days at Hogwarts

Chapter 219 Snape’s little thoughts

In the secret room, dozens of suitcases were neatly placed around Loren and Snape, suitcases specially used for storing medicinal materials. The inner lids of the suitcases were engraved with simple and rough alchemy circles, and there were many magic blessings on them.

Not long after he came out of the principal's office, Loren was captured by Snape and asked him to help dispose of the corpse of the basilisk and collect and store the materials of the basilisk.

In front of them, the corpse of a huge basilisk dozens of feet long lay horizontally at the feet of the giant Slytherin statue. Even though it had been dead for a while, its body showed no signs of corruption, it was as thick as the trunk of an oak tree, The scales still shone with a cold green metallic luster.

The snake's head is slightly flattened and triangular in shape, with a fatal penetrating wound extending from the skull to the upper jaw.The big yellow eyes that were originally full were also pecked blind by Fox, and the liquid flowed out from the wound, leaving two shriveled eyeballs.

Loren felt a little pity. He was very interested in the lethal magic power and petrification magic power in the eyes of the basilisk monster, and even had the idea of ​​embezzling the two kinds of magic power to make weapons.

Now without a steady stream of mana to choose from, the idea seemed aborted.

Observing the corpse of the basilisk at close range, Loren noticed details that he had overlooked before. The scales of the basilisk were not smooth. There were two rows of short blunt spines on its back, and the scales on the top of its head also had blunt, thick spines. Get up, it's a shame.

In the middle of the abdomen, about one-fifth of the length of the snake, large pieces of scales have been removed from the roots and piled up next to it. This is Snape's previous achievement.

"The scales of the basilisk are very hard, and it is difficult to cut them with ordinary spells and knives. I asked you to come over to help dispose of the corpse of the basilisk in order to speed up the process. By the way, I will check whether your God's Shadowless Curse has not regressed." Sneh Pu Qing's cold voice echoed in the secret room.

Loren retracted his gaze from looking up at the basilisk's body, glanced at Snape with a slight disdain, and curled his lips.Even if you want to exploit underage student workers, you still find some high-sounding reasons.

"The corpse of the basilisk will not be corrupted. Professor, you can cut it off a little bit. Anyway, the Christmas holiday is still long, isn't it?"

Loren tried to resist. Snape, as the inventor of Shenfeng Wuying, a professor of Potions, and a master-level proficiency in handling materials, took so long to cut so little, and it was just scales...

If I get in, I'm afraid I will spend the time before Christmas in the secret room.

Snape's eyes remained calm, and he raised his hands and rolled up the cuffs of his robe, as if preparing to start work.

After rolling up his sleeves, he stretched out his hand and gave Loren a slap on the head: "Put away that offensive look and respect your teacher. In addition, there is not so much time to waste. We need people from the Ministry of Magic and the school board." Take care of all these things before school.”

Loren felt the pain, covered his head and nodded.He understood that Crabbe's matter had been investigated, and the basilisk would soon be exposed before the Ministry of Magic and the school board.

Many people will be tempted by this level of rarity, and if they get involved, even if Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall can handle it, it will cause a lot of trouble.

Don't naively think that the things in the school belong to Hogwarts. Driven by sufficient interests, many pure-blood families can ask for some profit in the name of Slytherin blood.

Generations of pure-blood marriages, if you really want to analyze it, every family is related to each other.Even the Weasleys and the Malfoys, going back a few generations, were sure to find relatives.

"If I had known this, I should have gone home during the Christmas holidays." Loren wailed, followed Snape's footsteps helplessly, and began to learn how to slice the basilisk's scales.

The scales are stacked layer by layer, and the whole picture of the scales can be clearly seen without the previous layer.In a large area in the middle, the scales have been removed, and there is a clear boundary line between the black flesh and the green snake scales.

Loren reached out and pressed the exposed basilisk flesh. It was hard and felt like some kind of rough rock.

Snape held a snake scale with his left hand, propped the scale upright, then aimed his wand at the joint between the scale and the skin, and said softly: "[Shen Feng Wu Ying]"

An invisible sharp edge passed by, and a diamond-shaped scale fell off, with a flat cut surface at the end.

Throwing this scale into the nearest suitcase, Snape didn't even look at Loren, and started to process the next scale: "Actually, the practical method of picking can better ensure the integrity of the scale, but that still needs to be done." It will be more cumbersome to deal with the flesh and blood attached to the scales."

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

Another scale peeled off.Snape raised his eyelids and looked at Loren: "Have you learned it?"

Loren didn't answer, but held a scale, pointed his wand at the root of the scale, and said: "[Shenfeng Wuying]"

A scale was peeled off, but the cut surface was not smooth enough and there were some flaws.

It's a matter of experience, just try a few more times.Snape ignored this flaw, and pointed at the basilisk's head with a big hand: "You start to cut the scales from that side, and I will take care of the tail with more and denser scales."

Glancing at the basilisk's head, Loren's eyes widened instantly.But remembering the respect for the teacher just said, Loren temporarily suppressed the urge to slander Snape...

There are more and denser scales, as if your work is more troublesome.Obviously, the scales at the tail are more neat, and the arrangement is more in line with the law of stacking, making it easier to handle.

Most of the odd-shaped scales on the head are not stacked together, the scales are odd-shaped, and the joints with the flesh are messy, which looks very troublesome.

Sensing his reluctance, Snape said unhurriedly: "After disposing of the basilisk corpse, you can take some materials and choose whatever you want. Do you have any questions?"

"Not at all!" Loren's answer was very simple. The eyes of the basilisk were, of course, the eyes of the basilisk.

After speaking, he chuckled, ran quickly to the head of the basilisk, and looked at the irregularly shaped scales covering the head.

The first thing Loren noticed was that the snout scales located at the front, in the popular sense, were different from other strangely shaped scales on the head. The snout scales were neat and symmetrical, and the basilisk had only one snout scale all over its body.

After thinking about his unskilled processing technology, Loren changed to an unattractive scale.

The scales and skin on the snake's head have different fitting surfaces and angles.The Shen Feng Shadowless Spell is not difficult. What is difficult is finding the right angle and anticipating the cut in advance.

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

The whistling invisible edge raged in the space of the secret room, cutting off scales one after another.Periorbital scales, peritemporal scales, jaw scales... Slowly, Loren gradually peeled off the entire basilisk head scales.

The proficiency of Shenfeng Shadowless Curse has also increased rapidly, becoming more handy.Cut wherever you want, and cut as you want.The tangential direction, trajectory, retraction and power of the knife mark can all be adjusted and changed in one thought.

Snape watched Loren's progress from a distance, and smiled imperceptibly at the corner of his mouth.

Except for the most difficult head, the scales on the basilisk's torso were much less difficult. Seeing that Loren's work was on track, Snape began to talk about some knowledge about basilisks.

"The snake material we commonly use is African tree snake skin...the scales of snake magical animals are mainly divided into three types, smooth, granular and prismatic. The first two are easy to understand, and prismatic scales refer to the scales. In the middle, there is a vertical edge."

Loren took a look, and the basilisk seemed to have three types of scales, which should be regarded as the peculiarity of the basilisk.

He was not very interested in these biological knowledge, so he asked instead: "Professor, what are the uses of the various materials on the basilisk?"

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

Snape immersed himself in cutting another scale, and threw it into the suitcase casually, "Who knows?"

"what?"

Snape explained slowly: "The number of basilisks is too rare. After the death of Salazar Slytherin, the detailed basilisk hatching ceremony seems to have been lost. After that, the Ministry of Magic strictly forbids hatching and breeding basilisks—"

Loren couldn't help being curious, and interrupted: "Professor, didn't you say that the basilisk is a monster born from a toad hatching a male egg?"

Snape gave him a subtle look.Although there was no verbal expression, Loren understood that Snape was calling him an idiot.

"Loren Morgan—" Snape sarcastically sarcastically recited an aria, "You don't think that this kind of strange 5X-level dangerous magical creature can be bred in such a simple way, do you? "

Come on, come on, whenever Snape thought he was stupid, he would call him by his full name, or call him Mr Morgan.

Loren gritted his teeth and nodded... Before that, he had indeed thought so, because the rooster eggs could well explain the reason for the scarcity of basilisks.Rooster eggs are rare, so basilisks are rare.

Snape sneered: "Think about it with your head full of orange juice, induce a rooster to lay eggs, induce a toad to hatch eggs, which step sounds simple?"

"Choose the right astrology, choose the right breed of rooster and toad, and feed the two animals with potions...Any wizard with some knowledge of potions knows how harsh these conditions are."

After Snape sneered at Loren, he felt very comfortable and turned to the question of the medicinal value of the basilisk.

"—In England, there has been no record of seeing a basilisk for at least 400 years." Snape snorted coldly, and said proudly, "Mature masters of potions can completely rely on the magic power contained in the ingredients , the nature of the material, and analyze its function by comparing it with the same type of material. If it is unique and different, that’s even better, it will mean a unique potion.”

Loren scratched his head. He might not be a mature potions master yet, so he might not have such awareness.

In the dark secret room, Snape explained how to theoretically analyze the medicinal value of the basilisk.

Until the time before lunch, Snape kept talking about the knowledge about the basilisk, including the hatching ceremony of the basilisk speculated by some scholars, and putting eggs under the body of the toad on the brightest night of Sirius... Comparing the basilisk and the chicken The similarities and differences of the snaketail...

By afternoon, things seemed to be different.

After finishing lunch, Loren declined Harry and Ron's invitation to have a snowball fight, rested for a while, and then came to the secret room again after eating.

Before Snape arrived, Loren didn't wait, climbed onto the basilisk's body, and continued to cut the basilisk's scales.

Thanks to the talent of spell correction, during the process of harvesting the scales, Loren repeatedly released the God's Shadowless Curse repeatedly, and his current spellcasting is extremely smooth:

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

"【Shenfeng Wuying】"

……

When Snape came in, Loren had already piled up several boxes of scales, even faster than him.

The Shadowless Blade was a curse invented by Snape himself. He was keenly aware of Loren's rapid progress.

At first, Loren released the spell after observing for a long time, but it still left blemishes.

But now, as soon as Loren raised the scales with his left hand, his right hand almost instinctively cast spells without even thinking about it.The cut scales can't be picked at all.

Snape's footsteps stopped in place, staring blankly at Loren's actions of handling the scales, and stayed there for several minutes.

Although Dumbledore didn't say it explicitly, Snape could tell that he wanted to train Loren to be his successor.Whether it is the chief wizard of the Wizengamot or the principal of Hogwarts, he wants to train Loren to be a person with the same role as him.

Do some extremely boring work, pay for the mistakes made by the stupid people in this world, cover up... or so.

Snape completely disagreed with Dumbledore's idea. Loren was talented and was the one chosen by Nico Flamel.Even if no one revealed it, Snape knew that Loren might follow a path similar to that of Nico Flamel.

Nicole Flamel almost reconstructed alchemy, Snape felt that Loren could also achieve brilliant achievements in potions, this kid has talent.

It's just that the scene in front of him tells him that Loren's talent is not limited to Potions...

Throwing the newly cut scales into the suitcase, Loren raised his eyes and saw Snape, and greeted happily: "Good afternoon, Professor!"

"Yeah." Snape replied softly... Forget it, he should have a long life anyway, let him choose.

Snape said nothing and walked to his seat to continue dealing with the basilisk.

During the processing of the scales, Snape stopped talking about the medicinal value of the basilisk and started talking about the Potions Club and the school's potions business.

A voice without the slightest emotion sounded in the secret room: "The money from the previous sale of rue essence has gradually arrived in the account, because it is the first time for the school to hold such a large amount of funds without the supervision of the school board. People who are calculating, Professor McGonagall has made some mistakes in handling such a large sum of money."

Professor McGonagall cannot reveal his current financial situation until he is fully independent.In the past, the allocation of funds and the purchase of living materials for teachers and students of the school were all carried out under the supervision of the school board of directors, and were handled by special accountants. Professor McGonagall only had to give instructions.

Suddenly there was an extra fund that could be used freely. Professor McGonagall lacked relevant experience. During the use process, some details were not handled very well. The school board seemed to find out something through the accounts.

"Is it a big problem?" Loren asked.

"It's not too big, and it's not too small. Normally, it can be dealt with. However, if the school management committee investigates it seriously, it may be troublesome." Snape said unhurriedly, "until the next school year. Before now, the business in this area will temporarily stop. Just as the rue is almost used up, the Potions Club will suspend its previous activities."

"So is it time to start the research and development of the medicine to bring the dead back to life?"

Snape hummed and didn't say much about the arrangements for the Potions Club: "Among this year's graduates, Professor McGonagall is going to select some people and recruit them to act as agents for the school's business. The main content is potions, including the purchase of raw materials. , the refining, development and sales of potions.”

Loren listened while handling the scales, although he didn't understand why Snape told him these things, he still kept them in mind.

"...In order not to attract the attention of the school board, until the profit cannot cover all the school's expenses, the sales scope is not set in the UK, mainly in Africa, the United States, Egypt and other places..."