Chapter 124 Carving Knifes
Harry Potter: A Certain Ancient Rune Professor of Hogwarts (TL) by Crazy_Darkside_Cat
During the afternoon, Harry followed the team to the Quidditch pitch for the practice.
Wood pondered three more targeted tactics to deal with the new patterns and tactics that the other houses had shown this year during the short Christmas break.
The others returned to the castle to do their homework.
The ancient rune office in the late afternoon.
Felix is checking Hermione's learning progress - in recent times, she has been working on improving and upgrading the beaded pouch.
"You have learned all the magic runes needed to upgrade the beaded pouch, the next very important step is to learn how to construct the magic runes circuit."
"Professor, what's the difference?" Hermione asked.
"The inscription of the individual rune is relatively simple, but if you want to connect them into a circuit, you need to consider the stability and balance between the runes as a whole - this is very much a test of your mastery of magic power."
Felix's fingers kept moving, drawing a string of letters out of the air, which was divided into three rows, each with a subtle difference in brightness and size.
"If these are the runes you've completed at different times, the brightness represents how much magic you've injected."
Hermione observed the runes, and then, under Professor Hap's control, they were arranged in a row in random order.
The rearranged runes looked disorganized, bright, dark, large, and small mixed together, looking both disordered and awkward.
She instantly understood what Professor Hap meant by 'stability and balance'-every magic rune in the circuit, the magic power used, had to be as consistent as possible.
"Even subtle differences in magic power can render the circuit useless," Felix said.
"Professor, what should I do?"
"There are two ways, the first is to finish writing the runes at once, in one go, your magic will tend to be more consistent, but of course, it still requires a lot of practice."
"But in this way, you need to actively adjust the structure of the runes and make some slight changes in form ... which is not something you can do now."
"But won't this disable the rune itself?" Hermione asked in amazement, the information she had been exposed was all about writing the rune in a disciplined manner, not allowing a single change.
"That's what's so fascinating about it." Felix gave an example: "The process is somewhat like the process of going from letters to words; we learn the letters as standard and regular as possible, but when it comes time to combine them into words, the letters are fine-tuned to better match the flow and beauty of the writing."
"This is a test for your understanding of the runes," Felix said implicitly.
To put it bluntly, if you don't understand the rune well enough, it is better not to play any tricks.
Hermione nodded her head with some understanding.
"There are some tricks in this as well, we will talk about it later. The second way is to complete a single rune, from which draw out a magic line, linking them one by one to form a closed and stable circuit."
This method Hermione has seen a few times, she is not new to it.
"Let's try it--"
Felix and Hermione went to the workbench and took out a few pieces of chestnut wood.
He opened an elaborate toolbox, which contained seven carving knives of different sizes and materials - metal, wood, and indiscernible materials aligned.
"Is this a professional tool for magic engraving? Where can I buy it?" The little witch couldn't help but ask this question.
In her mind, these carving knives had been equated with magic wands and had become a necessary tool for her to learn ancient runes.
As a result, Professor Hap said with an amused look, "I made these myself, well ... except for the metal one."
He is not in a hurry to proceed with the topic just now, instead, one by one placed the carving knife in front of her.
"First I want to remind you that there is no specific tool requirement for carving rune, carving knife, wand, or finger can be used, what is important is magic power and your understanding of the rune. But-"
"If there is a smoother way by using a tool, why refuse it?"
Hermione nodded in understanding. Just like some wizards who were proficient in wandless spell casting, but they would never refuse to use their wands. Because the tools can help them to accomplish more delicate operations.
There were seven carving knives in front of her.
The first is a metal carving knife, silver-white with a streamlined body, a distinct curve in the grip, and a tip that appears to be made of different metals.
Felix said: "This one I bought from the micro-carving dealer, which I repeatedly made sure that this metal is the least repulsive to magic."
Hermione took the carving knife, it looked a little heavy, but it turned out to be surprisingly light.
"As I told you, there is no unique form for carving runes, either in the form of writing leaving runes on the surface of an object or in the form of carving, leaving engravings in the material."
He picked up a piece of chestnut wood and injected magic power into the metal carving knife, the tip of which blossomed with a tiny but burning red light, leaving a rune on the chestnut wood piece.
"Look, its surface is not flat."
Hermione touched the surface of the rune with her fingertips, and could clearly feel the chestnut wood sunken down - this is the metal carving knife that left a trace of the slash.
"This way is especially suitable for those inert magical materials, such as muggle items, ordinary stones, or, for example, the scale of some magical creatures and so on."
Hermione understood somewhat, for inert magical materials, that do not sustain magic easily, can be employed with engraved marks to strengthen the form of the rune.
"Actually -" Felix added: "The process is separate - carving and enchanting magic, and I'm just very proficient at this process, so I combined the two steps together, and when you practice, you still have to do it separately."
One of his backups: 'Felix's Wisdom Teeth', was done this way.
Hermione nodded.
Felix took out five more wooden carving knives in a row, which looked, rather, like alternative wands, and Hermione had just seen the twins' fake wands during the day and impressed by them.
"These carving knives, which are made of the same material as the wands, their own characteristics are similar to when they were made into wands." Felix pointed them over one by one -
"The Acacia carving knife, it's hard for beginners to get started, it's particularly sensitive to magic, in fact, overly sensitive. But once you master it, it will quickly adapt to the owner's magic and become extremely personal, and no one else can use it except you;"
"Ebony carving knife, outstanding when carving offensive runes, of course, it is not easy to control it, it will work well with those owners who have the courage to be themselves and do not follow the crowd;"
"Red oak carving knife, I personally think that it has a certain degree of memory, when you are skilled, it will actively guide you to complete the rune;"
"Chestnut wood carving knife, the favourite of beginners, there is little preference, and of course, there is no bonus;"
"Laurel wood carving knife, uh, I'm not a big fan of this kind of carving knife, you have to use it often, otherwise when after a long time you remember, it may charge at you when you inject magic power with a lightning attack ..."
Felix finished explaining, Hermione curiously picked up these carving knife repeatedly examined them, the more she looked, the more she loved it, she said cheerfully: "Professor, when can I have a carving knife like this? I mean ... I'm willing to pay a price ..."
"You don't need to think about that for now, that chestnut wood carving knife is for your practice." Felix said, "Wait a few years before you need to consider an exclusive carving knife."
"By the way, what material is your wand made of?" Felix asked.
"It's Vine wood," Hermione said, "the core of the wand is dragon heartstring, and 10¾" long."
Chapter 125 The Wand and the Wizard
Harry Potter: A Certain Ancient Rune Professor of Hogwarts (TL) by Crazy_Darkside_Cat
" Vine wood?" Felix repeated, and the young witch noticed Professor Hap's expression, visibly dazed for a moment.
"Very good." He commented briefly.
Felix explained, "My personal experience is that rune carving knives are very similar to wands, so it's best to pick the same material of your own wand for your first carving knife, except for the chestnut carving knife."
"For example, to me, the ebony carving knife is the most comfortable."
Hermione showed a dawning expression, her heart murmuring, Vine wood for her Exclusive carving knife first choice.
However, it also made her curious, when she bought her own wand, Ollivander once mentioned that it is the wand that chooses the wizard, not the wizard who chooses the wand, and Professor Hap also gave similar advice, what is the secret here?
She expressed her doubts to Professor Hap.
Felix thought about it and said, "That makes sense because Ollivander's Wand Shop never makes custom wands, which means that little wizards have to get used to the traits of wands."
"So the wands we have in our hands are just roughly compatible with us?" Hermione understood the point he was trying to make.
"It can be interpreted that way, but don't worry, for the vast majority of wizards, there is absolutely no need to consider such fine details." Felix said, "It's still quite an interesting topic, you can check the library and see what kind of wands your friends around have and what kind of traits they represent."
Hermione is indeed very interested, this kind of act which satisfies her desire for knowledge and gossip at the same time, simply makes her want to go back to the library.
"Do you have any recommendations for books, Professor?" The young witch asked, accustomed to asking Professor Hap for a list of books, and getting an accurate response every time.
Sure enough--
"Well ... I remember there is a book in the library, Wands and Wizards, which describes hundreds of reputable wizards and their wands." Felix said.
Hermione mumbled a couple of words and wrote the title of the book down.
"Well, next, is the seventh carving knife." Felix brought the conversation back on track.
The young witch looked at the last carving knife, thin as a dagger, the colour is hauntingly ghastly white, looks like the teeth of some kind of creature. She exclaimed in surprise, "This is the fang of the ... Basilisk?"
"That's right, it occurred to me by chance that I could make a rune carving knife from part of the magical creature's bones." Felix smiled and said, "It's just an attempt."
Hermione felt that this material is too wicked, carving out the rune with this type of material will not bring its snake venom or curse, right?
So she asked Felix about it, "So how does it work?"
Felix smacked his lips, but only vaguely said some " developed new ideas ", " next time he will use the unicorn horn as a try " and so on, Hermione wisely did not ask further.
After spending some time explaining the concept of 'Rune carving knife', which Professor Hap invented himself, the two finally returned to the original topic - the difference between a single rune and a rune circuit.
Felix put away the other carving knives, leaving only the ebony carving knife and chestnut carving knife, he handed the chestnut carving knife to Hermione.
Hermione carefully examined the carving knife in her hand, she realized that this knife will be with her for a long time.
Its colour is somewhat like a light coffee colour, the material is smooth and compact, the top is divided with straight and slender veins, it looks very much like the pattern of the rain flower stone.
Then she stared at the carving knife in Felix's hand-
The ebony carving knife in Professor Hap's hand, like his wand, had been carefully selected from the heartwood, without a trace of stray colour.
It is a pure, deep black, with a dull sheen, giving it an extremely heavy and hard texture.
Felix picked up a thin slice of chestnut wood and said to Hermione: "Whether it's a wand material carving knife or a chestnut wood slice, it's very friendly to magic, so carving runes is more like writing an essay."
He gently held the carving knife, smoothly wrote down a string of runes, red aura from the black tip of the knife bloomed, when Felix lifted the carving knife, the fiery rune has quietly extinguished, branded with black traces.
"There are two ways to write rune circuits, in one go or one by one."
"This is the first one."
He then took another piece of chestnut wood, wrote an individual rune on it one by one, and after showing it to Hermione, carefully drew out the line to connect them together.
Hermione took the two pieces of chestnut wood at the same time, comparing them with each other.
With what she could associate, the former is like a completed fancy font, elegant, yet at the expense of individual rune recognition; and the latter is a standard font, except written by naughty children with crayons all together, and the former is pleasing to the eye, the latter more like poor quality graffiti, people can not help but frown.
But Felix said to her, "It's the one you need to master." He pointed to the combination he called 'typography + graffiti'.
"Your beaded pouch requires three sets of rune circuits, and I will explain how they are connected."
Felix snapped his fingers lightly, and the two people' consciousnesses entered the thinking room.
From the beginning of the school year, his mastery of this magic had become more and more proficient.
This seemed to allude to Snape's theory - magic that he invented himself would naturally become more suitable for him.
...
When Harry yawned as he walked out of his dorm room on Sunday morning, he saw Ginny and Ron sitting next to Hermione watching something.
"Morning." He said, a little sleep-deprived from training for Quidditch the night before and staying up late.
Harry rummaged through his book bag for his Potions class assignment, but his mind jumbled around.
It took him a few minutes before he noticed the difference among the three across him, "What are you doing?"
Hermione intently writing on a thin piece of wood - he thought it was a piece of parchment, and repeatedly looked at it twice.
The tool she held in her hand is also odd, a bit like a quill, and also looks like a shrunken wand.
But Hermione apparently did not have time to answer him, Harry looked at Ron.
Ron whispered to him, "It's a rune circle."
Ginny retorted to him, "No it's not, it's a rune circuit."
Ron shrugged, "Something like that," he explained towards Harry, "You know, to fix her little beaded bag."
He looked over the other side of the table where Hermione is sketching out an odd-looking pattern on a thin wooden board that, from his point of view, kind of looks like a large squid in the Black Lake.
The red light kept flowing from the tip of her 'pen' as she wrote so slowly that the initial strokes had cooled to black.
"Whew~" Hermione let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from her face.
"Well, did it work?" Harry asked with interest, although he still isn't quite sure what she was doing.
But Harry reckoned he would have to take Ancient rune next year for that.
Hermione's whole body relaxed, and she said somewhat lazily, "I can't keep injecting magic steadily, it's very different from an individual rune."
"I remember you said that your success rate is at ninety percent?" Harry asked.
"That's an individual rune, rune circuit is much more difficult ..." she said with a sigh.
Chapter 126 The Empty Castle
Harry Potter: A Certain Ancient Rune Professor of Hogwarts (TL) by Crazy_Darkside_Cat
A new week begins, and the young wizards are surprised to find that the lessons have changed.
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Charm class:
Professor Flitwick pulled out a stack of parchment and standing on a thick stack of books, "Little wizards, today you will be introduced to a new teaching aid that I think many of you have already heard about ..."
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Potions Class:
In the fifth-year classroom, Snape quietly looked at the young wizards off the podium: "For the sake of your OWLs grades, I need you to put more effort into your theories, as I have said many times."
The little wizards were like a quail, not daring to say anything.
He suddenly raised his wand, and dozens of parchments flew out like sharp swords, landing one by one in front of the little wizards, the parchments leaped with the shimmering light of magic.
The well-informed young wizards were already impatient to use their wands on it, and called out: "The secret of the ancient rune."
But the parchment did not budge.
Snape said slowly, "Very well, Miss Campbell has given us a demonstration of how to do it wrong."
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Transfiguration class:
Professor McGonagall's sharp gaze swept around, " It took a tremendous amount of effort from a couple of professors, and I hope, you won't treat it lightly."
"Here, take out your wands and chant after me: The Mystery of Magic, always keep in mind."
The young wizards chanted after that ...
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Ancient rune class, 6th-year classroom.
Felix had a smile on his face, "You will find this new version of the 'Answer Space' has more features."
"Including the leaderboard that you are all looking forward so much."
The young wizards couldn't help but try it out. Except for the fact that the start-up password changed from the 'ancient rune', the picture also changed -
A castle emerged from the top of a stretching mountain and then moved rapidly through the great hall, The Grand Staircase, the yard, the tower, the library, the forbidden forest ...
This seems to be the point of view of an outsider entering Hogwarts for the first time, a simple outline of the most familiar scenes.
This image is fixed upon the castle of Hogwarts, the flags which represent the four houses are inserted at the main entrance of the castle, the Snake, Badger, Lion, and Eagle on the flags are lifelike.
When their eyes fall on it, they will find the corresponding creatures either swaying, standing upright, roaring, and raising their wings.
The young wizards who had chosen the Ancient rune class had finished the binding process early on, and at the moment they were looking at the latest interface.
It showed an overhead view of Hogwarts, with clouds of symbols flashing, each one representing a different class.
Such as the one representing the ancient rune is a line of rune, the meaning of which is precisely the original password - "the secret of ancient rune".
The one representing the Transfiguration class is a flaming lion, but its form keeps changing.
On behalf of Potion class is a boiling crucible, with rolling hot air constantly churning.
...
Besides these symbols, the young wizards were most concerned about the leaderboard function.
They looked carefully, and on the right side of the parchment alongside their names, a new symbol appeared; it is a sketch of a roll of magic scroll.
The young wizards rather skilfully tapped their wands on the scroll, and a rain swallow with scythe wings flew to the center with the magic scroll, which began to zoom in and slowly unfold ...
In the top line, a row of words began to appear - house, year, name (code), subject, level, score - a total of six categories.
Other than that, it remained empty.
Felix looked at the crowd and explained, "There are a few points that need your attention."
"The ranking on the leaderboard is not about grades, but about examining your accumulation in the subject, which I and other professors believe would allow you to find your direction of interest in advance, which would be good for your future employment;"
"The ranking list can be found in the subcategories of the corresponding subjects, which are topics set by the professors based on their own experience, and new content is added every once in a while;"
"I think someone has already noticed that the leaderboard can use code names which can be used to hide your ranking, which is designed for some students who don't want to be in the limelight;"
The young wizards listened attentively.
"And besides the rankings, there are two other places you need to be concerned about: the incorrect sections are split up among different subjects; also, you can preview or review subjects from other years, which have the key points marked by the professor."
"Next, let's take the ancient rune as an example, and let's experience its specific functions ..."
...
With the warmer weather, Hogwarts is getting sunnier and sunnier.
Even at the end of the school day, the sun still stubbornly left its tail.
In the castle corridor, Ron kept yelling in a low voice, "Crazy, they are all crazy, not a single one ..."
Harry gave him a sympathetic look, he felt that Ron's state is abnormal now.
He's holding a piece of parchment in his hand and just staring at the leaderboard on it all the way -
In the second year list, Hermione Granger's name occupied the first place in all subjects, having passed 37 levels already at the highest level of the charm class, and besides that, he saw many familiar names: Cedric Diggory, Cho Chang, Percy Weasley, Penelope Clearwater ...
The castle became empty, with very few people in sight - everyone holed up in the library or in the common room playing games for level breaking and unlocking a new level.
They couldn't stand the atmosphere in the common room anymore and ran out to hang out.
Ron muttered, "I can't understand how the words break-in and game are linked together."
Harry said, "Wait a few days for everyone to come to their senses, I guess."
Ron remarked something that he couldn't agree more with him, "Hermione definitely won't, she's totally caught up in it."
Harry and Ron had no idea of returning to the common room, they wandered around the castle and soon came across a familiar figure -
"Fred, George!"
"Oh, it's you two." One of the twins said.
"What are you guys doing out here, shouldn't you be in the common room playing break-in games?"
" Not us, though." the twins grinned, "Today is a rare occasion, so of course we have to remember this."
"So you guys were going out for a fun trip? It's too early for that ...," Ron said suspiciously.
"No, Percy is pretty confident that he'll take first place in the sixth year, so we're going to get some butterbeer and Honeydukes sweets." Fred said.
"That's right, success or failure, it's worth celebrating." George said with a grin.
"So - you guys are going to sneak out and go to Hogsmeade through the secret passage? Can you take us there?" Ron asked with some amazement.
Harry couldn't help but hold his breath as well.
"George, we seem to have let it slip." Fred said.
"You're the one who let it slip." George rebutted him.
"I agree, but we have to do something." Fred squeezed his eyes.
"Like ... obliviate?" George said knowingly.
With that, the twins' eyes fell on Ron.
Ron swallowed and took two steps back.
But the twins ran away quickly, and Harry and Ron could still hear their laughter as their figures disappeared from sight of them.
Elsewhere, Felix strolled through the castle as well, and he entered the yard to see a spectre floating peacefully in midair, staring at the greenery and contemplating her thoughts alone.
"Lady Grey."
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