The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

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The door flew open, and Snape strode straight into the classroom.

He was the same as before, with greasy black hair parted from both sides, framing his sallow face.

His appearance caused a hint of panic in the already silent classroom.

Everyone quickly placed the textbooks and a full set of pharmaceutical tools on the table, and then looked up at Snape rather uneasily.

"I haven't asked you to take out the books yet." Snape flicked his wand, the door closed heavily, and he walked quickly onto the podium, looked at everyone expressionlessly and said, "I have something to say to you. You said, I hope your attention can be highly concentrated.”

After saying that, there was another rustling sound in the classroom.

After the classroom was completely quiet, Snape scanned everyone with his cold eyes and said:

"Potion science is diverse, endless, and extremely diverse. It is a subject that requires extremely high talents from learners. Incompetent people, even those with limited experience, will not be able to truly make achievements in this subject."

Snape slowly walked down from the podium, "Since you have successfully sat here, it means that you all have certain talents. But this does not make you proud, because, in my opinion, your talents are Just like Bowtruckle's excrement, invisible and smelly!"

Snape walked to the crowd, "I must emphasize to you again! There is no need for waste in my class. You'd better face every concoction with the fullest mental state and the most serious attitude. Because if you are I find that you are half-hearted and make stupid mistakes, and the result you will receive is to be expelled from my improvement class!"

After saying this, Snape slapped a Gryffindor student on the table with a sudden slap, which scared the student so much that he almost jumped up. The rest of the students were also as silent as chills, and did not dare to express their anger.

Seeing this, Snape returned to the podium with satisfaction and said loudly:

"Now, take out your textbooks and turn to page 87!"

The students immediately started to flip through the books in a hurry, even Link and Emily were no exception - this was the most respect for Snape.

This year's Potions textbook is "Advanced Potion Making".

As a textbook for the NEWT course, its price is as high as 20 gold galleons, which is ten times the price of the first-year potions textbook "Magic Potions and Potions"!

This is one of the reasons why there are so many Slytherin students here.

The high price of Potions textbooks, as well as the subsequent expensive materials that may need to be supplemented at one's own expense, are simply not something that Muggle wizards and most single-wizard-employed families can afford.

Only the pure-blood nobles of Slytherin can let their children learn potions without any scruples.

This is an invisible knowledge and class barrier.

Because he had already started learning NEWT potion knowledge, Link was quite familiar with the book "Advanced Potion Making" and he flipped through it to page 87.

I saw the title above clearly written in a slightly larger font - Advanced Ganlin Grass Neutralizer.

"What we are going to make today is the 'Advanced Ganlin Grass Neutralizing Liquid'. This is a very advanced semi-finished product. Its properties are quite unstable, and improper operation may cause continuous explosions. It is often used to prepare Fuling. Of course, you can also throw it out directly to fend off the enemy, such as high-level potions such as elixir and veritaserum. But I don’t recommend that you do this.”

Snape flicked his wand, and a box full of nectar and other materials was piled on the podium, "Okay! Now everyone, start mixing!"

After Snape's order was issued, the students in the classroom began to line up in an orderly manner to the podium to receive materials.

Link and Emily were sitting on their seats looking at Snape with extremely weird eyes.

As someone who could be said to be Snape's direct disciple, Link naturally made the 'Advanced Lemongrass Neutralizing Liquid'.

Therefore, he also knew very well that just now Snape seemed to have clearly stated all the functions and risks of the 'Glycyrrhiza Neutralizing Liquid', but in fact, he was not convinced that the 'Glycyrrhiza Neutralizing Liquid' would explode. It was summed up simply by saying "unstable properties" and "not recommended for actual combat use".

In fact, the properties of 'Lin grass neutralizing liquid' can no longer be described as unstable.

It literally explodes when touched!

Especially during the production process, as long as the producer makes a little mistake, it will blow your face!

Link suffered from it!

Snape is trying to trick people!

Perhaps sensing the gaze of Link and Emily, Snape suddenly turned his head and looked towards Link.

This made Link and Emily quickly get up and queue up to get the fodder.

They would not expose Snape's little thoughts. Anyway, the 'Advanced Sweet Grass Neutralizing Liquid' was not a difficult potion for them, and it was easy to make.

If they really want to expose Snape now, who knows what crazy means the stingy Snape will come up with to take revenge.

However, Snape obviously didn't want to let Link and Emily pass easily.

"Link, Emily, you two please return to your seats."

While instructing Link and Emily, Snape took out two slightly smaller cloth bags and placed them on their desks, "Since your level is already far higher than others, so your class The mission is not 'Advanced Ganlin Grass Neutralizing Liquid', but - a love potion."

After saying that, Snape showed a rare smile of gloating on his face.

Link and Emily looked at each other in shock when they heard this, not knowing what to say.

You must know that Link's potion level has reached the standard of a quasi-potion master after Snape's careful teaching and the study of Slytherin's Grimoire.

The yield and yield rate for making advanced magic potions like love potions are still pitifully low.

This was purely caused by too few practices, because later on Link spent most of his time on learning magic spells to improve his combat effectiveness.

As for Emily, that's even less so.

"Why are you still standing there? Let's start now."

Snape said as he helped open all the materials in the two small sacks and pushed them in front of Link and Emily.

"Professor," Link approached and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly, "you are going too far. I will forget it, but Emily..."

"If I had known today, why bother? You have such outstanding potion talents. If you spend more time on potion practice, you wouldn't be in this situation now." Snape interrupted rudely, "Since you are so worried about your fiancée, then just do her share. Hey, if you make two potions in the time it takes to make one potion, I'm optimistic about you."

Snape left without looking back, leaving Link and Emily sitting in their seats with tangled expressions.

"Sorry, honey, I've held you back."

Emily lowered her head and whispered softly. After hearing this, Link smiled and comforted:

"It's not your fault. Isn't it just two doses of love potion? It's nothing. Be good, help heat up the crucible first."

Emily nodded in agreement, while Link fully activated the Epsilon Curse and Occlumency, and directly entered a state of absolute sanity to begin checking the materials given by Snape.

After confirming that all these materials were intact and had not been tampered with by Snape, the preliminary processing of the materials began.

During this whole process, he didn't take a look at "Advanced Potion Making" at all. Instead, he turned around and opened his own potion notebook.

The pharmaceutical process recorded above is an improved version taught by Snape himself. The production time is shorter, the yield rate and yield rate are also higher, which is far from what the "Advanced Potion Making" can match.

Thanks to this improved formula, Link's production process finally became easier, and he even had time to look at what Snape was doing.

However, there was some resentment in Link's eyes when he looked at Snape that even Occlumency could not hide.

Link actually understood that Snape wanted to take this opportunity to let him and Emily refocus their studies on Potions.

At the same time, there may be some intention to use the two of them to establish power.

But what Snape did was quite inappropriate.

Just imagine.

Link and Emily, one is recognized as the strongest wizard in Hogwarts, and the other is a well-known house bully and leader-level figure in Slytherin.

If the two of them fail in the first Potions class of this semester, what will other students think of them?

This will directly cause them to lose face and even become a joke.

But in Link's plan for this school year, his and Emily's prestige is the most important part.

To be honest, this made Link a little bit dumbfounded.

Umbridge, the opponent he had always been wary of, had not done anything to him, but Snape, whom he regarded as one of his own, stabbed him in the back.

This life is really amazing.

Link sighed a little and then continued to refining the high-intensity potion.

Emily has been helping during this period.

Although she had little experience in refining the love potion, her basic skills were quite solid. With her subsequent help in handling the materials, Link felt much more relaxed. Perhaps it was not impossible to complete the refining of two bottles of the love potion in advance.

At the same time, John and the others also officially entered the configuration of the 'Superior Ganlin Grass Neutralizing Liquid'.

But they obviously haven't suffered from the unstable magic potion of 'Superior Ganlin Grass Neutralizing Liquid'.

bang——

A Slytherin boy's cauldron suddenly exploded.

The huge black smoke and stench swallowed it up instantly.

The sudden explosion also startled the other students around who were concentrating on preparing the neutralizer.

With their hands shaking, the explosion naturally caused a series of chain reactions.

"The skin of the nectar grass was not completely peeled off. Five points will be deducted from Hufflepuff."

"You stirred too hard when boiling the solution. Ten points will be deducted from Gryffindor!"

"The slug slime was added too little. Five points will be deducted from Ravenclaw."

"Too much nectar. Well, it's a miracle that you managed to hold on until now without exploding. Five points for Slytherin."

……

Snape kept shuttling between the desks, pointing out mistakes and deducting points for students, while also using his wand to extinguish the smoke rising from the explosion.

With his 'efforts', the chaotic classroom gradually returned to calm.

From this aspect, he is definitely a good and conscientious professor.

Of course, before drawing this conclusion, you must first ignore his performance in deducting points and adding points differently to Slytherin and other houses, as well as the evil smile on his face that clearly enjoys doing these things. .

It was not easy to ignore this. When faced with the proud looks of the Slytherin students, many Gryffindor and Ravenclaw students present showed angry expressions.

The students who were lucky enough to continue to sign up for Potions class in the sixth grade were just here to learn how to make potions. They were actually already prepared to deal with this situation, so they were not like some students in the lower grades. If you head-butt Snape like that, it's best to get into a situation that's difficult to end.

Time passed slowly amidst the constant explosions of the cauldron and Snape's strange scoldings.

Finally, at the 10-minute countdown to the end of the morning class, the two pots of love potion in front of Link finally changed color, and at the same time, a familiar and charming aroma spewed out from the crucible.

Link was greatly relieved when he saw this, while Emily took a deep sniff of the aroma in the crucible while relaxing, then approached Link and asked:

"What do you smell in there?"

As soon as he said this, the corners of Link's mouth unconsciously raised.

As the most powerful and notorious love potion of this century, one of the most obvious ways to identify it is that the smell of the finished potion will automatically change to the smell that the person who smells it likes most.

So of course there is no need to say more about the meaning of Emily’s question.

Link buried his head in Emily's neck, took a deep breath and said:

"Yeah! That's the smell, a fusion of plum blossoms and apricot blossoms. But did you change your shower gel yesterday or didn't take a shower at all? Why do I still smell a strange smell?"

"oops!"

Emily coquettishly pushed Link away and said, "Guess what I smelled from the crucible?"

"what?"

"Of course it's your stink."

"Wow! How dare you call me smelly!"

Link smiled and cursed before reaching out to grab Emily, but Emily ducked away with a coquettish smile.

The two of them laughing and playing attracted the attention of many people nearby.

Until Snape stood silently in front of the two people's table.

"Ugh!"

Snape's snort finally stopped Link and Emily.

Snape's indifferent eyes swept over Link and Emily, and landed on the two pots of bubbling love potion. In the end, he said nothing, snorted again and walked to the podium.

This made both Emily and Link, who were familiar with Snape's character, smile. Emily stuck out her tongue at Snape playfully, and Link quietly raised his middle finger when he saw this.

Snape was oblivious to this.

He finally glanced at the standing clock in the corner and said to everyone expressionlessly:

"I'm very disappointed that five people failed to refine such a simple potion in the end. You are truly the worst class I have ever led!

All members, please write me an analysis paper about 'Glycyrrhiza Neutralizing Liquid' when you return. Under the premise of using standard fonts, the length of the paper should not be less than 15 centimeters!

The crucible that exploded today must be at least 20 centimeters long!

As for the ones that haven’t been completed yet, the length must be no less than 40 centimeters!

Now!get out of class is over! "