A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 173 Shrunken Wand Tree
The July wind blew through the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, and the green branches and leaves swayed to form a soft lullaby. Felix felt as if the nerves of his brain were being touched by hands, and his whole body was soothed.

He passed Whooping Willow, and walked briskly to Hagrid's hut, "Footh." The black hound wagged its tail happily and barked cheerfully at him.

Hagrid pushed the door open, with his big hand resting on the door frame, red sauce standing on the corner of his mouth. "Felix? Uh, I'm eating... Come in, it's messy..."

He wiped his mouth frantically, blushing.

……

In the evening, in the office, the blank photos placed on the workbench flickered. Felix looked at the old man who suddenly appeared in the photo, and said softly, "Hello, Mr. Nick Flamel."

……

late July.

Felix looked at himself in the mirror. Under the blue casual suit, there was a light-colored checked waistcoat, and a dark double-breasted trench coat was loosely opened.

He lightly touched his chest, and a crystal glow of magic danced on the windbreaker.

"The windbreaker made of dragon skin mixed with basilisk skin is very comfortable to wear, and the snakeskin vest is also good." The sun shines through the window on his fine black hair, complementing the brilliance of the clothes.

……

end of July.

Felix flipped through the data of little wizards learning magic, trying to get some useful conclusions.

"Knock knock!"

Professor McGonagall sent over the course selection list, and when he saw the densely packed names on it, he froze in place.

"Minerva, is there something wrong?"

Professor McGonagall clapped the list in his hand with a smile, "You should be happy, Felix, the students like you."

……

One day in August.

Felix excitedly counted the rune symbols in the thinking hut, three times, and he finally determined an accurate number.

"One thousand three hundred."

In one year, with the help of Hogwarts' huge library, he increased the number of ancient runes by nearly a thousand, and in the foreseeable few years, this rate of progress will only be faster.

As he mastered more and more runes, his understanding of ancient magic was no longer just lingering outside the door. Many times, he often felt a sudden inspiration.

The most obvious example is that he has made great progress in studying the incomplete ancient magic that Flitwick gave him.Hagrid could testify for him—

Under Hagrid's stunned gaze, the branches of a wand tree swayed desperately, rapidly shrinking from a height of seventeen or eight meters, ten meters, seven meters, three meters... leaving a brown pit on the spot, going up A hundred Bowtruckles fell to the ground, grinning at them.

After there was no hero to take the lead in the charge, these little guys jumped up and climbed up the wand tree next to them, gesticulating dissatisfiedly.

"What about the tree? How about a big tree?" Hagrid stretched out his hand and drew the shape of a tree in mid-air.

Felix stretched out his hand, "The wand tree is flying." A small sapling a foot high flew out of the ugly deep hole, and he caught it in his hand.

Hagrid took it, and it was no bigger than his palm. "This, is this the tree from before?"

"Yeah, one of my magic has improved, and I can do some things that I couldn't do before." Felix was quite satisfied with the effect of this magic.

The wand tree is magical, but it still can't resist his magic.

'The next exchange, Felius will be surprised. '

Hagrid looked at him, then at the sapling in his hand, he was speechless.After a while, he suddenly had a magical idea, "Felix, if you use this magic on Lu Wei, will it also become smaller? Can I keep it in the yard?"

"Ahem!" Felix coughed twice, and said with some embarrassment: "Hagrid, this magic has not been tried on magical animals yet, so I don't know how it works, especially for a huge magical creature like a three-headed dog. In case something goes wrong..." He stopped, but he feared that the magic would have irreversible consequences.

Hagrid said with some regret: "Can't you? Lu Wei has been alone all the time, and I still want him to be with Fang."

"There will be opportunities in the future, Hagrid, wait for me to improve for a while."

Hagrid said with great interest: "Do you need my help? I can provide some less important magical creatures, such as Billywigs, shapeshifting lizards, thorns, Flobberworms, Grindylows, etc. , should be useful to you?"

Felix's eyes lit up.

"That's really great. I think what this magic needs most now is practical data."

"However, Hagrid, I have to remind you that magic is time-effective. Even if I try to prolong the effect as much as possible, the estimated time of action is only a few hours."

Hagrid smacked his lips, "That's fine, at least I can still hug him, poor Fluffy, since he's grown bigger than my house, I can't let him put his paws on my shoulders anymore. "

The two squatted on the ground and carefully observed the small magic wand tree. There were green magic lines flowing on its surface. After about half an hour, it changed from one foot to two feet, but only after another 10 minutes, it grew to two meters.

And it's growing faster and faster.

"Hagrid, get out of the way, I'm going to put it back in the tree pit."

Hagrid took two steps back, Felix threw it back into the pit, and used magic to adjust its position. Then, he saw the wand tree expand rapidly. This is a magical picture——

Just like what Felix read in the book: When unskilled wizards restore Animagus, the process is often extremely slow, and it is easy to have a strange scene where a certain part of the body is restored first, and other body parts follow .

The same goes for the wand tree.Its recovery was anything but wonderful.A branch extended abruptly, and then the whole trunk swelled outward, like a giant pumpkin that Hagrid had planted.Then it shrank back, but the overall length jumped a foot...

After half a minute, the unlucky wand tree finally returned to its original shape, but it looked miserable, with low-hanging branches and half of its roots were exposed. Felix used magic to rebury them one by one. into the dirt.

Finally, he poured another bucket of nutrient solution, and the condition of the wand tree seemed to be a little bit better.

Felix looked at it carefully, and after a while, he turned to look at Hagrid, "Do you think it's a little crooked?"

"Is there?" Hagrid didn't see it.

"Look here, I remember it was straight, but it protruded out after it was restored."

"Uh," Hagrid thought about the appearance of a big pimple on his back after Lu Wei recovered, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Felix glanced at him, "Didn't you notice? From my point of view, it's obvious..."

……

In the evening, Felix received an Evening Prophet.The headlines of the night were -

The Closing Conference at the Booth Race Hotel, the Beginning of a New Era

(End of this chapter)