Chapter 100 Animals and Formulas

Chapter 100 Animals and Formulas

"how is it going"

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Steve, who had not yet recovered from the excitement of the game, asked Karan impatiently: "How is the situation in the Forbidden Forest now?"

After folding the pages of the advanced transformation technique in his hand, Karan said calmly: "The scope of the abnormality has expanded, and it has now affected the Thestrals community."

The expression on Steve's face suddenly froze.

But it didn’t take long before Karan smiled and added: “But at least I didn’t encounter any danger along the way, and I also met Professor Kettleburn and Professor Slughorn, and they didn’t notice either. Any victim other than Larry.”

Steve's expression recovered again, and he looked relieved: "I knew..."

"Although Larry hasn't recovered yet." Karan suddenly added again.

Steve's expression froze again.

After struggling for a while, he asked hesitantly: "But in the end, it's not dangerous, right?"

Seeing Steve's expression expecting him to say "right, right", Karan spread his hands indifferently.

"Even if there are no so-called abnormalities, the Forbidden Forest has never been safer."

Steve blinked blankly, and he suddenly felt that what Karan said made sense.

At this time, Gaspard, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, asked: "Can we only go to the Forbidden Forest during future Quidditch matches?"

It seems that he has already acquiesced that the anomalies in the Forbidden Forest are not a problem.

"Better so."

Karan recounted the previous conversation he heard from the centaurs. He explained: "Professor Meadows must have been to the Forbidden Forest, and she seemed to have a very unhappy relationship with the centaurs. If we sneak into the Forbidden Forest again, Lin, it’s best to avoid them to avoid being affected.”

"Aren't you still here?" Steve said matter-of-factly. He already regarded Karan as his future bodyguard by default.

"But the problem is that we can't be discovered either." Karan curled his lips and said, "It would be terrible if the invisibility cloak was confiscated."

"Yeah" Steve was stunned for a moment: "Is this what we should be worried about then?"

However, Gaspard also nodded in agreement: "Indeed, if there is no invisibility cloak, we will be in trouble if we want to do something secretly in the future."

"Uh..." Steve opened his mouth, but he finally gave up on the question of the ownership of this invisibility cloak.

"Then it's decided"

Karan clapped his hands happily: "We will go to the Forbidden Forest when the next Quidditch match is held."

"correct."

Just as the two nodded in agreement, Karan suddenly asked them: "Do you know of any magical animals that are particularly fast?"

Karan described the figure he found in the Forbidden Forest.

Gaspard pushed up his glasses with his fingers. He looked at Karan suspiciously, as if to say: You are kidding me.

Karan replied helplessly: "The woods there are so dense that you can't see anything at all. At most, it's just a blurry shadow."

At this time, Steve's professionalism finally came through. He tightened his little face, as if he wanted to make himself look more serious.

"Chimera beast, swallow-tailed dog, cat raccoon dog, ball escape bird, divine horned animal, shape-shifting lizard, sniff, Riem cow, cat leopard..."

A large number of magical animal names kept popping out of his mouth like jelly beans, and both Karan and Gaspard stared at him with strange eyes.

"There will be so many magical animals in the Forbidden Forest" Karan asked.

"Maybe. After all, the Forbidden Forest has existed for many years. Who knows what will be in it."

Steve said excitedly, as if he couldn't wait to go to the Forbidden Forest again.

"However, there is another possibility." He deliberately played it off and looked at the two of them with a proud look.

However, after realizing this, the two looked at each other in tacit understanding.

"What's the result of the Quidditch game?" Karan asked Gaspard while turning on the advanced transformation again.

"650 points to 570 points. In the end, Gryffindor won. They successfully caught the Snitch."

As he answered, Gespard opened the notebook in his hand, apparently wanting to add some information he had observed during the game.

Steve looked at the two of them with wide eyes, feeling a suffocation in his heart that could not be released, choking and making him extremely uncomfortable.

"It's a unicorn"

He finally yelled as if to vent his anger, and at the same time muttered very dissatisfied: "There have been unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, and unicorns are also very fast, and there are very few other types of magical animals. I can catch them."

"You don't even know this, huh"

"Unicorn" Karan was then willing to pay attention to Steve, and he asked: "Then if we meet again next time, this unicorn shouldn't bring us any trouble, right?"

"Well..." Under this serious question, Steve suddenly changed back to his serious look: "Normally, unicorns prefer women and hate men. And Judging from your description, the unicorn is very wary, perhaps affected by the anomaly in the Forbidden Forest."

"In short, it shouldn't cause trouble for us. At most, it just doesn't want to get close to us."

Karan nodded silently, agreeing with Steve's view.

So, after about three weeks.

"You're not going to watch tomorrow's game."

In the smoky potion preparation room, Lily covered her nose and said to Karan in confusion: "But tomorrow's game is Ravenclaw versus Hufflepuff, and your own college's team is also there."

"Anyway, either Ravenclaw will win or Hufflepuff will win." Karan said with an indifferent expression: "What's there to see? Just wait for the result."

These words made Lily speechless.

"OK then."

She took the mugwort juice and valerian root that Karan had processed and added them to the bubbling crucible in the order recorded in the book.After a few careful stirs, the potion turned dark blue, but not the light pink it should have been.

"Oh, failed again."

Lily put the mixing stick aside in despair, her head hanging weakly, and her long red hair looked a little messy at this time.

Karan also put down the work of handling ingredients, and comforted him habitually: "It's okay, after all, it is a newt level course, how can it be so simple."

But at this time, Lily didn't seem to be comforted at all. She pursed her lips in depression and muttered in a low voice: "Why hasn't Sif come yet..."

Now it is the fourth time that the three of them have taken the time to come here after their first Quidditch match.The same magical potion, Living Hell Decoction, was prepared every time, but it failed every time.

Today, Snape was even more unusually late, and he didn't know why.

After the two of them dealt with the failed potion, Snape finally arrived out of breath.

"What's wrong with you?" After seeing Snape's appearance, Lily asked doubtfully, "Why are you here so late?"

Karan didn't speak, just stared at him with burning eyes.

"I..." Snape hesitated for a while, and finally he said hesitantly: "I went to the library."

Under the gaze of the two of them, he took out books one after another from his backpack and piled them on the table.

Karan picked up the books one by one and looked at them, and found that these books were all related to potions.

"I borrowed these from the library."

Snape explained in a low voice, seeming to be apologizing for being late.

"When we prepared the laughter potion, we succeeded in one go, but that was not the case with the Living Hell Potion. Both potions are newt-level in difficulty, and they are also potions that do not need to be brewed for too long."

"I was thinking, maybe it wasn't that we made a mistake, but... there was something wrong with the recipe in the book."

Upon hearing this, Lily and Karan immediately looked at him in surprise.

"I mean......"

Under the gaze of the two, Snape suddenly became more panicked.

"The Laughter Potion was something that Mr. Butch knew about when he was very young, and it was the real reason that led him to become a pharmacist. But it was much later that he came into contact with the Potion of Living Hell."

"Perhaps, when he improved the formulas of the two potions, the degree of modification was originally different. Relatively speaking, the formula of the Laughter Potion is more perfect, while the Living Hell Decoction is... "

He pursed his lips tightly and did not continue speaking.

"This is so stupid."

Finally, he whispered and lowered his head.

"It is foolish to question a professional pharmacist's formula..."

Karan and Lily looked at each other silently.

"So, Sev, what you mean is that you want to improve the formula of the Living Hell Decoction." Lily tried her best to not sound so surprised or rude.

"Just the three of us"

Snape still lowered his head, feeling inexplicably ashamed under Lily's questioning.

"No, it's the two of you." Karan said suddenly.

"Ah" Lily looked at him with wide eyes.

"After all, I'm only responsible for handling the ingredients, right?" Karan said with an innocent look, "But you are the only two people who are really responsible for preparing the potion from beginning to end, so the matter of improving the formula will naturally be left to you. "

Snape finally raised his head, but his eyes were filled with the same surprise as Lily's, as if he couldn't believe what Callan had said.

"Just the three of us" Lily asked again.

But this time her tone was not so deliberately suppressed, but full of disbelief.

Karan, it seems he means business.

"Two, two." Karan raised two fingers and made several gestures in front of the two of them.

"However, it's not wrong to say there are three people."

The sudden turn of events made Lily and Snape unable to recover, and Karan chuckled softly.

"What do you think I did when handling those potion ingredients?" he asked.

"Great." Lily said subconsciously.

"No, it's just perfect."

Snape's tone was more complex.

He had also tried to handle the ingredients himself, but it was precisely because of this that he realized how perfect Karan's cooking was.

"So, now we have the perfect ingredient."

Karan said as he put his arms on their shoulders and looked into their eyes.

“And, we have a great pharmacist.”

"It seems like the three of us are pretty good."

Callan's arrogant tone made Lily cover her mouth and laugh, while Snape listened blankly, feeling a strange feeling in his heart for no reason.

He seemed to already know what Karan was going to say next.

"And all we need now is a formula."

Karan whispered softly, but the two could hear every word he said.

"One...at least worthy of our formula."

"From now on."