Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry roughly around AD 990.

At that time, Europe was in the dark Middle Ages, and the witch-hunting movement was in full swing. A large number of witches were persecuted, and the vast majority of them were young witches who could not control their magic power.

The establishment of Hogwarts, in addition to protecting these little wizards, also means passing on magic.In the era of the Four Giants, the inheritance of magic was mainly through master-to-teacher methods, which was not large-scale.In the general environment at that time, except for large families, ordinary wizards rarely communicated with each other, which resulted in a lot of magic being lost.

After Rowena Ravenclaw was founded at Hogwarts, she has been dedicated to collecting lost magic, hoping to recreate the greatness of ancient magic.But unfortunately, when she started this work, Europe had been in turmoil for 500 years. A large number of magic books and documents were burned, and she could only look for clues in the piles of old papers.

After Slytherin left Hogwarts, she also chose to leave and travel.After exploring countless ruins and visiting countless reclusive wizards, when Ravenclaw finally returned to Hogwarts, she wrote these manuscript records and has remained in this room ever since.

Waiting quietly.

Looking through these manuscripts, Ike felt for the first time that his "knowledge mastery" skill was not strong enough, and he could not understand many contents at all.

For example, the manuscript mentions a magic that changes the celestial phenomena. Its incantation is an ancient magic script and needs to be pronounced correctly.These magic texts cannot be found in the "Detailed Explanation of Ancient Magic Texts".

In order to fully learn what was written in the manuscript, Ike felt that he might have to go through the Ravenclaw research route again.

It is possible only step by step.

From the eleventh century to the present, Europe's magic inheritance has experienced several crises of severance. With the signing of the International Wizarding Secrecy Act, coupled with the self-isolation and demise of pure-blood nobles, modern magic is basically built on the ruins. .What Ike has to do is to restore those ruins to their original appearance, which is unimaginably difficult.

"I have to make plans again, I'm too busy..."

Ike put down the manuscript, opened the door and left the secret room.

I don’t know how long I stayed in there, but it was already dark when I came out.Ike came to the auditorium. Dinner had been starting for some time.

"Ike! We have lamb chops today!" Stewart's voice sounded, and Ike smiled at the right moment, said hello and sat aside.

Terry took a piece of roasted golden lamb chop and put it on the plate in front of Ike. Ike thanked him and took a bite. It was very plump.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen anyone all afternoon." Stewart asked.

"Where else can he go? The library." Terry replied casually while cutting his steak.

"No! It's just the beginning of school, Ike! You're going to put a lot of pressure on us." Michael joked with a smile.

"What kind of pressure can there be?" Ike put down the lamb chops, poured himself a glass of pumpkin juice and took a sip, "No matter how hard you work, you can't surpass me."

"It's easy for you to have no friends like this, Ike." Stewart was choked and looked at Ike with an unkind expression.

"What? I still have friends!" Ike looked surprised, his eyes widened, and he looked at Stewart in surprise. This look made everyone laugh.

In this way, while joking with each other, Ike finished eating until almost eight o'clock.After playing around, I returned to the common room, sat on the sofa and chatted for a while, until I felt sleepy, and then returned to the dormitory.

For more than a week after that, Ikko and Stewart and others went in and out together, like a normal little wizard at Hogwarts, dormitories, classrooms, auditoriums, classrooms, dormitories, three points and one line, even the library. Rarely go.

But on the first night of October, after Stuart and Terry fell asleep, Ike cast a disillusionment spell on himself and quietly left the dormitory.

For more than half a month, Ike has been quietly revising the plan.According to his previous plan, he did not plan to go on night trips too frequently this school year.

It is undoubtedly very dangerous to travel at night until the threat of the basilisk is over.

Who knows if the big guy in the secret room will sneak out on his own, especially now that it is likely to be awakened.

But after reading those Ravenclaw manuscripts, Ike felt an inexplicable sense of urgency.

It seems like there is not enough time and everything has to be rushed forward.

Maybe the curse of knowledge?After seeing those wonderful studies, it was difficult for Ike to suppress his strong desire for knowledge.

From this point of view, the Sorting Hat did nothing wrong, he was indeed a Ravenclaw.

Sneaking into the forbidden book area quietly, Ike first took away "Forbidden Magic", which contains the traceless stretching spell and the practice method of phantom migration.After putting away the books, Ike went straight to the language bookshelf and took four books from top to bottom.

"Wizard Language", "Humanoid Race Language", "Communication with Magical Animals" and "Magic Language", these are the purposes of Ike's trip!

Until now, Ike has not paid much attention to ancient magic texts. Although he often reads related books, he mostly reads them as extracurricular readings.However, Ravenclaw's manuscript clearly states the importance of ancient magic script, which is the only way to reproduce the greatness of ancient magic.

However, learning ancient magic texts is very difficult, especially since many of Ravenclaw's manuscripts are not included in modern textbooks, making it difficult to decipher them.Fortunately, Ike found another way.

Learn the language of magical creatures!

Unlike wizards, magical creatures are born with the ability to use magic. There is even a saying that the original magic originated from those magical creatures.Leaving aside the question of whether this is true or not, the language of magical creatures is indeed magical.

For example, mermaids, those mermaid tribes deep in the ocean, still inherit an ancient mermaid language, which can cause tsunamis and storms.This magical language is difficult to pronounce, but in some pronunciations it is very similar to ancient magic texts.

Similar to this are the language of snakes and dragons.Parseltongue has always been considered evil not only because of its creepy pronunciation, but also because it actually works as a spell to induce magic.

Although Parseltongue relies more on blood inheritance, it can also be learned.In Ike's impression, during the final battle, Ron had used snake language to open the door to the secret room.Even just "open" is enough proof.

Learning the language of snakes was placed second by Ike behind learning the Traceless Stretching Spell.

All because of a spell in the Ravenclaw manuscript that originated from Slytherin, and it needed to be powered by Parseltongue.

And its function is perception.

Range, one mile radius!