Chapter 200

"Hagrid?"

Hermione told everyone about the conversation she heard between Murphy and Professor McGonagall, "Maybe we should go ask him."

"But we are not familiar with Hagrid," Harry said.

Unlike the original book, because Harry lived with Sirius, he didn't have much contact with Hagrid, and they hadn't become friends yet. Although he felt Hagrid should be easier to deal with than the professors, suddenly going to ask him this would definitely be rejected, right?

The four-person group was silent for a while, Hermione suddenly said: "Ron, don't you want a new wand?"

Ron was confused, "What's wrong?"

"I suddenly remembered that Professor Murphy seems to be researching wands recently, and he is recruiting assistants for wand making. Maybe he is willing to make you a new wand."

"But what does this have to do with Hagrid?" Ron couldn't keep up with the girl's thinking.

"The place where Professor Murphy makes wands is right next to Hagrid's hut."

Second practical course.

Murphy commented and guided the project proposals submitted by each group.

"Malfoy group, your topic is written as 'Analysis on the Superiority of Pure Blood'..."

"Although the format of this topic is still too general and has a strong subjective bias, I have to say that this is indeed a good topic."

Looking at Malfoy's smug expression, Murphy added:

"However, I suggest changing the name of the topic to: Analysis on the Influence of Wizard Bloodline on Magical Ability."

"In the method and plan column of how to realize the topic research, you didn't write anything of value. They are all bits and pieces of bloodline theory found from nowhere. This won't work."

"My suggestion is to do a statistical analysis. First define what is pure blood and what is half-blood. For example, does pure blood mean no Muggle blood for ten generations, or five generations? Half-blood can also be divided into pure blood ratios, for example, among the five generations above, what is the ratio of Muggle blood, etc..."

"Then, do a survey and set up some items that can reflect the differences in magical ability, such as academic performance in school, etc., or if conditions permit, it can be set more specifically, such as the grades of some specific subjects, or the ability of some types of magic, etc."

"Finally, make a statistical analysis of these surveyed data to confirm or falsify the relationship between pure blood and magical ability."

"As for statistical methods, if you don't understand them, I can recommend some books to you. 'Basics of Statistics', 'Statistical Survey', 'Regression Analysis', etc... Your topic, let's start with reading these books. I will check your learning progress in the next class."

Doing research, how can you not scan the papers first? As a mentor, the first step is naturally to list the book list first.

Malfoy looked shocked.

What?

I just wanted to take the opportunity to show off, and you want me to read?

Goyle and Crabbe were even more confused. What is statistics? What is analysis?

And the other two Ravenclaw girls and one Hufflepuff boy who were almost forced to come glared at these three idiots with a hateful expression, "It's all you! You had to write this topic!"

But, in fact, the encounters of other groups were about the same.

"Dean group, regarding the research on flying, I suggest you start from the flying principle of the flying broomstick. My recommended book list for you is: 'Basic Techniques of Flying Broomsticks', 'History of Flying Broomstick Development', and knowledge related to flying, such as 'Bird Flight', 'Basic Principles of Several Aircraft', etc."

"Qiu Zhang group, you are interested in Transfiguration? This area happens to be my key research field. I suggest you start from 'Basic Principles of Animagus'. I also have some research books here that I can recommend to you. I believe it will be helpful to your research."

"Hero Team, oh, this name is good," Murphy looked at the project proposal submitted by Hermione, "Research on Soul and Personality. Hmm... this topic is very big, but the research goal is written very clearly. One is to realize conversation with the deceased through research on the soul, and the other is to want to realize the retrieval of memory, very specific."

Murphy glanced at Harry and Tom sitting below, and understood in his heart.

"In that case, I suggest you realize it from two aspects. For the aspect of talking to the deceased, I suggest you start with ghosts and portraits. The reference books in this area are 'Ghost Research', 'How Ghosts Are Produced', 'Kingdom of the Dead', 'Techniques of Portraits', 'Advanced Production of Portraits', etc."

"Regarding the retrieval of memory, the most worthy of research is naturally Legilimency. This spell itself is very complex. Related books are: 'Invading the Brain', 'Mind Reading', 'Application Cases of Legilimency', 'Walking in the Memory Garden', etc."

"There are several books in it that are relatively dangerous. I hope you can start with the simple ones. When you really need to research restricted books, you can come to me for a signature."

Dozens of groups in the whole class, commented one by one, Murphy's throat was about to smoke, and the whole afternoon basically passed like this.

Finally, Murphy said: "I will list a table of the book list mentioned just now for everyone later. If the library has them, borrow them yourself. Restricted books need my signature and can be applied for in advance. In addition, some of my recommended books are Muggle books. I will prepare this part for everyone."

Just as he was about to end the class, Harry stopped him.

"Professor, I heard that you are recruiting assistants for wand making, right?"

Murphy's wand-making career had been quite unsuccessful recently.

The production process book gifted by Ollivander did write all the steps, but it was vague about the specific details.

For example, how big and long the wand core space should be in the wand body production, what requirements there are for the shape and proportion of the wand body, what the key points of the fusion potion preparation are, etc., were not clearly written. The most used words were "appropriate amount", "moderate", focusing on feeling.

And the book didn't write about the principles of the wand and the standards for its quality, so Murphy couldn't find the knack at all. The wands he made by feeling and groping were not much different from ordinary wooden sticks when used.

At first, he thought it was a problem with the wand core, so he changed to his own hair as the wand core. Later, he felt it was a problem with the wood, so he asked Hagrid to get a lot of wand wood, but the final product was still unsatisfactory.

Only then did Murphy understand why Ollivander was not afraid of his craftsmanship being surpassed. I'm afraid there is indeed some technology in it.

Blind attempts are meaningless. Murphy realized that he needed to find a set of evaluation criteria.

To this end, he designed several experiments, preparing to recruit several young wizards to help test. A few days ago, he posted a recruitment notice on the bulletin board, with a reward of one gold coin per week. Hermione and the others were the first to ask him about this.

Murphy looked at Harry, "That's right, why, do you want to try?"

Several young wizards nodded.

"Okay, follow me."

Murphy took several young wizards to the vicinity of Hagrid's hut.

In order to facilitate the acquisition of materials, he built a wooden shed nearby as his wand-making studio.

There were only a few simple workbenches inside, one table was full of various carving knives, saws, planes, and other tools and wood waste, and the other table was full of bottles and jars, in which some animal tissues seemed to be soaked, and there was even a magic potion workbench in the shed, and the automatic stirring cauldron on it was bubbling.

Hagrid was chopping wood outside the hut and greeted Murphy when he saw him.

Harry and Ron also greeted Hagrid, then the two boys winked at Hermione and Tom, and said to Murphy: "Professor, can we go chat with Hagrid?"

"Of course."

Harry and Ron went to Hagrid to fish for information. Murphy glanced at the remaining Hermione and Tom, "How is your math?"

(End of chapter)