Chapter 12 Closed Journey
The detention room is actually Professor Snape's office.
The walls here are dim, with a chandelier hanging on the ceiling with yellow candlelight. There are many large glass jars on the shelves along the wall, with various sticky internal organs floating in the jars - probably some parts of animals.
When Jian Yu pushed open the door and entered the office, Snape was looking down and marking the homework that the students had just handed in.
Seeing her come in, he slashed a "P" on a piece of parchment.
I don’t know which unlucky guy got caught in the crossfire, Jian Yu thought without any apology.
"I heard...you had some conflicts with your classmates." Snape's face showed no emotion. "I am not interested in your childish quarrels. But..."
"Only an idiot would do such a thing in a public place with lots of people coming and going. I don't want to see the Slytherin gem continue to decline... Do you understand?"
ah?
Did she hear it wrong?
Does that mean you can do it as long as you don't get caught?
Jian Yu didn't expect that Professor Snape was also a man of temperament!
Understand the principle of repaying hatred with revenge and grievances with grievances!
She looked up in surprise at those dark, bottomless eyes, and unexpectedly felt a rare sense of emotion.
But this feeling of being touched soon disappeared.
"Your detention content is to prepare mantis shrimps and peel and shell them." Snape ruthlessly threw a bucket of mantis shrimps in front of her. "You are not allowed to use magic, it will damage the efficacy of the medicine."
Jian Yu resigned himself to putting on the dragon-skin gloves. Pick up a living mantis shrimp with its limbs struggling hard - wow, isn't this a mantis shrimp?
Her eyes lit up and her mouth was about to water. Now her mind was full of salt and pepper mantis shrimp, salt water mantis shrimp, spicy mantis shrimp...
She picked up her magic wand, used the tip to poke open the mantis shrimp's tail, and pierced its entire body along the skin; then she pressed its tail hard with her other free hand, lifted the magic wand slightly, and the shrimp meat fell off naturally along the wand.
She learned this set of skills in her previous life when she went to Zhoushan to eat shrimp, but chopsticks are more convenient than the magic wand.
The intact shrimp shells and shrimp meat sparkled like works of art under the dim light.
It was raining heavily outside Hogwarts Castle, but it had no effect on the Potions Office located under the Black Lake. The only sounds that could be heard in the entire office were the sound of Professor Snape turning pages as he corrected homework and the rustling sound of the feather pen tip sliding across the paper.
Just when Jane Yu thought Snape had forgotten her existence, he suddenly spoke:
"The shell of mantis shrimp has a calming effect. Grinding it into powder and adding it to the Living Hell Decoction can enhance the efficacy of the medicine."
"Cooking shrimp meat with the euphoria potion can alleviate the side effects of the potion - depression and frustration."
"These two potions will be waiting for you in your senior year...wait, what are you doing?"
Snape stood up in disbelief, as if he saw a troll dancing in front of him, and asked in shock: "How did you do it?"
He picked up some peeled shells and examined them carefully - they were crystal clear and intact except for a long slit on the edge, as if the shrimp meat had fallen out of it by itself.
A whole bucket of mantis shrimps, which should have taken two hours to peel, was completed in half an hour.
Jian Yu glanced at him and sighed inwardly at his naive appearance.
It's just peeling a shrimp, why is it turned into a world problem?
She picked up the last mantis shrimp, poked it with chopsticks... and the magic wand, and the shrimp meat and shell separated and fell into the bucket.
Little did he know that Professor Snape's heart was already in turmoil.
All the mantis shrimp shells available on the market are broken. This is because the mantis shrimp's limbs and tail have strong jumping power, and handling them while alive will often cause the shrimp shell to break due to violent struggles. When wizards peel the shell, they usually start from the belly and peel off the shell section by section.
He had seen Jian Yu's operation in class. Although it was very smooth and he used some tricks to make a top-quality scabies medicine, he thought it was just some clever tricks.
One brewing session cannot fully reveal a person's talent for potions.
But this method of processing potion materials is indeed the first of its kind in the entire wizarding world...
She might actually have some talent.
He thought so.
"Who taught you to peel it like this?"
But Jian Yu took off his gloves, looked at him strangely, and asked, "Isn't this how you eat shrimp?"
Snape sat back in his seat, looked at her deeply, and changed the subject:
"You and Bulstrode, what's the matter?"
It took Jian Yu more than ten seconds to realize what he was asking. By this time Snape had already changed several positions impatiently.
"She called me a mudblood and told me to get out of Slytherin."
Snape froze and remained silent for a long time, his fingertips trembling slightly:
"As long as the name appears in the admission book, it means that the person is admitted by Hogwarts."
"The Sorting Hat can't make mistakes."
He waved his hand to indicate that her detention for the day was over.
After Jian Yu left, his black eyes became empty and he looked at the wall in front of him expressionlessly, as if he was lost in some distant memories.
Jane Yu was completely unaware of Professor Snape's pain and guilt. She hummed a little tune and returned to the common room, but was stopped by a boy at the door.
She recognized that it was the boy she had rescued and who had spoken for her before, and his name seemed to be Theodore Nott.
He didn't say anything, but pursed his lips. There seemed to be no emotion in his blue eyes. He looked straight at her and stretched out his right hand.
Jian Yu looked at the hand in confusion. It was open, and in the palm was a silver-green brooch.
"Gift." Theodore finally spoke, his voice as crisp as the first melting snow.
Jian Yu took a step back and refused repeatedly.
She had heard that these magical accessories could be cursed.
Given her poor relationships in Slytherin, who knows what it carries!
Even if the boy wanted to repay a favor, she didn't need this thing... She didn't have the habit of wearing brooches.
Besides, I just saved someone by accident, so I shouldn't accept any reward without any merit!
Seeing that she didn't take it, Theodore was a little at a loss, and finally loosened his pursed lips: "There is defensive magic on it, which can resist one attack. For what happened today...you may need it."
Jian Yu couldn't understand. She didn't want to stay here any longer. It was raining heavily outside and the wind was very strong outside the common room. She felt like she was almost frozen to death.
You are not afraid of the cold, but I am!
So she walked past the boy, opened the door and walked straight towards the dormitory.
Theodore was left standing alone in the wind, clutching the brooch tightly.
It seems like I've annoyed myself... I will never listen to Draco's advice again.
He thought so.
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