HP: By the lake of Snake Garden, flowers bloom on the other side

When she came out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam room, Lycoris felt that her OWLs exam results should be excellent. The professor seemed to really like his patronus little fox, who was very cute and coquettish.

After returning to the common room, most of the students enjoyed a short break from today's exams to the whole day tomorrow - a small number of them were reviewing other courses, and only Lycoris was sorting out the knowledge points of tomorrow's exam subjects - tomorrow they would study Ancient Magical Writing, and few people would choose this course.

Friday.

Lycoris only saw a few students in the examination room, most of them were from Ravenclaw, and one was a student she knew.

"Lycoris, how do you think you did in the exam?" Hermione caught up with Lycoris as soon as she finished the exam and took the initiative to talk to her. "Which three gods are the 'three Etters'? I think I missed a representative of the priesthood."

"Oh! I think I translated 'ehwaz' wrong too!" Hermione suddenly got angry at herself during the exam, "It should be 'cooperation'! I was thinking 'defense'!"

"Perhaps you would like to go to dinner now?" Lycoris looked at her frustrated expression and encouraged her, "We have a practical test in the afternoon. If you perform well, you still have a chance to get an excellent grade."

"Oh! You're right, let's go have dinner." Hermione was comforted. The theoretical exam was already over, and the professor would not let her take it again no matter how much she regretted it - she didn't have a time turner - and the OWLs exam had special alchemical supplies for testing, so the use of a time turner was ineffective.

Hermione and Lycoris walked into the Great Hall, and Lycoris suddenly took out a mirror and asked Hermione to look at it.

"What are you looking at?" Hermione took it and saw her frizzy curly hair. "My Merlin, I just scratched it twice while thinking."

Hermione thanked Lycoris and ran her hands through her hair.

When they arrived at the Great Hall, the two sat down separately, Lycoris sat at the Slytherin table and Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table.

Lycoris took out the candy she carried with her from her pocket and looked at it with her brown eyes.

Her way of comforting others was to give them candy, but she didn't give it to Hermione.

Because whenever Hermione eats this candy and feels uncomfortable later, she might think of the candy I gave her today.

This is a very troublesome matter. In order to avoid trouble, Licorice chose to comfort with words.

Lycoris reached out to peel off the candy wrapper and put the candy into her mouth. There was a sour and sweet lemon taste in her mouth, and she looked at where Hermione was.

She had just used the mirror to remind her. This was the third time she had tried to change the plot of Sirius' inevitable death. If she could remind Potter to contact his godfather using the two-way mirror when Potter went to the Ministry of Magic to find Sirius, would Sirius not have died?

Lycoris collected her thoughts and ate her lunch.

In the afternoon, the teacher, Professor Barbie, called the roll. Liklis thought it was okay if she didn't call the roll. After all, there were only a few students, so it wouldn't be crowded if they all went in.

Licorice was in the second group, and Professor Barbie smiled encouragingly at every student who entered.

After using the Voice Booster Charm, Lycoris began to introduce herself, "Hello, professor. I am Lycoris Snape, a student of Slytherin House."

Professor Marchbank took out a black velvet bag from his magic robe, and pulled out a silver "M" carved on a bone and showed it to her. "Miss Snape, explain this rune."

"M, Mannaz, stands for the individual human being," Lycoris looked at the professor and began to answer, "Humanity..."

Professor Marchbank nodded as he listened to the girl.

Licorice was tested on a total of twelve bone runes, and then Professor Marchbank asked her to arrange them in the order of the "Three Etters".

"Ms. Snape, please explain the meaning of this row of runes on Tilraite." Professor Marchbank pointed to the three rows of rune symbols on bones arranged by Licorice and asked her to explain what each row meant.

Licorice started directly with Et: "Til Et, the god of war..."

Professor Marchbank was listening to her while writing down her test scores on the scoreboard.

"...Very good, then tell me..." Professor Marchbank continued to test Licorice, and she responded calmly.

"Ms. Snape, your ancient runes test is finished." Professor Marchbank gave the last score and signaled that she could leave.

"Professor Marchbank, are there any extra points?" Licorice asked seriously, "In the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam, you can get extra points if you are proficient in summoning a patronus. Don't we have any in ancient magic?"

"Want extra points?" Professor Marchbank shouted loudly, "Then how many ways are there to interpret common magic runes?"

"The three-letter reading method..." Licorice knew this and answered fluently, "There is also the shaking reading method."

"Well, now use the 'Three-Word Interpretation Method' to predict what to do next regarding the matter you are worried about." Professor Marchbank did not intend to embarrass her and directly chose an interpretation method with relatively fewer steps.

Licorice lowered her head and used her right hand to stuff all the bones on the table into the black velvet bag. She rubbed the bag with her left hand to mess up the order of the bones, then stretched out her right hand and took out three bones and placed them on the table in order.

Thurisaz is a rune that looks like a small triangular flag. It represents "annoying thorns", stubbornness, protection and luck.

A bit like the "F" rune, Ansuz means "signal." It suggests being brave, paying attention to older people, advising the wisdom of the universe, and activating the effects of a hypnotic state.

Kenaz is a rune that looks like a less-than sign. It represents fire, light, hope, illuminating darkness, protection, guidance, bringing vitality, a new beginning, etc.

"The one on the left represents 'current situation'," Licorice thought about its meaning and tried to analyze it. "There are annoying thorns blocking me, and I am stubborn in sticking to my own ideas. I think 'I am right and everyone else is wrong'."

"The one in the middle represents 'the road ahead'," Lykoris continued, applying the meaning of the magic rune to herself, "I must persist in my courage to forge my own path."

"The one on the right represents 'next action'." There is only one point left. Once I finish editing it, the test will be over. "My future is full of hope."

Lycoris summarized and said, "In summary, the things that bother me will be completely solved as long as I stick to my own ideas."

"You can go back now. You did a good job." Professor Marchbank nodded, and Licorice politely left.

Professor Marchbank looked at the three magic symbols the girl took out with his cloudy eyes, and did not look away for a long time.