Watching Professor Flitwick's excitement, Will felt oddly unsettled.
"Liquidizing spells and fixing their effects..." Will murmured to himself.
Was this Potions, or another form of Charms? Potion-spells?
To Will, it seemed more like fixing a long-lasting spell in place to produce different effects.
Were spells being channeled into potions through ritual, or could spells and potions be converted into each other?
The question lingered in Will's mind. He hadn't felt this way in a long time, but now he felt an overwhelming urge to investigate the idea.
Will was hungry. This delicious possibility, this glimpse of knowledge, sat before him like a luscious grape cake, tempting him to devour it.
But first, Will finally realized the problem with Professor Flitwick's new idea.
It wasn't a conversion of potions.
Instead of deriving a potion from a spell, it used a spell to create a new form of "potion."
Spells and potions were separate. Take the Sleeping Charm derived from the Draught of Living Death, for example.
A Wizard who hadn't learned the Sleeping Charm could still learn to brew the Draught of Living Death, while one who couldn't brew the Draught of Living Death could still learn the Sleeping Charm.
Neither depended on the other. But under Professor Flitwick's approach, a Wizard who couldn't learn the spell couldn't liquidize it and fix its effect.
This probably counted as a specialized branch of Charms... spell-based potion-making?
It sounded like a major at a Magical University.
Still, it had research value—not because it was especially powerful, but because it connected different fields. Will still needed to improve his Potions and Ritual Studies.
Besides, mastering it would help build his image as the "God of Wizards."
The God of Wizards was capable of anything.
Will came back to himself and said with heartfelt