A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

Mr. Filch didn't explain much.

Maybe it's because he doesn't want to explain too much, or maybe he doesn't know the secret in this parchment.

All in all, Ian Twisted received his first Christmas gift after arriving at Hogwarts in a daze, but he had no idea what it was.

Taking this parchment, he came to the library.

Then, here again I met Harry Potter, who had returned from injury, and his red-haired friend.

They looked like they were looking hard at something at the bookshelf.

However, now Ian has no time to pay attention to them anymore.

All his energy and interest were concentrated on the parchment in his hand.

……

Ian spread his Christmas gifts flat on the long library table in front of him——

This is a large square piece of parchment. The surface is very worn, and there is nothing on it.

Ian reached out his left hand and stroked its surface.

But this is not entirely the traces left by wear and tear... In fact, its appearance cannot become like this just by wear and tear. Many of these wrinkles visible to the naked eye are probably caused by magic, and they are some years old.

"Magic always leaves traces!" This is what Professor Flitwick once taught everyone in Charms class.

This sentence also left a deep impression on Ian, and the parchment in front of him was undoubtedly a typical case.

Of course, some very skilled spell masters can cover up these traces very well, making it difficult for ordinary people to detect them.

But the previous owner of this parchment was obviously not a magic master. Judging from the fact that Mr. Filch took it out of the "Student Confiscated Items" drawer, its previous owner was most likely just one or a few Horrors. Just a student of Gwartz.

"Then it's easy!" Ian looked confident.

He took out his black walnut wand, pointed it at the parchment in front of him, and softly chanted:

“RevealYourSecret!

He used his wand to lightly tap the parchment in front of him.

But somewhat to Ian's surprise, there was no reaction at all.

"Oh?" This made him a little surprised. The spell he learned by himself didn't work.

In other words, the owner of the parchment had long expected that someone would use the Revealing Curse on it, so he cast a counter-curse on it in advance.

"if it is like this……"

Ian tapped the parchment with a little force with his wand:

"Show Yourself!"

The paper was still blank, and Ian had to take a deep breath while falling into thought.

It seems that there is more than one layer of counter-curse on it. In order to prevent the secrets on the parchment from being revealed, its former owner seems to have done enough precautions.

Then what should be done……

But at this moment, as if there was an invisible hand writing, a few lines of writing appeared on the rough surface of the parchment:

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, say hello to this unpleasant gentleman. And please don't waste your efforts because even in another 100 years, you will not be able to unlock the secrets above?"

Behind the crooked font, there are four mocking faces drawn.

Looking at the handwriting, Ian couldn't help but smile.

"Unexpectedly, I was actually mocked by a map!" He said to himself, "Interesting, really interesting!"

He felt a strong desire to challenge, something he hadn't felt like for a long time.

It's like encountering a super difficult math problem when you were young.

……

Ian put away the wand in his hand, picked up a thick book, and pressed it on the parchment to prevent it from blowing away in the wind.

Then he stood up and walked to the bookshelf.

It was for this reason that he had risked a scolding from Mrs. Pince by coming to the library instead of returning to the Hufflepuff common room.

That is, if you encounter unsolvable difficulties, you can turn to the almighty Hogwarts Library.

The Revealing Curse and the Revealing Curse have no effect, which proves that there is more than one counter-curse cast on it.

I need some methods to break the counter-curse, and I need to find relevant books.

In addition, this parchment seems to have a certain personality.

Professor Flitwick once mentioned that it is the embodiment of the creator's personality in magical creatures.

In other words, when the four creators (they must be four people), Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, created this parchment, their own personalities were also incorporated into it.

This is also one of the ways to crack it.

Ian easily found four or five related books on the bookshelf, and then brought them back to the long table in the library.

Minutes passed by.

I looked through it and tried it, and before I knew it, the whole day passed by.

Ian breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at the blank parchment in front of him with a stern expression.

With a slower movement, he put the parchment away again and put the books back on the bookshelf.

Just when he was about to leave the library, he was a little surprised to find that Harry Potter and his red-haired friend were still at the bookshelf, looking for things as they did in the morning.

Could it be said that Mr. Potter had a profound enlightenment and fully read the book after losing the Quidditch match?

Then you can't fall behind.

……

What Ian didn't know was when he had just left the library.

Harry Potter's red-haired friend in the back seemed to be unable to hold back and burst out laughing.

"Ron, what's wrong with you?" Harry looked at his friend in surprise.

"I can't hold it in anymore...it's so funny..." Ron Weasley said intermittently while covering his mouth:

"That guy just now, do you know what he did today? He spent most of the day staring at a blank parchment in a daze...and the rest of the time, he pretended to turn over a few pages of the book..."

"I've been secretly staring at him all day, hahahahaha, he's so boring!"

"Ron, don't say that," Harry tried to stop his friend, "I vaguely remember him as a Hufflepuff, although I can't remember his name... but I remember that his grades have always been pretty good... … We also spent the whole day looking up information on Nick Flamel, didn’t we?”

"I didn't say anything, isn't that what nerds are like!" Ron Weasley curled his lips.

"What are you doing?" A rough voice sounded from behind them.

It was Mrs. Pince, the librarian, who looked like a ferocious vulture and held a feather duster.

"It's getting late, the library is closing!"

Without any explanation, she waved the feather duster and drove Potter and Weasley out of the library.