The sun was lazily peeking over the eastern horizon, and Ted had already started running around the Black Lake.
Behind him was Neville, and the other friends spent three days fishing and two days drying nets.
Only Neville got up early every day, rain or shine, and followed Ted for exercise.
His inferiority complex persisted, and he felt that he was clumsy and worthless. But as Ted said: Even the clumsiest person can achieve something if they work hard.
If you work hard with good people, even if you can't catch up with them, you can still gain something.
In fact, he is more determined than everyone else, which is a very rare quality.
After running for most of the lap, Ted and Neville chatted and did some exercises to stretch their muscles.
Ted was walking by the lake, picked up a pebble that pleased his eyes, and played with it in his hands.
The magic wraps the pebble, causing it to float and rotate in the hand, slowly seeping...
Neville also followed suit, picking up a stone and playing with it for no apparent reason.
Not too far away from the castle, Ted and Neville dropped the stone. Seventeen or eight stones have been lost there.
After all, Neville couldn't help but asked: "Ted, we pick up rocks and throw them here every day. Is there any special significance?"
It had been almost a week before Neville asked. He was really patient.
"I'm trying to do some magic," he laughed.
"Magic attempt?"
"That's right! Have you ever heard of ritual magic?"
Neville nodded: "Grandma said that is a special kind of magic that ordinary wizards cannot cast."
Ted smiled: "Aren't we already doing it?"
"Ah? Casting ritual magic? Where is it? I, I don't know~" Neville was confused.
Ted explained: "When I was on vacation, I saw an ancient story book. The book was five hundred years ago, and the story was a thousand years ago, which is older than the history of Hogwarts. It records The story of a group of wizards trying to build the Tower of Babel..."
"T-Babel Tower!"
Ted looked at the stunned Neville and laughed: "Don't worry, I'm not that arrogant. We pick up stones every day, inject magic into them, strengthen our faith, and then throw them here. Over time, a small rockery will appear here. . I think the magic effect should be visible by then... Of course I am also guessing, isn't this an experiment?"
The two of them walked and chatted and arrived at the castle.
The two of them each tidied up after themselves, and then went to the auditorium to have breakfast.
Harley and the others were already waiting there, yawning.
…
In the morning, Ted, Hermione and Hufflepuff took Transfiguration class together, still turning beetles into buttons.
Ted's transfiguration was already starting to take effect. The beetle turned into a button, but it had a few extra legs, and the control was not very good.
And Hermione's progress was very fast. The beetle also began to change, but the button not only had legs, but also a beetle head.
In fact, when it comes to transfiguration alone, Hermione's talent is probably still higher than Ted's.
The reason why Ted learned faster than Hermione last year was because the mission directly raised his Transfiguration to level 1, which is where he got started. So faster than Hermione.
But by the end of the second semester, Hermione's academic progress was as good as Ted's.
But if Ted was a pseudo-academic before, Hermione could still keep up because she was a real academic, but unlike Ted, a time traveler, who was more mature in mind and had richer learning experience.
But then Wizard Ted's level was upgraded to level 4 and he got the talent [God of Learning (Purple)], which suddenly made Hermione invisible.
In addition to the knowledge in normal textbooks, Ted also studied a lot of his own stuff, but even that. Much faster than Hermione's progress.
It only took one-tenth of the time to achieve twice the learning effect of Hermione. Compared with ordinary little wizards, there is probably a gap of twenty to thirty times!
Hermione really couldn't keep up.
At that time, she was sulking alone, staying up late studying, and still couldn't keep up. I cried in anger at the end.
Still too strong.
After knowing this, Ted enlightened her: "Hermione, if I become a scumbag, will you think I'm stupid and won't be friends with me?"
"of course not."
Ted: "Yeah, I won't dislike you either. You don't need to be under so much pressure." Smiling~
Hermione rolled her eyes: Then thank you! This is the first time someone calls me a scumbag and thinks I’m stupid!
But after that chat, Hermione really relaxed a lot.
This year, Hermione has also begun to grow. I don’t know if she was stimulated by Ted, but she actually awakened her talent [Academic Master (Red)].
So now she's following in Ted's footsteps.
Because Ted still had a lot to study and distract his energy, she was not left behind in the class.
Even in terms of potions, transfiguration, etc., there is a sense of slowly catching up!
Ted was very happy about this. We are more efficient if we strengthen and encourage each other!
…
During lunch, Harley and the others looked at the class schedule.
Harley: "Ha, let's take the first class together in the afternoon!"
Ron immediately became happy: "What class is it?"
Jerry: "Defense Against the Dark Arts~"
Ron: ╮(﹀_﹀”)╭
Neville also looked helpless.
Although last year's Quirrell turned out to be a bad guy, he didn't hate Quirrell.
But this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has had enough.
Lockhart was most interested in Ted, because Ted really praised him to the sky. That kind of just right praise made Lockhart want to reward Ted with a few monthly passes!
As for Neville, Lockhart has been trying to convince Neville to cooperate with him and earn fame together. It scared Neville. He felt like there were ants crawling on him when he heard Lockhart's name~
The friends all looked at Ted: I'll leave the peacock to you, coax him well.
Ted: Look at mine!
When you feel comfortable getting along with someone, it means that this person's emotional intelligence and IQ are higher than yours.
Unexpectedly, Lockhart actually chose to cause trouble.
Lockhart was preparing students to "carefully study" his best-seller.
But because Ted praised him so much, he felt a little carried away and felt that he was good again. I felt I had to give the students something different and let them experience their own exciting adventures.
So when the students came to the classroom, they found Lockhart already there. There is also something as tall as a person, covered with black cloth, placed in the middle of the classroom.
"Sit down, students!" Lockhart gave a standard toothy smile, and a bright light flashed across the classroom as if someone had turned on a flashlight.
"Today, I want to take you to see the real darkness! Scary monsters!" He looked like a character who must die in a horror movie.
"Although it is nothing compared to what I have experienced, it is dark enough for you. Be careful! Be careful!"
He suddenly smiled again: "Of course, Professor Lockhart is here, nothing unexpected will happen~ I didn't subdue the female ghost by smiling~"
Ted: Could it be that you sacrificed your appearance? !
The other students were mesmerized by Lockhart's performance. It must be said that Lockhart's acting skills are quite good. His voice, body language, eyes and micro-expressions are all very good. At first glance, he is an experienced actor. Got it!
"Then~" He grabbed the black cloth, "Look!" and pulled it off.
Under the black cloth is a huge iron cage, as tall as one person.
This thing can fit Hagrid!
When the black cloth was lifted, the students collectively leaned back and gasped, and the air pressure in the classroom dropped.
Inside the cage were a group of humanoid fey creatures about twenty to thirty centimeters in size, with long and narrow bat wings, two fleshy tentacles on their heads, and all covered in iron-green bodies.
"Cornwall Elf?!" Some students from wizarding families recognized what it was.
Most of the students looked like "That's it?"
Lockhart quickly explained: "Don't be careless. These little devils are not easy to deal with. They are very bad! They will throw away your things, pour out your coffee, hang your clothes to dry on the tree, and stuff the garbage with you." Get into the pot... In short, I will make a mess of your affairs! It took me a lot of favors to capture such a large number."
However, the students didn't care much about this little thing and still looked unbelieving.
"Okay! Don't blame me for not warning you! Face the real darkness!" Lockhart opened the cage door with a little anger.
The elves immediately came out, about a dozen of them, whistling over the classroom in an instant.
These little things are really nothing, and they immediately start causing damage, tearing books, pulling curtains, shaking chandeliers, throwing themselves at students' faces, lifting female students' robes... and so on! Newborn, what are you doing? !
However, Professor Lockhart, the initiator of all the chaos, could not recover either.
Because a few Cornish elves still remembered this guy who was lying around and gesticulating outside the cage. The smell of this guy's hair oil made them uncomfortable, so they went straight to him after coming out.
Although Lockhart wanted to fight back, the elves could fly and were quite fast. They snatched his wand away from him very quickly and threw it out the window. Then three elves chase Lockhart.
Lockhart didn't care about the students anymore, he just screamed and ran out of the classroom with his head in his hands.
In the short span of five or six meters from the podium to the door, Lockhart had a black eye and a few bloody marks on his neck. Even a bunch of hair was pulled out by an elf, so that it seemed like a piece of bangs was missing...
(End of chapter)
