A day at Hogwarts

On the second day of school, Dumbledore did not appear in the cafeteria. It seemed that he had gone out.

Charles and his classmates waited with great anticipation for the first alchemy class.

The classroom for this course is on the fifth floor and is quite brightly decorated. There are many glassware for experiments on the shelves against the wall.

Professor Delacour saw Charles coming in and sitting in the last row. He stared at the guy with slightly squinted eyes until he consciously came to sit in the front row.

When the students arrived, everyone put their textbooks on the table and started taking roll call.

Professor Delacour speaks very good English, without a French accent, and it is difficult to tell that he is French without saying some numbers.

At the beginning of class, the professor said casually: "Today we are going to talk about alchemy, its history, why we should study it, and how to learn alchemy."

“In my opinion, the most important thing in learning alchemy is to have a heart that dares to question and cautiously seek verification.”

"Alchemy has a long history and is a comprehensive subject. Potions was once a part of alchemy and has developed significantly over the years."

"During the development process, countless alchemists discovered the mistakes of their predecessors, and every correction of past mistakes led to breakthroughs in alchemy."

"Why did our predecessors make mistakes? This is a question worth thinking about."

"Someone once told me a story. Studying knowledge is like coming to a furniture store without light. At first, someone touches the legs of the table and thinks the table is a long strip. Someone touches the top and thinks the table is a block. flat."

"Alchemy is like a deep ocean, and one cannot explore all its mysteries in one lifetime."

"In the face of previous explorations and debates, we might as well stand at a higher perspective, explore areas that have not yet been touched, combine their results, and draw reasonable conclusions through rigorous research."

Then Professor Delacour told his story.

When he was thirteen years old, something went wrong in an alchemy class experiment. He made corrections in a panic, but made more and more mistakes, and finally got unexpected results.

In the next six months, he repeated the experiment and determined the procedure. At the same time, he discovered that a step conflicted with the theory in the book.

He spent some time repeating this step, and finally determined that this theory did not apply under certain conditions.

But this theory was proposed by Nico Flamel, and it also involved a deeper theory. Beauxbatons professors scorned his results and refused to listen.

Undeterred, Mr. Delacour expanded the scope of experimental materials, finally proving that there were loopholes in the underlying theory and patching it up.

But the professors still dismissed his results and threw the paper out of the window in front of him, which also made him frustrated.

Charles also knew the continuation of the story, which was told by Lady Angelina.

Professor Delacour tricked many classmates into helping him conduct experiments, including the most beautiful girl in Beauxbatons at the time. This girl thought the boy was handsome when he was focused on doing experiments, and she went to comfort him when he saw him frustrated. , went back and forth, and finally they got married not long after graduation.

This can be regarded as something lost and something gained again.

The students in the classroom were amazed. The professor was a man of stories.

After telling the story, Professor Delacour said: "I am not telling you this story to show off, but to tell you that you may wish to study it when you find errors in previous results."

"When Professor Dumbledore invited me to Hogwarts, he told me that the theoretical error I discovered was indeed Lord Flamel's fault. They had noticed there was a problem forty years ago, but because they were busy at that time Other matters so no further study.”

With Dumbledore's endorsement, the students felt that the professor was more powerful.

At this time, Professor Delacour asked a question: "Can anyone tell me what the items they have processed using alchemy look like?"

Hermione, who used to be an expert at answering questions, couldn't answer this time. There was no way such a thing would exist in her home, and she had never seen it in Hogwarts.

The first person to raise his hand was Neville. After the professor nodded, he stood up and said, "The crucible I use in my Potions class was processed by alchemy by my Uncle Algie. It is not afraid of corrosion by the potion."

Charles nodded. It was true. In the first Potions class of the first grade, Neville made a highly corrosive potion, but his cauldron was completely fine.

"Yes." Professor Delacour motioned for Neville to sit down. "There are many types of potions. Some potions are very corrosive. Ordinary crucibles will be corroded. If the bottom of the pot is not thick enough, the potion will leak out. .”

"Alchemy is a science that studies the change of matter. It can make the crucible that is easily corroded become more corrosion-resistant."

Then someone was caught by him to answer the question: "Smith, have you ever used anything that has been alchemically processed, like long strips."

The professor's tone was cold, and others felt something was wrong when they heard it.

Charles had a black head. When he was in Marseille, he heard Fleur say that her belt was made by her father and was strong enough to lift two elephants.

There was a pit in this question. He wondered if the professor suspected that he had taken off his daughter's belt when they went to the beach that night. There was no way to jump into this pit, and there were long objects and broomsticks.

So Charles took out his broomstick from the bag. The purple-black wood of this broom was seamlessly inlaid with dark red lines. The old man said it was some kind of alchemy process.

Professor Delacour pretended not to dig a hole when he asked the question. He knew that Charles had a broomstick, but this was the first time he saw Charles take it out. He said in surprise: "So you have this broomstick made by Mr. Bloch." .”

Charles nodded, although he didn't know who he was talking about.

Professor Delacour said to the students: "You can take a look at Charles's broomstick. Mr. Bloch is a famous French broomstick maker, and I once studied in his workshop."

"Mr. Bloch has been studying the seamless fusion of various types of wood for many years. This broom uses six types of wood, which are processed and fused through alchemy to achieve extremely high performance."

"Of course, the price is also very expensive."

He asked Charles to put away the broomstick and let the others watch it after class, and continued: "Wood is not like ice cream. You can stick different flavors together to make one ice cream."

“It’s difficult to fit two pieces of wood perfectly together, but by alchemically processing the wood, making it look like ice cream, then processing it, and then letting the wood recover, you can get the desired effect.”

"This is what learning alchemy means, to change matter and make it work for me."