The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

It seems that the operation is simple and easy to understand. After all, it is a primary potion, which is suitable for practice.

The next day, Sissy waited for everyone else in the dormitory to leave, and went to Hagrid's hut with the newly bought crucible, medicinal materials and other necessities.

Sissy came here uninvited again and again, only Hagrid is a good tempered, if it were an ordinary giant, he would have thrown this little doll to the Forbidden Forest to feed the werewolves.

No way, the Potions classroom was closed, so Hagrid's house was really the best choice - far away from the castle, others couldn't see what they were doing there.

Sissy knocked on the door, this time Yaya finally didn't roar, but there was a sound of flapping wings in the room followed by "jingling, clanging" metal falling to the ground.

Hagrid was sitting by the stove baking bread, but when he opened the door, he was surprised to see Sissy running in again, "Why are you here so early today, aren't you going to school?"

He brought Sissy the shortest stool in the room, and sat back by the stove to turn the bread.

"After Hagrid's class, I only need to attend for three days. Unfortunately, Phillips has to attend for seven days, otherwise I can bring him over to play."

To be honest, Phillips only had one day of friendship with Sissy, but he felt very comfortable getting along with him, and Sissy was willing to do her best to help whatever he asked for.

"Is he your friend? This is the first time I've heard you mention this name." Hagrid felt that his cabin was about to become lively.

"Yes, both he and I came from Germany, and he's not as tall as I am." It may be because he is small and has good eyes, which aroused Sissy's desire to protect. It is one of the three or five shortest in the class, and it has never changed from elementary school to university.

"By the way, what are your plans for coming today? It looks like you came prepared." Hagrid had already seen the large bag of things that Sissy had brought, and the handle of the pot that couldn't fit into the bag was already exposed.

Sissy chuckled, and confessed without hesitation, "I want to try making potions here, and I brought all the things with me, and I just missed the fire."

"It's a small thing, I'll leave the oven to you after I finish baking the bread."

Hagrid got up early and was busy taking care of his little animals, so it was almost nine o'clock and he hadn't had breakfast yet.

Sissy shook her head, "I want to use the one outside the house. It's too dangerous indoors. Peghoko is still recovering from his injuries. If something happens, he will be injured again."

"That's right, but Peghaoke is almost healed. I should take her out for a few days to get some fresh air. We can go together after you finish."

After Hagrid finished his simple breakfast, he helped light the stove outside the house. He didn't know what kind of wood he used, and it smelled fragrant when it burned.

"Okay, I have to go to the forest farm, you can use whatever is in the house."

"Thank you Hagrid, you are the nicest person I've ever met." This sentence sounds a bit flattering at first, but it is not an exaggeration when applied to Hagrid.

"Oh, it's nothing. By the way, I have a lot of empty bottles for potions. They've all been cleaned." Hagrid was about to leave when he suddenly remembered this, and helped Sissy remove all the utensils from the shelf. , it may be very difficult for her to obtain such a height by herself.

After Hagrid left, Sissy followed the procedure in the book step by step, and dealing with the slugs was the most troublesome part.

The sticky slug is packed in a transparent airtight bag, you can pick it up with chopsticks, and it will fall out after a swipe, which is really worthy of the name.

When it came time to steam it, Sissy took one and put it in to steam it. The steamer was opaque, so she had to open the lid often to see if it had started to melt. At this time, the hot steam would always take the opportunity to pounce on her.

After noting the time it took to melt, Sissy put most of it in, so that if the steaming fails, the cost of trial and error will not be too high.

All the other steps went smoothly. The wild boar quills were so thick and hard that ordinary scissors couldn't handle them. Fortunately, Hagrid had plenty of tools, and even the most difficult things were no match for a small saw.

Grinding snake teeth is very simple, but it also requires patience and time. If we can move the material grinder from the university, it will save a lot of trouble.

It was finally ready to go into the pot. Sissy carefully put the dried nettles, poisonous snake teeth, and slugs into the pot and stirred them clockwise evenly, then put them on the fire.

The boiling slug mixture is "gulping" with viscous bubbles, and the bubbles drive the liquid-wrapped nettle stalks to flip up and down in the pot.

In less than 5 minutes, the color of the pot changed significantly, accompanied by a pungent and strange sour smell.

Sissy scooped up a spoonful of the medicinal solution to check the color, and indeed it turned into a light green like grass juice.At this time, leave the fire to cool naturally for more than 1 minute, press the porcupine spines into the concoction to let it fully soak.

Continue to stir and heat. At this time, the liquid in the pot becomes more and more viscous. Sissy needs to hold the crucible with one hand and stir vigorously with the other. After a lot of hard work, the pink smoke finally curls up.

Qianqian fanned it curiously, and the smell of pink smoke was actually a bit pleasant.

While waiting to cool down, Sissy continued to study the brewing method of common antidote.

At this moment Hagrid came back, and seeing the pink smoke coming out of the pot, he said pleasantly, "Did you succeed the first time?"

Sissy scooped up a spoon and showed it to Hagrid. The concoction was very viscous.

"The fire should have been too big, but it didn't burn. Generally speaking, it was very successful. A bottle like this can probably be sold for 1 galleon." Hagrid said after carefully checking the color and smell of the concoction.

Sissy was a little surprised, "Can you sell them for money? These kinds of ingredients are cheap to buy, and selling them for 1 Galleon is equivalent to twice the profit."

"That's right," Hagrid nodded, and explained to Sissy, "Because you did a pretty good job, and this potion sells well in summer and autumn."

"Why, Hagrid, are people prone to boils these days?" Sissy didn't quite understand, boils seemed uncommon to her.

"It's because of a kind of bug—the paederus." Hagrid's expression changed immediately when he mentioned animals. "Now there are a lot of this kind of bug. Although it doesn't bite, people will give birth to it if they accidentally shoot it to death." Papules and pustules, severe fever and swollen lymph nodes."

Paederus, the ant-like, orange-red, highly acidic body fluids that are easy to appear after the rain, Sissy has also seen in the Muggle world.

"The potion for treating boils is very effective for the symptoms caused by this bug, so it's quite expensive now!"

Oh hey, it just so happens that it's a good time to sell medicine, why don't you think of a way to make some money?

Sissy originally thought that the books here were quite expensive, but she only realized after reading the potion book recently that it is absolutely impossible to learn this subject without money.

A unicorn horn costs 21 galleons, you can't spend money like this, right?Just spending and not earning, even if there is gold and silver in the family, it will be emptied sooner or later.