A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

It's August and Felix thought he'd be in Diagon Alley until the start of the Quidditch World Cup, until he got a letter from student Cremy Villa.

'Dear Professor Hepp

I'm still working in Gringotts in Egypt and everything is fine here except the work environment is a bit gloomy and humid.

I met a lot of friendly colleagues. A senior named Bill Weasley took me there. When I mentioned you to him, I was surprised to find that he knew you and entered the same year as you! I couldn't wait to ask him more about you, and it turned out a little unexpectedly, he described you as a "Wandering Sphinx" because in a few brief exchanges, you asked him politely and very esoteric of ancient rune and magical theory, and he couldn't answer, which made him a little embarrassed and his self-esteem was wounded (Bill himself is a very funny senior, he said these words with a smile), because you have no There is no elective in Ancient Rune.

I also made some local friends from the mystical Waggardu, a huge wizarding school with over 5,000 students! It's hard to imagine so many people taking classes together, but they tell me it's because Waggardu recruits students from all over Africa...

I now have a problem. After exploring the bottom tomb of an Egyptian pyramid, we accidentally discovered a dark room leading to a deeper layer, a long, winding down corridor, covered with a thick black fog. Shrouded, there are all kinds of dangerous magic traps inside - we didn't even explore the corridors, a colleague suffered seven or eight kinds of curses, and we evacuated urgently.

This colleague was taken to the hospital, but he brought back a slate on the wall of the corridor. The slate was actually engraved with ancient rune. I had never touched it before, and even my grandfather could not decipher and translate it. distant era.

I seriously doubt that they are all ancient runes of a practical nature (the traces are sent with the letter), and I am eager to take your advice, and it would be great if you could come.

Your student, Cremy Vera. ’

"Tsk! The wandering Sphinx..."

Felix put the letter aside and looked at the Egyptian holy heron next to him. It was a large bird over half a meter in size. The body was all white, but the ends of its wings and tail feathers were dotted with black. It shrank to one side, thinking of itself as a messenger owl, pecking at the biscuits on the plate.

The bird's head and neck are black and bare, and the long, downwardly curved beak looks like a black sickle.

Its legs are long and sturdy. At this moment, when Felix is ​​looking at it, it stretches out its feet and kicks a tightly wrapped package next to it. After Felix opens it, what he sees is a three-foot square. Parchment paper with the pattern obtained by tracing the slate mentioned in the letter by Clémy Vera.

He looked at the copy of the slate carefully, and at first glance confirmed the true colors of these patterns. They were indeed ancient runes. To be precise, they should be part of some ancient magic—the fragments of the rune sequence. When he tried As he sketched the crippled pattern, black lightning arcs stirred in the air.

Felix carefully read the letter sent by Clemie again, and intuitively felt a contradiction - the owner of the dark room struttingly hung a slate engraved with ancient magic mysteries in the corridor, which seemed to indicate that the owner was quite generous. People, but the fog and the curse have nothing to do with generosity.

He did not easily determine that this was a dark wizard, because in different eras, people's definitions of dark wizards were different. Among the ancient wizard groups, everyone who could be called a dark wizard was extremely evil, but not Comparable now.

"A powerful ancient wizard who slipped into the pyramid, built a dark room for himself, and arranged a complicated curse... Could it be some kind of harsh inheritance? And both the black mist and the curse are tests for outsiders?"

"Or, is it using human greed to punish unexpected intruders?"

Felix wrote a reply, attaching all this information, including his own guesses. He also expressed his gratitude for Vera's invitation, and immediately moved in his heart, asking if he could bring a student. His assistant had mastered a lot of ancient rune knowledge in two years, and it was time to get in touch with some social practice. .

An Xin waited for a few days, and Cremy Vera sent a reply letter expressing her welcome to him and the student, along with a formal invitation from Gringotts. There were two places in the name column, one was One has been filled with the name "Felix Hepp", the other is blank.

Only with this invitation will you be allowed to explore inside the pyramid.

Felix smiled slightly and filled in the blank with the name "Hermione Granger".

The next morning, Hermione excitedly came to the Future World Company in Diagon Alley and kept looking at it with curiosity. Just yesterday, the professor sent a letter to explain the situation to her and invited her to explore the pyramids of Egypt together! She wanted to go for a long time, although the professor told her that she would stay behind most of the time, but there was also a chance to get close to the magical ruins thousands of years ago in a safe situation.

"Professor Lupin!" Hermione saw Lupin's figure unexpectedly, "Why are you here?"

"Always find a job for yourself," Lupin said with a smile. He took Hermione upstairs, briefly introducing the company. The employees they met along the way greeted Lupin, and soon they came to an office on the fifth floor.

Pushing the door open, Felix was sitting on a chair, staring at his palm earnestly, where a black lightning bolt was entrenched. Seeing Lupin and Hermione come in, he dispels the magic and smiles.

"Remus, I may be temporarily away for a few days."

Lupin shook his head and sighed: "Will you go to France when you come back?"

Felix said humorously, "Remus, you don't have the gift of prophecy, do you?"

...

"Professor, are you studying magic lamps?" Hermione asked. When she came over, she saw various shapes of magical creatures. She found that each animal was wearing a glowing magic ball of light, and the ancient magic she mastered. Illumination is very similar.

Felix smiled: "The research work has been completed, they are preparing for the Quidditch World Cup, a large light show."

"The light show..." Hermione imagined the scene and couldn't help but look forward to it.

"Okay, I'm in a hurry today. When we come back from Egypt, you can stay here to see more." Felix said that he was very much looking forward to Hermione's continued study of ancient runes after graduation. Her current level has exceeded All employees of the future world.

And there are still four full years before she graduates from Hogwarts.

...

Egypt, Nile Valley.

Felix and Hermione walked on the streets of Cairo, intuitively feeling the exotic atmosphere coming to them. An Arab with a crappy accent asked them if they wanted a camel, they refused, and Hermione reluctantly watched the grotesque camel go away, feeding it a fluff of hay before leaving.

"Well, we need to meet your senior first, she shouldn't be able to wait," Felix said, and he added, "Maybe there will be a chance to ride a camel later? My impression is that the pyramids are in the desert..."

At a pub in town, Felix and Hermione meet Clemie Vera, who wears a sun hat with a transparent silk scarf hanging from the wide brim. When she lifted the curtain, the two saw her skin was dark brown and she was smiling brightly.