Chapter 106 The So-Called Treasure

Professor Babbling wrote a large vocabulary on paper and threw it to William to translate.

This woman didn't mean to teach him well at all.

It takes a year to get started in ancient magic. Even in the fifth grade o.w.l.s exam, most of the exams are vocabulary, and only grammar is involved in advanced classes.

She is usually impatient in class, and she is not in the mood to teach after class.

She wrote a lot of vocabulary just to persuade her to quit.

She doesn't believe a second-year wizard can translate?

Unless the other party is like her, she looks young but has a mature soul.

Babling didn't know where to find the eggplant-flavored potato chips, and happily ate them there.

She seems to be a drag queen, and the long court dress just now disappeared, replaced by skinny jeans.

She also asked with concern if Hermione would eat, but the girl refused her, which she regretted.

In less than ten minutes, William translated all the five pages she had written.

The form of ancient rune is more inclined to the combination of hieroglyphs and ancient Germanic languages, the word creation is changeable and complex, and its meaning is closely related to ancient times.

For example, the abstract text of the invisible beast represents the symbol of the invisible ability of this animal as "0".

In ancient rune, all magic related to invisibility contains the core word 0.

Another example is the unicorn, the horn of this animal symbolizes "1"; the horn of the horned camel beast symbolizes "2"; the three-headed creature like the Rune snake symbolizes "3"...

The basic vocabulary of ancient Rune is extremely complex, and William has been able to master it after a long period of hard study.

But he still can't understand sentences, only words, not grammar is not enough.

Babbling didn't expect William to translate the vocabulary so quickly.

She carefully read everything William had written before re-examining William.

Really a genius?

The woman seemed to have found something interesting. She smiled and said, "I can teach you, but you have to promise me one thing, um... not for you to do it now."

William smiled, not to mention asking him to promise one, why not promise a hundred? Anyway, Professor Babbling has no memory.

Do you think everyone is Dumbledore?

William said without hesitation: "Okay."

Babu Ling looked like she had succeeded. She rubbed the amulet on her neckline and said with a slight smile, "Don't be too careful. I taught Dumbledore ancient runes back then, and he wanted to cheat later, so he had to help me obediently. ."

William didn't speak, and his heart suddenly set off a storm.

Dumbledore was over a hundred years old, and William didn't think that the principal was the ancient Rune that he had only learned in the last ten years. He must have started contacting it when he was in school.

Emotional babbling... is actually an old goblin who has lived for hundreds of years?

But always put on an eighteen-year-old face?

Holy crap, treasure granny! William has to squeeze her dry!

Babbling coughed, snapped her fingers, and changed into a dark green robe.

But the color was so old-fashioned that even Professor McGonagall would have no problem wearing it.

Her white hair was also lifted up into a bun, and the shape...the same style as that of Professor McGonagall.

But the two stood together, and it was more than enough for Babel to be Professor McGonagall's granddaughter.

Babbling said sternly: "Since I said I want to teach you, let's understand one thing first."

"Why do we rarely translate the ancient rune into the language we know well, but try to understand the meaning of it?"

William shook his head.

"Have you seen the Slytherin statue?"

William looked up at the corner of the table, where a famous statue of Slytherin was placed.

"Yes."

"Then have you seen what he looks like?"

William nodded. It was an old, monkey-like face, a long, sparse beard that dragged almost all the way to the hem of the stone wizard's robe, and two large grey feet stood on the smooth surface of the room. on the floor.

"Do you know why Slytherin is like this?"

William shook his head, he really didn't know.

"Because it's a mistranslation, a mistranslation of the Slytherin image.

The original image of Slytherin was recorded only in the Slytherin family, but it was in the form of ancient runes.

Later, Corvinus Gaunt - a direct descendant of Slytherin - translated this part into Latin.

But he mistakenly translated the ancient rune 'Slytherin's face seemed to glow' as 'his face was like a monkey'.

Since then, artists and sculptors have begun to depict Slytherin as a monkey. "

"Wait, I seem to have heard the name Corvinus Gaunt."

William narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment.

"As I recall, Corvinus Gaunt repaired the plumbing at Hogwarts."

When William was in first grade, he wanted to make a map, and Professor Dumbledore recommended him to see the construction of Hogwarts Castle.

There is a record of this passage there.

"That's right," said Babbling meaningfully. "That's right, he repaired the pipes at Hogwarts again, and the repairs were very complicated."

"Okay, let's leave him alone. A simple mistranslation, and the result?

The great Slytherin has been in the grotesque form he is now. "

"I mentioned the Slytherin example," says Babrin, "to show that one word, one mistranslation, is enough to rewrite history."

"The meaning of ancient rune is often misunderstood, and its meaning cannot be accurately expressed.

We don't usually translate it, but take it as our native language and surmise the meaning. "

"Boy, this is the first thing I've taught you, and language can keep secrets very well.

And that's what ancient runes are like... Treasures! "

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Five hours later, William left the office of the Ancient Rune.

He learned a lot today, and he decided to go back and digest it well.

Hermione had never been exposed to this aspect, as if she was listening to a book from heaven, she fell asleep after eating at noon.

Barbring proposed to let Hermione sleep here, but William refused outright.

These days, girls need to protect themselves when they go out. Professor Babu Ling is not a serious person at first glance.

William carried the girl on his back and walked towards the Gryffindor public rest.

But before reaching the fourth floor, Hermione woke up.

The girl lay on William's back in a daze and asked, "It's over?"

"Um."

"Professor Babbling is a little weird..."

"So, in the third grade, you must never choose ancient runes." William said with concern.

Hermione quietly grimaced at William, put her little head on his warm shoulder, and asked softly, "Then...you teach me?"

"Um……"

William continued to walk with the girl on his back, and the setting sun fell on the two of them, pulling out a long shadow.

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(Thanks to "Feng Ling 15" and "20200" for the reward)