A Certain Magical Hogwarts

Chapter 277 Special Smooth Shampoo

A house that grants every request.

Inside the enormous room stood tall shelves: the right shelf held a large number of alchemical products, while the left shelf was filled with various potions and common materials.

Each one is numbered and placed neatly.

These are all things that William has been making in his spare time every day for the past two years. Some are practice pieces, and some are items that will soon be sold.

Place it in the Requirement Room, and you won't have to worry about it getting stolen. It will meet all the students' needs.

William needs a room that "only the handsome Stark and the lovely Granger can enter," not a room for hiding things; everyone else will naturally be kept out of this room.

At this moment, Hermione was busy working in front of a crucible.

Having signed a contract selling herself into servitude, she has already begun to be endlessly exploited by William.

Every night, she would help William brew potions or handle some trivial matters related to materials.

This is a precious opportunity. Potions are different from other subjects. No matter how outstanding your talent is, you can't do it without a lot of practice!

The saying "practice makes perfect" is very apt when applied to potion-making.

However, practicing requires capital, which is an expensive and luxurious activity... The materials are expensive, and not every student has the money to brew various precious potions every day.

In the time loop, William made full use of Professor Snape's medicine storage room, practicing brewing medicine recklessly.

They even used themselves as guinea pigs to taste the saltiness of the potion.

His skill level is now so high

Speaking of mice... William thought of Prefect Robert again.

Since the prefect graduated, William has not had a stable and reliable drug user, and he is now actively looking for one.

Following the custom of keeping the benefits within the family, the twins had previously recommended their younger brother, Ron.

Ron was a poor student with no academic background, so he could only do cheap part-time jobs.

The most crucial thing is that he's short of money!

It's different for people who take medicine... They have more money, less work, and all they need is... a healthy body.

Ron could easily be William's drug user. Over the years, he would not only not need to ask his family for money, but he would also have a large surplus by the time he graduated.

How good!

Sometimes, William even suspected that Ron was actually picked up from a junkyard by the twins and then given to Mr. Weasley.

Otherwise, why would they come up with such an idea?

Hermione wasn't afraid to drink William's potion; she trusted his brewing skills.

But William refused; Hermione certainly couldn't be a drug user, her role was assistant and secretary.

Over this period of time, regardless of her technical skills, Hermione's horizons have broadened considerably, and she has also learned many methods for handling materials from William.

The girl, wearing a well-fitting sky-blue apron and dragon-skin gloves, began to process the sleep beans.

Sleepy Beans are an ingredient in many high-end potions, such as the powerful sleeping pill, Hell's Soup, and Brain Soothing Elixir.

Hermione is currently making a brain-calming potion.

This potion can calm irritable patients, nourish their minds, and is most effective for wizards who have suffered Imperius Curses or attacks by Deviants of Faith.

She squeezed the sleep bean with the side of her dagger, and the bean immediately oozed a lot of juice. She then put the juice into a crucible, and the potion immediately turned a light green color.

"William, I compared the steps and found that this step is different from the textbook."

Hermione asked William, the teacher, just like she would in a classroom.

"Hermione, there are no textbooks for a potions master. The steps in the textbooks are just the personal habits of a potions master."

As time goes by, potion-making recipes and ingredient processing methods change, so it's normal for them to differ.

"But this method is clearly more convenient than the one in the book, so why not change it?"

William pondered for a moment and said, "The Ministry of Magic evaluates Hogwarts' teaching every seven years."

They generally don't change textbooks unless there are major problems.

"For example, the way the textbook handles the 'sleepy bean' is actually correct in terms of technique, it's just that you're not familiar with it."

William walked over to Hermione and took the dagger from her.

William first tapped the Sleepy Bean with his wand, then used the Binding Charm to immobilize it. He then gripped the knife in his right hand, pointed the tip downwards, and thrust it in suddenly.

The sleep bean split open easily from the middle.

He began to patiently slice the pieces, the sharp scalpel gliding across them, each slice being uniform in size and as thin as a cicada's wing.

This is a technique that students cannot perform.

As for dealing with the sleep beans... William initially tried to do it the way the book suggested, but it was just too difficult.

Later, in Professor Snape's medicine storage room, William saw a large amount of information and discovered that the professor used a special squeezing method to easily extract water.

Snape's method was far superior to cutting peas with a knife!

But as William became more skilled, he discovered that slicing the peas thinly resulted in a significantly higher utilization rate of the juice.

This is a matter of choice.

Just like Professor Snape, who discovered the method of extrusion, this was also done in early material processing.

But now, when you look at Snape teaching Potions to the senior class, he has abandoned the squeezing method and returned to the original approach.

To put it bluntly, what you see is the second level, while you only imagine the other person as being on the first level, when in fact they are on the fifth level.

When writing the advanced potions textbook, Libashe Polach automatically assumed that the learners were potions masters.

Therefore, the steps in this book are not very beginner-friendly.

Of course, this book also has many outdated parts, after all, the history is too long ago, and Snape made no fewer than dozens of changes to it.

Half an hour later, Hermione filled the Brain Sedative into a large blue bottle and carefully affixed a label from Slug Giggs Pharmacy to it.

This potion is for Diagon Alley.

After cleaning up, Hermione sat on the bench, resting her chin on her hand, watching William sit in a chair and fiddling with Lockhart's shampoo.

"William, I'd like to use the compound decoction," Hermione suddenly said.

"Who do you want to become?" William asked without turning his head.

"Harry and Ron guessed that Malfoy opened the Chamber of Secrets. Ron said, 'They may have had the key to the Chamber of Secrets for centuries, passed down from generation to generation'..." Hermione said cautiously.

"I think it's possible... Dobby is the Malfoy family's elf, and he knew the attack was going to happen."

William nodded. Dobby's warning was indeed a strange thing, which meant that the attack was related to the Malfoy family.

"So you're trying to trick him into revealing information?"

Hermione nodded. "We're going to take Polyjuice Potion and test him."

"I have some prepared compound decoction here, would you like some?"

"No, I don't need yours!" Hermione shook her head, saying earnestly, "I can make it myself!"

William chuckled, "It's just pointless arguing."

Hermione sat cross-legged, pressing one cheek against William's back. She gently closed her eyes and whispered:

"No... After a few more practice sessions, I can help you with the cooking... You don't need to do everything yourself."

William remained silent.

"What are you busy with?" Hermione asked again. "Haven't the harpy eggs already been extracted?"

William carefully arranged a basin and filled it with clean water.

He explained, "It's not a bird or snake egg anymore; I'm just interested in shampoo."

Hermione's frizzy hair is very messy, and commercially available hair conditioners work somewhat, but require a lot of application each time to be effective... William is developing a more powerful shampoo.

Professor Lockhart is a meticulous person. He may not be very capable, but he is very dedicated to the development of shampoo.

After all, his personal dream is for his shampoo to sell like hotcakes.

"This shampoo is very effective, but it has an explosion problem and lacks a neutralizing ingredient," William said.

"If you can find it, you only need a little bit each time to solve your hair problems."

Hermione gave a soft "hmm" and rested her head on William's shoulder.

She stared blankly at the blurry reflections of the boy and girl in the water, lost in thought.

The ripples gradually subsided.

A blurred face

It's finally clear.

The girl grinned, quiet and still, her eyes sparkling like a sweet mountain spring.

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