Confinement?

Slughorn was stunned. He looked at Harry in confusion: "Harry, I don't think I wanted to put you in detention."

"Your performance was excellent."

"How could a student like you be put in detention?"

Harry began to explain: "Professor Slughorn, detention is a little different from what you think. It is a new custom in Hogwarts in recent years. Every professor will put students they think are outstanding in detention."

"It's called confinement, but it's actually after-school tutoring."

Slughorn looked at him suspiciously. "Really?"

The three little ones nodded quickly.

"Severus as well?" he asked.

Slughorn and Snape did not have a harmonious relationship, and he did not pay much attention to Snape during their school days.

When he was a student, Snape was not popular. In the era when Voldemort was arrogant, half-bloods had a low status in Slytherin, and Slughorn himself paid more attention to those students with prominent births.

certainly……

He also pays attention to outstanding and extremely talented students.

Snape is very talented, but he is not the only one. Above him, there is Lily Evans who is even more talented.

In terms of image, the beautiful Lily is much more eye-catching than Snape.

In terms of personality, Lily is a warm and cheerful little lion, much better than Snape, who seems particularly gloomy even in Slytherin.

In addition, before the fifth year, Lily always discussed potions with Snape. Slughorn, who was keen on judging people by their appearance, naturally did not take Snape seriously and regarded his excellence as Lily's halo.

There is no place for Snape in the Slug Club.

By the time he realized that there was actually a gem like Snape in Lily's class who was really talented in potions, he had already left Hogwarts and Snape was officially recognized as a Potions Master by the Potions Society.

certainly……

This did not prevent Slughorn from calling out an enthusiastic "Severus."

Harry nodded: "Professor Snape certainly does, but you know, Professor Snape is very picky. So far, I am the only one who is qualified to be put in detention by him."

"But Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout have already given detentions to many students."

"Is that so?" Slughorn was a little embarrassed. "But I have no such experience..."

"Professor, do you think I'm not good enough?" Harry raised his head with a blank expression, but Slughorn clearly read a hint of pity in the corner of his eyes.

His face was expressionless, but very pitiful.

This weird and conflicting feeling.

Slughorn shook his head hurriedly: "Of course not, Harry, you are the best student I have ever seen."

"Then let's set the detention on Tuesdays, okay?" Harry immediately spoke up and emphasized.

Slughorn took a deep breath before he could even refuse.

Harry smiled, "Professor, we won't bother you then. See you on Tuesday."

They turned and left in a hurry.

Slughorn hesitated to speak, thought for a moment, then walked to Professor McGonagall's office next door and knocked on the door.

"Professor Horace, what can I do for you?" Professor McGonagall had just finished teaching the third-year wizards.

"Harry just told me about detention," Slughorn began. "It seems that this is a new custom at Hogwarts..."

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and nodded seriously: "Of course, this is true."

"Professor Dumbledore has really been lax."

"The Owls' exam results last school year were outstanding, but that was because of Harry, not the normal scene. This school year the Owls' exams will be back to square one."

"As professors, we must, of course, train students who are good enough to ensure that they can consistently get 'O' grades. We can even try to train students who can get 'E' grades, like Professor Sprout did, and make a further effort to help them go one step further and get a good 'O' grade."

Slughorn asked back: "But Harry is good enough."

"Compared to the little wizard, that's true." McGonagall nodded, looking more serious, and made up a new reason, "But excellent people always have higher standards for themselves."

"Harry now is a master of dueling, a master of Transfiguration spells, and a master of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"He has always performed very well in potions, so it is impossible for him to set his own standards at the level of a young wizard."

Slughorn was a little surprised: "Harry's level of Transfiguration can be called a master?"

He was not surprised by the evaluations of "Dueling Master" and "Defense Against the Dark Arts Master".

After all, he was able to defeat the mysterious man—even if that was not the mysterious man in his best form.

But the Master of Transfiguration...

Professor McGonagall nodded, "Of course, his Transfiguration skills are excellent and sophisticated, but he is still young. But maybe two or three years after graduation, or even sooner, by the time he graduates, his Transfiguration skills will surpass mine."

Slughorn thought: "Harry actually wants to be a potions master?"

"Someone younger than Severus?"

Professor McGonagall smiled, "I think so."

In fact, she was very unsure.

Harry is not a very ambitious person.

Judging from the recent rumors, it is most likely that Harry and Snape have reached a bottleneck in their research on the potion to cure lycanthropy, and now that they have met another ready-made Potions Master, they naturally want to capture him and make him work for them for free. This man is still in Hogwarts, so he is very safe and there is no need to worry about him spreading the information.

The entire Hogwarts intelligence network is controlled by Sister Hideaway, Sister Crookshanks, and their loyal younger brother, Owl Bows.

But it’s not nice to keep the truth to yourself.

Besides, Snape's help in researching the antidote to lycanthropy was a very secretive matter, not known to everyone in the Order of the Phoenix.

The most important thing!

How could the new professor escape the most terrifying thing for all the professors in Hogwarts?

Even if Harry didn't go to find Slughorn, McGonagall, Sprout and Flitwick would have to find a way to get Slughorn to take the initiative to take on the matter and feel Harry's "charm".

Slughorn felt that his teaching career had been quite successful.

He has taught many outstanding students, both good and bad.

The only regret.

Lily Potter, who he thought had the greatest potential to become a master of potions, died on the road to fighting the mysterious man.

And Snape, who became the Potions Master, had little to do with him - he was not even a member of the Slug Club.

As a Potions professor, what could be more fulfilling and could better demonstrate one's reputation than personally teaching a Potions Master?

"Harry is much more ambitious than I am." Slughorn smiled. "I'm looking forward to tomorrow night."

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and suppressed a smile: "That's great, I hope you have a pleasant evening tomorrow."

A meaningful blessing.

Slughorn did not notice this slight change in tone; he was completely immersed in the excitement of officially teaching a Potions Master.

Tuesday night.

I just finished dinner and it’s only seven o’clock.

There was a knock on the door of the Potions Professor's office.

Slughorn opened the door and looked at the person outside in surprise: "Harry? It's only seven o'clock, why are you here now?"

"The detention hours are always like this," Harry said quietly, "starting at seven and ending with curfew at eleven."

Four hours?

So long?

Slughorn nodded and made way for the passage inside. "I don't know much about these detentions, but it's great that you are so proactive, Harry. I will teach you all my knowledge without reservation."

"I would like to express my highest gratitude to you." Harry nodded and thanked you quickly.

He raised his hand and waved his wand gently: "Professor, I must first report to you the dilemma I am currently facing."

"You know, I have an uncle, Remus Lupin."

Slughorn nodded.

He was deeply impressed by Lupin, not because he was outstanding, but because he was the only one in that class with a status as bad as Lupin. In terms of background, Snape was better than Lupin. At least in a strict sense, Snape was a human being.

"He is a werewolf. I started researching a potion to cure lycanthosis more than a year ago," said Harry.

Slughorn looked at him in surprise. "This is not an easy task. I don't recommend you to do this. Many talented people could have become potion masters earlier and faster, but because of their great talents, they tend to be too ambitious and study impossible things. Curing lycanthropy is simply impossible..."

"Actually, I've found some solutions," Harry interrupted.

Slughorn was even more surprised.

Harry continued: "This is the finished product."

He took out a bottle of potion and placed it in front of Slughorn, then took out a piece of parchment and placed it next to the potion. This was the recipe.

"It's not a complete cure for lycanthropy yet," Harry said, "but it has the same effect as the wolfsbane potion, and it can also shorten the time it takes for a werewolf to turn into a werewolf, but the shortening time is not so certain."

"For Uncle Remus, it can be shortened by three hours. He only needs to transform for five or six hours every night."

"But with other werewolves, it's been half an hour, an hour, or almost two hours."

"The current speculation is that this is related to the werewolf's own magic level, but this is just speculation and there is no evidence to confirm it."

Slughorn looked at the formula and uncorked the bottle again, moving his hand and sniffing.

A very good, even mature potion.

"You already have some of the demeanor of a master." Slughorn put down the potion, but not the formula. "If you hadn't studied this thing, I'm afraid you would have become a potion master. Have you asked Severus?"

"Professor Snape can't do that." Harry said calmly. Before he was sure of Slughorn's position, this fence-sitter who fawned on others was not worthy of his trust. "He is still very young. He can't compare to an experienced and excellent potion master like you."