Chapter 155 153. What is this? (four thousand)
Lily Potter has always been a special professor in the carriage.
She didn't express her inner friendliness unreservedly when treating students like professors like McGovern Levy and Lupine.
Whether she met students in the usual classroom or privately in the carriage, she kept a cold face in most cases, no matter who she looked at, she always had a flat look.
It's just that after getting along with her for a long time, many students will find that this Professor Porter is not as unreasonable as she appears on the outside, but has the same gentleness and patience with students as other professors.
It's just that her emotions are suppressed by another special emotion.
Regarding Lily's past, the other professors never talked about it with the students. Even if Neville and Ron, who were familiar with Lily at home, knew some secrets, they never really talked about Lily with Jon. family".
After getting advice from Lupine, Jon knocked on the door of Lily's office on the weekend of this week.
The potions professor is brewing a potion in his office.
After Slughorn left the carriage, she could be said to be the busiest person in the whole school.
There is no school doctor on the carriage, and Lily, who is the potions professor, is equivalent to being the doctor of all the students in this school.
Under normal circumstances, she will reserve some potions for treating common diseases, and some magic plants specially cultivated in the greenhouse also need special potions to be raised and irrigated. In addition, this semester Lupine came to the carriage to brew wolfbane potion for him. Lily's work naturally fell on Lily.
So, no matter what time it is, anyone who comes to Lily's office will see a cauldron in the middle of her office that is constantly steaming.
"Good morning, Professor Potter." After entering the door, Jon greeted the witch sitting in front of the cauldron.
After he walked into the office, a chair automatically slid behind him. Lily didn't look at him, but was concentrating on dropping two drops of green liquid into the boiling cauldron. The next second, the boiling water It calmed down instantly, and the color of the water turned into an indigo color.
Lily closed the lid of the cauldron before looking up at Jon.
"Is there something wrong?"
She didn't call Jon's surname or first name, but her flat voice didn't seem so alienated.
Jon didn't ask about the Patronus Charm as soon as he came up. He first expressed his gratitude to Lily respectfully.
"Since I came back last time, I haven't thanked the professor for lending me that invisibility cloak."
"It's not just to help you." Lily sat down on the chair in front of the desk, and she seemed to be able to chat with Jon for a while, "You can do what Dumbledore told you well, and it will be beneficial to the whole school." It's all beneficial. Besides, since you dared to take such a risk to sneak into the castle, I'm sure I'm not so selfish that I'm not even willing to take out an invisibility cloak."
If you only listen to what she said, most people will subconsciously think that the invisibility cloak that Lily lent to Jon is just an ordinary item that can be bought with a little effort in the magic world, but Jon knows better than anyone , What exactly does this invisibility cloak inherited from the Potter family mean.
"Besides, I don't want to give you that invisibility cloak, it's just that it can only be put in a box to waste its role here. Although I lent you the thing, I hope you can use it for real Where its value is reflected, not some petty theft that violates school rules."
She looked at Jon, her tone didn't change, but Jon could hear a lot more seriousness from it.
"If I find out that you have done such a thing, I will take back the invisibility cloak and punish you more severely than Filch."
Even if Lily didn't say anything, it's impossible for Jon to use the invisibility cloak to do such a thing. He's not really a teenager of the 13th or 14th year, nor is he so bored as to wander in the carriage at night wearing an invisibility cloak, breaking into things that shouldn't be done casually. The point of breaking into the room.
"I can assure you that I will not go astray with that cloak, Professor."
On the desk, a teapot flew up by itself and poured a cup of tea into the teacup that had slid in front of Jon. At this time, Jon finally said the main topic of his coming here.
"I'm currently teaching the Patronus Charm of the school with Lupine." He looked at Lily, not seeing how surprised she was at the news from her face, "Professor Lupine told me, teach you on this spell." The standard is very high, and he said that he can let me come to you for advice."
Lily picked up the teacup in front of her, and took a sip of the black tea inside.
"A few days ago, Remus told me about this. He said that you are progressing very quickly in learning the Patronus Charm. In less than half a year, you have not been able to summon a real Patronus. You have already reached this spell. It’s at a level where it can be effective.”
"But there are some things he doesn't know. If I could really teach you something before, but until now, I have been reluctant to use the Patronus Charm myself, let alone teach you."
She didn't look like she was looking for an excuse to shirk. Jon thought about it carefully, and could understand that Lily's understanding and mastery of the Patronus Charm might have changed according to her experience.
This kind of spell is originally a spell that is closely related to the mood and mentality of the caster. The patron saint of each wizard is not static after being summoned, but it will change with the change of the casting mentality.
For example, in the original book, Tonks’ Patronus was a rabbit at the beginning, but after she fell in love with Lupine, that rabbit became a wolf.
The patron saint is not a specific creature, it is more like the reflection of the wizard's own heart, a powerful emotional force manifested by magic.
Lily's Patronus in the original book should be a doe, her husband James Potter and her son Harry Potter's Patronus are both stags, and Snape's Patronus is exactly the same as hers and is also a stag. a doe.
It is precisely because the Patronus Charm reflects the wizard's heart that Snape's Patronus, which is exactly the same as Lily, makes people feel at ease that he will be a double agent. As long as he still loves Lily, he will never hurt Harry Potter. It is a natural opposition to Voldemort's position.
It's just that there has obviously been a world of difference now.
After the drastic changes in the family, no one except Lily herself could have imagined what kind of changes had taken place in her current patron saint. Even as she herself said, it was a matter of reluctance to use it.
However, although Lily could not teach him something that could give him enough improvement as he thought, she also gave him a piece of advice on learning the Patronus Charm.
"Don't just think of the emotions that make up the Patronus Charm as purely positive emotions. People are complex creatures, and emotions are the key to this complexity. The so-called positive emotions are also relative. Some things, you recalled the scene at that time It’s always sad, but in some different situations, maybe it can give you more hope.”
Jon didn't stay at Lily's desk for too long in the end. After drinking the tea in the cup, he said goodbye and left.
Did not go back to the dormitory right away, he went straight to an empty classroom that was usually used for Charms lessons, and when he opened the door and walked in, Hermione was practicing her wand swing skills inside.
After leaning against the door and staring at Hermione for a while, Jon gave his own suggestion.
"I suggest that you don't add too obvious personal habitual movements at the end of your swing, and try to correct them. This will be very helpful for you to learn more advanced spells in the future."
Any classroom on the carriage, except for the astronomy classroom and greenhouse, allows students to use it privately when there are no students in class, and the common room is usually used by students to rest and relax, so in most cases, you want to Students who want to practice casting spells will choose empty classrooms.
Especially in the Charms classroom, the walls here are cast with protective spells, which can protect this side of the carriage from the damage of the spells. There would be no such protection if it were in the hallway, where a random spell could leave a pothole in the floor, and casting spells in the hallway was also prohibited by school order, and it was the behavior that made Filch most angry.
Hermione turned her attention to Jon. She rarely went to the common room in her spare time. Even among the students who were rescued from the castle and returned to the carriage, she was the hardest one.
During this period of time, Jon did not hide from others about practicing the Patronus Charm, and the two often met in this Charms classroom.
"What happened to asking Professor Potter about the Patronus Charm?" Hermione asked, she obviously knew what Jon was doing just now.
Jon thought about it and raised the wand in his hand. He waved it lightly, and uttered the spell as before.
"Call God for protection."
Silver light bloomed at the tip of his staff like a flower, but the scattered light was floating around, but there was no sign of condensing into a solid body.
Looking at the effect of the spell on the tip of the wand, Jon shook his head.
"No matter how clearly the professors explain this curse, it still depends on whether I have figured it out myself."
Hermione looked at the silver light on the tip of his staff, with indescribable complexity in her eyes.
To be honest, Jon's current troubles are a bit like Versailles. They are all in the same grade. Although Hermione just came to the carriage this year and started to learn how to cast spells with a wand, she is also very clear that Jon's learning in magic has actually surpassed peer.
This was the progress he had made after wasting a whole half of the school year trying to save them at Hogwarts Castle.
Talent is something that can't be said sometimes, and Hermione thinks that she is already a diligent student, but compared with Jon, she is a little ashamed that she has such a mentality.
Actually, this is because she doesn't understand Jon's psychology.
Because he knows what the world should be like, Jon feels more urgent about the current situation. The Voldemort he read from the book only exists in the book after all, not to mention that the Dark Lord in that story has already become An unreasonable lunatic.
A lunatic is scary, but his harm is limited, but in this world, a lunatic has become much more rational, and that is the real horror.
Especially for some unknown reason, Dumbledore, who was supposed to be stronger than Voldemort, was even defeated by him, which made Jon feel a suffocating oppression.
He desperately wanted to improve his own strength. Whether it was to protect the other people on the carriage or himself, he needed enough strength to lay the foundation.
The ring he got from Slughorn gave him a direction to become stronger, but likewise, he couldn't completely rely on this ring.
Even Voldemort knew that the strength of a wizard should be based on himself, and Jon also knew that he should not demand something too much. This is why he studied ordinary spells so seriously even if he was not studying the magic on the ring. s reason.
It was Jon's performance that gave Hermione great encouragement.
When she thinks that she may have worked hard enough, she will think of the boy who rescued her from that "prison", and then continue to work hard.
Including other people who get along with Jon the most.
For example, when he first entered school, Ron was a little lazy. He didn't even want to write homework by himself, and he "borrowed" from Jon or Neville.
But after the second grade, he never mentioned whose homework he would learn from, and he would not waste his time playing wizard chess in the common room, but went to the library with Justin and Lavender. museum.
In the Charms classroom, Jon thought about his emotions and thoughts on the Patronus Charm for a while, and then began to repeat the spells and transfiguration he had mastered.
Talent allows him to learn magic faster, but if he wants to use it in actual combat without thinking, he needs to practice day and night to finally form muscle memory.
And while he was chatting with Hermione and practicing the spell, Jon waved at the tables, chairs and benches in front of him, and used a levitating spell. A target that should not belong to the spell he cast attracted his attention. force.
He didn't look at the tables, chairs and benches that were already floating in front of his eyes, but stretched out his hand, and carefully pinched a bunch of hair from among the floating things.
This bunch of hair is very special, it doesn't look like anyone's hair, the overall color is a dark gray, and each hair is short and slender.
"What's this?"
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(end of this chapter)