Chapter 112: Powerful Potion

A few hours later...
Jon finally understood why Snape had just "escaped" here so embarrassed!
It's a nightmare to buy things in Diagon Alley with a little white girl...
Natalie Pavlova knew almost nothing about the magical world, but at the same time she was curious about everything.
More importantly, facing the innocent eyes that day, you can hardly refuse her question cruelly...
Throughout the afternoon, he was forced to chat about some basic knowledge of the magic world with Natalie.
Jon couldn't help but feel a little grateful that most of the shops in Diagon Alley were closed today. Otherwise, if she just introduced these magic shops and the goods in them, it would be dark!
But Jon still kept an eye on it.
Whether it was buying textbooks, potions bottles, or brass balances with Natalie, or buying a dark brown spot-headed owl as a pet for her... He paid great attention to his words, nothing at all Show the fact that you have seen this little girl and her family.
At the same time, when sending Natalie back to the Newham area after buying everything, Jon was also very cautious and kept the little girl leading the way.
After all, he didn't know whether Snape had any "intentions" to test his own with this little girl, so he had better be careful.
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For the second time in a day, I came to Xiaoping Building in Newham, East London. The door had just been opened and Natalie had already ran in with a few big bags.
"Thank you, Jon!" She grinned and waved back to Jon.
"Goodbye!" Jon said weakly.
It was getting late, and he hurriedly made a call from the phone booth nearby and at home; at the same time, he called a taxi and sent him back to Kings Cross Station.
By the time he returned to 86 Eastleigh Road, it was almost 11 o'clock... This was when Eric drove to Southampton Railway Station to pick him up.
"What's the matter, son?" Eric asked curiously when Jon looked so tired.
"Nothing..." Jon said helplessly.
Sergey Pavlov can't go casually... He is now the parent of Hogwarts students, and he has inextricably practiced with the magic world; in rash contact, he may expose himself.
The identity of Varian Wrynn had to be used less; after all, Snape was likely to be suspicious of this "former Soviet man".
But it's not entirely unprofitable. Jon took out a wrinkled parchment from his pocket.
This is some information from Sergei to his comrades in the KGB special forces...
There is no doubt that these once brave Red Army fighters are now living in a terrible situation, whether in Russia or Western and Southern Europe.
Jon carefully put the parchment into the innermost compartment of the suitcase.
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During the rest of the summer vacation, Jon stayed obediently on Eastleigh Road in Southampton and did not continue running around.
Every day he shut himself up in that rented hut, preparing all kinds of potions.
The most important of them was to prepare a potion that was strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic and had extremely complicated preparation steps...
When he was in the first grade, he remembered two recipes in the "Powerful Potion"... one is for compound decoction, and the other is his most recent goal: Veritaserum!
Veritaserum, a magic potion that makes people confess the truth, just drink three drops, and it will reveal the secrets and secrets in the heart; the pharmacist needs half a month to fully mature the potion, and it takes a month to adjust .
In most cases, it is a very effective medicine. Of course, it is not completely useful; some experienced wizards will carry and even take the antidote to Veritaserum at any time, which will make the results of Veritaserum inaccurate.
The materials needed for Veritaserum, including berock summer grass, half ear grass buds, icelandic stalactite blocks and salamander serum, etc...Most of them are quite expensive magic materials, which also means that its cost is high , But it was nothing to Jon now.
He first crushed the Burlock summer grass into a green juice and stored it in a frozen state.
Then cut the half eargrass buds into one-centimeter-long pieces, soak them with salamander serum, and cook them on a low fire for 30 minutes every 10 hours... This takes a week.
Finally, the stalactite blocks are ground into a powder, and placed in a dry flat-bottom glass dish together with the ferret heart tendon, and soaked in water for two weeks.
After the steps of the above three parts are completed at the same time, theoretically the above three solutes are poured into a crucible, bake, and after adding glycerin and stirring for 5 minutes, the solution will turn purple-green...
This purple-green solution is called the initial solution of Veritaserum in "Powerful Medicine"; it is the most important component of Veritaserum.
Adding the feathers of the Absolute Birds ground into powder as an adjuvant and adjusting for one month is Veritaserum; adding sugar as an adjuvant and adjusting for two weeks is a highly effective antidote to Veritaserum.
But the problem came out!
Two consecutive times, Jon encountered a little problem when preparing three solutes and preparing the initial solution of Veritaserum...
Very inexplicably, the three solutes did not dissolve in glycerin, but gradually precipitated, and soon changed from purple-green to a strange black.
There is no doubt that the follow-up preparation cannot continue!
A failure is undoubtedly a waste of half a month... After all, the solute prepared by the stalactite block and the ferret heart tendon can only be stored for 10 minutes, and the effect will be lost immediately afterwards.
"Could it be that there is a problem with the steps recorded in "Powerful Potion"?" Jon repeatedly analyzed the reasons for his failure.
Since he first came into contact with potions two years ago, with a wealth of operating experience and a little intuition, the process of preparing potions has always been unfavorable... Veritaserum is the first time he encountered trouble.
Go to Snape for advice after going back to school? After all, he has quite a lot of experience in the preparation of Veritaserum... But doesn't that reveal what Lockhart helped him hide before ~EbookFREE.me~ Borrowing "Powerful Potion" in the first grade!
Jon sighed, and could only check it in the library after school started to see which step went wrong.
However, apart from Veritaserum, he has not been idle this semester; he has also successfully formulated several medicines that are quite difficult for students who have obtained the owls certificate in the potions course! .
For example, a resuscitation potion, a potion that can restore a lot of power to wizards;
Rejuvenation agents can re-germinate and grow newly dead plants;
Confusing potions, potions that can make humans or other artifact animals temporarily dull and confused after being splashed...
These medicines were all packed and put into the backpack in different categories, in case of emergency. I want to chat with more like-minded people about the "Legend of Harry Potter Schoolmaster", follow "Excellent Reading Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find friends~