The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

During the lunch break, Sissy knocked on the door and entered the office to ask Professor Flitwick for help.Flitwick was a little surprised at first, but his brows furrowed more and more after hearing her describe the strange phenomenon encountered while casting the spell, without saying a word.

The professor hesitated about how to answer, but felt that it seemed inappropriate for him to speak, and finally said: "It is indeed a difficult question. Principal Dumbledore should still be in the office now. I will take you there."

Seeing him sigh, Sissy became nervous. She originally thought that Professor Flitwick would not understand the reason and would take her to see Dumbledore directly.

But judging from the expression on the professor's hesitant to speak just now, he must know something, but it's not convenient to say it.Now he looks very different from the gentle and humorous Professor Flitwick in class.

Sissy tried her best to guess what the professor didn't say, but she had no idea, and a bad premonition arose.

She silently followed behind the professor, and the two quietly walked around the corner and stopped in front of a huge gargoyle statue.

The spread wings of this statue look like a fire dragon, and the long neck also looks like a dragon.However, the statue has a hideous and terrifying face, with a devil-like face and bat-like ears, and even a human-like figure.Overall, it is a mixture of various beasts and humans, and it is an existence that guards the portal and protects the Holy Spirit.

"Treacle pie," Professor Flitwick said to the statue.

This was obviously a password, and as soon as the words were spoken, the gargoyle stone beast statue began to rotate as if instructed, making a rumbling sound.

The wall behind cracked a crack, then receded to either side, revealing the hidden spiral staircase behind it, which led straight up.

When Professor Flitwick and Sissy walked in, the wall closed again behind them.This spiral staircase was not as big as the one in the Ravenclaw tower, and the smaller spirals formed one circle after another, and Sissy was a little dizzy walking up.

Until a softly shining oak door replaced the seemingly endless stairs, the professor gently scratched the brass latch on the door, which was also in the shape of a gargoyle.

The knocker chuckled and opened the door.

Strangely shaped silverware is placed on a small table on one side, spinning like a music box, exuding wisps of sweet aroma, it is hard to tell whether it is the smell of toffee or maple syrup.

From time to time, there were some interesting little voices around, some crisp and some cheerful, which also made Sissy's hanging heart relax a lot.

"Who's here?" Dumbledore came down the stairs, holding something in his left hand, and seeing Flitwick quickly hide behind him.

Flitwick shook his head helplessly, "Don't hide it, I knew it was the maple muffins newly researched by the elves, and I told you that you should eat less desserts at your age."

Being exposed, Dumbledore didn't hide at all, took out the plate of muffins from behind his back, took a big bite, and tasted the lemon sherbet on the table.

"Come on, Flitwick, it's lunch break."

"You didn't come here to share my piece of snack, did you?" Dumbledore looked through his half-moon glasses, as if he wanted to see through Sissy.

Flitwick stopped joking, his eyes fell on Sissy and he said seriously: "It's for this child—little Ravenclaw."

Dumbledore didn't look surprised, as if he knew Sissy would come to him.

"We met again so soon, I noticed you during the sorting ceremony. How are you, are you still used to studying at Hogwarts?"

Sissy exhaled and answered truthfully to Dumbledore's gentle gaze: "The professors here are all very good, and I like the atmosphere here very much. The reason I'm bothering you this time is... I don't think my body is right."

After listening to her narration, Dumbledore let out an ooh, took a deep look at her, and murmured: "I didn't expect it to be so soon... It seems that it's about time."

Sissy was a little surprised, she didn't understand what the professor meant, and watched Dumbledore turn around and rummage through the shelves.

Not long after, Dumbledore took out a book with a bronze cover from the seventh shelf on the left shelf, and a red silk thread hung from the page.

"I found it." He opened the book to the page marked by the red line. There was no text in the book, but it was full of ancient symbols and pictures with unknown meanings that Sissy had never seen before. She could only recognize the words inside. A caduceus and images representing the sun and moon.

Dumbledore waved his stick and pointed, the gap in the book glowed with a dazzling golden-red light as if it had been ignited, a small bead flew out wrapped in the light, and landed in front of Sissy.

"Take it."

Sissy didn't know what it was, but it was obvious that Dumbledore couldn't harm him, so he reached out and grabbed it with confidence.

The light faded, she spread her hand, and a small red bead shone with a strange light, less than half the size of a grain of rice.

"This is..." Sissy looked up at Dumbledore suspiciously.

"The little thing that can solve your problem." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Hand out your hand to Eugenie."

Sissy stretched out her hand and looked curiously at the weird little bead in her palm. She always felt that the bewitching red light emitted by the bead revealed a sense of familiarity.

Seeing this, Flitwick took a few steps back, looked at Sissy's hand in disbelief, and muttered in a low voice, "This is also, no, this is different."

Dumbledore pointed his wand at the little red bead and muttered silently for a long time. Gradually, the red light spread like smoke and melted into Sissy's palm.

Sissy's eyes widened, and she watched with her own eyes that the beads embedded in her palm as if being submerged in the red light and gradually dimmed.

Before she recovered from the shock, Dumbledore put away his wand with a smile, "You try again now."

"what?"

"Anything, any spell, try it."

Sissy nodded, following Hagrid's advice, she hadn't practiced other spells for the time being, and the Levitation spell was the safest one.

She gripped her wand tightly, selected a small claw-footed shelf behind the table, and closed her eyes to concentrate on feeling.

As in the past, the magic power flowed to the hand, and the embedded red bead was sensed at this moment, driving the strands of tree roots that had just merged into it to directly penetrate the original barrier, bringing out her magic power in an instant.

The barrier sensed a large amount of magic power flowing out, and it seemed unwilling to make a creaking sound and wanted to close it to block it, but after all, it could only watch helplessly as it failed.

Sissy noticed the change in her hand, her eyes lit up, she pointed at the small shelf, and chanted a spell. Immediately, she felt the magic power of excitement coming out of her hand and running towards the tip of the staff.

A ball of light was emitted from the tip of the wand, and a silk thread seemed to be formed between the wand and the small shelf, and the light flowed along the thread, wrapping the shelf.

The small shelf vibrated suddenly, and flew up easily following Sissy's command, almost rushing to the ceiling.