Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 195 Bad Omen

Since the last promotion of the Wizarding Cards Club, more Hogwarts students know about the game of Wizarding Cards.Several students even expressed their wish to have cards exclusive to their own colleges, and were willing to join the wizard card club to help Albert design brand new cards.

This is conducive to the promotion of wizard cards. As long as wizard cards enter other colleges, the number of players will definitely be gradually expanded.Albert believes that it won't be long before more and more students will fall in love with this card game that is easy to learn, has a variety of gameplay, and can freely design various strategies.

At present, the biggest problem with Wizard Cards is the number of players. As long as everyone is playing Wizard Cards, other people will definitely be curious to follow suit. Albert believes that the charm of Wizard Cards itself can conquer everyone.

However, card design and production is still a hassle.Although Fred, George and Lee Jordan are helping him as much as possible, Albert still needs to do it himself most of the time.

Having said that, there are really many things that I need to worry about.

The design and manufacture of wizard cards, magic training and homework for various courses, frequent correspondence with other wizards, weekly borrowing of books from the library, research on perfecting protective bracelets are still going on, using ancient magic Wen Shi's research on spells has not progressed so far. The manuscripts written for "Transfiguration Today" and the Charms Club also have academic research. Occasionally, they will find time to practice the Patronus Charm, and look for books related to Occlumency in the restricted area.

Filch was obsessed with what happened last semester, and he strengthened the castle's night patrols as soon as school started. Snape would occasionally help with the patrols, which made Albert directly give up the idea of ​​visiting the restricted area late at night.

He didn't want to be the next unlucky guy to get caught during a night outing. By the way, Gryffindor, who was deducted [-] points, went straight to the bottom.

If you insist on saying something good recently, it probably belongs to Albert's small breakthrough in ancient runes!
Professor Bathhida Babling is indeed an expert in this field, and has a high attainment in the field of ancient runes.

Every Tuesday afternoon, Albert would go to Professor Babling's ancient magic text improvement class, and stay after class to exchange ancient magic text with Professor Babling.

Not long ago, they also researched, analyzed, and discussed McDougal's "Basic Runes Complete Explanation" and "Advanced Runes Research", and Albert's runes experience also increased by leaps and bounds.

Today, Albert's rune experience is more than half of the second level.

Although Professor Babling is the rune professor at Hogwarts, she doesn't actually live in the castle and only has five classes a week.There are only four students in the ancient rune improvement class, two Ravenclaws, one Slytherin, one Hufflepuff, and Albert, who came to visit.

Originally, Ancient Runes was an elective course for the third grade, and even fewer students could pass O·w·Ls with good grades. Some students might not be willing to take the advanced class even if they met the requirements, which directly led to the failure of this course. There are only two or three kittens in the improvement class.

Of course, the ancient runes were not the worst, and Muggle studies simply did not offer improvement classes.

As long as you can take a good O·w·Ls certificate in Muggle studies, you can work as a Muggle liaison in the Ministry of Magic.

As for the advanced classes of divination, mathematical divination, and protection of mystical biology, the number of people is also pitifully small, and there are even fewer people who can really learn from the advanced classes and use them after graduation.

After graduating from school, it is common for occupations and majors to be mismatched.

After the bell rang for the end of get out of class, several people greeted each other and left.

Albert did not leave, he will stay and continue the last communication with Professor Babling.

"How do you feel?" Professor Babling asked gently. This is the benefit of excellent students, and the relationship between the two is actually pretty good.

"It's okay, the content of the class is not difficult, and I have mastered most of it." Albert said flipping through his notes.

"You should already have the level of N·E·W·T." Professor Babling sighed softly.Although some people have the talent to learn ancient rune, but such a talent as Albert made Professor Babling fall through the eyes at first.

"The difficulty is lower than I imagined." Albert said.

"N·E·W·T is really not difficult." Professor Babling explained, "The difficulty is how to go further in this area after graduating from Hogwarts. We only learned the tip of the iceberg, like Mike After all, there are only a few people who study as deeply as Mr. Doug."

Albert nodded and admitted that this cannot be seen from the fact that few people in "Advanced Magic Text Research" can fully understand it.

Footsteps sounded outside the corridor of the ancient classroom on the sixth floor, followed by a knock on the door.

Isobel pushed open the door and walked in. She is also good at ancient runes and has the relationship with McDougal. Professor Babling allowed her to participate in this extra-curricular communication.

Professor Babling waved his wand, and the refreshments and biscuits that several people liked appeared on the table. This was not a serious class, but a good communication.

Sitting on a comfortable sofa and enjoying afternoon tea, after two consecutive classes, Professor Babling was also a little tired.

The topic started after the three of them drank their first cup of afternoon tea.

"The topic we are studying today is runestone (manestone) divination."

"I remember that there seems to be a divination class in the third grade, and it seems to teach how to use runes for divination?" Albert looked up at Isobel and asked, "Did you take a divination class?"

However, Albert had already guessed the answer after seeing the change in the expression on the other party's face. Obviously, this Ravenclaw genius was very similar to Professor McGonagall, and he thought it was a waste of effort to take a divination class.

"I don't have that talent." Isobel took a sip from his teacup, glanced at Albert and said lightly, "Maybe, you have."

"Sybil is good at this, and I specially invited her to come here." Professor Babling saw that the two of them didn't seem to be very interested in runestone divination, so he said, "Runestone divination is an ancient form of divination in Britain. It is said that it is very accurate, but there are not many wizards who really know how to interpret rune stone divination. Fortunately, Sybil has some research in this area."

Albert couldn't help but rolled his eyes when he heard the words, and said in simple terms, "I heard...divination requires talent, and only a small number of people have that talent."

As far as he knew, most students would choose divination classes purely for the purpose of dawdling, and they didn't care whether they could get good grades in O·w·Ls.

After graduation, there are almost zero wizards who will engage in divination.After all, a fortuneteller who has no ability to predict is no different from a liar, and no one would welcome such a liar.

Sybill Trelawney does have the ability to predict the future, but her ability is uncontrollable, and she cannot use a crystal ball to perform divination through a crystal ball like other fortune tellers, and directly see certain fragments of predictions.

"Sybil should have such abilities." Professor Babling was not too sure. She knew that her friend had the ability to predict. After all, she was the great-great-granddaughter of the famous fortune-teller Cassandra Trelawney. Abilities are often passed down through bloodlines.

While the three were chatting around the ancient runes, runes, and runes, the door of the ancient runes classroom was knocked again, and the person the three were talking about appeared outside the door.

This was Albert's first close encounter with Sybill Trelawney.

It was a thin woman with big glasses and a bunch of chains and beads hanging around her neck. She looked a little crazy, maybe she just didn't want people to know her details.

"Oh, Batheda, I hope I'm not late." Trelawney poked her head into the classroom, and her eyes fell on Albert and Isobel.

"I mentioned it to you." Professor Babling invited Professor Trelawney into the classroom with a smile. You are very helpful, after all, you are an expert in this field."

"Oh, runestone divination, this is an ancient knowledge, and now there are very few wizards who are really good at this kind of divination." Trelawney walked in, sat next to Professor Babling, and followed suit. He took out an exquisite bag from his pocket, "...Now, I will only briefly mention it in the divination class. It is easier for most students to predict the future from tea dregs and crystal balls. At least they can compare it with books. Find the answer. Of course, students without the "Tianmu" talent can only do this in this subject."

Professor Trelawney's words are not wrong. Divination requires talent. Without talent, if you can't make predictions, you will only be regarded as a liar and will not receive any respect.

Trelawney opened the exquisite bag and poured out the runes inside. She reached out and stroked the symbol on it, said "thank you" to Professor Babling who brought the black tea to her face, and continued: "Every The symbols on a runic stone all describe the stories and profound meanings contained in the ancient text symbols... and can also be used to seek the desired results."

Albert bit a biscuit, listened quietly to Trelawney's nagging, and smiled at Isobel, who frequently drank black tea. The latter seemed a little anxious. She obviously didn't believe Trelawney's nonsense.

"Hold the bag containing the runes in the palm of your hand, and meditate on your own problems in your mind, and you need to meditate quietly." Trelawney babbled as she put the runes back into the bag, "Remember, stay ethereal state, follow the instinct to feel the instructions of the natural force, and then take a runic stone from the bag and put it in the palm of your hand."

Albert and Isobel looked at each other, and both of them could see the twitching of the corners of their mouths. They didn't say anything.

"Why don't you test it, whoever comes first." Professor Babling said.

"Ladies first!" Albert made a gesture of invitation to Isobel.

"No, you go first." Isobel actually didn't believe this prophecy.

"Okay!" Albert took the bag containing the runes, meditated on the question in his mind, and then meditated quietly, trying to keep his mind in an ethereal state as much as possible.

He reached out and took out the rune stone from the bag and put it on his palm.

"What's your problem?" Trelawney asked.

"Future fortune." Albert said without thinking.

"I think you are very talented in divination." Trelawney walked to Albert and said something suddenly.

"Thank you." Albert responded politely.

"It's the positive Fehu." Trelawney glanced at the rune stone on Albert's palm, with a strange expression, "Fehu itself represents wealth and symbolizes material gains, which means Your fortune is very good, it represents some form of success, as long as you hold on to what you have, you can achieve success and overcome the difficulties you encounter along the way.”

"My fortune has always been good." Albert said without knowing it.Put the runes back into the bag and hand the bag to Isobel.

"I want to know, will I encounter trouble in the near future?" Isobel said his question lightly, and then took out a rune stone from his bag.

"Reverse EIHWAZ" Trelawney glanced at the rune stone in Isobel's hand, "This is an obvious warning, warning you to be careful... this is not a good omen .”

(End of this chapter)