Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 302 Long-Term Potion Experiment! Ecclesia's Doubts and Struggles!

Snape not only had to stay with Ecclesia the whole time, sitting next to her, but he also had to cast spells from time to time, using cutting and levitation charms to cut and manipulate the turkey meat and feed it to Ecclesia.

Seeing this, the other professors and students sitting in the audience couldn't help but point and whisper, gossiping about it.

Snape saw it all, felt angry inside, and was in considerable agony.

He regretted it!

The initial version of the Soul Anesthetic Potion was administered too slowly and applied too little!

It was his mistake to let this crazy woman survive until Christmas without becoming a vegetable!

Of course, this was just Snape's inner complaint.

Whether from the perspective of avoiding arousing Ecclesia's suspicion or Voldemort's main soul's riot, or from the perspective of obtaining experimental data on each semi-finished product and each stage of the Soul-Anesthetic Potion, Snape's drugging process could not be rushed.

Each time Snape was given a potion, it was the result of careful deliberation and discussion between Snape and Professor Slughorn. The type, properties, and dosage of the potion were all meticulously calculated.

Ecclesia wasn't stupid and didn't completely trust Snape. She was simply out of options and had no one else to rely on, so she had to threaten and depend on Snape to do things for her and help her with her treatment.

Ecclesia is very cautious and careful when it comes to potions that are ingested or applied topically.

Before Snape could use it on her, he had to test it on himself first to gain her trust.

But while the devil may be one foot tall, the righteous path is ten feet tall.

In terms of cunning and ruthlessness, Snape might not be able to outmaneuver Ecclesia, but when it comes to potions and poison, even if Ecclesia and a sane Voldemort were combined, they might not be a match for Snape.

Not to mention that Ecclesia is currently weak, Voldemort's main soul is mentally impaired, and Snape has Professor Slughorn, who is also a Potions Master, to help him, while Dumbledore sometimes provides some off-the-spot assistance.

This created a one-sided battle situation.

Before Snape drugged Ecclesia, he did indeed test it on himself in front of her.

But the potions Snape used on himself were completely different from the ones he used on Ecclesia.

Ecclesia couldn't see through the potion master's illusion.

In order to continuously give Ecclesia different kinds of potions without arousing her suspicion, Snape and Dumbledore concocted a thrilling story of sneaking into the Forbidden Forest and obtaining unicorn blood, using the fake unicorn blood to trick Ecclesia into taking it.

In addition to using the excuse of treating Erkris's old injuries and clearing away the remaining poison, the subsequent application of medicine also provided another reason to suppress the unicorn blood curse.

The unicorn blood that Snape and Professor Slughorn forged was far superior to the unicorn blood that Ecclesia had forged using aphrodisiacs.

When this thing was presented to Eckeris, she couldn't see anything wrong with it.

She couldn't very well let her only helper, Snape, drink the blood of the unicorn to verify its powerful curse.

After much deliberation, and with Snape promising to develop a potion to suppress the curse, Ecclesia had no choice but to grit her teeth and drink the 'unicorn blood' in order to gain more life force to nourish the Voldemort soul within her.

From then on, Ecclesia was clearly at a disadvantage in her confrontations with Snape.

Snape experimented on Ecclesia in small quantities and on numerous occasions with various types of rudimentary soul-anesthetizing potions, obtaining a large amount of experimental data to provide to himself and Professor Slughorn.

Since Voldemort's main soul resides within Ecclesia, and the ultimate target of the Soul-Anesthetic Potion is Voldemort's soul fragments, this experimental data is of great reference value.

Eckeris frequently drank and used various semi-finished soul-numbing potions, causing her mental state to deteriorate day by day, becoming increasingly drowsy and confused.

The Voldemort soul within her was also greatly affected, its dormancy becoming longer and longer, its awakenings becoming less frequent and less frequent, and its awakenings with a degree of rationality becoming increasingly rare.

Faced with this situation, Ecclesia was both happy and worried. She was happy because Voldemort's main spirit posed less of a danger to her, but worried because she felt that her increasingly confused state was very abnormal.

But Snape gave her a perfectly valid reason.

The curse of unicorn blood is extremely powerful. Compared to the normal effect of a curse, which weakens and causes death, this potion's side effect of only causing drowsiness is already far more ideal.

Even if Ecclesia had suspicions, she had no evidence, so it was of no use.

They could only obediently drink and apply the medicine again and again.

Of course, the process of taking and applying the medicine was entirely handled by Snape's magic, and Ecclesia wore a hospital gown the whole time, without revealing any skin that shouldn't be exposed.

Snape had already gone to great lengths for himself; it was absolutely impossible for him to personally feed and apply medicine to Ecclesia.

Even so, Ecclesia did not completely dispel her doubts.

Although her mind was becoming increasingly muddled, she was still able to spot suspicious points.

She noticed that ever since Snape was arranged and threatened by Dumbledore to become her personal nurse and physician, very few other wizards had come to visit her in the intensive care unit.

Even Mrs. Pomfrey rarely comes anymore.

Although she was in Hogwarts Castle, she seemed to have become a recluse, isolated from the world, with Snape being her only channel of communication with the outside world.

Ecclesia felt this was not normal and questioned Snape about it.

Snape told the truth about this matter, admitting to Ecclesia that he was the one who drove away the other visiting wizards.

He didn't want the secret between him and Ecclesia to be exposed.

If they don't do this, and one day a visiting wizard sees them saying or doing something they shouldn't have in the ward, then they'll all be doomed.

Eccles was barely convinced by this reasoning. She also thought that this might be Snape's way of making the others at Hogwarts forget about her, a countermeasure to weaken her threat.

If others forget about her, it will be difficult for her to smear Snape again.

Although she was just bluffing, she had no outside support and never had the means to find someone to slander Snape.

But she didn't want Snape to realize her weakness, her vulnerability, because that would make her situation even more difficult.

So, taking advantage of the Christmas dinner, Ecclesias forced herself to be unusually determined and had Snape push her into the Great Hall in his magical wheelchair, so she could celebrate the holiday with everyone at Hogwarts.

Snape, driven to desperation by Ecclesia's relentless pursuit, had no choice but to consult with Dumbledore, and ultimately reluctantly agreed to Ecclesia's request.