Chapter 297: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang's Imminent Arrival
Only Dumbledore had the authority to approve such a massive point award.
Sean quickly found Snape and wrote an application to submit.
When it came to adding points to his own house and deducting points from other houses, Snape was always obliging.
That evening, Sean sat in the Great Hall eating dinner.
At this time, Hogwarts was still immersed in the news of his winning the Best Paper Golden Cauldron Award and Order of Merlin, Second Class medal. While Hogwarts students might not grasp the significance of the Golden Cauldron Award, they absolutely understood the importance of an Order of Merlin, Second Class medal. Just two years prior, Lockhart had constantly bragged about his Third Class Order of Merlin, making sure everyone knew about it. Sean's Second Class award was considerably more impressive.
The Hogwarts students constantly discussed this Order of Merlin, Second Class medal, but Sean had already detached himself from it, returning to his usual mindset. When he went to see his teacher again at seven o'clock that evening, he had completely calmed his excitement about this matter and returned to normal.
Today was the day for Sean to once again create items using alchemy.
Last time, Sean had used alchemy to create a magical core with a fixed Blasting Curse. Today, Sean planned to make a traction device that could steadily extract the magic from within.
Of course, such a thing couldn't possibly succeed in one attempt. Tonight he could only create some of the components, but even those components, compared to Sean's design, were already a major project.
Sean's design wasn't actually complete yet, but incomplete didn't mean it couldn't be made. Besides, creating physical objects based on designs to reference and adjust the design was what Sean considered the best approach.
Two hours was just enough time for Sean to complete one component.
Antonius disappeared again at the doorway. Sean walked alongside Nicolas, who was being pushed by Lisa as they left, walking down the corridor. As they walked, Sean asked: "Nicolas, do you think it would be feasible for me to incorporate some ideas from creating alchemical puppets into this?"
Hearing Sean's words, Nicolas immediately understood what he meant.
Nodding gently, Nicolas said: "Of course it's feasible, and according to your idea, this thing could also assist users in casting magic in the future. This is undoubtedly a very effective design, but this way, the difficulty of creating your work will inevitably deepen again, which is a very big challenge for your abilities."
"It's fine. I'm still young. As long as it's feasible, then it's not a problem."
Nicolas looked at Sean and nodded gently.
After the two parted ways, Nicolas didn't immediately have Lisa push him back to his quarters. He just looked in the direction Sean had left, and after a long while, said softly to Lisa, who couldn't possibly answer him: "Lisa, what do you think of this child Sean? He's really a very good child, isn't he? If I were a bit younger or had met him earlier, perhaps I would have competed with Antonius for this child. Perhaps it's time I considered taking on an apprentice of my own. What do you think?"
Lisa was just an alchemical puppet that didn't yet possess life, so naturally couldn't answer Nicolas' words. But Nicolas obviously already had an answer in his heart.
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Professor Babbling heard the bell for the end of class but remained unmoved.
She had got used to it.
She couldn't run away anyway, so she might as well wait for him to come ask her questions. The sooner he finished asking, the sooner she could get off work.
She had given up resisting.
Sean came before Professor Babbling and began asking his questions as before.
Most of this time's questions were related to Sean's alchemical work, and some were related to content in life alchemy. Alchemy and Ancient Runes were inseparable. The vast majority of alchemy required the use of Ancient Runes at some point. So when Professor Babbling saw Sean's questions today, she immediately sensed something unusual.
"Where did you find these questions?"
"They're some problems I've encountered recently."
Regarding Professor Babbling's question, Sean didn't hide anything. Now he no longer needed to conceal much about many things.
Hearing Sean's answer, Professor Babbling's eyebrows raised slightly. She looked at Sean and asked directly: "You're studying alchemy? With this depth, are you sure you're not just messing around? Among Hogwarts teachers, there's absolutely no one who can master this level of alchemy. Don't tell me there's some professor I don't know about teaching you alchemy!"
"It seems, Professor Babbling, you also understand alchemy."
"Whether I understand or not doesn't matter. Actually, whatever you're up to has nothing to do with me. My duty is only to teach you Ancient Runes and answer your questions about Ancient Runes. Everything else beyond that has nothing to do with me."
"Of course. Then please answer my questions, Professor Babbling."
Hearing Sean say this, Professor Babbling said no more and directly began answering his questions.
During the answering process, Professor Babbling felt that the questions Sean asked weren't random or just messing around. He had really encountered these problems.
Had he really mastered such profound alchemy?
At Hogwarts, who could teach him such advanced alchemy?
Surely Dumbledore hadn't brought Nicolas Flamel here, had he?
Shaking her head, she pushed all these irrelevant questions to the back of her mind. After finishing answering Sean's questions, Professor Babbling turned and left the classroom, disappearing into the corridor.
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of October.
At this time, a notice appeared in all four house common rooms.
[Representatives from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will arrive on Friday, October 30th, at six o'clock in the evening. Afternoon classes will end half an hour early.]
After seeing the notice, everyone began discussing it.
The three houses other than Slytherin were all discussing one thing. Friday afternoon's class was Potions, and they could finally get out early. Having fewer Potions classes was wonderful news for the three houses other than Slytherin.
"Sean, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are coming the day after tomorrow. I heard Viktor Krum will also come to Hogwarts with Durmstrang. Then I'll be able to see this currently most famous Quidditch player."
"Your focus is really different. Everyone else is concerned about whether the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang girls are pretty or the boys handsome, but you're planning to chase celebrities."