A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 32 Restricted Book Zone

He took out a delicate silver pocket watch from his pocket. The slender silver bracelet shone with tiny lights in the night. The hands carved into exquisite flower patterns on the dial were already pointing to half past midnight.

"It's too late to find a fax machine tonight, but the city is out, so let's go to the library and explore the restricted book section." Thinking of this, Owen felt excited in his heart. Regardless of his past life, his thirst for professional knowledge has always been greed.

of.

The Forbidden Book Zone is the most precious crystallization of Hogwarts' thousand-year history. Countless knowledge is laid out like shining pearls, waiting for those who come after you to pick it up.

After quickly reciting a spell to block sounds and breaths, Owen happily climbed up to the second floor of the castle and came to the corridor where the library was located.

The library closes at eight o'clock every night, but the door is still open, like a silent invitation to people wandering out at night.

"Who can bear this..." Owen licked his lips. Although his dream is to become a magician who can create miracles, it has no conflict with becoming a magic master and even promotes each other. For him, knowledge is power.

Priceless treasure.

He hid outside the door and peered quietly into the library for a while. In the quiet and dark environment, there were rows of huge bookshelves, like giant beasts crawling and sleeping in the darkness.

At this time, even the librarian Mrs. Pince has gone back to rest. If no professor suddenly slaps his head in the middle of the night and wants to come to the library to check information, only Filch and his cat will come here to patrol.

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But in the past few days, Filch had focused all his energy on waiting, waiting for the little Hufflepuff wizards to line up and jump in front of him, and then put them into confinement... maybe tonight

Plus Gryffindor.

"Forget it, it's better than nothing." Owen's mentality has always been very good. After all, as long as he stays at Hogwarts for a few more years, these books will never escape. He slowly walked out of the area, holding up his wand.

Searching quickly among the rows of bookshelves.

He quickly walked to the back half of the library, stepped over the rope that separated the restricted book area from the ordinary area, raised his wand slightly, and whispered: "Luminescent flash."

Owen shook his head with great regret. Just now he tried to copy these books in his wall-facing space, but only a few could be successfully copied.

Owen thought unscrupulously as he made a small report with bad intentions.

Fortunately, Owen's mental quality has always been good, and he still picks up books as if he were browsing the shelves in a mall, because he knows that even if he is unlucky and gets caught, the most he will do is deduct points and be put in solitary confinement. There are no students who have been punished for violating school rules.

Life is incomplete.

In this empty and silent environment, Owen's voice spread very far, sounding low and hollow. The tip of the wand in his hand lit up with a faint light. Because the brightness was deliberately controlled, the light could only illuminate a small area.

Scope, looks like a white fluorescent ball that glows at night.

"Phew, found it!" Owen saw what he wanted on the upper right side of a row of bookshelves.

"How to See Through the Heart", "The Wonderful Psychic Magic: Legilimency", "Legilimency and Anti-Legilimency", "How to Occlumency in Your Brain", "Occlumency in Curses"...

But in any case, this kind of reading threshold set by the book author or the latecomer is a test and a protection. The purpose is to warn readers not to forcefully read things they should not be exposed to, so as not to harm others or themselves.

Owen pulled out a copy of "How to Shut Down Your Brain", pointed at it with his wand and read: "Copy in pairs."

The surroundings were very quiet, and you could only hear occasional distant sounds from somewhere in the castle. It might be that Filch caught some little wizard who violated school rules, or Peeves was playing ball with his armor in some corridor.

.Here, they sounded like noisy whispers with different pitches, making the surroundings even more gloomy.

"Dark Magic, Mind and Soul." Owen took out the book and flipped through it. He didn't find any treasure maps or anything like that hidden in the pages. He still said "Urgently" without giving up, and the book was still there.

That book did not reveal any hidden secret text.

"Well, I knew that I was still poisoned by the adventure plot in the novel." Owen put the book back in its place with a smile, "This should be the test mechanism of this book. The book that can see it

The name indicates that the person is qualified to read it."

The book trembled in his hand, and then returned to calm.

"Sure enough, any book of some value has an anti-copying curse..." Owen muttered silently without any surprise. But the book in his hand must not be taken away directly. He can imagine that if Mrs. Pince discovers that there is a book in the forbidden book area tomorrow.

If the book disappeared, she would probably recite a spell on the spot to make the book jump up and bring it to her with Owen's neck in its mouth.

Owen has been accustomed to this kind of test mechanism since he has been exposed to so many books containing magic at home. The test in this book is the mildest and most common type. In addition, some books can make one's hair stand on end.

They scream or create terrifying illusions to scare away unqualified readers. There are also some more evil ones that may emit invisible magic shock waves to break the reader's mind, or even confuse the other person's mind...

Owen placed the tip of the shimmering wand on the rows of books on the bookshelf, letting the inconspicuous light illuminate the titles on the spines, and at the same time moved slowly.

"'Evil Spells You Don't Understand', 'Poisonous Magic', 'Forgotten Ancient Magic'... It seems like this is the cursed area." Owen identified the categories of books on the current bookshelf and was about to go to the next bookshelf.

At that moment, he discovered that in the area illuminated by his wand, on an old book with no name and the cover peeling off, a line of dark writing appeared on the spine like a burnt mark, forming the name of the book.

Owen dug out several rolls of parchment from his schoolbag, then took out a quill and chanted a quick copying spell on it. This spell can help the wizard copy the words he sees in his eyes at an extremely fast speed, but

Because the words copied with it are exactly the same as the handwriting seen by the eyes, it cannot be used to cope with the copying assignments assigned by professors...

In the following time, Owen quickly turned the pages of the book, and the quill beside him faithfully copied out what he saw. For a moment, the only sounds in the silent library were the sound of turning pages and the sound of the quill scratching the parchment.

Rustling sound.

After spending more than half an hour copying several books on Occlumency and Legilimency, Owen reluctantly left the library.

"Set a small goal first, clear out the forbidden book area." Owen thought silently, "Well, move all the books in the forbidden book area into the brain, or into the space facing the wall!"

(End of chapter)