Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 27 Astronomy

The whole class was listening to Professor Kane happily explaining about becoming an animal. Only Sweet recorded something in the book, which made Mo Lin very curious. Animagus is the content of the senior grades. , Professor Kane clearly said that this is their future knowledge, just understand it, but why does Sweet take notes?

"He doesn't want to learn Animagus?" Hugo whispered. "What does he want to be? A snail that can't sing?"

"Hugo, it's impolite for you to say that to others," Lily said.

Hugo shrugged.

"He feels very mysterious." Without thinking too much, Maureen took out his wand and practiced turning a match into a needle.

The content of the transformation class was interesting and difficult. Except for Hugo lighting the match again and again, the class went smoothly.

Morin is faster than everyone else in learning magic. This is his innate talent. Basically, a magic can be mastered with less than three practice sessions, which makes him the envy of the whole class.

"You really are a top student. Mom will be very happy that there is a top student in my dormitory." Hugo looked at his No.18 burnt match with his chin and sighed. Then he remembered something and said with a smile: "But it also means that I don't have to worry about my classwork, which is pretty good when I think about it."

The time for learning magic passed quickly, because everyone tried magic for the first time and was very interested in magic. Except for the defense against the dark arts class and the lullaby-like history of magic, other courses were acceptable. .

There were only two subjects Maureen did badly, one of which was Muggle Studies.Not surprisingly, both Maureen and Hugo failed the quiz in the first Muggle Studies class, so both of them had to go to Muggle Studies class.

Professor Charles of the Muggle Studies class is an old gentleman. He knows a lot of Muggle lifestyles, from clothing to travel, but many students from wizarding families are not interested in Muggles.

"Why do we need to know the difference between a TV and a computer? It doesn't matter to us whether a computer can be used for heating? I don't understand why Muggles use computers for heating! Can't you take out your wand and start a fire?" Hugo said after class I complained all the time when I went to the cafeteria.

Mo Lin was surprised: "Are computers used for heating? I thought Muggle computers were used for washing clothes!"

"The computer is used for heating. I remember it very clearly. Professor Charles also said that there might be an exam at the end of the semester!" Hugo said with certainty.

"Is that so? Then I'll revise my notes later." Mo Lin was also confused about the content of the Muggle Studies class. He grew up in a wizarding family, so it was too difficult to understand the Muggle way of life. .

Another subject Maureen did very badly was astronomy.Wizards study astronomy mainly because many major events can be foreshadowed from the laws of the planets and stars in the sky.

When Venus, the sun and the moon are connected at 45 degrees, there will be an earthquake in a certain corner of the world. When Mars, the sun and Jupiter form a 90-degree angle on the earth, a volcano will erupt. When Mercury and Pluto orbit the Sagittarius star, the world will There is a place that will be flooded...

These things are all signs, and what the wizard has to do is to calculate the specific location of the natural disaster based on the astrology, and then remind people all over the world.

"We wizards have a special natural disaster forecasting department. Every Tuesday and Thursday at [-] o'clock in the evening, you can listen to the radio. Before each class, you have to listen to the wizard's star forecast, which can better cultivate astronomical literacy. Now It's exactly seven o'clock, everyone can listen to it." Professor Sinista, the astronomy teacher, put a dragon skin radio on the table in the center of the tower, pulled out his wand and tapped the radio: "Sagittarius."

After a while, she explained again: "The star forecast channel spell is related to the meteor shower. Which constellation will observe the meteor shower recently, the spell is that constellation. For example, the spell last month was Andromeda."

The radio soon heard a relaxed and joyful voice: "Hi everyone, welcome to turn on the radio on time. Wizards have forecasts, so you can know the danger of disaster first! I am Neptune, the astrologer."

"Hi everyone, I'm Jupiter, the astrologer." It was a woman with a sweet voice who spoke.

Neptune said: "The weather is clear tonight, which is a good time to watch the sky at night. So Miss Jupiter, what do you see from today's star changes?"

The wizard named Jupiter said: "We had expected that the Jipla meteorite would hit Europa next Sunday, but it happened earlier last night. The derailment of the Jipla meteorite and the sun formed a 39-degree angle. Based on theorem analysis, it can be known that there will be a submarine volcano erupting violently in the center of the Pacific Ocean, destroying the ecology of the isolated island, but this disaster is far away from us, so you don’t need to worry. What you need to worry about is the hailstorm 2 minutes later tonight. , this hailstorm will cover the mountains to the east, in the direction of Hogwarts School, but it won't last long, everyone remember to be prepared."

Professor Sinista immediately said: "Everyone go to the lower floor of the tower to avoid the hailstorm."

Freshmen who have just entered astronomy are skeptical, especially Hugo and Maureen.

"Can it really be accurate to 2 minutes? I don't really believe in these things." Mo Lin said, in his eyes, the stars in the sky are all the same, just a bright point, and there is no difference.

"I don't believe it either, but if the forecast is correct, I'll study astronomy well, and maybe I can know in advance when my luck will come." Hugo walked slowly at the end.

Before the two of them walked into the stairs of the tower, Hugo suddenly cried out with his head in his arms: "Who hit me!"

"Hail," Lily said.

Then more hailstones fell, and Hugo ran in yelling, and Maureen watched in surprise as the hailstones crackled and danced on the ground at the stairway, and a dark cloud floated in the sky at some point Covered the moon.

"Can this hailstone be realized through magic?" Mo Lin muttered.

"Don't be silly, the weather at Hogwarts cannot be disturbed by magic. Whatever the weather outside is, the weather at Hogwarts is what it is. No wizard can make a snow or heavy rain over Hogwarts." .” Lily seemed to know a lot.

Hugo touched his head, grinned and said, "I hate hail!"

The hailstorm lasted only 5 minutes before it ended, the dark clouds in the sky had drifted away, and the stars and the moon poked their heads out again.In the subsequent astronomy class, Professor Sinista taught everyone how to identify the constellations in the sky, and asked them to fill in the constellation table with the observed stars.

Maureen was holding the telescope. For some reason, those stars were always inexplicably misplaced in his eyes. According to the professor's guidance, Venus, which should be the brightest, was filled in the position of Mars by him.

"You are the only one in the class who can fill in the wrong one. Can't you recognize the brightest star?" When Professor Sinista was instructing everyone on the constellation table, he was very upset when he saw that Mo Lin had filled in the wrong one.

"But the Venus I saw is in that direction." Maureen was sure that he was right, and he even took a look at Lily and Hugo's brass telescope to be sure.

Hugo said in a low voice: "Hey, brother, why do you think Venus is Jupiter? Even I know where Venus is!"

"I don't know either." Mo Lin was puzzled.

(End of this chapter)