Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 369 Broad Bean 2

The broad beans that Phil wanted were just a simple little thing. With Wade's current level of alchemy, he could make it in a breath.

He took out a tin bean and tapped it with his wand. It changed into the shape of a green bean, with the same appearance and color. A circle of light flashed on it, and the surface of the bean looked like jelly.

Association spell, heating spell, solidification spell... after casting a few basic spells, it became exactly the same as the broad beans given to Zoe before.

Wade put the broad beans on the table and prepared to go to bed, but after lying on the bed, he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

It's like a student from an art academy who has been immersed in painting for twenty years and is exposed to world-class paintings from ancient times to the present. After returning from further studies, he is only asked to draw a simple sketch of a mushroom.

——It’s not that I can’t draw, but I can do better.

Wade sat up in bed, pinched the broad beans, and looked at the moonlight.

It is small and delicate, full and round, slightly concave in the middle, and has a nail-like crown on one end.

There's something familiar about this appearance.

Wade looked at it for a while, and suddenly realized - didn't this look exactly like a pair of wireless headphones he wore in his previous life?

In an instant, it was as if a flash of lightning flashed through my mind, my thoughts were ignited by a spark, and inspiration flowed out like a spring, unstoppable.

Wade even forgot to sit down. He looked at the beans in his hand, but his eyes were unfocused. All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, and countless magic runes and spells were flying and combining in the world of thought.

There is a limit to the amount of magic a piece of parchment can carry, but the same cannot be said for beans made of metal.

The house-elf who came to clean today was Phil. Seeing Wade daydreaming with the broad beans in his hand, he did not dare to disturb him. He quietly cleaned up the garbage and dirty clothes in the room, then took a rag and tiptoed to wipe the wardrobe.

Then, Habby and Zoe came too.

It's not that three house-elves are needed to clean a dormitory, but they all like to come here to work. If Wade happens to be still awake, he will talk to them for a few words, which can make them happy for the whole day.

The three little guys worked in perfect harmony. They wiped the already clean furnishings until they looked as if they had been polished, and even made sure that there was not a speck of dust in the gaps in the corners.

While they were cleaning the carpet, they suddenly felt a sudden light in the room -

Vader tapped the beans with his wand, and the beans were magnified hundreds of times.

It floated in the air, and separated layer by layer under the effect of the spell. The metal sheets unfolded like pages of a book, like a blooming peony, and the light of magic flowed on it continuously.

The red-hatted puppet squatting in the corner was startled by the sudden enlargement of the broad bean. It jumped up holding the wooden stick, slightly bent its body, and looked at it alertly.

Then, it realized that it was Vader who caused the noise, so it put down the stick and took a closer look out of curiosity.

Its owner gently shook the wand, as if playing a melodious symphony.

Countless fine silver lines interweave and entwine, forming a complex and harmonious pattern on the metal sheet.

One piece, two pieces, three pieces... each piece of metal sheet was finally engraved with a different pattern. The silver light flowed and reflected each other, forming a gorgeous magic halo.

The light shone in the man's eyes, as if his eyes were glowing too, appearing mysterious and illusory.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. The glowing place and the person seemed to be in another world.

Wade once envied Dumbledore's powerful control over magic. In Dumbledore's hands, magic was like plasticine that could be rolled into a ball or flattened shape and could be shaped as one wished.

He didn't know that in the eyes of the house-elves and puppets, he was equally powerful, mysterious and out of reach.

After the light flashed for a while, the pattern gradually dimmed and disappeared as if it was swallowed by the pages of a book.

The metal sheets gathered together one by one, and finally formed a huge bean. The bean shrank under the effect of the spell, shrinking to a size smaller than an ordinary bean, and could even be easily stuffed into the ear.

Phil stared at the scene blankly, and he almost suffocated at the thought that such a thing might be given to him.

Wade put the beans in his hand, turned around and looked at them with a bright smile.

"——Guess what this little thing can do?"

He said.

……

"Waterproof and moisture-proof spells, fireproof spells, and cleaning spells. These spells are like the strawberries and figs on top of the cake. They basically serve a protective purpose."

In the alchemy professor's office, a soft song came from the magic radio. Wade sat at the table, fiddling with the beans in his hand, and introduced his new work to Professor Murray.

"The core is still the association spell."

"It's just that I used this spell before to make the ink hidden in the parchment show the same words or pictures. This time, I let the association spell pull the metal coil."

"The coil drives the paper cone next to it to vibrate, which can transmit sound. I tried it a few times with a few friends last night. At present, the sound quality will be a little distorted, but the impact is not great."

Professor Murray picked up the broad bean, put on his glasses, looked at it carefully for a while, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"You never cease to amaze me, boy," said Professor Murray. "I suppose it can do more than that?"

"Yes, I added a color-changing spell and a tracking spell. There is also a defensive spell that can protect the wearer from some minor evil spells."

"Then I thought, why can't I make it smarter? Inject a little thought into it so that it can provide more flexible services to its owner like a puppet, such as reminding the time or schedule," said Wade.

"Of course, there are also anti-detection spells and anti-interference spells. The outer shell hides a vanishing spell. If someone tries to forcibly crack the principle behind it, it will immediately disappear from its original location."

“But after the work was completed, during the testing phase, I found that it had some new problems.”

"First of all, the range is not as good as the Book of Friends. It's okay in the UK, but the signal becomes very poor in France, and there is no response at all in Italy. I don't understand why the same connection spell has such a big difference."

The one who helped with the testing was naturally Ralph.

The house-elf ran for more than an hour and helped Wade measure the effective range of the talking beans, which was about eight or nine hundred kilometers in a straight line.

This distance sounds long, but it is far from what Wade expected.

For example, the United States is 4,500 kilometers long from east to west and 2,700 kilometers wide from north to south. The range of a broad bean is less than half of that.

More importantly, even if he used another vision, he couldn't see anything that needed to be modified.

In order to cram all the effects he wanted into the tiny bean, he had adjusted every part of the spells and runes to perfection.

After thinking for a long time, Professor Murray said, "Wade, maybe your problem is that you pursue perfection too much. Why don't you try to do some subtraction?"

There is one book.

Chapter 370: Unknown Difficulty

"Subtraction?"

Vader was silent for a moment, lost in thought.

Then he took a piece of paper from the desk and started writing and drawing.

Professor Murray looked at it for a while and gave a relieved yet complicated smile.

Casting magic on alchemical works is not simply a matter of adding spells one on top of another; spells can conflict, weaken, and cancel each other out.

Therefore, most alchemists can only cast one or two spells. For example, an ordinary invisibility cloak only has the Disillusionment Charm, which will gradually lose its effect over time and can be broken by spells or sharp weapons.

Vader had a rare talent for stacking multiple spells, and Professor Murray was often amazed by this, not understanding how he could combine so many spells so skillfully.

He did not voice his shock, just as he had never told Vader how difficult it was for others to perform the overlapping spells.

It was a cold and damp October night. Professor Murray took out his wand and pointed it at the fireplace. A ball of fire suddenly ignited the birch wood in the hearth.

The flames danced wildly, the wood crackled, and a faint fragrance filled the air.

Professor Murray looked at the wand in his hand, smiled, folded his hands on his abdomen, and stared at the dancing flames in a daze. His shadow was projected on the opposite wall, like a giant.

It was not until Wade put down his pen that Professor Murray reached out and picked up the few pieces of paper he had just written, looked at them carefully for a while, and nodded slightly.

"Ved, your design of the communication bean is very innovative, but when it comes to alchemy, you should remember one thing—"

Vader looked up and listened carefully.

“Being perfect in one aspect is more meaningful than being perfect in general.”

Professor Murray said: "You need to make a communication tool that is more convenient and simpler than the friend book, but most importantly, stable and reliable, and can achieve information exchange across long distances. Otherwise, it is just a toy."

Vader nodded thoughtfully.

"And..." Professor Murray continued, "Waterproof, moisture-proof, and defensive. These three spells can actually be integrated into one. When I was traveling in Egypt, I learned a spell..."

Recently, when Wade was taking classes with Professor Mori, he would read a book on alchemy in advance and then ask Professor Mori about the parts he didn't understand.

Ancient alchemists always gave alchemical materials all kinds of strange names, and the alchemical process was also accompanied by some inexplicable rituals, such as dancing and bathing in the moonlight before alchemy.

Professor Murray is knowledgeable. He can always eliminate the redundant and erroneous parts and make the obscure knowledge easy to understand. Even if he just sits and chats for a while, Wade feels that he has benefited a lot.

In fact, it has been a long time since we have had such simple teaching.

"The last Vanishing Charm was used very well, but the spell can be modified like this -"

Professor Murray changed the positions of two magic runes on Wade's magic circle.

Vader asked doubtfully, "What effect will this have?"

"You can expand the range of the Vanishing Spell... Vader, you only want to make the key part inside the bean disappear to prevent others from cracking it. This approach is too gentle."

Professor Murray smiled and said, "How can it be enough to just make the beans disappear? After the first failure, the cracker will definitely try to remove the vanishing spell first - it's like a castle that only defends but does not attack. No matter how strong it is, it will be broken by the enemy sooner or later."

"This modification will make the Vanishing Spell more violent and unstable. So anyone who tries to crack it will have to pay with a part of their body."

"It could be a finger, it could be a whole person - I can't really tell how much damage it could do."

Wade looked at Professor Murray, who spoke in a calm tone, and was speechless.

I always feel like the professor has revealed something terrible.

He paused, then silently added the modified magic runes to his own design.

……

At the end of October, it was the first Hogsmeade weekend at Hogwarts, and all the third-year students submitted their application forms.

So on the morning of Halloween Eve, the students got up early, had breakfast, put on scarves and gloves, and went to Hogsmeade to play.

But for the SSC group, Hogsmeade was not that attractive - they had been to this wizarding village many times before, so they were naturally not as excited as others at this time.

When Wade and Michael arrived at the auditorium, most of the students had already finished their meal and left, and the long table was a mess.

Fortunately, the house-elves in the kitchen were always paying attention to the students who were eating breakfast. When Wade sat down, he saw that the few remaining baked potatoes on the plate in front of him had disappeared, and were replaced by a plate of sandwiches with sausages next to them.

"I'm going to go to Honeydukes to buy some more candy. I heard that the Condiments and Jokes Shop also has some new items. Finally, I'll go to the Three Broomsticks for a couple of drinks. Wade, what are your plans?" Michael asked.