The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

The next morning, John finished washing and went to the auditorium for breakfast early.

Almost every Slytherin he met greeted him warmly.

This situation has started since John went back last night.

And to understand the reason, you only need to take a look at the four huge college hourglasses in the foyer to understand.

At this moment, only the hourglass representing Slytherin was filled with some green gems, the other hourglasses were all empty, and the bottom of Gryffindor's hourglass was engraved with a number using magic by Professor McGonagall: -40!

This strange scene has become a topic of discussion among students since last night.

It also made John, the great contributor who earned 50 points for Slytherin before the class officially started, welcomed by all Slytherins.

Especially Slytherin's seventh graders this year.

They also want to achieve the same achievement as the seniors of last year's class, the College Cup Grand Slam.

Now when they see John, their eyes light up.

Senior Sister Taylor, the female prefect of Slytherin's seventh grade, was even more irritating and concerned about John.

On the other hand, the mood of Gryffindor was just like the weather today, cloudy.

I was inexplicably deducted 40 points right after the game started, so how can I still fight this battle?

This reaction from Gryffindor and Slytherin also aroused the interest of the other two major houses.

The news about Harry and Ron last night hadn't reached them yet.

But they will soon find out.

Because while everyone was enjoying breakfast, a roaring letter was sent to Ron.

The moment the bright red letter was torn open by Ron, bursts of curses belonging to Mrs. Weasley erupted.

The sound was so loud that the dust on the ceiling fell.

At this time, no one was in the mood to have breakfast. They looked at the letter and scolded Ron bloody. They also informed Ron that his father was already under scrutiny because of this matter.

As soon as he finished speaking, the red envelope burned, curled up and turned into ashes.

Harry and Ron sat motionless, as if they had just been washed over by the tide.

Immediately afterwards, thunderous laughter erupted in the auditorium.

The Slytherins laughed so happily that Draco couldn't even sit on his chair and fell directly under the long table.

You must know that Mr. Weasley and his colleagues searched many places during the summer vacation.

Many Slytherins suffered from this.

They couldn't be happier to see Weasley in trouble now.

And this incident spread throughout Hogwarts like the wind.

By the end of school in the afternoon, Harry and Ron had received treatment similar to that of John.

The only difference between them is that no matter where John goes, someone will greet them warmly, while no matter where Harry and Ron go, there will be someone pointing and snickering behind them.

This disturbed John, Harry, and Ron.

So, just after class, John went to Snape's office with his suitcase.

"Good afternoon, Professor Snape."

Pushing open the stone door, John greeted Snape softly, then sat down on his own.

Snape ignored John at all and continued to wave his wand and direct the quill to write quickly on the parchment.

John glanced over and realized that Snape was preparing lessons.

"What are you looking at?!"

Snape frowned and scolded.

Hearing this, John was not annoyed. He smiled and took out another gift box from the suitcase and placed it on the workbench.

"Professor, this is my gift to you."

As soon as he said this, the dancing quill suddenly stopped.

Snape turned to glare at John, with anger brewing in his eyes.

He still remembered the gift John gave him last Christmas.

It was a bottle of homemade shampoo.

To be honest, if the person who gave the gift was not John, it would probably end badly.

Snape was not a generous man.

Seeing this, John quickly opened the gift box and said:

"Don't be nervous, Professor Snape, these are just small snacks. Look at this..." John pointed to a rich yellow pastry and said, "This is pea yellow. Next, there are lotus cakes, flower cakes and water chestnuts. Cake! These are quite high-end snacks, I put a lot of thought into them."

The snacks that John brought were all hot, and each one was very beautifully shaped. It seemed like a lot of thought had been put into them.

Even Snape felt a little moved when he smelled the sweet smell in the air.

However, it is impossible to eat!

"Ha! Do you dare to bring your magical food in front of me now?" Snape said angrily, "It seems that you are also infected with the bad habit of Po Te. You thought you had won a third-level Merlin Order. He’s just a celebrity, so arrogant that he thinks he can ignore everyone else!”

John smiled and said:

"Don't be so pedantic, Professor Snape, the times are always improving. I think when you privately revised the potion formula in the textbook, your Potions professor didn't give you a good look, right? Now? This thing happened to you, why are you so angry?

Are you... a dragon slayer turned into a dragon? "

Upon hearing this, Snape's face hardened, and his hand was already touching the wand.

John said hurriedly:

"Hey! You're kidding, Professor! In fact, I have been studying Potions during the summer vacation, the orthodox kind. Now my Potions learning progress has almost reached the NEWT course! I'm here to ask you what to do next. ongoing!"

Snape's hand reaching for the wand finally stopped, and he said in a long tone:

"Oh - it looks like Malfoy has hired a good tutor for you."

"It's a bit good, but it's still far behind you." John smiled, "You know, those pharmacists' ideas are too rigid, and they are far from as spiritual as you."

Snape snorted, then stared at John's smiling face.

John's face froze with laughter until he stood up and said:

"follow me!"

John followed Snape straight into the material storage room.

This is not the first time John has been here.

But every time he came in, John's heartbeat would uncontrollably speed up.

There is no way, there are too many materials stored here, they are too precious!

"Potions is a science that is easy to learn but difficult to master. OWL-level Potions is actually not difficult at all. It is just a screening mechanism to screen out those students who are truly talented in potions."

Snape said in a very serious tone, "Only after passing the OWL screening and opening the door, can you learn real potions, which is the NEWT potions course.

Since you said you have opened the door, I believe you.

Later, I will give you some more NEWT level magic potion refining tasks and give you some pointers.

You can also try and practice it yourself in private.

You can pick up the required materials here. "

As soon as these words came out, John's eyes went straight.

He murmured softly:

"Self-pickup...are there no restrictions?"

"Of course there are restrictions," Snape sneered. "You can only use the materials here for practice in the NEWT course and cannot sell them! Moreover, you have to let me see your progress. If you use this material of mine, All the materials in the warehouse have been used and there is still no progress, you know the consequences!"

"Thank you, Professor!"

John nodded quickly and thanked him.

Snape's restrictions on him were in vain.

Because his main purpose of making money is to make magic potions and drink them. Now that he has a warehouse of materials, can he just make NEWT-level potions and drink them?

And potions are actually a very expensive subject.

Especially NEWT level Potions.

Many wizards from Muggle families cannot keep up with the progress because they cannot afford the extracurricular practice materials for NEWT level potions.

Snape was really generous by opening up the material warehouse to him!

It's so generous that it doesn't even look like Snape!

Thinking of this, John suddenly had a premonition in his heart.

Could it be that Snape had another agenda?

As soon as this thought arose, Snape coughed and said:

"Of course, you can't use these materials in vain. I need you to do something!"