Chapter 16

"What's wrong, Mr. Merrick? Weren't you just questioning my course?"

Seeing John start to hesitate, Snape continued to pressure John with a low tone.

John looked helpless; he didn't expect that he had just made a questioning expression, and it was noticed by Professor Snape, even causing him to be targeted.

But there was no way; who told him not to preview the textbook content in advance.

Deserved it.

He took a deep breath, reached out to check the two piles of materials, and Professor Snape did not stop him.

Looking closely, there were still some differences to be seen.

The pile of material on the left, although ground into dregs, could still see some incompletely crushed flake-like material, and the touch was slightly prickly, which was more in line with the characteristics of herbal materials.

The pile of material on the right had a feeling of dried fish being crushed, and some particles were still sticking together; compared to the touch on the left, there was a slight sticky feeling.

"The one on the left is dried nettle, and the one on the right is pufferfish eye."

After some confirmation, John gave his answer.

After giving the answer, Professor Snape stood up straight again and looked down at John.

"Oh? Is that so? Then I hope you don't put the wrong one in when you are brewing the potion."

After speaking, Professor Snape didn't answer whether it was correct or not, but used a mysterious way of answering, then took back the two jars of materials and returned to the podium.

After Professor Snape left, John opened the textbook again, anxious to see if there was a correct answer in the book.

He didn't want to make a mistake during practice, leading to the failure of potion brewing.

Well, according to the content in the book, he perhaps, should, probably, maybe...... was correct.

Afterward, Snape still told everyone the difference between these two materials, which was the same as the conclusion John had observed earlier, proving his correctness.

It also proved Snape's coldness and arrogance.

Although there was only one class in the afternoon, the time for the Potions class was significantly longer than general courses.

After Professor Snape explained and demonstrated the production process of the Scabies Medicine, he directly asked the little wizards to brew it themselves.

He only said almost every knowledge point once.

He also only demonstrated the brewing of the Scabies Medicine once.

Although the Scabies Medicine only needs four simple materials, the temperature of the cauldron, the timing of adding materials, the dosage of materials, these techniques, very few people can remember them all at once.

They could only try it themselves while looking at the book and recalling Professor Snape's teaching.

John picked up the balance, poured in the venomous snake tooth powder, adjusted the dosage to the standard dosage bit by bit, and then poured it aside for later use.

Then, by analogy, he prepared pufferfish eye residue, as well as dried nettle crumbs, and porcupine quills.

Just like cooking, prepare the materials by the stove in advance for easy use at any time.

However, this move did not bring praise from the passing Professor Snape, but a sneer.

John didn't know what Professor Snape was laughing at; it was probably that one of his operations was wrong.

But he repeatedly compared it with the textbook, and it seemed there was no problem; the dosage and materials were all correct, as long as he grasped the timing and technique when he started the fire to burn the pot later, it should be fine.

Let's start first; the simplest way to find shortcomings is to make mistakes.

So John didn't worry about brewing failure at all; instead, he worried that he would succeed by mistake, and the key was that he didn't know how he succeeded.

The blue part of the flame can only be controlled at one-third of the cauldron, neither too big nor too small, and there should be no orange flame with a higher temperature.

As the liquid in the pot starts to bubble, add the venomous snake tooth powder and stir three times clockwise.

Then, when the liquid is completely boiling, add the pufferfish eyes, stir three times clockwise, and then stir twice counterclockwise.

30 seconds after stirring, after the materials are fully integrated, add the dried nettles and stir twice.

Wait for the boiling to last for 30 seconds, turn off the heat, stop the boiling, then add the porcupine quills, and stir three times clockwise.

Everything was going smoothly, but what surprised John was.

When adding the pufferfish eyes, he didn't know if it was the visual complementary color effect or some other reason; he found that the pufferfish eyes he had prepared were slightly green and became more sticky.

But by the time John discovered it, it was too late to think too much about the reason, so he had to bite the bullet and continue brewing.

Now that the brewing was finally completed, he frowned.

Because the color of the Scabies Medicine in the pot should have been light blue, but now it had turned light green.

"Very good, Mr. Merrick, you have successfully completed a pot of troll snot."

"No, perhaps the value of troll snot is ten times stronger than this pot of liquid of yours."

Professor Snape didn't know when he stood next to John's cauldron, sneering and mocking John's results.

However, John ignored Snape's sarcasm, but touched his chin, reflecting on the process just now.

The biggest problem was clearly the pufferfish eyes prepared in advance, which were originally dry brown granules.

But when he used them, they became light green viscous granules.

"These magic materials seem simple, but they also have different characteristics, which may produce extremely fast 'degeneration' reactions; perhaps it is just an inadvertent action of yours that will cause your whole pot of potion to become garbage."

"Don't think of yourself as a genius; just because you can think of it, others can't?"

Seeing John still in that contemplative state, Snape said coldly, and these words immediately woke John up.

He was implying his own cleverness just now, the move of preparing materials in advance.

John immediately flipped back to the second page of the textbook and found some material characteristics of the necessary materials for Scabies Medicine.

Among them, pufferfish eyes must be kept in a dry and cool environment.

Once the temperature is too high, it will quickly cause the material to degenerate, secreting a light green viscous liquid.

In the Potions classroom, the jars for storing materials are specially treated and are always constant at the most suitable storage conditions.

And his behavior just now was equivalent to taking the materials out of the 'cold storage' and placing them next to the high-temperature cauldron, accelerating the degeneration of the materials.

John took a deep breath: "I understand, Professor."

Although he said he understood, he still didn't have a second chance to try.

There are so many people in the school; if everyone wants to waste several portions of materials, the school would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Therefore, how to achieve excellent results in limited educational resources is also a difficulty in this subject.

Finally, in this class, John was the first to complete the brewing, but he was also the only student with a score of 0.

Because of John's cleverness, he had already declared failure before he even started brewing the potion.

So even if someone didn't distinguish between pufferfish eyes and dried nettles, or added porcupine quills before turning off the fire, causing the pot to almost explode.

But they at least got 20 or 30 points.

Perhaps Professor Snape wanted him to remember this lesson.

In short, although his first Potions class was very fruitful, it was also a mess.