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Chapter 4073 4075 [Potions Class]

"I'm sorry, professor, no." Donald Brown shook his head.

A trace of disappointment flashed across Slughorn's face, but he quickly concealed it and continued to name names, "Gregory Foley, Edward Foley, the inventor of the Felicis, is he your ancestor?"

"Yes, Professor." Gregory nodded.

Slughorn smiled and continued to call the roll. He had investigated the family backgrounds of almost all the twenty freshmen, and finally called Xiang Nan, "Severus Snape..."

Because there was no celebrity with the last name Snape in the wizarding world, he subconsciously thought that Xiang Nan had no background and was just a Muggle student.

"Here." Xiang Nan said, "Professor, my mother is Irene Prince, a former student of Slytherin."

"Oh, Irene's son, I still remember her." Slughorn suddenly realized and then laughed, "A very smart and talented girl. I hope you have inherited her talent."

……

"Potionology is a fascinating subject. Every potion has magical powers. Some can make you successful, some can make you immortal, and some can make you rich..." After calling the roll, Professor Slughorn began teaching.

Hearing him say this, the freshmen all showed longing expressions.

"As long as you follow my instructions, you will be able to do it." Slughorn further said, "But the premise is that you have a smart mind, a rigorous attitude and a hardworking spirit. Stupidity, recklessness and laziness are taboos in potion learning.

If you are careless for a moment, you may be killed by the potion you brew, so be careful. Follow each step carefully. "

When the freshmen heard this, they immediately became alert.

"Very good, now let's learn how to make a potion to remove sores." Slughorn said immediately, "Open the textbook, take out your crucible, scale, and glass... Start now!"

With a wave of his hand, a pile of potion materials appeared on the table, including dried nettles, porcupine quills, crushed snake fangs, slugs with tentacles, and so on.

Students need to take the materials, weigh them, process them according to the textbook, and add them to the crucible step by step...

Xiang Nan was already very skilled in this. He quickly got the required materials, weighed them and then processed them.

For example, dried nettle leaves need to be crushed, porcupine quills need to be ground into powder, crushed snake fangs need to be soaked in water, and horned slugs need to be steamed...

In less than 20 minutes, he had already made the medicine to remove sores. Meanwhile, most of the students hadn't even prepared the basic ingredients, and many of them didn't even know how to use a scale.

"Merlin's beard is perfect." Slughorn looked at the condensed milk-like ointment prepared by Xiang Nan and nodded with great satisfaction. "You really have inherited your mother's talent, and even far surpassed hers. Ten points to Ravenclaw!"

"Thank you, professor." Xiang Nan said with a smile.

The other freshmen looked at Xiang Nan with envy, and they also hoped to get the same honor as him.

……

After the one and a half hour potion class, Slughorn gave the students a homework, which was to list in detail the pharmacology of the materials needed to make the potion to remove sores. It was almost the same as Chinese medicine, which required understanding the medicinal properties of the herbs before making the right proportions according to the needs. This required the students to look up the information and write down the characteristics, uses, processing, and changes of each material after mixing and boiling. Therefore, most of the students looked miserable when they heard about this homework.

"It's really too difficult. Why is it so difficult to make a potion to remove sores?"

"I added porcupine quills as described in the book, why did it emit thick acidic smoke?"

"Why is my potion black instead of white after it is boiled?"

The classmates talked a lot.

"When you add the porcupine quills, you should take the crucible off the fire. Otherwise, the porcupine quill powder will come into contact with the boiling potion and react violently." Xiang Nan helped them answer, "The reason your potion is black is because you boiled the slugs for too long and over-steamed the effective substance, the slug mucus. Remember next time, only steam it for two minutes."

"So that's how it is." Everyone suddenly realized and looked at Xiang Nan with admiration.

……

After Potions class, it was half past ten, and there were no classes until Charms class at one in the afternoon.

Xiang Nan first used an expelling spell to help his roommates Joey, Benjamin and Gregory return the crucibles, glasses, textbooks, brass scales, etc. to the dormitory.

He then went to the Owl Shed to tell his mother, Irene, that he was sorted into Ravenclaw.

Although he knew that his mother had always hoped that he could enter Slytherin, Slytherin's reputation was really bad.

Because most students in this college advocate the theory of "pure blood supremacy", they are natural supporters of Voldemort. During their time in school, they formed small groups to bully students from Muggle families. After graduation, many of them joined the Death Eaters.

Even if Xiang Nan did not advocate "pure-blood supremacy" and did not join their small groups, he would still face many obstacles if he wanted to be with Lily Evans just because he had the title of Slytherin.

It can be said that it is equivalent to an African-American from Brooklyn wanting to marry a white, rich and beautiful girl from the Upper East Side of New York. That's why he chose Ravenclaw. After all, Gryffindor has a good relationship with both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

The owl shed is located on the top floor of the west tower. Not only do the school's owls live there, but students' owls also live there to avoid dirtying the dormitories.

Xiang Nan chose a barn owl and tied his letter to its feet. The owl then hooted and flew out of the tower.

Xiang Nan also left the tower and followed him around the school, confirming the locations of several classrooms, professors' offices, the principal's office, etc., so as to avoid being late for classes in the future.

Because Hogwarts is very large, not counting the Forbidden Forest, Black Lake, and Quidditch Field outside the main building, there are more than a dozen floors in the castle alone, connected by more than a hundred staircases.

And these stairs are not fixed, they will occasionally change direction. Some stairs will suddenly disappear halfway up, and you must remember to jump over it, otherwise your foot will get stuck.

Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or poked in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't really doors at all but solid walls pretending to be doors.

So getting lost is a common thing in Hogwarts. Xiang Nan didn't want to be late because of getting lost, so he first figured out the map and tried to know what to do.