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Chapter 59: Hermione Granger! Part-1

{Library, Hogwarts}

{4rd Sep 1991} 

{3rd Person POV}

Daphne nodded as she replied, "Of course, the instructions in the books follow the cheapest patents that the publisher could find. Most potioneers tweak the recipe to their taste and habits. What I was following was a recipe that my mother created and I tweaked just a little bit." Daphne looked quite proud of her achievement as she continued, "Also the instructions that are given in the book create a potion that does not extract 100% of mana from the ingredients. The Boil cure potion that we created could extract just 36% of the mana, the rest of it was wasted."

"If it is like that then why don't the publisher use a more exotic formula, surely buying one or two recipes to bolster the sales of the books would be worth it?" Rigel questioned.

Daphne rolled her eyes and stated, "Potion making is not just throwing ingredients into a cauldron and hoping magic happens, not everyone would be able to follow along the more intricate steps and the quality of the potion would be even less..."

Daphne paused and then looked around, "In each step, although you are not aware of it, your mana interacts with the ingredients, that is why the steps are so strict in how the Snake fangs need to be crushed on a mortar. It is to reduce contact between the students and the ingredients as much as possible because our mana and intent could ruin the ingredients. That's why we wore those gloves, to keep contact to a minimum..."

Daphne continued after a pause, "...at the same time some potions could only be made during celestial events like the Wolfsbane needs the moon to be almost completely full. The potion needs to be brewed at night and it requires a special flower that only blooms at night. Some potions even react to emotions with negative or positive thoughts leading to different outcomes."

Rigel nodded, though his attention was focused on the brunette who was eavesdropping on their conversation. Hermione was sitting at a table behind Daphne and that's why the blond hadn't noticed it, and maybe she would have gotten away with her attempts if her curiosity hadn't gotten the best of her.

"...So we are not told everything by the book? Is there a different reference book that I could find?" Hermione asked causing Daphne to whip around and glare at the brunette. Hermione jerked back as her curiosity was replaced with embarrassment.

Before Daphne could say something that would lead to both of them being at odds with each other for the foreseeable future, Rigel spoke, "You're Hermione right, Gryffindor, the only one that had a decent-looking potion at the end of our lecture." 

Rigel could see that Daphne was looking at him but he focused on Hermione, she gave him a grateful smile. "Why don't you join us, I want to know what your experience was," Rigel spoke and Hermione's eyes shifted to his robes and the batch in the pocket.

"Don't worry I don't bite, I'm the next Dark lord, and in my crusade to enslave all muggle-borns I need a partner who knows how they think and behave." Rigel gave Hermione an innocent smile which caused the girl to back away slightly.

'...'

...

'...'

"Don't tell me I'm that scary?" Rigel asked Daphne.

"Your smile is not innocent, please don't do it," Daphne replied, she mimicked the innocent smile he tried moments ago. Rigel glared at her before he gave Hermione an inviting look. The brunette hesitated before she slowly picked up the massive tome that was in front of her and hobbled over to their table.

Rigel could tell the difference between Daphne's and Hermione's approach just by looking at the book they each selected. While Daphne's book was old, likely the first print of an old book. Hermione had preferred a larger book that likely had gone through several revisions. 

"You were looking at Potions?" Rigel asked, his question directed at the brunette.

"Yes, my potion didn't come out the way it should have. The smoke should be light pink color according to the book but my potion excluded a little darker shade of pink." Hermione frowned, she looked at the book with a frustrated expression.

"Your potion was pink wasn't it, on your first try, that's good right?" Rigel consoled Hermione before he directed the ending question at Daphne.

Daphne didn't look like she wanted to be involved in this meeting but seeing that both Rigel and the clueless muggle-born were looking at her she sighed and explained, "It's not technically your fault. The color of the smoke that your potion emitted was pink which meant that your potion would work, it would be a little weaker than a perfectly created potion and might need to be applied a lot more..."

Daphne looked at the slightly confused look in both of their eyes and explained, "...The intensity of the pink color signifies how much of the mana that is in the ingredients is converted into useable potions. The higher the extracted mana the lighter the color of the smoke. What you got signifies around 33% of efficiency which is a good result from the standard recipe, though if you want to get better results you might need to either perfect the crafting process or change the recipe itself."

...

'I guess it makes sense, that's why most Slytherins and other purebloods had better results. They likely used a more refined recipe or were more familiar with the whole process...' Rigel thought, though the crafting mechanic didn't make sense. He had a spells tab which contained all the spells he had learned but there was nothing related to potions on there.

'Maybe I should try to create my first potion later...' Rigel thought and then he turned to look at Hermione who had an enlightened look on her face as she buried her head into her book once again.

'She really is different from an 11-year-old Hermione, I was expecting her to blow up about the unfair advantage that purebloods had over her...' Rigel thought.

"I got what I needed, I need to talk to Tracey so I'll be going, see you later Rigel," Daphne spoke as she hurried away. Her steps had a sense of urgency as Rigel looked at her fleeing back.

'Okay so maybe the stereotypes wouldn't be broken so easily...'

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AN- Introduction to Hermione and Potions, the story would include a lot of potions and runes so do take some time to focus on the theory rather than breezing past it! Thanks!!

P.S- 36 Extra Chapters on P.atreon!


Chapter 60: Hermione Granger! Part-2

{Library, Hogwarts}

{4rd Sep 1991} 

{3rd Person POV}

...

"Did I say something?" Hermine asked and Rigel turned back to look at the concerned look on her face.

"No..." Rigel replied as he waved away her worries, though he did not know how to explain the situation. Should he introduce the Slytherin bigotry right in the introduction phase?

'I hope she does not run away,' Rigel thought as he continued, "...it wasn't something you said, Daphne, well she is the heir to one of the oldest magical houses in Britain, so she is just a little tense around muggle-borns?" Rigel explained.

Hermione's face hardened as her eyes swayed from his face toward Daphne's retreating figure. "You mean she left because I am a muggle-born?"

"In a sense," Rigel replied. The conversation stopped there as an awkward air rolled through the table, Hermione seemed put out by the idea so Rigel had to shift the conversation, "...so how are you liking Hogwarts so far?"

'Requirement Analysis' Rigel thought, he pulled up Hermione's page once again as he browsed through the changes that had taken place. Of the 8 requirements he had already completed one, granted it was the easiest one since he already had practiced all of the spells beforehand.

...

[Requirements!]

[1. Get better marks than her in any class or test.] {Locked: LP needed- 100}

[2. Consistently beat her in performing a spell before her 3 times in a row.]{Completed}

[3. Explain to her your understanding of magic and agree to join her study group.]{Locked: LP needed- 500}

...

Since there haven't been many classes both Gryffindor and Slytherin shared just 2 classes together, for Potions and Transfiguration. Still in the first Transfiguration class itself, he learns all three spells before Hermione. Although only one of them was recognized as a spell by the system, it seems the requirements were set from Hermione's POV so he was fine.

With at least one requirement done, he could technically begin working on Hermione but he decided to hold off on seducing the brunette for the time being. Considering that she had just seen an ugly side of Slytherin, he didn't want to do something that would paint him with a similar brush. 

'Though I would have to get to her soon, maybe after saving her from the troll... will the troll even be let loose in this world?' Rigel thought. The randomness of the world events and the growing distance between the current and canon timeline meant that he could not predict these smaller things.

'For now, I should focus on my current magical capabilities and prepare a fight with a Basilisk just in case.' Rigel thought. He looked at Hermione and decided on a simpler plan. 

"Hogwarts?" Hermione repeated his question as she thought about it, although the style of teaching was definitely something she was unfamiliar with the vastness of the library itself stimulated her thirst for knowledge.

"What can I say, to someone who had no idea that something like magic was possible? The grandness of it all... is breathtaking and at the same time overwhelming." Hermione admitted as she tried her best to explain her feelings.

"I can understand that totally... I-" Rigel stopped as he looked around, his actions got Hermione's attention, and when he leaned forward and whispered Hermione leaned closer as well. "I grew up in an orphanage in London so I had to change a lot of plans to come to Hogwarts. Though I realize I have got quite a sum of money that has been left behind from my Father's side so now I'm stuck in a war against one of the other older families over my inheritance." Rigel admitted.

His words made Hermione go through an entire range of emotions from pity to surprise to confusion. Reading her was a lot easier than Daphne or other Slytherin girls that was for sure, "But I still can't get my hands out of the possibilities with magic. From what I could find about potions, most medwitches can cure almost any injuries so quite possibly cancer and other terminal illnesses could be cured. Can you imagine how good it would be for the world if we could modify the potion recipes by understanding their chemistry, we might be able to come up with a cure for cancer if we can recreate its effects..." Rigel gave Hermione an excited look.

Hermione was confused at the massive amounts of info that Rigel dumped on her, but still, she was easily able to appreciate Rigel's train of thought. Especially since she grew up with a deeper understanding of science after completing her studies and her graduation mastery was on the subject of chemistry itself.

"I know, but apparently magic and electricity don't mix and to study the chemistry of potion ingredients we need to absorb them through an electron microscope and other devices and experiments that need electricity to work..." She pointed out, that she had already searched through this avenue and couldn't come up with any good solution.

"Yeah, that might be a problem, though the reason behind that could simply be that the two forms of energies don't work together or cancel each other out. I can't tell anything without some experiments but over the summer I couldn't do anything since I was forced to be in a lockdown..." Rigel shrugged.

Hermione nodded, she looked over her shoulders and then replied, "I did manage to look at the Snake Fangs that we used today under a normal lens microscope before, and it worked fine, though I couldn't sense anything special about the ingredients, there were no hints of any kind of energy that might interfere with an electronic reading..." She whispered. Rigel looked at Hermione with surprise and then nodded. It would make sense that she would not wait patiently for a few months before Hogwarts.

Rigel knew Hermione was smart from the stories but in those, she was just depicted as booksmart. Now he was thinking that it may not entirely be true and other than her beauty, her smarts might be the greatest gain he could get upon dominating her.

'If Daphne and Hermione combine their knowledge of Potion and Chemistry, I'm sure they could come up with a way to make amazing new recipes...' Rigel thought, though the task of getting the two opposite witches to work together wouldn't be easy.

'For now, let's focus on the immediate task at hand.' Rigel thought.

"Hey, you have already scoured the library a lot right? Did you find any spell that can copy and repeat the sounds?" Rigel asked.

...

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AN - Sneak peek into late-stage empire-building stuff! 

P.S- 36 Extra Chapters on P.atreon!


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