In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 46: Having afternoon tea would be more preferable than having a rock cake

"Yes, it is true what you are learning now is a completely new way of casting spells, but the basis of the spell itself is still based on the same system of casting spells using a wand. So if you want to strengthen the ability of levitation charm used on yourself, the most fundamental aspect that you need is to understand the spell of levitation charm deep enough."

Slughorn gave Jon a cup of black tea, but he personally held a glass of lemon soda to drink and said.

Jon raised the wand in his hand as if he was thinking.

"In other words, as long as I have a better grasp of the normal levitation charm, then the effect of the levitation charm used on myself will be equally good. To improve it all I have to do is keep practising the spell itself."

Slughorn nodded.

"You got it right, the essence of wand casting and ring casting is quite similar, except that there is a difference in the target of the change, which is why only the incantation syllables change while the spell itself remains the same."

As he said that, he took out a large stack of notes and grimoires from under the cabinet of the desk.

"And these, when you leave later, take it with you, Adrien left behind some insights about this way of casting spells that you have learned, it should help you a lot. Of course, the part left in Hogwarts Castle must be more than what I have in my possession now, his last wish at the time was to donate all his research to the Hogwarts library, but, unfortunately, something like this happened later. He also asked me to bring out the materials and stones from the castle before he died, and now since you have inherited his possession, I will pass that task to you, Jon."

Slughorn said with a smile.

"I hope that one day you can really be able to accomplish this, but don't put too much pressure on yourself, you are only 11 years old after all."

Jon looked at all the things that Slughorn handed him and couldn't help but have a somewhat stunned expression on his face.

"Teacher ... What you mean by this is that you are no longer going to continue to teach me about things related to the ring?"

"It's not that I don't want to teach." The fat walrus shook his head, "but what I know is only so much Jon, after all, I have never really learned the use of that ring, what I taught you before all came from these notes too, now you have initially mastered the spell, it is better for you to learn it yourself instead of letting me relay it to you in a half-baked way. Besides, if you have any questions later, of course, you can continue to ask me, but I am afraid that I can't give you the answer outright, we have to discuss it to solve the problem."

Although he said so, but Jon still can not quite accept it for a while, he had thought that teaching about this kind of spell casting will take a long time, at least one or two school years, but now only half a school year has passed.

Just as they were talking, the door to the office suddenly opened with a crack, and Jon turned his head to look over but did not see anyone walking in.

Just when he thought some student had accidentally bumped the door open from outside, he suddenly noticed a familiar small figure nimbly scurrying past his feet, then with a slight leap jumped onto the desk and ran to Slughorn's face.

That is Hagrid's pet - Beech.

He seems quite familiar with this office, when facing Slughorn he did not hide at all, and directly spread out his little paws as if asking for something.

Slughorn also smiled as he looked at him and grabbed a handful of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from the drawer and placed them in front of him, and this skilled action seemed like this was not the first time he had been fed.

"Professor, how come Beech is in your place?"

Hearing Jon calling this Niffler by name, Slughorn showed some surprise.

"You know this Niffler?"

"This is Hagrid's pet, I got familiar with Hagrid back then because he stole something from me."

"Yes, Hagrid talked to me about this being the only creature he had brought out of that forest other than Thestrals, this little fellow indeed has loose hands and feet, but it's just the nature of Niffler." Slughorn said with a wink, "a while ago when I came back to the office I found him stealing my crystallised pineapple, this magical creature seems quite interesting, so I took the initiative to give him some small snacks, then from that day onwards he started to haunt me, every once in a while he would come to my place for a short afternoon tea."

It is not an error when he said that Beech came to drink afternoon tea, Slughorn really prepared a cup of tea for him in a small pocket-sized cup, which helped him to enjoy the sweets without being choked.

When Jon looked at the way he was enjoying himself, he couldn't help but complain in his heart, no wonder he kept seeing Hagrid coming to the wagon to look for him, the Niffler seemed to have preferred to drink afternoon tea with Slughorn than to eat Hagrid's hand-made rock cake.

After sitting in the office for a while, Jon said goodbye to Slughorn and left.

In fact, the fat walrus is not wrong about one point, that is, Jon now has nothing to learn from him when it comes to the ring.

If he wants to learn another magic he needs an extra gem, but in addition to knowing that one of them is in Hogwarts Castle, he has no clues regarding the remaining three, and now Jon certainly can not go straight into Hogwarts Castle to look for it, so he can only learn the levitation charm on top of the next studies.

And Slughorn couldn't provide him with much help when it came to improving the mastery of the levitation charm, so he needed to figure it out on his own.

With this in mind, Jon's heart was somewhat relaxed, and after he returned to his dorm room, he began to concentrate on how to improve the effectiveness of the levitation charm.

But at the same time, he did not forget to learn other spells.

The spells learned in the first-year charms class are generally basic magic spells, which may be very practical in life, but in the real wizard battle it can only play some auxiliary role at best, it is difficult to produce any effective lethal power.

So, of course, he would not wait till the second year when Flitwick would start to teach, and then come in contact with those types of direct damage spells; he went and borrowed a spell book from the library directly, and began to teach himself the full-body bind curse in private.

The full-body bind curse is undoubtedly a very useful magic spell, even now the Ministry of Magic's Auror office kept the full-body bind curse, stunning spell, and disarming charm as the three primary spells that needed to be learned

After all, it is not possible to capture a prisoner with a killing curse, and as an important means of subduing the enemy, the full-body bind curse has always shown its excellence.

And this spell is not difficult to learn, in the original story Hermione was able to learn on her own in the first year, so naturally, it is not a problem for Jon.

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