Albert and the other three fell completely silent. They knew very well that the Potions master Dagworth's previous words were merely meant to frighten them. While such cases might have actually happened, they were definitely rare exceptions.
As someone who had personally procured the ingredients for Baruffio's Brain Elixir, Albert knew roughly how many Galleons it cost to gather them. Just thinking about how brewing a single batch of Baruffio's Brain Elixir required at least fifteen Galleons made the exorbitant cost of the ingredients feel suffocating.
A single failure was enough to break one's heart, to say nothing of the sheer difficulty of brewing this potion; even the slightest flaw would render the Baruffio's Brain Elixir completely useless.
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