Hogwarts Wizard of the Deep

Chapter 52 Ceremony
He has never heard of this song, but has seen it.

Theseus once sang this ballad on board the White Ship after Bashir Elton boarded the White Ship in The Mystery of Atlantis which he threw in the corner of the swimming pool.

Linde still roughly remembers the original text in the book: "He sang a poem that I didn't understand at all, and its tune was so similar to the ballad slapped by the waves and tides on the day we set sail..."

That ballad turned out to be the practice content of Chapter 1 of "Apocalypse Calling the Tide", which Linde did not expect. In fact, he not only read it, but even "heard" it.

When he read this book for the second time, he was completely immersed in the book, and the messy lines on it interpreted a different kind of picture in the book for him. During that reading, he vaguely heard that melody.

But he doesn't remember it anymore, that memory is like an ordinary passer-by on the street, he only knows that he has met him, but he doesn't remember anything about his appearance, height or body.

The same is true for this ballad, even if he just wants to simply hum the melody, it is so difficult.

However, "The Apocalypse of Calling the Tide", which is written in murloc characters throughout, has nothing but lyrics and pictures, no staves, and no do-re-mi.But this is actually not the most difficult thing to do, he already has some ideas on how to learn this song.

The real trouble is for him to be qualified to sing the ballad.

Like learning the Animagus, learning this ballad requires some "rituals".

He also saw the specific rituals for learning Animagus in the book "Practical Spells III", roughly as follows:
First, keep a mandrake leaf in your mouth for a full month (from one full moon to the next).Under no circumstances should the leaves be swallowed or spit out.As soon as the leaves leave the mouth, the whole process starts all over again.

On the second full moon, put the leaf soaked in your own saliva into a small transparent bottle and let it receive pure moonlight (if the night happens to be cloudy, you must find another Mandrake leaf to start over. Pass).Add one of your own hairs, one silver teaspoon of dew (must be collected from a place where there has been no sunlight or human contact for seven full days) and a chrysalis chrysalis to the vial that is being illuminated by the moonlight.Leave this mixture in a quiet and dark place, safe from prying eyes and disturbances, until the next storm.

While waiting for the storm, do the following every sunrise and sunset: point the tip of your wand to your heart, and say the incantation: "Amador, Animo, Animador, Animagus."

The wait for a storm can take weeks, months or even years.During this time, the transparent bottle must remain completely undisturbed and protected from sunlight.Sun pollution will cause the worst mutations.

If you insist on repeating the mantra every day at sunrise and sunset, you will feel another heartbeat at the moment when the tip of a wand touches your chest.Sometimes this heartbeat is stronger than my original heartbeat, and sometimes it is relatively weak.

When lightning appears in the sky, immediately head to where you stashed the clear vial.If you've done all of the above steps correctly, you'll find some blood-red potion appearing in the bottle, about enough to drink in one gulp.

At this point, you must move immediately to a spacious and safe place where the transformation process will not cause commotion or put yourself in danger.Point the wand tip to the heart, say the spell "Amador, Animo, Animador, Animagus", and drink the potion.

If all goes well, you'll feel a sharp pain and a pounding double heartbeat.You will have a picture of the animal shape you will transform into in your mind.You must be fearless, now it is too late to change your mind and escape your promised transformation.

The first metamorphosis is often quite uncomfortable and frightening.Clothes and accessories such as glasses or jewelry melt into the skin, becoming fur, scales or claw spikes.Don't resist, don't panic, or you may be overwhelmed by animal instinct and drive yourself to do stupid things, like jumping out of a window or running into a wall.

It is not until the real first transformation is successfully completed that the Animagus is considered to be learned.

Of course, after practice, it will not be as troublesome as the first transformation.

And the ritual of the Seasinger is much more difficult than becoming an Animagus.

To be honest, when Linde saw the ceremony recorded above, he really hesitated whether he should learn this spell now.The process of the ceremony is very cumbersome and delicate, and the requirements are extremely high. Any wrong step may cause irreparable consequences.

Just like a rocket, it is extremely precise, every part of the rocket, splicing, the purity of the fuel, etc., the weather, orbit, time, etc. of the rocket launch.Any step wrong will pay a great price.

But if all this is all right, humans can go to space with a successfully launched rocket.

The ocean singer's ceremony is the same, if every step is completed accurately, then the benefits will be huge.

How big is it?

The foreword to "Calling the Tide Revelations" describes the Ocean Singer in this way:
We have a gentle and clear singing voice and an angelic face.

Our strings pluck the waves, and our songs are blown by the wind.

We manipulate the tides and create the waves.

Ocean currents are our friends and sea breezes are our help.

What we cast is not a spell, it's an art.

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The depiction is really powerful and awesome.And Linde flipped through some spells recorded in subsequent chapters, indeed.They are all extremely powerful spells.

This also made Linde's heart itch all the time. Of course, it has absolutely nothing to do with the phrase "angel-like face".

So after much deliberation, he decided to complete the Ocean Singer's ceremony as soon as possible.

As long as he successfully completes the Chapter 1 ritual, he can successfully learn to cast various powerful sea magic in the future.

Speaking of which, Lin De is still a little curious about the spells recorded in the "Stone Manuscript of the Abyss" and the "Ceremony of Sea Currents" of the Naga family's sea currents mentioned by Yu San.

Most of the ocean singer's spells are spells related to shallow seas, tides, sea breeze, etc., so what about the ocean current singer and sea beast sacrifices!
Where did Yu San go after defeating Galiu? He probably didn't establish a new murloc dynasty, or the human magic world would know.

And that soul shard that was streamlined is not at all curious about the current development of the outside world. Could it be that he knows?

It's not that Linde didn't pay attention to these problems, but that he has no ability now and can only bury them in his heart.He believes that according to his current development, he will definitely be inseparable from the sea, and he has plenty of time to find out the truth of these issues.

However, his current focus is still to continue learning Hogwarts magic, and besides that, he also needs to learn how to hum that song.

Humming that song is also part of the ceremony.

At the same time, the preparatory work for the ceremony should be started.

First, make your own instrument.The lyre is the best choice, and the musical instrument is one of the requirements for the subsequent spells of Seasinger.

He did have some general ideas about the ballad.It's really not that much trouble, it just might be a little risky.

"Go and get that book to Dumbledore." Linde said in a low voice.

"What brat? Labrador? Can your school keep dogs?" Felix asked suspiciously. He couldn't hear clearly. After all, he was scolding a stray dog ​​who was jaywalking just now.

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(End of this chapter)