Ron." Hermione seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly regained her spirits, "The key problem now is that Ivan and Harry believe in a magic book of unknown origin, and Follow the instructions above, this behavior is very dangerous, have you forgotten that diary?"

Ron stopped talking, and the incident in Riddle's diary was still fresh in his memory.

He was being controlled by Riddle to do and do, to free the basilisk, and nearly kill the others.

"It's different!" said Harry immediately.

"I didn't feel any magical breath on it, it was just an ordinary magic book, it couldn't be something like a Horcrux." Ivan said in a low voice, and looked around.

Hermione was right to be vigilant, but the only downside was being too persistent.

It would be difficult to convince her if you didn't provide real evidence or make your words clear.

Chapter 1302 The Half-Blood Prince

Sure enough, Hermione did not give up her ideas so easily.

"The book itself has no magic and can't explain anything. It can only prove that it is just a potion textbook. The key is those weird instructions. I saw the whole book full of standards. Who knows what's in it? She said suspiciously, "Apart from the improvement of the potion formula, there may be other things recorded, such as a dangerous and taboo magic..."

Well, her reasoning is pretty close to the truth!

Hermione is always like this, unknowingly telling the truth of things in an analysis that obviously has no evidence.

It has to be said that this is a terrifying talent.

Next, as long as you check along this line of thought, you will find many prohibited things.

Snape's Potions textbook was valuable, but as said before, not [-]% safe.

Instead, it's an outright contraband.

"Come on, what do you want me to do?" Harry asked impatiently, not wanting to put up with Hermione's seemingly endless suspicions.

Let her continue to analyze, maybe she will say that the textbook was left by Voldemort.

"I haven't figured it out yet, maybe I should return it..."

"Are you crazy?" Harry refused directly, maybe he didn't think it was a good answer, after all, this is not his book, so he added, "At least not until I have a new potions textbook Doing so, it is not dangerous..."

"It's hard to say, we need verification." Hermione still said stubbornly.

"How?" Harry asked grimly, "besides the stupid idea of ​​handing it back to the professor."

"Well, I think Ivan can keep that book until it is confirmed that it is indeed safe."

"But, my potions textbook..."

"You can use Ivan's." Hermione said, "Don't look at me like this, Harry, I know you can't bear it, but you can't deny its danger. We need more experience."

Ivan blinked, and Hermione really pushed the book into his hand after going around for a long time!

Harry was obviously reluctant, but he didn't know how to refute Hermione's suggestion.

Now he only sees the benefits of that book, not the potential dangers, so he is naturally unwilling to just give it to Ivan.

However, Ivan didn't intend to ask for that book either, it was a personal grievance between Snape and Harry.

He didn't want to intervene between the two of them as a third party.

Regarding that textbook, he only needed a copy, and went back to study the improvement of the potion formula on it.

"I have an idea, Harry, if you don't mind, I will make a copy of this book." Ivan said, "You can continue to keep it, of course, if Hermione and I find any danger in the above records , then give it to the professor."

"No problem!" Harry said, taking the "Advanced Potion Making" out of his bag.

This suggestion was easier for Harry to accept than Hermione's, and he hadn't intended to keep it a secret from them in the first place.

To be honest, Harry originally wanted to share the textbook with Ivan, Hermione, and Ron.

Ivan put "Advanced Potion Making" on the windowsill next to him, and took out his wand.

"Duplicate!" He tapped the old, dirty textbook with his wand.

As soon as he finished speaking, an identical textbook was copied out.

"That's great, I'd like a copy in that case too," said Ron, "Can I?"

"I don't see any difference between making one copy and making two, if you think it's safer," said Harry.

"I have no problem, but you have to understand, Ron, the copying spell doesn't really conjure the real thing, it's just an illusion made of magic, and the copy will disappear in about three hours, unless you keep going inside Input magic power to maintain it." Ivan said, looking at Ron who looked forward to it, "If you really need it, I can make another copy."

"Forget it!" Hearing what Ivan said, Ron shook his head in disappointment, "It doesn't take so much effort, and I don't have so much magic power. If I want to see it, I'd better borrow it from Harry."

"Now, is it all right?" Harry asked Hermione.

"I don't think you'd better use it in Potions until you've confirmed that all the notes above are safe," said Hermione.

"Please, Hermione, then what's the use of me having a potions textbook?!" Harry said angrily, taking the textbook back from the window sill, "Unless you really find out that it's dangerous, otherwise It can no longer stop me from using it."

Probably because of too much force, the textbook slipped from his hand and fell to the ground and spread out.

Harry bent down to pick it up when he saw something written on the bottom of the back cover, the same small, dense handwriting, the same handwriting that had helped him win the Felix Elixirs. .

It read: This book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince!

Snape's signature was originally here, no wonder Ivan couldn't find it after searching several times before.

This kind of thing really depends on luck, there must be something between Harry and Snape...

……

In the next few Potions classes this week, every time the Half-Blood Prince objected to Libasio Pollage's textbook, Harry followed the Half-Blood Prince's suggestion. As a result, in the fourth Potions class, Sla Ghorn was full of praise for Harry's abilities.

He kept telling the class that he had rarely taught such gifted students.

Although there was a copy, Ivan never used it in class because Hermione refused to let it.

She unswervingly followed what she called the "official" guidelines, hoping to prove those changes were wrong. As a result, the potion brewed was far less satisfactory than following the prince's instructions, so her My temper is getting worse and worse.

In addition, she did not allow Aiwen to use these unproven methods of operation.

In this matter, Ivan decided to follow Hermione's wishes, and he didn't intend to steal Harry's limelight anyway.