Chapter 37 I learned it with my dad in Hawaii!
Rove felt even hungrier when Professor Snape pulled out a massive brushtail porcupine from the shelf.
Porcupine pork is delicate in texture, delicious in taste, and rich in calcium, phosphorus, minerals and other nutrients.
"Scamander, if you want to remove the porcupine's quill, what should you do?" Snape asked suddenly.
The little wizards looked at each other and regained their energy in an instant. Everyone heard that Harry Potter was severely insulted by Snape in the last Potions class.
Scamander also offended Snape, and it was inevitable that he would be troubled, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.
Rove stood up with a calm expression and said:
"Heat the water to 85°C and scald the porcupine's burrs against the direction of the burrs until the burrs can be easily pulled out without hurting the skin."
"Use magic pliers to pull out the thick and thin burrs, and then use lantern grass silk to brush out the thorn roots and fluff of the broken thorns from front to back."
"According to the script!" Snape snorted dissatisfiedly. He turned his head and glanced at the little wizards. Seeing them dumbfounded like geese, he shouted:
"Hurry up and write it down! Do you know it?!"
The sound of taking notes immediately sounded in the classroom. Snape walked to the podium and said in a low voice:
"Today, we are going to prepare a simple potion to treat boils. You need to be careful when brewing the potion. If you make it incorrectly, it will cause the potion to cause boils instead of curing them."
"So, you need to pay extra attention to the cooking steps, don't let yourself this weekend..." Snape's thin lips twisted into a terrible smile: "Spend it in the school hospital."
He waved his wand, and many words appeared on the blank blackboard:
Ingredients: dried nettles, venomous snake teeth, horned slugs, porcupine quills...
"Ingredients and recipes are on the blackboard, and everything you need is in the locker."
As Snape's words fell, the locker door slammed open.
"But there is no porcupine quill in the storage cabinet. The porcupine quill has to be removed from the porcupine. I need an assistant to help me now..."
Snape tilted his head, his crooked teeth were exposed, and he grinned sinisterly: "Come on, our Mr. Scamander, can't wait?"
Potter was as stupid as his father, so simple questions would suffice to stump him, but Scamander was barely capable, and he needed to be taught by practice!
To remove the spines of the porcupine is exactly what Snape thought of for Scamander.
In the sight of everyone, Rove slowly walked up to the podium, looking at the porcupine covered with hard thorns.
De-thorning a porcupine sounds as easy as de-hairing a chicken, but it's not that easy.
From the back to the tail, the porcupine is covered with spines like clusters of arrows, especially the spines on the buttocks are nearly half a meter long and covered with barbs.
Not a seasoned veteran, it is easy to pierce the hand, although it is not poisonous, it will be quite painful.
Of course, Rove was not an experienced veteran, and he hadn't even cleaned the porcupine quills much. He always bought finished products from the store, and he belonged to the kind whose theory far outweighed his experience.
Definitely not directly.
But he didn't panic.
Glancing at the workbench, Rove turned around and searched the storage cabinets. Snape thought the boy was looking for dragon leather gloves, and smiled smugly.
He's been hiding it for a long time!
Rove quickly found a bottle of leech juice and puffer fish eyes in the storage cabinet. He poured it into a mixing bowl, took out another small bottle, deliberately covered the label, poured out half of the bottle of liquid, and threw the bottle into the trash can.
Mash, stir, and pour into water.
Then put the porcupine into the hot water and boil for one minute on high heat.
The porcupine carcass shrank suddenly in the boiling hot water, and its spines were ejected directly by the contracted muscles, hitting the wall of the cauldron.
Rove picked up the porcupine quill, put it on the workbench, and said with a smile, "Professor Snape, it's finished."
Snape frowned tightly, this was a stripping method he had never seen before, he quickly gouged Rove with a threatening look and said: "Did you follow the steps you said before?"
"Professor, you criticized me for being too scripted, so I had no choice but to follow your suggestion and try an unconventional operation." Rove looked aggrieved.
"Sophistry, five points for Hufflepuff!"
Snape walked over, looked at the porcupine that had been completely de-thorned, and muttered in a low voice:
"The leech juice is an ingredient in the shrink potion. It can indeed make the porcupine shrink. Adding the eyes of the puffer fish...it's a very clever idea!"
This is definitely not the operation method of the British magic community, it looks like the habit of the United States.
"Scamander, who taught you this?!"
"I learned it with my dad in Hawaii." Rove laughed.
"What's the other material?" Snape only saw leech juice and puffer fish eyes, the label of the third bottle of liquid was covered by Rove, so he couldn't see it, so he was very curious.
"Professor, this is an old secret recipe handed down from the ancestors, and it cannot be revealed casually." Rove lowered his head, not looking at Snape, to prevent him from using Legilimency.
Eye contact is very important for Legilimency, so the boy simply closed his eyes.
Snape was a little speechless, he could tell by looking through the trash can, but he couldn't go and look through the trash can in full view, he couldn't afford to lose that person!
What's more, he has serious cleanliness...
The corner of Rove's mouth curled up. He grasped Snape's curiosity, deliberately covered the label, and threw it into the trash can.
As for the purpose...
Snape coughed hard, and finally said impatiently with a straight face: "Five points for Hufflepuff!"
All the students stared at the podium in shock, Merlin, Professor Snape actually gave extra points to students from other houses!
It's almost like Snape in women's clothing, it's unbelievable.
"Professor, I can't..."
"Add ten points!"
Rove accepted it as soon as he saw it, he grinned and said:
"It's an onion, Professor, I added onion juice..."
"..."
Satisfied after getting the answer, Snape immediately changed his face at the speed of light, waved his hand in disgust, and drove Scamander away.
Snape suddenly remembered that Hogwarts hadn't held the Potions Championship for a long time.
If you don't communicate with other magic schools, you will do it behind closed doors for a long time, and the technology will not be updated.
Everyone took the materials needed for the potion and started to divide into groups.
Neville really wanted to be with Rove, but it was a pity that Professor Snape came over again dragging his robe. He sneered and said:
"I think, Longbottom, you can team up with Hannah Abbott! Two idiots together, let's see what sparks we can collide with."
Without Neville, Rove and Shirley were in a group. He had brewed potions to treat boils, and there was no shortage of opportunities to practice, so he didn't do much, and planned to let Shirley do it alone.
But Shirley is very talented in transfiguration, but not so good in potion.
The girl worked in a hurry for a long time, not to mention her face being smoked into a big face, and she boiled a big green liquid in a crucible.
Shirley frowned and stared at the cauldron, feeling that this was much more difficult than Transfiguration.
Seeing this, Luo Fu had no choice but to take the porcupine quill and help her brew it again. The action was skillful, and the color of the whole potion quickly became normal.
Rich ingredients, old soup as the base material, a lot of spices, and the mastery of the fire are equally important. After cooking, they will all sparkle...
From a certain point of view, brewing potions is very similar to hot pot.
Shirley glanced at Luo Fu quietly, and she found that when the boy was brewing the potion, his face was calm, his expression was focused, his mind was immersed in it, and he had no other distractions.
The ponytailed girl stuck out her tongue, and wiped her face when the boy wasn't paying attention.
At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the whole classroom seemed to be shaking.
Rove reacted quickly, grabbed Shirley's arm, dragged her behind him, and hid beside the cauldron.
The thin girl felt that her wrists were being tightened, and then she was crushed to the ground by Rove.
It turned out that Neville and Hannah's cauldron burst directly, and the potion in the cauldron splashed on the ground and the wall on one side, scalding many big holes.
Neville was covered in potions and had many scabies on his face, but Hannah was fine because in the end Neville stood in front of her.
"Idiot!" Snape snarled and walked over, swiping his wand to wipe away the potion that was spilled on the ground.
Professor Snape had murderous intentions, and he saw a large puddle of potions flow into his storage cabinet.
His baby is smoking white smoke!
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