Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

not understand well?

Just ask if you happen to?

Hmph ╭(╯^╰)╮ This question is not random.

Whether it’s the "testimony" of the pharmacy manager in Diagon Alley, or the thick and heavy "Encyclopedia of Primary Potions", these are not easy to find by just strolling around, at least Elena can be sure of Lihen Bookstore There is no such book on the shelf.

It seems that this little **** came prepared.

Elena's gaze collided with Hermione's provocative gaze, and she raised her eyebrows somewhat clearly.

That's how it turns out, is the little Beaver brewing a holiday counterattack waiting for her here?

Because of her existence in this world, Hermione Granger was not isolated like the original, but she also never experienced the thrilling escape of being blocked in the women’s toilet by a giant monster holding a big stick. .

Perhaps due to part of her influence, Hermione is not so sharp in the school today.

But in contrast, this little beaver's stubbornness and disobedience did not disappear, but gradually converged and consolidated into a bunch, from the original aggressiveness towards everyone to only aimed at Irene Na's obsession.

When leaving the Hogwarts Express train last semester, Baimao Tuanzi and Little Beaver, under the witness of Hannah and Luna, re-signed the "new 100 times" gambling agreement for the next school year— —As long as Hermione can win the first grade in more than one-third of the courses, even if this little wing succeeds in challenging the Great White Devil.

"Tsk, it's amazing, didn't you give up potions?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Elena's eyes. She originally thought that Little Beaver would not challenge her in the field of potions.

After all, compared to other disciplines, Potions is almost her strongest position. The gap between ordinary students and the potions teaching assistants is too big. The gap between the two in bonus points and final assessment can almost make people desperate. .

Human energy is limited, and even a genius witch like Hermione can't "start war" in all areas.

In Elena’s previous predictions, Hermione’s most sensible approach should be to avoid her strong subjects and launch an offensive in Elena’s relatively weaker subjects-avoiding her edge, this is the highest success rate. Tactical choices.

Therefore, in the potions class, I encountered a backstab from the little beaver, which caught Elena by surprise.

Obviously, the "hundred times" punishment game did not make Elena get what she wanted. Instead, it stimulated Hermione Granger's desire to win and lose to some extent—compared to the other two. Only a girl with a softer personality, the Minister of Magic in the original book's unyielding personality has not changed at all because of the butterfly effect.

And the most important thing is-

As a fairy queen who manages every day and goes up and down hundreds of millions of dollars every minute, Elena did not put too much energy in the preparation of potions during the just-ending summer vacation. She focused more on the "front" These more important fields are the introduction of Soviet talents, the operation of the SCP Foundation, and the urban construction of Hogwarts College.

Compared with Hermione Calculator Granger, who has been reading many books, she is really weak in the subdivision of potions.

This time it was careless, and Hermione's aggressiveness was more vigorous than she thought.

only……

Elena shook her head quietly in her heart. It's not the right time for this kind of cleverness to play.

You know, she is not fighting alone now.

If it were in Professor Snape’s potions class, with that cold-faced and arrogant character, she would probably leave her alone and let her feel a little frustration by the way, but Horace Slugho En is not the kind of "bad guy".

Similar to this opportunity to raise his face in front of the children, Slughorn would hardly refuse any question.

"Huh? Could fresh nettle be better? I'm not very clear about this."

Glancing at Hermione, Elena turned her head without hesitation? Asked for help from the old wizard standing at the desk.

"Professor Slughorn? This seems to be a knowledge point that was not written in "Magic Potion and Potion"? Is there any magical principle of potion in this, or is it a limitation in the actual operation of society?"

Anyway, according to the previous agreement, what the two are fighting for is not the dominance in the classroom.

Even if Elena can't maintain the dominance in a certain class for the time being? As long as Hermione fails to succeed in replacing it? Then according to the leaky contract, the cunning third-generation Meguro Lord can still easily harvest the spoils.

"Here... In theory, fresh nettle grass can increase the effect of a little swelling potion."

Slughorn took the conversation very naturally, raised his fingers and shook it, and explained with a smile.

"Just as Miss Kaslana introduced before? The presence of stinging hairs on the stems and leaves of nettles can cause irritation to the bare skin of humans or animals. If you have observed the way the swelling agent works, you will find both There are actually very similar performances between them-the only difference is that? Magic will make the potion effective the moment it touches the skin."

The old wizard paused for a moment? He looked at the classroom for a few seconds? He said meaningfully.

"However, fresh nettle grass is not suitable for teaching. Except for safety reasons, it is actually based on the difference between the two quality materials in the final presentation and formulation of the medicine. So? I think Guess everyone, why are the more expensive dried nettles that appear in the classroom? Not fresh nettles that theoretically react faster."

Hermione was stunned? She lowered her head and flipped through her extracurricular books a few times.

She hadn’t thought of this at all. No matter it was in the mouth of the shopkeeper or in the "Encyclopedia of Primary Potions", apart from mentioning the optimization effect of fresh nettle in the potion reaction, there was nothing. Write other content.

Undoubtedly, this is another knowledge blind zone that is not recorded in books.

"Oh, don't worry about the wrong answer, everyone can follow the principle of the swelling potion and make a bold guess."

Slughorn grinned and said, looking at the temporarily silent classroom with satisfaction.

I have to admit that the mode of Elena's just now provided him with a new idea-anyway, there is still more than half an hour before the second potion reaction time. If you can just kill it until the time is over, naturally It couldn't be better.

This kind of trade-off based on the principles of deep-level potions can't be answered by taking chances or reading a few books about potions.

Even for some potion geniuses with keen intuition, most of them have to make many attempts to compare before they can vaguely understand the subtle differences between the potions.

And this has to be based on the fact that all the potions in the previous attempts are perfectly formulated, and can accurately lock in the change of potion properties caused by changes in a small amount of potion materials.

At this moment, Harry raised his right hand cautiously.

"Because dried nettle grass will make the potion response more stable?" He said, "Although fresh nettle grass will make the potion effective faster, but because of the magical power of the potion itself, the improvement it brings is not so much. obvious?"

While talking, Harry Potter glanced over the old "Magic Potion and Potion" beside him.

In the blank space on the edge of the swelling medicine description text book, it is now the same as the place where the medicine is printed, filled with black notes, and many places have evaluated and revised the content of the textbook.

At this time, beside the handwriting on the page with the nettle grass pattern, there was also a note:

[The treated dried nettle can improve the stability of the medicine, and the increased reaction efficiency of fresh nettle is negligible]

This book is not a new semester potions course material Harry Potter bought from Lihen Bookstore.

Yesterday afternoon when Harry was in Snape’s office for a routine make-up lesson, he accidentally knocked down the potion bottle on the professor’s desk because of a sudden sleepiness, although Professor Snape controlled the flow of the potion in time. , But Harry's newly bought textbook was damaged by the professor's curse, and he couldn't use it anymore.

Harry thought he would be scolded badly, who knew that Professor Snape seemed to be in a good mood that day.

Except for a few words of admonition, he should take a good rest. Severus Snape didn't criticize too much. Instead, he ended the make-up class early, giving Harry a vacation early to adjust his mental state.

On the other hand, in order not to affect Harry's subsequent courses.

Before leaving the office of the Professor of Potions, Snape also found a few old books from the debris pile that the students had missed in the classroom in previous years, and asked Harry to pick one from them, temporarily in the next potions class. Deal with it.

It's just that Harry didn't expect that the above comment would actually involve the question raised by Professor Slughorn.

"Exactly correct, I can't explain it myself more accurately!"

Slughorn blinked in surprise, looked at Harry unexpectedly, and then said.

"As long as the qualified swelling agent is in contact with bare skin, the effective time is mostly within one to two seconds. Fresh nettle grass does speed up the speed, but the practicality of this improvement is not too high-other than that In addition to the low price of fresh nettle, the rich juice will also make it more active in the potion brewing process."

"This also means," Slughorn said, his eyes scanned from the immature faces in the classroom. "When we use nettles in teaching, the more fresh nettles have disadvantages, the more obvious the disadvantages. . Mr. Potter, I think you should understand the reason for this abuse, right?"

Hermione's eyes lit up suddenly, and her hand was raised again.

Following Slughorn's prompt, she finally figured out the key.

It's just that, in this situation, poor calculation Ji wants to get a chance to speak, and has to wait for Harry to be unable to answer Slughorn's questions, and this is obviously something... difficult.

"Well-because of stability, being active will shorten our reaction time, which is not conducive to learning. Is that right?"

"It's not bad."

Slughorn said happily, and Hermione dropped her hands, looking disappointed.

"In the introductory stage of Potions, the most important thing is to reduce accidents. The rarer the element, the easier it is for you to control and understand, and the easier it is for you to find problems. And when you grow to a certain stage, you can Begin to try to sacrifice stability in pursuit of efficiency, and to find some surprises beyond the established results."

"Speaking of which, the role of nettle in this potion is actually to give it a way to work?"

Elena lightly touched her lips thoughtfully and muttered softly.

Compared with other disciplines, potions is the most difficult for her to understand before this, because it is not actually alchemy in the strict sense-it does not follow the equivalent exchange of substances, nor does it follow the chemical reaction.

However, Severus Snape is clearly more suitable as a researcher than a mere teacher.

Professional strength and teaching ability are two different dimensions of judging criteria-in the integration of civilizations between the non-magical world and the magical world, Horace Slughorn is both knowledgeable and easy to understand. more suitable.

"It is understandable, Miss Kaslana. But there is some magic involved in it—"

Hearing Elena's whisper, a light of surprise flashed in Slughorn's eyes, and he nodded uncertainly.

If Harry Potter's answer is still in the category of a potion master, then the speculation of the silver-haired little witch next to him has begun to touch the more profound core, some discussions about the nature of potions.

"So by analogy ~www.ltnovel.com~The effect of the pufferfish eyes should be the core effect of the swelling agent?"

Elena squinted her eyes, and her mind moved quickly.

When the wild puffer is threatened, it can quickly inhale water or air into the extremely elastic stomach, and in a short time expands to more than two to three times the original size, and the pupils are also the easiest to enlarge in the organism. Organs.

You know, when a normal human being is excited, the first organ that enlarges is the pupil.

When most creatures are excited or excited, their pupils will enlarge. This amplitude can usually reach about five to ten times. That is to say... the pufferfish eyes are equivalent to "expansion" in a sense. .

Elena carefully read the blackboard writing on the blackboard, and paused for a moment on the "pufferfish eyes".

Pufferfish (puffers) is a general term that includes more than 200 species of fish from the bony fishes, pufferformes, and puffer family. This coverage is even compared to the owl-shaped owl represented by the "round-faced fat chicken". The goal is also broad.

"In other words, the reason why I chose pufferfish eyes without specifying the species is because it points to the self-expanding species, rather than some more detailed and specialized classification, and uses It’s the organ with the most significant expansion effect and ratio in its body, not from a biological or chemical point of view..."

And follow this rule to reason, if the function of the puffer fish eyes is to give the term "expansion".

Then...

"Bat... liver? What are you?"

Elena's eyes stayed on the last remaining material of the swelling potion for a few seconds, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Wait! I understand everything, that's how it is—"

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