The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

Sissy had already anticipated the production process of the sleeping potion when she was talking on paper.

Moreover, it is necessary to adjust the size of the flame several times, and at the end there is a time of about 1 minute to quickly change the flame, which is a good opportunity to practice flame control.

It's a pity that she is absolutely afraid to try again now. The learning of potions is also similar to the need to simmer slowly for potion making. You can only accumulate slowly, and you can't rush for success.

Sissy mashed the lavender and the standard ingredients initially, then mixed them together and ground them into a fine powder. After sieving, pour some distilled water into the powder to make a thin syrup.

"Tsk tsk, this color is really... hard to describe."

But it smells good, with the calming effect of lavender and the unique fragrance of standard ingredients.

Pour all the medicine slurry into the crucible, then add two large drops of Flobber caterpillar mucus, stir well and evenly in a clockwise direction, and then start to slowly heat up the medicine solution.

"This should be okay."

Seeing that the temperature had reached the standard requirement, Sissy immediately lowered the fire, and then waved her wand to slowly spin the slightly boiling liquid.

You still need to wait for at least 20 minutes. Anyway, you don't need to pay more attention during this period. Once there is an abnormal change, Sissy's magic power scattered in it can be sensed in time.

She simply took another pewter crucible, and now she has all kinds of crucibles she wants, and she can take them at will.

We don't have much time, so let's try to make a different potion of oblivion made by another crucible.

It really takes longer to make a pewter crucible, and due to the influence of poor heat conduction, it is even more necessary to use a magic wand to stir it when the lid is covered for a long time.

Although the quality of the prepared medicine is not bad, it lacks some meaning after all.

Speaking of the knowledge learned before, the thermal conductivity between pewter, brass, copper, silver, and gold can be said to increase.

In particular, the span from brass to copper is very large, and gold and silver are the best, which will definitely have a great impact on the production time of the potion and the effect of the finished product.

Sissy figured it out, basically the more expensive the better.

It’s just not entirely like this. After all, the heat conduction is too good. If the production time is greatly shortened, the active ingredients will definitely not be fully dissolved.

To solve this problem, one depends on skillful wielding of the wand, and the other depends on the control of the flame.

Although the ignition device I bought can also be adjusted in size, it is impossible to change the flame color according to the book, or divide it into multiple small fire groups and arrange them as needed.

"Oh, I have to learn it as soon as possible. It's too uncomfortable. I can only watch it but not use it."

Sissy's brows were all wrinkled, the flame she made was enough to light up the kitchen when cooking.

If he dared to use it in potions, Snape could snatch her out and soak her in the Black Lake to calm down.

After waiting for a while, she continued to complete the remaining steps of the sleeping pill.

"It's okay." Sissy scooped out the potion and took a closer look at the color.

Although the sleeping potion has a delicate fragrance, there should be no smoke, so it is not easy to judge the quality in the crucible.

"Not enough." Snape's voice suddenly came from behind.

"Professor... When did you come, I was shocked." Sissy turned around quickly.

"This is the first time it's done like this, but I want to hear from you, what are the shortcomings?"

Snape straddled the wooden bench beside him, frowning as he looked at the potion in the cauldron.

"The Flobber caterpillar mucus has been added less, and the effect of the medicine has not been completely locked," Sissy saw the professor's nervous expression, and continued after thinking for a while.

"In addition, after the final simmering, the heat was uneven, and the efficacy of the valerian added after that was destroyed."

"Others, I still..." Sissy said two things, and looked up at the professor timidly, as if he was still expecting to say more.

"Well, it's gone? Let's find a way to improve it."

"I... let you down."

Sissy knew that her answer definitely did not satisfy the professor, so she lowered her head and racked her brains to think about what else went wrong, which she missed.

Although Snape expected her to say more, he didn't mean to blame him. He only hoped that Sissy could discover the rest of the questions by himself, and he couldn't let him teach everything.

Seeing that Sissy seems to have misunderstood, but what should I do then, Snape is quite good at scaring people to tears, how to comfort them?

Do you want to eat a candy like Dumbledore, or let the little cake dance like Flitwick?The students seem to like it a lot.But this is really impossible.

"By the way, professor, I should," Sissy finally thought of something, looked up happily, and saw Snape was thinking something with his chin in his hands, with a strange expression on his face, as if he was engaged in some psychological struggle, so he hesitated. Asked, "Professor, what's the matter with you?"

"Oh, it's okay, what did you say you should do?"

Sissy looked at the professor suspiciously. The weird look on her face just now was put away, and soon returned to normal, making her unable to see the clue.

"I suddenly thought that the proportion of distilled water should be appropriately reduced, or the overall amount should be reduced, so that the difficulty of stirring during heating can be reduced."

"Well, until you learn how to control the flames, this is a compromise." Snape nodded slightly and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

It's too awkward to comfort students like Dumbledore and Flitwick.

If Snape really did that, let his medicinal ingredients crawl out of the bottle or jar one by one, lined up and danced together hand in hand, and in this cold cellar again, Sissy would definitely feel that she had come. Wrong place.

Fortunately, he did not do it against his will.

"Why don't I teach you how to extract white essence now?" Snape felt that this method was still suitable for him.

"Really, professor, it's great!" Sissy's eyes lit up, and she quickly packed up the things left over from the previous production.

"It really worked, and I immediately became happy," Snape secretly smugly said, "My method is much better than that old guy Flitwick."

"Professor, it shouldn't be possible to use alcohol to extract the essence of white meat, right?" Sissy followed closely behind and asked.

"That's for sure. There are many extraction methods, but if it is used to treat wounds, the method of making tinctures cannot be used."

Sissy watched the professor take out a set of copper utensils, which were somewhat similar to the equipment she had seen used to make hydrosols before.

"Distillation?"

"That's right, it's still a bit of insight. This method is the easiest, but it needs multiple purifications to obtain a higher-purity essence. Let's start with this, and I will teach you other things later."

"The purity may be a bit low, but it should be enough for emergencies." Sissy thought in her heart.

She has her own plans. After all, Halloween is coming. Although she can't get close to Quirrell to stop him, she has to make some preparations.