Chapter 410 The Magic of Potion

For the first time, Andrew found that his knowledge of potions was so lacking - after Professor Snape personally demonstrated some details, his entire knowledge of potions was about to collapse.

He always remembered Professor Snape's first lesson, in which Professor Snape described Potions as the precise science and rigorous craft of potion preparation.

The subsequent courses were also taught in this way. In the first grade, I cooked some simple potions with few ingredients, simple steps, and short cooking time. Everything looked like a beginner, just like a newcomer using a wooden stick after leaving a novice village. Hunting for crayfish.

In the second grade, the materials were more complicated and required pre-processing, and the risk level was also much higher, but it was still the same crucible and the same steps, just more, like hitting a reinforced crayfish with a reinforced wooden stick. .

The third grade is still the same, as plain as leveling up and fighting monsters. The difficulty has increased a bit, the danger has increased, and the error rate is also a bit higher, but the essence is nothing more than hitting xx bloodline crayfish with a wooden stick made of xx.

Sometimes he even thought that this thing would probably continue like this, and at most he would do some fun things, but who would have thought that this thing would be like mathematics with Greek letters added, and it would suddenly become unrecognizable!

'I'm careless. I should have noticed it when I did the sugar experiment last time. When the Scapin Appearance Curse appeared, I should have thought that that thing is to explore the ingredients of the potion for essential analysis! ’

At that time, he was so anxious to translate that he completely ignored the purpose of creating such a magic spell - a spell that analyzes the ingredients of a magic potion. It is definitely not an ordinary detection spell, but is used to adjust the potion in a targeted manner. !

'If it weren't for these sleepy beans, I would have ignored this matter. ’

Andrew looked at the dried beans that almost overflowed with liquid under the silver knife he operated, and began to think quickly, 'What is the so-called basic logic of potions? Isn't Scapin's Revealing Charm enough to reach it? ’

But his accumulation is far from enough. The basic logic is named after the foundation, but it is far from the foundation.

In fact, let alone the basic logic of potions with a difficulty that breaks through the sky, even if it is a lower level of basic logic, potion rules such as Gorbalot's Law and supporting spells such as the Scarpin Appearance Curse are not something that ordinary wizards can do. Mastered - to be precise, it is rare for only one student in a grade to master these lower-level knowledge perfectly. If the others can roughly understand it, they are considered top students.

In fact, some of the first graders are unable to control it perfectly. Even an outstanding wizard like Miss Granger who has been ranked first in grade one year after another will still stumble on Gorbalot's Law if she reaches the sixth grade - she can The Scapin Revealing Spell was used perfectly, but the antidote to Gorbalot's third law was still not perfectly produced.

Professor Snape inadvertently misled Andrew with his overly advanced knowledge of magic potions - let alone Andrew, a third-year student, who had learned the basic rules of magic potions, there would be an outstanding graduate who could master them after several or even more than ten years. That's amazing.

This thing is not a graduation threshold, it is a job threshold!

Mastering the basic rules of potions means that after understanding the properties of potions, you can freely adjust the potion formula to come up with the one that suits you best. You can even adjust the ratio and cooking mode based on known materials to come up with your own. Here's the magic potion recipe you need!

To put it simply, it is the basic logic that opens the potion creation mode. What you learn is not to cook according to the recipe as ordinary wizards are exposed to, but to create potions that other wizards need to learn to configure!

But Andrew, who had no idea, still engraved this thing in his heart, without thinking about the difficulty, and concentrated on watching Professor Snape perform the operation of using potions to illustrate how to realize inspiration.

He finally figured it out - Professor Snape was extremely proud and extremely talented.

Because the professor in front of him really used inspiration to process potions directly.

After showing Andrew a dozen ways of handling potion materials that were completely different from those in the textbooks, Professor Snape asked Andrew to randomly select one from the latest magazine on his desk, and then began to cook it on the spot.

"I have come across a variant of this potion. It's not the first time I've cooked it, but it still has some reference value - the potion in Uganda is different from the potion system in the three European schools."

Professor Snape even had time to explain to Andrew during the cooking process, "But overall, it's still quite mediocre. Their pseudo-wandless casting affects the perception of the potion too much."

‘What kind of magical logic is this? ’

Andrew had such an idea, and then he suppressed this damn idea - what he wanted to do now was not to question, but to watch and learn!

"You must be familiar with wandless casting. Transfiguration over there is more direct. Minerva can't not give it to you." Professor Snape's voice seemed a little deformed through the two layers of iron armor spells, but no one could remove it. Meaning, "But using too many gestures to cast spells will seriously affect the quality of the potion."

"The stirring effect of traditional potions is not to stir the potions together. Such a stupid understanding led to the disaster-like invention of the automatic stirring crucible."

Professor Snape had an expression on his face as if he had met Harry Potter - this made Andrew very clear how much this professor hated that thing.

"Only low-level potions use such tools. It can't even make high-level potions, because while stirring, the wizard's magic power will slowly blend into the potion, promoting the fusion and transformation of the potion materials in a subtle way. The more complex the potion, the more it needs this - for example, the classic potion brewed with sleepy beans, the living hell potion, the seven reverse and one forward mode is easier to calm the potion interference caused by the brewing than the traditional counterclockwise mode."

Andrew finally found something wrong.

Professor Snape's explanation today was completely different from the detailed steps of ordinary lectures, but directly explained the principles behind the steps!

It's like teaching cooking, not saying what steps, but why these steps are done.

Andrew admitted that he was very happy to listen to this class.

It was as if a thick veil covering the potion was suddenly unveiled. The potion was no longer a process of boiling again and again that needed to be learned on the spot, but a derivation process because of so.

‘If it had been like this, I wouldn’t have had to memorize the potions class…’

Such a thought was suppressed again—now was the time to listen to the class seriously, so why would I have time to complain about this?

…

“Do you understand?”

After Professor Snape demonstrated a technique, he suddenly froze and looked at Andrew.

Because he saw a thoughtful look, not a look that was staring at his technique and ignoring his explanation.

“Yes, Professor.”

Andrew responded as a matter of course.