The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 111 Constellations and Elective Courses

April 1st is April Fool's Day. On this meaningful day, the great pranksters, the Weasley twins Fred and George, celebrated their thirteenth birthday. Of course, the title of "great pranksters" was self-proclaimed by the shameless brothers, and Ada would not agree with it.

Twins have some characteristics that are very consistent with Aries people. They are very creative, disregard rules, and like to live a free life. Although their pranks can be annoying sometimes, the two brothers will also warm others from time to time.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and spring. Although spring is chilly, it is a season of growth and vitality. The same is true for Fred and George. The two brothers are always full of energy and have a great interest in discovery and exploration. For this reason, the castle and the forbidden forest have suffered a lot from their hands.

From this point of view, the star sign theory seems to be quite accurate, but it doesn't make sense when it comes to Ada. Libras born in the autumn are usually friendly and easy-going, but these two words really have nothing to do with Ada.

If someone thought Ida was amiable, she wouldn't mind showing them what amiability meant, as Avery, Flint, and Toller knew all too well.

Being easy-going and docile is nonsense. Ada is very polite in dealing with people, but her politeness always carries a strong sense of alienation. If you want to make friends with Ada, the first thing you need to do is to be thick-skinned enough, and then you can proceed to the next step.

Moreover, Ada has always had a bad temper. Among all the Gryffindor students, Professor McGonagall is most worried about Ada. Although the twins are constantly losing points and violating school rules, they are taking it slow and steady. Ada is not like that. Professor McGonagall is afraid that one day Ada will make a big news for her and deduct several dozen points or something.

Fred and George's birthday this year was not like last year. A few family members and friends just gathered together to say a few words of blessing and share the cake sent by Mrs. Weasley.

A few days after the twins' birthday, it was the Easter holiday, and the house-elves prepared an Easter dinner at the party, including ham, roast lamb, pancakes and chocolate eggs.

A group of wizards not only celebrate Christmas, but also Easter. Isn't that strange? In the Middle Ages, many wizards were burned to death in the name of him, but now a group of wizards are more joyful than Muggles on his birthday and resurrection day!
Ada had thought about the reasons. For example, no one celebrated these festivals before, but suddenly one day, under the influence of someone, everyone discovered that celebrating festivals was a very interesting thing.

So the wizards split into two factions, one group celebrated the festival, and the other group followed the old rules and did not celebrate Muggle festivals. Then the wizards who did not celebrate the festival failed to successfully continue their bloodline, and only the wizards who celebrated the festival were left.

Of course, there is another theory: Muggles are busy celebrating these two festivals and have no time to hold witch hunts, so wizards will not be persecuted by Muggles during the festivals. Over time, these two festivals were accepted by wizards and became part of wizard culture, and they also began to celebrate these two festivals.

Compared with Ada's own malicious speculation, the latter statement is obviously more reasonable and more convincing. The latter statement is deduced based on some content in the history of magic, while Ada's speculation is completely groundless.

In the Twilight Cottage, the twins were working on their own inventions. They replaced part of the structure of the Filiba fireworks with something they made themselves, and tried to light the newly assembled fireworks.

Ada sat in an armchair by the window, the afternoon sun shining warmly on her, fiddling with her elective course schedule. Second-year students need to choose their third-year elective courses during the Easter holidays, and submit them to the school after the holidays so that the school can arrange the students' courses.

Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, and Muggle Studies. Ada needs to choose at least two of these courses. Of course, if you really have enough time, you can choose all of them.

Ancient Runes is a theoretical course that mainly studies the magical manuscripts of ancient runes. Ada must choose this course.

Many magic manuscripts were written in ancient runes. Ada hoped that through her own study, she could find some powerful magic from these manuscripts, and by the way, figure out what the inscription on the ring meant.

Of the remaining courses, Ada didn't really want to take any of them. Muggle Studies had nothing to do with magic. It was mainly about studying the culture, history, and development of Muggles. Why did Ada need to learn this?
Don't choose it. Choosing it is a waste of time and a slow suicide! The Care of Magical Creatures class sounds interesting, but Hagrid casts too much of a shadow on Ada. Although the class is taught by Grubbly-Plank, I think the two of them should still have a lot in common. They should both like magical creatures very much.

Every time I attend class, I get along with a group of "furry little cuties". The scene is chilling. Ada doesn't want to know where the magical creatures are, she just wants to know whether the magical animals are in the pot! Ada's soul comes from a nation that can use "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a recipe.

The last two subjects are both related to divination. Whether wizards or Muggles have many similarities, as long as they are human beings, they all have a strong obsession with predicting the future. This is the human instinct to seek good fortune and avoid danger.

The professor of Divination is Sybill Trelawney, who hides in the attic of Hogwarts drinking every day. She looks more like a crazy liar than the great-great-granddaughter of the famous prophet Cassandra Trelawney.

Many senior students also dislike this professor who reeks of sherry. Can such a crazy and unreliable teacher really teach such a mysterious course?
Different from divination classes that involve looking at crystal balls, tea leaves or palmistry, arithmetic divination is a discipline based on a series of rules and rigorous mathematical calculations. This reminded Ada of the people who set up stalls to tell fortunes in the square in her previous life.

It sounds like arithmetic divination uses science to make predictions, and it is somewhat like numerology, but Ada still thinks that arithmetic divination is more like a folk science, and the teacher who teaches this course is like a folk scientist.

"Fred, George, what elective courses did you choose?" Ada, who had difficulty making a choice, could only seek help off the field. She asked the two little "black people".

"Ahem, Care of Magical Creatures and Divination." Fred wiped the black dust off his face and said. Dr. Filibal's fireworks became a dud, but they still sprayed dust on the two brothers' faces.

Ada drew out her wand and cast a "Clean Up" spell on the two men and their locations, and then used a "Vanishing Spell" to clean up the remnants of Dr. Filiber's fireworks.

"I heard that the Divination homework can be completed as long as you can make up something, and Care of Magical Creatures is the only elective course that is taught outdoors." George explained the reasons why the two chose these two courses.

"What did you choose?"

"Ancient runes," Ada said. "I haven't thought of the remaining one yet."

"Then choose the same as us. There's nothing to be so fussy about." George said puzzledly.

Fred walked directly to Ada, picked up Ada's elective course schedule, quickly helped her choose the courses, and then returned the schedule to Ada.

Taking the timetable, Fred saw that in addition to ancient runes, he had also written Divination and Care of Magical Creatures. She only needed to choose two electives, but now it became three. This way, Ada had less free time.

I don't know if it's too late for Ada to go to Professor McGonagall to change the class schedule...

Thanks to the book friend Hongyoucha for the reward

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(End of this chapter)