A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 17 The Odd Potter
After the short opening remarks, in the silence, Snape suddenly called out: "Potter!"

"What do I get if I add daffodil root powder to an absinthe infusion?"

Harry stood up and thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "...it can be formulated into a powerful sleeping pill, a dose of... er, water of life and death."

Because of Owen's reminder, he flipped through the potions textbook a lot these days, and remembered that this issue was mentioned on a certain page at the end, but this is definitely not what they need to preview at this stage!
At this time, Owen, who was far away in the corner of the Potions class, was watching the play with relish. He secretly used a spell to light a fire under the cauldron in front of him, and leaned against the side to let the warm flames dispel the coldness around him. Then he started to think wildly.

It is said that Professor Snape's question has a profound meaning.According to the Victorian flower language, the "narcissus" he said is a lily shaped like a narcissus, and its flower language is "My regrets follow you to the grave".And wormwood means "absence" and "bitter sorrow".The actual meaning of this sentence is: I regret your mother's death very much.

The above inner monologue that makes the listener cry and the listener sad... is actually all made up.Owen can only say that this is definitely a beautiful misunderstanding.

Look at Professor Snape's malicious eyes when he looked at Harry Potter, Owen was sure that his intention was purely for the purpose of making things difficult.Although Snape was determined to protect Harry, he never concealed his dislike for him. Instead of secretly expressing his inner remorse to the face in front of him that was very similar to James, he might as well let him speak to his cauldron.

Besides, if Professor Snape really has such a romantic EQ, Harry should be named Snape by now!

"Of course, since he is a very powerful master of Occlumency, it is not impossible..." Owen stretched out his hands to warm in front of the flame, and saw the malice in Professor Snape's eyes dissipate after hearing Harry's answer a little bit.

Snape's expression was still unpredictable, he didn't give Harry a chance to breathe, and directly asked the next question: "If I asked you to find a bezoar, where would you find it?"

Hermione raised her arms high, Harry was stunned, shook his head and said, "I don't know, Professor."

This is the content of "Thousands of Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms". His study time is limited, and he has to take care of so many subjects' preview and homework, it is impossible to write this book down in a short time.

"Then tell me, what's the difference between the boat-shaped aconitum and the wolfsbane aconitum?" Snape continued to ask indifferently.

It's "A Thousand Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" again!Harry exhaled and whispered, "Sorry, Professor, I haven't previewed it yet."

"But that's it, Potter." Snape said in a cold and smooth voice, "It seems that fame doesn't mean everything, and it's time for you to recognize your weight. Sit back, don't think you're in my academy, I You will be treated specially."

Harry sat back, raised his emerald green eyes, looked suspiciously at Snape's sallow face, which seemed to hide an expression of indifference and disgust, and thought, isn't this a deliberate attempt to make things difficult?After all, Draco is really not very reliable.

But then he remembered that Owen had said the same thing, told himself "You can trust Professor Snape", Harry didn't think Owen was joking... Although he often couldn't tell how much of what Owen said was true Out of some bad taste.

"So, is there only another possibility?" Harry took a deep breath. "So the dean has such heavy expectations of me? He must be very disappointed in me now."

Although Harry knew that he was not a genius at all, and he hoped that others would treat him as an ordinary person, but in the face of the high expectations placed by others, he did not have the habit of disappointing people again and again.

Fighting spirit was ignited in Harry's eyes, and he looked at Professor Snape firmly and sincerely: "I understand, Professor! I'm sorry, I won't let you down again in the future."

For the first time, Snape's always gloomy expression became a little weird. As a teacher who can always read the students' minds clearly, he couldn't figure out what Potter understood.Also, when did you feel disappointed?

Staring at the emerald green eyes full of firmness and sincerity, as well as the guilt hidden in them, he was in a trance for a moment, and the irony that he wanted to blurt out was stuck in his throat. I feel very uncomfortable.

Owen suffocated his laughter from a distance, he always felt that Harry had made up something extraordinary in his brain, so that the play had a sense of déjà vu from the beginning to the end.

Well, oddly enough.

Snape let the eccentric Potter go, but his expression became more gloomy, and he asked in a louder voice: "Then, who can tell me the answers to these two questions?"

After finishing speaking, he ignored Hermione's arms still raised high, and looked coldly at Owen who was sitting in the corner warming up by the fire, and the expression of a suppressed smile on his face.

"Shafik, it seems that these few questions will not trouble you." Snape was inexplicably unhappy, and called Owen's name.

Owen coughed lightly, facing Hermione's resentful gaze, stood up helplessly.

He said in an unhurried manner: "The fecal stone is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat. It has a strong detoxification effect. When someone is acutely poisoned, putting a fecal stone in his throat will help Received miraculous results. The boat-shaped aconitum and chamaejasma aconitum are the same plant, also collectively called aconitum, the whole plant is poisonous, and the root nodules are the most poisonous, but the processed aconitum has magical effects in many potions. "

To be honest, Owen didn't have much fear of Professor Snape.His father has always maintained a good relationship with Professor Snape. Many of the best potions in the potion shop run by the Shafik family are made by Snape, and Mr. Shafik can always give He found some extremely rare potion ingredients.

I heard that the two used to be classmates in the same year. At the beginning, Mr. Shafik was almost dragged into the circle of Death Eaters by friends like Snape, and was almost broken by Owen's grandfather when he came home... This is Owen I overheard my parents joking about it.

Hearing Owen's answer, Snape nodded his chin indiscernibly, and continued to ask: "Tell me, what does the Mandrake do?"

"A very powerful antidote that can restore deformed or petrified people to their original form, but its cry is fatal." Owen replied.

"Name the principal use of Flobber's slime."

"It is mainly used to thicken potions, and it is used in the preparation of potions such as herbicides, sleep potions, and replicators."

Professor Snape nodded slightly again, waved Owen to sit down, and of course did not forget to give Slytherin points.

After the episode, the potion class continued. Owen and Blaise worked together to make a simple magic potion for boils.

Snape walked around the classroom soundlessly, like a blackened ghost, and almost all the students suffered from his merciless criticism.

Harry was assigned by Snape to be in a group with Crabbe, and he hurriedly finished brewing the potion even though his companion was clumsy and slowed him down.Snape circled around him, watched him scramble to save the day, barely picked a bug, and ran off to trouble the Gryffindor students.

Owen happily used Blaise's crucible, and burned a vigorous flame in his own crucible. The bonfire generally made a large area around him warm, and became a small light source in the classroom. He was ridiculed by Snape indifferently.

If Neville hadn't boiled the potion for treating boils into a potion for making people grow boils, and burned the cauldron halfway, causing the potion to gush all over the classroom, this class would have been so peaceful forever.

After walking out of the Potions classroom, Owen stretched his arms and said with emotion: "What a peaceful day."

(End of this chapter)