Felix was eating breakfast in the school hall while flipping through the newspaper of the day. Rita Skeeter commented on the trouble Alastor Moody had caused yesterday with a sharp touch and undisguised tendency, and also mocked Mr. Weasley.

In this report, Moody was considered a difficult person who "could not distinguish between ordinary handshakes and deliberate murder", while Mr. Weasley was mistakenly called "Arnold Weasley" and talked about the old things again, mentioning the flying car two years ago.

Felix read it again. This woman was very good at reporting facts half-covered - only the part of the facts she needed, and then adding her own distorted understanding to draw an absurd conclusion.

But in general, some useful things can still be seen, such as the mention of a female official missing for many months, which is likely to refer to Bertha Jorkins.

...

Felix walked into the ancient magic classroom ten minutes early, and some students were already sitting in the seats.

"Hello, Felix." Luna looked up from the magazine and greeted him happily, as if they were not in the classroom, but met by chance somewhere else, such as the open space in the Forbidden Forest.

Felix smiled, "Hello, Luna. Are you also in the third year?"

"Yes." She was stunned for a while. Ginny next to her was no longer surprised and pulled the magazine towards her. They were just playing a prize-winning quiz in the magazine. If you guessed correctly, you would get a gift. Luna

stared at Felix with a pair of misty eyes and said, "By the way, I like your Christmas gift. Have I told you?"

"Oh, uh, I did. I remember it was..." Felix was rarely in a trance. This question was not what he expected, "Nine months ago."

Two rows away, a gray-haired boy suddenly raised his hand and looked at him expectantly.

"Hello?"

Felix was a little surprised. He pulled out a long piece of parchment, carefully looked at the red pattern on the boy's wizard robe, and lowered his head to find the name of the boy from Gryffindor College.

"Professor Hep, my name is Colin. Harry Potter recommended me to take this course, and I also like magic puppets!" He raised his arms high while speaking.

Felix stroked the list on the parchment and nodded at him, "Creevy, class hasn't started yet, we're just chatting."

"Then can we get the magic puppets today? Can I choose one myself?" Colin said excitedly.

"Of course, I will also give all of you access to the 'Answer Parchment' to take the Ancient Magic Course. Many of your homework for this school year will be completed on it..." Felix said.

More and more students came into the classroom.

Luna and Ginny were holding the Quibbler magazine and trying to guess the puzzle on it. Luna picked up the page with the puzzle printed on it and looked at the shadow on it through the light, "I think it's an origami hat."

"Why don't I see anything?" Ginny said, "By the way - why did you call the professor's name?"

"Because we are friends." Luna said happily, she took out a feather pen and outlined the shape of the imaginary hat.

Ginny was still pondering the riddle: "An empty stomach is associated with wisdom; it is not seen when it is needed, and it is not needed when it is seen." She shook her fiery red hair and came to her senses, "Yes, what else could it be?"

She took Luna's pen and wrote the word "hat" in the blank of the answer. The page of the magazine fell off lightly and folded itself into a hat. Ginny put it on Luna's head.

"Okay--" Felix stood on the podium and looked at the full classroom and said, "Welcome, students! I am glad to see that the number of people who signed up for the ancient magic class has increased by a few more this year."

After he finished calling the roll, his eyes swept over the little wizards in the room, and they looked at Felix eagerly.

"Take advantage of the new semester and your minds are still clear. Let's talk about some topics worth thinking about." Felix said, his voice was not as excited as at the beginning, but much calmer, and the students below quickly got into the state.

"Of course I hope you will do well in this course, but first I want to clarify one fact -

the knowledge in the textbooks is only my most basic requirement for you. If you want to stand out or make a difference in this subject... whether you want to become a pure scholar, or want to integrate magic runes and alchemy to reproduce ancient magic items; or follow the footsteps of ancient wizards, and experience the wonderful feeling of powerful and brutal ancient magic taking shape and releasing from your hands bit by bit... I can teach you all this knowledge, provided that you meet my requirements.

In view of the fact that the teaching props for this course are becoming more and more abundant and the learning difficulty is constantly decreasing, I will also raise my expectations of you accordingly. The benefits are obvious - you will gain more than students in previous years, and this time, I will lead you to turn your attention to more interesting and mysterious areas."

He raised his hand, and dozens of cards flew out of his robe and landed accurately in front of each little wizard.

"Magic rune cards." Felix said briefly, "I hesitated between the magic rune knife and the magic rune card, but in the end I still think that magic rune cards are more suitable for beginners who know nothing."

"And the magic rune knife is actually suitable for carving magic rune circuits. You are still far from this step."

The young wizards listened carefully, and for a moment they were a little confused about these unfamiliar concepts, but Felix did not intend to elaborate on them in detail. He simply made a distinction and pushed the class to the next step.

He held the card in his backhand and showed the front to the students. As he injected magic power into the card, the original traces on the card gradually lit up. He also introduced: "The reason why it is suitable for beginners is that the only requirement for you is to infuse stable magic power, and you have already had two years of magic practice. This step is not an insurmountable obstacle."

When he finished speaking, the lines on the card had been completely lit up, and a spherical light the size of an egg was projected from the card, composed of countless tiny light spots. It was dim and looked like a bright, furry ball from a distance.

"This is a magic rune that symbolizes light. You only need to know it for now. Look, does it look like a glowing little ball of fur?"

"Its corresponding magic rune symbol is the pattern on the card, which looks a bit like a torch. The real appearance is this--"

An invisible hand appeared in the air, outlining a golden symbol. The young wizards compared the symbol with the pattern on the card, and they were exactly the same.

Felix smiled and grabbed the golden magic rune, "In the following classes, you will understand the meaning of this magic rune, and then you can convert it into the image you see in the projection. That is its magical symbol. Like this--"

He spread out his folded palms and showed them in front of the students. The golden magic rune turned into a small, glowing ball of light. Then, Felix released the restraints, and it completely turned into a bright white light.

"Okay, let's start practicing."

Felix announced. The little wizards all held the cards, frowned, and tried to inject magic into them. After a while, Felix saw a lot of little faces that were flushed and their mouths were tightly closed. They were so serious that people thought they were about to go to a duel that could kill them at any time.

He shuttled between the students and reminded them: "Think about the feeling of transforming the goblet in the Transfiguration class, let the magic flow evenly and steadily... Learn to relax, deliberately forcing will only make your magic intermittent, this is just a game..."

Under the power of language, the little wizards became calm and began to speed up.

Felix muttered softly: "I'm so glad that I didn't use the prank cards of the Weasley twins, otherwise the class would be full of mice."

Unexpectedly, but reasonably, Luna was the first to succeed. Perhaps in the whole class, she was the only one who really regarded this as a game. "Look, it's the same as Puffy." She said.

It was rare that Felix heard a creature he knew from her mouth.

Puffy is a very popular pet for wizard children. Its body is a sphere covered with soft cream-yellow fur. It is indeed similar to the light ball projected by the magic rune card. And, the key is that this creature is not fictional, it really exists.

"Ravenclaw plus ten points, and in addition," Felix showed a stack of cards in front of her, "Pick another one, Miss Lovegood."

Luna stared and asked with interest, "Is there a magic rune representing a crooked-horned snorkle?"

"...No."

Felix handed her a magic rune card that meant frost. He thought they both needed to calm down...