Hogwarts Card System Chapter 163

Chapter 163: Super Aim Deployed~

Ted’s Anti-Death Goggles shocked his friends.

Ted said that his goggles offered significant protection against eye-based magic attacks.

Besides that, they also had some other minor aids.

For example, “Super Aim”~

This function consumed a lot of magic power, requiring the wearer to provide a large amount of it, but the effect was also excellent.

Any magical target or moving target would be marked by the goggles’ automatic tracking reticle.

This could effectively prevent “Fallen Lords” wearing ghillie suits and also track moving targets, aiding wand aiming.

In addition, it had a certain detection effect, capable of detecting the magic power level displayed by the target.

For instance, Harry was currently wearing the goggles and curiously tested Ted.

“Magic power level: 530.”

Then she looked at her other friends: Neville’s magic was 330, Ron’s was 280, Jerry’s was 190, and Hermione’s was 270.

“How much am I?” she asked Ron.

“Oh, 290!”

“Why is Ted so high? He’s almost twice mine!” Ron exclaimed.

Ted waved his hand, “Don’t believe this test completely. This is just the most superficial detection. Many times, wizards can hide their magic power. For example, if you test Dumbledore, the displayed number might even be lower than yours.”

Hermione looked at the glasses, then at Ted: Is there really that much difference?

Neville asked curiously, “Hiding one’s magic power?”

“Yes, that should be considered a skill in magic application. Hiding magic power makes you less conspicuous and less easily discovered…”

Besides protection, aiming, and detection, the goggles also had a night vision capability.

It also consumed the wearer’s magic power to maintain the night vision effect. Although the effect was relatively ordinary, it couldn’t see clearly too far away, it was still better than seeing nothing in the dark.

Hermione examined the goggles, which blended technology and mystery, and asked, “Ted, are the characters on it runes? They’re so small, I can barely see them.”

Ted nodded, “As you know, I inherited some knowledge left by Madam Ravenclaw. I’ve been self-studying ancient runes, with limited progress, but I have gained something.”

“The runes on it, combined with those silver magic transmission lines, achieve the other functions of the goggles through more precise magic patterns inside. This was inspired by the magical artifacts of the gnomes…”

When Hermione heard how powerful these runes were, and that Ted himself claimed to have only scratched the surface despite his self-study, she knew she couldn’t miss out. She immediately wanted to learn runes from Ted.

Speaking of which, the course selection was due after the holiday. They had completely forgotten about it these past few days because of the Bloody Baron’s public ascension.

Now that it was brought up, they started discussing it animatedly.

Ron: “I think, it’s not about the quality of the courses, just having some is enough. Biting off more than you can chew, right?”

Neville scratched his head: “I think we definitely have to take Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid wrote to us recently saying he might be the Care of Magical Creatures professor next year.”

Jerry nodded: “We still have to give Hagrid face.” Saying that, he wrote down Care of Magical Creatures on a piece of paper. “What about another one?”

They had to choose at least two elective courses, with no upper limit.

Neville looked at Ted and Hermione sheepishly: “I… I want to choose Muggle Studies. I’m quite curious about Muggle life, and I also want to know what you learned before coming to school…”

He hadn’t forgotten that he would send his children to Muggle society for preschool education in the future~

Harry exclaimed: “I want to take Divination too!”

Ron grumbled: “You still believe in divination?”

“No! That’s why I want to take it, to see what kind of tricks they’re up to!” Harry had a kind of spirit of overthrowing all evil.

Ron said, “Let’s take it together then. I don’t really have anything I like, but I heard the O.W.L.s exam for Divination is much easier… Sigh~ I wish we didn’t have to choose it.”

Jerry nodded repeatedly: “Exactly, I wish we could drop one course.”

Ron: “Then we can say goodbye to Snape!”

Hermione looked at Ted, remembering what Ted had told her about course selection before.

“What about you, Ted?”

Ted wrote on the paper: Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, Divination.

“I definitely won’t take Muggle Studies, there’s nothing worth researching for me. Actually, I’m also quite interested in Arithmancy, but time is limited, and it overlaps somewhat with Divination, so I’ll just choose Divination.”

“Alright, I’ll do the same then.”

Neville quickly said, “Then I’ll also take Divination, so we can all be together.”

Speaking of course selection, Ted was actually very interested in Divination.

On one hand, because of his Psychic profession, he had Lv 1 Divination innate. Then he later obtained [Daoist Knowledge (Red)], which involved Divination.

Although he hadn’t tried it yet, he had mastered its concepts and principles.

He wanted to know if he could be a Diviner or a Seer?

Speaking of which, Professor Trelawney, who taught Divination at the school, was indeed an anomaly.

Although most students and professors thought she was eccentric and had no real skill, just like other wizards who claimed to understand divination.

But in the original novel, she was indeed a hidden Seer.

In class, she said that at the moment Harry was born, Saturn must have been dominant in the sky, with black hair, a slender physique, and having lost his parents in infancy.

She concluded that Harry was born in winter, but Harry was actually born in July.

However, she wasn’t wrong, because Voldemort was born in winter – black hair, a slender physique, and having lost his parents in infancy, all like Harry.

Similarly, when Harry later filled in the planetary positions at his birth, he found that he had two Neptunes. This might also imply that there was more than one soul in Harry’s body.

Trelawney predicted Harry’s early death – the fragment of Voldemort’s soul “died” when Harry was 17, which could certainly be considered an early death.

At the Christmas party in the third year, Professor Trelawney didn’t want to sit at Dumbledore’s table for dinner.

Because she saw that there were already 12 people at the table, she said, “When thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die.”

So Dumbledore got up to make room for Professor Trelawney, reducing the number of people.

However, Professor Trelawney actually miscounted, because at that time there was also Peter Pettigrew disguised as a rat at the table, meaning there were already 13 people at the table before she sat down.

Dumbledore was the first to stand up, and also the first among those at the table to die.

In the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius and 12 others were eating together. He was the first to stand up and also the first to die.

In Deathly Hallows, during the “Battle of the Seven Potters,” 13 people finally arrived at the Burrow. Lupin was the first to stand up to search for Moody’s body, and he was also the first of those 13 people to die later.

She was a true half-immortal~

Good prophecies might not come true, but bad ones definitely would.

The more you struggled, the faster they came!

Ancient Runes, let alone, this thing was actually more advanced than the contemporary magic system, but it was more obscure and unsystematic, difficult to learn.

However, Hermione was learning it with great enthusiasm, constantly carrying a brick-thick “Dictionary of Ancient Runes,” studying symbol by symbol, meticulously. At night, she would also read several papers and articles about runes.

Then she would discuss with Ted the precise meaning and application scope of each symbol.

The difficulty of Ancient Runes lay in their obscurity.

These symbols were understood by ancient wizards from nature or “gods,” representing certain special meanings and magical symbols.

However, a single symbol could have many meanings, perhaps representing “many,” or “yang,” or “overflow,” or “correct”… How to comprehend the meaning closest to the origin among them was very difficult.

And when using them, you needed to sort out the meaning.

That is, a sentence composed of a string of runes not only had to make sense, but its magical meaning also had to conform to your needs to be useful.

This is something that dozens or hundreds of years old old men are studying now, just like archaeology. They often argue with each other in magazines, claiming to pull out each other’s beards and stuff them into smelly shoes, then kick them into each other’s X-eyes!

Merlin, how very vulgar~

However, Ted, after all, had the materials left by Madam Ravenclaw, and he had also learned some, so teaching Hermione some introductory knowledge was feasible.

Moreover, he had some insights while researching the Anti-Death Goggles, especially regarding the specific application of runes.

This shows that much knowledge can be learned quickly in practice, just like learning English is best done in an English environment; one must combine knowledge and action.

…

This day, a group of friends had just returned from the greenhouse, after seeing the large puffshrooms cultivated by Neville and the horned boy.

Those large puffshrooms were half a person tall, with a diameter of one meter. If they were edible, they would truly be high-yield mushrooms.

Neville and his group had cultivated an evolved version, different from the one in the pamphlet.

These large puffshrooms could distinguish between friend and foe through their spores!

If an enemy entered their alert range, they would spray purple bubble-like magical spores that could corrode the opponent’s body.

Their power was much stronger than the small puffshrooms and scaredy-shrooms.

And then there was the Pea Shooter!

Neville and his group had cultivated a Pea Shooter—a mobile version!

This thing was cultivated from a Devil’s Snare grafted with poisonous tentacles as the original plant, creating the Pea Shooter.

It could leave the ground for several hours and crawl around on the ground!

Neville could even make it wrap around his arm as a source of firepower!

The only drawback might be its power; the magical peas’ lethality was still a bit low, roughly equivalent to throwing a stone about three or four centimeters in diameter with full force. It could cause bleeding, but killing someone would be difficult.

Actually, Ted had already gone to Professor McGonagall, saying he wanted to choose five elective courses, but the timetable conflicted…

McGonagall replied: “No, the course times conflict, you can’t choose them. You’ll have to drop a few!”

Ted: “Huh? Professor, you mean the Time-Turner, Professor!”


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