The Bard at Hogwarts

The quiet Hogwarts is like a painting.

The sun shines gently, the breeze blows gently, and the early spring buds of the Whomping Willow outside the castle have sprouted, year after year, as if telling the stories of the little wizards.

It's like an extremely beautiful dream, which makes people intoxicated and unwilling to wake up for a long time.

Time swayed slowly, and two months passed in the blink of an eye.

In the valley of the shelter.

A 15-foot ice giant pulled the plow, and behind it were four or five goblins made of the same ice and snow.

Whenever the giant plowed the ground, these one-foot-tall goblins quickly sprinkled seeds in the soil.

Under the olive tree in the valley, Ino sat on the recliner of the Transfiguration, watching them work leisurely.

These giants and goblins are ugly, but they are good at farm work.

As spring approaches, the planting of herbs in the valley is indispensable.

More than 100 acres of valley may not seem like a large number, but it is nearly 500,000 square meters of land. In such a large area, even with the help of magic, farming alone would be very tedious.

Therefore, these ice and snow creatures came into being. Through transfiguration, the main body is shaped, and then the alchemical formula and ancient runes are recorded, and a well-behaved farming assistant appears.

After watching the farming for a while, Ino retracted his gaze and then looked at the notebook spread out on his legs.

The book was once made of the skin of the basilisk, and various complex patterns were densely recorded on it. This is the alchemical formula hidden in the Mirror of Erised and the two-sided mirror under the illumination of the oil lamp.

Unlike the Ravenclaw Coronet, it is the most primitive rune structure. What is presented in these mirrors is the alchemical formula derived from runes.

This is very important because it greatly facilitates reference and learning.

The ancient runes were broken, but alchemy was passed down in an orderly manner.

The so-called method of making a two-sided mirror was lost, but it was only an item that was lost. Wearing the Ravenclaw crown, he easily deduced and understood the principle of imaging technology through the alchemy books in the library.

The overall technique is similar to the Kozyrev mirror of the Muggle, a large curled mirror.

With this discovery, Ino felt the power of alchemy more and more. Kozyrev was a Muggle scientist and the first scientist in the world to propose that time does not exist.

Both matter and time can be distorted - this sentence is the most famous conjecture of this Muggle scientist.

This is a knowledge argument with great research value.

Moreover, after understanding the imaging technique of the two-sided mirror, he admired this Muggle scientist even more.

Although alchemy involved these knowledge very early, Kozyrev's achievements are far more than that.

Before 1983, this Muggle scientist even planned to make a device to distort time, but strangely, he died strangely the day before the experiment was completed.

It's a pity that the person is gone, but the famous Kozyrev mirror remains. The magical thing is that this curled mirror is surprisingly similar to the arrangement of the alchemical formula in the Mirror of Erised.

A very simple example, this world actually has no color. All the colors we see are the frequencies of light refracted by objects after being illuminated.

Whether it is the alchemical formula or the Kozyrev mirror, they are all based on the geometric shape of the Fibonacci sequence and present a spiral shape.

Therefore, in this spiral state, people can clearly see the reflected and distorted light. After the light is arranged and combined, it forms a picture visible to the naked eye.

It is really complicated, but with the wisdom of the predecessors as a reference, everything is relatively simple.

With the help of the Ravenclaw crown, Ino successfully understood and initially reproduced the imaging alchemical technology by reading the knowledge of Muggles and wizards.

Thinking of this, he switched to the second perspective. After the last magic riot in Horror Park, Boggart probably experienced a sublimation.

In the sight, the Boggart, which was once like mist, is now carrying a three-foot round mirror and flying freely in the air.

Looking down from the sky, the whole valley looks peaceful and beautiful.

The giants are plowing, the goblins are sowing, and the boy is sitting under the olive tree reading a book. The whole picture looks very harmonious.

It seems to make people feel like they are in the classical era, a combination of magic and farming.

...

As his mind turns, the Boggart slowly lands.

Ino looked at the mirror in his hand with satisfaction. This is the product of two months of hard work.

The alchemical imaging technique, coupled with the inner peeping of the Mirror of Erised, can clearly show the various scenes seen by the eyes of the holder of the mirror for a period of time.

It is roughly like a camera with the naked eye. As long as the mirror is held and the line of sight can see, the mirror will show these scenes.

Although many places need to be improved, the appearance of this product is already a cross-era achievement.

And this achievement seems to have taken only two months.

But he knows very well that there are too many coincidences here.

The bronze oil lamp that sees through the fog, the crown of Ravenclaw, the understanding of alchemy and Muggle knowledge, these conditions are indispensable.

After all, the alchemical imaging technology has been lost, and it is difficult to find the complete formula without an oil lamp.

Of course, violent demolition may be possible, but it requires countless samples.

And the most lacking thing is the sample.

…

It is approaching March.

As the temperature rises, Hogwarts gradually recovers.

Outside the castle, the barren lawn in winter has regained its vitality, and the green grass is pleasing to the eye.

However, during this period of time, people were surprised to find a strange phenomenon. Slytherin's star student, Ino Swinburne, was walking around with a mirror all day long.

Or the noisy hall, or the astronomy tower, or even the corridor portraits, the library, the Black Lake outside the castle, Hagrid's hut...

In short, this strange phenomenon has lasted for two whole days.

In the evening.

After completing the panoramic shooting of the castle under the sunset, Ino returned to the common room alone.

Unlike the noise of the past, he was greeted by a strange silence after entering the common room.

"Are you okay? It's been spread outside these two days that you are cursed." Draco asked with some concern.

Originally, this was not a big deal, but it couldn't be spread by bored people. Maybe people were just curious on the first day, but after they were still walking around with the mirror on the second day, various versions of rumors spread wildly in the castle.

"Thank you for your concern! I'm fine." Ino looked around.

He saw pairs of concerned eyes, which made him sigh for no reason.

Draco, Pansy, Daphne, even Goyle, Flint... Who said Slytherin was cold-blooded? The little snakes just had a high threshold for making friends.

"Since everyone is curious, let's take a look at my achievements in the past two days, so that no one will say that I was cursed."

As he spoke, he waved his wand, and a five-foot-high ice and snow support slowly rose.

The mirror was tilted against the shelf. After a short delay, the picture slowly emerged in the empty mirror, accompanied by a soothing music.

"It's the astronomy tower!"

Someone in the crowd exclaimed, but was quickly stopped by the people next to him.

Perhaps, any external sound is unnecessary in this situation.