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Chapter 213
Chapter 213
“Professor.” “Hello, Professor Hap.”
Harry, Cedric, Ron, and Hermione greeted him.
“Come sit down.” Felix nodded at them as he waved his wand and four small low tables emerged from the grass and the four picked their spots and sat down.
One by one, small teacups hopped into their hands, followed by a long-necked, thin-mouthed teapot bending gracefully and pouring out an amber liquid.
Harry sipped the tea, he rarely drank tea, but he found it delicious, the long-necked teapot came over to refill him, he curiously scratched the teapot’s large belly with his fingers, only to have it suddenly tremble, as if tickled, “clang clang” shaking, tea spilled all over the small table.
“Excuse me, Professor? It became … all of a sudden,” Harry said uncertainly.
“Oh, it’s not your problem.” Felix waved his wand to silence the teapot again, “I’ve been trying to get them to move around and become more autonomous lately … but sometimes they seem too lively.”
Hermione asked in surprise: “You gave them intelligence?”
“Not that exaggerated, I should say a dull response, but in terms of feedback mechanisms alone, they are actually a bit more advanced.” Felix pointed to the small platform in front of him.
The four of them gazed at the golem –
The drama continued, these ‘actors’ seemed to really have their own intelligence, some of them were full of emotion and delivered their lines very smoothly, while others seemed slightly perfunctory, stopping occasionally, as if they forgot the words, before continuing after a few seconds.
Besides, the guy without the task will look around and look very unprofessional. For example, an eccentric old man-like golem, carried a wine jug, from time to time take a sip into his mouth.
Harry stared at it for a while, finally confirming that the little flask is totally ornamental, and he said groggily, “Professor, they can slack off?” He searched his memory for a similar example, “Like a school portrait with its own hobbies?”
Felix explained, “They’re about as intelligent as portraits, but essentially, they don’t have feelings and everything they do is designed. Of course, I have no intention of giving them the intelligence equivalent to that of a human, and being able to understand simple commands is enough.”
The four listened in confusion, Ron said enviously: “Sounds a bit like a house-elf, can help you take care of the house or something, I once looked forward to having one, let it do my homework for me.”
Hermione said, “Ron, they don’t do those boring things.”
“No Hermione, you don’t understand, they do everything, they’re multi-talented.” Ron retorted, “Ask Harry if you don’t believe me, Dobby should have mentioned it to him?”
Harry shook his head, “Dobby didn’t mention much about his life at the Malfoy, but it should have been pretty bad,” he looked at Felix, “Professor, is Dobby okay now?”
The day before school started, Dobby had resigned from the Leaky Cauldron bar and currently worked for Professor Hap for some book publishing issues.
Felix nodded and smiled, “He’s doing well, I’m thinking of giving him a raise …” He waved his wand and ended the drama. “Well, let’s get back to business, you’re all planning to join the Magic Rune Club, right?”
“Yes, Professor.” Harry pulled out a stack of parchment, “Here is my essay.” Ron also pulled out a few sheets of somewhat crumpled parchment from his bookbag, and he tried to smooth out the curled-up edges of the paper.
Felix tapped on it, and it immediately became neat and tidy.
Ron asked with great interest, “Professor Hap, what kind of spell is this?”
Felix said in a relaxed tone, “A simple little trick that isn’t even considered as a spell.”
He turned his head to Cedric, “Diggory, judging from your performance in class, you are fully qualified …”
Cedric declined, “I’ve been practicing quite a bit in private and would like to show you the results.”
Felix agreed, he took out the half-finished golem from his ring, it only had light traces of magic rune on it, “You have about two hours, I think that should be enough.”
Cedric took it with high spirits and began to work earnestly.
Felix waved his wand to quiet his surroundings from distractions. Cedric, first taken aback, then understood and smiled at Felix to express his gratitude.
One by one, the students taking the test arrived, and they were equally curious, surveying the space. A few seventh graders pointed and showed nostalgic expressions.
A senior girl said emotionally, “We had a practical rune class here last year, and I dug up three hidden boxes and put together a rare manuscript.”
The trio began to busy themselves with recording information about the people taking the test, and they saw many familiar figures.
Harry then saw several of his teammates, “Angelina, Alicia, Katie, I can’t believe you’re all here!” He also saw the twins walking from a distance and jokingly asked, “Is it a team party today?”
“Oh no, Katie and I came to give it a try, and Alicia is quite hopeful.” Angelina said, “As for Wood, he didn’t come, I guess he’s hiding somewhere working on new tactics. In his final year, he’s definitely hoping to win another Quidditch Cup.”
As they spoke, the twins walked over with their shoulders on each other, looking like they were playing some sort of game, and when they got closer, Harry realized that their legs were glued tightly together.
“We’re testing the limits of the Sticking Charm as a spell,” Fred said with a squint. “Isn’t that cool?”
The three girls giggled and Angelina waved her hand, “Geez, you don’t have to make me laugh.”
The twins exaggeratedly acted up, but ended up not controlling the distance and rolled together on the ground.
Ron rarely saw the twins suffer badly, so he took the initiative to come over, smiling and squatting in front of them, holding a piece of parchment, “Excuse me, the test you have chosen is–”
The twins lay on the ground, and Fred said gleefully, “Silly boy, we came to see the fun, and got an internal invitation long ago.”
Ron looked at them in surprise: “You guys are telling the truth?”
“Of course, I think Hermione also got a place.”
“But she wrote her essay just like us!” Ron said.
Hearing Ron’s words, Fred looked at George and pretended to say, “Shouldn’t we reflect on ourselves? This will make it look like we are being lazy.”
George sighed, “Good thing we came prepared, too.”
The two then stood up from the ground and walked over to Felix, then Fred pulled a palm-sized heart-shaped thick sheet out of his pocket. “Professor, remember the couple’s mirror from last semester? This is the finalized product.”
Felix played with the runic creation in his hand, it looked more delicate, one side painted black and one side painted pink. His finger tapped on it, and the heart-shaped sheet automatically split into two halves.
“You designed them as a pair? A clever idea …”
Its interior is similar to the appearance of a small make-up mirror, but instead of a mirror in the middle, it is a circular surface carefully polished out and coated with a layer of silver dust.
On the outside of the circular surface, some runes were carved, and Felix rubbed the uneven lines and felt the familiar traces.
“This is the magic rune circuit I taught you guys last year?”
“That’s right, we took the advice you gave and used the magic rune circuit to store synchronized enchantments, and it worked well – now the information transmitted more accurately, and the communication distance is farther,” Fred said.
George said, “We also added runes to prevent cracking.”
Percy appeared at some point, standing far off to the side with Penelope Clearwater of Ravenclaw House.
Penelope said to Percy, “They seem to have worked on something remarkable, that couple’s mirror.”
“You knew that?” Percy asked, pleasantly surprised.
Penelope said calmly, “They slipped into the Ravenclaw common room two days ago to advertise their new product, and noted down a few names of people who were interested in buying it.”
“And you didn’t kick them out?”
“Why? Ravenclaw welcomes anyone, as long as they can answer the right questions at the door. And,” she smiled, “I left my name on the list, too.”
“Penelope, how can you …” Percy looked away from the twins and stopped talking, his two brothers were talking eloquently with Professor Hap, a serious discussion, with glowing faces.
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