Chapter 239 Who moved my potion (seeking a monthly pass)
The importance of communication is not just for survival, it is also the way for us to understand ourselves and the way for the world to understand us - in fact, it is the only way.
However, not everyone has extremely strong affinity and communication methods.
In fact, most people have some communication barriers to some extent. In order to avoid trouble and harm, they usually choose one or two fixed postures: for example, they only know how to remain silent, or they always only hint, or
Either to escape, or to deal with it emotionally, or even to put on an eternal poker face and freeze yourself behind the expression.
Like a pianist who can only play one melody, or a chef who can only cook a few dishes, they are forced to respond in a pitiful way, just like Severus Snee.
Commonly the same.
However, on the contrary, as long as such people are willing to take the initiative to communicate, the sensory improvement effect can be the most obvious - this is actually very similar to the contrasting cuteness that people in later generations often say.
After a brief conversation between Elena and Snape, the tense and cold atmosphere that originally lingered in the Potions classroom gradually dissipated. Although the faces of the first-year wizards were still a little reserved, they had the same attitude as before.
The emotions of fear and resistance completely disappeared.
"Very well, remember the companions you are with now. This is the Potions class grouping for this semester."
After Snape called the names, he looked up at the orderly classroom and the upturned young faces. An almost inaudible smile appeared on the indifferent face, and his mood became much better——
This may be the only cute freshman who doesn't regard him as a big devil in so many years. I hope this situation can continue.
"You are here to learn the precise science and rigorous craftsmanship of potion preparation."
Snape put down the roster in his hand and crossed his arms across his chest. He was shrouded in black robes like a giant bat. His eyes slowly swept across the classroom and he spoke softly.
"First of all, I hope you can learn to control your overly strong emotional ups and downs and your foolish desire to wave the wand - you can release your nature at any time after leaving this classroom. Of course, even in today's wizarding world, there are many idiots who are unwilling to do so.
Admit it is magic. So I don’t expect you to really understand the slow-simmering cauldron..."
When he said this, Snape's face suddenly froze, he stopped his opening remarks unusually abruptly, and looked at Elena Kaslana who was sitting next to his podium with a complex expression - hell, he just missed it
At one point, he subconsciously imitated the little girl's compliments and continued.
It has to be said that even if the subjective factors are removed, the description of potions by this little silver-haired witch in the previous paragraph is really in line with Severus Snape's inner definition of potions.
As time went by, that sentence not only did not dissipate, but became more and more deeply imprinted in Snape's mind.
"Professor Snape?"
Elena tilted her head innocently, and the little fur on her head jumped playfully - of course she knew why Professor Snape suddenly got stuck, after all, poor Professor Snape's opening lines were preempted by her.
To put it bluntly, for an otaku who is not good at words, it is too difficult to adapt it on the spot or play it casually.
"Ahem..."
Snape cleared his throat to hide his embarrassment, and quickly moved his eyes away from Elena's face - maybe he can try to add it to his opening remarks when he faces Gryffindor and Slytherin this weekend.
This passage.
Looking at the other little wizards in the classroom who had curious expressions on their faces, Snape continued dryly.
"...In short, Potions is full of fascinating charm. This is the most loyal and fair subject that you will face in the entire school, and it is also the most unrestrained course. Diligence, imagination
Strength, patience, and meticulousness, as long as you put these into this course step by step, it will faithfully feedback wonderful results to you."
oh--
After hearing what Professor Snape said, Elena, who was sitting in the Potions classroom [SVIP—Iron Throne], holding her cheek and playing with a quill, raised her eyebrows, with a smile on her face.
It turns out that the opening and closing remarks that Professor Snape prepared for the students of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff are different from the remarks for the students of Gryffindor and Slytherin - but think about it.
Also, the idea of "increasing reputation, brewing glory, and even preventing death" has no appeal at all to the little badgers and eagles who live in peace with the world.
Although in Snape's opinion, the opening remarks were slightly flawed, he was still very satisfied to see the pleasant interest and strong desire for knowledge in the eyes of the young wizards.
"Now, take out your crucible, scale, pen and paper... let's start today's lesson."
Snape waved his wand, and a set of potion equipment with the same specifications as everyone else appeared on the podium at the same time.
Next, it’s time for regular Potions class teaching.
What can you do in the first class? It’s just the most basic things, how to set up a pot, how to light a fire, the most basic actions in configuring reagents, etc. Most operations need to be involved, but they can’t be too profound. Snape never
I have high expectations for the first class.
However, the quality of this year's first-year class clearly exceeded Snape's expectations.
This is the first time in history that from setting up the crucible to igniting and heating, from basic cutting postures to cleaning instruments... almost all the little wizards completed all the operations at once, without any operating errors, as if
Everyone has already done certain basic potions exercises before class.
"incredible……"
Snape dragged his long black cloak around the classroom, his eyes full of admiration, his lips twitched slightly, and he let out a silent exclamation - there is always such a thing in the Potions class.
A wonderful and amazing little wizard, but everyone in the class has extremely high operating limits, which is as incredible as a giant monster starting to write poetry with a quill pen.
As for Elena Kaslana, whom he focused on, she did not complete all the preparations at the first time. However, this does not mean that the girl had any problems with the operation.
To be precise, Elena's operations really exceeded Snape's expectations, and some of them even made him a little confused. However, based on some strange premonition, Snape did not act as usual.
Question and refute directly.
From some small details, Snape could clearly feel that if the other young wizards had some shallow foundations, many of Elena's behaviors were actually closer to that of a potion master who was so rigorous that it was almost artistic.
For example, she is the only little wizard in the class who consciously tucks her hair into her clothes behind her back, and is also the only one who deliberately adjusts the height of the crucible during heating to ensure that both heating and observation are at the most comfortable level.
The little wizard of angle...
"Elena, can you tell me why you perform so many repetitive operations?"
Snape narrowed his eyes. If he remembered correctly, Elena had cleaned her pile of measuring cups for the fourth time. This was one of the few things he couldn't understand.
"Because I don't think it's clean enough, Professor Snape."
Elena picked up the measuring cup in her hand and looked at it carefully, and replied seriously, "In fact, in my opinion, the most suitable way is to use a cleaning spell. However, you said that you are not allowed to use magic spells today, so I
Trying to clean it as much as possible."
"Not clean enough. Do you want to wash them until they are completely transparent?"
Snape raised his eyebrows. In his opinion, those poor cups were already very clean. Even people with mysophobia would not think there was any problem. Of course, the main reason was that, as a potion master,
Professor, he felt that he needed to point out some shortcomings.
Finally here——
"No, Professor Snape. In fact, my standards are not all measured by the clarity of the naked eye."
Elena breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. She had been washing here for almost ten minutes, and her fingers were almost white from washing. She finally attracted Professor Snape's attention and smiled slightly, full of confidence.
said softly.
"I think it is clean only if the water attached to the inner wall of the container is evenly distributed, without water droplets condensing or flowing down in strands."
There is no doubt that the basic knowledge of chemical experiments is the perfect secret book for dealing with Professor Snape's potions class. In order to quickly gain the favor of the legendary potion master, Elena
I have prepared strategies and techniques for a whole month.
"Why do you think so? I don't remember that this point doesn't appear in any potion books."
Snape frowned. As a potions master, he naturally understood the state described by Elena.
In fact, this is the state that all glass containers should be in after using the cleaning spell. However, before this, no one in the magic world has ever summarized and summarized this point alone - after all, it can be achieved with a magic spell.
As a result, no matter how you think about it, there seems to be no need for additional elaboration.
Very good, it seems that she has successfully aroused Professor Snape's curiosity.
As for humans, as soon as they start to be curious, there will be flaws. What Professor Snape will never face is an ordinary Elena. What he will face will be the entire terrifying high school teacher think tank.
Elena has already used the power of the chemistry teacher, and next is the power from the physics teacher.
"It's very simple. Because, according to the surface tension of the liquid and the properties of the glass, the glass will be wetted by water. If there are water droplets or streams flowing down, it means that there is a substance on the surface of the glass that prevents water from being wetted, which can be indirectly proved
The glass is not clean.”
Elena stood up and explained with a matter-of-fact expression, as if she was talking about a very simple thing.
"infiltration?"
Snape's eyebrows furrowed even more tightly. He quickly grasped the strange word in Elena's mouth and asked subconsciously. He felt as if the door to a new world was slowly opening.
"Well, infiltration. A definition from the non-magical world."
Elena shrugged, took out her wand, pointed it at the glass in her hand, looked at Snape, and asked tentatively, "Professor, if you can..."
"Of course." Snape nodded.
Because of the smooth movements of the other first-year students, there is still a lot of spare time in the entire course period.
Elena cleared her throat, tapped the glass with her wand, and recited the third spell she had learned so hard.
"Cleaned up."
A magical light flashed from the glass, and all the tiny stains and water droplets on the glass disappeared instantly.
"The so-called infiltration means that a drop of water placed on a clean glass plate will adhere to the glass plate to form a thin layer. If a clean glass piece is put into the water and then taken out, a layer of water will be stained on the glass surface. This kind of
The phenomenon is called infiltration. This is because the liquid molecules in the adhesion layer are denser than the inside of the liquid, which shows a repulsive force and has a tendency to expand, so infiltration will occur. For example..."
Elena explained and demonstrated with the glass in her hand.
"However, if it's the other way around, if it's mercury, non-wetting will occur because the internal molecules of the attached liquid are denser than the adhering liquid."
Following Elena's voice, the eyes of the little wizards who were still listening to the conversation between the two with great interest began to look confused, even the little wizards from Ravenclaw Academy were no exception - in fact
, due to the bronze eagle ring that suddenly went crazy this year, many little wizards currently sleep on the floor outside the door more often than in the lounge.
Of course, for other people who chose to give up from the beginning, there are even more things to discuss.
"Elena is saying things again that are incomprehensible but very reasonable. It's so amazing. I didn't expect that even the professor doesn't know."
Sitting in the middle of the classroom, Hannah rubbed her forehead with a headache and said to Susan next to her.
Although she no longer knew what the two of them were talking about since Elena's last sentence, this did not prevent her from looking at Elena with envy and admiration in her eyes.
"Of course, that's Sister Elena! However, compared to those things, I am more concerned about the magic that Sister has just cast. I don't know how many spells Elena has mastered. With Elena here,
We'll definitely get a lot of extra points in Charms class."
Susan Bones nodded seriously, looking at the wand in Elena's hand, and sounded like a little fangirl of Elena.
Molecules? Tension? Density?
Is this child really speaking English? Why does the more these things are explained, the more difficult things are to understand.
"Very good, very good, I understand. It is indeed a very effective standard."
Snape gently pressed his slightly aching temple, nodded calmly, raised his hand to stop Elena, who was full of excitement and was about to continue explaining, "About these questions, after class, come to my
The office comes to continue the discussion - not in confinement, of course. Let me think, okay, one point for Hufflepuff."
Seeing the emotion on Elena's face, Snape twitched the corner of his mouth and added reluctantly.
As a Potions professor, Snape could not go back on his promise. Since he said that he would give extra points for things that exceeded expectations, Snape would naturally not break his promise.
"Wow, Elena is so amazing."
"Sister, your head is great."
"I knew that was Moonlight Kaslana."
As Snape's voice fell, bursts of whispers suddenly came to mind in the classroom. As an extremely rare student who received extra points from Professor Snape, Elena's behavior undoubtedly greatly strengthened the influence of all the little wizards.
Confidence.
Including the little wizards in Ravenclaw, almost everyone's face shone with excitement and pride, and they couldn't wait to share this great news with students from other houses and grades.
——These little guys really need a little beating.
Turning around, Snape raised his brows, looked at a group of happy little guys, and snorted coldly.
"So, do you think your preparations have been done? Did you hear that water droplets will neither condense nor flow down in streams? Do you understand? Why don't you write down all this?
?”
"From now on, this will be one of the assessment criteria for Potions class - unless each of you is proficient in the cleaning spell, I don't want to hear someone holding a measuring cup and asking me if I have washed it thoroughly."
question!"
Along with the wails one after another, there was a rustle of quills and parchment in the classroom.
However, neither the young wizards nor Severus Snape realized that this was just the beginning.
In order to standardize the operation of the Potions class and maximize the cheating of scores, Elena has prepared a complete "Chemistry Laboratory Safety Management System" and "Self-Mutual Inspection Management Standards". Since Professor Snape agreed to follow each
Points were given for changing points or the number of effective suggestions. Naturally, she chose to slowly put forward her opinions one by one.
After all, if the complete text was compiled and submitted at once, wouldn't it be a loss if Professor Snape stingyly only gave five points? In contrast, she was naturally earning one point at a time.
, anyway, no matter the points are added or deducted, there are no decimals, the minimum is one point.
After looking around the entire classroom again, Snape nodded with satisfaction.
If we just look at these children's operation of the crucible and the use of fire sources, the chance of accidents has dropped almost ten times compared to previous years.
"Very good. Now, please turn to the first page of "Magic Potions and Potions". We will start to learn one of the most basic potions: the potion for treating scabies. Please note that you must follow the experimental steps I mentioned - even if it is different from
There are some slight differences in the textbook, but what I said still prevails. After all, the author of the book, Mr. Arseny Spohr, is not the one giving you grades."
Snape waved his magic wand, and a huge piece of parchment unfolded from the front of the podium and hung on the wall at the front of the classroom. Following Snape's voice, rows of writing and patterns automatically appeared on the smooth parchment.
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"The scabies treatment potion is the most basic potion. Anyone with a little knowledge of potions can prepare it with eyes closed. All the potion materials are not dangerous in any way, and the operation process is just grinding.
There are no other complicated processes like cooking and boiling. Therefore, as long as everyone listens carefully, you can successfully complete the cooking process."
Snape slowly walked to a row of huge cabinets on the right side of the classroom. There were various potion labels on the cabinets. Because many potion materials had shelf life issues, most of them required Snape.
Generally, adjustments will be made in advance based on the daily class content.
"The potion materials we need to use in every lesson from now on can be found in this potion cabinet."
As Snape spoke, he skillfully opened the potions cabinet and turned slightly sideways, trying to allow all students to see his movements as clearly as possible - since the first class was for first-year students, most of the senior magicians
He had already taken the medicine in advance.
"Now let me first explain the four potion ingredients you need to use in this lesson: dried nettles, viper fangs, slugs with tentacles, porcupine quills..."
Looking at the empty potion cabinet, the expression on Snape's face completely froze, his voice stagnated in his throat, and he made a very strange gurgling sound. His eyes gradually bulged outward, looking particularly scary and ferocious.
"Who?! Who touched my potion this time!?"
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This time, it’s really a huge chapter!
Be confident! Akimbo!
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