Earth Immortal Righteous Path

Chapter 293 The Fading Traditional Wizard

In Transfiguration class in the morning, Professor McGonagall asked everyone to turn beetles into buttons.

This is an advanced course of transfiguration. It is designed to transform living things into dead things, which is more difficult than simply transforming dead things.

No one present could do it perfectly, even Hermione could barely do it.

"Miss Granger, the buttons are round, two points for Gryffindor."

The others didn't even look like buttons. Compared to them, Hermione was really outstanding.

Professor McGonagall is patrolling, commenting on them from time to time, pointing out mistakes.

Ron's broken wand accidentally killed his beetle, and Seamus exploded again, killing Harry's beetle.

They had to go to the professor and ask for a new beetle.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly. She seemed dissatisfied, but gave the new beetle anyway.

"Mr. Weasley, you need a new wand. I'm afraid you've accidentally died under a spell of your own fault."

There was laughter from the Slytherins, and Weasley's face was flushed with embarrassment. There were too many children in his family, so he had to use old clothes and wands, and had no money to buy new ones.

"That's all for today's class. At this time next week, I will check your progress. If I find anyone who has not mastered this transformation..."

"By the way, you don't need to write a paper this time."

"Because we will welcome the exchange group from the Clock Tower tomorrow, I hope you can take good care of your appearance and don't embarrass Hogwarts!"

All of a sudden, they started whispering, they were all discussing in low voices about the exchange in this school, as well as that unknown magic school.

They have more or less seen the name of the clock tower in the newspaper, because they are both schools in the UK, and they are all in London...

In the past half a century, the magician who came out of the clock tower, reported to the group to keep warm, and occupied a very important weight in the current magic world.

A considerable number of wizards, even pure-blood wizards, are no match for magicians who have just graduated from the clock tower.

Wandless casting, silent casting, combat casting, high-speed holy words, fighting proficiency, a novice magician who has studied for nine years and graduated has at least mastered the above five personal specialties.

In battle, usually a magician can defeat two to three adult wizards without injury, and the chances of winning are even greater if they carry weapons.

"Although I have great confidence in Hogwarts, I have to admit that the Clock Tower is also a very powerful school."

"Although it has been established for less than a hundred years, the new spellcasting profession created by the clock tower, that is, the magician profession, is very competitive. All previous graduates are excellent and knowledgeable."

The discussion below became louder, and many students from pure-blood families were exchanging the gossip they had heard.

"For this reason, I talked with Principal Dumbledore, and I think that an exchange between schools will help promote the improvement of our mutual teaching methods. Hogwarts also needs to usher in certain changes to better meet the future. changes."

She had to knock on the table and turn up the volume.

"We agree that building cars behind closed doors will not work. The status of Hogwarts has been constantly challenged since it started 50 years ago. Whether it is the Clock Tower or the Church of the Templars, as you know, they are sparing no effort to impact the traditional wizarding world. system."

"The new spellcasting profession is better than ours, which means that if we don't know how to adapt, then sooner or later, wizards will disappear in the world, along with ancient warlocks, elemental mages, and ancient priests. It can only become a line of words in the history of magic!"

"In the future, you will meet more challenges. The revival of a large number of magicians, magic knights, virtue monks and even various ancient magic professions has brought about a major change that the magic world has never seen in a thousand years!"

"This exchange meeting is a challenge to preview in advance. Don't take chances, and don't judge your opponents with inherent concepts! Your opponents have grown from nothing in the past half century, and their numbers have continued to increase. Today, more than [-] magicians are active in all countries in the world, accounting for one-third of the magic world!"

Hermione held her hands high.

Professor McGonagall was very relieved to see her. This girl always had a serious spirit of not admitting defeat.

"Miss Granger, do you have any questions?"

Hermione stood up impatiently.

"Professor, I would like to know why there are so many students with magical powers? According to past records, the number of newborn wizards in Britain is only about a hundred every year."

Professor McGonagall nodded.

"Good question, five points from Gryffindor. Please take a seat, Miss Granger, this is exactly what I need to emphasize to you."

"The admissions at the Clock Tower are completely different from those at Hogwarts. They look more at the so-called character, and believe that a person's achievement depends on some precious qualities. For example, hard work is one of the few they value most."

Speaking of this, Hermione was very happy, and she also received the admission letter from the Clock Tower.

"They established contact with the Muggle government, screened students with diligence, perseverance, wisdom, courage, etc. or other qualities through administrative means, and then issued notices."

"Students who have received the notice still need to correctly find several entrances of the Clock Tower, and pass a series of tests before they can enter the school smoothly."

"It is said that the clock tower will open a system called the magic circuit for the freshmen through a secret ceremony after they enroll, so as to awaken their magic power and make them wizards with spellcasting talents—this has a great impact on the magic world. Far-reaching, this means that the population of the magic world will explode, and in the future, magic will continue to spread until everyone can learn magic!"

"In addition, instead of using magic wands, they make their own enchanting props called magic engravings, which are combined with their own magic circuits and integrated into the body, so as to achieve an effect similar to that of magic wands to assist in casting spells."

"Their spellcasting systems are all based on magic circuits. This is a completely different theory from traditional wizards. I believe you will come into contact with it soon."

Hermione raised her hand again.

Professor McGonagall nodded for her to ask.

"Professor, is our dueling class modeled after the Clock Tower?"

"Yes, every graduate of the Clock Tower is very good at fighting. There have been conflicts between Hogwarts graduates and Clock Tower students in previous years. The opponent is often able to cast spells more quickly and use flexible and changeable strategies. , and skilled spells, easily knock down three times or even five or six times the number of enemies."

"Since then, Hogwarts has offered dueling classes. We believe that it is necessary to enable students to master the art of dueling spellcasters and improve your competitiveness."

Professor McGonagall was worried. She saw the decline of traditional wizards and the rise of new spellcasting systems.

"Students, you may be so young, so you don't have deep feelings, but I have been teaching for many years, and I have witnessed the changes in Hogwarts over the years."

She let out a long sigh.

"Since the closure of the school 50 years ago, the situation at Hogwarts has not been good."

"Professors with strength left the school and went to other magic schools, such as the clock tower that had just been established at that time."

"The source of students is in short supply, and there is even a single-digit number of new students enrolled in one year."

She was talking about the year the basilisk killed Ravenclaw Myrtle, and while there was no school closure, who would send their own children to danger?
"The Ministry of Magic's review of Hogwarts' funding is becoming more and more stringent, reducing educational funding every year to support the development of emerging magic schools. The Clock Tower is our biggest competitor, and they account for [-]% of the Ministry of Magic's educational funding. And more."

Because the small employee of the Ministry of Magic has now become the director of the Department of Magic Education, he has a great say in this aspect.

Coupled with the influx of clock tower graduates into the Ministry of Magic, the clock tower faction and the Hogwarts faction have formed a situation where they are fighting against each other.

In the end, the limited education funds of the Ministry of Magic continued to lean towards the Clock Tower—after all, the latter trained thousands of outstanding graduates every year, dozens of times more than the hundred or so people at Hogwarts.

Anyone who is not blind can see the decline of traditional wizards and the rise of new spellcasting systems.

The Muggle government is more inclined to cooperate with the clock tower, because the latter has mastered the core technology - the technology that allows anyone to have magical talents is top secret.

"Students, you are living in the present age. This is the best era. Because magic has ushered in rapid development, new theories are put forward every year, brand new magic is invented, and ancient spells are discovered and revived. Now in the world..."

Then she changed her voice:
"But it is also the worst time, because these changes are not led by us, we must catch up, or we will eventually be eliminated."

Her words were heavy and full of affection, which deeply moved the group of eleven or twelve-year-old wizards.

Everyone could hear the helplessness in her words, and her ardent expectation for them.

Everyone was silent, feeling an invisible pressure, even Malfoy stopped staring at Harry.

"Professor, can't Professor Dumbledore do anything?"

Finally, someone couldn't help but ask a question.

"He is the greatest white wizard of the last century, he has defeated two generations of Dark Lords!"

Professor McGonagall just shook his head this time without answering, and announced the dismissal of the get out of class.

Hermione, Ron, and Harry got together, and many others, like them, were discussing this mysterious clock tower.

Many students from pure-blood wizarding families were talking loudly, especially Slytherin. Many of their parents had a lot of contacts and could hear a lot of gossip.

"Dumbledore can't help it. He himself is not the opponent of the head of the clock tower. Even the mysterious man failed to attack the clock tower, but no one knows what happened. It's just that the mysterious man no longer dared to attack the clock tower." Get closer there."

"I know that the clock tower is the only safe place, and the mysterious people dare not approach it. They all said that the founder of the clock tower warned the mysterious people."

Malfoy was secretly talking to a Slytherin girl.

His father, who worked at the Ministry of Magic, knew better.

"If you want me to say, Clocktower is much better than Hogwarts. It also recruits wizards like us who are naturally awakened. They call this a natural magic circuit. It's just that my father wants me to follow the godfather, so I'm here."

Malfoy's godfather is Snape, the head of Slytherin, where he can practice small things in private and learn advanced magic.

Soon, the students dispersed, and there were still classes in the afternoon, and Potions was not a class that could be easily passed.

Because of the heavy pressure, Hermione planned to stay in the library in the afternoon. She always felt that she had learned too little, and tried to persuade them to do more surprises, trying to win honor at the exchange meeting.

Harry and Ron thought she was annoying and didn't want to be with her, so they avoided her on the pretext of homework and Quidditch training.

"Sooner or later, you will understand the importance of studying hard! Professor McGonagall has said it all! This is a competitive world!"

In the common room, the disappointed Hermione left this sentence and ran away.

"Perhaps Hermione is right."

Harry recalled Professor McGonagall's serious face, and what she said, he hesitated.

"So what, not everyone is Miss Know-it-all, Mr. Know-it-all."

Ron still looked unmotivated, listlessly flipping through his Transfiguration textbook.

"I get dizzy when I see those books, and I can't read them at all. She always looks like that, as if she knows the most."

"Come on, Ron, Hermione can give points to the house every time, and you still borrowed her notes to copy, go and apologize."

Ron slumped over the table dejectedly.

"Okay, it's my fault this time, I'll go in a while... In order to borrow her homework next time..."

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