Although Lockhart is unreliable, at least the content of his book is not false.

In addition to the unique weapon of mass destruction "Lockhart's Smile", there are also many legitimate ways to deal with those dark creatures.

"Garlic gives off a smell that vampires hate the most, just like we smell compost in a greenhouse."

On the way to the library, Kyle told Neville, "You can wear it around your neck or rub the juice all over your body.

"Of course, eating is fine. If you eat enough and become like Quirrell, with a smell of garlic everywhere you go, even if you offer your neck to a vampire, they won't even look at it."

"I see..." Neville said suddenly, "I remember that Professor Lupin seemed to have said the same thing."

"But this only applies to general situations." Kyle continued, "If you encounter a vampire who has been hungry for a long time, or has a unique taste, it will be useless even if you turn yourself into garlic."

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Neville nodded repeatedly, and with Kyle's help, he quickly finished his Defense Against the Dark Arts homework.

He raised his head, hesitated for a long time, and suddenly whispered: "Thank you..."

"What?" Kyle was working on his divination homework and didn't hear clearly.

"I mean, thank you..." Neville said again, "Since I lost the password, no one wants to talk to me for a long time.

"Besides Hermione, you are the second one."

"That's because you didn't find the right way." Kyle looked up. "If you said to Fred and George... "Your pranks are meaningless", they would pester you to talk about it all day, or even longer.

Or you can go to Harry and tell him you saw a beautiful girl in Ravenclaw, and he'll be happy to talk to you about it for hours."

"Ah?" Neville blinked. "Is it that simple? But I think Harry doesn't like being with me. He just kept looking for all kinds of reasons to separate from me."

"Maybe he's just preoccupied with something else." Kyle put down his quill and collected the completed homework.

Looking at the time, there were less than ten minutes left before the hour Snape requested.

"Just in time."

Kyle stood up and explained to Neville's puzzled look, "For the second half of the detention, go to the underground classroom.

Do you want to come with me? Since you are free, I think Professor Snape won't mind if I bring someone with me."

"No, no." Neville shook his head quickly, and grabbed the quill in a panic, almost knocking over the ink bottle.

"I, I still have a lot of homework to do, you go ahead."

"That's a shame." Kyle didn't say anything else. He packed up his things and walked out of the library.

Sitting in his seat, Neville wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

After leaving the library, Kyle walked through the foyer and made his way to the basement classroom.

Because of the Hogsmeade Visiting Day, most students were not in school. Even the usually bustling entrance hall was now deserted, let alone the dungeon classrooms.

Along the way, Kyle could only hear the sound of his own footsteps.

This time he was going to classroom 3, which was in the middle of the corridor.

When Kyle opened the door, Snape had already arrived. He looked at Kyle expressionlessly, "Why are you so late?"

"It's two minutes to the hour, Professor," Kyle said.

"Thank you for the reminder, but I think I'll check the time," said Snape.

"I'm sorry, Professor. I wanted to come earlier." Kyle continued, "But I'm worried that coming too early might disturb you..."

"You are so thoughtful." Snape said with a long tone, "Should I thank you?"

"No, it's all my duty." Kyle turned his head away. "Of course, if the professor insists on giving me a pint of Felicis Felix as a thank you, I won't be able to refuse it."

Felicis? Pint?

Snape's eye twitched. He had never heard of anyone selling Felicis by the pint.

"It seems I have to ask Madam Pomfrey to check your brain." Snape pointed his finger, "But that's for the future. Now go clean the crucible and bring it here."

Following the direction of Snape's finger, Kyle saw a crucible that was larger than normal size, with some pungent brown potion in it.

"Clean it up." Kyle took out his wand.

The potion inside was cleared out and the crucible became clean immediately.

Kyle turned around. He originally thought that Snape would not agree to do this and would insist on wiping it with his hands...but surprisingly, Snape said nothing.

"What are you dillydallying about? Hurry up and bring the crucible over here."

"Oh, okay."

It would be better to save trouble, so Kyle picked up the crucible and placed it in front of Snape.

"Professor, can I go now?"

"Of course... no!" Snape sneered, "You don't think I asked you to come here just to clean the crucible, do you? My detention will not be so easy."

He took out his wand and casually pointed it, piling a large pile of potion ingredients on the table in front of Kyle.

"Take care of these things. I'll need them later."

Snape sneered and looked at Kyle sinisterly, "Remember this, I'll only say this once... If you do something wrong and don't handle these things as required, I won't remind you again.

But then you might have one less professor in the future."

"Listen carefully...

Grind lionfish bones into fine powder, slice ginger root, three drops of armadillo bile, three drops of mandrake juice, and only the top part of wolfsbane leaves, and they must not be damaged at all..."

Snape spoke very quickly, as if he was afraid that Kyle would remember it.

Fortunately, Kyle had a good memory and wrote down everything he said.

After that he dealt with the materials in silence.

He had ground the lionfish bones into a fine powder and was about to chop the ginger root when Snape spoke again.

"Now, put the lionfish bone powder into the crucible..."

Kyle nodded and poured all the powder from a dish into it.

Soon, the potion in the crucible turned into a beautiful orange color.

"Professor, can I ask what potion this is?"

"Oh?" Snape raised his eyebrows. "Our perfect scorer, can't you tell what this is?"

"At least it's certainly not something we learn," Kyle said. "Not until seventh grade..."

"So in your opinion, things that are not in the textbooks are not important, right?" Snape sneered.

"If you read more books about potions, you will know that the potion made from lionfish bone powder, ginger root and armadillo bile can keep people clear-headed, while mandrake juice and wolfsbane can suppress the effects of dangerous deformation...

"After hearing this, don't you understand?"

Kyle thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Wolfsbane potion?"

It keeps people awake and is also related to dangerous deformation, that's all.

"Not quite stupid enough," said Snape meaningfully.

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(End of this chapter)