Chapter 490: The Most Beautiful Appearance (Edited)

"Severus, are you free now?"

|ΦωΦ?)

While the three schools were in action for the Yule Ball, Fish slipped alone to the door of Snape's office, poked his head in, and asked.

"Fish? What's wrong?"

Snape looked up from his lesson plans and saw the furtive figure in the doorway.

Immediately, Fish slipped sideways through the door and ran to Snape's desk in a hurry.

"Did you get the thing we talked about?"

?(??ω??)?

Fish asked, leaning on the edge of the desk, eyes glittering.

"Just a moment."

Snape said softly, then got up and walked over to the nearby shelf.

He opened a locked drawer on the top shelf of the cabinet and pulled out two small and large bottles.

"I haven't had anyone try the option, so you'll have to use the small bottle to test the effect first," Snape said after a moment. "Don't worry, it won't be dangerous, even if my developed potion doesn't work, it will still do the job of a normal Multijuice Potion."

Although he said this, his tone was full of confidence, he obviously didn't think there would be any problems with his potion.

The Multijuice Potion, which Fish had come to Snape for help with after touching Hermione last time, was a simple request, so that the user wouldn't feel so uncomfortable transforming.

Snape didn't know what Fish wanted with this Multijuice Potion, but he agreed without saying a word, and after that, he spent every night working on how to fulfill Fish's requirements, finally achieving it before the first Triwizard Tournament event.

This is also the reason why Barty Crouch Jr. waited outside for a long time, but didn't see Snape go out on patrol, and why he couldn't find the dried shredded Skin of an African tree snake to make a Multijuice Potion.

Also, he had found the two bottles, but he wasn't sure what Snape did and was worried that stealing them would put him on alert, plus the two bottles were only a few days' supply, so he didn't touch them.

As for why Snape didn't give them to Fish as soon as they were ready... with his personality, how could he take the initiative to do so? Previously, Snape's idea was that if Fish didn't come to pick up the potions, he would send them to him anonymously as a Christmas present.

Good thing Fish had asked now, otherwise Snape would have been embarrassed to send Fish a gift for Christmas.

"Thanks nya!"

Oblivious to Snape's complicated and uncomfortable thoughts, Fish took the two bottles and quickly stuffed them into his magic bag.

Then Snape pulled a piece of parchment out of his pocket and handed it to Fish.

"This is the recipe for my improved Multijuice Potion."

"Severus, is there anything you want? Fish will get it for you."

?(?ΦωΦ?)?

After putting the prescription away as well, Fish said kindly, "More poison from those big spiders in the Forbidden Forest? Or the molted skin of Uroboros?"

"No, that won't be necessary..." Snape's eyelids twitched twice, and he said, "I haven't used up the previous ones."

The huge shedding of basilisk skin was still nominally Hogwarts', but it was not used by anyone but him, and Snape didn't think he could use it all in a decade.

And the vial of Acromantula poison Fish had given him, Snape hadn't touched it so far, after all, they weren't good for anything else making poisons, and he didn't need to make poisons at the moment....

He wasn't really going to poison Harry, and the best time to poison Sirius Black and Remus Lupin had sadly been missed.

But...

Snape thought about it for a moment and then said, "If you could, could you collect some saliva and hair from the three-headed dog for me? It doesn't need to be much, just enough saliva to fill a jar like this, and a small amount of hair would be enough."

Not about to be polite to Fish, he pulled out another empty bottle and handed it to Fish. After all, whoring out some rare ingredients from Fish was too good to resist, and as a Potions master, Snape couldn't resist the temptation.

"No problem nya! Leave it to Fish!"

?(`?')?

Fish assured him, grabbing the empty bottle and leaving his office with his Multijuice Potion and Snape's vial.

"Hermione, come with me!"

Leaving Snape's office, Fish immediately found Hermione and dragged her into a deserted corner.

"What is it, Fish?"

Hermione asked, looking around, blushing and pursing her lips unconsciously to moisten them a little more.

"Look at this nya!"

?(??ω??)?

However, instead of kissing her as she suspected, Fish pulled out a small and a large bottle from his magic bag and held them eagerly in front of her.

"What's this?"

Hermione took the bottle with a puzzled expression and asked curiously.

"Multijuice Potion nya!"

Fish's mouth spat out a name that Hermione had mixed feelings about.

Not noticing Hermione's odd expression, Fish continued, "It's a Multijuice Potion that Fish asked Severus to make to make the transformation less awkward nya!"

"Uh... what do you mean?"

Hermione had guessed what Fish was trying to do, but there was still some resistance.

"We're going to be dancing at the Yule Ball, so of course we'll look our best!"

?(??ω??)?

Fish raised the bottle in his hand with shining eyes and said loudly.

Fish said aloud, holding the bottle in his hands with a twinkle in his eyes.

"The prettiest..."

The corners of Hermione's lips twitched wildly, she hadn't expected the prettiest look in Fish's eyes to be the half-human, half-cat look back then....

Well, she had more or less guessed it, but had unconsciously ignored it.

"You try first nya, Severus said he hasn't tried it on anyone yet."

"He hasn't tried it yet..."

A new potion that hadn't been experimented with, or brewed by Snape... Hermione's look of rejection became even more apparent.

"Oh right, Severus said there was a chance it was the same as a normal Multijuice Potion..."

∑(?ΦДΦ?)

Fish suddenly reacted, snatched the small bottle from Hermione's hand, then pulled a cat hair out of his tail and dropped it inside.

"Then Fish will taste it for you first nya."

After he finished speaking, without waiting for Hermione to stop him, he craned his neck and drank the Multijuice Potion from the bottle.

"Tsk tsk..."

Fish smacked his lips, the new Multijuice Potion still tasted like boiled cabbage, and it didn't taste good at all.

"I forgot to ask Severus to make this taste better."

(?ω?)

Fish stuck out his tongue in disgust, looked at the empty bottle in his hand, and said so.

Then, he felt a surge of warmth spread from his stomach to his body and, within moments, Fish saw white cat fur growing on his hands and rolled up his sleeves to reveal the familiar black and white stripes of fur.

"Ha! It's really not as uncomfortable as it used to be."

?(=ΦωΦ=)?

Fish, long-haired and cat-headed, said cheerfully to Hermione.

Hermione looked at the cat-headed Fish, and suddenly thought it would be nice to be a cat-person...

This Fish is so cute!

Hermione, who could no longer contain the impulse, suddenly stepped forward and hugged Fish, then kissed his furry head.