Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 235 Third Grade Elective Courses
Let's turn back the clock first.

1991.9.2. It was a Monday. Unfortunately for the freshmen of this class, they had to go to class on the second day of enrollment. Of course, the senior students were not very happy. No one can be happy when they start class. Holidays Patients with the syndrome know no borders.

Students in the third grade have elective courses starting from this semester. Students have to choose two courses from the five courses of Muggle Studies, Divination, Arithmetic and Divination, Ancient Rune and Protection of Magical Animals. To be more precise, it is Choose one of the first three courses, and choose one of the last two for further study.

Students who take the same course are in the same class, regardless of the college. The elective courses are taken twice a week, and the first three classes and the last two classes are taught at the same time.

In fact, Connor also thought about taking all the courses. He was very interested in all the knowledge, but he finally gave up because he didn't have so much energy.

Connor focused on practicality when choosing courses. For example, the Muggle Studies course was prepared for wizards who had little contact with the Muggle world. Connor was the first to pass it.

As for other courses, Connor once consulted Dumbledore about the choice of elective courses-he asked if Professor Sybill Trelawney was a magician.

Dumbledore told him that Trelawney had the blood of the Prophet, but her "talent" was not very good.

And divination is a very talented subject. If you don’t have [Vision], it’s useless to take this course, but the ability to see things that ordinary people can’t see [Vision] is very important. Rarely, Connor unfortunately does not have this talent (which can be seen through one's magical aura), so Dumbledore does not advise Connor to take this course.

So he chose one of the three courses, and Connor only had arithmetic divination.

As for the other two subjects—Protection of Fantastic Beasts and Ancient Rune, Connor chose Ancient Rune.

The magical animal protection class is basically knowledge that is well-known and memorized. The class is just an extra opportunity to get in touch with magical animals. For [Kang·Forbidden Forest Overlord·Nar], there are many such opportunities. , so in comparison, he still prefers ancient runes.

The first class on the Monday morning of the third grade is to choose one of the three elective courses, and in the afternoon to choose one of the two. In the morning, Connor went to the arithmetic and divination class alone (Roger chose the divination class), and the number of students who chose this course was pitifully small , Connor has fifty classmates this year, and only thirteen of them took this course.
But Connor still saw a lot of acquaintances, such as the twins, Cedric, Alice and Emily.

Connor was about to walk in the direction of the twins when a stiff-sounding voice stopped him.

"Please sit with your classmates from your academy."

Connor turned his head to look at the podium. A witch with a rigid face was writing something at her desk. She was Setima Victor, a professor of arithmetic and divination. She was a middle-aged witch who was very professional in arithmetic and divination. , graduated from Ravenclaw College.

Hearing this, Connor had no choice but to turn around and change the direction, and sat next to Emily. Alice cast a fiery gaze at this side, and she seemed to be emotional again.

"Hi, Connor." Emily greeted Connor happily.

"Hi, Emily, I didn't know you took this class." Connor remembered that at the opening dinner last night, she still said that she hadn't decided yet.

"Hmm~ I just confirmed the class schedule with Professor Flitwick last night." Emily blushed slightly and said, "I also wanted to take the divination class, but I gave up after listening to Penello's advice."

Connor nodded, and took out the textbook from his pocket. At this time, it was almost time for people to arrive, and Professor Victor on the podium put down his quill.

"Thirteen people. It seems that there will be many outstanding figures in this class of students, of course, there may not be any." Professor Victor scanned the crowd below, her serious expression reminded Connor Professor McGonagall:
"I am the professor of your arithmetic and divination class, Setima Victor. Before starting the class, I must tell you that arithmetic and divination is a rigorous discipline. It's a deep magic that can be traced, it's very esoteric."

"You will be exposed to the concept of magic patterns in the Charms class this semester. If you also take the ancient runes course, after this year's study, you will have a deeper understanding of magic. Know, and then you will understand—whether it is graphics, words or numbers, they all have [magic power].”

"This [magic power] is reflected in many places. Magic patterns are closely related to the casting of our spells. Magic words have the power to communicate with the world, and numbers...it can predict the future for us."

Seeing that the students were listening carefully, Professor Victor nodded with satisfaction: "This course is very difficult, very difficult. If you want to gain something in arithmetic and divination, then you must put more energy into it. , today's first class, I will teach you what is the real [divination]."

The arithmetic and divination class was very interesting, at least Connor thought so, and he also understood how the Marauder's Map was made, and the magic of number divination was used in it!
Connor believes that with the deepening of his studies, he will be able to make a [Marauder's Forbidden Forest Map] in a short time. In addition, the security function on the Marauder's Map also uses the knowledge of ancient runes , this is what Connor discovered after listening to the afternoon class...

In the afternoon, Connor went to take the elective course of choosing one of the two. There were more than [-] people in the classroom this time. Although it looked like a lot, according to Penello, half of their fourth grade students had gone to take Fantastic Beasts. .

Ancient Runes is one of the most difficult electives at Hogwarts.

Bathsheda Bablin is a professor of ancient runes. She is also a witch and graduated from Ravenclaw. She is a professor who likes to preach. During the class, she saw so many people taking her Class, seems very happy:

"I'm Bathsheda Bablin, and I'm your rune professor. First of all, I'm glad that you have chosen the ancient rune course. Believe me, believe me! You will never regret choosing this course in the future. course, the ancient runes are amazing, yes, very amazing! I have to emphasize this, the ancient runes are closely related to the origin of our wizards, if you are a wizard and don't know anything about the ancient runes , will be ridiculed by others!"

"...This year, in your Charms class, you will be exposed to the concept of magic patterns. At that time, you will understand how important runes are! Let me ask a question, is there any student who can use basic elemental magic ?"

Connor didn't make a sound, he knew that he would definitely not win the Academy Cup this year, so he didn't bother to do the useless work of answering questions and getting points, while other little wizards were waiting for Connor to raise his hand to answer questions (get used to it) , but Connor didn't raise his hand, and they wondered for a while whether they really knew this magic, and they didn't dare to raise their hands to answer for a while.

"Oh my god! Don't you know that no one knows?! Smarter first-year students can also learn [Blazing Flame]! You are third-year students! It's not true that no one can use elemental magic, right? No Will it? Can't it?!"

Professor Babling said exaggeratedly, dancing and dancing. In fact, if ordinary little wizards don't understand it, it's not strange that they don't know elemental magic, but this professor obviously doesn't think so...

Seeing that no one made a sound, Connor had no choice but to raise his hand.

"Very good, very good, Mr. Lake, let's show the students elemental magic, any kind will do."

Connor probably understood the professor's intentions, and he decided to do it in one step. He stood up and waved his wand. Without chanting, a ball of flame appeared on the top of the wand, and then the flame seemed to have its own consciousness, turning into a finger-thin The Fire Snake danced in the air and then formed a shape that looked like a "Ψ"—this is the basic flame magic pattern.

"Oh! Very good! Very good! Perfect magic control! Ravenclaw adds five points! Look at this beautiful symbol! Mr. Lake, lend me your magic."

Professor Babling was talking excitedly. She waved her wand, and the "Ψ" hovering in the air floated in front of her. She held the flame text with her hands and said, "Look! Students, this is the symbol representing flame." Runes! A complete, independent, self-contained magic pattern!"

"Each rune may represent a magic. Ancient runes are words with magic power! And the purpose of our course is to understand, learn and study these runes?"

"The study of runes has always been one of the most profound knowledge that our wizards study. I hope that students will fall in love with this course, fall in love with runes, and fall in love with magic!"

"Then in this class, let's introduce the known and deciphered 33 runes to the students. The students turn to page 233 in their textbooks."

(End of this chapter)