Chapter 282 Black History
After class, Albert deliberately stayed and blocked Professor Smith in the classroom, asking him to fulfill his promise and help him learn the Seamless Stretching Spell.
The task rewards on the panel are not good at all. Sometimes the rewards will be delivered to him through other methods. This time it was a trick, instead of learning the Traceless Stretching Spell directly, I had to teach myself through Professor Smith.
We are going to Hogsmeade tomorrow. After we deal with Mundungus and get the swamp-digger fur from him, the Traceless Stretching Charm will come in handy.
“Do you think what I said in class was... a bit excessive?” Professor Smith stopped in front of the office, turned his head and looked at the absent-minded Albert, and asked.
“It’s really too early for most second-year students.” Albert nodded. Professor Smith’s teaching level was indeed very high, but Albert still doubted whether these second-year students could accept this part of the knowledge.
"I will probably leave Hogwarts early like Professor Broad did." Professor Smith turned the door handle and turned to Albert and said, "Probably around May."
“May?”
Albert was not too surprised. The curse of Defense Against the Dark Arts was too dangerous. For his own safety, leaving his job early was the best choice.
"Before leaving school, I will teach as much useful knowledge as possible. Come in..." Professor Smith invited Albert into his office.
Albert was sitting on the sofa as usual.
“Is it still milk tea?”
“Yeah.” Albert responded.
Professor Smith waved his magic wand and gave Albert a cup of milk tea.
"To be honest, Hogwarts students are very poor at Defense Against the Dark Arts." Professor Smith said to himself, as if he was talking about something interesting. No one working in the ministry can recite a decent Iron Armor Curse, and they are extremely poor in the field of defense against dark arts."
"This is an era of peace." Albert said without hesitation, "And the Ministry of Magic doesn't want them to master... You know, there are not many things that schools really teach students. Most of them need to be taught by others, or they need to learn by themselves... "
“I heard some news that the mysterious man is still alive.” Professor Smith interrupted.
“Well, I heard other wizards talk about this at the alchemy party.” Albert nodded to show that he knew. However, Albert felt that Professor Smith did not teach those things in class for this reason, but for other reasons.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Professor Smith didn't seem to want to talk about it. "I can probably guess why you want to learn the Traceless Stretch Spell, but I need to remind you that the Traceless Stretch Spell is It's an advanced spell and very difficult to learn, so you have to be mentally prepared."
"I'm mentally prepared." Albert said calmly. He was already planning to invest a lot of experience in it after mastering the Traceless Stretching Spell, and directly upgrade the skill level to three levels quickly.
“Let’s get started, watch carefully.” Professor Smith raised his wand and cast a spell on the finished tea cup.
“Expansion and increment!”
His wand struck the teacup, and then said to Albert with a smile, "Try filling the teacup with water, and you will find that the capacity of the teacup becomes larger."
Albert took out his wand, used clear water like a spring, and slowly filled the tea cup with water. The capacity inside became very large indeed.
“Pick it up.” Professor Smith made a gesture of invitation.
“The Traceless Stretch Spell can not only expand the internal dimensions of an object while keeping its appearance unchanged, but can also make the items contained inside lighter.” Professor Smith explained.
"This magic is very practical." Albert told the truth, he already had several ideas to use this thing.
"It is indeed very practical." Professor Smith continued, "However, due to the risk of abuse of the Traceless Stretch Spell, it is strictly monitored by the Ministry of Magic."
"If you make full use of the stretching spell, you can turn a suitcase into the width of a room. This teacup is the best proof. However, this magic also has a big problem, that is, it is easy to restore." Professor Smith waved his wand and stretched out the teacup. The water was swept away.
"Suppose a wizard is walking down the street with a suitcase that has been casted with a traceless stretching spell, and the spell on the suitcase suddenly fails. What will happen? The result can be imagined. This has seriously violated the international law of secrecy. .”
“Will everything spurt out?” Albert asked tentatively.
"Yeah." Professor Smith shook his head and said, "Anyway, the Ministry of Magic has issued a bunch of strict regulations. Wizards can no longer expand the capacity at will, let alone use it for personal use, otherwise they will be fined."
At this point, Professor Smith became even more disdainful, "You know, those **** rules themselves have many loopholes, or in other words, loopholes were deliberately left when the law was written!"
Regarding the law, Albert strongly agrees that the laws in the magical world are basically full of holes and essentially serve a small group of people.
"You probably don't know that the Seamless Stretching Spell cannot be used for personal use, otherwise you will be fined. This is more for your own benefit." Speaking of this, Professor Smith became even more disdainful, "Only related to the ministry. Except for products approved by the department, such as suitcases or family travel tents, of course, these things are actually regulated by a certain family for profit."
Albert couldn’t help but be stunned when he heard this. He didn’t expect that there was such a truth.
“Of course, those suitcases or family travel tents have been strictly inspected.” Smith was not polite at all when talking about the dark history of certain people.
"Using power to gain some benefits for yourself is considered normal operation." Albert laughed at himself, "If I had the chance, I would definitely do the same."
Smith was stunned, probably not expecting Albert to say this.
However, if it were him, he would probably do the same thing.
Who would go against Galleon?
What’s more, this is a legitimate way to make money.
"Ahem, anyway, just pay attention to yourself." Professor Smith reminded, "I don't want you to be charged and imprisoned in Azkaban Prison."
“Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore, let’s give it a try!”
"Expand the capacity!" Albert waved his wand and cast a spell on the teacup he had finished drinking.
"The gesture is wrong, it should be like this." Professor Smith raised his wand and showed Albert.
“Expand the capacity increment!” Albert tried several more times, but failed.
However, Albert was not discouraged and continued to try while paying attention to panel changes.
"Okay, it's almost done. Don't be too anxious. With your talent, it won't take long to master it." Professor Smith was not too surprised that Albert's teacup did not change. After thinking about it, he said to Albert again, " There are also books about the Invisible Stretching Charm in the restricted area of Hogwarts. I'll write you a note and you can borrow it."
(End of this chapter)