"Could it be that there is not enough time?"

"Continuing to refine will only make the active ingredients in it deteriorate. This is already a finished product!" Snape hated being questioned.

"Then why is it this color?" Lockhart asked. "Does that mean we're already partly right?"

"Well, I suddenly had an idea, maybe we thought the opposite at the beginning, unicorn blood without the power of the curse does not exist, but there is a substance in the pregnant female unicorn that can make the curse invalid !" said Snape, "as to why—"

"Yes, it must be!" Hermione was also excited, "It must be because the unicorn fetus is not resistant to the curse in the mother's blood before it matures, so pregnant female unicorns secrete something , to ensure that the newborn unicorn will not suffer from any problems!"

"Sounds more reliable than 'unicorn blood without a curse'." Lockhart nodded, "Then why is this magic stone still like this, is it because there is not enough blood, I'll take that unicorn Tie it over, take as much as you want, and you can even keep it and draw blood slowly!"

"Don't—" Hermione was a little anxious.

"It's useless, we can't figure out what the ingredients are now..." Snape shook his head, "There should be two options, one is to remove the cursed ingredient, and the other is to remove the The ingredients that can suppress the curse are extracted..."

"Can't you just concentrate the blood and use it again?" Lockhart asked.

"Stupid..." Snape said unceremoniously, "I can't figure out the ingredients that work. During the process of concentration, you will bring both ingredients into the concentrated product. Whether you can make a magic stone or not, it definitely will. With a curse."

"Oh... yes, I'm so excited," Lockhart said. "Then you should quickly identify the active ingredients and purify them!"

"You put it lightly, do you know how much experimentation is needed to determine the active ingredient in a substance. Do you think that the blood of a unicorn is a mixture of three materials, including water, the ingredients of the curse, and the substance that inhibits the curse? Snape chattered, "Do you know how long it took Dumbledore and LeMay to determine more than a dozen uses of dragon blood and their corresponding active ingredients, how many wizards participated in the experiment, and how many dragons were killed? Well. Fortunately, the blood of one dragon is enough for many tests, otherwise there will be few dragons left in the world-"

"You don't have to say so much, just say how long it will take you to finish it." Lockhart interrupted Snape's thoughts, rubbed Hermione's shoulders a few times, and said with a smile. "If you work harder."

"Hmph...my answer is that it can't be done, in this case, I can't ask those well-known alchemists for help, the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries is barely functioning, can't hunt unicorns wantonly, and can't care less The idiots arranged by the Dark Lord to conduct experiments day and night." Snape put the Philosopher's Stone on the table and tapped it. "Under such harsh conditions, it is impossible to carry out such a complex study. If you insist on it, it will take at least several years. And I can be sure. Nicole Lemay has not figured out what this substance is. What, otherwise he couldn't have destroyed the method of making the Philosopher's Stone, because the discovery of this substance is already a great achievement no less than that of the Philosopher's Stone..."

"The war is over in that time!" Hermione curled her lips, "There is another idea, will this substance in the pregnant unicorn grow with the growth of the fetus, or even in different parts, and the distribution will be different— - For example, a certain period of the fetus is the most important stage of development, and at this time the mother's body secretes the most ingredients to suppress the curse. It can perfectly suppress the curse..."

"Then you need to get a unicorn, get her pregnant, and get blood tested at every stage—"

"After listening to me, there is still a possibility. We just took blood from the body surface of the unicorn, but maybe as the blood vessels get closer to the fetus in the body, the ingredients that suppress the curse will increase..." Lockhart He and Snape were friends and comrades-in-arms, and as Lockhart's wife, Hermione seemed to gradually forget that Snape was once the professor he hated the most, and began to behave naturally. "There is a saying in the Muggle world that a baby's cord blood has special functions. Maybe a baby unicorn's cord blood has something special too - such as the curse being completely suppressed..."

Snape opened his mouth slightly. Although he was still guessing, he had also heard about the special features of cord blood, and his intuition told him that Hermione's guess was getting closer and closer to the truth.

"Then I still have to tie the unicorn over, and then... dig out the fetus?"

"No! Can't you wait for her to be born..." Hermione turned her head and grabbed Lockhart's hand, looking at him with pleading eyes, as smart as she had discovered that her own words were very useful in the past two days.

"Okay, listen to you." Lockhart pinched Hermione's little face, "but I have to go back and talk to the centaurs first to make sure I can get the cord blood for that unicorn when it's born. "

"What are you going to do to get them to call you to get your blood drawn when the unicorn is about to give birth?" Snape asked, glancing at him.

"Hmph, as long as the conditions of 'difficult to refuse' are given, there is nothing in the world that can't be done." Lockhart smiled arrogantly, "I'll go right now, or the centaurs will hide the unicorn. trouble."

"What are you trying to do, Gilderoy..." Hermione asked uneasily~lightnovelpub.net~don't hurt them. "

"As long as they don't know what's wrong, why should I embarrass them?" Lockhart brushed her hair gently, "You stay here for a while, just take a look, I'll be right back, Severus, you don't leave Bar."

"Don't go."

"Hmm." Hermione nodded.

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Lockhart left Snape's office with the invisibility cloak. In theory, after the control of magic power reaches a certain level, the wizard can use the illusion spell to have the same effect as the invisibility cloak, but no matter how strong the illusion is. All of them can be played out by the human form, and the role of the invisibility cloak will never be replaced.

After leaving the castle for a distance, I felt that there was no one around, so I simply activated the magic power and turned into a black light and shot towards the forbidden forest. Although it looked like a villain and consumed a lot of magic power, it really flew very fast.

According to the memory, he flew to the place where the unicorn was attacked before, and saw a group of centaurs gathered in midair, as if discussing something, the unicorn should have been sent back to the lair.

It is already far away from Hogwarts. He mobilized the magic between heaven and earth within a distance of thousands of meters around him, and even the air was driven by him. The wind and clouds carried a huge breath in the discoloration, and he landed directly on the side of the pile of centaurs. ten meters away. The arrogant way of appearing, even a Muggle should see that a powerful wizard is present, not to mention the magical creatures in the forbidden forest, all centaurs nervously raised their bows and aimed at him .

"Stranger, are you the one who attacked the unicorn couple!" A centaur headed out from among his companions and asked Lockhart loudly, "We have already narrowed the scope of activities according to the regulations of the Ministry of Magic, why are we still suffering? Aren’t you afraid of forcing us back!”

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——(To be continued.)

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