A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 368 Not Cheating
"I can't believe it! You're hiding it from us!" said Hermione disapprovingly, as they walked out of the castle, turned the corner in front of Hagrid's hut, and turned into the Forbidden Forest, but she was still a little bit aggrieved.

"Hermione, you guys were having a fight - but, Ron, you didn't even tell me that we could wear the Invisibility Cloak." Harry couldn't help but complain.

"I thought...if it fails, just pretend nothing happened." Ron hesitated, looking away unnaturally, "I guess Malfoy thinks the same... Hermione, thank you Bai Xian essence."

The lump on his face no longer looked noticeable.

"That's for Harry's Disapparation practice!" Hermione snorted.

"Malfoy did it, though," said Ron. "I always thought he was just crying for his mother, or a bouncing ferret..."

Hermione thought it was normal.

"His grades have always been very good, and his scores on the 'answer parchment' are among the best, but you never pay attention to it."

"Well," Ron smacked his lips, "I don't know, you still pay attention to people who rank lower than you, that's a lot of names..."

Harry couldn't help grinning.

When they walked into the Forbidden Forest, the light suddenly dimmed, as if it was evening, and there were all kinds of rustling and trivial sounds in the forest.They were going to find a place nearby to practice apparating, and according to Harry, he could already walk out of the "house".

Ron picked off a purple berry and asked, "Is this edible?"

"Okay," Hermione glanced, "except it's kind of—"

"Bah!" Ron had already taken a bite, showing a bitter face, "It's so bitter!"

"...Bitter taste, it seems you already know it." Hermione laughed, and Harry quickly retracted his hand that was reaching for the branch.

They soon found a familiar path and trekked to a clearing——

"I'm familiar with this place." Harry looked around, his eyes gliding over the scattered stones several times.

"Yeah," Hermione pointed to a big tree, "remember? We peeped from behind that tree to see Professor Heppe practicing Apparition...I asked Hagrid quietly, there are no dangerous creatures near this forest lair. Still, we have to take some precautions—"

She walked around the clearing with her wand, muttering something.

"Ping An guarding...all protection...Muggle shielding...thief sensing...screaming screams...transformation guards...I said, if you don't mind, you can help me..."

"We only know the first three spells." Harry and Ron looked at each other and got busy, "That's taught by Professor Belby, the topic of safety in the wild... what else?"

"Oh," Hermione patted her head, "The Thief Induction Spell can detect magic camouflage, and the Screeching Scream is a kind of warning spell, and it will make a piercing sound when someone breaks in... As for the shape-shifting guard," she paused. After a pause, he smiled and said, "Don't you think they are cute?"

Harry and Ron squatted down and looked at things that looked like peanuts—their bodies were small people made of two stones, and they should have used the transformation technique. They had no feet, but they were bouncing around.

Ron reached out and flicked a shapeshifting guard two feet away.

"Kind of like tumblers," Harry commented, looking up and asking, "What are they for?"

"It's more sensitive to magic power, and can discover things we can't see in advance." Hermione said, "One more thing, this is Professor Haipu's magic."

"So well prepared," Ron whispered, "I finally know why she didn't stop us from violating the school rules. If I have learned so much magic, I must find a chance to use it, otherwise it would be a pity, wouldn't it? "

at dusk.

Felix is ​​making a looking glass in his office, with tiny parts strewn about his workbench.

Carefully he extracted a wisp of magic from a business card, which Mr. Finlayary had given him.Then pick up a fingernail-sized gemstone and incorporate the magic that wraps around your finger into it.

"The most important step is done, then—Varen, I haven't heard the sound of reading for a long time."

He said without raising his head, while Niu Niu Varun sat on a large book, dozing off, and under his butt was a literacy book used by Muggles, with various illustrations on it.

Hearing Felix's words, Varen cried out in dissatisfaction, and walked in front of him imposingly, poking his arm constantly with his little pink hand.

It can't stand it, it can't take it anymore!Why teach a Sniff to read and write?
It had never heard such absurd things.

For its own sake, and for the sake of possible future victims, it must represent the Nixie family, no, on behalf of all magical animals, to protest against the Great Demon King!
"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!"

A gold Galleon was handed to it, and Varen was stunned for a sniff, and instinctively stuffed it into his pocket.

"After receiving the money, we have to do things, we agreed." Felix pointed it with his finger.

"Gaba—"

Sniff Varun's mouth was wide open, and the pink beak that looked like a duck's bill opened and closed feebly.

It walked back dejectedly, turned the next page with its flexible toes, and sat down on it staring at a picture of a motorcycle. Within a minute, its eyelids drooped...

It was rescued by Hermione's presence.When she came in, Niffle jumped off the workbench, with a comical step, and threw herself into Hermione's arms.

"Oh...Walen? What's the matter, you're too enthusiastic..." She looked at Xixiu a little at a loss, as if it had been wronged, pointing at the sky and the earth Refers to the professor and a literacy book on the table.

"Are you learning how to read?" Hermione felt a sense of freshness in her heart, "I read similar books when I was three years old."

"Haw! Haw!"

Sniff pointed at Felix and kept humming.

"Uh……"

"It said that it has never met a human being as cunning as me. It is going to run away from home and hang out with you." Felix said with his head down, and put together the remaining parts of the looking glass.

Hermione blinked, looking down at Niffler.

Sniffing and nodding vigorously.That's right, that's it!

It wants to break into a new world and create a big treasure chest.Sooner or later, it will bring a fifth house to Hogwarts.

"Okay, it's done." Felix stood up with a walnut-sized looking glass in his hand. Before Hermione could see clearly, he was already holding an ebony wand and flying from the tip of the wand. Out came a silver swift patron saint.

The swift was as big as an owl, hanging quietly in the air. Felix dropped the looking glass from his hand and was swallowed by it.

"Go and find him. Don't let him find out," said Felix quietly.

Hermione watched Swift disappear from the window into the black night curiously, guessing who the professor wanted to find.

……

"So, are you worried that you got the invitation card by cheating?"

Hermione nodded. At this moment, they were sitting on the sofa. She held a box of custard biscuits in her hand and fed them to Xixiu, while looking worriedly at Professor Haip opposite.

This had been bothering her, especially since Ron had gotten the invitation card the "normal" way.

Felix was noncommittal, "Why do you say it's cheating?"

"I violated the original intention of the assessment," Hermione said sadly. "I can't face the fear in my heart at all. Maybe I am the worst among these warrior candidates."

Felix laughed softly, "Granger, you, and the students below the sixth grade, were not trained as warriors, they are not candidates for warriors, it is only because they are younger that they are more valuable. "

Hermione looked at him puzzled.

"Let's put it this way, Miss Granger." Felix said: "Principal Dumbledore and I, as well as many professors, believe that it is a waste to exclude students from the lower grades from the Tournament, but it cannot be true. Let you participate in the competition, so there is this kind of compromise method to increase your sense of participation."

"Increase our sense of participation?" repeated Hermione, "so you don't mind if we cheat?"

"You misunderstood. I never said that there is only one way to deal with fear. Have you read the words on the stone tablet? Courage, wisdom, tenacity, and calmness, this shows... There are at least four ways."

Felix said softly, leaning back on the sofa and looking at her thoughtfully.

"You have done at least two things. This is behavior I didn't expect. First, you vaguely see through the illusion. This may be related to your frequent contact with the magic related to the thinking cabin, and you are not easy to be confused; second. , You took advantage of this ability and borrowed the power of the illusion to cast the ancient magic golden flame I taught you, which is not something ordinary people can do."

"I've discussed this with Dumbledore before."

"How do you know—" Hermione looked at him in surprise.

"If you really used the golden flame, it might have destroyed it." Felix smiled, "But this shows that your understanding of this magic has reached a passing level, and you can already try it in reality. used."

"Now?" Hermione asked excitedly.

Felix looked at her expectantly.

"Oh, uh... okay." Hermione sat up straight, cleared her throat, and said a string of ancient spells, and then her fingertips burst into a ball of light, one after another rune symbols Appeared in the air, assembled into a whole.

"laugh!"

A group of golden flames appeared out of thin air, burning quietly, appearing peaceful and distant.

"You can take your hand away," Felix said, and Hermione did, with the flames still hanging in mid-air and the air quivering slightly.Under her control, the flames were stretched out into various shapes, and accidentally pierced a goblet into a scorching hole.

"You need more control, Granger. You've been good at it, but not good enough. You have to let the fire do what you want, like this."

As Felix said, his palm passed through the golden flame, and a small golden flame stuck to the tip of his index finger.

Hermione's eyes widened.

"Is it amazing? Actually, not at all. You haven't discovered the true characteristics of this magic. It's not a particularly explosive magic, otherwise I wouldn't teach you..."

……

In the new week, Felix gets busy.

After class at noon, he took the time to go to classroom No. [-], recorded the name on the stone tablet, and handed it to Professor McGonagall.

When seeing the shortlist, McGonagall was taken aback: "There is another second-year student?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect it either." Felix said with some emotion: "Unless she has a very deep and positive understanding of fear itself..."

"What are you going to do, Felix?"

Felix had a headache, "Let me discuss it with Severus. After all, she is a student of Slytherin House. It seems that she has an older sister who is in the same house..."

"I'll go talk to Severus." Professor McGonagall pursed his lips and said seriously: "No matter what, I would not agree to let the second-year students participate. We discussed the training plan. To be honest, I think it's too serious. Radical, even those fourth graders..."

"Minerva, the fourth grade is not too young. They are generally fourteen or fifteen years old. This is the time when they are most eager for honor. If we persuade them to leave, maybe someone will secretly send us a shouting letter." Felix Just kidding.

"...well, since you and Professor Moody both said so, Albus has no objection."

Professor McGonagall didn't insist on it anymore. These issues were discussed more than once at the meeting before, and she actually agreed, and now she just complained a few words.She moved on to other topics—

"Congratulations, Felix, Remus has a big order."

(End of this chapter)