Hogwarts Asylum

In the consulting room, looking at Draco who looked confused, Olorin laughed.

"Teacher, if it's not because of his poor image, then what's the reason?" Draco wondered, "I can't figure out why that boy struggled to be powerful but couldn't get what he wanted."

"Because..."

O'Loughlin looked up at the motionless portrait on the wall, his eyes a little hollow, as if he was reminiscing or thinking about how to continue the story.

"Because reality is like a pot of tea, you know?"

Draco looked at the transparent teapot in the tea tray. The tea soup was yellow-green, with a transparent filter filled with long tea leaves and pink petals in the middle. Even if a lot of petals were added, it would still be so bitter that it made people sluttish. He had just drank the tasteless Kuding tea.

"Are you saying that even if you add a lot of happiness to life, it can't change the cruelty and bitterness of reality?" Draco said with a vague understanding.

Orolin glanced at Draco in surprise. How could this kid come to such a mature conclusion at such a young age?

"No, no, no, Draco, who says people can't be happy all their lives?" The humanoid Erha appeared in Olorin's mind. She was probably teaching third-year students in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

"The reason why many people say that reality is too cruel is actually because they always want to reach for things that are far away in the horizon, but ignore the things around them. Such people generally have a common problem, that is, they aim too high and always want to reach beyond their capabilities. s things.

Of course, there are also truly unfortunate people, but they have no time to complain about the cruel reality. "

As O'Loughlin said, he made another pot of tea, the same kuding tea leaves and flower petals, the same water. Then he picked up another cup and placed it next to the cup that had only been touched once in front of Draco, and poured it. One cup, "Try again."

Draco glanced doubtfully. He didn't like this kind of tea very much. It was really too bitter, but he still did as the teacher said. He picked up the tea cup and took only a small sip to avoid spitting it out later, and then He opened his eyes wide and drank the rest of the tea.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Orolin looked at Draco with a smile.

Draco nodded vigorously, but then he was confused. The tea leaves in the teapot were obviously Kuding tea, which was no different from before. Why did this cup of tea taste sweet and delicious now? Draco guessed, did the teacher Secretly used magic to change the taste of the tea soup.

"Do you think I secretly used magic?" Orolin poured Draco another cup, picked up the cup and blew on it, "But no, I just changed the way of making tea. This is me What I want to tell you, Draco, is that reality is like this pot of tea, the same tea leaves and petals, the same water, but the brewed tea soup is different."

"You're saying that whether reality is painful or not depends on how we deal with it?" Draco said, "But does this have anything to do with the boy not getting what he wanted?"

"Of course it has something to do with it," O'Luolin said, "It's just because he had a wrong understanding from the beginning and chose the wrong way, so the result he got in the end couldn't be too good."

Draco took a sip of tea and nodded in understanding.

O'Loughlin swapped the two teacups in front of Draco, then pointed to the cup from the right to the left, which Draco had only tasted and never touched again, and said: "Try this again. cup."

Draco obediently picked up the teacup and took a sip, his expression instantly twisted, it was so bitter.

"Is it still very painful?" Oluolin said.

"Yes," Draco said with a frown.

"Actually, the two cups of tea have not changed places."

"Then why..." Draco became even more confused.

"Humans are very complex creatures, Draco. What the eyes see is not necessarily true. Everything affects our cognition. Sometimes, even the brain may deceive us." Euro Lin said, "Just like now, you saw me changing the positions of the two cups, so your brain tells you that this cup is the very bitter cup, so you will think it is very bitter."

"Like another 'me' in my dream?

He always firmly believes that Muggles and Muggle-born wizards are dirty..." Draco paused and did not say those three words, because he always kept in mind what Teacher O'Loughlin said on the night when school started. If so, "Even after seeing that many Muggle-born wizards are actually very good, he has been lying to himself that they got it through cheating..."

"I'm glad you have this understanding." What Orolin would not tell Draco was that he had secretly used Legilimency on Draco just now. It was the fourth stage of Legilimency. The function is to give people hints.

……

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, the third-grade wizards were all flipping through the textbooks boredly, because Professor Petrova asked everyone to study by themselves as soon as they arrived, saying that she had not finished reading the textbook.

"Why is this professor completely different from last night?"

In the corner, Fred was discussing with George in a low voice.

"Maybe she is being controlled?" George guessed.

The reason why they thought this was because when Li Jordan saw Professor Petrova just now, he was excited and loudly asked where the little leprechaun went last night. Then he was greeted by Professor Petrova with a straight face. She disrespected the classroom discipline and was asked to stand by the podium. Fortunately, Professor Petrova had just arrived and may not have known that students could be deducted points, so everyone was in a relaxed mood.

At this time, Catherine was looking seriously at the Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook she borrowed from the library.

She actually didn't want to keep a straight face, but this was her first time in class, so she subconsciously imitated the usual appearance of the professors in Kodosdorez. Although the group of old men were joking in private, they were in class. He always has a straight face and punishes students at every turn, so the students of Kodosdorez are always very well-behaved during class, but after class, they even dare to call the professor a brother.

After a while, Catherine finally turned the last page. She stood up and glanced at the dark-skinned little wizard with strange braids beside the podium, but did not let him return to his seat.

"Let's start class now and continue from what you said last time." Catherine said with a serious expression, "I don't really like the description of werewolves in the textbook, so in this class we have to re-understand werewolves. Does anyone know, initially How did the werewolf appear?"

The little wizards looked at each other because there was no answer to this question in the textbook. It only talked about how ferocious and untrustworthy werewolves were.

Catherine looked at the little wizards who were all lowering their heads for fear of being called out to answer questions. She pointed at Lee Jordan beside the podium and said, "You answer."

"Born from a wolf and a human." Lee Jordan replied loudly. He actually didn't know the answer, so he could only guess.

"Wrong, does anyone have any other answers?" Catherine asked.

The little wizards lowered their heads even lower, because most of them had the same answer as Lee Jordan.

"It is written in the textbook that a person bitten by a werewolf will have a certain probability of becoming a werewolf even if the wound is treated in time." Catherine said, "So from this point of view, we can know that werewolves are contagious. , and this is the origin of the original werewolf.

In Kodosdorez, we call werewolves lycanthropes. They were all normal humans at first, but unfortunately they suffered from lycanthropy.

Lycanthropy is actually similar to the Maledictus magic that you will learn in fifth grade. It is a curse rooted in the blood, but unlike Maledictus, it is only inherited through the mother. Spread the message to your daughter that lycanthropy treats everyone equally..."

Catherine introduced what she had learned about werewolves in Kodos Dorez. The young wizards in the audience couldn't help but feel a little moved. They had never had such a normal Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

……

In the Potions classroom, Snape finally finished explaining the power potion and began to let the little wizards make it themselves.

"If you can't even make a potion of strength, then you won't be able to survive in the deep mountains and forests, because the trolls there won't welcome pieces of meat that are dumber than themselves. Maybe eating them will make them even dumber. .”

Snape was making sarcastic remarks on the stage, but the little wizards in the audience pretended not to hear it. The Slytherins did not think that their dean was talking about them, while the Gryffindors were not afraid of death. It looks like boiling water is scalding. We have been hearing this for two months, and everyone is almost used to it.

In the corner, Neville was cutting valerian leaves very slowly. There was a light brown stick in his hand, which was the valerian root that Hermione had just cut. Hermione said that she could use it as a wand first. , and then waited for her to make the potion before lending him her wand, so Neville could only move as slowly as possible.

On the other side, Seamus was very relaxed now, because Snape didn't seem to notice that Draco was absent from class at all. He was grinding a white arm bone into powder while talking quietly to Dean at the next table. .

"Could this arm bone be dug out of a cemetery?" Dean joked.

"How can anyone's arm bones be so thin?" Seamus pinched his arm bones.

"Of course, a newborn baby." came an indifferent voice.

Seamus was so frightened that he threw his arm bone into the cauldron, but not because of the arm bone, but because these words were said by Snape who floated over at some point.

"If you don't pay attention in class, two points will be deducted from Gryffindor." Snape walked away.

"Can't what he said be true?" Dean quietly put down the arm bone in his hand.

"You're stupid." Simo picked the arm bone out of the crucible. Fortunately, the fire was not yet fired under the crucible, so there was nothing in it. "A baby is so weak, so if you want to use it, you have to use something from a giant, it's so thick."

As he said that, Seamus glanced at Snape, who was persecuting other Gryffindors, and made a circle with his hands.

Not far from Seamus, Harry and Ron were working together. One was grinding the fangs of fanged geraniums and the teeth of non-venomous snakes, and the other was grinding bone meal.

In front of Ron, the spring water in the crucible was slowly bubbling.

"Have you finished grinding it over there, Harry?" Ron asked looking at the ground bone powder. He was very confident that he could make a strength potion. After all, the most basic strength potion only requires the fangs of the fang geranium. Mash together the teeth of non-venomous snakes, grind the arm bones into powder, then add bone powder first, while imagining that you want to be strong, stir counterclockwise until the potion in the crucible turns white, add tooth powder, and continue fantasizing , stir clockwise until the potion turns yellow, and finally wave the wand, and it's done.

Ron guessed that strength potion was probably the easiest potion to make in the wizarding world.

"It'll be ready soon." Harry protected the mouth of the grinding bowl with one hand and used the grinding hammer to grind it hard with the other hand. "Grind my portion first."

"Your portion is already ground. Do you want to add valerian?" Ron asked.

"add!"

On the stage, Snape returned here, looked around the classroom, and said slowly: "It seems that many people think that strength potions are too simple, so I am here to announce an announcement."

The little wizards all stopped and looked at the podium.

"Each of you has three basic materials and three additional materials, so you need to make a pot of strength potion with two additional materials, and whether it is made successfully or not, you all need to drink it on the spot. "

Snape's words made many people nervous, because just now he only taught how to add additional valerian, but did not teach how to add two materials at the same time.

"Professor." Uchi Akinbo raised his left hand.

"Say." Snape looked at Uchi Akinbo.

"What will happen if the production fails?" Uchi Akinbo looked curious.

"Good question." Snape twitched his lips, "In all of your drawers, there is a piece of feces..."

Snape did not finish what he said, but the young wizards all understood it, because they had been taught before that bezoar is a material with a strong detoxification effect, which means that if the strength potion fails to be made, it will Get a pot of poisonous potion.

The little wizards opened the drawers and took a look, fearing that if they really failed later, there would be no bezoars in their drawers.

Hermione also took a look. It wasn't that she didn't have confidence in herself. She was just thinking that since the strength potion was a "free" potion, what would be the effect of adding bezoar to it when making it?

"What should I do? Hermione," Neville held a bezoar that was only about the size of his thumb. "My stone seems to be too small. Will it not be enough..."

Neville subconsciously believed that he would fail.

"Don't worry, Neville. Under normal circumstances, the potion turns white first and then yellow. After adding valerian, it will turn green. It all changes according to the color of the material. So when we add the leech juice, we only need to Just wait until the potion turns dark brown."

"But..." Neville was still a little worried, what if there was dark brown poison.

"How about the two of us change, and I'm going to add feces into the crucible."