By the time Felix returned to classroom seven, the dueling tournament was over, leaving only with a couple of first-place of each grade, Percy and Penelope, behind.
Percy reported on what happened after he left, less than half an hour after he left, Things progressed in a way that he couldn’t help but frown.
About ten minutes after he left, Lupin was the first to leave, not more than five minutes later, Snape also suddenly left, in addition to a professor who came to join the fun and pass the weekend, only Flitwick a regular dueling class professor left in plain sight.
“When the seventh-grade competition is over, according to the plan, there will be awards and cross-grade challenges, but you are not …,” Percy stopped tacitly, “Professor Flitwick let the rest of the students go back first. ”
Felix nodded, he is actually more curious about whether Snape guessed something, so he went after Lupin, at this point he is afraid they’re probably fighting, no?
He raised his wand, and out of the tip flew a slender, swift silver swallow, and the eyes of several young wizards fell on it, gawking wide-eyed at the professor’s Patronus, which had been talked fondly of by the young wizards ever since it had made its presence known on the Quidditch pitch.
A few bright-headed little wizards had even managed to make a profit by selling information about the Patronus and the Patronus Charm, something that Harry knew that the twins and his best friend, Lee Jordan, had done.
Rain Swallow Patronus circled the crowd for a while and disappeared with a silver stream of light. Well, if it is truly a fight, at least you can persuade them, or drag Dumbledore to clean up the mess, the headmaster should be aware of this headache, right?
Felix thought unkindly, the corners of his mouth naturally curled up. He brought his attention back to the firsts of each grade and said pleasantly, “Next is the part where you can pick the prize you are interested in – a Galleon or a magical artefact.”
With each wave of his wand, a prize would appear before him.
A dazzling Gold-Galleons, an advanced golem, Several types of Sneakoscope, a memory disk, the Ring of the Ouroboros Snake, a nameless book, a shiny silver artefact, and an amulet … of two dozen of kinds.
“Professor, what is this?” A small blonde curly-haired girl with cute dimples gestured at the palm-sized snake as she asked, liking it at first sight – much like her family’s crest.
“A device on which you can stand, like this …” Felix tossed the snake and with a soft “bang” there appeared a Fifteen-foot big snake.
The big snake is completely inky black in colour, the snake’s head is raised high, on both sides of its head, a broad wing like a hood spread wide open, with turquoise blue eyes, as if inlaid with two emeralds.
It lowered its head, in the back of the snake’s head, there is an inconspicuous smooth space, just enough for one or two people to stand. Felix smiled and said, “Don’t worry about falling off, I borrowed some idea from the Firebolt to keep the rider stable.”
Harry could not help but ask: “Professor, are you also participated in the dismantling and study of the Firebolt?” He had only got the Firebolt back from Professor McGonagall a few days ago, though it had performed well and helped him easily defeat the Ravenclaw team.
“It’s the credit of Professor McGonagall and Flitwick, I just happened to see it by chance and studied it in passing.”
At this moment, that little girl had excitedly jumped over the big snake and shouted loudly, ” What should I do, how can I start it? I want this!” She stood at that smooth area, and looked around, won’t it be imposing to stroll around with this?
“You can experience it first, once you choose it, you can not change it.” Felix cautioned her, she looks like a young girl from a big family, big family or not, he is not afraid, but they raise their children with quite a personality, which will give you a headache.
He is more glad that he teaches the students only from the third grade.
“I just want this! Just this! This one!” The little girl shouted at the top of her lungs.
“Astoria, were you raised like this?” A girl said sternly, it is Daphne Greengrass.
The little girl slumped, “Oh …”
Felix laughed softly, ” A Greengrass?”
“Professor, she is my sister, just started her first year, her name is Astoria Greengrass,” Daphne said.
“Hmm.” Felix nodded and said nothing more. His wand nudged on the snake’s head, the snake made a “hissing” sound, which was only understood by Harry, it was not some meaningless sound, but it rather said in the parseltongue,” Binding this noisy little girl “, he suddenly wanted to laugh.
The next second, the snake twisted its body and leaped out abruptly, “Whoa!” Astoria shouted, the position under her feet is very smooth, the slight wobble of the snake’s head and the twisting of the snake’s body did not affect her.
The crowd watched Astoria standing on the snake, as it smoothly went over the hill, rocky beach, as she shouted excitedly, her golden, long curly hair fluttered.
Daphne tried to redeem her sister’s image: “Astoria grew up frail, and the family kept her away from sports, but she loved Quidditch, and today she is more, er, excited …”
After a minute, the big snake returned to its original position, Astoria jumped off the snake and leaped into Daphne’s arms, “Sister, I love it!”
“Professor, is there anything similar, I don’t want a snake, is there a lion-shaped one?” Percy asked, being first in the seventh year.
The eyes of the rest of them were glowing, and Harry is already imagining himself riding a tall, majestic lion and flaunting it around the school.
The only person from Hufflepuff, Cedric had a bit of a headache, of course, he also wanted the symbol of his House, a badger. But it is truly unsuitable for a mount.
How about an eagle instead?
Felix smiled and said, “Don’t rush to make a decision, I’ll first give you an introduction, so that after choosing, in case you still don’t know about other rewards.”
“Gold-Galleons, no need for me to say more, the number is one hundred coins.”
“Advanced Golem, it can understand some commands, such as helping you get things, can talk and remind you of tasks you didn’t finish, it doesn’t have human wisdom, but it can answer vaguely. Textbooks of seven grades for different subjects are stored inside, the advantage is that you don’t need to turn the book when you write homework.”
Percy asked excitedly, “Professor, can I store new books in it?” He intuitively felt that it would be extremely helpful to him.
“Sure, it has that function, but it takes time, for a book, it may take two or three hours,” Felix explained as he took a book out of the ring and tossed it to the golem.
It flipped the book open by itself and started reading from the first page, using the word ‘reading’ is not accurate, I should say recording. It brushed its palm over every corner of the page, finishing before flipping to the second page.
“Professor, how many books can it store?”
“Well … you have asked the right question, I don’t know its limit either,” Felix spread his hands, “you can give it a try.”
Percy didn’t hesitate to pick this one.
“I’ll continue with the introduction – the Sneakoscope, which you should all know; the memory disk, which can reproduce a piece of memory; the Ring of the Ouroboros Snake, which currently only has the function of storing runes, but by choosing it, you will automatically gain membership of the Magic Rune Club.”
Ginny and another Slytherin student chose the Ring of the Ouroboros Snake, Ginny is a second year, originally not eligible to join the club, but now a little over half a year earlier, and without assessment as well. She had heard from Hermione that the selection would only get harder.
After weighing her options, she gave up her imaginary flaming lion mount.
Another sixth-year Slytherin student got excited now, as his parents told him to do everything he could to get on good terms with Felix, but unfortunately, there had been no chance in the past year or so.
Cedric and the fourth-year Ravenclaw boy had selected the memory disk.
Now only Harry is left to decide, and for him, all the previous prizes are good, but nothing helped him to truly make up his mind. Hermione would have preferred an advanced golem that could store books, and Ron would not hesitate to choose the lion mount, but he felt torn now.
Felix continued to introduce them, they were all made by him when he’s studied the Runes, incidentally. What mattered to him would be the process of turning inspiration into something physical, and by the time the things were made, they wouldn’t really have much use to him.
“… shiny silverware, can spit bubbles, ahem, just kidding, I got the inspiration from Headmaster Dumbledore, it can be used to exercise magic, with the injection of different magic, the colour of the bubbles will also be very different, comes with a simple instruction manual… …”
“An amulet that can withstand seven or eight regular vile hexes, and not so advanced dark magic;”
…
“Professor, what’s this book?” Harry asked, pointing at the nameless book, something looked familiar to him as if he had seen it somewhere before. After thinking for a while, he recognized that he had seen Professor Hap flipping through something similar at the Black Lake during his second year Christmas break when he was playing snowball with Ron and the twins.
Only that book had a name, perhaps a collection of jokes, but the common feature is that they all have the same transparent pearly white colour as ghosts.
This couldn’t be a book for ghosts, right?
“Oh, I’m glad you asked about it.” Felix said cheerfully, “It’s an attempt, albeit far from the finished product I had in mind, and one might, can even say I’m just on my first steps, but it’s magical enough.”
“Its main material is memory, mixed with some other materials, such as the Thestral tail hair,” Felix reached out and touched the nameless book, it automatically spread open, Harry and the rest came over, inside it is a blank image like mercury, silver and blue light hopping between the pages, like a flash of lightning.
“What does it say?” Harry asked, holding his breath.
“Nothing at the moment, but if you choose it, you can ask me to inject a memory, about any magic,” Felix gestured, “from level one to level five, it can replace me and teach you to master that magic.”
Harry’s heart thumped, his first thought is disarming charm, then he thought of the Patronus charm – he studied with Professor Lupin for a month, still unable to fully form the Patronus, he only knew it is a big one.
But he did not want to choose that, because he is very confident in mastering that magic, and more crucially, he enjoyed his time with Professor Lupin.
Harry hesitated for a moment and his eyes lit up, “Professor, I’ll go with Apparition-”
“Oh, no,” he heard Professor Hap telling him, “you won’t be exposed to this spell until the sixth year at the earliest, and I won’t break the rule …”
Harry got a little disappointed, only to see the professor wink at him, he seemed to understand something, “I’ll take this book, as for the magic, I’ll go back and think about it, is that okay, Professor?” He asked tentatively.
“Sure,” Felix said with a smile, and he wanted to add a few more words, but he suddenly froze in place, and a rapid image swept through his pupils, and Harry caught a glimpse of it–
Snape and Professor Lupin pointing their wands at each other!
“Professor, Professor?” Harry shouted out, is this true?
But Felix didn’t respond to him, “Percy Weasley, take it over and look over him for some time.” He stepped aside, a silver gleam brewing in his eyes, and with the help of the Patronus’ perspective, he whispered, “Severus, Professor Lupin, please stop …”
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