Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 223 The Secret Passage of Corvinus Gaunt

"Bourne!"

On the way to the hospital wing with "Injury", Snape passed by his private office.

He opened the door directly and gave instructions to Bourne who was bottling cold medicine.

"Go to the Potions classroom and clean up all the remnants of cowpea glue. That old man Filch can't do this job. You go and finish it. If it's cleaner, I'll give Gryffindor House five... …No, it’s plus four points.”

Bourne was stunned by this unprecedented news. He had been at Hogwarts for almost a year and a half, and this was the second time he had received extra points from Snape.

But when he walked into the basement classroom of the Potions class and saw the mess all over the floor with his own eyes, he realized why Professor Snape wanted extra points.

"What's going on?"

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This can't be blamed on him, the main reason is that he has just been away for more than an hour, and this place has turned into a scene that he had never imagined before.

It's like a "hell of white goo".

The milky white, pasty substance with a strong beany smell was all over the place, on the table, on the ceiling, on the floor, on the bottles and jars with labels... almost half of the entire classroom was stained. It was full of this stuff, and there were even some sticky shoe prints at the door.

Although magic cowpea glue is a relatively common household potion, how could a proud potion master like Snape continue to use the recipes of his predecessors when teaching students?
Naturally he improved it.

The household magic glue modified by this potion master suddenly transformed into a magical version of Super 502.

Before it is completely cooled, this "Super 502" is relatively easy to clean up, although it is very sticky.

However, when they cool down almost completely - despite their mushy shape - they are actually as hard as granite.

It is conceivable that if Filch is allowed to deal with these things, without the use of electric picks and drills, the poor castle caretaker will probably have to use COS carving workers to chip them bit by bit with a pickaxe before he can with difficulty. Clean up this potions classroom.

“Scourgify!”

Bourne attempts a cleansing spell.

The spell did have an effect, but he also found that he seemed to have underestimated Snape's potion skills. Although the professor only adjusted a little bit of the original formula, this brand-new magic glue was able to withstand the "cleaning" of the curse.

The cleaning spell is like scraping the hardened milky white substances, and can only remove some of their surface debris.

"It couldn't have been caused by Harry and the others, right?" Bourne had a guess.

However, the disastrous consequences left him somewhat uncertain.

"This is too crazy. Not to mention Snape, even if Professor McGonagall knows, they will not get good results."

Bourne shook his head helplessly.

Faced with such a mess, he only came up with two ways that might be able to solve the problem.

The first one is "Brick Flying": Use a more powerful magic spell to bombard the entire Potions classroom, blast the hardened glue and other things into powder residue, and then use the magic spell to "restore the broken teaching tools" "Like new", and finally clean away the hardened glue powder.

However, although this can clean up the classroom, all the potion materials in the classroom must be replaced.

Even though he knew that this level of financial burden was nothing to the wealthy school board of Hogwarts, he knew that if he really did this, the bonus points promised by Professor Snape would probably be wasted. .

Therefore, there was only one other solution before him: Merlin's return to Merlin, the potion issue must be solved with potions after all.

"Take it slow."

Bourne found a relatively clean table, took out a spare clean crucible from the teaching aid cabinet, set up the pot and put on the fire.

First, he found some dried nettles, puffer fish eyes, and bat spleen, which were the potion ingredients used to prepare the swelling potion.

After mixing and chopping them with a silver knife, put them and an appropriate amount of dew into the crucible and boil them together. At the same time, stir them counterclockwise three or two times with a wand. The color of the liquid will change from black gray to dark yellow. change.

If you continue to stir until the dark yellow color fades and the liquid becomes colorless and transparent, then a very good swelling liquid will be made.

But Bourne did not do this. He added to the cauldron a handful of viper fang fragments, two tablespoons of dried leech powder, and a full pint of concentrated squid secretion.

"First make those things fluffy to increase their contact area with the potion, and then use the active ingredients of the powerful cleaner to dissolve them."

While recalling the principles of potions taught to him by Grandpa Horace, Bourne created a new potion formula for hardened magic glue.

Maybe this sounds very simple, but in fact it is not.

The reason why it is so difficult to improve old or create new potion recipes is that it is difficult for ordinary wizards to quantify the materials.

Only wizards with extremely high potion talents can use their intuition to add or subtract potion materials by "feeling", and then design a new potion that suits their wishes.

If ordinary wizards try randomly, it is almost inevitable that they will have some accidents while making potions.

Bourne stayed up for half an hour. Although he did not increase or decrease the potion ingredients in the second half, he remained very focused on controlling the heat of the crucible. When he stirred the potion soup with the wand, his perception followed the wand deep into the potions, feeling the changes in their properties during the cooking process.

"It seems not even close." Byrne felt carefully and came to a guessing conclusion: "I'm afraid this pot of potion cannot completely dissolve the hardened magic glue. After more than half an hour, those things may It’s become a little more difficult to clean up.”

Bourne was thinking, and suddenly felt blessed: he twisted his neck, completed part of the transformation of the Primaris Astartes, then squeezed the Bechers gland through his muscles, and spit the secreted saliva into the pot. Potion being brewed.

In an instant, the potion in the crucible began to boil violently, and large groups of foam began to emerge from the surface of the potion, forming a thick layer, as if a milk cap had been added to the pot of potion.

"What are you doing?"

And just as Bourne was paying attention to the changes in this new potion with great interest, cold words suddenly appeared behind him.

"Ok?"

It was a ghost that lived in Hogwarts Castle. Bourne had seen so much that he lost the novelty at the beginning.

In addition, he did not feel any malice emanating from the other party's thoughts, so although he had just noticed a ghost approaching, Bourne just regarded it as a passerby who wandered here by chance.

Wandering around the castle every day, such ghosts are actually very common in Hogwarts.

However, when the ghost made a noise, Bourne immediately had a doubt in his heart: How did she come to Slytherin's territory?
Because the owner of this voice is not another ghost, but the representative ghost of Ravenclaw - "Ms. Gray" - Bourne knows that her real name is Helena Ravenclaw, and she is actually the ghost of Howl. The only daughter of the witch Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Gwartz. Although the school rules of Hogwarts do not allow young wizards to enter the common rooms of other houses at will, this restriction does not bind the ghosts representing each house. However, for some reason, the Gray Lady of Ravenclaw really rarely sets foot on Slytherin territory. Normally, except for Ravenclaw's tower, the Astronomy Tower, and the school's auditorium, little wizards would rarely see her in the fourth place.

As Bourne did today, seeing her appear in an underground Potions classroom (which was actually very close to the Slytherin common room) was definitely an unprecedented and unpopular event.

"Did you come up with this recipe, or did you read it in some book?"

Ms. Gray didn't care about Bourne's surprise. In fact, she was a ghost who "lived" quite by herself. In the long years after her death, she only cared about some things she cared about.

"I just added it randomly," Byrne explained. "I just felt like it was the right thing to do, and by doing so, I was able to make a cleaning potion that would make it easier to clean up the magic glue."

Ms. Gray looked lost in thought.

After Bourne removed the crucible from the flame blowtorch and put the prepared "glue remover" into glass bottles, she continued: "In that case, I'm just giving you a heads up - —Don’t easily use your own body parts, or those of other wizards, as ingredients for potions in the future... It’s wrong to do so, and someone has confirmed the harm of doing so many years ago..."

Before she finished speaking, Ms. Gray suddenly frowned. This tall, thin lady ghost seemed to have a premonition of something, and stopped paying attention to the little wizard Bourne, and sank directly into the wall. At this moment, a male ghost wearing a blood-stained coat walked out of another wall in the Potions classroom. "Bloody Man" Barrow glanced at Bourne, said nothing, turned around and chased Ms. Gray in the direction she left.

Seeing this scene, Byrne couldn't help but have an idea in his mind: just because he was always on the road, the licking dog would not have his own house.

It's quite sad.
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"How dare you!"

Draco, who was cornered, raised his wand and threatened the trio fiercely: "My father is the school director. If you dare to do anything to me, he will send you packing and get out of Hogwarts the next day. .”

"It's 'my dad' again, why don't you use another word?" Ron curled his lips disdainfully and couldn't help but rant.

Just when Draco was about to retort, the little witch Hermione suddenly interrupted the boring and harsh talk session of these men.

"That's enough!" she said.

Then, she took out a bottle of magic potion from her sleeve that she fished out from the crucible in class and secretly kept. (This thing is a semi-finished super magic glue, but the color is brown-green, and the finished product is milky white There are significant differences).

"Have you ever heard of 'truth serum'?"

Hermione looked directly into Draco's eyes, her expression serious and serious, not pretending at all.

"You'd better tell us honestly how you planned the Bludger attack before and what conspiracy you are busy with now."

The little witch imitated the illustrated character on the page about "Veritaserum" in the book "Powerful Potion" and looked at Draco with a smiley expression.

"You know, people who drink 'Veritaserum' actually have a certain probability of going completely crazy. You don't want to encounter such misfortune, right?"

Even after knowing that Hermione was cheating on Draco, Harry and Ron, the two other members of the trio, still felt a little shuddering.

"Oyster sauce!"

This was a voice that everyone present did not expect, because the person who said this was actually a fat little Gryffindor boy.

Neville Longbottom walked out of the corner of the corridor. He heard the whole process of Hermione, Ron and Harry threatening Draco Malfoy. Moreover, the words Hermione just said such as "veritaserum" and "crazy" also irritated him, so the little wizard mustered up the courage to stand up.

"Even for Slytherins, you can't just use 'Veritaserum', not to mention that it may destroy a person's brain!"

"Hey, Neville, you go back to Gryffindor Tower first." Ron blinked at Neville quickly, "We will explain to you later."

However, Neville obviously did not notice Ron's wink. The child stood stubbornly and refused to leave.

And the "victim" who was originally intercepted, that is, Draco, who was questioned face to face, immediately became energetic when he saw someone supporting him.

"Did you see it! Your perverse behavior has already aroused opposition from your classmates. I will definitely tell my father! I want to tell him that Hogwarts must carefully investigate the admission qualifications of certain people..."

Draco looked "viciously" at Hermione, who had just threatened him, and then glanced at Ron and Harry with his eyes.

"... Muggle wizards who have nothing to do with noble blood, and traitors to pure-blood families, how did you people get into Hogwarts?"

Upon hearing this, Ron was the first to feel angry, and he directly raised his fist and hit Draco on the nose.

He had even forgotten his wand.

Although the punch did not hit the real target, Ron hit a niche in the corridor. The niche is small and contains only a decorative Tudor cherub.

"Hey! It doesn't hurt!" Ron was extremely surprised by the unexpected touch on his fist.

However, before he could react (in fact, no one could react), as the little angel sculpture turned back, the wall behind Draco suddenly burst out with a dazzling white light, and then the bricks on that wall It started spinning rapidly. Everyone watched as the neatly arranged brick wall slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe that could allow a person to get through.

However, there is a warning sign hanging on the hole of this water pipe.

[Please do not enter, there is an ophidia inside - Corvinus Gaunt from the great Slytherin]

Draco quickly glanced at the text on the warning sign and made a decision in an instant: he turned around and got into the water pipe, and then slid down the smooth inner wall of the water pipe.

"Sure enough, there are weird things in these walls, and that guy Draco also knows there are these weird things in the walls!"

Although Harry obviously understood it wrong, the anger still made his forehead heat up, and he followed Draco into the water pipe second.

Isn't there just a snake?

He never seemed afraid of snakes.

The two people who stayed there looked at the dark hole of the water pipe. Ron hesitated for half a second, and finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet to follow.

"Let's go too, Harry needs us!"

Hermione followed closely behind, but just as she was about to enter the hole, a stream of clear water suddenly spurted out from the thick water pipe, and the little witch rushed out, and then fell hard on her butt.

"Hermione, are you okay?"

Although he was dissatisfied with Hermione's behavior just now, Neville immediately ran over to help his classmates.

The little witch sneezed twice and said: "It's okay, this water pipe is really strange, I have to hurry..."

The moment Hermione used the spell to dry herself, the water pipe hole in the wall suddenly disappeared and became exactly the same as before. There was no difference at all.

(End of this chapter)