Inside the quiet office.
Snape frowned deeply as he stared at the notebook in front of him. The writing appeared and then slowly vanished, but the words seemed to be imprinted in his mind.
Completely unable to dispel.
[Forbidden in the Human World, requires the Gods' approval]
If we consider the effects of that finished potion bottle, which allows creatures without magic power to develop magic power, it indeed amounts to a taboo that should never appear in the Human World.
Snape quite agrees with the diary's message.
However, what concerns him the most is the phrase that follows, "requires the Gods' approval."
"It needs divine permission to create the so-called Apocalypse Potion... yet the key to this Apocalypse Potion seems to be Ian Prince's brewed Infinite Firepower Potion."
Of course, Snape was not an atheist, but he didn't belong to the group of theists either.
Like most wizards, he only believed in what he saw with his own eyes. Perhaps it was precisely this logical reasoning of wizards, so Snape noticed some anomalies in the information from the notebook.
"This notebook from thousands of years ago not only knows the name of the magic potion I configured, but it has already named it, and it even knows the name of the Infinite Firepower Potion."
This is what makes one feel a chill down the spine upon deeper thought. If the formula for the so-called Apocalypse Potion had already existed, this would not just shake the origins of wizards.
No one knows if the Gods exist.
But those who disturb secular notions are bound to suffer a calamity akin to divine punishment.
If he himself hadn't been the one who personally concocted that potion, Snape would also want to find out the one who unearthed such a mad truth at any cost to kill them.
He's not a good person, after all, so he knows well what kind of consequences creating such a potion would bring, and people worse than him still abound in the Muggle World and the Wizarding World.
This is why Snape learned the Reviving Potion from the notebook years ago, searched for substitute materials, created some modern version of the formula, finished his work, but did not dare to bring it out.
Dud Revival Potion.
As the name implies, it is a potion that can regenerate the "dead silent" magic power of Squibs, and it can only maintain the effect for three to five months instead of being long-lasting. Even so, knowing the dark nature of the Wizarding World, Snape dared not expose this recreated work to the public.
Can't even bring himself to mention it to others.
Only when he realized Ian's Infinite Firepower Potion has potential for other uses, he couldn't suppress his inner obsession with achieving something in magic potions—however, he had no idea this forbidden work had been recorded in objects from thousands of years ago that had the synthesis formula containing the name Infinite Firepower Potion.
"I always thought it was that brat's made-up name." Snape frowned deeply, "But there's clearly something that doesn't make sense here... If the recipe he found clearly told him there was a potion name in the formula, the person who wrote down the formula certainly had no need to hide the Infinite Firepower Potion within the Amortentia."
"According to historical records, Morgan Witch doesn't seem to be someone with this kind of perversion... perhaps because of concern?" Snape could only guess as much as possible.
To be honest.
If we ignore why Ian knew the precursor potion to the Apocalypse Potion was the Infinite Firepower Potion, Snape could understand why Morgan Witch hid such a formula within the Amortentia.
The Changer will undoubtedly be the enemy of the world.
At least from the perspective of wizards, this is indeed the case... It will shake not only the existing relationship between Muggles and wizards, but the truly terrifying part is that such a potion can rewrite the origins of wizards.
When the sacred origin of wizards no longer exists, Snape truly finds it difficult to imagine what kind of perilous chaos The Changer would bring. Perhaps even a wizard like Dumbledore couldn't withstand the backlash from such an event.
Even a Legendary Witch would be the same!
This is far more terrifying than what Dumbledore's obscure friend Gellert Grindelwald, that old man imprisoned in the stronghold, tried to do back in the day!
No wizard would allow someone to bring forth such a formula. If Ian's obtained formula also came from Morgan, Snape feels some things can largely make sense.
The Legendary Witch discovered the origins of wizards, or created another possibility of wizard origins, and then in the past era split the forbidden magic potion into two parts and stored them separately. One part was written in her notebook, and the other was later collected in the Hogwarts Library.
This is definitely a reasonable speculation.
In Snape's view.
The Legendary Witch who discovered this potion probably felt the same fear and distress thousands of years ago, otherwise she wouldn't have resorted to splitting the formula method to preserve it.
Sealing it out of fear.
Preserving it out of unwillingness.
Snape finds his current mindset so similar.
Of course.
There are differences too.
"This must-have condition for the Gods' approval perhaps belongs to the secrets of the Ancient Wizards." Snape feels he seems to catch a glimpse of some reason for the Ancient Wizards' strength.
He couldn't help but cover his forehead, his brows knitted together.
Nor is it questioning the existence of Gods.