Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 55 Ravenclaw Research

Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry around AD 990.

At that time, Europe was in the dark Middle Ages, and the witch hunting movement was in full swing, and a large number of wizards were persecuted, most of whom were young wizards who could not control their magic power.

The establishment of Hogwarts, in addition to protecting these little wizards, might not have the meaning of passing on magic.In the era of the Big Four, the inheritance of magic was mainly in the form of master-in-law, which was not on a large scale.However, in the general environment at that time, except for the big families, ordinary wizards seldom communicated with each other, which led to the loss of many magics.

After the establishment of Hogwarts, Rowena Ravenclaw has been working on collecting those lost magic, wanting to reproduce the greatness of ancient magic.But unfortunately, when she started this work, Europe had been in turmoil for four to five hundred years, and a large number of magic books and documents were burned, so she could only look for clues in the pile of old papers.

After Slytherin left Hogwarts, she also chose to leave to travel.After exploring countless ruins and visiting countless reclusive wizards, when Ravenclaw finally returned to Hogwarts, she wrote these manuscript records and remained in this room.

Waiting quietly.

Flipping through these manuscripts, Ike felt for the first time that his "knowledge mastery" skill was not strong enough, and he couldn't understand many contents at all.

For example, the manuscript mentions a magic that changes the sky. Its spell is an ancient rune, which needs to be read correctly.And these runes cannot be found in the "Detailed Explanation of Ancient Runes".

In order to fully learn the contents of the manuscript, Ike felt that he might have to go through the research route of Ravenclaw all over again.

It is possible only gradually.

From the eleventh century to the present, European magic inheritance has experienced several crises of severance, and with the signing of the International Wizarding Secrecy Act, coupled with the self-enclosure and demise of the pure-blood nobles, modern magic is basically built on the ruins .What Ike has to do is to restore those ruins to their original appearance, which is unimaginably difficult.

"We need to re-establish the plan, some are busy..."

Ike put down the manuscript, opened the door and left the secret room.

I don't know how long I stayed inside, but it was already dark when I came out.Ike came to the auditorium, dinner has been started for some time.

"Ike! There are lamb chops today!" Stuart's voice sounded, and Ike smiled at the right time, and sat aside as a greeting.

Terry took a golden roasted lamb steak and put it on the plate in front of Ike. Ike thanked him and took a light bite. It was very fat.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen anyone all afternoon." Stuart asked.

"Where else can he go? The library." Terry replied casually while cutting the steak.

"No way! This is just the beginning of Ike! You will put us under a lot of pressure." Michael joked with a smile.

"What pressure can there be?" Ike put down the lamb chops, poured himself a cup of pumpkin juice, and took a sip. "Anyway, no matter how hard you work, you can't surpass me."

"It's easy for you to have no friends like this, Ike." Stuart choked, and looked at Ike with an unfriendly expression.

"What? I still have friends!" Ike made a surprised look, his eyes widened, and he looked at Stuart in surprise, which made everyone laugh.

In this way, they ate while joking with each other, and Ike didn't finish eating until it was almost eight o'clock.Playing around, I went back to the common room, sat on the sofa and chatted for a while, and didn't go back to the dormitory until I felt sleepy.

For more than a week after that, Ike went in and out with Stuart and others, like a normal Hogwarts wizard, dormitory, classroom, auditorium, classroom, dormitory, three points one line, even the library. rarely go.

But on the first night of October, after Stewart and Terry were sound asleep, Ike had to cast the Disillusionment Charm on himself for the first time in a long time, and quietly left the dormitory.

For more than half a month, Ike has been quietly modifying the plan.According to his previous plan, he didn't plan to go on too frequent night excursions this school year.

Before the threat of the basilisk is lifted, night travel is undoubtedly very dangerous.

Who knows if the big guy in the secret room will wander out by himself, especially now that it is likely to have been awakened.

But after reading those Ravenclaw manuscripts, the inexplicable Ike felt a sense of urgency.

It seems that time is running out, and everything has to be rushed forward.

Perhaps the curse of knowledge?After seeing those marvelous researches, it was difficult for Ike to suppress his strong thirst for knowledge.

From this point of view, the Sorting Hat is not wrong, he is indeed a Ravenclaw.

Sneaking into the restricted area, Ike first took away "Forbidden Magic", which contained the methods of practicing the Untraceable Stretching Curse and Apparation.After putting away the books, Ike went straight to the language bookshelf and took four books from top to bottom.

"Wizard Language", "Humanoid Race Language", "Communication with Magical Beasts" and "Magic Language", these are the purposes of Ike's trip!
For a long time, Ike has not paid too much attention to ancient magic texts. Although he often reads related books, they mostly read them as extracurricular readings.However, Ravenclaw's manuscript clearly stated the importance of ancient runes, which is the only way to reproduce the greatness of ancient magic.

However, it is very difficult to learn ancient runes, especially many of Ravenclaw's manuscripts are not included in modern textbooks, so it is very difficult to decipher.Fortunately, Ike found another way.

Learn the language of magical creatures!

Unlike wizards, magical creatures are born to use magic, and there is even a saying that the original magic originated from those magical creatures.Leaving aside whether this is true or not, the language of magical creatures is indeed magical.

For example, mermaids, those mermaid tribes deep in the ocean, still pass down an ancient mermaid language, which can cause tsunamis and storms.This magical language is very difficult to pronounce, but in some pronunciations it is very similar to ancient runes.

Similar to that are Parseltongue and Dragonlanguage.Parseltongue has long been considered evil not only because of its creepy pronunciation, but also because it actually works as a spell to induce magic.

Although Parseltongue is more dependent on blood inheritance, it can also be learned by people the day after tomorrow.In Ike's impression, in the final battle, Ron once opened the door of the secret room with Parseltongue.Even if it's just "open", it's enough proof.

Learning the snake language was placed by Ike behind learning the Untraceable Stretch Curse, and ranked second in his plan.

It's all because of a Slytherin-derived magic in the Ravenclaw manuscript, which needs to be powered by Parseltongue.

And its function is perception.

Range, a mile radius!

(End of this chapter)