226 Shrinking and Restoration
Gideon's multiple impersonations of Fabian didn't seem to bother anyone except Callan.
Even Lily and Snape, who had clearly been informed by Callan, didn't have the heart to care about this kind of thing.
"Maybe it was just a joke."
In the potion preparation room behind the mirror on the fifth floor, Snape pretended to observe Karan's method of handling the ingredients, and at the same time carefully whispered: "You know, they like drama originally, maybe they arranged this in advance. It’s just part of the content.”
Although this excuse was so lame that even Snape himself would not believe it, Karan nodded silently after taking a sneak glance at Lily, who was frowning.
The atmosphere in the potion preparation room was now extremely depressing, and both Karan and Snape were trying their best to avoid making any too loud noises.
Because Lily suddenly learned to lose her temper.
This was not a simple temper tantrum, but an extremely violent one, even with Snape's unique sarcastic tone and Callan's unique style of irritating people to death.
It seems that Lily is not only talented in magic, but she can also easily learn how to make other people obey.
Especially when the potion in the crucible failed again, Karan couldn't help but paused with the silver knife in his hand, and Snape didn't even dare to breathe.
"What are you all looking at me doing?"
Lily seemed to be on the verge of rage, and her dazzling red hair became messy, symbolizing the anger in her heart at this time.
"Go on." She said coldly.
Then the voice sounded again.
However, this was limited to the sounds of ingredients being processed, plus the sound of slightly relieved breathing.
Kahlan glanced sideways at Snape, as if to say it was all his fault.
Snape stared back not to be outdone, the corners of his mouth twitching, trying to sarcastically say something as usual.
But when Lily's gaze swept through the light steam, Snape immediately lowered his head, his face hidden under his long hair.
Karan's head was even lower than his. It wasn't until the piercing gaze moved away that he quietly raised his head and took a secret look at Lily.
Lily was pressing her lips tightly, and her head kept turning back and forth between various potion books.
Snape cleaned the cauldron as quietly as possible, and then carefully placed it back on the flame holder.
At the other end of the long table, there were several glass bottles neatly placed, each filled with two kinds of magic potion.
One is a polyjuice potion that was successfully prepared as early as the holidays, while the other is a shrinking potion that was only recently successful.
Now they are all generously placed on the table, ready for anyone to use.
Even Karan is no exception. He can take away these potions at any time, including the polyjuice potion that Lily has been hiding.
And all of this was just because of an emotional word that Snape had unintentionally said during the first gathering after Karan retrieved the ingredients.
[I really don’t know what would have happened if we had not successfully prepared the Living Hell Decoction. 】
When she heard this sentence, Lily was stunned for a full minute.
Because the result is obvious, if Karan did not have the Living Hell Decoction at that time and had to face those Acromantulas alone, he would undoubtedly fall into a more dangerous situation.
He might even die in the Forbidden Forest.
After that, Lily stared at Karan for another five minutes.
It wasn't until Karan couldn't bear to break the silence that Lily asked.
"Would you still have done those things if there was no Living Hell Decoction?"
Karan blinked.
But he did not answer the question until after the meeting.
Lily's eyes turned red before she left, and she ran away without looking back.
Snape looked at the two of them back and forth helplessly, then came to his senses and quickly chased after Lily's back.
It was the weirdest gathering they had ever had.
After that, Lily changed completely.
She silently brought the polyjuice potion to the next party, and then ordered the two of them to start preparing the potion in a resolute manner.
That way, he looked like a younger version of Professor McGonagall.
Although neither Callan nor Snape were students of Gryffindor House, they still obeyed.
Snape felt guilty for talking too much.
But Karan knew in his heart that Lily had voluntarily become a resentful and hateful "accomplice".
After all, no matter how big a disaster you get into, it's still better than actually dying.
If you can withstand Lily's sudden change in temper, to a certain extent, this can be considered a good thing.
Because they quickly made the shrinking potion.
This third-grade course is not difficult for them at all.In addition, the production cycle is very short (it only takes one class), which also gives them enough opportunities to try many times.
But the problem suddenly appeared in formulating a magic potion to eliminate the effects of the shrinking potion.
This is because the effect of the shrink potion is continuous and will last for a long time, and there is no way to wait for the effect to disappear automatically.
Zygmunt Bacchi, the author of "The Book of Potions", once accidentally spilled some shrinking potion on the lawn outside his house, and as a result, a lamb was shrunk to the size of a fluffy little mouse.
During the cold winter months on Hemetra, Butch would use the shrunken lambs as earmuffs.
Moreover, he once gave this magic potion to the Tertius brothers. As a result, they shrank to the size of beetles and hid under the cupboard for several days to prevent their cats from picking them out and eating them.
If they couldn't prepare a magic potion that eliminated the effect, Lily wouldn't be able to use these shrinking potions anywhere, which would even prevent them from testing whether they were really successful.
Because Snape has always refused to let Kinch be used as a test subject, this is his first pet.Even if it was just an unwelcome toad, he had no intention of giving up on Kinch now.
In desperation, they had no choice but to continue trying to prepare this reduction potion, but this made them hit a wall and made Lily become more and more restless.
In her imagination, it seemed that Karan might have to fight a fire dragon one day.The only reason why he was bitten to death was because he didn't bring the restoring potion with him at the time.
Karan couldn't refute Lily's fallacy, because he was definitely more likely to be eaten at the size of a mouse than at normal height.
But that didn't make Lily feel better.
Lily looked up after another failure and she glared at Kahlan as if to say it was all his fault.
Karan spread his hands helplessly.
He couldn't refute this fallacy, because among the three people present, he was the only one most likely to use the shrinking potion.
But it was this calm attitude that made Lily even more angry.
"I'm going to find Professor Slughorn!"
She shouted half venting, half impulsively.
"I've had enough! I've had enough of failing!"
"I was worried about Sifu before, but now I am worried that you will..."
Lily paused.
She couldn't give up on her friends, couldn't stop worrying about their life and death, and she really couldn't say the word "die".
Snape once again became at a loss, not only because he was also the target of anger, but also because he was simply not good at dealing with such situations.
He hates arguing.
It's disgusting.
In the silence, Callan reached out and patted Snape on the shoulder.
Then he turned to look at Lily.
After taking a deep breath, Karan said softly.
"Then let's go find Professor Slughorn."