The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

While Lockhart was in despair, what was Tom doing?

He is writing runes.

That day, he took advantage of the chaos and ran away to eat melon with Harry and Ron. When Lockhart left the bookstore anxiously, several people laughed heartily.

However, their good mood was soon disturbed by two uninvited guests: Malfoy and his son came to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. When they met Mr. Weasley, just like hydrogen ions meeting hydroxyl radicals, the two naturally clashed.

Of course, before Lucius Malfoy quarreled with Mr. Weasley, he secretly confirmed that the diary he had left there was gone.

In the end, the two broke up on bad terms, but there was no physical conflict.

That day, Tom was like a squid in the melon field, enjoying the melons.

Tom continued to study for a while. He has already read Riddle's research manuscript. And he also felt that he needed to carry out a practice: he wanted to make a gift.

There is a shortcut key that is indispensable for writing papers in later generations: Ctrl+F. This key can search for keywords, which can greatly facilitate students to search for information. But this thing did not exist in the magic world in the 1990s.

Tom wants to make such an alchemical device that can replace Ctrl+F

So he found a piece of magic silver and beat it into the shape of a leaf. Riddle had told him that gold and silver were both good carriers, but after trying it, Tom found that magic silver was better than these two metals. more suitable. It seems Riddle didn't have access to this magical metal at that time.

Tom first wrote and drew on the parchment for a while before settling on his ideas.

To create alchemy, you must first identify and record the content in the book and its corresponding location. Then, it will record the words and sentences the operator wants to find and find them in the book.

After thinking about the operating principle, Tom began to carve the runes.

Although the principle may not seem difficult, the actual operation is quite complex. Tom had been carving all night and felt like he had just gotten started.

Looking at the fallen hair, Tom fell into deep thought. This thing is a waste of hair!

And these runes always give people a familiar feeling: there is a beginning and an end, there is a judgment, there is a termination judgment, and there are transfers in and out... The most important thing is that it requires overtime, and it is very expensive.

I'm a wizard, why do I do things so much like programming?

In the days that followed, he helped Mr. Lawrence replenish and catalog goods at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, and also acted as a guide to find books for wizards who couldn't find them. The work at Flourish and Blotts was completely taken over by Tom and Hermione and a new temporary worker hired by Mr. Laurence - because Tom only worked three days a week. After finding a reliable helper, Mr. Lawrence can sit in the office every day, leisurely read the newspaper, and drink some cider at noon.

The work at Mr. Ollivander's place is simpler: Tom is mainly responsible for measuring the arm length, height and other physical data of the little wizards for Mr. Ollivander. When you have free time, you can even help Mr. Ollivander carve some runes - Mr. Ollivander will mark the location on the wand body, and then ask Tom to carve the corresponding runes on it.

And every day after get off work, Tom would make his own alchemical creation in his dormitory. As the start of school approaches day by day, this item is gradually being completed.

The entire alchemical creation looks like a summer oak leaf, but Tom has painted the surface with a layer of gold foil, making it look shiny and golden. Tom deliberately made it a bookmark.

The method of use is also very simple. Clip the leaf into the book first, and it will automatically scan the contents of the book. When there is a need for query, just write the word you want to search on the paper, and paste the leaf on the writing, and it will remember the word you want to search, and then automatically insert it into the book, pointing the petiole to that keyword. If the word is not what the queryer needs, it will automatically fly to the next place.

But Tom also discovered two small bugs...

The first is that if you scan one book and then scan a second book, the contents of the first book will not be overwritten. This results in that when querying the keywords of the second book, the keywords that meet the conditions of the first book will also be selected - and according to the order of scanning, the leaf bookmark will also give priority to the first book...

This is very painful. For example, if Tom scans "Standard Spells·Elementary" and then scans "Standard Spells·Level 2", and then Tom wants to query the word "counterclockwise" in "Standard Spells·Level 2", the leaf bookmark will first scan from "Elementary" Start looking for sentences containing "counterclockwise" in "Elementary". After the instructions in "Elementary" are completed, the sentences in "Level 2" will start to be displayed.

Another little problem is that once it starts pointing, it doesn't stop... something Tom realizes by accident. Once he accidentally entered the letter g as the word he was looking for, and the bookmark became convulsive until the magic power was exhausted.

Tom picked up his second alchemical creation - the first was the coin levitating lamp, and looked at the system's description of it:

[Keyword Bookmark - Refining 1 (three stars): The hard work of an apprentice who is proficient in alchemy. It can automatically query the specified keywords in the book. There are endless bugs waiting to be discovered on this item. After fixing the bugs, creation may be possible. Rising star]

Tom was still unconvinced at first: the chocolate frog I pulled out all had three stars! Is my bookmark on the same level as the chocolate frog?

However, after in-depth understanding, I realized that alchemical creations have an independent star rating system, and three stars are already quite good. His floating lamp only has one star, and the annotation also says, "The one-star rating is because the minimum is only one star."

In addition, Tom's alchemy has also broken through from level 0 to level 1. It is currently [Alchemy Level 1 (1/200)]. As for why he can break through to level 1, he also needs to thank classmate Riddle for his selfless gift of notes. .

For Tom, the summer vacation ended too quickly. He was extremely busy during this vacation. School was about to start in the blink of an eye, and taking the train back to London seemed like it happened yesterday. He might be able to relax for a while after school starts.

Coincidentally, Harry, who lives in Devonshire, also felt that the summer vacation ended too quickly. This summer vacation was very unforgettable for him: first he met the inexplicable house elf at the Dursley's house, and then took a flying car. The car arrived at the Burrow, and he stayed at the Burrow for a whole month - Harry dared to say that this month was the happiest time in his life.

Of course, there are also people who feel that the vacation is too long and wish to start school immediately, such as Peggy Grossman.