A certain Hogwarts rune professor

530 Deathly Hallows
In the rare case of oversleeping the next morning, Felix missed the day's post owl.He chose a seat at random and sat down. While drinking porridge, he looked thoughtfully at the students in the auditorium. The number of people who subscribed to the newspaper seemed to have increased.

Two seats away, a Ravenclaw student got the newspaper, quickly flipped through the headlines of different pages, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"All is well."

Her companions were no strangers to her behavior.

"Why don't we talk about test spells?"

"What is there to say? The fourth and fifth graders only need to master the Disarming Curse, Stunning Curse and Iron Armor Curse. I have already learned it." The Ravenclaw girl said, shaking her hair, and then looked at her companion carefully with a bad look on her face. Laughing: "Oh, I forgot, you are not interested in duels, you haven't participated in them before..."

Her companion rolled her eyes, and then sighed, "I really envy the students in the first, second and third grades. They only need to master the appearance of followers. It's not difficult at all, is it?"

"Don't say that, my mother told me that many apparition accidents with people are caused by little wizards being too nervous. If children are not trained, they will subconsciously mobilize their magic power to resist, resulting in transmission errors..."

Felix listened for a while, and then focused on his breakfast. He stared at the porridge, imagining that they were rune symbols, no, to be precise, they were patterns that could stably carry magic power.

Plans for the layout of Voldemort's pit were moving slowly.

He can already change into some magical animals, but that doesn't mean everything will be fine. In fact, he never thought of using the form of magical animals to fight Voldemort.It's too difficult, even if they are indeed magical in some ways, but looking at the ideas promoted by Newt, we know that in reality, no magical animal can defeat an established wizard.

Only by transforming the magic-like talent of various magical animals into rune magic and using it with the body of a wizard can it be considered deterrent.Unfortunately, although the two are inextricably linked in history, it does not mean that there are definite runes or runes circuits in magical animals.

What Felix has to do is actually the same as the first batch of ancient wizards, 'creating' ancient magic one by one by himself, so the workload is quite heavy.

The first step is to transform into magical animals, use the bodies of magical animals to experience their magic-like talents, feel the mystery of the blood of magical animals, and understand how their own magic power flows and functions.He had to repeat the process over and over to get a vague pattern—what looked like a haphazard mess of capillaries, or an intricate devil's web.

It's also what ancient wizards saw when they dissected magical creatures.

After that, I kept trying and practicing to extract the rune symbols one by one.

The biggest problem facing Felix is ​​that he can't always find the right rune to match the magical structure of the magical animal. In this case, he can only "create" the rune himself, which will undoubtedly With thousands of failures.

But fortunately, the idea is right, and he has been improving.that's enough.

As boring as the process was, Felix never tires of it, especially the ideas that came out of it were fascinating.For example, the magical abilities of magical animals come from their own blood and unique body structure, what about wizards?

Felix suspects that 'soul' plays a considerable role in this.One piece of evidence is that only wizards can transform into ghosts, not ordinary people or magical animals.

He was quite fascinated by these ideas, even when Felix was standing on the podium, all kinds of whimsical ideas were still spinning in his mind. At his level, the theory and practice of magic became more and more beyond imagination. Further steps are to subvert the perception of magic in the eyes of ordinary wizards.

This is true whether it is the act of recreating the talents of Fantastic Beasts with ancient runes, or bringing memory magic to the real world, building on the foundation of Lady Rowena Ravenclaw's memory magic.

"Get out the rune carving knife, today is a practical lesson. I will set aside a few lessons to let you get used to the new tool, and then you will find that it is actually better than a wand in some ways, especially when you When I plan to do some fine manipulations." Felix said calmly: "Today's task is to write the practical runes and runes circuits learned in the past two years on the chestnut board."

The students started to move, went to the podium in order to pick chestnut boards, and then returned to their seats to practice.

"It's a bit too simple, isn't it?" Ron said happily. "We practiced it at the Rune Club."

"It's really simple for us, but—" Hermione cut the palm-sized chestnut board into long strips, and each piece was only the size of an index finger. She wrote a string of ancient runes smoothly, raised her head in satisfaction, and looked at the other people in the classroom.

"boom!"

The chestnut board in Seamo's hand suddenly exploded, and a ball of fire and black smoke spread out.

Felix waved his hand, and the smoke and flame disappeared at the same time, "Pay attention, student Finnigan, you need to be more focused instead of staring at me." He raised his head from a three-dimensional pattern composed of runes and said, Looking around, many students lowered their heads guiltily.

"When will we be like the professor?" Harry couldn't help asking, the rune in the professor's hand was like fine dust, shining in the sun.

"The professor told me not to be so ambitious." Hermione said regretfully. Obviously, she had asked similar questions before, and then she smiled, "But the professor admired my exploration and attempts on runes."

She pointed to the work she had just finished, and Harry and Ron glanced from the side, smacking their tongues inwardly.On the small piece of chestnut wood that belonged to Hermione, densely packed tiny runes were engraved. If you don't look carefully, it looks like it has been smeared with ink.

"Hermione... it won't explode, will it?" Harry said frightenedly, and he recognized the true face of the thing-dozens of explosive circuits, which were neatly packed into a palm-sized place, with a golden The lines are crookedly connected into a string, shining with throbbing light.

"Don't worry, I combined the explosion circuit and the stability circuit. You have to use the magic power of a specific frequency to trigger it, and this frequency is only known to me." Hermione smiled and stuffed the chestnut board into her small beaded bag, haha Leigh and Ron swallowed quietly.

Hermione seemed to be getting more and more scary, especially during this summer vacation, when the professor came here every now and then, Hermione asked questions between their conversations, and her research became more and more in-depth, and soon reached a point that they couldn't understand at all. degree, such as the word "magic power of a specific frequency".

A professor once said to her: "I have thought about setting up different levels of awards to honor those individuals or groups who have made outstanding contributions in the field of ancient runes, but the conditions are not mature at this stage... If one day I want to Up, would you like to contribute your name? The Hermione Granger Award?"

Harry thought the professor's tone was serious, not joking.

In the following time, he began to imitate Hermione, writing the rune circuits smaller and smaller. When he raised his head during the break, the ball of rune symbols in the professor's hand had turned into a winged bird and snake. Come to life.

On the weekend, Felix held the first rune club gathering at the beginning of school. The members of the club were beaming and exchanged recent events with each other.

"Professor Sprout promised to write me a letter of recommendation, but I haven't decided where to go, I mean, Dad wants me to go to the Ministry of Magic, but..." Cedric said, with a gentle smile on his face.

"Mum sent me a new dress and a book," said Neville. "I thought I'd left something behind, but it wasn't. It was just a simple gift."

In the corner, Harry whispered dejectedly to Ron and Hermione: "'Pumpkin Pie' invited us to tea on the grounds that his brother has learned ten new words." Pumpkin Pie was their code name for Hagrid , because Hagrid didn't want anyone else to know he was back, and that would make it very obvious that he didn't come to class.

It would be troublesome if Glop's presence was exposed.

"I don't want to make things difficult for Dumbledore," Hagrid wrote in the note. "If the parents find out that there is a big guy out of control in the Forbidden Forest, they will have unnecessary worries... It is inappropriate to appear in public before the necessary etiquette has been learned by the general public."

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all agreed, except for a slight disagreement on the word 'unnecessary worry'.

"I don't want to go." Ron was very repulsed by this invitation. He lowered his voice and said, "I'm not refusing, but we have a lot of things to do. We have Quidditch training in the afternoon. Angelina is sorry for our absence yesterday." I don't want to be dismissed by her. If she finds Hooper's nagging and pointing fingers not so unbearable..."

Harry thought that Ron's worries were not unfounded. In Friday's Quidditch trials, Ron's score was only third.He was able to land the goalie job because Angelina felt that Vicky Frobisher and Geoffrey Hooper ahead of him had obvious flaws: the former valued her 'charm' club more, the latter hummed at every turn. Moaning, complaining about trivial matters, and wanting Angelina to follow his plan.

After comprehensive weighing, Angelina finally chose Ron to replace Wood as the goalkeeper.

As a result, they were all absent from the first official training yesterday, because they had to go to the Potions office for confinement. It felt terrible. Snape gave Harry, Ron and Hermione a big bucket each, Having them deal with the ingredients for potions that would take them all seven years, Harry's fingernails still lingered with the smell of ginger mixed with rat entrails.

"...not to mention the homework, I'd like him to come back and get down to business. Professor Graplan left a lot of homework. It's strange. Why should I draw ten sketches of Bowtruckles? I don't intend to be a Famous painter!" said Ron fiercely.

"This year is the year of the OWLs, and Bowtruckles have always been a key part of the exam." Hermione pointed out the truth unhappily.

Harry and Ron stared at her.

"Well, of course I want him back too." Hermione shrugged. "Hi, Luna." She turned to look at Luna. "How was your vacation?"

"Very good, Dad negotiated a cooperation." Luna said happily, and she warmly invited Hermione: "I'm going to see Firenze this afternoon, are you going?"

"Oh, uh, okay." She looked left and right, but Harry and Ron were going to practice on the Quidditch pitch, and she couldn't find an excuse to refuse, and finally agreed pitifully.

"Students." Felix sat on an armchair with a smile on his face: "Welcome back, before the assembly begins, I would like to announce one thing: the Future World Company and the Ancient Runes Association have jointly established a monthly magazine The magazine, the name is "A New Explanation of the Magic Text", and the "Quieker" magazine will take over this business for the time being—"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately looked at Luna, who curled her hair with her index finger and hummed softly.

"——I am the editor-in-chief, but only temporarily. If you plan to submit a manuscript in the near future, you can directly forward the manuscript to Miss Granger, and she will sort it out and hand it to me. In addition, the manuscript fee is very competitive. The call for papers is at here--"

Felix waved his wand, and a stack of leaflets flew up from the table and fell into everyone's hands accurately.

"The Elder Wand," whispered Hermione, staring at his wand.

"What did you say?" Harry was very sensitive to the word, after all, that's why they were put in detention.

"I recently found "The Tales of Beedle the Poet" and read it." Hermione said briefly, "Shhh, I'll talk about it later." Professor Haipu looked over, and she shut her mouth and sat upright.

Luna on the side looked at her with burning eyes.

……

"Deathly Hallows?" Harry opened his mouth wide in surprise, and they had just come out of the Rune Club when Luna caught up with them.

"That's right." Luna said affirmatively, "The invincible magic wand, the resurrection stone that can bring the dead back to life, and the invisibility cloak that can hide the god of death, these three things together are the Deathly Hallows, and the owner will become the god of death master."

"Nonsense," Hermione raised her eyebrows. "It's just a fairy tale, and the stuff in it is like a horned snoring beast, which doesn't exist in reality!"

"But they are real, and countless wizards are obsessed with them." Luna said calmly, "Dad tried to persuade Florin to find the Deathly Hallows together when he was young, but he refused, pretending that his ancestors never had the Elder Wand. "

"Who is Florin, does the name sound familiar?" Ron asked.

"He's the owner of Florin's," said Luna.

"That's impossible." Hermione said firmly, "I'll write to him and ask him to find out."

Harry, however, recalled vaguely the scene of sitting outside Florin's Cold Drinks, doing his homework under the brightly colored umbrellas. He had only focused on the free ice cream before, and never realized that the store His boss knows his History of Magic homework like the back of his hand.Although Harry didn't know the exact age of the owner of the cold drink shop, he guessed that he should have graduated at least 40 to [-] years ago. If he wasn't a fan of the history of magic, would he have remembered the knowledge he had learned in school so firmly?

"He won't write back to you. He's missing," Luna said. "The neighbors speculated that he might have moved abroad because he was afraid of the war. Because the staff of the Ministry of Magic patrolled Diagon Alley day and night, but they didn't listen." Calling the police to any siren ... This matter is written in an inconspicuous corner of today's newspaper."

(End of this chapter)