The Periodic Table of Words at Hogwarts

(The title seems to reveal something, what? The title just changed? Then it will be fine)

Zhang Qi wrote a letter to the German Ministry of Magic overnight.

Two days ago, the British Daily Prophet published the news that a vampire from the German Ministry of Magic was attacked and killed. According to the content described in the news, the vampire who attacked Zhang Qi and Hekmedia was neither more nor less. Young, exactly 105 years old!

According to the regulations of the German Ministry of Magic, the body materials of the killed black magic creatures belong to the hunter, except for materials that can only be used for black magic experiments. The Ministry of Magic will purchase and destroy such materials, and then convert them into gold coins.

The heart of a vampire can indeed be used for black magic experiments, but the heart of this 105-year-old vampire must not be in good condition, so it must not be used for black magic experiments.

So Zhang Qi took advantage of a loophole and wrote a thank-you letter to the German Ministry of Magic. In it, he praised the bravery and decisiveness of the officer on duty, briefly expressed the company's desire to invest in Germany, and then mentioned at the end of the letter He said that he hoped to ask for the vampire's heart as a souvenir - it was a defective product anyway and could not even resurrect an inferi.

Zhang Qi also specially printed the seal of the Qirol family - Silver Shield and Spear on the lacquered area of ​​the envelope.

After sealing the first letter, Zhang Qi was about to get up and go to the owl shed to mail the letter, but suddenly paused. Then he sat down at the desk again and took out another piece of paper. This time it was a standard letter. stationery.

“Dear Uncle Nicolas Cage”…

As the sole heir of the Qirol family, Zhang Qi has been involved in the family's business very early, so he naturally recognizes some of the business partners in Hekmadia.

This Ukrainian named Nicolas Cage is an arms dealer. He is a competitor with Hekmedia, but he also often cooperates with them, so they have a relatively good relationship.

After all, the Ukrainian mainly sells rifles and bullets, while Zirol mainly assists the French government in the development of high-tech weapons, such as S-3 and Rafale.

Zhang Qi planned to ask the Ukrainian to ask for something. The thing was very simple and cheap, but Zhang Qi still stuffed a small gold bar in the envelope. After all, if he wanted to get this thing, he had to go to Pakistan or India. Shenzhou currently only exports this thing to these two countries.

After walking to the owl loft and mailing these two letters, Zhang Qi returned to his dormitory and continued to study books on the alchemical energy structure.

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At 2 o'clock in the morning on the second day, Zhang Qi, who was obsessed with studying alchemy, once again dragged his roommate out of bed with a dark circle under his eyes.

This morning was Professor Sprout's herbal medicine class. Zhang Qi deliberately wore training clothes during class today because it was easier to clean up.

Moreover, he quietly added a bubble head to himself, because he was afraid that he would inhale a breath of fresh air that smelled like dragon dung when he yawned in class later.

Today's lesson was to repot the mandrake, so Zhang Qi, who arrived earlier than most, picked out a relatively clean black earmuff. The remaining Slytherin students who came late could only choose some that looked like It doesn't look very good anymore.

This class was a disaster.

Mandrake is a magical plant that is seriously addicted to reality. When you pull it out of the soil, it will dig hard and bury itself deeper; and try to bury it again in the soil of your heart. Sometimes, it will dig hard in the soil, trying to dig itself out.

But Zhang Qi has a good way to pull them out quietly and bury them back.

First, carefully dig out the back of the mandrake's head, then use the small shovel in your hand to dig at the back of its head, and apply it hard. Then you can easily dig it out and bury it back.

What a genius idea!

However, this method has very high requirements for the control of strength, and the author of Alchemy Black Technology next door believes that Professor Sprout is likely to find Zhang Qi to fight after learning about this method.

Other little wizards, don't try, they will be beaten to death by Professor Sprout~

After this class, Zhang Qi successfully added three points to Slytherin - he successfully repotted three pots of mandrake.

Although Sprout later checked, he felt that the pots of mandrakes seemed to be in poor mental condition for several days. It should be because it had been raining these days and the mandrakes did not get enough sun. Yeah...

Here's a way to check on your Mandrake's mental status.

Find a toothpick and poke it. If the thin toothpick snaps and breaks, it proves that the mandrake is in good mental condition.

By the way, this method only works on immature mandrakes.Because the adult mandrake will fight back when you try to poke it with a toothpick. It will directly grab the toothpick that has just been taken out of the big bowl and break it into two pieces angrily.

That scene should still be very funny.

Today there is only one herbal medicine class in the morning and an astronomy class in the evening.However, it rained heavily outside today, and the astronomy class teacher accidentally caught a cold when he went to Professor Sprout's greenhouse to look for fresh vegetables, so he was temporarily absent from the astronomy class today.

"It's almost lunch time. Do you want to go to the auditorium to eat?"

Zhang Qi asked in a naughty way Alito, who was next to him and had a robe covered in dragon dung due to improper operation in the herbal medicine class.

"Ugh"~

Alito, who had just been tricked in the herbal medicine class, couldn't bear it anymore after hearing this. He bent over and started retching non-stop. After it was finally over, he looked at Zhang Qi with a resentful look.

Zhang Qi turned his head away, avoiding the sight of his unlucky roommate, and whistled.

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During lunch, Zhang Qi received a reply from the German Ministry of Magic. Along with the reply was a small silver box, which seemed to contain something and felt a bit heavy.

Zhang Qi gently opened the lock of the box, opened a gap in the box and looked inside. There seemed to be an irregular diamond-shaped object inside, about the size of a fist, shining with a messy red light.

In its reply, the German Ministry of Magic once again expressed its most sincere apology to the Zirol family, and then expressed its welcome to the company's intention to invest in Germany, and offered to proactively provide high-quality operating land for Zirol's stores to ensure The company’s foot traffic.

Zhang Qi also responded with a special letter, saying that opening up the German market is a long-term matter and may take some time. He hoped that the German Ministry of Magic would not be too anxious. After all, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

After lunch, Zhang Qi returned to his bedroom again and began to study the operating structure of alchemy.

"Why don't you write it down here?"

An hour later, Zhang Qi, who was sitting in the common room, said to himself suspiciously.

This Advanced Alchemy, like other alchemy books, only briefly mentions some important alchemical matrices and methods, which Zhang Qi expressed his incomprehension about.

If you don't teach me, how could I do it?

"What? Junior brother, you are actually watching Advanced Alchemy"?Senior Sister Farley, who came to join in the fun, covered her mouth in surprise.

"This is the textbook we have just started to learn"!

"Ah, I started learning alchemy from my mother when I was very young."Zhang Qi lied casually, and then continued to ask.

"I have a question for you, Senior Sister Farley. Why are there so many important alchemy formulas that play a bearing role here, but they are all brushed off and barely mentioned at all?"

"Well, these alchemical formulas are prohibited knowledge, because some unscrupulous dark wizards used them to refine black magic items in the past. Because these formulas can imprison the spirit, those black magic items brought a lot of trouble to the Ministry of Magic. , so the British Ministry of Magic banned the circulation of these things on the market more than 10 years ago."

"But there should be a book called Forbidden Alchemy in the restricted area of ​​the Hogwarts library. If there is an approval note from any professor, you should be able to get it."

"Well, is it a restricted book area?"...