Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 195 A Bad Omen

  Since the last publicity of the Wizarding Cards Club, more Hogwarts students know about the game of Wizarding Cards. Several students even expressed their wish to have cards exclusive to their own colleges, and were willing to join the wizard card club to help Albert design brand new cards.

   This is conducive to the promotion of wizard cards. As long as wizard cards enter other colleges, the number of players will definitely be gradually expanded. Albert believes that it won't be long before more and more students will fall in love with this card game that is easy to learn, has various ways to play, and can freely design various strategies.

  The biggest problem with Wizard Cards at present is the number of players. As long as everyone is playing Wizard Cards, other people will definitely be curious to follow suit. Albert believes that the charm of Wizard Cards itself can conquer everyone.

  However, the design and manufacture of cards is still a problem. Although Fred, George and Lee Jordan are helping him as much as possible, Albert still needs to do it himself most of the time.

   Having said that, I really have a lot of things to worry about.

The design and manufacture of wizard cards, magic training and homework for various courses, frequent correspondence with other wizards, weekly borrowing of books from the library, research on perfecting protective bracelets are still going on, using ancient magic Wen Shi's research on spells has not progressed so far. The manuscripts written for "Transfiguration Today" and the Charms Club also have academic research. Occasionally, they will find time to practice the Patronus Charm, and look for books related to Occlumency in the restricted area.

  Filch was obsessed with what happened last semester, and he strengthened the castle's night patrols as soon as school started. Snape would occasionally help with the patrols, which made Albert directly give up the idea of ​​visiting the restricted area late at night.

  He didn't want to be the unlucky guy who got caught during the next night outing. By the way, Gryffindor, who was deducted fifty points, was directly at the bottom.

   If you insist on saying something good recently, it is probably Albert's small breakthrough in ancient runes!

  Professor Batheda Babling is indeed an expert in this field, and has a high attainment in the field of ancient runes.

  Every Tuesday afternoon, Albert would go to Professor Babling's ancient magic text improvement class, and stay after class to exchange ancient magic text with Professor Babling.

  Not long ago, they also studied, analyzed, and discussed McDougal's "Complete Explanation of Basic Runes" and "Advanced Runes Research", and Albert's experience in runes also increased by leaps and bounds.

  Now, Albert's rune experience is more than half of the second level.

  Professor Babling is the rune professor at Hogwarts, but she doesn't actually live in the castle, and she only has five classes a week. There are only four students in the ancient rune improvement class, two Ravenclaws, one Slytherin, one Hufflepuff, and Albert, who came to visit.

Originally, Ancient Runes was an elective course for the third grade, and even fewer students could pass O·w·Ls with good grades. Some students might not be willing to take the advanced class even if they met the requirements, which directly led to the failure of this course. There are only two or three kittens in the improvement class.

  Of course, the ancient magic text is not the worst, and there is no improvement class for Muggle studies.

  As long as you can take a good O·w·Ls Muggle Studies certificate, you can work as a Muggle liaison officer in the Ministry of Magic.

  As for the advanced classes of divination, mathematical divination, and the protection of mystical biology, the number of people is also pitifully small, and there are even fewer people who can really learn from the advanced classes and use them after graduation.

  After graduating from school, it is common for occupations and majors to be mismatched.

   After the bell rang for the end of get out of class, several people greeted each other and left.

  Albert did not leave, he will stay and continue the last communication with Professor Babling.

   "How do you feel?" Professor Babling asked gently. This is the benefit of excellent students, and the relationship between the two is actually pretty good.

   "It's okay, the content of the class is not difficult, and I have mastered most of it." Albert flipped through his notes and said.

   "You should already have the level of N·E·W·T." Professor Babling sighed softly. Although some people have the talent to learn ancient rune, but such a talent as Albert made Professor Babling fall through the eyes at first.

   "The difficulty is lower than I imagined." Albert said.

"N·E·W·T is really not difficult." Professor Babling explained, "The difficulty is how to go further in this area after graduating from Hogwarts. We only learned the tip of the iceberg, like Mike After all, there are only a few people who study as deeply as Mr. Doug."

   Albert nodded and admitted that this cannot be seen from the fact that few people in "Advanced Magic Text Research" can fully understand it.

  Footsteps sounded outside the corridor of the ancient classroom on the sixth floor, followed by a knock on the door.

  Isobel opened the door and walked in. She is also good at ancient runes, and has the relationship with McDougal. Professor Babling allowed her to participate in this extra-curricular communication.

  Professor Babling waved his magic wand, and the refreshments and biscuits that several people liked appeared on the table. This was not a serious class, but a good communication.

   Sitting on a comfortable sofa and enjoying afternoon tea, after two consecutive classes, Professor Babling is also a little tired.

  The topic started after the three of them finished their first cup of afternoon tea.

   "The topic we are studying today is runestone (manestone) divination."

   "I remember that there seems to be a divination class in the third grade, and it seems to teach how to use runes for divination?" Albert looked up at Isobel and asked, "Did you take a divination class?"

  However, Albert had already guessed the answer after seeing the expression change on the other party's face. Obviously, this Ravenclaw genius is very similar to Professor McGonagall, and he thinks that taking the divination class is purely a waste of effort.

   "I don't have that talent." Isobel took a sip from his teacup, glanced at Albert and said lightly, "Maybe, you have."

"Sybil is good at this, and I specially invited her to come here." Professor Babling saw that the two of them didn't seem to be very interested in runestone divination, so he said, "Runestone divination is an ancient form of divination in Britain. It is said that it is very accurate, but there are not many wizards who really know how to interpret rune stone divination. Fortunately, Sybil has some research in this area."

  Albert couldn't help but rolled his eyes when he heard the words, and said in simple words, "I heard...divination requires talent, and only a small number of people have that talent."

  As far as he knows, most students will choose divination classes purely for the purpose of fooling around, and they don't care about whether they can get good grades in O·w·Ls.

  After graduation, there are almost zero wizards who will engage in divination. After all, a fortuneteller who has no ability to predict is no different from a liar, and no one would welcome such a liar.

  Sybill Trelawney does have the ability to predict the future, but her ability is uncontrollable, and like other fortune-tellers, she cannot use a crystal ball to perform divination and directly see certain fragments of predictions.

"Sybil should have such abilities." Professor Babling was not too sure. She knew that her friend had the ability to predict. After all, she was the great-great-granddaughter of the famous fortune-teller Cassandra Trelawney. Abilities are often passed down through bloodlines.

   While the three were chatting around the ancient runes, runes and runes, the door of the ancient runes classroom was knocked again, and the person the three were talking about appeared outside the door.

   This was Albert's first close contact with Sybill Trelawney.

  It was a very thin woman with big glasses and a bunch of chains and beads hanging around her neck. She looked a little crazy, maybe she just didn't want people to find out about herself.

   "Oh, Batheda, I hope I'm not late." Trelawney poked her head into the classroom, and her eyes fell on Albert and Isobel.

"I mentioned it to you." Professor Babling invited Professor Trelawney into the classroom with a smile. You are very helpful, after all, you are an expert in this field."

"Oh, runestone divination, this is an ancient knowledge, and now there are very few wizards who are really good at this kind of divination." Trelawney walked in, sat next to Professor Babling, and followed suit. He took out an exquisite bag from his pocket, "...Now, I will only briefly mention it in the divination class. It is easier for most students to predict the future from tea dregs and crystal balls. At least they can find it by referring to books. The answer. Of course, students without the "Tianmu" talent can only do this in this subject."

  Professor Trelawney's words are not wrong. Divination requires talent. Without talent, if you can't make predictions, you will only be regarded as a liar and will not receive any respect.

Trelawney opened the exquisite bag and poured out the runes inside. She reached out and stroked the symbol on it, said "thank you" to Professor Babling who brought the black tea to her face, and continued: "Every The symbols on a runic stone all describe the stories and profound meanings contained in the ancient text symbols... and can also be used to seek the desired results."

  Albert bit a biscuit, listened quietly to Trelawney's nagging, and smiled at Isobel, who frequently drank black tea. The latter seemed a little anxious, and she obviously didn't believe Trelawney's nonsense.

"Hold the bag containing the runes in the palm of your hand, meditate on your own problems, and you need to meditate quietly." Trelawney babbled as she put the runes back into the bag, "Remember, stay ethereal state, follow the instinct to feel the instructions of the natural force, and then take a runic stone from the bag and put it in the palm of your hand."

  Ebert and Isobel looked at each other, and they could see the twitching at the corners of their mouths. They didn't say anything.

   "Why don't you test it, whoever comes first." Professor Babling said.

   "Ladies first!" Albert made a please gesture towards Isobel.

   "No, you go first." Isobel actually didn't believe this prophecy.

   "Okay!" Albert took the bag containing the runes, meditated on the question in his mind, and then meditated, keeping his mind as ethereal as possible.

  He reached out and took out the rune stone from the bag and placed it on his palm.

   "What's your problem?" Trelawney asked.

   "Future fortune." Albert said without thinking.

   "I think you are very talented in divination." Trelawney walked to Albert and said something suddenly.

   "Thank you." Albert responded politely.

"It's the positive Fehu." Trelawney glanced at the rune stone on Albert's palm, with a strange expression, "Fehu itself represents wealth and symbolizes material gains, which means Your fortune is very good, it represents some form of success, as long as you hold on to what you have, you can achieve success and overcome the difficulties you encounter along the way.”

   "My fortune has always been good." Albert said without knowing it. Put the runes back into the bag and hand the bag to Isobel.

   "I want to know, will I encounter trouble in the near future?" Isobel said his question lightly, and then took out a rune stone from his bag.

"Reverse EIHWAZ" Trelawney glanced at the rune stone in Isobel's hand, "This is an obvious warning, warning you to be careful... this is not a good omen. "

  (end of this chapter)