A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 32 The Forbidden Book Area

He took out an exquisite silver pocket watch from his pocket, the slender silver watch chain shone with light in the night, and the hands carved into exquisite flower patterns on the dial had already pointed to half past midnight.

"It's too late to find a fax machine tonight, but it's all out, so let's go to the library and explore the restricted section." Thinking of this, Owen felt a surge of joy in his heart.Regardless of his past and present lives, his thirst for professional knowledge has always been greedy.

The Restricted Section, that is the most precious crystallization of Hogwarts' thousand-year history. Countless knowledge is laid out there like shining pearls, waiting for the latecomers to pick them up one by one.

After quickly chanting the spell to himself to block sound and breath, Owen excitedly climbed up to the second floor of the castle and came to the corridor where the library is located.

The library closes at eight o'clock every night, but the doors are still open, like a silent invitation to those who wander out at night.

"Who can bear this..." Owen licked his lips.Although his dream is to become a magician who creates miracles, this does not conflict with or even promotes each other with becoming a master of magic. For him, knowledge is power and is invaluable.

He hid outside the door and quietly peeped into the library for a while. In the quiet and dark environment stood rows of huge bookshelves, like giant beasts crawling in the dark and falling asleep.

At this point in time, even Mrs. Pince, the librarian, has already gone back to rest. If there is no professor who suddenly slaps his head in the middle of the night and wants to come to the library to look up materials, only Filch and his cat will come here to patrol. up.

But in the past few days, Filch's energy was all on the sidelines, waiting for the little Hufflepuff wizards to line up and jump in front of him, and then put them in confinement... maybe tonight Plus Gryffindor.

Owen, who made a bad report, thought unscrupulously.

He walked quickly to the back half of the library, stepped over the rope separating the restricted area from the common area, raised his wand slightly, and whispered: "Luminescence."

In this empty and silent environment, Owen's voice spread far away, sounding low and hollow.The tip of the wand in his hand glowed with a faint light. Because the brightness was deliberately controlled, the light could only illuminate a small area. It looked like a white fluorescent ball glowing at night.

Owen pressed the tip of his shimmering wand to the rows of books on the shelf, letting the unassuming light illuminate the titles on the spines of the books as he moved slowly.

""The Evil Spell You Don't Know", "The Most Poisonous Magic", "The Forgotten Ancient Magic"...It seems that this is the magic area." Owen was distinguishing the book categories of the current bookshelf, and was planning to go to the next bookshelf At that time, I found that in the area illuminated by my wand, on an old book with no name whose cover had peeled off, a line of dark writing appeared on the spine of the book like scorched black marks, forming the name of the book.

"Dark Arts, Heart and Soul." Owen took out the book and flipped through it, but found no treasure map or anything stuck in the pages.He recited "Hurry Up" without giving up, the book was still the same book, and no hidden ciphertext was revealed.

"Well, I knew it, I was still poisoned by the adventures in the novel." Owen put the book back in its original place with a smile, "This should be the test mechanism of this book. Books that can read it Name, it shows that this person has the qualifications to read it."

For this test mechanism, Owen has come into contact with so many books containing magic at home, and he is no stranger to it.The ordeals of this book are the mildest and most common of the kind, except that some books make blood-curdling screams or conjure horrific visions to scare off unqualified readers.There are also some more evil ones, which may emit invisible magic shock waves to crush the reader's mind, and even confuse the opponent's mind...

But in any case, this kind of reading threshold set by the author of the book or the latecomer is both a test and a protection.The purpose is to warn readers not to forcibly read things that they should not have access to, so as not to harm others or themselves.

Owen shook his head regretfully. Just now he tried to copy these books in his wall space, but very few of them could be successfully copied.

"Forget it, talk is better than nothing." Owen has always been in a good state of mind. After all, as long as he stays at Hogwarts for a few more years, these books will not escape.He slowly turned out of this area, holding up his wand and searching quickly among the rows of bookshelves.

The surrounding area was very quiet, except for occasional noises coming from somewhere in the castle. It might be that Filch caught a little wizard who violated the school rules, or that Peeves was playing ball with his armor in some corridor. .Here, they sounded more like noisy, high-pitched whispers, making the surroundings even more eerie.

Fortunately, Owen's psychological quality has always been good, and he still picks up books like he is shopping on the shelves of a shopping mall, because he knows that even if he is unlucky and caught, it will be nothing more than deducting points and confinement. There are no students who have been punished for violating school rules. Life is incomplete.

"Phew, I found it!" Owen saw what he wanted at the top right of a row of bookshelves.

"How to See Through People's Hearts", "Wonderful Mind Magic: Legilimency", "Legiliency and Anti-Legiliency", "How to Seal Your Brain", "Occlumency in the Curse"...

Owen pulled out a copy of "How to Shut Down Your Brain", pointed at it with his wand and said, "Copy to double."

The book trembled in his hands, then calmed down.

"Sure enough, as long as there are books of some value, there are anti-copy spells..." Owen muttered silently without any surprise.But the book in his hand must not be taken away directly. He can imagine that if Mrs. Pince finds that a book is missing in the restricted area tomorrow, she will probably cast a spell on the spot to make the book jump up and bring Owen's neck to her. .

Owen dug out several rolls of parchment from his schoolbag, then took out a quill, and cast a quick copy spell on it.This spell can help wizards to copy the words they see at a very fast speed, but because the words copied with it are exactly the same as the words they see in their eyes, it cannot be used to deal with the copying assignments assigned by the professors...

In the following time, Owen quickly turned the pages of the book, and the quill beside him faithfully copied out what he saw.For a while, in the silent library, there were only the sound of flipping pages and the rustling of quills across the parchment.

After spending more than half an hour, Owen copied several books on Occlumency and Legilimency before reluctantly leaving the library.

"Set a small goal first, empty the restricted area." Owen thought silently, "Well, move all the books in the restricted area to the brain, or to the space facing the wall!"

(End of this chapter)