Hogwarts Card System

  Chapter 39 Professor Quirrell and Ms. Gray

   Today's Defense Against the Dark Arts class teaches how to deal with water ghosts!

   This thing is not a local product, it appeared after the convergence of the sky and the stars. It usually appears near the water, blue or green, with toad-like skin, mucus, fins, scales on some parts, webbed hands and feet and sharp claws.

   This thing eats meat and people, and eats all living carrion. It is good at pounce and swimming. It has great strength in the water and is very dangerous.

   This thing is much more dangerous than Grindylow.

   Although Grindylow lives in water, he also attacks humans. But its staple food is small fish and shrimp, and the main danger is that it will be scratched or drowned because it is dragged underwater.

   But the water ghost really eats people! The combat power is also much stronger. And generally not only one will appear.

   "You, if you meet, encounter a water ghost... must, must be careful not to be pulled into the water. Otherwise, you will die, you will definitely die! Maybe the water monster expulsion spell is a, a good idea, if the distance is far enough..."

  Professor Quirrell stuttered to explain the knowledge to the students.

  However, he is really unpopular. Except for a few students who take notes carefully, the other students listen to the thunder like a duck in the sky, and don't listen to it at all.

   But at least someone listened carefully. Hermione and Ted both keenly caught Professor Quirrell's key word "Water Monster Repelling Curse".

  Hermione immediately raised her hand.

   "G, Miss Granger."

   "Professor, what kind of magic is the water monster expulsion spell?"

"Oh, water monster repelling, expulsion spell... that is the expulsion curse that is only taught in the fourth grade, it is very difficult..." Professor Quirrell has always been perfunctory, and he did not mean to give students a small lesson, which is also what he does not like. one of the reasons.

  Other professors are willing to teach something extra, what about Professor Quirrell? It looks like he's here to mess with his wages!

   Ted holds up his hand.

   "Monsieur Epiphany."

   "Professor, did the water ghost mutate or evolve after it came to our world? Did it produce new species with native aquatic monsters like Grindylow?"

  Ted is also an attempt, after all, he had read Professor Quirrell's paper on the hybridization of magical animal blood in Hagrid's magazine before.

  Ted obviously saw a gleam of light in Professor Quirrell's eyes, and even his momentum changed for a while.

   "Oh, this, this question is very profound. Maybe I can talk to you after class..."

  Professor Quirrell rarely stayed with the students after class, and discussed with Ted for about ten minutes about issues such as magical animals, the natural abilities of magical creatures, and blood inheritance.

   To be honest, although Professor Quirrell is secretive, he seems to have studied this aspect very deeply!

  If he hadn't conducted some crossbreeding experiments in private, Ted would have roasted and eaten the three-headed dog!

  This detention made Hermione very dissatisfied: Why don't you let me listen?

  Ted had no choice but to explain to her: After all, Professor Quirrell is not good at discussing the topic of blood interbreeding with a lady, is he?

  After this breakthrough, Professor Quirrell seemed to appreciate Ted. He was no longer an ordinary good student who is good at learning, but an object who can give advice and discuss in the field of expertise.

   Well, if Professor Quirrell didn't have a face on the back of his head, Ted would really like to suggest that he go to the Muggle world to study genetics.

  …

  The night was already deep, and Ted was lying on the bed, his consciousness gradually sinking into the deeper darkness. As countless messy thoughts were closed, a more solid feeling appeared in his heart...

  He has been trying to "meditate" these two days!

   Mainly inspired by a psychology book brought to school.

   "The Secret of the Golden Flower", this is the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.

   When studying psychology, Jung is a figure that cannot be avoided.

   After breaking with Freud, he once fell into self-doubt.

   Later, under the guidance of a German who is proficient in Sinology, he read and studied ancient oriental works.

   And this book is the process of his research on the esoteric "collective unconscious".

  The so-called "golden flower" is actually the "Taiyi Jinhua" of Taoism, which is the golden elixir.

  The oriental books that Jung studied at the beginning were "Taiyi Jinhua Purpose" and "Book of Changes" written by Lu Dongbin...

  In Jung's understanding, the secret of the golden flower is also the secret of the human mind, the secret of the true inner life of a person.

   Jung said in the conclusion of his review: "My purpose is to build a bridge of psychological understanding between the East and the West..."

  Not to mention Jung's understanding of the life of the Eastern Neidan, but this book gave Ted an idea.

  That is meditation!

  Tianzhu has meditation and yoga, and Tianchao has meditation and meditation...the purpose is to enter a special spiritual state and feel the existence of consciousness itself.

  Psions progress by developing their own hearts, strengthening their beliefs and tempering their minds.

   Meditation feels that it is of great help to myself.

  In his previous life, he had seen and heard a lot of related materials and videos. Especially some sleep aids... I don't know if it is useful.

  No, try it now.

   After a few days, the effect is very good. The feeling that the consciousness gradually deepens, then separates from the body and spreads around, or explores inwardly is quite amazing.

   There are many ways to say this, such as internal vision, brain vision, and spiritual vision.

  As a psion, Ted can keenly perceive the difference and guide the heart and spirit to pursue the correct path.

   And today's attempt was exceptionally smooth.

  His spiritual consciousness has penetrated the wall of the dormitory, and even spread across the corridor, all the way to the common room.

  He feels a presence here, no! It's two.

   "Where is who?" Ms. Gray, who was remembering her mother in front of the bust of Ravenclaw, asked in a low voice.

  Ted's consciousness tries to communicate with her: "Ms. Gray?"

   "Is that you? Ted Epifani? What kind of magic did you use to communicate with me? Where are you?" Although Ms. Gray was already a ghost, she was still taken aback by Ted, who was seeing the head and tail of the dragon.

  Ted: "Wait a minute, I'm coming."

  Ted came to the common room in pajamas and holding a fluorescent wand.

  Here now only the stars and the moon decorated on the walls and ceiling emit a faint light, as if on the grass in the wild.

   "Good evening, Ms. Gray," Ted greeted.

  Ms. Gray nodded, "Hello."

  Actually, this is not the first time the two have met. When Ted played the piano, she would always listen nearby, and Ted would always spot her.

  Ms. Green was very curious about Ted talking to herself just now, "What magic did you use to talk to me just now?"

  Ted explained: "I was doing some spiritual exploration, and I just did it by accident."

  Ms. Gray's expression was a bit dignified: "Spiritual exploration is not a trivial matter. I think you should try it after studying for a few years."

   "You're right," Ted replied. Without the profession of psion, Ted wouldn't touch such a mind-intake thing until fifth grade, it would be dangerous.

   "Ma'am you are here..." He changed the subject.

   "Ghosts are always idle, I..." Ms. Gray hesitated for a moment, and the perfunctory words came to her lips, but she didn't say them.

  She knew something about the boy in front of her, especially his piano sound. Like an old friend you've never met.

  She suddenly didn't want to lie to him, maybe it was because she had kept many words in her heart for too long.

   "I'm here to honor Ms. Ravenclaw..." she said.

   Seeing that Ted didn't speak, he didn't ask. She reached out to touch the statue, but her hand could only pass through the statue.

   "She, I mean Ms. Ravenclaw, she is my mother. My name is not Gray..." Ms. Gray seemed to relax as soon as the words came out.

   "My name is Helena, Helena Ravenclaw."

  Ted nodded, waved his wand, pulled a chair over, and sat in it.

"I got it."

   "You guessed it?!" Gray, oh, Ms. Helena said in surprise.

"Yes. You can't be Lady Jane Grey, the poor lady was only sixteen when she died, less than five hundred years ago. But you were here before Nearly Headless Nick came to the castle ..."

  People in the castle thought Ms. Gray was Queen Jane Gray, who was deposed 9 days after the Tudor dynasty ascended the throne, and was beheaded by Queen Mary Tudor, known as "Bloody Mary" the next year.

   But Jane Gray was secretly executed in the Tower of London at the age of 16. It has been less than five hundred years now.

   But the ghost lady in front of her is not Jane Gray. She is Helena Ravenclaw.

   "You..." Helena wanted to say something, but didn't say it.

  She thought of the handsome and talking boy more than forty years ago. At first he lied to himself!

  But she felt that the little boy in front of her was different from the boy who lied to her.

  Ted chatted with Helena for a long time, and without knowing it, Helena talked about her stupidity back then, and expressed her regrets for many years. And the loneliness of wandering endlessly in this castle, that is endless despair...

  Ghosts are not a good way to preserve consciousness, but the wandering of dead souls who dare not or are unwilling to go on. And Helena has been wandering for nearly a thousand years.

   It wasn't until the sky was about to light up that Helena realized that she had really delayed the other party for too long. The other party needs to sleep.

  Ted smiled: "Don't worry about me, I can enter a deep sleep, and it will be almost an hour."

He said goodbye and walked upstairs, suddenly he stopped, and said to Helena who was about to walk through the wall: "Yes, Helena. Maybe I shouldn't say it, but I felt it at the time, rest In addition to you, there is another existence in the room..."

   "Another existence?" she muttered.

   "Yes." Ted pointed to the bust of Ms. Ravenclaw, "Maybe there is something hidden in it, maybe it's my illusion."

  (end of this chapter)