A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 616
Ilvermorny's library occupies the center of the building complex on the west side of the castle, extending in all directions from the outside, extending four corridor-shaped exits.

The interior of the library is a spacious through-shaped circular building, which is divided into upper and lower floors, which is somewhat similar to the architectural structure of Sword Castle.The first floor is a spacious reading area. There are neat tables and chairs in the middle of the hall, and the surrounding area is divided into cubicles according to their functions.Going up the circular staircase, there are rows of brown bookshelves on the second and third floors, and the collection is very rich.

Felix stayed inside these days.

It was summer vacation, and there was no one in the library for most of the day. If he was tired from reading, he would walk among the bookshelves over and over again, capturing the emotions left by the students of Ilvermorny, which often brought him novel experiences. feel.

For example—Felix already knew several Ilvermorny students, though he had never met.They always sat in the same position, and their thoughts while reading turned into a long-lasting beautiful scene for Felix to admire.

When Felix described them, they were, as might be expected, the best of the students.

Uriah was amazed at his ability.

Felix has seen the libraries of three wizarding schools - Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Ilvermorny - each has its own characteristics, distinguished only by the decoration style, Hogwarts is towering and ancient, Beauxbatons is elegant and comfortable, while Ilvermorny is more modern.

This may be because Ilvermorny's library was established in the seventeenth century and referred to many Muggle libraries, so both the space layout and the book index are better, and the number of books may be twice that of Hogwarts. three times.

Of course, compared to Hogwarts, which was founded around the tenth century, there are obviously fewer ancient books here, but Felix found the research and records of indigenous magic in a small area, bringing He's a lot of inspiration.

The development of magic in North America took shape later than elsewhere.

Felix looked through the history in this area, and reconstructed a rough truth in his heart.Before the European Muggle colonists invaded, the representative population of local magic was the Indian aborigines. These aborigines did not have magic wands, and the way of using magic was primitive and rough.Moreover, because of living in a tribal way, magic is only concentrated in the hands of a few people, coupled with poor communication-there were about 160 languages ​​and 1200 dialects at that time, all of which made the local magic civilization completely absent. integrated and developed.

Still, there is much to be desired.

The founders of Ilvermorny originally wanted to establish a place to provide family magic education, but in order to satisfy the wishes of their two adopted sons, they followed the model of Hogwarts to come up with a similar structure - Felix read It's funny here, because Isolt Thayer never went to Hogwarts, and all the common sense she knows is told to her by that evil aunt, Gormley Gaunt, after adding a little bit of embellishment. In Moore's mouth, Hogwarts is a "dangerous place full of mudbloods and advocating egalitarianism", and personally tore up the admission letter that Hogwarts sent to Isolt, which made "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ’ The concept existed only in the imagination of the founder of Ilvermorny.

What's more interesting is that the cursing and swearing from Aunt Gormley's mouth not only didn't work, but made the young Isolt think that there was heaven.

She told her two adopted sons about Hogwarts in her imagination, and the whole family was fascinated, so there was 'Ilvermorny', four plausible colleges, a sorting ceremony, and most importantly The - wand.They did a decent job, and the nearby aborigines came here admiringly, which made the entire Ilvermorny school finally get rid of the embarrassing situation that even four colleges could not be filled because there were only two students (although they didn't care ), Isolt himself and his two adopted sons who grew up tried to combine local magic with European magic, forming the unique characteristics of Ilvermorny.

Those local magics—such as primitive magic rituals, hunting songs developed by imitating the roars of magical animals, and techniques of using magical animal and plant materials and organs to cast spells... etc. Many things are specious, but Felix still recorded Down, intending to save to try later.

He built a sonic magic based on the sounds of Parseltongue and the Witchbird.Different from the Amplifying Curse, it is more similar to the Parseltongue curse that Voldemort once used on him, and Felix also tried to integrate the sound wave theory in physics into it.

Carrying magical power with sound waves is not only faster, but also more secretive...

For example, once the ultrasonic waves of bats are combined with the magic of the thinking cabin, Felix can quickly construct the surrounding real environment in his brain and cover it with phantoms. The effect of this magic is terrifying: when facing Felix , the enemy may never be able to tell what is real and what is unreal.

Even if it is just the simplest positioning function, spells such as invisibility cloak and illusion spell will hardly work, let alone the damage caused by large-scale infrasound waves to the human body.

Felix figured he would have little chance of using it, but the joy of solving puzzles and constructing a new discipline got him hooked.He just took a trip back to Hogwarts and gave the snakewood branch to Professor Sprout.

"It's extremely rare for this kind of plant to retain its vigorous vitality and be affected by powerful magic power for a long time." Professor Sprout said excitedly, wishing he could hug Felix and kiss him.

"Can you grow a living?" Felix hastily changed the subject.

"It's easy to survive, but if you want to retain its magical properties, you must take good care of it. It may take a year or two to cultivate it. This is not a small challenge for me," said Sprout. The professor smiled, not worried at all, "I have to go to Severus, I found that he is very talented in this area, Caredy can testify!"

She left in a hurry.

Felix returned to Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after re-fortifying the defenses of Room [-].During this period, Principal Ilvermorny accepted interviews from the outside world and revealed a 'dusty history' for the first time.

"The wand of snakewood was a symbol of childhood misfortune to Ms. Isolt Thayer," said Principal Zecaria solemnly. "Her evil aunt held this wand and killed Isolt's parents and used Cruel punishments tormented her - until she had the courage to escape."

"Although this magic wand once helped Ms. Isolt Thayer when she fled, she finally chose to bury her past with her husband and live a happy life. When I look back on this history, I always feel grateful: because Her choice not only created a new Ilvermorny, but also left us with a magical plant with powerful healing properties."

"Compared with the shadow brought by the magic wand, Ms. Isolt Thayer must be more pleased to see this change-what we need is not violence, but a good medicine that can heal people's hearts."

"In addition, I would also like to thank Mr. Dumbledore and Mr. Hemp..."

The repercussions of these words are far-reaching.

At least the members of the Stewart family, who have been jumping up and down these days, active as victims of oppression, have finally calmed down, and the end result, as Principal Zecaria said, "the evergreen snakewood tree will stand forever In front of Ilvermorny Castle, witness the friendship of two magic schools..."

Uriah also managed to become a director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement because of her role in this incident.Although there is still a long way to go from his dream of 'changing the living environment of American wizards', he is at least on the right track.

And the first assignment he got was to represent the Magical Congress of America as an escort to the Archmage Mr. Felix Heap.

The two took this opportunity to chat a lot about the political environment inside Congress.Perhaps because of a deeper understanding of the operating logic of the Magic Congress, a huge magical authority, Uriah's thoughts became more objective and pragmatic.

This is a difference in perspective.

In the past, members of Uria and even the Reform Society could only ask questions and discover problems, and were dissatisfied and resentful because of the Magic Council's complacent approach to the status quo, but now their thinking has changed to how to solve the problem.

"It's very tricky." Uria sighed. "There are many practical reasons for the closed magic environment and strict laws in the United States. The more I dig, the more headaches I get."

Felix made an attitude of all ears.

"The Magical Congress of the United States restricts wizards from No-Maj families because it is worried that the events of the Puritans and the Purifiers will repeat..."

This is another piece of dusty history.Felix nodded and thought, simply put, the Puritans are some extreme religious people, they are Muggles, and they are keen to accuse others of using witchcraft in history. The attitude of these people towards wizards can be imagined.

It is worth mentioning that when the founder of Ilvermorny, Isolt Thayer, came to North America, the cruise ship "Mayflower" she took carried many Puritans. These Puritans were persecuted in the UK. Turn around and persecute others in the New World.

And the scavengers are wizards.Or rather, once a wizard.They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries from different countries. They were mercenary and even sold their compatriots for bounty, such as selling wizards to Puritans and burning them to death.

After the establishment of the Magical Congress of the United States, it began to liquidate and execute the traitors among these wizards, but some escaped punishment. They dared not show their magic anymore, but pretended to live as Muggles, but the matter did not end with their death. However, these wizard traitors not only did not repent, but instead extended their hatred of the Magic Congress of America to the entire North American wizards, and passed this hatred down from generation to generation.

Almost all of the more serious revelations in American magical history have involved descendants of the Scourers.The most far-reaching time, the entire wizarding world was shocked and terrified. The Magical Congress of the United States received a severe warning from the International Federation of Wizards, and thus promulgated the notorious Rappaport Law, forcing No-Maj and the wizarding world Strict separation to avoid such incidents from happening again.

"In this country, some No-Maj families firmly believe in magic even though they have never seen it," Uriah said sadly. "It's just that they think all wizards should be exterminated."

Felix said slowly, "I heard Dumbledore mention that people in America seem to be more difficult to be deceived and deceived by magic than people in other places..."

"That's why," said Uriah, "but it's more than that—when all the above is put together, there is a terrible threat facing the wizards of America—"

"Muggle government," said Felix gravely.

"That's right," Uriah said affirmatively: "Wizards are not a secret in the eyes of the Muggle government, at least for those high-level people." He added, "Since the Muggle government became independent, there have been several vicious incidents between the two sides Conflict. The Muggle government wanted to crack the secrets of wizards, or force wizards to serve them, but we resolutely resisted. Congress secretly destroyed some laboratories and erased the memory of some people... In short, all kinds of open and secret struggles once approached the brink of war ..."

"I've heard a saying," he lowered his voice, "in 1892, the then president of the Magical Congress of the United States and the president of the Muggle government secretly negotiated and reached an agreement of non-interference, which has continued to this day."

"Can I see the agreement?" Felix said excitedly.

"This incident can't be found in the formal historical records. I also heard it from an old man in Congress. As for whether it is true, I can't judge." Yuria shook her head and said: "I remember the text in the textbook It is said that the reason for the relocation of the headquarters of the Fifth Congress was the 'Bigfoot Rebellion'... Anyway, since then, the Magic Congress of the United States has completely moved away from Washington, the center of Muggle politics, and moved to New York, and has not moved since then."

"It's really strange to hear you say that."

Felix groped his chin. You must know that the Magic Congress of the United States has only been established for 300 years. As a result, in the past 200 years, it has moved five times due to various "weird reasons", but the British Ministry of Magic has never done so.

What happened in 1892?
At that time, Dumbledore was only 11 years old and had just entered school. He may not be very aware of this history, and as far as Felix knows, Dumbledore did not travel according to the school tradition after graduation. Instead, Grindelwald, in order to develop The 'career' was once entrenched in the United States. Well, the old man was also arrested here for the first time. Newt contributed a lot...

Neither Felix nor Dumbledore told Grindelwald - the memory of some Fantastic Beasts lover was alive and kicking in Room [-] - and they both chose to keep silent.

Felix left Ilvermorny in mid-August.

Before parting, the principal of Ilvermorny kept him several times, hoping that he could give a few open classes to the students of Ilvermorny, but now it was summer vacation, so we had to make another appointment.

However, this incident made Felix think about it. With that international exchange activity, the influence of ancient runes has expanded to the entire wizarding world, but if this subject is to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is still necessary to place hope on school education. .

Beauxbatons recruited seven or eight Hogwarts graduates in one go this year.

After returning to the familiar campus, before Felix took a breath, the Ancient Rune Yearbook activities began. Many students—such as Harry who had just finished his trip—was surprised to find that many students who had just graduated for one or two years The classmates got together again because of this activity.

These students were all deeply branded by Felix Heppe, who taught them all by himself. If they had to find a different group of people, it would be those from the Ancient Rune Association.Harry never imagined that he would be talking to a group of old men and women about the future of ancient runes.

"Some people are old enough to be my great-grandfather," Ron whispered to Harry.

But no matter how weird it was, three days later, the "Ancient Magic Text Yearbook" with their names printed on it was also published nationwide.

(End of this chapter)