A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 408 Variables
"How's Harry? There's not much about him in the papers..."

"He's fine, he's probably sleeping with the dragon egg in his arms."

At this moment, they were sitting in Lupin's office. Felix was drinking tea while looking at the furnishings in the room, "Tsk! The color you chose is a bit old-fashioned, and you are not yet 40 years old."

Lupine shrugged. "That's not young."

"You've got plenty of time to squander," said Felix, and the two of them drank some tea and got down to business.

"How's the sales of the rune cards?"

"It's not bad. If it weren't for those few engraving machines, the supply might be in short supply. There are also foreign merchants who have actively sought cooperation. They are all accumulated when selling magic lamps."

Felix nodded with satisfaction.

"I think Ludo Bagman's proposal is good. The projection screen can be applied to the second and third projects. into a video...you can't just rely on a weird sister group to promote the magic gramophone?"

For wizards, there is not much difference in storing images while storing sounds.Similarly, it is not a dream to compare a flat screen with a stereoscopic projection.

Lupine lowered his head to think, and after a while, his head turned slightly to Felix.

"I don't disagree, it's just that there are still a few problems, unless you are willing to help - the next project is in February?"

"February 24."

"That should be in time," Lupine pondered and said, looking at Felix: "People in the company admire you very much, even those newcomers are spreading your legend...you know, during the summer vacation you Although we didn't stay for long, we solved most of the problems, and when you let go, our research progress slowed down."

"Well, I'll stay at the company for two days this weekend." Felix said helplessly.

……

With his joining, the progress of the research has accelerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. In many cases, it is the researcher who asks the question. He quickly simulates it in the thinking cabin, and in a few minutes he can give a theoretically supported plan.

Up and down the company, from newcomers to old people, he directed them around, but everyone's expressions were very excited.

"Is this the level of our boss?" An Irish red-necked wizard whispered, he was recruited into the company recently, mastered a superb cutting spell, and was very good at simultaneous transformation.

"You haven't seen him at the Quidditch World Cup yet!" said a young researcher.

"I was abroad before..." the red-necked wizard muttered, even though he said so, when he looked at his boss, he still couldn't help but feel admiration in his heart, and he knew too much.

Felix is ​​assigning tasks in an orderly manner: "This time we will try two new solutions--the first group, using the long-distance transmission spell, and the second group, using synchronous magic with transformation, well, this is more complicated, I personally Come……"

Ten minutes later, a dense golden mist that looked like liquid gold flowed quietly towards the surroundings. Above the mist, the light was constantly refracted, forming blurred images one by one.

"There is a problem...we should bind the mist, how about trying to place the spell? Or the smoke lock spell? Rune circuit?"

Felix kept thinking, and Keremi quickly recorded his words and the results of the experiment. In the past afternoon, the troubles that hindered them have been resolved.

In the evening, people in the company bid farewell to him one by one, with heartfelt approval on their faces.

"You see, you are the boss of this company." Lupine said with a smile.

Felix pressed his forehead and used his mind acceleration intensively, which was not an easy task for him.Especially after he had persisted for so long, he didn't want to think about anything at the moment, lounging on the sofa in Lupin's office.

"Don't think I don't know what you think," Felix said with half-closed eyes, "I just don't want the company to rely on me all the time. It's okay to say that I can solve any problems I encounter, but in the future— —”

He stopped suddenly.

"What's next?" Lupine looked at Felix strangely.

But to his helplessness, Felix started humming again, holding a cup of tea and drinking slowly, "In the future, of course I will wait for the money to be collected, I don't want to work hard."

"I remember you didn't say that before," Lupine said, "Including the 'Future World' with the same name you registered with the Muggle government, I always feel..." He looked at Felix carefully, considering his words, He said softly: "You seem to anticipate some kind of change in the future, such as the complete failure of the secrecy law?"

"Felix, are you preparing for this?"

Lupine himself was taken aback when he said this.His brain was more than a beat slower than usual, and he, who has always been smart, thought it over and over again in his mind several times before he came to a terrible conclusion. He lost his voice:
"You want to learn from Grindelwald and forcibly abolish the secrecy law?"

"How is it possible." Felix laughed, and he opened his eyes, "I can't think about such a distant future, and I don't want to be Don Quixote, rushing to the windmill alone..."

"Huh?" He rubbed his chin, thinking: "Think about it carefully, I actually have the ability to cut off windmills."

Seeing the seriousness on Lupine's face, he muttered, "You're like Percy, you don't have a sense of humor..."

Lupine gave a weak laugh: "This kind of big thing is not a joke, especially if it is you who said this, I can't take it as a joke. So, what do you think? You dumped the company to me , I will definitely manage it according to your ideas."

"My idea is simple."

Felix raised his finger: "First, let wizards gradually realize the development of ordinary people. As the pioneers, we shoulder the responsibility of gathering the wisdom of the two and showing it to one of them. Obviously, we have no other choice for the time being. Customers It can only be a wizard..."

——But the future is hard to say.

"Second, to prevent Voldemort's return."

— In other words, gather the crowd.

"Voldemort?" Lupine looked at him in surprise, the expression on his face was disbelief at first, then he obviously thought of something and became worried.

"Has anyone told you about this?" Felix asked curiously.

"It's Sirius," Lupine frowned, took a bottle of eggnog from the cabinet behind the chair, and poured himself a glass. "Need it?"

Felix shook his head slightly.

Lupine took a big sip and said: "He didn't tell me in detail, it seems to involve a big secret, and Headmaster Dumbledore prevented him from revealing it to others... But he told me, don't miss the training, more than ten years ago The war is far from over—"

"All hatred will come to an end in the future." One of his hands clutched his knee tightly.

Felix looked at Lupine. He knew that Lupine had an enemy and was at large.

He said softly: "You guessed right, what Sirius said is right. No one knows what the future will be like. In the past few decades, Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts has always been relatively weak, and with the war People in the post-Ministry of Magic have no sense of crisis, and except for the Aurors, others are reluctant to even cast a complete Iron Armor Curse."

"That is to say, in recent years, the dueling club has become the norm, and this year it has become an elective course. It partially replaced the function of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and the graduates have the basic protection ability. But if they neglect the training, they will die. After a few years, you will forget all the knowledge you have learned... Have you ever thought about what you can expect them to do when the war is really coming?"

Lupine was also aware of the problem.Ten years ago, why did Voldemort become everyone's nightmare?First of all, his own strength is so strong that even Dumbledore can't trap him; secondly, the Death Eaters under his hands are not weak, and he has also attracted a group of dark creatures, causing a lot of murders.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like to have another war, because the interval between wars was too short!If Voldemort makes a comeback, those who have experienced the war will only submit at a faster rate, in order to suffer less damage.Anyway, as long as they are not of Muggle blood, they will basically not be slaughtered. Of course, not many people will sincerely support the rule of the Dark Lord.

In fact, at the end of the last war, this trend already existed.

As the only person the Dark Lord feared, Dumbledore remained locked away at school.Many people complain about this, but there are still a few people who think that Dumbledore has actually fought against Voldemort and won, which is why the Dark Lord has nothing to do with Hogwarts students during the war. The reason for the crime - with the character of the Dark Lord, it is not so easy to let the little Muggle wizards in the school go.

But obviously, Dumbledore couldn't do anything to Voldemort, at least he couldn't imprison him like he imprisoned the first generation of Dark Lord.There are rumors that the mysterious man is good at a kind of escape magic, and he has practiced it to a superb level. There are also rumors that the mysterious man has transformed himself beyond recognition with extremely evil black magic, so that he can quickly escape no matter how many injuries he receives. Restored, alive and kicking again...

Lupine's heart was in a mess. At this moment, Felix's voice seemed to come from outside.

"As for the third, I am indeed dissatisfied with the Secrecy Act, and I am also dissatisfied with the stupidity of the Ministry of Magic... But, what's the use of dissatisfaction with me alone? Using force to oppress and become the second Dark Lord? Oh, sorry, It's the third one, anyway, it's a foolish move."

"So I regard myself as a variable." He suddenly showed a mischievous smile, and kept turning the teacup in his hand, "Yeah, that initial variable, the first variable... changes some things, facilitates some things, promotes some things , and wait for the storm to come."

"Even though I've never failed a divination class, I just have a firm hunch that I might live a long time," Felix said to Lupine with a smile, "so I can afford to wait."

(End of this chapter)