Parents of Hogwarts

Callan thought he would like everything about magic, but he knew he was wrong the moment Professor Cuthbert Binns, the ghost who teaches History of Magic, spoke his first words.

Brutally wrong.

Professor Binns spoke in a breathy drawl that would almost certainly put someone to sleep within ten minutes.Under the gentle snoring of Steve and Gaspard, Karan forced himself to listen carefully to the lecture. At the same time, he kept flipping through the History of Magic textbook, trying to hear something extra from Professor Binns' mouth. of useful stuff.

But the content of Professor Binsi's lectures was almost exactly the same as the History of Magic. Karan even suspected that even a repeater would be more useful than Professor Binsi.

Or in other words, there should be a repeater that can cheer people up, because Professor Binsi behaves like a 3D projection, no different from a repeater.

In this deep doubt and self-confusion, Karan walked numbly to the grassland beside the big lake outside the castle where he had agreed with Lily after class. Even Steve and Gaspard forgot to call him. Awake.

And when he saw Lily and Snape, the first thing he said was.

"I'm going to skip class."

Lily and Snape, who were about to greet him, were stunned for a moment. They looked at each other suspiciously, and then Lily asked him first: "You are joking, right?"

This was really inconsistent with her impression of the studious Karan, and it was completely unlike what Karan could do.

"No." Karan seemed to suddenly come to his senses. He shook his head firmly and said, "I must skip class."

"Keep your voice down, Callan." Snape immediately stopped Callan after seeing the looks from around him. After all, this was not something worth publicizing.

"How are you going to prepare for the History of Magic exam?" Snape asked Karan. As for the specific course information Karan mentioned, he already knew it from Lily's letter.

"Just endorse it." Karan tightened his grip on the History of Magic, threw it on the grass, and took an angry sip.

"What kind of rubbish class is this? It deserves to be called magic."

Snape and Lily looked at Kahlan's behavior in amusement. This seemed to be the first time they saw Kahlan deflated.

"Okay, okay." Lily comforted Karan for a few words, but then she looked behind him warily and asked him: "Didn't Scamander come with you?"

Karan glanced at Barian in her arms. At this time, it was trying hard not to look at Karan. It was obvious that the shadow of yesterday had not completely recovered.

"He didn't come over. He was still asleep in the classroom."

Karan hugged Barian and took a deep breath.

Well, it still has a familiar fragrance. It seems that even at school, the little girl is well taken care of by Lily.

Then the three of them had a brief exchange. After all, it was only the first day of school, and they only had one class, so it ended quickly. However, Snape and Lily still voted for Karan's advanced version of the dormitory. Envy eyes.

Of course, this happened without Karan explicitly mentioning the weird deeds of the two roommates. Then he just hinted at the two of them, and their eyes on Karan immediately changed from envy to weirdness, and even with a hint of surprise. A hint of mercy.

"Be safe." These were Lily's concerned words.

"It should be his roommate who should be the most careful about safety." Snape said with a clear angle. For this, he received double glares from Lily and Karan, and soon walked away alone with his lips curled up. , took out his wand and practiced the levitating spell on a stone as Karan had done before.

This is also the reason why the three of them chose to meet here. Whether it is reading a book or practicing magic, it is a good choice. At the same time, they can also enjoy the beautiful scenery around them, which makes the whole process not so boring.

Since he decided to try white magic, Snape's current goal is also very simple, that is, to practice the levitation spell to see how far he can do it. After all, he originally gave up black magic because of Karan's power. Yes, now naturally we should practice with Karan as a comparison.

Karan didn't practice the levitation spell anymore. He fumbled around in his schoolbag, finally took out an intermediate transfiguration book, sat on the grass and read it silently.

Lily tilted her head and looked at the name of the book. She asked Karan a little strangely: "You have already read the Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration. It is for the second grade. We have only reached the first grade now."

Snape on the side also looked over curiously, and Karan said: "I have finished reading it, but I haven't tried the magic in it yet. I just plan to make something that facilitates communication, such as a coin, so that we can usually You don’t have to use owls to communicate all the time, and it will be more convenient.”

Lily stared at Karan silently, showing an expression of "Sure enough," and Snape continued to practice the levitation spell without any interest.

"By the way, why didn't you ask me about the Sorting Problem?" Karan asked Lily without raising his head: "Snape told you."

"Sev only said that you chose to enter Hufflepuff on your own." After saying this, Lily seemed to have some resentment in her heart: "As for students with difficulty in sorting?"

She pointed to the intermediate transfiguration in Karan's hand: "I would be surprised if you don't become a student with difficulty in sorting, but why don't you choose to go to Gryffindor? I heard them say that Principal Dumbledore is a Gryffindor student. .”

"I just like Hufflepuff more." Under Lily's insistent glare, Karan had no choice but to put down the book in his hand and said, "Isn't this also good? Three people, three colleges, look more individual."

Lily still puffed up her face in anger, but she looked very cute.The wand in Snape's hand was momentarily unstable, and a small stone exploded.

At noon, the three of them returned to the Great Hall to eat together, but when walking towards the Hufflepuff table, Karan glanced at the two people who were still following him inexplicably, coughed lightly and reminded: "If you don't If you don’t mind being watched, it’s not a bad idea to eat at Hufflepuff’s table.”

Lily's face suddenly turned red, she whispered "I'm used to it" in a low voice, and then hurried to the Gryffindor table.

Snape's face also turned slightly red, but he quickly said thoughtfully: "Slytherin's dining table is also in this direction." Then he bypassed Callan and strode over.

Karan chuckled softly, and after he quickly took his seat, Steve and Gaspard suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Gaspard called him sadly: "Karan"

Steve then said: "You didn't wake us up"

"Oops." Karan suddenly said lightly: "I seem to have not slept well today." As he said that, he glanced at the two of them respectively.

Gespard and Steve looked at each other, and Steve immediately said angrily: "This is unfair, why can you threaten people casually?"

"I can accept it." Gespard sat down decisively: "After all, he is stronger than both of us."

Steve looked at Gaspard in disbelief, as if he didn't expect that he would rebel so soon: "I'm still feeding your owl."

Gaspard calmly took a sip of pumpkin juice and said, "But I still can't beat him."

"Okay, okay." Karan smiled and watched the two people singing together. He reached out and pulled Steve to his seat: "I was so confused in class that I didn't wake you two up. Besides, I don’t plan to take the History of Magic class in the future, since the exam will only test the things in the book anyway.”

"I'm really not going," they both asked him at the same time.

"I really won't go." Karan nodded and said.

"Then I won't go either." The two agreed.

Karan was stunned: "What about the usual homework? Someone must know what homework is left."

The three of them lowered their heads and thought for a while, then looked to the right at the same time.

Miss Greta Kachlov, the future author of Magic for Your Cheese, shuddered inexplicably.

"Okay, I will tell you about the history of magic homework in the future." Under the gazes of the three of them, Greta had no choice but to agree to this small help.

"Thank you so much, Greta" Steve thanked enthusiastically: "If you have a chance in the future, I'll invite you to play in my box."

Greta obviously didn't know what this sentence meant, but judging from her silent movement to a farther position, she probably didn't think it was a good word.

"What's wrong with her?" Steve asked confused.

Karan and Gaspard looked at each other, and then patted Steve's shoulders comfortingly at the same time. He suddenly became more confused.

After the meal, Karan had already agreed with Lily and Snape not to get together in the afternoon. After all, school had just started and they still needed to adapt to their respective college lives. He simply went back with Steve and Gaspard. In the dormitory, the environment is comfortable enough anyway.

But after closing the door, Karan sat on the sofa and thought for a while. He suddenly asked Gaspard: "You said you are an inventor?"

"Why are you asking this?" Gaspard felt that Karan was going to engage in that kind of conversation again. I don't know if it was sarcasm or not.

"That is, the alchemist" Karan continued to ask.

"In the magical world, this basically means the same thing, but the name is a little different." Gaspard rolled his eyes, looking very professional, but if he wasn't trying to play a super Big bubbles are better.

"Look at this." Karan took out a blue ribbon from his pocket. It was the bird and snake that Steve gave him before. He pulled on the ribbon, showing its unusual stretchability. , and asked Gaspard: "Can you use this thing to try to make a stretchable magic thread? It would be best to use it on the wand to fix and connect the wand to the applicable arm."

This is an idea that Karan has long had. As the most powerful wand unique to wizards, Karan naturally does not want to turn himself into a magical cripple just because of a disarming spell. Instead, he wants to find a way to Keep the wand.

Although this kind of thing seems simple, it is actually very difficult. There are too many things and details that need to be considered. He already knew this during his previous conversation with Mr. Ollivander.

For example, this magic thread must be accurately fixed on the end of the wand, and it must not fall off easily, otherwise it will lose its due function: and the length of this thread should also be actively controlled, or even adapt to changes, so as to When faced with a disarming curse, it can accurately unload the force without causing damage to the wand itself or even completely breaking it. At the same time, when the wand is far away from you, you can immediately pull the wand back through this line.

And the most important point among them is that it must not affect the method of casting spells. Regardless of the length of this magic line and possible entanglement problems, all efforts must be made to avoid it.Otherwise, once it affects the way of casting a spell, it is better not to use this thread at all. Homicide is more dignified than accidental suicide.

"What is this?" Gaspard showed unusual interest. He took the blue ribbon and stretched it everywhere like Karan.

"This is the shed skin of a bird and a snake." Steve had already noticed what the two were talking about, so he walked over together and answered.

"Birds and snakes can actually shed their skins," Gaspard asked suspiciously. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them didn't write about this.

"Because this is a very difficult thing." Steve shook his head and said: "First of all, the bird snakes must grow to a certain age. This is already an extremely difficult goal to achieve, because these bird snakes will always Dying due to normal aging cannot be done unless under close care. Secondly, the process of shedding is also a very painful thing for birds and snakes. Many bird snakes have no strength at that age. If you try to shed your skin again, you will always die in the process."

"My father has been studying this problem for a long time, but as far as I know there are only a dozen successful examples. They are not universal, or even very rare, and the specific reasons have not yet found a suitable rule. . So he simply didn’t write it in the book.”

"Actually, there are many similar questions like this, but for various reasons, I always choose not to post them for the time being, because my father does not want to mislead other wizards with wrong ideas, and only uses them to do necessary work with some magizoologists. Just communicate.”

"Then what will happen if the bird snake successfully sheds its skin?" Karan asked curiously.

"Like a phoenix" Steve made an exaggerated gesture: "reborn from the ashes"

However, he soon turned into a helpless expression: "But this is also a guess that has not been completely confirmed, because it is not yet known whether there is an upper limit for the number of times birds and snakes shed their skins. The ones at home have only successfully shed their skins for two times at most. Just times.”

"How many times is this?" Gaspard asked.

"This is the second one." Steve said nonchalantly: "But it's no different from the first molt. It's just bigger. Other than that, there's nothing special about it."

"I didn't expect these things to happen." Karan whispered, and then he immediately looked at Gespard and asked: "How about my previous proposal?"

Gaspard's little face was as serious as ever: "Actually, no wizard would ignore the importance of the wand. Similar ideas have been proposed a long time ago, but they were all given up due to difficulty."

"But fortunately, most of these difficulties are due to the materials. It is too difficult to create ideal materials out of nothing. But if you have this thing..."

Gaspard's face became full of enthusiasm.

"Maybe there really is a chance of success."