The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

Milton spoke again, "All I know is that fairies generally harbor ill will towards wizards."

“Everyone needs to find something to do, something they consider meaningful. No one can judge the outcome until it’s finished,” Luna added. “If this is something Hermione wants to do, I can offer some help when she needs it.”

"Is she your friend?" Eddie asked.

“We’re not friends now,” Luna said, “but maybe we can become friends.”

“I hope you can make more friends,” Scott said.

"Yes, I will." Luna nodded seriously.

After finishing his somewhat late lunch, Scott said goodbye to his companions and went to the Room of Requirement for his class alone.

Scott has been working to improve his combat abilities, further refining his use of Transfiguration in battle under the guidance of his Ravenclaw mentor.

He has already made some new achievements this weekend.

In the empty room where the Ravenclaw portrait was located, Scott stood by a lonely desk in the center of the room.

He glanced at the iron block on the desk, chanted a transformation spell, and resolutely waved his wand.

The black iron block began to move.

The originally hard metal block softened into a liquid state and quickly took shape, becoming roughly the shape of a crow.

Subsequently, with the transformation of various details, the image of the crow began to become more and more vivid and lifelike.

As it transforms, a complex magic rune circuit begins to take shape, with fiery red runes flowing across the raven's surface.

coax!

As the magic runes grew brighter and brighter, flames finally ignited on the surface of the raven's body.

"Gah!"

The crow, enveloped in crimson flames, cried out with its beak open, its black feathers trembling in the flames, yet remaining completely unharmed.

"Gah!"

It cried out again, then suddenly spread its wings and took flight.

Black crows, their bodies enveloped in crimson flames, danced in the air like fireballs.

As it approached, Scott could still feel the scorching heat of the flames.

"Success."

Scott laughed.

He took a piece of wood out of his pocket and threw it.

"Attack it!"

Upon hearing Scott's command, the flames enveloping the raven's body gradually subsided and went out.

"Gah!"

The crow, which appeared to have returned to normal, opened its beak and spat out a scorching line of fire, which accurately hit the piece of wood that Scott had thrown.

The wood immediately burst into flames, turning to ash and scattering within a very short time.

"Gah!"

The crow cawed merrily, flew around twice, and then landed back on the desk, leaving several charred footprints on the wooden surface.

Not long after, about a minute later, the crow's body surface caught fire again.

"No mistakes!"

Scott said happily, waving his wand again to turn the raven into a bare block of iron.

By this time, the iron block was already red-hot, and the wooden planks of the desk were sizzling, almost catching fire.

Scott waved his wand and moved the iron block to a stone slab on the floor in the corner of the room.

"It seems you really succeeded."

In the portrait, Ravenclaw, who has been watching Scott operate the device, smiles slightly.

“I also want to thank you for your help, mentor.” Scott turned and bowed to the portrait. “It was you who helped me analyze the magic circuit of the [Ring of Arson] and guided me to make appropriate modifications to the magic circuit.”

The "Arson Ring" is an alchemical formula that Scott deciphered from a Christmas gift Michael gave him in 1994, with the help of his Ravenclaw mentor.

The gift was a tattered piece of parchment. The contents of the parchment looked like a menu, seemingly from a somewhat mediocre culinary enthusiast, but it was actually left behind by an alchemist and written in a special encrypted way.

Once the rune circuit of the [Ring of Fire] was deciphered, Scott had been trying to incorporate it into his Transfiguration.

Through continuous efforts, this idea has finally been fully realized today.

From now on, his transformed forms will not only have strong defensive capabilities and auxiliary effects such as listening and filming, but will also possess offensive effects similar to fire spells.

Possessing the "Incendiary Raven" with its own high-temperature flames and the ability to spew scorching fire from a distance, his options in battle will increase, greatly enriching his tactics.

While Scott was delighted, he certainly couldn't forget the immense help his mentor, Ravenclaw, had given him.

"This is also the result of your own hard work," Ravenclaw said calmly. "Keep up the good work, my apprentice."

Scott straightened up and smiled. "I will follow your teachings, my mentor."

As the new week begins, Hogwarts students bid farewell to the excitement of the Quidditch finals and return to their regular school life.

But this week has been anything but ordinary.

First of all, this is the last week before the end-of-year exams.

Many students who are afraid of exams or lack confidence start to study frantically or try every means to find strange potions and cheating tools to try to find loopholes.

Eddie has given up selling fake drugs and hasn't done so in a long time, but people still come to him asking if they want to buy a few bottles of Bafe Brain Tonic.

It's important to know that the brain-boosting drug Eddie used to secretly sell was actually vixen excrement.

“It’s the same every year, there are always some fools trying to cheat,” Eddie sighed in his dorm room. “But they don’t realize that even real barfee can’t make their grades any better.”

Roger laughed. "It would be too easy for professors to tell if a student is cheating. Cheating is simply impossible at Hogwarts."

“But every year during exam week, the professors always manage to catch a few guys cheating,” Eddie said with a grin.

“Oh, Scott, Roger, how’s your revision going?” Milton asked. “I’m really worried about my OWLs scores.”

In the dormitory, the three fifth-year students were also facing OWLs, but only Milton seemed very anxious.

"That's about right," Roger said after thinking for a moment. "I don't have high expectations for my grades. I'll be satisfied if I can get five or six certificates."

Scott frankly stated, "I'm not worried about my grades. Although I won't get 12 certificates, I should be able to get all the ones I take the exams for."

Milton quickly picked up his books, saying, "I need to study harder."

Scott and Roger exchanged a glance and both shook their heads.

Milton's grades weren't top-notch, but they weren't bad either. However, he would become extremely anxious and lack confidence when faced with exams, which was a result of his personality.

Experience tells them that at this time, any advice or comfort is useless and will only make them more nervous.

The best approach is to leave him alone and let him immerse himself in his efforts.

This way, he won't have time to think too much.

Besides the exams, there's something else unusual about this week.

Miss Glapland, the teaching assistant for the Magical Creatures class who was very popular with the students, suddenly and quietly resigned.

Scott didn't notice this at first until he heard other students who had taken the course talking about it.

It seems that Dumbledore has launched an investigation into the previous attacks in the Forbidden Forest?

Scott only thought about it briefly, and didn't have the energy to look into the details for the time being.

He needs to get through exam week first.

Although he was confident in his learning achievements, he couldn't be too careless and spent more time organizing the knowledge he had learned in the past five years.

Furthermore, he realized he might have gotten himself into another problem.

This troublesome girl's name is Hermione.

The girl who ran away crying in front of him, defeated and unwilling to accept it, was clearly very resentful and wanted to get her revenge.

When she asked him to "debate" again, Scott declined, saying he had to deal with his exams first.

Because Hermione took the exam very seriously, she didn't say anything more.

But she clearly couldn't suppress the urge to "debate".

Every time she saw Scott, she looked eager to try, as if she couldn't wait to rush up and refute Scott's point of view with her newly prepared arguments.

At this time, Harry and Ron, who were with Hermione, always looked at him with sympathy.

Roger and his associates, who knew the inside story, were also gloating.

"She's too competitive."

Luna, on the other hand, found it amusing.

She said with a smile, "She won't give up until she wins the debate."

Scott nodded.

He muttered to himself, somewhat troubled, "We've already discussed it and confirmed that we can't reach a consensus. Wouldn't it be better to just respect each other's viewpoints from now on?"

Chapter 403 The First Day of the Spells Exam

Time passed quickly, and Scott's fifth grade was drawing to a close.

He will face the most important exam since entering Hogwarts—the Ordinary Wizarding Level exam.

For Hogwarts students, the first week of June each year is exam week, when they will take their regular year-end exams.

But for fifth-graders who are taking the Common Wizarding Levels (OWLs) and seventh-graders who are taking the Advanced Wizarding Levels (NEWT), things are obviously much tougher.

Both of these level exams will be held for two weeks.

Once June arrived, Ministry of Magic staff began moving into Hogwarts. They came from the Department of Education's Wizard Examinations Administration and were responsible for overseeing the two Level Examinations, serving as examiners.

Before the exam began, Professor Flitwick gathered Scott's fifth-grade Ravenclaw class together and personally explained some important points to them.

"It goes without saying that the ordinary wizard level exams have a significant impact on your future work."