Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

“Professor, I have another question. I don’t know if you can answer it for us?” Hermione hesitated for a moment before finally asking.

Anduin gave Hermione an encouraging look, then nodded slightly.

“You said before that we used the wrong strategy when fighting those dark wizards. In your opinion, where exactly were our mistakes? Was there really a chance for us to escape at that time?” Hermione had been bothered by this question for quite a while.

“So you're still troubled by this.” Anduin shook his head with a smile. He was becoming more and more appreciative of this little witch. When faced with problems, she was always more willing to think, which was an excellent quality.

However, Anduin didn't directly answer Hermione. Instead, he looked at Tonks with interest, “If it were you, how would you solve that situation? Of course, I'm talking about the same environment and the same level of strength.”

“If it were me…” Tonks rolled her eyes, then said with a sly smile, “Then maybe I wouldn't have fought those dark wizards in the first place. After all, facing such unknown opponents, rashly engaging them could lead to a big loss.”

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“We ran away at the time! But the facts proved that running away would only get us killed one by one.” Harry looked at Tonks in confusion.

“Who told you to run around like that?” Tonks rolled her eyes at him. “If I had been there, I would have opened a hole in the walls of Hogwarts from the start, and then ran into the school. Isn't honestly returning the same way just making yourselves targets?”

“Ah? Is that possible?” Hermione's eyes widened when she heard this. In her subconscious, Hogwarts could not be destroyed, so everyone didn't think about this at first.

“In times of crisis, who cares so much?” Tonks curled her lips dismissively. “First year students may not know many spells, but destroying a wall shouldn't be a problem, let alone with so many of you there at the time. →”

“Not bad!” Anduin nodded in agreement. “You were all limited by your fixed thinking. You need to know that the environment is an extremely important factor in battle. Your later idea of sending a few people to the city walls can also be considered using this point, but you never thought about destroying the environment to create a situation that is beneficial to you.”

“In fact, in addition to breaking through the wall and escaping into the school, there are other solutions. For example, escaping towards the main tower from the beginning. It's actually only two or three minutes away from you. If you choose this route, although some people will be knocked down, most of you still have a chance to escape.”

“In addition, in battle, defeating the enemy is not the only option. Interfering with and controlling the enemy is also a solution.”

“If you could have slightly restricted those dark wizards at the time, such as interfering with their vision, using Transfiguration to change the terrain, trapping or slowing down their movement speed, or sending out a distress signal, those would have been more favorable choices.”

“And as Tonks said, you had dozens of people at the time. If you had known to unite these companions from the beginning, the ending wouldn't have been so tragic.”

“But all in all, the tactics you developed at the time were actually effective, of course, under the premise that those dark wizards were human wizards. Forcing them to use the power of constructs to fight can itself be considered a good result.”

Anduin didn't just criticize everyone, but instead encouraged Hermione with kind words. He felt that this little witch might allow him to see more possibilities. He was now somewhat looking forward to seeing how these children would grow up.

“I see!”

At this time, not only Hermione, but also Harry, Ron, and Neville next to her all showed a look of realization. They thought they had tried their best at the time, but in the eyes of a professional like Anduin, there were so many shortcomings.

“I understand!” Hermione nodded firmly. “I will never make such a stupid mistake again in the future. Professor, are you going to conduct a dark wizard invasion exercise at Hogwarts every year in the future?”

“Exercises are naturally indispensable, but the content is not the same every time, otherwise how can it be called an exercise?” Anduin smiled slightly, and he was very pleased to see Hermione regain her confidence. →

“Besides the exercises, do we have other opportunities to fight those constructs?” Hermione seemed to be addicted to fighting and couldn't wait to ask.

“Oh?” Anduin raised his eyebrows in surprise. “Do you like this kind of confrontation?”

“Yes!”

Hermione, George, and Fred took the lead in nodding, and Harry, Ron, and Neville next to them also nodded in response after thinking for a moment, while Percy was relatively indifferent.

They had obviously experienced the feeling of excitement in the brief battle with those steel constructs. In comparison, ordinary target practice and close combat confrontations seemed a bit boring.

“Then you're in luck.” Anduin nodded with a smile. “Don't worry, there will be no shortage of similar confrontations in the future, but I have to keep you in suspense for now. In addition, you have to learn some self-defense spells first.”

“Yes, Professor!” Everyone responded excitedly. They were already a little impatient.

“Okay, follow me next. I need you to help me test the strength of some constructs.” Anduin wiped his mouth, got up and led the group who had finished dinner to a large room in the manor. The layout here was somewhat similar to an indoor museum, surrounded by various strange biological models, as well as non-biological styles such as armor and weapons.

“Wow!”

The group who walked into the room stared dumbfounded at these strangely shaped biological models. They had already guessed that these were the magic constructs that Anduin had mentioned, but they didn't expect that there would be so many types of them.

There were a large number of humanoid constructs among them, but the shapes and materials were different. Some were made of rock, crystal, and wood, and some were similar to the steel golems they saw today, and there were even skeleton-shaped ones.

At the same time, there were also many non-humanoid constructs, some smaller ones like cats, dogs, and birds, and larger ones like cows, sheep, lions, and tigers. It was simply an alternative collection room.

Just after a few people entered the room, a special construct actually hopped up to greet them. The shape of the other party was somewhat similar to the humanoid target they had seen before, and the whole looked like a cross.

The upper body looked like a cylindrical body made of wood, and the two arms and one leg were three simple wooden sticks. The head was like a wide and flat pencil tip, and two dots and a horizontal line were drawn on the slightly pointed head, which seemed to be the other party's facial features.

This construct gave people a harmless illusion, and even had a sense of cuteness, and because it only had one foot, it could only hop like a spring when moving.

“Master, good evening, the construct room is all normal, all normal, all normal.” The humanoid target-like construct bowed slightly after jumping to Anduin, seemingly saluting the other party, and then reported to Anduin with a slightly excited mechanical voice.

“Good job!” Anduin nodded slightly, then looked at everyone and introduced them, “This is Unit Tomb, its name is Alpha, you can just call it by its name.”

“Alpha? It even knows how to name itself?” Hermione looked at the magic construct in front of her in surprise. “Don't you mean that they can only act according to simple instructions?”

“Alpha is a special one.” Anduin shook his head with a smile. “It can think simply, can communicate normally with people, and don't look at its physique as if it is very thin, it is very strong!”

“Alpha is very strong! Very strong!” Alpha's black dot-like round eyes narrowed into two crescents. “It's so lively today. In addition to Master Anduin, there are 8 human wizards, 8! 8!”

After saying that, Alpha specially turned to Neville's direction and shouted in a slightly excited voice, “It's Young Master Longbottom, long time no see, long time no see, Young Master Longbottom, where is Miss Weasley? She hasn't appeared for a long time!”

“Long time no see, Alpha.” Neville waved to the other party with a smile, and then saw everyone looking at him in surprise.

Seeing this, Neville quickly explained, “Ah, I knew Alpha before. Do you remember? When Malfoy mentioned visiting Leona, I said that I had seen a living alchemical prop at Uncle Wilson's place, but I didn't know it was originally a magic construct at that time.”

“Alpha is not an alchemical prop! No, no!” Alpha seemed to be in that excited state, and even always liked to jump around with its thin wooden stick-like single leg when speaking, and always liked to repeat a sentence over and over again.

“That's really interesting, Alpha, I'm Fred, he's George, nice to meet you.” Fred leaned in front of Alpha and happily introduced himself.

“Alpha is also very happy to see you, Fred, Fred, and George, George!” It seemed that Alpha was even more excited to meet new friends, and it jumped twice in place again.

“Don't listen to him, that guy is lying to you! I'm Fred, he's actually George!” George suddenly teased Alpha mischievously at this time, and said nonsense in front of the other party in a serious manner.

“What?” Alpha's black ink-like eyeballs suddenly widened. “You are not George, you are Fred? Then who is he? He is Fred, not George? No, he is George, not Fred…”

Alpha seemed to be suddenly confused by the twins' prank, constantly talking to itself, while jumping around in place, looking like a child with a not-so-good brain.