Hogwarts White Knight

“aresto ntu”

Hermione and Neville held their wands and pointed at the apple in Gawain's hand in unison. At the same time, Gawain loosened his hands and the apple fell naturally.

"Boom!"

The apple fell on the table with a muffled sound.

Only one sound.

It's not because Gawain is imitating a bald man named Galileo and verifying that the iron ball and the feather hit the ground at the same time, but because the apple in his left hand is floating in the air at the moment, spinning and landing very slowly.

"Ah! I did it!"

Hermione screamed sharply, and Abyss, who was lying on Gawain's box, straightened up in fright. Neville smiled awkwardly, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"Hermione's spell undoubtedly succeeded and performed exactly as it was designed to do.

But what if that's the case? "

Gawain hesitated, feeling that his theory was off the mark again.

When he aroused Hermione's interest just now, he deliberately did not explain the effect of the slowing spell. Instead, he lifted the box with some exaggerated movements, making her mistakenly think that the effect of this spell was to make the object continue to float.

“Isn’t subjective cognition the core?”

Gawain took out the notebook from his pocket and opened a new page to take notes.

The magic spell he used when helping Hermione carry the box was indeed "aresto ntu", but the effect was not a simple slowing spell, but an annotation found in the section about Quidditch in "Modern History of Magic" .

"When I was communicating with Spearman, I found that the slowing spell used on the Quaffle only needs to be properly adjusted, and it can always act on the object, making it appear in a wonderful floating state without falling. ."

Dumbledore marked "tande" under this passage, and explained that the essence of this technique is to continuously attach new spells to the object to keep it in the air.

If Gawain's conjecture is correct, then Hermione's spell will undoubtedly keep the apple in the air, because in her mind, items with a slowing spell should no longer fall.

"But the speed of its landing is too slow. Could it be related to this?

Or is there some deeper reason, or... is it my own? This possibility must also be included. Moreover, Neville...although it cannot be used as a control group, it seems..."

Writing another line in his notebook, Gawain put a question mark.

After thinking for a while, he took out another apple from his pocket and took a bite.

"Neville, do you mind if I call you by your first name? You can also call me Gawain."

"No, no, I mean, it's okay. Of course, of course you can."

Neville's face turned red instantly, he hurriedly took the apple, and answered nervously, as if he had never been called such an intimate name by his peers.

"Neville, I was wondering, did you buy your wand from Mr. Ollivander?"

Gawain asked, pointing to the wand in Neville's hand.

"Uh, it should be."

Neville scratched his head and said uncertainly.

"It was my father's... Grandma was the only one at home, Saint... It would cost a lot of galleons there again."

His words were sporadic, but Gawain patiently listened to him.

In "A Modern History of Magic", the encounters of the Longbottom family are told as a separate short chapter.

It was the only chapter in which Dumbledore did not make any annotations.

"Follow me and learn."

Gawain slowed down his movements and demonstrated once.

"(Fluorescence)."

Neville held his wand and whispered.

A ball of silver light appeared at the tip of the wand.

It's fluorescent flashes.

"Nox", Gawain taught Neville to extinguish the light, then handed his ebony wand to Neville's hand and said, "Try again with this wand."

"(Fluorescence)."

Suspicious, Neville took the silver-handled ebony wand and said timidly.

This time, the tip of the wand did not light up.

"Jane, do you mind if I borrow your wand?"

Although Neville's spell failed, Gawain smiled instead.

"of course not.

Just tell me what the hell this is doing. "

As she spoke, Hermione raised her brows haughtily and handed the wand handle to Neville's hand.

"make a deal.

Neville, you are already a mature wizard, you should know how to read it yourself. "

Gawain said with a smile and snapped his fingers.

"."

Neville blushed and shouted loudly.

This time the tip of the wand lit up successfully.

Although it was slower and bleaker than the first time, it was a success after all.

"really!"

Gawain clapped excitedly, as if he had seen a wonderful performance.

"Neville, your wand does not belong to you."

Gawain said under the anxious and disgusted look of Hermione and the puzzled eyes of Neville.

"The wand doesn't belong to me?"

"Yes, it doesn't recognize you yet. Of course, this is just my personal guess," Gawain explained patiently.

"The wand...will not recognize me?"

But that only confused Neville further.

"Don't worry, eat it and let me finish first." Gawain thrust the apple into Neville's hand. "You know, if you have to repeat what I say every time, I'm afraid it will take us twice as long to explain it clearly. ."

"I don't know if it's the wand that's resisting you, or you're resisting the wand. But either way, it's not using its full power.

In other words, it may not be that you have no talent, but that you need to spend more effort to catch up with others when using this magic wand. "

Gawain spoke his mind.

When Neville used the slowing spell, he had a feeling that Neville's "connection" was particularly fragile, and just trying to establish it required all his efforts; and after that, he asked Neville to use two This feeling becomes more obvious when the wand already has a master.

“It’s not necessarily right, but I have an idea.

Neville, if possible, might try going to Mr. Ollivander's to choose a new wand. "

ps: This chapter involves a lot of wand science, so I would like to explain the relevant content here.

1. The material of the wand is considered to be related to the owner. For example, Hermione's wand is made of grapevine. They usually choose those who have noble pursuits, have farsightedness, and will make things that will shock their friends who think they know them. The dragon material as the wand core is suitable for powerful wizards, but lacks loyalty.

So after Hermione took away Bellatrix's wand (the core of the dragon's nerve wand), she was quickly able to use it freely, even though she hated it.

2. Neville’s father’s wand was made of ominous material, but the one he later replaced was made of cherry wood and unicorn hair. Ollivander said that cherry wood is a very rare wand wood that can give wands very strange powers, and wizards who own them are often very prestigious. Unicorn Hair favors kind and upright wizards.

The article mentions that Neville's father is very talented and has a lot of research in magic. It is difficult for his wand to fit Neville, but the core of their characters is somewhat similar, brave and kind.

So I think it's partially out of character for Neville to use his father's wand.

3. Regarding Neville’s talents, although they have always been negative stupidity, mobile natural disasters, and potions class destroyers in the past, they have improved significantly after the fifth part, especially after breaking into the Ministry of Magic. Part Seven also proves his leadership and talent, especially at the end, when he is responsible for guarding the gates of the castle against an army of monsters.

I prefer that the previous Neville had always been repressed, belittled by the outside world, had self-doubt, and felt unworthy of his father's wand and Longbottom's surname, falling into a vicious cycle.

From his visit to Mr. Weasley in Parts and , it can be seen that Neville is actually very sensitive. What he needs is not sympathy or pity, but to be treated and valued normally.

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