Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

"This……"

In that small attic, Maca carried a lantern in his hand, spinning around in circles.It can be seen that on the four walls of this attic, extremely dense alchemy symbols are depicted.Some of them are connected with each other by lines, and some are in the neutral position alone, which looks extremely complicated.

Looking at the symbols, Maca also had a headache.

He had studied it before, and the symbols of alchemy had completely different representation rules from the various ancient magical runes he learned.Compared with the runes of the ancient magic literature, the symbols of alchemy are more of the material elements with practical meaning, rather than the so-called "connotation" of the ancient magic literature based on the subjective spirit.

In fact, Muggle's chemistry theory is derived from a leapfrog development branch of alchemy. To say that the two are more similar.

"Mr. McLean?" Old Edward saw that Maca didn't speak, he just turned around and stared at the four walls, and couldn't help but try to call him.

"Huh?" Maca turned his head subconsciously, "Oh, sorry! I look a little fascinated...Speaking of which, does Mr. LeMay play this little game here every time he enters his laboratory? "

"Small game?" The old butler was quite unsure, so he said authentically, "What do you mean? I only know that when the master usually goes back to the laboratory, he will use a magic wand to tap the four walls. But every time he clicks the position Too the same, I never figured it out."

"At least for Mr. Le May, this is a small game." Maca shrugged and said, "You should understand-use it to review your basic knowledge of alchemy, just like wizards often use runes. The combination of text to make a password like that."

"Oh, it turned out to be like this--" Old Edward said thoughtfully, "I have never been talented in alchemy, and the master hasn't taught me some basic knowledge, but there are so many things when I come up. Symbol, where do I remember?"

"It's really not easy!" Maca nodded very understandingly.

It's not that he himself can't remember the symbols, but because he himself has already memorized many messy ancient magic texts, and some of the alchemy symbols directly inherit certain ancient characters, which inevitably makes him specific Confusing in meaning.

Therefore, he didn't bother to memorize many symbols of alchemy.Because he knew very well that the direction of his research was not the alchemy system at all, and he didn't have more energy to spend on it.

But the reason why alchemy is both a developmental branch of wizards is because these two dissimilar systems share a common research point.In mantra science, it is called "soul magic"; in alchemy, it is defined as a basic element-soul element.

It can be seen that although the two systems have completely different developments in material research, they have similarities in spirit.

"Mr. McLean, are you concerned about this... um, this'mini game'? Is there any solution?" Old Edward could not help but asked.

Maca hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly.

"I don't know yet... Actually, I don't have much research on alchemy," he said. "But it doesn't seem to be hopeless. I think...I will spend more time on this."

While talking, he took out a book and checked it carefully against the table above.It can be said that if he interprets the puzzles on the wall completely from the perspective of alchemy, he has no possibility of solving them; but if some theories of soul magic are used as benchmarks, to directly analyze the puzzles themselves, The result is not yet certain.

Soon, Maca devoted himself to the research and stopped talking with the old housekeeper.

...

Throughout the night, Maca had a particularly long time, and Harry had never had a hard time.To be precise, he has insomnia!

The sky is slightly bright,

In the boys' dormitory in the Gryffindor Tower, Harry lay on his bed and his eyes widened, his eyes were not full of bloodshot eyes, but he just couldn't sleep.

Since he learned Occlumency, he sleeps very sweetly every day, how can he know that he has insomnia again today.Compared with waking up from the scar on his forehead, the feeling last night made him quite uncomfortable.There was no more Voldemort in his head, only the figure of the red-haired girl.

"Ha! Another day!"

Harry reluctantly sat up on the bed, then held his bend knees in a daze again.That night, he has been lying down and sitting for countless times, but he still couldn't let him put aside the confusion in his mind.

He still remembered that Ron suddenly sat up inexplicably in the night, half-opened his eyes sleepwalking and asked him what to do when he was forced to tap dance by the big spider.Damn it, how does he know what to do?

At that time, he was bored and intolerable, so he let Ron go directly to discuss with the spiders or something.What else can I do?Don't jump if you don't want to jump!

After thinking about it, Ron suddenly lay back and fell asleep.

Is that guy going to negotiate with spiders in his dream?Harry didn't know, and didn't want to know at all, because his head was already full of Ginny Weasley.

Is this the feeling of being in love?No, Harry thought it was not, it was at best an emotional annoyance forced by the situation.

"For Ginny, if you want to say you like it, you must like it, but this is probably not the kind of like between men and women."

Harry thought so, trying to persuade himself in this way so as not to keep himself awake all night.But he found that this didn't work, he couldn't sleep at all if he couldn't sleep!

He sighed, then opened the quilt and put on his clothes quickly.As for the glasses, they were already on the bridge of his nose before the day was light.

After he had cleaned himself up roughly, Harry relaxed his steps and quickly left the bedroom.Although upset, there is no need to let this chaotic mood affect other students, they are all still sleeping!

"what!"

At the exit from the bedroom to the common room, Harry gave a violent footstep, but in the next moment, he wanted to slap himself directly.

Yes, he saw that there was someone in the common room who arrived earlier than him, and that was a girl.It's just that it wasn't Ginny that he had thought in the first reaction, but his good friend Hermione!

God!What's wrong with yourself?How do you look at it to think of Hermione as Ginny?

"Harry?" Hermione heard his whisper and turned around from her chair. "Good morning, uh...what's wrong with you?"

Harry knew that his eyes must be as red as blood, because he could clearly feel the soreness in them.

"No, it's okay—" He blinked vigorously, then let out a perfunctory sound.

"I didn't sleep, okay?" Hermione thought for a while, "Oh, it was because of yesterday evening? I heard someone say that you thought it was a gust of wind rushing to the dormitory yesterday... let me guess, it was because Met Ginny?"

Hermione's head has always been smart, let alone the fact that it was caused by her, obviously, she couldn't be accurate.

"...Well, yes."

Harry hesitated, but finally nodded weakly.While talking, he walked over to Hermione with drooping eyelids and sat down casually.

"That is to say, you went to ask her and failed?" Hermione said helplessly, "Or, today I will give you a less abrupt opportunity?"

Harry waved his hand quickly, indicating that he didn't need it.That feeling will come again?No, one time is enough for him. He doesn't feel like trying again a second time.

Upon seeing this, Hermione flattened her mouth angrily and glared at Harry.

"Is it that difficult? Don't you think that inviting a girl on a date is an ability that any boy should have?"

"No, I said it yesterday—it's not like that." Harry closed his eyes with a headache. "Okay, okay! I will try again today, for the last time—"

"I don't think so!"

Harry had just finished speaking when a voice suddenly rang from behind them.

"Ginny?" Hermione was surprised at first, but then apologized, "Oh, I am not..."

"No, it's okay, I understand." The person who came was Ginny. I didn't expect that she would get up so early today. There seemed to be a tired look on her face, "Hermione, I know you are kind. But I don’t think it’s necessary to do this. It’s his business who Harry likes. I don’t want to force him to do something for some personal reasons. In that case, it’s not the real Harry."

"Ginny……"

While watching her, Harry gradually realized the sincerity in her expression.Just as different people show different personalities in love, what Ginny shows may be an emotion called "understanding".

It can be seen that she still likes Harry, but she doesn't have to be liked by Harry.Rather than chasing eagerly, she hoped that Harry would like her with her own will. Even if she didn't, Harry would still be the one she liked the most in her memory.

"You..." Harry opened his mouth and hesitated a few more times before trying to ask, "Do you like me? Uh... You know, I've always been a little slow."

This is probably the first time he tried to understand Ginny's thoughts, because at this moment, he was really moved by Ginny's "understanding".