Hogwarts Card System Chapter 036

These past few days, Ted had been unsociable, which his friends naturally noticed.

Hermione, in particular, noticed that Ted often practiced magic by himself in the abandoned classroom, and even in the library, he was constantly researching things she couldn’t understand… She was very worried, and a little unaccustomed to it.

Hermione: He’s going to leave me behind!

Meanwhile, the big-hearted Gryffindor quartet also noticed something was off after four or five days—Ted was always deep in thought even during meals, not as lively as Ansu, who was devouring fries.

“Is something bothering him?” Ron asked.

“Doesn’t look like it, more like he’s thinking about some problem!” Jerry said.

“Hmm!” Hermione nodded. “He said he’s researching new magic!”

“New magic? Is it, is it a prank spell?” Neville asked, surprised.

Finally, Harry made the decision: “What are you all guessing about? Why not just go ask Ted directly! Listen, I have a plan…”

Everyone: “No, no! Harry, not this time, there’s no need, no need!”

That evening at dinner, after Ted quickly finished his meal, waved goodbye, and left, they all exchanged glances.

Ron quickly shoved the chicken leg in his hand into his mouth, and Jerry directly put the cheese into his lunchbox for a late-night snack.

“Let’s go, follow him!”

Ted arrived at the abandoned classroom on the fifth floor of the West Tower and called out to the empty corridor behind him: “Come out quickly, you’ve been following me all the way, what are you thinking?”

“How did you find us?” Harry was very unwilling to admit defeat after her surprise plan failed.

Harry: My great plan~~~

Ted laughed: “The sound of your five footsteps combined was as loud as drumming!”

“What’s wrong? Following me sneakily?”

Hermione stepped forward: “Ted! Are you, are you researching some dangerous magic?!”

Ted looked at Hermione and the others, whose faces were serious yet apprehensive, and couldn’t help but smile: “Hahahaha! Thank you, thank you for your concern. Come in with me, I’ll show you, show you my results…”

The six entered the room. Ted pointed his wand at an old training dummy at the end of the classroom. “This is the Freezing Charm, Freezing Immobilization!”

A pale blue spell flew out and hit the dummy six or seven meters away. The dummy was instantly covered in a thin layer of ice!

“Wow! Cool~” Jerry exclaimed.

Harry also clapped her hands vigorously: “Good! Ted, have you been practicing this spell hiding here? This is great, teach it to me, I’ll use it against Malfoy next time!”

Poor Malfoy, Harry thought of him first~

Ted shook his head, “Not just this, there’s also Impedimenta~”

Another reddish spell hit the dummy, but no one could see any effect.

“Is that the Impediment Jinx?!” Hermione exclaimed.

“Yes, after being hit, movements will slow down, usually lasting about ten seconds,” Ted said.

“I haven’t fully learned the Shield Charm yet, so I won’t demonstrate it.”

Ron said, “So, you’re really practicing spells here? And spells that are taught in higher grades?!”

He felt so desperate!

Why are there so many overachievers in the world? Are you trying to kill me? Don’t come near me!

“No. I’m not practicing these spells here, but developing a new one!” Ted’s words stunned his friends.

“A new spell?!”

“Yes.”

Although inventing spells wasn’t unheard of in the wizarding world—outstanding wizards, or those with fortunate encounters, always discovered strange spells, some of which, if useful, would be passed down.

But suddenly having a friend the same age, who had only been at school for a little over a month, say they were developing a new spell, felt completely different!

It was like how there are tons of online influencers and streamers; a hundred thousand followers is nothing, only a million followers makes you someone.

But if you suddenly find out someone you know has become a huge streamer, the feeling is completely different!

Now Hermione and Harry felt that way: You’re not joking, are you? You’re not messing with me, are you?!

This time, Ted didn’t point his wand at the battered training dummy. Instead, he held it in front of him and drew a very complex pattern, then: “Frost~Armor~”

A shield made of ice suddenly appeared above Ted’s head, then vanished.

The friends instantly felt a chill, like wearing a T-shirt in the snow.

“Hiss~” Ron shivered, hugging his arms. “What happened? Did you just use magic?!”

Everyone looked at Ted, who began to “explain” his “newly invented” spell.

According to him, it was a new spell combining the Freezing Charm, the Impediment Jinx, and parts of the Shield Charm.

After casting this spell, Ted would have an invisible layer of protective ice around him.

The transparent ice layer would float around his body, capable of blocking some low-level spells.

More importantly, it could defend against physical attacks, and the attacker would be slowed down by the ice!

Currently, this magic could last for 6 minutes.

“Punch me!” Ted told Ron.

“Let me!” Gryffindor’s boxing champion, Harry, volunteered directly, throwing a punch at Ted’s smooth, fair face.

“Thump~” The punch was blocked by the ice shield, and Harry’s arm was covered in a layer of frost.

“Ah! So cold! My arm feels numb!” Her muscles contracted from the cold, and her whole body slowed down.

“This is amazing! Teach me!” Harry immediately became excited, and the other friends’ eyes lit up too.

“You’ll have to wait… This magic is only in its initial stage, it hasn’t fully succeeded yet.”

“Not fully succeeded?”

“Yeah, as you just saw, I waved my wand for a long time to draw it, and the magical consumption is very high, I still need to optimize it…”

In terms of the incantation, Ted had already sorted it out after multiple attempts and optimizations.

The incantation needed to state the spell’s attribute and form.

Frost was the attribute, and Armor was the form the spell took.

But there had been no progress on the wand movements.

He even planned to replace the wand movements with a hand gesture to cast the spell. This would bypass the difficulty and allow him to cast it without a wand.

The development of the Frost Armor Charm briefly ignited his friends’ enthusiasm for learning.

Their time studying and practicing magic in the library significantly increased, but it only lasted for a few days.

To learn the Frost Armor Charm, the Freezing Charm and Impediment Jinx were essential, and the Shield Charm also had to be involved.

The Freezing Charm was a second-year topic, the Impediment Jinx was third-year, and the Shield Charm was even fifth-year content. The prerequisites were truly not low.

Ron and Jerry took four days just to learn the Freezing Charm, and then directly gave up: When you’ve fully developed it, teach us then~ We won’t bother you now~

Harry and Hermione’s learning progress was very fast; they had already learned the Freezing Charm and Impediment Jinx and were now studying the Shield Charm.

…

One day, the Weasley twins suddenly found Ted, who was eating lunch, looking mysterious. They whispered something to him and then left.

Ron quickly leaned over and asked, “What did George and Fred tell you? They were so secretive!”

Ron was annoyed that the twins never sought him out for their plans, but always teased him instead, so he was very curious about them seeking Ted.

Ted told his friends, “George and Fred found something suspicious and asked me to go investigate it with them.”

As soon as Harry heard “something suspicious,” her eyes lit up: “What are we waiting for? Let’s go!”

“Don’t rush, we’ll have enough time after lunch.”

Under Harry’s impatient urging, everyone quickly finished lunch and went to find the twins.

“It’s right here!” George and Fred led them to a secluded corridor and pointed at the wall.

It was an oval half-length mirror framed with silver plating, dusty and unpolished for a long time.

“A mirror?” Ron asked, confused.

Fred put an arm around his shoulder and teased him, “My foolish brother~ Don’t look with your eyes, look with your heart!”

When Ted heard that, he couldn’t help but feel that Fred wanted to test Ron’s capacity.

Ted said, “Your eyes can’t see most magic, but a keen perception can feel the presence of magic. Try to feel it carefully…”

Ted had previously noticed that Hermione’s perception and control of magic were excellent, which was why she learned magic so quickly—because of her strong control.

She reached out and touched the mirror’s surface. “There’s definitely magic, and this dust, can’t it be wiped off?!”

“Wow~” George exclaimed.

“Smart!” Fred shouted.

They had also accidentally discovered that this mirror was unusual.

Normal decorations in the castle were taken care of by house-elves; whether portraits or armor, everything was polished to a shine.

But this mirror was covered in a layer of “dust.” This was very strange.

Ted sensed the magical flow within it, which was a bit complex, not one of the types of magic he knew.

His foundation was still shallow, and he knew too few spells to identify it.

He turned his head and asked, “Does anyone here know ‘Aparecium’?”

“No!”

“Isn’t that a fourth-year spell?!”

“Looks like I’ll have to go learn some spells first…”