Chapter 865 Love Will Never Disappear, Right?

Meanwhile, on the other side.

"Okay, okay, don't be sad, Hermione."

Elena held a grilled sausage and gestured in front of the little beaver, trying to attract her attention.

"That big bat is talking nonsense. He can't instigate friendship between us. Only those who are clean will clean up themselves. We are not as dirty as he said - you see, Harry didn't listen to the provocation either. Don't worry about it..."

Ever since they came out of Snape's office, Hermione had been silent for quite a while during the afternoon Charms class.

Obviously, Hermione Granger still cared a lot about Snape's last words.

"But, I do have a hint of that kind of thought..."

Hermione's eyes were still a little red, and she fiddled with the beef on the plate in a daze, and whispered.

"The last few times I saw Harry and Draco beating us in Potions class, I was indeed... a little jealous, so that's why..."

"It doesn't matter, just beat them next time!"

Elena patted her chest confidently.

"The times are advancing, and it is impossible to surpass the development of cutting-edge potions based on past knowledge - this weekend, you and I will go to school for further study. When we come back, we can definitely return to the first place!"

As for "Half-Blood Prince," well... "Lady"?

After finally coaxing Hermione, Elena glanced meaningfully at the staff seat.

Now, she finally understood Professor Snape's previous plan.

Since there is no little wizard among her peers who can beat her, then simply put on a vest, pretend to be a genius in the past, and teach them through setbacks and education the truth that "there are others outside, and there is heaven outside the sky"?

"Is this... a fight in the air? It's kind of interesting."

Elena raised her eyebrows, an excited look flashed in her eyes, and she hummed softly.

"This vain pride, this purpose is very funny. I actually know that you just want to show off... How strong is this first place? No need to ask, someone must challenge you..."

Due to limited time, she had not been able to study the book "Magic Potions and Potions" carefully, but she had roughly flipped through it from beginning to end and found that the Half-Blood Prince had added notes to almost every page.

Those notes are all related to potion making and potion processing, without any redundant spells or words.

There is no doubt that this is a carefully compiled teaching aid.

Judging from the information revealed by Snape, it was clear that he simply planned to graft the pen name "Half-Blood Prince" onto Lily Potter, and also deliberately guided them to speculate in this way.

However, there are still a few small holes in this plan.

"You like acting, right? Let me help you perfect it..."

Elena looked at the faculty seat thoughtfully. It was extremely rare that Snape was communicating with Slughorn in a low voice. Not surprisingly, he should be trying to solve the hidden dangers of handwriting identification.

"Professor Lupin, Professor Black...well, it seems there is no need to worry about Slughorn."

In fact, the way she said it in the office was just to deceive Snape.

Not to mention that there are many differences between homework and class notes. If you are not a professional handwriting identification expert, it will be difficult to accurately identify the suspect among thousands of manuscripts - more importantly, when Snape forged handwriting He used magic writing, and he would definitely avoid the handwriting on the blackboard that he used in class.

This was not surprising, otherwise if Harry took one look at the blackboard in Potions class, everything would be revealed.

On the other hand, with Horace Slughorn's character, it is unlikely that he would generously take out his treasured student work to help appraise it - unless the other party can give a reason or price that cannot be refused.

Faced with the threat of social death, Snape would definitely find a way.

"By the way, Hermione, when is our next Dark Defense session?"

Elena looked away from the faculty seat and suddenly asked softly out of curiosity.

Since being bound to Miss Calculator this semester, she has long lost the habit of carrying her class schedule. She can't find a way out anyway, and the lovely Hermione Granger will help her arrange everything.

"Next class on Defense Against Darkness? The first two classes will be tomorrow afternoon."

Hermione replied casually while concentrating on cutting her steak.

"Let me tell you first, I don't have time to play chess with you recently... Luna and Qiu's classes are too complicated. I have to find a way to finish my homework in class first, and then I have time to help them with their homework. .”

"Homework tutoring? You probably won't have a chance in class tomorrow..."

Elena shrugged and glanced casually at the livid pink toad in the distance.

As one of the makers of Hogwarts' new curriculum standards, she naturally knew about the upcoming teaching changes in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course early on. Professor Lupine would take over their last two classes each week.

Judging from the purchase application delivered by Professor Lu Ping, the next course is quite interesting.

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Meanwhile, the Hogwarts staff table.

"Professor Snape, your request..."

Slughorn held the goblet, looked at the black-haired wizard beside him, and considered his words with some embarrassment.

"Indeed, I have kept some of your homework from your student days, but most of them are for me to recall the past at Hogwarts. If you only want your own, it's okay, but..."

"My personal storage cabinet, three materials, you can choose freely."

Snape said softly, looking at the old walrus expressionlessly.

"Oh, it's not about the material, Severus."

Slughorn shook his finger and explained seriously.

"As I answered at the beginning, if you just want your own, I can naturally keep them all for you... But if it's Lily Evans, well, you know... that's what I've been doing all these years. My favorite student, she used to be one of the best potions assistants in my opinion."

"Oh? I thought you only admired celebrities—"

"No, no, I mean...I need a Potions Assistant, Professor Snape."

Slughorn pondered for a moment, smiled and said softly.

"As an old guy, I don't lack materials, wealth, or connections. Now I hope to return to the field of potions and leave some traces of mine in this world - for example, something similar to Something like Wolfsbane Potion that can be passed down in textbooks."

The chubby Potions Master looked at Snape meaningfully.

"You are young, Severus. Do you think that with your full 'help', I have a chance of developing a stunning, unpublished new potion within this year?"

"...New unpublished potion."

Snape repeated softly, his eyes lingering on the wrinkles on the old man's face for a moment.

In the world of potions research, there is a lot of gossip about Slughorn.

As the longest-serving potion professor at Hogwarts, the most embarrassing thing about this old man may be that apart from his teaching ability, he has never had any impressive potion research results.

There are many speculations about the reasons, and the most reliable one is the story about the sequelae of "Fu Ling Ling".

"I understand, I will help you complete your research results."

Snape nodded calmly and spoke softly.

"But before that, I want to see those assignments first. This is the basis for cooperation——"

"No problem, happy working together!"

A bright smile broke out on Slughorn's chubby face.

By simply paying for some old homework that had no real use other than collection value, he could get the naming rights for the new potion. This could be said to be the most cost-effective exchange in his life.

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Dinner is over as the crumbs of sweet pudding disappear onto the plate.

Senior students cannot return to their dormitories to rest for the time being. They still have a big class on their schedule. As Hogwarts' new curriculum standards begin to be implemented, every student's class schedule is fully booked.

The students and professors stood up and began to flow out of the auditorium.

At the Gryffindor table, a group of little lions looked at Harry excitedly.

"Go quickly, Harry, the professor is leaving soon," Ron whispered.

"We'll wait until Professor Snape leaves," Harry said, "Okay..."

Harry stepped forward quickly and stopped Sirius and Lupine before they disappeared into the hallway.

"What's wrong, Harry? Um...Did Snape give you a hard time in Potions?"

Before he could speak, Sirius stopped and when his eyes fell on the old textbook in Harry's hand, he couldn't help but frown, "Didn't I buy you a whole new set of textbooks? Why is it like this... "

"Uh-Sirius, I mean, um, Professor Black..."

Harry glanced at Professor Lupine, who was standing next to Sirius, and said somewhat cautiously.

"It doesn't matter, Remus is not an outsider. If it weren't for... well, I'm more handsome, maybe he would be your godfather now. Apart from Lily, he was the only one who could control James."

Sirius Black put his arm around Lupine's shoulders and said with a smile.

Lupine rolled his eyes at Sirius helplessly, turned his head, and said gently.

"What's the problem? Harry."

"Some time ago, when I was making up for a lesson with Professor Snape, I accidentally damaged my textbook, so Professor Snape asked me to grab an old book from the cabinet - no, no, I wasn't impressed by Snape. The professor bullied me. Although the professor may seem cold at ordinary times, we all know that he is a good person."

Good guy?

How could Snape have such an adjective?

Sirius and Lupine exchanged a strange look.

Although they don't know why Dumbledore trusts Snape so much, they don't believe that the lonely guy will really change for the better. Death Eaters are Death Eaters, and at most they are just pretending for a while.

"In fact, this book contains a lot of useful potion knowledge. With its help, my potion grades improved a lot this semester. The problem is, the author of this book..."

Harry held up the book "Magic Potions and Potions", his voice trembling slightly.

"I suspect that this is my mother's old textbook - Percy said that if it were you, Sirius, it might be able to help us identify whether this is my mother's old textbook..."

"Well, Lily's old textbooks?"

Lupine took the textbook from Harry's hand and gave him a friendly smile.

"This is indeed an oversight on our part. I will try to help you find some photos of James and Lily later. If possible, I will help you ask if there are any letters, notes, records of classmates, etc..."

"Ah, really!" Harry said in surprise, "I thought everything was taken by Voldemort-"

"Haha - Voldemort didn't have the energy to destroy James and Lily's house. He didn't even have time to escape at that time. Speaking of which, you reminded me. I will ask Professor Dumbledore later if possible. I can't take a day off to take you back to that place to see James and Lily..."

Sirius snorted disdainfully and tilted his head to look at the old textbook in Lupine's hand.

"How about it, is it Lily's handwriting, Remus?"

He glanced at the densely packed, regular handwriting in the margins of the textbook, and at a glance, it did look a bit like Lily's handwriting - Sirius's impression of Lily's handwriting was only when he was copying homework.

"It can only be said that it is very similar..."

Lupine frowned slightly, and he turned to the cover and took a look.

"This is the Potions textbook for the second year of Hogwarts, Sirius. Don't forget, Lily didn't have a good attitude towards you guys at that time - but I am somewhat impressed by some of the operations in it."

He closed the old copy of Magic Potions and Potions and handed it back to Harry.

"So, Harry..."

Looking at Harry who looked expectant, Lupine thought for a few seconds and said with some uncertainty.

"As for the name "Half-Blood Prince", I have never heard Lily mention it, but some of the magic potion processing methods mentioned in the book are only known to Lily. I am not very good at potions, especially those There are no techniques recorded in textbooks, so I can’t give you much advice..."

Harry nodded excitedly and carefully put "Mum's old textbook" into his school bag.

As for what Lupine said next, Harry couldn't hear it at all.

At the moment, he just wanted to return to the Gryffindor common room as soon as possible, and read this old book of "Magic Potions and Potions" from cover to cover, without missing a single note.

By the way, it’s best to purchase some magic for maintaining and binding book pages!

After so many years, the spine joints have become somewhat loose, and the pages also have many cracks and curls. If not repaired properly, they may break in a short time.

"Mother……"

Harry looked at the small print on the back cover that read "This book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince" and murmured.

This may be what Sister Elena once said, although those who love them deeply may die one day, love will not disappear, it just changes its form to accompany them.

And this old textbook may be one of them...

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