Chapter 155 153 What Is This? (Four Thousand)

Chapter 155 153. What is this? (four thousand)

Lily Potter has always been a rather special professor on the carriage.

She did not express her inner friendliness unreservedly when treating students like professors such as Macquarie and Lupin.

Whether she was in the usual classroom or met students privately on the carriage, she always had a cold face in most cases, and she looked bland no matter who she looked at.

But after getting along with her for a long time, many students will find that Professor Porter is not as unkind as she appears on the outside. Instead, she treats students with the same gentleness and patience as other professors.

It's just that her emotions were suppressed by another special emotion.

Regarding Lily's past, other professors have never mentioned it to the students. Even if Neville and Ron, whose family and Lily were already familiar with each other, knew some secrets, they had never really talked about Lily with Jon and the others. family".

After getting advice from Lupin, Jon knocked on Lily's office door at the weekend of this week.

The Potions Master was brewing a potion in his office.

After Slughorn left the carriage, she could be said to be the busiest person in the entire school.

There was no school doctor on the carriage, and Lily, as the potions professor, was equivalent to the doctor for all the students in this school.

Under normal circumstances, she would stock up on some potions to treat common illnesses, and some of the magical plants specially cultivated in the greenhouse also require special potions to raise and irrigate. In addition, Lupine came to the carriage this semester to brew wolfsbane potion for him. The work naturally fell on Lily.

Therefore, no matter when anyone comes to Lily's office, they will see a cauldron constantly emitting water vapor in the middle of her office.

"Good morning, Professor Potter." After entering the door, Jon greeted the witch sitting in front of the crucible.

After he walked into the office, a chair automatically slid behind him. Lily did not look at him, but was concentrating on dripping two drops of green liquid into the boiling crucible. The next second, the boiling water He instantly calmed down, and the color of the water turned into an indigo color.

Lily closed the lid of the cauldron before looking up at Jon.

"Something happened?"

She didn't call Jon by his surname or first name, but her calm voice didn't sound distant.

Jon didn't talk about asking for the Patronus Charm when he came up. He first expressed his gratitude to Lily respectfully.

"Since I came back last time, I haven't thanked you enough, Professor, for lending me that invisibility cloak."

"That's not just to help you." Lily sat on the chair in front of the desk. She seemed to be leisurely chatting with Jon for a while, "If you can do what Dumbledore told you to do well, it will be good for the entire school." It's all beneficial. Besides, since you dare to take such a risk and sneak into the castle, I'm definitely not so selfish that I'm not even willing to take out an invisibility cloak."

If you just listen to what she said, most people will subconsciously think that the invisibility cloak Lily lent to Jon is just an ordinary thing that can be bought in the magical world with a little effort, but Jon knows better than anyone else. , what does this invisibility cloak inherited from the Potter family mean.

"Besides, I didn't want to give that invisibility cloak to you. It's just that it can only be put in a box to waste its usefulness. Although I lent it to you, I hope you can use it in real life. A place that reflects its value, not some petty theft that violates school rules.”

She looked at Jon, her tone unchanged, but Jon heard something much more serious than serious.

"If I find out that you have done such a thing, I will take back the invisibility cloak and punish you more severely than Filch."

Even if Lily hadn't told him, Jon wouldn't have taken the invisibility cloak to do something like that. He wasn't really a teenager of 13 or 14 years old, and he wasn't so bored that he would wear an invisibility cloak and wander around in a carriage at night. To the point of breaking into the room.

"I can assure you that I will not lead you astray with that cloak, Professor."

On the desk, a teapot flew up on its own, pouring a cup of tea into the teacup that had slid in front of Jon. At this time, Jon finally told the main topic of his coming here.

"I am currently following Professor Lupine on the Patronus Charm of the school." He looked at Lily, not seeing how surprised she was at the news on her face. "Professor Lupine told me that Professor you are on this spell." His level is very high and he said he could let me come to you for advice.”

Lily picked up the teacup in front of her and took a sip of the black tea inside.

"Remus told me about this a few days ago. He said that you are making rapid progress in learning the Patronus Charm. In less than half a year, you have been able to achieve the goal of summoning a real Patronus in less than half a year. It’s effective.”

"But there are some things that he doesn't know. If I could really teach you something before, but now, I am reluctant to use the Patronus Charm myself, let alone teach you."

She didn't look like she was looking for excuses. If Jon thought about it carefully, he could understand that Lily's understanding and mastery of the Patronus Charm had indeed changed based on her experiences.

This kind of spell is originally a spell closely related to the emotions and mentality of the caster. The patronus of each wizard is not fixed after it is summoned. It will change with the change of the caster's mentality.

For example, in the original book, Tonks's patronus was a rabbit at the beginning, but after she fell in love with Lupin, the rabbit became a wolf.

The patronus is not a specific creature. It is more like a reflection of the wizard's own heart, a powerful emotional force manifested by magic.

Lily's patronus in the original book should be a doe, while her husband James Potter and son Harry Potter's patronus are both stags. Snape's patronus is exactly the same as hers, also a doe.

It is precisely because the Patronus spell reflects the wizard's heart that Snape and Lily's patronus are exactly the same, which makes people feel at ease that he can be a double agent. As long as he still loves Lily, he will never hurt Harry Potter, which is naturally opposed to Voldemort's position.

But now it is obviously a world of difference.

After the dramatic changes in her family, no one except Lily herself could have imagined what kind of changes had taken place in her current Patronus. Even as she said, it was a matter of difficulty whether she could use it.

Jon could understand this, but he was still a little disappointed. He always felt that he was still a little short of using the Patronus Charm, but he could not grasp what was missing, and he could not mobilize positive emotions, so he could not summon his own Patronus in the end.

However, although Lily could not teach him what he wanted to improve, she also gave him a piece of advice on learning the Patronus Charm.

"Don't just think that the emotions that make up the Patronus Charm are simply positive emotions. People are complex creatures, and emotions are the key to this complexity. The so-called positive emotions are also relative. For some things, you always feel sad when you recall the scene at that time, but in some different situations, it may give you greater hope."

Jon did not stay at Lily's desk for too long. After drinking the tea in the cup, he said goodbye and left.

Instead of going back to the dormitory immediately, he went straight to an empty classroom usually used for spells. When he pushed the door and walked in, Hermione was practicing her cane swinging skills inside.

After Jon leaned against the door and stared at Hermione for a while, he gave his own advice.

"I suggest that you don't add too obvious personal habitual movements when you finish swinging your cane. Try to correct it. This will be very helpful for you to learn more advanced spells in the future."

Except for the astronomy classroom and the greenhouse, any classroom on the carriage is allowed to be used privately by students when there are no students in class, and the public lounge is usually used by students to rest and relax, so in most cases, students who want to practice casting spells in actual combat will choose an empty classroom.

Especially the spell classroom, where the walls are cast with protective spells to protect this side of the carriage from spells. If it is in the corridor, there will be no such protection. Any spell may leave a hole in the floor. Casting spells in the corridor is also prohibited by school rules and regulations, which makes Filch the most angry.

Hermione turned her eyes to Jon. She seldom went to the common room after class. Even among the students who were rescued from the castle and returned to the carriage, she was the most hardworking one.

During this period, Jon did not hide the fact that he was practicing the Patronus Charm from others. The two often met in this spell classroom.

"What's wrong with asking Professor Potter about the Patronus Charm?" Hermione asked. She obviously knew what Jon had just done.

Jon raised his wand in thought. He waved it gently and chanted the spell as before.

"Expecto Patronus."

The silver light bloomed like a flower on the tip of his wand, but the scattered light floated around, but it didn't seem to condense into a solid entity.

Looking at the effect of the spell on the tip of the wand, Jon shook his head.

"Even if the professors explain this spell clearly, it depends on whether I have figured it out myself."

Hermione looked at the silver light on the tip of his wand, and her eyes showed an indescribable complexity.

To be honest, Jon's troubles now are really a bit Versailles. They are all in the same grade. Although Hermione just came to the carriage this year and started to learn wand casting, she is also very clear that Jon's learning of magic has actually surpassed his peers.

This is the progress after he wasted half a school year in Hogwarts Castle to save them.

Talent is sometimes really hard to say, and Hermione thinks that she is already a diligent student, but compared with Jon, she is a little ashamed of herself for having such a mentality.

In fact, this is also because she does not understand Jon's psychology.

Because he knows what the world should be like, Jon will feel more urgent about the current situation. After all, Voldemort seen in the book only exists in the book, not to mention that the dark devil in the story has long become an unreasonable madman.

Madmen are terrible, but their harm is also limited, but in this world, this madman has become more rational, which is really terrifying.

Especially for unknown reasons, Dumbledore, who should have been stronger than Voldemort, was defeated by him, which made Jon feel a suffocating oppression.

He was eager to improve his strength. Whether it was to protect the others in the carriage or to protect himself, he needed enough strength to lay the foundation.

The ring he got from Slughorn gave him a direction to become stronger, but at the same time, he could not rely entirely on the ring.

Even Voldemort knew that the strength of wizards should be based on themselves, and Jon also knew that he could not demand something too much. This is why he was so serious and hardworking even when he was not studying the magic on the ring and learning ordinary spells.

It was Jon's performance that gave Hermione a great encouragement.

She always thought that she might have worked hard enough, and then she would think of the boy who rescued her from the "prison", and then continue to work hard.

This is also the case with other people who spend the most time with Jon.

For example, when he first entered school, Ron was a little lazy. He didn't even want to do his homework by himself, but "borrowed" from Jon or Neville.

But after the second year, he never mentioned borrowing someone's homework. He usually didn't waste time playing wizard chess in the common room, but went to the library with Justin and Lavender.

In the spells classroom, Jon thought about his emotions and thoughts on the Patronus Charm for a while, and then began to practice several spells and transfiguration he had mastered.

Talent can make him learn magic faster, but if he wants to use it without thinking in actual combat, he needs to practice day and night to form muscle memory.

While he was chatting with Hermione and practicing spells, Jon waved his hand at the table and chair in front of him and used a floating spell. A target that should not belong to him attracted his attention.

He did not look at the tables, chairs and benches that were floating in front of him, but reached out his hand and carefully picked up a handful of hair from among the floating things.

This handful of hair was very special, not like someone else's hair, the overall color was a dark gray, and each strand was very short and thin.

"What is this?"

First chapter of 4,000, and another chapter of 4,000 after 12 o'clock