hogwarts shady

Lane's confinement is scheduled to last for one week, starting next Monday.

Of course, he was confident that he would establish a good relationship with Professor Sprout within a week and become a permanent "assistant" in the greenhouse.

On Sunday, Ryan entered the Room of Requirement at the time he had agreed with Ravenclaw.

"Today I will officially teach you the application of ancient runes." Ravenclaw said, "But before that, let's review what we learned last week."

Ravenclaw took Ryan through the entire magic word dictionary, and selected a few characters that Ryan could not remember and emphasized several times before letting Ryan cover his head and frown.

"Rune requires you to use it repeatedly to master it firmly." Ravenclaw closed the book, "Of course, I will not expect you to become a master of runes all of a sudden. After all, in our time, runes have already been It’s starting to decline.”

"why is that?"

"Because runes have too many ambiguities." Ravenclaw said, "It is not a qualified communication language, let alone an excellent knowledge carrier."

As she spoke, she used the magic circle in the Room of Requirement to write a twisted character in the air.

"Do you remember what this word is?"

"This should be the rune character for 'wind'." A strange pronunciation of the word came out of Ryan's mouth.

"Not entirely correct." Ravenclaw shook his head. "This character represents 'wind', but in actual use, it often also means 'flow' and 'unstable'."

Ryan nodded and wanted to write down other explanations for this character in his notebook.

Ravenclaw stopped Ryan, she said: "There is no need to remember the meanings I said, because most of the time they are invalid. One of the biggest problems with runes is that the user's interpretation affects the meaning of the characters themselves. It’s too big, too idealistic.”

She wrote another character in the air.

"This is 'fire'." Ryan replied immediately.

"Good command." Ravenclaw praised calmly, "But what if I told you that this character can also mean 'flow' and 'unstable'?"

"I think there should be some differences between the two."

"Theoretically, this is true." Ravenclaw said, "Just like my personal understanding, the flow of 'wind' is more erratic, and the instability is reflected in its unpredictable nature; the flow of 'fire' is more public, with 'Bounce' is more accurate to describe, and the instability is more violent and difficult to control. In addition, 'water' can also express the meaning of flow, but this kind of flow is more substantial than abstract."

Ryan nodded in understanding.

"However, in actual use, the two are almost interchangeable." Ravenclaw sighed, "It's incredible, right? In strict ritual magic, you can actually replace the characters in the spell, and it's Key characters symbolizing the four elements.”

"Then how to ensure that this substitution is equivalent?" Ryan frowned. As a science student, he was most troubled by such irregular and unreasonable knowledge points.

"We can't say it's equivalent, we can only say it's feasible." Ravenclaw replied, "An interesting point of view is that the essence of ritual magic is to 'communicate one's wishes'."

"So no matter what characters are used, it only needs to be able to fully express the wish?" Ryan rubbed his eyebrows.

"This is indeed the case, but what contradicts this phenomenon is the extremely strict ritual steps." Ravenclaw said, "You should have understood the requirements for Animagus transformation, right? This ritual has a strict set of requirements. According to the standard, you must hold a mandrake leaf in your mouth from full moon to full moon, the second full moon must be sunny, and the potion must be placed in a quiet and lightless environment until the storm arrives.”

Ryan grinned. Although he had known the complicated procedures for Animagus transformation, he still found it troublesome sincerely when someone told him about it.

"It's strange, isn't it?" Ravenclaw said, "According to common sense, characters can be replaced for something as critical as a spell, but there can be no mistakes in the entire ritual process..."

"What happens if something goes wrong?" Ryan couldn't help but ask.

"The best consequence is that the ritual fails." Ravenclaw said in a serious tone, "But it is usually accompanied by bad side effects, and they are unpredictable. I once saw a person turn into a toad because he missed a step in the ritual - —Irreversible; I have also seen people making life-extending potions, but because they waited a moment longer, they died of old age instantly after drinking it.”

"Life extension potion?"

"Potions, or classical alchemy including potions, has a considerable part linked to ritual magic." Ravenclaw explained, "You can refer to the potions for Animagus transformation. The production process is a ritual. In the potion science that was developed later, traces of ritual magic can still be found."

Ryan thought for a moment and suddenly understood, just like in the polyjuice potion, the liquid weed must be picked at the full moon. The proportion of each ingredient is fixed and the brewing time is required. Things from the person to be transformed must also be added. If you think about it carefully, it is indeed true. There is a sense of ceremony.

"Ritual magic is too dangerous." Ryan couldn't help but sigh.

"Not necessarily." Ravenclaw said in a nostalgic tone, "In the far east, ritual magic is very common. Sometimes even the Muggles there will use some ritual magic with the help of magic items."

Ryan immediately became energetic. This was the first time he heard about the magic world in his hometown since time travel.

"You don't have to be envious." Ravenclaw said, "They are completely different from us. At least in our time, wizards in England were still under the persecution of Muggles, but it is said that in the far east, wizards We can live well with Muggles - I can't understand their concept, they seem to regard wizarding as a... profession."

Ryan smiled. This was probably the influence of "Pragmatic Theory".

"Their wizarding system is completely different from ours." Ravenclaw continued to talk about ritual magic. "The wizards in the East have inherited an unimaginable civilizational heritage - tens of thousands of ideograms, which you can understand as, They invented runes that were extremely precise and almost unambiguous."

"Ideographic words?" Ryan's eyes lit up.

"That's right, their characters are the same as runes. One character represents a meaning." Ravenclaw's tone became a little solemn, "And our runes are too few, so few that it is difficult to communicate. Too few to be accurately recorded, and then it will naturally die, and eventually degenerate and be deleted into commonly used phonetic letters.”

Ravenclaw sighed: "Can you imagine? The legendary wizard from the East can make the outside world change with every word he speaks."

Ryan thought to himself: We call this technology "follow the word."

"Of course, this also has pros and cons." Ravenclaw said, "Because Eastern characters are ideographic, so their rituals have very strict requirements for spells. You must speak each character clearly in order for the ritual to be complete. Effective."

"In other words, no matter which system of ritual magic it is, it has its harsh aspects." Ryan concluded.

"That's right." Ravenclaw nodded, "Aren't you curious why the ceremony must be so strict?"

"That's exactly what I wanted to ask."

Ravenclaw's eyes slowly became dark, and she said: "There are two mainstream theories. The first one is that they believe that the steps of the ritual are the call and restraint of one's own spirituality. Only through the established ritual can one be able to succeed in the world. Establish a connection between desire and magic in the dark.”

"That's a bit far-fetched."

"So there is a second explanation." Ravenclaw said, "A very interesting explanation. I said before that the essence of ritual magic is to 'convey one's own wishes'. If this wish is not conveyed to one's own spirituality, then , who else can be conveyed to?”