A day at Hogwarts

There was a heavy rain on the first day of the Easter holiday, washing the sky and leaving nothing to block the sun.

The weather is getting warmer, the wind is getting more comfortable, the lawns are coming to life again, and students are coming outside to bask in the sun.

Charles's garden is full of life, with hundreds of flowers blooming. When night falls, it's like a colorful galaxy coming to the ground.

This has become a date place for Hogwarts lovers. During the day, people are in pairs, and the only one left is Charles, who is mowing the lawn.

After the snow melted, wizard-Muggle fertilizer was applied to the garden. Not only did the flowers and plants grow vigorously, but the weeds also thrived, and there were more and more insects.

Percy and Penello were walking in the garden when they saw Charles standing in front of a stone bench filled with finger-sized iron crafts, tapping each one with his wand.

After the two people walked over, Percy asked somewhat depressedly: "Did you release these iron mantises?"

Charles nodded and replied: "Yes, there are many bugs in the garden, so we rely on them to get rid of them."

He noticed something was wrong with Percy's expression and asked tentatively, "Have you ever been pinched by their knives?"

Percy became even more depressed, Penello snickered on the side, and Charles understood what was going on.

The three chatted for a while and then continued to do their own things.

After the Steel Mantis was activated, it immediately flew into the flowers and began to hunt bugs of all sizes.

Charles put away his wand and stretched.

There were too many things to worry about a while ago, and I am too lazy to think about it now. Percy is not afraid that the basilisk will come out when he is dating, so he can just rest well.

He walked leisurely in the garden with his hands behind his back, cleaning up the weeds when he saw them. From time to time, he turned his head to look at the students training above the Quidditch pitch in the distance, as well as the people across the river who were blown away while playing a real version of Minesweeper. .

The sour smell of love in the garden was too great. After finishing weeding, Charles went to the other side of the river to watch the real-life version of Minesweeper. He speed-passed a game to surprise everyone, and then came to the grass behind the castle.

There are dueling club activities here, Professor Flitwick and Bell are acting as referees, and several groups of people are playing table tennis non-stop.

When Professor Flitwick saw Charles, he pulled him aside and asked in a low voice: "The curse you used against Severus that night was not a British curse, was it?"

Charles said he had already thought of an excuse: "That's a curse in China. I sent a lot of snacks bought by Honeydukes to my friends over there, and my friend wrote a letter to teach me about this curse."

Professor Flitwick said seriously: "Your wand is very long. They like to make their wands into swords. From this point of view, their wands are more suitable for you."

Charles nodded. The professor was right, but there were mostly three-foot wooden swords there, twice as long as his wand.

Professor Flitwick continued: "I don't object to you learning foreign spells, but you have to pay attention. I talked about the pronunciation of spells in the first class of the first grade. This is the most likely place to make mistakes."

Charles nodded and accepted the instruction. He still spoke Mandarin with the accent from his previous life.

But what Professor Flitwick didn't know was that the curse there was more about meaning than form, and it would be fine as long as the accent wasn't too outrageous.

Speaking of the wooden sword over there, Charles rolled his eyes and remembered something.

"Professor," he asked, "I read in some old novels that wizards hide their wands in crutches and other places without hindering their use. Is this true?"

There is indeed such a plot in the novel, but there is a ready-made example in Hogwarts now. Hagrid hides his wand in his umbrella.

Professor Flitwick nodded and said, "That was before the International Statute of Secrecy. Some wizards lived with Muggles and tried to hide their wands."

He saw Charles's eagerness to try, thought about the young man's virtue, and asked, "You don't want to make a sword and insert a wand into it, right?"

Charles didn't expect his thoughts to be seen through, so he scratched his head in embarrassment.

That's what he really thought. The long sword and the wand are integrated. Regardless of whether it is practical or not, the main thing is that it is handsome.

When the time comes, I will think of a way to attach "All Curses Are Ended" to the sword, and cut off the magic spell coming from the opposite side with one sword. Then I can teleport behind the opponent. If I cut it off with one sword, the Iron Armor Curse may not be of any use.

Professor Flitwick understood when he saw him like this and sighed: "The Sorting Hat was right to sort you into Gryffindor House. It is said that Gryffindor did this back then. He is also an excellent swordsman." Grandmaster."

There is no clear record in official history that Gryffindor was a melee wizard, but there are side descriptions in many places, the most obvious one being the sword he left behind.

Charles thought to himself, is there still his wand in the sword of Gryffindor?

But Professor Flitwick said with some regret: "It's a pity that Gryffindor exchanged the sword with a handle that can be fused with the wand and exchanged it for wine and never showed up again. It was probably the goblin who took it back."

Although he is from Ravenclaw Academy, he is a fighting maniac at heart. He just started to cultivate himself as he got older. When he talked about fighting-related things, he suddenly became excited and continued: "There were many wizards like Gryffindor in the past. , the most famous are King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the foreign ones include Joan of Arc, and the white knight János Hunyadi who worked with Joan to relieve the siege of Constantinople..."

Charles didn't expect to be able to take a history of magic class from Professor Flitwick, but he was also interested in the history and listened to it with gusto.

After finishing speaking, Professor Flitwick pinched his chin and thought for a moment, then said: "If you really want to make a sword that can hold a wand for fun, you can ask your friends in Kodos Doriz for help. I used to do it in the Potions Championship." When I went there, I saw that they have a cavalry association, and they use sabers that can be integrated into the wand.”

Charles's eyes lit up, it happened that Ruby would be back from the United States tomorrow, and asked him to send a letter to Valentina immediately.

After the two chatted for a while, Professor Flitwick continued to act as referee, and Charles walked towards the road leading to Hogsmeade.

Along the way, he was thinking about what his new toy would look like. Considering that he wanted to insert the wand into it, he would probably need a broadsword, about one meter long, and it must be beautiful and elegant.

While thinking about it, Charles came to the grass by the roadside. There were more than a dozen armored guards here, and there was an owl room next to it, where several students were mailing letters.

Last year, he planted the seeds of trees and sheep here. After an autumn and winter, the outer skin of the seeds rotted in nature and went dormant under the heavy snow. Now, thirty-six seeds have begun to germinate.

A pair of leaves sprouted from the tusks of the tree-born sheep, which looked a bit like a sheep's kidney. The green leaves had a layer of white fluff.

If these trees can grow healthily, they can provide at least 70 tree-born sheep in the next year. According to the current market price of 800 Galleons each, that is 56,000 Galleons. Even if the supply increases, there will be at least 20,000 to 30,000 Galleons. According to the agreement, Charles and Hogwarts each had more than 10,000 galleons for half of it, and Hogwarts would earn more by selling it after processing it himself.

This is a major financial source for Hogwarts in the future. The most important thing is that it is not subject to the supervision of the board of directors. For this reason, Dumbledore personally built a meter-high fence around each sprout to prevent stray people and rats from entering.

Naturally, Charles was not just waiting around. He went in to study it properly and felt that it was time to apply fertilizer. He planned to talk to Professor Sprout during lunch.