time at hogwarts

During the day, Magos made an appointment over the intercom to conduct the experiment at night.At night, he used the Marauder's Map to help everyone reach the secret room smoothly.

"Here are a few dragon scales, Magos's suggestion, this is the skin of the horned poisonous beast suggested by Kang and the bark of the Bowtruckle parasitic tree proposed by Hal. Let's test the feasibility first." Fred said from From the bag, he took out a piece of dragon scale larger than his face, dark brown animal skin and uneven tree bark.

"This is the softener we made in our free time these past two days." Cedric and Cadwallader took out several reagents.

Hal and Sara took the initiative to take over the experimental operation. They placed the three materials in the large crucible respectively. Without waiting for a moment for the reactions of all three items, they first picked up the animal skin that had the most intense reaction and observed it. , everyone stood around the table watching their operations, everyone looked a little nervous.

The color of the dark brown animal skin became slightly lighter. After pinching it with his hands, the thickness also increased a bit, but the toughness was up to standard. He handed the animal skin to everyone to feel it and picked up the dragon scales.The hardness of the dragon scale was still a bit high, but Hal and Sara thought that adding a little more softener would be enough, so they placed it in a large crucible and continued to add more softener.The bark of the tree has changed the most, and its area has increased by nearly one-half.After taking it out, its softness and hardness were just right. Just when most people felt that this material was the most suitable, Eddie pointed to the surface of the bark and expressed his disapproval.

"Wait a minute, I don't think this is suitable. There are lines on the surface of the bark, and the lines are obviously deepened after using the magic potion. The most important thing is that the lines are all different. We are going to make 54 magic cards. , that means that the textures on the 54 cards are all different. Even if it is difficult to observe after adding colors, I think it can still be used by those who are interested." After listening to Eddie's words, everyone looked at it carefully After a while, try to make several blocks of the same size. It is true that the texture of each block is different, and even if it is covered by a magic spell, it will not completely disappear.

Hal, the proposer of the bark, agreed with Eddie's words and directly eliminated it.Now all that's left are the dragon scales and the horned poison beast's skin.However, the thickness of the animal skin was a bit difficult to deal with. Sarah and the two decided to wait until the dragon scales softened before checking the situation. If the dragon scales failed, they would have to find a way to peel off a layer of the animal skin.

Fortunately, the result after Dragon Scale completely absorbed the second tube of softener was very good, and the thickness and toughness fully met the standard.But at the same time, we also encountered the same problem as tree bark. There are some differences after a piece of dragon scale is divided into several parts.However, George feels that this problem can be solved. Dragon scales are all the same, which means that if they use 54 dragon scales to make this problem, this problem will no longer be a problem. However, in this case, the 1000 Galleons proposed by McGoss will Somewhat dwarfed by comparison.

"Well, I proposed the dragon scale, and the extra material money is mine." Magos' words were directly rejected. After discussion, everyone agreed that each person would add 50 Galleons, so that they would have Nearly 2000 galleons of funds have been raised, which is completely enough.

After confirming that dragon scales are used as the material, wait for the goods to arrive from Devis-Bans store.

During the few days waiting for the dragon scale, everyone was not idle. In addition to studying the magic materials in the secret room from time to time, they also organized people from their respective colleges to play poker.

After Hermione caught them fighting a wizard one day, she scolded him severely and confiscated their cards, but it was no use. The senior students kept selling them at Hogwarts.As expected, this game became popular in Hogwarts in less than a week. The most common thing you see in various lounges is three or four people gathering together to fight wizards.

Soon this addictive game spread to the ears of various professors. It can't be said that it was spread. The main reason was that someone was playing in the corridor and Filch caught him. He always believed that anything played by students was not Good thing, I told the principal about it. The principal recognized what it was at a glance and reminded the deans to pay attention.So now every professor is used to using a flying spell before class.

"Playing cards are flying!" Snape looked gloomy and scary as he looked at the playing cards flying out of the arms of Vincent Crabbe of his own college and Dean Thomas of Gryffindor.

"What's going on? Didn't I tell them not to bring cards with them during class?" Magos asked Harry with a twitching corner of his mouth.

Harry shook his head in confusion and said he didn't know.

"Five points from Gryffindor." Snape first looked at Crabbe hatefully, and then deducted points from Gryffindor.

"I knew it." Ron curled his lips.

"You didn't bring this into school." Hermione glared at the three of them.

"Mr. Potter, the savior, please answer this question." Their whisper was quickly interrupted by Snape, and Harry stood up with a bitter look on his face. What was the question he just asked?

"I don't understand why he always targets me." Harry vented his anger as usual after class.

"If you attend class and answer his questions, he won't be able to target you." Hermione had a different understanding of his experience.

"The next class is Charms. Has Professor Flitwick been awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class?" Magos' question easily resolved their upcoming quarrel.

"I don't know. The principal hasn't mentioned it yet, and it hasn't been mentioned in the Daily Prophet." Seamus, who was laughing at Dean, interrupted.

"We can ask Professor Flitwick directly."

"good idea."

Before Magos and the others could speak in class, Hufflepuff, who was in class with them, asked first.

"Professor, have you ever received the Order of Merlin, First Class?"

Professor Flitwick smiled and shook his head, nodded again, looked at the puzzled students and said, "They think Stormy Waves can get this honor, but because the spell still has some flaws, it needs to be perfected before the medal will be awarded. "

"Flaws? How can such a powerful spell have flaws?"

"There are two flaws. The first is that you think it is powerful. It is precisely because this spell is too powerful that it requires a lot of magic power. Once it is cast, it will directly consume all your magic power. You also saw it in the last experiment. , very powerful, but none of you noticed that I actually had no magic power at that time. At that time, a child could easily hit me. The other one was to control it. After releasing the magic spell, I actually wanted to I redirected the wave, but I couldn’t control her.”

Professor Flitwick's words made everyone disappointed, which soon meant that they would not be able to learn.

"Don't be so discouraged. The principal and I are already studying how to weaken this curse. When it can be weakened to a certain extent, you may also learn this curse. Okay. Let's start class now."

As he spoke, the professor took out his textbook, and when he was about to give a lecture, he suddenly patted his head.

"By the way, when I first came back yesterday, the principal said that I needed to use a magic spell before going to class." He said without waiting for the students to react.

"The playing cards are flying!" The playing cards flew from a Hufflepuff's pocket to the professor. This man Magos also knew was named Justin Finch-Fletchley.

Magos patted his head, why do these guys like to carry cards with them.

"Okay, now let's start class. Today we are going to learn the waterproof spell. The spell is waterproof and moisture-proof. It is also a very useful spell. If you learn it, at least you don't have to worry about getting wet in the rain." Flitwick said It caused everyone to laugh.

After the pleasant Charms lesson ended, Hufflepuff's Justin and Ernie stopped Magos and the others.

"A game?" Harry and Ron looked at them disdainfully and went to fight without saying a word.

"Is this what you want to see?" Hermione got angry when she saw this scene.

"Hermione, I just want to bring you some interesting games. Don't you think school is too boring?"

"What's so boring about reading and studying?" Magos couldn't handle this answer at all.Sighing, she was dragged to the restaurant.However, the atmosphere in the restaurant might have been too toxic for Hermione, and she turned away angrily.

“Three to one.

"pair"

"Shunzi."

"Even right."

"fry."

"Wang fried."

"The king explodes."

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The sound of playing cards and shouting cards can be heard in the restaurant.If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, people who didn't know it would have thought it was an underground casino.

Magos finally knew why Mao and the others had to carry the cards even at the risk of being discovered by the professors. This was because they wanted to compete with people from other colleges.

When the professors also came to the restaurant, everyone consciously put away the cards in their hands. Some people with excited faces knew at a glance that they had a pack of bad cards in their hands and could be cheated.

"I don't know when something like this became popular in school recently." Principal Dumbledore took out a deck of playing cards and said.

"I know this. This is a gambling game invented by Muggles. It is very easy to get people obsessed. I am here to seriously warn everyone. If you lose your mind by playing with things, this will be included in the school rules. This time it will not be counted. In the future Points will be deducted in which college it was discovered.”

"The playing cards are flying!" He didn't even use a wand, he just waved his hand.

A shocking scene appeared. Countless playing cards flew up from the four long tables and flew toward the teacher's desk like four white snakes.

The faces of the professors at the teachers' table were all ugly. None of them expected that so many people would come to play with playing cards. They couldn't help but wonder what happened to the school recently. They were fighting in groups and playing gambling games.

"Let's play secretly from now on and make them all so arrogant." Ron gloated at the people who had their cards taken away.

"Originally, I wanted to hide and play, but it's better this way. It's more exciting."

"George just told me that the dragon scales have arrived, and the boss also gave them the dragon's reverse scales." Harry interrupted Ron who wanted to continue laughing.

"I'm their biological brother and they didn't tell me first."

"Then let's start production tonight." Magos ignored Ron's words.

"Not today, Malfoy and I have to have Quidditch training." Harry said awkwardly.