Chapter 19 Model Professor Snape

Snape, as a professor at Hogwarts, leaving aside his teacher's morals, his teaching level was indeed top-notch.

Andy's family has a Master of Potions, Andy will occasionally help out with some simple potion ingredient handling, so he is quite knowledgeable on the potion subject.

But when Helen boiled potions, it was just basically following the book to the letter, which could be sold for money, but it was not considered a fine product.

Snape, on the other hand, was different, he had already understood the medicinal properties of each potion ingredient thoroughly.

Not only that, he also made a lot of changes to the boiling steps of the potion according to the different properties of each material.

Some of the changes would make the potion easier to brew, while others would enhance the quality of the potion.

Although the potion for curing boils was just a simple potion, Snape explained it in great detail. According to Snape's words - as long as one is not a troll, one can make it successfully.

If there was any shortcoming in Snape's class, it might be that his personal image was really bad.

Andy glanced around a few times, a number of the younger wizards were trembling with fear of Snape and probably didn't even understand what Snape was actually saying.

It was a good thing Andy was an adult on the inside.

Children are afraid of teachers, even if they didn't do something wrong, but how can an adult be afraid of a teacher?

Not to mention fear of teachers, if there were young and beautiful female professors at Hogwarts, Andy would even dare to send a love letter to the professor.

"That's all there is to know about the Cure for Boils Potion."

Snape still maintained that slow and measured tone, "All the steps are written on the blackboard and the materials are on the lab bench."

"Now, in pairs, you may begin the procedure."

The young wizards looked at Snape with a confused look on their faces, when did the lecture on something finish? Did you really just give a lecture Instead of telling us a horror story?

Oh! The steps are on the board, so that's fine.

Young wizards may not be good at anything else, but they're top-notch at copying answers.

You've written the answers on the board, how can we be wrong?

That's underestimating us!

Andy glanced at Hermione and signalled with his eyes: are we going to work together?

Hermione proudly raised her chin and nodded boastfully.

Andy lit the fire, set up the caldron, and began to boil the potion according to the steps on the blackboard.

Hermione is also the type of studious genius, letting her innovate might be a bit difficult for her, but if she is allowed to follow the instructions - not to mention boiling potions, even if she has to memorize a whole book, she won't memorize a single word incorrectly.

Boiling potions is actually a bit like cooking.

When two people follow a recipe at the same time, the flavours of the dishes might be very different.

It was the same with making potions.

Even if everyone followed the steps given by Snape to boil the potion, the finished product in the end would be vastly different, especially for newbies.

Ten minutes later, Snape was wandering back and forth in the classroom like a ghost and pointing out every young wizard's missteps in his sinister voice.

However, it was of little use.

Because every young wizard whose mistake was pointed out by Snape would make an even bigger mistake.

Snape would then look at him/her with a look of looking at a retard and point out the new mistake in a mocking tone while deducting one more point from his/her House.

"Goldstein, I should have made you tattoo that porcupine quills should only be put in the cauldron after the heat is out and powdered."

"A point will be deducted from Ravenclaw."

Andy's roommate was not immune to this.

Anthony Goldstein held the porcupine quill in his hand, his eyes glued to the cauldron. It was clear that Snape had pointed out his missteps, but Anthony was acting as if he was a retard at the moment, having no idea what he was supposed to be doing.

Andy took the time to glance at Anthony, whose entire body was trembling and looked as if he was on the verge of tears.   

Snape seemed to have finally noticed Andy's group, and he walked up behind Andy and Hermione, his gaze crossing over to stare at their actions dead on.

It was obvious to Andy that Hermione's entire body was tense.

It was a good thing that Hermione was different from the other young wizards, she was determined to be a top student, and the more pressure the teacher brought on her, the more it would stimulate her potential.

Andy kept his eyes on Hermione, but never saw Hermione make a mistake.

Snape watched for a while, and eventually walked away silently, as if his entire being had lost some kind of enjoyment, and he never glanced at Andy's group again for the entire class.

To be reasonable, just from the behaviour of Snape, he was simply a model professor at Hogwarts.

The knowledge points were explained in great detail, and he had his own understanding of the theory of Potions.

During the period when the young wizards were practising on their own, Snape was not idle for even a moment, walking around throughout the entire class and pointing out the young wizards' incorrect operations in a timely manner.

He wasn't afraid of hard work, he wasn't afraid to get tired, and he was passionate about it.

But if you count Snape's unique personal temperament, then the real situation is - the young wizards felt as if they were in an evil laboratory class, with the whole class cloudy and creepy.

The instructions from the professor were more like demonic whispers; as if they were trying to drag you into hell.

"Professor Snape, we're done." Having brewed the potion, Hermione immediately raised her hand to signal Snape.

Snape fluttered over with his black cloak propped up, first glancing at Andy and Hermione, then leaning in to inspect the potion.

The colour and smell of the potion were perfect, and although it was not considered a fine product, not many people would bother to study this kind of simple potion, as long as it could meet the standard of use.

If he had been a normal professor, he might have been very fond of Andy and Hermione when he saw such an excellent product.

But Snape just faintly hummed, signalling the two to contain the potion, and left without looking back.

Just leaving behind an "Extra point for Ravenclaw."

Hermione looked a little disappointed.

Andy whispered, "Professor Snape is like that, maybe he's a bit strict!"

In order to avoid discouraging the young witch's enthusiasm for learning, Andy forced himself to hold back his Black Snape comments.

Andy had got some information about Snape from the Weasley twins.

According to the twins, Professor Snape's temperament is like this: he sports a three-point sneer, a three-point coldness, a four-point disinterest, and a ninety-point Gryffindor hate.

In the case of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, Snape rarely adds points, but he wouldn't just deduct them either.

But for Gryffindor, Snape would deduce points when he had the chance, and create an opportunity to deduce points when he didn't.

"Hmm!"

The young witch quickly accepted Andy's words while whispering, "Looks like you didn't lie this time."

"What?" Andy was puzzled, what kind of image did he have in this little girl's heart?

When did I lie?

"I mean, the statement you made about you being practical." Hermione said.

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