The Bard at Hogwarts

The days always passed in peace, and it was early November in a blink of an eye.

On Halloween, in the Slytherin dormitory.

Ino looked at the materials on the table: a dirty mat, a wooden stick more than two meters high and about the diameter of a baby's arm.

He was very satisfied with these things, the unicorn hair and the branches of the mountain pear tree, all of which were gifts from Hagrid.

Today, Ino planned to make an alchemical item. A week of strong charging in the library also gave him a considerable understanding of alchemy.

Speaking of alchemy, it is actually a kind of helplessness.

The ancient runic works, that thick dictionary actually covers all the known knowledge. And the unknown knowledge, if it is not in the dictionary, even the Hogwarts Library will not have the corresponding books.

As a last resort, he can only passively knock on the door of alchemy.

Trying to find the knowledge lost in the years.

In fact, in the final analysis, alchemy is also another application of ancient runes, but in the long years, this subject has completed an autonomous development.

Alchemy uses ancient runes as parts, and through special techniques, inlays them one by one on alchemical items to form a powerful rune circuit, which makes it produce unexpected effects.

In this regard, it is actually somewhat similar to the electronic chips of Muggles. For example, the logic gate circuit only uses: AND gate, OR gate, and NOT gate to form a complex digital logic function module.

The same is true for alchemy. The basis is also 24 rune letters plus "empty stones". Arrange them in rows according to some mysterious rules and combine them together to form an alchemical item with complex functions.

A very simple example, the second letter of the ancient rune, 'u', originally means: fate, destiny, unknown factors.

The original meaning of the third letter 'th' is: thorn, surprise, protective triangle, hidden energy.

And combining these two letters through alchemical techniques, you get a fate amulet that can keep away from bad luck and protect your own alchemical items.

Of course, this is only alchemy at the theoretical level.

The three major parts of alchemy are magic pattern knowledge, alchemical techniques, and alchemical materials.

As mentioned before, alchemy has completed an autonomous process, and ancient alchemists have abandoned the term runes.

They prefer to call it: magic patterns, which means magical patterns with magical effects.

Similarly, with more and more in-depth understanding.

Ino feels that alchemy is a huge subject. If it were not for the initial kinetic energy of "magic power", perhaps alchemy could have become a school of its own.

This is no exaggeration.

Because the three major works of alchemy have covered all knowledge, anyone who has achieved something in any of them can be called a master.

Just like Headmaster Dumbledore.

Ino had seen Dumbledore's alchemy works in modern books, but he specialized in one of the three major works: alchemy materials.

Its academic representative is the famous twelve uses of dragon's blood.

And the alchemy master who is proficient in all three major works may have only one person in ancient and modern times, the creator of the Philosopher's Stone: Nicolas Flamel.

In fact, after entering the door of alchemy, Ino had some regrets.

At the beginning, I didn't take the opportunity to take the Philosopher's Stone as the alchemy item of the ceiling, even though the Philosopher's Stone has lost its effect of making people immortal.

But for an alchemist, the huge magic pattern circuit of the Philosopher's Stone is an invaluable treasure. Because with a sample, you can reversely deduce, as long as you can understand it, you have the opportunity to make a second piece.

It's a pity, but there is not much regret.

He still insists on the original cognition, as long as you live long enough, there is nothing that can't be carved by time.

The fact that Ni can become an alchemist proficient in the three major parts has a lot to do with his long life of nearly seven hundred years.

...

After a brief thought.

Ino shook his head and shook off the extra thoughts, preparing to make the first alchemy item in his life.

But the first step is to deal with the materials, unicorn tail hair and mountain pear wood, these two are the favorites of all novices and the most tolerant alchemy materials.

And among these materials, the most difficult to deal with is the mat with dark patina. Even with the household cleaning spell, he took a lot of effort to clean it up. Those who didn't know would think that the mat was used as a doghouse by Yaya.

After releasing the cleaning spell three times in a row, when all the stains were thoroughly cleaned, the unicorn tail hair also showed its original appearance.

Soft and smooth, the warm light kept flowing, as if it was a solidified mercury creation.

The remaining rowan wood branches were much simpler, and the cutting spell was the best magic.

Ino held the magic wand, and the tip of the wand was like an invisible high-speed electric saw, and the extra branches fell to the ground wherever he passed.

After processing the materials, he waved the magic wand again, split the rowan wood in the middle, and began to use a carving knife to burn magic patterns in the wood core.

At first glance, this operation looked like making a magic wand.

But in fact, he was imitating the making of a magic wand. Simply split and burn, and then connect with unicorn tail hair.

…

“Clearance, inner light, warmth, healing, divine wisdom, miracle, thirteen, disaster and death, elk, destiny and protection…”

For half an hour, Ino engraved as many runic letters as he could understand on the inside of the two-meter-long stick.

This is why he chose a long staff. He did not use the mature magic circuit of alchemy, nor the professional staff-making technique. He only used the most primitive rune letters.

And all this was done to verify his conjecture, not to make and sell.

After all the runes were engraved, the two-meter-long rowan wood looked like an exotic handicraft.

On the staff, each rune was separated by a distance of one inch, which was the distance left for the unicorn's tail hair to connect.

Ino picked up the selected tail hairs one by one and connected the two different runes together in the way of the Ouroboros ring.

This time the Ouroboros ring was not round, but a twisted pattern like the Dark Mark, similar to the shape of the number '8'.

Engrave, connect, and finally glue the split rowan wood together with a spell.

"Permanently stick!"

Ino waved the magic wand, and the gray beam flew away, and the two halves of the split rowan wood were glued together tightly.

To the naked eye, there is no trace of being split.

On the other hand, when the pear wood is put together, it also changes dramatically.

The two-meter-long staff looks a bit like Gandalf's staff at first glance.

The dark brown wood texture reveals a glimmer of white light, although it is very weak, but it has a sacred and warm feeling.

Obviously, this stick is already a magical alchemical product.

Facing the first success, Ino did not have much joy.

After all, this is the simplest and most primitive alchemy. If this fails, there is no need to go to school anymore, because anything that uses the brain will be a waste of time.

Ino looked at the finished product in front of him, reached out and picked up the copycat staff, which weighed about four or five pounds. Whether it was used for mountaineering or fighting in a group, it was a handy tool.

Because the effect of the staff seemed to be limited to lighting and warming the hands.

It is nominally an alchemical item, but in essence it is just a sturdy stick that looks beautiful and warm in the hand.

There may be some amulet effects, but those are hidden.

Although it was just a hand warmer, this success also verified his idea - using the most primitive and clumsy splitting method to reverse the unknown runes.

To put it bluntly, as long as enough experiments are done and enough time is spent.

Whether it is the Ravenclaw's crown or any other complex magic circuit, it can be disassembled bit by bit.