In most cases, discussing effects without considering the dosage is just being a rascal.

This is a very interesting saying from the non-magical world. In the magical world, we might need to add another point: people's constitutions cannot be generalized. For example, Hagrid once ate dozens of toadstools in a state of extreme confusion and was confused for an entire day.

Obviously, potions are very different from ordinary medicines in the non-magical world.

The most direct point is that most potions cannot be affected by simple physical methods, such as distillation or pressurization, to change their effects in actual application: the magical power of potions comes more from the content of "magical symbols" than from the concentration of conventional substances in the potion.

Every potion master's potions are different, even if they are made by the same person.

This is also an important factor limiting the large-scale circulation and storage of potions in the market.

However, this problem is not completely unsolvable.

Based on the liquid nature of potions, most potions can be split and bottled by diluting or blending them.

For example, the "Good Morning Tea" that Ailina and the others drank yesterday morning was a diluted energizing potion—increasing the "magical concentration" when brewing the potion is equivalent to increasing the potion's yield—while Hagrid's version was undiluted, high-concentration "energizing potion raw pulp."

"Yawn—if only there were 'Good Morning Tea' on the dining table..."

Hermione yawned deeply, poured herself some coffee, and muttered softly.

It must be admitted that compared to the magical drinks in Ailina's bedroom, the coffee provided by the Hogwarts kitchen is still too ordinary.

"My dad said before that a drowsy morning is the most wonderful time of the day. Forcing oneself awake with any spell or potion is destroying this beauty. Relying too much on the energizing effects of potions and spells can easily overdraft your normal inspiration—"

Luna's voice floated over from Hermione's right. She was trying hard to fight with the grilled sausage on her plate.

Under Ailina's influence, Luna began to try to learn to eat with "chopsticks."

This novel, interesting cutlery, like a miniature wand, is a little difficult to use, but once you successfully pick up food, it can bring you the surprise of discovering beautiful coral on the beach, not to mention, it can also strengthen your finger skills and stability in spellcasting.

"Sorry, I can't agree with that," Hermione raised her eyebrows, "The early bird catches the worm, that's what my dad says. From a modern medical point of view, the time after waking up in the morning is the best time for the human brain to remember things, and it's most correct to seize every minute to memorize new knowledge. As for consuming and overdrafting inspiration, we're not drinking Felix Felicis, just diluted energizing potions—"

"But even so, I heard that you still lost to Draco in Potions class last week?"

Luna turned to look at Hermione, arguing back, with a hint of hidden laughter in her pale silver eyes.

Since the beginning of this semester, Draco Malfoy's progress can be said to have exceeded everyone's expectations. Hermione's original title of "know-it-all" began to become somewhat unstable. In the past few weeks of class, there were several times when Draco answered more accurately and correctly.

"That was just an accident, I won't lose next time!"

Hermione seemed to have been pricked by a needle, and her fluffy hair seemed to have exploded a little, she said angrily.

"Besides, at least I'm much better than some stubborn people, even though Mr. Newt Scamander said that he has never seen or heard of any Crumple-Horned Snorkacks, and still stubbornly continues to refute—that's not inspiration, that's called fantasy..."

"The Opal Fire Salamanders of Gringotts, Mr. Scamander hadn't seen them before either, but he admits they exist now."

Sigh, honestly, here they go again.

Ailina and Hannah exchanged a tired look.

"They're fighting again! Tuanzi, I was the one who mediated last time, it's your turn this time..."

Hannah nudged Ailina, who was concentrating on drinking oatmeal porridge, with her elbow, her lips moved, and she said silently.

Although everyone is usually very close, the "Calculating Machine" and the "Dice Maiden" seem to be inherently incompatible, and they suddenly quarrel like this every once in a while. If Ailina and Hannah don't come out to smooth things over, these two can have a cold war for a week.

"Cough, stop arguing, eat first—"

Ailina coughed helplessly, casually picked up two small grilled sausages and stuffed them into their mouths, casting a silencing charm.

"Logically, we can only prove existence and cannot prove non-existence. But on the other hand, if we can cite something that does not exist, then it at least exists in your consciousness, and we are wizards—so it may exist, because we use ourselves as the scale of all things."

"As for learning problems, I do know some inside information..."

Ailina glanced at Hermione, thought for a while, and said, weighing her words.

"You also know that outside of Hogwarts classes, there are actually all kinds of private tutoring—this situation was actually very common in ancient times, people called this apprentices or registered apprentices, and as far as I know... Draco seems to be studying with Professor Lockhart."

Before Hogwarts was established, the way knowledge was passed down in the wizarding world was mostly in the form of apprentices, assistants, and disciples.

And as Ailina's little angel wings fluttered, this ancient model reappeared in Hogwarts.

In terms of Potions, Professor Snape's preference for Harry and private tutoring is almost public knowledge; Hannah and Ailina's Ancient Runes are inherited from the retired Dark Lord who uses the alias "Otto Apocalypse"; Hermione has the privilege of asking Albus Dumbledore questions at any time and borrowing books from the Headmaster's office... Although from now on, it seems that the old radish is a bit passive and lazy.

As for Draco, in a sense, he can be considered a disciple of Lockhart, right?

"Eh?! Draco is secretly getting tutoring from Professor Lockhart?!"

Hermione's eyes widened suddenly, she hurriedly swallowed the grilled sausage in her mouth, and asked in disbelief.

"Shh, keep your voice down—"

Ailina raised her finger, glanced around, and mysteriously lowered her voice.

"This is what Professor Apocalypse told me. Hogwarts seems to be secretly piloting some kind of special learning method, and Professor Lockhart happens to be the creator of this special learning method—rather than saying it is tutoring, it is better to say that Draco is learning Professor Lockhart's learning method."

"But, why did the professor choose Draco..."

Hermione muttered unhappily, that's Professor Lockhart's learning method, she also wanted to learn it.

Every weekend she has the opportunity to go to the off-campus research area to audit the open courses from former Soviet scholars with Professor Quirrell and Professor Lockhart, but for so long, she has never won against the other two "students" in homework or class question-and-answer sessions.

Obviously, maybe she is relatively good in the same grade, but compared to the outstanding Hogwarts alumni, she is still too tender.

"I guess maybe it's because Draco is a boy? And, you know, Professor Lockhart is not suitable to teach you—"

Ailina shrugged, a well-hidden slyness flashed in her eyes, and sighed helplessly.

"There's no way around it. I heard that in the eyes of some adult wizards, male wizards are stronger than female wizards in terms of learning stamina and upper limit. Unless we can prove that their judgment is wrong, they will naturally treat them differently in terms of gender at this time. As for the 'Good Morning Tea' you mentioned earlier, that can only be drunk at my place for the time being, so if you want to..."

"You just want to trick me into sleeping at your place, right? As for the reason, it's still some kind of equivalent exchange, right?"

Hermione ruthlessly exposed Ailina's evil purpose.

"This is not called tricking, nor is it an equivalent exchange, what good would it do me to trick you?"

Ailina said without changing her face, "That kind of diluted magical energizing drink is still in the testing stage, and it is temporarily for the head of the house only."

Hermione seemed to be a little tempted, but in the end, she didn't agree.

In Hogwarts, staying out overnight is a very serious violation of discipline.

Except for Ailina, the Mischief Queen, most students have to abide by the school rules. If they want to stay overnight in other houses, they must first obtain the consent of their respective deans or the headmaster, not to mention that Hermione is now a prefect, and she can't "break the law knowingly" like this.

If it really doesn't work, she will secretly ask Hannah later to see if she can help her bring a cup from her bedroom to the breakfast table every day.

As for the threat of Draco Malfoy recently, Hermione also has some ways to deal with it.

Since she knows that Draco's change comes from the "Lockhart learning method," then she should observe Draco's learning status and methods more.

All in all, this time, Hermione decided not to compromise with the evil Ailina.

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Two Potions classes are followed by two Herbology classes.

Professor Snape and Professor Sprout each spent more than ten minutes introducing the changes in the content of the new textbook to the whole class.

"Before we start class today," Professor Snape waited until everyone had collected their masks and hairnets before sternly looking at the whole class and saying, "I hope everyone will memorize those rules I just said! Potions is a rigorous and scientific magical discipline, even if you don't intend to pursue a related career in the future, at least you can know which potion you should use when you are sick. More importantly, I hope that after a problem occurs, you can tell me where you went wrong, instead of crying and waiting for me to give you a zero—"

Then, they spent an entire class learning about the properties and meanings of various potion ingredients.

According to Professor Snape, understanding what you are doing and why you are doing it is much more useful than memorizing a dozen or so potion recipes that may be outdated—in recent days, three potion masters have joined forces to overturn and rewrite no less than ten potion recipes.

If there are no accidents, when the "Magical Materials Retrieval Directory" is officially finalized and published, Potions will also usher in a major earthquake.

Potions may change from the original potion brewing discipline to an experimental discipline that separates technology and theory.

The high-level potion principles of cracking, extracting, and fusing magical elements and material symbols are likely to gradually become basic teaching content, and in this case, continuing to spend a lot of energy on past potions is obviously not a wise choice. Before the class ended, he assigned a large pile of homework as Ailina had guessed, requiring students to classify hundreds of potion ingredients according to their own understanding.

However, compared to the situation in Herbology class, Potions is still relatively easy.

"Everyone's energy is limited, and even more precious than energy is time," Professor Sprout said seriously, "Seven years is too short compared to the growth cycle of many magical plants. I think we should adopt a classification and induction method to systematically study some herbal properties, and then put more energy into researching those important, to-be-classified special cases. By the way, please remember to bring parchment, notebooks, and quills to the next class—we may have to learn some new knowledge outside of the textbook..."

In 1408, the then headmaster of Hogwarts, Philida Spore, unfortunately passed away after accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms.

The portrait of this "Hogwarts version of Shennong" still hangs on the wall of the headmaster's office. Last year, she had a brief exchange with Ailina about the experience of cooking salamanders, and her "Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" has become the first treasure of Herbology in later generations.

More than five centuries have passed, and the Herbology textbook for Hogwarts grades one to five is still this "Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi."

If we compare it to the field of botany in the Eastern non-magical world, it is roughly equivalent to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" still being the only designated teaching book.

Of course, to be more precise, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" was actually written nearly two hundred years later than "Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi."

Just like Transfiguration and Magical Zoology, for centuries, people have generally believed that the main body of the Herbology building has already been repaired, and what remains is just some corner work—at most, one or two newly discovered magical herbs or fungi are added to "Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi," or some new cultivation methods are added to the previous content, and there is no knowledge worth updating.

Pomona Sprout used to think so too.

Even if her good bestie, former junior sister Minerva McGonagall, successfully shook the Transfiguration building, she still firmly believes that, just like Newt Scamander filled in the last piece of the puzzle in the field of magical animals, the research of Herbology came to an end hundreds of years ago.

Until last night...

Or earlier, at most sometime last week.

Several Muggle names that Sprout had never heard of suddenly appeared in her world.

Carl von Linné, Nehemiah Grew, Hales Stephen, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel...

With these unfamiliar names and the thick papers signed with these names appearing on her desk, Professor Sprout suddenly realized that, unknowingly, the research on plants and herbs in the British non-magical world had already entered a new world.

Then, what she has to do is very simple—to make up for the missing five hundred years of courses for the wizarding world!

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Hooray!