Manus's Potions Style

Hopefully, by the end of these seven years at Hogwarts, he would not have collected seven different ways for Defense Against the Dark Arts professors to die.

After leaving Professor Staky, not long after class had ended, Manus made his way to the Potions classroom.

"Severus?"

Before entering the Potions classroom, Manus spotted Severus waiting outside the door.

"What are you...?"

Although Severus had also borrowed a Potions classroom, it was clearly not the same one as Manus's. The only reason he could be here was to find Manus.

"I came to see how the Potent Strengthening Potion was coming along. It should have finished brewing around now, right?"

"Your estimate was quite accurate, but unfortunately, you were late."

Manus shook his head and unlocked the Potions classroom door with his key.

"Perhaps because the materials I used differed from the original formula, it finished brewing earlier than expected—over a week ago, approximately."

"What? That early?"

Severus froze.

"Then what about the potion's effects? Have you tested them?"

"Not yet. As you know, the effects of this potion are probably not something that can be conveniently determined by drinking it directly."

Severus could not help nodding. With the ingredients added to that potion and Manus's brewing methods, which pursued the absolute limit of its effects...

One bottle—no, one sip—of Potent Strengthening Potion, and the drinker would probably turn into Blood Mist.

"So I intend to test its effects with spells and animals. But I have not started yet. Lately, most of my energy in Potions has been focused on a new potion."

"A new potion? Is it the Beauty Potion?"

Severus could not help looking toward the cauldron in the Potions classroom.

Inside it was a pot of crystal-clear, transparent water. In the candlelight, he could even see the bottom