Chapter 58 September Course

During this period, Schelling did not fall behind in his studies. The main subject of the spell class this semester was mental magic, such as the Happy Spell and the Sorrowful Spell. That was the area where Schelling was best at. As Schelling delved deeper into the Abatyr Volume 1 and the Malfoy family spells, mental magic became easy to use and easy to use. Even Professor Flitwick thought that Schelling's level in this area was already comparable to his own.

During the activities of the Spell Club, Schelling published a research paper on using the Happy Spell to enhance the power of the Patronus Spell. The angle of this paper was very novel, and even Professor Flitwick praised it highly. After obtaining Schelling's consent, the paper was revised by Professor Flitwick and the two jointly published it in Spell Innovation.

Unexpectedly, this paper caused a great response in the academic community. Ulrich Six, the chairman of the Dark Arts Defense League, wrote a letter to Schelling, saying that the league was willing to buy all the research notes related to this in Schelling's hands, and would not only pay a considerable amount of gold galleons, but also grant Schelling the qualification of honorary member of the Dark Arts Defense League;

Gurana Cleopatra, the chairman of the Medieval European Wizard Federation, was not far behind. While offering a higher amount of gold galleons, she also awarded the medal of "Wizard Scholar Contribution Award". This medal not only gave Schelling the right to enter the library of the Federation's headquarters in Sardinia, but also a place in the "All-European Duel Competition".

The All-European Dueling Tournament is hosted by a mysterious organization called "Silver Spear". Silver Spear was a secret dueling club in the 18th century, allegedly organized by a group of dueling enthusiasts. The wands of the four founders were all made of aspen wood, so the early organization had very strict conditions for recruiting members, and only wizards who used aspen wood wands were eligible.

In the mid-20th century, Silver Spear relaxed the conditions for joining the organization. Anyone who performed outstandingly in any international dueling tournament could be invited to join Silver Spear. Although he didn't know what specific benefits there were to joining Silver Spear, Schelling knew that many famous wizards were flocking to it, so it was not difficult to infer that there must be unexpected benefits.

Schelling thought about it again and again, and consulted Professor Flitwick and Lucius on this issue, and finally chose to accept the conditions of the Medieval European Wizarding Federation. Schelling was mainly attracted by the spot in the European Dueling Tournament. With this spot, Schelling could save himself the time of participating in the long selection process. Professor Flitwick was also looking forward to Schelling's performance in the dueling tournament. For this reason, he specially gave Schelling his notes on dueling experience compiled when he was young.

This note contains all the unique spells he has studied and his unique dueling skills. As a former dueling champion, his notes are obviously very precious.

[Professor Flitwick's dueling notes are obtained! ]

The Transfiguration class this semester focuses on the Transfiguration of turning dead objects into small animals. The topic given by Professor McGonagall is to turn a teapot into a turtle - Schelling could do it when he participated in Merlin's test last semester. Therefore, Professor McGonagall directly exempted Schelling from all homework and only required Schelling to participate in the activities of the Transfiguration Club every week.

By the way, two more papers of Schelling were selected for publication in "Transfiguration Today".

The readers of "Transfiguration Today" are not limited to the British wizarding world. Now Schelling has also begun to have a little fame on the international stage. Some well-known figures in the field of Transfiguration also wrote letters to give some care and guidance to this promising rising star, such as the Chinese Transfiguration Master Zhang He.

Zhang He's ancestor was the famous Zhang Guo of the Tang Dynasty, who left behind the myth of "Zhang Guolao" in the Muggle world, but in fact he was a wizard, and his best skill was the Transfiguration of turning paper into a live donkey.

Schelling benefited a lot from his correspondence with him, and the two became friends who appreciated each other in their frequent correspondence. Zhang He also specially gave Schelling a copy of the Transfiguration Secret Book of the Chinese Wizarding World, "Baibian Qianhuan Jue". Although the book was written in Chinese characters, Zhang He thoughtfully attached English annotations in it, which made Schelling very grateful.

["Baibian Qianhuan Jue" was obtained! ]

The potions class this semester was quite difficult. In addition to the shrinking potion in the first week of school, another interesting potions class was to learn the Confusing Concoction.

The ingredients of the Confusion Potion are sneezeweed, scurvy and lovage, all of which are herbs that can make the brain hot. After drinking it, the effect is similar to being hit by the Confusion Spell, but it is more effective than the Confusion Spell. In addition to affecting thinking ability, the Confusion Potion can also affect emotions, making the user reckless and impulsive. As long as it is used properly, it can definitely reap miraculous results.

Schelling knew that Snape had a good personal relationship with his father Lucius, and he often went to Professor Snape privately to ask some advanced potion questions, such as why Neville's shrinking potion can make creatures regress to their infancy, and can this be used on humans to keep people young? For example, what is the difference between the Confusion Potion and the Essence of Insanity, even though both are used to confuse the mind and make people make wrong decisions?

Snape was contrary to his usual cold personality. Well, although he still had a cold face, at least he patiently explained these advanced contents to Schelling one by one, and did not express any objection to Schelling's advanced learning.

What surprised Schelling the most was that Snape also gave Schelling his own notes on potion studies written during his student days. These notes were his notes for preparing for the OWL level exam. Although they were not as powerful as the "Potion Notes of the Half-Blood Prince", they were very practical for Schelling at this stage.

Schelling even saw many improvements to the steps of preparing potions in the textbooks. If these knowledge were to spread outside, they would probably cause quite a stir in the potion world.

Snape had seen Schelling's potential as early as the duel club last semester. Lucius, a senior who had a good relationship with him, had also asked him to take care of the Malfoy twins in several letters.

Draco was okay. Schelling was too good. In the first year, he was taken in as a favorite student by McGonagall and Flitwick. Although he had that intention, he was used to maintaining a cold personality and could not bring himself to take care of Schelling. Seeing the increasingly close teacher-student relationship between Schelling and the two professors, he could only worry. Now that Sherin has taken the initiative to ask me for advice, I feel relieved.

[Snape's Elementary Potions Notes Obtained! ]

No one really likes the Care of Magical Creatures class. After the exciting first class, this class became particularly boring. Hagrid seemed to have lost confidence. Now, they are learning how to take care of Flobberworms class after class.

Flobberworms are brown worms with a body length of 10 inches and no teeth. This creature likes to eat lettuce, but in fact it eats almost all plants. This course content is completely meaningless because they like to be alone, do nothing, and do not need too much care. Feeding them blindly will cause them to die of overeating.

Not only are the little snakes in Slytherin complaining about their depression, but Ron, who has a good relationship with Hagrid, also complains frequently.

This semester's Herbology class focuses on learning to take care of Puffapods. Puffapods are a magical plant that can grow a kind of plump pink pods on its branches. The task of the little wizard is to peel the pink pods, take out the shiny beans inside, and then put them in a wooden barrel. These beans are very sensitive and will bloom immediately once they collide with solid objects.

In this process, Sherin found that his strength and agility did not bring him much advantage. Instead, it was more important to be able to maintain a stable and non-trembling gesture for a long time.

In this regard, girls will have an advantage. Murray shared his tricks with Sherin. She usually loves embroidery, knitting, and painting, so her wrist can be dexterous and will not accidentally shake the beans out. Under Murray's guidance, Sherin, Daphne and Meredith also slowly understood the key points.

Goyle and Crabbe, who were extravagant, were tragic-they scattered beans on the ground of the greenhouse more than once, and the beans on the ground bloomed instantly in front of them. Although the flowers that bloomed were very bright and beautiful, Professor Sprout's face, which was flushed with anger, was not good-looking. Not only did Slytherin lose points, but Goyle and Crabbe were also put in detention.

Schelling's performance in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was also remarkable. Professor Lupin did not dare to look down on this student who could fight two Dementors head-on, and Schelling lived up to expectations and showed his outstanding strength in class.

The first lesson of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was Boggart, and Schelling easily turned Boggart into a smiling face; the second lesson was Red Hat, and Schelling had no idea how many of them he had dealt with in the Forbidden Forest; the third lesson was Japan's Kaba, also known as Kappa, a reptile that lives in water. It looks like a monkey with scales and webbed hands. It likes to hide in the pond and strangle unsuspecting people who wade through the water.

This did not bother Schelling either. Like Red Hat, Kaba can only create danger when wizards are unsuspecting, so as long as a "trace revelation" spell is used to detect the existence of Kaba before entering the water, and then a drying spell is used to dry the water on Kaba's skull, it is enough to scare it away - Kaba's power comes from the water on the skull, and losing that water will make it weak.

Schelling's favorite course is alchemy. Professor Ibinos Burke is a retired elderly alchemist from the ancient Burke family. He has a very solid and extensive knowledge of alchemy, and has a strange temper like a scientist. He is very serious and serious when teaching.

He was willing to come out to teach this time because Lucius spent a lot of favors, and he specified that he would only teach Schelling's grade, unlike other professors who were responsible for teaching seven grades of students.

Due to the small number of students, alchemy classes are taught by four colleges together.

Perhaps because Professor Burke was sent by Lucius, the students of alchemy are basically Slytherin. At Schelling's call, all Slytherin third-year students took this course; there were only two students in Hufflepuff, Ernie Macmillan and Susan Bones; there were four students in Ravenclaw, Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Murray McDougal and Lisa Dupin.

Gryffindor students didn't have any. It was said that the relationship between alchemy and the Malfoy family had already spread among Gryffindor students, so most people were not interested. Perhaps the eager-to-learn Hermione was an exception, but she resolutely chose to give up the course to take care of her friend Ron's feelings. In fact, she was overwhelmed by the 12 elective courses, which was one of the reasons why she gave up the alchemy course.

The content of the alchemy course was not as exciting as imagined. Students had no chance to practice alchemy, nor could they touch the legendary alchemy items.

On the contrary, the alchemy knowledge taught by Professor Bock was very basic theory - starting from the alchemy theory of ancient Egypt, not only did they have a deep understanding of astronomy and geology, but they also had to memorize the properties of various magic substances and magic metals; then it was derived from the theory of the conversion of matter and magic power proposed by European alchemists in the Middle Ages. This theory believed that certain words were magical, and the effect of permanent alchemy could be further achieved by engraving ancient runes on alchemy items.

This knowledge sounds boring and seems to have no practical use, but it is just right for Schelling.

Schelling's own alchemy was directly learned from Nicolas Flamel, the most powerful alchemist in the past few centuries. Unfortunately, Nicolas was not a good teacher. His knowledge was too profound, so that Schelling needed to ponder for a long time before he could understand the principle behind his words and truths.

Not to mention, Nico left Schelling with his alchemy notes in Flamel's address book, which were Nico's daily notes. They had never been systematically organized and looked very scattered and messy. There were many contents that made Schelling confused, and he had to ask Nico Flamel for advice many times before he could barely understand them.

The alchemy course at Hogwarts just made up for Schelling's weak foundation. By systematically relearning the basic knowledge of alchemy, many of the puzzles in the past suddenly became clear.

Schelling also did not forget his promise to Daphne. When he had free time, he would guide Astoria's homework and give her some academic help, making Astoria the most dazzling student in the first grade, and the relationship between Schelling and Astoria gradually became familiar.

I don't want to write about the process of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. There are already a lot of cookie-cutter Boggart classes on the Internet. In addition to being used to show off the protagonist's brain occlumency, it can only be watered down.