A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 500: Bait
Newt looked both surprised and fascinated.
He stared at the unusually large bird snake with focused and hot eyes, and murmured: "Am I dreaming, I hope Tina won't wake me up halfway." He tentatively approached, but the bird snake seemed to be caught by his attitude. Terrified, he flapped his wings and brought up a strong wind, pushing him back a few steps.
"Wow, calm down—"
Newt fished out a canning jar out of nowhere, stuffed with beetles, "I know you like this, no harm, look, this is food—uh—" he said , while trying to unscrew the cover slowly, it turned out that the bird snake began to gradually shrink.
"Felix?" he said with obvious confusion.
Soon the bird snake was only the size of its shell, and its body was coiled together. Varun jumped down from the table and looked at Bird Snake, his black eyes gleamed, and the two little guys were about the same height.
"Hey!"
Warren just wanted to reach out to grab it, but the bird and snake had already rushed aside. As the mist filled, Felix's figure reappeared. He stretched out his hand and put the robe on his body, returning to his original state.
"The show is over."
Felix snapped his fingers, and the fog quickly dispersed.
Newt showed obvious disappointment.
"You don't want to study me, do you?" Felix said warily.
"Oh, no, how come—" Newt said a little flustered, his gaze still fixed on him, "Of course not—I can tell the difference between you, there is no such big difference in reality. Is it because of you?" He lamely changed the subject.
But to be honest, Felix also secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Just now, Newt's eyes seemed to be looking at his favorite magical animal, and it was a new species that he had never seen before.
"It should be because of me." He said while sitting on a stone, "I have also tried several magical beast transformations during this time, but it is obvious that the newly mastered bird-snake transformation is easier and more complete. I Guess it may be because I have a good command of the scaling spell."
"The spell you used on the Blast-tail?" Newt asked sharply.
Felix nodded.
"No wonder then," said Newt, "the connection between ancient runes and magical animals runs deep - I've read your paper - but, um," he considered the wording, "you should understand, The two are different, I mean ancient magic and the gift of fantastic animals, they are different."
"I understand," Felix nodded, "Perhaps at the beginning, the ancient runes did imitate magical animals and plants, but when wizards combined pure rune symbols into the first brand new magic After that, the two have become completely different.”
"However, I will try to restore their abilities."
His light blue eyes showed infinite desire, "The talent of some magical animals is really fascinating." He looked down at the invisible beast, this little guy has the ability to predict the future for a short time, and then thought of the principal Phoenix Fox in the office, reborn from the ashes... that must be extremely difficult.
"You are the one who is most qualified to say this." Newt also said with emotion, "Everyone underestimated the potential of the ancient runes... When will you come next time? I can't wait to see New changes."
"When you encounter a bottleneck," Felix said with some regret, "I need time to digest the current harvest, and I guess the next two years will be very busy."
"War," Newt whispered.
…
After coming out of Newt's house, Felix went to the company headquarters in Diagon Alley for a stroll.
The development of the "Future World" company has been on the right track, and - Felix was surprised to find that - the employees are generally young, and many of them are even students who have graduated from Hogwarts in the past two years.
"At present, we have 267 people. At the request of the professor, we will maintain the current level of development in the UK, and instead expand rapidly and establish stations abroad." Keremi said holding a thick document.
"Is the plan to introduce the basis of alchemy carried out smoothly?"
"Those who have the foundation of ancient runes can master it very quickly, while the rest progress more slowly."
"No hurry," Felix nodded, "What about defensive training?"
Kremy sighed.
"Not all wizards like to fight, especially dueling classes haven't been taught in school for a few years, and you know how good the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was before... more than one-third of the employees can't even cast a dueling spell Without mastery, let alone combat awareness, they can know a lot of small curses, but they are useless except for teasing people."
"It's not bad to use pranks well," Felix said, "but the employees of the company must master the most basic self-protection ability, the Runic Iron Armor Curse..." He stopped and thought for a while, "Forget it, Not everyone has taken the ancient spells, so the Iron Armor Curse and the Stunning Curse must be mastered as soon as possible, and the Apparition and Bright Fire Curse will be postponed. The order can be postponed for a period of time, or handed over to foreign employees Do, we currently have no competitors.”
Cremy jotted it down quickly.
"How about the progress of Anti-thief Falls?"
"Remus is still discussing with Gringotts, but the goblins are ignoring him." Cramie said indignantly.
"The goblins want to remain neutral, or the more intense we fight, the happier they are..." Felix said, "Isn't there a Ministry of Magic?"
"The Ministry of Magic has the technology, but it hasn't been used for hundreds of years," Keremy said with a strange expression, "They couldn't find the right people to build the anti-thief waterfall."
"Didn't the Alchemy Association send anyone to help?" Felix asked curiously.
"After all, it is a magic organization across Europe," Keremi shrugged, "Many people are reluctant to come here at this sensitive time, and the British alchemists...are not famous, unless you put the Joko is also counted."
"Zoko..." Felix was speechless.
Zoko is the owner of the Zoko joke shop in Hogsmeade. He used to be an alchemist, but his business was not very good at the beginning. Prank and trick products, unexpectedly became a hit, and have gone further and further in this field since then.
Then what to do, Felix was deep in thought. As his goals became bigger and bigger, he was worried that Voldemort would set his sights on the employees of the "Future World" company. Waterfall appears to be more strategically valuable. It can wash away all enchantments, all magical camouflage, and the effective range even covers Polyjuice Potion and Imperius.
"Professor..." Keremy raised her hand and looked at him with bright eyes.
Felix's heart moved, "Do you want to try?"
"That's right," Keremy said, feeling relieved, she thought she and the professor wanted to go together, "We have more than fifty research and development wizards, each of whom is good at two or three directions, and has experienced too much I can't think of a more tacit group for the development process of a new product."
Felix pondered the feasibility of the plan. The Ministry of Magic has technology, they have a mature team, and they have enough brain power. It seems to be a win-win result, but I don’t know whether the Ministry of Magic will agree to transfer the technology. It’s hard to say. Home Daily reached a cooperation.
The Daily Prophet also grew rapidly after the war.
"Professor," Keremy said eagerly, "now is an opportunity."
"Okay." Felix agreed, "I'll go and tell Ms. Burns, if she doesn't have a better choice now, I'm sure I can convince her. Is there anything new?"
"Yes!" Keremy said, "It's just a little thing."
She flicked through the files.
"The Weasley twins practice here, their—"
"Wait, Fred and George are here? At the company? Right now?" Felix asked in surprise.
"Yeah," Keremi nodded, "they came here on the first day of the holiday, full of weird ideas... Remus attaches great importance to the series of anti-spell hats and cloaks they proposed. , appointed them as team leaders, and personally helped them." She pursed her lips, "But Remus rejected their series of mysterious man pranks, which are things like scare boxes, constipation kernels...Fred kept going You're yelling at Remus for being ignorant, and saying you can't help but admire this stuff—is that true?"
"Well, I appreciate their design ideas, but it's really not appropriate to make fun of Voldemort...the Death Eaters will chase after their **** and chant the Death Curse..."
Kremi stared at Felix's unnatural face for a while, showing a suspicious expression.
"Ahem, let's continue."
"...Because of the Ministry of Magic's endorsement, the sales of rune cards have increased significantly. It is estimated that according to this progress, every family will soon be able to set one set...In fact, things related to rune promotion are selling well. That's right, whether it's the manga episodes released by Andis or the rune booklets, they are reprinted again and again... Many people wrote to ask about the casting skills of the lighting technique, and Penello often worked overtime during this time."
Felix is not too surprised by this.
"Illumination is the simplest and safest form of ancient magic," he said.
"Maybe it's not the reason," Keremi said strangely, "The Anti-Dark Magic League has recently announced some spells that are effective against black magic. In addition to the Light and Fire spell, which dominates the list, Illumination is also on the list. The recommended effect is It can expel Yin corpses on a large scale..."
"Uh—is that the reason? I thought it was because of my love for ancient runes." Felix said jokingly.
"Professor," Keremi said with a straight face, "the Inferi is not even a problem for you, but during the first war, the mysterious man created a large number of Inferi to spread terror, which is countless The nightmare in the hearts of wizards."
Felix scratched his chin. According to her, he has never regarded the corpses as a threat, after all, he can solve them in different ways. But if you think about it carefully, the Infernal Corpse is not that easy to deal with - it moves slowly, has no pain sensation, and can resist conventional spells.
It is indeed a nightmare for a wizard who can't apparate and has a family.
If you cooperate with the army of dementors, it will be even more terrifying.
…
He went to the Ministry of Magic that day to discuss the cooperation in researching the Anti-thief Falls. Ms. Burns readily agreed, "I'm tired of the attitude of those goblins." There was no disturbance in the whole process, except that Felix watched a quarrel between Sirius and Burns.
The cause was the Longbottom couple returning from a trip.
The Ministry of Magic has recently recruited a group of reserve Aurors and strikers. As a result, the average combat level has declined. Bones urgently needs an experienced Auror team leader, and he is very worried about this.
"As a result, the Order of the Phoenix digested two important combat powers without making any noise." Ms. Burns said dissatisfiedly.
Sirius' attitude is that he refuses to admit it.
"Is there such a thing? I didn't notice. I've been here with you for the past few days, and I've been so busy...you haven't paid me a salary yet!" He put one hand in his pocket, tilted Eyes, the tone is very annoying, "And are you sure Frank and Alice are members of the Order of the Phoenix?"
"Sirius Black! My brother was one of the first members of the Order of the Phoenix! You think I don't know?" Burns yelled at him.
Sirius fell silent immediately, and rarely refuted. He said with a complicated expression: "Edgar...he is a brave man and a reliable comrade in arms. I am sorry for what happened to him."
It took Burns a long time to calm down.
"I'm sorry, I lost my temper - Felix, let's talk about the arrangement of the honor ceremony, Dumbledore is worried that the Death Eaters will attack that day, alas, in order to cheer people up, we have to make a lot of fanfare... Many people know about it.”
If even the cleaning staff of the Ministry of Magic knew about it, it would be difficult for the Death Eaters not to know about it.
"On the day of the award, we will arrange Aurors to guard against death. They are the most trustworthy people, and with Dumbledore and you, the possibility of danger is very low. I even think..." She hesitated for a while Said, "We can take the initiative and catch a wave of Death Eaters."
"Absolutely not!" Sirius objected, "I can't let Harry and the others act as bait."
"Not them."
"What?"
"It's not them as bait, it's ours," Ms. Burns said, "I'm one of them."
Sirius looked at her in astonishment.
"What? What do you think I became the director of the Law Enforcement Department during the ten years you were in prison?" Ms. Burns said calmly.
Sirius was overwhelmed by the confidence in the words.
"The crybaby has become a cool girl..." Felix said while sitting in a chair flipping through a comic book. Ernes, I'm very interested in the bait part, we can have a good chat."
…
When he returned to No. 12 Grimmauld Place, Felix was just in time for dinner. There was a large group of people around the dinner table, Sirius, Tonks, Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Fred and George, Ron, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, and-
"Hello, Professor," Neville said shyly. The Longbottoms sitting on both sides smiled and said, "Mr. Haip, the last time we met was on Neville's birthday, almost a year has passed."
"Yeah," Harry couldn't help but said, "I just found out today that Neville's and I's birthdays are only one day apart."
"It looks like we are going to prepare two birthday parties in a row." Mrs. Weasley said with a smile, "Felix, I have prepared your favorite soup."
"Oh——"
"Molly, Felix has only eaten your cooking once," Mr. Weasley reminded his wife.
"There will be more in the future." Mrs. Weasley patted her husband and said to everyone, "Hurry up, the children are exhausted."
"Thanks, Mom," said Fred and George in unison.
"I'm not talking about you." Mrs. Weasley glanced at them, turned her head and said with a smile to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville: "You've been staying in the basement for the past few days. To be healthy, you need to breathe more fresh air, maybe it’s good to live in a shabby place for a few days, you will get depressed if you hold it for a long time.”
"Yeah," said Mr. Weasley too, "you can't expect to be as good as your lords in one summer, and with us in the way, the war might be over before you graduate. You can talk to Sedry Ke played Quidditch, and their family moved near the Burrow...to take care of each other."
"Is that the case?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, we also tried to convince the Lovegood family, but they refused to move--"
"No," Sirius frowned, looking at Harry and the others, "You have been staying at home all this time? Practicing magic all day? What do you want to do?"
Harry pawed rice in silence, Hermione raised her head to look around, then lowered her head again.
Ron muttered, "You won't let us attend the Order of the Phoenix meeting, we've got to find something to do ~IndoMTL.com~ Honey, you're not old enough to—" Mrs. Weasley said.
"About this, we may be able to help a little..." Fred and George looked at each other and said slyly, "There is a thing called telescoping ears—"
"Shut up, you two. I haven't said anything about you yet!" snapped Mrs. Weasley.
Ron spread his hands and said to the others: "You have also seen that even Fred and George were forced to run away from home. They are all adults, and they are not a few years younger than Tonks——"
Tonks across the way made a face at him, a real face.
"They want to deal with You-Know-Who and Death Eaters!" Ginny screamed, flinging her fiery red hair back, "I want to train too, but they don't want me and drive me away."
"Oh, shut up, Ginny," said Ron.
"I hope this is just a long-term goal, children." Mr. Weasley put down the cutlery and said slightly seriously, "Otherwise, we need to talk."