Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 88 Really Shame on Alchemy

   "Is there no satellite around Mars?" Fred was busy doing homework. Not long ago, he discovered to his dismay that he missed his homework in astronomy class, and now he has to rush to do one.

"Mars has two satellites, but the satellites are relatively small." Sitting across Fred's desk, Albert sat flipping through the book while answering his questions: "The closer the planet is to the sun, the less likely it is to form satellites." .Mercury and Venus have no satellites."

   "Then... Mercury and Venus, which planet is closer to the sun." Fred continued to ask after writing some words on the parchment.

   "Mercury is closer to the sun."

   A few minutes later, Fred got up and stretched himself, and passed the parchment to Albert across the table, "Finally caught up, help me check for errors."

  The homework of the astronomy class is to draw a star map of the solar system. On the map, several major planets need to be drawn in detail, and the names of the planets and the number of satellites need to be marked.

   Albert glanced at the star chart on the parchment, and saw Fred's mistakes in homework at a glance, and reminded, "The positions of Saturn and Jupiter are wrong."

  Fred took back the parchment and changed the positions of Saturn and Jupiter without any hassle.

  After finishing his homework, Fred picked up a piece of fruit from the table, took a bite, turned his head to look at George next to him and asked, "Have you finished?"

  George took it for granted: "It's been done a long time ago."

  Fred pretended to be angry and said: "Traitor, you actually did your homework secretly without telling me."

   "I asked you to do it together, but you didn't come by yourself, who can you blame?" George couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Fred, "I still remember what you said back then..."

   "After you finish, lend me to copy." Lee Jordan said with a grin.

   "Yes, that's what you said."

   "You didn't borrow me to copy."

   "You didn't say you wanted to copy!"

  The twins began to bicker on a daily basis. In fact, the two of them were in a hurry. If they were very busy, they would not have time to do this kind of thing.

"What book are you reading?" Lee Jordan asked curiously. He just finished today's homework and did it with Albert. It's much faster to do homework by yourself.

   "Alchemy for Fools." Albert turned the book upside down and showed Li Qiaodan the cover of the book. This book was "Simple Alchemy" introduced by Professor Broad.

"Alchemy doesn't seem to be taught in the school." Angelina walked towards this side, still holding the monocular telescope that would be used in astronomy class, and sat down two chairs away from Albert, "What are you doing?" It's time to go to the Astronomy Tower, and the class time seems to be coming soon."

   "Wait another ten minutes, I don't want to stay on the tower to blow the air." Albert took out his pocket watch and put it beside him, continuing to look through the books in his hand.

   It's a pity that this book is a bit thin, even after reading it, it can't be counted as increasing the number of tasks read by the reading maniac.

  The author of "Simple Alchemy" is Zuko.

  That’s right, it’s the Zuko from Zuko’s Joke Shop in Hogsmeade.

  To be honest, Albert was a little surprised when he first saw the author of this book.

  Of course, it is not difficult to guess what will be in the book written by the joke shop owner.

  This book is telling readers about the relationship between alchemy and magic spells.

  The invisibility cloak, which originally sounded tall, turned into a cloak with a blinding spell in the book.

   That's right, that thing becomes the so-called invisibility cloak.

  The effect of the blinding spell is to camouflage the object, making people see it as an inconspicuous stone on the side of the road, or something else.

  However, in the eyes of some wizards, using a blinding spell on a cloak is undoubtedly an unnecessary act, because they can use it on themselves.

  Actually, Albert didn’t quite understand why Professor Broad introduced himself to read this book. He flipped through it carefully, and finally found an excuse for himself. There is a method for making amulets in "Simple Alchemy".

  Yes, the book introduces the method of making amulets, but instead of using a guardian tree to make amulets, it uses an expulsion spell.

   The amulet made by the expulsion spell can indeed expel some dark creatures, but at the same time it will cause trouble for the wearer.

  When you carry this kind of amulet with you, it will be difficult to receive owl mail, and the expulsion spell on the amulet will also expel the delivery owl,

  Wizards who usually use this method to make amulets usually have a mediocre level of magic spells, and cannot further use the expulsion spell.

  The items made, adhering to the advantages of Zuko, are simply for funny.

   "Simple Alchemy" also records the manufacturing methods of some prank props. However, these weird things are not liked by most alchemists.

  After reading the entire book, Albert felt that the name of the book should be changed, and it might be more appropriate to call it Weird Alchemy.

  Especially at the end of the book, it records an alchemy item that claims to be able to drive away vampires—the garlic cross.

  Seeing this name, Albert almost burst out laughing.

  The item is almost the same as the name, it is to create a garlic-scented cross through the principle that vampires hate garlic.

  Garlic crosses are made easily as follows:

  Make a wooden cross, use alcohol to extract garlic, heat and mix the extracted liquid with beeswax or essential oil in a water bath, and finally spread the mixture fully on the cross, so that the cross is full of garlic flavor...

  Carrying a garlic-smelling cross with me, I feel an inexplicable sense of joy.

   Well, this book is really an embarrassment to alchemy!

   "Is alchemy interesting?" Fred asked casually.

"Interesting? No, alchemy is not interesting, but this book is very interesting." Albert closed the book and handed it to Fred. "After reading this book, my understanding of alchemy has greatly changed. .”

   "Let me take a look..." Fred turned a few pages and said regretfully, "This book is still too advanced for us to understand at all."

   "If there is alchemy, it should be an elective course in the third grade, but unfortunately Hogwarts doesn't have it." Albert said regretfully.

   "Let me have a look." George took the book, and suddenly yelled loudly, startling everyone around him.

   "What are you calling?" Li Qiaodan glared at George angrily.

   "Look, you must not have discovered who the author of this book is." George said excitedly

   "Who is the author?"

   "Zoko." George has been deeply attracted by the above method of making joke props.

   "Zoko from Zuko's Joke Shop." Several people asked curiously.

   "Yes, that's him." Albert put the book in his schoolbag regardless of George's resentful gaze, "Let's go, if you are interested in this book, there will be time for you to read enough."

   "By the way, why are you interested in alchemy?" George asked curiously while climbing the spiral stairs.

"When I was talking about Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Brod, I happened to talk about amulets. He suggested that I read this book, so I went to the library to borrow it." Albert looked helpless : "It's just that I didn't expect the content of this book to be a bit beyond my expectation."

  Are those things in the book really alchemy?

   Albert reserves his doubts in this regard.

  (end of this chapter)