Science and magic at Hogwarts

Chapter 215 The Forbidden Book Area

Just when Kyle was paying attention to the restricted area, Hermione had already quickly selected the book she wanted to read, and stood in front of Kyle gracefully.

"Senior, the contents of these books may help Hagrid, can I take them all back?"

Maybe because of being with Harry for a long time, this girl has learned to ignore the rules.

According to the regulations of the library, each person can only borrow up to three books at a time.

But looking at the pile in the girl's hand, I'm afraid it will cost thirty copies.

It is said that if you are close to vermilion, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black.

Hermione was a good girl, but she was spoiled by that boy Harry.

But it can be seen that this girl is not used to such blatant violations, and there is some uneasiness in her expression.

His cheeks were reddish, his eyes flicked here and there, but he was embarrassed to look at Kyle, muttering in his mouth, explaining in a low voice:

"If you only take three books, you may have to run back and forth several times a day, which is very troublesome."

"Senior, you are so busy, you can't always trouble me to send me here."

Kyle looked at the girl's twisted look, rubbed her head amusedly, and waved his hand to release the shrinking spell for the books.

"It's an extraordinary time, I believe the school can understand."

When he said this, Kyle's face was full of smiles.

This is entirely his sincere words, after all, he is also planning to go to the library to do something extraordinary.

Kyle also wants to ask the professors for approval notes.

But the energy of the professors was all involved in the attack, so he could only keep things simple and borrow the books first.

Kyle's behavior is entirely to simplify the work process and not to cause trouble for the professors, rather than deliberately ignoring school rules and regulations!

After releasing the Shrinking Curse, the original tome became only the size of a postage stamp, and Hermione stuffed it into her schoolbag casually.

Although the reduction spell can reduce the volume of the item, it will not reduce the weight at all.

But this time before Kyle could do anything, Hermione cast a levitation spell herself.

Originally, she was carrying a somewhat strenuous schoolbag, but she suddenly became light and fluffy. The little girl also straightened up her bent body, and stood beside Kyle with a smile on her face.

Speaking of which, Hermione is really a very simple girl.

As long as she has a book to read, she can be happy all day long.

Kyle remembered Mr. Granger teasing Hermione that she would spend her life with books.

Kyle felt that this statement was wrong.

It should be said that if anyone can bring a library to confess to the little witch, the success rate is absolutely as high as 80%.

When Kyle saw that the little witch was ready, he took her out of the library.

The same as when you came, hang the Iron Armor Charm on your body, hold your wand tightly, and be ready to deal with danger at any time.

However, it seemed that there were not many acromantulas that ran into the castle. The two returned to the auditorium smoothly and left the castle with the help of the fireplace.

After arriving in Hogsmeade, the house-elves were called as usual.

"Kreacher, take Hermione back to the old house first, and think about preparing a dinner for her."

Before Kreacher could say something, Hermione looked at Kyle in surprise:
"Senior, don't you go back with me?"

Kyle shook his head: "I still have some things to do, so I won't go back."

The sensible Hermione didn't ask any more questions, but let Kreacher grab the corner of her clothes. After snapping her fingers, the two disappeared in place.

After the two left, Kyle returned to Hogwarts along the path just now. After carefully looking around, he quickly cast a spell on himself, and then walked quickly to the library.

Since Mrs. Pince was sent to the Ministry of Magic today to accompany those Muggle students who couldn't go home for the time being, at least no one would disturb Kyle until dawn.

The layout of the forbidden book area is not much different from that of the ordinary area.

Only in the place where the two are separated, there is a conspicuous warning sign:
restricted area

Do not enter without permission!

Although there were no other special arrangements, when Kyle stepped over the warning sign, he obviously felt that the temperature had become colder, and there were wailing and screams in his ears from time to time.

Books in the Restricted Section are placed here precisely because they are fraught with danger.

Some are too dark or dangerous in content, and some are books themselves, which are already a danger that students cannot resist.

Kyle looked around and found a lot of malicious books with ease.

For example, there is a book called "The Art of Melting", which talks about various dangerous fire magic.

The reason why this book was placed in the restricted area was not only because the magic inside was difficult to control, but also because if the reader was not strong enough, it would be melted unconsciously while reading.

By the time the reader wakes up, it has melted into a puddle of liquid like a candle.

Such dangerous books abound in the restricted area.

Some books will bite the reader's hand, leaving scars that will never heal. The injured person can only choose to drink blood tonic every day, otherwise he will bleed to death.

Once you start reading some books, you can never stop, as if your eyes are glued to the book.

Are these the scariest books in the Restricted Section?
of course not.

These books don't even rank in the Restricted Section.

The most dangerous are those books that can hurt the soul.

And what Kyle was looking for was the most dangerous book.

Because only this kind of book has enough in-depth research on the soul.

Kyle strolled among the bookshelves in the restricted area, his gaze slowly sweeping across the terrifying black magic books.

The art of torture, no.

The Skinning Curse and its 25 Alterations, no.

Soul energy, this is it!
It didn't take too long for Kyle to find his goal.

The titles of the books seem a little ordinary. Many books that explore the mysteries of the soul will have the word "soul energy" in their names.

But when Kyle attached the magic power to his hand and briefly looked through the catalog, he immediately understood the difference between this book and his other books.

The soul energy in other books is more about exploring the use of soul energy and how to enhance your own energy.

And this book really treats the soul as a source of energy.

To put it simply, it is to burn the souls of other creatures when needed, so as to cast magic beyond one's control, or to strengthen the power of magic.

For example, the powerful Iron Armor Curse, which originally required the cooperation of multiple people to cast, could even be released by one person independently if enough souls were burned, and the power was even stronger.

In addition, this book also involves some alchemy knowledge.

The book introduces a special equipment, named by the author as the Soul Furnace.

This device can even be regarded as an alternative energy storage room.

After stuffing the soul into it, the furnace will ignite the soul, extract the energy from it, and store it inside the device.

These extracted energies are even more efficient than ordinary magic power.

It can be used to supply magic circles, conduct magic research, and even directly use it to attack enemies.

In short, this is a book that regards the soul as material, and then plays with it unscrupulously.

Of course, Kyle does not need to burn his soul to fight against the enemy, but the knowledge about souls in the book really benefited him a lot.

How to condense the soul, how to stimulate the soul to produce energy, how to collect this energy, these knowledge are not the focus of this book.

But it just so happens that it is the knowledge that Kyle urgently needs to know.

Whether it is to deal with Horcruxes or to further transform the Patronus Charm, knowledge of the soul is essential.

The study of the soul is exactly the taboo of taboos.

So taking this opportunity, Kyle must learn as much knowledge as possible in this area.

Throughout the night, Kyle was flipping through these taboo knowledge, and he devoted all his attention to the books without wasting a minute or a second.

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the morning of the next day that there were some noises in the corridor, and he put the books back on the shelf, cast the illusion spell and the iron armor spell on himself, and sneaked out of the library.

The noise in the corridor was caused by Ministry of Magic strikers.

After a night's rest, these guys officially began to search the castle to eliminate hidden dangers.

Carefully choosing a path away from these people, walking lightly all the way to the auditorium, Kyle took a sigh of relief, and quickly left here through the fireplace.

Kyle didn't feel hungry until he returned to the old house and completely relaxed.

After all, he has been busy for nearly 15 hours since dinner last night, and he hasn't touched a drop of water during this time.

Before waiting for the greeting from Kreacher, Kale quickly gave him instructions:
"Get me some breakfast, I've been busy all night, my stomach is going to rebel!"

Seeing Kyle's hungry appearance, Kreacher didn't care to help him change his clothes, so he nodded quickly, and Apparated to the kitchen.

After the house elf took the order to leave, Kyle slumped on a chair in the dining room, waiting for the arrival of breakfast.

But don't look at Kyle's exhausted look, but his spirit at this time is extremely excited.

Of course, the night's work was not in vain.

Kyle's trip to the restricted area this time really took a handful of Hogwarts' wool, and he found a lot of useful books in it.

Although the content inside, I just memorized it wholeheartedly, and I didn't have time to think about it carefully.

But I believe that it won't be long before he can completely transform the knowledge he has not absorbed into his own.

In the process of eating breakfast, the excitement finally calmed down a little bit, and the exhaustion began to hit Kyle continuously.

Although he wanted to analyze the knowledge as soon as possible and ask Hermione about Ron, Kyle's body couldn't hold on anymore.

After finishing his breakfast in a daze, he walked straight back to his bedroom and threw himself on the bed.

Kyle fell asleep in the dark, and it didn't know how long it took before he vaguely heard Kreacher's call:

"Young master, get up and have some dinner, you have been sleeping all day."

Kreacher yelled several times in a row before finally making Kyle sober.

First, he tried his best to move his limbs, clenched his fist, and signaled to Kreacher that he was awake.

Then he exhausted all his strength and got up from the bed.

But getting up from the bed does not mean that the person is awake. Kyle did it for another 5 minutes before barely opening his eyes.

Sure enough, no matter how old you are, staying up all night is the most harmful behavior to your body.

Kyle only felt that his whole body was sore now, his eyes were extremely dry, and he even felt a little nauseated.

Rubbing his eyes, Kyle finally noticed that Kreacher was holding a clean robe in his hand, and he was standing aside with a concerned expression when the feeling of exhaustion finally subsided.

Looking around, there was a glass of water on the bedside table.

While Kyle was turning his dull head, thinking about how many days the water had been left, Kreacher on the side explained very considerately:
"Young master, I put that on the bedside half an hour ago, and it's neither cold nor hot now, drink some to moisten your intestines."

Kyle nodded, picked up the water glass and drank it down, only to feel a lot more comfortable.

"what time is it now?"

While changing his robe, Kyle asked Kreacher:
"It's already 05:30."

"What about Hermione?"

"Miss Granger is still in the library, reading the books she brought back."

"Go and call him to the restaurant for dinner. I'll wait for you in the restaurant."

Hearing Kyle's order, the elf nodded and disappeared.

After Kreacher left, Kyle simply moved his body and did a set of radio gymnastics similar to three left punches and three right punches before walking slowly towards the restaurant.

After entering the restaurant, Kyle met the little witch's concerned eyes:
"Senior, how are you resting? Why do you look so bad?"

Kyle waved at her, indicating that he had nothing to do with it, and then collapsed on the chair in the dining room.

The legs were stretched out, the two arms were drooping freely as if there were no bones, and the head was resting on the back of the chair, looking like a standard school scumbag.

It's no surprise that Kyle worked so hard.

In the book he read last night, there were a lot of things that he couldn't understand for the time being, and he only memorized them by rote, which consumed a lot of his mind.

Until now, his brain is still aching, which seems to be a manifestation of excessive brain use.

Seeing Kyle's tired look, the little girl pursed her lips hesitantly, but soon, she walked behind him with a calm expression, and gently pinched his shoulders.

While pinching, the little girl began to complain:

"Senior, I'm not talking about you. What's the rush? You made yourself so embarrassed all of a sudden."

Kyle didn't stop Hermione's kindness.

Although it looked like the girl had never done this job, she couldn't do it right.

But at least this kind of heart is very useful to Kyle.

"No way, the opportunity is rare. Some things are missed now, and I don't know when I can do it again."

Kyle's words are not an explanation to Hermione, but just talking to himself about his behavior this night.

But unexpectedly, the voice of the little witch came from behind:

"So that's why you left me in the old house, ran to the restricted area by yourself, and read it all night?"

"..."

Sure enough, smart girls are not easy to cheat.

Kyle didn't even say anything, and the girl already guessed his whereabouts.

(End of this chapter)