Chapter 46 46. Eating rock cakes is worse than drinking afternoon tea
"What you are learning now is indeed a brand-new way of casting spells, but the foundation of the spell itself is still the same as using the wand to cast spells. Therefore, if you want to strengthen the ability to use the floating spell on yourself, the most fundamental thing is to use it. I have a deep enough understanding of the floating spell."
Slughorn gave Jon a cup of black tea, but he said while drinking a glass of lemonade.
Jon thoughtfully raised the wand in his hand.
"In other words, as long as I master the normal levitation spell better, the effect of the levitation spell on myself will also be better. If you want to improve yourself, you just need to practice the spell itself."
Slughorn nodded.
"You understand correctly. The essence of magic wand casting and ring casting are the same, but the object of change is different. This is why only the syllables of the spell have changed, but the spell itself has not changed."
As he spoke, he took out a large stack of notebooks and magic books from under the desk cabinet.
"And these, I will take them with you when you leave. Some of the experiences Adrian left behind about the spellcasting method you have learned should be of great help to you. Of course, Hogwarts There must be more of the part left in the Hogwarts Castle than in my hands now. In fact, his last wish was to donate all his research results to the Hogwarts Library, but it was a pity that Something like that happened. Before he died, he also asked me to try my best to help bring out the materials and stones in the castle. Now that you have inherited everything from him, I will hand over this matter to you, Joe kindness."
Slughorn smiled.
"I hope you can really do this one day, but don't put too much pressure on yourself, after all, you are only 11 years old."
Jon looked at the things Slughorn gave him, and couldn't help showing a somewhat stunned expression on his face.
"Professor... what do you mean, you don't plan to continue teaching me about the things behind the ring?"
"It's not that I don't want to teach." Fat Walrus shook his head, "It's that I only know so much Jon. After all, I have never really learned how to use that ring, and all the things I taught you before I learned it from these notes. Now that you have initially mastered a spell, it is better for you to think it is suitable for you than to let me explain it to you half-baked. Besides, if you have any questions later, you can of course Continue to ask me, but there is a high probability that I can't give you an answer directly, we have to discuss it to solve the problem."
Although he said so, Jon still couldn't accept it for a while. He originally thought that the teaching of this spellcasting method would take a long time, at least one or two school years, but now it is only half a school year. up.
While they were chatting, the door of the office suddenly opened a gap. Jon turned his head and looked over, but didn't see anyone coming in.
Just when he thought that some student accidentally knocked the door open, he suddenly found a familiar small figure slipping past his feet, then jumped onto the table and ran to Sri Lanka. In front of Laghorn.
That was Hagrid's pet—Beech.
It seemed to be very familiar with this office, and it didn't shy away from facing Slughorn at all. It directly spread out its little paws, as if begging for something.
"Professor, why is Beach here with you?"
Hearing Jon's name for this kind of sniffing, Slughorn was a little surprised.
"Do you know this Niffler?"
"This is Hagrid's pet. When Hagrid and I first got acquainted, it was because it stole things from me."
"Yes, Hagrid told me that this is the only animal he brought out from that forest. This little guy is indeed dirty, but he also has a sniffing instinct." Slughorn blinked and said. , "Not long ago when I returned to the office, I found that it was stealing my candied fruit. This magical animal is very interesting, so I took the initiative to give it some snacks, and since that day, it has been entangled with me. I will come here for afternoon tea for a while."
It is not wrong to say that Beachy came to drink afternoon tea. Slughorn really prepared a cup of tea for him in a small pocket cup, so that he would not choke while enjoying the candy.
Jon looked at the look of enjoying it, and couldn't help complaining in his heart. No wonder he always saw Hagrid looking for it in the carriage recently. If he was Beech, he would rather come to Slughorn's for afternoon tea than to eat seafood. Yanpi cakes made by Ge himself.
After sitting in the office for a while, Jon said goodbye to Slughorn and left.
In fact, Fat Walrus was right about one thing, that is, Jon has nothing to learn from him in terms of rings now.
If you want to learn the next magic, you need extra sapphires, but apart from knowing that one of them is in Hogwarts Castle, the remaining three have no clue. It is definitely impossible for Jon to rush into Hogwarts Castle now Looking for it, so he can only delve down on the floating spell that he has learned.
As for improving the proficiency of the levitating spell, Slughorn can't provide him with much help, mainly relying on himself to explore.
Thinking of this, Jon felt a little relieved. He returned to the dormitory and began to concentrate on studying how to improve the effect of the floating spell.
But at the same time he did not forget other spell learning.
The spells learned in the first-year spell class are basically elementary spells, which may be very practical in life, but at most they can only play some auxiliary role in real wizard battles, and it is difficult to produce any effective killing force.
In this regard, of course, he would not wait until Flitwick started teaching after the second grade, and then get in touch with those spells that directly damage. Instead, he borrowed a spell book from the library, selected the petrification spell, and began to study in private.
The petrification spell is undoubtedly a very useful spell. Even the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic have always used the three spells of petrification, stun, and disarm as the main force.
After all, no matter how vicious and vicious, it is impossible to capture all kinds of prisoners with the Killing Curse, and as an important means of subduing the enemy, the Petrification Curse has always performed very well.
And this spell is not too difficult to learn. In the original book, Hermione can learn it by herself in the first grade, so it is naturally not a problem for Jon.
(end of this chapter)