Chapter 257 Muggles’ Muggle Magic

"Are you Abdullah Ali?" Looking at the boy in front of him, the staff at the exclusive business class check-in counter frowned.

Les:…

He answered bravely: "Yes."

Staff: You told me you were eighteen years old? !

Seeing the suspicious expressions on the staff's faces, Les knew he couldn't delay any longer.

He stared into the middle-aged man's eyes and said, "Yes, I am Abdullah Ali. I wish I could sit with Miss Ayesha and Miss Raisa."

While confusing the airport staff, Rice was also complaining: What the hell are these names? Everyone would be suspicious!

Fortunately, the confusion spell was powerful enough, and the staff's eyes suddenly became distracted. He typed a few words mechanically and printed out three tickets.

Not wanting to delay any longer, Les took the ticket and walked to the departure gate with Daphne and Astoria. At the customs, Les repeated his old trick and used a confusion spell to take Daphne and the others through the customs. After that, they encountered a checkpoint called "security check" by the driver.

Watching the Muggles put their luggage into a strange alchemical creation, Les had an ominous premonition in his heart: Do they even have to put their personal handbags in it? !

Judging from the appearance of the Muggle guards, it seemed that the items in the luggage could be seen through the alchemical creation. Will my little package be seen through? In other words, what kind of scene will they see? A lot of potion ingredients "squeezed" into a small bag?

He suddenly became curious, which was also the reason why he finally chose a Muggle plane to travel. Unlike most wizards, Rice will not refuse to understand Muggle society. He will find ways to investigate Muggle technology and life, instead of pretending to be an ostrich like modern wizards.

Just walking along the way, Rice seemed to have become a Muggle who had entered the "magical world": the Muggle society thousands of years later was strange and terrifying. After Rice, a wizard, broke in rashly, he was blocked at almost every turn. Those gaps in common sense cannot be filled by reading a book or two published by Muggles.

For example, he knew that Muggles had airplanes, but he didn't realize that there were so many complicated steps before boarding a plane until he went there in person.

What he saw and heard at the airport made Les even have the urge to leave Hogwarts and live in Muggle society for a few years.

When the small package belonging to the three Les people passed through the security inspection machine, something unexpected happened: the machine could not display the contents of the package.

"Is there something wrong?" The Muggle guard muttered as he walked over, and was fooled by Les again with a confusion spell.

After the three of them sat down on the bench outside the departure gate, Astoria couldn't help but sigh: "It's so complicated... Finally we're here..."

Daphne didn't answer, she was still immersed in the novel experiences along the way. For her who had grown up in the magical world, everything that had just happened was so strange.

Rice was observing travelers shopping at airport duty-free shops. He found that modern Muggles no longer seemed to pay with metal currency. They would pay with colorful pieces of paper and small cards.

'Is this the currency Muggles use now? ’ Les remembered the “information” he had learned while chatting with Hermione before. Muggles and wizards use different currencies.

He didn't ask in-depth about the details of these coins at the time, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he was really shocked: Why can customers exchange a piece of paper for merchants' goods? Paper is actually worth more than gold? Aren't they afraid that this kind of thing will be faked?

Thinking of this, Les suddenly realized a problem.

"Do you have any Muggle money?" Les asked Daphne and Astoria.

Daphne, Astoria:…

"forgotten."

"Can't Jin Gallon do it?"

Les sighed, stood up, and walked around the terminal, and then they had Muggle currency.

He, Daphne, and Astoria huddled in the corner of the terminal and studied these colorful pieces of paper.

"This one says '5' on it, so it must be smaller than this one which says '10'."

"So, the coin with '50' written on it is the largest?"

"Probably? It's a metal currency after all."

"But I saw that Muggle come back with a piece of paper in exchange for a lot of these coins."

The two sisters were noisy and arguing, and nothing came up until they started boarding the plane.

When we got on the plane, it was naturally a new experience.

Daphne and Astoria couldn't understand why the lights above their heads would turn on when they pressed a button. Is this the "Muggle magic" of Muggles?

"Muggle" and "magic", these two antonyms are extremely magical when combined, but appearing on this magical plane is not inconsistent at all.

Rice looked on with cold eyes, thinking that Muggles must have mastered a new method of using energy in this thousand years.

Its essence is the same as magic, or it is another manifestation of magic itself.

Maybe he should write a letter to Hermione, or have a long talk with her after school starts - these things can only be understood by a young wizard like her who comes from a Muggle family.

The freshness the plane brought to Daphne and Astoria did not fade away until the plane landed in Egypt.

In the end, the two of them unanimously decided to take Muggle Studies as an elective course next semester.

"There's also Ancient Runes. I strongly recommend you sign up for it. It's a very useful course."

Listening to Les's words, Daphne blinked: "But isn't that the knowledge of the Nordic false gods? What do we learn from it?"

Les looked at her with hatred and said: "Although those false gods in Northern Europe are not good things, the runes they left behind are the real essence. There is no harm in learning them."

He will never forget the scene when God King Odin uttered runes and tore their domain apart. If any of the Nordic gods could understand runes as well as Odin - even if it was only 70%, the outcome of that battle would be rewritten.

Les will definitely know the ancient runes. He wanted to see what progress the magical world had made in the study of runes after a thousand years - but to be honest, his attitude towards this was very pessimistic.

The wizards have even lost the secret method of magic flow, so how can they delve into the knowledge of their defeated generals? Rice had a vague intuition: ancient runes may really have only literal meanings in the modern magical world.

The three of them walked out of the cabin while discussing registration for next semester. As soon as I got off the plane, a wave of heat hit my face.

Egypt in the summer is horribly hot! However, Les and the other three were fearless - their wizard robes were all high-end goods, with temperature-regulating spells attached to them to ensure that they could still stay cool in the hot summer.

What’s even better is that wearing robes in Egypt was not obtrusive at all, and they could wear them with all their might.

Walking out of the airport, Les narrowed his eyes: the journey to find Hufflepuff had officially begun.

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