Back in the Gryffindor common room, Albert made himself a cup of milk tea and asked his roommates again if they wanted to go to the library to do their Charms homework. After being refused again, he packed his bag and went to the library after the three of them waved goodbye.
The library wasn't crowded during class time. Albert walked in and immediately spotted Shanna flipping through books looking for information. He walked over to her, gently pulled out a chair, and sat down, muttering, "I hope I'm not late?"
Albert arrived right on time; it's exactly 2 o'clock now.
"No, the Charms class homework was a bit difficult, and I didn't find much useful information." There were several books next to Shanna. She had arrived half an hour early, but still hadn't found anything particularly useful.
Albert flipped through the several thick books on the table, shook his head, and directly beckoned Shanna to go to section C and find the books she needed from the fifth row of bookshelves.
By the way, I still haven't returned the "Selected Nineteenth-Century Spells" that I borrowed last time.
However, I've almost finished reading "Selected Nineteenth-Century Spells," and I should probably finish it soon before borrowing it, since the borrowing period is almost up.
Albert pulled the book "Spell Achievements" from the shelf and handed it to Shanna, who was standing next to him. The young witch stared in astonishment at the book Albert had given her.
Soon, Albert pulled out the book he had been looking for, "Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Spells," and returned to his desk with Shanna.
"How did you know that what we're looking for is in these books?" Shanna was surprised to find that the two books Albert had chosen contained the information they were looking for, and then felt frustrated, wondering what all her hard work in finding the information had amounted to.
"The book 'The Charms of Achievement' is actually quite useful, at least for preparing for written exams," Albert explained. "The Light-Up Charm was invented in the 18th century, so you should be able to find relevant information in 'The Eighteenth Century Charms Collection'."
"You're so smart, why didn't you go to Ravenclaw?" Shanna asked, puzzled.
"Who knows?" Albert shrugged and said softly, "Maybe the Sorting Hat thinks I'll be better off in Gryffindor."
Once you've found the information, the rest is quite simple: just copy down the relevant sentences.
For example, the Light Charm was invented in the 18th century (1772) by a witch named Levina Monkstanley, who was a Silence in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic.
The discovery of the wand-lighting charm: One day, while searching for her lost quill in a dusty corner, Levina lit the end of her wand, much to the surprise of her colleagues. They all thought the charm was useful and wrote it down...
It's just a string of words, basically an excerpt.
For some reason, Albert suddenly missed the copy and paste function on the computer, and wondered if magic could do that.
If possible, writing papers will be much easier in the future.
"well!"
Albert sighed softly, then realized that he had been distracted and had misspelled a word, which made him feel a little conflicted.
He crossed out the misspelled words, dipped his quill pen in the ink bottle, and continued copying. The paper was actually quite simple; he merely copied "The Charms of Achievement" and "Selected Eighteenth-Century Charms," added some problems he encountered while practicing the Light-Up Charm, and then included solutions to those problems.
Albert discovered that the contents of the parchment had already taken up a large portion of the page, leaving Shanna, who was still flipping through the book next to him, completely dumbfounded.
"What's wrong with you?" Albert asked, puzzled.
"You…" Shanna pointed to the parchment.
"Want to see?" Albert didn't mind, handing the parchment to Shanna while he flipped through the contents of the Extinguishing Curse. The Extinguishing Curse wasn't in *Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Spells*. However, Albert found the relevant record in *Spell Achievements*, then retrieved the relevant book from the shelf and copied it down again.
Shanna looked at her own sparsely written article, then at Albert's well-organized and structured thesis, and suddenly felt a strong sense of frustration.
So this is how academic papers can be written!
Shanna knew that most of the content in the paper was copied from the book, but so what?
Albert called this borrowing or referencing.
If I tried to squeeze it out myself, I probably wouldn't be able to produce a 3-inch paper.
It took Albert an hour and a half to finish writing his paper on the Wand Light Charm and the Wand Extinguishing Charm.
Although half of the paper was plagiarized, much of it was based on Albert's own experiences learning spells, including various difficulties he encountered and solutions. The final summary reflects Albert's in-depth exploration of spells, such as clever tricks like making the light at one end of a wand leave the wand, storing the light of a glowing charm, or the bizarre idea of using an extinguishing charm to control the surrounding light.
Then... combine the two to create a light switch.
Bah, it's just a concept for a magic lamp. If we could create a magic lamp that produces the effect of a Muggle electric light using the extinguishing and glowing spells, wizards would no longer need to use oil lamps!
These were the last ideas he had left behind, and they were still just some hypotheses. Albert wrote them down in his paper because he wanted to get Professor Flitwick's help to complete them.
After all, Professor Flitwick is an expert in spells, and perhaps this kind of ingenuity can pique his interest.
The magic lamp's mission isn't finished yet!
"How about this," Albert said, after the ink on the parchment had dried, he used a copying spell to make a copy and handed it to Shanna. He pointed out some places and told her to write according to her own experience. As for the information that everyone could find, she could naturally insert it into the paper as an introduction and polishing, which would make it seem more sophisticated.
"I thought it would take a long time to write!" Shanna said with a sigh as she looked at her parchment.
Now, she understood somewhat why Albert had said he was writing this paper to deepen his understanding of the Light-Up Charm and the Extinguishing Charm.
That's definitely the case.
From researching and copying sentences from books to writing her thesis, she at least learned when the spell was invented, who invented it, what its impact was, who improved and innovated upon it, what problems she encountered while practicing it, how to solve them, and her own prospects and vision for the Light-Up Spell…
Anyway, once I finish writing all this stuff, it will definitely be more than three inches long, so I'm not worried about not being able to write that many numbers.
Moreover, and most importantly, if you don't understand the Light-Up Charm and the Extinguish Charm, you really can't write this stuff.