Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 33 Guess and Facts

Flying lessons are approaching and students are nervous about it.

Malfoy had been bragging about his flying skills as soon as he left the ancient magic class, and was always complaining that the first years were not eligible for the Quidditch team, otherwise he would have been selected.

"Don't listen to him." Ron reassured Harry, "He's just talking nonsense, but it's true that I nearly hit the glider, and I was riding Charlie's broken broom—"

"Oh, come on," interrupted Harry, "you've said it a hundred times."

Almost all the freshmen were jumping at the opportunity to show off their flying skills, and Harry was very dissatisfied with this, because he had never touched a broomstick.

Although he didn't meet them often, Harry still noticed that Hermione, who had always been arrogant, seemed as nervous as he was. After all, the ability to fly couldn't be learned just by reading books. Once he saw Hermione hugging a There are words in this book, and the title aroused his interest-"The Magical Quidditch Ball".

"Is this book useful?" Harry asked casually.

Soon, he regretted asking the question.

Hermione chattered on and on for a long time, and Harry was tired of talking, only Neville would eagerly listen to every word Hermione said, hoping to use it in flying lessons-he also had no experience with flying Broom, because his grandma won't let him do it.

"It looks like you've memorized this book." Ron said as he passed by. "I hope you can score points for Gryffindor in flying lessons."

Hermione suddenly went crazy: "Is it interesting to make sarcastic remarks?"

Ron was frightened. Looking at the back of the angrily leaving, he was dumbfounded and said, "How did I provoke her?"

After Hermione walked away, Harry whispered: "Don't you know that Hermione often goes to Professor Haimer's office recently? It is said that it is related to some new textbooks. Anyway, I don't understand, but you don't think about her recent Everyone stays with someone."

Ron finally understood, he suddenly realized: "No, aren't you worried that Hermione will become the next little thief?"

"What little thief?" Neville asked in bewilderment, "And Professor Highmore is not as bad as you imagined, he is quite kind sometimes."

Harry and Ron looked at Neville as if they didn't know him.

Ron said regretfully, "We haven't had flight lessons yet, why did you break your brain early?"

"I'm serious." Neville couldn't help stammering when he got serious.

"Then tell me carefully?" Harry asked curiously, "When did he become friendly? Why haven't we seen him before?"

Neville was reluctant to mention his parents, but suddenly he seemed to understand.

"In front of Professor Highmore's former friends, he is still very friendly." Neville muttered, "Thinking about it this way, we really won't get friendly responses from him. We are not from the same era."

"You mean Snape?" Harry thought for a while and said, "But he obviously had a fight with Snape."

"I don't know that." Neville shook his head.

They have indeed heard that Professor Highmore and Professor Snape are students in the same grade, and they are both from Slytherin House, but they don't know more things, and it is mentioned that the two of them suddenly fought reason.

Cedric had also heard about these things, but all his courage was wasted on volunteering. He was already very satisfied with his role as an assistant, and he would never dare to mess with Professor Haimer again.

After dinner on Wednesday, Cedric came to the Office of Ancient Magic again. He had already learned from Professor Kettleburn how to take care of Niuqiu, but when he walked into the office, he suddenly remembered—he seemed to be I forgot to ask how to take care of a Niffler who can ride a flying carpet, oh, and a Niffler who wears glasses.

Do ordinary snuffers dress themselves like this?

In the huge office, Toby was wandering around, and Al was sitting on his shoulders. The two guys walked around and discussed things in a low voice.

"Do you think it would be better to put the coffin here?"

"ah!"

"Does it take up too much space? What about the opposite wall? Or the back of the desk, so that people who come into the office can see it at a glance—oh, it's Mr. Diggory, please come in."

Cedric felt as if he had heard the word "coffin", but after thinking about it carefully, he decided not to ask further questions. He sat across the desk holding back his curiosity, and a few pieces of parchment and articles automatically floated to his In front of you, sort and stack.

"Ask me if you don't understand anything."

Toby ordered casually, and then continued to wander around the office.

"Yes, Professor."

Cedric cherishes this opportunity very much. He hopes that his name will be mentioned when the magic circle has real influence. For this reason, he specially asked Professor Highmore to add the title of Hufflepuff to himself. , Toby readily agreed, and at the same time crossed out the name of an embarrassing werewolf in his heart, and decided not to write any special thanks for him.

Different from Hermione's simple proofreading, Cedric's task is more specific - converting the spell into a usable magic circle. This task is not easy, but you can learn a lot.He was also able to take this opportunity to read many of Professor Highmore's articles that he hadn't had time to publish. Unlike the first draft for Hermione, which required more careful editing before publication, Cedric had read it in advance.

Cedric began to read the prepared articles, and whenever he read something he didn't understand, he would go to the bookshelf by the wall, where he could always find detailed reference materials, and he never made a mistake.

He didn't know whether these books were deliberately prepared by Professor Highmore, but there was no doubt that Professor Highmore appreciated those truly outstanding students, otherwise Cedric would not have gotten this opportunity.

It is not easy to submit an article in a magazine, and I was even mentioned to sign a book that will be published soon-I just don’t know why the publishing company is in far away Africa, although the UK is closer.

After feeling that the reading is about the same, Cedric will describe the corresponding magic circle on the parchment. For this step, you only need to use an ordinary quill. Otherwise, you have to use some special "ink", which is strange Strange things, such as the tears of the sound bird, the tail hair of the chimera, metals, gold, silver and copper are all fine.

Then there is blood, the blood of various magical animals, even the blood of wizards.

But this seems to involve the category of black magic. Cedric didn't dare to ask more, but he was always curious about one thing - how did the magic ball draw the magic circle at will?

Although this can be done with ordinary parchment, the power is completely different. It can only be used for teaching, and it cannot fully exert the power of the pentagram magic circle.

After thinking blankly for a while, Cedric couldn't help asking out of curiosity.

"Did you mean the magic ball?"

Toby didn't show the magic ball, he looked carefully at the corner of the office, and said without turning his head: "Obviously, the magic ball is an extremely rare alchemy product, and the corresponding magic has been lost. I really thought about imitating other people. A magic ball, but it turns out that it is not that simple, there are many materials that are unknown, not metal, or in other words, not metal as a dead object, but a unique life."

"Maybe, this is also the reason why the wizards in the Lost City want to escape."

Cedric nodded in confusion.

Ancient magic has always been mysterious.

In his eyes, Professor Highmore seemed even more mysterious than ancient magic.

For example, he doesn't know now whether what Professor Haimo said is a guess or a fact.

(End of this chapter)