radicalducati Chapter 17 Answer Sheet
Chapter 17 Answer Sheet
Three days passed quickly.
The freshmen don't have much academic pressure. Only a few students who have never been exposed to magic worry about not being able to keep up. Most students are happy.
Returning students entering the new semester quickly felt the academic pressure after a brief period of novelty, especially fifth and seventh graders who faced two crucial exams.
The former determines whether they can pursue more advanced courses, while the latter determines whether they can get a good job after graduation.
That's why people of these two ages are the ones who most want to join the Adventurers' Club.
This club is clearly looking to recruit talented students so that everyone can study and learn together.
In other words, the club has many experienced members who can mentor struggling students.
Moreover, and most importantly, there is no school rule that says it's cheating if a fortune teller predicts exam questions in advance!
After all, it's as natural for prophets to make predictions as breathing. Ninety-nine percent of wizards who claim to be prophets can only make vague predictions, which are completely unusable for precise tests like exams.
It's just that one prophet's prophetic abilities were exceptionally outstanding.
Countless students with this concept fantasize to some extent about receiving intensive pre-exam tutoring from Ryan.
In the fifth-grade Transfiguration class, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were in class at the same time.
Professor McGonagall's unusually stern expression made some students who had not yet mastered the summoning spell tremble with fear.
"What does Gamp's Basic Law of Transformation say? You want to conjure food out of nothing? You'll hand in a three-foot-long paper on the Basic Law of Transformation next time you're in class."
Professor McGonagall walked past a student who was trying to conjure food out of thin air, her tone stern.
One of Hufflepuff's students was so excited to receive a three-foot-long paper that he shed tears.
For a moment, all the students in the classroom were focused with their utmost effort, hoping to successfully cast the food summoning spell, or at the very least, be punished by having to write a paper.
As Professor McGonagall approached, Ryan successfully conjured up a loaf of bread.
"Well done, Mr. Lane, Ravenclaw gets ten points," Professor McGonagall praised.
After Professor McGonagall left, the Ravenclaw student asked, "Lane, do you have some kind of technique?"
Ryan said sincerely, "After learning the spellcasting methods taught by Professor McGonagall, I also have a little trick."
Everyone around them pricked up their ears.
"The trick is to lock yourself in a dark room; if you don't produce food, you won't eat. It definitely works."
Ryan said seriously, and he was absolutely not lying about that.
He always felt that the emotions of wizards were especially important when casting spells, particularly when they were just learning a new spell, as strong emotions could help them succeed.
Just like before the young wizards entered school, when they were emotionally agitated, phenomena that they could not control would often occur around them.
From this perspective, magic is the power of the mind.
However, the emergence of magical theorems such as the fundamental laws of transformation brought magic back to the material world.
Can matter really not be created or destroyed out of thin air...? Ryan thought of the Philosopher's Stone. Isn't magic a kind of matter?
If so, how did Nicolas Flamel, hundreds of years ago, endow the Philosopher's Stone with such powerful magic?
If it's not matter, then what exactly is magic?
Ryan fell into deep thought.
After class, he went to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor, entered storage room number 10086, wrote down the doubts that had just surfaced, and explained the doubts he had encountered in detail.
He then closed the thick notebook, the title page of which read: Ryan's Question.
He put the notebook back on the bookshelf.
There are several other notebooks placed together with this one.
The title pages are titled: Ryan's Ingenious Ideas, Ryan's Design Collection, Ryan's Magical Plans, etc.
"The closer one gets to magic, the more one realizes one's own insignificance."
He let his mind wander freely for fifteen minutes, then beckoned over the parchment filled with club assessment questions and began "grading" them.
"Want to become a Ministry of Magic employee? There's no proof of feasibility, no logical explanation. Did this guy just make a wish?"
The first test paper Ryan looked at came from a seventh-grade student. He shook his head and placed the paper in the "fail" section.
Want to pass your final exams?
"Would you like to open a wizard's shop?"
After scrolling through nearly a hundred wish lists, Ryan finally saw the test paper with his logic written on it.
Percy Weasley from Gryffindor.
After reading the whole thing, Ryan didn't know what to say. Percy wrote about how to get high marks in magic at school, thereby entering the Ministry of Magic and getting promoted and a raise...
While the argument is logically sound and highly feasible, it contradicts Ryan's goal of exploring the fringes of magic. This article doesn't portray magic as the highest pursuit for wizards, but rather uses it as a stepping stone to achieve its own ends.
There's no right or wrong in this; it's each wizard's own choice, everyone has their own ambitions... Ryan hesitated for a moment, wrote a line on Percy's exam paper, then snapped his fingers, and with a snap, the parchment scroll disappeared.
As time went on, many people came to accept Ryan's judgment.
For example, the Weasley twins from Gryffindor were shortlisted for their discussion of practical magical items, even though their original intention was to open a joke shop.
For example, Pablo Pierce, the current Ravenclaw prefect, who is of commoner origin, argued for the potential of combining Muggle medical devices with St. Mungo's Hospital, even though it violated countless Secrets Act and the Muggle Articles of Control. However, Lane himself did not take these articles seriously, only noting on his parchment: Do not discuss this outside of the present.
Of course, there's also Penelope Cruvat.
Perhaps he was too influenced by Professor Flitwick, or perhaps he knew too much about a certain examiner who wished to remain anonymous.
She explained the basics of weapon science for ordinary people, as well as the specific logic and methods of magical enchanting. Some of the content was immediately recognizable to Ryan as Professor Flitwick's viewpoint.
It's clear that Professor Flitwick gave special tutoring to the outstanding students in his own college.
Overall, Penelope's series of ideas on the questionnaire were eye-opening for Ryan.
What surprised Ryan the most was that several students, whether freshmen or seniors, who he had learned were supposed to have a dramatic experience, did not have outstanding performances.
Including the three main characters.
Harry wrote his test paper very carefully, but he didn't write anything at all. This is not his fault, after all, he had just been exposed to magic.
Although Ryan didn't approve his application, he would be included in Ryan's subsequent invitation.
Hermione wrote a lot on her test, perhaps having grasped Ryan's unspoken meaning, and chose to discuss some of the most cutting-edge knowledge currently accepted in the wizarding world.
Ryan could also tell from between the lines that she was a serious and intelligent little witch.
Unfortunately, while she possesses a strong learning ability, Ryan finds it difficult to see creativity in her writing.
"Miss Granger can be a great student, but not necessarily a good adventurer. She excels at operating within the rules and learning within the realm of knowledge..."
Given that Hermione had just enrolled and had not yet been "poisoned" by her family's ideology, Ryan decided to give her a pass.
As for Ron Weasley, who comes from a pure-blood wizarding family...
"Haha, what a nice day!" Ryan remarked in storage room 10086, which had no windows at all.
In the center of the room, the portrait of Ryan draws out a tarot card.
The Fool card reversed.
The portrait of Ryan also includes a thoughtful inscription: cowardly and reckless, yearning for freedom yet shirking responsibility, relying on others yet stubbornly clinging to his own opinions.