Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 257 Ancient Magic!

"...So, that's it." George shrugged and Fred spread his hands.

Before Ted could speak, Ron was already angry: "So, you are at your wits' end and you only thought of us?"

George: "Oh, of course not. My dear brother."

Fred: "Just looking for Ted, didn't expect you to be here~"

Ron: “Ah~~~~” Stupid Ou Doudou wailed and retreated.

Ted listened to the twins' story and found it quite interesting.

They found some clues about ancient magic through the diary left by their great-great-grandmother, just under the restricted area of ​​​​the Hogwarts library.

The restricted area was not unfamiliar to them. After being tortured physically, mentally and intellectually by the "Book of Adventure" some time ago, they decided to look for the ancient magic that their great-great-grandmother called "very dangerous".

Speaking of which, these two brothers are really geniuses. They managed to piece together a lot of content from some scraps of the narrative and even determined the specific location.

They even went to look for it yesterday, and found it!
But they can't open!

There was a magic door, and they tried various methods, but they were helpless. Then they decided to look for Ted, because if he couldn't open it, then the ancient magic was probably not feasible.

Although the Weasley family is a bit poor now, they are content with their poverty. There is also the issue of taking sides.

Their pro-Muggle and pro-Order of the Phoenix stance has distanced them from the pure-blood families.

If they are willing to return, there will naturally be pure-blood families to welcome them.

They are descendants of the ancient Celts, the original inhabitants of this land, and their red hair is evidence of that.

Ron finally licked his wounds and came over to look at the diary left by his grandmother more than a hundred years ago.

He muttered to himself, "My great-great-grandmother was the Transfiguration professor? And the vice-president?!"

He tried to imagine Professor McGonagall as his great-great-grandmother. And suddenly he shuddered!

Ted spent several minutes scanning the old diary thoroughly, piecing together the relevant information.

Not to mention, although the old Weasley grandmother tried her best to cover up the relevant information, perhaps this incident left too deep an impression on her, so she would often mention it a few words even in the future.

If this is mentioned too much, a lot of information will be revealed... Too much talk will lead to mistakes!

Ted and his friends have already come into contact with some ancient magic.

At the beginning, Ted got some information from the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets, but Ms. Ravenclaw tended to be conservative about ancient magic.

Or rather, they do not agree with teaching or learning ancient magic.

She believed that this was a path that one would open up on one's own once one reached a certain level on the path of magic.

Those so-called ancient magics are the paths of other wizards. Once you step into them, you will never be able to walk out of your own path.

So she didn't leave any information about the magic she developed, just some concepts.

That’s right, the advanced magic of her time is what is now called ancient magic.

The word "ancient" is relative after all. If a few hundred years pass, Ted and his friends will have become ancient wizards.

The magic of that era was not very systematic, and was often extremely difficult, and the effects were incredible.

These are all "miniature miracles" developed by each wizard based on his or her magic power and according to his or her own wishes!
They also got some fragments of information about ancient magic in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, but there were not many specific details, after all, the place had been swept by Voldemort.

If he hadn't had the chance to enter again later, I'm afraid not even a piece of paper would have been left.

Then there is the "Book of Adventures" left by Gryffindor, although he did not mention ancient magic or even talk about magic.

However, he has demonstrated many unique magics he developed during his adventures, and the effects and principles are completely different from the modern magic system.

Over the course of thousands of years, magic has gradually become standardized, traceable, easy to learn, and simple to control, but its power and effectiveness have also decreased.

The situation in the past where every wizard had a different magic system, the magic principles in each area were very different, and every outstanding wizard had his own path no longer existed.

Of course, this also makes it easier for more wizards to master magic.

The popular things will always gradually replace the niche things.

……

At night, I went out for a night out with my rare friends.

A team of eight people is quite large!

If this happened in the first or second grade, I'm afraid I would not be able to escape Filch's pursuit no matter what.

But now, when Filch walked to an area closer to them, he would subconsciously ignore this place and go around it directly.

Ted's psychic powers directly blocked the information about this place in his heart.

As the level of psychic power increases, various magical effects begin to gradually appear.

The group arrived at the restricted book area smoothly, opened the magic passage that the twins had spent several nights studying to find, and came to the secret room below.

It is said here that it is below the forbidden book area, but it is not certain how far below it is. Because this is a spatial transfer, not a physical location. It is empty here, with only a magic stone door, and in the middle of the stone door is a strange symbol like a flame or a vertical eye.

George touched the stone door and sighed, "It is this door that blocks our dream of appearing before the public!"

I had wanted to learn ancient magic, complete the adventure, and show off my skills in front of others, but it ended before it even began.

"Open the cave!" Harry cast a spell directly on the stone gate that blocked his dream.

But no response.

"The door is wide open!" Seeing this, Hermione used the old version of the door-opening spell. It should be said that the door-kicking spell!

But the spell hit the stone door without stirring up any dust.

Since it was a magic door to prevent non-recognized wizards from entering, there must have been a lot of precautions against wizards. All these door-opening spells were useless.

Even the Open Sesame spell was used, the door-blasting spell!

But it didn't work.

Everyone looked at Ted.

Ted had been thinking about it just now, I'm afraid magic won't work.

The magic resistance of this door has reached a terrifying level through the use of its material, ritual magic, and spellcasting.

How about trying a physical breakthrough!

Wizards often forget more direct methods because they rely too much on magic.

Maybe the wizard who set up this door is in the same situation. It is completely protected against magic, but direct destruction may be useful?

As a result, Ted cut a piece of stalactite from the roof and threw it at the door, but the door did not move at all, without even a trace left.

No attention has been paid to protection.

Then we can only try things outside of the realm that wizards can access, such as... psychic power!
Spiritual essence penetrates!
Psionics is not only about interfering with the mind, interfering with reality is also its domain.

Converting matter into spiritual matter, or converting spiritual matter into matter, this is all in the realm of psionic energy.

So, Ted used his psychic energy to stone the wall next to the door, and then directly opened a new door!

How do you say that?

The one who defeats you may not be someone in the same industry, but someone from another industry!
There was a hall at the other end of the door. Although it was neatly decorated, it was empty. There was only a small stone platform with a basin on it and a small crystal bottle floating on the basin.

"Is it a Pensieve?!" Harry recognized it.

There are very few of these things now, and only ancient pure-blood families may have seen them.

People like Hermione and the Weasleys have no idea what they are.

Ted carefully took out the crystal bottle, which contained a little silver liquid.

"Is it mercury?" asked Hermione.

"No, these are memories. Memories that stay here." Ted uncorked the bottle and poured the silver liquid into the Pensieve. The basin was full and then became clear and shining.

"Well, let's see what the senior who left the memory wants to say..."

……

Everyone raised their heads from the Pensieve in a daze.

After watching other people's memories, there will be a slight side effect, and you may feel dizzy for a short while.

Harley was the first to speak: "So, it's really that strong?!"

The friends’ first reaction was: ancient magic, so terrifying!
This memory was left by the previous generation of guardians, more than a hundred years ago. I'm afraid Dumbledore hadn't even entered school at that time!

The memory records a series of events surrounding ancient magic that happened in the school when the owner of the memory, the guardian of the previous generation, was a transfer student.

Probably, ancient magic was still passed down hundreds of years ago, but because it was extremely difficult and powerful, it was only passed down in secret.

As a result, one of the inheritors was a little too ambitious and got into trouble. In the end, he was killed by other guardians.

But before the death of the inheritor, she built a secret vault to store the enormous power that belonged to her.

The villain in this incident is a descendant of the goblins who built the secret library, an extremist of the goblin revival faction.

He learned about this from his ancestors' notes, and naturally believed that the secret library was built by his ancestors, so the power should belong to him. He could use this power to overthrow the rule of wizards and revive the goblins!

At that time, only a few decades had passed since the last large-scale goblin rebellion, and the remnants of the Renaissance faction among the goblins were quite powerful.

The two sides started fighting for the secret vault.

From memory, the transfer student, who was the guardian of the previous generation, released magic power that was indeed extraordinary. It was much more powerful than the current ones such as disarming weapons and knocking you out.

No wonder Harry was surprised.

(End of this chapter)