Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 522 Encountering Difficulties
As the third match of the Triwizard Tournament drew closer, the books in front of Hermione grew taller and taller, and she read faster and faster.

When almost everyone in the common room went back to the dormitory to sleep, she finished reading a dragon cookbook and found Charles sitting across the table staring at her.

He does this before reading and continues staring at it after finishing the book.

Hermione frowned and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

She felt that Charles must have bad intentions in looking at her like that.

Charles smiled slightly and said, "Nothing, I just ran into difficulties with a project recently and wanted to see you relieve some of the pressure."

In the past, Hermione would have felt happier to hear him say this, but now that she has seen through this guy, she must be fantasizing about growing cat ears.

But Hermione was curious and asked, "What difficulties did you encounter?"

Charles said: "I am researching a technology to quickly scan books, but the efficiency of optical scanning by turning pages is still too low, and a faster method is needed."

The magic model requires the input of a large number of books, so an extremely efficient input method is needed. This is not only used for normal input, but also for abnormal input, such as when sneaking into Durmstrang's library.

Having the puppets turn pages one by one is too inefficient.

Hermione's father was a dentist and had a small X-ray machine in his office, so she said, "Do you want to X-ray the whole book?"

Charles nodded and said, "I have this idea. I want to use CT 3D imaging technology to reconstruct a model of the contents of a book and then deduce its contents."

Hermione reminded him: "Hogwarts Castle has a strong magnetic field, and electrical appliances cannot be used."

Charles took out his wand and said, "X-rays are not affected by magnetic fields."

Hermione asked, "What about the equipment?"

Charles waved his wand, and seven colors of light came out from the top. He then said, "X-rays are the same as light, but they have different wavelengths. So can we use magic to generate X-rays, or even gamma rays?"

Hermione felt that she and Charles were not on the same page.

She shook her head and said, "I'm worried that if you continue like this, you'll go down the wrong path. It wouldn't be surprising if you made an atomic bomb and scared Privet Drive one day."

Charles was silent.

Hermione exclaimed, "You haven't tried it, have you?!"

Strictly speaking, the Cold War hasn't ended yet. When they were in elementary school, the school taught them some basic knowledge, and she knows something about nuclear explosions.

More importantly, she suddenly remembered that Charles knew a lot about atomic bombs, mushroom clouds, and Britain's nuclear bombs designed to deal with France.

It is said that Charles once wrote a letter to the Prime Minister saying that if the Soviets used the salami tactic, they would drop a nuclear bomb on France when they entered France, killing two birds with one stone.

Later, the Prime Minister gave him a small gift, which seemed to be a pen.

Surrey, where Privet Drive is located, is the back garden of London. If Charles really creates some big mushroom there, even Azkaban won’t be able to hold him.

Hermione finally realized that Charles might be a more terrifying guy than Voldemort.

Charles waved his hands and said that this could not be discussed.

He changed the subject: "I suggest you study and practice more protective and stealth spells."

Hermione's eyes lit up and she immediately asked, "Do you know the question?"

Charles shrugged and said, "Even if I knew, I couldn't tell you."

"But think about it, you will know that with so many fire dragons, you will definitely not fight head-on, but win with wisdom."

"You said Ron mentioned the dragon egg. If the intention was to defeat the dragon directly, there would be no need to do so. Its appearance is likely to serve as a marker for scoring." Hermione thought it made sense.

Then she suddenly thought of something, and her gaze towards Charles became strange.

Charles said warily, "I've already said a lot. Don't expect to get any more inside information from me."

"I remember you used an invisibility spell at the Potions Tournament in Kodostoriz," said Hermione.

Charles heard her talk about the mirror space spell and shook his head and said, "This spell is very difficult to learn. The prerequisite knowledge requires the traceless expansion spell, the apparition spell, etc. Don't expect it in a short time."

"You can Apparate?!" Hermione exclaimed, "How is that possible?!"

This year's Apparition class has already started. The class announcement is still posted on the bulletin board, and the age requirement is written on the parchment. No matter how Charles looks at it, he doesn't look like he's old enough.

Charles smiled and said, "I was allowed to sit in on the class, and then I tried it, and something unexpected happened."

"I will learn it later."

Hermione said immediately: "But you don't have a permit, you will be punished by the Department of Magical Transportation!"

Charles just smiled. In fact, he was also wondering why. He had used illegal door keys and illegal Apparition quite a lot, but he had never received a ticket.

I don't dare ask about this. What if I accidentally find a loophole and the loophole is exposed once I ask, which would cause trouble for me.

Charles said, "Just keep it to yourself."

"Not everyone is as talented as me. If someone tries it because of me, it would be terrible if something goes wrong."

Hermione didn't know what to say for a moment.

Charles was not worried that she would talk nonsense because she was a very well-behaved child and would never spread such things.

Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, Hermione did not dwell on this issue and returned to the previous question: "If it were you, how would you deal with the dragon?"

Charles said seriously: "The most terrifying thing about a fire dragon is that it can spit fire, but it only has one mouth. You have many people, so it's very easy to deal with it."

"All you need is someone to stand in front of the dragon to attract its attention. Then you can run behind it, grab its tail and throw it out."

Hermione wanted to throw him out of the window right now.

But I have to say, this is a good idea to deal with fire dragons.

Hermione said with a hint of regret, "It would be nice if you participated in the competition as well."

A team needs a backbone, but none of them have such ability at the moment. Charles, who can do this, has no intention of participating in the competition.

Charles was about to say something when Hermione said, "I always felt that there was something strange about you. In your first year, you seemed very nervous, secretly planning something, and didn't care about the things around you at all."

"Now you're different again, looking much more relaxed, but still not paying attention to what's going on around you."

Charles thought so too. He had made various preparations to deal with Voldemort in the past, but now that tension was gone. The preparations he had made for weapons had now become artificial intelligence puppets, and Voldemort was no longer in consideration.

He said calmly, "It's nothing, I just found the direction of my life."

Hermione looked at him in confusion for a moment, seeming to find it very strange.

Charles stood up and said, "It's getting late, we should go back to the dormitory."

(End of this chapter)