A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 127 The Wand and the Wizard (First Order!)

"Grape vine wood?" Felix repeated, and the little witch noticed that Professor Haipu's expression was obviously taken aback.

"Very good." He commented briefly.

Felix explained: "My personal experience is that the rune carving knife is very similar to the wand, so in addition to the chestnut wood carving knife, it is best to choose the material of the wand for the first carving knife."

"For example, for me, the ebony wood carving knife is the most convenient."

Hermione showed an expression of sudden realization, and she thought to herself, grape vine wood, her first choice of exclusive carving knife.

However, this also made her curious. When she was buying a wand, Ollivander said that it is the wand that chooses the wizard, not the wizard. Professor Haipu also gave similar advice. Is there any secret in this? ?

She expressed her doubts to Professor Haipu.

Felix thought for a while and said, "This sentence still makes sense, because Ollivander's wand shop never makes custom wands, which means that young wizards have to adapt to the characteristics of wands."

"So, the wands in our hands only roughly match us?" Hermione understood what he wanted to express.

"It can be understood in this way, but don't worry, for the vast majority of wizards, there is no need to consider such subtle differences at all." Felix said: "This question is quite interesting, you can go to the library and look it up. See what kind of wand your friends around you look like, and what kind of qualities they represent."

Hermione was indeed very interested. This kind of behavior that not only satisfies her desire for knowledge but also satisfies her desire for gossip made her want to stop.

"Professor, do you have any recommended books?" the little witch asked. She was used to asking Professor Haipu for the book list, and she could get an accurate reply every time.

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"Hmm... I remember there was a book "Wands and Wizards" in the library, which introduced hundreds of famous wizards and their wands." Felix said.

Hermione muttered a few words and wrote down the title of the book.

"Okay, next is the seventh carving knife." Felix brought the topic back on track.

The little witch looked at the last carving knife. It was as thin as a dagger, and its color was a palpitating pale white. It looked like the teeth of some kind of creature.She said in surprise, "This is... the fangs of the basilisk?"

"That's right, I also happened to think that part of the tissue of a magical animal can be used to make a rune carving knife." Felix said with a smile: "This is just an attempt."

Hermione felt that this kind of material was too evil, wouldn't the runes drawn have snake venom or curses?

So she asked Felix, "How does it work?"

Felix smacked his lips and said vaguely about "expanding new ideas", "try with unicorn horn next time", Hermione wisely didn't press further.

After spending some time explaining the 'rune carving knife', a concept invented by Professor Haipu himself, the two finally returned to the original topic - the difference between a single rune and a rune circuit.

Felix put away the other carving knives, leaving only the ebony wood carving knife and the chestnut wood carving knife, and he handed the chestnut wood carving knife to Hermione.

Hermione looked carefully at the carving knife in her hand, realizing that this carving knife would be with her for a long time.

Its color is a bit like light brown, and the material is uniform and compact, with straight and slender textures distributed on it, which looks like the pattern of Yuhua stone.

Then she stared at the carving knife in Felix's hand—

Like his wand, the ebony carving knife in Professor Heppe's hand is carefully selected heartwood, without a trace of variegation.

It was a pure, deep black with a matte finish, giving it an extremely heavy and hard texture.

Felix picked up a thin piece of chestnut wood and said to Hermione, "Whether it's a carving knife made of wand or a piece of chestnut wood, they are very friendly to magic, so carving rune is more like writing an article."

He held the engraving knife lightly, and wrote a series of runes smoothly. Red light bloomed from the tip of the black knife. When Felix lifted the engraving knife, the fiery runes had quietly extinguished, leaving black traces.

"There are two ways to write rune circuits, one at a time, or one by one."

"This is the first type."

Then he took another piece of chestnut wood and wrote individual runes on it one by one. After showing it to Hermione, he carefully drew out the lines and connected them together.

Hermione held the two pieces of chestnut wood at the same time, comparing them to each other.

From the things she can think of, the former is like a finished cursive script, flowing and elegant, but at the expense of the recognizability of individual letters; while the latter is a well-behaved print, but some naughty children use crayons Connecting the letters together, compared with the former pleasing to the eye, it is more like inferior graffiti, which makes people frown.

But Felix told her, "It's this one you need to master." He pointed to a combination he called 'print + graffiti'.

"Your beaded pouch needs three sets of rune circuits, and I will explain how they are connected."

Felix snapped his fingers lightly, and the consciousness of the two entered the thinking cabin.

Since the beginning of school, he has become more and more proficient in controlling this magic.

This seems to coincide with Snape's theory - the magic he invented will naturally increase its power.

……

When Harry came out of the bedroom yawning on Sunday morning, he saw Ginny and Ron sitting next to Hermione looking at something.

"Morning," he said, having practiced Quidditch the night before until very late, so he was sleep deprived.

Harry dug out his Potions homework from his bag, but his mind was in a mess.

It took a few minutes before he noticed the strangeness of the three people opposite him, "What are you doing?"

Hermione concentrated on writing on a thin piece of wood - he thought it was a piece of parchment and looked it over and over again.

The tool she holds in her hand is also very strange, a bit like a quill, and it looks like a shrunken wand.

But Hermione obviously didn't have time to answer him, and Harry looked at Ron.

Ron whispered to him, "It's a magic loop."

Ginny retorted him: "No, it's the rune circuit."

Ron shrugged. "Basically," he explained to Harry, "you know, to fix her beaded pouch."

He looked over from the other side of the table, where Hermione was sketching a grotesque pattern on a veneer that, from his perspective, looked a bit like a giant squid in a black lake.

Red light kept flowing from the 'tip', she wrote very slowly, the initial strokes had cooled to black.

"Huh~" Hermione let out a long breath and wiped the sweat off her face.

"Well, did it work?" Harry asked interestedly, though he still didn't quite know what she was doing.

But Harry estimated that he would also take Ancient Runes next year.

Hermione relaxed, and said lazily: "I can't inject magic power stably, the difference between individual runes is too great."

"I remember you saying that your success rate is [-]%?" Harry asked.

"That's a single rune, the rune circuit is much more difficult..." she said with a sigh.

(End of this chapter)