Harry Potter: This Ravenclaw Is Too Brilliant
Chapter 1441

Of Two Evils, Choose the Lesser

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There were still many shortcomings in the analysis?

The analysis had been far too thorough. Unless he added basic information that only a Troll would fail to understand, there was hardly anything left to add.

At that thought, Snape curled his lip and chose not to answer the question.

He shifted his posture. "The improved potion formula you brought out this time is very different from the previous ones... Why did this change occur?"

Snape did not intend to answer the question he had raised, and Wizet did not dwell on it either, instead beginning to answer Snape's question.

"Professor Snape, it was like this..." he explained. "While I was improving the potion formula over the past two days, Luna told me an interesting story."

"Mm... a little story..." He paused to organize his words. "It was roughly about two children who worried that their mother would punish them for dirtying the bed, so they chose to dirty the sofa instead."

"Heh! A clever little trick! Did they think dirtying the sofa would spare them punishment?" Snape sneered. "Idiots like that belong in Gryffindor. I imagine Gryffindor would be delighted to take them."

Wizet nodded and said in agreement, "At first, I also thought it was a... rather amusing little trick."

"But after thinking it over carefully, I realized that this little trick actually concealed an ingenious strategy."

"Suppose the two children were bound to dirty something, making their mother's punishment unavoidable. In that case, choosing to dirty the sofa would be the clever thing to do."

"At least after they dirtied the sofa, their mother's punishment would probably be... making them clean the sofa. If they dirtied the bed, they would receive a harsher punishment."

He began explaining his original idea. "After taking Polyjuice Potion, there is a period

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