The days at Hogwarts

There were many magics that Loren wanted, such as Fiendfyre and Legilimency. However, they all needed the professor's authorization and credentials to borrow. No matter how talented a first-year student was, there was no reason for him to borrow books from the restricted area, unless he wanted to be put on Dumbledore's special list.

Harry took out his accumulated homework and started catching up.

Loren thought that this was probably due to Ron's bad influence. The amount of homework in the first week was not much, and Loren finished it during the break. But fortunately, at least Harry had not learned to copy homework at that time.

In fact, if Loren hadn't dragged Harry to the library, Harry would have started the day before each course was due, as he felt that would be more efficient.

Loren selected some necessary books from the bookshelf, including "Expanding from Gamp's Basic Law of Transfiguration", "Properties of Basic Materials of Potions", and "Underlying Principles of Simple Spells". These books correspond to Transfiguration Spells, Alchemy, and the basic and not-so-basic knowledge of spells, just like the relationship between Abelian groups and addition within ten.

The experience of the King of Papers: After building a general knowledge system from the bottom up, learning will be easier.

Hermione also came to the library soon after, which did not surprise Lauren and Harry. However, she was not reading a textbook or any other materials, but a novel, with her head buried in it, smiling from time to time.

Loren was drowsy from reading a big book. When he looked up, he saw Hermione staring at the book with sparkling eyes, occasionally smiling, showing her cute front teeth, and then pursing her lips.

"Wandering with Werewolves?" Loren looked at the cover and read directly from it.

Hermione looked up, her face still happy. "Yes, I saw you bought this book when we were at Flourish and Blotts. It's also in the library, so I went to look for it."

Loren was a little surprised: "I was hoping to find some books about werewolves and some information about werewolves. Later I found out that this book didn't have much content at all."

Hermione frowned. She liked this book very much. People were not allowed to speak too loudly in the library. She leaned closer and asked, "Why do you say that? The story in it is very exciting, and it is adapted from the author's real experience."

Loren noticed that the little witch had thick eyebrows and kept some distance from her. "There's not much knowledge about werewolves in the book. Most of it describes or highlights how wise and powerful the author is."

After a pause, he added: "If this experience wasn't so wonderful, this book would be terrible. The author's narcissism is almost bursting out of the book."

Loren didn't say that even those wonderful experiences were cheated and robbed by Lockhart. He knew Lockhart was a liar when he bought the book, but he still hoped to learn some useful werewolf knowledge from the book to help Grandpa Bates. Unfortunately, he was almost blinded by the smile of that man.

Hermione thought about it and realized that she hadn't noticed it just now because she was immersed in the story, but now that she stepped out of the story and read it, it really was as if the author was praising himself over and over again, and even the smiling illustrations in the book became glaring.

Hermione was somewhat helpless when she found that she couldn't refute it. It seemed to be true. She had been memorizing books day and night, and finally had a way to relax. Now she couldn't concentrate on reading, and she was a little annoyed with Loren: "What are you reading?"

Loren spread out his hands to show them. Seeing that they were all contents that were learned by seniors, Hermione began to instruct him again: "These books are for later use. We should learn the contents of the textbooks first."

Loren also tried to change Hermione's concept: "It's not enough to just read books and rely on memorization. It will be faster and easier to learn if you understand the principles and sort out the knowledge system."

This touched upon the professor's authority in Hermione's mind. Could it be that you know more about magic than the professor? Her voice was a little sharp: "Then why doesn't the professor teach these first!"

Madam Pince instantly appeared behind the two of them and slapped them on the back of their heads: "Get out! This is not the place for you to quarrel!" and drove them out of the library.

Harry said that fortunately it was not a topic he could participate in. Why think so much? We should just learn as the teacher taught us. I don't understand. These people are really weird.

"Ah~" I'm so sleepy, Harry yawned. I didn't sleep well last night.

Otherwise, I should go back and catch up on my sleep and do my homework later. Once this thought comes to my mind, I can no longer do my homework.

The atmosphere between Loren and Hermione who were kicked out was still tense.

Loren found it very strange. If you disagree with my idea, just say it. Why are you so angry?

Hermione also found it very strange. She obviously shouldn't be so excited, but she just couldn't help it.

The two separated at the staircase, and Hermione could no longer concentrate on her book. She wandered around the castle unconsciously. When she reached the third floor, she found herself in a room filled with trophies, medals, and the like.

Hermione looked all the way over and saw the Quidditch Cup and the House Cup, which were polished to a shine and neatly placed in the display cabinets... There were also photos of the players from the four major house Quidditch teams.

Among the many unfamiliar faces, a girl's figure caught her attention. The girl in the photo sensed Hermione's gaze and jumped up happily and waved at her.

Hermione knew that this was because the photo had been added with developing potion, which recorded the girl's movements at that time, but this was Professor McGonagall!

Although the girl in the photo was younger and had a kind of vitality that was not seen in Professor McGonagall now, she was still easily recognizable.

Hermione was very surprised. She never thought that Professor McGonagall was a Quidditch player when she was a student. She was so energetic and unrestrained, completely different from now.

After standing in front of the photo for a long time, Hermione continued to move forward. She soon made a new discovery - it was a small gold-plated shield, inlaid on another large shield. On the small shield was written:

Seeker

James Potter

1971

Chapter 23: Treasure Hunt in the Room of Requirement

Loren was so drowsy from reading the big book that he didn't want to read anymore. He planned to go to the eighth floor to see the mysterious Room of Requirement.

The corridor on the eighth floor.

Loren looked at the paintings one by one, and one of them, which showed a wizard teaching six trolls to dance, caught his attention.

At first, the troll was dancing with the stick in a serious manner, but soon he became impatient and began to beat the wizard with the stick without mercy. Loren almost laughed out loud at this funny scene.

Loren paced back and forth in front of the wall opposite the portrait, thinking to himself that he needed a clean and tidy Internet cafe box with a sofa and a 4090 graphics card.

A white door appeared on the wall, and Loren exclaimed, we have come to the right place.

When he opened the door, the computer, sofa and bright lights all perfectly met Loren's expectations.

Loren was a little dazed for a moment. He pressed the power button of the computer, but there was no response. He pressed it a few more times, but got the same result.

As expected, it didn't work. This room was just the Room of Requirement, a magic illusion created according to Loren's idea. It wasn't really a computer.

The magical principles involved here were beyond Loren's imagination, mind reading, using magic to visualize, and perfecting details that the person himself was not very clear about.

Loren suspected that the builder was one of the Big Four, not Slytherin, and his chamber was not here. Gryffindor didn't seem like someone who could build a chamber of secrets, so it should be one of Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff.

Now was not the time to explore the builder, so he left the room and began to imagine that I needed a room to hide things, repeated this several times, and then pushed the door open.

What came into view were mountains of books, layers of worn-out furniture, broken metal utensils, armor, and various magical items.

The surrounding magical objects emitted sparse lights of various colors in Loren's eyes, but at this time Loren's sight was occupied by a bright blue. Even through several mountains of debris, he could see the blue light coming from behind the thing.

Walking towards the source of the blue light, bypassing several pairs of debris mountains and book mountains, Loren saw a suit of armor with a crown on his head.

The crown is in the shape of an eagle with spread wings, its feathers are dotted with blue gems, and a line of words is engraved below: Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind.

This is what Loren is looking for, the Ravenclaw diadem.

It was made into a Horcrux by Voldemort more than ten years ago, and was hidden here by Voldemort after he was rejected by Dumbledore when he applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for the second time.

The movie seemed to just show a fire, but didn't explain what its purpose was.

However, compared with the bewitching diary, the poisonous Gaunt ring, the infernal corpse and the pendant box guarded by poison, Loren found it hard to believe that Voldemort himself hid the crown without any means.

Loren was only a first-year wizard now, and his life was more important than anything else, so he didn't want to touch the crown at all. He silently memorized the location of the crown, and when the time was right, he would notify Dumbledore to recycle it.

After making his plan, Loren began to check out other things in the room.

These are the things that the students and teachers of Hogwarts have hidden over the past thousand years. There are sundries, weapons, books, and Loren even saw a love letter.

The looking glasses and broomsticks were in a mess, some of them were broken in two, revealing the weathered ends.

Loren carefully avoided these magical items and did not even touch them out of caution as his life was at stake. Who knew what their functions were?

Picking out a tattered book that looked very old, Loren pulled it out from under a stool leg and the cover fell off.

This was a mass-printed publication, already very old, with the words a little unclear, but Loren still managed to make out some of the content.

The printed text contained some basic spells, some of which were correct, the same as what Loren was learning now, but others were outdated and had been deleted from all books long ago.

These incorrect contents were circled with a feather pen, and some guesses and doubts were written below. Loren speculated that this was a textbook from Hogwarts long ago, and a talented student had started to revise the textbook since then.

A passage on the last page also proves Loren's conjecture:

Family is like a quagmire, Hogwarts is my dawn

I don't hate my insensitive mother and ignorant sister, I just hope they...

The ink at the back was blurred, but the signature at the end was familiar to Loren - Miranda Goshawk, author of the "Standard Spells" series of books.

She overturned hundreds of erroneous theories about magic, her books were translated into 72 languages, she was the compiler of almost all magic school textbooks, and she appeared on Chocolate Frog cards.

This is the handwriting of a legendary witch who showed amazing magical talent since childhood decades ago.

Loren looked through the books scattered everywhere. Some of them were old published books, and a large part of them were handwritten manuscripts. Loren had seen many of the names of the authors of these manuscripts in textbooks.

They left behind these manuscripts when they were studying or teaching at Hogwarts, some of which were published and some of which were not.

But the same thing is that Loren could hardly understand the content.

He was sure that there were treasures buried there, spells invented by many talented wizards over the past thousands of years, unverified magical conjectures, and derivations of magical theories.

But Loren was only a little wizard who had been in school for a week. He just couldn’t understand anything. It was really depressing to come back empty-handed after going to a mountain of treasures.

I’m worried, but I still need to lay the foundation first.

In the afternoon, Loren practiced Transfiguration by the lake, and he repeatedly tried to turn a fist-sized stone into a wooden deck chair, until he felt that he could no longer cast a spell, and he only turned the stone into a slab of stone.

Loren simply lay there, basking in the sun until it set, feeling lazy all over.

Ron returned to school before dinner, and his family had never been so accommodating to him. Even when he quarreled with Ginny, his mother scolded Ginny instead of him. The pleasant weekend made Scabbers' tortured heart recover.

Harry slept till now, he swore he just wanted to take a nap and then get up to do his homework. But it was already night, but even if he had to choose again, Harry would still choose to sleep compared to the Transfiguration homework with the title just written down, it was too comfortable.

Both of them were in a good mood and were very interested in talking. They talked about everything from the dining table to the lounge. They played several games of wizard chess. Although Ron always beat Harry,

But they both enjoyed it. Until the end of the night, Harry was still asking whether he should play knight before being checked in the last round.

Loren asked casually, "Harry, have you finished your Transfiguration homework?"

Harry and Ron's eyes suddenly became filled with horror.

"Help!!!"

Chapter 24: Doesn't seem to be very good at flying

In the morning, at the Gryffindor table in the dining room.

Loren took a sip of orange juice, swallowed the bread in his mouth, stood up and stretched leisurely.

"Yeah~ The new week starts with a wonderful Transfiguration class." Loren was full of energy.

Next to them were Harry and Ron, two arch enemies, who had been up late last night studying Loren's Transfiguration homework.

Harry was fine as he got enough sleep during the day, but Ron had two dark bags under his eyes and looked very listless.

Several people came to the Transfiguration classroom in different states.

Professor McGonagall collected the homework for marking in the evening and began to check everyone's progress in turning matches into needles.

Several students, including Loren, have been able to turn matches into needles. Hermione has even made the matches thin and pointed. She wants to be an excellent witch like Professor McGonagall, and has put in a lot of effort...

At the end of the class, Professor McGonagall left another three inches of homework.

At noon, on the dining table.

Loren cut the lemon, squeezed the juice on the lamb chops, cut off a piece and put it in his mouth, his eyes narrowed in satisfaction, revealing a satisfied smile. This eating scene was so tempting that Harry and Ron swallowed their saliva and followed suit.

Hermione turned to look at Loren: "You are more skilled in Transfiguration than I am, why don't you let Professor McGonagall know."

An owl delivering a package flew in through the skylight.

Loren glanced up, swallowed another lamb chop, and answered cheerfully, "Because, cute little kitties never ask why?"

Hermione squeezed the knife in her hand.

Loren's eyes twitched a little when he saw this, and he quickly explained: "No reason, I just don't want to attract attention, it's because of my personality."

Hermione didn't have time to ask.

"Look, Neville received a memory ball." Dean called out.

Hermione was also attracted and leaned over to look at the memory ball: "I heard that if you forget something, the memory ball will turn red in your hand."

As he spoke, red mist emerged from the middle of the memory ball in Neville's hand.

Neville responded calmly: "I also know that I forgot something, but the problem is, I can't remember what I forgot?"

Loren was very interested: "Can other people use it?"

Neville handed the red memory ball to Loren, and it turned even redder. Loren asked in confusion, "Is this broken?"

Hermione reached for it, and the memory ball quickly returned to normal.

"It seems that some people have forgotten something just like Neville." The girl said cheerfully.

Loren kept wondering what he had forgotten until he returned to the lounge, and finally came to the conclusion: the memory ball is a waste of money!

At this time, on a pasture high in the mountains, an old man with a white beard was looking into the woods. He was expecting an owl to suddenly appear. This expectation had lasted for many days.

The old man thought to himself: He hasn’t written back a letter in such a long time, when that brat comes back, I’m going to give him a beating on his butt!

Everyone noticed that there was an extra notice in the common room, one good news and one bad news.