Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

"Honestly, Harry, you really shouldn't have spoken to Professor Snape like that." After class, as Aris followed Harry and the others to the auditorium, he said earnestly, but Ron rolled his eyes.

"Then Snape shouldn't have done anything bad," Ron said bluntly, "He definitely wanted to cast a curse on Harry, and Harry just wanted to...how do I put it...self-defense..."

At this time, a Gryffindor student ran over. He seemed to be a member of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He handed Harry a roll of parchment, which was a short message from Professor Dumbledore to Harry.

Professor Dumbledore will give Harry a private lesson on Saturday evening.

"Snape can't give me detention!" Harry said in a relaxed tone, and then he and Ron began to discuss enthusiastically what Professor Dumbledore might want to teach him.

Aeris and Hermione looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads.

"Do you have any theories, Aeris?" Harry asked, "about Professor Dumbledore giving me private lessons?"

"Guess? Maybe Professor Dumbledore will use some method to make you understand your enemies better! But now, let's fill your stomach first!" Aris said with a smile.

Instead of going to the faculty seats, Aeris sat at the Gryffindor table and enjoyed lunch with Harry and the others.

After lunch, Hermione left in a hurry. She had many elective courses and had to prepare for the Arithmancy class. Harry and Ron had to complete the homework assigned by Professor Snape. After saying goodbye to them, Aris strolled in the castle, looking around from time to time to see where it would be suitable to carve the summoning array.

When Aeris felt that the time was about right, he walked slowly towards the basement. He had to be Professor Slughorn's assistant in Potions class in the afternoon.

He arrived at the basement with familiarity. This was originally Professor Snape's territory. After arriving at the classroom in the basement, Professor Slughorn, who was already there, greeted Aris warmly.

"Hi! Aeris!" Professor Slughorn said with a smile, "Severus introduced you to me. He said that your talent in potions is not worse than his. It just so happens that I want to test some potions of the students in the advanced class. You can take a look first..."

Aeris first looked at the pot of potion that was emitting a mother-of-pearl sheen and showing spiral steam rising, then quickly moved away. "Love potion!" Aeris said dryly, "It can cause a person to be extremely obsessed and infatuated with another person. This should be the most dangerous potion you have here, right?"

Professor Slughorn nodded approvingly, and Aeris looked at the second pot of potion, which was bubbling slowly in the pot like a pot of mud.

"Polyjuice Potion!" said Aris. "If you are familiar with Alastor Moody, this is probably the potion he hates most."

"Yes!" Professor Slughorn said indifferently, "Poor old guy, a Death Eater used this thing to impersonate him for a whole school year. Dumbledore told me... Can you recognize this?" Professor Slughorn pointed to a pot of potion that looked like boiling water and asked Aris.

"Veritaserum!" Aeris said, "To be honest, I successfully made an antidote for Veritaserum last school year."

"Haha..." Professor Slughorn laughed twice, and then said, "It seems that Severus was not exaggerating. He is a gifted potion master. It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to teach you. Can you recognize the last pot of potion?"

The last pot of potion was placed in the smallest crucible. The boiling potion was like melted gold. Big drops of potion jumped like goldfish, but did not splash out of the small crucible at all.

"Lucky elixir!" Aeris answered briefly, "But it is also dangerous. Too much luck can lead to dizziness, recklessness, and unrealistic arrogance..."

The sound of rustling footsteps came from outside the classroom, and Professor Slughorn suddenly came back to his senses. "Go and bring our students in, Professor Grindelwald!" Professor Slughorn said kindly.

Aeris led more than a dozen students outside the classroom into the classroom. There were still students from various colleges. After entering the classroom, Harry explained his difficulties. Because he didn't know that the professor of Potions would be changed, Harry and Ron thought that they would not be able to take Potions class this semester, so they did not prepare the sixth grade Potions textbooks and materials.

"That's easy!" Professor Slughorn said nonchalantly, "I can borrow your old textbooks and materials. Professor Grindelwald, can you help these two children get them? They're in that cabinet."

Edwards found two books on Advanced Potion-Making from the cupboard, one was newer and the other looked very worn. Edwards handed one to Harry and one to Ron.

Ron was quick to grab the newer textbook, while Harry looked at Ron resentfully and took the rather worn one.

I have to admit that Professor Slughorn's Potions class is much more interesting than Professor Snape's. As long as the students have real potential, they will be favored by Professor Slughorn. He does not hesitate to praise Hermione, even though he knows that Hermione came from a non-wizard family.

When it was time to brew the potion, Professor Slughorn asked the students to make a potion of the living hell, and the student with the highest degree of completion would receive a small bottle of felicity potion.

Professor Slughorn easily aroused the enthusiasm of the students, which was unprecedented in Professor Snape's potions class.

Aries paced among the students, giving instructions from time to time, but he soon discovered that Harry, who usually didn't pay much attention to potion-making, did it exceptionally smoothly this time.

Near the end of the class, only three people succeeded in making the Hell Potion: Hermione, Draco, and Harry. Among them, Harry's Hell Potion was in the best condition, so Harry got the small bottle of Felicis Potion.

Both Hermione and Draco were quite dissatisfied with this result, because in previous Potions classes, Harry and Professor Snape disliked each other, which led to Harry's Potions grades being almost at the bottom.