Chapter 385: Spell Subject

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

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

"Extra, classes?" Harry was a bit surprised, "Which content are you preparing to teach me?"

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

"You shouldn't be hoping that I will delve into Dark Magic," Harry said tentatively, "You are hoping that I can master this technique of enhancing magic power by relying on emotions, right?"

"We will talk about more things when the time comes, Saturday?"

"Alright." Harry agreed without any objection.

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

Hermione looked up and locked eyes with Harry standing at the door, then buried her head in the book pile again. However, when Harry passed by her, she whispered "Thank you."

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

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

The curtains of the others' beds were all closed tightly.

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

"Is he continuing to teach you Occlumency?" Ron's expression was a bit complex, "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 Ron's words also had some truth. The Knight System of the current stage had already shown its power, and ordinary magic knowledge might be gradually eliminated. However, if he didn't seize the opportunity to improve himself, did he have to bet the future of the British Wizarding World on whether Ron could become the strongest Knight?

Finally, Saturday evening arrived. Harry stood at the stone monster door in the corridor on the eighth floor and recited the password with some trepidation. 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 Karnstein."

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

"She has talents beyond ordinary people in certain special fields, but knows 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 became a bit rapid. Yes, logically speaking, Snape could never be completely ignorant of the Knight System, and the choice he made was not to learn and imitate, but to study the means of targeting and cracking it.

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

"Very good, since you have already met, then let's start today's lesson." Snape bypassed the desk and walked in front of the two.

"We know that ordinary spells have no effect on Kamen Riders, so naturally, 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, it can't fight the armored Knight at all." Snape started walking around the two, "This is our most important subject next. Improving and developing new Transfiguration that is powerful enough to hurt Kamen Riders is no longer simple teaching. This is a subject we need to solve. We must solve it as quickly as possible, understand?"

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

"Very smart, Potter, but you are the most likely to achieve results." Snape raised his volume slightly, "You must find a brand new trick to release Transfiguration. Do you know what I am talking about? Do you have any general ideas?"

"Tell me, Potter." Snape asked, "Any thoughts or inspirations, 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 on his own: "Transfiguration can have an impact on Knights precisely because it has a physical form. Yes, ordinary spells are just a stream of magic energy, which will be easily bounced off by Knight armor, while things with a physical form 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 spells.

"Say it, Potter," Snape stood by his side, "This is not an ordinary course, 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 necessarily hit the opponent."

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

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

"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." Snape opened a big book, "This is why we want to mention Dark Magic. 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 study a new magic that is powerful enough to hurt or even break Knight armor." Snape clapped his hands, "Next, I want 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 into an upside-down posture in the air.

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

Harry practiced Levicorpus for a long time. Some things that might be called "spells" also emerged in his mind, such as controlling small stones with the Summoning Charm... but that power was not as good as bullets, let alone breaking Knight armor. Snape was not disappointed by this, just let Harry go again 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, plus Snape intentionally communicated with Harry, making him almost forget this person.

"You said the old bat is teaching you spells?" After listening to Harry's narrative, Ron said with a strange expression, "But why does he have to bring a girl?"

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

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

"She is still quite pretty, blonde, skin is very white, has big, emerald-like eyes..." Harry recalled, "Eh, actually speaking, looking at her, she is not small either. Maybe she is just an adult who looks a bit short?"

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

However, when mentioning the emerald eyes, Harry quickly associated her with another person he had seen not long ago—the freshman of this year, Nikolai Karnstein.

Obviously, Mia was very likely his sister or even mother, and if it was considered that Snape found Mia to help him develop spells first, Nikolai enrolling at Hogwarts was also a kind of goodwill and solicitation.

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

The truth is very simple. The Knight System is ultimately an invention of the Heavenly Dynasty people and cannot become the winning power of the British Wizarding World. And even if Ron can become the strongest Knight and always stand on his own side, making them able to use Knights to defeat Knights. Harry would rather be able to find a way to give him some help when Ron is fighting, rather than standing there stupidly watching. ===== CHAPTER 386 =====