Two Worlds: I studied abroad at Hogwarts

Chapter 142 Dumbledore's Alchemical Achievements
After Professor Sprout took over the task of researching the new version of fertilizer, Moon felt a lot more relaxed.

He also has more time to do other magical research.

This time when Moon came over from the Scarlet Moon, he brought a small bag of batfish maw powder and three large conchs.

He gave the largest of the flame snails to Professor Sprout so that she could use it to research a new version of fertilizer.

As for the other two, they were temporarily placed in the dormitory, hidden in a suitcase under the bed.

Moon originally thought he had hidden well enough, but he forgot that he had a pet that was good at finding things.

When Moon left the club and returned to the dormitory, he saw a strange scene.

A large conch appeared on the dormitory floor.

Next to the big conch lay a Niffler and a toad.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing the two pets staring at the conch with eager eyes, Moon knew that something bad might happen.

"Chi!" (It smells so good!)

"Gu~" (hard~)

Bengbeng's focus is always more peculiar than other pets, and what he expresses is more accurate.

"Do you want to eat it?"

"Chi!" (Yes!)

Seeing Bengbeng jumping on the ground anxiously, Moon didn't say much. He took out his wand and cast the [Softening Spell] on the flame shell three times.

After Moon retracted his wand, Bengbeng quickly ran over, stretched out his little claws, and easily took out the seafood feast from the snail shell.

"Chi~" (cut open)

Moon used the [Rope Cutting Spell] to easily split the snail meat in half.

After the two little pets got the food, they started eating it in big mouthfuls.

Because the flame snail was quite large, neither pet was able to finish it.

Moon had to cast a [Freshness Lock] and stuff the snail meat back into the shell.

After finishing his meal, Laifu returned to the iron box to sleep, while Bengbeng continued to chat with Moon after dinner.

"Ji~" (delicious~)

"As long as you like it, there will be a lot of this kind of things if you can really come to my house."

"Ji?" (Really?)
"Of course, and there will be a little girl to play with you."

When he heard that there was a playmate, Bengbeng's eyes lit up, and then he quickly ran back to his cabin to look for something.

After a while, it ran out with a magic wand toy.

"Chirp!" (This is for her!)

Seeing Bongbong take out the gift he gave it before school started, Moon nodded and smiled.

"I think she would like it."

At Hogwarts, every day is full of life, and Moon can learn new magical knowledge every day.

On Tuesday morning, out of curiosity, Moon began to study the book "The Origin of Alchemy" borrowed from the library.

After visiting the library yesterday, Moon discovered that there were not many books on alchemy in the public library section.

The only books open to lower grade students are introductory alchemy books and some alchemy journals.

After registering with Madam Pince, Moon borrowed all the alchemy-related materials he could.

From the librarian's surprised look, Moon could roughly guess that there shouldn't be many low-grade students studying alchemy.

The Origins of Alchemy records that this complex magic originated in ancient Egypt.

It coincides with the earliest recorded appearance of magic.

The book analyzes that the reason for the formation of alchemy is that ancient wizards discovered that certain substances could undergo miraculous changes under the influence of magic when exploring the mysteries of life, death and soul, and then launched various research.

"No wonder these explanations sound familiar. It turns out potion-making was a form of alchemy in ancient times."

Among all the magic that Moon can access now, the one that is most similar to alchemy is probably potion making.

This book records in detail that ancient wizards did not separate potions and alchemy.

It was not until later that potion making began to focus more on natural materials, such as herbs, plants, animal organs, etc.

And alchemy uses more metals and minerals.

Potions-making was separated from alchemy after disagreements arose between wizards studying the two types of magic.

Of course, the development paths of these two types of magic after they separated are also different.

Potions now focus more on meeting the various needs of wizards in the real world.

Alchemy, on the other hand, focuses more on changing the essence of matter and improving the spiritual level of wizards.

"It seems that there's a reason why potions are developing faster than alchemy."

In Moon's opinion, magicians invent all kinds of things to solve real-life needs.

Alchemy is clearly somewhat disconnected from the lives of modern wizards.

Of course, in addition to the demand, alchemy itself is difficult, which also determines that its development is far less convenient and fast than potions.

Not only does alchemy have very high requirements for materials, but these materials are also very difficult to process after being obtained.

In order to perfectly handle these rare metal mineral materials, one must master a lot of basic transfiguration techniques.

Of course, the most important point is that the time span of alchemy is very long, and the minimum is measured in years.

So some powerful alchemists are old wizards.

After briefly browsing "The Origins of Alchemy", Moon began to read the alchemical journals.

Most of these newspapers came from Egypt, because that was where the largest alchemy research center in the wizarding world was located.

In addition, various international alchemy competitions are often held in Cairo.

Therefore, Egypt is the birthplace of the first-hand information about alchemy in the magical world.

Moon couldn't understand many of the terms recorded in these journals.

However, he was more interested in the journals' records of those who had developed new things through alchemy.

Moon found a familiar name among them.

Albus Dumbledore.

This man, recognized as the greatest wizard of our time, won the Gold Medal for Pioneering Contributions at the Cairo International Alchemy Congress at the age of 17.

"The principal is really amazing!"

After gaining a basic understanding of alchemy, Moon was able to understand how difficult this award was to obtain.

He won the highest gold medal in one of the most difficult research fields in the wizarding world, and at the age of 17.

Especially since Moon knew that alchemy was only taught in the sixth grade at Hogwarts.

This shows that the principal may not have studied alchemy for a very long time.

All these are enough to prove that Dumbledore is very talented in alchemy.

"No wonder Hermione said Transfiguration is the foundation of alchemy."

Ron once told Moon that Dumbledore was the Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts before he became headmaster.

Now it seems that this is not without reason.

While Moon was sitting in the common room studying alchemy materials, members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team came out one after another.

Harry packed up all his gear, including his precious broomstick, and sat on the sofa waiting for the others.

"If I had your enthusiasm for getting up early and studying, I might have won the championship this year."

This Saturday is the first match of Gryffindor's House Cup this year.

Because they haven't won a championship in four consecutive years, everyone on the team is under great pressure. Wood is also constantly fighting for time to practice on the court.

"I think you can do it. After all, you fly very well."

Moon never hesitates to praise his friends, especially Harry, who is really talented in flying.

Moon's judgment of Harry's flying talent was not based solely on his performance on the court.

The most important thing is that every time Harry finishes Quidditch training, his wizard bar will show a significant increase when he comes back.

Now the length of the wizard bar above Harry's head has reached 3/4 of a grid, which has caught up with the second tier of first-year wizards.

That is Malfoy, Susan Burns and others.

Of course, this echelon has now become the third echelon, because there are two people in front of them who have obviously opened up a long distance.

One is Hermione, whose wizard bar is about to be filled.

The other is Moon Scarlett, who already has one and a half bars.

Moon's wizard bar grew rapidly this time after he mastered silent spellcasting.

Although Moon experienced a life-and-death situation, he also gained a lot.

Of course, now that Moon's wizard status has changed, his target is no longer his first-year classmates.

Even the second-year seniors were the same, most of their wizard bars were only about one bar full.

The longest one was about the same length as Moon's, so Moon turned his attention to the third-grade wizard.

Among the third graders, Moon interacts most with the twins.

The wizarding stats of these two red-haired Weasleys are actually similar to Moon's.

On the other hand, Cedric, another third-year student, had his wizard bar already reached three-quarters of the second grid.

Moon's next goal is to catch up with Cedric.

Moon had once carefully observed the length of the wizarding strips of most of the students in the school in the Great Hall.
He found that in the third and fifth grades, the young wizards would have a significant gap between them.

The third-year wizards with longer bars have almost completed the second grid, but there are also many wizards whose bars are less than one grid.

The same is true for the fifth grade, except that the span is now larger. The best one has three full grids, but the shortest one has only one grid.

Hermione had told Moon that third-year students would take elective courses and be exposed to more magical knowledge.

The fifth grade has to face the OWLs exam, which forces students to systematically review and strengthen the magic knowledge they have already mastered.

Moon felt that this should also be the key factor in the young wizards keeping a distance.

In Tuesday's herbal medicine class, Professor Spratt introduced a new herbal plant: rosemary.

This is a common herb with slender gray-green leaves, small purple flowers and a very strong fragrance.

"Students, rosemary is an important ingredient in making refreshing potions. It can also be used to make some magical potions that enhance memory and concentration. If you don't mind, you can smell it more."

After Professor Sprout finished speaking, most of the young wizards began to sniff the flowers in front of them.

Neville is the one who works the hardest.

Because he had a strong sense of smell, the little wizard inhaled a lot of pollen and started sneezing constantly.

Hermione also clearly cared deeply about the ability to enhance her memory.

After the Herbology class, she picked a blooming rosemary flower with Professor Sprout's permission.

When Moon was about to leave the greenhouse, he was stopped by Professor Sprout.

"Mr. Scarlett, Headmaster Dumbledore has given me permission to reinforce the, uh..., plant's defenses once again."

A smile appeared on Sprout's lips as she spoke. She had originally thought that Dumbledore would not agree.

After all, when she made this suggestion yesterday, the greatest principal pondered for a long time.

"That's great! This way I don't have to worry about what to do with the extra sleepyhead bacteria."

Moon was equally delighted.

"That's right, these little things that can easily make people fall asleep shouldn't be thrown away casually. It would be most appropriate to put them somewhere where students can't reach them."

Moon strongly agrees with Professor Sprout's point of view.

In his opinion, a small amount of sleepy face fungus is still within the controllable range, and it can also help in refining potions.

But once these little things start to grow wildly, it will definitely be very easy to cause some accidents.

"Professor, do you need me to help you move the sleepy face fungus over there?"

"Oh, I can do this myself. Headmaster Dumbledore has instructed that it's best not to let the students know."

"Ok."

Moon had no intention of exploring the secrets that the headmaster wanted to protect. In his opinion, this mysterious headmaster was completely different from other wizards.

Dumbledore gave Moon the feeling that he could see through everything.

This made Moon, who had a huge secret, very uncomfortable.

However, when Professor Sprout mentioned Dumbledore's name, Moon remembered the alchemy news he had seen in the common room this morning.

"Professor, is Headmaster Dumbledore very accomplished in alchemy? I saw he won a gold medal in it."

"Oh, about this matter, actually, you don't have to doubt it at all. The fact that he could make friends with the alchemist Nicolas Flamel is enough to show Dumbledore's achievements in alchemy."

Nico Flamel.

Moon learned the name of another alchemy master.

"If the headmaster had focused on alchemy, he might have achieved the same success as Nicolas Flamel, but he is also the best headmaster at Hogwarts."

Moon had long known that Dumbledore was very famous in the wizarding world, but this was the first time he had heard of the title of the best headmaster.

After leaving the herb greenhouse, Moon saw Hermione waiting in front before he even turned around.

"What were you talking about strengthening protection?"

Seeing Moon appear, Hermione immediately walked up and asked.

"how do you know?"

Moon gave him a skeptical look.

"Oh, I just wanted to go back and ask Professor Sprout if I could keep Rosemary in the dormitory, and then I overheard your conversation."

"Well, you probably heard it too. Dumbledore said that students are not allowed to know."

Hearing that Hermione had just stumbled upon it unintentionally, Moon responded indifferently.

"But aren't you a student too?"

Hermione was very curious, something Moon had long known.

But today he witnessed another amazing ability of this little witch.

After careful reasoning about what had happened, Hermione quickly guessed everything Moon knew.

From the talk about strengthening protection she heard today, to Dumbledore's warning at the start-of-term dinner, to the three-headed dog she encountered while wandering around the castle at night, and to the injured Snape she encountered when Harry went to ask for a book.
After summing up all these things, Hermione deduced that the headmaster and professors of Hogwarts were guarding a mysterious object.

Coming to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, Moon had forgotten to eat while listening to Hermione's analysis.

He found that the little witch's speculations seemed very reasonable, and there were even some things that Moon himself didn't know.

"From your expression, I can tell that I've deduced more than you know!"

After Hermione finished speaking, she showed a proud little expression.

Moon didn't know why this little witch had such a strong competitive spirit.

However, in order to prevent the other party from being too happy, Moon pretended to be fine and ate normally.

Hermione's speculation was just a small episode in life.

For Moon, the most important thing is of course learning magic.

When the Charms class ended in the afternoon, Moon found Professor Flitwick and asked him about the [Armor Curse] problem he had encountered in the past two days.

　I wish you all a happy New Year! May all your wishes come true!!!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)