Hogwarts Asylum

This is the fourth time Ron has come to the school hospital. The first time was because he fell off the broomstick and broke his arm. The second time was because Professor O'Loughlin asked them to come. The third time was because Ron and Na Come with Wei to get a letter of recommendation to join the Wizard Chess Club.

So after Ron cast the Flying Curse in the school hospital to no avail, he began to follow the path to the Soul Sanctuary, preparing to find the cat named White who was raised by Professor O'Loughlin. Then he was stopped by Draco. Came down.

Draco earnestly persuaded everyone that Teacher Eurolin might be conducting experiments. If he accidentally interfered with it, not to mention the school hospital, even the Gryffindor Tower far up there might be affected.

Of course, the four Rons didn't believe this argument. How could there be such a powerful magic in the magic world, and it also affected Gryffindor Tower? The most powerful magic they had ever seen couldn't even create a hole.

Draco did not argue with Ron and the other four who had little knowledge. After all, people who had never been exposed to and did not understand alchemy had no idea how tight the alchemists had to put themselves on when conducting certain major experiments. protection.

Draco actually didn't know this at first. After all, there was no such content in the book. In the books about alchemy, what was basically written was how high the status of the alchemist was and how comprehensive the alchemist's abilities were. , the life of an alchemist is so wonderful, it seems that becoming an alchemist can suddenly make you stand at the top of the magic world.

Then when Draco first visited Mr. O'Loughlin's laboratory set up in a box, he was stunned by the rows of movable protective armor that were similar in style but made of materials ranging from wood to fairy iron. .

Draco asked Mr. O'Loughlin at that time why there was no mention in the books that being an alchemist was so dangerous, and then he got a ridiculous explanation - that would greatly suppress the enthusiasm of people who aspire to alchemy.

This is indeed the case. Alchemy is a magic subject with extremely high thresholds. It is already difficult to recruit apprentices. If the shortcomings of alchemy are made public again, fewer and fewer people will be willing to learn alchemy in the future.

Although there is still a magic stone hanging at the end of the road to alchemy, so that the magic world will never lack wizards who are interested in alchemy, that thing cannot be used as a target to recruit apprentices. After all, it is human nature to draw cakes for apprentices. , but it is too unreasonable to draw a pie as big as the Sorcerer's Stone. It is like telling Neville that he will become as great as Godric Gryffindor one day. How could Neville believe it.

Of course, there are apprentices who can accept a pie as big as the Philosopher's Stone. Some people firmly believe that they will be able to refine the Philosopher's Stone sooner or later, but alchemists generally don't like such apprentices who are so confident that they can be called arrogant.

The words "heart as high as the sky" are often followed by "life as thin as paper".

People who are overly ambitious but do not have the corresponding talents are the most likely to be unruly and try randomly.

They often like to start trying directly when they suddenly have a whim and feel that this is better during the experiment. This is very fatal. After all, although alchemy requires unconstrained imagination, it also requires extreme rigor. It is common to blow yourself up, and even those around you, to the sky.

Students like Hermione and Percy who have good memories and obey the rules are the favorite apprentices of most alchemists.No matter how bad it is, it's okay to be a little timid, at least it won't kill the people around you.

It doesn't matter if some people like to play with heartbeats to death, but alchemists don't want to start to panic after discovering that an apprentice is stuck in a bottleneck. That kind of experience is too torturous.

So generally speaking, alchemists don't say much before their apprentices start, but after they start, they will tell the apprentices immediately that alchemy is a dangerous subject full of surprises.

However, they are not as intuitive as Oluolin. On the one hand, not everyone is as willing to spend money as Oluolin. Just a set of fairy iron protective armor is enough for an ordinary alchemist to save up for 20 years without sleep. On the other hand, they were also afraid of scaring away the apprentices and needed to use goblin iron protective armor to ensure a safe alchemy experiment. They were afraid that if they made a mistake, they could blow up Hogwarts directly.

Of course, Draco was not deterred after knowing this. On the contrary, he was very excited.

Opportunities and risks coexist, this is something that every pure-blood family has in their family education.

Moreover, the more difficult alchemy is, the more powerful he is with the talent, and the status he will gain after completing it.The reputation is also higher.

However, no matter how Draco explained it, Ron just felt that Draco was being alarmist and that Draco was afraid that he would discover the truth.

In the end, Draco could only say that he should take the lead and see if Mr. O'Loughlin was doing experiments first.

In the school hospital, O'Loughlin stood at the door of the consultation room. Behind him was White standing inside the door. In front of him was Draco and his roommates who looked happy.

"What's the matter? Draco, Weasley, Longbottom, Finnigan," O'Loughlin called them out one by one, and finally his eyes fell on Harry, his eyes meaningful, "And - Broken special."

"Teacher, it's like this..." Draco explained the matter in a few words. He did not tell Ron and others about the suspicion that White had eaten Scabbers, but said, "So we are here to ask you for help. I wonder if you could help Weasley find his Scabbers?"

While Draco was talking, Ron wanted to interject a few words, but was stopped by Neville and Seamus.

However, Professor O'Loughlin seemed to have seen through them. Ron only saw Professor O'Loughlin turning to look at White, who had an alert expression, and asked, "Did you eat a mouse?"

Ron was very surprised by O'Loughlin's frankness. Normally, even if he guessed what they were thinking, he would deny it first, wouldn't he?Therefore, he subconsciously believed that Professor O'Loughlin's cat, Civet, might really be as fat as Malfoy said, just because it ate cakes as its three meals, not because it ate too many mice.

"Ow!"

White shook his head naturally. How could it eat a mouse? Not to mention it was smelly, dirty, and extremely unpalatable. The most it could do was play with the mouse.

Ron was a little disappointed, and then he heard Professor O'Loughlin say: "Then did you see a gray mouse that lost its hair?"

Ron looked at White expectantly, and saw White shaking his head at first, and then starting to nod as if he had thought of something.

Ron looked at Professor O'Loughlin with great joy.

"It said that it had seen a gray mouse that was a little dirty, smelly, and strange during the day. It chased it for a while, but lost it, but it remembered that the gray mouse finally ran towards the kitchen. ...It's in the direction of the Hufflepuff common room," Auroran paused, then said, "I'll take you to find it."