Chapter 2992 The Secret of No Trace (Twenty Four)

At the end of every semester, the school's "black market" becomes active, and "smart drugs" are on sale.

But by the time students reach seventh grade, they know these things are useless, but that doesn't mean they won't buy such drugs.

About 60% of students facing the newt exam are taking calming draught. Its main function is to relieve anxiety, mental trauma and other emotions. Some people also drink it before the exam because graduation is around the corner, and some people have already found a drug.

In internship places, some people don't know what they want to do in the future.

The biggest difference between it and the demulcent is that it is easy to make and the materials are easy to find. It only requires water, fluid grass oil and bloodroot juice, while the demulcent requires unicorn horns, moon stones, etc., and

The production process of the moderator is also much more complicated. If there is an operational error in preparing the moderator or there is a problem with the formula, it will cause irreversible slumber.

You won't have this kind of worry if you drink a sedative potion. If you drink too much, you will sleep for a while at most, and you can wake up when the effect of the potion wears off. At least in Snape's Potions class, no one thought about drinking the demulcent potion.

But some people really drink sedative potions.

However, in addition to making people sleep after drinking too much, it has other side effects, such as reducing the drinker's muscle control. If you are about to participate in a broomstick competition, it is recommended not to drink it.

The other thing is Apparition. This time, a sixth-grade Ravenclaw boy drank a sedative potion to take the Apparition exam. As expected, he "divided". Most of his body moved to the correct position, but some

One toe finally stayed in place, screaming in pain.

"Drink this," Madam Pomfrey said, handing him a cup of potion emitting purple smoke.

The boy drank the potion and soon stopped complaining of pain and fell into a deep sleep.

What he drank was actually a sedative potion, but lavender was added to it. Without his screams, the hospital wing was much quieter.

"Is there anything missing?" Pomona asked Madam Pomfrey.

"It's almost enough." Madam Pomfrey looked at the freshly picked lavender and said, "The demand for sleeping potions has been tight recently."

"If you are missing anything... Oh, hi, Filius." Pomona saw the Head of Ravenclaw walking in and greeted him with a smile.

"How is he?" Felicity smiled at Pomona, walked to the bedside, looked at Madam Pomfrey and asked.

"He didn't bleed too much. He drank raw bone water and he will be back to his original state after one night's sleep. It won't delay his other exams." Madam Pomfrey said briskly.

"Are you relieved now?" Pomona asked.

Felivi sighed, shook his head and left the hospital wing.

Pomona glanced at the ward. It seemed that she had nothing to do here, so she followed Felivi and left the hospital wing.

"Don't be so nervous, Filius, it's just a school exam." Pomona said easily, "The fact that they were sorted into Ravenclaw House proves their intelligence."

"I'm not nervous because of this." Li Wei said a little sharply, his brows were furrowed and he seemed to be in a bad mood.

"Even if you can't win the Academy Cup, the top ten spots in the exam will definitely be yours." Pomona said comfortingly.

"I'm not doing it for the Academy Cup... you just said 'them'?" Felivi said sharply.

"Barnaby Lee, it seems his grades are so bad that he can't even go to Hogsmeade," Pomona said.

"Who told you?" Felicity asked.

"I often see him in the library, studying with Bill Weasley," Pomona said.

"I didn't allow him to go to Hogsmeade because of his grades." Felicity said seriously.

"Why is that?" Pomona asked.

Li Wei looked around and seemed to be sure that no one was there before speaking.

"Someone was planning to hurt him or kidnap him," Felivi said.

"For what, his parents?" Pomona asked.

"No, it's his family collection. Actually, I don't know much about it. Dumbledore told me to warn him like this."

Pomona couldn't help but feel lucky. Fortunately, Barnaby's grades as a Ravenclaw were not very good, otherwise it would have been difficult for Livi to find such a "perfect" reason not to let him out.

"But we can only protect him for a while, he will graduate soon."

"His guardian is handling it, and it may have been taken care of after he graduates." Feliwei sighed, "I hope so."

Pomona watched Feli Wei leave, and then left himself.

She had no intention of asking Dumbledore what caused Barnaby's disaster. She had a lot of things going on in her own college, so she had no time to care about other people's affairs.

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After returning to the main house, Pomona found the emollient on the cabinet where the finished product was stored. She opened the lid and took a sip.

As the slightly sweet medicine was swallowed into her throat, her whole body relaxed, and her muscles were not as tense as when she was on the verge of death.

She knew that the demulcent contained sneezeweed syrup, which was poisonous. Even if the dose was far from toxic, it would accumulate in the body if she drank too much.

She sat down on the chair next to the medicine cabinet. This chair was Severus' favorite. She often saw him sitting in this chair reading a book or reading a newspaper. There was no small coffee table around the chair. This was his

As a habit, I don’t drink or smoke while reading.

He is such a person. When a person focuses on one thing, other things will be forgotten, whether it is annoying or painful.

Maybe she was really calm. From this position, she could see the scenery outside the window. She could see grazing sheep in the distance. They were being driven by sheepdogs. She could vaguely hear the barking of dogs.

She had seen a similar scene when she was in XZ, but the Tibetan Mastiff raised by the herders could not herd sheep. It lay majestically in the depression between the two hills, so as to prevent the sheep from escaping through these depressions.

Herdsmen don't just raise one Tibetan mastiff, they often have several, guarding those notches, and the sheep can graze freely within this range.

On the top of the hill, there are often piles of stones of varying sizes, surrounded by countless colorful silk ropes, and some even have a pole erected with prayer flags hanging on it.

This kind of stone pile is called Mani pile, which is taken from the six-character mantra Om, Ne, Ba, Moo, Hu. Every time you recite it, it is equivalent to reciting the scripture once. Some people will kowtow on the way.

Chanting while biting one's head, some people will hold a prayer wheel and chant, praying for relief from the suffering of reincarnation and liberation.

Pomona once saw a herdsman letting his yaks circle the hills with Manidui. The purpose of doing this was to hope that those evil people who were unfortunate enough to be reincarnated as animals would accumulate merit and escape from the animal realm as soon as possible.

Yaks are usually regarded as a symbol of wealth. Herdsmen drive cattle and sheep so that they can eat rich water and grass. But this is the first time she saw a herdsman like him.

No wonder people who have been there call it the Pure Land, not only because there are clear holy lakes, blue skies, and untainted snow-capped mountains.

There are rules to be followed in the six paths of reincarnation. Good deeds are rewarded with good rewards, and evil deeds are rewarded with bad consequences. If you do good deeds and accumulate merit, you will go to the upper three realms in the next life. If you do bad things, you will go to the lower three realms. They will exist forever due to karma.

As for impermanence, causes and conditions will vary and arise and die, and there is no law to follow. You can only experience it in a "moment".

Severus never thought that "something" would happen to him, just like some people never thought that they would die.

It is precisely because I have never thought that I will encounter impermanence, accidents and death that I pursue an infinitely expanding desire.

Modern people's view of the universe believes that the universe is constantly expanding, and time is like an arrow shot out. Although they may have fantasized about the death of the universe, that will only happen tens of billions of years later.

The time of reincarnation is cyclical, and death is no longer something to be deliberately avoided to pursue the desire for expansion.

Severus heard about the prophecy and immediately told the Dark Lord that he first ruled out Lily being related to the prophecy. How could she be related to the prophecy?

The prophecy only mentioned a boy born at the end of July. With so many people being born every day on the earth, how could it be Lily's turn?

The deliberate alienation from death, dead people, or his own death made Voldemort begin to pursue immortality and eternal life. A characteristic of people like him is the ever-expanding desire, such as dominating the world.

Grindelwald had the same idea, but Dumbledore didn't intend to save the world. That was like the other side of the coin, but he put on the Resurrection Stone ring and wanted to see Arianna.

He actually had a chance to use the time turner to go back to that night, even earlier, before Arianna was attacked, nor did she become an Obscurial due to losing control of her magic power. How far could it be to stop three Muggle children with Dumbledore's power?

Is it difficult?

The question is not how to do it, but why not.

What would he do if the "future" Severus told his "past" self that he could not tell the Dark Lord this prophecy?

"Future" cannot kill "past", because without "past", "future" will be gone, but "past" can kill "future".

She thought of Henry again. One day she found him dead at the workbench where she usually stayed, but his commonly used time turner was gone. Where did it go, or where did he go?

When using it, the person will disappear in place, just like Harry and Hermione from Ron's perspective. They disappeared inside the hospital wing and then pushed in from outside the hospital wing, as if they had apparated.

Hogwarts does not allow the use of Apparition, but there are special times, such as when learning Apparition and exams, which require the principal to open the "window"...

"what's on your mind?"

Pomona turned back and looked at the man in black who asked her question. The setting sun shone on his body without penetrating, and there were hideous scars on his neck.

"I'm thinking about time and space." Pomona smiled and said, "Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"

He looked at her calmly.

"If that's okay with you, I'd like to have beef stew with potatoes and rice," Pomona said.

"XZ?" Severus tilted his head and asked with a weird smile.

It is XZ or not XZ. It belongs to Bhutan in the Himalayas, which became the place where Grindelwald and Dumbledore broke up.

This is not only because they are in opposition, but also because the "blood alliance" is broken there, and the oath they swore not to hurt each other is no longer valid.

"Albus said he wanted to protect and Grindelwald wanted to harm. Do you think he was right?" Pomona asked.

He seemed not to understand what she was saying.

It was too troublesome to explain, but she didn't bother to explain.

"Do we still have beef?" she muttered as she went to the kitchen. If there is no beef, what can we eat with potato stew?

Fortunately, wizards can apparate and buy them at any time. Of course, Severus is the one doing the errands, unless he comes to cook, provided that the food he cooks is not as unpalatable as the potion.
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