At the end of November, the weather had become very cold. The windows of the castle were covered with thick frost. It snowed a few times, and the mountains around Hogwarts were covered with snow caps.

In a small classroom, it was warm as spring, and the firewood in the fireplace was burning.

Felix sat on a sofa and relaxed, looking at the little wizards of different grades and different colleges in front of him with a smile. They sat around on more than a dozen sofas, with novelty and desire in their eyes.

"Today is the first meeting of the Magic Club. It's great that everyone is here."

"I was quite busy some time ago. Now I finally have time to think about the club's affairs." Felix played with a dark green coin with a unique and heavy luster in his hand, and the little wizards looked at it curiously.

The coin did not belong to any known coin, not a copper Knut, a silver Sickle, or a gold Galleon.

Felix flicked the coin with his fingers.

Under the gaze of the young wizards, the coin was thrown into the air and suddenly turned into a slender snake covered with scales. Then it suddenly expanded. The snake twisted its body and twisted its dark green body. At a certain moment, it swallowed its tail in one gulp, forming a standard circle.

The young wizards stared at the strange little snake that was constantly swimming in the air. Many people had never come across this pattern before.

But Geoffrey, the head of Slytherin and a seventh-year student, said in a low and enthusiastic voice: "Ouroboros."

"Yes, Ouroboros. If you have ever dabbled in magic symbols, you will naturally not miss this ancient symbol. It represents many things and is widely used in alchemy, ancient magic runes, and ancient seal studies. Even in the non-magical world, Ouroboros is quite famous, but people tend to call it a symbol of mysticism."

"Many people regard Ouroboros as a symbol of cycle, infinity, and rebirth..."

Felix told the history of the Ouroboros symbol. When he stopped, sixth-year Pete Seldon asked a question.

"Professor, what are your considerations?"

Pat Seldon had a long braid, and Felix's impression of her was that she blindly bought an amulet that smelled of onions before the OWLs exam last school year.

Felix explained, "I used to think of it as a symbol in alchemy. At that time, I thought it represented the prototype and cycle of all things, the reciprocation of construction and destruction... To some extent, it expressed the alchemist's pursuit of perfect alchemy;

later, I studied magic theory in depth, and I thought it contained vitality, symbolizing the alternation of death and rebirth. In ancient times, many ancient wizards would engrave it on tombstones;

when I came into contact with ancient magic runes and used magic runes as my ruler to measure magic, I thought it represented infinity and self-growth."

Felix said leisurely, "Miss Seldon, can you understand what I mean? People's ideas are always changing, and people look at things from different perspectives at different stages."

He looked up at the little ring snake and said with emotion, "Everyone's views will not be exactly the same. I hope that one day, you will have your own views, not blindly following others, but careful thinking after learning."

The little wizards listened with a confused look. In the magic rune club, there were students from third to seventh grade, and not everyone could understand these words and Felix's mood when he spoke.

After waiting quietly for a while, the firewood in the fireplace was still burning, and Felix raised the corner of his mouth: "Okay, little wizards. I didn't gather you together for idle chat. To be honest, I have a lot of things to do, but they don't include discussing trivial matters."

"The Sorting Hat will sort you into different colleges according to your most outstanding characteristics, such as Ravenclaw--" His eyes swept over Qiu Zhang, Penelope, Walton Pardis, Eddie Camilche, Marietta Edgecombe, Michael Corner, Padma Patil...

"Slytherin--" He looked at Jeffrey, Draco Malfoy, Daphne Greengrass, Pansy Parkinson...

"Hufflepuff--" He signaled with his eyes to Cedric, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Susan Bones, and Pete Seldon...

"And Gryffindor." His eyes swept over Harry and his two companions, the Weasley twins, Percy, Alicia Spinnet...

Felix smiled and said, "Your characteristics together form the different ethos of the four colleges. But in fact, the ethos of the four colleges in turn affects you and aggravates this characteristic - sometimes I only need to chat with someone for a few words to roughly judge the college he comes from."

Felix smiled, "As an aside, there was a period of time when I would consciously play this game, and the success rate was very high."

"This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that each college has its own good virtues that it values. Once the trend is formed, it is easy to be driven to move forward. The disadvantage is that some people do not learn good things, but instead are infected with various shortcomings without knowing it."

Penelope said thoughtfully: "Professor, just like Ravenclaw advocates knowledge and individuality, the students are smart, wise, far-sighted, and curious... but sometimes they are too self-centered and incompatible with the outside world, and even hurt some people?"

Felix nodded approvingly, "Very insightful and courageous, Miss Clearwater."

"The headmasters of Hogwarts realized this very early. Some of you may have had such a question. Many of your classes are taken with other colleges, and not a fixed one. For example, Miss Granger?"

Hermione raised her head and said in a low voice nervously: "We have Herbology class with Hufflepuff, Potions class with Slytherin, and Astronomy class with Ravenclaw."

"What about after the fifth grade?" Felix looked at Jeffrey again.

Jeffrey replied, "Most of the time, the four colleges take classes together."

The other young wizards couldn't help but think about this question.

Felix said, "This approach is to allow you to see another group of different types of people and learn from each other's strengths while getting to know each other."

"The club magnifies this advantage, which is also what I like. So in the future, when it comes to cooperation, I will let you choose students from different colleges as partners."

Harry almost immediately looked at Qiu Zhang from Ravenclaw, but to his heartbreak, her eyes were on another person. He turned his head and saw the tall and handsome Cedric.

His heart was instantly filled with a feeling of frustration and loss, and the long-standing sense of expectation was like a soap bubble being popped.

Malfoy glanced at Harry, then looked at the others, not knowing what he was thinking.

Percy and Penelope smiled at each other.

"Next, let me talk about the Magic Rune Club itself—" Felix knocked on the armrest of the sofa to calm the restless little wizards.

"First of all, the club's teaching focuses on practical magic runes, and you will learn a lot of practical magic rune knowledge;"

"Secondly, you will participate in some of my research and be responsible for providing some data, or forming a research team to complete some experimental projects;"

"Sometimes, we may just sit down and chat, discussing some topics that are not related to magic runes but are interesting enough, such as - why we can cast spells unconsciously when we were young, but we can't do it after entering school, or... it's difficult?"

Harry suddenly remembered some magical experiences before he entered school, such as his hair always growing wildly, and in the few minutes between leaving the barber shop and returning home, his hair returned to its original shape, as if it had never been cut;

or when Aunt Petunia tried to put on him an ugly sweater with orange balls, he was very resistant, and during the struggle, the sweater shrank smaller and smaller, and finally it could only be worn by a puppet toy;

and when he was in a Muggle school, his cousin Dudley and his gang chased him, and he wanted to jump over a trash can, but found himself inexplicably sitting on the chimney;

he also lost the protective glass in the zoo and let a python go...