Ancient Wizards Return to Hogwarts...

Chapter 220 Gemma: Rice has a bright future.

After a brief chat with Daphne, Rice went back to her dorm to rest. What a luxurious treat it is to lie on a soft bed and take a comfortable nap on a sunny afternoon, without needing an alarm clock!

Daphne, on the other hand, stayed in the common room, opened the booklet Ravenclaw had given her, and began to learn from it.

As usual, she began to write in the booklet with a quill pen.

Hello, Rowena, I'm Daphne.

The pamphlet responded to her as usual: "Daphne, hello. I hope you have grasped the knowledge I previously gave you."

[Of course, I have finished reading the third part of the book on spatial magic, and I have mastered its contents. Now I can use the Seamless Extension Spell.]

【Very good, but spatial magic is an extremely profound and complex category of magic. What is shown in those three documents is only a superficial understanding. Please be humble and not complacent.】

New wisdom awaits you, but as usual, you must answer one of my questions correctly before you can obtain it.

Daphne nodded; she was already used to the booklet's style. After the last line disappeared, a long passage appeared on the booklet.

In the wilderness stands a ten-story wizard's tower, each floor containing a sapphire of varying sizes. A magic circle within the tower can teleport you sequentially from the first to the tenth floor, and then back out. You can only enter each floor once, and can only take one sapphire with you. How can you obtain the largest sapphire?

Daphne picked up her quill and copied the questions posed in the booklet onto parchment. Her Latin had improved considerably recently, making the questions much easier to understand.

She quickly gave an answer.

First, pick up a layer of sapphires. Then, in each layer, compare the sapphire in your hand with the sapphire in the layer above. If the sapphire in the next layer is larger than the one in your hand, then exchange your sapphire for the one in the next layer.

Congratulations, you answered correctly. This is your reward for answering the question correctly—"How to Create a Small World in a Crystal Ball (Part 1)"

You already have a foundation in spatial magic, so now you can try making more complex magical items. It's a waste to only use spatial magic for making food boxes and tents.

Daphne was stunned as she looked at the words appearing in the booklet. She suddenly remembered that she had broken a Ravenclaw crystal ball before? So, she could use this document to rebuild a crystal ball?

Daphne's eyes lit up, and she quickly got a crystal ball from her senior, then began to use it as a basis for her research. She even kept it a secret from Rice, preparing to give him a surprise.

Rice didn't notice Daphne's subtle movements; he was now going to talk to Gemma Farley about the origin of her bottle of dust.

Gemma wasn't hard to find; she was now a frequent visitor to the library, hoping to achieve top marks in her NEWT exams. While preparing, she was also sending out resumes to various companies in the wizarding world, hoping to secure a "pre-contract" with one of them.

For a Hogwarts prefect with straight A's in OWLs, finding a job is a piece of cake. Gemma has already received several job offers—regardless of her NEWT score, these companies are willing to hire her. Among the offers she received was even from the Ministry of Magic, where Amelia Bornes, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, wanted her to be her secretary, provided that her NEWT score was as good as her OWL score.

However, Gemma wasn't keen on an office job; she wanted a position that involved risk, and Gringotts' anti-curse breaker was a good option.

She remembered a Gryffindor senior who was a spellbreaker, and Rice found her while she was writing a letter to that senior.

"Good afternoon, Lint." Although Gemma was a little surprised to see Lint standing in front of her, she still pulled out a chair for Rice and invited him to sit next to her.

Rice is usually quite low-key. Apart from his excellent grades at the end of the semester, his high talent in potions, and his good relationship with the two young ladies of the Greengrass family, he doesn't usually have much of a presence.

He didn't have the dazzling performances in Quidditch matches like Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory, nor did he do anything that would shock the whole school at the end of the school year like Daphne Greengrass and Ron Weasley. Even in his daily classes, his performance was far less eye-catching than Miss Granger of Ravenclaw House—he didn't even participate in the dueling tournament!

Gemma thought that if Rice participated, she might be able to achieve the same good results as Daphne, since Daphne had replaced her, a "tough nut to crack".

He was like the magical sand snake he encountered in the Sahara Desert—unassuming and inconspicuous.

However, she didn't see Rice as an ordinary second-year wizard. Gemma was already in seventh grade, about to graduate, and her way of seeing things was different from the other students; her way of thinking was more like that of an adult wizard. Even if Rice was truly unremarkable, his relationship with the Daphne sisters alone was enough for her to cultivate a good relationship with him.

Those are the two legitimate daughters of the Greengrass family, destined to inherit that extremely considerable legacy. Given the Greengrass family's status, if the head of the family were to pursue a political career, he could certainly reach the level of Director of the Ministry of Magic.

Under their protection, Rice's future would certainly be very promising. Considering the Greengrass family's habit of staying out of the limelight, it's quite possible that Rice would be the one to take on the director's position.

"Good afternoon, have I bothered you?"

Of course, but Gemma didn't care.

She put down her quill and told Rice that she was writing to Bill Weasley of Gryffindor. He had been a prefect of Gryffindor, then became the student council president, and was now a spellbreaker at Gringotts. When Gemma first entered Hogwarts, Bill was already a prominent figure at the school.

"You want to work as an anti-curse remover?" After hearing Gemma's explanation to Bill, Rice immediately understood her intention.

"Why not? It's an interesting job," Gemma admitted her thoughts.

"This job is dangerous. Several anti-curse breakers have died in Scotland before," Rice kindly reminded her senior.

He actually had some aversion to the curse breakers. Exploring ruins was an extremely dangerous thing. Even back then, when he and his old friends wanted to explore the ruins left by ancient wizards, they had to be extremely vigilant, otherwise a moment of carelessness could lead to disaster.

And these curse breakers...

Rice finds it difficult to give them a fair assessment.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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