The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

After breakfast, Professor McGonagall called Percy Weasley and several other Gryffindor prefects to the office, and then told them the results of the previous exam.

Several prefects were still very concerned about losing to Slytherin.

"I have also read the test paper. Our main problem is that we made too many wrong choices. You should be careful next time and don't choose if you are unsure." Professor McGonagall took out the test paper she had just received from Professor Lockhart. test paper. The prefects in front of her looked serious, and Percy even looked like he was about to die of discomfort.

"Okay, next time you take the exam, don't do it like this again. I couldn't even look into Snape's eyes this morning! Try to do everything right, and we will definitely defeat Slytherin House."

Percy thought for a moment and said, "We can summarize the questions after each day's test. That might be helpful."

Professor McGonagall thought about it and felt that Percy's idea was sound.

"Then do this. You go back and talk to them. But don't take up too much time. You still have other subjects to study, but I got a message here. Professor Snape seems to want to come next week. You must be prepared for the surprise exam." Then Professor McGonagall signaled to the prefects to leave.

Several people looked at each other, not expecting such explosive inside information. They nodded seriously, then left the office and returned to the lounge to announce the two bad news.

The weekends in the four colleges were not peaceful, but this had nothing to do with the instigator, Tom.

On Saturday, he came to the library early, slipped in as soon as the door opened, and went straight to the restricted book area.

He walked into the forbidden book area with his front foot, and a figure followed behind him.

Tom noticed the noise behind him and turned to look, "H-Miss Granger, you came to the library to read early on Saturday morning. You are so diligent. Children who work hard are worthy of praise. I want to cheer you up." Five points for Winclaw." Tom also has the power to add and deduct points when there is no class, but the daily share is smaller.

After adding points, he continued: "There is a saying in the Muggle world that one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration constitute genius. Miss Granger, you are on the path of genius." On the way."

Hermione's face turned red immediately. Of course she knew who the person in front of her with Lockhart's appearance was. This string of compliments made her heart beat fast.

"There is still a second half to that sentence, but the one percent inspiration is often more important than the ninety-nine percent sweat." She lowered her head and whispered, "And Edison has a very bad reputation. , please don’t quote him.”

"Oh?" Tom became very interested in Edison's gossip. So, he asked Hermione about it, and then he realized that Edison was such a person!

When Edison is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the light bulb. This is one of his most famous inventions. On October 21, 1879, Edison's laboratory successfully produced the world's first electric light bulb, which continued to generate electricity for about 13 hours. But as early as 1854, the American Goebbels completed the world's earliest light bulb experiment: He placed carbonized bamboo wire in a vacuum glass bottle and energized it, so that it could glow for 400 hours!

It's a pity that he didn't apply for a patent.

In 1874, two Canadian electricians applied for a patent for adding ammonia gas to a glass bubble to make electrified carbon filaments glow. Unfortunately, they had no funds to continue their research and had to sell the patent to Edison.

So no matter how you look at it, Edison was not the inventor of the light bulb. He is more of a businessman who commercialized electric lights.

Countless people say that Edison was the "King of Inventions" with more than a thousand inventions, but there were countless engineers, mechanics and physicists in his laboratory, and their contributions have been forgotten by the world.

These are all child's play, and the fight between him and Tesla is truly exciting! It’s enough to write a cool article with Tesla as the protagonist’s perspective.

In addition, Edison also single-handedly promoted the birth of Hollywood: he applied for patents for the phonograph and the movie camera. After inventing these two things, Edison also hired many lawyers to sue the film makers frantically, trying to make only Edison-owned companies work. room to shoot videos.

At that time, in order to avoid Edison, countless film companies went to Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States to shoot movies, which eventually became what is now Hollywood.

Edison is a bit like Lockhart in the non-magical world, except that he is stronger than Lockhart and specializes in more projects - if Lockhart knows a few more spells, his reputation will not be as good. So unbearable.

The image of Edison in Tom's mind was suddenly overturned by Hermione, and he didn't speak for a long, long time.

"Okay, Professor Lockhart, don't be in a daze." Hermione had already found a table to finish. She filled the table with various books and took out several rolls of parchment and a bottle of ink.

Tom took a piece of parchment and signed his name on it.

"Take this. If you see a book you want to read in the restricted book area, just borrow it."

Hermione raised her head suddenly, her eyes filled with light, "Isn't this bad?" She put away the signed parchment.

"What's not allowed? I'm a real professor at Hogwarts!" Tom waved his hand: Stupid question! If it weren't for enjoying the forbidden book section of Hogwarts, he would have had enough time to play Professor Lockhart! Wouldn’t it be nice to read more books during class time?

Of course, exposing the true face of the liar, allowing justice to be done, and allowing the poor person to regain his memory are also extremely important reasons.

Tom walked into the forbidden book area alone. He had no clue about the "fairy castle" mentioned in the previous production method of the time turner. He wanted to see if he could find the answer in the forbidden book area.

""Ancient Forbidden Legends", "The Buried Celts"... I feel like these two books seem interesting." Tom took down these two books from the bookshelf. These two books look very old at first glance. One has a tattered cover, and the other has a blood-red cover. Just looking at it makes you feel extremely evil.

His purpose is also very clear: the content recorded in the book should be from the ancient times. After all, Slytherin himself lived more than a thousand years ago, and the things mentioned in the scrolls he collected must be at least a thousand years ago. The right thing.

As for the history of thousands of years ago, most books in the ordinary area are unclear, so Tom can only find clues from the books in the restricted area. He planned to read various legends first to see if there was any shadow of "Fairy Castle" in them. He had been searching for information in this way for the past week and had read several books.

Tom returned to Hermione's table with the two books and sat down across from her. Afterwards, the two of them quietly read a book together.

The first thing Tom read was "Ancient Forbidden Legends". There was a reason why this book was placed in the restricted area. The illustrations in it alone were enough to make people feel psychologically uncomfortable. Tom only read a few pages before he saw a woman being stripped. A skinned human and a witch with countless arms growing from her shoulders.

This made him feel sick, so he changed it to "The Buried Celts". Then Tom borrowed the keyword bookmark from Hermione, inserted it into "Old Forbidden Legends", and waited for the bookmark scan to finish , he can try to search for "Fairy Castle".

The content in "The Buried Celts" is much more normal, at least without the stomach-churning illustrations. This book mainly tells the history of the Celts.

As one of the most brave and martial nations in European history, the Celts have left very few records. This is related to the fact that they did not popularize writing. All writing was mastered by a small number of druids. What's more terrible is that in order to strengthen their dominance, the druids refused to use writing to record history. Relying on word of mouth, this makes their cultural vitality quite fragile. When the tribe's force was insufficient to deter foreigners, their civilization dissipated like frost and dew in the sun.

Ironically, it was their mortal enemies, the Romans and Christianity, who left traces of this nation in the long history.

Scanning of bookmarks ends quickly.

Tom entered "Fairy Castle". The bookmark did not find this word in the book "Old Forbidden Legends". Tom scanned "The Buried Celts" again, and this time the bookmark responded.

Tom perked up, and Hermione sat next to him and started reading.

"Fairy Castle", also known as "Fairy Tomb", it is said that after the sacred tribe Asa Dayanan was defeated by the Milesians, they opened up "another world" as their domain. The Milesians ruled the secular world of Ireland. , while the Danan tribe controls the places where gods live underground and at the end of the ocean.

"The other world" is the paradise in Celtic mythology. It is the happiest land in the world, where the trees are lush, the grass is delicious, the branches are full of fruits, and the nectar is inexhaustible. . The residents there stay young forever and never age. Feasts and carnivals are held there all day long. The residents of the "other world" drink and enjoy themselves all day long. They have silk and bamboo orchestras and gold and silver treasures. This is the mysterious and magical land in ancient Celtic mythology.

"Fairy Castle" is the entrance to "another world".

Seeing this, Tom and Hermione were stunned. If they saw this kind of record in the non-magical world, they would probably laugh it off. What civilization doesn't have a few myths and legends?

But the records that appear in the books in the restricted area of ​​​​Hogwarts are much more authentic.

"This book was collected shortly after the establishment of Hogwarts," Hermione said, looking at the description on the book cover. "This book is compiled from the manuscripts left by a wizard in the Middle Ages. The wizard's apparent occupation was Priest, he wrote this book based on documents left in several monasteries in England - which, needless to say, are now lost."