The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

The secret passage was less than two feet wide. Eugenie walked sideways with the hostage, and the wall continued to rub against her back.

The fluorescent light illuminates the narrow passage. The stone slab under your feet reaches the end. When you step on the edge and look down, you will see an unfathomable depth below, a darkness that cannot be penetrated by light.

Eugenie squatted down, groped back and forth on the stone wall on the left, and found a stone brick that felt a little soft. She pressed it inward, and a simple step descended from the stone wall in front, which led directly to an abandoned dungeon.

This dungeon was locked, with two small metal snakes forming a door lock. Eugenie whispered a spell, and the entangled snakes crawled in two directions to unlock the lock.

Pushing open the cold door, walking through the deserted dungeon and returning to the main castle.In the corridor, three or two students were debating whether to disappear or clean up the sarcoid powder scattered on the quilt. They simply smiled at Eugenie and continued to lean against the pillar and argue with red faces.

Eugenie looked like she had just come back from an amusement park, holding the "balloon" and holding the "doll". As soon as she stepped into the office, she turned around and closed the door tightly.

Snape put down the lesson plan and took a closer look, then stood up from his chair and said, "Caught it?"

"Yes. Professor, that's her." Eugenie put the owl fluttering as hard as she could on the table and lifted the phantom spell on the hostage. "This person was hit by the forgetting spell. I spent more time to break the spell effect, but it hasn't happened yet." Retrieve those hidden memories.”

"Being hit by the Oblivion Curse?" Snape frowned and raised his wand to carefully check Margulies' condition. "She vomited - and you gave her the itching potion."

Eugenie nodded, "Yes, I did both, partly to break the spell."

You could tell the severity of the vomiting was so severe that it almost turned your stomach.

"Only these two? You are quite kind." Snape said calmly, "If you want to retrieve the memory, will the effect of the itching potion wear off soon? I don't want to waste the antidote."

"It should be soon." Eugenie looked at the time and roughly estimated that it would take more than ten minutes.

Snape moved her stool back to her side. The blind teaching assistant always moved the stool away and forgot to put it back in its place when holding teaching seminars. He didn't want to hold meetings in the office in the future.

"Being under an oblivion curse - not good news." He sat down and commented, "Do you think it was her mother who cast the curse on her?"

"I think so. Her mother adopted her purely for use. From the information available, it can be inferred that the time she was cursed was during this Christmas holiday."

"Ms. Margulies must be alarmed."

"Yes, we foresee this when we decided not to return to school - my unusual behavior will definitely alert them."

Snape shook his head slightly, "No, I mean, why didn't she consider using the Oblivion Charm before Christmas? School started - until before Christmas. During this period, there were too many opportunities to visit the school or pick up Margulies on the weekends. When the young lady leaves school, no one will stop her from doing so."

The other party should not be nervous about her return to school, because from an external perspective, it is entirely possible for her to return to school at any time before the holidays. If she was just worried about her memory being exposed, she would have used the forgetting spell on Margulis.

But they didn't.

Eugenie lowered her head and thought for a moment, "Maybe - Miss Margulies saw something she shouldn't have seen during Christmas."

"It's possible, and your behavior shows that this child has little chance of being useful, so to be on the safe side -"

Eugenie looked at the pale and comatose person, "Miss Margulies has become an outcast."

There was silence in the office for a while.

"But she went back to school as usual, so maybe Ms. Margulies hasn't completely given up on her original plan and we can give it a try."

"Well," Snape asked, looking at the clock, "is it almost time?"

Eugenie nodded uncertainly. She did not check the specific time in the Forbidden Forest, "I'll try to untie it."

She moved her person to the center so as not to knock over the precious potion bottles on the shelf during her struggle.

The floating spell and the coma spell were released one after another. The person on the ground was stunned for a while and began to twist desperately. The rope around her mouth made it difficult for her to breathe, and the range of her movements gradually became smaller.

Eugenie held down her upper body and stared at those eyes filled with hatred that once again invaded her brain.

Emotions cut through the already tortured and extremely fragile Oblivion Curse barrier like a sharp blade.

In the hidden memory:

During the summer vacation, in the annoying heavy rain, her mother apparated with her to the entrance of Ravenclaw Manor. To be precise, it was an ancient tree in the distance. They wore black cloaks and watched from a distance. Mother was watching from a distance. Here promised to help her get rid of this annoying guy again. As long as she waited for the goods ordered from Peru to arrive, she could complete the plan by tricking a little boy out of school. She didn't know what the specific thing was, and she wasn't interested in knowing. As long as it works -

A few days before Christmas, in the warmly decorated pink princess room, Ms. Margulies was patiently listening to her long list of Christmas wishes. Someone knocked on the door in a very ignorant way, and the woman went out to answer the door. , locking her in the room alone.

She tried turning the doorknob, but it didn't move.She kicked the door angrily and tried to open it again, but the door still didn't move.She was curious about what was happening outside, so she pressed her ear against the door panel. Fortunately, there was no spell arranged on the door panel in advance. The person who came was a young man, and most of the words could not be heard clearly. The tone of their conversation was quite intense, and all she could hear was "blood" and the word "Peru".

It must be related to the gift that mother promised to kill the hateful Miss Ravenclaw. The person who came was not too annoying. He sent her news about the gift. Maybe the gift could be delivered in advance.

She was satisfied and ready to lie back on the bed, but the door suddenly opened. Her mother saw her standing behind the door, a look of vigilance flashed in her eyes, but she soon discovered that she had seen it wrong, and her mother was still as normal as usual. She pampered her very much, and except for the mysterious gift from Peru, all her other wishes were fulfilled——

On the second day of Christmas, she put on a new platinum dress with a long bow trailing behind her. She walked around the room and hurriedly opened the door to the study room. She ran into her mother writing a letter to someone and saw her coming in. He subconsciously nervously blocked the envelope and letter paper with his arm, and then relaxed quickly.

She asked who it was addressed to, but the letter paper was empty and must have been filled with invisibility potion.

Mom said she wrote to her uncle in Peru to help her rush the goods. Because it was an illegal item, she had to be careful.

She turned around happily, her silver hair shining far brighter than her skirt in the warm winter sun——