"What are you doing?" Dumbledore's tone was full of curiosity as he studied the contents of the notes with great interest.
"The original potion formula requires five portions of Ambergris..." He looked up and winked at Snape. "That is indeed a little expensive..."
Snape's expression grew even uglier. He simply turned away, too lazy to speak to Dumbledore.
"The amount of Peppermint also needs to be reduced..." Vizet wrote the final few strokes in the notebook.
"The purpose of using seven portions of Peppermint before was to dispel the effects brought by the Ambergris as quickly as possible after the effect ended..."
After recording this, he began brewing the improved potion formula.
As long as the potion still took on the same color when it reached the step of adding Ambergris, it would basically prove that this improvement had succeeded.
The water in the cauldron had already boiled. Vizet placed six portions of Demiguise Feather into the cauldron, waited until all six portions had sunk to the bottom, then poured in one portion of powdered Vampire Tumbleweed Fang.
After the two Potion Ingredients were added to the cauldron and heated for one minute, the liquid inside turned dark red.
Vizet reduced the heat, then added three portions of Rosemary. He stirred once along the inner wall of the cauldron with a spoon and added one portion of Morning Glory Seeds.
The reason he reduced the heat was that the function of the Morning Glory Seeds and Rosemary was to create a dream, and so a relatively stable environment was needed to help form that dream.
The liquid in the cauldron stopped boiling. A shallow ring of ripples appeared from the center of the cauldron and spread all the way to the inner wall.
The liquid gradually calmed, until even the