A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 71 Christmas Presents
"The idea is feasible." Felix saw more possibilities from this simple attempt. He felt that with his hard work, he could achieve the level of a sleeping guard statue in a castle.

However, he didn't think he could make a magical creation like the sorting hat or the diary.

The latter is okay to say, after all, it is a Horcrux, and a piece of Voldemort's soul is hidden in it, but what about the Sorting Hat?Its predecessor was just a Gryffindor hat, not something specially built for the sorting house.

According to Felix's imagination, the four founders may have questioned each other's "talent selection plan" when they shared afternoon tea. In order to resolve their differences, they decided to use "smart magical creations" to sort out.

Thus was born the Sorting Hat.The Sorting Hat has been around for thousands of years.It can communicate with people and has its own memory and personality. In a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a real life.

This reminded him of magical portraits that could also communicate with people.

Some simple portraits, such as Sir Cadogan at the Castle, are too simple in intelligence to engage in complex and coherent conversations.

The result of Felix's trials in school was that this bragging jazz could only give seven effective feedbacks, such as bragging about his brilliant achievements or sending out invitations to duels.

But some of the portraits are magical enough—they can interact with the outside world in a complex way, and they still retain quite a lot of memory.

As far as he knew, the portraits of previous headmasters in the headmaster's office of Hogwarts, as well as the portraits of the ancestors of some pure-blood families, were all in this category.

This is because the owners of the portraits have injected a lot of memory and magic into this, so that the portraits they left behind still maintain a similar character to the original owner, but they are only similar, and they are not real life.

The biggest difference is that the character of the portraits does not change over time, and is always fixed at the moment they are made, just like a complex interactive program.

This is fundamentally different from the sorting hat...

"The Sorting Hat definitely hides a bigger secret!"

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Christmas dawn came, and Felix came out of his bedroom, fully dressed.Under the small Christmas tree in a corner of the office, there are a large number of Christmas gifts in different shapes.

Roughly counting, there are almost hundreds of pieces.

Moreover, there were still many packages on the way, and while he was making tea, three owls flew into the house from the window he deliberately left last night.One of them obviously flew quite a distance, with a delicate gift box the size of a palm in its mouth, slumped on the table in front of him.

Felix had to feed it a few drops of the potion, and it was much better.

The brown owl hopped up to him after eating a few biscuits, and pecked at his finger with its pointed beak, "You want me to open the package?"

The owl looked at him, tilted its head, and stretched out a talon at him, where a small metal cylinder was tied.

Felix opened the cylinder and pulled out a rolled note from inside——

"Dear Mr. Felix Hemp, my wolfsbane potion has been finalized. I have submitted the official formula to the Ministry of Magic when 'Baixian' flew to you. If there is no accident, I will Recently awarded a Medal of the Order of Merlin - at least second class! I hope you will come to see the ceremony. Enclosed is a bottle of the latest wolfbane potion, please taste it."

It was signed by Damocles Belby.

Felix quickly wrote on it, "It's an honor, please let me know as soon as the date is proposed, I will attend on time. P.S. Your Order of Merlin is well deserved."

He put the note back into the metal cylinder, "Thank you, Bai Xian." The owl drank some water, spread its wings and left.

Felix opened the exquisite gift box, and there was a bottle of potion inside. He opened the lid and sniffed lightly, "Well, it still smells so bad, can't he consider adding some sugar? Or is it better to make the potion taste bad?" A quirk of all master wizards?"

He put the potion into the emerald ring on his left hand, and then began to open the present with great interest.

A considerable part comes from his book fans and pen pals, mainly greeting cards.Felix sorted them out and put them aside for the time being, the rest were gifts from Hogwarts professors and students.

Dumbledore sent a private alchemy manuscript, which is his personal experience on alchemy.And what Felix gave the principal was a Muggle book called "99 Inventions That Changed the World", paired with a pair of long wool socks embroidered with red lions.

Professor McGonagall sent a book called "British and Irish Quidditch Teams", which introduced the British Quidditch teams and their various honors, and included a lot of Quidditch technical moves illustration.

It looked as if she wanted to draw Felix into the Quidditch community.

Hagrid gave him a homemade short dagger, rather rough in workmanship, but made of a very special material - unicorn horn.

"Tsk." Felix smacked his lips, not knowing what to say.

Professor Flitwick sent a document on ancient magic and invited him to have time to discuss the relevant content with him, and Felix responded happily.

Professor Snape's gift was a thumb-sized transparent bottle, which contained about one milliliter of transparent liquid.

"It's Potent Veritaserum, really yours, Professor." He said happily, "I hope you will like my gift too." What he gave Snape was a set of experimental equipment for Muggle primary and secondary school students, including Measuring cups, scales and droppers, etc.

He also thoughtfully prepared a "Code of Conduct for Chemical Experiments (Children's Edition)", which contains a large number of pictures, so the professor may not be able to understand it.

Many young wizards at Hogwarts also gave him gifts, his assistant, Miss Granger, gave him a dark green knitted scarf, Potter gave a large bag of chocolates, and Ron Weasley gave him a box of milkshakes. Nourishing bee sugar.

The most interesting thing is the gift from the twins. It is two wooden couple dolls hugging each other. It looks rougher than Hagrid's short dagger. The facial features on the face are all painted on. Felix followed the instructions After hitting the head of the male doll, he let out a cry of pain, and then the two dolls tremblingly performed a zombie dance.

Although the twins introduced that it was a kind of "waltz" from a small African country, Felix ignored it.

In addition, some little wizards who have not met a few times also sent gifts, such as Justin Fenry, who sent a gorgeous quill with multiple functions on it.

It took Felix an hour to finish writing the letter and returning the gift.

He walked into the auditorium, and there were scattered little wizards sitting on four long tables.

A dozen frost-covered Christmas trees were hung with baubles of all sorts, friezes of mistletoe and holly hung from the ceiling, and enchanted snow fell.

Professor McGonagall and several professors are busy decorating the auditorium.

"Need help?" he asked.

Professor McGonagall straightened up, "Oh no, it's almost done." She waved her wand, hung a long colorful ribbon on the Christmas tree, turned to him and said, "I like your present very much, Felix S."

Felix smiled. What he gave to Professor McGonagall was a half-human tall magic puppet, built with more than a dozen complex circuits, which allowed it to have two forms—in addition to the human figure itself, it could also transform into a puppet. A mighty lion.

(End of this chapter)