Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 160 Secret Conversation in Utility Room
Noon the next day.

Hardy and Charlie arrived at the underground air-raid shelter of the University of Manchester in an old-fashioned Ford car along a secretly built tunnel.

They walked along one of the eight air-raid shelter exits for 2 minutes, and then appeared behind a huge banyan tree next to the artificial lake on the campus.

"How much did you pay for such a huge project?" Hardy asked curiously.

In his opinion, Charlie, who is a squib, is obviously using the money and wealth of the Muggle world to seek another kind of "magic".

"Oh, that's a good question." Charlie coughed a few times. "It's about five years of industry revenue. I'm getting older and I'm not so sensitive to cold numbers."

Hardy nodded.

Following Charlie, he came to a curved lecture hall, which can accommodate 200 people in class at the same time.

Hardy sat down in the right corner of the classroom, and a few female students not far away started whispering and peeping at him from time to time.

As class time drew near, more and more students lolled into classrooms with tousled hair and paper bags of burgers and coffee.

Among the tide-like crowd, Hardy saw a familiar face, a female student wearing bold clothes and sunglasses, who greeted others enthusiastically.

It was Catherine who had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with Hardy before.

But at the moment, she didn't notice the latter, instead she sat at the other end of the classroom quite actively.

The place was already occupied by two men and one woman. They waved at Catherine nervously, and then the four of them huddled in a corner, discussing something in low voices.

Except for Catherine with a relaxed face, the expressions of the other three are quite ugly.

When the class bell rang, Charlie glanced around the classroom sullenly, then picked up the chalk, and began to write "The Making of America" ​​on the blackboard.

"Keep your eyes open, don't lie on the desk like an invertebrate in my class, look here!"

Tapping on the blackboard vigorously, Charlie officially started his lecture, "The United States was originally a settlement of Indians. At the end of the 15th century, Spain, Holland, France, and England immigrated here one after another."

"Before the 18th century, Britain established 13 British North American colonies along the Atlantic coast of the United States. In 1775, the American people's War of Independence broke out against the colonial rule of the British Empire."

"On July 1776, 7, the Second Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia. George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. He issued the "Declaration of Independence" and announced the formal establishment of the United States of America. The War of Independence ended in 4, and Britain recognized 1783 colonies Independence. Adoption of the United States Constitution in 13...”

It has to be said that Charlie's history teaching is quite direct and rude, and it is completely a normative template in cramming teaching.

Not even Professor Binns' History of Magic class can match it in terms of boredom.

Even Hardy, after persisting for 10 to [-] minutes, finally became absent-minded like most people in the classroom.

He reached into his pocket and took out a leather-bound notebook.

It is full of various circular patterns and small annotations.

This is the record after he disassembled the ring structure in the black metal Rubik's Cube this morning.

Looking closely, there are tens of thousands of possible permutations and combinations.

What Hardy needs to do is to choose the only correct one from these tens of thousands of permutations and combinations.

The method of protecting information that ancient Egyptian wizards came up with is quite thorough. If you don't know the set turning path of the Rubik's Cube in advance, it is almost impossible to crack it violently.

And this kind of good secrecy also destined that the black metal Rubik's cube can only be a one-time item.

Once opened, the large number of refining rings inside will be completely destroyed and cannot be reused.

So what Hardy wants to do now is not simply to brute force the Rubik's Cube in front of him and restore the information content on its six sides.

What he needs is to reverse the production method of the black metal Rubik's Cube through the established structure of the refining ring.

This kind of peculiar information encryption and storage method is rare, and Hardy will not curb his curiosity, even if it will increase his work several times.

Two hours later, Charlie's big class finally came to an end.

Taking advantage of the 15-minute gap before the start of the second "torture", many drowsy students rushed out of the classroom.

After refusing several female students' requests for phone numbers, Hardy put away his notebook, walked leisurely, and enjoyed the sunshine in the flower garden.

At this moment, he accidentally noticed that Catherine and three other students walked out of the classroom mysteriously, and then went to the direction of the utility room alone.

One of the male students with a hook nose was secretly pulling out a magic wand from his sweater, and cast a small magic spell with a sound-proof effect.

"wizard?"

Hardy is quite sensitive to fluctuations in magic.

Even without looking, he could still notice the small movements of the hooked-nosed male student.

However, judging from the spell cast by the other party, its use of magic is still at a rather rough level.

I'm afraid some 15-year-old fourth-year students at Hogwarts can do much better than him.

"Is it an illegal wizard?"

He stroked his chin with one hand, and then quietly went to the next classroom connected to the utility room.

The so-called illegal wizards refer to those wizards who have not been registered by the Ministry of Magic, have magical talents but have not chosen to study at Hogwarts.

Before the establishment of Hogwarts, the group of illegal wizards was quite large. They did not obey the management of the Ministry of Magic, and had their own unique methods and logic.

But now, with the prosperity of public magic schools, almost all children who show magical talents will be sent to Hogwarts to study.

The number of illegal wizards who can escape the joint registration of the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts has been continuously reduced. Up to now, there are less than 200 people.

Today's illegal wizards often lurk in the Muggle world, using their magical talents to grab wealth.

In order to protect the British wizarding world, the Ministry of Magic often does not allow registered wizards to make money in the Muggle world.

Officials in the Ministry believe that this kind of move is extremely risky, and it is easy to break the balance between the two worlds and provoke a new round of war.

Therefore, the attitude of the Ministry of Magic has never been very friendly to the existing illegal wizards.

It is not unheard of before that illegal wizards who seriously interfere with the Muggle world are thrown into Azkaban.

Stepping into the next classroom connected to the tiny utility room, Hardy tapped the wall with his wand.

A hazy halo spread, immediately guiding all the sounds and pictures in the utility room.

(End of this chapter)