Chapter 822: Black Friday
"Since we can learn the Nether Scrolls, then what you mentioned earlier, whether it is teaching the people for free or increasing the privileges of our Harris family's elite wizards, can be put on the agenda. It's just that for these specific operations, we still need to take a long-term view, not be hasty. Owen reluctantly agreed with Allen's approach after suppressing the joy of being able to learn the Nether Scroll, but still thought it should be implemented cautiously.
"This knowledge of ours is not suitable for the public as it is, the knowledge we provide, but the author marked above may be a well-known dark wizard, which may have a bad impact on the reputation of our Harris family. Moreover, ancient magic is not like modern times, which has been integrated and optimized by several generations of wizards, and a lot of knowledge needs to be adjusted by yourself with enough talent and knowledge, and those books that students put in by themselves through the Hogwarts Ravenclaw common room library are uneven, including theories of magical knowledge that have been proven wrong by time, and it is impossible to distinguish and screen without sufficient foundation. Seeing that his father agreed, Alan was already sitting on the sofa, leaning on the arm of the sofa and gesturing with the other hand, "Then if some wizards are not talented enough, and their own random experiments lead to physical injury, mutilation or even death, it may cause us trouble, so I will use this knowledge to revise it by the way when students are preparing for class and writing textbooks, and then publish it after screening out that it is too dangerous and optimizing it to a certain extent." ”
"Don't write the names of the famous Dark Wizards! You can write your own name like Miranda Goshawk, the author of the Standard Spells, the textbook at Hogwarts that covers all Charms lessons. Owen had just finished speaking, a little carried away, noticing the face of his in-law Xenophilius Lovegood, and added with some shame, "By the way, Xenophilius, because of Luna's performance in Hogsmeade this time, the Ministry of Magic is applying for a second-class Merlin Medal for her..."
"It's a hassle to receive the award, I don't want to... Ouch!" Luna had barely finished saying no before her father had stepped on her foot—at least this wail sounded much more sincere than Beyer's.
"Speaking of Miranda Goshawk, I admire her very much..."Seeing that the scene was a little embarrassing because of the behavior of Lovegood's father and daughter, Hermione coughed dryly and said a digression about the author of "Standard Spells", and with her own description, she was very self-motivated as she was originally planning to do a little science popularization. (Author's note: Rest assured, I'm posting interesting official stories with free words thousands of words away.) )
Born in 1921, Miranda Goshak was the youngest of nine sisters. When Miranda was born, her family was already somewhat destitute. She remembers having to wear the same robes her sisters used to make her feel a little "embarrassed". Between 1932 and 1939, Miranda Goshawk attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She found the "old-fashioned textbooks" of the time to be obscure, full of complex explanations and esoteric concepts. What confuses her even more when learning magic is that her sisters always deliberately give her the wrong spells when she practices spells.
As the youngest child in the family, Miranda found it difficult to get her older sisters to listen to her. This makes her sometimes choose to solve problems using the Bat Spirit Charm she invented - keeping them silent for a while to give herself enough time to speak. She used the spell when she asked her sister Diaderma to return clothes she had borrowed without her permission, when she told her sister Romida not to break into her room, and when she told her sister Tonvest to be quiet and give herself time to complete her homework.
After years of admitting to "struggling" to finally graduate, Goshawk realizes that the kind of help she needed when she was younger simply didn't exist. To this end, she began writing school textbooks for a living, and worked hard to make her writings both theoretically correct and academically valuable, while at the same time ensuring that the content was easy to understand and not too difficult to understand, so that all students could learn "basic and not-so-basic" magical knowledge.
Her first book, The Book of Spells, was an instant success: it was translated into 72 different languages (including fairy and mermaid) and became a textbook for many magic schools around the world. Goshawk didn't miss a chance to fight back against her pranks: she sent them a "special edition" of the Book of Spells – in fact, with only a few misprints. As a result, with a series of "funny accidents", her sister Romida grows a tail, and their relationship becomes sour. However, Miranda also points out that the tail eventually disappeared, and they eventually reconciled.
Although the inclusion of evil spells in the textbook The Book of Spells was controversial, Miranda Goshak pointed out that the inclusion of moderately aggressive charms in the textbook helped prevent students from settling disputes through the use of more dangerous spells, and she later developed the Standard Spells series, which became the Hogwarts Charms textbook. In honor of Miranda Goshawk's achievements in charms, she is featured in the Chocolate Frog film. ”
Fleur added, "We at Beauxbatons also have basic of her textbooks, but oddly enough, some versions of the Book of Spells are said to be 200 years old, suggesting that it should have been published around the 18th century. However, its author, Miranda Goshak, was born on the chocolate card in 1921, which is very inconsistent with the date of the publication of The Book of Spells. ”
"Could she have used the time turner as well?" Morgan Lefay glared at Owen and refilled the teacup he had drunk most of his time, "Luna's name is not appropriate to appear on it, but since you are planning to teach in the temple, Eren you can state that you have obtained the inheritance from Rowena Ravenclaw, I think this will also help Luna's faith in collecting." ”
Seeing that Morgan Lefay was offering a solution, Alan and Luna looked at each other with a sigh of relief, they both had an indifferent attitude towards this kind of thing, but even as a savior or a goddess, they had to take into account the meaning of their respective fathers.
"In addition to the knowledge that Alan intended to teach his students, I don't think the other more advanced magical things taught in the Ravenclaw Temple can be taught completely and unconditionally for free. Hermione raised her chin slightly, "From my experience of managing a bootcamp, what is too easy to get is often not cherished and taken for granted. Besides, if you can learn these magic casually, I'm afraid that some people will be greedy, and each magic will only learn the surface, which will go against our original intention of wanting them to improve their strength. ”
"We can have these wizards donate gold galleons to the Temple of Ravenclaw in exchange. Fleur clasped her arms over her chest, and after saying that, she glanced at Albert beside her for her quick turn, and Albert gently patted Fleur's leg.
"What about wizards from poor families? Muggle currency is of little use in the wizarding world, and those Muggle-born wizards don't have a lot of gold in their pockets..."Daisy put one leg on the other, her index finger gently scratching her chin, and habitually scolding Fleur, whom she didn't like very much.
"We can use a point system similar to that in the training class, so that these wizards can choose to participate in activities held by the temple, pray, help the temple promote, work for the temple, etc., to accumulate points, and then rely on the points to exchange for the corresponding level of magical knowledge. Hermione sat up straight and held out her fingers, her mind spinning quickly as she liked to answer questions and solve problems.
"In addition, we can still use the Ministry of Magic to issue certificates as a restriction, only if you learn the knowledge of your own exchange can you exchange the next kind of magic, but you have to set a time limit, because not everyone can have enough ability and talent to learn what they exchanged....For example, for a period of one year, if the exchanger really can't learn, he can exchange him for a new magic **** En sat forward, he still didn't want to give up letting the Ministry of Magic participate.
"Exchanging knowledge for knowledge is a difficult thing for pure-blood wizards to do if they change their traditional beliefs... I don't believe it myself... However, they can exchange their more advanced knowledge for their family's private collections. Luna snuggled up on the couch and rubbed her father's foot, "In the 11th century, a wizard named Arlando established a large library called Candlestick on the west coast of France, and all foreign wizards who wanted to study in the great library of Candlestick had to provide Candlestick with a book, and the professionals of Candlestick would evaluate the value of the knowledge it contained. If it was a library to store knowledge, it was worth a lot, and if it was duplicate content, it didn't matter, and the price of the books themselves was not cheap in those days. Visitors are allowed to stay in the library for as many days as they want, depending on the value of the books they provide, but no visitor can stay in the Candle Castle for ten days at a time, and cannot re-enter for a month after leaving, and visitors are not allowed to write in the library, but the monks here can copy copies on your behalf for a fee. Copying a book of general theoretical knowledge costs 10 gold Galleons, while copying direct spells or spells, spell formulas, or descriptions that include spell rituals, spell protection, and mantras, as well as similar contents, costs 100 gold Galleons each—knowledge was much more valuable in those days than it is now. ”
Hermione had a strong affection for the existence of this library, and wondered, "Why doesn't Candlestick exist now?"
Luna rubbed her finger on Alan's robe: "On Friday, October 13, 1307, along with the Candlekeep's subordinate organizations in the Muggle world, they were eradicated by French wizards and the Muggle King Philip IV, who was known for his shrewdness and ability at the time. ”
Hearing that her alma mater might be involved in this kind of thing, Fleur pursed her lips in embarrassment and asked another question, "But what if someone exchanges privately? ”
Alan slapped Luna's hand away: "Since we can't stop it - in fact, we don't need to stop it, our original intention is not to earn anything material by it, we should encourage this exchange of knowledge in turn, the formation of this kind of atmosphere in the demon world is a benign development, but we can use this to promote the role of Ravenclaw in the field of disseminating knowledge, and directly promote Ravenclaw to encourage wizards to spread these magic, inherit ancient magic, promote knowledge sharing, improve the strength of wizards, and promote the progress of the wizarding world." ”
After that, after sorting out the contents discussed by everyone a little so that they could be arranged for specific implementation later, Lunn took out a brown paper bag, his voice was a little low, and handed the bag to Alan: "This is the personal file of Pupai and Pluto that you wanted." ”
The atmosphere in the tower, which had been somewhat exciting, fell silent all of a sudden.
As soon as they took the parchment, Albert and Hermione couldn't help but come to Alan's side at this time, and each of them took the information of the two from Alan's hand, and saw the ugly-faced wizard Pluto and some elegant Pupai who were waving excitedly on the information, Hermione's nose was sour, and she turned her head to forcibly suppress her tears, her fingers holding the brown paper were squeezed tightly, and the originally white and delicate fingers were blue, and Albert also fell into silence- As a colleague who followed Peter Pettigrew during the incident, Albert felt much deeper with them than with his colleagues.
Seeing Hermione's expression in his eyes, Owen softly reassured: "The Ministry of Magic has some policies to compensate for this situation, not only Puppai and Pluto, all patrol Aurors who died because of this will be compensated, in addition to generous compensation, the current policy can help their families live well..."
Fleur glanced at her fiancé, who was a little depressed next to her, and turned her head to Xenophilius and said, "Director, maybe we can do an interview to broadcast the lives of these sacrificed Aurors." They should not be sacrificed in vain, and the deeds of heroes should be widely publicized. It's also a great way to let the average wizard know about the Aurors. ”
Xenophilius nodded with bulging eyes: "If it is broadcast on the Golden Event, it will also be the same for "Singing Contradictory". ”
Albert let go of his fist and took his fiancée's hand.