#48 - New notice from school
After deciding to learn spells, Moon's direction became clear at once.
He even knew who to look for and what spells to learn.
One was Hermione.
Last time in the library, Moon had discovered that Hermione was researching the [Petrification Charm].
Although this spell was not in the first-year students' curriculum, it perfectly met Moon's current requirements.
As for the other person, it was Ron, a young wizard whose spell list was still blank, but who possessed a lot of experience with minor jinxes.
In the dormitory, he often heard Ron say which spells his two mischievous brothers used to prank others.
Some of these spells also perfectly met Moon's requirements.
Just as Moon had finished organizing the spells he wanted to learn, his roommates appeared one by one in the common room.
Ron wasn't the first to come out, but after seeing Moon's new wand on the table, he became the first to rush down.
"Is this real? Did you really make it? That's impossible, right?"
Before Moon could answer the three questions in a row, Harry, Seamus, and Neville had all crowded around.
"Let me see, it's really new ~"
"Ron, didn't you say the professors couldn't make it either?"
"I knew you could do it, Moon!"
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The four of them surrounded Moon, each carefully examining the new wand.
"Is this the finished product? Won't it be able to cast spells?"
Ron took the wand from Neville again and asked suspiciously.
"You can try it," Moon said with a very natural expression.
"Can I! I only know a few minor jinxes."
Ron was originally very pleasantly surprised, after all, he was holding a new wand, not an old wand that his older brothers had淘汰 and even had the wand core leaking out.
However, when he said he wanted to test a minor jinx, everyone moved away.
Everyone knew that these minor jinxes were created for the purpose of messing with young wizards.
"Minor jinxes are very good, I was planning to learn some from you, but there's still class today, so to avoid accidents, perhaps you could try [Lumos]?"
Seeing Ron's helpless expression, Moon made his suggestion from three meters away.
"Uh ~, Lumos, is that how you pronounce it right?" Ron repeated it again, unsure.
"Perhaps you could pronounce it a little faster."
As soon as Moon finished speaking, a female voice with a serious tone interrupted him.
"It's Lumos, Ron, that's the first spell Professor Flitwick explained."
Just by hearing the voice, everyone could guess who it was.
Hermione, the little professor of Gryffindor's first year.
"Since you know it, then you try it."
Hearing Hermione say this, Ron very sensibly handed over the wand.
Hermione took the wand without any hesitation.
She first carefully examined it, then looked up at Moon.
"Are you sure this wand is qualified?"
"Of course, I've already tried it."
In response to Hermione's rigorous attitude, Moon gave a clear answer.
"Okay, [Lumos]."
A white light appeared at the tip of the wand.
"It can actually work!"
The material of the new wand didn't quite match Hermione, so the light only lasted for a dozen seconds.
However, this was enough to surprise Hermione.
Hermione, who had stopped casting the spell, looked curiously at Moon, completely unaware that Ron had already taken the wand.
Then, another [Lumos].
Perhaps because Ron was more compatible with the willow wood wand, he maintained the illumination spell for a little longer than Hermione.
"How did you do it?"
Watching the boys test the new wand one by one, Hermione walked to Moon and asked the question in her heart.
"I just did it with my hands, didn't you see me make the wand?"
Moon was telling the truth, but Hermione was very uneasy.
"I saw it, but that requires mastering very profound division magic, how could you do it with your hands?"
Hermione's eyes were full of doubt, she even thought for a moment that Moon was deceiving her.
Moon didn't know how to dispel Hermione's doubts. In his opinion, making a wand was just a matter of diligent practice of magic.
"What's wrong, Hermione? Is there something wrong?"
Harry had just experimented with the illumination spell and was squeezed out of the crowd, just in time to hear Hermione's question.
"Making a wand is actually more difficult than any course at school, especially since it requires mastering profound division magic, and Moon did it purely by hand, which is a bit..."
Ron also pulled himself away from the wand at this time. He had disliked Hermione since the beginning of the school year, and now he couldn't stand Hermione's tone of doubting everything.
"What if it's difficult? Is it not allowed for Moon to master it?"
"Ron, you don't know the difficulty of dividing a wand. If you can complete this step by hand, it means that Moon has surpassed many masters who are proficient in division spells, or that his talent in this area is very high."
Hermione didn't realize that Ron was trying to make things difficult for her, she was still discussing the matter as it stood.
"Talent for division spells, huh? Coincidentally, I know a related spell."
Ron's words made everyone around him suspicious.
Not only Moon and Hermione, but even Neville and Seamus, who were still playing with the wand, looked over curiously.
"Don't look at me like that, I haven't actually mastered this spell yet, but I know how to use it."
Next, Ron told everyone about the origin of a family-inherited minor jinx.
George and Fred Weasley, as Hogwarts' famous pranksters, had modified an intermediate spell, "Severing Charm," into a small prank spell.
"Rope-Cutting Charm."
This spell could cut the belt of certain people unexpectedly, making the victim look foolish in front of classmates.
This was also the only minor jinx that Ron hadn't mastered.
"Okay, although it doesn't sound like much, but if..."
Before Hermione could express her opinion, Ron had already begun to explain the incantation and gestures of the spell to Moon.
"The wand is slightly tilted up, gently swipe, and then chant the incantation, is that right?"
"That's right, as long as..."
Before Ron could finish speaking, the parchment in his hand had been split in two.
The cut surface was unusually neat.
Looking at the falling half-sheet of paper, everyone froze in place.
......
The delicious food in the cafeteria in the morning awakened the taste buds of all the young wizards, but the Gryffindor freshmen no longer needed it.
"I said long ago, unless you have a very high talent, how can you complete wand division."
Now Hermione already believed that Moon could complete wand division.
Because she still hadn't mastered that [Rope-Cutting Charm] until now.
Others were also discussing, but most were actually more concerned about the new wand, rather than Moon's super-high talent.
Just as everyone was happily discussing, Professor McGonagall's sudden arrival attracted everyone's attention.
Then, under the curious gazes of all the students, the Deputy Headmistress announced the school's new regulations.
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No one is allowed to cast powerful spells by the Black Lake.
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When Professor McGonagall announced this decision, her eyes were constantly glancing at the sixth and seventh-year students.
Especially those boys and girls who often sneaked out of school on weekends.
As for the lower-grade students, they had been completely ignored by her, let alone the first-year freshmen.
When Moon heard this notice, he vaguely guessed something, but he didn't make a sound.
Anyway, before today, the school didn't have any relevant regulations, Moon felt that as long as he didn't conduct wand tests by the Black Lake in the future, it would be fine.
