Connor's Hogwarts

Hogwarts, library.

Connor is currently studying divination - learning the basics of arithmetic.

The so-called divination does not just refer to prophecy. Prophecy is only a very small branch of divination. In the magic world, wizards refer to "all magic used to detect the unknown" as divination.

For example, the magic used to detect whether a newborn baby is a wizard is divination, the magic used to display other people's names on the Marauder's Map is divination, and even the magic used by an owl to detect the recipient of a letter is divination.

Divination has many applications in the life of wizards. Among other things, the surveillance mirror that Connor made is actually classified as divination. Therefore, as a wizard, if you do not use the skill of divination, Liang, it’s really hard to explain.

Even though I couldn’t count how many days it would take until the anniversary of Voldemort’s death after learning divination, it was more than enough to perfect Connor’s [Marauder’s Map of the Forbidden Forest].

Through in-depth understanding, Connor has roughly understood the working mechanism of the Marauder's Map. The Marauder's Map has a core magic [True Name Divination].

True Name Divination is a relatively simple divination technique, which is an entry-level magic of divination. Its effect is to predict the location of others through their names. It sounds powerful, but in fact it is a despised and useless divination technique. , magic that is not taken seriously.

Because when you use this magic, the object of your divination will know that someone is [divining] him before you do, and then only when he agrees to your "divination request" can you know his location. If he unilaterally cuts off feedback, Then you won't get any useful information - no matter which divination class you take in third grade, the professor will teach you how to cut off this divination (divination classes don't teach nothing useful).

That is to say, you can only know the location of the person who is divination if he agrees with your divination. If the person who is divination cannot give feedback (faints or dies), you will not receive any feedback on the results of divination. .

But if the person you are telling a divination is willing to let you know his location, why is there any need to divination? With just a phone call, no, I mean Facebook, others can know where you are, so why is there any need to learn this divination skill? Therefore, this magic is very useless, to put it harshly, it is useless.

But the four school bullies at that time made this magic out of control. They modified this magic, "reversed" it, and created [Reversal·True Name Divination] - by knowing the location of others, they can reverse the magic. Divinate his true name.

It is not that no one has used this reversal divination before. Some wizard families still use this reversal magic. However, others mark an area. As long as someone enters this area (whether flying or running) Entering by walking or swimming), the divination will detect and feedback its true name, but generally the "intruder" will also realize that he has been discovered.

The modification direction of the four school tyrants was different. They made a second modification to the reversal magic and changed the [area] of the feedback information to the floor of the castle! Whenever a person touches the castle floor, his or her true name is displayed on the Marauder's Map.

In the HP world, real names are not very valuable. Even if you know other people's real names, you can't curse them to death. Therefore, this reversal magic has become very secretive after two modifications. If you don't pay attention, you may not even notice it. No.

So even if Harry is wearing the invisibility cloak, one of the legendary three holy weapons, as long as he steps on the floor of the castle, his name will still be displayed on the Marauder's Map.

Now Connor is studying how to crack this second modification magic and how to lock the [ground] area as a divination object. Once successful, his [Forbidden Forest Marauder's Map] will also be made.

Although I don’t know what grade the four school tyrants were in when they made the Marauder’s Map, it’s definitely not the third grade!

I, Connor, am better than you!

Connor is confident.

At this moment, Conan, who was rolling his eyes, suddenly appeared on Connor's desktop Facebook.

"Conan, can you please get Arale out of my painting? She is too annoying." Conan said with drooping eyes.

"Oh yo~ Conan! How can you hate Arale!"

Before the Arale people arrived, loud shouts appeared. Connor had no time to open the soundproof area and quickly clicked on the silent mode - a new feature that has not yet been launched.

After the mute mode is turned on, a row of white "stick figures" will appear on the mirror. They will twist into English subtitles according to the sound. Then the little Facebook fox will shut up and stop talking, and Facebook will enter mute subtitle mode.

On the mirror, Conan drooped his eyes and moved his mouth, and subtitles composed of stick figures appeared simultaneously at the bottom of Facebook:

"As long as you don't bother me, I won't bother to kick you out."

Then all the white stickmen turned red, and Arale appeared on the screen:

"But the painting is so boring, so I can only play with you."

Conan: "We are all magic paintings with no emotions. We play around every day. Is it interesting?"

Arale: "Oh~ Conan is too much! Arale is a happy Arale. Arale is happy every day. Arale finds it very interesting!"

"." It's quite interesting to see these two brats with similar painting styles bickering, even though they are ordinary magic paintings without souls. Connor opened the soundproof barrier and couldn't help but say: "Conan, now you All the intelligence gathering work has been given to Arale, so it’s okay to play with Arale occasionally.”

"." Conan glared with dead eyes: "I will also help you observe the stairs, edit the newspaper for you, and help you observe (jian) those girls."

"Okay, okay! Okay, stop! I know you've worked hard, Conan, I'm sorry!" Connor waved his hands repeatedly to prevent Conan from continuing. In fact, he also considered that Conan was too busy, so he drew an extra Arale to help him. Yes, emmmm, when I think about it, I really look like some evil capitalists, crazily squeezing their employees.

Conan pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, which reflected a strange light: "Your newspaper is very popular. According to statistics, one fifth of the students have read the first issue of the newspaper today. In the next few days, [sales volume] ] will definitely continue to grow, and I believe that in a week, except for those students who don’t care about this matter, 90% of students will have read this newspaper.”

Connor touched his chin and nodded: "Yes, yes, but you have to remember the blacklist."

"Oh, keeping the blacklist is Arale's job!" Arale raised her hand happily and said, "Children who are disobedient will be hated by Arale, and they won't be able to read newspapers in the future!"

Connor rubbed his hands secretly: "Yes, Arale, for children who have done bad things, you must make them deeply realize their mistakes before you can forgive them. You know, I have some [Task List] to help others recognize their mistakes. ], let me make a note of it for you. If you hate anyone in the future, let them do this. Only if they do well will they be forgiven by you."

Connor held up a sheet filled with various things such as "Help Hagrid deal with rattlesnails for a week", "Help Professor in the greenhouse weed and repel insects for a month", "Help Professor Snape deal with potion residue"... and so on. Papers with various strange tasks, said to Arale.

"Oh yo yo! Arale understands! Leave it to Arale!" Arale said, patting her chest.

Connor nodded with satisfaction, and then Conan's black-rimmed glasses flashed again, indicating that he had something to say:

"Connor, I already have some idea of ​​the changing pattern of the stairs you asked me to observe."