The Rune Mage Starting at Hogwarts

About two or three minutes later, Hagrid brought in a bird, about the size of two of his fingers, completely covered with a black cloth.

He presented the roundworms in front of Harry and the others.

“Harry, ever since I saw your amazing Quidditch debut, I’ve been thinking I should find a way to let you see it for yourself, just as a kind of professional introduction.”

Harry swallowed nervously, wondering what Hagrid had prepared that could be related to his professional knowledge.

As Hagrid's large fingers gently lifted the black cloth, a golden figure quickly appeared before Harry, flapping its wings.

"This is the Golden Flying Dagger, and it's the Seeker's only goal in Quidditch."

It's just that, unlike the familiar golden flying bird, this one has a pair of ruby-like eyes.

"No, it's Golden Flying Man!" Hermione exclaimed again, but this time she didn't see him in Fantastic Beasts, but rather in Quidditch Origins.

She looked at Hagrid in surprise: "It's the Golden Galleon. In Quidditch, it was initially added as a prize; whoever caught it would receive a reward of 150 Galleons. Later, it gradually became a symbol of the end of the game, and thus the identity of the Seeker was born!"

"But it was already an endangered species, even rarer than the cloaked beast, many years ago, right? How did Hagrid get it?"

“Oh, well… I actually know quite a few special friends, and they always have a lot of connections. The Greek guy is one of them,” Hagrid explained somewhat vaguely. “I asked one of my friends to send it to me through some special channels over a period of half a month. But don’t worry, after you’ve seen it, I’ll send it back first thing tomorrow morning.”

"Speaking of which, this is a rare opportunity, Harry. Do you want to touch it yourself? This might be one of the few times in your life as a Seeker that you'll actually get to touch Gold Flying Man. Don't worry, I've put a binding spell on it, so it can't get out."

Hagrid curled the roundworm up a little and brought it closer.

Harry stared intently at the golden light. After more than two months of training, he had gradually developed a certain muscle response to the little golden creature. As long as he saw the direction its wings were flapping, he would subconsciously judge its flight direction.

He held his breath slightly, trying to grab the other person in a way he was familiar with.

However, the unexpected happened at this moment.

To allow Harry to experience the "most authentic" touch, Hagrid slightly loosened the binding spell at that moment.

But he clearly underestimated the little guy's thirst for freedom, despite his reputation for speed.

However, in that very instant, the extremely perceptive Jin Feixia found an opportunity.

"Whoosh-!"

Just as Harry was about to touch the other, a golden light swiftly pierced through the arc of the prison.

Golden light darted about in Professor Katelburne's spacious suitcase, and even the chimera's buzzing startled the already irritable beast into letting out an uneasy growl.

"No, grab it!" Hagrid cried out, swinging his massive arms in an attempt to pounce, but his clumsy movements seemed like slow motion in front of Golden Flying Man.

Professor Katelburn, who had been quite calm, jumped up in fright at the sight: "Hagrid, don't let it run into those cats and snakes over there! If they catch Golden Wingman, they'll eat him whole!"

Although he has already carried many disciplinary actions in his life, he now only wants to retire peacefully and does not want to get into any more troublesome lawsuits at the end of his career.

Harry desperately wanted to find a working flying broomstick, confident that he could catch the little guy within three minutes, given his flying skills.

But the problem is, where are the flying brooms?!

“Over there!” Reese suddenly spoke, pointing to several old brooms leaning against a corner in the distance. They must have been the tools Professor Katelburn used to clean the ceiling. “Although they’re a bit old, they work fine.”

Upon hearing Reese's words, Harry didn't hesitate and rushed in that direction, finding an old-fashioned meteor broom among the pile of broken brooms.

Harry straddled it, and the old broom, which hadn't flown in years, wobbled as it carried him into the air.

However, this almost unkempt broom was really difficult to fly, like a rusty instrument suddenly creaking and making noises everywhere.

Harry struggled to maintain his balance, let alone catch Golden Flying Man while riding it.

At this point, Ryze stepped forward and gave instructions: "It's turning left and flying over to the bird snake. I'll try to bring it back, Alley."

Ellie flew out of his body quickly. Its speed was now similar to that of Golden Flying Hero. It would be a bit difficult to catch the smaller and more agile Golden Flying Hero, but with Ryze's premonition, it would be no problem to intercept him in advance in his flight direction.

A barrier that appeared out of thin air forced Jin Feixia to make a sudden turn back, and his flight speed naturally slowed down.

After that, Ariel continued to chase after Golden Flying Man, and with the help of Professor Katelburne, Anthony and Hermione casting spells below, they restricted his movements to a relatively safe area.

Finally, after two minutes of entanglement in the air, Golden Eagles flew back to Harry's vicinity.

"Harry, it's diving! Get ready!"

Ryze called out from afar, and Harry, hearing Ryze's prediction, relied on his almost innate intuition to change the direction of his broom in advance and dive down diagonally with him.

Just as their flight paths were about to overlap and the Golden Winged was about to turn back and escape in another direction, Harry controlled his body, tilted at a very large angle in the air, and then reached out and precisely grabbed the golden light at the moment when its speed was slowest!

And then, after performing the most difficult flight maneuver of its broom career, the old broom finally came to the end.

As the broom lost all its momentum and fell from the air, Rhett Butler waved his wand and quickly and precisely cast the Levitation Charm on Harry's clothes, slowing his descent and allowing him to gently fall to the ground.

Chapter 98: +20 Spell Penetration

After landing, Harry wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although the time was short, his focus was much stronger in order to control this unreliable broom than when he was catching the golden flying dragon on the field.

He slightly opened his hand towards Hagrid beside him, revealing the golden toy he was carefully holding.

"I think this might really be the only time in my life I'll ever catch the Golden Flying Man in flight. It feels like it might be a bit harder to catch than the Golden Flying Man. This is truly a rare experience... Hagrid, you really need to be careful."

He sighed and thanked Ryze, who was standing next to him: "And Ryze, thanks to you and Ari for your help. If you hadn't predicted its location, I wouldn't have been able to catch this little guy with this broom."

Ryze nodded slightly, without saying anything more.

It's clear that after this little mishap, Harry, who could accurately catch Golden Eagle while riding a broken broom, looks much more confident than before.

Professor Katellburn rushed over and cast the Binding Charm on the Golden Flying Man in Harry's hands again, then put it back into the slug box and returned it to Hagrid.

"Hagrid, your impulsive nature hasn't changed at all over the years. It always reminds me of myself when I first joined the company. It's just a pity that my body can't handle as much as yours. If I have a couple more of these 'surprises,' I'm afraid I'll have to go to St. Mungo's to retire early."

He gently patted Hagrid's waist, but there was no hint of blame in his tone.

Although he had seemed a little nervous before, seeing that the crisis had been averted, his brows regained their usual magnanimity, and he couldn't help but let out a laugh.

"Speaking of which, it's always been a tradition for us zoologists to poke around a few holes from time to time, as long as the final result is good."

Hagrid rubbed his eyes and hugged Harry: "Although I noticed it before at the Quidditch pitch, I still want to say it again."

“Harry, the way you swooped down just now was exactly like your father when he was young. If James saw that, he would be so proud of you.”

After the chaos subsided and the magical creatures that had been agitated by Golden Flying Man's rampage were calmed down, Professor Katelburne clapped his hands, indicating that it was getting late and everyone should go back to rest.

"Alright, children, although there was a little mishap, this impromptu lesson on magical animals should come to an end here."

"As for the little golden creature and the lion with the python's tail, they were just illusions in your memories after you left this suitcase. If you can manage that, maybe I can introduce you to some other big guys in the future, okay?"

The young wizards present exchanged glances, all looking like they understood each other perfectly.

After leaving the suitcase, the warming spell had long since lost its effect, and feeling the cold wind, I shivered instantly.

However, the cold couldn't dampen their excitement. Clearly, the large creatures that Professor Katelburn and Hagrid showed them had sparked considerable interest in the Magical Creatures Protection class.

The final Griffin riot also somewhat strengthened their friendship, since everyone had helped during the Griffin rampage; even Ron helped hold back a few Nifflers who were trying to cause trouble in the chaos.

Terry then moved closer to Harry and exclaimed, "Harry, you really are the most talented Seeker we've ever seen. Even with a broom handle that's practically crumbling, you can still do that kind of extreme dive. I think Ravenclaw is going to have a headache in this year's Quidditch."

Once inside the castle, they tacitly shut their mouths and dispersed, lest Felch find another reason to punish them.

......

After returning to Ravenclaw's dorm and chatting with his roommates for a while, Ryze focused his attention on the rewards for his mission.

The golden, radiant attribute forging tool was still there, waiting for him to activate it.

With his will, the attribute forging device was activated.

A flash of shattered golden light

A reminder appeared before him.

[Spell Penetration +20]

"Spell penetration?"

Rizzo's eyes brightened.

This is a relatively rare attribute.

According to his previous conjecture, the magic of wizards and magical creatures could affect their resistance to magic.

The stronger a being's magic, the more magic it can resist.

And those magical barriers used by wizards, unless you can use the corresponding breaking spell, it takes a lot of effort to break them.

The spell penetration attribute can obviously play a significant role in both of these aspects.

If he can achieve 100% spell penetration, then no matter what kind of magic shield he is, it will be no match for him.

These 20 points of spell penetration should be a great help to him in battle, since the magic resistance of an underage wizard shouldn't be too high.

Rizzi's guess was indeed confirmed during the dueling club's daily practice the next day.

With only a 7-point increase in spell power, a defensive spell cast by a third-year student—a barrier that Ryze needed two spells to reliably break through last week—now became much weaker in his eyes, requiring only one spell to penetrate.

This change left the other side speechless, wondering how Ryze had increased the power of the spell so much in just one week.

At the same time, Ryze also noticed the spell penetration attribute, which seemed to be of some help to him in brewing potions.

During the potion-making process, corresponding magic power needs to be infused into the potion's ingredients, and the quality of the magic power infused will also affect the potion's quality.

Although Ryze's magical power is now comparable to that of a fourth-year wizard, the period between 13 and 16 years old is the time when a wizard's magical power grows the fastest.

His magical strength was still some distance from that of the outstanding students in the fifth year. So when brewing potions for the sixth year, it was not difficult to brew a passable potion, but to achieve an excellent one, he had to spend extra effort to optimize his technique.

Now that he has the attribute of spell penetration, his magic can more easily blend with potions, resulting in a more stable improvement in the quality of the euphoria potions he brews.

It can be said that these euphoric drugs have already achieved an "excellent" rating, and their selling price is also quite considerable.

Ryze now has to have Ari put the potions he brews into his house in Hogsmeade every day so that Andromeda can sell them or Ted's brother-in-law can take them as gifts.

However, simply being "excellent" was clearly not what Snape wanted to see.

Chapter 99: Percy's Escape

For Snape, excellent quality was nothing more than a lack of distinctive features, at best it was just enough to avoid wasting materials.

This was Snape's only assessment of the euphoria concocted by Rizzi.

However, this was already the "gentlest" evaluation Snape gave in this class.

With only one week left in a month, in order to test their ideas and achieve better results in the end, the usually steady senior students have started to try some more radical, even dangerous, reform methods this week.

As a result, two upperclassmen caused a huge uproar in front of Snape, and their research ideas were thoroughly scolded by Snape.

Even the best of them, Jemma Farley and Penelope, were not spared today.

Jemma Farley, in her pursuit of the drug's efficacy while also trying to suppress its side effects, ended up using an extremely complex formula after complicated calculations.

The amount of materials used alone is nearly twice that of ordinary euphoria potions. Snape criticized that compared to the increased efficacy, the cost increase of the potion was far too exaggerated and simply unrealistic.

Penelope took the opposite approach from Gemma Farley. She tried to streamline some of the ingredients that reduced side effects and replaced them with some new, more affordable alternatives. As a result, while the side effects decreased, the efficacy of the euphoria drug itself was reduced by half, barely reaching a passing level.

“I’ve given you three weeks, but the stupidity of a significant portion of the people here has become unbearable for me. So by this time next week, if you haven’t come up with a solution that satisfies me, I will eliminate at least half of the people here.”

Snape disappeared from the Potions classroom, but the atmosphere inside was extremely tense.

With at least a 50% elimination rate, aside from Jemma Farley and Penelope, almost no one is confident they won't be eliminated next week.

Even though it was already noon, the students were still nervously studying their recipes and summarizing the problems they had encountered that day.

Seeing that Penelope showed no sign of leaving, Percy came over and offered her a few words of comfort.

For the past few weeks, the two of them have been working together on improvement ideas for a long time.

"Although your potion is less effective than we calculated, the material cost has been reduced to 75% of the original. If you can make further adjustments to restore the potion to 80% of its original effectiveness, Professor Snape will definitely approve of it next week."

He also brought up Jemma Farley as a comparison: "I've seen the materials Farley uses. Its cost is at least twice that of normal medicine, but the effect is only increased by a maximum of 30%. Compared to that, you are still more superior."

But Penelope clearly didn't see it that way: "This isn't a math problem, Percy."

“Jema chose what she considered the most radical improvement plan. After today’s brewing, she probably knows how to make her choices. Our plan is the best improvement plan that we have come up with after three weeks of careful consideration. You think that as long as the efficacy is restored, the problem can be solved, but the problem is how to restore the efficacy while maintaining the original cost?”

Penelope shook her head and continued to focus her attention on the crucible in front of her.

At this moment, Rizz, who had packed up his cauldron and was preparing to leave the Potions classroom for extra practice at the Room of Requirement, said goodbye to Penelope.

Penelope wiped her forehead and forced a smile at Reiz: "Good luck next week."

Percy nodded to Rez: "The potion you brewed today is of very high quality. It's really not easy for a first-year student to achieve this level in three weeks."

Ryze responded with Snape's assessment of him: "Thanks, but this was just a standard cooking method, barely managing to avoid wasting any ingredients. I'm already thinking about what to do next week. Good luck to you guys next week too."

After saying that, Ryze took the crucible and left the Potions classroom.

Percy watched Rizzi's figure leave the Potions classroom, a complex expression appearing on his face.