After breakfast, Professor McGonagall called Percy Weasley and several other Gryffindor prefects into her office and told them the results of the previous exam.
Several prefects were still very concerned about losing to Slytherin.
"I also read the exam. Our main problem was that we made too many wrong choices, you should be careful next time, don't choose anything you are not sure about. " Professor McGonagall pulled out the papers she had just asked Professor Lockhart for. The prefects in front of her looked serious, and Percy looked as if he was about to die.
"Alright, next time, don't take the exam like that again, I didn't even dare to look Snape in the eye this morning! Try to do everything right and we can definitely beat Slytherin House."
Percy thought for a moment, "We could summarize the questions at the end of each day, which might be useful."
Professor McGonagall thought about it and thought Percy's idea was very reliable.
"Let's do that, you go back and talk to them. Don't take up too much time though, you have other subjects to study, but I have news that Professor Snape seems to want to do a pop quiz next week as well, so be prepared" And then Professor McGonagall signaled for the prefects to leave.
Several people looked at each other in dismay, not expecting such an explosive inside story, nodded gravely, then left the office and returned to the Common Room to announce the two pieces of bad news.
The four Houses' weekend was not a quiet one, but it had nothing to do with Tom, the starter.
On Saturday, he arrived early at the library and slipped in as soon as the doors opened, heading straight for the restricted section.
As soon as he entered the restricted section, a figure followed him.
Tom noticed a noise behind him and turned to look, "He- Miss Granger, you are a hard worker to come to the library early on a Saturday morning to read. A hard working boy is to be commended, I'll give you five points for Ravenclaw" Tom also had the right to add and subtract points when he didn't have class, just a minor part each day.
After adding up the points, he continued, "There is a saying in Muggle circles that a genius is made with one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Miss Granger, you are on the path to genius."
Hermione blushed instantly, for she knew very well who the man in front of her looked like Lockhart, and the compliments made her heart pound.
"There's still the second half of that sentence left, but that one percent of inspiration is often more important than ninety-nine percent of sweat." Hermione lowered her head and whispered, "And Edison has a bad reputation, so don't quote him."
"Oh?" Tom was interested in Edison's gossip. So he asked Hermione about it, and discovered that Edison was such a man.
When it comes to Edison, the first thing that comes to mind is the light bulb, which is one of his most famous inventions. On October 21, 1879, Edison's laboratory successfully produced the world's first light bulb, which lasted approximately 13 hours. But as early as 1854, the American Goebbels completed the world's oldest light bulb experiment: he placed carbonized bamboo filaments in a vacuum-packed glass bottle to energize itself so that it could emit light for 400 hours!
Unfortunately, he did not patent it.
In 1874, two Canadian electricians applied for a patent on a glass bubble with ammonia to make an electrified carbon filament glow, but they had no funds to continue their research and had to sell the patent to Thomas Edison.
So Edison was by no means the inventor of the light bulb. He was more of an entrepreneur who marketed the light bulb.
Many say that Edison was the "King of Inventions" with over a thousand inventions, but in his laboratory worked countless engineers, mechanics and physicists whose contributions have been forgotten by the world.
This is a minor point, but the highlight is the trashing of his laboratory with Tesla. It is enough to make a great book from Tesla's point of view.
In addition, Edison also contributed to the birth of Hollywood: he applied for the patent for the phonograph and the motion picture camera, after inventing them, he hired many lawyers to sue the filmmakers so that only Edison's studios could make movies.
Many studios went to the west coast of the United States to avoid Edison, and ended up becoming the Hollywood of today.
Edison was a bit like a non-magical Lockhart, only he was a bit stronger and had more experience, Lockhart would have had a few more spells and his reputation would not have been as bad.
The image of Edison in Tom's mind was flipped over by Hermione, and he didn't speak for a long, long time.
"It's all right, Professor Lockhart, don't be stunned" Hermione had found a table, on which she had stacked several books, and had pulled out some rolls of parchment and a bottle of ink.
Tom took one of the scrolls and signed his name on it.
"Take this, and if you see anything you want to read in the forbidden book section, borrow it."
Hermione looked up sharply, her eyes glittering: "Isn't that bad?" she put the signed parchment away.
"What can't you do? I'm a real professor at Hogwarts!" Tom waved his hand: a silly question! If he didn't have to enjoy the Hogwarts Forbidden Zone, he wouldn't have time to play Professor Lockhart. Wouldn't it be nice to have more time to read in class?
Of course, there was a very important reason to expose the scoundrels for what they were, to bring justice and to refresh the poor man's memory.
Tom went into the Forbidden Books section alone, he had no clue about the "Fairy Castle" mentioned in the way the time-turner had been made, and he wanted to see if he could find the answer in the Forbidden Books section.
"'The Ancient Forbidden Tales', 'The Buried Celts'.... I feel these two books seem worthwhile" Tom took these two books off the shelf. They were old, one with a tattered cover and the other with a blood red cover that gave them an ominous look.
His purpose was clear: the contents of the books had to be ancient, after all, Slytherin himself had lived over a thousand years ago, and the scrolls he had collected had to be at least a thousand years old.
As for the history of a thousand years ago, most of the books in the general area didn't talk about the history of a thousand years ago, so Tom had to look for clues in the books in the forbidden area. First he was going to look at the legends, to see if there was anything about the "Fairy Castle". He had been doing this for a week and had already read several books.
Tom returned to Hermione's table with the two books and sat down opposite her, then the two of them read the books together in silence.
Tom started with 'The Old Forbidden Tales', which had been placed in the forbidden section for a reason, the illustrations alone were enough to make him feel sick, and after only a few pages, Tom saw a human with skin removed and a witch with numerous arms growing from her shoulders.
This turned his stomach, so he switched to 'The Buried Celts', then Tom borrowed Hermione's bookmark and inserted it into 'The Old Forbidden Legend', so he could try to find the "Fairy Castle" once the bookmark had finished scanning.
'The Buried Celts' was much more normal, at least without the stomach-churning illustrations. The book focuses on the history of the Celts.
Being one of the bravest and most virtuous peoples in European history, the Celts have left very few records. This is because they had no generalized writing, since all of it was dominated by a small number of druids who, to reinforce their dominance, refused to write down their history, which was passed on by word of mouth, making their culture rather fragile. When the clan's strength was insufficient to deter the outsiders, their civilization dissipated like frost in the sun.
Ironically, it was their bitter enemies, the Romans and Christians, who left their mark on history.
The scanning of the bookmark soon ended.
Tom typed in "Fairy Castle", a word the bookmark did not find in the book 'Ancient Legends Forbidden'. Tom scanned 'The Buried Celts' again, and the bookmark responded.
Tom's spirits lifted and Hermione sat down next to him and looked at him.
"Fairy Castle", or "Fairy Tomb", is said to have been opened as the "otherworldly" realm by the sacred tribe of Asa-Dai Danan after their defeat by the Miletus, who ruled the mundane world of Ireland, while the Danan controlled the underground and the place where the gods lived and at the end of the ocean.
The "other world" is the land of Celtic mythology, where the happiest land in the world is found, where the trees flourish, the grasses are beautiful and their branches are full of juicy fruit. The inhabitants of the land are always young and never grow old. There are feasts and carnivals, the inhabitants of the "other world" drink wine all day long and enjoy themselves, with their music and their gold and their silver. This is the mysterious and enchanted land of ancient Celtic mythology.
The "Fairy Castle" is the entrance to the "other world".
Tom and Hermione gasped at the sight of it. If they had seen it in non-magical circles, they would have laughed at it, myths and legends, what civilization doesn't have a few?
But the fact that it was in the Forbidden Books section of Hogwarts made it that much more authentic.
"This book was compiled shortly after the founding of Hogwarts," Hermione said, looking at the description on the cover, "And it's a compilation of manuscripts left by a wizard from the Middle Ages. The wizard, apparently a clergyman by profession, relied on documents left in various monasteries in England, which, needless to say, must have been lost by now, to write this book. "