mystery lover

Hogwarts has been buzzing lately.

Except for the imminent Valentine's Day on Saturday, there are boys and girls showing their affections to the person they like everywhere on campus, and because of this year's Triwizard Tournament, Durmstrang's can be seen from time to time Boys are courting girls from Hogwarts, or some boys who are attracted to girls from Busbatans.

There is another interesting thing.

Two sixth-grade students in Gryffindor fell in love with a fifth-grade girl from the same college at the same time, and both of them showed their affection to the girl in various ways one after another, and they were so noisy in private that they almost fought.

After being reprimanded by Professor McGonagall who happened to meet, the two boys finally compromised a resolution of fair competition. They decided to give the girl enough time to think about it, and both sides will use their own ways to fight against each other on Valentine's Day. When a girl confesses, let's see who can win the girl's heart more in the end.

So, the competition between the two Gryffindor warriors that the students talked about slowly turned into a trend of "selecting the most romantic confession in Hogwarts". The little badgers who have been together are fueling the flames, but there are still many people who are preparing to give their favorite person a surprise and romantic confession on Valentine’s Day. An unexpected expression of my heart.

Maybe this will be recorded in the annals of history by the reporters of Badger Yard.

But then again, none of this has much to do with our little badger.One is that for Charles, after knowing that Tom will be very busy recently, the order on Valentine's Day has been informed not long ago; After the other party had that kind of relationship with the current Minister of Magic, they also gave up their original idea.

So this Valentine's Day is as quiet for Charles as it has been in previous years.

The week passed quickly. On Thursday, Charles went to the Ministry of Magic in the afternoon as usual, and after the dreaded man gave him another notebook to copy, he did not let him Going to do other things, which made Charles feel that his internship was too easy to mess with in his spare time, which seemed completely different from the difficulties he had originally imagined.

Charles, who returned to school from the Ministry of Magic, held the alchemy notebook belonging to Nicol Perenelle in his hand. After dinner in the auditorium, he took the notebook to the library on the fifth floor.

While copying notes in Lord's office in the afternoon, Charles became interested in alchemy, which was originally a remote subject that no longer belongs to the teaching scope of the magic school. A strange sense of excitement, which is even more attractive to a student who has never had any special hobbies in the past.

And Hogwarts is indeed a school of magic and magic that has collected tens of millions of books. In the library, the boy's slender fingers traced the words on the books along his line of sight, and beside him, there were already several books related to alchemy. related books.

In addition, Charles also found that in the corner of the penultimate column, there is a section over there, which is full of works related to alchemy, and a small proportion of books are listed as requiring the permission of the professor And books that can only be borrowed after signing.

As for the young man who was always focusing on the book, his eyes quickly scanned a line of words.

'The rectification and purification of alchemy is a process of perfection through death and resurrection, which symbolizes the death, resurrection and final perfection of the soul of the person engaged in alchemy'

And in another alchemist's book, it is also mentioned that "alchemy can enable a person to obtain a happy life, transcendent wisdom, and noble morality, and at the same time change his spiritual outlook, and finally achieve communication with the Creator."

Seeing this, the boy paused hesitantly.

It's just why, if alchemy really has such a powerful power that can completely change a person, in the face of this kind of power that makes people flock to it, it is impossible that only a few wizards are still engaged in the research of this subject. At least it will not withdraw from the scope of mainstream disciplines like it is now.

The boy's rare contemplation, after opening the notebook on the other side, Charles looked at the neat font on the white paper, which did not look old at all after being enchanted.

On the first page that came into view, there was only a simple sentence.

'Alchemy: understanding, decomposition, and reconstruction; Note*No matter what you get, you need to exchange it with the same price. If the price is not enough, you need to take any part of yourself as a replacement for the price'

*****

In Potions class on Friday morning, when Charles followed the steps in the notes as usual and was the first to concoct the potion specified by Professor Snape, it was very rare to add five points to Hufflepuff School. .

Not only the students around him looked at him in amazement, but even a few students from Ravenclaw turned their heads and glanced at the cauldron in front of him.

It's really potions and nothing else.

"Char..."

As a good friend of Charles, Lucas was undoubtedly the one who showed the most obvious shock.

In fact, he has long felt that Charles's potion level is improving, but this time he can make Professor Stan and Snape give Hufflepuff points. This is really... too scary, okay?

Lucas stared at the cauldron in front of Charles, wishing he could see a shape from it.

In the end, Lucas turned his head resolutely, and looked at Charles with some unknown emotions that seemed to be sympathetic, "Charle, tell me what you did in the Ministry of Magic, my lord How it took you from a cauldron killer to a master of potions."

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that apart from Potions, Charle's learning progress in several other courses is much higher than before.

So Lucas automatically made up his friend's purgatory internship in the Ministry of Magic.

"..." Listening to Lucas' guessing words, the boy twitched the corners of his mouth silently.

He really has nothing to do in the Ministry of Magic!

Also, "Luka, I haven't blown up a cauldron before, have I?"

But the notebook was given to him by the Lord, so he was able to make these potions, and it was also the Lord's credit.

Lord...

and many more.

The young man who suddenly realized something suddenly raised his head, and the roots of his ears covered by the tips of his hair began to turn red slowly.

Oops, why did I think of Lord again.

"But having said that," Lucas didn't notice Charles' unusual reaction, but said as if thinking of something, "Charle, your mysterious boyfriend used to be the chairman of the male student union, right?"

"Well, yes." Charles' expression returned to normal when he heard his friend mention Tom.

There was a little happy smile on the corner of his mouth.

After the conversation that day, Lucas finally accepted the fact that he was with a wizard. Although his friend did not approve of Tom's attitude, the general situation was good.

"Ah, I really can't stand people in love." Lucas looked at the expression on Charles' face, first shook his head helplessly, and then winked at Charles, "Charles, with such a person Together, it’s hard not to be good.”

Lucas remembered that Mr. Tom Riddle was a complete Slytherin in his friend's casual statement.

*****

In Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, Professor Crouch began to teach the little eagles and little badgers to use the Patronus Charm.

Although Professor Lupine taught them this spell in the third grade, not many people successfully summoned the Patronus at that time, and most of the students could only release a light spot or a cloud of gas , there seemed to be only a handful of students who had fully summoned the complete Patronus in Charles' third year.

This is why the school still arranged to practice the Patronus Charm in the fourth grade.

"I really want to know what my patron saint is." Lucas looked at the silver point on his tip, and said with some expectation and a little sigh, "I heard that everyone's patron saint is the person I love the most in my heart." .”

Charles was noncommittal on this point.

Everyone knows that each Patronus is unique because each spellcaster has a different personality and inner world, and the emotions they express are undoubtedly different.

Charles also wondered what his Patronus would be.

When Friday night falls, Valentine's Day is finally here.