A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 448: Game

In the potions professor's office, Felix and Snape were playing a game of wizard chess.

Felix started the game with the white king pawn, and Snape started the game with the black Sicilian defense. The chessboard reached the middle game.

"How effective is the slime of snail larvae?"

"It's not bad. It seems that some unknown change has taken place. I personally think it's benign..." Snape commanded his black pawns to step forward, and said softly, "This may be an idea. Magically manipulates materials to 'kill' certain unnecessary but stubborn material traits."

"Isn't there also a situation where the materials neutralize each other in potions? Oh... I understand." Felix said, and at the same time commanded his queen to advance two squares, sweeping the black pawns off the board.

Snape dispatched the bishop unhurriedly, "Most mediocre wizards can't distinguish the subtle differences, and this is an important factor that determines whether he can achieve success on the potion journey..."

The white knight of Felix trembled under the threat of the black bishop, and kept shouting to Felix: "Come and save me! Come and save me!"

Felix gave the order coldly, his white king moved forward three squares blankly behind him, his eyes moved back and forth between the two black pawns diagonally and vertically. Snape contemplated for a few seconds before abandoning the vertical black pawn.

At this time, Felix moved the white knight deep into Black's territory. "Charge!" Chess shouted enthusiastically.

"That's right," said Felix, responding to Snape. "However, we must also consider the basic deviation of some newly enrolled young wizards."

"I've thought about it, and the potion ratios for the first year are extremely simple, leaving them plenty of time to adapt." Snape said slowly, "Unless they are illiterate, or have no The slightest logical ability."

Felix thought about it, and it was indeed the case. There were not many recipes in the first-year potion textbook, and most of them were introductions to common potion ingredients and precautions when cooking potions And a summary of the characteristics of common potions. Even for the remaining dozen or so potion formulas, the operation steps are described in great detail. Even after stirring a few times, the reaction after that is described in detail, and common errors and corrective measures are attached at the back of the page.

At this time, Snape's black knight was approaching the center of the chessboard, attacking the central position, and Felix mobilized the castle to fight. The smell of gunpowder on the chessboard is getting stronger and stronger, but the two people outside the chessboard are chatting leisurely

"Recently, many students are discussing using ancient runes to enhance modern magic, and some students have already researched a lot." Snape said softly.

"I know..." Felix stared at the chessboard, feeling that the **** in the center was wrong. After pondering for a moment, he keenly discovered a hidden trap. He glanced at Snape, trying to distract me with words ?

He decisively made the white knight back. The black **** followed immediately, and the white bishop stepped forward to sweep away the black pawn, and the black knight counterattacked and ate the white bishop. The remaining white pawns eat the black queen.

Felix let out a long sigh of relief after a fierce exchange.

"In fact, the integration of ancient runes and modern magic is a dead end."

"A dead end?" Snape looked at him suspiciously, he didn't care about the chess pieces in his hand.

"Well," Felix thought about it seriously, "It's more accurate to say...a fork in the road is like a branch of a river. At the end, it still has to converge into one."

"I've never heard of such a statement." Snape said slowly, twisting a struggling black knight in his hand.

Felix smiled, and he explained in detail: "Take the 'Water Flow' rune and the water-making spell as an example. Some of their magic concepts overlap, so the rune has a strengthening effect on the spell, but you will find that, This kind of increase cannot be suitable for all spells, and I guess the specific effect will vary from person to person..."

"It varies from person to person?" Snape pondered the word.

"That's right. For example, the degree of mastery of the rune, a deep understanding of the rune is the most basic prerequisite. Although tricks can be used, there must be someone willing to teach... and choose the right spell. The students are experimenting furiously. Well, it should be possible to try out some results before the enthusiasm is exhausted... There are also casting time, activation timing, etc. These are all problems."

Felix continued: "This is just a fusion of a single rune and modern magic. After that? Incorporate two or three runes? Rune circuit, rune sequence, ancient magic? You will find that the more you get In the future, the proportion of ancient runes will be more important, so it will not make much sense."

"Then why?" Snape took a breath.

"I thought about it in the past," Felix said calmly, "I just wanted to climb up and appreciate the mysteries of higher places, so some obviously unsuitable routes were naturally abandoned. For example, I knew The follow-up and end point of this line of thought transforms modern magic into ancient magic, breaking through all kinds of tangible and intangible restrictions. But obviously, this is not what I want.”

Especially with the Book of Runes. thought Felix.

Snape was silent for a while, "So, do you think it would be better to take it out now?"

"It was Digory who reminded me, and I'm also going with the flow." Felix shook his head slightly, stared at the chessboard for a moment, then looked away and said, "Of course, if you think about it carefully, it does promote ancient runes to me. There are great benefits..."

The situation on the chessboard entered the endgame stage, and the scene began to become clear. The sub-force competition just now took him a lot of thought, especially since he didn't plan to cheat with the thinking cabin or the speed-up magic.

Felix leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, watched Snape contemplate, and continued the topic just now: "Although I don't need it, Digory's accidental discovery also reminded me of one thing: the ancient magic The article may come from me, but I hope that a hundred flowers will flourish after me, so I encourage them to contribute to the magazine.”

Snape looked up at him in surprise.

"Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the combination of ancient runes and modern magic, as well as some good cases... I designed a set of thesis structure, and they completed it in this way. published in magazines," Felix explained. "Of course, I mean the members of the Rune Club." He added. At the same time, he commanded his own white soldiers to advance, and the white soldiers drew out their scimitars to exaggerately intimidate the opponent's knights. "I also suggest that the students send it in two parts, and send one part to the Ancient Runes Association."

Snape showed a knowing expression.

The relationship between my student and the Ancient Rune Association has not been good. It is difficult for those old scholars who have studied the changes in the shape and meaning of characters all their lives to accept Felix's theory. Their general view is that ancient rune is a The language is just borrowed some "shape" from the predecessors.

Now it seems that it is not impossible to form a "New Ancient Rune Association" after these students grow up. In other words, it is almost inevitable. Among the Hogwarts graduates this year, more than half have chosen ancient runes, and more than one-fifth of the entire grade has attended ancient runes improvement classes. Their knowledge of ancient runes and previous experience are what Felix learned as hoped.

A frightening fact is that Felix has only been employed for less than three years. In other words, the students who graduated in the past two years did not follow him at all. The students who took the O.W.Ls exam were the first batch of people who started to receive Felix's ancient rune education from the third grade.

As for those old scholars, all they can do is to speak up in the corners of some newspapers, denounce this behavior, or consider splitting those 'practical' ancient rune texts in name, and do not recognize Their existence is divided into two parts. Anyway, the proportion of this part of ancient runes is not large...

This should be the best way. Snape thought to himself, it was like a gecko with a short tail to survive. Although it looked ugly, it managed to preserve itself.

Felix fiddled with a chess piece and said with a smile: "I recently made a new discovery. Some runes that we thought were pure translations may be simplifications and deformations of some practical runes, um , maybe the degree of deformation is relatively large..."

This is also the insight brought to him by the book of magic text.

Snape was speechless.

Even the last step is blocked, besides admitting defeat obediently, is there any other way for the Ancient Rune Association?

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Ancient Rune Association Headquarters.

Compared to large organizations such as the Extraordinary Pharmacist Association and the St. Mungo Magic Medical Association, the residence of the Ancient Rune Association looks extremely shabby. There are only about 30 members in total. This is because the association has repeatedly relaxed its requirements. , the result accumulated over decades.

"Have you seen it? It's normal for a valuable article to be published in the field of ancient magic text in a few years, but in the past half a month, six or seven very groundbreaking papers have been sent to me..."

"Does what they study have something to do with us?" A grumpy old man patted the table.

"Old Vera, don't bring your personal emotions into it. Your granddaughter went to work at the 'Future World' company. No matter what you say, it can't affect the fairness of our association."

The old man looked at his friend angrily.

"You have to think about it~IndoMTL.com~ These papers have been published in the "Daily Prophet" and "Wizard Weekly", and even attracted the attention of the Ministry of Magic"

"What's the matter with them?" The old man asked with wide eyes.

"Ha! This matter involves at least three departments, the Experimental Spells Committee, the Wizarding Examinations Administration, and the Auror Office." Under the leadership of Haipu, a pamphlet about ancient runes has been assembled, so it may attract the attention of the publishing department..."

"The people from the Wizarding Examination Administration are also going there?" the old man asked.

"Originally, Geselda was very patient, and planned to see this year's results before talking...but things changed too fast, and she couldn't sit still. This is almost a subversion of the modern mantra!"

"Is that an exaggeration?" The old man looked disbelieving.

"At least it's a supplement. I've already taken a step back. You can't refute it!"

"Okay," the old man smacked his lips, and there was no movement for a while, "Do you know Professor March? Let her bring me one!"