Chapter 123: Ancient Runic

An hour later, following a group of Hufflepuff students, Jon walked out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with a serious expression.
Several students around me are still excitedly discussing what Moody's just said in class:
"Sure enough, Professor Moody is really knowledgeable!"
"I didn't expect that we could get to know and understand black magic so close!"
"If the Ministry of Magic knows what we are studying, will it trouble Professor Moody and Professor Dumbledore?"
...
Ignoring their whispers, Jon fell into quiet thinking.
Through the content of this lesson, Jon has vaguely guessed something.
If that is the case, I desperately need to understand some knowledge about black magic!
There is no doubt that as a Death Eater trusted by Voldemort, Moody (Barty Crouch Jr.) is really good at black magic!
If you really try to understand black magic, he can be regarded as a good teacher!
It's a pity that for safety's sake, it's better to keep a little distance from him; otherwise, in case of an accident and an Imperius curse or something, it is not interesting... and from Deng Judging from Blido's performance, he has also suspected Moody's and everything should be under the control of the principal.
In addition, all the books on dark magic in the library were hidden by Dumbledore many years ago.
As a little wizard from a family of non-pure-blooded wizards, it is still too difficult to really get in touch with the knowledge of dark magic.
Just wait and see!
Went to the restaurant to eat something, and then returned to Hufflepuff’s common room
Jon was surprised to find that Zacharys-Smith was reading in the common room.
"The sun came out from the west?" Jon leaned over curiously.
Zacharias triumphantly turned over the book in his hand and showed Jon the title of the book: "A Guide to Advanced Transformation."
"How did you get this book?" Jon asked in surprise.
"I borrowed it from the library!" Zacharias said excitedly, "I lied to Hagrid that big silly man and said that he wanted to borrow a book about magical animals. He signed me without seeing the IOU, and then I borrowed it from Mrs. Pins!"
"Are you really ready to practice how to become an Animagus?" Jon had already guessed the purpose of Zacharias.
"Of course!"
...It's a pity that Zacharias' enthusiasm lasted only fifteen minutes.
When several members of Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team found him, he threw the banned book in his hands to Jon.
"It's too complicated!" He complained: "I have never seen such a complicated transfiguration technique. The process alone takes more than a year; at least five advanced potions have to be prepared. I swear I don't deserve one! "
"Then your plan to sneak into the girls' bathroom lasted for such a long time before you gave up?" Jon joked.
"Yes, give up!" Zacharias shook his head and stood up: "I went to fight Quidditch... Jon, if you go to the library, help me return this book to Huo on the way. Mrs. Qi."
"Okay, leave it to me!" Jon picked up the "Advanced Transformation Guide" that Zacharias had thrown aside, and received it in his backpack.
"Thanks!"
...
Zacharys-Smith has no class in the afternoon and can go to the Quidditch Stadium to release himself.
But Jon still has an ancient rune lesson to take. After resting for a while in the common room, he hurried to the third floor of the castle.
This course sounds rather boring from the name, so the number of electives for it is much less than that of the other courses.
The two colleges of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, together with no more than a dozen students, sat quietly in the classroom.
Jon found a seat and sat down.
"Hello!" In the front row, a Ravenclaw girl with light blonde, waist-length hair turned her head and blinked at him gently: "Jon Hart?"
"Yes, Miss Lovegood!" Jon smiled and nodded.
"I noticed you in the morning's Defense Against the Dark Arts class!" Luna said softly, "What do you seem to be worrying about?"
"Maybe!" Jon digressed the subject vaguely: "Maybe the course has been busy recently... By the way, you actually took this course too?"
"Of course!" Luna said brightly: "My mother once told me... If you turn these ancient magic texts upside down, you can see that they are actually an ancient spell! So I have been looking forward to this class."
"Really?" Jon said awkwardly.
Chatting with Luna Lovegood is a difficult task, because you can hardly keep up with her thinking.
In a sense, her thinking is too wild!
Until the magic text teacher Professor Bathsida Babling walked into the classroom.
"I always feel that the smell on your body is a bit familiar..." Luna sniffed her nose vigorously, then turned around slowly and opened her textbook.
...
Professor Bathsida Babling is a very young witch. She looks only in her twenties, but her dress is a little plain, even sloppy.
A black robe seemed to be a little discolored, with thick black-rimmed glasses on his face.
Professor Babling sat on the podium, took out the roster and started the roll call; due to the small number of students, the roll call ended soon.
"Welcome to the first ancient rune class!" Professor Babling's voice is very clear: "Many students think that this course is just learning a kind of useless ancient Chinese, and it is not magical at all...I hope Don’t think so too; then now, please open your books!"
Jon opened the catalog of his "Magic Phonetic Table", and then he was stunned.
In the inconspicuous corner of the catalogue of this book, it depicts a man with his hands tied upside down, his head shining with a weak light.
"This is..." Jon had opened the "Magic Phonetic Table" many times before, and never noticed this detail.
"Please turn to the third page!" Professor Babling said undoubtedly: "About the origin of magic, this is a very controversial topic... However, the most convincing statement in the history of magic is modern Magic originated from ancient Nordic magic!"
"The ancient Nordic magic has basically been lost, but their text has been preserved~EbookFREE.me~ which is also the Rune... We have reason to believe that we can infer some clues of ancient magic from the text!" Professor Babling paused and continued: "As described in an ancient Nordic poem on the third page of your textbook--"
"Hanging on the swaying tree for nine consecutive nights,
Stabbed by a spear;
I was treated as Odin’s sacrifice,
Sacrifice to yourself,
On the tree that no one knows!
There is no bread to satisfy your hunger, no drops to quench your thirst.
There are only mysterious words falling from the tree,
I looked down and picked up runes,
Shouting while picking up, filled my heart..."
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