The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

"So you need living people as practical training aids." Dumbledore took a deep breath and put his hands behind his back, "I don't care what kind of inhuman treatment a traitor will suffer, but I thought the consensus we reached before was to correct it in time. The negative thoughts she had, and you—"

Snape corrected him, "I remember that I promised you that I would guide you, not suppress and kill those ideas."

Flitwick tried to follow their conversation and guessed what he had missed. The portraits on the wall were the same as his, his eyes moving back and forth quietly on the two people in the center of the room.

Dumbledore stared at Snape, "Of course you know that curses are the most evil form of dark curses. If they are just milder poisons and curses, I might be able to accept it."

"The Full Body Binding Curse, the Leg Locking Curse, the Snot Curse, and the Ear Wrinkling Curse are all curses. Don't you allow students to practice these?" Snape quibbled.

Dumbledore's face tightened, "I have reason to think that what you want to teach is not among the above. It is on the same level as the curse on her - with the pure malice of taking lives and cutting off people's heirs. You have to know Once infected with such evil thoughts, even if the original intention is just to learn and understand, many smart but self-reliant minds will be permanently eroded."

"You have to admit that I know the actual situation better than you, Dumbledore." Snape wrapped the mouse in crumpled waste paper, layer after layer, but he still felt uncomfortable holding it in his hand. "I just came to ask if you still want this thing. Since you don't want it, I can make my own decisions on other matters."

"Should I stop him, Filius?" Dumbledore asked hesitantly as Snape closed the door.

"I don't know, maybe not," Flitwick said.

……

Eugenie was lying on her back in the library, holding a soft cushion on her chest to support her hands, and a circle of books around her formed a U-shape to cover her inside.

It's great that there is no restricted book section here - because most of them may need to be included in the restricted book section, some are too dangerous, some are too unconventional, and some are so weird that normal people will never want to read them in this life.

Thinking about it, the last time a family demographic crisis occurred, which resulted in the young heir taking power prematurely and being defrauded of his crown, it was because the older generation sacrificed their lives for academics while they were obsessed with poison experiments.

There are risks, but these priceless things can fill the bookshelves layer by layer. They are accumulated through constant dangerous attempts and breaking through unknown boundaries step by step. She must add something to this proud wall of knowledge in the future.

Now she is lying in the small pile of books she made, reading "21 Miraculous Uses of the Acromantula's Web" with great joy.

"Built a bunker?" Snape's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, and his face appeared directly above him at the same time.

"Oh my god!" Eugenie instantly jumped up from the ground like a cat seeing a cucumber, patting her chest to comfort herself, "Are you going to scare me to death, professor? If you scare me to death, you will have no successors, so be careful."

Snape raised the corners of his mouth and said, "It's okay. I will definitely cure your gallbladder rupture."

"Hey, I really don't feel bad at all." Eugenie mumbled and looked up at the time, with a smile on her face, "What an unexpected surprise, I thought you were still busy right now!"

"It needs to be done slowly, but today's class started early due to its ability."

"You can tell with your fingernails that you're angry again. Professor, what did they do? I want to hear."

Snape didn't want to recall the messy experimental class, but he looked at him with curious eyes, "Well, someone blew up the crucible lid to the ceiling when there was no need to put a lid on it, and shit-yellow slime was stuck on the pillars. It dripped - it should have been azure. The way it splashed was very good, so that almost everyone got a few drops into the crucible, and then - a very wonderful chain reaction happened."

"Oh, the whole army was wiped out." Eugenie ate the melon very happily.

"Okay, let's get down to business. Find an abandoned room. It must be far away from other buildings. I will arrange a spell to isolate it."

"There are empty rooms. Don't mention any of them. You can take them all, but what are you going to do with them?" Eugenie is still in a good mood, but that's only for now.

Snape remained silent as he took out the paper wrapped in the mouse and unfolded it.

"Hey!" Eugenie's reaction was more like seeing a piece of shit. Her eyebrows and nose were all wrinkled, and her upper lip turned up involuntarily. "Turn it off - this kind of thing - okay, let me Think about whether there are cells - there doesn't seem to be - there is one in a solitary cell, in a small abandoned mine."

After early sampling, it was found that the quality of the ore here was not as good as that of another place on the island and was abandoned. Later, it was used as a place for erring family members to reflect on their mistakes, so the environment was actually okay. It was really too flattering to use it to imprison traitors. .

But there really is no worse place.

The extremely steep rock passage extends downward, the sunlight is far away from the mine tunnel, and the cold water mist becomes thicker in the dark.

The intruding footsteps disturbed the creatures that originally lived in the cave. They shrank into the deeper darkness with vigilance, and the rustling sound extended inward in the cave.

From time to time, there was a gentle click under the feet, and the fine bones scattered on the ground broke. Some creatures like to drag the captured small prey into the cave to enjoy it slowly, leaving behind these meal remains over the years.

The end of the mine tunnel is connected to a deep underground pool. Because the water is soaked in the copper ore, the water in the pool appears a lifeless blue under the light.The deep pool is surrounded by stone walls crowded together, and there is no other way out.

Eugenie threw the light from the tip of her staff into the water. The light ball sank in the pool, then turned and floated into a narrow hole in the stone wall, illuminating the passage inside.

"It's very close. Just hold your breath and you'll be there." Before she could finish her sentence, a soaking spell was placed on her neck involuntarily, and then her whole body and hair were covered by a water-proof spell.

The underwater entrance is connected to another cave. A stone door seals the entrance to the small cave next to the water. Eugenie pointed her wand at the eagle-shaped ring and said a few words silently, then opened it easily.

Snape walked in and threw the wet paper bag on the ground, "Close the door."

The stone door closed again, and the cave was quiet.

Snape raised his wand like a sword, and a blue light spurted out. The wet paper shell rubbed against the ground and twisted wildly. The gray thing expanded and deformed, and bulged into an old bald man with a rat head and a rat brain.

It was still unconscious, and the drastic changes in its body did not wake it up.

Perhaps it was because it was still in the form of a mouse when she saw it more than half a year ago, or maybe it was her own problem, but Eugenie had never felt so disgusted, angry and hateful as she did now.

She knew exactly what the thing in front of her had done.

teachers who participated in bullying her;

Undercover for Voldemort for a year;

betraying the Potters;

Then sleep in Ron's bed next to Harry, waiting for the good news that Voldemort has risen again.