Harry Potter: A Certain Ancient Rune Professor of Hogwarts (TL)

Chapter 261

On the first day of school after the holiday break, the students showed up to class in high spirits.

Felix stood at the podium, looked down at the seventh graders below, and spoke the words that excited them, “Today’s class is slightly different.”

The students’ attention quickly focused on the professor; if there was something they miss the most, it is last year’s ancient runes class, when the professor had just arrived, the sky being blue, and they were just carefree sixth graders.

Professor Hap’s class was full of new and interesting attempts, especially the part about practical runes. But by the time the seventh year began, it started to rain and windblown away everything, for the same reason as the other professors – NEWTs exams.

But today, the former Professor Hap is back.

“Professor, are we going to the practical classroom?” A Hufflepuff student asked excitedly, privately, that classroom number seven is known as a practical classroom for their ancient rune class.

“There’s no need for that, we just need-” He gave a light snap with his fingers.

A group of students is caught in a trance, their eyes flashed for a moment, but in the next second, everything looked, as usual, making them wonder if they had been under an illusion.

As they looked around, others had blank expressions on their faces, and it became clear that more than one person had noticed the anomaly that had just occurred.

“Okay,” Felix clapped his hands, “next, we need to improve the classroom-”

The students watched as the professor raised his arm, and the classroom space suddenly expanded, and the four walls seemed to grow legs and run far away. Before they knew it, the classroom had grown a hundred times as large as before, and the distance between each person stretched four or five meters.

“Professor-”

The change didn’t stop there. From the ground grew lush grass, a yew tree rose from the ground, golden warm sunlight spilled down from nowhere, and a clear and pleasant sound of birdsong came from the distance.

The table in front of the students twisted and turned into a square board made of wood that looked like a drawing board.

A student tentatively grabbed a handful of grass from the ground and watched them float down from in front of his eyes, he sniffed them carefully, the smell of the grass lingering on his fingertips.

The podium in front of Felix disappeared, and he stood among the students and said to them, “I’ve been studying the role of emotions lately. Although theoretically, every emotion is equal. But positive emotions are clearly better for one’s physical and mental health, unless you’re perfectly happy to soak yourself in a black, smelly jar and watch yourself rot and deteriorate a little.

This is why people resent dark magic, but of course, if you ask me, learning some of it properly actually has little impact, and the Durmstrang Institute has a more tolerant attitude towards it …

To cut to the chase, I tried to create a more relaxed and enjoyable learning atmosphere by starting with the environment. Not only that-”

He looked at the students with a hidden expectation in his heart.

“It also occurred to me, wouldn’t it be different if you crossed the hard learning stage early and briefly had knowledge that isn’t meant for you?”

Felix stretched out his hand and flicked it in the air a few times, and magic scrolls with an ancient aura coalesced out of the air and fell lightly into their hands.

When the male and female wizards’ fingers touched the magical handwritten scroll, a bit of golden light trailed out from the unknown animal skin scroll. A great deal of knowledge about ancient runes suddenly flashed through their minds, and one student opened his mouth to utter a string of raw, cold words.

After he finished, he got surprised with himself, for what he had just used is a fluent ancient language, and at this moment, it seemed as if he had transformed into a real ancient wizard.

The air stood still for a moment, and then exploded as they talked about it.

“What’s going on, am I awakening some talent here? How did the ancient runes become as easy as breathing?”

“I feel like I can totally get an excellent on the exam now, what with the N.E.W.T exam, it’s not the least bit difficult at all!”

Felix waved his hand again, the surrounding voices weakened, only his voice remained clear, “The Student who just said he can easily pass an exam with ‘excellent’, take your hand away from the magic scroll and try again … ”

That student obediently did as he was told, and the next second, his eyes almost came out of his head, “I, I …”

“What’s wrong, you say it to me?” The students next to him looked at him whimpering for a while and couldn’t say anything, and he looked anxious beyond measure.

A girl next to him said tremblingly, “Knowledge, suddenly disappeared … No, not disappeared, but it did not belong to us in the first place.” She looked at Felix, who had a calm face, “This knowledge belongs to Professor Hap.”

Felix nodded gently, his voice seemed to be full of magical charm, “I can’t stuff knowledge directly into your heads, but I wondered when you have experienced this feeling of erudition when you were young, would you still be willing to be mediocre?”

“In my opinion, every wizard is a miracle seed. If they just only grow to a foot or two and got plucked to serve as ornaments in a vase, he can never grow into a great tree. That would be a shame.”

The students looked at the professor in awe, their perceptions never more stirred up than at this moment.

The seventh graders had received career counselling as early as fifth grade, and even some of the best students had already got letters of recommendation from the professors in advance, but at this moment, they were a little bewildered.

The Wizengamot and the Ministry of Magic are the top career choices in the wizarding world for sure. And then what, to just settle for the status quo, is this really what they want, they never doubted it in the past, but Professor Hap gave them another path.

He told them that they were the seeds of miracles and had unlimited possibilities.

Everyone felt moved, not simply because of the words themselves, but also because Felix had given them an early taste of what it would be like to be an “ancient rune expert”, which, when combined with those words, proved to be very powerful. It is like dropping a nuclear bomb on their hearts.

Felix clapped his hands, the time drifting back and forth from the sky came down a single test paper, he showed a pleasant smile: “Twelve papers, the amount of questions is hard… but for you now, it should be very easy.”

He told the students, “Memory cannot be imbued, it’s an iron law, but we can try to work around it. In this world of thinking, you can briefly use my knowledge of theoretical runes – just the knowledge itself. Can In fact save you lots of effort of looking up the books, but It’s more fulfilling, painstakingly looking up the book, or having the answer jump out immediately, which is more fulfilling?”

“But Professor,” Percy raised his hand, “what is the use of such an act if the knowledge is not our own? Merely to increase our insight?”

Felix said, “Think about it, when is the fastest time to acquire knowledge?”

Percy showed a thoughtful expression, and the other students were trying desperately to rack their minds.

“When we use it!”

“That’s right, When borrowing my knowledge, the speed of your own learning is actually greatly increased. According to my estimation, well … test, if you guys don’t lazy around, when you take the exam in half a year, it’s still very possible to learn thirty to forty percent, and theoretical ancient runes are always easier because they don’t involve actual practice.”

“In short, it all depends on how hard you work, the more you use it, the more familiar you will be with it, and the more knowledge you will be left with it in the end.”

The students had long been listening with their eyes glowing, even though they still needed to work hard on their own, From the professor’s words It’s obviously will increase the speed of learning, and what could be better than that?

Many of them had bought Baruffio’s Brain Elixir and taken Powdered dragon claw!

Felix is pleased with their change of attitude, he reminded: “Such a class will not be every time, I will maintain a certain ratio, but at least I can guarantee that every few classes, you will experience this amazing experience …”

The crowd couldn’t wait to unfold their papers, and in the world of thinking, writing became easy as an automatic quill appeared in front of them and danced around quickly.

“It’s easy to see the seven types of variations of ancient runes. Let’s see, the first …”

“The evolution and development of the runes that signifies ‘thinking’ … Huh? Surprisingly, there are eleven types, if it is originally me, I will certainly not know! Haha, it’s so funny, I’m a genius now.”

“This question is repeated, I just did it, even if I don’t use the magic scroll, I can still recall it … Huh, another repeated one?”

Percy did not rush to do the question, he put his hand on the magic scroll, and kept trying to say various sentences in an ancient language, a series of raw and cold pronunciation popped out of his mouth, after a few minutes, he said incredulously, “I can’t believe I translated the complete textbook of the Care of Magical Creatures class, only a few words can’t be corresponded, because there is no? ”

The sound of crisp birdsong became more pleasing to the ear, and a flower of various colours exuded fragrance.

Felix watched them spontaneously and actively doing the questions, and couldn’t help but think in his heart: how many of them would devote themselves to the study of ancient runes now?

Even if they were studying theoretical runes, but under his influence, they would not naturally reject the existence of practical runes.

He also did not expect everyone to contribute to the ancient runes, that would be unrealistic, but in a decade or so, when they appeared in all walks of life, who else could hinder the rise of his field of practical runes research?

When the course ended, Felix cancelled the thinking room magic, the students looked frustrated, they seemed to have become stupid all of a sudden, the ‘loss’ of knowledge is not a good feeling, but there are many students in high spirits, they are very much looking forward to the next class.

Felix looked at them with a smile: “There are two assignments for today, due is next week. First, write a two-foot essay discussing how you should use today’s session appropriately.

Second, combine what you have learned in five years and draw a complete knowledge map of ancient runes, and in the next class, I will take you through ‘another perspective’ with knowledge.

Believe me, you will have a very different perception. Now, class dismissed!”