The Chinese girl from Hufflepuff is both timid and brave

"I'm glad you're willing to study this course." A clear female voice echoed throughout the classroom. "This is not an interesting subject, at least in the early stages of learning. But I assure you, it is definitely a useful subject."

Sun Zhu held the feather pen and nodded silently.

The professor of ancient runes, Ms. Bathsheda Babbling, is a teacher who looks quite young. It is said that she is an outstanding graduate of Ravenclaw College a few years ago. After graduation, she traveled around the world before returning to Hogwarts to apply for a professorship in this subject.

Sun Zhu envied this kind of life very much. After all, she was only about 17 years old when she graduated from the wizarding world. It was hard for her to imagine whether she would immediately start working or get married and have children.

Your youth has just begun. If you don’t take this opportunity to go out and have fun, how can you justify all the hard work you’ve put in studying for so many years?

"Some clerical jobs in the Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic require a NEWTS certificate in this subject. Some materials on ancient laws and ancient magical creatures are written in runes." Professor Baburin rolled up a roll of parchment, wearing a pair of silver-rimmed metal glasses with a chain, and walked back and forth in the classroom quickly and rhythmically. "In addition, there are some other high-paying professions, such as the curse breakers at Gringotts. If you encounter spells written in ancient magic characters at work, but you don't know them... that would be a disaster."

The number of students from each college in the classroom was evenly distributed, and they were all sitting randomly. Next to Sun Zhu was a guy who read "Cedric" and wrote "Badger Skin Plaster", and in front and behind him were classmates from other colleges who were not very familiar with him.

She heard Professor Baburin's instructions: "Open the thickest book in your hands, "Ancient Runes: A Simple Introduction". Don't underestimate it because of its name. It will be your most powerful helper in studying this subject."

I see. It's basically a basic textbook. The content is the most comprehensive and generally the easiest to understand. Even a beginner will understand a single word.

……can't read.

Sun Zhu stared at the circle of patterns on the first page, feeling a little confused.

Wait, why doesn't this book have a single English word? It's all this...scrappy stuff.

She felt as if there were mosquito coils in her eyes, and subconsciously looked at the textbook of the person next to her.

It’s the same content, but someone seems calm.

Sun Zhu turned his head away, refrained from saying a word, and decided to listen carefully to Professor Baburin's explanation.

Cedric curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and gently pinched the end of the wand with his hand on his knees, listening to every word of the professor attentively.

"This is a special textbook I ordered from Flourish and Blotts. It's written entirely in runes." Professor Baburin ignored the chatter in the classroom and said, "Every symbol, every word, every sentence, every paragraph... you need to annotate the meaning in English yourself. If you don't listen carefully, you will miss a lot."

You can't sleep through this kind of class like you did History of Magic... Even if you can make up your notes later, I'm afraid they won't be enough to cover all the class content.

Analogous to the nine subjects in the previous life, History of Magic is a history class, and Ancient Runes is a combination of English class and classical Chinese.

One has to learn spelling, speaking, reading and writing, and also understand the background story to facilitate associative memory, and read a lot of ancient runic articles in order to integrate them... Sun Zhu has been taking classes for more than two years, and finally found a bit of the same classroom experience as in his previous life.

She sat up straight subconsciously and saw Professor Baburin waving his wand to draw standard yet novel symbols one after another.

"Did you see? These things are more like patterns than words." She smiled, her voice a little sharp, "But in fact, in runes, they all represent numbers."

Sun Zhu looked at the patterns floating in the air that were the same as those in the textbook, and were pointed at one by one by Professor Baburin's magic wand.

"This is the invisible beast, representing the number 0. This pattern must be familiar to everyone, the unicorn, representing the number 1." She explained one by one: "Of course, I think this is not a difficult question to understand. It is the most basic foundation. If someone can't even remember this, I can only say that you'd better give up as soon as possible."

Sun Zhu understood a little, picked up the ink-dipped feather pen, and wrote a string of numbers on the textbook.

The invisible beast, invisible means nothing can be seen, so it is 0; the unicorn has one horn, so it is 1; the horned beast, an aggressive and dangerous animal with two sharp golden horns on its head, represents 2; the runespoor, a three-headed orange snake with black patterns, represents 3; the amur bird, because it has 4 different fur colors, represents 4; the pentas, extremely dangerous magical animals that seem to exist only in legends, represent 5; the salamander, because it can only survive for a maximum of 6 hours after leaving the fire, represents the number 6; the one representing the number 7 is the most special, not an animal symbol, and it indicates the unknown - meaning the most mysterious and magical; the eight eyes of the acromantula represent 8; the hydra, that is, the multi-headed snake named Hydra, represents the number 9 because it has three times the number of heads of the runespoor.

Sun Zhu reached out and touched the yellow feather pen in his hand. If he remembered correctly, this one was made of the feathers of the evil bird. This bird has four colors of feathers: orange, pink, acid green and yellow. The colors are bright and can be stored for a long time without fading. And it looks very cute. Although its cry is disturbing and even makes people lose their minds, many people still keep it.

She remembered that Newt only had a few of them, and he had to cast silencing spells on them all year round.

"In the first class, all you have to do is to familiarize yourself with these symbols and memorize them. After that, you have to be able to draw them accurately... I believe these are not difficult for third graders."

"This way of writing is really weird." Sun Zhu heard two Ravenclaws in the front row discussing in a low voice, "It seems like some kind of art subject, not a language subject."

Sun Zhu lowered her head and silently flipped through the pages. In fact, only these numbers had relatively rich graphic expressions. Many of the runes at the back were still presented in the form of letters and simple symbols. After reading for a long time, she could only guess the meaning of a few words.

This initial method of digital recording is similar to some of the recording methods in the oracle bone inscriptions in ancient Chinese literature. Although she has not learned this type of pictographic writing, she has to sigh that human wisdom is often the same.

Someone next to him was also taking notes attentively, with a runic dictionary at hand.

Sun Zhu tidied up the hair that was blocking his eyes and continued to study the runic alphabet.