What on earth was the previous owner of this book doing?
Harry lowered his head to carefully identify the ingredients of the potion. Several of the ingredients had been crossed out, so it was difficult to identify them.
It took him a long time to read the contents clearly, so he was much slower than the others.
When he returned to his crucible with what he needed from the storage cabinet, most of the students had started to process the second or third ingredients. Hermione was fast and had already started to put the processed ingredients into the crucible. The crucible in front of her was already filled with light blue steam.
Next to Hermione, Elwyn was processing the ingredients calmly. Harry noticed that Elwyn was looking up at him from time to time.
When their eyes met, Elwyn smiled at him.
Harry thought that Elwyn's flustered and bewildered look must be hilarious. However, Elwyn still had the time to look around and see what the others were doing. Everyone's eyes were glued to their potions. Everyone was very focused and wanted Slughorn's reward.
Harry wasn't as relaxed as Elwyn. He began to cut the valerian roots as fast as he could.
The process lasted about three minutes. Then it was the dozy beans, which had to be cut into slices.
It was a difficult herb to process. Its smooth surface, hard texture, and small size made it difficult to handle.
From Harry's perspective, it would take at least five minutes to cut them into thin slices.
He admired Hermione because she only took five minutes to process the valerian roots and dozy beans.
At this time, Slughorn began to walk down from the podium and patrolled among the students. He walked past Slytherin's table.
"Sir, I think you must know my grandfather, Abraxas Malfoy, right?" Malfoy asked immediately.
His voice wasn't low. More than half of the students in the classroom could hear what he was saying.
"Yes!" Slughorn didn't even look at Malfoy. "I was very sad to hear that he died, but it's to be expected. He was so old, yet he contracted the Dragonplague syphilis …"
What kind of disease was Dragon Plague Syphilis?!
Most people, including Iven, had question marks on their faces.
But it was obvious that Malfoy wanted to please Slughorn.
He was probably hoping that Slughorn would treat him differently, or give him special treatment like Snape.
However, Slughorn did not want to have anything to do with Malfoy. He was probably going to be disappointed!
If he wanted to win that bottle of Blessing Potion, he could only rely on his own intelligence.
Elwyn withdrew his gaze and placed the cut herbs into the crucible. He turned around and continued to observe Harry.
Harry also shifted his attention from Malfoy to the Sleepy Beans in front of him. He tried to cut it, but it was harder than he had imagined. He was very slow, and the slices were uneven. After cutting a bean, he looked down at the textbook to make sure that he had cut both Sleepy Beans into thin slices.
The scribbles on the textbook were really annoying. He had to struggle to identify the operating instructions from the scribbles of the original owner of the textbook. What was even more annoying was that the guy, for some reason, did not agree to cut the Sleepy Beans into slices.
The guy crossed out that line and wrote another explanation next to it: Squeeze it with the side of a silver knife. Juice will come out more easily than slicing it.
It took Harry a lot of effort to read that sentence. At this time, Hermione was already gently stirring the liquid in the crucible with her wand. Her potion was very close to the "well-mixed, brown liquid."
The book said that this was the ideal state when the potion was half boiled.
Harry was hesitant. Should he follow the normal procedure and spend a lot of time slicing the Sleepy Beans, or follow the modified method of the original owner of the textbook and use the silver knife to stack the Sleepy Beans?
No matter how he looked at it, the latter was much simpler.
"Hermione, can I borrow your silver knife?"
Hermione nodded impatiently, her eyes not leaving her potion for a moment.
She was a little annoyed. The book said that the potion should have turned a light snow-green color by now, but her crucible was still dark purple.
"What's wrong?" Elwyn asked, moving closer to Harry.
It seemed that Snape had made some changes to how to handle the Sleepy Beans. Whether these changes were really effective or not, they could now be verified.
He did not care about his potion at all, nor did he seem to be in a hurry.
This was because, according to the normal procedure, the potion needed to be boiled for at least 15 to 30 minutes before the Sleepy Beans inside could take effect. The length of time depended on the thickness of the Sleepy Beans.
Although Hermione was fast now, it did not mean that she would finish earlier than others.
There would be a relatively long waiting period, unless Snape really invented a new way to handle the Sleepy Beans.
"The previous owner of this book said that it is easier to squeeze the Sleepy Bean from the side with a silver knife than to cut it," Harry said, his finger sliding over the small line of words in the blank space of the textbook. "I'm not sure..."
He used the silver knife to squeeze the Sleepy Bean, and unexpectedly, the bean immediately oozed a lot of juice.
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would not have believed that there was so much water in the shriveled bean.
Sure enough, the modifications on the textbook were useful. This textbook was left behind by Snape.
Harry put the Sleepy Bean juice into his crucible, and the potion immediately turned into the light snow-green color described in the book.
To be honest, he was very surprised.
At this time, the liquid in Hermione's crucible was still that dark purple color.
Harry, who had been the slowest to progress, became the fastest because of this change.
"Oh my god, this..." Harry's eyes widened, and his anger towards the previous owner immediately disappeared.
The sudden change made him a little excited, as if he had suddenly hit the jackpot.
"Lower your voice, you don't want the whole class to know about this, right? If you have anything to say, say it after class. For now, do as the original owner of this book said." Elwyn said, motioning for Harry to lower his voice. Since he had verified the authenticity of the textbook, he decided to do as it said.
Although he had already put the cut Sleepy Beans into the crucible, the potion inside had started to turn that dark purple color, and it was impossible to start again, it was still possible to add a little Sleepy Bean juice to save it.
Elwyn squeezed a Sleepy Bean and carefully added the juice. He was very slow, paying attention to the changes in the potion. When the color of the potion was about to change, he stopped, waiting for the original Sleepy Bean slices in the crucible to take effect.
Harry had already begun to narrow his eyes to read the next instruction. The textbook said that he had to stir counterclockwise until the potion became as clear as water.
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