Chapter 67: ch-67
Without Quirrell's interference, Harry's broom finally returned to normal.
He dived, and Higgs thought Harry was out of control, so he didn't pay attention to his actions and concentrated on finding the Golden Snitch.
Harry was seen covering his mouth with his hands, pretending to vomit, and then...puking out a Golden Snitch.
The game ended in such an incredible way.
Gryffindor won with a score of 170 to 60. Slytherin was as sad as if they had lost their parents, but Gryffindor was as excited as if it was New Year's Day.
No one could have imagined that Harry's b****** was so good that he could even catch the Golden Snitch with his mouth. Flint complained that the other party was violating the rules, but Mrs. Howe ignored him.
The rules don't specify what method must be used to catch the Golden Snitch.
The crowd gradually dispersed, and on the way back to the castle, everyone not only discussed the game, but Quirrell's experience also became the focus.
Many people saw him being hit by a high-speed Bludger, and it was a headshot.
If it happened to an ordinary person, he would have probably fallen down directly, and if not dead, he would have lost half his life. However, not only did Quirrell not fall into a coma, he actually woke up from it, refused to receive treatment, and returned to the castle on his own.
Quirrell unexpectedly received a lot of praise from people - at least in terms of endurance of pain and strength [they would like to call him the strongest.
Inside Hagrid's cabin.
"Snape did it." Hermione explained to Harry and Hagrid, "I saw it through the telescope. He was casting a spell on Harry's broom. I wanted to stop him, but Professor Quirrell was hit by a ball halfway through. Snape stopped, and then Harry caught the Snitch."
After the game, Hermione originally wanted to find Tom and Daphne, but she couldn't resist Hagrid's enthusiastic invitation and followed him to the cabin, so that she could tell Harry what had happened.
"Nonsense." Hagrid didn't believe her words, "Why would Snape do such a thing.
"I think he's trying to steal something from the fourth floor," Harry said suddenly.
Hagrid was surprised. "What did you say? No, do you know what's on the fourth floor?"
"I don't know."
Harry shook his head honestly, "But at the Halloween dinner, Snape's foot was injured. I saw him limping down from upstairs. It is very likely that he was bitten by the three-headed dog on the fourth floor."
"You also know Lu Wei?" Hagrid was even more shocked.
"Fluwei, what's the name of the three-headed dog?" Hermione noticed something.
"Ah, I bought it from a Greek, and I loaned it to Dumbledore to look after it..."
Hagrid paused in the middle of his speech, looked at Hermione, Ronald, and Harry's shining eyes, and closed his mouth: "I won't tell you."
"Snape is a professor at the school. Even if he hates James..."
"James?" Now it was Harry's turn to get excited. "Hagrid, you mean my dad? Snape knew him."
Hagrid waved his thick arms, and he found that he was leaking more and more things. "That's the grudge of the previous generation. Listen, this has nothing to do with you. Forget about Lu Wei [Forget what it is guarding."
"That's Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel -"
"Ah, Nicolas Flamel?"
Another new NPC joined, and Hermione quickly took note of it.
Bang!
Hagrid slapped himself in the face and drove everyone out.
Forbidden forest.
The preparation of the potion had reached the final stage, so Tom asked Kaka to go back and he would just keep an eye on it.
After adding the fire dragon's heart, the potion began to boil, emitting a terrifyingly high temperature, and a large amount of white cold air rose upwards.
Tom released a weak wind, blowing away the white mist while trying not to affect the potion.
After waiting for about half an hour, the crucible of potion slowly became half empty, and its color turned into the blood red that Andros had described.
The slightly viscous liquid is crystal clear, like a flowing liquid gem.
"Andros, are you sure this thing is okay?"
Tom asked cautiously. This was an imported potion, so he had to be careful.
Andros also took a closer look and replied, "The color is fine, but does the smell have a faint pungent smell and flavor?"
Tom nodded. That was indeed the case.
"Then you are not wrong, drink it boldly.
Since Andros said so, Tom had no worries and took out the scale to start dividing the potion.
The standard measurement of each portion is five ounces, which is about 140 grams. This pot produces seven portions, enough for Tom to use seven times.
After dividing it, he drank the bottle without hesitation.
The sticky liquid got stuck in Tom's throat and couldn't slide down. Tom swallowed several times before the potion went into his stomach. His eyebrows were almost squeezed into a ball, and he felt like he had drunk a ball of blood that had been coagulated for a long time.
Before he could complain to Andros, the drug had already taken effect.
It was like a volcano erupted from his stomach, and then the heat spread throughout his body.
Tom's face turned red and white steam began to emerge from his body. Even though the temperature was close to zero degrees, he felt like he had entered a sauna.
He quickly went into physical action and released Andros.
"Aren't there matching moves? Teach me quickly."
Andros didn't waste any words, fearing that the effect of the medicine would be wasted, and he made one strange pose after another.
These movements have no effect when performed alone, but when combined with strengthening potions, they can quickly allow various parts of the body to absorb the medicinal power.
Although human wizards can surpass dragons, people like Dumbledore and Voldemort never take magical animals like dragons and sphinxes seriously.
However, the strength of an individual does not mean that the life essence of a powerful wizard surpasses these higher magical creatures. They are still human, just smarter and have a deeper understanding of magic.
The principle of the strengthening potion is to use the life essence of these higher magical animals to strengthen oneself, so it not only has the function of strengthening the body, but also mental strength, lifespan, etc. will be correspondingly improved.
In more than ten minutes, Andros led Tom to perform three consecutive matching movements. With Tom's memory, he naturally remembered them all.
After each movement, part of the body's energy is consumed and the temperature gradually decreases.
An hour later, Tom's body temperature returned to normal and his energy was exhausted. He ended the session in a weird posture and could not help but recite:
"I have practiced until my body is like a crane, and I have two boxes of scriptures under a thousand pine trees."
"I came to ask Wu Yu, and he said, 'The clouds are in the blue sky, and the water is in the bottle.
What the hell?
Andros in the study space was full of questions.
Because of the distance, Tom could understand any language he spoke and knew every word, but why couldn't he understand the meaning when they were put together?
"Nothing, just expressing my feelings." Tom put his hand away and exhaled lightly.
The Taoist priest's realm is still high. Is he also a wizard?
After more than an hour of high-intensity exercise, Tom felt that he was in better shape than ever before. His body was full of energy, his mind was clear, and his thinking was sharp.
As for magic...
"Shattered into pieces!"
With a lightning-fast flick of his wrist, a beam of light shot onto the tree, which instantly broke into countless pieces and fell to the ground.
"I feel like my attacks are stronger," Tom said.
Andros was not surprised by this: "This is an inevitable result. The mental state is different, and the aura of the spell will be very different.
"Now that your physical fitness has improved a lot, your magic power will grow faster and faster. You can try to learn some large-scale magic."
Tom nodded, suppressing the fire as he pleased.
Why use super intelligence to solve a problem that can be solved with super power? Isn't it better to be simple and crude?
Tom took out another bottle of strengthening potion.
If the effect of one bottle is so good, he will be very successful if he uses all of them.
Sensing his thoughts, Andros hurriedly stopped him: "There is still some medicine left in your body. It will take some time to digest. You can only take the next dose after at least a week."
"Okay then." Tom put the medicine away regretfully.
He took stock of the materials he had on hand. He had no shortage of other materials. They were either available in the Forbidden Forest or could be purchased directly from Diagon Alley.
The only thing missing is the eyeball of the sphinx and the heart of the fire dragon, and these two main materials are gone.
I still have six doses of medicine on hand, and using one dose a week is just enough to last until the Christmas holidays.
According to Andros, the effect will disappear after using about 20 to 30 bottles, so there is still a big gap.
When Tom was short of materials, the first person he thought of was his dean.
But I soon gave up the idea.
It's not that he can't do it, but he had already taken all the stocks of these two kinds last time. There might be some hidden away, but is Snape a fool? If the shelves are out of stock, they will be automatically replenished and wait for him to get them, right?
It's better to go to Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley to look for supplies during Christmas.
After putting away the cauldron and scales on the ground, Tom left the Forbidden Forest with brisk steps.
Although his physical condition was better than ever, he felt very hungry and wanted to chase the cow to eat.
After eating about 1.5 times the amount of food as before at noon, Tom rushed to the Room of Requirement without stopping.
Originally, I would start training with Hermione and Daphne every Saturday in the morning, but because of the Quidditch match, it was changed to the afternoon.
When he came in, the two little witches were talking about something. Hermione looked excited, and Daphne was similar, but even more angry.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"But this is what we saw, he is a big suspect.
"What suspicion?" Tom came over.
"Tom, you've come just in time."
When Daphne saw Tom coming in, she ran over and said angrily, "Hermione actually said that Professor Snape secretly used magic to affect Potter's broom!"
"I really saw it." Hermione also quickly explained to Tom: "Snape kept staring at Harry's broom, muttering something, but when Professor Quirrell was hit, he stopped, and Harry regained control of the broom and caught the Golden Snitch."
"I see." Tom nodded thoughtfully.
Just when Hermione thought Tom believed her, she heard Tom say, "According to what you said, I actually saw Professor Quirrell do the same thing. After he was hit by the Bludger, Harry became normal. So he is also a suspect, right?"
"Quirrell?"
Hermione was surprised, and even Daphne opened her mouth wide.
Quirrell...does he have the ability?
"If he really did it, then why did Quirrell attack Harry?" Hermione asked.
Tom shrugged: "I don't know about that, and I don't care why. Okay, don't waste time and continue to practice the Armor Spell. This spell is very important, more important than who is the murderer."
Seeing that Daphne had taken out her wand, Hermione put away the messy thoughts in her mind and devoted herself to training.
After class, they returned to the Gryffindor common room and Hermione told Harry what Tom had said.
Harry immediately shook his head after hearing this: "How could it be Professor Quirrell?"
"Although Professor Quirrell is incompetent,
But he has no grudge against me and has no reason to harm me."
After that, Harry comforted Hermione: "I understand Tom's thoughts. After all, no one would think that their dean is a bad person.
"Rather than who wants to harm me, I'm more worried about the thing on the fourth floor. By the way, Hermione, do you know who Nicolas Flamel is?"
Harry's curiosity reached its peak. What kind of treasure could Dumbledore keep so carefully?
Hermione also frowned. There was no mention of Nicolas Flamel in any of the books she had read.
"Nicolas Flamel? I know."
The next day in the atrium, Tom heard Hermione's question and answered straightforwardly: "He is a milestone figure in the field of alchemy. He also developed the first dragon blood with Dumbledore.
Thirteen uses, the greatest achievement is to refine the Philosopher's Stone, which can be used to make elixirs and gold. This year he is over 660 years old. "
"Elixir of Life?" Hermione and Daphne were both shocked.
"Actually, this statement is not quite accurate."
Tom added: "Immortality is indeed achieved, but the function of immortality is a little lacking. In more than 600 years, Nicolas Flamel and his wife have long been old and unrecognizable."
It's possible that they would break their bones.
"Oh." Daphne immediately lost interest.
No matter how old a woman is, her first concern is her appearance. If she could live forever and stay at her most beautiful, Daphne would definitely be tempted.
But now she feels that it would be better for her to die if she continues to live as an old lady. It is simply torture.
Seeing Daphne's behavior, Hermione reminded her: "The ability to create gold is also very powerful. With the Philosopher's Stone, you will never be short of money.
Daphne was not interested: "Gold... that thing is not that precious. I have several gold mines at home, so I will not be short of gold."
DEUT...
Tom felt that his stomach had suffered another heavy blow. He could no longer bear spicy food and could only eat soft rice.
Suddenly, Daphne thought of something and stood up suddenly, scaring Hermione.
Daphne ignored her and just grabbed Tom's shoulders and asked anxiously: "Since it can make people live forever, can the Philosopher's Stone cure diseases?"
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