Chapter 385: Spell Project

When Harry was walking toward the dormitory with a graceful good mood, he was stopped halfway by Snape.

"The situation is not optimistic, Potter," Snape said faintly. "I think you need extra classes."

"Extra, classes?" Harry was a bit surprised. "Which aspect of content are you going to teach me?"

"Dark Magic," Snape said lightly. "I am going to explain Dark Magic to you, and see if you can learn anything from it."

"You shouldn't want me to study Dark Magic," Harry said tentatively. "You want me to master this technique of enhancing magic power through emotions, right?"

"We'll talk about more things when the time comes, Wednesday?"

"Alright," Harry agreed without objection.

When he walked into the common room, he found it cold and clear, only a few people were still doing homework—indeed, it was already very late, the time point when sleep was needed.

Hermione looked up, met Harry's eyes standing at the door, and then buried her head in the pile of books again. However, when Harry passed by her, she whispered "Thank you."

Thank you for what? Harry was confused, smiled at her instinctively, and then walked toward the dormitory on his own.

"Hey, you missed a big party," Luo En had already put on his nightcap and lay in the quilt. "Those four first-year students spread our business everywhere."

The bed curtains of the others were all tightly closed.

Harry hesitated for a moment, then said slowly: "Snape is going to teach me alone on Saturday."

"He continues to teach you Occlumency?" Luo En's expression was a bit complicated. "Seriously, I don't think you need to go."

"It's much harder than that," Harry shook his head. "Go to sleep first, we'll talk about it when the time comes."

In the second half of the week, Harry kept thinking about this matter. He thought Luo En's words also had some truth. The Knight System at the current stage had already shown its power, and ordinary magic knowledge was afraid it would be gradually eliminated. However, if he didn't seize the opportunity to improve himself, was he going to bet the future of the British Wizarding World on whether Luo En could become the strongest Knight?

Finally, Saturday evening came. Harry stood at the stone monster door in the eighth-floor corridor, somewhat nervously reciting the password. He felt he needed to have a long talk with Snape.

"Enter."

"Good evening, sir..." Harry pushed the door and walked into the headmaster's office, but soon he was stunned, because he noticed there was another person in the office.

That was a petite girl with brilliant golden long hair, wearing a black wizard robe without any house insignia.

"Sit down, Potter," Snape said softly. "This is Mia Kahnstein."

"Ah, hello?" Harry speculated about her identity in his heart.

"She has talent beyond ordinary people in certain special fields, but knows very little about ordinary magic knowledge," Snape stood up. "I will also teach her at the same time. This is to borrow her special talent to develop a new magic, a spell that takes a different path, used to... deal with the Knight System."

Harry's breathing quickened a bit. Yes, normally Snape could never know nothing about the Knight System, and the choice he made was not to learn and imitate, but to research means of targeting and cracking.

"Hello, Mr. Potter," Mia looked at him with cold eyes, then stopped talking.

"Very good, since you have already met each other, then let's start today's lesson," Snape walked around the desk and came to the two.

"We know that ordinary magic spells have no effect on Kamen Riders, so it is very natural that we will pay attention to those spells that can have an effect on them, and then think about how to use these spells to defeat them," Snape said. "A reliable train of thought is Transfiguration, right?"

"Yes, sir," Harry noticed that the only classmate didn't say a word, so he gave Snape some feedback at the right time.

"But the power of Transfiguration is too poor, and it can't fight against Knights after dressing up at all," Snape began to walk around the two. "This is the most important project we will have next, improving and developing new Transfiguration spells that are powerful enough to hurt Kamen Riders. This is no longer simple teaching. This is a project that we need to solve, must solve it as quickly as possible, understand?"

"Professor?" Harry raised his hand to ask. "We are not the only ones researching this matter, right?"

"Very smart, Potter, but you are the ones with the most hope of achieving results," Snape raised his voice slightly. "You must find a brand new trick for releasing Transfiguration. Do you know what I am talking about? Do you already have a general train of thought?"

"Tell me, Potter," Snape asked. "Any ideas or inspiration, tell me."

"I, I didn't think of it," Harry had no clue at all.

"This shows that you haven't entered the state yet," Snape looked at the girl on the side and continued to say on his own: "Transfiguration can have an impact on Knights precisely because it has a physical entity. Yes, ordinary magic spells are just a stream of magic energy, which will be easily bounced off by Knight armor, while things with physical entities can cause damage to them."

Harry suddenly remembered a scene in the Triwizard Tournament—Renata transformed a stone into a machine gun, then connected the ammunition belt, and easily killed the fire dragon that had strong resistance to magic spells.

"Say it out, Potter," Snape stood beside him. "This is not an ordinary class, so when you have any inspiration, you can say it at any time."

"I am thinking, whether we can borrow Muggle weapons," Harry gestured, "use Transfiguration to transform into firearms—"

"Good idea, but you ignored a problem," Snape interrupted him. "You may not be able to hit the opponent."

"People who have received the Knight System bonus are very agile. Even the people in the Muggle world who are most skilled at using firearms dare not say they will definitely hit him," Snape quickly denied the role of guns. "And, the hardness of Knight armor is very high, and most Muggle weapons are not powerful enough to pose a threat to Knights."

Snape walked back behind the desk again, and Harry's gaze followed him.

"Magic spells can solve the problem of hit rate to a certain extent, and then we need to solve the problem of power, which requires improvement and strengthening of Transfiguration. This is why we have to mention Dark Magic," Snape opened a big book. "The reason why Dark Magic is unpredictable and infinitely powerful is precisely because a considerable part of Dark Magic is changed and transformed from ordinary magic."

"What we are going to do next is to use the train of thought of Dark Magic to manipulate Transfiguration, so as to research a new magic that is powerful enough to hurt or even break Knight armor," Snape clapped his hands. "Next, I am going to teach you a spell, a small curse, a curse transformed from the Levitation Charm—Levicorpus."

As Snape waved his wand, a dummy immediately turned upside down in the air.

"The principle of this spell is very simple. Only cast levitation on other people's feet instead of the whole body, and you can hang other people in the air by their ankles," Snape put the dummy back in its original place. "You can try it, Potter, but more importantly, I hope you can be inspired by this and invent some powerful spell yourself."

Harry practiced Levicorpus for a long time, and some things that might be called "spells" also emerged in his mind, such as using Accio to control small stones, etc... but that power was not as good as bullets, let alone breaking Knight armor. Snape was not disappointed by this, just let Harry go to him at the same time next week.

When he walked out of the office, he realized belatedly that he actually had a "classmate." But Mia just sat on that high stool from beginning to end, not only didn't pull out her wand, but didn't even say a word, and Snape intended to communicate with Harry, making him almost forget this person.

"You said the old bat is teaching you spells?" After listening to Harry's narrative, Luo En's expression was weird. "But why would he bring a girl?"

"And she is not from our school," Harry added.

"Then that's probably a transfer student? But if so, she should also follow everyone to class, right?" Luo En scratched his scalp. "By the way, this girl you mentioned, is she pretty?"

"She can be considered quite pretty, golden hair, very white skin, with big, emerald-like eyes..." Harry recalled. "Eh, actually speaking, looking at her, she's not small either. Maybe she's just an adult who looks a bit short?"

"That's also quite possible," Luo En obviously didn't take this too much to heart.

However, when mentioning the emerald eyes, Harry's mind quickly associated her with another person he had seen not long ago—the freshman this year, Nikola Kahnstein.

Obviously, Mia was very likely his sister or even mother, and if he thought Snape had first found Mia to help him develop spells, Nikola enrolling at Hogwarts was also more of a gesture of goodwill and wooing.

Sure enough, there were no simple coincidences in the adult world. Harry shrugged helplessly, and his thoughts returned to how to develop spells.

The truth was very simple. The Knight System was ultimately an invention of the Tianchao people and could not become the winning power of the British Wizarding World. And even if Luo En could become the strongest Knight and always stand on his side, making them able to use Knights to defeat Knights. Harry was also more willing to be able to provide some help to Luo En when he was fighting, rather than just standing there foolishly watching. ===== CHAPTER 386 =====