Chapter 392

"... next."

Snape handed back sokas' synergistic salamander blood, and then took Helen's test tube. The whole process was ordinary, as if saying that sokas's production results were not worth mentioning.

"... Professor Snape," sokas asked without going back to his seat immediately, "excuse me, is the salamander blood I treated only 'qualified'?"

Snape glanced at him with a look of "Why are you still there" on his face.

He wanted to warn again about "no questions in my class", but he seemed to think it was troublesome, so he just hummed and put his eyes back on Helen's test tube.

"..." sokas hesitated and asked, "so, Professor... Is my efficiency not enough?"

Seeing that he was not going back, Snape frowned, and his cold eyes went straight to sokas.

"Why, do you think you have done it perfectly?" he looked at sokas and sarcastically said, "keep increasing the magical nature of salamander blood. What are you going to do with it? Vitality tonic or blood tonic? I said it was used in enhancer? Do you understand the specific effect of increasing salamander blood?"

"Er..." sokas was reprimanded by Snape, which made his whole face stiff.

"Helen Shane, did you do this?" snape suddenly turned his head, shook the test tube in his hand and said impatiently, "tell him the role of salamander blood in enhancer!"

"Ah... Oh..." Helen pursed her lips and secretly looked at Hermione below, which carefully explained, "in the formula of enhancer, the role of salamander blood is to 'activate the component of mixture', so the greater the efficiency of salamander blood, the better..."

As she spoke, she glanced at sokas from time to time, as if worried about whether her words would cause dissatisfaction.

Seeing her hesitating, Snape smacked his tongue impatiently.

"... go on!"

"Oh..." Helen nodded and said bitterly, "if the increase of salamander blood is excessive, the strength enhancement degree of the final enhancer to the user will be greatly reduced, but it will become a magic medicine with slight healing effect."

When she had finished what she had to say, Hermione, sitting in the back seat of the classroom, nodded with satisfaction.

"In short, it's waste! Great waste! Understand?" at this time, Snape knocked on the desk and said, "now do you still have any questions about your 'qualified' evaluation? In my opinion, if you increase the effect a little more, I can demote you!"

"... I'm going down." sokas was stunned. After sighing, he turned back to his seat.

"So..."

Snape turned around again. After glancing at Helen, he suddenly turned his eyes to the back of the classroom.

"Miss Shane, can you tell me what I should say about the test completed with the help of others?"

He said he was talking to Helen, but his eyes were fixed on Hermione.

No, no... Snape doesn't seem to be looking at Hermione, but sitting next to Hermione, looking at Harry on sokas with inexplicable eyes.

"I... um..." Helen lowered her head slightly and said, "I think it should be, no -"

Before she finished, Hermione suddenly raised her hand and met Snape's fierce eyes. Of course, she "thought" she welcomed her. In fact, Snape didn't go to see her at all.

"Helen did it on her own! No one has ever helped her!" said Hermione loudly.

"Tut tut..." snape smacked his tongue unhappily. "Miss know it all, put down your arm. I didn't ask you!"

To tell you the truth, Snape didn't want to argue with Hermione at all.

In his impression, there are obviously some unspeakable stories between Hermione and Marca. It is precisely because of this relationship with Marca that Snape involuntarily wants to avoid making a bad relationship with Hermione.

Marca promised him a "Godson". Who knows if Hermione will become a "Godson mother" in the future? After all, before Maka really got married, everything was still unknown!

Today, however, Hermione seems to be going to fight to the end for Helen.

"Professor Snape! I don't think Helen is wrong. She deserves an evaluation corresponding to the results!"

"Well, tell me what's the ratio of this tube of synergistic salamander blood?" snape asked irritably. "Do you think I can't see it? Without McLean's guidance, even you, miss know it all, can't calculate the ratio with such high accuracy!"

It seems that between "not admitting defeat in front of Potter's son" and "not arguing with the future Godson", Snape tangled several times and chose the former after all.

"... do I need to go on?" snape asked coldly.

In the blank expression of the whole class, Hermione conceded defeat.

"Get back to your seat!" snape waved to Helen, who was stunned, and said impatiently.

"Ah... Er..." Helen hesitated and asked softly, "so... Do I need to be demoted?"

"If you want." snape glared at her and ignored her, "... What are you doing one by one? The enhancer has been prepared? Don't speed up me!"

At the back of the classroom, Ron and Harry looked at Hermione with doubts on their faces.

"... what happened just now?" Ron said strangely. "You sat down after Snape said a few words? It's not like you?"

"Yes?" Harry followed. "How can the old bat be sure you can't do it? No matter how difficult the calculation is, it can't beat you?"

Hermione curled her mouth and grabbed her disheveled hair in chagrin.

"You don't know --" she explained awkwardly. "After Snape said it, I realized that the exact calculation of the ratio could not be obtained only from the contents of the book."

"Why?"

Helen also came back. When she heard Hermione talking about what had just happened, she immediately turned around.

"Because to find a way to calculate accurately, you must understand why enhancers are created," Hermione whispered. "You know Riem cow?"

"Magical animals with golden fur and looking like a giant cow?" Harry recalled. "There are in monster and its place of origin - they are said to be rare magical animals, but they haven't been mentioned in the protection of magical animals class..."

"It seems that you have prepared well." Hermione nodded. "The blood of Riem cow has the effect of increasing strength, which can greatly increase the strength of drinkers. However, they are too rare, so a magic pharmacist created an enhancer by simulating the blood of Riem cow."

"But... No book mentioned this!" she seemed to be annoyed by the incompleteness of those magic medicine books. "The origin of enhancer was speculated by Maka. Without Maka, I certainly can't deduce this point according to the formula of enhancer alone, let alone use this point to improve the accuracy of proportioning calculation."

"... maybe Marca and Snape studied it together!" Ron subconsciously said what he thought, and Hermione couldn't help feeling more depressed.

Ron's guess is likely to be wrong, because he had told Hermione this "little story" as early as Marka was still at Hogwarts.

"So what exactly is your relationship with Professor McLean?" Helen asked excitedly. "Isn't he very good according to what you say?"

"Of course!" Ron nodded. "How else could he be a professor at Hogwarts at this age?"

"Yes!" Hermione perked up again when she mentioned Maka. "Helen, don't you know? Maka is as old as us. If you had come two years earlier, you could have become a classmate with him!"

"Eh?" Helen said in surprise. "Really?"

"Of course it's true..." Harry sighed slightly. "You know, you missed a lot!"

"... what did you miss?"

At the sound of the cold voice that suddenly broke in the conversation, Harry suddenly raised his head and happened to be opposite Snape's ironic eyes.

Their eyes crossed briefly, and Harry quickly lowered his head and focused on his crucible. However, the liquid inside has condensed into a pool of muddy colloids, emitting a pungent smell like burnt rubber.

"Our Mr. Potter, it's zero again." snape waved his wand and emptied Harry's crucible completely. "A correct configuration step of enhancer, clearly note where and why you're wrong, and leave it to me in the next class - do you understand?"

"I see," Harry replied angrily, holding his breath.

In addition to this extra article, Snape is sure to assign his homework later before class - he has never missed an opportunity to assign his homework.

In addition, there is Quidditch training this evening, and the next potion class is the day after tomorrow. This means that he may have to stay up for two nights in a row!

"... and chatting during class, isn't it?" snape raised his chin and narrowed his eyes, making no secret of his disgust with Harry. "It seems that you still need to learn the school rules - Gryffindor, and deduct ten more."

Harry couldn't help sighing as Snape turned suddenly and strode away like the wind.

"Today's class is terrible!"