Chapter 4073 4075 [Potions Class]
“Sorry, professor, no.” Donald Brown shook his head.
A hint of disappointment flashed across Slughorn's face, but he quickly covered it up and continued to name him, "Gregory Foley, Edward Foley, the inventor of Felixir, is your ancestor?"
“Yes, Professor.” Gregory nodded.
Slughorn smiled and continued to name names. He checked out the family backgrounds of almost all the twenty freshmen before finally naming Xiang Nan, "Severus Snape..."
Because there was no famous person named Snape in the wizarding world, he subconsciously thought that Xiang Nan had no background and was just a Muggle student.
"Here." Xiang Nan said, "Professor, my mother is Eileen Prince, who was once a student of Slytherin."
“Oh, Irene’s son, I still remember her.” Slughorn suddenly realized, and then laughed, “A very smart and talented girl, I hope you inherit her talent.”
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"Potions is a fascinating subject. Each potion has magical power. Some can make you prosperous, some can make you immortal, and some can make you rich..." After the name was called, , Professor Slughorn immediately began teaching.
Hearing what he said, the freshmen all showed yearning expressions.
"As long as you follow my instructions, you can do it." Slughorn further said, "But the prerequisite is a smart mind, a rigorous attitude and a hardworking spirit. Stupidity, recklessness and laziness are the key to potions. avoid.
As long as you are careless for a moment, you may be killed by the potion you brewed, so be careful. Follow every step strictly. "
When the freshmen heard this, they immediately became energetic.
"Very good, let's learn how to make a sore-removing potion." Slughorn said immediately, "Open the textbook, take out your crucible, scale, and glass...Start now!"
With a wave of his hand, there was a pile of potion ingredients on the table. There are dried nettles, porcupine quills, crushing snake fangs, tentacled slugs and more.
Students need to take the materials by themselves, weigh them by themselves, handle the materials according to the requirements of the textbook, and gradually add them to the crucible according to the steps...
Xiang Nan was already very proficient at this. He quickly obtained the required materials, weighed them and processed them.
For example, dried nettle leaves need to be crushed, porcupine quills need to be ground into powder, crushed snake fangs need to be soaked in water, horned slugs need to be steamed...
In less than twenty minutes, he had made a sore-removing medicine. At the same time, most students did not even handle basic materials well, and many of them did not even know how to use a scale.
"Merlin's beard is perfect." Slughorn looked at the condensed milk-like ointment prepared by Xiang Nan and nodded with great satisfaction, "You have indeed inherited your mother's talent, and even far surpassed hers." . Ten points for Ravenclaw!”
“Thank you, Professor.” Xiang Nan smiled.
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After the one-and-a-half-hour Potions class ended, Slughorn left an assignment for the students, which was to list in detail the pharmacology of the ingredients needed to make the sore-removing potion. It was really similar to Chinese medicine, in that they all needed to understand the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials. Then the proportions can be made as needed. This requires students to check the information and clearly write down the characteristics and uses of each material, as well as the changes after processing and mixing. Therefore, most of the students had a sad face when they heard this assignment.
“It’s really difficult. Why is it so difficult to get rid of sores with a lotion?”
“I added porcupine quills as written in the book, why is there a thick acidic smoke?”
“After my potion boils out, why is it black instead of white?”
The students talked a lot.
"When you add porcupine quills, you should take the crucible off the fire. Otherwise, the porcupine quill powder will react violently when it touches the boiling potion." Xiang Nan answered for them, "The reason why your potion is black "It's because you steamed the slugs for too long and oversteamed the active substance, the slug mucus. Next time, remember to steam them for only two minutes."
“So that’s it.” Everyone suddenly realized, and looked at Xiang Nan with admiration in their eyes.
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It was half past ten after potions class. There were no classes until the Charms class at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Xiang Nan first used the expulsion spell to help Joey, Benjamin and Gregory, who were in the same dormitory, return the crucible, glass, textbooks, brass scales, etc. to the dormitory.
Then he went to the Owlery and told his mother Eileen that he had been sorted into Ravenclaw.
Although he knew that his mother always wanted him to enter Slytherin. But Slytherin's reputation is really bad.
Because most of the students in this college advocate the theory of "pure blood supremacy" and are natural supporters of Voldemort, they formed small groups during school to bully students from Muggle families. After graduation, many people joined the Death Eaters.
Even if Xiang Nan did not advocate "pure-blood supremacy" and did not join their small groups, he would still face many obstacles if he wanted to be with Lily Evans just by holding the title of Slytherin.
It can be said that it is equivalent to the difficulty of an African-American from Brooklyn who wants to marry a Bai Fumei from the Upper East Side of New York. That's why he chose Ravenclaw. After all, Gryffindor has a good relationship with both houses of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
The owl hut is located on the top floor of the west tower. Not only the owls raised by the school are there, but also the students' owls live there to avoid dirtying the dormitory.
Xiang Nan chose a barn owl and tied his letter to its foot. The owl then cooed and flew out of the tower.
Xiang Nan also left the tower and followed him around the school, confirming the locations of several classrooms, professors' offices, principal's offices, etc., so as not to be late for classes in the future.
Because Hogwarts is very large, not counting the Forbidden Forest, the Black Lake, and the Quidditch pitch outside the main building, there are more than a dozen floors in the castle alone, connected by more than a hundred stairs.
And these stairs are not stationary, they occasionally change direction. Halfway up some stairs, a step will suddenly disappear. You must remember to jump over it, otherwise your feet will get stuck.
In addition, there are many doors here that will not open for you if you ask them to open them rudely or poke them in the right place; there are also doors that are not real doors at all, but just a block of doors that appear to be Door's solid wall.
So in Hogwarts, getting lost is common. Xiang Nan didn't want to be late because he got lost, so he checked out the map first and tried to be as knowledgeable as possible.