A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

"Vine wood?" Felix repeated, and the little witch noticed that Professor Hepp's expression was obviously startled.

"Very good," he commented briefly.

Felix explained: "My personal experience is that a runic knife is very similar to a wand, so other than the chestnut wood carving knife, it is best to choose the material of its own wand for the first carving knife."

"For example, I am most comfortable with an ebony wood carving knife."

Hermione showed an expression of sudden realization, and she whispered in her heart, Grapevine Wood, the first choice for her own exclusive carving knife.

However, this also made her curious. When she was buying a wand, Ollivander said that it is the wand that chooses the wizard, not the wizard who chooses the wand, and Professor Hepp also gave similar advice. Is there any secret? ?

She spoke to Professor Hepp about her doubts.

Felix thought for a while and said, "This sentence makes a lot of sense, because Ollivander's wand shop never makes custom wands, which means that young wizards have to adapt to the characteristics of wands."

"So, the wands in our hands just generally match us?" Hermione understood what he was trying to convey.

"That's understandable, but don't worry, for the vast majority of wizards, this nuance doesn't need to be considered at all," Felix said. "It's an interesting question, you can go to the library and look See what your friends' wands look like and what qualities they represent."

Hermione was indeed very interested. This kind of behavior to satisfy her desire for knowledge and gossip made her want to stop.

"Professor, do you have any recommended books?" the little witch asked. She was used to asking Professor Hepp for a book list, and she could get an accurate reply every time.

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"Well... I remember there was a book called Wands and Wizards in the library, which introduced hundreds of famous wizards and their wands," Felix said.

Hermione muttered a few words and wrote down the title of the book.

"Okay, next, it's the seventh carving knife." Felix brought the topic back to the right track.

The little witch looked at the last carving knife, as thin as a dagger, the color was a palpitating pale white, and it looked like the teeth of some kind of creature. She said in surprise, "Is this... a basilisk's fangs?"

"That's right, I also came up with the idea of ​​using some of the magical beasts' tissue to make a Rune Knife by accident." Felix said with a smile, "This is just an attempt."

Hermione felt that this material was too evil, and the rune depicted wouldn't have its own venom or curse, would it?

So she asked Felix, "How does it work?"

Felix smacked his lips and only mumbled something like "expanding new ideas", "trying with unicorn horns next time", etc. Hermione wisely didn't follow up.

After spending some time explaining the concept of 'Rune Knife' invented by Professor Hepu himself, the two finally returned to the original topic - the difference between a single Rune and a Rune circuit.

Felix put away the other carving knives, leaving only the ebony wood carving knife and the chestnut wood carving knife, and he handed the chestnut wood carving knife to Hermione.

Hermione scrutinized the knife in her hand, realizing that it would be with her for a long time.

Its color is somewhat like a light brown color, the material is uniform and compact, and there are straight and slender textures distributed on it, which looks like the pattern of Yuhua stone.

Then she stared at the knife in Felix's hand—

The ebony wood carving knife in Professor Heppe's hand, like his wand, is of carefully selected heartwood, without a trace of variegation.

It was a sheer, deep black with a matte sheen, giving it an extremely heavy and hard texture.

Felix picked up a thin piece of chestnut wood and said to Hermione, "Whether it's a wand made of a carving knife or a chestnut wood chip, it's very friendly to magic, so writing rune is more like writing an essay."

Holding the carving knife lightly, he fluently wrote a series of runes. The red light bloomed from the black tip of the knife. When Felix lifted the carving knife, the hot runes had quietly extinguished, and black marks were branded.

"There are two ways to write a rune circuit, either in one go, or one by one."

"It's the first."

Then he took another piece of chestnut wood, wrote individual runes on it one by one, and after showing it to Hermione, carefully pulled out the lines to connect them together.

Hermione held the two pieces of chestnut wood at the same time, comparing them with each other.

From what she can think of, the former is like a finished cursive script, swaying and elegant, but at the expense of the recognizability of individual letters; while the latter is a regular print, but naughty children use crayons. The letters are all connected together, and compared to the pleasing look of the former, it is more like an inferior graffiti, which makes people frown.

But Felix told her, "This is what you need to master," pointing to what he calls a combination of 'print + graffiti'.

"You need three sets of Rune circuits for your beaded pouch, and I'll explain how they are connected."

Felix snapped his fingers lightly, and the consciousness of the two entered the thinking cabin.

Since the beginning of school, he has become more and more proficient in the control of this magic.

This seemed to coincide with Snape's theory that the magic he invented would naturally increase its power.

...

When Harry came out of the bedroom yawning on Sunday morning, he saw Ginny and Ron sitting next to Hermione watching something.

"Morning," he said. He had been training Quidditch the night before and had been practicing until very late, so he was a little sleep-deprived.

Harry dug out his Potions homework from his bag, but his mind was a mess.

After a few minutes, he noticed the strangeness of the three people on the opposite side, "What are you doing?"

Hermione was concentrating on writing on a thin piece of wood—he thought it was a piece of parchment, and looked at it again and again.

The tool she held in her hand was also odd, a bit like a quill and a shrunken wand.

But Hermione apparently didn't have time to answer him, and Harry looked at Ron.

Ron whispered to him, "It's the magic loop."

Ginny retorted him: "No, it's the Rune Circuit."

Ron shrugged. "Almost," he explained to Harry, "you know, to fix her beaded pouch."

He looked across the table, and Hermione was sketching a grotesque pattern on the thin board that, from his point of view, looked a bit like a giant squid in a black lake.

The red light kept streaming from the 'tip', she wrote slowly, the initial strokes had cooled to black.

"Hoo~" Hermione let out a long breath, wiping the sweat off her face.

"How, did it work?" Harry asked with interest, though he still wasn't quite sure what she was doing.

But Harry reckons he will also take Ancient Runes next year.

Hermione relaxed and said lazily, "I can't always inject magic power stably. The difference between a single rune is too great."

"I remember you saying that your success rate is 90%?" Harry asked.

"It's a single rune, the rune circuit is much more difficult..." she said with a sigh.