Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 402 402. The Last Week Before the Exam

After Hermione ran away crying, the atmosphere in the kitchen suddenly became a little awkward.

Scott's three roommates and Luna stopped eating and turned to look at him.

Harry and Ron also stood up from their seats in embarrassment.

"Oh, don't mind it." Ron said unnaturally, "Hermione always has some weird ideas."

"Yes...yeah." Harry was also a little awkward.

Scott is still very calm.

He shook his head, "Speaking of which, her thoughts are not strange. Kindness and compassion are good things."

Both Ron and Harry looked at him with dark, strange eyes upon hearing this.

Scott smiled, "Although we have different ideas, we are just discussing with each other. I don't accept her ideas, and I don't intend to force her to accept mine."

"That... that's good." Harry also forced a smile, "I'll tell Hermione, and she's just a little angry for a while."

"Come on, she's been dying to put her own thoughts in everyone's heads," Ron murmured.

Although his voice was very small, everyone present could hear it.

Hearing what he said, Harry could hardly keep the smile on his face.

He touched Ron with his elbow, "Let's go back quickly and continue to celebrate, everyone is waiting for us, oh and there is food!"

He turned around and ran to the stove, said something to the group of house elves hiding there, and then hurried back to say goodbye, pulling Ron and wanting to leave.

"Congratulations again for winning the championship." Scott paused after waving his hands, "That's right."

Harry and Ron stopped again.

Scott looked Harry in the eyes, "Harry, have you learned, I mean, the magic that Sirius taught you?"

Looking at Harry now, he guessed that the boy was no longer haunted by the frequent nightmares that Voldemort brought him.

"Oh, I have to say that was really hard." Harry nodded, genuinely laughing, "but there's been some progress."

Scott said: "Congratulations, you can feel better after learning."

"Thank you!"

After the two left the kitchen, Scott continued to eat.

"Oh, Scott, is it true what you said when you argued with 'Little Mag'?" Eddie asked him.

"What do you say?"

"I don't know. Of course, maybe you're just trying to confuse her."

Scott shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

He had said all that, but it was really just a response to Hermione's accusation for rushing up.

As for whether what he said made sense, he didn't think much about it himself.

Milton on the side said: "Speaking of it, the house elves are indeed a little pitiful, but I never feel that there is anything wrong."

Roger said: "I think it's fine as long as they don't deliberately abuse them, and the rest should follow their own wishes."

"You're right." Milton thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

At this time, Luna, who was sitting next to Scott, put down the knife and fork in her hand.

"Are you full?" Scott asked.

Luna nodded.

"I'm stuffed."

Her eyes were wandering, as if she was in a fugue again.

After a while, she heard her say again, "I don't have house-elves at home."

The words were endless, and Scott responded with a "huh".

"They had a great time at Hogwarts," Luna added.

Her gaze shifted to the group of house-elves who were busy again.

"It will be difficult to change their ideas." She said lightly again.

Scott said "hmm" again.

"What if their ideas really change?" Luna suddenly turned to Scott and asked, "What if they ask for wages and vacations?"

"Then give it to them." Scott said indifferently, "Those goblins also control Gringotts, and they are doing well in the wizarding world."

"Oh." Luna nodded.

Scott asked her curiously, "What do you think? If Hermione invited you to work together to improve the rights of house elves, would you agree?"

Luna tilted her head and thought for a while, nodded, then shook her head again.

Eddie, who had been listening to the two talking, couldn't help asking Luna curiously, "What does nodding and shaking your head mean?"

Luna glanced at him, but didn't answer.

Her eyes began to go blank again.

"I guess." Scott said, "Nodding means you can agree to her, shaking your head means you don't think you can do anything about it."

Luna's eyes refocused and she nodded.

"What do you mean?" Eddie asked again.

"The most difficult part of this matter is not to fight for the rights and interests of this group, but to awaken their own minds." Scott said, "If you can't change their deep-rooted ideas, it will be useless to do anything else. of."

Luna nodded again.

Scott added: "This thing can be done, and it may even make the magic world more prosperous. But it may also lead to worse results. For example, after awakening, they may become enemies of wizards."

Milton spoke again, "I only know that goblins are generally hostile to wizards."

"Everyone has to find something to do, something that they think is meaningful. No one can judge whether the result is good or bad until it is finished." Luna also said, "If this is what Hermione wants to do , when she needs help, I can also provide some help."

"Is she your friend?" Eddie asked.

"Not friends now," Luna said, "but maybe they will be."

"Hopefully you'll make more friends," Scott said.

"Yes." Luna nodded seriously.

After this somewhat late lunch, Scott bid farewell to several companions and went to the Response Room alone for class.

Recently, Scott has been enhancing his combat effectiveness, further improving the use of transfiguration in combat under the guidance of Ravenclaw mentors.

Over the weekend, he's already had some new results.

In the empty room where the Ravenclaw portrait is, Scott stands at a lonely desk in the middle of the room.

He looked at the iron blocks placed on the desk, chanted the transformation spell, and at the same time firmly waved the wand in his hand.

The black iron block moved.

The originally hard metal block softened into a liquid, and quickly formed into a roughly crow shape.

Subsequently, with the deformation of various details, the image of the crow began to become more and more vivid and lifelike.

While transforming, a complex rune circuit also began to take shape, and the fiery red rune flowed on the surface of the crow.

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As the rune circuit became more and more dazzling, the flame finally burned on the surface of the crow's body.

"Gah!"

The crow wrapped in crimson flames opened its mouth and screamed, and its black feathers quivered in the flames, but it was not damaged at all.

"Gah!"

It chirped again, then spread its wings and flew up.

The black crow was covered in crimson flames and flew in the air like a ball of fire.

Scott could still feel the heat of the flame as it approached.

"Success."

Scott laughed.

He took a block of wood from his pocket and threw it.

"Attack it!"

Hearing Scott's order, the flames wrapping the crow's body gradually became silent and extinguished.

"Gah!"

The crow, which seemed to be back to normal, opened its mouth to spit out a scorching line of fire, which accurately hit the wooden block thrown by Scott.

The pieces of wood burned immediately, turning into ashes and falling down in a very short time.

"Gah!"

The crow chirped cheerfully, and after flying around twice, it landed on the desk again, leaving a few scorched black footprints on the wooden board on the surface of the desk.

Not long after, about a minute, the surface of the crow's body burned again.

"No mistake!"

Scott said happily, and waved his wand again to turn the crow into a bare iron block.

At this time, the iron block had been burned red, and the wooden boards of the desk sizzled, almost being ignited.

With a flick of his wand, Scott moved the iron block to the stone slab on the floor in the corner of the room.

"It looks like you really succeeded."

In the portrait, Ravenclaw, who has been watching Scott's operation, smiled slightly.

"Thank you, mentor, for your help." Scott turned around and bowed to the portrait, "It was you who helped me analyze the rune circuit of [Arson Ring], and guided me to make appropriate modifications to the rune circuit. "

[The Ring of Arson] is an alchemy secret that Scott deciphered from the gift Michael gave him on Christmas 1994 with the help of his Ravenclaw mentor.

The gift was an old piece of parchment. The content on the paper looked like a menu. It seemed to come from a clumsy culinary enthusiast, but it was actually left by an alchemist and written in a special encryption method.

After the rune circuit of [Ring of Arson] was cracked, Scott always wanted to integrate it into his Transfiguration.

Through continuous efforts, this idea has finally been fully realized today.

From now on, his transformation products no longer only have solid defense effects, monitoring, camera and other auxiliary effects, but also have an attack effect similar to the flame spell.

With the "Arson Crow" with its own high-temperature flames and the ability to breathe hot lines of fire from a long distance, his choices in battle will increase, and his tactics will also be greatly flexible and enriched.

While Scott was happy, he certainly couldn't forget the great help Ravenclaw, his mentor, had given him.

"This is also the result of your own hard work." Ravenclaw said lightly, "Keep working hard in the future, my apprentice."

Scott straightened up and smiled, "Follow your teachings, my mentor."

With the arrival of a new week, Hogwarts students bid farewell to the hustle and bustle of the Quidditch finals and entered the ordinary study life.

But this week was anything but ordinary.

First of all, it's the last week before the end-of-year exams.

Many students who were afraid of the exam, or who were unsure, began to review frantically, or tried their best to find some strange potions and cheating props, trying to take advantage of the loopholes.

Eddie has quit and hasn't sold counterfeit medicine for a long time, but people will still come to him and ask him to buy a few bottles of Buffy Brain Booster.

You know, the Buffy brain booster that Eddie secretly sold before is actually a vixen.

"It's like this every year, there are always some little fools trying to figure out a way to cheat." Eddie sighed in the dormitory, "but they don't know that even the real Buffy brain booster won't make their grades better."

Roger laughed, "Professors can tell whether a student is cheating or not. That's too easy. At Hogwarts, cheating is simply impossible."

"But every year during the exam week, the professors can always catch a few cheaters." Eddie said with a smile.

"Oh, Scott, Roger, how are you doing with your revisions?" Milton asked. "I'm worried about my OWLs."

In the dormitory, the three fifth graders were also facing OWLs, and only Milton was very anxious.

"Almost." Roger said after thinking for a while, "I don't have high expectations for my grades, as long as I can get 5 or 6 certificates, I will be satisfied."

Scott said truthfully: "I am not worried about my grades. Although I won't have 12 certificates, as long as I take the exam subjects, I should be able to get them."

Milton quickly picked up the book, "I still need to study harder."

Scott and Roger looked at each other and shook their heads.

Although Milton's grades are not top-notch, they are not bad either. It's just that he will be extremely anxious and unconfident when he meets an exam. This is the result of his personality.

Experience tells them that any persuasion and comfort are useless at this time, but will make him more nervous.

The best way is not to disturb him, let him immerse himself in the effort.

In this way, he would not have time to think too much.

Aside from the exams, there is something else unusual about this week.

The teaching assistant of the Care of Magical Creatures class, Miss Graplan, who was very popular among the students, left suddenly and quietly.

Scott didn't notice this at first until he heard other students who had already taken the class discuss it.

It seems that Dumbledore launched an investigation into the previous attack in the Forbidden Forest?
Scott just thought about it, and didn't have the energy to understand this matter in detail for the time being.

He has to get through exam week first.

Although he is confident in his learning results, he should not take it lightly. He still spent some more time sorting out the knowledge he has learned in the past five years.

Also, he discovered that he might be in another trouble.

The troublesome name was Hermione.

The girl who ran away crying in front of him and returned home was obviously very dissatisfied, and kept trying to find her way back.

Faced with her request to "debate" again, Scott declined, having to deal with the exam first.

Because Hermione herself took the exam very seriously, she didn't say anything more.

But she obviously couldn't hold back the urge to "debate".

Every time she saw Scott, she had an eager look on her face, wishing she could immediately rush forward to refute Scott's point of view with her re-prepared arguments.

At this time, Harry and Ron, who were by Hermione's side, always looked at him with sympathy.

Roger, who knows the inside story, will also gloat.

"Her desire to win is too strong."

Luna found it interesting.

She said with a smile: "If she doesn't win the debate, she won't let it go."

Scott nodded.

He muttered in distress, "We have already communicated with each other and confirmed that we cannot reach a consensus, so why not respect each other's views after that?"

(End of this chapter)