Walking around the wall where the portrait is located, and walking along the passage, a large, spacious and bright square appears in front of you.
Similar to the Ministry of Magic Headquarters Building, this place gives people the illusion of being underground yet possibly towering high into the sky, with the sun and clouds very close to each other.
Contrary to Anton's guess, no magical animals or black magic creatures were used here, but a method between potions and alchemy was used.
The materials are stirred into a brown liquid, left to dry in the sun, condensed into silver but crisp stones, and finally ground into powder.
"The most complicated thing here is the configuration of hundreds of materials and the control of the degree of drying. It is not as simple as the outside world imagines."
Witch Hester took off a red helmet from the wall and put it on, and followed Anton's explanation.
"Many materials are quite expensive, but when it comes to the specific cost of a spoonful of Floo powder, it becomes a bit insignificant. It is probably less than 13 copper nats and half a silver Sickle. The price is 2 Silver Sickles per spoon.
, deducting the deductions required by all parties, we may end up with 20 copper nat for a spoonful of silver."
"However, when you add up a little, you can make a huge profit, and it is very easy for skilled workers to produce. A factory can produce enough for half a year to supply the entire country for a whole year, and it can easily fill the entire warehouse. This is something that has never been cut off on the market.
reason."
Anton raised his eyebrows noncommittally, squinted at the workers wearing red helmets and the giants working with red chains in the distance, and thought thoughtfully, "Why are you wearing such helmets?"
Witch Hearst sighed helplessly, took off the helmet and handed it to Anton, "The Ministry of Magic has obviously set very strict restrictions on this aspect. This helmet will store our memories of preparing Floo powder inside.
"
She pointed to the workers in the distance, "As long as they take off their helmets to get off work, any memory of the preparation will remain in the helmet. They can only recall it after wearing this helmet after going to work."
"And this helmet seems to be integrated with this place. It cannot be taken out at all. If you take it out forcibly, it will explode horribly."
Anton looked at the helmet in his hand, looked it over, and nodded clearly, "The skill of the pensieve is really exquisite."
Seeing that Anton was looking at him curiously, Witch Hester had no intention of taking it back to herself, so she took a helmet from the wall and put it on again, "Dark wizards often use rune snake fang powder instead of Floo powder.
, to avoid the scrutiny of the Floo Network by the Ministry of Magic's Transport Department, and of course, some are because of poverty."
"Yes." Anton couldn't help but remember what happened when he first traveled through time, and chuckled, "The fangs powder of the rune snake is the most commonly used method spread in the fringe areas, but many people were blown up in the end, and then had to
Not sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies." (mentioned in the original work)
"Those therapists will only complain that dark wizards are stingy and spend more for treatment, but they don't know that the main reason is to avoid censorship."
Witch Hearst also laughed, as if we are all dark wizards and our own people, expressing kindness, "They are always full of arrogance."
The hall of the Floo Powder Factory seems to be unobstructed, but if you really want to get closer to see the workers preparing, you need to cross a decorative belt paved with colorful bricks on the ground.
This is obviously not an ordinary decorative belt. You can only pass through it if you are wearing a helmet, otherwise you will only hit a wall of air.
"The main material is indeed the fang powder of the rune snake. It is floo powder, a silver powder that turns into green flames after burning, so it is easy to identify." Witch Hester continued to tell,
"I just don't understand why it exploded."
"Because it's extremely unstable." Anton explained casually, looking down at a stone water tank that was almost as big as a pool, watching the workers carefully stirring the water inside with long poles, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
If he saw it correctly, the long pole used the magic wand technique and was more than four meters long. It is estimated that many people would not realize it.
The material of the wand is white birch. White birch has a unique significance in the European magic world. It is considered to be the oldest tree in the forest and has clean and sacred properties.
Professor Lockhart once told Anton that wizards and folk like to use birch leaf-bearing twigs for rituals to expel evil spirits. At the same time, because it is extremely suitable for some moon-related magic, many primitive wizard tribes use it to expel evil spirits.
Pick some notes from these sacred 'sacred trees' and give them to newborns as wands for their future.
Also, the core of this long wand should be horse-shaped water monster mane, a material that is rarely used because it will make casting spells slow. It is mainly used by some magicians and alchemists to cast spells that require
More magic for stability requirements.
There is also this oversized stone water tank, which is made of the Eris stone, an excellent material for alchemy that Dumbledore told Anton. There is a Mirror of Erised made of this stone in the school.
"A crucible made of Eris stone..." Anton murmured, looking down at the changes in the potion materials added by the workers in the pool, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
The inventor of Floo Powder is obviously a wizard who is good at using tools. The manufacturing of Floo Powder she developed is more about using tools to affect the properties of magic materials that are mixed and changed.
To put it simply, if you don’t know about these tools that most people will ignore, it is to actually get the formula of floo powder. The ‘floo powder’ you make may be similar to using ‘rune snake fang powder’ directly.
The effect of this tool is like some magic potion that must be prepared under the moonlight, which looks particularly mysterious.
Anton spent most of the next few days in the Floo powder factory, observing this magical operation bit by bit.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The first thing he figured out was the preparation steps of the formula, which basically did not deviate from the content taught in Potions class.
Obviously, every brilliant wizard in the history of magic has his or her own unique skills and fields.
This witch seems to be more interested in the interesting angle of 'the impact of the environment on the preparation of potions'.
It is also a mixture of two potions. Anton almost knows what changes will occur when the workers pour the potion materials into the pool. However, as they stir for longer, and as they are left to dry, these changes will occur.
The potion changes have changed again.
Many potions masters are aware of this change. Professor Snape once told Anton about this aspect, but he prefers to use this to estimate the shelf life of the potion decoction.
The inventor of this floo powder is much more interesting. Through the mixing and blending of hundreds of magic potions, as well as the environmental influences of sunlight, wind, modulation techniques, modulation tools, etc., each type of magic potion is made
Medicines and their relationships have changed.
The final effect is that the overall medicinal properties have changed.
And it's not just potions, it also involves alchemy.
Witch Hester squatted down beside Anton curiously, looked at the messy potions in the pool, and then looked at Anton who was mumbling something. She didn't understand why Anton still put his energy here.
At first she thought Anton could break the restrictions set by the Ministry of Magic, but Anton clearly rejected her idea.
No wizard is omnipotent. Just like Dumbledore had to drink terrible potions according to Tom's rules in order to get the Horcruxes, Anton has not done any in-depth research on the contract magic of the Ministry of Magic.
It is impossible for him to circumvent this magic restriction. The Ministry of Magic does not know how many top wizards and top think tanks have cooperated in this regard to create a contract magic framework based on previous research. Unless Anton specializes in this area
, otherwise it would be difficult to take advantage of the situation.
The only thing he can do is to thoroughly understand Floo powder's research ideas, extract its most precious magic principles, and integrate them into his own magic theory.
In this way, with the help of the 'ray of sunshine spell' to protect the soul, he can put some knowledge in his mind and take it out.
"It turns out that the influence of the environment on everything in the world is not limited to the breeding of black magic creatures in the mind, nor is it limited to the collective consciousness..."
Witch Hester could only listen helplessly as Anton lowered his head and muttered these things that she did not understand.
In this way, until one night, all the workers got off work, and Anton was still observing everywhere.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the bright moon shining in the sky, laughing loudly.
"Hester, quickly, help me prepare all the materials for Floo powder. I will configure one and take a look."
Anton rubbed his hands together excitedly, "I seem to have researched something!"