The day of the duel at Hogwarts

Fog drifts over a dirty river.

The river meanders, and there are piles of garbage among the weeds on both sides.

In a community not far away, a huge chimney stands there. This is the remnant of an abandoned mill that was once upon a time. It is dilapidated, gloomy, and looks ominous from a distance.

Two-story red brick houses are lined up here. There are very few windows on the surface of the house. Only small rectangular windows can be seen here and there. The window frames cross each other horizontally and vertically, like crosses.

This is Spider's End, where piles of rubbish can be seen everywhere. This is the home of Severus Snape, the Potions Professor at Hogwarts.

No. 19, Spider End Lane.

Snape sat on a worn and fluffy sofa, looking at the "Golden Crucible" journal in his hand. He picked up the teacup on the low table next to the sofa that could no longer see its original color, turned it around, and turned the gap on the cup. On the other side, Snape took a sip of the black tea inside, moistened his dry throat, and continued to read.

After reading the article on Wolfsbane Potion in "The Golden Crucible", Snape frowned slightly and thought for a long time before shaking his head slightly and muttering to himself: "It's useless!"

Putting "The Golden Cauldron" aside, Snape picked up another book. When he was about to read, there was a sudden sound of cooing and tapping on the window.

Standing up and opening the window, Snape frowned again and looked at the owl that had landed outside the window. He reached out and took the letter off the owl's leg. Then he ignored the owl's begging for nuts. After driving it away, he closed the window and sat down again. On the sofa with a worn and fluffy surface.

After turning over the letter and seeing it was from Sean, Snape's frown was relieved.

Opening the letter and reading the contents, Snape's relaxed expression slowly became serious again. He straightened up slightly, and his soothing brows wrinkled again, but this was not because of irritability or impatience. But it was Snape's serious performance.

After reading the letter, Snape immediately got up and went to the next room, which had been transformed into a simple laboratory by Snape. There were a variety of shabby but very complete tools in it, and in this The walls of the laboratory were covered with cabinets similar to those in Snape's office in Hogwarts. He took out some materials from them and quickly prepared a substitute for the wolf according to the contents of Sean's letter. The potion was one of the ingredients in the poison. After testing and testing, Snape sat in the laboratory and thought for a while. Finally, he took out the parchment and quill and wrote a reply to Sean.

When Sean received the reply, he was back home.

Looking at Snape's reply, it contained the advice given by Snape. It must be said that as one of the top potion masters in the magic world, Snape's advice really made Sean feel a little enlightened. The stagnant second material alternative is now finally taking a new direction.

Wolfsbane potion has a total of 22 materials, seventeen of which are quite expensive. Sean's goal is to find substitutes as much as possible to bring down the price. The brewing process can be divided, which indirectly reduces the difficulty of brewing.

When he did this, he didn't just want to create benefits or care for the werewolf wizards. Although he also had some thoughts on this, Sean's main purpose was to write something that could be done while taking advantage of the heat of the wolfsbane potion. Paper published in the "Golden Crucible" series.

Just like the original Wolfsbane Potion.

Sean is also preparing to write a series of papers on Wolfsbane Potion in the form of Wolfsbane Potion, which will give him a wave of popularity and a voice in potion science.

谷譶

Of course, the series of papers also has some requirements. It is just a substitution of a material. Although it can be written as a paper, it is not intuitive and ideal to substitute a material that can reduce the cost and difficulty of brewing wolfsbane potion. Therefore, Sean After preparing to accumulate three to four alternative materials, write a paper and publish it.

He is not afraid that someone will carry out experiments following his thesis. The alternative methods studied by Sean contain a lot of knowledge about ordinary people's chemistry. Sean is very sure that these potion masters who look down on ordinary people will not do this at all. Even if they wanted to do research, by the time they understood it, Sean had already finished writing the subsequent paper.

This is where the interest lies, and Sean is quite interested in research.

At the end of the holiday, Blaise came to visit his home. Sean stopped researching for half a day, and then drove away Blaise who was reluctant to leave Cesar, and then re-invested in research until the eve of the start of school.

"Hey, you know what? I heard that the famous Harry Potter blew his aunt into a balloon and floated it into the sky. It was seen by many Muggles and caused quite a commotion."

"And then? And what happened?"

"Then Fudge, the Minister of Magic, personally helped him settle the matter." There was a hint of ridicule in the voice.

"Ha, it's no wonder. Who doesn't know yet? Fudge is Dumbledore's follower. If Dumbledore wants the great savior Harry Potter to be okay, then the Minister of Magic must come out to wipe his ass."

"The minister who wipes his ass? Hahaha."

Walking in Diagon Alley, Sean was followed by Aldrich. Although Aldrich was very busy recently, for things like buying books before the start of school, of course Aldrich had to follow Sean.

Sean listened to the words of the first two people and could make a judgment just from their attitudes toward Harry, Dumbledore, and Fudge at this stage. These two guys must be senior Slytherin students. .

Sean and Aldrich walked into Flourish and Blotts Bookstore to buy textbooks for the new semester.

While the two of them were waiting in line, the people in front of them talked about Harry blowing up his aunt into a balloon. However, compared to the two Slytherins before, their words were much more polite and tolerant. Presumably either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.

The queue wasn't very long, but when Sean was about to arrive, the person behind him suddenly whispered: "Hey, have you read the Daily Prophet? That recent news."

"News? I haven't read the Daily Prophet recently. Are you talking about the news about the Weasley family winning a lottery and traveling to Egypt?"

"How is it possible? This has nothing to do with them. What I'm talking about is the recent news. Someone escaped from Azkaban and escaped silently. I really don't know how he got out. That was Azkaban. Kaban!”

"Azkaban? What's that fugitive's name?"

"I really remember that name. It is said that he was a former Death Eater of You-Know-Who, named Sirius! Sirius Black! A prisoner who was supposed to be in Azkaban!"