Chapter 151 Meeting with Damocles Marcus
Ding
The elevator door slowly opened, and Ivan discovered that this was the main hall of the Ministry of Magic. Unlike the spacious and luxurious foyer above, the decoration of the main hall looked more solemn and majestic.
As soon as the two entered, they attracted the attention of everyone present. A bald middle-aged wizard in his forties quickly walked forward and hugged Docter.
"Old friend, long time no see!" Doggett enthusiastically slapped the middle-aged wizard on the back. After the two separated, Doggett looked down at Ivan and introduced him.
"This is Director Stump of the Patent Office, one of my best friends."
"Hello Mr. Stamp," Ivan replied politely.
"Are you the inventor of Wolfsbane potion? Oh my god, although Docter mentioned your age to me in the letter, I always thought this guy was joking." Stamp looked at Ivan who was at most eleven or twelve years old. His expression was full of surprise, and then he said half-jokingly to Docter.
"To be honest, some of my old friends are not willing to believe that a young wizard can develop wolfsbane potion. You know, you must have in-depth research on werewolves."
"But this is the truth, isn't it? Mr. Stamp?" Ivan couldn't help but interrupt, then continued.
"In addition, I think it's not that the development of wolfsbane potion is too difficult, but that there are so few potion masters who care about the current situation of werewolves that no one has been able to come up with a solution before."
Ivan's words made Stamp somewhat embarrassed.
At this moment, there was a burst of applause in the hall, accompanied by a deep voice.
"well said!"
Ivan turned his head and looked over, and saw that the person who was praising him was a young wizard. He looked about thirty years old and should be the youngest person in the main hall besides him.
Before Ivan could ask, he heard the other party say angrily.
"What you just said is right. The entire magical world doesn't care about the current situation of werewolves at all. They simply think that werewolves are aliens, troublemakers and unstable factors.
But they forgot that most of the poor victims who were also attacked by werewolves were normal wizards before and had not done anything wrong, but they needed to be treated like this! "
Compared with Ivan's slightly euphemistic words, the young wizard was more straightforward and without any concealment.
After the wizard finished scolding angrily, his tone slowed down a lot, and he looked at Ivan.
"By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. I am Damocles Marcus, a wizard who is studying the werewolf problem."
"Hello, Mr. Marcus!" Ivan said calmly, but he felt weak in his heart.
If he remembered correctly, this was the inventor of wolfsbane potion in the original time and space. Ivan never expected to see him here.
The most important thing is to look at the time. Marcus should be able to independently develop the Wolfsbane potion in the near future. I wonder if he has the formula for the finished product now.
Ivan suddenly felt a headache, worried that this guy was here to cause trouble for him.
After all, anyone who is about to produce research results and finds that someone else has beaten them to the next step will definitely not be happy.
However, what Ivan didn't expect was that Marcus was very enthusiastic about him.
After a few polite words, Marcus chatted with him familiarly about the current situation of werewolves, as well as the conjecture of werewolf riots, and even threw out some of his experimental results to discuss together.
Fortunately, Ivan's potion skills are not low, and he has been in contact with werewolves for a while, so he can deal with them easily and even come up with some new ideas.
"Do you think the transformation of werewolves is a special kind of Animagus?" Marcus said in surprise. He has been studying werewolves for many years and has seen werewolves go berserk many times, but he has never been there. I thought about it here.
"Yes! When I was at Hogwarts, I once heard Professor McGonagall, who taught the Transfiguration class, talk about some details about the Animagus' transformation.
In addition, I have several werewolf friends in Knockturn Alley. After they experimented with my wolfsbane potion, they were able to freely control their own powers in werewolf form, so I came up with this conjecture. "
Having said this, Ivan hesitated for a moment and did not tell him what he had discovered when he analyzed the werewolf's body. Instead, he shook his head and said with a hint of disappointment.
"It's a pity that the Wolfsbane potion has a duration. If we can improve it again and allow the werewolf wizards to freely control the transformation while maintaining their sanity, what is the difference between it and the Animagus transformation?"
After listening to this, Marcus thought Ivan was fanciful and wanted to refute it, but after careful consideration, he found that it was really possible.
"If this conjecture is true, the magic world will definitely be excited." Marcus said in shock.
You must know that Animagus is a profound form of transformation magic, and only a dozen people in the entire British magic world can master it.
The transformed animals are usually harmless animals, which can only play a role in detection and concealment, and are far from comparable to the werewolf form.
If one day, Ivan can really develop the improved potion he said, then werewolf wizards will no longer be feared by people, and will even be enthusiastically pursued by some wizards!
After all, the biggest weakness of a wizard is his fragile body when he is approached. The werewolf form can solve this problem very well.
What's more important is that this ability is extremely easy to master. It can be unlocked by being scratched and bitten by a werewolf and drinking a bottle of improved wolfsbane potion.
Thinking of this, Marcus suddenly looked at the little wizard in front of him with admiration.
Before coming to the Ministry of Magic, Marcus actually had some doubts about Ivan, the developer of Wolfsbane potion.
Because he had been studying the werewolf problem with great concentration over the years, and he had worked hard to achieve some results, but there were only one or two key points that he had not yet understood.
This led to the fact that two days ago, after receiving the news, Marcus' first reaction was whether his research results had been stolen by others, so he put down his research work and rushed to the Ministry of Magic to meet with the other party.
After some conversation, Ivan answered various professional questions he asked freely, showed his sympathy for werewolves, and was dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic's neglect of the werewolf problem. Marcus finally let go of his doubts and started Look squarely at this little wizard who doesn't look very big.
When Ivan came up with the new idea of a werewolf form, Marcus completely forgot his previous doubts and was even a little ashamed of his original idea.
Because in his opinion, Ivan's research on the werewolf problem is deeper and further than he thought!
Thanks to book friend Viscount Blue and White Porcelain for the 500 starting coin reward.