The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Looking down at the time on the watch, John shouted eagerly:

"Link! Hurry up! Class is about to begin!"

Link in the distance rolled his eyes when he heard the words, took two quick steps and stuffed the oiled paper bag into John's hand, saying:

"Eat quickly, don't talk too much."

John didn't answer when he heard the words, he laughed a few times and couldn't wait to open the oiled paper bag and start eating.

The breakfast that Link brought to John was fairly rich, with a poached egg, two grilled sausages, and a small pile of broccoli. There was still some juice accumulated at the bottom of the oil paper bag.

Normally, John would never touch something like broccoli.

But now I am extremely hungry but I can't control so much.

Three times, five times and two times wiped out the breakfast, and Professor Sprout just happened to come from outside the greenhouse and announced the start of class.

There is no difference between ..level herbal medicine and ..L.

It is nothing more than getting to know all kinds of extraordinary plants, and learning their cultivation techniques and collection skills.

But the levels of the two courses are very different.

If it is said that L.'s extraordinary plants in herbal medicine are the kind of plants that are a little disgusting and troublesome, but they are not too dangerous to humans.

So... the extraordinary plants given in herbal medicine are the kind of plants that may cause fatal danger to wizards.

Just like this time.

Professor Sprout's so-called teaching props are placed in front of everyone, rows of Ecuadorian piranhas neatly planted in huge ceramic flowerpots.

This piranha has an ugly color and an unpleasant smell of a humus layer as a whole, and its shape is like a relatively thick carpet that can hide in rotten leaves.

However, when people or other creatures pass by its surroundings, it will instantly transform into the scariest predator, and its body will suddenly expand ten times, devouring its prey.

Then, these prey will be instantly corroded by the terrifying acid in their bodies, turning them into the nutrients they need.

The reason why it was recognized as a supernatural plant and moved into Professor Sprout's greenhouse was because their powerful acid was an important ingredient for refining various insecticides and killing potions.

To access the acid in their bellies,

Wizards often trick them into a predatory posture, and then use the stakes created by the polymorph to jam their mouthparts, and finally take the liquid.

Professor Sprout finally announced the start of the actual operation after a complete description of all the matters that need to be paid attention to during the liquid extraction process.

Hearing this, everyone put on dragon leather gloves and various other protective equipment one after another, and approached the Ecuadorian man-eating plant tremblingly.

Then what happened to the students was a bit tragic.

Even with the experience of a top master like Professor Sprout, how could the students, who are ferocious plants with a height of nearly 4 meters in the hunting state like the Ecuadorian man-eating grass, be able to take the liquid for the first time? Can you succeed easily?

Ever since, amidst bursts of screams, students continued to be bitten by Ecuadorian piranhas.

Fortunately, these Ecuadorian piranhas have been artificially restricted the opening and closing of the mouthparts, and all the sharp teeth in the mouthparts have been pulled out, so it is still impossible to swallow and digest the students whole.

But the student who was bitten can be exempted from the death penalty, but the living crime is inevitable.

The Ecuadorian piranha, unable to swallow its prey, began to hold up the prey and swing it non-stop, and the panicked students also began to instinctively fight back with magic. After a while, the kung fu greenhouse was in chaos. .

Seeing this, Professor Sprout could only help the students out with a helpless expression.

As for the students who attacked the Ecuadorian man-eating grass, they were uniformly deducted a lot of college points.

Because these Ecuadorian piranhas are very precious resources for sustainable development, how to protect them during the liquid extraction process is also a very important knowledge in herbal medicine, and those students were obviously too anxious to forget about Sp Professor Lauter's teachings.

This confusion continued until the end of get out of class.

But there are only a few students who really complete the liquid extraction in a safe and compliant manner.

John is one of them.

In the voice of Professor Sprout announcing the extra points, many people cast admiring glances at John and others.

But John didn't have the slightest idea of ​​complacency.

Others may not know, but he is clear.

The reason why he can successfully complete the extraction is only because he has already become acquainted with those Ecuadorian piranhas when he came to clean up in the morning.

The truly talented person is the guy like Link who can make the Ecuadorian piranha docile from the very beginning.

Thinking of this, John secretly glanced at Link.

However, after Professor Sprout officially announced the end of get out of class, Link and Emily left the greenhouse in a hurry.

Maybe he noticed John's gaze halfway, and turned his head and waved at John.

John also hastily smiled and waved.

John has long been used to Link's performance.

Soon after entering the new semester, Link and Emily began to become very busy, and it was difficult to find them in the common room or dormitory almost every day except for class.

John also expressed his doubts about this.

But every now and then Link would smile mysteriously, and then say, 'This is a surprise, and you'll know when the time comes. '

After doing this once or twice, John naturally stopped asking.

Sighing deeply, seeing that all the students had left, John reached out to pick up the tools in the corner and started cleaning the greenhouse again this time, while helping to take care of the Ecuadorian man-eating plants that were injured by the students' rough hands and feet.

This was quite a tedious job, and John didn't finish it until noon, and left the greenhouse.

But compared to when he came, he had a big cloth bag in his hand.

Inside are two large jars of acid from Ecuadorian piranhas and some broken branches and leaves.

These were scraps left over from the last class, and John's payment for helping Professor Sprout.

Tired is a little tired, but John is very satisfied with this job.

After all, John has now fully understood what Link told him earlier, 'Learning... Potions is just a waste of money'.

You should know that due to the relationship of teaching funds,... Potion Science usually only provides one or two raw materials when teaching students to make advanced potions.

If you are extremely talented and lucky, you can naturally use these two materials to the extreme under the guidance of the professor, and finally make them into finished potions.

At this time, Professor Snape will repurchase these potions and exchange them for a quota to exchange for extra materials for practice.

It's a pity that John and most of the other students' talents and luck in potions are not so high as that.

In that case, if you want to continue learning and practicing, you need to purchase raw materials at your own expense.

However, students like John whose family doesn't give much support are also poor. The direct consequence of this is of course that poor students are quickly pulled away from the teaching progress by students from rich families because of the lack of training.

In this case, the part-time job opportunity of Professor Sprout with herbal materials as settlement remuneration is very attractive.

Because Potions and Herbalism at Hogwarts are actually a symbiotic relationship.

The Herbalism Greenhouse often specially cultivates special plants for Potions in order to help the school save money, which means that most of the materials John got from the Herbalism Greenhouse can be directly used for the training of Potions courses.

Even if it can't be used directly, John can also choose to ask Professor Snape to repurchase these materials in exchange for other materials.

So John is really satisfied to get such a large package of materials.

Because this means that he only needs to add some more money, and he can get back the materials needed for a potion class.

But it still couldn't offset the cost of his weekly... Potions classes.

Then you need to find some other means of making money.

For example - go to George and Fred's black workshop to do a part-time job.

After returning to Hogwarts for a short break and having lunch, John left the main group and went upstairs with his own refining cauldron and other tools.

After turning around countless forks, a dark corridor finally appeared in front of his eyes.

At this time, John didn't go in right away, but raised the 120,000-degree vigilance, and moved slowly against the wall cautiously.

One step, two steps, three steps...

A huge red water balloon suddenly fell from the sky!

John, who was already very vigilant, exerted strength in his waist, and threw his hands and feet directly to the side, only to avoid it narrowly.

Watching the water balloon hit the ground and explode into splashes all over the ground, John shouted with a gloomy expression:

"Peeves! Are you looking for death? Give me this trick every time, this time I will never let you go!"

With John yelling, Pippi, who had been hiding behind the wall, finally appeared.

He looked at John with a sly face, pointed to the security cap on his head without fear and said:

"It's you again, little poor John, you are so lucky that you can escape every time. But you don't think you can deal with it with such little luck, do you? You know, I am the security guard here! Believe it or not I asked Boss Weasley to fire you?"

"you--"

John was furious, but finally shut his mouth, picked up his work bag and walked forward.

Now it was Peeves who didn't want to let him go, and kept chasing and provoking John, wanting John to 'play' with him for a while longer.

It's a pity that John thought he was farting, quickened his pace, and went straight into the second-to-last classroom in the innermost corner.

The environment of this classroom, or the workshop, is still as bad as when Link came last time.

Workbenches composed of dilapidated tables and chairs were densely placed in every corner of the classroom, and dozens of students in different clothes and ages were busy inside.

It's not the first time John has been here.

He raised his hand and threw the iron plate with his name on it to a Gryffindor boy who was guarding the door and was in charge of keeping accounts and timing, and then he walked through the gaps of the workbench with great difficulty until he stood by the window. in front of a workbench.

Behind this workbench stood a Ravenclaw boy with thinning hair.

He did not control several workbenches by himself like other workers, but he couldn't relax.

Because what he was making on the workbench was a degraded version of the Love Potion.

Naturally, this kind of love potion will not have the exaggerated effect of the original version. The materials used are inferior and cheaper, and the manufacturing process is more time-saving and labor-saving. Not a little sloppy.

The Ravenclaw boy's eyes lit up when he saw John coming, and he said with great joy:

"John, you finally came to take over! I'm starving to death!"

"Go eat quickly if you're hungry," John said with a smile, "I've already left all the food in the auditorium for you, so you can eat hot food right there."

"Really? This is great! I just finished processing the initial materials for the love potion I'm making now, so you can just go ahead and do it."

After the Ravenclaw boy finished his explanation, he packed up his tools overjoyed and was about to run out of the classroom, but halfway through the run, he retreated as if he had discovered something, "John, what's wrong with the dragon leather glove in your hand? ?”

"What else can you do with dragon leather gloves?"

John said indifferently, and at the same time turned his hands over, showing the back of his intact hand to the Ravenclaw boy.

However, looking at it from John's perspective, he can find that the palm of the dragon leather glove he wears on his right hand has a small hole. Not far from the breach.

The Ravenclaw boy had obviously discovered this too, otherwise he wouldn't have returned.

He said with a serious expression:

"John, you are also... a Potions student, so you should also know about it? The materials George and Fred these two bastards fiddled with are all low-quality low-quality products. There is no dragon skin to handle such materials. Gloves for protection, hands are finished!"

As he said that, he took off his gloves and put them on the workbench, "I'll use my gloves for you first, and I'll just replace them with mine next time I shift."

"How can this work!" Seeing this, John was anxious, "You also said that handling these inferior materials hurts your hands and gloves, and if you do this, your gloves will also wear out..."

"What are you talking about wearing and tearing with me!? You saved me a meal and asked me if I wanted to be paid? That's it! Listen to me, I'm going to eat!"

The boy directly interrupted John's words, and went out of the classroom without looking back, leaving only John behind the workbench. After a long time, he sighed and changed into a mask that still had the boy's body temperature and sweat. The smelly glove began to gather the material again.

Not only that, but John also put an extra bubble head spell on himself to isolate the bad smell in the workshop.

This is also a necessary protective measure. A pharmacist's nose is as important as his hands. Many potions are made by smell.

John also planned to go on the journey of potions for a long time, so naturally he would not joke about the protection measures.

As for the broken dragonhide glove.

In fact, even if the Ravenclaw boy didn't ask, John would still borrow it from other people. With his popularity here, it's not difficult to borrow a pair of gloves.