Hogwarts Asylum

34. No money to learn alchemy



O'Loughlin didn't know what Harry was thinking about, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

Now that Dumbledore has begun to lay out the levels, Harry is already destined to embark on his journey to be the savior, and Dumbledore will not let any surprises occur.

To be honest, Orolin never understood why Dumbledore believed so firmly that the so-called "love" magic could protect Harry until one of him or Voldemort died.

If analyzed from the perspective of psychology and behavioral logic, Dumbledore's behavior is more like losing love, and he began to paranoidly believe that "love" is the most powerful magic in the world.

Losing love makes you believe in love more, which seems very reasonable.

But one thing that cannot be explained is that even the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic has a Hall of Love that specializes in the study of this kind of magic.

O'Loughlin had investigated when he was in school and found that neither the Evans family nor the Potter family had any information about the magic of "love". The reason why Lily was able to cast "love" was completely self-taught.

And before Lily, there seemed to be no record of the use of "love" magic in the wizarding world.

At that time, O'Loughlin had not been able to contact anyone related to the Department of Mysteries, so he did not know whether the Room of Love appeared after the Godric's Hollow incident.

Regarding everything about the Department of Mysteries, there is no substantive description in the original work at all. Look at what they are studying - brain, space, death, prophecy, time, love, each one is more difficult to understand than the last.

Orolin was very interested in all of this, especially what Dumbledore called the most powerful magic in the world - love.

It's a pity that this kind of ultimate idealism magic cannot be developed by Olorin. No matter how he hypnotizes himself, it doesn't work, even using love potion.

Olorin tested it on himself when he was in seventh grade, but the love potion had almost no effect on him. At most, it only made him feel a little more insignificant towards the female classmate who lent him a hair.

This may be the disadvantage of being born with Occlumency. You can't feel love and you can't radiate love.

If working in the Department of Mysteries hadn't required him to remain silent, O'Loughlin might have gone to work in the Department of Mysteries after graduation.

The staff of the Department of Mysteries are called the Silent People, not because they have a strong sense of confidentiality, but because they are monitored by something like a trace.

In the magical world, language and writing can trigger magical power, and silent people who violate the rules will definitely be discovered.

And having a pair of invisible eyes behind you is enough, so don’t put any more burden on yourself.

Therefore, for the research related to the Department of Mysteries, Oluolin could only do it on his own. At most, he would wait a few years before the war to borrow some information.

However, Oluolin didn't have that much time to study. Magic has always been more time-consuming the deeper it went. Spiritual magic and alchemy alone were enough for Oluolin to study for a lifetime.

Even the dining table in the auditorium is right in front of him. Oluolin has been studying it for three days and has not yet come up with the final result.

People who don't understand alchemy will never notice anything wrong with these tables in the auditorium. Ordinary wizards will only think that the scratches on them are traces left by time.

But after some research, Oluolin discovered that those seemingly messy scratches were actually regular. Almost every few scratches could form a magic spell, and then multiple magic spells could be nested into each other to form another one. Magic is very complicated.

The arrangement of the tables in the auditorium, from left to right, is Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff. This order has not changed for so many years. Is it because everyone is used to it?

No, it's because the amount of magic attached to each table is different.

From right to left on the table, the amount of magic decreases.

Olorin speculated that either these tables were made by Helga Hufflepuff, and the number of magic spells was determined by the distance between them. Of course, his students would have to eat the most delicious food, and those with the worst connections would of course have to eat the most ordinary ones.

There is another possibility, that Helga Hufflepuff first teaches the corresponding magic to the other three founders, and then they make it themselves.

If so, one can clearly infer part of the personality traits of the four founders through their attitudes toward food.

On the Hufflepuff table, the number of magic related to color, flavor, and flavor is the most even and largest, so Helga Hufflepuff has the highest requirements for the food in her mouth and likes to eat it the most.

The Gryffindor table has the most flavoring magic, and the number of this magic even exceeds that of the Hufflepuff table, so Godric Gryffindor likes food with a fragrant smell, preferably so fragrant that it can attract other people. They were all tempted, very showy.

On the Ravenclaw table, flavor-enhancing magic is the most important, so Rowena Ravenclaw's requirement for food is to be delicious and very low-key and restrained.

The Slytherin table has the most color-enhancing magic, which is also in line with Salazar Slytherin's self-proclaimed superiority. Medieval aristocrats always like things with a bright appearance.

Olorin has learned all these magics that increase color and fragrance, but the large-scale teleportation magic that is nested is a bit difficult. He can't set up such a big table in the consulting room.

It can only be said that magic in the past was really too complicated. No wonder the subject of ancient runes has fallen from the mainstream to the point where few people are willing to learn it.

Although alchemy is a complex magic that has been passed down from ancient times to the present, since Nico Flamel refined the magic stone, there will never be a shortage of wizards who yearn for alchemy.

The magic stone's attraction to wizards is inexplicable.

Ordinary wizards pursue turning stones into gold, while high-level wizards pursue immortality. It can be said that they kill each other.

However, let alone the magic stone, not everyone can learn even ordinary alchemy.

Although this subject is divided into several directions, some are difficult and some are easy, but no matter which direction you choose, you still need to learn all the basic subjects.

O'Loughlin estimated that with Draco's talent, it would be the fourth grade at the earliest before he could start to get into contact with content other than basic subjects, and then he would start working as an assistant in processing materials in the fifth grade.

Compared to Draco, Seamus Finnigan's talent may be better. That kid seems to be born to eat this bowl of rice.

But Oluolin has no intention of accepting Simo as his assistant, because he is not very good at explosive alchemy. It is better to let him grow wildly. Anyway, he can make a bunch of bombs independently in the seventh grade. After graduation, some people are willing to Take in his alchemist.

Oralin valued Draco because he could learn how to repair the vanishing cabinet by reading books. This talent was most suitable for learning the alchemy items that Oralin was good at.

Of course, alchemy is different from other subjects. Talent can only determine the lower limit, and the upper limit still depends on hard work. Therefore, Draco's greatest advantage is not his talent, but his wealth that ordinary people cannot learn.

Although financial resources are not the most important thing in alchemy, people with talent and money will naturally go further than other wizards in alchemy.

Especially in the most expensive direction of making alchemical items, it is common for hundreds of galleons to be wasted just because of a trembling hand.

With the support of the Malfoy family, Draco can gain experience through a large number of experiments.

Others would like to use one material as two, but Draco can use one and throw three.

When Olorin thought about the time when his mother had an accident and the family had no income, he could only pick at himself. Then he looked at Draco. Gee, he was really jealous.


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