Mysterious Journey
Chapter 401: A Lifelong Nemesis
As facts prove, premonitions are usually very accurate.
Especially the "double affirmative" from a woman's sixth sense, and the wonderful entanglement of fate between destined rivals.
"Miss Granger, Miss Lovegood... Could you share with everyone how you quickly mastered these basic spells? If possible."
The short Professor Flitwick looked at the two little girls sitting together with a smile, as if looking at two uncut rare jewels, plus that Hufflepuff girl, Aileen Kasslana, who might be the future spell masters.
Hermione smiled slightly, with the unique happy expression of a top student, and swept around the ignorant and slightly longing little eyes, proudly raised her chin, and said softly in a casual, ordinary tone.
"Actually, it's very simple. Just as you said, Professor, accurately reciting the spell and standard casting posture are the core points for completing these magics—syllable pauses, small movements of the wrist, just do them perfectly."
"Yes, yes, that's right." Professor Flitwick clapped his hands and nodded with satisfaction. "That's why I've been emphasizing the details and focus when releasing spells. What about you, Miss Lovegood, are you the same?"
"Eh, me? Well... it's a little different."
Luna Lovegood was stunned for a moment, blinked her eyes cutely, and said in an uncertain and erratic tone, "I'm mostly just thinking about making the wand emit light, and then thinking about what that ball of light looks like in my mind..."
"Oh! That's great! No wonder that light is so soft."
Professor Flitwick waved his hands excitedly in the air, his smile even brighter.
"Yes, of course! Spells and gestures are all aids for wizards to cast spells. The most important thing is your thoughts. Understand what you want to do, accurately outline it in your mind, which will effectively avoid many accidents."
While saying this, Professor Flitwick raised his wand and deftly tapped it in the air.
Without any incantations or casting actions, small dots of light, like fireflies, drilled out from the tip of his wand, swirled and flew towards Luna, stayed beside the girl, spinning happily, and finally gradually dissipated into starlight.
"However, these are skills that you will only start to learn after entering higher grades, from imitating to casting your own magic."
Professor Flitwick coughed lightly, glanced around at the little wizards in the classroom, and added very seriously.
"Before that, I think you all better follow Miss Granger's method and master the basics step by step first. Miss Lovegood's method is good, but it is not suitable for everyone."
Huh?!
Although she received praise from the professor, the smile on Hermione's face gradually faded, and she bit her lip silently.
Unlike the feeling she had when facing Aileen before, this time when facing Luna, Hermione felt a different emotion that made her a little annoyed. This was a challenge from another dimension.
However, she would not admit defeat so easily - having read and memorized all the contents of the textbook, there was no way she could lose to a young kid who relies entirely on feeling and imagination, plus some cleverness.
"The key point of the cleaning spell is that the ending sound when reciting the spell must be clean and neat, and the arc of the wand should not be too large..."
"Before releasing the cleaning spell, first think about what it should look like when it's clean, and then just like taking a bath, wash away all the extra dirt..."
"The crisp popping sound of the smashing spell, and the need to draw a straight line when waving the wand..."
"Imagine hitting a rock..."
…
You should know that in the previous few classes, as long as Aileen was not around, Hermione Granger showed a desperate crushing posture. Her precision, like a human-shaped library and a standardized motion capture device, could almost be said to have swept all the little wizards—even Aileen, in some specific content memorization, was slightly inferior to Hermione.
However, to everyone's surprise, Luna's "vague idealistic theory" actually fought "Miss Know-It-All" on the spell class that Hermione was best at, splitting the difference.
By the time the spell class was about to end, almost all the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw little wizards had recognized Luna Lovegood, this unique "auditor."
Especially the Ravenclaw little wizards, were full of goodwill and closeness to Luna Lovegood - after all, little Luna's dazed and erratic expression was too similar to those poor little wizards who looked like they hadn't slept well.
But for Hermione, this class was not so easy and happy.
Accurately speaking, her emotions had begun to become a little bad - anyone who finds that the cute little white rabbit they brought with them suddenly turns into a Tyrannosaurus rex that can fight you head-on, would have some reaction.
What made Hermione feel most powerless was that her and Luna's ways of thinking and looking at problems seemed to have quite huge differences, as if they were completely opposite paths, but they all pointed to the same destination in the end.
And this tangled feeling was even more reflected in the next History of Magic class.
If Luna mainly expressed her thoughts as a beginner in the spell class, and Hermione still occupied the initiative in the topic in terms of magic release and theoretical knowledge in general.
Then the following History of Magic class for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff was completely reduced to a stage for the four girls to shine - after all, after a week of sorting out the magical era, the History of Magic within the scope of the first-year syllabus was obviously not enough.
As if competing in secret, this time it was not only Aileen alone, but also Hannah, Hermione, and even Luna, who raised their hands from time to time to ask Professor Binns about the History of Magic events in the textbooks that were vaguely worded or had inconsistencies.
"Professor Binns, why is there an error in the recorded time of Uric the Oddball compared to the transmission time recorded by the Ministry of Magic?"
"Regarding the description of Spell Master Circe, she once entered Hogwarts, but her book was published nineteen years before that time. Which of these two times is accurate?"
"Is the information on the Chocolate Frog cards derived from the History of Magic or from unofficial history?"
Under such a high learning atmosphere and thirst for knowledge, even if Professor Binns was still lecturing in his monotonous and boring voice, the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff little wizards did not feel any sleepiness.
The originally boring and dry old history, with the continuous supplementation of details, one magnificent and mysterious and novel past after another crossed time and unfolded in front of the students, and everyone's eyes were full of strong interest ... forming a very distinct contrast with the "weak, helpless, pitiful, and about-to-be-damned" ghost professor in front of the classroom.
By the time it was almost lunchtime to go to the Great Hall, Professor Binns' color had changed from gray to translucent mist.
The moment the bell rang for the end of class, Professor Binns didn't even say goodbye, and silently clipped up his lesson plan and floated into the wall behind the classroom without looking back. Vaguely, a weak sigh of relief seemed to sound in the classroom.
Even worse things were yet to come...
It was not until after the afternoon's classes that Aileen and her friends learned from the gossip of the older students that Professor Binns had not appeared in the History of Magic classes at Hogwarts this afternoon, and they had spent the whole time studying on their own for the first time.
Because, since Professor Binns finished teaching their class, he had disappeared, disappeared...
————
————
Goo ah~
Wuwuwu, remember to give Aileen a pen, fat chicks, the birthday task is almost unfinished~
Support () to put