A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 27 Hermione's Rune Journey

Ancient Rune Professor's Office.

Felix is ​​grading homework, which is so boring that he has the illusion of adding 1 and 1 and repeating it hundreds of times.Fortunately, when he handed over the job to Hermione, who had just knocked on the door and didn't know the situation, he was completely liberated.

"It's mainly the fifth and seventh grade test papers, which mainly focus on the translation of choices and short sentences. It's relatively simple to correct—you just need to compare the correct answers, and mark all the wrong ones with crosses."

And Hermione lived up to her reputation as a top student, and quickly entered the state, and she was very good at this type of work.

Felix flipped through Hermione's revised paper—it was to be handed over to Professor McGonagall for publication in an academic journal, and he had to strictly check it.However, he did not directly revise simply and rudely, but kept making comments and giving the page numbers of the reference books.

He thought it would be more helpful to Hermione this way.

Half an hour later, the two finished their work at about the same time.

"Okay, let's get to the point."

It was Hermione who had been fulfilling her assistant duties, and now it was up to Felix to fulfill his commitment.

The two sat on the sofa facing each other, with a small table between them, and Felix summoned two glasses of juice with his wand.He tried to put Miss Granger at ease, but she still seemed reserved.

"It can be seen from your thesis that you already have enough understanding of the history of ancient magic texts. Even if you haven't started studying, I can assure you that your progress will be very fast."

"Professor, I'm reading "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes", and I also learned how to look up the "Dictionary of Runes", "The Collection of Magical Symbols", including the list of books you gave me before, but most of them I don't fully understand .” The little witch sat up straight and quickly introduced her latest learning progress.

Felix froze for a moment, "Very good, but I won't spend too much time discussing how to translate with you, at most I can give you some suggestions."

"You can start around 900, which is the time when Hogwarts was founded. The four founders are all great figures who inherited the past and ushered in the future. They not only translated many manuscripts of the predecessors, but also left many legacy The head-scratching research material that populates the earliest libraries."

"However, this part of the information is now placed in the restricted area, and Ms. Ravenclaw has the most complete one, while Slytherin's information has lost most of it. It may be that after he split with the other three, he became angry. He took away his own research results..."

Felix narrated a piece of history, which fascinated Hermione, "However, it may also be that the content of Slytherin research is not suitable for the library, who knows."

"If you need, I can approve the note for you."

Felix stood up, motioned for Hermione to follow, and the two came to his workbench.

"My research direction is not translation, but to discover the power of rune itself. Like this—"

He picked up a piece of chestnut wood the size of a palm on the table, injected magic power into the carving knife, and carved runes one by one on the surface of the chestnut wood.When these magic texts were first written, they quickly glowed with a scorching red light, but they were quickly extinguished and turned into dark lines.

It was the first time Hermione had seen such a sight, and she stared intently, while searching her guts to try and figure out what the professor was doing, but to no avail.

Felix finished engraving the rune, and handed it to Hermione, "You can feel it."

She stretched out her hand to take the piece of chestnut wood, without rubbing it, she keenly sensed the magic fluctuations on it, her fingers slid across the dark rune, and there was a warm touch from her fingertips.

"The rune can store magic power for a short time, but if it is not dealt with, the magic power on it can last up to three days. This is the result of the superposition of chestnut's own characteristics."

Hermione nodded. As a wand material, chestnut wood has excellent ability to carry and transmit magic power.

"There are many solutions to this defect, such as——"

"You can connect them to form a circuit, which greatly prolongs the retention time of magic power;"

"Special protective magic can also be applied;"

"Or add storage and conversion circuits..."

Hermione's little brain was desperately memorizing, and she wished she could immediately pick up the parchment and record every word Professor Haipu said.

Felix's explanation process is actually a process of reorganizing his own knowledge system.Different from the state of "not enough to eat" in the previous three years, he now has too many choices and must choose carefully.

Therefore, teaching the little witch was incidental. At this moment, he was lost in thought and murmured: "However, these methods are only for maintenance. After 30 or 50 years, they will eventually decay with time."

Why did the voice become smaller?Hermione quickly closed the distance between the two of them, stretching her neck and listening hard.

"Are the heroes and creations in mythology conjecture or real existence?"

"Are they powerful wizards?"

"If so, how do those magical creations that have been passed down for thousands of years become immortal?"

Watching the professor fall silent, Hermione speculated, "Maybe they are the ones that provide the magic power themselves."

Felix laughed dumbfounded, "How is this possible, they are not living things."

"What about the Sorting Hat? The Sorting Hat has existed for thousands of years, and it can communicate with people, and has its own wisdom." Hermione tried to give examples to support her guess, "There are also portraits of previous principals in the principal's office. I heard Harry mention it. Pass."

"Miss Granger, the portrait itself is an exquisite magical creation, it can carry a person's thoughts. And as far as I know, if a magical portrait is to be maintained for a long time, it cannot be separated from regular maintenance, although this interval may continue Decades..."

"However, the Sorting Hat," Felix thought for a while, "I did ignore it, I don't know much about it, maybe I should find an opportunity to introduce myself to it again?"

"Okay, Miss Granger, let's stop our brainstorming journey here. Next--"

Felix took a palm-sized piece of chestnut wood from Hermione's hand, "Next, I'll connect these runes and make them form a loop. Pay attention."

This job is quite delicate. He carefully drew out the lines, connected them with each other, and explained while operating, "This step is very important. Many alchemy creations have complex functions."

Ten minutes later, he handed the chestnut wood chip to Hermione to let her feel the difference.

"I feel the magic power flowing, there are fluctuations and ups and downs, they...they seem to be resisting me." Hermione said her feelings a little puzzled.

This is really incredible.

Felix understood, "The resistance you said is because it is a rough semi-finished product, and the magic wave spreads wantonly, and you feel this."

"Of course, this also shows that you are very keen, and your talent in spells must be very strong."

Hermione's face turned bright red.

(End of this chapter)