The Alchemist of Harry Potter

Chapter 214
"What is... what's going on?"

Snape opened his hazy eyes and woke up from his stupor. What he saw was a familiar room. He closed his eyes again, recalling some fragmentary memory fragments.

"Last night...it seemed...a nightmare?" Snape frowned, trying to recall what happened last night.He remembered that he vaguely heard a strange cry, and then... Then he couldn't remember anything.

That wasn't a memory at all, Snape only vaguely remembered crying, and then he lost consciousness, what happened?

When Snape was still thinking about the reason, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the mechanical wall clock in the corner, and jumped up from the bed.

I actually slept until 09:30 in the morning?

As a potion master who strictly demands himself, this is simply an unforgivable sin.

Snape hurriedly got up and changed into his robes, and hurried to the Potions classroom.

No doubt the Potions Master was late.

The story of Snape releasing the students' pigeons soon spread throughout Hogwarts.

This can be regarded as a rare piece of big news. It is hard for everyone to imagine that someone like Snape would be late for class?
It is simply a rare new thing in ten years.

It took less than half an hour for this incident to spread almost all over Hogwarts, and it was even more sensational than the news that the stupid Slytherin student was arrested on the night parade in the morning.

No way, who made it hard for everyone to imagine that such a thing would happen.

Of course, no one dared to discuss this matter openly.

No one wanted to be caught by Snape and become the chicken who made an example of others.Moreover, everyone noticed Snape's gloomy expression as if someone owed him [-] Galleons, so naturally no one would commit suicide.

"What a lively day!" Albert suppressed his yawn, ate a slice of bread with jam, and listened to the gossip-loving girls beside him talking about interesting things.

Last night, the underground haunting of the castle was widely talked about.Some people said that the eerie cry was actually made by the crying Myrtle in the bathroom on the second floor, and some said it might be Peeves' prank. Seeing this scene, there's nothing wrong with a bunch of smoke bombs.

As for the Slytherin students who were caught by Filch, everyone was more watching the excitement. Anyway, they all saw that Slytherin House was unhappy. Slytherin House was deducted a lot of points, and students from the other three houses naturally It feels good all over, like drinking a big bottle of butter beer.

As Fred who knew the truth, they all tried not to let themselves laugh. They all knew that the unlucky Slytherin student had undoubtedly become Albert's scapegoat.

However, they were happy to see it, and there is nothing more gratifying than seeing a nasty guy suffer.

"You said, when will Snape find out that he lost something?"

At this moment, Fred and the others were gathering in the Room of Requirement, looking at the pot of Mandrake that Albert got from Greenhouse No. 3.

George next to him couldn't help laughing while clutching his stomach.

"Not so fast." Albert explained casually, "However, Snape should become suspicious after a while. Unless they find that there is a pot of Mandrake missing in the greenhouse, but I don't think Professor Sprout is so You will soon find out that after all, there are too many magical plants that she needs to take care of, and she has to teach students every day, how can she have time to remember how many pots there are."

"That makes sense." George wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, nodded and said, "If Professor Sprout only planted those mandrakes, he would definitely find the problem, but she has too many things to care about. Said that Professor Sprout can't remember everything clearly."

"Are you going to return this pot of Mandrake?" Lee Jordan asked suddenly. With Albert's ability, he naturally had a way to return the Mandrake back quietly.

As long as the mandrake was returned, the matter would basically be flawless. Even if Snape suspected that the cry came from the mandrake, he didn't have any proof.

"No, I still have use for this thing." Albert was already preparing to turn this pot of Mandrake into a black magic item.As for the problem of salt, he believed that he would be able to solve it.

It is not ancient times, edible salt is not expensive.

"What if Snape guesses?" George couldn't help asking.He believed that Snape was not stupid, as long as he contacted the castle rumors and went to Professor Sprout to make sure, these things would be connected soon, maybe not in the first two days, but definitely It will still be found.

"It's impossible for him to perform Legilimency on all the students. Moreover, ordinary students simply don't have the ability to quietly get a pot of mandrakes from the greenhouse and knock Snape unconscious. Snape Pu has a spell protecting his office, do you think a second year student can break through those protection spells and break into his office?

"Besides, it rained yesterday? There are no footprints left on the ground." Albert blinked at the three of them, and said with a smile, "What's more, the fat lady was not there last night, even if Snape suspected It was done by Gryffindor students, and it is impossible for him to know from the mouth of the fat lady that there is evidence that Gryffindor students left the dormitory in the middle of the night to go out at night."

"Unless Snape uses Veritaserum on every student, but the Ministry of Magic restricts the use of Veritaserum, and the medicinal materials needed for Veritaserum are also very precious, even if he wants to make more."

"My God, have you taken all this into account?" Fred couldn't help screaming.

"Of course." Albert continued after thinking for a while: "Now, the three of you are the only flaws. You have to pretend that you don't know anything, and don't discuss it. In a word, don't attract Snape's attention. Power, that's important."

"We know what to do." The three looked at each other and grinned.

"If the murderer can't be found, Snape will be mad." The four couldn't help laughing.

"By the way, when are we going out to find jumping toadstools?"

"This week, if it rains, go out and look for jumping toadstools." Albert thought for a while and said, "After potions class in the afternoon, go to the library to find information about jumping toadstools."

The book "Thousands of Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" actually has an introduction to the jumping toadstool, but it is not complete. They need to find a book called "Compendium of Toadstools" in the library to get relatively safe information. harvesting and storage methods.

Before leaving the Room of Requirement, Albert reminded again: "Remember, you don't know anything, don't let Snape notice you."

There's no way, they're going to have Potions class later.

"We know." The three said with serious expressions, and then all laughed again.

"Okay, okay, I think you'd better laugh here before you go out." Albert helplessly raised his hand to cover his cheek, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

　The Ministry of Magic forbids the abuse of Veritaserum, and it is rarely even used in interrogation of prisoners.

　　If Legilimency is not used by directly chanting mantras on people, the information that can be obtained is very limited, especially when the two sides stagger their sight.A clever minder can judge whether the other party is lying through dialogue habits.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)