Harry Potter: The Atypical Alchemist

Potions class.

Stone reproduced Snape's movements accurately without any mistakes, and answered all the questions correctly, but he was still deducted a few points outside the classroom-grooming.

In the corridor, Anthony complained:

"I think he is just deliberately finding fault. You must be the tidiest one in the whole classroom, right?"

"It's normal. Why are you angry?" Stone's tone did not fluctuate at all.

"But......"

"Forget it." Stone patted him on the shoulder, "I'm going to the library. See you in the evening."

Then, he turned towards the library.

The night before, I spent a lot of time hugging my seniors. After returning to the dormitory, I fell asleep without reading a few pages.

The library was relatively quiet and there were no classes in the afternoon, so he planned to stay there.

Sitting in a familiar position, Stone took out the two rune books.

At this time, hurried footsteps ran over.

Glancing at it, it was Hermione Granger, and Stone turned his attention to the book again.

"Are you okay?" Hermione gasped.

"Keep your voice down, this is the library." Stone said calmly, "I'm fine."

"Can--"

"That's it." Stone interrupted her, "It's just a deduction of points, it's nothing. I had expected a worse situation, but now it's pretty good."

"Huh -" Hermione angrily lay down on the desk, resting her chin on the table, and muttered, "It's obviously not your fault."

“Right or wrong doesn’t make sense.”

"What's the point?" Hermione tilted her head and looked over.

"the climb."

"Climbing? Mountain climbing?"

"Well." Stone pointed at the book he was reading with his finger, "It is the mountain I want to climb."

"What happens after you climb up?"

"There's another one."

"Well - then I have to climb the mountain too." Hermione, who seemed to understand, took out a book from the bookshelf and started reading.

"Ha." A smile appeared on Stone's lips.

They sat in the library all afternoon, chatting occasionally, and the rest was just the rustling of pages turning.

"Runes and Alchemy" is very thick and took a while to finish, but Stone still understood the basic concepts.

Rune alchemy is composed of two most basic things-talisman and talisman.

The so-called symbols are symbols composed of runes. When making alchemy, the alchemist needs to match the words according to his own needs and draw the talisman. The words must be in an odd number, with a maximum of nine and a minimum of one.

The biggest difficulty in designing talisman is writing, because it has no direction. It can be horizontally, vertically, turned in a circle, or even stacked, but one thing is that it must be connected. All runes are composed of vertical lines and forty-five-degree diagonal lines, so connecting them at different endpoints will show completely different results.

The talisman is the material that carries the talisman. It can be wood, stone, or a finished product, such as a sword.

The talismans need to be engraved on the talisman fork, and a professional engraving knife is required.

This is embarrassing because tools have to be purchased.

Stone closed the book and walked to the library hall. There were some newspapers in the hall with information and prices on goods from off-campus merchants.

He found the column he needed and looked directly at the bottom.

“Hiss—” he gasped after seeing the price, “The cheapest one costs Galleons?”

"What?" Hermione on the side took the newspaper.

In fact, when she saw Stone getting up, her eyes followed him, and when there was no figure in her field of vision, she also followed him.

Glancing at the 'scalpels' on the newspaper, Hermione asked curiously:

"what is this?"

"A carving knife used for carving talismans."

"Oh - is it the content in your book?"

"Yes." Stone nodded weakly, "It seems we can only postpone it."

"No, I have money." Hermione put her hand into her pocket.

"Can you have..."

"Dingling bells--"

The sound of coins colliding made Stone swallow his words.

"Aren't you also a Muggle? Why do you have so much money?" he asked in surprise.

"The rest." Hermione tilted her head, "Can't I exchange it for fifty gold galleons when school starts?"

"But isn't that just enough?"

“Wouldn’t it be possible to save money by haggling and comparing prices with different merchants?”

"..." Stone gave a thumbs up, "You are cruel. But I can't have it."

The reason is also very simple. We are all Muggle-born brothers, and it is not easy to save some wizard currency.

"Didn't I lose to you? Let's take this as a bet~"

"No, it's too many." Stone shook his head again.

"So much nonsense!" Hermione couldn't help but put the gold coin into Stone's hand.

The shiny gold coins were still warm, and when their eyes met, Stone knew that he would not go back. He clutched the gold coin tightly:

"It's a loan."

"Okay." Hermione raised her head slightly, "Then keep the bet."

"No need."

"Keep it! I want you to owe me this favor."

"...Okay." Stone didn't understand what she was thinking, but he nodded silently.

After receiving a positive answer, Hermione jumped up and left.

... ...

There is an astronomy class in the evening, which is the only class held by the four colleges together.

After dinner, Stone took the time to return to his dormitory, write down the information about the items he purchased, and put it into a purse along with the gold coins.

Then, he opened the window and summoned his owl. Her name was Nyx, whom Stone named after the mythical goddess of the night.

He tied the purse tightly to her leg and said earnestly:

"Don't throw it away! If you lose it..."

If she loses it, for the sake of Senior Penello, Stone might give her a dignified death.

Seemingly seeing the threat in Stone's eyes, Nyx lowered his head and checked for a long time before slowly taking off.

... ...

For astronomy class, the four major colleges gathered in the astronomy tower.

When they met for the first time after the fight, both Stone and Malfoy seemed quiet.

To Stone, these fanatical blood sects were just a bunch of mad dogs. Now that they had been temporarily driven away, he didn't want to disgust himself anymore.

Malfoy...Malfoy's arm hurts.

The two of them didn't speak. The entire astronomy tower was quiet. The usually active Gryffindors had restrained themselves a lot, which made the astronomy professor doubt his teaching ability - the stargazing class in the past was the most lively. of.

Stone himself doesn't like this kind of atmosphere very much. He prefers to study quietly among the crowd instead of being the center of attention.

I don’t know when this wind will blow over...

I hope Malfoy will quickly find trouble with Harry Potter and make some other noise.