Without Lu Ping's cooperation, it would be difficult for William to ensure that any unusual movements found during his inspection could be dealt with in a timely manner.
Fortunately, his most basic vigilance was still there. Before William was about to kick him, Lupine finally understood William's actions.
'Really, I haven't seen you drink much...'
In William's complaining eyes, Lupine's eyes were a little ashamed, and he quickly cooperated with William and secretly pulled out the wand.
Seeing that he was ready, William took out the cork of the potion with confidence and turned his head towards the students behind him pretending to be drunk, "Well, the moonlight tonight is very beautiful. Right? I remembered a little spell I just made - it goes very well with the moonlight tonight."
"Cheer up and take care of everything, just this once!"
His sudden speech attracted all the attention of the students, including the professors present.
"Professor William must be drunk."
"Keep your voice down, don't let the professor hear you. Although you can't get extra points normally, you can deduct points and be put in solitary confinement."
"Shhh—keep it down and watch the magic."
The students bit their ears and talked, but no one dared to speak too loudly - there are a bunch of professors in front of them, it's Christmas, who can bear to be locked up?
"Notice!"
William's voice became louder, and he took out the bottle containing the potion directly, pointed the wand at the mouth of the bottle, and began to shake the wand very rhythmically.
As the lavender light emitted by the wand entered the bottle, a wisp of pale silver smoke rose from it and surged directly into the sky.
Wisp after wisp, the smoke appeared faster and faster, and in less than a minute, the smoke was as thick as liquid, flowing crazily back toward the sky, spreading, and the wisps of smoke intertwined in the air, forming A pale silver cloud about the size of a carpet floated above their heads.
"Huh?"
The smoke puffing out of the bottle suddenly decreased greatly, and the students noticed that the bottle in William's hand was empty.
'That's it? '
Before their disappointed expressions appeared, William raised his head and looked in the air, "The potion is not enough, so that's it?"
He asked the question to himself, and then clapped his hands without waiting for anyone to answer, "That's it!"
As the applause sounded, small graupel-like particles fell from the silver-white clouds, first one by one, and then gradually took shape. The snowflakes clustered into small groups slowly scattered from the air and fell on the face. Surprised students' heads, faces, and bodies.
The professors also laughed, and the moonlight hit the scattered snow, breaking it everywhere.
However, before the smiles on everyone's faces lasted long, the pale silver clouds and snow in the sky disappeared without a trace.
"Eh?"
Except for Lu Ping, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, even the professors who came out with him showed dissatisfied looks - why did he stop just after the beginning?
"William, where's the snow?"
Adams couldn't wait to ask.
"No, how much snow can be made from such a small bottle - if the weather hadn't been right today, there wouldn't even be that little snow."
William muttered, looking at the students and professors who were more or less covered in snow with satisfaction and disappointment - today is such a good opportunity, wouldn't the Dark Lord take the opportunity to drop spies into the school?
"Make it bigger and make it snow, William!"
Adams was probably a little drunk, but he was usually very careful about his image in front of students.
"There are not enough materials, so I just made it at the last minute."
"I have the key to the greenhouse. I can get it on site!"
Adams spoke very boldly and made Professor Sprout's blood pressure rise, "It shouldn't be that difficult to boil it, right?"
"That's right, another snow, Professor!"
"The bigger the better, it's best to let the whole castle see what the snowflakes look like under the moonlight!"
The Gryffindor students and professors were all people who watched the excitement and were not afraid of big troubles, and they started making noises together.
'That's alright. It's been a while since I checked to see if there's any strange guy sneaking into the school... Hagrid also has a stockpile of visible potions... If you cook a pot with that, it's too big. Snow is hopeless, but covering more than half of Hogwarts is still feasible. '
This spell to convert rain was improved based on Thunderbird's talent magic, combined with the war smoke magic he learned from Durmstrang and the magic he had previously mastered. Although there is currently too much preparation time, covering It has a series of shortcomings such as insufficient range and the need to use a lot of resources to cast spells, but it is still barely usable.
However, according to his estimation, even if this magic is perfected, it will never be able to compare with Thunderbird's talent of covering a city at once - people who have mastered such magic since they can breathe are not enviable.
"Then..." He laughed, "Let's go to Hagrid's hut to do it. It's much easier to operate there."
"Let's go!"
The students cheered - even though they were all in seventh grade, they were still only seventeen or eighteen years old, a crazy age.
The students quickly trotted to the front, and a group of professors looked on with smiles on their faces.
"Professor Taylor, why don't you take Aphra back to bed first?"
The students are crazy, but not the children - how old is Aphra, she can't stay frozen, right?
"No, I will wake her up when the snow falls. Although snow is common, snow falling under the moonlight is rare."
Professor Taylor shook his head, "I don't want to hear her complaints tomorrow."
Well, every family has its own philosophy of educating children - William couldn't comment, so he took out the only spare clothes he had stuffed into the tiny bag he carried.
The Traceless Expansion Spell also had its limits. If he wanted to wear a dress, he could only get a small bag with a small capacity that was not large enough. Some minor potions were almost filled. If he didn't use his hands, the dress would be very likely to be damaged. It was beyond repair and he refused to put his clothes in it.
"Wrap her up, if you don't want to go back right away."
While handing the clothes to Professor Taylor, William walked to Lupine and began to study Lupin.
Something wasn't right with Lupine today - considering he was one of the few people who knew about the test, William decided to check Lupine one more time.
'But... having said that, it is not reliable to say that Polyjuice Potion turns into a werewolf...'
He walked to Lupine hesitantly, "What happened today, Professor Luping?"
This question was relatively personal, and Lu Ping wanted to hesitate not to answer it - in theory, this was true, but as a professor who was in the same office, he knew very well what kind of ambiguous answer would happen to his two colleagues.
Although he believed in himself, fighting was unnecessary compared to talking about something that was bothering him.
'It's more reliable than asking Sirius to discuss it...but fortunately, there is Sirius to discuss with...'
Apart from Sirius, the only people who can negotiate are Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and an office colleague - not bad at all.
"That's right," Lupine raised his head and looked at the moon, with complicated emotions on his face, "I seem...I seem to..."
He gritted his teeth and said, "I seem to have met someone very special."
"very special?"
William was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that Lupine was not talking about a suspect, but something special in another sense.
"That's a good thing, Professor Lupin."
He spread his hands calmly, "You should ask Professor Taylor. Aphra knows how to fight - and is proficient in the Disguise Curse. He must be better at this problem than you."
"It's different, Professor William."
Lupine sighed, "We are not suitable."
"Why is it inappropriate——"
William fell silent mid-sentence - he remembered that damn curse, which would definitely be strengthened with the resurrection of the Dark Lord.
The Dark Lord is still floating around and he doesn't know when he will be resurrected. For this reason, no matter how busy he is during this period, he still pays attention to the prices of some illegal drugs on the black market from time to time.
Although he didn't know what kind of resurrection ritual the Dark Lord would be resurrected through, all the resurrection methods he knew used some of the expensive banned drugs as auxiliary potions, so it was definitely no problem to keep an eye on those drugs.
Once their prices rise significantly, if one is fine but several increase in price at the same time, then someone must be purchasing in large quantities. This logic is absolutely correct.
If it weren't for the fact that those magic potions he wanted were useless, and the funds were a little tight because of the purchase of raw materials for the blessing elixir, and he was afraid of alerting the enemy, I would have definitely bought him all the fish in one fell swoop - the resurrection ceremony was like a means, and the magic potion was the base material. Thinking of the effect, it must be there.
Just like braised eggplant is a dish, fish-flavored eggplant is also a dish, steamed and cold is also a dish, even roasted and minced with garlic is also a dish, but without the eggplant, the ceremony really cannot be carried out.
But this is only part of the means to prevent the Dark Lord from resurrecting. Cursing requires actually killing the Dark Lord...
William was rarely stuck.
Lupine also fell silent - indeed, even Professor William felt that the werewolf and the wizard being together was too shocking...
The two walked in silence. Suddenly, William broke the silence.
"If you ask me...actually, there is still hope, and the hope is great. I tell you responsibly...I will definitely kill him..."
William said to himself, "Although it's easy to make you laugh when I say it, I think I can really kill him and no longer be restricted by this disgusting thing..."
"Professor William?"
Lupine opened his mouth wide - what's going on, why can't he understand at all, what is Professor William saying?
"I'm not trying to embolden myself. Dumbledore and Hogwarts are here. If you can't beat one of them, let's go together..."
William convinced himself and looked at Lupine, only to notice the strange expression on Lupine's face, "Huh?"
"That's it...that, what are you talking about?"
Lupine tried to keep his expression calm.
"Just kill him?"
"What and what, who are you going to kill?"
"Dark Lord, otherwise what are we talking about?"
William looked matter-of-fact and completely forgot about the previously discussed topic.
'I was wrong, Sirius is actually more...'
Looking at Lupine's surprised face, William remembered what they had discussed earlier.
"I'm sorry, Professor Lupin, my mind went somewhere else - if it's just the lady you mentioned, why don't you go? Sorry, yes, why do you think it's inappropriate?"
"In terms of income, although our professor's income is not too high, it is not too low either, and there is nothing to spend money on. Professor Taylor's salary is not much higher, and the family is living a good life..."
"In terms of appearance, although you are not as handsome as Mr. Black, you are not bad, right?"
"Strength, conversation, character...there are no big problems with these."
"Why do you think you're not a good match, Professor Lupin?"
William spread his hands. Although he didn't plan to deal with personal emotional issues now due to the curse issue, he was confident in trying to kill the Dark Lord - so the curse was a factor, but the problem was okay.
"You know, Professor William."
It took Lu Ping a long time to hold back a sentence.
"Who doesn't know this? The Ministry of Magic has published it in newspapers, and everyone in the wizarding world knows it!"
William spread his hands, "Although I don't know what happened, judging from your performance, the other party definitely doesn't dislike you..."
"Besides, there is still Wolfsbane potion. I talked with Mr. Belby today. He is currently improving the potion and is preparing to develop a second-generation potion. Even if the second-generation potion is not available for the time being, you will only change in a month. It's just one time, and you still snore when you sleep - some wizards' behavior all year round is not considered human, why do you have to be obsessed with it?"
"You feel special, but you feel you're not worthy?"
The students in the distance had already rushed to the school gate, looking excited. William raised his head and replied to them, speaking faster.
"They don't necessarily choose you. Maybe they don't like you. I don't know what you are thinking about here - what is bad about this, what is bad about that, what if something happens, and what happens to the other party. ."
"Just give it a try if you think it's special. If it doesn't work, quit politely. My dear Professor Luping, you are in your thirties now. Don't be like those kids in school... I know it is wonderful, but please try it first. Try it, if it doesn't work, you don't have to worry about it anymore."
He patted Lupine on the shoulder, realizing that he had almost said enough.
"By the way, where is that special girl from?"
"We met at the dance today..." Lupine lowered his voice. He didn't know why he felt a little unsure now, "She said she read reports about me... But you know, Professor William..."
"I know, but you are responsible for Sirius's affairs, right? You personally rescued him from Azkaban, right?"
"As for the striker, do you think there is more real recognition in the wizarding world than that?"
"Don't you have this or that advantage?"
"Aren't you an excellent professor?"
"Wait a minute -" William said as he suddenly remembered something was wrong tonight - he didn't dare to think about that place before, after all, the gap was too big.
Lupine is now almost thirty-four years old, and the newly hired Auror William graduated two years ago, so he is only about twenty-one or twelve years old - who dares to think that way?
but…
"That Miss Tonks?"
He stared at Lupin with doubtful eyes.
"Um…"
"Inappropriate!" He raised his middle finger decisively towards Lupine, "Pretend I didn't say anything!"
He turned his head and walked away without looking back, giving Lu Ping a look that looked like a scumbag.