The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 541 Detoxification
Under the golden flames in the fireplace, Slughorn raised his glass and clinked it with Ryan and the others. However, after Ryan got the glass, he nervously used the ring to activate alchemy to check the contents of the glass, and did not even pay attention to the professor's toast. He remembered that in the original text, Slughorn took out a bottle of poisoned wine.

But Ryan couldn't remember which kind of wine Slughorn had chosen in the original text, not to mention that he had just seen several bottles of each kind of wine on the professor's table, so naturally he couldn't be sure which bottle of wine was poisonous. In this case, he couldn't tell the professor that one of the bottles of wine was poisonous, right? That would be impossible to explain.

For the same reason, Ryan naturally couldn't check the wine for poison in a big way. He could only use the ring to perform a quiet alchemy check after getting the wine glass. However, because he was worried that the plot change would make the poison more effective, and to ensure the safety of everyone present, Ryan took advantage of Slughorn's inattention when he opened the bottle of wine in front of them and flicked a broad-spectrum antidote pill that would not cause harm to the human body into the bottle.

Finally, in the fifth second after he got the wine glass and started the alchemy, a black light flashed from the ring. He immediately shouted, "Don't drink it, the wine is poisonous." But before he finished shouting, he heard the sound of the glass falling to the ground next to him.

It turned out that Ron, who was ignored by Professor Slughorn, found that he now had the opportunity to drink openly. He couldn't wait to drink the wine in the glass before Ryan shouted a warning. Naturally, he became the only one who was hit.

After being poisoned, the cup slipped from his hand, and then he fell to the ground along the back of the chair. His limbs were violently convulsing, he was foaming at the mouth, his eyes were bulging, and his face was rapidly darkening.

"Ron!" Harry yelled, squatting down to check on Ron. Ron was twitching, breathing hard, his skin turning blue, and his blood vessels turning purple, which were very obvious on his blue face. Slughorn, the only adult in the room, seemed to be petrified, stammering, "How - but -"

"Get out of the way." Ryan pushed Harry aside and half-knelt beside Ron, then took out a bottle of golden potion from the space bag on his belt and fed it to him. This bottle of the highest grade antidote mixed with life force had an immediate effect. After the whole bottle disappeared into Ron's mouth, his terrible gurgling breathing sound disappeared, his breathing became smooth again, and his body no longer spasmed.

After pulling out his wand and checking for a few seconds, Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. He had thrown an antidote into the wine bottle out of concern as a precautionary measure, but in order to ensure that it was harmless, the effect of the antidote was not particularly good. Fortunately, the antidote did work, weakening some of the effects of the poison in the wine bottle, so even though Ron looked terrible just now, his internal organs were not seriously damaged.

"At least the injury should be lighter than before, which also means I have done a good thing." Ryan said silently in his heart. If Ron died here today or suffered irreversible injuries, he felt that he would feel guilty for the rest of his life.

Taking advantage of the chaos at this time when everyone focused all their attention on Ron, Ryan quickly used the ring to activate another alchemy array to eliminate the traces of the antidote in the wine.

"How are you, Ron?" Ryan stepped aside after watching Ron calm down. Harry immediately shouted at Ron's face.

"I feel like I almost died just now." Ron said weakly after trying hard to open his eyes. "Honestly, Harry, this is the worst birthday I've ever had."

In the morning, the hospital was very quiet. The curtains were drawn to let the sunlight shine softly on the patients. Only Ron's bed was full of people. Harry, Hermione and Ginny were sitting beside him. They waited outside the door for more than an hour, and tried to look inside every time someone went in or out. Madam Pomfrey let them in at nine o'clock. Fred and George arrived at ten past nine.

"Where's Ryan? I must thank him in person for saving our brother." Fred said, putting a large gift bag on the cabinet beside Ron's bed and sitting down next to Ginny.

"Headmaster Dumbledore went to see him, hoping to analyze something from him." Hermione shrugged helplessly, "Because he loudly reminded us that the wine was poisoned within a few seconds of getting the cup, but Ron drank it too hastily."

"My brother is really..." This was the first time Ginny learned what exactly happened at the scene. She touched her forehead helplessly. "Can't he eat a little slower?"

The Weasley family members present felt a little embarrassed after hearing Hermione's words, because they realized that this disaster could have been avoided if Ron had not been so greedy.

While everyone in the school hospital was discussing today's events around Ron, Ryan was being questioned in the principal's office. "Ryan, how did you find out that the wine was poisoned?" Dumbledore asked Ryan seriously while sitting in a chair in the principal's office.

"Because I've been researching this recently, Professor Dumbledore." Ryan had already prepared the answer. "Ever since Mr. Weasley was bitten by a poisonous snake last time, I've been thinking about how to rescue people from poisoning. At first I just wanted to make an antidote, but then I found that it was too difficult to ask the poisoned person to quickly identify the effect of the poison and come up with the corresponding antidote at the moment of poisoning, and the production of even the most commonly used broad-spectrum antidote, coprolite, is surprisingly low. So I wanted to develop an antidote that can be mass-produced and is strong enough to fight most poisons on the market."

As he said this, he took out a bottle from his space bag and handed it to Dumbledore. The bottle was very small, more like a capsule than a bottle, with a little bit of colorless transparent liquid inside.

"In order to make the antidote, I naturally collected a large number of poisons for comparison. When I was preparing to drink today, I smelled the poison in the bottle from the wine glass. I have to say that the poisoner was very smart. He used the sweetness of mead to cover up the bitterness of the poison. At the same time, Filch's detector could not detect the poison, allowing him to bring such a dangerous thing into the school. Fortunately, I have been studying these poisons recently, so I was able to keenly smell the special bitterness from the rich sweetness of honey."

"It's really lucky." Dumbledore took the small bottle and tapped it with his wand, then said knowingly, "But I hope you still keep these poisons safe and don't let anyone else touch them."

"Don't worry, Professor Dumbledore." Ryan put away the poison. "I always carry this space bag with me to ensure it is under my control at all times."

"That's good." Dumbledore nodded and asked, "Can I ask about the progress of your antidote research? Death Eaters are people with no moral bottom line. We may need an antidote to deal with the endless poisoning of these Death Eaters."

"I have achieved part of my goal. After research, I have made an antidote that can remove most of the poisons on the market. At the same time, this antidote also has a strong mitigating effect on the vast majority of the remaining poisons." Ryan was still a little dissatisfied with what he had researched in his spare time in the past two years. "The medicine I gave Ron today is the result of my research. It is not as complicated to brew as similar potions. However, the cost of a bottle is more than 30 Galleons, which is not much cheaper than those medicines on the market."

"It's already very good." Dumbledore said, "I am willing to buy it from you for 40 Galleons a bottle. Give me ten bottles first."

"You only need to pay me three Galleons per bottle for processing." Ryan smiled and declined the high price offered by the principal. "But you need to help me find all the raw materials. There are many raw materials that are difficult for a punk-blooded wizard like me to get."

"No problem." Dumbledore nodded. "This is what I should do. Although you are my student, I really want to thank you for this. You really helped us a lot."

Just after the two men finished discussing business, a fire flickered in the fireplace and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley walked out.

"Headmaster, our son Ron--" Mrs. Weasley asked Dumbledore directly after rushing out of the fireplace.

"He is in the school hospital now, but he is fine." Dumbledore comforted him. "And you have to thank Ryan. It was thanks to him that your child was rescued in the first place today."

"Thank you so much, Ryan." After listening to Dumbledore's general explanation of what happened today, Mrs. Weasley hugged Ryan tightly and sobbed. "If you hadn't been here today, I really wouldn't believe it--"

"It's okay, Mrs. Weasley. This is what I should do." Ryan comforted, "I believe that after seeing this situation, everyone who is able to help will lend a hand."

(End of this chapter)