A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 502 Decoy
Newt looked surprised and fascinated.

He stared at the unusually huge bird snake with focused and hot gaze, and murmured: "Am I dreaming, I hope Tina won't wake me up halfway." He tentatively approached, but the bird snake seemed to be frightened by his attitude, Flapping his wings brought up a strong wind, pushing him back a few steps.

"Wow, calm down—"

Newt fished out a canning jar out of nowhere, stuffed with beetles. "I know you like this, no harm, look, it's food—uh—" he said, trying I slowly unscrewed the cover, only to find that the bird snake began to shrink slowly.

"Felix?" he said with obvious confusion.

Soon the bird snake was only the size of its shell, and its body was coiled together.Varun jumped down from the table and looked at Bird Snake, his black eyes gleamed, and the two little guys were about the same height.

"Ha!"

Varen just wanted to reach out to grab it, but the bird and snake had already sprinted aside, and as the mist filled the air, Felix's figure reappeared.He stretched out his hand and put the robe on his body, returning to his original state.

"The show is over."

Felix snapped his fingers, and the fog quickly dissipated.

Newt showed obvious disappointment.

"You don't want to study me, do you?" Felix said warily.

"Oh, no, how come—" Newt said a little flustered, his eyes still fixed on him, "of course not—I can tell the difference between you, there is no such a big bird snake in reality , at least I haven't seen it, is it because of you?" He lamely changed the subject.

But to be honest, Felix also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, Newt's eyes seemed to be looking at his favorite magical animal, and it was a new species that he had never seen before.

"It should be because of me." He said while sitting on a rock, "I have also tried several magical beast transformations during this period, but it is obvious that the latest bird-snake transformation is easier and more complete. I guess it may be Because I'm pretty good at scaling spells."

"The spell you used on the slush?" Newt asked sharply.

Felix nodded.

"It's no wonder then," Newt said, "the connection between ancient runes and magical animals runs deep—I've read your paper—but, well," he considered the wording, "you should understand that the two It's different, I mean ancient magic and the genius of fantastic animals, they're different."

"I understand," Felix nodded and said, "Perhaps at the beginning, the ancient runes did imitate magical animals and plants, but when wizards combined pure rune symbols into the first brand new magic, this The two have become quite distinct."

"However, I will try to restore their abilities."

His light blue eyes showed infinite desire, "The talent of some magical animals is really fascinating." He looked down at the invisible beast. In addition to being invisible, this little guy also has the ability to predict the future for a short time, and then thought Phoenix Fox in the principal's office, reborn from the ashes... that must be extremely difficult.

"You are the one who is most qualified to say this." Newt also said with emotion, "Everyone underestimated the potential of the ancient runes... When will you come next time? I can't wait to see the new changes gone."

"Let's wait until we encounter a bottleneck," Felix said with some regret. "I need time to digest the current harvest, and I think it will be very busy for a year or two."

"War," Newt whispered.

……

After leaving Newt's house, Felix first visited the company headquarters in Diagon Alley.

The development of the 'Future World' company was on the right track, and—Felix was surprised to find that—the employees were generally young, and many of them even graduated from Hogwarts in the past two years.

"Currently we have 267 people. At your request, the development in the UK will remain unchanged at the current level, and instead we will rapidly expand and establish stations abroad." Keremi said holding a thick document.

"Is the plan to introduce the basis of alchemy going well?"

"Those who have the foundation of ancient runes master it very quickly, while the rest progress more slowly."

"No hurry," Felix nodded, "What about defensive training?"

Claire sighed.

"Not all wizards like to fight, especially dueling classes haven't been taught in schools for a few years, and you know how good the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was before... More than one-third of the employees didn't even master a dueling spell, Not to mention combat awareness, they know a lot of little evil spells, but they are useless except for teasing people."

"It's not bad to use pranks well," Felix said, "but the employees of the company must master the most basic self-protection ability, the Rune Armor Curse..." He stopped and thought for a while, "Forget it, not all Everyone has taken the ancient spells, that is, the Iron Armor Curse and the Stunning Curse. These two spells must be mastered as soon as possible, and the Apparition and Bright Fire Curse will be postponed. The order can be postponed for a period of time, or it can be handed over to foreign employees. We There are currently no competitors."

Claire jotted it down quickly.

"What about the progress of Anti Thief Waterfall?"

"Remus is still negotiating with Gringotts, but the goblins are ignoring him." Cramie said indignantly.

"The goblins want to remain neutral, or the more intense we fight, the happier they are..." Felix said, "Isn't there a Ministry of Magic?"

"The Ministry of Magic has the technology, but it hasn't been used for hundreds of years," Cramie said with a strange expression. "They couldn't find the right people to build the anti-thief waterfall."

"Didn't the Alchemy Association send someone to help?" Felix asked curiously.

"After all, it is a magic organization across Europe," Keremy shrugged, "Many people are reluctant to come here at this sensitive time, and the alchemists in the UK...are not famous, unless you count Zuko as one of them." superior."

"Zoko..." Felix was speechless.

Zoko is the owner of Zoko's joke shop in Hogsmeade. He used to be an alchemist, but his business was not very good at the beginning. Unexpectedly, the product became an instant hit, and it has gone further and further in this field since then.

So what to do, Felix fell into deep thought. As his goals became bigger and bigger, he worried that Voldemort would set his sights on the employees of the "Future World" company. In addition to the conventional protection magic, the anti-thief waterfall is even more important. Strategically valuable, it washes away all enchantments, all magical camouflage, and even covers Polyjuice Potion and Imperius.

"Professor..." Keremi raised her hand and looked at him with bright eyes.

Felix's heart moved, "Do you want to try?"

"That's right," Keremi said, feeling relieved, she thought she and the professor had thought of going together, "We have more than 50 R&D wizards, each of whom is good at two or three directions, and has experienced many new product developments. I can't think of a more tacit group for the development process."

Felix pondered the feasibility of the plan.The Ministry of Magic has technology, they have a mature team, and they have enough brain power. It seems to be a win-win result, but I don’t know whether the Ministry of Magic will agree to transfer the technology. It’s hard to say. Home Daily reached a cooperation.

The Daily Prophet also grew rapidly after the war.

"Professor," Keremy said eagerly, "now is an opportunity."

"Okay." Felix agreed. "I'll go talk to Ms. Burns. If she doesn't have a better choice now, I'm sure I can convince her. Is there anything new?"

"Yes!" said Cramie, "but it's just a little thing."

She flicked through the files.

"The Weasley twins practice here, their—"

"Wait, Fred and George are here? At the company? Now?" Felix asked in surprise.

"Yeah," Keremi nodded, "They came here on the first day of the holiday, full of weird ideas... Remus valued the series of anti-spell hats and cloaks they proposed, and appointed them As the team leader, I also helped them personally." She pursed her lips, "But Remus rejected their mystery man prank series, which are things like scare boxes, constipation kernels... Fred kept yelling James doesn't know the stuff, and says you're admiring it—is that true?"

"Well, I appreciate their design ideas, but it's really not appropriate to make fun of Voldemort. The Death Eaters will chase after them and chant the Death Curse..."

Keremi stared at Felix's unnatural face for a while, showing a suspicious expression.

"Ahem, let's continue."

"...Because of the Ministry of Magic's endorsement, the sales of rune cards have increased significantly. It is estimated that according to this progress, every family will soon be able to set one set...In fact, things related to rune promotion are selling well. Whether it’s the comics published by Andis or the rune booklets, they are reprinted again and again...Many people wrote to ask about the casting skills of the lighting technique, and Penello often worked overtime during this time."

Felix wasn't too surprised by this.

"Illumination is the simplest and safest form of ancient magic," he said.

"Maybe not for this reason," Keremy said strangely, "The Anti-Dark Magic League has recently announced some spells that are effective against black magic. In addition to the Light and Fire spell, which dominates the list, Illumination is also on the list. The recommended effect is that it can be used on a large scale. Expel the corpse..."

"Uh—is that the reason? I thought it was because of my love for ancient runes." Felix said jokingly.

"Professor," Keremi said with a straight face, "the ghouls are not even troublesome to you, but during the first war, the mysterious man created a large number of ghouls to spread terror, which was the wish of countless wizards." nightmare."

Felix scratched his chin.According to her, he has never regarded the corpses as a threat, after all, he can solve them in different ways.But if you think about it carefully, the Infernal Corpse is not that easy to deal with - it moves slowly, has no pain sensation, and can resist conventional spells.

It is indeed a nightmare for a wizard who cannot apparate and has a family.

If it is combined with the army of dementors, it will be even more terrifying.

……

He went to the Ministry of Magic that day to discuss cooperation in the study of Anti-thief Falls.Ms. Burns readily agreed, "I'm tired of the attitude of those goblins." There was no disturbance in the whole process, except that Felix watched a quarrel between Sirius and Burns.

The cause was the Longbottom couple returning from a trip.

The Ministry of Magic recently recruited a group of reserve Aurors and strikers, which resulted in a decline in the average combat level. Burns urgently needed an experienced Auror team leader, and he was very worried about this.

"As a result, the Order of the Phoenix digested two important combat forces without making a sound." Ms. Burns said dissatisfied.

Sirius' attitude was that he refused to admit it.

"Is there such a thing? I didn't notice. I've been here with you for the past few days, and I've been dizzy...you haven't paid me yet!" He put one hand in his pocket, squinted his eyes, and said in a tone It was very annoying, "And are you sure Frank and Alice are members of the Order of the Phoenix?"

"Sirius Black! My brother was the first member of the Order of the Phoenix! You think I don't know?" Burns yelled at him.

Sirius fell silent immediately, rarely rebutting. He said with a complicated expression: "Edgar...he is a brave man and a reliable comrade in arms. I am sorry for what happened to him."

It took Burns a long time to calm down.

"Sorry for my gaffe - Felix, let's talk about the arrangements for the investiture ceremony, Dumbledore is worried that the Death Eaters will attack that day, alas, in order to cheer people up, we have to make a lot of fanfare... a lot of people know about it."

If even the cleaners at the Ministry of Magic knew about it, it would be hard for the Death Eaters not to know about it.

"On the day of the award, we will arrange for Aurors to guard against death. They are the most trustworthy people, and with Dumbledore and you, the possibility of danger is very low. I even think..." She hesitated and said, " We can take the initiative and catch some Death Eaters."

"Absolutely not!" Sirius objected, "I can't let Harry and the others act as bait."

"Not them."

"what?"

"It's not them being the bait, it's ours," Ms. Burns said. "I'm one of them."

Sirius looked at her in amazement.

"What? How do you think I became the Director of the Law Enforcement Department during the ten years you were in prison?" Ms. Burns said calmly.

Sirius was overwhelmed by the confidence in the words.

"The crybaby has become a cool girl..." Felix said while sitting in a chair flipping through a comic book, the two glared at him, Felix closed the book, and said nonchalantly, "Bowens, I'm interested in the bait part, we can have a good chat."

……

When he returned to No. 12 Grimmauld Place, Felix was just in time for dinner.There was a huge crowd around the dinner table, Sirius, Tonks, Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Fred and George, Ron, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, and—

"Hello, Professor," Neville said shyly.The Longbottoms sitting on both sides smiled and said, "Mr. Haip, the last time we met was on Neville's birthday. Almost a year has passed."

"Yeah," Harry couldn't help but said, "I just found out today that Neville and I have only one day between our birthdays."

"It looks like we're going to prepare two birthday parties in a row." Mrs. Weasley said with a smile, "Felix, I've prepared your favorite soup."

"Oh--"

"Molly, Felix has only eaten your cooking once," Mr. Weasley reminded his wife.

"There will be more in the future." Mrs. Weasley patted her husband secretly, and said to everyone: "Hurry up, the children are exhausted."

"Thanks, Mom," said Fred and George in unison.

"I'm not talking about you." Mrs. Weasley glanced at them, turned her head and smiled and said to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville: "It's not healthy for you to stay in the basement these days. Breathe more fresh air and live in a shabby place for a few days, but if you hold it for a long time, you will get depressed."

"Yeah," said Mr. Weasley, "you can't expect to be as good as your lords in one summer, and with us in the front, the war may be over before you graduate. You can fight Cedric." Quidditch, the family has moved around the Burrow...to take care of each other."

"Is there such a thing?" asked Sirius.

"Yes, we tried to convince the Lovegoods, but they wouldn't move—"

"No." Sirius frowned, looking at Harry and the others, "You have been staying at home all this time? Practicing magic all day? What do you want to do?"

Harry silently scratched the leaves in the soup bowl, Hermione raised her head to look around, then lowered her head again.

Ron muttered, "You won't let us attend the Order of the Phoenix meeting, we have to find something to do."

"My dear, you're not old enough to—" said Mrs. Weasley.

"Maybe we can help a little bit about this..." Fred and George looked at each other and said slyly, "There's a thing called telescoping ears—"

"Shut up, you two. I haven't said anything about you yet!" snapped Mrs. Weasley.

Ron spread his hands and said to the others: "You have also seen that even Fred and George were forced to run away from home. They are all adults, and they are not a few years younger than Tonks—"

Tonks across the way made a face at him, a real face.

"They want to deal with You-Know-Who and Death Eaters!" Ginny shrieked, flinging her fiery red hair back. "I wanted to train too, but they didn't want me and drove me away."

"Oh, shut up, Ginny," said Ron.

"I hope this is only a long-term goal, boys." Mr. Weasley said, putting down the cutlery, with a slightly serious face. "Otherwise, we need to talk."

　4.8k words, if no suitable point is found, it will not be divided into chapters.

　　Five hundred chapters to commemorate.

　　
　
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