Under Snape's death gaze, Joel struck the cauldron with his wand.
The potion in the crucible had no reaction, and the boiled slug horns and snake teeth were floating on the water, showing no signs of merging together.
The magic power in potion science should have this effect. It does not require you to have a strong level of magic power, it only requires fusing the potion materials together.
But Joel is obviously unable to do this. Without the blessing of the system, he is no different from an ordinary Muggle.
Snape's lips, which had been loosened by Allen's good behavior, tightened again, "I think you should learn how to use a wand from the gentleman next to you, instead of waving a stick stupidly like a stupid giant.
Use magic."
He breathed fragrance again.
However, Snape's sarcasm is still effective for those young wizards who are not familiar with the world, but for an old stress-resistant person like Joel who can even withstand 996 blessings, it is nothing at all.
He saw that Snape just memorized his and Alan's names, and then deducted three points from Ravenclaw House. Before he could say anything more, a Hufflepuff boy carelessly took his cauldron.
When it exploded, streams of green liquid sputtered out, hitting the clothes of the surrounding students and burning small holes, causing bursts of exclamations.
"Damn it! Did you add dried nettles in advance?" Snape was very annoyed. He walked quickly to the scene of the accident and waved his wand to clean up the remaining green liquid. "Go to the hospital wing quickly. I think your head should remember it."
You live in the medical wing, right?"
The Hufflepuff student who was in trouble nodded with a mournful face like a chicken pecking at rice, holding his forearm. The fabric of the robe there had been burned clean, and there were blisters on the skin of his forearm, looking extremely miserable.
Another Hufflepuff student helped the injured person out of the classroom at Professor Snape's signal.
Eddie's robe was also affected, and a small hole was made in his abdomen by the green liquid, revealing the T-shirt underneath - a picture of Mickey Mouse with a smiling face, while he himself was crying and complaining to Allen.
Allen had finished making the potion at this time. He poured all the potion in the crucible into the potion bottle, quietly listened to Eddie's endless complaints, and responded with um, ah and the like from time to time.
After the class ended, most students submitted their own potions - Eddie's potion made a booger smell and was handed in. Only Joel and a few others had poor potion talents and frequently blew up.
of students did not submit their assignments.
Before leaving, Snape looked at several people as if he wanted to eat them alive.
Joel felt that he would never get high marks in the potions class this school year, which made him very disappointed. However, before he could earn 3,500 gold galleons to exchange for the source of magic, he had to give up all practical potions classes.
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But there is also good news. In the past week, poker and landlord games have spread rapidly. Every student in Hogwarts has heard about it more or less. Everyone saw classmates holding playing cards in the common room.
Zhong was yelling about bombs and airplanes...
Sometimes I feel itchy and want to play a few cards. Two or three people pool their money to buy a pair of poker cards from Eddie, and by the way, they also get a detailed instruction manual for playing Landlords.
It is worth noting that after discussing with Sergey and Joel on Friday, Eddie lowered the price of playing cards to 6 Sickles again, because there is really no technical content in making playing cards, and pricing too high will drive down production.
Volume.
Eddie deliberately returned the remaining 4 siquitos to the customer who had previously purchased the playing cards for 10 siquitos to avoid false claims.
Sergey now stays up until late at night every day and can make more than 40 decks of playing cards a day. The materials used for playing cards are not particular. If only the material cost is calculated, a deck of playing cards only costs an average of 3 copper nats. For this reason, the three of them He used up all the blank paper he bought in Diagon Alley during the summer vacation (it was originally used for calculations and writing drafts of papers).
After students get playing cards, they don't necessarily have to play Landlords. Blackjack is more acceptable to them, and some even start playing bridge and Texas Hold'em.
For a time, poker was so popular at Hogwarts that many people gave up Wizard Chess and Gobstone (a kind of marble game) and embraced poker.
"I found out this morning that someone came to grab business." On Saturday morning, Eddie walked into the dormitory with a sullen face and closed the door hard. "Playing cards they made themselves have appeared in Slytherin House."
"It's not a big deal," Joel leaned on the bedside and turned a page of the book. "Didn't I say it before? Making playing cards is too simple and has no technical content. A senior student can finish it after thinking about it for a while."
"We were able to sell so many playing cards before mainly because we acted quickly. By the time someone reacted, we lost all our advantages - the production was rough and the production was too slow..." Joel explained to Eddie.
"It's my problem," Sergey, who was sitting in a chair and immersed in playing cards, suddenly said, "I was only focused on doing the counter-replication spell and forgot to make the playing cards more beautiful."
"This matter has nothing to do with you," Joel glanced at him, "This was meant to make a quick buck. How many have we sold now?"
Eddie immediately said, "A total of 156 decks of poker were sold, and a total profit of 936 Sickles was made. Joel should get 187.2 Sickles, and Sergey and I each got 374.4 Sickles."
"Sold so many?" Allen was a little surprised. He had been playing a small and transparent role in the school for a week, including classrooms, auditoriums, dormitories, and at most a library. Apart from these places, he didn't go anywhere.
Not only that, he now can't even recognize all the girls of the same grade in his college. It should be said that up to now, only a few people in the same dormitory are relatively close to him.
Alan, who rarely communicates with the outside world, naturally has no idea how popular poker is at Hogwarts.
"Just put it down when you're done," Joel said. "The gust of poker won't last long. They'll get tired of it soon."
"After all, playing cards are too plain for wizards. Even the old-fashioned Gobstone is more interesting than the monotonous plain playing cards. They play poker now only on a whim. When they get tired of playing, they will still have to return to Quidditch. Find that in the arms of Wizard Chess."
This is true. Allen nodded in agreement. He was tired of playing Zhou Dou Landlord after less than one game. Wizard chess was more fun.
But if two roommates are missing one, he doesn't mind joining in the fun and playing Landlords.
Joel has a thorough understanding of the psychology of wizards and knows that they are just looking for a temporary novelty. If you were in the magical world, would you play Landlords for 7 years?