The Rise of the Muggles at Hogwarts

"This is the greatest course to understand and analyze the nature of magic, but for most people, it is absolutely boring. Because not everyone can learn from the carvings carved on the stone walls thousands of years ago. To understand the beauty of magic, what I can teach you is quite limited, probably just the meanings and permutations of some runes."

"If you are just looking for a good job in the future, such as a Curse Breaker at Gringotts, then you don't need to dig into such a course. You just need to simply remember the meaning of the runes."

"Of course, if you want to truly understand this course, you won't learn anything by just sitting in class and reading."

"I once suggested that Principal Dumbledore should allocate part of the funds to take students to those excavation sites to personally experience the traces of history so that they will remember them deeply, but he always prevaricated me and said that he had no money."

"I have never had a salary increase in the college as a teaching assistant for so many years. Now that I have become a professor, Jin Jialong has not seen me, and the pressure has doubled..."

As he talked, the few little wizards in the class suddenly noticed something strange.

The professor in front of him seemed - probably - maybe a little mentally abnormal.

Her voice is like gurgling water, which is called chattering at best, and gibberish at worst.

Moreover, Anthony could also see that Professor Bathshedda Bablin was different from Professor Sybill Trelawney's pretense. She seemed to be really dizzy.

"Look where I went." Suddenly Professor Bathsheda Bablin patted her head, picked up the textbook from the desk, and after flipping through a few pages, continued: "Then the class is officially in session, now Learn Chapter 1, the rules of rune substitution."

...

"Professor!" At this moment, a Hermione suddenly appeared next to Anthony...

She really appeared out of nowhere, and he swore that there was absolutely no one around him just now.Just kidding, there were only a few people in this class, if Hermione was sitting in it, how could he not see it?

Time turner?Anthony looked deeply at Hermione, staring at her fair neck, wanting to see what the legendary time turner looked like.

"Professor, you picked up the wrong book. "Advanced Rune Translation" is only learned in the sixth or seventh grade, and we are only in the third grade." Hermione said, raising her little hand.

"Oh? Really?" Only then did Professor Bathsheda Bablin react.She put the "Advanced Rune Translation" back on the desk, and then stacked it next to it. She rummaged through a lot of books for a while, and finally found a tattered, unknown book. How many years have I been using it and how many professors have I gone through "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes".

The pages are yellowed and wrinkled.

It tells the story of the vicissitudes of this book.

The corners of Anthony's mouth twitched a few times, and his eyes were fixed on Professor Bathsheda Bablin. This professor was probably not seriously ill.

"Okay students, let's continue the class." Professor Bathsheda Bablin pushed up her thick glasses, which made it almost impossible for outsiders to see her eyes clearly.He continued: "Ancient magic writing is a subject that studies ancient Nordic runic writing. A language or writing is a sharp weapon for human beings to open up the wilderness and move towards civilization. It is also an infinite treasure accumulated by a cultural community in the long history. priceless spiritual wealth.”

"Of course, you haven't reached a certain level yet. Let's start by studying the magic manuscripts and remembering the meaning of the runes!"

Turning around, she used her wand as a pen and wrote several runes on the blackboard.

Then start explaining the meaning.

Anthony's head felt sore after listening to the whole class. It was a feeling he had only experienced in English classes before.

how to say!

As the mainstream view in the modern magic world, ancient runes (magic texts) are mainly based on translation. In terms of application, it is a path that genius wizards explore by themselves.

For example, modern alchemy is closely related to it.

The relationship between magic words and alchemy is equivalent to the relationship between letters and words. Magic words are nested one after another, and finally magic props with various functions are born.

For example, Weasley's little tricks all use runes.

Going deeper, objects made by ancient alchemy, such as the Pensieve in Dumbledore's office, and even the walls of Hogwarts Castle, are engraved with runes.

Gesture casting, which was popular in ancient Greece, Egypt and other regions, was essentially the engraving of magical characters.

But just as gesture casting was replaced by wand casting, ancient alchemy was replaced by modern alchemy. There was only one reason for this, and that was that the cost of learning magic text was too high.

In the original book, among Harry's generation of wizards, only Hermione received the ancient rune certificate.

But in actual practice, the wizard with that certificate is not even considered an entry-level wizard. Even if he becomes a curse-breaker, he still has to train for several years, and then start from the simplest areas, and after a complete set, he can dig in Working as a curse-breaker at the pyramid site, even if it is an internship, is still a wizard five or six years after graduation.

This is still the speed of so-called academic masters.

As for the more difficult alchemy...

At least it took me more than ten or more than 20 years of struggling with runes to get started.

Think about it, since the end of the European War until now, more than 50 years have passed. The only wizard who can make achievements in alchemy is probably Tom Riddle.

To be honest, Anthony is already considering changing courses...

In the past, I was too young and didn’t know the depth.Now...um - that Muggle Studies thing sounds interesting, why don't I take that class instead!

...

Also distressed like Anthony was Harry.

During lunch in the Great Hall, Harry looked depressed and didn't even glance at the sumptuous meal at hand.

"What's wrong with him?" Anthony asked.

"The professor made a prophecy for Harry." Ron looked calm and calm.

"Let me guess, it's another death prophecy, right?" Anthony could think of it with his toes. Trelawney went crazy and threatened the new little wizard in class. This was her usual method, every year. New students will be intimidated by her, probably because you have suffered a bloody disaster recently.It will last more than a month (with few elective courses).

After next month, everyone will find out that that guy only talks nonsense and the prophecies he makes are just to scare them.

After that, this course will become a two-way, sweet course for little wizards to mix credits and teach.

"She said she saw a poppy in my tea cup!"

"Oh? Not a black dog anymore?" Anthony's eyebrows were frivolous. Because Sirius had come back, he turned into a poppy now?

"In prophecies, poppies have many meanings. In ancient Greece, poppies were regarded as sacred flowers, symbolizing the country's hope for good weather and a good harvest. Egyptian wizards believed that it was bright and beautiful, and had a sense of respect. , represents abundance.”

"In the Middle East, it has the connotation of deathly love."

Hermione said lightly and poured herself a glass of pumpkin juice. "The professor is obviously trying to scare you. She deliberately provoked a dangerous connotation."

"Hermione, what happened to your teacup?" Anthony suddenly said.

"Me? Professor Trelawney said it was a black rose, but it looks like a lily to me."

"Huh...how did she see the color from the tea stains." Anthony said disdainfully.Then he suddenly turned around and asked with a look of success: "You are obviously sitting next to me in the magic class today, how can you take the divination class at the same time? Tell me! What secret do you have!"

"You remembered it wrong." The little witch secretly screamed, then reached out to grab a few pieces of toast, picked up the textbook on the table, got up and fled the auditorium quickly.

"Hey, why are you nervous!" Looking at the direction Hermione was running away from, Anthony shrugged and concentrated on the food in his hands.

He was just curious about the time turner and wanted to know what it did.Besides, Hermione is too rigid, like Professor McGonagall, even though the Ministry of Magic stipulates that the secret of the time turner cannot be told to others.but...

As long as you don't use it indiscriminately, even if you tell others the secret of this powerful magic item, how will the Ministry of Magic know?

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"Dumbledore?"

Just as Anthony and the others were about to return to the Gryffindor common room after lunch, they unexpectedly met the old headmaster in the corridor.

His steps were hurried as if there was something urgent.

"It's you! Why, are you still in the habit of taking elective courses?" After seeing Anthony and the others, Dumbledore stopped unconsciously.

"Ahem! That professor!" Anthony suddenly became shy.

He stammered 'shyly'.

"The school - uh - can - change the curriculum! Of course, I'm not saying that the professor's teaching is not good, it's just that - uh - I'm stupid, and some courses are not suitable for me."

"You are talking about ancient runes! Anthony!" Dumbledore smiled slightly, with a joking look behind his semicircular eyes.

"Uh - I didn't say it, you said it all!" Anthony quickly took a step back, looking innocent.

"Well, in principle, you can change the course, but can you tell me why you don't want to take the ancient runes class?"

"Maybe it's because I'm not interested in curse breakers, alchemy and the like!" Anthony said with a silly smile while rubbing the back of his head, pretending to be 'silly'.

"Then what are you interested in?" the old principal then asked.

"Ahem! It's a curse! It's a magic or something, preferably something powerful and handsome that can be wrapped around your fingertips!"

"handsome?"

Suddenly Dumbledore snapped his fingers, and several fluorescent lights suddenly appeared around him.

"Wow! Cool!" Ron and Harry exclaimed together.

The reason is that the fluorescence is not their common kind, which is pale white, but colorful. There is even a group of fluorescence that flashes and flashes, and every time it flashes, it turns into other colors.

It looks like singing and dancing lights!

"This..." Although Anthony was very disgusted with old man Dumbledore's happy and ancient aesthetics.But this kind of magic that changes the lighting spell really made him very curious.

"This is the power of the magic text. As long as you fully master a magic spell, you can use the magic text to change some properties of the spell, whether it is color or other things." Dumbledore squinted his eyes and said with a hint of meaning. Look at Anthony.

"Oh! By the way, Anthony, what did you do to me just now?"

"It's okay! Say hello to you, Professor Gui'an!" With that, Anthony pulled Harry and Ron and ran towards the spiral staircase.

He naturally understood what Dumbledore said just now.

Magic text can actually change the nature of the curse!It's just something he didn't expect.

Dumbledore's Vulcan Clearance and Grindelwald's Fire Shield were transformed by them by changing some of the properties of the Fire Curse through magic text.

He (Dumbledore) knew that he had modified some of the effects of the Fire Curse, and what he just said was a reminder to him!

Haha!

Originally, Anthony was still confused about how to transform black magic. He learned a lot of cruel black magic in the basement of Blake's ancestral house.

The conditions for casting some black magic are too harsh, and there are even weird spells that require self-harm to be successful.

Now he can try to transform these.Of course, the premise of all this is that he can master the course of ancient runes!

——Anthony ran back to the dormitory happily, and after changing textbooks, he went out with Harry and the others.

Yesterday's rain has stopped, the morning clouds have dispersed, and the sky is now clear and light gray.

The grass beneath my feet was soft and damp.

In the afternoon, because they had to go to the Care of Magical Creatures class, they did not stay in the lounge. Of course, the most important thing was that Harry wanted to see the new Quidditch pitch.

Before they reached the Quidditch pitch, they saw many people gathered there from a distance. It seemed that everyone wanted to experience this new and magnificent building up close during the noon period.

"Wow! It's so high!" The little wizards gathered under the court looked up and sighed.

"Yeah! At least 20 feet tall (six meters)."

"Look at this glass, how they showed our previous games on it." On the side, a little boy holding a camera caught Anthony's attention. That was Colin, who was in the same class as Ginny.

Last year, everyone surrounded Harry, trying to take photos of him.

"I mean, we didn't record it at the time! Where did the footage come from?"

--yes!Did you get the screen?Anthony was also confused.

Wouldn't this be a great pensieve?He looked at the towering stadium from a distance and vaguely guessed that after all, the fenced stadium did look like a basin!

Taking advantage of the leisure time at noon, the little wizard curiously walked into the entire steel building.

High steel frame, huge ceiling, intricate stairs.

Fortunately, each entrance is decorated with the corresponding color of the college and carvings that symbolize creatures.

Various trophies in the trophy array cabinet have also been moved here. Among the four entrances, except for the fifth entrance that allows professors to go directly to the rostrum, past honors of the college are displayed in front of each main hall.

Harry discovered his father's trophy from the Gryffindor trophy display stand.

After entering the entrance, they passed through the main hall and entered the diversion stairs in two different directions, and finally arrived at the viewing stand of the stadium.

The twelve stands have a square layout. Different from Muggle stadiums, these stands are very high, with a height of 20-30 feet, and are divided into two levels.

"Wow! It's so big!"

This is the first reaction of any little wizard after seeing the inner stands.

It is indeed very large and can easily accommodate ten thousand people.

Anthony guessed that they should have renovated a standard stadium with a capacity of 3 people.

——This looks too good at Hogwarts.There are probably not even a thousand house elves in the entire school, maybe seven or eight hundred at most.

Such a small number of people built such a huge stadium...

Is this planned to be the venue for the Quidditch World Cup in the future?

"Anthony, look!" Suddenly Ron shouted, pointing in a certain direction of the stands, as if he had seen some precious treasure.

"What's wrong?" Anthony and Harry followed his gesture and looked over.Uh-it turns out to be Dumbledore!

What's so weird about this?

"Look, that's the coach of the Chudley Cannons."

"What is he doing?" Harry asked.

The coach of the Chadley Cannon Team is a middle-aged bald wizard who is about 50 to [-] years old. He wears smart and tight clothes instead of the traditional loose robes of wizards. He has a long face and gray eyes.His nose was a little swollen, almost covering his mouth. I don't know if it was just the way he looked or if he was sick.

At this time, he was talking to Dumbledore, but there was not much joy on his face. It seemed that the negotiation was not going well.

After a while, Dumbledore seemed to say something, and the coach nodded towards him, then turned and left.

"Maybe he wants to rent the venue!" Anthony guessed.

After all, there are not many stadiums that are so big and belong to the wizarding world. Although Hogwarts also holds Quidditch matches, most of them are after November.

And it doesn’t happen every day, maybe twice a month.

What happened last year was completely unexpected.

Instead of sitting around in your spare time playing bar, you might as well rent it out, at least you can make some money!

Anyway, if it were Anthony, he would definitely agree to the lease.The only problem might be safety, since it's so close to Hogwarts.It would be very troublesome if a Death Eater got mixed up.

"It's you!" At this time, Dumbledore also noticed them and waved to them with a smile.

"Sir, was that the coach of the Chadley Cannons just now?" Ron asked anxiously after walking in.

"Yes, Mr. Weasley, he is indeed the coach of the Chudley Cannons."

"Oh! Merlin's beard, I was supposed to get an autograph." Ron shouted in distress. For him, this was a huge loss. The entire Gryffindor knew that he was from the Chudley Cannon Team. A die-hard fan, even though that team has been at the bottom of the league for a century.The last time they won the UEFA Cup was in 1892.

But they have won the UEFA Cup 21 times.

Other loyal fans of this team like Ron firmly believe that sooner or later, the former king will return.

Although the return of the king is really slow!

"That is indeed a pity." Dumbledore said, then turned to look at the ball frame erected in the field, "I didn't expect it would add a lot of trouble to us!"

"Professor, he is here to discuss renting a venue with you?" Anthony then asked.

"Yes, and no." The old principal smiled slightly, "This is the fourth professional Quidditch team to come to me. In addition to renting the venue, they actually want to hold this year's League Cup here."

"League Cup!" After saying that, Ron's eyes went straight.

The Quidditch League is a large-scale professional event held in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It consists of the [-] best teams from the two countries. They stage a peak showdown every year. In addition to competing for the championship, it is also to win points.

Because the formation of the World Cup national team is based on club points.

In addition to the four-year World Cup, there are also top events such as the European Cup.

And if the league game is held at Hogwarts, that doesn't mean that they don't even need tickets to watch the game live.

Ron doesn't often watch games live. After all, his family's situation is such that although the tickets are not expensive, it is obvious that Mrs. Weasley will never spend her family's only wealth on such a thing.

"But I refused."

"Ha! Why!" Ron's expression changed drastically from excitement to disappointment, and his face almost wrinkled together.

"It's not safe." Dumbledore said directly and straightforwardly. He did have plans to rent during the construction, but it can only be said that the outside world has changed too fast. In the past few months, the entire Europe and the United Kingdom have no longer been safe. Huo Huo The swarms of dementors floating in the distance of Gwarts tried to warn him all the time.

Now, of course, he would not allow any accident to happen.

Not to mention, holding an event like a league competition is crowded and complicated.

Needless to say, there are more important games to play next year.