Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

March is coming, and Ron will soon celebrate his seventeenth birthday. For wizards, the seventeenth birthday is very important because it represents a wizard's adulthood.

But Ron's face didn't show how happy he was. He was a little depressed that he couldn't go to Hogsmeade and had to attend the Apparition class on his birthday.

Professor Slughorn also began to avoid Harry, and in order to prevent Harry from having the opportunity to pester him, Professor Slughorn even cancelled the meeting of his "Slug Club".

This made Harry a little embarrassed. He couldn't stop Professor Slughorn in class, and he couldn't find him after class. Even when he visited his office, Professor Slughorn would use the Disillusionment Charm to hide his figure and pretend that he was not in the office.

Not only was the schoolwork heavy, but he also had to organize Quidditch training. Harry had to temporarily put aside Professor Dumbledore's "homework": obtaining Professor Slughorn's true memory.

On Ron's birthday, Aris gave Ron a set of wizard chess he made himself as a birthday present. This set of wizard chess was quite exquisite and was considered Aris's masterpiece. After calling a house-elf stationed at Hogwarts and asking it to deliver the birthday present to Ron, Aris began to study the pattern drawings of the summoning array.

When the time was almost up, Aeris prepared to go to the auditorium for breakfast. After breakfast, he had to assist in the weekly Apparition class.

On the way to the Great Hall, Aris met Harry and Ron. Harry was supporting Ron and was walking towards Professor Slughorn's office.

Ron's face looked very strange now, but his eyes were full of spring water, and he murmured to himself: "Romilda Vanni...Romilda Vanni..."

"How did he get drugged?" Aris looked into Ron's eyes and came to a conclusion, then asked Harry, "Who drugged him? Romilda Vane? Where's Lavender Brown?"

"I went to settle accounts with Romilda Vane. Come and help me, Aris!" Harry gritted his teeth and said, "Don't mention it. Before Christmas, Romilda Vane gave me a box of chocolate cauldrons. Hermione reminded me that Romilda Vane might have put drugs in the chocolate cauldrons. I didn't eat it, but Ron found it and ate it. He thought it was my birthday present to him!"

"I have the antidote..." Aeris said, but was interrupted by Harry.

"No, Aris!" said Harry. "I'm trying to get close to Professor Slughorn. I think this is an opportunity..."

"You are...going to sacrifice your own brother-in-law!" Aris couldn't help but tease.

"Don't be so careless, Professor Grindelwald. It turns out that Professor Dumbledore didn't give you any homework!" Harry said angrily.

Aeris and Harry dragged Ron to Professor Slughorn's office. This time, Professor Slughorn couldn't pretend that he wasn't in the office, but he still forced a smile and teased, "Two potion geniuses can't handle a little love potion?"

"We don't have any ready-made materials, sir!" Harry lied, "and today is his birthday, and we don't want to see him going crazy. I'm sure you can quickly prepare the antidote, so... please... understand..."

Professor Slughorn waved his hand nonchalantly and quickly prepared the antidote for the love potion. "The longer a love potion is left, the stronger its effect will be!" Professor Slughorn said, "As I said in class, being poisoned by a love potion is extremely dangerous..."

"Romilda Vane... Where is Romilda Vane..." Ron looked around Professor Slughorn's office in panic, "I can't see her... I can't see her..."

"Drink this and you'll be able to see her, young man!" Professor Slughorn said nonchalantly as he handed Ron the antidote to the love potion.

Ron swallowed the antidote of the love potion in one gulp, and then an extremely lost expression appeared on his face. Professor Slughorn glanced at Ron and said casually: "The collapse of love is always accompanied by sadness. Let's drink something, for this boy's lost love and to celebrate his birthday. How about mead? I begged Rosmerta several times before she agreed to sell it to me..."

Professor Slughorn filled four exquisite goblets with mead and gave each person one. Professor Slughorn held up the goblet and was about to say a toast, but Ron, feeling lost, drank up the mead in his goblet in one gulp.

Then, an accident happened. Ron, who was fine in the last second, fell to the ground in the next second, his eyes rolled back, white foam came out of his mouth and nose, and his whole body was twitching.

Aeris' pupils suddenly shrank, and he sniffed the mead in his goblet. "Toxic!" Aeris threw away the mead and said briefly, "Quick! Harry! Look for any fecal stones..."

Aeris pulled out a few bottles of antidote from his pocket and forced Ron to drink them. Harry began to look through Professor Slughorn's potion tool kit, and Professor Slughorn was obviously frightened and froze. The goblet in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, splashing mead all over the floor. A faint "hissing" sound of burning could be heard.

Harry found a small piece of fecal stone and stuffed it into Ron's mouth. With the help of Aris' antidote, Ron finally stopped twitching.

"Horace, are you really going to drink this bottle of mead yourself?" Professor Dumbledore asked Professor Slughorn while carefully observing the bottle of poisoned mead.

"No... Albus..." Professor Slughorn said hesitantly, "I... I... I originally intended to give it to you as a gift..."

This incident had a very bad impact and even alarmed Professor Dumbledore. After sending Ron to the school hospital, Professor Dumbledore immediately went to Professor Slughorn's office with Professor Snape.

Professor Dumbledore handed the poisoned mead to Professor Snape, who began a more detailed inspection. Professor Dumbledore asked Aries and Harry again about what had happened before letting Aries and Harry leave.

"Do you have any ideas, Aries?" Harry asked Aries on the way to the school hospital.

"Someone wants to kill Professor Dumbledore," Aris said in a heavy tone, "but the method is childish and ridiculous. Whether it is the opal necklace or the mead, for a high-level wizard like Professor Dumbledore, at most they can only make him suffer a little, but it is absolutely impossible to kill him..."

"But who on earth would do such a meaningless thing?" Harry said puzzledly.

"Who knows..." Aeris also said doubtfully.