Chapter 61： Potion to treat scabies

Chapter 61 Potion for treating scabies

Potions class is still going on, and Snape is instructing everyone to make a potion that can cure scabies. After explaining how to prepare the potion to treat scabies, he divided the class into pairs and asked everyone to start preparing the potion to treat scabies.

Albert and Li Qiaodan were naturally grouped together, so they were seated at the same table.

“Let’s read the steps several times before we start preparing the potion to treat scabies to avoid making mistakes in the preparation steps.” Albert reminded, “As long as we don’t make mistakes in the steps, the finished product will not be too different from what is in the book.”

 The most fearful thing about boiling medicine is adding random ingredients and stirring.

Albert opened "Magic Potions and Potions", memorizing the configuration of the potion for treating scabies, and didn't pay attention to Snape, who was dragging his black cloak behind him.

After Snape walked away, Albert took out the needed medicinal materials from his medicine box: a few snake teeth, a pongo onion, some bundled dried nettles, a jar of horned slugs, a few A porcupine quill.

"You are responsible for cooking the horned slug. This thing needs to be cooked for at least 33 to 45 minutes." Albert handed his tweezers to Lee Jordan.

"Okay, leave it to me." Li Jordan had no objection. He took the tweezers handed over by Albert and picked out the disgusting horned slugs from the jar.

 Speaking of which, a can of this stuff costs 1 galleons in a pharmacy.

"Remember to clean it first. You don't need to put a lot of water in the crucible. Be careful of boiling and overflowing." Albert added.

Then he began grinding the venomous snake teeth in a mortar. The book required that the venomous snake teeth be ground into a fine powder, which was a laborious task.

 Compared to Albert's hands-on ability, other students are a bit scumbag.

Of course, this may have something to do with Albert upgrading his potion making to level 1.

Snape was still lingering in the classroom, watching the students weighing dried nettles and grinding snake teeth. Almost all the students were criticized, except for Albert and George.

 After all, Snape couldn't find anything to criticize, except that their progress was slightly slower than others.

"Next, weigh the dried nettles." Albert looked at Snape's retreating back and whispered, "Pay attention to the weight, don't weigh it wrong."

 “Ok.” Li Jordan was in a good mood, and Snape did not come to trouble them.

Albert struggled to slice the pongo onions into thin slices.

 Half an hour later, Li Qiaodan reminded aloud: "The horned slug is boiled."

Albert immediately went over and pricked the horned slug with a glass tube. After making sure it was completely boiled, he poured out the water in the crucible, leaving the boiled horned slug.

 After the materials are prepared, the only thing left is to prepare the potion to treat scabies.

Add the viper fang powder into the crucible first, stir it slowly and mix it thoroughly with the water. The medicine inside the crucible will gradually turn dark blue.

 “Is it dark blue?” Li Qiaodan leaned his head over to see the color of the potion in the crucible.

"It's dark blue." Albert neatly sliced ​​the pongo onions into thin slices and put them into the crucible, and continued to heat them for about ten seconds. As recorded in the book, the medicine gradually changed from dark blue to red.

After the color stops changing, slowly sprinkle in the dried nettles and stir the potion until the color changes to pink.

“Continue to add a small spoonful of Florob caterpillar mucus, and then continue and stir, the medicine inside will turn green.” Albert muttered the steps while operating. "Next is to add a tablespoon of stewed horned slugs and stir until the potion turns blue-green."

 After completing the previous step, Albert took the crucible away from the fire.

If you do not remove it from the fire, adding porcupine quills directly will cause the potion to fail. Snape also specifically reminded everyone.

Albert took the two porcupine quills handed over by Li Jordan, slowly put them into the crucible, and then began to stir clockwise three times, causing the originally blue-green potion to gradually turn blue.

Finally, wave the wand over the crucible to complete the potion

 “Is it successful?” Li Qiaodan asked nervously.

"What do you think?" Albert asked to pick up a spoonful, put it into a crystal bottle, and handed it to Li Qiaodan next to him, so that he could see the color of the medicine clearly.

"Successful." Li Qiaodan looked at the scabies treatment potion in the potion bottle excitedly. The color of the potion was basically consistent with the description in "Magic Potions and Potions".

 “Yes, it’s successful, it’s not easy.” Albert put out the fire. However, he still had some doubts about the effectiveness of the potion to treat scabies.

While bottling the potion and writing his name on it, Albert suddenly smelled a disgusting smell. He turned around and saw that Fred and George's crucible was bubbling, and the potion in the crucible was bubbling. It's a very disgusting brown color.

"Wait, take the crucible away from the fire before adding the porcupine quills." Albert stopped George from making a fatal decision that might burn through the crucible.

However, this still did not save their scabies potion.

"Weasley, tell me, what are you talking about?" Snape walked behind the twins expressionlessly.

 “Potion for scabies,” George muttered under his breath.

Snape asked indifferently: "What is the color of the scabies potion in the book when it is finished?"

"blue."

"I dare say that if I drink this potion of yours, I will poison myself first before curing my scabies." Snape waved his wand and swept away the potion in the cauldron.

 “Anderson, where is your potion?”

"Here it is, sir." Li Jordan quickly handed over the blue scabies treatment potion, and when Snape wasn't paying attention, he wagged his index finger at the twins proudly.

"Barely passed." Snape picked up the glass bottle and glanced at the scabies treatment potion inside.

 “What does it mean to barely pass?”

After class, Li Qiaodan said to the twins angrily, "What does this mean? In fact, all the potions prepared by humans to treat scabies fail? And...why do we have to write an article after we successfully prepared a potion to treat scabies?" Long essay.”

 “Keep your voice down, if you want to get yourself into trouble.” Fred said, pointing at Snape who was walking this way.

"Ahem." Albert cleared his throat and said to Li Jordan, "Maybe Professor Snape thinks we are very talented in potions and wants to cultivate us well."

Albert deliberately kept his voice low enough that Snape could hear it.

 “You see, no one else is treated like this, right?”

"I hope your paper on the potion for curing scabies will not disappoint me, Mr. Anderson." Snape turned to stare at Li Jordan and said, "As for you, there is no need to write a paper."

“What does he mean?” Li Jordan murmured, looking at Snape’s retreating back.

"What do you mean? Of course you don't deserve special attention." Fred finally couldn't help laughing after Snape left. He raised his hand and patted Albert on the shoulder and said, "It seems that Snape Professor Pu really plans to give you special care, maybe he wants to invite you to join the Potions Club!"

"Then I can only refuse. After all, I have already joined the Transfiguration Club." Albert said seriously.

 The next moment, the three of them laughed even louder.

Of course they could guess that Snape was unhappy with Albert, but had nothing to do with him, so he had no choice but to give Albert the so-called special care.

  After all, few students like to do homework, especially extra homework.

 (End of this chapter)