Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 38 Difference
Tyella ultimately accepted the duel invitation, which made Hermione somewhat unhappy, but she couldn't help but look at Tyella with a worried expression.

“Alright, now you two…” Flitwick stood in the center of the open space, preparing to teach the two young wizards the techniques for wizard dueling.

But before he could finish speaking, he saw Tiera, who had just emerged from the crowd, raise her wand.

"Petrify them all!" A beam of white light struck Malfoy, who immediately collapsed to the ground, stunned.

"Hey! The duel with Tierra hasn't even started yet!" Flitwick shouted in a high-pitched voice.

He considered such duels without wizarding rituals to be informal.

Petrify All is a spell that Tyella learned and mastered after arriving at Hogwarts.

This spell was originally supposed to be a beginner spell in the third-year curriculum.

Tiera had accumulated enough theoretical knowledge of magic after five years of study, but lacked skills and basic knowledge.

This problem was solved after he entered Hogwarts. He was always the last to leave after each Charms class, holding the "Elementary Charms Course III" borrowed from the library, asking Professor Flitwick all sorts of questions, frantically trying to make up for his shortcomings in spellcasting skills and some omissions in basic knowledge.

All teachers love eager learners, and even if the child's questions far exceed the limits of what they should be able to answer, Professor Flitwick still enthusiastically provides the answers.

But Flitwick will not protect anyone who breaks the rules of wizard duels, even if he is just a newly enrolled wizard.

"What are you looking at? Tyella, you should know that wizard duels must wait for the referee, which means you can only start attacking each other after I count down three times!" Flitwick said angrily, having already released Draco from his petrification.

"Except for your martial arts..."

"All petrified!"

Draco, who was unexpectedly knocked down, was clearly unwilling to accept it. After getting up from the ground, he ignored his sore backside, put his wand on his hand, and wanted to use his weapon to kill Tyella.

However, Tiera, who was watching him closely, reacted in time and was petrified a second time, freezing him stiff like a corpse as he fell back to the ground.

Scored twice.

Now Flitwick was out of options.

Not only Flitwick, but McGonagall and Snape were also surprised.

The duel ended rather abruptly.

Although Flitwick did not declare Tyella the victor, in the minds of the young Gryffindor wizards, Tyella had won.

Almost all the young wizards surrounded Tierra, offering their congratulations in unison.

Only Hermione seemed a little unhappy, standing absentmindedly on the outermost edge of the crowd.

Hermione felt she had fallen far behind, but at the same time, a fierce competitive spirit ignited within her.

“That’s great, Tierra!” Ron congratulated her.

"Great!" Harry took the opportunity to ruffle Tierra's soft hair. He had wanted to do it for a long time. Tierra seemed to be a clean freak and would take a bath every day, so she always had a faint scent of soapy water on her body. Her hair was always soft and had a silky sheen because it hadn't been cut for a long time.

Tiera wasn't used to the crowd's enthusiasm, especially the young wizards' generous praise, which made him a little embarrassed. He was somewhat awkward in his responses, not as natural as when he had stirred up the atmosphere during the flying lesson.

Tierra, squeezed among the many fluffy heads of young wizards, seemed to feel Snape give her a deep look, then with a flick of her robe, she turned and left.

Leaving the banquet hall, Snape didn't return to his basement office. Instead, he went to the third floor and stood before a huge, hideous gargoyle. "Honey grapefruit tea!" Snape uttered a word completely devoid of magic.

The giant gargoyle nodded in a very human-like manner, then began to rotate, revealing a spiral staircase behind it.

……

Having finally escaped the enthusiastic little wizard, Tyella arrived at the library on the fifth floor.

Hermione, the little witch, had already arrived there and was carefully studying an open, thick book.

Her fluffy, broom-like hair stood out among the group of older students.

Tierra didn't disturb her. He quietly walked past Hermione to his usual seat by the window and opened the book he had borrowed for over a month, "An Introduction to Alchemy".

He returned "The Principles of Potions" last week and replaced it with "The Principles of Magic," a book that even graduates wouldn't borrow.

When Thierra borrowed the book, Mrs. Pince gave him several strange looks.

I don't know what got into Snape today, insisting that he fight Malfoy, wasting more than ten minutes of his study time.

More than a month has passed since she enrolled, and the more Tiera studies, the more she feels the vastness and chaos of magical knowledge...

The library on that alien planet in Tiera, whether it's the Necronomicon, the R'lyeh Texts, or other ancient books that Tiera can now access, contains all the magic described differently, but all are based on the three-dimensional theory of magic.

However, none of the books Tyrell saw in the Hogwarts library contained any knowledge related to the three-dimensional theory of magic.

The Necronomicon and Merlin's Notebooks attribute the source of magic to the spiritual dimension, while books like Hogwarts' Theory of Magic attribute it to the power of bloodlines.

These books posit that magic is a power of thought, and that wizards are able to adapt to magic because their unique physical structure allows them to influence the real world with this power of thought.

In other words, the power of magic comes from the soul, and only wizards possess such a soul; this is what Tiera calls the theory of the magical soul.

The Hogwarts magic curriculum attributes all magical power to the soul, and in their view, the soul, like the body, is also a kind of matter.

Tyrell first discovered the difference between what she learned and what Hogwarts taught her in this book, *An Introduction to Alchemy*.

According to the Necronomicon and Merlin's notes, alchemy is the perfect fusion of the spiritual, material, and mental dimensions to reach the "origin" of these three dimensions—the Philosopher's Stone.

If any of the three dimensions overlap even slightly, it can be called an alchemical item; if the three dimensions are perfectly integrated, it becomes the Philosopher's Stone.

It is quite different from the one in Hogwarts' "Introduction to Alchemy".

According to the description in "An Introduction to Alchemy", if you want to create alchemical items, you need to infuse a magical soul into a special magical material—most often a magical creature, and early explorations of alchemy used the soul of a wizard.

Therefore, the early development of alchemy was often accompanied by bloodshed and brutality.

However, it is clear that extracting the soul separately is not an easy task.

"An Introduction to Alchemy" describes the method of separating the soul completely and individually.

Of course, the whole process was also filled with bloodshed and brutality.

It wasn't until a genius wizard and a veteran alchemist jointly discovered the twelve uses of dragon blood that the door to modern alchemy was opened.

(End of this chapter)