Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

For most students, conspiracy theories are too far away.

After Halloween, Hogwarts quickly returned to a normal and fulfilling campus life.

The Headless Horsemen team has become the most popular ghost in the school. These ghost patrol teams riding ghost horses to maintain order among the venues and castles, every time they appear in front of the little wizards, they can get cheers and applaud.

On the other hand, the major magic newspapers outside the school will naturally not miss this hot spot.

The magic world began to pay attention to and discuss the food of Hogwarts seriously-not just as before, but to study its charm and the magical power that may be contained in it:

A delicacy that even ghosts can taste.

This can arouse people's curiosity more than any verbal expressions or exaggerated dynamic pictures.

Countless wizards began to try to cook "ghost dishes" in their homes. From time to time, someone stood up proudly and successfully imitated them and cracked the secret of "ghost dishes" in Hogwarts kitchen, but in the end all proved to be rumors.

When people became anxious and puzzled, the current Minister of Magic stepped up to respond.

[Ghost dishes? Phased results of Hogwarts teaching reform! 】

"In a brief interview on Tuesday morning, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge showed some of the results of Hogwarts' new curriculum reform and made bold predictions about the future of the magic world..."

"'Oh, yes, ghost dishes are true. This is a great innovation at Hogwarts-but it is not a culinary technique as you might imagine-it is a derivative of the field of potions. In the new semester, we innovatively introduced a number of well-known wizards, on the one hand to better teach students, on the other hand to liberate their academic research capabilities.'Fudge said that he was extremely proud and proud when facing reporters.' In terms of the situation, we have achieved very gratifying comprehensive results in less than two months, and ghost dishes are just one of them. We believe there will be more good news in the future.'"

"'Because we are currently in the pilot stage of education and research, we cannot disclose too many details. However, the Ministry of Magic, the International Federation of Wizards, and the Hogwarts School Board of Directors are trying more cooperation and exploration. We expect to sort out a list next year. A complete set of methodology is sent to each magic family so that everyone can equally enjoy the fruits of the new era.'"

"Mr. Minister did not explain much about the principle of the'ghost dish', but according to some people familiar with the matter, it is a special'potion' that can only be used by potion masters, even in Hogwarts. Not all potions masters can successfully complete the production one hundred percent—"

"Hey, you said, which professors can make this kind of ‘ghost dishes’?"

Lavender Brown secretly pulled out the newspaper from under the desk and glanced at it, and mysteriously asked the students around him.

At least two or three pages of the "Daily Prophet" are all about "ghost dishes". In addition to the relevant speeches of the Minister of Magic, the gatherings of ghosts, concentrated protests, and a lot of experts on this new thing Suddenly, the whole magic world suddenly set off a strange craze to discuss potions and cooking.

"I don't know the others, but Professor Snape can definitely do it anyway."

Parvati Petir replied in a low voice while cutting toad's leg.

"I saw a well-known wizard in "Witcher Weekly" analyzed it. This is equivalent to making a different kind of potion. In addition to the profound potion attainments, it also requires skilled magic cooking techniques... Most wizards are difficult. Meet both points at the same time."

They are in the potions classroom on the basement level of Hogwarts.

Professor Snape stood on the podium not far away, explaining the potion knowledge he was going to learn today.

However, compared to the quiet and formal class atmosphere of the previous few weeks, today's class is obviously much noisier. The students' whispers are like mosquitoes, and they have not stopped since the beginning of today's class.

As the humming in the classroom became more and more excessive, Snape's face finally turned black completely.

"Enough! Quiet—"

Snape knocked on the blackboard with his wand and said coldly.

"I said-be quiet! I don't know how to separate the toad skin and hamstrings. What is worth discussing..."

After a pause of about half a second, the professor of Potions class wandered around the classroom, and finally fell through the thin mist in the classroom and fell on Lavender Brown, more accurately, under her desk. Hemline.

"And you, dear Miss Lavender Brown, if you plan to keep your knees under the desk, trying to suppress the newspaper that can help you make potions-I suggest you choose a little A narrower newspaper—I don’t want to see people in the newspaper lying on your lap upside down and looking at me. Gryffindor, deduction!"

Lavender was startled, his face flushed.

Part of this was because Professor Snape was embarrassed to be caught on the spot, and the other part was because of the sadness that he caused the college to deduct points... Since this semester, Snape has deducted points in the class. Obviously less, unless it is a serious operational error or violation of discipline, Professor Snape will not choose to deduct points.

Of course, in the eyes of some students, they may prefer to deduct points.

Thanks to a hint from a little angel who did not want to be named, Severus Snape finally came to the conclusion:

Simply deducting points cannot deepen the memory of the dumb Pipi shrimps.

Since the second half of last year, the students who performed the worst in each potion class have a certain chance of being assigned an equally terrible "dark potion cooking imitation" as punishment for their poor performance in class.

However, this does not mean that Professor Snape has forgotten the skill of "point deduction".

According to the rules that the students have summed up privately, when the potions professor starts to deduct points, it usually means that he is in a bad mood. If he continues to die in this situation, he will most likely get a substantial combination package. -Points deduction, additional homework, punishment for dark potion cooking, and confinement such as cleaning the toilet, cleaning, and handling potion raw materials.

"I know what your little brains are thinking..."

Professor Snape looked up at the class, his eyes cold and hollow, like two dark tunnels.

"Phantom dishes? New potions? That's right... There is some truth to this statement. The potions apprentices who don't even configure the refreshing potions have got a lot of content right this time, but these things are with you. Miss and Mr. have nothing to do."

He did not continue to lecture, but stood on the edge of the podium with his arms in his arms, like a **** bat with its wings closed.

Snape's gaze swept across the classroom coldly, and he said softly with a ugly face. His voice was only higher than a whisper, but everyone in the classroom heard every word he said without difficulty.

"This involves the control of the origin of the potion, understand? It's not a simple magic potion that can be successfully completed by following the step-by-step instructions in your textbook. In fact, most people even the most basic I can’t do this step well. Therefore, I don’t want to hear someone in my class trouble the ghost of the school with something crappy they made."

As the news of ghost dishes spread more and more widely, the students also tried a lot in school.

More than one ghost complained to Dumbledore or the deans of various colleges. From time to time, little wizards would come to them with a bunch of weird soups, hoping they would walk through them to see if they tasted.

Therefore, Professor Dumbledore specifically asked the potions professors to explain in their respective classes.

Compared to the other two potions professors, Professor Snape was obviously the focus of private discussion among the students.

After all, in the last semester, all the students in the school have witnessed the skillful cooking skills of the potions professor, as well as the enchanting mysterious cutting magic, the dishes made by Professor Snape, even better than the Hogwarts kitchen. The more delicious.

If there is a wizard who meets the "potions + cooking" double essence, people's first reaction is definitely the dean of Slytherin College.

However, not many students had the guts to ask this question in front of Professor Snape.

The Weasley twin brothers tried it once, cheeky pestering Professor Snape in the hallway asking for cooking tips.

The price is that the two of them were deducted fifty points in one class, and they were fined to clean the toilet for a week after class. Even if Professor McGonagall came to the door for the theory, it was only half the deduction in the end, but the confinement penalty remained no change.

Since then, almost no one dared to be presumptuous in front of Professor Snape.

apart from……

Just as Professor Snape was about to end the topic and resume the lecture, he suddenly frowned.

Harry raised his hand.

Snape quickly scanned the white-haired dumpling who was listening attentively, and after confirming that the question was not instigated or dangerous, he squinted at the potion sitting next to Draco Malfoy. Little genius.

"Any problem? Mr. Harry Potter—"

"Professor, it is stated in the textbook that some potions can act on ghosts, so why don't they taste the potions when they work...and...do you know how to make a'ghost dish'?"

Harry said clearly, raised his head, and looked at Professor Snape expectantly.

"I should have made it clear just now..."

Snape looked away and waved his hand impatiently.

"Cooking, these are just small skills, whether it is a drill in the potion class, or a daily simulation... These are just a form of assisting you in learning potions, not the purpose-including the so-called ghost dishes. , It is essentially the transformation after mastering the origin of the potion. What you need to think about is how to learn the potion, not anything else..."

"But you can do all of this, is that right?"

Harry said nervously, looking at Snape with dark green eyes, and asked softly, "If some wizards have not formed ghosts, but we have made extremely delicious'ghost dishes', will they have a chance? come back……"

At the Halloween dinner not long ago, Sirius promised Harry that if there was time this holiday, he would take Harry to Godric’s Valley to see the Potter’s old house and Harry’s parents’ grave.

If possible, before that, Harry wanted to try to learn this ghost dish and put it in front of his parents' grave.

For a long time, the world of ghosts has been a completely unfamiliar realm for wizards.

But with the emergence of ghost dishes, there seems to be a crack in the barrier between the living and the ghosts. Harry has seen similar speculations in many newspapers and publications-when the'ghost dishes' develop to a certain stage , Or paired with certain substances with powerful magical abilities, may be able to resurrect the dead.

At least in "Singing and Singing", an article reviewed by the editor-in-chief is analyzed like this:

If you say that some shreds of Philosopher’s Stone are mixed in the ‘ghost dishes’, there may be magical effects.

And considering that the only owner of the Philosopher's Stone, Nicole LeMay, is at Hogwarts at this time, Hogwarts is very likely to be conducting some dangerous human experiment. The author of the article even claimed that the Dark Lord did not really disappear, but was imprisoned in school by Albus Dumbledore, Nicole LeMay, and others, as experimental materials for research.

Of course, this article was posted in the section "Lovegood See the World".

As we all know, this is a completely unreliable, absurd, and politically satirical classification of novel stories, but Harry still sees some hope from it...After all, this is Luna’s newspaper, and Luna has always been very inspirational. Awesome.

"...Sorry, no."

Snape glanced at Harry deeply, not angry.

After being silent for half a second, he sighed lightly-of course he knew what Harry was talking about.

In fact, he tried and asked Dumbledore about this matter the first time.

If it were not for this reason, Snape would not spend his rest time, and cooperated with Mr. Hogwarts Principal to research and improve the methodology operation manual of "ghost dishes". These things should be the job of a certain chef. .

"Forget it, I will give you a brief demonstration. UU read www.uukahnshu.com and you will understand... The so-called ghost dishes are not so magical. They can neither evoke ghosts nor restore vitality to ghosts-it It's a kind of spiritual phantom."

Snape pulled out his wand and waved it gently in the air.

"Toad hamstring, this is today's potion material..."

"In the conventional potion treatment, it symbolizes the bounce and the explosive power that has undergone a transformation in form... We can extract the corresponding concept from it. If your mental power is strong enough, you can get a'death' from some Some concepts are extracted from the material of the traces to give magical effects... and in this respect..."

"This was taken from a dead toad. Part of the organization... This concept is weak, but it exists."

Snape gently moved the wand in his hand with solemn expression, directing the toad leg to fall into the tumbling crimson potion soup in front of him, carefully mobilizing the magic power to give it the concept of "death".

Immediately afterwards, under everyone's gaze, the tumbling potion suddenly became quiet and relaxed.

"Do you understand? When you successfully imprint the element of'death' in a potion, you will simultaneously kill the magical power contained in it that can be seen by the living, turning it into one A magic power that only ghosts can feel..."

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"Therefore, it cannot be used as a potion for awakening or stimulating ghosts and giving them magical effects... The boundary between ghosts and living beings has not been broken or changed. We are just using the knowledge of potions to create something other than the other world. That's it."

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