A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 250 Chestnut Wooden Plate

In the ancient rune office, Hermione looked around curiously. The professor's office looked a little messy. There were two piles of Christmas presents in the corner, and some of the boxes in one pile were scattered.

There are also some strange items placed in a mess on the large workbench, a palm-sized silver plate with magic symbols on the edge, a dozen dark green coins with a thick metallic luster, disassembled magic puppets, A stack of parchment, a few chestnut discs and rune knives, and two or three books.

Felix noticed Hermione's gaze, "It's all about recent work, some of which you have also participated in."

Hermione nodded. The silver plate is a pensieve that the professor found and needs to be repaired; as for the coin, she has seen it at the assembly of the Rune Club, and it can turn into a dark green ouroboros, but she just didn't expect it There are so many children, is it a new teaching tool?

Or, perhaps for the Rune Club?

"Sit down for a while, I'll change into a coat." Felix went into the bedroom and changed into a loose sea-blue sweater. When he came out, he found a small dark green snake in Hermione's hand, and another One hand kept teasing it.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, she explained in a panic: "Professor, it's the coin you put on the table. I tried to perceive it with magic power - and it turned out like this."

Felix smiled and said, "You can put your wand on its head and say silently: Infinity."

Hermione looked down at the little snake in her hand. It didn't look scary. It didn't have the slimy feeling of a reptile. Instead, it looked like some kind of metal handicraft, with dark green scales nested in layers, extending all the way to the The tail is pointed.

The little snake's eyes were black and bright, constantly shaking with her gaze.

She drew out her wand, touched the little snake lightly with the tip of the wand, and said softly, "Infinity."

The little snake nodded to her very humanely, and immediately started to swim. She felt a little itchy in the palm of her hand, and then connected head to tail on her right little finger, turning into a ring and not moving.

"This is—the Ring of Ouroboros?"

"That's right, it's the symbol of the Rune Club. I'll send it to you after Christmas. It has two forms—a coin and a ring of ouroboros, which can replace Fenat."

Felix joked: "More than one person told me that Genat is too easy to be used as a currency, and you must be careful not to pay it out every time."

Hermione studied the snake ring on her hand with great interest, and quickly found the trick. She waved her hand, and the ring became active, turning into a little snake again, and then the little snake's body coiled together, turning into the original coins.

Hermione put the coin back on the workbench, pointed to the chestnut disc and asked, "What is this? It looks a bit like a Pensieve."

"It's very close. The process of studying the Pensieve was not smooth, but I also imitated and made some gadgets—of course, it's not comparable to the Pensieve, but in the eyes of some people, it should be very interesting. "

Felix indicated that she could try it. Many times, Hermione, who was an assistant in the ancient rune class, was the first to try the rune creations he made.

Hermione walked over and looked carefully at the plate-shaped decoration made of chestnut wood. It looked very similar to the shape of the Pensieve, but it was slightly smaller. On the edge were rune circuits clearly carved with a carving knife. These circuits were layered on top of each other. , interlocking, it seems very complicated.

What she didn't realize before was that there was a thin layer of silver fine sand on the chestnut wooden plate.Shaking gently, the silver sand flows like mercury.

"These silver things—"

"Blank memory fragments, you can regard them as necessary filling materials."

After thinking for a while, Hermione touched the edge of the chestnut wooden plate with her wand, and the rune circuits around the plate lit up one by one. The fine silver sand was kneaded together by invisible hands, and floated to a height of one foot, forming a slowly rotating cloud. group.

She suddenly remembered the bronze-colored smoke that Professor Flitwick showed in a dueling class. That magical magic can also be shaped into various shapes, but it needs human manipulation.

But the silver cloud made of fine sand in front of him looks more delicate, like silver liquid light, stretching and floating calmly.

"What should I do?" Hermione asked.

"Imagine a memory, a reminder, not to be too private, because it can read your thoughts."

Hermione was taken aback, but since it was made in imitation of the Pensieve, it must have something to do with memory.She recalled a memory in her mind, then stretched out a finger and tapped on the silver cloud.

The clouds began to billow, and silver fine sand fell like rain. Gradually, they piled up on the silver plate to form a three-dimensional model: it was the scene of her fighting the basilisk in the chamber of secrets with Harry and Ron in the second grade. .

Hermione put her head on the table and carefully looked at the little "Hermione" less than half an inch on the chestnut wooden plate. The strange feeling in her heart was hard to describe in words.Likewise, Harry and Ron were only a tiny bit bigger, and the basilisk was half a foot long, twisting its body like hell, smashing a "big" rock with its tail, and looking alive.

The Chamber of Secrets building has also been engraved, including the Slytherin statue, the open space in front of the statue, the snake-wrapping stone pillar...it all looks so small.

Everything on the chestnut plate is like a miniature sand model, only it moves.From this point of view, the originally dangerous scene also becomes cute.

Hermione stared and watched, the development of the "story" was exactly the same as she remembered, until Harry jumped off the Slytherin statue and stuck the delicate and small Gryffindor sword on the head of the basilisk , the scene stopped.

Hermione stared blankly at the slowly rotating fine sand on the chestnut wooden plate, and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"This, this..." She racked her brains to describe her feelings, and finally she could only say dryly, "It's amazing."

Felix shook his head, he was actually not very satisfied, because this thing was of no use to him, at most it helped him develop his ideas.

"That's because you haven't used the Pensieve, which can restore all the details of your subconscious mind. If you have experienced it, you will be amazed at how much content your memory contains, and you have no idea about it." know..."

"What you saw just now is actually the chestnut plate reading your memory and displaying it. Many places are not clear."

Hermione recalled the scene she saw, and gradually understood what the professor meant: "That's true. I didn't see you, Professor Snape, and Headmaster Dumbledore, but you were also in the secret room at the time. In addition, some Places are also vague, but too small for me to notice, like the Slytherin statues."

Felix nodded and smiled: "You will find that you, Harry and Ron are the clearest, because you are the most familiar with them, followed by the Basilisk, which also left a deep impression on you, and finally the surrounding environment , Speaking of it, your memory is good enough, if you let someone with a slightly poorer memory use it, the surrounding environment may be a large blurred area, or it may not be visible at all."

Hermione concluded: "So, it just extracts what we can recall, and then displays it, without touching the subconscious."

"You have found the key, Miss Granger." Felix said approvingly.

(End of this chapter)