#36 - Lily's Notes

So, after agreeing with Hagrid to come back on the weekend, Anduin left Hagrid's hut and returned to Hogwarts Castle. М reading

As Anduin passed through the Clock Tower Courtyard, he heard a crackling sound coming from the Astronomy Tower.

Anduin thought, it seems these two groups have clashed. I wonder how Charles is, whether he's involved. But Anduin doesn't plan to rush in and get caught in the middle, or he might be seen as an enemy by both sides.

Thinking this, he smiled mockingly, ignored the commotion at the Astronomy Tower, and went straight back to the Slytherin common room.

Back in his room, Anduin felt full of energy. It seems that magical creatures like the Runespoor also have a strengthening effect on the body. He couldn't help but feel happy and practiced a set of Tai Chi in his room to help with digestion.

After finishing, Anduin continued with his study plan. However, Anduin first opened his Potions textbook. He planned to spend some time studying Potions while learning spells, to see if he could master the creation of some practical potions, and also to see if he could recoup some funds by making potions.

Meanwhile, on the Astronomy Tower, Gryffindor and Slytherin officially clashed, marking that Hogwarts would no longer be peaceful.

The next day, after finishing his morning run, Anduin arrived at the Great Hall. As soon as he entered, he noticed that the atmosphere was off. There were fewer people at the Gryffindor and Slytherin tables. Usually at this time, the Great Hall would be almost full, but there were significantly fewer Gryffindors and Slytherins than the other two houses.

Many people sitting at the tables were glaring at each other, as if they were about to start fighting at any moment. Anduin also saw Charles at the Gryffindor table. He seemed unaffected. Charles saw Anduin come in and gave him a slight nod.

"Oh my god, Anduin, do you know what happened in the house yesterday? I have first-hand news. Do you want to hear it?" As soon as he sat down, Vivian leaned over, looking at Anduin mysteriously, as if urging him to ask.

"I don't know, and I don't want to know. You can not tell me," Anduin said calmly, thinking, I not only know what happened, I even heard the commotion yesterday, but what does it have to do with me?

"Anduin, you're so boring." Vivian deflated when she saw that Anduin was unmoved, but she still blurted out the news she had gathered. It would be harder to shut her up than to kill her.

"Yesterday, someone in our house got wind of it, they learned that Gryffindor was going to sneak out to the Astronomy Tower for a gathering. As a result, those pure-blood family guys gathered together, preparing to give Gryffindor a good beating. Originally, they planned to throw a few dungbombs at the Gryffindor gathering, then ambush a few people with jinxes, and block the entrance to the Astronomy Tower, so that the Gryffindors would be disgusted to death," Vivian said vividly, as if she was there at the time.

"Guess what happened? Their people had just sneaked into the Astronomy Tower when they were discovered by the Gryffindors. What was originally supposed to be a prank turned into a big fight between the two houses. I heard that several people on both sides were injured. Later, when they saw Professor McGonagall and Filch arrive, they fled in all directions. As a result, only a few people escaped, and almost everyone at the scene was caught. The injured were sent to the hospital wing, and the others are said to be serving detentions for a month or two," Vivian said gleefully, one would think she wasn't a member of Slytherin.

Vivian then nodded in Vanessa's direction and said, "Gryffindor and Slytherin have been deducted at least one hundred points. Vanessa is furious. It's only been two months since the start of the school year, and it's already like this. We probably won't have a chance at the House Cup this semester."

After listening, Anduin was very impressed with Vivian's information-gathering abilities. She found out the details so clearly. At the same time, he was very contemptuous of Slytherin. They ran out to cause trouble in the middle of the night, just wanting to play a prank?

Sure enough, they're just a bunch of kids with no vision. There's really no need for me to waste my time on these little wizards.

Thinking this, he stopped paying attention to the farce.

Soon, it was time for a new session of the Charms Club. Anduin arrived at the meeting place early. On the bottom row of the bookshelf behind the podium, he found a book called "Magical Defense Theory." He pulled out the book, put it away, found a place, and opened the book. Inside, there were several pieces of parchment filled with content. Anduin also saw many notes recorded by Lily in this book. It seems that this book also belonged to Lily.

After looking through it briefly, he found that it mainly recorded some defensive spells and counter-curses, and even explained how to develop a counter-curse for a spell. However, there was a lot of content involving Ancient Runes, which Anduin couldn't understand at the moment.

"Ancient Runes is an elective course in the 3rd grade. It seems I have to find a way to learn it in advance," Anduin thought to himself.

Before long, the Charms Club meeting began, and Anduin refocused his attention on the club.

Obviously, it wasn't easy to quickly research results in any subject. No one made any major achievements during the discussion session. Professor Flitwick, as the supervising professor, only answered some questions for everyone. However, that Kiro senior who developed the Amplifying Charm seemed to be making rapid progress. His main focus was on the development of sonic spells. The latest demonstration of the Amplifying Charm could even allow everyone in the room to hear the conversations between the paintings outside the room after casting the spell. Although it was still very noisy, it was a great improvement in terms of penetration.

Anduin was like a little transparent person in the Charms Club, basically just watching and listening, and not expressing any opinions. The other seniors just thought that Flitwick intentionally took care of this freshman and let him come to listen, and didn't expect Anduin to really understand anything.

Anduin was enjoying it. Senior Kiro's research on the Amplifying Charm also broadened his horizons and gave him some new concepts for developing new spells.

If a new spell wants to be developed, it takes a lot of time to conduct 'rune research'. This also involves the content of Ancient Runes. To invent a new spell, you must first prepare an underlying rune, just like painting requires preparing a canvas, and then fill the underlying runes with application runes and perform various combinations. During the combination process, you must also pay attention to the stability between the runes. Some runes will have repulsive reactions between them, such as "water" and "fire". There's nothing wrong with combining them, but if you cast spells with this unstable rune structure, it will definitely explode.