Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

"Nick Flamey?"

Upon hearing the name of the person that the two young wizards asked him about, Professor Binns was startled for a moment, and then naturally blurted out a brief summary of this person's life.

"Nick Flamel, Frenchman, famous alchemist in the 14th century.

His most famous contribution was the creation of the alchemist's magic stone, which he used to successfully turn mercury into gold. He is also the only alchemist known to have successfully created the Philosopher's Stone.

He used the Philosopher's Stone to create a lot of gold, but most of it was used to fund Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of the three major magic schools in Europe. Almost all of the impressive castle and grounds of the ancient magic school belonged to Nico Flamel and his wife Perenal Flamel.

Therefore, the huge fountain on campus is named after the couple. The fountain is said to have restoration and beautification functions.

Although I don't like the rumors I'm going to talk about - because rumors are often not true history - many wizards speculate that in addition to making gold, Nick Flamel also used the Philosopher's Stone to create a magic stone called The 'elixir' potion.

Those people rumored that it was precisely because of taking this potion that Nick Flamel and his wife were able to live from the 14th century to today, for more than six hundred years.

If you collect pictures of chocolate frogs, you should have seen a sentence in the introduction on Dumbledore's card - 'We have achieved many achievements in alchemy with our partner Nicolas Flamel'.

This achievement mainly refers to the Phoenix script. With the help of Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel and Dumbledore parsed the language of the Fire Phoenix and transformed it into a writing called "Phoenix script". This is The only important invention in the field of modern alchemy that can rival the ancient magic texts..."

Professor Binns, in his usual lecture tone, told everything he knew (historical ascertainable) about Nick Flamel.

It was the first time that Harry and Ron listened so carefully in the History of Magic classroom.

Although they couldn't understand it since the beginning of "Phoenix Essay", the previous gains were enough. They finally figured out who Nick Flamel was and what he wanted to give to Dumbledore to keep.

"The Philosopher's Stone, it must be the Philosopher's Stone!" Walking out of the History of Magic classroom, Ron could no longer contain his excitement and immediately said to Harry: "If I could have that stone that can convert mercury into gold, I would definitely It will conjure up piles of gold galleons, and then you can buy whatever you want!"

"The point is not to conjure gold," Harry lowered his voice and whispered to Ron: "Nick Flamel used the Philosopher's Stone to make the elixir, and you can live forever if you drink it. Even if I think about it with my speckled brain, It is said that this kind of elixir cannot be brewed by ordinary people, but maybe a potion master can."

"S..."

Ron almost yelled out the name, but Harry quickly covered his mouth with his hands and eyes, and then continued to express his inference.

"Remember what Bourne said in class? There are currently only two Potions Masters in Britain. One is his grandfather, Professor Slughorn, and the other is Snape!"

"You're right." Ron nodded in agreement with Harry. "Should we report this to Dumbledore now, or what?"

But Harry didn't think this was a good idea.

Although they fully believed that Snape was the best suspect, without any conclusive evidence, a few young wizards wanted to accuse a professor of being a dark wizard... It was still a bit taken for granted.

"Let's write a letter to Hermione first, telling her about Nick Flamel and attaching our inferences, otherwise she will probably waste her time looking through those tomes during the Christmas vacation."

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Unlike the Harrow duo who started their vacation in "great detective" mode, Bourne, who was truly recognized by the great detective Sherlock Holmes, started his vacation in the form of a "wooden man".

In the factory of Sweeping Company, he received the same treatment as in Ollivander's wand shop, standing motionless while being measured by a tape measure floating in the air. A wizard craftsman stood next to him, with parchment and quill floating in his hand, constantly recording the data measured by the tape measure.

From chest circumference, hip circumference and foot size, to weight, height, arm span... these data took more than an hour to collect.

Eventually, he even had plaster casts of his feet and hands made under the guidance of a model-maker.

This made the little Khan standing nearby and watching anxious. He seemed a little anxious, because it could only take its turn after Bourne had finished collecting data.

After a series of body data collection was completed, Bourne began to select the materials for the broomstick, and he realized that there were many ways to do it.

For example, broomsticks made by Sideswipe's competitor Nimbus come with only two choices of broomsticks - mahogany and birch.

The hardness of these two types of wood can only be considered average and the weight is relatively light, so the maximum speed can be close to the current technical limit of flying broomsticks. However, the former performs better in turning and stopping, while the latter has unique advantages in straight-line acceleration and sprinting.

The reason why Nimbus Company generally only has these two materials for users to choose from is because their company appeared relatively late and their research time on broom materials is relatively short. For the sake of product reliability, it is impossible for Nimbus Company to use some broom materials that lack data for mass production.

As the first large-scale broomstick factory in history to get rid of the craftsman workshop model, Sideswipe has existed for a relatively long time and has accumulated rich data from generations of products, so it can provide customers with relatively more choices. a lot of.

Oak, poplar, silver basswood, birch, mahogany, cherry, sandalwood...

These woods have historically been used by the Sideswipe company as the main materials for the Sideswipe series of brooms, so as long as Bourne likes them, they can theoretically be used for the broomstick he customized this time.

"So, young Mr. Slughorn, which material do you want to choose?" Humphrey asked Bourne holding an album. The atlas specifically shows the properties of various materials and some characteristics of brooms made from them.

In fact, when it comes to the choice of vehicle materials, Bourne prefers ceramic steel and plastic steel. Even ordinary steel is more in line with his wishes than wood.

However, an alchemical product like a flying broomstick actually takes into account scientific principles such as "aerodynamics". It seems that it is not feasible to fly with such force.

Therefore, in view of what he saw during the Quidditch match, when Harry's broomstick was affected by the Confusion Curse, Bourne chose ebony as a broomstick that could be enchanted with stronger "curse rebound" and "curse resistance" enchantments. main materials.

"That's it." After making a series of customization choices, Bourne finally breathed a sigh of relief. Shopping was indeed more difficult than fighting.

Moreover, it still cost 4000 gold galleons to customize this broomstick, even though he enjoyed the special discount from Sweeping Company because of the reputation of Mr. Weasley and Horace.