The seventh-year wizards, both male and female, walked out of the classroom in a line, their faces still lingering with a trance and not returning to reality, and around the corner of the corridor, a brown-skinned Ravenclaw girl announced in a loud voice, “Ancient Runes class N.E.W.T. exam, I’m going to reserve an excellent in advance!”
It is like her words flipped a switch in them and the discussion poured out –
“Ha~ I thought so too!”
“This class is so great, I can’t bear to think that the next class is scheduled for Friday …”
“Yeah, my brain is full of dung compared to Professor Hap.”
“Do you guys think there’s any truth in what Professor Hap said?”
“Well, I was planning to enter the Ministry of Magic, but now I’m a little shaken, my parents are both employees in the Ministry of Magic, their life is not as good as outsiders think.”
“Really? Care to tell me about it …”
Penelope approached Percy and inquired in a low voice, “Is your goal still the Ministry of Magic?”
Percy hesitated for a moment or two, then firmed up, “Yes, I too aspire for the future described by Professor Hap, but I have to grasp what I can reach for now.”
“You aren’t going to miss the professor’s class, I suppose?”
“Are you kidding me,” Percy said, “I’ll give it my all!”
In the next few classes, when the seventh-graders showed up in other classes, their unusual excitement, and state of wandering caught the attention of other professors, and Felix’s approach and comment went viral among the group of professors.
Felix thought he would be approached for a heart-to-heart talk, and he even had a speech ready, but all went smoothly.
In the evening, he spent his time in his office recording his insights –
‘The Thinking Room magic is becoming stronger and stronger, and even I’m a bit of a stranger to it. Without resistance or obvious defense, I can instantly pull the surface consciousness of a dozen or two people into the thinking room, which is the basis of today’s lesson. From here two branches can be extended -‘
”The first branch, the direction of attack; but the thinking room can’t actually hurt the other person, after all, what is pulled over is only an external mapping of the real consciousness, and the other person can still resist and when you fight, then it will fail, so it’s hard to use it in real combat for a short-term;”
He stopped and heavily underlined on ‘difficult to use in real combat in the short term’, and the vaguely terrifying prospect shown in this direction alone is impossible for him to give up.
Think about it, at some time in the future, he can kill or control a wizard with one look …
‘The second branch, the auxiliary direction, is used for thought acceleration and teaching ancient runes. The former is very useful in both combat and learning, while the latter-‘
Felix paused to ponder, ‘The combination of thinking room and memory magic is equally amazing, and I have every chance of becoming the greatest teacher in history.’
He thought again, ‘I don’t know whether to be grateful or sorry that memories can’t be imbued, this is because a person’s memory is something quite sophisticated, and rash alterations would have unpredictable consequences, even my own Obliviate would only mitigate the side effects as much as possible, instead of none.
The Ministry of Magic’s Obliviator in most cases would only eliminate the memory of the last few hours, but the person whose memory is eliminated is usually would have Bad Memory, Forgetfulness, and delayed reaction for a day or few … I myself have verified it with the Dark Wizard.
And trying to instil a piece of knowledge to someone is not a small and slight alteration, it will cause a huge change to the person …
I only can barely bypass this limitation now, and its real effect is still accelerated learning a lot of things.’
A series of names flashed through Felix’s mind: Severus, Dumbledore, Lockhart, Lady Ravenclaw, the Longbottoms … They were either actively or passively provided help to improve and enhance the Thinking Room, which is how he had taken this magic from barely being used, to now, in a matter of a year and a half, he can wield it freely and with ease.
Not to mention, he actually experienced a big upgrade in memory magic in the middle, as well as the full support of the forbidden book section of Hogwarts library …
Felix rolled up the parchments and quietly watched as it turned into flying ash, and in the Thinking Room, the parchments coalesced back together.
Felix rolled them into a round parchment cylinder and pulled a thin silvery-green cord from thin air to secure and tie the cylinder.
He nimbly went over the piles of books stacked on the dark maroon carpet and stood in front of the dark green curtain. The curtain rolled up without a breeze, revealing a tall portal behind it.
He reached out and touched the handleless door, and with a gentle push, the door opened silently.
This is his true inner world, hiding all his deepest secrets and memories.
It is a long room with an aisle in the middle, moving along straight with no end in sight. On both sides of the aisle are tall bookshelves with books of various shapes and styles, each with a different version of himself on the cover.
At the corners of the shelves, there displayed some handwritten notes, photographs, memory balls, and similar odds things.
Felix strides forward as the room gradually lights up, and he stands in front of a bookshelf, and by the soft glow, he patiently counts the numbers: “Memory Magic — Thinking Room– Theoretical Inference –there it is!”
He placed the small cylinder on the shelf and muttered to himself in slight distress, “Well, the room is always changing, it takes a lot of time to find it every time I come …”
Felix came out of the room behind the curtain, watched as the dark green curtain fell again, covering the heavy doorway, and turned around to return to the real world.
In the ancient runes’ office, he looked at the clock and waited quietly-
“Knock, knock, knock!”
“Come in-”
The office door opened and Hermione jumped in like a thief.
“No one noticed you, right, Miss Granger?”
“No, Professor. You told me to keep it a secret.” Hermione said briskly, two hours earlier, while she is eating dinner, Professor Hap’s Patronus suddenly appeared with a blank card in its mouth.
When her magic covered the card, a small line appeared on it: Time-tuner, tonight at eight o’clock, secret.
Hermione had been scratching her head until after ten o’clock before she used the time-tuner to appear back two hours ago.
Felix nodded as he inquired, “What do you think about Sirius Black’s attack yesterday?”
He intended to begin with this statement to bring out his suspicions about Rat Scabbers, but Hermione gave him a direct surprise, or rather a shock.
“Professor, we guess – Ron’s rat, it may have a problem!” Hermione said in a lowered voice, but her voice trembling with excitement.
“How did you find out about this …?”
“It is Harry,” Hermione said, “he overheard Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Weasley talking the night before the start of the third year, and Mr. Weasley said–” she held her breath, her eyes glazed over.
“After Black’s escape, the Ministry of Magic went to Azkaban to investigate and collect evidence, and the guards inside mentioned that Black had been repeating in his sleep for the past few days – he had been at Hogwarts, he had been at Hogwarts …”
Hermione’s voice became shrill: “We previously thought that Black’s target is Harry, but yesterday’s attack proved it’s not, at least not the first target. Coupled with the fact that Black’s antics after Fudge gave him a newspaper – oh, we heard that’s from Fudge himself, the time he talked to the professors at the Three Broomsticks – combined with Black’s attack on Ron, we presume that the Ron family’s award information that was published in the Daily Prophet …”
Hermione still talking about her thoughts, but Felix has not been able to resist sighing, both for Hermione and their keen sense, but also for Fudge’s negligence and carelessness, the root cause of all this in his body.
But that said, Harry, they actually got the information long ago, only until yesterday did they truly connect the dots. And he was not so lucky, he relied on Black’s Animagus, and Black abnormal attack against Ron these two points to start the association.
The most crucial clue here is actually the Animagus, following this line, many things can be deduced.
“… We haven’t told Ron, oh gosh, we actually are not sure, but in case it’s true, how sad he would be.”
“Miss Granger,” Felix said with a sigh, “there is indeed that possibility, which is why I brought you here, I originally thought-”
He shook his head gently, “I’ll need to change my tactics.”
“Now that you have investigated this far, I hope you will be aware of the possible dangers and put your protection first.”
Felix reached out and beckoned three coins that could be turned into the Ring of the ouroboros and let them fall into Hermione’s hands, “This is what I have prepared for the Magic Rune Club, and there is nothing wrong with giving it to you a few days in advance.”
“You can reach me through it in case Harry forgets to carry the sneakoscope again …
In addition, your beaded pouches should be with you at all times, it can briefly fight against basilisk, and under a sudden activation, the average dark wizard is unlikely to be your opponent.
If you spotted that rat, the first choice is to stun it, do not hesitate, and then find a nearby professor to alert, or contact me directly.”
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