CHAPTER XV

On Monday, a new semester finally began. The first class of the new school year was in the ancient rune. Three of the five elective courses are large classes, which are attended by students from all branches of the whole grade level. They are ancient runes, arithmetic divination, and Muggle protection. There are two small classes, which are taught in pairs between the colleges, namely magical beast protection and divination.

Daphany reckoned that the two classes were divided between the two classes, one because of the need to distract the professor from dealing with potentially dangerous magical beasts, and the other due to the limited number of crystal balls in the divination class. Moreover, the teacher has to check all kinds of divination phenomena one by one, because there are too many people to see them.

It also needs to be said that except for Magical Beast Protection, all other courses are two sessions per week, and only Magical Beasts Conservation is one session per week. It seems that magicians are more interested in protecting themselves than on magical animals.

There are very few students who take the Ancient Runi Script, or the Ancient Demon Script. The four branches add up to only seven people. Slytherin has three spots, Ravenclaw has three, plus a Gryffindor Hermione. It's all the students in this class. It is said that it is a big class, but in fact, there are not as many students as other courses.

No way, this homework is really notorious. It's not like a Potions class because it has a poisonous tongue professor and isn't welcome. On the contrary, Professor Bathsida Babling, who teaches the Ancient Runi course, is a well-known and popular professor at the college – because she is a beauty!

Although it is said that this Professor Barburing has been teaching ancient runes at the academy for more than ten years, and should be in her thirties, the years seem to love this beauty, and have not left a trace on her. If you don't look her in the eye, someone would believe her if she is twenty years old.

But if you look into her eyes, you will have no doubt that this is an elder. Her dark blue eyes were as deep as a bottomless lake. Peaceful and tranquil, as if he has seen through everything in the world. In the entire Courtyard, only Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had deeper eyes than her. And these two are much older than Professor Babling.

However, although Professor Barburing is a beautiful woman and is very popular with students, especially boys. However, her courses are still the least chosen. Without him, the ancient rune was too difficult to understand. Many of the boys who took this course for the sake of Professor Barblin ended up with a low score on the final exam that they had never seen in their lives...... In retrospect, I don't know exactly what I learned in class.

In the ranking of the lowest pass rates in each subject in the college, the ancient Runivin was once above the Potions class, and far surpassed. This phenomenon did not improve until everyone was reminded by their seniors to stop taking these courses. However, even if those who take these courses now are all top students in the grade and have high requirements for themselves, they are in... There are still very few students who get an O (excellent) in this subject in the exam. In total, less than ten people in the past ten years.

Tough course, beautiful teachers. This made the ancient rune a lot of talk at Hogwarts.

Seeing this beautiful teacher in the topic with her own eyes, Daphne found that this professor couldn't help but have good looks and strength! The magic is only slightly inferior to Snape, and comparable to Professor Sprout! You must know that as the head of Hufflepuff, although Professor Sprout looks more like a peasant woman than a magician, his strength is indeed the best among wizards!

The three Slytherin electives for this subject were, of course, Daphany, Draco, and Pansy. Pansy didn't want to take the course, but Draco was influenced by Daphany to take the course, and Pansy, as Draco's little tail, had to follow. In fact, she would prefer to take divination or arithmetic divination.

In the classroom, Daphany glanced at the other students. Ravenclaw is two girls and one boy. Both girls smiled sweetly at Daphany. The boy came over and obediently called the eldest sister's head.

Hermione sat next to Daphany, somewhat envious of it.

When it was time for class, Professor Barburing, dressed in a black magician's robe, walked in from outside. Looking around the classroom, there were only seven students in the first row. But I didn't care. He smiled and introduced himself to the students: "Hello everyone, my name is Bathsida Barbling, you can call me Professor Barbling." From today onwards, I will be teaching you a course on ancient runes. ”

Professor Barburing's voice was beautiful, but slightly cold. Although she deliberately slowed down her voice so that her tone could sound softer, it still sounded a little cold. Unlike Snape's indifference, it was a kind of coldness that came from the soul and seemed to be very indifferent to everything.

This beauty seems to have a story!

In fact, Professor Babling is very topical at the college. The reason is that she is too good-looking, and the second is because she is not social. Except for the welcome dinner and graduation dinner for the new school year, she never appears in any public place and does not attend any banquets. I don't even have anything to do with the other professors in the college. The only person she crossed paths with in the house was Professor McGonagall. Occasionally, she can be seen drinking tea in Professor McGonagall's office. It is not known whether Professor McGonagall will visit Professor Barbling, and no one even knows where she is when she is not in class.

"Can anyone tell me what the ancient runes are?" Professor Barburing asked softly.

Hermione immediately raised her hand.

"You're Miss Granger." Professor Barblin nodded slightly, revealing a shallow smile, "I heard Professor McGonagall mention you!" Very good student. So, tell us what you think of the ancient runes. ”

"Yes, Professor!" Hermione stood up happily when she heard Professor Barblin complimenting herself, and said loudly, "Ancient Runiwen, also known as Ancient Demon Script. It is a script used by magicians before the Middle Ages. is the main text of the current spell. Almost all of the surviving texts from the pre-Middle Ages were written in the runi script. ”

"Good!" Professor Barburing nodded, satisfied: "Is there anything else anyone can add?" ”

Hermione and the other classmates looked at Daphine at about the same time. Because the one here who has the most profound knowledge of magic is Daphany. Ranwen.com

"You're Miss Lestrantzi, aren't you?" Following the eyes of the students, Professor Barblin also saw Daphine. He still smiled as shallowly as before, "I've heard Professor McGonagall and Severus talk about you, that you're highly talented in magic. It seems that your classmates also think highly of you, I wonder what you think of Runiwen? ”

"Uh-huh......" Daphany stood up, she had just been distracted. However, when she heard Professor Babling call her, she had already reacted, but she heard Professor Babling's words. She didn't hear Hermione's answer, but it was estimated that Hermione must have already said the basics, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Ancient Runiwen is the foundation of ancient magic...... The cornerstone of current magic. ”

Daphany clearly saw that Professor Barbling's eyes flashed with a hint of essence, "Miss Lestranzie, do you still know about ancient magic?" ”

"Nope!" Daphany shook her head: "Since the current magic system was established, ancient magic has been completely buried in the dust of history. After all, although ancient magic was powerful, it was far more complex and dangerous than the current magic system. ”

Daphany said, her eyes fixed on Professor Barblin's face and eyes. Sure enough, a flash of disappointment flashed across Babling's face, and then that faint smile appeared on her face again: "Yes, most of the wizards nowadays don't even know what ancient magic is, and Miss Lestranzie can already be said to be very knowledgeable!" ”

Professor Barblin smiled at Daphine, motioned for her to sit down, and began the lecture.

Daphine sat down, looking down at her textbook, no one seeing the expression on her face.

Sure enough, there are still people who know! There are also people who know about ancient magic!

Daphany roared in her heart. Ancient magic was something she discovered during her summer vacations.

The magical civilization has spread even longer than the human civilization of writing. As early as the time of knotted ropes, there were already wizards who had mastered magical powers. The magic of that era was powerful, but it was also dangerous! It is very easy to have a magic backlash, and the result of the backlash will become a waste person at least and die directly at worst.

Around 400 years before the Convention, a group of young magicians, fed up with the danger of magical backlash, began to band together to develop a new magical system.

This group of young magicians was the elite of the entire wizarding world at that time, and under the joint research and development of an exceptionally outstanding ancient Greek wizard named Andros and an oriental alchemist from the East named Zou Yan, a cross-era prop appeared-wand!

The advent of the wand ushered in a new era in the wizarding world. A wand can make magic more stable and secure. Greatly reduced the chance of mana backlash. Although at first there were only a few simple spells that could be performed with wands, the magicians were excited. Being able to use their magical powers safely and without side effects is more important than anything else.

As the strongest wizard of his time, Andros dedicated himself to transforming ancient magic into a new type of magic using a wand. However, although Andros was almost the strongest magician of his time and had a reputation for being invincible, his improvement of magic did not go well. As a result, although the new system has been initially established, it has not been thoroughly promoted.

As a result, until long after the establishment of Hogwarts, the magic taught in the house leaned more towards ancient magic.

It wasn't until about a thousand years later that a stunning figure appeared - Merlin!

The most famous wizard in European history, he heavily improved ancient magic so that it could be used with a wand. At that time, Mojana, a representative of ancient magic, thought that this was a blasphemy of magic, and that waving a small stick was not what a magician should look like at all, and even said that it was simply the behavior of a clown.

Two of the most powerful wizards of their time and their respective supporters fought for more than a decade.

In the end, everything is obvious. Merlin defeats Mojana. Since then, the current magic system, with the wand as the main body of spellcasting, has been completely established. Today, more than a thousand years later, no one even remembers ancient magic.

There is no record of ancient magic on the market. The Lestrants, a pure-blooded family, are also absent from the study. Merlin is a tyrant who, while establishing his own magic system, completely destroys the ancient magic system. Destroyed all relevant literature and records. There is no longer any literature on ancient magic, except for ...... The Room of Requirement at Hogwarts.

Yes, the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts, because of its special existence, preserves a large number of ancient magical texts. The only thing I don't know is whether Merlin doesn't know if there is a room for requirement, or if he deliberately keeps it. In the case of Daphany, he leaned towards the latter.

Because in the library of the Room of Requirement, there are more magical books from the time of Merlin onwards. This suggests that at least the room was opened after Merlin had established the current system. Since someone knew about the existence of that library, as the existence of the king of the wizarding world in that era, there was no reason for Merlin not to know!

Daphine's mind flashed quickly. After Babling began to teach, she quickly came back to her senses and began to concentrate on the lecture.