The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

She immediately knew something was wrong and immediately removed the pot from the fire, but at this moment, the moment the bottom of the pot touched the cold stone, the liquid suddenly boiled violently.

The bubbles rushed out with a large amount of smoke, and immediately after a "boom", a yellow mushroom cloud rose in the air.

Mag, who was working in the tower, heard a strange noise and saw yellow smoke rising from the direction of the cabin.

When Sissy realized something was wrong, she reacted quickly and took a big step back, but the impact of the explosion did not hurt her.

She was staring blankly at the mess in the pot when Phillips suddenly flew over and pinned her to the ground.

"careful!"

After a while, when there was no more sound from the pot, he coughed and got up and pulled Sissy up.

His pounce was obviously too late, if Sissy hadn't retreated quickly, she might have already been affected.But when Sissy looked at the worry in his eyes and the scene of his body that was smaller than her struggling to pounce just now, there was still a warm current in her heart.

Now is not the time to be in a daze, Sissy came back to her senses, "Hurry up, blow the smoke away." She looked back at the castle in panic, wondering if the explosion just now would alarm others to look at the anomaly here. Hurry up and pack up the explosion site.

With the joint efforts of several people, most of the yellow smoke finally dissipated, and they hurriedly hid the hot cauldron, and Qianqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hagrid, what just happened to you?" Before Sissy and the others could catch their breath, Professor McGonagall rushed over and was a little surprised to see Sissy and Phillips also present.

"Uh... I just cooked it."

McGonagall scanned the surroundings, and her keen nose had already discovered the clues, "Is it these two students who are messing with you? For their safety, you need to tell me Hagrid honestly."

Of course, Professor McGonagall would not be fooled by such simplicity.Her eyes were deep, and she looked at Sissy sternly, "Or, give the two of you a chance to explain yourself."

Sissy felt guilty when she saw this. After all, she violated the rules and made the potion privately, and she made such a big commotion when she brought Phillips together.

She looked nervously at the ground. Professor McGonagall had already read the answers written on her paper. It would be useless to quibble at this moment, so it is better to admit it openly.

Sissy took a small step forward, bowed her head and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, Professor McGonagall, it's all because of my improper handling of potions here——Phillips, he was in class before, and I just pulled him here today."

Mag's expression softened a little, and he flicked his sleeves back helplessly, "I'm not going to take this as an example, if you are a first-time offender, you won't be deducted points this time—if there is another time, don't blame me for deducting points according to school rules before you are sorted. "

Sissy agreed, but turned her head to see something whispered between Hagrid and McGonagall, which made Professor McGonagall's eyes suddenly brighten.

Mag turned and walked towards her again, "The most important thing to learn potions well is to calm down and lay the foundation. You don't need to be in a hurry to practice."

Sissy looked up and met Professor McGonagall's expectant eyes, and she probably understood in her heart.

She looked at Professor McGonagall's leaving back and thought seriously.The results of making so many perfect potions in the past two days made her feel ecstatic. She thought she had mastered the tricks of making potions, which led to the reckless start of making without doing more research on potions today.

Impatient and eager for success, this must have caused her to overlook something that she should have noticed, and this made the explosion.

Thinking of the news that a wizard died on the spot due to an accidental explosion while making a potion, Sissy shuddered and felt terrified. Such a thing must never happen again.

Silently clearing up the mess, Sissy decided to go back and study theoretical knowledge.

In the next few days, except for helping Hagrid to feed Peghoco, Sissy was only two points and one line, dormitory-library.

With her stubborn temper, it took her half a week to memorize "Encyclopedia of Toadstools" and "Identification and Characteristics of Herbs".

At this time, she looked back at the book The Principles of Collocation, and the harvest was very different from the first time she read it.When explaining the combination of medicinal effects in the book, she can mostly recall the appearance of medicinal herbs and various medicinal properties in her mind, and then bring them into the book, which is very easy to understand.

After reading the book a hundred times, she can see its meaning, especially when the knowledge reserve is getting more and more abundant. Every time she reads it, she will have new gains that are different from the previous ones. She even noticed that a few explanations in the book seem to be unreasonable.

Herbs and mushrooms are about the same as she can learn at this stage. In addition, there are two other common sources of materials for making potions: animals, insects and their extracts, and ores.

Minerals are relatively easy to learn, and there are not many types, and Sissy has a good background in chemistry. The introductions in the books of the magic world are very different, but in the final analysis, they are mercury, lead, sulfur, etc. and their oxides or metal salts.

The time before the start of school is only enough for Sissy to learn about ores. The scope of animals is too wide, and they also play a pivotal role in the entire potion science. Most of the formulas contain animal raw materials, and often As a finishing touch.

Studying is like picking up shells on the seashore. At the beginning, Sissy thought she had got everything when she picked up a beautiful one. After bending down to search carefully, she realized that her eyesight was so narrow at the beginning—the shells can never be picked up, and there are still many shells in the sea. There are too many.

A week passed quickly, and the campus became lively. Sissy saw lights on the mirror-like black lake from a distance, and other freshmen were coming to the castle in small boats according to the school tradition.

Sissy couldn't help being envious, and she really wanted to take a ride, but she came here in a Pegasus carriage, it seemed more exciting to think about it!

The international students gathered together with them in the entrance hall, where the torches illuminated the stone walls, and the marble stairs with beautiful patterns led to the upstairs.

The children followed Professor McGonagall into a small empty room away from the hall—actually, it was nearly a hundred square meters, but the tower was so small and inconspicuous compared to the hall they just passed.

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" Professor McGonagall said loudly, "The opening dinner will start soon. Before that, you will participate in the distribution ceremony, which will start in front of the whole school in a few minutes. I hope Prepare yourself mentally and organize your clothes."

Her gaze stayed on the red-haired boy's dirty nose for a while, and then she turned her head and saw Phillips frowning strangely on the buttons of his jacket.

Sissy looked along - the child's buttons were buttoned a bit crookedly, she hurried over to remind him.

"Ahhh... don't you have eyes?" A boy yelled, clutching his left foot in pain.

Sissy really seemed to have stepped on something soft just now, she turned around and apologized repeatedly.

The boy in front of him had light blond hair combed neatly, pale complexion and thin chin, and still yelled at Sissy: "Did you step on me on purpose? Don't even look at who I am."

From this appearance, it should be that Draco Malfoy didn't run away. According to the original book, he just had a fight with Harry Ron and the others outside. Could it be that Sissy bumped into him while he was still angry?

Sissy secretly felt unlucky, she didn't hate Malfoy at first, but she didn't expect that there would be entanglements when she first arrived.

Fortunately, before she could speak, Professor McGonagall pushed open the door and told the freshmen, "Line in a line and follow me now."

Seeing Malfoy glaring at her, Sissy curled her lips helplessly and moved to the back of the line to keep a distance from him.