Chapter 1369 Brewing of Living Hell Potion

What the hell was the former owner of this book doing?

Harry lowered his head to carefully identify the ingredients of the potion. Several ingredients were crossed out, making it very difficult to identify.

It took him a long time to see the content clearly, which caused his speed to be much slower than others.

When he returned to his cauldron with what he needed from the storage cabinet, most of the students started working on the second or third material. With such a fast speed, Hermione has already started to put the processed materials into the crucible, and the crucible in front of her is already filled with light blue vapor.

Beside Hermione, Ivan processed the materials calmly, and Harry noticed that he still looked up at him from time to time.

Looking at each other, Ivan smiled at him.

Harry thought it must be funny how flustered and bewildered he looked now. But Aiwen is also, there is still time to look around what other people are doing, other people's eyes can't leave their potion for a moment, everyone is very focused, and they all want to get Slughorn's reward.

Harry was not as leisurely as Ivan, and he began to cut valerian root at the fastest speed.

This process lasted about three minutes, and then the sleepy beans, which were to be sliced.

This is a difficult herb to work with, with their smooth surface, hard texture and small size making them difficult to work with.

From Harry's point of view, it would take five minutes at best to slice them all.

He admired Hermione, because it didn't take her five minutes to process the valerian root and sleepy beans.

At this moment, Slughorn began to step down from the podium to walk among the students, and was walking past the Slytherin table.

"Sir, I think you must know my grandfather Abraxas Malfoy?" Malfoy asked immediately.

His voice is not low enough for most of the classroom to hear what he is saying.

"I know!" Slughorn said, without looking at Malfoy, "I'm sorry to hear he's dead, but that's to be expected. He's got dragon plague and syphilis at such an advanced age..."

Dragon plague syphilis, what kind of disease is this? !

The vast majority of people, including Ivan, have question marks on their faces.

But it was obvious that Malfoy wanted to curry favor with Slughorn.

He probably hoped that Slughorn would treat him differently, or give him special treatment like Snape did.

But Slughorn didn't want anything to do with Malfoy at all, and he was probably going to be disappointed!

If he wants to win the bottle of Felix Felicia, he can only rely on his own ingenuity.

Ivan retracted his gaze, put the chopped herbs into the cauldron, and turned his head to continue observing Harry.

Harry also turned his attention from Malfoy back to the sleepy bean in front of him. He tried to cut it, but it was more difficult than expected. His speed was very slow, the slices were uneven, and he cut a bean After that, he looked down at the textbook again to confirm whether the pair of sleepy beans had been sliced ​​into thin slices.

The scribbled mess on the top of the book was so irritating that he had to struggle to make out the instruction manual from the scribbles written by the original owner of the textbook. What's even more irritating is that this guy doesn't know what to think, and he doesn't agree with the book that says to slice the sleepy beans.

The guy crossed that line out and wrote another note next to it: Squeeze with the side of a silver knife to get the juice out more easily than slice it.

It took Harry a lot of effort to see the words, and at this moment, Hermione was already gently stirring the liquid in the cauldron with her wand, and her potion was already very close to that "well-mixed, tea-brown liquid".

According to the book, this is the ideal state when the potion is half boiled.

Harry was a little hesitant, whether to spend a lot of time slicing the sleepy beans according to the normal operation method, or follow the method modified by the original owner of the textbook and use a silver knife to accumulate these sleepy beans.

Either way, the latter is much simpler.

"Hermione, can I borrow your silver knife?"

Hermione nodded impatiently, not taking her eyes off her potion for a moment.

She was a little annoyed. According to the book, the potion should have turned a light snow-blue color now, but her cauldron was still dark purple.

"What's the matter?" Ivan asked, leaning over to Harry.

It looks like Snape has made changes in how he handles Sleepy Beans, and whether those changes actually work can now be verified.

He didn't care at all about his potion, and he didn't seem anxious.

Because, according to the normal procedure, at least 15 to 30 minutes are needed to boil the potion before the sleepy bean inside can play its role and continue to the next step. The length of time depends on the thickness of the sleepy bean slices.

Even though Hermione's speed is fast now, it doesn't mean that she will finish earlier than others.

There will be a relatively long waiting period, unless Snape really invents a new way to deal with sleepy beans.

"The former owner of this book said that it was easier to squeeze the side of Sleepy Bean with a silver knife than to slice it." Harry said, sliding his finger over the small words in the margin of the textbook, "I'm not sure..."

He squeezed the sleepy beans with a silver knife, but to his surprise, the beans immediately leaked a lot of juice.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be unbelievable that there is so much water in the shriveled beans.

Sure enough, the revisions in the textbook were useful, and this textbook was left by Snape.

Harry put the drowsy bean juice into his cauldron, and the potion immediately turned the pale snow blue color mentioned in the book.

To tell the truth, he was absolutely amazed.

You know, at this moment, the liquid in Hermione's crucible is still that dark purple.

Harry, who was originally progressing the slowest, became the fastest because of this change.

"Oh my god, this..." Harry opened his eyes wide, and his anger at the previous master disappeared immediately.

The sudden change made him a little excited, as if he had suddenly won the jackpot.

"Keep down, you don't want everyone in the class to know about this, do you have anything to say after class, now, do as the original owner of this book said." Ivan said, motioning Harry to lower his voice, Now that he verified the authenticity of the textbook, he decided to do as it said.

Although he had already put the chopped sleepy beans into the crucible, and the potion inside had also started to turn into that dark purple color, it was impossible to start over, but it was still possible to save it by adding a little sleepy bean juice.

Ivan squeezed a sleepy bean and carefully added the juice. He moved very slowly, paying attention to the changes in the potion. When the color of the potion was about to change, he stopped, waiting for the sleepy bean slices in the crucible to take effect.

And Harry was already squinting his eyes to read the next instruction, which said he had to stir counterclockwise until the potion was as clear as water.

But according to the notes added by the previous owner, he should stir it counterclockwise seven times and then clockwise... 0898