Chapter 12 Hidden Ability

The third week of school has begun.

While the first-year students were still enjoying campus life, Xie Ling was racing against time. He spent his free time and weekends in the library every day, following the reading list he had planned in the past two weeks, greedily absorbing all the knowledge that could improve his strength.

Until five minutes before the library closed, Xie Ling reluctantly left his seat, and under the watchful eyes of the librarian Ms. Pince, he would borrow at least 10 books, and then use the time hourglass in the quiet room at night to continue his crazy book-reading journey!

Xie Ling's strange behavior finally attracted the attention of Ms. Pince.

Ms. Pince always observed this boy silently. She was very curious about how a first-year student could finish reading more than 30 books every day, and could maintain such an amazing reading speed day after day, not to mention that more than half of those books were magic books that only seventh-year students needed to learn - they included transfiguration, spells, potions, defensive magic, and all fields.

While Ms. Pince was observing Schelling, she didn't know that Schelling was also observing her. In Schelling's eyes, this ordinary-looking Ms. Pince was not simple at all. Schelling had the ability to see through other people's magic. As his knowledge expanded, he had a rough judgment of everyone's magic value in his mind.

On the day of the entrance ceremony, he could see from his observations in the professor's seat that the person with the highest magic value in the school was Headmaster Dumbledore, whose magic was as hot as fire and his arrogance was overwhelming; followed closely by the four deans Snape, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout, all of whom had significantly stronger magic than Lucius; as for Ms. Hodge of the flying class and Professor Sinistra of the astronomy class, their magic values ​​were even worse than Lucius.

Ms. Pince's magic power is only slightly inferior to that of the four deans, but her magic power is a bit special, giving Schelling a cold and weird feeling. This discovery made Schelling decide not to provoke Ms. Pince casually, and he could only suppress his desire for the restricted book area.

Time passed quickly, two months passed, and Halloween was coming. According to the plot, the first move of Professor Quirrell, the boss of the first year, would take place on that day.

After two months of uninterrupted hard study, and actual combat training with Dobby in the room from time to time at night, Schelling is now a completely different person from when he just started school.

Under Schelling's deliberate time arrangement, plus the use of the time hourglass to get four more hours a day, Schelling practiced spells for at least ten hours a day in these two months, which is ten times the time spent by a normal student. Now these hard work has finally paid off.

Schelling has not only mastered many high-grade spells, but also mastered the brain occlusion technique. Speaking of Occlumency, Schelling originally thought it would be a very difficult magic, after all, in the original book, Harry worked so hard but never succeeded in practicing it.

But to Schelling's surprise, Occlumency did not cause much difficulty to Schelling at all. After carefully reading the "Occlumency Practice Guide" found in the library, he followed every step clearly and successfully put his brain into an ethereal state in the first attempt.

Not knowing why, Schelling searched for a bunch of information about mental magic in the library and found that the difficulty of mental magic varies from person to person, and the difference in the strength of each person's soul is the main reason for the significant difference in mental control.

[Learning Occlumency! 】

With the mentality of giving it a try, Xie Ling tried to learn the lowest level of mental magic, such as hypnotic spell, confusing spell, refreshing spell and happy spell. He also successfully released the magic in the first attempt, making Dobby, the experimental subject, sleepy, confused, excited, and smiling foolishly...

Xie Ling also realized that something was wrong. Mental magic is a very advanced magic among many branches of magic. Even the lowest level of mental magic, such as the happy spell, is at least within the scope of the third-grade spell course.

Xie Ling knew that he had a talent beyond ordinary people in learning spells, but due to his age and the magic value in his body, even the most powerful academic wizard could not master these complex spells in the first attempt. Xie Ling vaguely realized that this might be because his blood power "Magic Eye" still hides many special abilities that need to be explored more deeply?

On the eve of Halloween, Professor Flitwick announced in the spell class that he thought they could start to make objects fly. Ever since the students saw Shaylin use this spell to save Neville in the first flying class, they have been eager to try this skill.

Professor Flitwick divided the class into groups of two and began training. Draco and Pansy were in one group, Daphne and Meredith were in another, and Shaylin, who had already mastered this spell, did not need to be grouped with anyone. Instead, he could help guide a few people on the side, just like a little assistant.

"Well, don't forget that subtle wrist movement we have been training!" Professor Flitwick stood on his pile of books as usual and said sharply, "Wave and shake, remember, wave and shake. It is also very important to pronounce the spell correctly. Don't forget the wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself lying on the floor with a bison standing on his chest."

In the past two months, under the guidance of Schelling, the little wizards of Slytherin have made a lot of progress. Among them, Draco, Daphne, and Meredith have made the most progress. Of course, Schelling is inevitable among them. Reasons for partial treatment.

As for Goyle and Crabbe, Schelling didn't like them very much. Crabbe was not as calm and honest as he appeared. In the original work, he quietly learned the black magic including the Fire Curse. , now he will be Draco's follower honestly just because of the situation. Once anything goes wrong in the Malfoy family, Crabbe will definitely expose his ambitions.

In Schelling's opinion, the influence of these two harmful friends must be a big factor in why Draco in the original work went astray and almost went astray.

Under Schelling's guidance, Draco was the first to successfully release the levitation spell, making the feathers float in the air, followed closely by Daphne and Meredith, who each won 5 points for Slytherin.

The fourth successful person is a girl with long black hair from Ravenclaw. Her appearance is very delicate. The most attractive thing is the elegant and calm temperament she exudes. Paired with her black-framed classic With his glasses and dignified hairstyle, the whole person exudes a strong bookish atmosphere and has a unique intellectual beauty.

Even Xie Lin, who was used to seeing beautiful women, still had a feeling of surprise and an inexplicable urge to go forward and get acquainted with her. Although Sherrin has not yet had any interactions with her Ravenclaw classmates, Sherrin, who has a terrible memory, still flashed in his mind the girl's name that was read out during the sorting ceremony - Maury McDougal.

In addition, the other little wizards did it again and again, and Feather still lay motionless on the floor. One of the boys from Ravenclaw—Shellin remembered his name was Michael Corner. He was a playboy who thought he was very handsome. Because of Slytherin’s outstanding performance, Michael, who was eager to show off his strength, Waving the wand, the result——

With a bang, the feather exploded. Although the explosion was not very powerful, it still burned an embarrassing hole in his cuff...

The levitating spell is actually a simplified version of the complex gravity-reversing magic created by countless predecessors after many simplifications and reductions. It is not difficult to successfully cast it - it only requires a simple recitation of the right spell and the correct posture of the wand. . But Schelling was not content with simply letting feathers float.

Schelling knew that the teaching content at Hogwarts would only teach the basic principles and applications of these magics, but tracing the roots of all spells would involve a bunch of more complex theories and more advanced applications. For example, the Patronus Curse in the original book could only expel dementors and Voldebats, but Dumbledore was able to use it to deliver messages over long distances and even release multiple physical Patronuses.

After Schelling's disassembly and analysis, he discovered that the levitating spell actually consists of four parts, namely "floating" - allowing the target item to relieve the influence of gravity; "hovering" - allowing the target item to remain in mid-air. Hover at a specified location; "Transformation" - allows the target item to move according to the caster's wishes; "Landing" - allows gravity to return to the target item, or even increase the influence of gravity.

Xie Lin easily made the feathers in front of him float. The feathers could also move lightly in the direction pointed by Xie Lin's wand, and even floated in mid-air, spinning and flipping. Finally, under Xie Lin's command, the feathers moved in a perfect manner. The arc floated into the feather box on the professor's desk.

Slytherin's little wizards are used to this kind of performance, but the Ravenclaw little wizards present are full of pressure - Slytherin has Schelling, it seems that this year's Academy Cup is basically hopeless Professor Flitwick also admired Schelling very much and gave Slytherin 10 points - now Slytherin's score is 30 points ahead of the second-placed Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor, who is at the bottom, is even more The difference is a full 60 points.

After class, Professor Flitwick left Schelling alone and asked Schelling to write a paper on his experience in the floating spell and submit it to "Magic Innovation". At the same time, he used this as a reason to invite Schelling to join his magic spell. Curse Club.

Xie Lin has decided to use his own strength and fame to revitalize the family, so he is naturally open to those who can increase his fame.