Chapter 4142 4144 [Recruiting Little Batty]

Hogwarts.

"Little Barty, you are really good." Xiang Nan said to Little Barty Crouch with a smile, "Are you interested in brewing potions with me?"

Little Barty Crouch was born in the pure-blood Crouch family, with a deep family background. He was actually born in 1962 and should have enrolled two years ago.

However, his mother has always been in poor health and did not want him to leave her side. Therefore, although he received the admission letter from Hogwarts in the past two years, he did not report to the school, but studied with his mother at home.

Until this year, his mother's health improved, and old Barty Crouch believed that his son was always trapped at home, which was not conducive to his growth.

And little Barty Crouch himself also wanted to come to Hogwarts to study and play with his peers, so he officially entered the school this year, and he went straight to the third grade when he arrived.

Although he had been studying at home before and had not received orthodox education, his strength was still good due to his family background.

In the classes of spells, potions, herbs, transfiguration, defense against the dark arts, etc., he performed very well, so he quickly became popular in the academy.

Xiang Nan knew that Barty Crouch Jr. was a person who was very eager for family affection, friendship, and a sense of belonging.

He had always longed for the recognition of his father, Barty Crouch Sr., and Barty Crouch Sr. was also very satisfied with his son's performance.

For example, in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", when Barty Crouch Sr. got rid of the shackles of the Imperius Curse and went to Hogwarts to ask Dumbledore for help, he was already unconscious and spoke incoherently, but he still remembered that his son's OWLS scores were full marks in twelve subjects, and he was very proud of him.

It's a pity that the father and son didn't know how to communicate, so there was a huge gap.

Barty Crouch Jr. believed that his father didn't love him until his death, so he committed the evil of patricide. But in fact, Barty Crouch Sr. always loved his son deeply in his heart.

Otherwise, he would not have been so obsessed with his son getting full marks in twelve subjects in the OWLS exam, would not have risked his reputation to save his son from Azkaban, and would not have taken him to watch the Quidditch World Cup...

It's a pity that Barty Crouch Jr. didn't know all this, nor did he realize it, so he resolutely took the wrong path.

He joined the Death Eaters, became friends and comrades with them, and worshipped Voldemort as his ideal father and served him as well.

But in fact, Voldemort was really emotionless and treated everyone as his pawns. The Death Eaters were also scheming and fighting against each other, and there was no friendship at all.

Barty Crouch Jr. was really looking for fish in a tree and going in the opposite direction when he mixed with them.

Therefore, Xiang Nan reached out to him.

...

Since Barty Jr. longed for family affection, friendship, and a sense of belonging, Xiang Nan gave him family affection, friendship, and a sense of belonging.

Xiang Nan believed that his personality charm would not be worse than Voldemort. Voldemort could conquer Barty Jr., and he could do the same.

In this way, he would have one more strong general on his side, and Voldemort would lose a capable subordinate.

Because Barty Crouch Jr. is a very powerful person.

He is extremely strong, and the twelve OWLS certificates have fully demonstrated his intelligence and talent. And his fighting ability is also good. He and Peter Pettigrew defeated the old Auror Moody.

You should know that defeating is actually much more difficult than killing, because you must hold back when defeating, you can't kill, and you can't make too much noise.

So his fighting ability is almost the same as Professor McGonagall, Snape, Professor Flitwick, etc.

And he is very smart. He took advantage of the opportunity of the Triwizard Tournament and took advantage of the situation to successfully take Harry Potter away from Hogwarts.

If Voldemort hadn't taken it, and if Harry hadn't been lucky, his wand happened to be the same as Voldemort's wand core, Harry would have had almost no chance of survival.

So the plan designed by Barty Crouch Jr. was almost flawless.

In addition, his acting skills are also good. He pretended to be Alastor Moody for a year, and was finally seen through by Dumbledore. This is already very difficult.

Like Professor Quirrell, even though Voldemort was personally possessed and guiding him, Dumbledore saw through him in just a few days.

It can be seen from this that Barty Crouch Jr. is really a talent, almost the same as Snape in the original book, and is worth cultivating.

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"Really, Severus?" Barty Crouch Jr. was a little flattered when he received Xiang Nan's invitation.

Because everyone knows that Xiang Nan is already a potion master at a young age. He successfully developed the wolfsbane potion and was recognized by the Order of Merlin.

Such a genius now actually invites me to cooperate, which is really my honor.

"Of course." Xiang Nan nodded, "I heard from Professor Slughorn that your potion class performance is very good, and you are the best among your classmates.

It just so happens that Professor Slughorn and I are developing new potions. If you are willing, you are welcome to join us."

"Thank you, of course I am willing." Barty Jr. said immediately.

Being invited by Xiang Nan to participate in the development of new potions was really a good thing for him, who was eager for honor, eager to make achievements and let his father look up to him.

"Very good, welcome to join." Xiang Nan smiled and stretched out his hand.

Little Barty also happily shook Xiang Nan's hand.

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In the following time, Xiang Nan developed potions with Lily, Little Barty, Professor Slughorn, etc., or made various magic props.

Developing magic potions is not a difficult task for Xiang Nan.

On the one hand, he knows a lot of lost prescriptions, including Chinese medicine prescriptions and magic potion formulas. Just picking out some of them is enough to shock the world.

For example, if you replace the Chinese medicine ingredients in the ointment for swelling and pain relief with magic potions with the same medicinal effects, you can make a very practical swelling ointment.

For example, the laxative is very effective in treating constipation.

Like the Muggles in the Muggle world, wizards in the wizard world also face the problem of constipation. Especially for women, the incidence rate is about twice that of men.

Therefore, in order to treat constipation, the wizard Urquhart Laharo in the 17th century even invented the gut-pulling spell.

However, when this spell is cast, the patient will be very painful, so this spell originally used for treatment later became an inhumane attack spell.

Many black wizards like to use this spell to pull out the opponent's intestines, which can be said to be quite cruel.

So Xiang Nan combined Chinese medicine and magic potions to develop Tongbianling, which can be effective quickly after taking one dose.

After the launch of this magic potion, it was very popular. Many wizards, especially female wizards, sent thank-you letters to Xiang Nan, thanking him for curing the constipation problem that had troubled them for many years.

Xiang Nan did not take all the credit. He shared the credit for the successful development of the magic potion with Lily, Little Barty and Professor Slughorn, so that they could share the honor as the inventors of Tongbianling.