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Chapter 410: The Magic Potion
For the first time, Andrew realized how scarce his knowledge of potions was - after Professor Snape personally demonstrated some details, his entire understanding of potions was about to collapse.

He had always remembered Professor Snape's first lesson, in which Professor Snape described Potions as the precise science and rigorous craft of potion making.

The subsequent courses were taught in the same way. In the first grade, we brewed some simple potions with few ingredients, simple steps and short cooking time. Everything looked like getting started, just like a newcomer leaving the novice village and hitting crayfish with a stick.

In the second grade, the materials were more complicated and required preprocessing, and the danger level increased a lot, but it was still the same crucible and the same steps, just with more of them, just like beating a reinforced crayfish with a reinforced wooden stick.

The third grade is still the same, as dull as leveling up and fighting monsters. The difficulty has increased a little, the danger has increased a little, the error rate has also increased, but in essence it is nothing more than using a xx-made wooden stick to hit a xx-blooded crayfish.

He even sometimes thought that this thing would probably stay like this, with just a few tricks at best, but who could have imagined that this thing would be like adding Greek letters to mathematics, and suddenly become unrecognizable!

"I was careless. I should have noticed this when I was doing the sugar experiment last time. When the Scapin Apparition Charm appeared, I should have thought that it was used to explore the essential analysis of the ingredients of the potion!"

He was so anxious to translate at that time that he completely ignored the purpose of creating such a spell - a spell to analyze the ingredients of potions. It was definitely not an ordinary detection spell, but was used to make targeted adjustments to the potion!

'If it weren't for these sleepy beans, I would have ignored this matter.'

Andrew looked at the shrunken beans that were almost overflowing with liquid under the silver knife he was operating, and began to think quickly, 'What is the so-called basic logic of potions? Isn't the Scapin Apparition Charm enough to touch it?'

But his accumulation is far from enough. The basic logic is just called the basic, but it is a far cry from the basics.

In fact, let alone the extremely difficult basic logic of potions, even the lower-level basic logic, potion rules such as Gorbarot's Law and supporting spells such as the Scarpin Apparition Charm are not something that ordinary wizards can master - to be precise, it is a rare thing for only one student in a grade to perfectly master these lower-level knowledge, and the rest of them are top students if they can roughly understand it.

In fact, some top students in the grade cannot achieve perfect control. Even an excellent wizard like Miss Granger who has been ranked first in the grade for consecutive years will still stumble on Gorbaro's Law if she reaches the sixth grade - she can use the Scapin Apparition Charm perfectly, but still cannot perfectly satisfy the production of the antidote to Gorbaro's Third Law.

Professor Snape inadvertently misled Andrew with his overly advanced knowledge of spells - the basic rules of potions and the like were too difficult for a third-year student like Andrew to learn, and it would be amazing if there was an outstanding graduate in several or even more than a dozen classes who could master them.

This is not a graduation threshold, it’s a job threshold!
Mastering the basic rules of potions means that you can freely adjust the potion formula to make the one that suits you best, while understanding the properties of the potion. You can even adjust the ratio and brewing mode based on known materials to make the potion formula you need!
To put it simply, it is the basic logic of activating the potion creation mode. What you learn is not to follow the recipe like ordinary wizards, but to create potions that other wizards need to learn to configure!
But Andrew, who was completely unaware of the situation, still engraved this thing in his mind. He didn't think about the difficulty of it, but focused on watching Professor Snape demonstrate how to use potions to illustrate how to realize inspiration.

He finally figured it out - Professor Snape was extremely proud and extremely talented.

Because the professor in front of him really used inspiration to make potions.

After showing Andrew more than a dozen ways of processing potion materials that were completely different from those in the textbooks, Professor Snape asked Andrew to pick one at random from the latest magazine on his desk and then started to brew it on the spot.

"I have come across a variation of this potion before. It's not my first time brewing it, but it still has some reference value - the potions in Uganda are different from the potion systems of the three European schools."

Professor Snape even had time to explain to Andrew while the potion was being boiled, "But overall, it's still quite mediocre. Their pseudo-wandless spellcasting affects the perception of the potion too much." 'What kind of magical logic is this? '

This thought came to Andrew's mind, and then he suppressed this damn idea - what he should do now is not to question, but to watch and learn!

"You must have come into contact with wandless spells. Transfiguration is more direct there. There's no way Minerva wouldn't give it to you." Professor Snape's voice was a little distorted through two layers of Shield Charm, but no one had the intention to remove it. "But using gestures to cast spells too much will seriously affect the quality of the potion."

"The effect of stirring traditional potions is not to mix the potions together. Such a stupid understanding led to the disastrous invention of the automatic stirring crucible."

Professor Snape had an expression on his face, as if he had met Harry Potter - this made Andrew realize very clearly how much the professor hated that thing.

"Only low-level potions are made with such tools. It can't even make high-level potions because the wizard's magic power will slowly blend into the potion while stirring, promoting the fusion and transformation of the potion materials in a subtle way. The more complex the potion, the more it needs this. For example, the classic potion brewed with Sleepy Beans and the Living Hell Potion. The seven reverse and one forward pattern is easier to calm the potion interference caused by the brewing process than the traditional counterclockwise pattern."

Andrew finally realized something was wrong.

Professor Snape’s explanation today is completely different from the detailed steps in ordinary lectures. Instead, he directly explains the principles behind the steps!
It’s like when teaching how to cook, instead of explaining the steps, you explain why these steps are done in the way they are done.

Andrew admitted that he enjoyed the class very much.

It was as if a thick veil covering the potion was suddenly lifted. The potion was no longer a process of repeated brewing that required on-the-spot learning, but a process of deduction based on the cause.

"If I had been like this earlier, I wouldn't have had to memorize the Potions lesson..."

This thought was suppressed again - now is the time to listen to the class seriously, so how can I have time to complain about this?
...

"Do you understand?"

After demonstrating a technique, Professor Snape suddenly froze and looked at Andrew.

Because he saw a thoughtful look, rather than a look that was staring at his techniques and ignoring his explanation.

"Yes, Professor."

Andrew responded as a matter of course.

(End of this chapter)