The day of the duel at Hogwarts

Damp and dark, this was Sean's first impression of Snape's office.

Breathtaking, this was Sean's second impression of Snape's office.

Standing in Snape's office, Sean looked at the shelves on the wall that went straight to the ceiling. There were countless large and small drawers on them. Each drawer contained different potion materials and finished potions. Such a shelf cloth Snape's office was filled with high-end magic potions such as dragon's blood, unicorn bone powder, and even truth serum, elixir, etc. as far as the eye could see.

This shelf alone is already worth a lot of money.

Snape put the books and homework he had collected on the desk in front of the window. The windows here were the same as those in the Slytherin common room. The green lake outside shed light green light through the windows, reflecting the Snape's desk was shadowy and had a very standard Slytherin aesthetic.

"Professor, you asked me to come here. What's the matter?"

Without answering Sean's question, Snape stood in front of the desk, looked at Sean, pondered slightly, and said, "Sean, what do you think the potion is?"

"Potions are magic without using a wand. They are..."

Before Sean could finish speaking, Snape raised his hand to stop Sean from continuing, and said in a slightly cold voice: "I'm asking what you think the potion is, not what I'm doing in class. Talk about what the potion is, this is not a classroom, what I need is not the standard answer, what I need is your answer, what do you think the potion is!"

Sean looked at Snape and didn't answer immediately, but frowned slightly and started thinking.

Time passed little by little, and Snape, who usually didn't like waiting for others, was now very patiently waiting for Sean's answer.

Finally, after a few minutes, Sean raised his head again, looked at Snape's cold eyes without emotion and fluctuation, and said: "Potions, like wands, are essential items for wizards..."

Hearing this half of the sentence, Snape's eyebrows frowned slightly. It was obvious that he was not satisfied with the answer until he heard the next half of Sean's sentence.

"At the same time, for me personally, potions are an art of matter and time. I enjoy the process of brewing potions, and I even enjoy turning seemingly ordinary materials into something with otherworldly effects through my hands. The potion process.”

This sentence is not that Sean is deliberately catering to Snape. In fact, this is his true inner thought.

Sean likes methods that can make him stronger. That's because he knows exactly where the world will go in the future, and he needs to make himself stronger to protect himself.

But in fact, what Sean really enjoys in Hogwarts is the process of brewing potions every time. He likes the process of boiling various materials into potions with magical effects, which will make Sean forget Amidst all the troubles and pressures in reality, he finds his own tranquility and peace.

To put it simply, brewing a magic potion is like a plastic guy putting together a Gundam for Sean.

"The art of matter and time..." Snape murmured to himself, and his thoughts went back to the beautiful girl with long dark red hair and green eyes a long time ago. He remembered that the girl once said...

I like potions. I like the process of potions gradually changing substances over time, just like art.

Lily...

Snape's heart called out the name that made him nostalgic and guilty.

At this time, Sean was looking at Snape who was in a daze. As he watched, he suddenly discovered that there was a trace, a very small, almost invisible smile on the corner of Snape's mouth. It was a smile. A very gentle smile, a smile that, in Sean's opinion, was impossible to appear on Snape.

However, before Sean could be surprised, the almost invisible smile disappeared from Snape's face, and he looked at Sean again with his cold and empty eyes.

"Good answer, I like it very much..." After saying this, Snape turned around and wrote a note and handed it to Sean, with the time and address on it, "If you want to go further in potions, please write it on the paper Go to the address above at the time on the strip.”

Looking at the address in his hand, Sean probably knew what it was.

After putting the note away solemnly, Sean said to Snape: "Professor, I will be there on time."

"Okay, if you have nothing else to do, you can leave."

"Goodbye, professor!"

Without lingering longer, Sean bowed slightly to Snape, turned and left Snape's office.

On the way out of the dungeon, Sean couldn't help but let out a breath.

After entering Hogwarts, Sean accidentally heard that for many students who showed outstanding characteristics, some professors would open clubs for teaching subjects to these students. However, to join these clubs, you need to have considerable talent, and There were also quite few people in the club.

For example, in the original book, Snape's former Potions Professor Horace Slughorn once formed the Slug Club, which is such an organization, but the people he chose to join his club were often the children of powerful families. , or students with considerable talents, the number is slightly larger, but their nature is the same.

Sean had also thought about whether he needed to work hard to join a club before, but that was already at least a third-year plan. Now it seems that the club has come earlier than he thought.

Coming out of the dungeon, Sean found Blaise waiting for him at the entrance of the dungeon.

Smiling and patting Blaise on the shoulder, Sean went to the auditorium with him.

Strictly speaking, life at Hogwarts, excluding magic, is actually not much different from college life in the ordinary world. It's just that the things you learn are completely different.

When we walked out of the astronomy tower, it was already very late.

Astronomy courses need to be taught at night, so weekly astronomy courses start after dinner, and the finishing time is already very late. Generally speaking, first-year wizards at this time, except for a few study madmen, will choose to go When going to the library, everyone else would choose to go back to the common room of their own house, and the same goes for Slytherin.

But for Sean, tonight was different. After astronomy class, he had another place to visit.

"Brace, I'm going over first."

"Well, I won't wait for you tonight and just go to bed."

"Okay, see you tomorrow then."

"See you tomorrow."

Standing in the Hogwarts dungeon, Sean said goodbye to Blaise. Looking at Blaise heading towards the Slytherin common room and the Potions classroom, Sean turned his head and walked to the other side. In the deep dungeon passage.