Harry Potter and the Attack of the Squibs

An inexplicable irritation flashed through Harry's heart: "Because only in this way can I know the secrets that you have known for a long time and only I have been kept in the dark, so that I can help when fighting Voldemort!"

Hermione and Ron both looked panicked.

They actually didn't want to hide it from Harry, but the Order of the Phoenix told them to do so.

"We didn't mean it..."

Harry shook his head: "Of course I know!"

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In the first alchemy class on Monday, Harris Green arranged an exam to determine Lu Ke's course progress.

He gave Lu Ke an alchemical puzzle.

This is a puzzle that Lu Ke has never seen before, and it was obviously designed by Harris Green himself.

On a piece of parchment there is a picture of a tree.

A bleeding corpse lay under the tree roots, and the blood was absorbed by the tree roots. A silver necklace was wrapped around the trunk.

The crown part is divided into two sides. On one side is a separate branch with a red fruit hanging on it.

On the other side, the branches split into two sides. One side of the two branches turned into gold, and the other side turned into silver.

This is a standard alchemical puzzle.

In fact, in Lu Ke's eyes, this is a bad habit.

A brilliant alchemist will always express his research results in alchemical puzzles, such as Nicolas Flamel's method of creating the Philosopher's Stone, and he will always use the most bizarre and incomprehensible way he can think of.

If Nico Flamel was no longer around, and if the alchemists in the world were not at a level that could understand his puzzle, the method of making the Philosopher's Stone would have been completely lost.

For Lu Ke, who regarded alchemy as a science, this kind of thing was an absolute failure.

But in the eyes of an alchemist, it's the complete opposite.

Alchemical puzzles are an appropriate threshold.

Only professional alchemists know how to make up and interpret alchemical puzzles. Therefore, an alchemical puzzle is equivalent to a standardized paper. As long as it can be written, it can first prove that the author is not a layman and the credibility of the content There are basic guarantees.

For example, the puzzle in front of Lu Ke was like this. After seeing the puzzle, Lu Ke could immediately understand the level of Harris Green's alchemy.

This puzzle is a standard alchemical experimental process, at least the part that Lu Ke can see for the time being.

The big tree is a complete process from top to bottom. The red fruit represents the compound of mercury, the gold and silver on the other side should add up to an alloy of copper and lead, the silver chain on the trunk should be a water bath, and the corpse at the last root The blood flowing out of it should represent some kind of melted metal.

After calculating this, Lu Ke suddenly felt a little strange.

He glanced at Harris Green once more.

The alchemy professor was smiling proudly.

It's clear there's more to this alchemical puzzle than meets the eye.

A very simple problem, if it is a water bath, the temperature is simply not enough to complete the requirement of melting so many metals.

Lu Ke was confused.

And there is another problem. Generally speaking, the alchemy of tree shapes starts from the roots and ends at the top of the tree, because trees grow from the bottom up.

But in this case, the part of the tree crown divided into two sides is the final product, and it is not clear at all.

Lu Ke fell into deep thought.

On the side, Harris Green also slowly calmed down.

In fact, I came up with this puzzle in the first place just because I was competitive.

As the alchemy professor of Hogwarts, Harris Green is actually a wizard attending the Wizengamot and a member of the Examination Committee of the Ministry of Magic. He is not usually at Hogwarts and is not technically a member of Hogwarts. professor.

But as an alchemist, he heard Lu Ke's name twice, once when Nico Flamel gave him the Philosopher's Stone, and once when Umbridge, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic, asked him to teach Lu Ke alone. alchemy.

Harris Green had every reason to give Lu Ke a blow, and he did so.

The content of this alchemy puzzle is not too difficult, but the design of the puzzle is very ingenious. It is a stroke of inspiration. Harris Green feels that he will never do it again in his life.

If Lu Ke couldn't solve it, then he would just tell Lu Ke the answer and let him follow the experimental steps.

Anyway, after calming down and thinking about it, Lu Ke had already admitted in person that he had been studying on his own, and he knew exactly what he had learned. It was not surprising that he could not solve this puzzle.

Just when Harris Green was thinking this, he was surprised to find that Lu Ke had already started to take action.

Lu Ke walked to the material cabinet on the side and started to get the raw materials.

Harris Green looked at the raw materials he took and fell into surprise.

"Cinnabar, soft white stone, silver..."

These three are the most hidden ingredients in the puzzle.

Cinnabar is what the red fruit represents, which is a red compound of mercury, and because of mercury's special status in alchemy, the fruit is used to refer to it.

The soft white stone is hidden deeper. This is a special raw material only found in the wizarding world. It is a white stone with a very soft texture and a high melting point. After melting, it will turn into a red liquid, so the blood of the corpse under the tree root is used. to refer to.

The key to cracking the mystery is the special white color of the corpse, which is the unique white color of soft white stone. If you think that the pale skin color of the corpse has no deep meaning, there is no way to guess the answer.

As for the final silver, it is the raw material for water baths.

To put it simply, using molten liquid silver to make the water bath material outside the crucible is the hardest part of the whole puzzle.

Any novice alchemist would have guessed that the chain wrapped around the tree trunk was a water bath, but no one would have thought of using molten silver.

Although there is actually a hint in the puzzle: the links that make up the chain have different shapes, and among them are hidden the letters that make up the word "Queen" of Anglicis.

In alchemy, the king is gold and the queen is silver.

Harris Green was shocked when he saw Lu Ke get the silver.

But he soon calmed down.

Even so, I'm afraid Lu Ke still can't solve the entire alchemy puzzle, because the puzzle itself has two levels.

As with all alchemical puzzles, when the tree appears, it naturally starts at the roots and ends at the top, but this time there is no clear outcome at the top.

Therefore, this alchemy also hides the second half of the alchemical process, which is to return from the top of the tree to the roots again.

And the final result is naturally only one.

Harris Green didn't think Lu Ke could guess this level. Even he himself had the idea of ​​designing the puzzle in this way because of an unexpected burst of inspiration.

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