The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

Tuesday, 9am.

Potions class.

Senior Potions teaching classes must meet the corresponding performance standards before they can be taken as electives.

Originally, the performance standard set by Professor Snape was "Excellent" in the O.W.L.s. exam, but Professor Slughorn took over for this class of students in the second half of the fifth grade. When the sixth grade students took elective classes, Slughorn En even lowered the admission standards for advanced classes and enrolled more students.

In the first few weeks of this school year, the students who only achieved "good" grades were a little nervous, worried that Professor Snape would track down the students and dissuade them. There were even rumors that there was a proficiency test in the class, causing everyone in the class to be nervous. Yes, I wish I could write down everything the professor said.

If you had not entered the advanced class at the beginning and had not worked hard for the ultimate wizard level exam, you might not be so worried about gains and losses.

It has been a month since the start of the school year, and the students gradually relaxed when they realized that Professor Snape did not seem to have any intention of checking the class.

A few students with keen senses even made unexpected discoveries. Professor Snape, who returned after two years of leaving office, seemed much gentler than before. Although he still occasionally ridiculed students who made mistakes and stood behind them during practical operations, his The eyes are no longer so dark, and the students being watched will no longer be in a hurry and make frequent mistakes.

In the dim underground classroom, Professor Snape occasionally mentioned things other than Potions, about the future of students after graduation, about what jobs students who love Potions should take, and which country has better pay...

His tone was still calm, but he seemed to have a bit more of a vice-principal demeanor.

If there was one thing that hadn't changed, it was probably that Professor Snape would often pick Harry up to answer questions, and it was unclear whether he was favoring or targeting Harry.

"Mr. Potter, please tell me, if your friend drinks a pint of poison, mixed with half a love potion, half a living hell potion, and two parts swelling potion, how should the antidote be prepared?"

Professor Snape's face seemed to be a little gentler. He was wearing a dark green robe and his body was straight and straight. He could not be said to be young or old. His eyes were sharp and his face was always expressionless, giving people pressure. However, this pressure was somewhat different from Professor McGonagall's sternness. It’s different. Anyway, it’s been a long time since I heard a female student call him an old bat.

Some girls in the freshman group even praised the Slytherin headmaster.

"I think bezoars could be used."

Harry stood up and answered seriously.

"Boring little cleverness."

Snape glanced at him indifferently, with an expressionless face and a calm tone: "Bezoar can be used as a general antidote. This does not mean that it can deal with all types of poisons. Otherwise, the Toxicology Ward of St. Mungo's Hospital It can be dismantled.”

"..."

Harry remained silent and cursed the old bat repeatedly in his heart.

Snape glanced around the classroom, his eyes sharp and oppressive: "In a few months, we will welcome the invigilator of N.E.W.T., as the key content of the potions advanced class, this interpretation question is set to test your understanding of Gorbalo In order to understand and master the third law, if you encounter the corresponding question in the practical examination, should you just go to the medicine cabinet and turn over a piece of feces and hand it to the invigilator? "

Most of the students lowered their heads silently, avoiding the professor's gaze.

Only Loren met his gaze and expressed with his eyes: Bezoar can be used as the main ingredient to boil the antidote, and the auxiliary ingredients can stimulate its effect, which can be considered a general solution.

"..."

Snape turned a blind eye and turned to look at Harry again: "Potter, recite Gorbalot's third law and answer my question again."

Harry curled his lips and said: "The antidote for mixed poisons is not simply the antidote for a single poison. The number of ingredients in the antidote for a mixed poison must be greater than or equal to the sum of the ingredients contained in the antidote for each individual poison. Contact mixing The poisoner first uses Scapin's Revealing Spell to correctly analyze the ingredients of the potion, find the main poison, analyze the proportion of additional poisons, and can transform and combine various unrelated ingredients through a process that is close to alchemy..."

"A pretty standard answer."

Snape nodded slightly, still expressionless: "Because you stopped showing off your cleverness at the right time, Gryffindor gets five points."

"!!"

The students in the classroom looked up one after another with incredible expressions.

When did I get poisoned? Now I am hallucinating!

With Merlin on top, they actually heard Professor Snape giving points to Gryffindor!

It was Harry who won the extra points!

"Continue class."

Snape glanced at their surprised faces, lowered his head to open the lesson plan, and concealed the flash of pleasure in his eyes: "For reasons we all know, I don't understand your results. The information left by Professor Slughorn It only mentioned the overall teaching progress and lacked individual evaluation, so I reorganized the knowledge taught in the improvement class in the past few weeks and got a preliminary understanding of you. "

"..."

The students in the front row were a little nervous.

"Perhaps Professor Slughorn's sufficient teaching experience has taken effect. Generally speaking, you have a very solid grasp of the basic knowledge, but you have also been restricted in your thinking and lack flexibility. Unlike the N.E.W.T.s and O.W.L.s, you memorize them rigidly. Textbooks can only make you pass, or at best good. If you want to get excellent results, you must truly understand the knowledge, digest the knowledge, and use it flexibly..."

Snape paced slowly on the podium, his tone calm, as calm as the abyss of the Black Lake.

The quill stroked on the notebook, and the scent of ink wafted, mixed with the strange smell of medicine that always filled the classroom.

"You no longer have enough time, or you will have more time after graduation. I know that many people have no connection with the deep mysteries of potions. In the past few years, you have seen simmering crucibles with white smoke rising countless times. Strange smell scene, but only a few can truly understand the beauty of it. Many people are still sitting here, which has surprised me. Whether your motivation is to explore potions, or to obtain that certificate and seek a future, I hope you can Stay focused…”

Loren stopped his pen and glanced up at the professor on the stage, feeling a little dazed.

Not only Loren, but many other students were also stunned.

I still remember that when I first entered the first grade, the proud Professor Snape stood on the podium and claimed that potions could increase reputation, brew glory, and even prevent death.

For a few moments, the students would suddenly pull away from the class and observe the professor from another perspective beyond their own bodies, feeling that he seemed to have undergone many changes, but nothing seemed to have changed.

Thoughts flashed quickly, and then the consciousness returned to the classroom, forgetting the weird thoughts just now, and holding the quill again to record the key knowledge.

The bell rings.

Snapely closed the lesson plan, picked up the teaching materials and walked out without any delay.

"Help me sort it out. I have something to talk to the professor about."

Loren quickly handed Hermione his books and notes, and quickly chased her out. He soon caught up with the professor, and the two walked side by side to the office.

"Being promoted to vice president is different. The teaching style of professors is different."

"..."

Snape glanced at him sideways and was too lazy to answer. He walked quickly back to the office, opened the door and entered, trying to lock him out.

Loren squeezed in before the door was completely closed: "Professor, I have a question to ask you."

"You have five minutes. I will go to the principal later to review this year's budget."

"Tsk..."

Loren grinned and was about to make a joke when he realized that the professor was about to get up and leave, so he immediately became serious: "It's about the fine use of the magic power of the magic stone. I want to know, professor, how you controlled the dosage of the magic stone powder at that time. This allows the powerful magic power to meet the needs of rituals and potions without causing the powerful magic power to interfere with normal rituals.”

"Why do you ask?"

"I am designing a new type of space moving device. Long-distance teleportation consumes more magic power. Professor, you also know that space teleportation is more difficult than potions. The farther the distance, the greater the deviation caused by slight errors, so I would like to ask you about your debugging experience at that time.”

"Debugging the magic power of the magic stone...here are my experimental records of designing rituals and potions. I hope it will be helpful to you."

Snape handed over several stacks of thick books: "Personal brewing of potions and designing rituals mainly rely on trial and error. After accumulating enough experience, you can naturally control the dosage. I don't know much about the refining steps of alchemy, but this kind of Standard facilities, different installation locations, will be affected by various influences, such as astrology, tides, climate...the debugging details will also be different. You should not want to rely on constant trial and error for debugging every installation. This kind of unquantifiable experience cannot be Promotion.”

"Emmm..." Loren looked at the book placed higher than himself on the table and suddenly hesitated.

"I recommend you to find Professor Babling. She is an expert in runes and alchemy."

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"I see."

Loren put the book away and left the office thoughtfully.

Listening to the footsteps receding in the corridor outside, Snape leaned back on his chair and slowly tapped the financial statements on the table with his fingers, showing a thoughtful expression.

The new space moving device... the name suggests it is something that is going to be promoted to the entire magical world.

When did this guy become so active?

…

Four o'clock in the afternoon, the main building of the castle.

Ancient rune classroom.

The students gathered together in twos and threes and were following the group leader's assignments. They used the rune knowledge learned in the past few years to analyze some of the products on sale. Each group made the same choice and submitted the report in advance. The professor reviewed it and no duplication was allowed.

There is no such thing as copyright protection in the wizarding world. If you analyze it, it is a secret recipe that can be exchanged for money. It can be produced and sold in another place. If you really can't save face, just change to another country. No one will have trouble with Jin Galleons.

The discussion was lively.

I have not applied to withdraw from the course until seventh grade when I took Ancient Runes as an elective. The remaining students are basically outstanding. By extension, even except for Ancient Runes, the O.W.L.s of other students are basically excellent, and the upcoming N.E.W.T. is also average per capita. Book eight or nine certificates, genuine outstanding students.

Therefore, the discussions are basically meaningful. The runic characters on the parchment are constantly being added and deleted, and the designed things are getting closer to the original products. Some of the items selected by the groups are even too simple or outdated. The items designed by the students are Stuff surpasses the original.

The group led by a certain Miss Granger progressed too fast. It was obviously an after-school homework for this week. They had finished the first draft before get out of class ended and handed it directly to Professor Barbling. Regardless of the professor's helpless expression, they gathered around and chattered endlessly. Explain design ideas.

Only someone in the mix is ​​fishing.

Loren sat in the back of the classroom, his head resting on his arm, looking at the podium from a distance, his mind full of runes, all about the design of the new space transfer device.

The main design has been basically completed, but the actual refining test is still a long way off.

Stable energy supply, interconnection, installation and debugging... Each step is foreseeably difficult.

Loren roughly estimated the workload and felt that the problem of stable energy supply could be solved smoothly before graduation. The remaining two items could only be improved and perfected after the physical objects were produced.

The time required for those parts is temporarily immeasurable, and it requires the cooperation of pure-blood families and the Ministry of Magic. This should really be a big business, a big business that will gather countless manpower and material resources.

"Loren."

A discussion group in the back of the classroom suddenly turned around collectively and looked at him expectantly: "This is the Scrabble game board of Weasley's Joke Shop. The puppets and the Scrabble parts are very stable, but they will crack when put together. Can you help us see what is missing?"

"..."

Loren stared at the scribbled characters on the parchment, pondered for a moment, and began to explain.

Students in the Ancient Runes elective class basically know Loren. Even if they don't know his face, they have heard of his name. Every time Professor Babel assigns a difficult question, when the whole class is at a loss, Miss Granger will stand up to answer it, with reason and evidence, and in detail.

Then the whole class will hear Professor Babel's words: "Although it is not you who answered it, considering that your boyfriend is also a Gryffindor, so Gryffindor will add five points."

"..."

It is difficult to evaluate.

There is a beginning and there is a follow-up. After answering the questions of this discussion group, other discussion groups will come up and ask questions about runes and alchemy.

Most discussion groups chose the products of Weasley's Hocus Pocus, which is really a tribute to the seniors. I don't know if George and Fred will be happy to know it.

Loren doesn't feel bored. He accepts everyone who comes, and he won't even give a direct answer. Instead, he patiently helps them troubleshoot problems and guides them to find suitable runes.

What is diligence?

What is guidance?

Loren leaned back slightly in his chair, feeling like a conscientious ancient rune teaching assistant. He looked up at Professor Barbling, who looked helpless on the podium. The professor even smiled at him, and was quite grateful.

In fact, there is no need to be grateful. Only by helping each other can the friendship last.

The bell rang, and other students walked out of the classroom together, still chattering about the design on the parchment. The group led by Miss Granger also walked down the podium to discuss how to improve their design.

Loren stood up and moved to the front of the podium: "It's my turn, it's my turn, Professor Barbling, I also have a question to ask."

"???"