Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 54 Manuscripts
Carrying the box containing the small cakes, Ike walked slowly towards the Ravenclaw Tower.

He gave it to Stuart casually, turned around and left the common room again.

Standing in front of the portrait of the troll hitting silly Barnabas with a club, Ike slightly closed his eyes.

"A clever little wizard like you should have already noticed that magic will have a certain influence on wizards." At the desk, Professor Flitwick said slowly, "This kind of influence is subtle, but if you master it The silent, weaponless casting of a spell usually detects this..."

"In fact, black magic will be more obvious. Dark wizards are mostly cruel, evil, and twisted, and they are affected by black magic..."

"So, I'm very glad that you have slowed down your learning of spells. To be honest, I was worried for a while last semester, but you can come out, which shows that your talent is really good..."

Professor Flitwick paused for a moment, took a sip of lemon tea, and continued: "The gap in magic is still very serious. Many documents mention the power of ancient wizards, but only in the documents... "

"I noticed that you are looking at ancient runes? This is very good, it is a medium for us to communicate with ancient magic..."

"Maybe I can give you a suggestion, use magic to learn it..."

"Magic?" Ike opened his eyes, but there was no door on the wall in front of him.

Frowning, he closed his eyes again.

"Hogwarts is a very magical place, I believe you have already realized this." Professor Flitwick showed a kind smile, "Of course, I'm talking about the castle itself, it has too many secrets... ..."

"You should have read "Hogwarts: A School History", which mentioned that this was once the castle of Slytherin himself. After the Big Four decided to establish a magic school, they made many changes to it, such as Those moving stairs are the work of Ms. Ravenclaw..."

"There are many similar transformations. I dare say that even the headmaster doesn't know all the secrets..."

"So professor, can you tell me some secrets of the castle?" Ike asked directly.

Professor Flitwick blinked, and replied mysteriously: "The secret needs to be found by yourself, but I can tell you a small clue."

"Legends say that there is a magical room in the castle, which can satisfy all the needs of those who discover it..."

"And in that room kept Lady Ravenclaw's gift..."

Ike opened his eyes again, but there was still no shadow of the door on the wall.

"According to Professor Flitwick, it should be the Room of Requirement." Muttering in a low voice, Ike's brain was running fast, guessing the possible correct answer.

The room where Ms. Ravenclaw's manuscripts are kept, this option was ruled out, and Ravenclaw's study did not respond.

I tried seven or eight settings in the same humanities that I had seen before, but it still didn't work.

Ike was a little discouraged, there were too many ambiguous answers, and if he tried one by one, he didn't know how long it would take.

"Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings..." Muttering this famous quote from Ravenclaw, Ike suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at the mural.

"No, no!"

Ike remembered that he once wrote in a miscellaneous book in the library that there was a neurotic wizard named Silly Barnabas in ancient times. He was very smart, but he always did things that people couldn't understand.Most famous of all, he once tried to teach a troll to dance ballet.

Of course, the result was bad, silly Barnabas was beaten by the troll.

This mural has been here for more than 1000 years, and the silly Barnabas in the painting has also been beaten by trolls for more than 1000 years.It was this that made Ike feel something was wrong.

The paintings in the wizarding world are moving, and the six giant monsters in the murals have their own movements.The four behind were dancing, while the two in front kept beating silly Barnabas with sticks.

But silly Barnabas never moved!

He has been maintaining a movement, which is extremely abnormal from the perspective of magic painting.

After knocking on the mural, all the trolls stopped to look at Ike, and then continued their actions. Silly Barnabas still didn't respond.

"Is the key here?"

Staring at Silly Barnabas, Ike tried to find possible clues.

Suddenly, Ike thought of the pear in the Hogwarts kitchen, and scratched the armpit of the stupid Barnabas who raised his right hand.After a few blows, the silly Barnabas retracted his right arm, but was hit on the head by the troll, knocking off the hat he was wearing on his head.

Silly Barnabas knelt down, put his head in his hands, and dropped his hat aside.Ike leaned forward and saw a line of text written on the brim of the hat on the inside:
"Magic is immortal, magic is immortal."

?

Ike just felt a little inexplicable, and couldn't figure out what the words meant for a while.Silly Barnabas picked up his hat and put it back on his head, pointed at the back of Ike, and returned to the previous posture and remained motionless.

Turning around, I saw an exquisite silver door appearing on the wall at some point.Ike was overjoyed, he walked over a few steps and pushed it away, his eyes brightened.

This is a very delicate room, the walls are covered with silver decorations and blue ribbons, a mahogany desk is in the middle, and several stacks of thick parchment are neatly arranged on it.

When Ike walked to the desk, he saw a line of text written on the top piece of parchment:
"To the latecomers - magic immortality, magic immortality"

The signature below states the owner of these parchments - Rowena Ravenclaw.

"It's really there!" Ike hastily flipped through the parchment, glanced at the contents inside, and was shocked.

As a representative of "wisdom", Ravenclaw's research on magic has reached a very deep level.These manuscripts contain a large number of experimental records, including alchemy, potions, magic circles, spells, and even some ancient magic research.

However, these contents are a bit esoteric, especially the magic circle and ancient magic, Ike sees them in a cloud, and he can only understand a little bit about the magic spells that he is most proud of.On the contrary, potions and alchemy, because the operation process is relatively fixed, you can see some methods, but also because most of the records in it are lost formulas, it is extremely difficult to refine them by hand.

But among these manuscripts, what interests Ike the most is Ms. Ravenclaw's research and conjectures on magic and the nature of magic power, which made him suddenly enlightened, but also made him more confused.

"Magic power is immortal, is magic immortal..."

　The reaction to the third vaccine was a bit strong, and the diarrhea continued
　　
　
(End of this chapter)