"The idea is feasible." Felix saw more possibilities from this simple attempt. He felt that if he worked hard, he could achieve the level of the sleeping guard statue in the castle.
However, he did not think that he could complete a magical creation similar to the Sorting Hat or the diary.
The latter is easy to say, after all, it is a Horcrux, which contains a piece of Voldemort's soul, but what about the Sorting Hat? Its predecessor was just a hat of Gryffindor, not something specially made for the Sorting House.
According to Felix's imagination, the four founders may have questioned each other's "talent selection plan" when they shared afternoon tea. In order to resolve the differences, they decided to use "intelligent magical creations" to sort the houses.
So the Sorting Hat was born. The Sorting Hat has existed for thousands of years. It can communicate with people, has its own memories and personality, and in a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a real life.
This reminds him of magical portraits that can also communicate with people.
Some simple portraits, such as Sir Cadogan in the castle, have extremely simple wisdom and cannot have complex and organized conversations.
When Felix was in school, he found that this bragging knight could only give seven effective responses, such as bragging about his brilliant achievements or inviting a duel.
However, some portraits were magical enough - they could interact with the outside world in a complex way and still retain a lot of memories.
As far as he knew, the portraits of the former headmasters in the headmaster's office of Hogwarts and the portraits of the ancestors of some pure-blood families were all in this category.
This was because the owners of the portraits injected a lot of memories and magic into them, so that the portraits they left behind still had a similar personality to the original owner, but they were only similar, and they were not real life.
The biggest difference was that the personality of the portraits would not change with the passage of time, and would always be fixed at the moment they were made, like a complex interactive program.
This was fundamentally different from the Sorting Hat...
"The Sorting Hat definitely hides a bigger secret!"
...
The dawn of Christmas arrived, and Felix dressed neatly and came out of the bedroom. Under the small Christmas tree in the corner of the office, there were a large number of Christmas gifts of various shapes piled up.
Roughly speaking, there were almost hundreds of them.
Moreover, there were many packages on the way. While he was making tea, three owls flew into the house through the window he had left open last night. One of them had obviously flown quite a distance, holding a delicate gift box the size of a palm in its mouth, and collapsed on the table in front of him.
Felix had to feed it a few drops of magic potion, and its condition improved a lot.
After eating a few small biscuits, the brown owl jumped in front of him and pecked his fingers with its sharp beak. "You want me to open the package?"
The owl looked at him, tilted its head, and stretched out a claw to him, where a small metal cylinder was tied.
Felix opened the cylinder and pulled out a rolled-up note from it -
"Dear Mr. Felix Hep, my wolfsbane potion has been finalized. Just when 'White Fresh' flew to you, I had submitted the official formula to the Ministry of Magic. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be awarded an Order of Merlin in the near future - at least second class! I hope you can come to the ceremony then. Enclosed is a bottle of the latest wolfsbane potion, please taste it." The signature
is Mocris Belby.
Felix wrote on it quickly, "It's my honor. Please notify me immediately after the date is set, and I will attend on time. In addition: your Order of Merlin is well deserved."
He put the note back into the metal cylinder, "Thank you for your hard work, White Fresh." The owl drank some water and spread its wings and flew away.
Felix opened the exquisite gift box, which contained a bottle of potion. He opened the lid and sniffed it gently. "Hmm, it still smells so bad. Can't he consider adding some sugar? Or is it a quirk of all magic masters to make potions unpalatable?"
He put the potion into the ring with emerald on his left hand, and then began to open the gifts with great interest.
A considerable part of them came from his book fans and pen pals, mainly greeting cards. Felix sorted them out and put them aside temporarily. The rest were gifts from professors and students of Hogwarts.
Dumbledore gave a private alchemy manuscript, which was his personal experience on alchemy. And Felix gave the headmaster a Muggle book called "99 Inventions That Changed the World", with a pair of long wool socks embroidered with a red lion.
Professor McGonagall gave a book called "Quidditch Teams in Britain and Ireland", which introduced the British Quidditch teams and the various honors they had won, and also contained a large number of illustrations of Quidditch techniques and movements.
It seemed that she wanted to pull Felix into the circle of Quidditch enthusiasts.
Hagrid gave him a homemade dagger, which was rather crudely made, but the material was very special - it was the horn of a unicorn.
"Tsk." Felix smacked his lips, not knowing what to say.
Professor Flitwick sent him a document on ancient magic and invited him to discuss the relevant content with him when he had time. Felix gladly replied.
Professor Snape's gift was a thumb-sized transparent bottle, which contained about one milliliter of transparent liquid.
"It's a powerful truth serum. You are really good, professor." He said happily, "I hope you will like my gift too." He gave Snape a set of experimental equipment for Muggle elementary school students, including measuring cups, balances and droppers.
He also thoughtfully matched it with a book "Chemical Experiment Behavior Code (Children's Edition)", which has a large number of illustrations, so there is no need to worry that the professor will not understand it.
Many young wizards at Hogwarts also gave him gifts. His assistant Miss Granger gave him a dark green knitted scarf, Potter gave him a large bag of chocolates, and Ron Weasley gave him a box of Zizi Bee Candy.
The most interesting gift was given by the twins together. It was two wooden couple dolls hugging each other. They looked rougher than Hagrid's dagger. The facial features were all painted on. Felix knocked on the male doll's head according to the instructions. He screamed in pain, and then the two dolls trembled and danced the zombie dance.
Although the twins introduced that this was a kind of "waltz" in a small African country, Felix ignored it directly.
In addition, some young wizards who had not met for a few times also sent gifts, such as Justin Finch-Fletchley, who gave a gorgeous feather pen with multiple functions.
It took Felix an hour to complete the work of writing letters and returning gifts.
He walked into the hall, where scattered young wizards sat on four long tables.
A dozen Christmas trees covered with silver frost were hung with all kinds of novel and interesting baubles. Ribbons made of mistletoe and holly hung from the ceiling, and magical snow fell in large numbers.
Professor McGonagall and several professors were busy decorating the hall.
"Do you need help?" he asked.
Professor McGonagall straightened up, "Oh, no, it's almost done." She waved her wand and hung a long colorful ribbon on the Christmas tree. She turned around and said to him, "I like your gift very much, Felix."
Felix smiled. What he gave Professor McGonagall was a half-human-high magic puppet with more than a dozen complex circuits built in, which gave it two forms - in addition to its human form, it can also transform into a majestic lion.