hogwarts shady

A week later.

Next to the lake in Iris Road Park, in the warehouse belonging to the fishing club, Ryan was practicing magic spells.

"Disillusionment."

Ryan pointed his wand at the dancing fish on the table and recited the incantation of the Disillusionment Curse.

In one week, Ryan had mastered all ten spells in "Standard Spells: Elementary" and unexpectedly found the Disguise Charm in "Selected Modern Spells".

Unlike "Standard Spells", "Selected Modern Spells" does not record in detail the methods of chanting and casting spells, but rather introduces more about the origins, anecdotes and uses of spells.

For example, it mentioned in the preface that "Knox" is not only the counter-spell of "Fluorescence", it can darken any luminous object, and it also has its own counter-spell of "Light Reappearance".

In fact, most spells and counterspells do not correspond one-to-one. They often have their own functions, but one just happens to be able to break the other.

However, since the principle of the spell is to "add or change attributes", if you use "Knox" on the flame, you will get a lightless flame that still has the ability to burn.

The 1 commonly used spells mentioned in Chapter 37 of the book all give the exact spells and spelling techniques. However, in the advanced spells section of Chapter 6, only the Disguise Charm and the Patronus Charm are mentioned, and there are no specific spells. mark, which made it difficult for Ryan to figure out where to reread the spell.

So of course his disguise spell failed, and he just painted the fish on the table.

Ryan walked out of the door carrying a large bucket of wooden fish and shook his head regretfully at Bach.

"Don't be discouraged, son, you have learned quickly enough!" Bach took the bucket from Ryan and poured all the strange fish back into the lake.

"This difficulty doesn't bother me." Ryan is not in a hurry. There is still more than a month left in the summer vacation, which is enough for him to slowly try out the correct rereading method.

The incantation of the Disguise Curse has a total of five syllables, and there are only 32 different stress schemes when arranged and combined. Ryan waved his quill to erase the two experimental options on the parchment, which were the failed spells today.

In addition, Ryan has determined the rhythm of his wand waving, which is due to the strange magic in his body and the satisfactory real-time feedback of the wand in his hand.

This is also the reason why Ryan learns so quickly. He can clearly capture the flow of magic in the body when waving the wand, and the explosion of magic at the tip of the wand when chanting a spell. This allows him to always accurately find the best swing. The rhythm of the wand allows the magic power in the body to be released through the wand without any stagnation.

"Okay, Dad, I'm starving."

"Then let's go back? I caught a big crucian carp today!" Bach licked his lips, "I miss the crucian carp soup you made, Ryan. How did you come up with the idea of ​​adding sugar to the soup to make it fresh?"

"This requires a bold attempt." Ryan lied.

He and Bach walked home along the path by the lake.During this time, Ryan was practicing magic spells in the fishing club's warehouse. He didn't want to accidentally damage his house.Bach, on the other hand, was responsible for looking out for the wind and enjoying his fishing pleasure.

On the way, they met a group of fishing enthusiasts.

"Oh, Mr. Franklin, isn't this a coincidence!" A middle-aged man said with a smile, "It seems that today's harvest is good?"

"That's natural." Franklin showed a big fish in his hand, "Why are you free today?"

"Didn't I just hear someone tell me that there are specialties here," the man complained, knocking Bach on the shoulder, "You didn't tell everyone, so I didn't know about it until today, so I rushed over immediately to try fishing."

Bach was a little confused: "Why don't I know about this specialty?"

"Haven't you caught it yet?"

"What did you catch?"

The man looked at Bach with gloating eyes: "It seems that our fishing master is not favored by luck."

Everyone around laughed, and one of them said: "There is a strange fish in the lake on Iris Road. It looks like a piece of wood. I saw it with my own eyes at Eleanor's place yesterday. I have heard the news about fishing in the past few days. Customers are all rushing to our place, we can’t let them get there first.”

"Oh, really? That's really interesting, haha! Haha!" Bach laughed guiltily. He had just released a bucket of so-called strange fish.

After chatting with the fishing friends for a while, Bach quickly pulled Ryan away.

"It won't be a problem, will it?"

"Don't worry, the spell on the fish is not permanent and will fade after a while." Ryan said nonchalantly, then whispered, "Anyway, the Ministry of Magic has the whole story..."

In the next few days, due to too many people coming to fish, people came in to adjust the fishing gear at any time in the club warehouse, so Ryan had to move the magic self-study class every morning to midnight, which caused him and Bach to remain sluggish during the day.

Fortunately, at the end of the second week, he finally got the spell right, with the emphasis on the first and third syllables.

"Disillusionment!"

A ball of transparent substance spread out from the top of the wand and landed on the fishing rod pointed by Ryan, and soon the fishing rod disappeared without a trace.

Bach groped in surprise. He touched the fishing rod, but still couldn't see it.

"It seems like it was successful? He is indeed my son."

"There's one last step left." Ryan hesitated. He didn't like to cast a spell on himself rashly.However, after a rare attempt to crack an advanced spell, Ryan was a little itchy.

So after conducting live experiments on several fish, he gritted his teeth and pointed the wand at himself.

"Disillusionment!"

A cool feeling spread from Ryan's head to his whole body, as if an egg had been cracked on his head.Bach watched as the light on Ryan twisted and disappeared before his eyes.

"Ryan?" Bach called uneasily.

"Don't worry, Dad, I feel better than ever." Ryan's happy voice came from the air.

Ryan moved, and his outline quickly appeared in the air, making him look like a giant ball of crystal slime.

"Is this considered a success?" Bach looked at the transparent Ryan curiously.

"It can't be said that it was completely successful, but the casting of the spell was undoubtedly correct." Ryan stood still and made himself disappear again. "I just lacked practice, and I will soon be able to find the optimal solution for the flow of magic power."

Although Bach did not understand what his son said, it did not prevent him from being sincerely happy: "You are really a genius, Ryan."

"Thanks for the compliment, Dad. But it's getting late, I think we should go back."

Ryan covered his mouth and yawned, and walked out of the warehouse with Bach, but saw two people walking together in the distance through the moonlight.He vaguely heard words such as "strange fish" and "night fishing".

"Shh!" Ryan pulled Bach into the warehouse and cast a phantom spell on him without any explanation.

"Who's in there?" A vigilant voice came from outside the house.

"Okay Eleanor, someone was probably fishing at night and forgot to turn off the lights when they left." Another voice came.

"Really, that group of people came to Iris Road like crazy people recently." Eleanor said, "It's obviously a prank. The color on my fish has been completely washed away. If you want me to know who did it, snort……"

"Don't say that. Who was dancing and showing off when we first caught it? What everyone wants is not the strange fish at all, but the achievement of catching it! I also want to thank the person who dyed the fish. These days The business of my father’s supermarket has improved a lot.”

While saying this, two young men walked into the warehouse and each picked up a fishing rod.

"Ask me beforehand, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to catch it for you."

"Don't worry, I'll treat you to a meal whether you catch it or not... Oops! Something tripped me."

"There's nothing, hurry up and go to the lake..."

Eleanor turned around as he spoke, and the fishing rod he put on his shoulder swung just past Bach's position, so Bach had to bend down to avoid it.

"Wait, did you just...see one..."

"What did you see?" Eleanor looked back to where his friend was pointing, and this time he swung the fishing rod towards Ryan's hiding place.

Ryan sighed helplessly, stepped aside, raised his wand and spoke softly: "Knox."

With a crackle, the lights in the room went out. At the same time, Eleanor and Eleanor clearly saw a shadow passing by.

Two screams pierced the silent night sky.