[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-71":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250309,4210,"Chapter 71: Mental Will and Magic","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-71",71,"\u003Cp>Just as Wizard Sean watched the candy that had suddenly appeared in his bag, while Jia Jia Siting despaired,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the owl suddenly spoke in an irritable tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little wizard, hmph! Lucky little wizard! Hurry inside! Do not let Lady Luo Yina discover you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a flap of its wings, a crack split open in the wall, revealing a sky-blue door,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Hermione's eyes instantly widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting instantly wiped the dejected look from his face and offered sincere thanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Wizard Sean picked up the quill-shaped lollipop, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the hidden room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a trace of confusion still lingered on Hermione's focused face\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when Wizard Sean took out his notebook and heard Jia Jia Siting say softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, portraits get lonely too, right? Mr. Owl has always been hidden inside the wall; I guess he cannot visit others freely like other portraits,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>otherwise his glasses wouldn't keep falling off.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, Wizard Sean, if there were no one to talk to for a long time, I think I would go mad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something seemed to occur to Jia Jia Siting, making his light gray eyes appear even deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you plan to do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean seemed to have expected the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about we move him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting said quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can try.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean nodded, though he did not actually believe it would succeed;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one of the most fascinating things about Hogwarts Castle lay in the many secrets it hid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Headmaster Dumbledore dared not claim to know all of Hogwarts' secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the owl portrait was part of those secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean had reason to suspect\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that, much like the Fat Lady in Gryffindor who wore a floor-length gown,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he bore a heavy responsibility similar to guarding the entrance to the Gryffindor common room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and such a duty clearly could not be casually erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the professors would not have left this classroom unattended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he still held onto a sliver of hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he had said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>trying would do no harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Boil-Curing Potion is one of the simplest potions, also frequently used by wizards in Beimeizhou;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have altered its ritual, greatly increasing the success rate while significantly improving the potion's quality;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before using it, ensure you have fully mastered the improved ritual and possess the mental fortitude to stay awake for three days.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Greatly increased success rate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Improved quality?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean felt his breathing quicken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I can understand the excitement every potion researcher feels upon reaching this point,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but I must remind you once again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while brewing, ensure you make no mistake in the ritual, or you can only pray to Merlin\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that you do not open your eyes to see me.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A typical wizard's dry humor...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean thought silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he began to learn and master the improved ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Jia Jia Siting and Hermione resumed practicing the Levitation Charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the window, owls flew out of Hogwarts Castle carrying letter after letter;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>every weekend was the busiest time for the owls,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as they carried words away, delivering messages of longing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and returned bearing even heavier longing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Hogwarts Castle gradually became shrouded in twilight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magical lanterns slowly lit up,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>revealing Jia Jia Siting's anxious face:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, Professor Flitwick said the feather must spin a full circle; only then does it count as a wizard having mastered the Levitation Charm,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he said, weariness hanging on his face, while that feather refused to spin even once—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even though he had followed Wizard Sean's instructions perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Hermione looked troubled; although as newly enrolled little wizards they were already quite outstanding,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>both still felt immense pressure from that little wizard who used the Lumos Charm as if it were a Conjunctivitis Curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side of the classroom, Wizard Sean finished familiarizing himself with the ritual and turned to the last page of his notebook:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[When a wizard feels strong emotions toward the potion being brewed—whether joy, worry, or sorrow—it greatly affects the potion;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this is why potioners require focus and calmness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet magic always has two sides: appropriate emotions can also generate unimaginable power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is what the improved ritual aims to achieve.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Libatius Borage, this master of potions, left behind more than just improvements; perhaps, just as he claimed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was a great pioneering work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean thought\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that during the ritual, he would become more focused\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and would infuse it with a strong emotion, similar yet different from the emotions used in Transfiguration and the Lumos Charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what emotion does the Levitation Charm require?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean murmured to himself, naturally recalling the unanswered question from the previous Charms lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at that feather\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and suddenly wondered: why must the practice object always be a feather?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it simply because it was very light?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is because the feather itself symbolizes breaking free—breaking free from gravity, breaking free from constraints—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Win—gar—dium—Le—viosa!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You practiced the Levitation Charm to an expert standard; Proficiency +50]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of light vanished from the tip of Wizard Sean's wand; the feather wobbled upward, spun several times in midair,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then, like a bird beating its wings,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>danced rhythmically in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting beside him stared in dumbfounded amazement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He just muttered a few sentences, saying things I couldn't make out at all, and he could reach this level?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting said in a daze,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sometimes I feel Wizard Sean is exactly the wizard I imagined: he mutters a few casual words and overturns my still-unstable understanding of magic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione stared unblinkingly at the dancing feather, then frowned and glanced at her own wand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before letting out a helpless sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Wizard Sean's focused profile, her small face gradually steeled with determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feather slowly descended;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean waved his wand again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Win—gar—dium—Le—viosa!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You practiced the Levitation Charm to an expert standard; Proficiency +50]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the system prompt sounded, Wizard Sean felt a wave of exhaustion; he let the feather drift slowly into his palm\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then saw Jia Jia Siting's excited face and Hermione's blush of slight embarrassment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just as Professor Flitwick explained when teaching the Lumos Charm, spells infused with a wizard's emotions become more powerful,\u003C\u002Fp>",1038,"2026-06-19T10:00:40.768Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b865033600cc47e767b32bb7709f578e2661c603afb1992de31176528365bc87","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-72","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-70",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]