days at Hogwarts

Chapter 89 Understanding Runes
In the alchemy laboratory of the Book of Fantasy, Loren pursed his lips tightly, staring at the tip of the wand moving slowly at the bottom of the box, paying attention to every pen turn, for fear of making a mistake.

This is the first time he has sketched the first pair of runes.

The silver-white unicorn tail hair lingers on the tip of the wand. Under Loren's careful control, he slowly and forcefully outlines a strange and uncomplicated symbol.

The glowing lines are printed on the bottom of the black leather box bit by bit, bypassing a few weird twists, and finally the wand is gently lifted up to use up the last bit of unicorn tail hair.

As Loren finished his pen, the entire mysterious and weird symbol suddenly burst into bright light, and finally merged with the hexagram base wrapped in double rings as a whole.

Loren looked at the symbol in front of him and smiled with satisfaction.

After working hard for several days and nights, he has been able to skillfully outline the foundation and the first rune.Compared with the double ring and the six-pointed star sharing three unicorn tail hairs, a single rune symbol needs to use one feather, and if you make a mistake, you have to start over from the ring.

Another one was drawn from the unicorn tail hairs floating all over the sky, and the magic wand aroused a silver-white pure magic brilliance.He has become more proficient in using the summoning spell.

The Calling Charm can be regarded as the predecessor of the Flying Curse, but it does not involve complicated magic principles, and there are no spells.

Compared with the Flying Curse, which can make objects that don't know where they are directly fly over as long as there is a target, the Attracting Curse is just to attract things within the line of sight, which is not even a magic spell. Some adult wizards can achieve this subconsciously. effect.

But the little wizard can achieve the effect of summoning naturally and smoothly, which shows that Loren has more comprehensive control over the magic power in his body, which will make him use other magic spells more easily, and he will not lose control of magic like the explosive ghost Seamus Case.

The wand pulled the glowing unicorn tail hairs and twirled them neatly between the fingers, and the thin glowing tail hairs left beautiful rings in the space.Loren turned the suitcase 180° and began to draw a rune symmetrical to the center of the first rune.

The first is regular rune, and the second is reverse rune.

With the experience of the first rune, the second rune of the same progressed smoothly, and the final strokes came soon.

As if holding a writing brush, put the ring finger against the magic wand and apply light force, the tip of the wand pulls the unicorn tail hair Guangmo upwards, and the magic text is reversed to close the pen.

Loren stared at the second rune, expecting it to echo the previously drawn rune, and to integrate with the double-circle hexagram as a whole.

The second rune emitted a silver-white light, but it didn't dim normally, and the light quickly turned to a warm yellow.Loren realized that the situation had changed, and the warm yellow gradually deepened to fiery red.The two runes collapsed together in the air, scattered into shimmering fragments.

The alchemy circle began to emit light and heat, scalding white smoke from the bottom of the leather box, emitting an unpleasant burnt smell, and finally imprinted a black scorched round spot.

Sketching failed.

Floating behind Loren, Flamel glanced at the black spot, "Can you recall which step went wrong just now?"

Loren frowned and recalled the sketching process carefully, and confirmed that every step of his sketching the second rune was the same as the first rune. He shook his head and replied, "I can't think of a problem with any step."

"Of course, there was nothing wrong with the drawing process. But you didn't understand the meaning of the rune, you only memorized its shape." Flamel re-launched, as if he had expected this situation long ago.

"Magic is the reaction of the wizard's heart. If you don't understand the meaning of the runes, you can't use them."

Loren was puzzled, "But I successfully sketched out my first rune."

"When you drew the first rune, you didn't use it yet. When you draw the second rune that corresponds to it, you need to use it if you want to achieve the effect." Flamel turned to Loren and stood down. , stopped at the same height as him.

Loren still couldn't accept it, "I already know the meaning of this rune, it is an isolation rune under the space."

"What you said is absolutely correct. It belongs to the scope of space and functions as an isolation. But this is just your perception of it, not your understanding."

"Then what is understanding?"

"To give an example, when you see the word black, you will have the impression of black in your mind." After finishing speaking, Flamel seemed to feel that it was not intuitive enough, so he paused, "Immediately name three black things."

"Frozen pears, magic robes, and wands." Loren quickly answered, thinking of the night sky, the water of the Black Lake, his hair, and so many black things.

"That's understanding. You understand what black means." Flamel looked into Loren's blue eyes.

"Then how should I understand the rune, does it have anything that can be visualized?"

Loren believes that he has seen a lot of black items before he has the same cognition about black in his mind, and what realistic and perceivable expression does the rune have.

"Think about its meaning, and you'll notice it in real life." Flamel didn't give a specific answer, and drifted away after speaking, leaving room for Loren to think.

"Space separated from space..."

In the empty alchemy laboratory, glowing runes flowed on the red brick wall, reflecting the shadow of contemplation.

Gryffindor common room.

Loren leaned on the bench, her eyes wandered to the ceiling, and she muttered: "Space, compartment..."

Harry and Ron looked around for Hermione with their Transfiguration homework, and they tried to get Hermione to help them correct their homework.I turned around a few times upstairs and downstairs, and asked Parvati Patil, but she didn't know where Hermione had gone.

Since discovering that most of the little wizards took a Christmas vacation and basically returned to the professor what they learned in the previous school year, the homework assigned by Professor McGonagall has almost doubled.One part is the content of the previous school year, assigned as homework for everyone to review, and the other part is the teaching content of the next school year.

This is a pain for some young wizards who write slowly and procrastinate.

The two sat down on the bench dejectedly, completely ignoring the transparent person Loren.

"What has Hermione been doing lately? No one has been seen," Harry complained.

"She's Hermione, we can't find it anywhere to read." Ron didn't seem so anxious, "Or we can find Loren."

"Alas~" Harry sighed, "Loren will copy the homework for us directly."

He paused and continued: "It's not bad, but I still feel that it's more practical to do it by flipping through the book."

Since many people in the Transfiguration class couldn't change the snuff box, Professor McGonagall was very disappointed but didn't blame anyone. Many young wizards felt guilty for this, and their learning attitude became correct.

Loren withdrew his mind from the rune, heard the conversation between the two, and vaguely guessed where Hermione was.

"I can also help you tick out the wrong answers." This is not a troublesome thing, and Loren has no reason not to help.

Harry and Ron were taken aback by Loren's sudden noise.

"Damn! When did you come?" Ron looked at Loren sitting aside in surprise.

"Is it possible? I was sitting here from the beginning." Loren said with artificial grievances, "As roommates, you don't care about me at all."

The two showed uncomfortable expressions, as if they had eaten a pile of cockroaches.

In order to interrupt Loren's performance, Harry hurriedly handed over his homework, "Please correct my Transfiguration homework for me."

Loren took the parchment in the attitude of a resentful woman, looked around, found no ink bottle or quill, and subconsciously drew on Harry's homework with his wand.After a few strokes, I realized that there is no unicorn tail hair here, and the wand can't draw anything.

Turning his head and seeing Harry and Ron staring at him blankly, Loren raised his wand and turned his head slightly, feeling that he was confused when drawing runes.

Without looking for a quill again, Loren applied the transfiguration technique to Harry's handwriting, drawing out some ink marks from the original words, which made them a little lighter in color, and the drawn ink marks circled on the parchment Wrong answers are surrounded by circles, and the page numbers of the correct answers in the textbook are condensed next to them.

Loren handed the corrected answer to Harry, "My Transfiguration will not last long, it will be enough for you to find the correct answer before tomorrow night."

"Oh!" Ron exclaimed, "I think your Transfiguration has improved again."

As he spoke, he handed the homework to Loren.

"You will improve if you spend your chess playing time on practice." Loren said, the two became obsessed with wizard chess after the start of next school year, Harry enjoyed the evenly matched battle and the joy of victory, Ron watched the most predictable Harry how many moves.

Ron didn't answer the question, "Speaking of which, do you know what Hermione is up to lately? No one sees her all day except in class."

Loren kept his eyes on Ron's homework without raising his head, "I practiced a new spell before, and Hermione wants to catch up with my progress."

"Tsk!" Ron clicked his tongue, "She always doesn't want to be left behind, she wants to be No.1."

Harry was thoughtful, "If I ask you, this is not a good character, we should help her."

"What do you think?" Loren said.

"Chess, Hermione only loses at chess, and it's good for her." Harry finally revealed his intentions.

Maybe he really has the idea of ​​helping Hermione, but he also has his own little thoughts.

No one could beat Ron in chess before, including Hermione. Now Harry thinks that he can win or lose against Ron. He is already at the same level as Ron. If he can beat Hermione...

Thinking of this, Harry smiled unconsciously.

Loren understands this kind of mentality. It is not to overwhelm anyone, nor to prove that one is better than the other. It is like two good friends walking on the road. One suddenly jumps up and touches the leaves, and the other wants to touch the higher one. Leaves.The strange comparison psychology unique to the little friends.

Ron was silent and didn't speak. He waited to see how much he made mistakes in his Transfiguration class homework.

"Um……"

Loren finished grading Ron's homework, looked at Harry's smirk, and didn't know how to persuade the silly boy, "Wait for Hermione to come back and ask her for her opinion."

Loren didn't expose Ron. If Ron was exposed, two people would lose their happiness, but if he chose to keep it secret, two people would continue to be happy. In order to maximize his happiness, he finally chose to keep it a secret.

There was still some time before the lights were turned off, and Hermione slowly came back from the lounge. Seeing the three people sitting together, her eyes lit up, and she ran over with small steps, her brown fluffy curly hair dancing with her steps.

Hermione sat down next to Loren neatly, "I can also use honey jars to pack pebbles!" The little witch was delighted with the progress of her Untraceable Stretching Curse.

Before Loren could speak, Harry said first, "Hermione, we have an idea to tell you."

Several people told Hermione the idea that playing chess just mentioned could help Hermione soothe her temper.

Hermione pondered for a while, and it seemed that being first in everything was not the right hobby, but she was used to it.When I was in Muggle school, I also had conflicts with my classmates because of these things. When I met Loren at Hogwarts, I was not isolated, and I also met a group of friends who could accept her character.

"Okay!" Hermione agreed, regardless of whether it was useful or not, just treat it as a casual game after practicing the spell.

Flipping to find the chessboard, Ron used a chess piece handed down from his family that was older than him.Harry hesitated before letting Hermione use his brand new chess piece.

"Knight, go forward."

"Queen, kill it."

……

The game was deadlocked for a long time, until at the end, both sides had almost run out of chess pieces, and Ron won by a slight advantage.

Hermione frowned slightly, and had a strange feeling that when she made a bad move, Ron would also make a similar bad move within a few moves, which led to a stalemate.

Harry was eager to try, and in his opinion, there were several opportunities that he could have seized and won if he had.

"Me, me, me!" Harry squeezed Ron to sit in his place, turning the board around so that he used brand new pieces and Hermione used Ron's old ones.

Hermione hesitated to start a new game with Harry.

The situation was dire.

Hermione had just finished a round and was in good shape.Harry has been playing all the baby chess that Ron has fed to his mouth these days, and his level is getting lower and lower.

"General." Hermione felt nothing, and ended the game easily.

Harry opened his mouth in disbelief at the endgame on the chessboard.

Looking at Hermione on the opposite side, and turning around to look at Ron next to him, it's different from what I thought.There were big question marks in Harry's head.

"Chess pieces, Hermione used your pieces to beat me, and they don't listen to your command." Ron hurriedly said to fool Harry, such a good training partner, he couldn't make him understand.

"Is that so?" Harry was dubious.

Isn't it just winning or losing a game of wizard chess, what's so special?Hermione looked at the two men suspiciously, turned to Loren, and said in her eyes, "Is there anything I don't know about you?"

Loren ignored a big flicker and a limp flicker over there, and pulled Hermione's sleeve to the window.

Outside the window, the clouds in the sky envelop the brilliance of the moon and stars, and there are sparse fires in the forest in the distance, which are the bonfires of the centaur tribe.

"Chasing first and being strong are not bad habits that need to be broken." Loren looked into the distance.

Hermione understood that she was talking about what happened just now, she rested her head on the window sill with her hands, the light from the sky and the forest was reflected in her brown eyes, "Maybe you can be more gregarious if you change it." Her tone was euphoric.

"You don't need to change yourself to fit in, just be yourself."

"Hermione is Hermione, Miss Know-It-All, who gets O every time she does her homework, and who seizes all the time to catch up with me in the Untraceable Stretching Curse. That's the stronger Hermione." Loren looked at the starlight beside her.

"Yeah." Hermione looked at the firelight against the blue background.

(End of this chapter)