The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 77 Three Crucibles
Snape leaned against the classroom door and slowly spoke out the punishment. He now looked at Toler as if he were a bedbug.

If Toller had not burned a big hole in his cauldron in the Potions class, Snape would have had no reason to deduct points from Ada. It was Toller's mistake that gave Snape the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and give Ada the points that should have been deducted from Toller.

Snape can do this, but you, Toler, can't say that. Toler's remarks outside the classroom just now sounded as if he was saying that Ada deserved to be deducted points, and he had no idea at all.

Without paying any more attention to Toler, Snape left. He also didn't like the smell in the classroom.

Toller stood there stupidly, twenty points were deducted at once, which made him panic. He knew he had done something wrong, but he did not blame himself. He felt that if Drizzt and Weasley had not bumped into him in the end, he would not have said such a thing.

Last school year, many students had shown their attention to Ada, including Toler. However, Ada never treated these people well, and gradually, these people dispersed and turned their attention to other girls.

This was nothing, the young man just admired the pretty girl, but Ada was always inseparable from the twins, which made Toller very uncomfortable. He felt that Ada was pretending to be noble.

From then on, Toller always disliked Ada and the twins, and often said bad things about Ada secretly. Once, he was even caught by the twins while saying bad things about her.

If the other Gryffindors hadn't stopped him, Toller would have followed in Avery's footsteps that time.

After leaving the dungeon, the second-year Gryffindor and Hufflepuff girls went to the girls' bathroom. They needed to wash off the smell. The bathroom consisted of many small cubicles, each with a sink and shower, and if you liked, you could take a bubble bath.

Ada walked to the cubicle she often used, and sure enough, Angelina and Alia had already reserved a seat for her and put water in it. Angelina was on the left side of Ada's cubicle, and Alia's cubicle was on the right.

After folding the towel into a sheep horn shape and wearing it on her head, Ada soaked in the hot water pool. The water was a little hot, and her fair skin turned slightly red.

Although the twins never told Ada that Toler was talking bad about her behind her back, Ada actually knew about it. There were still one or two people in the group of people who had been courting her at the beginning, and they were the ones who told Ada about it, but Ada was too lazy to pay attention to them.

When she was about to walk out of the classroom, Ada wanted to curse Toller directly, but Snape stood in front of her slowly and prevented her from rushing out of the classroom.

When she walked out of the classroom, she had calmed down. She couldn't act on impulse and attack her classmates in front of the professor. Ada needed to be patient for the time being and let Toler jump around for a few more days.

But Ada was still upset, so she bumped into Toler when she was leaving. As long as Toler dared to attack her, she would let Toler know what cruelty was.

After soaking in the hot tub for a long time, Ada wiped herself clean and left the cubicle. When she returned to the public area, Angelina and Alia had been waiting for her for a while.

In the hall, the atmosphere at the Gryffindor table was a little unusual. As soon as they arrived at the hall, they found that their house had been deducted a lot of points. At first, everyone thought that the twins or Ada had done something "big" again, which caused them to lose so many points at once.

But they soon found out that they had wrongly blamed the three big deductions, because Professor McGonagall called Toller away in front of everyone, and Lee Jordan also exaggerated what happened in the corridor after class and told everyone.

Everyone was guessing how Professor McGonagall would punish Toller. She deducted twenty points at once. The three giants who deducted points had to think carefully about losing so many points, but Toller did it with just one sentence and one action.

At the same time, everyone was discussing what kind of revenge Ada would take. It was not Ada's usual style to have no reaction after being scolded.

So when Ada walked into the hall, the Gryffindors all stared at her, hoping to see something from her facial expression.

Ada sat down next to the twins. She felt much better after taking a hot bath. She needed a full meal to cope with the night's confinement. Snape's confinement was always a "physical job" and she couldn't hold on without a full meal.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Ada arrived at the underground classroom on time, and Snape was waiting for her there. I don't know what method Snape used, but the smell of rotten eggs in the classroom was no longer there.

The table that Ida usually used was not filled with unprocessed materials like last year, but with three crucibles. "This is what you will do tonight." Snape handed Ida a piece of parchment with the recipes for three potions written on it, namely scabies potion, forgetfulness potion and swelling-reducing potion.

Ada followed what was written on the parchment and took back the ingredients for the anti-swelling agent that she was unfamiliar with. When she was about to light the fire and boil it, Snape interrupted her.

"Did you not notice that I put three cauldrons there, or do you plan on staying up all night tonight?"

Ada stared at Snape's face for about a minute before she was sure that Snape was not joking. He wanted Ada to brew the three different potions by herself at the same time.

Ada had no choice but to take back the materials for the remaining two potions and start operating the three crucibles.

These three potions are not the kind that require a particularly complicated preparation process, and Ada had learned the Scabies Potion and the Forgetfulness Potion in her first year, so Snape chose these three potions.

It was difficult to make three potions at the same time, and Snape didn't think that Ada would be able to succeed on her first try. He just wanted to train Ada's ability so that she could better control the temperature of the potion and be more accurate in processing and adding materials.

Snape stood near Ada the whole time, standing close to protect her. If Ada accidentally blew up the cauldron, he could save her immediately. He didn't speak, and even his movements were very slight, for fear of disturbing Ada and disrupting her train of thought.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Ada was so focused that she didn't even have time to wipe the sweat from her forehead. Beads of sweat flowed down her cheeks, and her long golden hair became messy.

Ada was constantly busy in front of the three crucibles, wishing she could learn the art of splitting herself so that she could create two more of herself so that she wouldn't be as anxious as she was now. She was afraid that any mistake would cause all three crucibles to be destroyed at the same time. She didn't want to get burned all over.

Unlike Ada who was busy as a whirlwind, Snape leaned leisurely on the table, looking at the color of the potion in the crucible. Snape had already put his mind at ease.

Although Ada looked very embarrassed now, she had not made any mistakes. Snape even considered adding another cauldron.

If Ada knew that Snape had such inhumane thoughts, she would definitely put three hot cauldrons on Snape's head and wash his greasy long hair.

Finally, all three potions were completed. Three different scents lingered at Ada's nose, and she was finally able to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

After filling the potions one by one, Ada handed the three glass bottles to Snape and waited for his evaluation.

In his heart, Snape was very satisfied with Ada's performance, but he didn't show it on his face, as if Ada had only completed a trivial task and any random student could do it better than her.

"Winnie!"

The female house-elf appeared in the dungeon last time, and she bowed to Snape and Ada respectively.

"Send Drizzt back."

The house-elf Winnie obeyed Snape's orders completely and only left Gryffindor Tower after watching Ada enter the common room.

After returning to the dormitory, Ada fell directly on the bed. She had consumed too much energy and now felt a headache. The system had not been online for a long time, but to make matters worse, a dialog box popped up in Ada's mind:

[The host has successfully passed the test of the potion professor Snape. The special reward "The Art of Clone" has been issued. Please check it out! ]

Ada just felt her head hurt even more. She had no interest in the idea of ​​having too many clones and not being able to do it.
(End of this chapter)