Chapter 956 Cognitive Solidification and Freezing Spell

"Are you saying there's tension between the Ministry and the school? Because of those curriculum changes?"

"Well, it's obvious," Elena said, "Every era has its old guard, and people are often afraid of change, right? The integration of magic and science is indeed the trend of the future, and it is also the way to rejuvenate magic. Magic Ministry officials will worry that they will be eliminated because of this, because new things and new knowledge are emerging too fast, and next year the first batch of wizards with professional titles will enter all walks of life."

"But they can also learn and learn new things together? And they have less to remember."

Hermione asked with some confusion. At this time, they had separated from Hannah, Ginny and others, left the auditorium and walked towards the Charms classroom.

"Theoretically, that's the case," Elena said slowly, "provided...well..."

She looked around at the magical portraits, a hint of teasing appearing on her lips.

"What?" Hermione urged.

"Well, they must not be in a cognitively fixed state."

"Cognitive solidification?" Hermione repeated softly, thoughtfully.

“All new things that appear when you are ten are novel and interesting; new things that appear when you are twenty are all fashionable; new things that appear when you are thirty must carefully filter out the impurities; forty If it appears after the age of 10, it may be garbage..."

“As time goes by, most people will inevitably experience a process of cognitive solidification, deterioration of learning ability, and aging mentality.”

Elena pointed meaningfully at the portrait on the wall. She had done an interesting Turing test in school last year.

It turns out that most of the portraits do not have the ability to "enter and understand" - their cognition is forever frozen in the past.

Elena looked around at the layout of the corridors and stairs that were always in a "new" state, and raised her eyebrows.

"It's not difficult to understand, right? For example, when you firmly believe that the world should be a certain way, but new things tell you that the world is not actually what you believe, do you choose to doubt first, or first Do you believe it?"

"...I don't know." Hermione shook her head, "I will try not to presuppose a position and make judgments from an objective perspective."

"Perfect answer!" Elena said.

"But, but this is just an ideal assumption..."

Hermione nodded with some confusion and whispered to herself, "If it were Hannah, she would definitely not be willing to continue to try another path with the same result after learning one way of solving the problem - Not to mention, if and when these two approaches conflict.”

A sneeze——

At the same time, on the other side of Hogwarts Castle.

Hannah sneezed unexpectedly, shocking Luna out of her fugue state.

"Strange, didn't I drink a refreshing potion this morning? What's going on?"

Tiehanhan rubbed his nose, murmured softly, and pushed open the door of the Potions classroom.

In Professor Snape's class, colds and sneezing can be said to be the worst conditions. Whether it's because your hands shook and you added a few more drops of potion ingredients that you shouldn't have, or you accidentally spilled snot and saliva from your nose. Falling into the crucible may have disastrous consequences.

Starting from this semester, the most common treatment is to become the subject of Professor Snape's "special, enhanced version, refreshing potion".

After all, there are now three top potion masters in Hogwarts.

The "potion supply right" of the Hogwarts campus hospital has changed from a troublesome and trivial task to a secret battlefield with undercurrents. The professors' potions have become a weapon to measure each other's standards, and Hannah does not want to get involved. The war between professors turned into a "Steam Princess".

However, Hannah's worries quickly dissipated as she pushed open the wooden door of the underground classroom.

"On your right hand side, each of you should first go get two masks and a hair hat——"

Snape stood next to the desk in the underground classroom and glanced coldly at the young wizards who were entering the classroom one after another.

"From today on, during the practical phase of the potions class, I hope everyone remembers to wear a mask. I don't want this classroom to faint from smelling the potion I brewed for the second time, or drop something that shouldn't be dropped. Things that go into the pot drip into the pot, do you understand?!”

"Okay, Miss Abbott, Miss Lovegood, as usual, please send everyone's homework from last week..."

It has to be said that Snape has become much more relaxed since Dumbledore broke up the lower classes and reorganized them into classes and established class presidents.

Most of the simple tasks such as sending and receiving homework, distributing potion materials, and maintaining order in a small area are left to the students themselves. He can focus more energy and time on teaching and observing the students while brewing the potion. Is there any danger or incorrect operation?

Of course, such a smooth teaching model does not only exist in Snape's Potions class.

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Charms class is recognized as the most important course in the wizarding world.

In a sense, the Charms class is the most original and pure "magic" class of wizard civilization.

In this class, students at Hogwarts learn how to control their own magic. According to some fixed gestures and syllables, they can cast spells that have been studied by generations of spell masters. This is what most wizards will rely on in the future. Basics of survival.

When Elena and Hermione arrived at the Charms classroom, they happened to see Umbridge walking from the other end of the corridor carrying a handbag.

"It seems that the Ministry of Magic has changed its strategy?" Hermione raised her eyebrows and winked at Elena.

"That's smart, to start with some subjects that she understands and that have relatively little variation."

Elena said softly without being surprised, pulling Hermione towards the first row of the classroom.

There is no doubt that after experiencing the obstacles in Muggle Studies, Dolores Umbridge obviously realized her own limitations and chose to complete some basic tasks first and fill in the work of "Senior Investigator" Make plans after completing your resume.

In Umbridge's view, Charms is undoubtedly the most suitable pure land as a background.

After all, this is "magic" in the true sense, and it seems to be incompatible with "science" from the day it was born.

"Good morning, Professor Flitwick," Professor Umbridge stood at the door with a smile on her face, leaned down slightly, looked at Professor Flitwick who was standing on the stack of books, and said in a brisk tone, "I believe You should have received my notification? It said check the time and date for your class.”

"Hello, Professor Umbridge. Where are you—"

Professor Flitwick frowned slightly and waved his wand.

Then, an armchair appeared out of thin air in the corner and landed lightly in front of Umbridge.

"Well, Miss Kaslana and Miss Granger, this is last week's homework. Please send it to everyone."

After briefly settling Umbridge, Professor Flitwick did not continue to talk to her. Instead, he turned to look at Elena and Hermione, and said with a warm smile. Two piles of parchment homework fell from his podium. It fell into the hands of the monitors of Grade 2 Class A.

Faced with Professor Flitwick's indifferent attitude, Professor Umbridge still had a smile on her face. She grabbed the back of the armchair floating in the air, pulled the chair to the front of the classroom, and placed it about a distance away. There were only a few inches of Professor Levy's podium, and then she sat down calmly, took out her writing pad from her fancy handbag, and raised her head expectantly, waiting for the class to begin.

Flitwick stood on the steps of a pile of thick books as usual, looking at the students in the classroom with a smile on his face.

"Okay, in the last class we initially mastered the fire-making spell..."

He didn't care at all that there was an additional audience behind him, and quickly entered the teaching state as the class bell rang.

"Today, we are going to learn another spell that sounds the opposite - the freezing spell. But before that, we are divided into groups of two to review the spells as before, taking turns to recite the fire spell and remove the corresponding spells. .”

As Professor Flitwick spoke, he tapped the desk with his wand, and a huge pale golden hourglass appeared in mid-air.

"Review time, fifteen minutes. Start now."

He stepped off the podium and walked back and forth among the class, checking their spellcasting.

On the other side, Professor Umbridge simply wrote a few words in her notebook, then stood up and followed Professor Flitwick's example, wandering around the Charms classroom and listening to Professor Flitwick's words. Have a conversation with your classmates and ask a question or two from time to time.

Soon, she wandered over to Elena and Hermione's table.

"The flames are blazing——"

"All curses come to an end."

Elena's spell flicked gently, easily extinguishing the small ball of fire that Hermione had managed to conjure.

"You're not doing this right! Professor Flitwick said that you need to break the curse." Hermione puffed up her cheeks and said sternly.

"This is the solution to the curse, a universal solution to the curse in most cases - this is like a broad-spectrum antidote in potions. Since you can directly end the curse process from the source of magic, why not master this practical method? How to break the curse?"

Elena watched Hermione's angry look with interest and shrugged.

"Well, if you can extinguish my fire, then I will reluctantly practice the terminating spell of the fire-making spell."

"Okay, you said that yourself?!" Hermione snorted, pulled down her sleeves, and was about to start casting the spell.

"Fire is burning, Kenza—"

Boom, a bright fire light lit up from the tip of Elena's wand.

"...You are so shameless."

Hermione glanced at the bright light that looked similar to the flames summoned by the surrounding classmates, and her voice squeezed out from between her teeth.

As the best friend of this white-haired dumpling, she has of course known for a long time that Elena's skill library has been updated with "Fire Magic Text". This spell-casting method originated from ancient runes has been a "fire-making spell" from the beginning. "Advanced magic" cannot be dealt with by corresponding unspelling at all. .

"Don't be so serious. The flame is just an appearance. The core is the key. It's like the Fire Curse and the Fire Making Curse are two magic spells -"

Elena said with some helplessness, since Hermione has not been exposed to molecular physics yet, these contents are still advanced knowledge for her.

Perhaps Elena cannot complete the analysis and reconstruction of black box curses such as the "Unlocking Curse" and the "Recovery Curse", but she can still complete the analysis and reconstruction of interesting materialization knowledge such as flames and high temperatures that have become popular in the later scientific world. Easy to control and play.

“Ahem, ahem—”

At this moment, a contrived coughing sound suddenly came from her ears.

"Sorry, Miss Kaslana, I thought I heard you talking about... the Fire Curse?"

Umbridge asked softly, her toad-like mouth gradually grinning, "This is dark magic registered by the Ministry of Magic. Even senior students must study it carefully. Where did you hear this term?" What? Well, I just asked out of curiosity."

"Learned it in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor, last semester."

Elena blinked, turned around, and answered seriously and obediently.

"Last semester? Oh, I see."

Umbridge raised her eyebrows slightly, took out her writing pad and jotted down a few words quickly, her expression becoming gentler.

"Professor Quirinus Quirrell was still teaching at that time, right? Well, he must have described the power of the Fire Curse in detail, right?"

"No--"

Elena shook her head and said seriously.

"This is what Professor Apokalis said, but he said that the Fire Curse is nothing to be afraid of. It is just a rough and easy-to-break spell. As long as you master the final spell of all curses, you can counter this seemingly tricky one. of black magic."

Apocalypse? !

Umbridge's pen stopped on the notebook, and the smile on her face suddenly froze.

Just now, she thought she had accidentally found important evidence that Quirinus Quirrell studied and worshiped black magic. Who knew that it was related to the old immortal castle administrator again? This old monster really has the confidence to say this...

"Professor? Professor, what's wrong with you?"

"Uh, oh, it's nothing...I understand, thank you."

Dolores Umbridge twitched the corners of her mouth and answered unnaturally.

Forget it, let's not mess with that moody, insane old monster "Paracelsus" just yet.

This is something Cornelius Fudge specifically warned. Those alchemists who came all the way from the Middle Ages may seem gentle, knowledgeable, and easy to communicate with, but they will never be afraid of any government authority-after all, the Ministry of Magic was The prototype of it was built by them.

As one of the early supporters of the Ministry of Magic, "Paracelsus" didn't care about Aurors.

The most urgent task now is to use some regular and simple courses to let the authority of the "senior investigator" settle down.

As for the follow-up matters, such as transfiguration, potions, Muggle studies and other thorny subjects, it can wait until she passes some basic and harmless subjects and raises a big banner, then slowly challenges and toss one by one. At that time, Hogwarts will automatically split.

Umbridge calmed down slightly and returned to her seat, waiting for Professor Flitwick to continue the class.

From the feedback from the students, as well as from the examination results of the Ministry of Magic, Professor Flitwick is undoubtedly the top professor at Hogwarts. The pass rate and favorable rating of Charms are completely consistent with her previous predictions - Charms Learning is the fulcrum that the Ministry of Magic uses to start the transformation of Hogwarts.

At this moment, Professor Flitwick's calm lecture sounded in Umbridge's ears.

"A freeze spell is a spell that stops people and things from moving.".

"Please note! It's not how cold it gets, what's important is Freeze - stop moving."

"Therefore, before learning the freezing spell, we must first understand what movement is..."

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