Chapter 250 Depressed Sherlock

Madam Pomfrey took out almost all the grief potion in the school hospital's inventory, but in the end, it was not enough for Sherlock's needs.

She could only ask Silk to help borrow some from Snape.

Although Snape had just finished a fight with Sherlock and looked reluctant in the office with a bad face, he still handed over all his stocks of grief potions to Silk.

At critical moments, Snape was still very reliable.

Finally, Madam Pomfrey concentrated more than a dozen bottles of sadness potion together and drank it for Sherlock. Only then did he stop being in an unusually restless state and instead sat on the chair blankly, his face gradually getting darker and darker. Sad.

"Because he was too excited, I had to give him a larger dose. Only in this way can he suppress his emotions. However, he will continue to be in this depressed state for a few days. After he recovers on his own, his spirit will change. alright."

Madam Pomfrey originally wanted to keep Sherlock in the school hospital for observation for a period of time and then release him from the hospital, but Jean had calmed down and changed from a "sharp" Sherlock to a "depressed" Sherlock and refused.

"I still have very important things to do next, so I have to go out, otherwise the entire Hogwarts situation will be in danger."

Sherlock looked at the ceiling and sighed with a troubled expression.

"How long will I stay like this?"

Madam Pomfrey looked at him seriously.

"It will take at least three days for your own spirit to adapt and return to normal. But even after it becomes normal, you can no longer use the excessive patron saint spell. The spirit and soul are directly related, and each time it touches a certain Emotional extremes are extremely dangerous, not to mention that you often use one extreme to suppress the other.”

In a depressed state, Sherlock always subconsciously thinks about things in the worst direction. At this time, he can think of the final consequences if his spirit cannot bear such strong positive emotions.

By then, he will definitely be a wizard who will appear in textbooks in the future and be known to all wizards in future generations - the only defense professor in history who went crazy due to excessive use of the Patronus Charm.

"Okay, I'll try to avoid using it again."

Sherlock, who was sitting on the chair, held his face with both hands, looking melancholy.

Madam Pomfrey sighed, and she continued.

"I know it's unrealistic that you won't have to use it even once in the future, but even if you do, you can't suppress it with grief potion afterwards. Once or twice is okay at first, but if you experience more frequent joys and sorrows, it will cause irreparable damage to your spirit. , and once you don’t use it enough, it will cause the already excessive emotions to rebound, which is the key to the problem.”

Not only did Sherlock hear what she said, but Silk also wrote it down verbatim.

After Sherlock came out of the school hospital with his head down, Silk accompanied him back to the office.

"Let Moody help with the defense classes in the next few days." He slumped on his desk and said feebly, "It would be too irresponsible for me to teach students in this state."

"Also, you helped me call Professor McGonagall here. I also want to tell her about the situation in the Room of Requirement."

Sherlock's current condition is indeed not suitable for wandering around the castle. Fortunately, Silk is there to help him pass the message.

Not long after, not only Professor McGonagall, but also the other three deans in the castle - Flitwick, Snape and Sprout - also came to Sherlock's office.

In the absence of Dumbledore at school, all the talkers in Hogwarts Castle gathered here.

On the way here, Hilke had already told Professor McGonagall and others about Sherlock's current situation, but they were obviously shocked after seeing Sherlock slumped on the desk.

"Why is it so serious? How much sadness potion did you drink?" Professor McGonagall's expression was extremely serious.

"Don't worry, Professor McGonagall, because it's useless to worry, we're all going to die sooner or later anyway."

Sherlock lifted his upper body limply from the desk like an invertebrate.

"I have already dealt with that straw man. It is indeed much more difficult than before. The patron saint spell was a fatal poison to it before, but now someone has provided it with help, making up for its disadvantages in this regard. insufficient."

"You are all well-informed old professors. Have you ever heard that there is a crown-shaped alchemy tool in the magic world that can resist the Patronus Curse?"

The four deans looked at each other.

They are indeed all well-informed wizards in the magical world, and their views in this regard have always been at the top level of the pyramid.

The little Professor Flitwick frowned and paced back and forth in the office and said.

"There are many crown-shaped alchemical props in the magic world, because some wizards always believe that this kind of item that represents royal power has special power in itself, but there are very few alchemical props that can resist the patron saint's curse."

Professor Sprout also nodded.

"The Patronus Curse is an extremely special existence among all spells. It can even be said that it has no solution to the curse like the Death Curse. But this extremely righteous spell is only effective against some evil creatures. In a normal wizard battle, It doesn’t play any role, so few wizards make alchemy tools for it.”

Professor McGonagall shook her head.

"I have never heard of such alchemical tools in the magic world."

Just as the office fell silent and Sherlock, who was already depressed, became even more depressed, Snape, who had been silent, suddenly spoke up.

"I have heard people talk about the idea of ​​such alchemical tools before."

All of a sudden, everyone present turned their eyes to him.

Snape's cold face remained unchanged, and he continued in his low voice.

"In the first year after I joined the organization, the followers of that person proposed a plan to win over the Dementors in Azkaban as allies in order to break the deadlock between the two sides of the wizarding world. In order to make these Dementors play a greater role, one of them proposed to create a special alchemical tool to help the Dementors fight against the Patronus Charm that they feared the most."

"Such a plan was readily accepted by that person. They all felt that the Dementors' defection might be the last straw that overwhelmed the situation at the time. But before the plan was fully implemented, that person disappeared. You all know what happened afterwards, and the matter was left unresolved."

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