The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

After Winter Solstice left, Tom took the Menes Tablet and returned to the Room of Requirement. By this time, Winter Solstice had already left. Tom and Hermione sat at the table together and looked at the emerald slate in their hands.

"According to Menis, this stone slab is no longer like an alchemy tool, but more like..."

"The wishing machine!" Tom answered, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.

That's right, Menis has successfully turned alchemy, the most difficult operation in the magic world, into something like a vending machine. You only need to provide enough blood to complete the alchemy.

Tom took a careful look at the emerald slate in front of him, which was engraved with several columns of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. On the top of the slate, there were four black gemstones and a hole inlaid in a row. He didn't know what it was for.

"Hurry up and put the blood on it!" Hermione urged on the side, she couldn't wait to see how this magical stone slab worked. Tom naturally didn't say anything and dropped the blood of Menes used in the experiment just now on the stone slab.

The blood droplets dripped on the slate, just like water droplets hitting the sand, quickly seeping into the slate. Tom watched as the ghostly hieroglyphs gradually became covered with a layer of dark red traces. It seemed that the blood had seeped into the slate. The stone slabs are all collected into the grooves of the words.

One drop of blood is obviously too little. However, the quality of the blood is very high - the main body is taken from Menes himself, and the amount of proliferation in the mouse's body is only a fraction, and in terms of quantity, it may be far less than the blood taken from the mother's body.

After the blood seeped in, Tom understood the function of the black gems on the top of the stone slab: they turned over little by little, revealing the other side. It turns out that the back of the black gem on this slate is attached with a ruby ​​of the same size and shape. When the side of the black gem is turned into the slate, the ruby ​​will be exposed. This drop of Tom's blood caused the three rubies to spin.

Obviously, a three-star level alchemical creation is the limit of this alchemy. It is understandable that for a creation powered by the blood of Menes, it would not be able to exert its strongest effect due to insufficient blood volume.

Three stars, Tom frowned slightly. This star rating is neither high nor low, and the items produced are likely to be useless, making it difficult for him to make a decision for a moment, "Is there anything you want? ” He looked at Hermione, hoping to get some inspiration from her.

"Actually, I really want to take a vacation... Even if I go out of school to do tasks, it will be better than now..." Hermione sighed slightly, which made Tom stunned. Seeing Tom, who was a little surprised, Hermione rolled her eyes at him: "I'm not a tough guy, and I will naturally be tired from taking so many classes at the same time, not to mention the homework assigned by the professors."

Tom said angrily: Didn't you ask for this? Who asked you to sign up for so many classes? But even though he verbally criticized Hermione, an idea flashed through Tom's mind, and he seemed to know what to do.

There is a tricky way to make low-star items have the same effect as high-star items - that is to make low-star items defective, which not only have heaven-defying effects, but also have huge negative effects. Let’s say…a one-off. An alchemical creation can only be used once before being destroyed, so its star rating will definitely not be much higher, but that does not prevent it from having extremely powerful effects.

Tom planned to make a one-time alchemical creation to give Hermione time to take a vacation. After he had a specific idea, he took a piece of magic silver from the material cabinet on the side and placed it on the jade stone slab. Immediately afterwards, the magic silver began to deform little by little. At the same time, the words in the groove of the writing on the stone slab The dark red traces are also gradually receding.

Soon, the magic silver turned into a soft little sleeve, and the emerald stone slab returned to the way it was before the blood dripped.

"What is this?" Hermione picked up the soft silver condom, curious.

[Disposable protective cover (Samsung): It can be put on the time converter. Before it is damaged, the time converter will not be damaged even if the time goes back more than five hours]

After Tom told Hermione about the function of this condom, Hermione immediately understood Tom's intention: time is tight now, so let's "borrow" some time from the past. In fact, the two of them had no shortage of time turners. In addition to the time turner given by Menis, they also had the one lent to them by the Ministry of Magic. But there is a problem. Both converters are a little inconvenient to use. Menis' converter can go back in time by hundreds of years, and it can take them back to ancient times in one fell swoop. The Ministry of Magic's converter is at the other extreme - it can only go back five hours at most.

If Tom wants to go back three days, sorry, even though they have two time turners, they can't do that. This protective case reverses this situation and allows the upper limit of time to go back a little longer, which means...

"Holiday!" Hermione suddenly became excited. Even a top student like Hermione is still happy during the holidays. She immediately started counting on her fingers what she could do.

"First finish the paper assigned by Professor Binns about the weirdo Ulric, and then write a technical summary for the Potions class. The homework for the Transfiguration class has been finished, so let's review it and preview it... This way, the first day will be almost the same Already..."

Listening to Hermione's "vacation" plan, Tom was stunned: This thing is not for you to use like this!

"Stop! This is not a vacation! This is simply a cram school!" Tom can no longer let Hermione plan like this - because he has several projects in the same group as Hermione. If she wants to write a thesis, Then you can't escape it.

It stands to reason that you can have a good time if you are in a group with top students, but it is different if you are in a group with Hermione. Hermione knew very well what Tom was capable of and would definitely not leave room for Tom to paddle when arranging the plan. If Tom couldn't finish it, she wouldn't force him. She would just take over Tom's work and finish it silently by herself. After doing this once, Tom couldn't bear to assign his tasks to Hermione anymore - it hurt.

"What is a holiday? It should be about going for a walk on the sunny streets and driving a convertible, instead of sitting in the corner of the library and burying yourself in a pile of books." Tom criticized righteously He asked Hermione.

"Okay then," Hermione took a step back, "How about we first see how far back the time turner can go back, and then decide what to do?"

Tom supported Hermione's idea. If you want to make arrangements, you should at least check how many days the "vacation" lasts, right? Although one day's leave and seven days' leave can both be called holidays, the difference is huge.

Hermione took out the time turner from her chest and installed the protective cover.