The afternoon Potions class was a real torture for the students. There was no way around it. Anyone who had to face Snape's gloomy face would be trembling with fear, and some students even suffered a mental breakdown.
Many students were afraid of Snape. They were afraid that Snape would stare at them when they were brewing potions, and they were also afraid that Snape would call them up and ask questions during class.
In the entire wizarding world, there are actually very few wizards who are truly good at brewing potions, and even fewer potion masters like Snape, so it is unrealistic to expect everyone to become a potion master like him.
The two classes in the afternoon went smoothly. Snape taught everyone how to prepare a hair growth potion. In Albert's opinion, this potion was a boon for middle-aged bald men. If this potion was improved and sold in the Muggle world, it would probably be snapped up crazily.
"Anderson, stay after class." Snape stood behind Albert and watched him brew the potion. After a long time, he suddenly said softly.
"Yeah!" Albert responded casually, and gave Fred and the others a look that said, "I'm fine." Although Albert felt a little guilty when facing Snape, he was sure that Snape would not be able to see through his thoughts.
After all, he was already a man with level 3 Occlumency. Even if Snape drew his wand and used Legilimency on him, he might not be able to dig out the desired memory from Albert.
When the bell rang, all the students in the classroom breathed a sigh of relief. After hurriedly handing in the potion samples, they fled the Potions classroom.
"Did you add an overdose of ginger root to the hair growth potion?" Snape asked, staring at Albert's potion sample.
"I added two more times, five tablets." Albert curled his lips and said, "The effect of the hair growth potion is obviously more significant."
Snape stared at Albert for a long time, his eyes seemed to be shining with a strange light. Then, he took out a folded parchment from his pocket and handed it to Albert, saying in a strange tone, "It seems that you are famous now?"
Albert was a little confused, but he still reached out to take the parchment handed over by Snape, but heard the other party say: "Do you know what happened last night?"
"You mean a Slytherin student was caught for a night out?" Albert turned his eyes away from the parchment and said with a smile on his face. "That's really a pity."
"Now get out of my sight with your cleverness." Snape signaled Albert to leave.
Albert shrugged his shoulders, stuffed the parchment into his pocket, turned and left the gloomy and cold Potions classroom, and hurried forward. After a while, he caught up with the three people who had deliberately slowed down their pace to wait for him.
"Did the old bat do anything to you?" Fred asked worriedly, remembering what happened not long ago.
"What could happen?" Albert said with a smile.
"What does Snape want to see you about?" George asked curiously.
"He gave me a letter of introduction!" Albert took out a piece of parchment and explained, "A famous pharmacist is interested in me. He probably wants to see if we can establish a correspondence."
"You have quite a few pen pals," Fred asked, glancing at the parchment. "They actually want you to write for Practical Potion Master?"
"Maybe it's related to Hertock Dagworth!" Albert guessed. If Dagworth happened to mention him to other people, it would not be surprising that the editor-in-chief of "Practical Potion Master" confirmed the authenticity of this matter through Snape.
As we all know, many academic journals are associated with Hogwarts professors.
"You have a bright future ahead of you." Fred couldn't help but sigh, "The only question is when you will become Minister of Magic."
"The Minister of Magic is such a rip-off." Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at the three of them, saying with disdain, "Whoever wants to jump can do it."
They all couldn't help laughing.
"Today's hair growth potion is good. By the way, it seems that you added ginger root slices twice." The four of them walked and talked as they headed towards the library on the fifth floor.
"Well, five tablets. If it can eliminate that annoying spiciness, I think the hair growth potion will definitely be a best-seller in the Muggle world."
"The Muggle world?" Lee Jordan looked at Albert in astonishment. He knew that his roommate did have the idea of selling potions to Muggles, but this idea was too strange!
"There's no good way to cure baldness in the Muggle world." Albert explained with a smile: "A bunch of rich people will scramble to buy it. Anyway, they have plenty of money."
The three of them looked at each other and did not comment on Albert's thoughts.
Most wizards rarely have to use Muggle money. Although they know that they can use Muggle money to exchange for Galleons from Gringotts,... In fact, most pure-blood wizards can't even figure out Muggle coins, let alone think of using this method to make money.
"First, look for information about the jumping toadstool in the Encyclopedia of Toadstools." Albert said to Fred and the others, "I want to write a letter to Hertok Dagworth."
Albert planned to discuss with the potion master to see if the hair growth potion could be further improved or diluted to ensure that it could take effect slowly on Muggles without arousing suspicion.
Of course, Albert also wanted to buy dried mandrake roots through Dagworth. Ever since he knew that mandrake roots could be used to make powerful amulets, he couldn't help but want to try it.
“Found it!”
Soon after, George interrupted Albert's thoughts and placed the page about jumping toadstools in front of everyone.
"Let me see." Fred read the whole thing at a glance, muttering as he read: "When picking, you need to be careful not to inhale too much spores of the jumping toadstool, otherwise you will fall into confusion. ... It is best to wear dragon leather gloves to prevent the skin from coming into contact with the toadstool spores, which will cause skin redness and swelling... You need to take the roots away with you, otherwise the jumping toadstool will easily wither and rot..."
As a poisonous mushroom, there are indeed many things to pay attention to when picking toadstools. If you are not careful, you may really get into trouble.
As for the jumping toadstools cultivated in the school greenhouse, they are naturally safer.
Well, the best way to catch jumping toadstools in the wild is to lure them with food.
"It seems that the difficulty is higher than expected!" Albert put away the half-written letter and read the information he found. He thought for a while and said, "The food lure method is a bit difficult for us. Now we can only try our luck in the forest during the rainy season."
If you can't find it, you can only buy it from a pharmacy.
Moreover, anything dragon-related is not cheap, and dragon claw powder is no exception.
If the cost of purchasing dried mandrake roots was added, his wallet would probably be drastically emptied. Albert couldn't help but sigh, and he suddenly realized that he didn't have enough Galleons.
Looks like I have to find a way to earn more Galleons.