Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 371 Arcturus Divination

Hugo never refuses anyone who comes to eat. After eating Hagrid's dragon meat, he chased Molin all over the dormitory all night with tears in his eyes.

"What are you doing, Hugo."

When Maureen climbed into bed, he found Hugo sitting on the bed wiping his tears while reading a book. He felt rather curious. Hugo never read in bed. This was not his habit.

"Mars hasn't reached the octave yet."

Hugo's tears were choked out by the dragon meat. He wiped away the tears with a tissue, and showed Mo Lin the cover of the book. It was "Astrology", and there were several rotating planets on the cover. The brightness of the planet also kept flashing a few times, emitting light of various colors.

"What Odea said."

Mo Lin remembered what Odea said to Hugo before taking them to the Forbidden Forest, and he asked curiously, "Why are you so interested in this thing all of a sudden?"

"I heard that the centaur's divination is very accurate." Hugo turned a page and continued: "What if he is telling me when disaster will strike? I have to be prepared."

"Then what did you find out?" Mo Lin didn't refute Hugo's words. Although the centaur's obsessive appearance is annoying, he is really good at divination. Odea may really know something.

"I can't find it, have you heard what the octave orbit means?" Hugo said a little depressed.

"Don't ask me." Mo Lin spread his hands, "I'm a mess in astronomy, worse than you."

"Yes, this is your only shortcoming." Hugo yawned.

"It's the only one." Mo Lin corrected, "Did you forget that there is Muggle research?"

"I'll ask Professor Sinista next week to see if she knows what the octave orbit of Mars means." Hugo closed the book and threw it on the bedside table.

"Then you'd better not mention that the centaur said it, Professor Sinista will be unhappy." Molin reminded.

Professor Sinista once said that wizards' research on astronomy far exceeds that of centaurs, but the centaurs themselves think that wizards' divination is only child's play, so it's better not to argue about this matter.

Hugo covered himself with the quilt and wrapped himself tightly, only one head was exposed, and looked at the dormitory. Sweet and Toby hadn't come back yet, he asked excitedly: "By the way, what happened at night?" Didn’t the centaur do anything to you?”

"Some accident happened to the centaur."

Mo Lin told everything about the night, and Hugo was shocked after hearing it.

"They should extinguish that cursed bonfire!" Hugo couldn't help but say.

"That's tantamount to killing them," Mo Lin said.

Hugo frowned suddenly, as if thinking of something.

"What's wrong?" Maureen asked strangely.

"You just said that they mentioned the issue of Arcturus shining?" Hugo asked suspiciously.

"Yes, every time they have a secret that they don't want to tell, they will mention a star to prevaricate. What's wrong with this star?" Mo Lin didn't know what Arcturus was at all.

Hugo got up from the bed again, pulled the celestial book on the bedside table, flipped through a few pages, and said, "I seem to have heard somewhere that Arcturus shines—yes, it's here."

Hugo pointed to the contents of the book and read out: "Arcturus, the patron saint in astrology, is an extremely bright 0-magnitude star in the sky. Good or bad things will change."

"Things on your mind?" Mo Lin poked his head to look at the book in Hugo's hand.

Hugo moved the book a little closer to Maureen, and Maureen saw some introductions on how to determine good or bad luck based on the brightness of Arcturus.

——In the eyes of wizards, the brightness of stars is biased, that is to say, the brightness of stars seen by different wizards is different, which has something to do with magic.If you want to know the good or bad direction of the thing you are thinking about, you have to imagine the consequences of this matter, then observe the brightness of Arcturus, and determine the good or bad level of the matter according to the number of flashes and the increase or decrease in brightness.

"The book also marked the brightness reference and the flickering frequency good or bad prediction. When you think about nothing, the brightness of the stars you see is definite. When you concentrate on imagining something, the brightness of Arcturus in your eyes will be the same. It will start to change, and the degree of good and bad is divided according to the brightness. When the brightness remains the same, it is the most auspicious. When the brightness starts to decrease, the more obvious the flickering frequency is, the higher the danger—I will try.”

Hugo took out the folding telescope from the box, walked to the window, adjusted the telescope, and looked towards the sky.

"Oh, this telescope can't turn. The star should be on the other side of the castle. It can be seen from the window on the other side of the stairs. Would you like to try it? Maureen, maybe we can guess what the centaurs are most worried about. They lost You lost that box, didn’t you? You only need to focus on the loss of that box to know how serious the consequences of the loss of this box are.” Hugo said enthusiastically.

"It's useless for me to look at the stars." Mo Lin reminded.

"Then I will think for you, let's go!"

Hugo put on a coat. Although it was snowing outside, the temperature in the castle was relatively high. The two of them could keep out the cold by wearing thin coats.The two took the binoculars, left the boys' dormitory, ran along the corridor to the stairs leading to the common room, and set up the binoculars.

"Let me see, Arcturus... Arcturus... I saw it, let me try to predict, the brightness of Arcturus is..."

Hugo looked at the telescope while referring to the textbook, and then happily said: "It is the brightness of a 0-magnitude star, and there is no flickering at present, which is great! It means that things are not that bad."

"You mean the centaur lost the Black Rubik's Cube?"

"No, what I was thinking just now was whether there will be a peach and honey sandwich for breakfast tomorrow. According to the astrology, the house elf must have prepared this tomorrow morning, so I don't have to worry about it." Hugo said with a smile.

"Oh, that's what you're thinking about." Maureen couldn't help laughing, "I'm right to give you the dragon meat cooked by Hagrid."

"Come on. I'll practice my hands first, and predict the good or bad of things casually. For example, whether I will redo the Potions class next week. Last time I boiled the white expansion agent into black. The effect should be similar—— "

Hugo flicked the telescope, looked at the brightness meter again, and said anxiously: "It's over, the brightness of Arcturus flickers between magnitude 0 and magnitude 1, and it flickers in the positive direction, which is a bad omen. Things are a little hanging."

"Is it just a bit of a mystery? Hugo, you don't need to rely on Arcturus for divination for this kind of thing?" Mo Lin muttered.

In astronomy, the brightness of magnitude 0 is a dividing line, which can be seen without a telescope. Those brighter than magnitude 0 are represented by negative numbers, and those that are darker than magnitude 0 are represented by positive numbers. brightness.

"Then I'll be happy, for example, will I have enough for breakfast tomorrow—" Hugo compared it happily, and said, "It's great, the brightness of Arcturus flickers between magnitude 0 and -0.3, Negative flickering is a good omen, indicating that the things I think about will develop in a good way."

He also used Arcturus to predict some things, such as "how will I sleep at night", and the brightness of Arcturus flickered in negative directions at magnitudes 0 and -0.4, indicating that the quality of sleep was excellent.Another example is "Professor Theodore's attitude towards him in Potions class next week", Arcturus is flickering positively between magnitude 0 and 0.4, it seems a bit bad, and it will inevitably be criticized.

"It's time to get down to business." Mo Lin yawned.

(End of this chapter)