Chapter 043: Duel (II)

"Seems to have gone too far." Draco leaned into the girl's ear and whispered, to which Catherine whispered, "Fire to be born again!" ”

Hearing this, Harry sighed and beckoned to Neville to help him help him back to the Gryffindor Tower.

Looking at the back of Ron's silent departure, the rest of the houses quietly followed, leaving a group of Slytherins, collectively staring at Catherine with strange expressions on their faces.

"Whatever you want to ask, you have to let me have lunch first!" Catherine stopped everyone from speaking with a word, but there are always exceptions.

"Catherine, come to my office!" The dean gave an order, and no one dared to object.

The protagonist is able to leave easily, and the rest of the group looks collectively at the only person in the know.

"That-" Draco swallowed hard, "Can I say I don't know?" ”

"What do you think?" Ixissi replied with a smile, and Young Master Platinum was immediately overwhelmed by the crowd.

"You've really never played wizard chess?" Seeing Catherine put down the dishes, Snape finally asked.

"Of course!" Catherine picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of her mouth.

"And how did you do that?" Snape's tone was a rare curiosity.

"Because I'm targeting the other person's habits." Catherine smiled, "As long as you can find and familiarize yourself with a person's habits, then no matter what the situation is, you can use the other person's habits to win." ”

"What if you're dealing with a group of people at the same time?"

"I'll retreat first," Catherine said calmly, "and I'll not strike until I know who is the leader among them." ”

"And what if it's a group of people?"

"I'll run away right away!" There was not a hint of shame on Catherine's face, "I don't know I can't do it unless I have to." ”

"Uh-huh!" Snape raised an eyebrow, "And what about last night?" ”

"I don't want to lie to you." Catherine hung her head.

"So, what about you and Draco?"

"Quarreled!" Catherine's head lowered, and her voice became weak.

"Affected by that clear candy?" Snape looked at her with concern.

"That's just the trigger." Catherine said with some frustration, "The real reason is this. She pulled her arm guard out of her pocket.

"Something from the Holy See?" Snape frowned.

"Draco said it was from the Inquisition, but it was a relic left to me by my martial arts teacher," Catherine whispered as she stroked its silver shell, "It's called 'Responsibility.'" ”

"Responsibility! What responsibility? Snape glared at the cross.

Catherine didn't answer, but opened the armguard, and Snape saw an Arabic inscription carved into its inner wall.

"With great power comes great responsibility!" Snape's voice was a little surprised.

"I didn't expect to forget about it after just a few days without wearing it." Catherine stroked the inscription with her fingertips.

"And you're going to keep wearing it?"

"No!" Catherine snapped her fingertips shut, and the open arm slammed shut, and she began to roll slowly towards the edge of the table, "I can't rely on it to remember the responsibility of the shave!" ”

"You're finally getting normal." Snape's tone was soothing, and he reached out to catch the arm guard that had rolled off the table, but he miscalculated the weight of the object, and the arm guard snapped off his hand and slammed it to the ground.

"How?" Snape glared at Catherine.

"40 pounds each." Catherine said very innocently.

"Each?" Snape suddenly raised his voice, "You're wearing another one!" ”

"Of course not!" Catherine rubbed her ears and said, "The 'obligation' is with my senior sister. ”

"Your senior sister?" Snape asked.

But Catherine clearly didn't want to answer, and she leaned over to pick up the arm guard on the ground and put it back in her pocket before speaking again.

"Professor, I've mastered the science of potions materials now, so what should I learn next?"

"Material Handling!" Snape sat up straight and said, "Master the handling of every potion material. ”

"All?" Catherine felt a little dry in her throat.

Snape didn't reply, but stretched out his hand to the door of his room, and Catherine swallowed hard before she got up and walked towards the stone door.

"Come on! Young－Fairy!” The serpent on the door hissed and opened the door, and then Catherine saw a potions room that was super spacious enough to accommodate nearly a hundred people, filled with all kinds of sophisticated equipment, and completely comparable to the highest level of research institutes.

"Wow!" Katherine marveled, leaning over to take a closer look, and it wasn't until Snape's cough rang out at the door that she remembered her mission.

Dealing with potion materials, especially simply farming proficiency, is indeed a very boring thing. However, because potion materials also contain magical powers, Catherine can also practice sensing magic fluctuations by the way. But it was still very boring, and the amount of knowledge required for the proposition involving the origin of magic was too large, so Catherine was no longer satisfied with the content of the class, but began to ask questions, and the first question happened in the Transfiguration class.

"According to the basic theory of Muggle chemistry, matter is made of elements, and the basic structure of elements is atoms, which means that matches and needles are mainly made of carbon and iron atoms." Catherine showed the others a schematic diagram of the structure of carbon and iron atoms, "Muggle scientists believe that atoms are made up of nuclei and the electrons that move around them, and that protons and neutrons make up the nucleus. ”

"So how about turning a match into a needle of the same size, just adding 20 protons, 20 neutrons, and 20 electrons to each carbon atom? If so, where do these protons, neutrons, and electrons come from? Is it in the air? Or is it somewhere else? How does this process happen? ”

Professor McGonagall could not answer Catherine's question immediately, because it was already a collision of two systems of knowledge, and unilateral experts could not answer it, not to mention that Professor McGonagall had never heard of a similar question.

After all, the age of admission to Hogwarts is 11 years old, and 11 years old is basically the age when you only know how to play, and who will be like Catherine, who has already obtained a master's degree at the age of ten, so naturally it is not clear what is the difference between the knowledge system of the Muggle world and the wizarding world.

However, the rigorous Professor McGonagall did not perfunctory, but first seriously asked Catherine about the knowledge involved in the question, and then began to answer.

"I think you have heard of the famous principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy - a substance of the same mass and value, after the transformation of alchemy, can only produce a substance of the same quality and value." Professor McGonagall pushed his glasses and sternly said to all the students, "This principle also applies to Transfiguration, which is a simplified version of alchemy in some sense. ”

"So it is true that a match can only be turned into needles of the same mass, and if they are to be equal in volume, they must be added with other things, they may be air, or they may be something else."

"There is also a price to forcibly change an item, and this price is the magic of the caster in Transfiguration, and in alchemy it is often replaced by something else, but usually some kind of energy."

"As for the Muggle knowledge you're talking about," Professor McGonagall looked down at Catherine, "it's already about changes on a microscopic level, I haven't dive into it before, and I need to do some research to give you an accurate answer, is that okay?" ”

The other first-year students were stunned, they didn't expect that Catherine's question would make Professor McGonagall need to study before she could answer it, which overturned their long-held belief that "a professor is an omnipotent being", and also made them have a strong sense of learning, hoping to one day ask a professor like Catherine did.

The heightened atmosphere lasted until Wednesday morning, interrupted by an accident that reminded Catherine that she now had an additional identity, and that while that identity had saved her from the boredom of dealing with potions materials all year, it had also made her free time even more stressful.

At breakfast on Wednesday, twelve long-eared owls flew into the Great Hall carrying two slender packages, and everyone's attention was drawn to them, and they speculated about what was inside the two packages, until they landed in front of Catherine and Harry, respectively. While the crowd looked at the two of them in amazement, two more owls flew up to them and dropped a letter each.

Harry opened the letter, and immediately smiling and running out of the auditorium with the slender package, everyone looking at Catherine, eager to turn their gaze into a sword and cut through the thin package.

Catherine also opened the letter first, and there was only one sentence on it: "Be-careful------S.S." It was Snape's handwriting, so the contents of the package were obvious, her new flying broomstick, the Halo 2000.

Catherine stroked the package, and everyone expected that she would open it immediately, but a voice interrupted Catherine's movements.

"I don't understand how Flitwick allowed Potter to show up at school with a Halo 2000." Draco sat down across from her in a huff, and then he saw the package in front of Catherine that was identical to Harry's.

"Catherine, you-" Draco asked, "aren't you going to get a Halo 2000 too?" ”

Catherine nodded, and before the others could ask, she picked up her package and walked towards the door of the Great Hall. However, someone was clearly not prepared to let her go.

"Catherine!" As she walked past her fifth-grade seat, Marcus Flint raised her hand and beckoned, "Come to the Quidditch pitch at seven o'clock tonight." ”

"Okay!" Catherine nodded politely at him, then quickened her pace.

Sure enough, before she left, the auditorium exploded.