Chapter 182: Magic Potion Championship

Xie Lin thought for a while, and since his relationship with Snape had progressed to this point, and he had also demonstrated some of his strength and power, it seemed that he could try to recruit him.

So, Xie Lin asked: "Professor, what are you going to do after the Dark Lord returns? Will you follow Dumbledore's orders and go undercover for the Dark Lord?"

Even Snape's cold face, which was as cold as an iceberg that lasted ten thousand years, couldn't control it at this moment, and suddenly changed color. He shouted in a cold voice: "What are you talking about?"

Xie Lin shook his head and said with a smile: "Professor, you are my father's best friend and the dean whom I respect. I have always regarded you as one of my own! You asked me about the missing students, but I am I didn’t mean to hide anything, I just told you the truth——"

"What you are doing now is a bit uninteresting." Xie Lin said: "Among my allies are clever diviners, so I don't really know anything about the future, and I am not afraid to tell you honestly, I've seen your end!"

Snape's pupils shrank slightly, and his whole body trembled quickly. He thought for a while before he said, "Am I dead?"

"Yes, Professor," Schelling said with a sigh: "You died like a tragic hero, bearing the name of a traitor, and Potter also followed the path arranged by you and Dumbledore. , have a one-on-one decisive battle with the Dark Lord..."

"What was the result?" Snape's body trembled visibly. This time he finally abandoned his usual reserve and asked eagerly, even breathing a little faster.

Xie Lin shook his head and said: "It's hard to say. Judging from the results of divination, the Dark Lord died in the duel, but Harry also entered the Netherworld at the same time, which means that he may die, but he may also return. In this world...even the master of divination cannot see all the future..."

Snape's face looked as ugly as if someone had forced him to take a bite.

Dumbledore!

We agreed to protect Lily's child together. Is this how you protect her?

Snape was such a smart man. Although he only heard the final result from Schelling's words, he immediately figured out the key. Harry was clearly put on the stage by Dumbledore and used to deal with Voldemort. arms!

This old man, with all his earth-shattering strength, blindly and foolishly placed all his hopes on an illusory prophecy!

At this time, Xie Lin spoke at the right moment, "Professor, I can help you change this situation... You don't have to die, and Potter doesn't have to fight the Dark Lord..."

Snape's lips trembled, but he turned around and looked away. The two fell into silence for a moment.

After a long time, he finally turned around to face Xie Lin and spoke with difficulty: "What price do I need to pay..."

"Professor, don't think about me being so fussy..." Sherling suddenly said with some humor, "Let's put it this way! Among my allies are masters of alchemy, masters of divination, experts on magical animals, and masters of herbal medicine... only We still need a Potions Master, do you understand what I’m saying?”

Snape returned to his usual cold expression and nodded.

"I will hand you a list of students," Schelling said. "You will continue to be your dean and professor at Hogwarts, but you must provide all the students on the list with what you can." The greatest help provided.”

"Okay." Snape nodded. These things were a piece of cake for him.

"After the Dark Lord returns, hey," Xie Lin smiled, "the world will apparently be divided into three camps - those who follow the Dark Lord, those who oppose the Dark Lord, and those who refuse to believe in the Dark Lord's return. Don't doubt it. , all of these have been shown in the divination results, and none of our camps will join—"

Xie Lin's eyes glowed with confidence, and his voice was low and powerful, "We lurked in the dark, let them fight for life and death, and finally came out as a savior to clean up the mess... Don't worry, I will be there during the process. To ensure that Potter will be fine...do I need to make an unbreakable vow?"

Snape stared at Sherrin with a deep look for five seconds, and then said softly: "No need."

"Okay, Professor," Xie Lin finally showed a sincere smile, "Then I wish us a happy cooperation, and I will rely on your care in the future."

["Ally" Severus Snape obtained! 】

Snape snorted in disbelief, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he said: "Before you leave, there is another thing. During this year's summer vacation, I haven't received any news about the exact time, but It is estimated that around mid-August, the magic garden in the French Pyrenees will host the 85th Wizarding Inter-School Potions Championship. I see the level of potions you showed in class today, you can already do it. Improved the potion formula?"

The Potions Championship is a long-established potion competition. It was originally held to commemorate Quintia McQuoid, a woman who died in the early 15th century while researching and inventing a potion to treat malaria. The pharmacist of life later gradually transformed into a competitive platform used by major magic schools to demonstrate their potion skills.

Participation in this competition is conditional. Participants must be students from one of the 11 most famous magic schools in the world, and they must be recommended by a potion master.

At the beginning of the 16th century, Zygmunt Bacchi, the author of "The Book of Potions", wanted to participate in the Potions Championship when he was fourteen years old. At that time, he was already the best student in the Potions class in the class, and was even able to correct the teacher's mistakes when making potions using the tails of soft-clawed land shrimps. However, since he came from an ordinary family and did not have any recommendation from the Potions Master, he could only ask the then Headmaster of Hogwarts for help.

But the principal rejected him on the grounds that he was under seventeen and the tournament was too dangerous for him. Because of this, he angrily applied to drop out of Hogwarts, feeling that Hogwarts was just trying to kill his chances of becoming a pharmacist. After leaving school, he discovered that only contestants representing the school could participate in the tournament, and he was no longer eligible after leaving Hogwarts.

It's not like he hasn't tried to transfer to other magic schools, but because of his unattractive appearance and ragged clothes, he was not taken seriously by other schools. He was arrogant and went to Hemet in the Hebridean Islands alone. He lived in seclusion on the island of La, where he studied his potions without any distractions, and finally wrote the masterpiece "The Book of Potions".

His outstanding contributions include the invention of the charm potion that makes people full of charm, the poison used to eliminate vixens, and the magical elixir with amazing effects. In addition, he also improved many ancient potion formulas, such as shrinking potions and sleeping potions.

As mentioned before, the ancient sleep potion originally used moondew as the main raw material. It was Bazzi who came up with the idea of ​​using mugwort to replace the moondew, and as a result, he created the prototype of the Living Hell Decoction.

As mentioned earlier in this book, in the global wizarding world, there are three highest honors for students, namely the "Triwizard Tournament", the "Cairo International Alchemy Conference", and the "Wizard Interschool Potion Championship". All are competitive competitions at the international level.

As long as you win one of the awards in these three international competitions, it is enough to become famous in the international wizarding world. Of course, there are other competitions and awards in the wizarding world, such as the "Barnabus Finkley Award for Outstanding Spellcasting Techniques", the "International Wizarding Chess Competition", etc., but their gold content is not comparable to the first three. Comparable.

Although Xie Lin has already participated in the Triwizard Tournament, he doesn't want to miss the other two competitions. He wants to become the Triple Crown Champion and surpass Dumbledore!

(Note: For comparison, Dumbledore’s achievements as a student are: Barnabus Finkley Award for Outstanding Spellcasting Techniques, and the Cairo International Alchemy Congress Pioneering Contribution Gold Award)

"Yes, Professor," Xie Lin took out a bottle of blue flame potion from his arms, "This is a work I invented when I was in the first grade. It was inspired by Muggle accelerants, but it has gone through my countless The improvement is enough to increase the intensity and temperature of the flame at least ten times."

Snape's eyes also moved slightly. Being able to invent potions in the first grade, even if it was just a crude work, was quite remarkable.

He took out an ancient recipe for a "joy potion" and said, "If I asked you to improve this recipe, what would you do?"

Xie Lin just glanced at it casually and said calmly: "The biggest problem with the joy drug is that it causes side effects such as singing and nose twisting due to excessive excitement. We can start by counteracting the side effects -"

"A common method is to add peppermint to it, and that's already pretty good," Schelling said.

Snape's brows furrowed deeply, "You mean... besides peppermint, there are actually better ways to improve it?"

"Passiflora." Schelling said firmly, "Passiflora can make people calm down from excessive excitement."

(Note: Modern Chinese botany translates passion flower as passion flower, but the author still feels that passion flower is nice to hear and easy to remember)

Snape couldn't tell what the expression was on his face. He seemed a little disappointed, but also had something like "this is normal." He shook his head, "This won't work. The passion flower will directly offset the effect of the joy potion. It will weaken the effect of the joy potion."

"Not necessarily." Schelling said: "Professor, you once said that potion is a precise science and strict craftsmanship. The passion flower belongs to Mercury in the herbal sequence and is also in the Leo sequence. As long as you control the timing of refining the potion , for example, when Mercury moves between the sun and us, the effects of the passion flower can appear after the side effects of the potion appear. "

Snape fell into silence. He mentally simulated the refining process described by Schelling and calculated the success rate of preparing the elation potion described by Schelling. After a while, he nodded, "It does work."

Then, Snape took out a roll of parchment from his arms and handed it to Sherlin, "This is the recommendation letter I wrote for you. With this, you can participate in the Potions Championship. I think with your strength "There is no problem in participating in this competition. I will personally explain to Dumbledore that his ideal candidate is actually Gryffindor's Head Boy, Morne."

Xie Lin snorted and sneered disdainfully: "The principal really takes care of Gryffindor. If I remember correctly, Gryffindor has been the president of the male student union for three consecutive years, right? It's like this. If you are still not satisfied, do you have to select candidates for other competitions? If the Triwizard Tournament is not selected by neutral magic items, will Gryffindor warriors also be arranged to compete? "

(Note: Throughout the book, the known male and female student council presidents, except our Lord Voldemort, are all from Gryffindor - Dumbledore, McGonagall, James, Lily, Bill, Percy)

Snape's face was also very gloomy, which reminded him of a certain campus bully who became the president of the male student union, but he still said coldly: "That's not the case. Morn's potion skills are indeed very good. , and he is older than you, after all, the competition is still quite dangerous. Of course, I think you are definitely better than him in terms of potion preparation techniques and raw material combinations. The problem is that he knows more types of potions than you. , after all, he has learned potions from you for three more years."

He thought for a while and then said: "But this is not a big problem. There are still several months before the competition. You can take the opportunity to improve your knowledge of potion types. In this regard, you just need to read more books and practice more. If you don’t understand anything, you can always ask me for advice.”

"Okay, thank you first, Professor."

Afterwards, Schelling did not forget to take this opportunity to take out Snape's magic research notes and ask him some questions about the magic spell he invented and "weaponless flight".

After clearing up all the doubts one by one, Xie Lin politely said goodbye to Snape and left with a satisfied expression.

【Wizard Inter-School Potions Championship Participation Recommendation Certificate Obtained! 】

(1) The first Potions Championship was held in 1407. According to the rule of being held every seven years, the 85th Potions Championship was held in 1995, not 1993 as a well-known fan novel claimed.