A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 27: Hermione’s Rune Journey

Ancient rune professor's office.

Felix is ​​grading homework. This job is so boring that he has the illusion of counting 1 plus 1 and repeating it hundreds of times. Fortunately, when he handed over the job to Hermione, who had just knocked on the door and didn't know the situation, he was completely liberated.

"It is mainly the test papers for the fifth and seventh grades. It is mainly about choice and translation of short sentences. It is relatively simple to correct - you just need to compare the correct answers, and mark all the wrong ones."

And Hermione lived up to her reputation as a top student, and quickly entered the state, and she was very good at this type of work.

Felix flipped through Hermione's revised paper—it was to be handed over to Professor McGonagall for publication in an academic journal, and he had to strictly check it. However, he did not directly revise simply and rudely, but kept making comments and giving the page numbers of the reference books.

He thought it would be more helpful to Hermione this way.

After half an hour, the two finished their work almost at the same time.

"Okay, let's get to the point."

Previously it was Hermione who was fulfilling her assistant duties, and now it was up to Felix to fulfill his commitment.

The two sat on the sofa facing each other, with a small table between them. Felix summoned two glasses of juice with his wand. He tried to put Miss Granger at ease, but she still seemed reserved.

"It can be seen from your thesis that you already have enough understanding of the history of ancient runes. Even if you haven't started studying, I can assure you that your progress will be very fast."

"Professor, I am reading "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes", and I have also learned how to look up the "Dictionary of Runes", "The Collection of Magical Symbols", including the book list you gave me before, but most of them I have read. I don't fully understand." The little witch sat up straight and quickly introduced her latest learning progress.

Felix froze for a moment, "Very good, but I won't spend too much time discussing how to translate with you, at most I can give you some suggestions."

"You can start around 900, which is the time when Hogwarts was founded. The four founders are great figures who inherited the past and ushered in the future. There are a lot of research materials that make future generations scratch their heads, and these contents filled the earliest libraries."

"However, this part of the information is now placed in the restricted area, and Ms. Ravenclaw has the most complete preservation, while most of the Slytherin information is lost. It may be that after he split with the other three , I took away my own research results in a fit of anger..."

Felix narrated a piece of history, which fascinated Hermione, "However, it may also be that the content of Slytherin research is not suitable for the library, who knows."

"If you need, I can give you a note."

Felix stood up, motioned for Hermione to follow, and the two came to his workbench.

"My research direction is not translation, but to discover the power of rune itself. Just like this—"

He picked up a palm-sized piece of chestnut wood on the table, injected magic power into the carving knife, and carved runes one by one on the surface of the chestnut wood. When these magic texts were first written, they quickly glowed with a scorching red light, but they were quickly extinguished and turned into dark lines.

This was the first time Hermione had seen such a sight, and she stared at it intently, searching her guts to try and figure out what the professor was doing, but to no avail.

After Felix finished engraving the rune, he handed it to Hermione, "You can feel it."

She stretched out her hand to take the piece of chestnut wood, without rubbing it, she keenly sensed the magic fluctuations on it, and when her fingers slid across the dark rune, a warm touch came from her fingertips.

"The rune can store magic power for a short time, but if it is not dealt with, the magic power on it can last up to three days. This is still the result of the superposition of chestnut's own characteristics."

Hermione nodded. As a wand material, chestnut wood has excellent ability to carry and transmit magic power.

"There are many solutions to this defect, such as——"

"You can connect them to form a loop, which greatly prolongs the retention time of magic power;"

"Special protective magic can also be applied;"

"Or add storage, transformation circuit..."

Hermione's little brain was desperately memorizing, and she wished she could immediately pick up the parchment and record every word Professor Hemp said.

The process of Felix's explanation is actually the process of reorganizing his own knowledge system. Different from the state of "not enough to eat" in the previous three years, he now has too many choices and must choose carefully.

Therefore, teaching the little witch was incidental. At this moment, he was lost in thought and murmured: "However, these means are only for maintenance. Thirty or fifty years, they will eventually decay with time." .”

Why is the voice getting smaller? Hermione quickly closed the distance between the two of them, stretching her neck and listening hard.

"Are the heroes and creations in mythology conjecture or real existence?"

"Are they powerful wizards?"

"If so, how do those magical creations that have been passed down for thousands of years become immortal?"

Watching the professor fall into silence, Hermione guessed, "Maybe they themselves provide a steady stream of magic power."

Felix laughed dumbfounded ~IndoMTL.com~ How is this possible, they are not living things. "

"What about the Sorting Hat? The Sorting Hat has existed for thousands of years, and it can communicate with people, and has its own wisdom." Hermione tried to give examples to support her guess, "There are also portraits of previous principals in the principal's office, I heard Harry mentioned it."

"Miss Granger, the portrait itself is an exquisite magical creation, it can carry a person's thoughts. And as far as I know, if a magic portrait is to be maintained for a long time, it cannot be separated from regular maintenance. It could last for decades..."

"However, the Sorting Hat," Felix thought for a while, "I did ignore it, I don't know much about it, maybe I should find an opportunity to introduce myself to it again?"

"Okay, Miss Granger, let's stop our brainstorming journey here. Next--"

Felix took a palm-sized piece of chestnut wood from Hermione's hand, "Next, I'll connect these runes and make them form a circuit, pay attention."

This job is quite delicate. He carefully drew out the lines, connected them with each other, and explained while operating, "This step is very important. Many alchemy creations have complex functions."

Ten minutes later, he handed the chestnut wood chip to Hermione to let her feel the difference.

"I feel the magic power flowing, there are fluctuations and ups and downs, they...they seem to be resisting me." Hermione expressed her feelings a little puzzled.

This is really unbelievable.

Felix understood, "The resistance you said is because it is a rough semi-finished product, and the magic wave spreads wantonly, and you feel this."

"Of course, this also shows that you are very keen, and your talent in spells must be very strong."

Hermione's face turned bright red.