Chapter 5: Witches and Their Rituals

The new semester has been long-awaited by Bernard, because it is related to the question of whether the ritual magic of his previous life can be used again.

Walking quickly to the door of the principal's office, Bernard calmed down his excitement, stretched out his hand, and knocked on the door of the principal's office steadily and rhythmically. "Come in Bernard, I'm still wondering why you haven't come yet?" Madame Maxim's broad and gentle voice came from inside the door.

As if waiting for him, Madame Maxim had two cups of hot coffee and a plate of dessert on her table, and before Madame Maxim could entertain her, Bernard stepped forward himself.

"Sit down, my dear child, and I know you must be looking forward to today, and I assure you that your wait is worth it."

There is no way, these great wizards are so slow, and they can only follow the local customs like this. After tasting the mellow coffee and delicious desserts, Madame Maxime's generous voice finally sounded again.

"Bernard, I'm glad you found out about the relationship between witches and ritual magic in the book, which proves that you are a well-informed child, which is essential for every good wizard."

After a modest compliment on Madame Maxim, I heard again, "And it makes me happier that you can ask me for help." Hearing the sincerity in this sentence, Bernard smiled appropriately.

"Here are some of the books I have for you, and I believe they will be useful to you this time." With a wave of his wand, a large stack of books floated over.

"Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was first established to protect the witches of the woods who were persecuted by the Holy See, and I dare say that Beauxbatons is the only one in this world who has so many books related to ritual magic, because what you found is right, the witches of the woods are the inventors of ritual magic."

"You should know that wizards' magic will increase as they get older, and you know that they reach their peak around forty years old, but because of the difference in innate individuality, witches' magic is always worse than that of male wizards, and this has not changed to this day, you can see that there are many famous male witches in the wizarding world but few witches, which proves that my words are correct on the side."

"In response, the witches of the woods invented ritual magic to help them enhance their magic so that they could kill their enemies and protect themselves."

"Later, with the popularization of wands and the establishment of Beauxbatons, as well as the invention of some magic spells, the situation of witches was no longer as rosy as before, and these complicated ritual magic were slowly abandoned."

"As the headmaster of Beauxbatons, I am glad that our students are interested in the knowledge of their ancestors, you haven't seen it before because our library is open according to different grades, the higher the grade, the more books you will see, as the headmaster, I naturally have the highest level, these books are what I think you can read, and there are some things that are too evil to understand."

After some explanation and encouragement, Bernard left with a large stack of books under the watchful eye of Madame Maxim with a "levitation charm".

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Bernard attracted a lot of attention along the way, and the first person in the last semester, the elusive person in the eyes of his classmates, is now a little famous. I don't know what my behavior will be like by people who do good things. It's time to learn the "Traceless Stretching Mantra" as soon as possible.

As Mrs. Maxim said, the library is only open to students with fixed content, and some books are impossible for students to see in their lifetime, and if it weren't for their own behavior this time, some knowledge would have been missed by themselves.

However, it also reminded me that I could ask for help from teachers and famous scholars in the field of in-depth research, and I think they would not be stingy with their juniors.

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Bernard had to carefully plan his time again to cope with the heavy schoolwork and his own research. The current coursework was not very difficult for Bernard, and the real effort was the extensive reading and recording, which, although all about ritual magic, was evident in the lack of logical connections between them, which was a common problem in the wizarding world.

Of course, magic exists without logic, so you can't be too wizards. The first thing Bernard has to do now is to read all these books and then rearrange them with a certain internal logic, which is a very heavy project, not to mention other studies.

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In the new semester, Bernard's track is even more erratic, he is always working on his projects in a place where no one is on campus, the time of the focused person always passes quickly, the Christmas holidays are approaching, and Bernard's research is also showing a little bit.

Thanks to the help of his friends, two of his friends found books for themselves from home after seeing Bernard's research. Although he was born in pure blood, his family power is not large, and his background is not deep.

Delacour and Cadillac are both pure-blooded wizarding nobles, and Bruce and Bastiter's parents are in high positions in the French Ministry of Magic, which gives them access to knowledge that is completely beyond their own, just as their own family is the size of Muggle wizards, there is such a big gap between them and themselves, of course, they are their friends.

Bernard categorized witches' rituals into guardians, amplifications, attacks, and bewitchments. Except for the offensive class, which is too evil because Madame Maxim thinks that it is too evil, Bernard, in the other three categories, put the knowledge that he can access into this system, and compiles it completely, from shallow to deep in the knowledge system, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Having put together a thick pile of manuscripts, Bernard decided to give them as a gift to Madame Maxime and his friends, as a way of thanking them for their help, and it is conceivable that they would have been very happy to receive the gift.

There are also gifts from other teachers, and you must think about it yourself, even if it was before, after all, you haven't crossed over yet. But now it's not good, as a top student, I can no longer add points to my schoolwork, so I must show something in other aspects, and only by maintaining a good relationship can some of my plans go smoothly.