A day at Hogwarts

"No time, I'm playing "Civilization i"."

Charles read the letter sent by the owl several times, confirmed that it was written by the old man, and then began to scratch his head.

There are three things in the letter.

First of all, the old man agreed to help with the matter of the horsemen, and started working after the money was in place and Dumbledore arranged the transportation method.

The second thing made Charles puzzled. The old man said that he must go back to Privet Drive for Christmas and have a good talk with Petunia.

Charles was a little worried, afraid that the old man would call him Grandma Petunia and Uncle Dudley when he went back.

The third thing is a bit miraculous. The old man bought a computer a while back and is now addicted to "Civilization 1", saying that he has nothing else to bother him.

A scene appeared in Charles's mind. A BBC reporter reported in front of No. 3 Privet Drive that the grandpa and grandson in the house starved to death because they were addicted to "Civilization".

However, he is also a little fortunate. Although "Pretty Girl DreamWorks" was released in May this year, it seems that it is not sold in the UK. It would be bad if the old man became addicted to playing the live-action version.

At this time, Charles couldn't help thinking, should we play some small games such as Xiaoxiao, Zuma, Plants vs. Zombies?

A noise next to him pulled him back from his thoughts.

Charles felt that Harry should bring two catties of apples and a carton of milk to greet Mrs. Longbottom every new year and festival after today. If she hadn't given Neville a memory ball, Harry didn't know when he would be able to play Quidditch. .

The game of Quidditch is not attractive to Charles. He prefers to play dog ​​fights, or install rocket launchers on broomsticks to lick the ground.

When they left the cafeteria after lunch, Harry and the others were still nervous about flying lessons in the afternoon, and Charles asked the twins a question: "Do you know any spells or potions that can create explosions, very violent explosions!"

Fred asked him worriedly, "What do you want to do?"

It’s fine if it’s just a small explosion for fun. A violent explosion is not fun. The unknown blue light and the traces left outside the greenhouse frightened many people yesterday.

George said to him: "If you just want to take revenge on someone or play a prank, we can help you find a way, but I advise you to stay away from too dangerous spells. These spells are likely to get you into Az. Caban's curse."

Charles didn't want to make the matter between himself and the centaurs public, and he was looking for mass destruction magic just to see if it could be used to lick the ground when killing the acromant. Since the two brothers were worried about their If you go astray, forget it. At worst, use a gas tank. If the weather is good, use industrial chlorine.

He didn't notice that Professor Quirrell was not far behind him.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, half an hour before class, Mrs. Hooch looked at the cute and cute Charles dumbfoundedly in front of the warehouse where the broomsticks were stored.

"Mrs. Hooch," Charles said with a smile like the warm spring sun, "let me help you move out the broom for class."

Seeing him like this, Mrs. Hooch granted his wish.

On the way to the teaching site, Mrs. Huo Qi said to him: "McGonagall has already told me about your matter. Although it does not comply with the school rules, there are not many students who are actually willing to abide by it."

Charles thought so too, and Professor McGonagall bought him a nice broom himself after Harry showed his talents.

Mrs. Hooch continued: "As long as you can master how to use the broomstick proficiently, can fly a qualified S-curve, and turn around like B, I can tell Mag to give you the broomstick."

Charles understood that as long as he could fly like an idiot, he could use his broomstick.

Another question came to his mind, and he asked Mrs. Hooch, "When do people usually play broomsticks, except for Quidditch."

By this time Mrs. Hooch had taken him to the lawn outside the castle, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, across the brook from the land.

"Everyone will play in the spring and summer next term." Mrs. Hooch asked him to put the broom on the ground. "It's too cold now, isn't it."

Charles thought so too, blowing the wind in the sky in such a cold day is not playing, but looking for sin.

After arranging the brooms, Mrs. Hooch went over them one by one.

Charles is also there, and she will share the structure and principle of the broomstick and some minor problems of the broom.

The structure of the broomstick is divided into two parts: the broom stick and the broom sticks. When the broom is flying, the stick provides lift in the longitudinal direction, and the sticks provide power in the horizontal direction.

In addition to the charm that provides lift, there is also a cushion charm that makes people sit comfortably on the broomstick. It looks like nothing, but in fact there will be an invisible magic cushion that separates the wooden pole from the buttocks, otherwise you will be silent. up.

The broomstick is a very troublesome part, because each branch will provide power. How to make the force of these branches form a combined force is a technical task. The direction of their combined force must be consistent with the center of the broomstick, otherwise it will fly off.

Mrs. Hooch understands simple related spells, but the more profound spells are mastered by the broomstick producer, and she can only do routine maintenance.

Although the broomsticks at Hogwarts are all old, and some brooms will lean to one side, and some will vibrate badly, but the safety is no problem, and they will not fall while flying.

After checking all the broomsticks, Mrs. Hooch found that Charles looked thoughtful, and couldn't help asking him, "What are you thinking?"

Naturally, Charles would not say that he was thinking about the vector propulsion of the broomstick. Controlling the tail of the broom requires a magic spell like an automatic quill, and the control law has to be reinvented, so there will be no need to think about it for a while.

But other things can still be done, such as some things in the warehouse.

He asked Mrs. Hooch, "Are those old poles and sticks in the storeroom still in use?"

Mrs. Hooch seemed to see through his thoughts, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to make your own broomstick?"

There are quite a few students who have this idea. Making your own flying broomstick is a very cool thing, and it seems to be very profitable.

However, the vast majority of people can reach the level of old brooms in school, and students who can make amazing works will be poached by manufacturers.

Hogwarts supports these students, so that it can reduce those students who feel good about themselves from privately creating fake and inferior products that seem to be able to take people to heaven, but in fact they can make people go to heaven.

So Mrs. Hooch said to Charles: "If you want to make a broomstick yourself, I can give you a book list, and I can prepare some materials for you when you have enough knowledge about the broomstick."

"But you have to remember, I have to check and approve the broom before I can ride it and fly into the sky."

Charles naturally agreed with this rule, but he didn't want to fly out of Qian Xuesen's trajectory on the broomstick he made.

It's just that what he wants to do is not the current broomstick, but floating cannons.

But let's put this matter aside for a while, there are a lot of things to do next, not to mention the second magic left by the old man in the centaur, not to mention the flower planting and the second magic left by the old man, but the broomstick also has a lot of pre-technical points to open, so there is no rush.

As for Voldemort and the Sorcerer's Stone, that's Harry's business.