The Potion That Turned Him into the Perfect Lover

That morning was a combined Potions class, but Professor Snape seemed to have something to attend to, so Professor Fiennes was teaching it instead.

Compared to Snape's proper Potions lessons, Fiennes's classes seemed considerably more dangerous.

"Succubus Potion!"

Old Wizard Fiennes waved the wand in his hand as he slowly walked down the aisle between the desks. "This potion came from a wizard named Arsenio Snow in the Middle Ages. It was said that he was exceptionally ugly, and thus harbored a pathological obsession with his own appearance. In the end, he invented this potion."

"Miss Granger, you seem to have something to say?"

Hermione looked up in confusion. "Why didn't he use a Beauty Potion?"

Professor Fiennes smiled and shook his head, raising three fingers and giving them a little wag. "Three reasons."

"The so-called Beauty Potion has a time limit. That wizard could not bear the dreadful prospect of its effects wearing off. That was the first reason."

"Second, he had suffered discrimination because of his appearance. So, he did not merely want to become good-looking himself—he also craved an overwhelming appeal to the opposite sex. He intended to steal the partners of those who had discriminated against him."

"Third, he could not bear the thought that, after becoming beautiful, he might still have an ugly child."

After saying this, Fiennes walked smilingly toward the podium and waved his wand, causing a potion formula to appear on the blackboard.

At the same time, the Young Wizards below went wild.

The girls were already discussing it with gleaming eyes, but even the boys were eagerly interested. More than half of their third year's second term had passed, and the Young Wizards were beginning to develop a hazy longing for love.

The Wizarding World had always had a small population,