Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 27 Come on, Snape
The first step in brewing a potion is to properly prepare the materials.

The quality of the materials and the way they are processed will directly affect the efficacy of the medicine.

First, put 6 portions of venomous snake teeth into a mortar and grind them into powder. This step must be fine. If there are large particles, there will be flocs in the final product, and the effect will be very poor.

Using pure water as the base, add snake tooth powder and 4 parts of dried nettle into a crucible and heat over low heat for 10 seconds to stimulate the medicinal properties to react.

Then wave your wand, inject magic power, and wait patiently for the reaction to complete.

The amount of magic power, the length of waiting, and even the will when injecting magic power will have an impact.

When the solvent turns slightly blue, add 4 steamed slugs with antennae into the crucible. The slugs will melt after 5 seconds.

Remove the crucible from the heat and add the 2 whole porcupine quills to the crucible.

After the porcupine quills have melted, wave your wand, inject magic power again, stir clockwise for 5 circles, and the color will turn to light green, and you're done!

Ted and Hermione's potion went very smoothly and the color looked almost ready.

After all, Ted is considered a semi-skilled worker.

"Ding~ Mission [Young Wizard's First Potion (Green)] Completed, 200 experience points gained, card [Neville's Failed Scabies Potion (Green)]."

[Neville's failed scabies potion (green)]

item card

Neville's failed scabies potion, when thrown, will make all infected targets within a 5-meter radius of the landing point itchy and covered with scabies bumps.

Disposable.

Note: Be careful not to throw it on your own people!
Ah, a one-time prop card.

Although the effect is not very good, it seems to have a wide range.

……

After all, the process of brewing potions has been clearly explained, and the amount of medicinal materials used is not a word that depends entirely on feeling, such as "appropriate amount". The time is accurate to the second. Logically speaking, there should be no problems if you follow the steps.

Then "pang~", Seamus's cauldron exploded!
Four or five young wizards around him were all affected. His face was black, and two big red boils grew on his nose!
Seamus the Explosive Pot: That year I had my hands in my pockets and didn’t know what a crucible was.

I guess in the past seven years, he must have spent a lot of money just on buying crucibles.

Snape was so angry that his face turned red!
If Snape hadn't been so stubborn, his blood pressure would have exploded!

"Stupid! Are you brewing an alchemical explosion potion? How on earth did you make a scabies potion? Huh?!"

Snape was so angry that he was about to fly away while dealing with the remaining potion.

Snape's anger immediately put Neville on the side into a "state of emergency".

Neville was so nervous that he stuttered while speaking. The more anxious he was, the more clumsy he became, and he was about to throw the herbs in his hand directly into the crucible.

Thanks to Ted for grabbing his hand, "Don't put porcupine quills in a cauldron while it's heating up!"

He made this mistake in the original book and burned through the crucible, leaving himself covered in boils and bumps.

Neville put down his porcupine quills tremblingly: "Thank you, Ted."

Snape on the side obviously couldn't stand this scene of everlasting friendship, "Ha! Does our Mr. Epiphany think he can teach others? How arrogant!"

"Ravenclaw will deduct 5 points for interfering with others' potion brewing!" Snape had a hint of pride on his face.

Ted was also very happy!

Professor, the task of deducting points is now on you. Don't be polite, deduct as many points as possible!

Snape deducted points from me, and even Professor Flitwick wouldn't blame me. Doesn't this mission have a hope?

What a beautiful thing!

He wanted to take the opportunity to expand his victory, so he tried to argue: "Professor, I don't think I can teach others, I just want to prevent Neville from burning through his crucible."

Snape smiled mockingly again: "It seems that you are well aware of the consequences of such a stupid act... You will be deducted another 5 points for talking back to the professor!"

Ted: Professor, you are awesome!
At this time, Neville couldn't help it, "No, no, don't blame Ted, it's me, I..."

However, Snape seemed to have a "special target on Neville". Just a glance from him made him keep his words to himself.

"Ha, the Boy-Who-Lived - Longbottom. What do you want to say? Or do you want to thank your friend with this pot of poison? Have you ignored everything I said and only listened to Epiphany? If you don't listen carefully, Gryffindor will deduct 5 points!"

After a burst of venom spitting out, Neville's eyes were filled with tears.

At this time, Malfoy finally found an opportunity. He was laughing when Ted deducted points just now, and now he laughed in a low voice: "Ha, the boy who survived by chance is a snotty boy~"

Snape pretended not to hear it.

Harry, Ron and the others glared at the master and disciple, wishing they could throw the potion in the cauldron at them.

...The get out of class was over, and Snape floated away with the textbook like a bat.

The Malfoy trio laughed loudly while glancing at Ted and the others with a look of smugness on their faces.

Harry, Hermione and the others all stood up for Ted and Neville.

"Sirius has long said that Snape, the old bat, is extremely vicious! In my opinion, he didn't explain the extent of Snape's viciousness." Harry said indignantly.

Ted looked at her and said: Neville is suffering for you!

Hermione was also indignant and strongly despised Snape's behavior of not adding extra points but deducting points from the answers.

Ron and Jerry cursed Snape quietly for losing his hair and becoming bald.

Neville was sobbing quietly.

Ted patted his shoulder and said, "Neville, the world will not be gentle to you just because you cry. Don't expose your weakness to others. Except for relatives and friends."

It’s really time to sing a song called “Hogwarts Doesn’t Believe in Tears”!
"But if you are really upset, we will be your most loyal listeners. If one day we want to cry, you will comfort us, right?"

Neville wiped his tears and nodded heavily.

All in all, Neville had a very difficult class.

Ted is pretty good, although he didn’t get any extra points, he did get some deductions!

One deduction equals 10 points! Snape is worth several professors~
But to be honest, Snape didn't target Harry, which made Ted a little concerned.

You have changed. You are no longer the sharp-tongued Snape who targeted "Potter"!

Even Ted felt that Snape paid too much attention to Harry.

That's right, although he didn't say a word, Ted was keenly aware that Snape always paid special attention to Harry.

So much so that people like Ted and Ron, who were close to Harry and gossiped about him in class, also became the focus of attention.

I was targeted partly because of my "excellent" performance, and partly because I was implicated by Harley.

Now she is no longer targeted, so she can spread the blame to her friends.

Sure enough, the targeting will not disappear, it will only shift~
……

I went to bed late tonight because I had an astronomy class at midnight.

The astronomy class was held in the Astronomy Tower, the highest point in the entire castle. Just climbing the spiral staircase made some students feel carsick.
The astronomy professor is Professor Aurora Sinistra, a female who looks young and seems to have little presence in the original book.

The second-hand telescope that Ted had bought earlier came in handy.

But Ted's second-hand telescope was worthy of its second-hand price, and it couldn't see clearly.

Fortunately, I could use Hermione's telescope.

Some people may ask, is it romantic to climb up the building and watch the stars in the middle of the night?
Why do wizards study astronomy? Do they want to develop aerospace technology?
In fact, it is not the case. Since ancient times, humans have had an infinite yearning for celestial bodies, whether they are Muggles or wizards.

In fact, celestial bodies have powerful magical powers, and their movements and trajectories have been used by wizards after long-term observation.

But that part belongs to ritual magic, which is very advanced and is not taught in school.

Ritual magic can often perform many "miracles" with very little magic power!
Because this is a way of taking advantage of the situation and going with the flow.

Advanced ritual magic often requires the use of astronomy, because it is necessary to choose the day and time, such as "the planets have reached the correct position", "lunar eclipse", "nine planets in a row", "comet hits the moon" and so on.
Many human festivals have become festivals because they have unique magic. For example, Halloween, Easter, Christmas...

But thousands of years have passed, and the original purpose of the festival has been distorted in legends and stories.

But for Ted, this knowledge was a bit too obscure, and it was far from the time for him to study it on his own.

There is no need to waste energy now, it is enough to learn the knowledge in the textbooks.

It was Thursday in the blink of an eye. This afternoon was Ted's first Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Gryffindor.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class is still very popular among young wizards.

Transfiguration is so obscure and difficult that writing the homework is a headache.

The only spell taught so far is the Luminescent Spell, which I was asked to practice repeatedly.

Herbalism is fun, but it's always dirty and tiring. Sometimes it's dangerous!

History of Magic is simply a class to catch up on sleep.

In Potions class, Snape has declared everyone to be idiots.

Now only Defense Against the Dark Arts and Flying classes are still within the happy dreams of little wizards.

But I'm afraid they will be disappointed.

(End of this chapter)