Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 269 An Arrow in the Knee

   "That... Albert, I suddenly have a good idea."

  At night, in the Gryffindor common room, Fred, who was buried in his homework, suddenly raised his head and said.

   "What's a good idea?" Albert asked without raising his head.

   "I got an idea from fat lip dressing."

   "Fat lip seasoning?" Albert was a little stunned when he heard this name, and asked with a slight frown, "Aren't you working on a thesis on freezing spells?"

   "Ahem, that...I mean Tongue Candy." Fred picked up a variegated bean and threw it into his mouth, his eyes lit up.

   "Nothing new." Lee Jordan commented.

   "Shut up and listen to me." Fred couldn't help but glared at Li Jordan, and continued to explain, "Since swelling agents can be added, why can't it be swelling agents or swelling magic?"

   "Expansion magic?"

   Albert looked up at Fred. The easiest way is to add expansion agent to the candy. The effect is similar to expansion magic, but he is not sure if there is such a potion. As for expansion magic? He felt that Fred and George couldn't do this for the time being at the current level, and even he didn't have a good way of doing it for a while.

   "So, you want me to help you finish?" Albert raised his eyebrows and asked back.

   Both of them felt a little embarrassed, obviously that's what they meant.

"You don't want to open a joke shop. If that's the case, just figure out a way for yourself and turn your ideas into reality, otherwise you will never have a joke shop of your own." Albert reminded, "After all, the fun items in the joke shop need to be created by you, don't you?"

   "Oh, all right." Fred was a little discouraged, and responded casually.

   "Tell me what you think." George was very interested.

   A few minutes later, Albert said angrily, "Why don't you say that after eating candy, the whole person inflated into a balloon?"

   "I think the tongue is more interesting." Fred opened his mouth wide, making movements of sticking out his tongue and panting, "It would be better if the tongue becomes bigger and bigger."

   "Are you a devil?"

   "Don't make your drool fly." Lee Jordan complained angrily

   "I think turning into a balloon is more interesting."

   "It's relatively simple to cast a spell directly, but to make it into candy, I'm afraid I can only rely on potions or other methods." Albert said, "Also, have you considered the danger of these joke props?"

   "Dangerous, is it dangerous?" George obviously didn't think so, "Most adult wizards can easily remove the expansion magic."

  "That's right, this is just an interesting joke prop, as long as it doesn't flow into the Muggle world, there will be no other problems." Fred echoed.

Magic is undoubtedly dangerous to ordinary people, even if it is just an ordinary prank, it may bring disaster to them, such as the expansion spell, once a person is inflated, without the help of magic, this life is probably over, but for For a wizard who knows magic, it may be just a funny joke.

  At this moment, Albert suddenly understood why the Ministry of Magic prohibited underage wizards from using magic outside the school.

  Once some bad things happen, people from the Ministry of Magic will need to come to help wipe the ass. Once there is too much noise, it will be even more troublesome. In a wizard's family, the parents of the children will naturally solve these problems by themselves.

   "Could it be that you guys made that thing?" Angelina stared at the guys in front of her suspiciously. Listening to the topic they were discussing just now, it was really possible. Moreover, that guy is the most suspicious.

  Angelina looked suspiciously at Albert, who was still flipping through the brick book in his hand.

   "By the way, do you know? The price of anti-inflammatory drugs on the black market has risen again." Shanna suddenly changed the subject.

   "The black market, **** it, why didn't I think of it!" Fred was annoyed when he heard Shannah talk about the anti-swelling agent, why he didn't think of this way of making money.

"Come on, I dare say no one would dare to drink the detumescence you brewed." Shanna couldn't help but give Fred a blank look when she heard this, "It's fine if it's Albert, but no one will drink it if it's yours." If you dare to buy and drink, what if you get poisoned after drinking it?"

   "My potion is still very good." Fred immediately quibbled.

   "How do I remember, you failed the potion homework last time, and you were locked up by Professor Snape." Angelina, who was playing wizard cards with Shanna, unceremoniously exposed Fred's lies.

   "Would someone be poisoned by using detumescence?" Angelina was curious about what level of detumescence would be required to turn the detumescence into poison?

"Once the potion's configuration method is wrong, it may indeed become a pot of poison, and the swelling agent is no exception. Otherwise, the swelling agent on the black market in Hogwarts will not be a big hit." Albert is not very surprised, " Who knows which unlucky person will be poisoned after drinking the potion he prepared!"

   "Shut up, don't talk nonsense!" George said.

   "Ah, it's too late." Lee Jordan covered his face with his hands, looking completely finished.

   "What's wrong with you?" Aliya looked at the three of them in puzzlement.

   "Don't you know that Albert's words are more accurate than his predictions." Fred explained, "Especially those bad things, every one is accurate."

  It turns out that Albert's words are really poisonous.

  The next day, a third-year Hufflepuff student showed mild symptoms of poisoning because he used a detumescence agent he made himself, and was sent directly to the school hospital.

  Snape's nose was almost crooked when he heard the words. Seeing that his student was actually poisoned by drinking the potion he brewed, he threatened to lock him up for a month after he recovered from his illness.

  That idiot literally lost his face.

   "I'm right!" Fred said helplessly to the stunned Angelina after hearing the words. Then, he was going to continue researching the formula of the anti-swelling agent, and he hadn't given up the idea of ​​selling the anti-swelling agent to make money.

   "I think you should read that the Gryffindor team must win every day now." Angelina said to Albert seriously.

   "I don't think you can win!"

   "Shut up, bastard, don't say such nonsense!" George reached out and covered Albert's mouth, trying to make him swallow the words again.

   "If we really lose, it must be Albert's fault." Fred looked sad.

"Okay, stop making trouble." Albert interrupted the few people who were about to say something, "Give up, there is no shortage of detumescence drugs in the black market, and even if you can really succeed, there is no way How much money you make, stop messing around.

   "How much is a bottle of detumescence?" Lee Jordan asked curiously.

   "3 Sickles a bottle." It was Aliya who answered them, and she took out a glass bottle containing detumescence agent from her pocket, "It was very popular on the black market a while ago."

  Since Madam Pomfrey told everyone the secret of swollen sausage lips, many people will carry a bottle of detumescence medicine with them in case they accidentally get tricked, and no one wants others to see a joke.

   "Why is this mark so familiar!" Lee Jordan looked at the A.A mark on the bottle.

   "A.A?"

  Everyone looked at Albert in unison.

   "Well, last time I made a big pot, I kept a bottle for myself, gave some to others, and sold all the rest." Albert did not hide it. In fact, he didn't intend to sell anti-inflammatory drugs at all. Later, he was also tricked once, and after taking out the medicine to eliminate the swelling, someone asked him where he got it, and then... Albert set a price casually and sold the swelling medicine to them.

  Of course, the glass bottle used in the potion comes from the Transfiguration and Copying spells.

   "Wow, by the way, you didn't tell us about the black market?"

  There is a black market in Hogwarts, and some students occasionally trade some contraband with each other through the black market, such as some things in Zuko's shop, or some illegal potions, and gadgets for killing people.

  Of course, there are also black magic books, and occasionally someone will ask to help configure some intelligence enhancers.

   It's just that this kind of potion was easily detected during the exam, and there are several such unlucky people in Hogwarts every year.

  (end of this chapter)