Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 378 Scarpin's Apparition Spell
Facts have proved that the old saying from an ancient Eastern country, "Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortunes never come alone," is true.

Before the people at Hogwarts could recover from the news of Dumbledore's arrest, they were shocked by another piece of news.

The prisoners of Azkaban have escaped en masse!
Mike was holding a newspaper with ten black and white magic photos on it, nine of which were wizards and the remaining one was a witch.

Some of them were smiling silently, while others were arrogantly tapping the borders of their photos with their fingers.

Under each photo were their names and the crimes they had committed. Although what was written there were just ordinary words, the meanings revealed in them kept reminding Mike that all of them were villains with blood on their hands!
And they have a common crime, which is joining Voldemort's Death Eaters and serving the Dark Lord!
The most eye-catching of them is of course the only woman - Bellatrix Lestrange. Crime: Torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom, causing permanent disability for both of them...

Mike recognized the name almost instantly, Betatrix!

She was really the owner of the vault in Gringotts that they had robbed before. She was also Sirius Black's cousin and the culprit who sent Neville's parents to St. Mungo's.

Mike had seen Bellatrix when she was young. She was an extremely outstanding woman with a handsome face like Sirius.

Mike was not surprised by this. It was normal for rich people to become more beautiful with each generation because they could always marry the most beautiful girls. It was not surprising that a pure-blood family like the Black family, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was full of handsome men and beautiful women.

What surprised Mike the most was that Bellatrix now looked so different from before!
Judging from the photo, Bellatrixna's long black hair looked messy, and she stared at Mike with her thick eyelids, as if she wanted to eat him alive, but there was a hint of a proud and contemptuous smile on her thin lips. From her eyebrows, Mike could even see some shadow of Sirius, but more of it was endless madness.

This must be the work of the Dementors.

Those disgusting and terrifying species always make people feel despair, and if humans live in such an environment for a long time, they will be driven crazy even if they manage to survive.

Shaking his head, Mike continued to flip through the newspaper, and what caught his eye was the Daily Prophet's detailed report on the collective prison break.

"Azkaban Prison Breakout! What on earth are Fudge and the Ministry of Magic doing?!"

Mike closed the newspaper after reading just the headline, because there was no need to read the rest of the content.

Mike could guess that the following words were definitely an attack on the Ministry of Magic.

I have to say, the behavior of the Daily Prophet is really good.

The wizarding world in Britain is already in a panic because of the news of Voldemort's return. Now that a group of Death Eaters led by Bella have escaped from prison again, it is news that cannot be worse.

It would be a good idea to let them scold the Ministry officials at this time to vent some of their anger.

But the biggest question now is, how to alleviate the panic of the students in Hogwarts?
Not all students in Hogwarts are stupid, there are even quite a few smart people among them. Although these people don’t say it, they have actually admitted in their hearts that Voldemort has returned!

Mike looked up at the other people in the auditorium, and as expected, he saw that everyone looked terrified.

Especially Harry, his look now could not be described as panic-stricken, he was simply out of his mind.

He had just attended his first Occlumency class in Snape's office last night, and he thought that last night's experience must not have been a good one.

In addition, with the Quidditch match approaching, the amount of training has increased greatly, and Umbridge is constantly picking on him. His current condition must be very bad.

Despite this, Mike didn't have the slightest intention of comforting him. On the contrary, he even immediately pulled Franklin out of the auditorium - it was time for class!
The Potions class occupied Mike's entire morning today, which made many people look unhappy. After all, it was not a pleasant experience to rush to a cold and damp basement after getting up in the middle of winter.

But not everyone had a grim look on their face. When Mike and others entered the Potions classroom, they found that Professor Snape, who usually had a grim face, was standing on the podium alone and laughing.

Although the smile quickly disappeared, many people, including Mike, saw the scene.

For a moment, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Snape was in a good mood, then their lives would be much better.

Only Mike secretly thanked Harry.

"Uh-huh! Go back to your seats!"

Snape cleared his throat and spoke seriously. After hearing this, no one dared to look at him anymore and quickly returned to their seats.

"Franklin! Why is your tie crooked?!" Snape suddenly roared, "I think you are trying to be special on purpose! Five points deducted from Ravenclaw!"

"I……"

Franklin looked confused and murmured as if he wanted to refute, but at the last moment he held back and did not say anything.

Ever since Snape learned that the rumors about him and Umbridge in the school came from Ravenclaw (Ron didn't dare to betray Mike and only said that it was someone from Ravenclaw who said it), Snape has been trying to find ways to take revenge.

After being targeted for a long time, all the Ravenclaws understood one thing: never argue with Snape about the correctness of the point deduction, because he will find a reason to deduct more points from you!
So Franklin remained silent, staring at the desk with a frustrated look on his face, anger hidden in his eyes.

Snape on the podium was disappointed to see Franklin had no reaction. He frowned and said to the students:

"Today we are going to learn the Scapin Apparition Charm. If you have reviewed the lesson as instructed, you should know that this is a spell that can analyze the ingredients of potions. It is an extremely important spell for the entire potion science because it can show you the composition of the potion in a clear and magical way, allowing you to analyze it more calmly and add or reduce certain ingredients. Therefore, the birth of almost any new formula throughout the ages is closely related to it.

Of course, it has another function, which is to reverse the potion formula! Many people have done this in history. They analyzed those unique formulas and made a lot of money! I don't recommend you to do this unless you want to spend the rest of your life in Azkaban. But I think I should be overthinking it. After all, you are just a bunch of stupid trolls. With your brain, I am afraid you can't do things like reverse the potion formula! Most of you may not even be able to release this spell. After all, it is too difficult for you. So, now, please open the wooden box in front of you!"

Snape sprayed venom at everyone without any scruples, but everyone had become accustomed to Snape's way of speaking over the years and simply ignored the unpleasant words. They opened the box as ordered and saw a small bottle of unmarked unknown liquid in the box.

"This is the water of life and death that I prepared personally! Your task today is to use the xx analysis method to completely analyze the ingredient list of this bottle of water of life and death!" Snape said in a strange tone, "I think the formula of the water of life and death should be remembered even if your brain is only as big as an apple. So I added some other things in it. Before the get out of class is over, if someone can't tell what I added in it. Then... hehe~" Snape's speech ended with a creepy sneer. Although he did not clearly state what the consequences would be if the task was not completed, everyone was fully alert and poured some of the special water of life and death in front of themselves as quickly as possible.

Afterwards, many people began to scratch their heads. Most of these people had not prepared for the lesson, because anyone who had prepared for the lesson would have discovered that the detailed steps for casting the Scarpin Apparition Spell were printed in their textbook, Advanced Potions.

Like them, Mike had not done any preparation, but he had the help of Benjamin, a potion genius, so he had actually mastered the technique of casting the Scarpin Apparition Spell before this class.

Just like everyone else, he poured some water of life and death into a beaker, then took out his magic wand and waved it lightly at the beaker.

Then, a magical scene happened.

The transparent liquid in the beaker suddenly disappeared, replaced by a thick fog.

The mist floated in front of Mike for a long time, and at the same time, Mike's mind automatically emerged with the configuration of the mist in front of him:

Asphodel root, wormwood…and lastly, lavender and icing sugar!

Mike's pupils suddenly dilated. At this moment, he really admired Snape's attainments in potions.

He actually thought of adding lavender and icing sugar to the water of life and death to change its taste and smell, turning it into a hypnotic drink with lavender fragrance and sweetness!
And according to the test results of Scarpin's Apparition Spell, the effectiveness of this water of life and death was not weakened at all after adding these two materials. On the contrary, its hypnotic effect became even stronger!

This is a bit scary!

You know, alchemy is a rigorous science, and it is extremely difficult to improve those fixed formulas!

But Snape actually had a modified formula in hand, and from the looks of it, it seemed that the formula was invented by him!
"Professor," Mike said, holding up his hand, "you added extra lavender and icing sugar to it, right?"

Hearing this, Snape's expression instantly became extremely ugly. He stared at Mike blankly, and after a while he slowly nodded.

Now everyone else in the classroom was shocked.

Many of them had tried it just now, but only Mike succeeded!

"Is this a genius? I am stupid!"

"I was dumbfounded too, but did you see Snape's expression just now? I think he was the real dumbfounded one! But this is so funny, Snape said that we couldn't reverse the formula, and then Mike reversed the formula. Hahahaha!"

Listening to the whispers coming from all around, Mike's eyebrows frowned again.

He found that what Snape had just said was actually true in a sense.

Some of the students in this classroom are truly troll-brains, and they even think they have reversed the formula for the water of life and death.

Such people are really stupid because they don't even know the effect of the Scarpin Apparition Charm and the nature of the potion formula.

You have to know that a complete potion recipe is not just a list of ingredients. It must also clearly indicate the process of making the potion and the situations that may occur.

However, the Scarpin Apparition spell could only parse out the most basic ingredient list, so it was indeed extremely difficult to reverse engineer the potion formula.

Snape also heard those people whispering, and his face turned darker in an instant.

The students who were whispering also noticed Snape's expression and immediately shut up.

Unfortunately, it's too late!

"You two will be in detention tonight!" Snape roared, "and Hufflepuff will be deducted 10 points for making a scene in class!"

The two men were obviously old hands. They did not continue chatting with Snape, but silently accepted the punishment.

Franklin on the side also laughed when he saw this, but unfortunately he didn't feel happy for long before he was called out by Snape again.

At this point, Snape finally vented his anger and began to explain the tricks of the xx observation method. As for the fact that Mike was the first to successfully analyze it, Snape completely ignored it.

After class, Franklin immediately regained his spirit, grabbed his schoolbag and ran out of the basement. As a result, Snape deducted five points from him because students were not allowed to run in the corridor.

But Franklin obviously didn't care about all this. Mike even suspected that he didn't even hear Snape's voice, because his running speed didn't slow down at all.

Mike also knew the reason why Franklin was so anxious. The first official Quidditch game of the year was about to start at noon today. The two teams were Slytherin House and Gryffindor House, two old rivals.

As an avid Quidditch fan, Franklin naturally could not miss such a game.

Shaking his head, Mike packed up his things and walked out the door.

Of course, he wasn't there to watch a Quidditch match; he had no interest in that sport.

Mike had only one destination, and that was Professor Flitwick's office.

(End of this chapter)