Hogwarts starts with stealing power

Chapter 92 Top Journal "Magic Potion Invention and Research"

Ron was excited and wanted to borrow the broomstick in the warehouse.

At this time, Draco flipped over and fell from the sky, stopping suddenly when he was only 0.5 meters away from the ground.

He was wearing transparent goggles and gray earmuffs, and his face was very pale, far less relaxed than when Lin Xia fell.

Lin Xia didn't feel any discomfort at all!
Draco tightened his grip on the broomstick, his body stiffened, and he took a deep breath for a while before getting off the broomstick.

As soon as he landed, he fell softly on the grass and knelt down on the spot.

Ron felt the same and his face also turned ugly.

"Draco, are you okay? You look bad."

Harry walked up to him and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

In the past few days, we all stayed together on the Quidditch pitch. In addition to doing anti-vertigo training, Draco also helped Harry with training. The relationship between the two has improved dramatically.

Now, Harry no longer thinks that Draco is an arrogant child. The scene he saw in the window before seems to be just his illusion.

Ron also walked over, "Draco, why did Lin Xia do nothing during the anti-vertigo test, but you..."

Before Ron could finish speaking, Draco couldn't hold it back and vomited it out on the spot.

Ron's expression changed when he saw it, and he swallowed several times, feeling like he wanted to vomit.

"Clean up!"

Lin Xia threw a magic spell, and the filth was sorted into a ball and automatically fell into the trash can far away.

"Smells the nose!"

She used another spell, and a light and fresh lemon smell floated around.

When Draco smelled the smell, his expression relaxed and his body felt a little better.

He answered Ron: "It was my mistake. I ate a little too much before training and my body couldn't bear it."

"As for Lin Xia," Draco said somewhat depressedly, "She has been physically better than me since she was a child, so she didn't react as much as I did."

Recently, he has been practicing the exercises very smoothly. He has broken through from the first level to the second level of the food realm, and he feels that his body has become much stronger.

But compared with Lin Xia, the gap is still huge.

This made him want to quickly break through the second level and reach the third level. Lin Xia said that she was now on the third level of the bait realm.

If Lin Xia hadn't told him to lay a solid foundation and not rush for success, Draco would have wished to drink tonic wine and tonic every day to assist in his training.

The three of them were talking here, and Hermione found Harry alone, looking a little excited.

Harry was very excited after hearing this and quickly called Ron over.

Ron wanted Draco to go with Lin Xia. Lin Xia noticed the edge of the Quidditch pitch and Mikel was looking at Harry and others.

So she thought for a while and refused.

"Ron, you guys can take your time on the court while Draco and I go to the professor's office."

Ron nodded: "Oh, okay! Lin Xia, Draco, let's play Quidditch together next time!"

Draco said: "Next time I will let you experience anti-vertigo training for yourself, and see if you still laugh at me."

Ron made a face at him, "I don't play this. My physical fitness is not as good as yours. It would be too embarrassing if I spit it out like you did."

Draco was speechless.

He also felt so embarrassed, but he couldn't help it!

When Lin Xia and Draco left, Hermione's excited voice floated faintly, "That is definitely a three-headed dog, with three heads and a tail like a snake..."

The two came to the basement.

Draco then spoke slowly: "What Hermione just said is the three-headed dog Cerberus. It can always be seen in mythology. This is the creature responsible for guarding the gate of the underworld. It has three heads. The butt has a tail that looks like a snake or dragon.”

"But does this kind of creature really exist in the real world?" he asked.

Lin Xia said lightly: "I don't know, maybe they have really seen it. The wizarding world is so big, there are so many kinds of magical creatures, and some varieties can be created artificially.

Not to mention the appearance of Cerberus, it would not be surprising even if the legendary basilisk, the two-headed dog Orthos, and the hydra Hydra appeared. "

Seeing Lin Xia's indifferent expression, Draco suddenly felt that his doubts were silly.

The world is so vast that there are many wonders to be found, and indeed there is nothing surprising about it.

The two came to Snape's office together.

"Knock knock!"

"Come in!"

Lin Xia and Draco walked in, and Snape was refining the potion.

There was a familiar smell from the potion, Lin Xia's eyes flashed slightly, Professor Snape was refining the polyjuice potion again.

This kind of high-level magic potion is not so easy to refine.

Although high-end potions were always in short supply, it was a bit unusual for Snape to refine them all.

Could he be supplying Polyjuice Potion specifically to a certain institution?

Without even looking at them, Snape waved his wand lightly at the documents on the table. The two documents floated up and fell into the arms of Lin Xia and Draco. "I have already revised your paper. Now you just need to wait for the experimental data to come in, and then you can start publishing it. After you send it, let me know."

Lin Xia's document was much thinner than Draco's.

Professor Snape had some objections to her at first, but after Lin Xia moved out of Dean Sprout, he had nothing to say.

After that, he neither targeted Lin Xia nor paid special attention to her. He only helped correct some common sense mistakes that he couldn't stand.

Lin Xia asked: "Professor, should we still choose to publish our paper in Magical Inventions?"

Professor Snape slightly raised his eyelids from the pile of potions, glanced at the two of them benevolently, and said with great arrogance:
"Lin Xia, have you been studying potions for too long and your brain is a little rusty?

"Magical Inventions" mainly reviews magical artifacts. Your magnetic wand is an item, so it can be published there.

But the potions and facial soaps developed by you and Draco are more related to potions and can be published in the journal "Potions Invention and Research". "

The journals of the British wizarding world say too much and say too little.

There used to be very few, but after Dumbledore became Minister of Magic, he made many reforms, including the introduction of many regulations to vigorously promote magical research and creation.

With policy support, many journals in the British wizarding world have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in the past ten years.

But this did not affect the journal, which was already very old.

On the contrary, under the background of many emerging journals, old journals have become more and more valuable. They receive a lot of manuscripts every month and can only publish the best ones.

Although "Magic and Wonderful Inventions" is a new journal, it has good momentum. There are many wizards who subscribe and are willing to promote the magnetic wand cover recommendation.

If you submit your Magnetic Wand article to an old journal, although the impact factor will be greater, you may not necessarily get the treatment of a cover issue.

It may not even appear in the mid-term issue, and you have to turn back to find it.

So from a publicity point of view, the magnetic wand was published in "Magical Inventions", a win-win situation for both.

But "Poison Invention and Research" is different from other emerging journals. This is an orthodox and ancient top journal.

What can be published on it is all professional potion research content.

In terms of status, it is almost the same as "Transfiguration Today" that Professor McGonagall highly recommends.

When Lin Xia published his paper, he knew the current status of major journals and the influence of "Invention and Research on Potion" in the British wizarding world.

She said: "Thank you for the professor's affirmation, but the scabies potion and youth facial soap developed by Draco and I may not pass the "Invention and Research of Potions". If they fail, they will have to wait another month, which is a bit long. "

Professor Snape said calmly: "If you don't pass, keep voting. It's great that the little wizard can achieve your level of achievement. Do you still want to fly into the sky on a rocket?"

Lin Xia smiled softly: "Professor, Draco and I have absolutely no such idea, it's just that Draco wants to get an outstanding student in Hogwarts as soon as possible, and I want to increase my authority level as soon as possible.

If there is a stable passage, then why should we wait another month, don't you think, Professor Snape? "

Snape stared gloomily at Lin Xia's amber eyes. There was a person in his memory whose eyes were as sparkling as hers.

Damn, why doesn't she have green eyes?
The emerald he wanted was embedded in the body of an extremely annoying kid!

Snape looked away and said in a cold voice: "Just publish "The Invention and Research of Potions". If your two papers are not good, I have to wonder if this journal is not worthy of its name. It is really full of rubbish." Submit your article on it!”

Lin Xia understood: "Okay, thank you, Professor."

Draco thanked him politely.

The two left the office and returned to the Hufflepuff common room.

After entering the lounge, Draco said belatedly: "Lin Xia, did Professor Snape just promise that we would pass?"

"It's not so straightforward, but at least it gives us some protection. He asked us to publish "Invention and Research of Magic Potions". Either he has the qualifications for internal recommendation in this journal, or even bolder, maybe he is the editor of this journal. regular reviewer."

The reviewers of journals are not that simple, they need to verify the ideas of the contributors.

In other words, every newly invented potion must be verified by reviewers before the paper can be published.

Because these reviewers need to verify the authenticity of potions, they must have advanced knowledge of potions.

It is usually held by elites, leaders and famous masters in the industry.

Draco clicked his tongue, "Cool, you actually dare to make conditions with the professor!"

Lin Xia said without blushing and out of breath: "I clearly had a reasonable discussion with the professor. Besides, Dean Sprout asked him personally and gave him an unknown amount of discount. I just asked him to provide a reasonable amount." force."

Draco also felt that it made sense, "That's true. I don't know what my father gave Professor Snape. I can't be so afraid of him next time. I have to be brave enough to make my request. This is called a fair deal."

Time flew by and it was November 11th.

There's a Quidditch match tomorrow.

This game is Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. If Gryffindor wins, the ranking of the House Cup Championship will rise to second place, and Slytherin will drop to third place.

As for the first place, it is firmly controlled by Hufflepuff.

There was no way, Draco and Lin Xia had too many extra points in class.

Even though Gryffindor has Hermione, Hermione can only ask the professor to add normal points, while those two people can make the professor add abnormal points.

At noon, Lin Xia had dinner in the auditorium and met three owls delivering envelopes, and Draco had five.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw a hint of excitement in their eyes.

With so many thick documents, has the human test they wanted been released?
Some little wizards glanced at it curiously, and immediately felt like they were going to faint.

There are so many incomprehensible numbers!
It's unbelievable. How could Draco and Lin Xia look at a bunch of data with gusto? Is there any decryption method in it?
(End of this chapter)