Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 578 Alchemy Lesson
The person who came was Madame Maxime.

She also arrived at the auditorium early and told the students around her about the creator of the Scott Transmutation Spell.

"Michael Scott is a wandering wizard who travels around the world in the twelfth century.

To prevent those Muggles who persecute magic.

At that time, his external identity was a wandering scholar and pastor.

During his travels he not only learned Greek, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew, but also studied alchemy, astrology and other fields.

Because he was always wandering and had no fixed place to live, he invented the Scott Transmutation Charm, a spell named after his last name.

So that he could study alchemy while wandering.

The one who translated this spell into magic words was Nostradamus.

He was born in the south of France. After graduating from Beauxbatons, he has been engaged in potion research.

He is also a famous pharmacist in the Muggle world.

He was also very good at prophecy.

The Black Death was predicted in advance.

To cure this disease.

He dabbled in alchemy.

When the Black Death was spreading, he traveled all over France and Italy, living in a nomadic place, and began to study the disease.

But due to his level of magic, he was unable to use the Scott Transmutation Spell.

Finally, he chose to take a different approach and translated it into magic words and engraved them on the large iron pot he used for cooking.

Eventually he treated many victims of the Black Death.

What you are going to learn today is how to purify and change the properties of objects through this prop on the stage.

And how to translate some simple spells into magic words.

"

The time soon came to 10 o'clock.

All the long tables disappeared.

Instead, there were copper pots with Scott's transmutation spell attached to them.

Students from Beauxbatons, Castellobusher, and Durmstrang also appeared in the hall.

Ron finally met Krum.

However, this time Ron didn't dare to yell again.

Because he knew Krum's innocence, he was no longer so angry.

Krum breathed a sigh of relief at this.

Today, Madame Maxime, the professor of alchemy, divided all the students into three teams according to their grade (grades one to three, grades four to five, and grades six to seven), and taught them one by one.

First, she taught students from grades one to three how to operate it.

Around the 1st century AD, alchemists in Alexandria had basically established the basic steps of alchemical practice: raw materials—(blackening) → dead matter—(transformation) → product.

This is the prototype of the current alchemical idea of ​​"understanding, decomposition, and reconstruction".

And relying on the copper pot with the Scott Transmutation Spell (let's call it the Scott Pot).

Students can skip the complicated step of understanding it once they input magic power to activate it.

Direct decomposition → purification.

Afterwards, you only need to suggest the desired result through the principle of transfiguration to achieve reconstruction.

These are not difficult.

Harry almost flipped through the operating manual and a diagram in his hand (which detailed the key points in the reconstruction of matter, namely that xx matter cannot be transformed into xx matter through suggestion), and transformed a silk black cloth that was distributed to him into a rubber-like substance.

Completed what needed to be done for today's alchemy course.

After Harry finished, he was followed by Hermione, Luna, and some Beauxbatons students.

Next are Neville and Draco (not counting Ryan, he was lazy and playing with the cat)
Fifth graders Fred and George joined the younger students and tried to operate the Scottish Pot.

Under their leadership, almost all senior students tried it once.

Their rate of success is generally faster than that of lower grade students.

However, the fastest of them could only barely catch up with Neville's success (not counting Penelope and Kate). Harry had noticed that the rubber-like substance that was successfully refined would be divided according to school.

Hogwarts is even more detailed, and is divided again by college.

It was probably about 8 minutes later.

Then Madame Maxime went over to the fourth and fifth graders.

They learned how to use their wands as chisels to carve magic runes.

They all held their wands in the same way as they held a pen, and drew strange magic runes on the wood.

The younger students who had completed their tasks also joined in.

However, Harry only glanced at it and then looked away.

Because these tests are about the level of magic control.

It would be much harder for Harry to carve a hundred words into a pudding.

About 10 minutes later, the Weasley twins finished first.

They do alchemy and manufacture products on a daily basis.

Then came Hermione and Luna.

Then there are the students of Beauxbatons. They already study alchemy.

Then there's Neville.

But this time Ron was faster than Draco.

After Draco finished, almost half of the fourth and fifth year students had also finished.

Seeing that someone had succeeded, Madame Maxime moved on to the sixth and seventh grade students.

They learned how to translate spells into runes.

Those students in grades six and seven had been given some information in advance.

As soon as Madame Maxime arrived, she was surrounded by these eager students.

Harry and other students who had finished their projects also came over.

The spell to be translated today is the Shock Absorption Spell.

Madame Maxime walked around in front of these senior students, telling them in simple terms that they should first summarize the effects of the spell → find magic runes with similar or similar magic power → then combine the found magic runes → finally debug.

At the end of the course, the team was divided into 21 teams.

In addition to being divided into three teams by year, Hogwarts is also divided by house.

This adds up to 12 teams.

Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Castellobushe are also divided by school.

Now there are 6 more teams.

Then, the fourth and fifth grade students from each school (Hogwarts is a college) would carve the magic runes translated by the sixth and seventh grade students onto the rubber-like product refined by the first to third grade students (this also includes those refined by other grades).

Most of these products have restored the silk texture.

At this time, Madam Maxime stood up and said, "These silks that have been successfully engraved with the shock-absorbing spell will be used as the raw materials for the robes worn by the warriors in the individual competition.

And the team competition actually starts now.

The amount of silk you successfully refine will be divided by the number of people in each school and recorded.

As usual points.

Hogwarts students may have noticed that you are also divided into houses.

The college with the largest number of successes will receive extra points.

Of course, this is your school's house score." Madame Maxime paused and looked at the parchment in her hand.

After clapping their hands, four figures came in from the back door of the auditorium. They were the deans of the four colleges.

Then, the parchment came into Professor Flitwick's hands. "Silk quantity: Ravenclaw 83 Gryffindor 57 Hufflepuff 55 Slytherin 62"

Professor Flitwick paused, and seemed about to jump for joy. "Finally, I am honored - 50 points for Ravenclaw!"

There was thunderous applause from the Ravenclaw students in the audience.

(End of this chapter)