Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 230 Magic Potion
"Is this man crazy?"

In the Auror interrogation room of the Ministry of Magic, through a layer of magic one-way mirror, Delis made a comment while watching Peter Pettigrew's movements.

In that interrogation room, three of the four walls were made of solid granite. There are magic spells reinforced everywhere in the room. Only one side is not a rock wall, but it is a magical one-way mirror with an astonishing thickness.

And its ceiling is also enchanted, and the green light can shine on the prisoners' heads twenty-four hours a day.

Because green light can inhibit photosynthesis, even if a tenacious magical plant is put in, the plant will be boiled to death within a few days.

Staying inside for interrogation, the prisoner will immediately feel how "judgmental" he is.

At this time, Peter Pettigrew was hiding in the corner, with his face facing the corner and his body huddled in a ball - life will always find a way for itself. By doing this, he can avoid the torture of green light on his eyes. There were dark wizard prisoners before. Did this too.

He was not chained because there was no way he could cast any spell to escape from the heavily guarded interrogation room.

In fact, this interrogation room is rarely used unless necessary.

Because once activated, not only it would be a torture for the person being interrogated, but it would also be a heavy burden for the Auror Office.

Director Scrimgeour arranged for at least six Aurors to work in pairs every day, changing shifts outside every eight hours, taking turns to stare at the room on the other side of the magic one-way lens.

This occupied almost one-fifth of the human resources of the Auror Office, causing the only violent department of the British Ministry of Magic to work overtime to the extreme, making colleagues in other departments look at him with suspicion.

But those Aurors didn't complain, and they didn't dare to complain.

Because Principal Dumbledore, the idol most of them admire, and Professor McGonagall, the dean of Hogwarts, have been working overtime with them during this time.

Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and some invited advisors like Horace Slughorn have recently been teasing out how Peter Pettigrew escaped from Azkaban and his subsequent murder. Several Muggle victims were arrested, and a series of cases were waiting for them.

These old men and women directly occupied an office in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and the current director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement very considerately acted as their tea boy and undertook all the logistical support work.

The director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement takes the lead in working overtime. Do you believe it?
But this is the fact.

It was clearly after eight o'clock in the evening, but the lights were still brightly lit in the large office of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. And the director-general was waiting at the door of the office, ready to refill tea and water for the big guys inside.

"Albus, the confirmation work on my side has been completed."

Horace Slughorn twisted his neck, walked to the long table in the office with a glass reagent bottle, and placed it on the long table.

"According to Muggles, I have extracted the genetic material belonging to Peter Pettigrew from the remaining biological evidence at the crime scene."

As a potions master, Horace also has a deep understanding of some Muggle subjects, because they also have implications for the study of potions.

"Use the venom of the poisonous tentacles for more than seven years to destroy the cell walls of biological tissues, then add the volcanic rock salt necessary for feeding Riem cattle, and finally mix it with a high degree of fire whiskey..."

He stretched out his left hand and pointed inside the glass bottle, where there was an almost imperceptible, transparent gel-like layer on the surface of the liquid.

Then, he raised his right hand holding the wand, and there was a ball of blood mixed with hair floating on the front of the wand - these were the "fresh" raw materials extracted from Peter Pettigrew in the past two days.

When Horace controlled the blood to approach the glass bottle, the gelatinous substance on the surface of the bottle immediately seemed to be pulled by something, and began to squirm toward the blood outside the glass bottle like a slug.

"...Who is that?" Horace shouted, and the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement who was waiting outside the door immediately opened the door, "Please find someone to bring a magic development camera to take a picture of this scene. The evidence can be considered fixed.”

After receiving the instruction, the director bowed slightly, nodded slightly, and carefully closed the office door.

Afraid of disturbing the work of the bosses.

Then, after the office door was closed tightly, the director straightened his body, twisted the tie around his neck, and repeated his Slug Hoo to the subordinates who "volunteer" to work overtime outside. Dean - he is a Slytherin - just assigned the task.

He yelled it out loud.

Soon, there will be magical Parlu...well, no, those hard-working Ministry of Magic staff running to carry out the orders of their superiors.

The big guys in that office were unaware of this, they just focused on the work at hand.

Dumbledore looked at Horace's results during this period and finally breathed a sigh of relief, because the verification of this result solved a problem.

Peter Pettigrew disguised his own murders as those committed by werewolves, which once again brought disrepute to some poor "patients" (except for perverts like Fenrir).

If he cannot use evidence to break down Peter Pettigrew's conspiracy, then one of his plans for next year may be affected by this.

Although if he really wants to implement it, there is a high probability that no one can stop him, but doing so will make him appear to be a little determined.

"Very well, thank you, Horace." Dumbledore sincerely thanked his old colleague: "Without you, we probably wouldn't have been able to get rid of the rumors spread by Peter so perfectly, and his conviction in the future would not have been complete." Very convincing."

Horace was actually very grateful for Dumbledore's thanks. After all, it depends on who said it. Being able to be stronger than the most powerful archmage in the world in some aspects, no wizard would not feel satisfied and satisfied with it.

Mag, who was presiding over another research task with his two former protégés (now both famous transfiguration scholars), also raised his head at this time.

"There is only one question left now. We have almost finished analyzing the spells attached to the 'Out of Control Bludger'."

She said: "It is a compound spell that mixes the levitating spell, the flying spell, the confusion spell, and some unknown magic principles. If it is to control a bludger, based on my understanding of Peter, he works hard Maybe it can be done. But the problem is, that day he controlled multiple Bludgers at once, which completely exceeded the upper limit of his own magic... He doesn't have this ability, do you understand?"

Horace nodded. He also agreed with Mag's statement, and he also discovered something during the experiment. "He may have eaten something - in Hogwarts Castle, you can actually find some potion materials used to make 'enchantment potions' - otherwise, I have to wonder whether he was really imprisoned. Been in Azkaban prison for a while.”

The so-called "magic-enhancing potion" is an advanced potion that can permanently increase the upper limit of part of a wizard's magic power, but very few people know about it and its formula.

There is a reason why the potion master who invented it deliberately controlled its spread, but more importantly, this potion has strong side effects.

Generally speaking, just like humans removing their baby teeth and replacing them with new ones, a wizard's substantial increase in magic power can be divided into two stages.

The first stage is right after birth, when the little wizard's first (and probably only) magic riot begins. As the magic power in the body increases to a certain extent, the difference between wizards and Muggles begins to become completely apparent.

Then, the second stage of magic growth is from the time after the magic riot to the time when the little wizard reaches adulthood.

During this time, as the little wizard's body continues to grow, their magic power will become more abundant.

If they weren't gifted, the period when many wizards just graduate from magic school would be the most magical moment in their lives.

Although there are ways to hone skills and learn more knowledge, so that wizards can master more complex spells, but without the help of external forces, wizards have basically no chance of breaking through the upper limit of the total amount of magic again when they become adults.

The magic-enhancing potion is one of those "external forces", and it is also the most common one.

By taking this magical potion with a very complicated brewing process, adult wizards can once again experience the magical riots they experienced as children.

But it is worth noting that this kind of "magic riot" induced by drugs is not, strictly speaking, a real magic riot.

It is to fully "burn" the wizard's magic power, and then clear all the magic power at once in a short period of time (much faster than using magic spells to exhaust magic power). When they recover again, wizards who drink the potion usually find that their upper limit of magic power should be more or less exceeded.

Although it is easy to understand at first glance, the mechanism of action of magic potion is actually very dangerous: if you take not enough medicine, you will suffer for nothing, and your magic power will not increase when you recover; and if you take too much, A wizard who drinks the medicine will 100% lose himself to death when "burning" his magic power.

Therefore, if anyone wants to make a relatively safe magic potion for himself, it is best to ask a potion master who is familiar with him to make it in person, or it is best to work hard to train the magic potion himself. The level of potion making - move closer to the master - make magic potions for yourself.

All in all, not only are the raw materials for this medicine quite expensive, but it is also very troublesome to make. Moreover, even if the above conditions are met, the upper limit of the magic power that many people increase after drinking the magic-enhancing potion is not particularly significant, and may not even reach 10% of the original total magic power.

Therefore, in reality, very few wizards would seek medical advice and create ups and downs in their lives out of thin air. And potion masters like Horace, based on the principle of "doing more is worse than doing less", basically no one will be idle to spread its formula or promote that they can make magic-enhancing potions.

"... When that Peter Pettigrew was in school, he showed no talent at all for brewing potions."

Except for Harry Potter's mother Lily Evans, as the former head of Slytherin, Horace rarely favored other Gryffindors.

(Even the Slug Club has invited some young wizards from Gryffindor, but that was actually just a shrewd move by Horace to accumulate connections for himself.)
"So, Minerva, maybe you can ask your question in a different way -

Where did he know the formula of the magic-enhancing potion, and who was helping him master the dosage of those raw materials?

You know, even if you take a step back, he somehow knew the formula of the magic-enhancing potion, but blindly taking the raw materials of the magic-enhancing potion will probably be useless. There must be a very clever wizard helping him.

That person must have a very amazing potion talent, there is no way he would be unknown at Hogwarts. "

Horace could swear to Merlin that he was not referring to Snape, but to someone else.

But after hearing Horace's words, everyone else present - except Dumbledore - couldn't help but have similar words in their minds.

"The fake potion masters' struggle: poisoning each other, competing on the quality of the cauldron, constantly creating new potion recipes..."

"The real struggle of a potion master: in front of your direct boss, you will be tricked and snitched, no mercy..."

Fortunately, Dumbledore not only understood what Horace meant, he even knew more than Horace.

The old principal said: "Horace, I believe that no one in Hogwarts will betray me, and a real professor will not torture his students."

However, he added in his mind: "There is a person who was born to be a traitor to Hogwarts. Moreover, because he could not apply to be a professor at Hogwarts, that guy actually placed a vicious curse on the position he applied for. "
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"It's Voldemort." Bourne was 10 or even 9 percent sure.

After Lockhart bombarded the bird-snake half to death with a series of "Expelliarmus", Kettleburn, the professor of Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts, finally ran into the Great Hall carrying a teapot.

His teapot is full.

"Get out of the way!" Seeing that a precious magical animal was about to be killed by a curse, the professor was also anxious. He even poured out the liquid in the teapot first, and then asked the professor who was arrogantly talking. Magical Lockhart issued a reminder.

He really didn't mean it.

However, apart from most of the teapot's shrinking potion being sprinkled on the bird snake, a few drops still splashed onto Lockhart.

Although it is absolutely impossible for others to see clearly without looking carefully, Bourne can see it clearly: Lockhart's few locks of hair that were stuck with the shrinking potion instantly turned yellow and yellow, and then turned directly into the shape of an octogenarian. As gray as an old man's hair.

"This guy used hair dye." Bourne immediately realized, "Moreover, it should be a very durable hair dye, and the effect was only eliminated after encountering the shrinking potion."

In addition, Lockhart's gray hair undoubtedly confirmed Bourne's inference: this guy's life force is being robbed, and the suspect who robbed his life force...

"Ten points, or even nine points, I'm sure it's Voldemort."

"But a new problem has arisen. In his current costume, there is no place to hide Tom Riddle's diary. How did Voldemort help him open the cheat?" Bourne looked at Lockhart with his eyes. From front to back, no corner was spared.

(End of this chapter)