Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

Gray had returned to Hogwarts for several days, but he had never seen the "stonemason" professor Dumbledore mentioned. He did not teach or eat at the teachers' table.

Gray had gone to school for seven years and didn't even know there was such a person in Hogwarts. This mysterious person made him very curious.

"I forgot to tell you! It seems that my memory is not very good as I get older..." Dumbledore hummed a few words, seemingly very happy, "Ballard lives on the top floor of the middle tower, you need to look for it carefully. That humble little wooden door will do, Gray."

After asking Dumbledore, he learned that the "stonemason" professor lived in a small room on the top floor of the side of the clock tower.

Gray walked up the stairs. After reaching the floor of the big clock, the stairs ended. He looked around carefully and found an inconspicuous little door in the corner. If he hadn't known that the clock tower had more than this floor, he wouldn't have known it. Will notice the door.

He opened the door and got in. At his feet was a steep and narrow shabby spiral stone step. He held on to the wall and climbed up step by step, stopping in front of a small door that was also shabby as before.

how?Going through the door and up a flight of steps again?

Gray opened the door curiously, and as soon as he opened it a crack, he heard a hoarse roar.

"Who let you in! Get out of here!"

"Sorry! I didn't know your room was behind this door!" Before the Gray man could see clearly, he was scolded and hurriedly closed the door.

"I'm looking for the mason... no, Mr. Mason," Gray said through the door.

The door opened, revealing a shriveled and wrinkled face, with messy hair hanging on his shoulders.

"Are you Maurice?"

"Yes, Mr. Mason. Dumbledore asked me to visit you." Gray guessed that it was the person in front of him.

The old man in front of him looked at him with his bulging round eyes, his eyes lit up, and he opened the door and motioned for him to come in.

Gray walked in, but he didn't expect that there was a cave inside. The room was more spacious than he thought.

There is a big old wooden table in the middle, which is piled with books. On the wall on the left is a boiler about half the height of an adult. Next to it are several large crucibles, an old operating table, and some bottles and jars. jars, and there were many broken crucibles and glass fragments piled up in the corner.

"Are you an alchemist?" Gray asked curiously.

"No need to ask!" Mason said sternly.

It was incredible to see The Alchemist in the 90s. Nico Flamel was an accident, after all, he lived hundreds of years.

If he were told in normal life that there are still alchemists, Gray would never believe it, but this is a magical world and everything is possible. Don't ask, asking is magic.

"Boy, let me ask you, do you know about Elixir Yeast?" Mason spoke immediately as soon as he entered the room. He seemed to be very eager to know the answer.

"Sorry, what?" Gray thought he didn't hear clearly.

Mason stared into his eyes and slowly walked up to him.

“Elliot Hill Yeast!”

"what is that?"

Mason was stunned for a moment, looking at Gray with a look that seemed a little more disappointed.

"It seems Franty didn't tell you anything."

"You know my mother, right?"

"Yes, of course I do!" Mason raised his eyes and replied immediately, "She is the most talented student I have ever seen in alchemy! But it's a pity! Her son is not! He has not learned anything."

"She left some books. I have read them. They are about crystal stones——"

"Spar?" Mason interrupted him with a mocking tone, "Spar? Do you think it's just a crystal? What's so great about a crystal? Take a broken stone and cherish it very much, offer it as a treasure, You can’t drop it, you can’t touch it, and you can’t destroy it. In the end, you can only stay in school and teach to deceive children!”

"Aren't you the same?" Gray felt a little uncomfortable being scolded like this. "Weren't you also a professor before?"

"Me?" Mason's voice was louder, with a trace of anger in his eyes, and he screamed, "That was Dumbledore who kept me! Look at those students, they have no interest in alchemy, and would rather choose a boring one Muggle studies didn't take my class, so I removed Alchemy from the elective course schedule! You must not have seen this class when you were in school, right? I would rather not teach it than teach it to those who are just trying to get an elective course Speak to the student who chose alchemy over numbers!"

Along with the rhythm of his loud speech, Mason's beard twitched.

Gray felt that the old man in front of him had a really weird personality and a bad temper.

"Nicholas Flamel is also an alchemist. I think you should know him?" Gray quickly changed his topic. If he said a few more words, this crazy old man might be able to throw him from the clock tower. .

"Needless to say!" Mason heard Nico Flamel and was immediately diverted, "We are all alchemists! I also assisted him in forging the magic stone! But he left -"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mason sat down on the chair and covered his face with his hands. "Someone wanted to get the stone. Nico saw everything clearly and decided to destroy it. My old friend-"

Mason's voice was trembling, as if he was about to cry in grief.

Seeing that Gray felt a little sad, he comforted him: "For people with a clear mind, death is just another great adventure, sir."

"You don't understand at all!"

Mason immediately stood up and shouted so loudly that Gray couldn't believe that he was shaking and crying just a second ago.

"He left with regret! It's a pity! One thing has never been done! Now I need to help him. At least I am still alive and can help him find it. I thought you should know something if you study crystal stones, but you Nothing.”

After saying that, he started to sigh again.

"Speaking of which, you look for yeast..."

“Elliot Hill Yeast!”

"What are you doing with Elixir Yeast?"

"Since you don't know what it is, you have no right to know what I'm going to do."

"..."

"Okay, get out of here and don't bother me! I thought too simply. I thought Frandi would--"

"What should she know? You should make it clear, Mr. Mason!"

"She knew about that thing...but she didn't tell you..." Mason looked sad as if something sad had been mentioned. The aura of loud taunting just now was gone. His voice was trembling, "I should have stopped her...stopped her." …”

"I only knew that my mother had studied crystal stones, but I didn't know that she knew alchemy."

"So, you should get out of here, kid!"

Mason grabbed Gray by the collar and pushed him out the door.

Gray left quickly without looking back. If he stayed here any longer, this eccentric old man would not know what impulse he would make.

He had never heard of Elixir's yeast and had no idea what it had to do with alchemy.

From Mason's speech just now, he inferred that Franti's original research was not only on crystal science, but also involved alchemy. However, there were only a few books on crystal science in the box in the basement of his home, and then a few stones.

Gray felt baffled. He was sprayed early in the morning and learned a term he didn't understand at all - Elixir Yeast.

His head was turned upside down, and he couldn't even remember that Mason existed in the original novel, nor did he remember the appearance of this yeast.

His intuition told him that this thing was not simple, but where could he find the clues?