Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 393 The Difference in the Second Decimal Place
"Don't be nervous, relax, take your time, it's okay."

The play-offs began, and Joyce kept telling Percy and Charles not to be nervous, but everyone could see that she was the most nervous.

Charles had nothing to do at the moment, so he chatted with her for a while to divert her attention and prevent her from disturbing Percy.

"Luckily we left some herbs brought by magic, otherwise Percy would be helpless."

As soon as Charles finished speaking, Joyce said, "Yes, yes, yes. At that time, I thought you kept those bugs to scare girls."

I can't talk any more today.

"Let me help." Charles went over to Percy and asked, "What can I do?"

Percy said, "Can you help with the snake venom?"

Charles replied: "No problem."

After he finished speaking, he put on his dragon-skin gloves, went to the corresponding box on the shelf, took out a wax ball the size of a cantaloupe, threw it high into the air and shattered it, then shot a Stunning Spell from his wand.

Inside the wax ball was a poisonous snake with black and gold rings. It was only as long as a palm, but its venom was enough to kill a large buffalo.

Charles easily caught the unconscious snake, took a cup and began to extract the snake venom.

Next to him, Cedric was extracting venom from a three-legged golden toad, Ashford was crushing a species of ant with flames on its body, and Joyce was helping to extract the venom glands of a black gecko.

The five people worked for half an hour and prepared seven kinds of poisonous animal poisons. When they were about to put them into the pot, Percy suddenly said, "Let's boil them in two crucibles."

Everyone just went through the whole process. The original plan was to cook it in one pot. Cedric asked him, "Why do you want to split it into two pots?"

Percy said seriously, "This potion takes a long time to brew, and I'm worried that the cauldron will leak."

Everyone thought it made sense. The crucible was equivalent to being boiled on the fire for forty-nine days in a row. Although all the goods they brought were high-end, they were still prepared for the worst.

It would be disastrous if the crucible leaked at the last moment and all the previous efforts were wasted.

The two crucibles and the furnace were ready. Percy poured seven animal poisons and a bright red ore powder into the two crucibles respectively, then added water and lit them on fire.

The next step was for Charles to take action. He asked Cedric to hold his watch and remind himself every minute, then he began to cast a spell. A light blue light enveloped the two crucibles.

Joyce and Ashford were also preparing, adding water every half a minute.

Percy didn't stop either, constantly adding fuel to the stove to make sure the fire was strong enough.

When a minute was up, Charles stopped the acceleration spell and Percy cast a spell into the cauldron to make the drug react.

This acceleration spell is more like a catalyst, and the total amount of reactants and external input energy remains unchanged.

A large amount of water vapor came out of the two crucibles, gathering into a large white gas column that rushed straight into the sky.

More than an hour later, Cedric yelled, "Time's up!"

Charles almost cast a spell, but stopped himself in time.

Percy wiped the sweat from his forehead and began to prepare the final ingredients.

When he put honey, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Platycodon grandiflorum and Snow Lotus into the first crucible, an accident occurred.

"Snapped!"

"Wow!"

"Pfft!"

The crucible next to it couldn't bear the weight, and the bottom of the pot exploded. The medicine immediately extinguished the flames in the furnace, and a burst of burnt and smelly black smoke came out.

Joyce immediately cast a spell, and poisonous smoke was rolled up, thrown high into the sky, exploded, and dissipated by the wind.

Everyone was terrified. If Percy hadn't reminded them that there might be problems with the crucible, they would all be doomed now.

The remaining crucible looked like it would be fine for the time being, but no one was willing to bet on it.

Cedric immediately brought over a new crucible, Charles cleaned the furnace that had just been extinguished and lit it, and Percy poured the potion into the new crucible.

"Hiss..." Ashford took a breath, "This crucible has cracks too."

Joyce patted her chest and said, "Fortunately, the crucible was replaced in time, otherwise this one would have been ruined."

Charles glanced at the cracks on the bottom of the crucible and said seriously, "When I get back, I will write to the Ministry of Magic and ask them to set up a crucible quality investigation committee to prevent counterfeit crucibles from appearing on the market."

As he was talking, a sweet smell wafted over from the side, a bit like candy. The originally black potion turned orange-red under Percy's manipulation, a bit like juice.

Percy let out a long breath, it seemed like he had succeeded.

Joyce asked hurriedly, "Is it done?"

The others looked at Percy expectantly.

Percy studied the potion for a while and said happily, "It has been successful according to the description in the record!"

The others finally breathed a sigh of relief, but they were still worried again, as whether they could defend the title depended on this potion.

When the competition time came, Joyce said to Percy, "This potion is your credit, go and submit it."

Percy did not refuse. In addition to handing over the poison, he also gave explanations when necessary. This was something only he could do.

He took a deep breath, straightened his hair and clothes, and took the bottle of medicine to submit.

Kodosdorez prepared four mice specifically for testing toxicity.

The order of testing was reversed according to the results of the previous competition, with the work of the Ugadu team being tested first.

Their poison looked like honey and was sticky. The mice being tested were reluctant to eat it, but in the end they were forced to drink it.

The poison was quite potent. The mouse convulsed for two minutes before dying. As a poison, it scored 9.1 points.

This score is considered low because the time from onset to death is too long, which leaves room for rescue.

Karkaroff picked up a little with a spoon, put it in his mouth, and said expressionlessly: "The main ingredient is honey brewed from oleander pollen. The taste is so-so, not delicious at all. I give it a 6 for the taste."

The final score was the sum of 80% of the poison score and 20% of the taste score. Team Ugadu's poison score was 8.48 points, plus the previous score of 92.333 points, for a total score of 100.813 points.

Next came the Hogwarts team's poison. The little white mouse took the initiative to drink it, but drank up the medicine in the small dish without any reaction.

The judges were a little confused. They had seen what the Hogwarts team did. They had indeed added several highly toxic raw materials. There was no reason why the mice would have no reaction after drinking it?
Percy saw their confusion and explained, "If a wizard drinks this poison and then casts a spell, he will lose all his magic power, the blood will flow backwards throughout his body, his mind will become confused and he will have all sorts of crazy thoughts, and eventually his blood vessels will burst and he will die."

Karkaroff raised his wand and cast a spell at the little white mouse. In a breath, the little white mouse turned into a little red mouse due to the burst blood vessels under its skin. It was deader than dead.

"A good poison, very effective against wizards." Karkaroff seemed quite interested in this poison.

After he finished speaking, he ate a spoonful, smacked his lips, and then ate a second spoonful. Finally, he ate four spoonfuls before stopping.

After Dumbledore and the others gave the poison a score of 9.85, they looked at Karkaroff a little worriedly, wondering if this guy would be okay after eating so much.
"It tastes great!" Karkaroff looked extremely satisfied. "It tastes like juice. I give it a perfect 10!"

The Hogwarts team cheered, and the total score was 106.546 points, which seemed to be a big advantage.

Next came the Magical Institute's poison, which looked like red bean paste.

After the little white mouse took a small bite, its body stiffened and it fell straight down. It died half a minute later.

The Magic Institute's poison scored 9.7 points.

Karkaroff took a spoonful and nodded. "Not bad, like the filling in a dessert, but the texture is a bit rough. I'll give it an 8."

The final score of the Institute of Magic team was 106.447 points, only 0.069 points lower than that of the Hogwarts team.

The Magic Institute team was helpless because they didn't have enough time and couldn't grind the ingredients finely, which affected the taste.

The Hogwarts team breathed a sigh of relief and caught up with the Institute of Magic, but they immediately became nervous again because of Kodostoriz.

The poison made by the Kodosdoriz team was a kind of chocolate. After the mice took two bites, they fell into a deep sleep and lost their lives in their dreams a minute later.

There is something wrong with eating chocolate until falling asleep, and one minute is too long. In the end, the poison scored 9.5 points.

Karkaroff broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth. Everyone in the Hogwarts team looked at him nervously.

Kodosdoriz was already in the lead, and although the poison score widened the gap a little, as long as the taste score was equal to that of magic, the total score would still be the highest.

"Bitter." Karkaroff looked a little embarrassed. "Although I know that the dark chocolate here tastes like this due to taste reasons, I have to use tastes from all over the world as a reference, so I give it a score of 7."

Five seconds later, the cheers of the Hogwarts students echoed in the sunset sky.

The Kodos Dorez team finally scored 106.514 points, 0.032 points lower than the Hogwarts team.

(End of this chapter)