A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 189 The Twins and Snape's Gossip
After the fifth grade Ancient Rune class in the afternoon, Felix left the twins alone.

"Professor, are there really seven looking glasses?" Fred asked curiously.

In the class just now, Felix’s arrangement was the same as that of the seventh grade. He also explained the study plan for the entire school year, and briefly reviewed the learning content of the third and fourth grades. At the end of the class, he mentioned that in addition to the magic puppet, An additional new rune artifact, the Looking Glass, will be introduced this school year.

Felix nodded and said: "It does exist, you will see it in the next class."

He was procrastinating because there was still a kind of looking glass that was in adjustment.

"Quest for Ancient Alchemy" mentioned seven methods of making looking glasses, but all of them took the route of alchemy. What Felix did during this period was to replace some rune circuits to make them functional. Unchanged, or even enhanced.

He is tireless in trying, and if possible, he is going to spend most of this year on it—changing pieces of alchemy creations into rune creations.

With Nick Flamel, the master alchemist, he has full confidence in this.

……

George asked, "Why are there seven looking glasses?"

Fred said without hesitation: "Maybe the shape of the looking glass has been disguised? For example, it is usually a doorknob, and it will scream loudly when touched."

George followed his train of thought to make associations: "It's a bit like our fake magic wand, or it can be reversed. It's usually in the shape of a looking glass, but if you try to do something with it, it will shoot fireworks from the tail, filling the room." The child ran around..."

Frey laughed and said, "Great idea, George, what a charming little mind."

George bowed: "You too, Mr. Weasley."

"Ahem!" Felix coughed twice, stopping their mutual flattery. "Seeing that you are so happy, I can't bear to tell you the next news."

The twins turned to look at him simultaneously.

"Oh, no, Felix, we're in the same company," said Fred flatly.

Felix was amused, and he said this not long ago, "Disrespecting the professor, huh?"

Fred held up his hands in a begging gesture.

But neither of the two parties cared about it. Felix discovered very early on that the characters of these two people are very suitable to be friends.

It is not appropriate to be an assistant. Felix originally wanted to find someone to help him share the work, but it was hard for him to imagine that the twins would seriously correct homework.He even suspected they might cast a jinx on some bad papers.

For example, cast a pimple curse on unqualified homework, so that the little wizard who is not studying hard will feel the malice from the magic text assistant...

It's interesting to think about it, but it's really just a matter of thinking.

Felix's expression became serious: "Okay, let's get back to the topic. This year is your OWLs year, how many exams are you confident to pass?"

"Ancient runes are fine, if they change the content of the test to repairing magic puppets." Fred gasped.

Felix said with a straight face: "This is not a joke. I don't refuse you to do research in your spare time and give guidance, but your grades can't be lowered too much."

The twins sighed, and Fred spoke the truth rarely: "It is estimated that I can pass four or five OWLs, or even less. What about you, George?"

"Our level is similar, but I think you may be too optimistic. I think three certificates are a more reasonable number." George said relatively fairly.

Fred suddenly smiled.

Felix shook his head, not allowing them to change the subject at will, he said directly: "In order to prevent you from getting too obsessed, I specially entrusted your brother, Percy Weasley, to take the time to look at you—"

"what!"

"No, Professor!"

The corner of Felix's mouth hooked up, "Is there anything wrong? I told him that he will not interfere with your research, at least not in the short term. As far as I know, his grades are very good and he can give you Offer some advice."

Fred cringed his neck, his eyes slanted to one side, and assumed a haughty posture - he imitated Percy's tone and said: "Fred! Put away your mischievous jellybeans, if I see you again If you feed others, I will put you in confinement, and I will do what I say!"

Felix: "...frankly, your fudge isn't poisonous, is it?"

"Of course not, Professor, we've tested it, and I was the first one," said Fred.

"I'm second," said George.

The twins had a 10-minute soak with Felix. Seeing that they were about to be late for the next class, they left in a hurry.Before leaving, I still didn’t forget to yell——

"Professor, we will not give up!"

"That's right, unless you withdraw this decision!"

Felix looked at their backs with some headaches, and at a certain moment, an idea came to his mind: 'Did Professor Snape think of me that way back then? '

'But I didn't escape that much. ’ He returned to the office and took his time to finish improving the final seventh looking glass.

Looking at the sight glasses of different sizes on the workbench, his mood improved inexplicably.

"The number of ancient magic texts I have now exceeds one thousand. When will this number become ten thousand or twenty thousand?"

"At that time, how far will my understanding of magic reach?"

Felix imagined for a moment that during the battle, the mana lingered around him, and under his thoughts, it automatically converged into a powerful ancient magic. Other people's spells were at most beams of light, but he had completely abandoned his wand, and he raised his hand continuously. absolute attack.

There is no escape, no escape.

"I think too much, and there are not many people who can make me shoot with all my strength. I'm still thinking about the content of my next communication with Nick Flamel. His understanding of alchemy is completely beyond my imagination."

"With his perspective, I can examine alchemy creations and rune creations from a higher level."

"This will help me better understand the characteristics of runes."

In the evening, when Felix came out of the office to eat in the auditorium, he heard two pieces of gossip by accident.

The first was when Hagrid had an accident in his first class and a student was injured.Felix breathed a sigh of relief after careful questioning. The situation was not serious. The student's wound had a bit of strange magic power. With Madam Pomfrey's skills, he could be alive and kicking after only three days of training.

He didn't take it to heart, the former professor of this course had caused much more serious trouble than this, and Hagrid would at most get a probationary sentence.

The second thing that made him scratch his head was that in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, the new professor taught the third year students to resist boggarts - magical creatures that can change shape according to the fear in their hearts.

Boggarts are not strong in nature, but they are surprisingly effective against wizards with fatal weaknesses or weak hearts.Especially when facing it unsuspectingly.

In class, the object of fear in a student's heart turned out to be Snape. Encouraged by Professor Lupine, the student overcame his fear and chanted the Boggart expulsion spell "Funny Funny", and things really turned out really bad Funny—Professor Snape, a symbol of his inner fear, changed into a woman's dress.

Felix was sitting on the long Hufflepuff table, two seats away from him, a little witch with two golden braids was vividly describing the scene at that time——

"...Professor Snape walked over aggressively. Although his target was that Longbottom, I also felt chills in my heart. I thought that this was bad, and he must fail. Guess what happened?"

Hannah Abbott said with a blushing face: "Longbottom yelled a spell, like a whip hitting Professor Snape, his clothes instantly turned into an embroidered green grandmother's suit, with a Wearing a cocked hat, dangling a huge red handbag..."

"Seriously, it's the first time I find that boy named Longbottom so cool!"

Felix listened in amazement, knowing that Snape must be mad.

(End of this chapter)