Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 378 Scarpin Revealing Curse
Facts have proved that the old saying from the ancient eastern country is true.

Before everyone in Hogwarts recovered from the news of Dumbledore's arrest, they were shocked by another piece of news.

The prisoners of Azkaban have escaped collectively!
Mike held a newspaper in his hand, on which were posted ten black and white magic photos, nine of which were wizards, and the remaining one was a witch.

Some of them were smiling silently, and some were arrogantly tapping the borders of their photos with their fingers.

Under each photo are their names and the crimes they committed. Although the words written on them are just ordinary words, the meaning revealed in them reminds Mike that none of them Not villains with blood on their hands!
And they also have a common crime, that is, they joined Voldemort's Death Eaters and worked for the Dark Lord!
And the most striking of them all was of course the only woman—Bellatrix Lestrange.Charges: Torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom to the point of permanently disabling them...

Mike recognized the name almost instantly, Betatrix!

She was really the owner of the vault in Gringotts they robbed before, and she was also the cousin of Sirius Black, and the culprit who sent Neville's parents to St. Mungo's.

Mike had seen Bellatrix when she was young, she was an extremely outstanding woman, with a beautiful face like Sirius.

Mike was not surprised by this. It is normal for the rich to be more beautiful than the next generation, because they can always marry the most beautiful girls. It is not surprising that Blake's pure-blood family that has been passed down for thousands of years is full of handsome men and beautiful women. .

What surprised Mike the most was that Bellatrix looked so different now than before!
From the photo, Bellatrixner's long black hair is disheveled, her thick-lidded eyes are staring at Mike, as if she wants to eat him alive, but there is a trace of her thin lips. A proud, contemptuous smile, from her eyebrows, Mike can even see some shadows of Sirius, but more, it is endless madness.

This must have been the work of the Dementors.

Those annoying and terrifying species can always make people feel hopeless, and living in such an environment for a long time, even if humans survive, they will be driven crazy.

Shaking his head, Mike continued to flip through the newspaper, and what caught his eyes was the detailed report of the Daily Prophet on this collective jailbreak.

"Azkaban Multiplayer Escape!"What the hell were Fudge and the Ministry of Magic up to? ! "

After reading only one headline, Mike closed the newspaper, because there was no need to read the following content.

Mike can guess that the following words must be all attacks on the Ministry of Magic.

I have to say that such a behavior of the Daily Prophet is really good.

Today's wizarding world in the country has been panicked by the news of Voldemort's return. At this time, a group of Death Eaters headed by Bella escaped from prison again, which is really bad news that couldn't be worse.

It would be a good time to let them scold the Ministry of Magic officials to take some of their anger away.

But the biggest question now is how to resolve the panic among the students in Hogwarts?
The students in Hogwarts are not all idiots, there are even quite a few smart people inside, and although these people don't say anything, they have actually admitted in their hearts that Voldemort has returned!

Mike looked up at the other people in the auditorium, and as expected, he saw everyone's panic.

Especially Harry, now he looked beyond panic, he was simply out of his wits.

He had just gone to Snape's office for his first Occlumency class last night, so it must have been a bad experience last night.

Coupled with the fact that the Quidditch match is imminent, the amount of training has increased greatly, and Umbridge is constantly picking on him. His current state must be very bad.

Even so, Mike didn't intend to comfort him at all. On the contrary, he even pulled Franklin out of the auditorium immediately - class was about to begin!
Potions class took up Mike's entire morning today, which made many people's faces look bad. After all, it's not a good experience to get out of bed and go to the cold and damp basement in the winter.

But not everyone's faces were ugly. When Mike and others entered the Potions classroom, they found that Professor Snape, who usually had a stinky face, was standing alone on the podium and giggling.

Although the smile was quickly restrained, many people, including Mike, saw this scene in their eyes.

For a moment, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Snape was in a good mood, so their life would be much easier.

But only Mike secretly thanked Harry.

"Eh! Hurry up and get back to your seats!"

Snape cleared his throat and said seriously, everyone didn't dare to look at him anymore, and quickly returned to their seats.

"Franklin! Why is your tie crooked!?" Snape snarled suddenly, "I think you're trying to be special on purpose! Five points off Ravenclaw!"

"I……"

Franklin looked bewildered and murmured as if he wanted to refute, but at the last moment he held back and did not continue.

Since Snape knew that the rumors about him and Umbridge in the school came from Ravenclaw (Ron didn't dare to betray Mike, only said that it was said by Ravenclaw) Since then, Snape has been trying to get revenge.

After being targeted for a long time, everyone in Ravenclaw also understands a truth, don't argue with Snape about the correctness of deducting points, because he will find excuses to deduct more points from you!
Therefore, Franklin was silent, and he stared at the desk in frustration, with anger hidden in his eyes.

On the podium, Snape couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw that Franklin hadn't responded yet. He frowned and said to the students:

"Today we are going to learn the Scapin Revealing Curse. If you have read the text as instructed, you should know that this is a spell that can analyze the ingredients of potions. It is an extremely important spell for the entire science of potions. , because it can display the composition of the potion in front of you in a clear and magical way, so that you can analyze it more calmly, add or subtract certain ingredients. Therefore, almost any new formula has been born throughout the ages are all related to it.

Of course, it has another function, which is to push back the potion formula!Many have done this in history. They analyzed those unique formulas and made a lot of money!I don't recommend that unless you want to spend the rest of your life in Azkaban.But I think I should be worrying too much. After all, you are all just a bunch of stupid trolls. With your brains, I am afraid that you can't reverse the potion formula!Most of you probably won't even be able to cast the spell, it's too hard for you after all.So, now, please open the wooden box in front of you! "

Snape sprayed the venom on everyone without any scruples, but everyone has been used to Snape's way of speaking for so many years, and directly ignored the ugly words inside, listened to the order to open the box, and saw the box Inside was a vial of unknown liquid without any label.

"This is the water of life and death prepared by myself! Your task today is to use the xx analysis method to completely analyze the ingredient list of this bottle of water of life and death!" Snape said in a strange tone, "the formula of life and death water I think Even if your brain is only as big as an apple, you should remember clearly. So I added some other things in it. Before the end of class, if someone can't see what I added in it. Then... hehehe~"

Snape's speech ended with a creepy sneer. Although he didn't say what would happen if he didn't complete the task, everyone raised their spirits and took the task as fast as they could. The bottle of specially made water of life and death poured some in front of him.

Afterwards, many people started scratching their heads. Most of these people have not previewed, because anyone who has previewed should find that the detailed casting steps of the Scapin Manifestation Curse are printed in their textbooks - " Above the book Higher Potions.

Like them, Mike has not done any preview, but Mike has the help of Benjamin, a potion genius, so in fact, Mike has already mastered the release technique of the Scapin Appearance Curse long before this class.

I saw that he poured some water of life and death into a beaker like everyone else, then took out his wand, and waved lightly at the beaker lightly.

Immediately afterwards, a miraculous scene happened.

The transparent liquid in the beaker disappeared in an instant, replaced by a dense mist.

This cloud of fog floated in front of Mike for a long time, and at the same time, the configuration of the fog in front of him automatically appeared in Mike's mind:

Narcissus root, wormwood...and lastly, lavender and icing sugar!

Mike's pupils dilated suddenly, and at this moment he really admired Snape's accomplishments in potions.

How could he have thought of adding lavender and icing sugar to the water of death to change the taste and smell of the water of death into a hypnotic drink with lavender fragrance and sweetness!
And according to the test results of the Scarpin Manifestation Charm, after adding these two materials, the potency of the water of life and death has not been weakened in any way, on the contrary, its hypnotic effect has become stronger instead!

This is kind of scary!

You must know that potion science can be said to be a rigorous science, and it is extremely difficult to improve those formulas that must be fixed!

But Snape had an improved formula at hand, and judging from the situation, it seemed that he had invented the formula himself!
"Professor," Mike said, holding up his hand, "you added extra lavender and icing sugar, didn't you?"

Hearing this, Snape's expression instantly became extremely ugly, he stared at Mike in a daze, and nodded slowly after a while.

Everyone else in the classroom was blown up.

In the time just now, many of them also tried, but only Mike succeeded!

"Is this a genius? I am stupid!"

"I'm stupid too, but did you see Snape's expression just now? I think he is really stupid! But this is too funny, Snape also said that we can't reverse the formula, Mike reversed the formula on the back foot, hahaha!"

Listening to the whispers coming from around, Mike's eyebrows frowned again.

He found that what Snape had just said was actually true in a sense.

Some students in this classroom are really trollheads, and they even think they have reversed the formula for the water of life and death.

Such people are really stupid, because they don't even know the function of the Scapin Appearance Curse and the essence of the potion formula.

You must know that a complete potion formula is not just a list of ingredients, it must also clearly indicate something about the process of making this potion and what may happen.

However, the Scarpin Appearance Curse can only analyze the most basic ingredient list, so it is indeed extremely difficult to deduce the formula of the potion.

Snape also heard the whispers of those people, and his face turned darker in an instant.

The few students who were talking in a low voice also noticed Snape's expression and immediately shut their mouths.

Unfortunately, it's too late!

"You two, go to detention tonight!" Snape yelled, "Plus 10 points will be deducted from Hufflepuff for making a big row in class!"

Those two were obviously veterans too, they didn't continue chatting with Snape, but silently agreed to punish them.

Franklin on the side also snickered when he saw this, but it was a pity that he was called by Snape again before he was happy.

At this point, Snape finally vented his anger, and began to explain the tricks of the xx observation method. As for Mike's first successful analysis, Snape completely ignored it.

After class, Franklin regained his energy immediately, grabbed his schoolbag and ran out of the basement, so he was deducted another five points by Snape on the grounds that students were not allowed to run in the corridor.

But Franklin obviously didn't care about this, and Mike even suspected that he didn't even hear Snape's voice, because his running speed didn't seem to slow down at all.

Mike knew why Franklin was in such a hurry. The first official Quidditch match of the year was about to start at noon today. The two sides were old enemies, Slytherin House and Gryffindor House.

As an avid Quidditch fan, Franklin naturally couldn't let go of such a match.

Shaking his head, Mike also packed his things and walked out the door.

Of course, he wasn't there to watch Quidditch, he wasn't interested in that sport.

Mike has only one destination, and that is Professor Flitwick's office.

(End of this chapter)