Chapter 191: Principles of Spells

Tuesday morning was all History of Magic, which was as sleep-inducing as what Harry heard at Hogwarts. When Harry opened his sleepy eyes, Luo En reminded him that it was already lunchtime.

"I have no idea what the point of this is, History of Magic in French," Zhang Qiu said. "But I have to admit, this is more fragrant than sleeping on the train."

"Let's not listen to History of Magic in the future," Luo En said yawning. "The afternoon is Care of Magical Creatures and Transfiguration, we can sleep until noon before going to class in the future, and our spirits will be better."

During lunch, Harry met Donna again. She chose Ancient Runes, so the three Harrys still had to go to the Care of Magical Creatures class by themselves. Relying on Harry's poor French and Luo En's powerful imagination, they barely pieced together what the professor was talking about.

The professor of Care of Magical Creatures at Beauxbatons was a capable middle-aged witch with short hair. From her still exquisite face, it was not difficult to see that she must have been very beautiful when she was young.

"She said her name is Sarah Jane," Harry translated the part he could barely understand. "In this class, she wants to introduce Grindylows."

"Grindylows?" Luo En was stunned for a moment. "Lupin already talked about it, right?"

"Option one is to follow and listen again to see what the difference in teaching is between the two schools," Zhang Qiu said. "Option two is to skip class and go to the library to cram French."

"I think..." Harry was still hesitating, but his hand had already reached into his bosom and pulled out the Invisibility Cloak.

"I think we have determined where the 'Hagrid's Cabin' of Beauxbatons is, so the purpose of this class has been achieved," Luo En said, making excuses.

"Oh right, I remembered, we can go find the professor," when the three of them were wearing the Invisibility Cloak and walking toward the palace, Harry said. "Barty Crouch Jr. teaches English here, he must also be able to teach us some French."

"Let me see," Luo En took out a nine-tenths new notebook. "English is a compulsory course for two periods at Beauxbatons. He has to teach seven grades at the same time. The times are the second period of the morning and the first period of the afternoon every day, as well as the second period of the afternoon except Friday. So, he should be busy right now."

"Luo En?" Harry was stunned for a moment. "This is not like you."

"Hermione summarized all the course schedules of Beauxbatons, and she let me copy one too," he said somewhat embarrassedly. "She told me that an excellent personal assistant must be able to provide this kind of common sense information accurately at any time."

"Alright, but in that case, who should we go find?" Zhang Qiu asked.

"What about Muggle Studies?" Harry asked.

"Muggle Studies is an elective course for two periods, only needing to teach five grades, which happens to be the first and second periods of the morning every day," Luo En looked at the notebook. "That is to say, there is no Muggle Studies class this afternoon."

Harry, with a nervous mood, took his two little friends and stood at the door of the Muggle Studies teacher's office, and knocked on the door gently.

"Please come in," a familiar yet strange female voice sounded.

"Oh, Harry, I can't believe you've grown so big," Clara greeted him very familiarly.

"Uh, Professor Clara," Harry scratched his head somewhat awkwardly. "I can't believe it either, you are actually a professor in the magical world."

"Ah, you don't have to be so nervous, come and sit," Clara looked at Luo En and Zhang Qiu and explained. "You might not know, when Harry was young, I was his tutor."

"At that time, I was to complete a project. I taught in a Muggle middle school for three years and then applied for a private tutor," Clara continued. "This helped me write a sensational academic paper, thereby obtaining the professor's chair in Muggle Studies. Speaking of which, I still have to thank Sir Crowley for giving me that opportunity."

"A sensational... academic paper?" Luo En looked a bit surprised.

"That's right, it's not hard for us to find that most Muggle-borns are more excellent than pure-blood wizards," Clara said. "This has always troubled the nobles who believe in bloodline theory. However, through systematic teaching practice, I have reached a conclusion: what makes Muggle-borns possess more excellent spellcasting ability is not bloodline, but the Muggle knowledge they learn."

"After systematically learning mathematics, physics, and chemistry, the spellcasting ability of pure-blood wizards often takes a leap," she said while pouring tea for the three children. "Moreover, Muggles are entering an information age, and the information their brains need to process every day is four to five times that of pure-blood wizards, which makes the soul strength of Muggles higher than that of wizards. The average soul strength of Muggle-borns is 1.2 to 1.5 times that of children from pure-blood wizard families."

"No wonder," Zhang Qiu said thoughtfully. "My master often says that cultural courses are as important as magic."

"But why is this?" Harry was a bit puzzled. "Why can mathematics, physics, and chemistry improve spellcasting ability?"

"A very simple example, I ask you, if I cast a Levitation Charm and float an item, can you understand what's going on?" Clara asked.

"What's going on, isn't this just magic?" Harry said blankly.

"I mean, physically, the meaning of the Levitation Charm is actually to apply an upward force to the object out of thin air, right?" Clara inspired again.

"It seems to be the case," Harry nodded.

"However, this is the best Levitation Charm we have improved and optimized for countless generations. Some ancient casters, their Levitation Charms would change the density of the object, making it lighter than air, so that it would float up," Clara continued. "From the perspective of conservation of mass and energy, the former is just the force doing some mechanical work, while the latter annihilates a large amount of neutrons inside the matter. Undoubtedly, the latter consumes more."

Harry was sweating while agreeing half-understandably, while Luo En just blinked his ignorant big eyes innocently.

"Then, wizards who cast the Levitation Charm by 'generating force', after becoming proficient in the Levitation Charm, can also understand the Summoning Charm faster, as well as more advanced Mage Hands, because their essence is to apply a force generated out of thin air," Clara showed a big smile. "But for those who float objects, they might only be able to float objects."

"That makes sense," Harry suddenly realized and patted Luo En's hand. "I think we can't just learn spells and gestures when learning magic, we also need to learn the implementation method behind this."

"You have also unlocked a secret of Charms, which is what direction the spell should be in and how to improve it," Zhang Qiu sighed. "A single professor's chair is not enough to summarize this great discovery."

"Aha, so my Muggle Studies class is to use Muggle theory to explain wizard spells, which is very helpful for wizards to master spells proficiently," Clara said somewhat proudly. "You are welcome to audit."

"Oh, I just remembered," Harry was stunned for a moment before reacting. "We originally came to you to ask for some French."

"Oh, right," Clara blinked. "Then, how about we start with phonetics?"

For the whole afternoon, the three of them crammed French with Clara's help, and didn't even go to Transfiguration class. This was very rewarding; at least Luo En and Zhang Qiu could already say "Hello," "Thank you," and "Damn it" clearly.

In the evening, after dinner, just past five o'clock, Zhang Qiu suggested that they call Cedric and wait by Sarah's cabin first.

"Arriving early will make you look like you value this meeting. If other champions arrive slowly or even late, this will put psychological pressure on them," she said.

"But I promised Hermione not to play tricks... forget it, this doesn't count as any trick," Luo En rubbed his nose.

Sarah's cabin was much more exquisite than Hagrid's. Logs of uniform thickness were neatly arranged into walls, the carved wooden door was polished until it shone, the warm light reflected the concave floating window, and several animal furs hung in front of the window: gray wolf skin, brownish-yellow fox skin, and white short-tailed ferret skin. A gray-black medium-sized dog lay quietly in a small nest on the side, turning a blind eye to the students coming and going.

"It seems they haven't arrived yet," Harry looked around at the silent surroundings and said slowly.

"Speaking of which, do you have any ideas for the combination name?" After standing still, Cedric opened his mouth.

"This depends on which one we intend to appear first," Harry hesitated. "I only know that the competition content will have something to do with dragons. Perhaps appearing first will be more dangerous."

"But how do we deal with dragons?" Cedric pondered. "If we use broomsticks, we'd better appear earlier. Although we all fly quite well, Krum is even better at it. If he also intends to rely on broomsticks, then the one who uses broomsticks first will get more points than the one who uses them later."

"You're right, but I have other ways to deal with dragons," Harry had already hidden the Seven Deadly Sins in Zhang Qiu's storage bag. "If that's the case, if Krum intends to appear earlier, this shows that he intends to use broomsticks to deal with the dragon. I believe my method will be more brilliant than broomsticks."

"Are you really sure..." Luo En was about to speak, but he suddenly changed his expression and made a gesture of silence. Zhang Qiu quickly stuck a Phantom Charm on each of their foreheads.

"Why did you tell her? I think this is completely incomprehensible," a voice as crisp as a silver bell said with anger.

"She asked and I said it, this is not a secret, Karkaroff will definitely know in advance, and then tell Krum, right?" another voice argued softly and glutinously.

"I know you are in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry first," it was obviously Hermione's voice. "I actually think this is a good thing. Renata might underestimate the enemy because of this, and our most important tactics have not been exposed yet."

"Actually, I think Renata might be testing," after walking closer, Harry saw clearly that the one speaking was Fleur. "She might have known that the first level was a dragon, so she came to ask me hypocritically, because after she got the answer, there was no surprise or gratitude on her face, but instead she looked very wary..."

"Alright, so now everyone knows what the first level is, right?" Two figures suddenly appeared in the air next to them, it was Krum and Renata. ===== CHAPTER 192 =====