Hogwarts: Harley from the Witch Path

Chapter 151 The Nagging Old Man Nicole

After Halle gave a brief speech, expressing her feelings about winning the championship, her good expectations for the future and her blessings for the development of potion, the grand competition came to an end.

Although most people are not very happy with the result, but the skills are not as good as others, and no one will say anything.

After the game, no one left the square.

All the potions in the square were removed intact and replaced by long tables.

As is customary, an open-air banquet is held after the game.

Although it was already dark, the light clusters suspended in the air made the square as bright as day.

The food provided by the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists is very rich, and the special food of each college can be found here.

I just don't know which country's delicacies are deep-fried bamboo worms and grilled centipedes, they look very cruel.

Harley has only seen it in the Southern Continent.She didn't want to try a bite then, and she doesn't want to try it now.

In addition to the food, there was plenty of wine on offer at the banquet, including mead, fire whiskey and chilled champagne.

Harley really wanted to try it, but unfortunately, there were so many potions masters around her that she really couldn't get away.

President Hector has been discussing with Harley the new treatment method of phantom grass, and the important issues hidden behind this treatment method——

How to use a variety of herbs to mix and reduce the instability of other materials.

Harley skillfully communicated with this group of old men and old ladies who were at least 70 years old.

This is also due to the whole year of correspondence before, which made her familiar with the way of communication and thinking of these potion masters.

To be honest, although they were old, they were much more difficult to deal with than the group of nobles from the Kingdom of Intis and the Kingdom of Loen.

The group of nobles were only greedy for Harry's body, and Harry had a lot of ways to manipulate them, and even took the opportunity to flirt with the two noble ladies.

But it's Harry's knowledge that these old people are greedy for.

Harley said that every sentence has to be thought over and over again, and he has to calculate it in his brain several times before he dares to say it.

Although Harry is under a lot of pressure, he still enjoys it.

After all, what she gained in one night was more than what she gained from reading two more tomes.

The other magic school contestants looked at Harry enviously.

They also want to communicate with potion masters!
Don't even talk about communication, if you can give them a hand, serve tea and water, the rewards are great.

If a master can remember his name, it will be much easier in the field of potions in the future.

But in fact, even Fleur, who performed second best, was not able to join in the conversation between Harley and the group of old people.

After all, my level is not enough, and I used to bring shame on myself.

Many players wailed in their hearts. Everyone came to compete. Why is there such a big gap?
Halle stayed with the old people until the end of the dinner.

Many wizard school contestants wanted to come and have a chat with Harley, only to say goodbye at the end of the dinner.

This disappointed many, especially almost all male players.

The next day, Professor Slughorn took Harry back to Beauxbaton's carriage.

"Congratulations, Harry." As soon as Harry got into the carriage, he saw Nicole sitting in the hall with a smile on his face.
"Congratulations on winning the championship and getting the golden cauldron."

"Thank you." Harry replied politely, suddenly remembering why she felt that something was missing these days.

Speaking of which, the Nicols and themselves both went to the magic garden in Beauxbaton's carriage.

I thought at the time that they were here to watch the game.

Although the Nicols are not potion masters, they are also superb alchemists.

Alchemy and potion have interlinkages in many places, coupled with the status of Nico and his wife, they are also eligible to watch the game.

But it doesn't seem to be the case now, after all, Harley never saw a trace of the Nicols during the game.

"Are you wondering why you didn't see me during the game?" Nico asked with a smile as if he could see what Harry was thinking.

Seeing Harry nodded, Nicole smiled and lay back: "There is something wrong with the Extraordinary Pharmacist Association, and the access to the magic garden has been reduced again."

"You mean, something went wrong with that alchemy item?" Harry raised his eyebrows slightly.

If she remembered correctly, Nico once said that he arranged the magic circle outside the magic garden, but some alchemy items from dwarves were used for the access passage.

"Yes." Nico nodded.
"Two more alchemy items were completely destroyed, and the passages that the remaining items can open are much smaller.

The magic garden speculates that there are too many wizards coming and going, but I don't think so. "

Nico paused for a moment, his brows and eyes became a little more dignified, and then he continued to speak slowly:

"I feel that some substances are missing in those alchemy items. If I have to describe it, in the words of a country in the East, it is called 'origin'."

Nicole spit out a very strange-sounding word, and at the same time he snapped his fingers lightly.

The two square characters "Ben" and "Yuan" were formed in mid-air, emitting golden light.

"Origin?" Harry repeated Nico's pronunciation, "Is this how these two words are pronounced in Japanese?"

"Japanese?" Nico was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "I know why you think so.

Have you ever looked at the sign in the Enchanted Garden and been told it was in Japanese? "

"Isn't it?" Harry asked curiously.

"Of course not, these two characters come from Chinese in China, not Japanese in Japan." Nico shook his head,
"Although there are many characters in Japanese and Chinese that are similar, or even written in the same way, the two are indeed different.

I have conducted in-depth research on this. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The mainstream view is that it originated in the north of China or Sichuan in the southwest of China.

There are many theories about the origin of Japanese, including the Altaic language family, the Dravid (pi) tea (tu) language family, the Japanese-Koguryo language family, and the Sino-Tibetan language family.

At present, the claim that it originated from the Altaic language family has been completely denied, but other claims are still being debated.

Personally, I am more inclined to Nishida Tatsuo's statement, thinking that it also belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

After all, there are so many similar and identical characters between Japanese and Chinese, I don’t believe that they don’t come from the same source…”

Nico has lived a long time and has many hobbies besides alchemy.

Apparently, studying the origins of languages ​​is also one of his passions.

Now, Nico was slipping into old-age nagging patterns, making Harley's head spin.

Witches are not good at this stuff!
No, to be precise, there should be no one who is interested in this thing except readers, secret voyeurs, and generalists!
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(Thanks to Nine-Tailed Yanhu for the reward!)
(End of this chapter)