Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 151 The nagging old man Nico

After Harley made a brief speech, expressing her feelings about winning the championship, her good expectations for the future and her blessings for the development of potions, this grand competition came to an end.

Although most people are not happy with the results, no one will say anything because their skills are inferior to others.

After the game, no one left the square.

All the potions in the square were moved away intact, replaced by long tables.

As is customary, an open-air banquet will be held after the game.

Although it was already dark, the light groups suspended in the air made the square as bright as day.

The food provided by the Society of Extraordinary Apothecaries is very generous, and specialties from each college can be found here.

I just don’t know which country’s delicacies fried bamboo worms and roasted centipedes are, but they look atrocious.

Harley has only been seen in the Southern Continent. She didn't want to try one then, and she doesn't want to try it now.

In addition to delicious food, a large number of drinks were also provided at the banquet, including mead, fire whiskey and ice-cold champagne.

Harley really wanted to try it, but unfortunately she was surrounded by potion masters, so she couldn't get away.

President Hector has been discussing the new treatment method of Phantom Grass with Harley, as well as the important issues hidden behind this treatment method——

How to use a variety of herbal blends to reduce the instability of other materials.

Harry communicated skillfully with this group of old men and women who were at least seventy years old.

This was also due to the previous year's correspondence, which made her familiar with the communication and thinking methods of these potion masters.

To be honest, although they are old, they are much more difficult to deal with than the group of nobles from the Kingdom of Intis and the Kingdom of Loen.

Those nobles were just greedy for Harry's body, and Harry had many ways to manipulate them, and he could even take the opportunity to seduce the two noble ladies.

But what these old people are hungry for is Harry's knowledge.

Harley had to think over and consider every word she said, and calculated it several times in her brain before she dared to speak it out.

Although Harley was under a lot of pressure, she still enjoyed it.

After all, what she gained in one night was more than what she would gain from reading two more large books.

The other magic school contestants looked at Harley with envy.

They also want to communicate with the potion masters!

Not even talking about communication, being able to give them a head start and serve them tea is a huge gain.

If you can make a master remember your name, it will be much easier in the field of potions in the future.

But in fact, even Fleur, who performed second best, was not able to join the conversation between Harry and the group of old people.

After all, my level is not good enough, and I have brought humiliation on myself in the past.

Many players are wailing in their hearts, everyone is here to compete, why is the gap so big?

Harley stayed with the old people until the dinner was over.

Many contestants from the magic school wanted to come and chat with Harley, but they could only say goodbye at the end of the dinner.

This disappointed many people, especially almost all male players.

The next day, Professor Slughorn took Harry back to Beauxbatons' carriage.

"Congratulations, Harley." As soon as Harley got on the carriage, she saw Nico sitting in the hall with a smile.

"Congratulations on winning the championship and getting the golden crucible."

"Thank you." Harley replied politely, suddenly remembering why she felt like something was missing these days.

Speaking of which, Nico and his wife took Beauxbatons' carriage to the Magic Garden.

At that time, I thought they were coming to watch the game.

Although Nico and his wife are not potion masters, they are also highly capable alchemists.

Alchemy has similarities with potions in many places, and coupled with the status of Nico and his wife, they are also qualified to watch the game.

But it seems that is not the case now. After all, Harley never saw any trace of Nico and his wife during the competition.

"Are you curious why you didn't see me during the game?" Nico seemed to see what Hallie was thinking and asked with a smile.

Seeing Harry nodding, Nico lay back with a smile: "There is something wrong with the Extraordinary Pharmacist Association, and the access to the magic garden has been reduced."

"You mean, something went wrong with that alchemy item?" Harley raised her eyebrows slightly.

If she remembered correctly, Nico once said that he arranged the magic circle outside the magic garden, but the entrance and exit passages used some alchemical items from dwarfs.

"Yes." Nico nodded.

“Two more alchemical items were completely destroyed, and the channels that the remaining items could open were also much smaller.

The Magic Garden speculates that it is because there are too many wizards coming and going, but I don’t think so. "

Nico paused, his brows and eyes became a little more solemn, and then he continued to say slowly:

"I feel like there is something missing from those alchemy items. If I had to describe it, in the words of a country in the East, it's called 'origin'."

A word with a very strange pronunciation came out of Nico's mouth, and he lightly snapped his fingers.

The two square characters "Ben" and "Source" were formed in mid-air, emitting golden light.

"Origin?" Harley repeated Nico's pronunciation, "Is this how these two words are pronounced in Japanese?"

"Japanese?" Nico was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "I know why you think so.

Have you ever looked at the guide sign in the Enchanted Garden and been told it was in Japanese? "

"Isn't it?" Harley asked curiously.

"Of course not. These two words come from Chinese in China, not Japanese in Japan." Nico shook his head.

“Although there are many words in Japanese that are similar to Chinese, or even written in the same way, they are indeed different.

I have conducted in-depth research on this. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and the mainstream view is that it originated in northern China or Sichuan in the southwest.

There are many theories about the origin of Japanese, including Altaic language family, Dravidian (pi) Tu (tu) language family, Japanese-Koguryo language family and Sino-Tibetan language family.

The theory that it originated from the Altaic language family has been completely rejected, but other theories are still being debated.

Personally, I prefer Nishida Tatsuo's statement, thinking that it also belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

After all, Japanese and Chinese have so many similar and identical words, so I don’t believe that they don’t come from the same source..."

Nico lived a long time and had many hobbies besides alchemy.

Apparently, studying the origins of various languages ​​is also one of his hobbies.

Now, Nico was in the usual nagging mode of the elderly, making Harley's head spin.

Witches are not good at this stuff!

No, to be precise, no one should be interested in this thing except readers, voyeurs and generalists!

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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu for the tip!)