Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

Year 2 students have new things to think about during the Easter holidays and it's time for them to choose Year 3 subjects.

Beginning this year, in addition to the eight compulsory courses of Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Herbalism, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, History of Magic, and Mathematics, third-grade students also need to learn from ancient runes. At least two electives from Cultural Studies, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, Arithmancy and Muggle Studies.

Zhang Xu sat at the desk in the dormitory, carefully studying the course selection schedule in front of him.

The study of ancient runes must be taken as a course, because many ancient magic books in Europe are written in ancient runes. If you want to understand these books, you must first learn this course.

At the same time, runes are a kind of incantation. When making magic items, runes need to be carved or painted on the items.

As for other courses, Zhang Xu was a little undecided.

Divination and Arithmetic Divination are two courses he would definitely not choose.

Rather than studying at Hogwarts, it is better to go back and learn from Mr. Zhao.

Mr. Zhao's family is a family of alchemists famous for divination. Although Mr. Zhao’s big move to change (gǎo) country (shì) back then relied on his foresight as a traveler, but he has experienced battles for more than 90 years from the second opium war to the signing of Panmunjom. Countless, and being able to survive with all beards and tails is inseparable from the deep roots of his family.

If he wanted to learn, old Zhao's knowledge from his fingers would be enough for him.

Moreover, divination is very dependent on talent. People without talent can't even tell whether they should bring an umbrella when they go out the next day.

Now among the juniors in Zhao's hometown, the one with the highest talent and a family inheritance is working in weather forecasting at the National Meteorological Bureau.

If he wanted to play divination, he believed that he could scare Dumbledore into a heart attack by pretending to be aggressive.

Zhang Xu also didn't want to take the Protection of Magical Creatures class, because this class is a big hole, and the reason is that next year's class professor is Hagrid, a super big hole.

Besides, the relationship between Zhang Xu and Hagrid is very bad. In the first school year, the two clashed in the Forbidden Forest. It wasn't that Dumbledore was pressing, the two of them might have started fighting.

At that time, Zhang Xu's treatment in class might be the same as Harry's treatment in Potions class. So he didn't want to find it boring to take this course.

As for the Muggle Studies class, Zhang Xu's knowledge in this area is undoubtedly ten Downing Street ahead of Professor Caredy Bubbaji.

Zhang Xu learned from Zhang Qiu that the things taught in the Muggle Studies class do not know the knowledge of Muggles from which world, and the things in the books are full of prejudice and misunderstanding.

After some consideration, Zhang Xu finally chose Muggle Studies as his second elective.

The reason is very simple. The homework of this class is very simple for him, and he can solve it without using any brains.

After Zhang Xu finished his classes, he found that there was still some time for dinner, so he wrote a comparison of the combat effectiveness of the students between Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft and Huaxia School of Magic, and used it when he went back to the meeting this summer to give a report.

Zhang Xu discovered that Huaxia's students would suffer if the junior high school students started to fight. Students in high school can use their hands, and Huaxia students can hang up and beat Hogwarts students. Students at the university level... There are no magic universities in Europe.

The reason is that it is related to the general environment of the magic world on both sides.

The magical world of Britain and other European countries almost stayed in the Middle Ages, and the thinking still remained at the stage where wizards and Muggles were tit-for-tat, and because the legal system was not perfect, the incidence of vicious cases among wizards was high, so teaching in Hogwarts European magic schools have consciously added combat content such as defense against the dark arts from the very beginning. Coupled with the home teaching of the magic family,

Students who have just entered the magic school for two or three years have a certain degree of combat effectiveness.

For example, Draco Malfoy was able to use his own dragon in his second year.

In China, alchemists have lived in harmony with ordinary people for thousands of years, and there is no major conflict between them. Except for the war years, the enemies of alchemists are often colleagues, as well as various monsters. At that time, alchemists had a lot of offensive spells.

After the founding ceremony in 1949, seeing the fulfillment of Mr. Zhao's "five stars from the east to benefit China", the alchemists rolled up their sleeves and worked hard to follow the country to build the four modernizations, and made drastic changes in education and magic. reform.

On the one hand, magic education has broken the traditional teaching mode based on family and sect inheritance, and has become an education mode based on modern schools. Traditional families and sects have transformed into scientific research institutes.

On the other hand, the development direction of spells began to favor the development of constructive and practical spells. Therefore, a large number of spells that can solve the problems of materials science and processing technology on the scientific side have been developed.

In addition, under the influence of Mr. Zhao's divination (hū) divination (yōu), the children of the alchemist families who went abroad to learn advanced technology from Western countries have returned to China one after another. With their knowledge of science and magic, they have brought the painting style of the Chinese magic world more and more biased. .

After 30 years of accumulation, in the 1980s, the alchemist world began to enter a period of great explosion and great development. All kinds of new spells emerged one after another, which not only promoted the development of the alchemist world, but also promoted the development of ordinary society.

This has led to the cultivation of Huaxia alchemists' students, which does not focus on fighting. Only alchemist students who have just entered high school and college receive a limited one-month military training when they participate in military training. Combat alchemists are trained by the military after joining the army.

But this does not mean that high school alchemist students have no fighting power. On the contrary, alchemists of this age cause the greatest destructive power. The "Into Science" program group spent more than half of their time dealing with their aftermath.

First, the spells learned and mastered by alchemists at this age are powerful enough, and they have begun to have a certain research and development ability for spells.

Second, people of this age are most likely to be obsessed with and imitate all kinds of novels, movies and TV series with the theme of martial arts, fairy tales and even wars and gunfights, as well as various video games.

Thirdly, students of this age are very capable of accepting and learning new things, and living with ordinary people all the year round allows them to come into contact with a lot of ordinary people's wisdom and apply it to spells, which leads to their brain holes all the year round. Wide open, the neck is like a briquette.

Under the comprehensive application of these three rules, Huaxia's high school alchemists are full of tricks in their fights, and they often don't play cards according to routines.

For example, the lighting technique used by Zhang Xu to blur his face was actually developed by Chinese student alchemists based on the "searchlight" tactic used by Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Army in the battle to conquer Berlin.

Moreover, the spells learned in high school are not weak in destructive power when used in combat. Fire spells are as effective for burning people as alchemy furnaces. Water spells are not difficult to create the effect of high-pressure water guns. Grass turns into tentacles, which are as effective for drag racing as for strangling the neck. There is no pressure to make a big hole with earth-type spells and break the opponent's leg. Transformation-type spells have various ways to kill people invisible. Coupled with self-defense spells such as the Stunning Curse, Iron Armor Curse, and Petrification Curse taught during military training, the lethality is no less than that of exploding a large-caliber shell in a crowd.

At the same time, it has also led to the fact that in the courses alchemists have received since childhood, ideological and moral education has always been the top priority.

After putting away the draft of the analysis report just now, Zhang Xu looked at the course selection list again, and after confirming again, he chose two elective courses according to the minimum number and did not choose any more. The remaining three doors are pitfalls, if you don't step on it, don't step on it, and Zhang Xu is also very nervous next year.

Because after the end of the next school year, he will return to China to take the senior high school entrance examination.

And after this semester is over, he has to return to China to take the junior high school exam.

So in this semester, while thinking about how to deal with basilisks and Horcrux diaries, he is brushing the test papers of Chinese, English, mathematics, ideological politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, and biology. He wants to refresh his previous knowledge. Pick it up, so as not to overturn it carelessly when you get it.

If he failed the junior high school exam, Zhang Xu estimated that he would be teased by the two "fellows" Mr. Zhao and Mr. Qian for the rest of his life. Mr. Zhao was born as a Jinshi in the palace examination in the second year of Xianfeng Yimao in the Qing Dynasty, and the number one scholar in that year was Weng Tonghe. Mr. Qian received the admission notice from Zhongguancun College of Arts and Sciences as the number one student in the provincial college entrance examination. With these two high school masters in front, if Zhang Xu fails his junior high school exam, it will become his black history.

As for domestic spell learning, it is relatively easy. The three-year spell learning in junior high school is mainly based on laying the foundation, basic theoretical knowledge and mana control, supplemented by basic spells and simple prescriptions.

Now that Zhang Xu has finished self-studying the contents of the junior high school stage, he expects to study "Five-Year High School Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation·Spells", "Tianli Thirty-eight Sets·Spells", "Huanggang Kaodian·Herbs" in the next year Wait, there is nothing wrong with the high school entrance examination.

But in the subsequent high school stage, the difficulty of spell learning will rise sharply, and in the second year of high school, you will choose your own spell development direction.

Thinking about the fourth to sixth year at Hogwarts, I may have to go through the Triwizard Tournament, Dolores Umbridge's seizure of power and the Battle of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, and Dumbledore's lunch While waiting for the "plot" incident, Zhang Xu had plans to transfer to Beauxbaton School of Witchcraft and Magic while he was studying for the college entrance examination.

After the Easter holiday was over, Zhang Xu was in the reading room preparing to brush up a set of geography test papers after handing in the course selection form.

Just when Zhang Xu had just finished writing the multiple-choice questions, an owl flew in front of Zhang Xu.

Opening the letter brought by the owl, Zhang Xu was surprised to find that it was an invitation letter from Dumbledore as the principal of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, inviting Zhang Xu to meet in the principal's office.

In the past, when Dumbledore approached Zhang Xu, he usually asked Filch to bring a message, or sent a message with a thousand paper cranes, but this was the first time for such a formal invitation letter.