Chapter 51 Persuasion and Research
"The prejudice in the heart is a mountain, Harry."
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When Harry walked out of the ancient magical office in dizzy, what Professor Happ said to him was still echoing in his heart.
Two hours ago, he tried to dispel the professor's "terrible" idea, but two hours later, he was already holding a magic scroll and began to think about how to translate the evil language of "Snake Man's Arrangement".
He even thought he was benefiting the entire magic world.
"Harry, I think Professor Happ's point of view is good. A person's talent is not important. What matters is what kind of person he chooses to be!" As someone who listened to the entire conversation, Ron quoted Professor Happ's words.
"What's more, Professor Happ's gift was also very generous." Ron added, and he looked at a magic puppet in Harry's hand with envious eyes, which was a magic puppet with ice blue hair.
This is also the price that Professor Haypu paid in the entire deal - one of the most advanced magic puppets in his private collection. According to Professor Haypu, this puppet can "easily defeat a seventh-grade graduate."
Harry's memories go back two hours ago...
"Harry, we always label others easily and unfamiliar things, but as long as we understand it, we will find that this approach is quite one-sided. For example, Principal Armando Dippet, who did a lot of practical things during his tenure, but what people can remember is just some ridiculous rumors, and has been distorted by those with hearts..."
Professor Happ summoned the "Amando Dippet: Master or Idiot?" on the table. The book "scrolled" to the middle page, allowing the three of them to see the content above.
"President Dippet improved Hogwarts' school rules and abolished most corporal punishment... At the same time, he also rejected the Dark King's job search, saving Hogwarts students from his influence - this is the opinion of ordinary people, but is it really the case? With the idea of exploring the truth, I see a completely different logic from it. It is a covered up history, full of political dirty..."
Felix said calmly: "This book full of lies and twisted facts has been on the best-selling list for a long time."
Harry was full of disgust for the woman named "Rita Skitter", and at the same time he empathized with Principal Dippet's experience - they were all misunderstood, but they were because of the snake-like accent.
Out of a certain kind of shared hatred of the enemy, he quickly agreed to Professor Haipu's proposal. So Professor Haipu gave him a dictionary and asked him to translate accordingly.
Ron and Hermione watched curiously. After the initial shock, they became very interested in this matter. In Ron's words, "This is the process of revealing the serpent accent, we are witnessing history!"
But this process was not easy. Harry opened the first page of the dictionary and couldn't say a word after he was in a while.
"Professor, I can't do it."
Felix thought for a while, "Your Snake Aloud is not skilled, maybe it lacks direct stimulation." He waved his wand and imposed a detection-feedback magic on the magic dictionary.
The effect is that when someone is reading the book, he will feel like he is facing a snake's face.
Now Harry quickly entered the state. After skipping the first and second useless words, he made a hoarse and gloomy voice, which scared Ron and Hermione next to him.
"This sound is so evil." Ron shivered, his whole body cold.
"This is a serious magical study, Ron." Hermione was also frightened.
"What word?" Felix asked.
Harry pointed to the third word in the dictionary, "It's this, [stay away]."
"How many sounds can you make on this page?"
Harry tried again, moving his fingers across the dictionary so that all three of them could tell his progress.
But then, Harry either held his face and couldn't speak, or normal English words popped out from his mouth. Ron reminded him more than once, "Harry, you're talking about human words" and "Harry, we can understand."
Until the last word on this page, Harry finally said it in a snake-like tone, "This word is [eat]," he said excitedly, "I am very familiar with this word, I heard it on Halloween."
Felix held his chin with his fingers, "That is to say, one page, to be precise, 23 words on the left and right pages, only two can be converted into snake language."
"Professor, what does this mean?" Harry asked.
"Ah, the language of animals is always less abundant than that of humans, and it is very vague. For example, the concept of 'eating', we have more than a dozen words with similar meanings, which is very rare in the language of other intelligent creatures."
Felix thought for a while, "Let's pause first, I need to make some modifications to the dictionary."
The three followed Professor Haypu to the workbench, which was a very wide "concave"-shaped table with smooth wooden textures on the surface and was waxed.
In Harry's perspective, Professor Happ knocked on the dictionary with his magic wand, and the tip of the stick emitted light of various colors. The professor was sometimes silent and sometimes muttered. It took him ten minutes before he stopped.
"Professor?" Harry was about to ask what he had done, and then he opened his mouth wide.
The words in the dictionary suddenly came to life.
It is completely literal. The surface of the pale yellow pages is filled with ripples like water, and the title of each entry begins to twist, as if there are hands and feet. Then they struggle to break free from the dictionary and appear in the three-dimensional world.
Next, the dictionary turned the pages, and the "title inscriptions" were thrown out. They fell on the surface of the workbench, and the black hollow lines were shaking and jumping. In less than a minute, the number reached several thousand.
This scene was extremely shocking, and the two-dimensional plane thing suddenly came to the real world.
"Professor, am I dreaming?" Harry asked foolishly.
"This is magic," Felix said calmly.
A strong light burst out in Hermione's eyes, and this is magic... She has always believed that magic is a specific thing, a spell, a potion, or a moving portrait, but Professor Hayp told her with practical actions that magic can do much more than this.
Magic is unknown and all kinds of possibilities.
Felix glanced at the army of "words" in front of him, which were temporarily activated. He swung his wand suddenly, and the suitcase in the corner opened with a "bang", and parchment paper flew out from it.
Felix raised his wand and drew a circle, making them connected to each other, and the parchment papers were glued together under the action of magic.
Then, Felix's wand hit the table, and the army of "words" on the workbench merged into parchment, and words appeared on it, which were arranged in a clear order.
When it all ended, the long parchment paper, or parchment rolled itself up and turned into a magic scroll.
"Click!"
It lands on the workbench.
"For you, Harry, fortunately I know a lot of unpopular magic." Felix smiled.
"How to use this, professor?"
"It can store your snake pronunciation - of course, you need to click on the corresponding content with your wand before using it. Moreover, I have also eliminated some English vocabulary. You should know that there are tens of thousands of words in the dictionary, but many things are useless at all."
So for the rest of the time, Harry spread out the scrolls and translated words one by one - this time the translation progress was much faster.
A hoarse and gloomy voice would come from the entire office every few dozen seconds.
Ron and Hermione also went from initial discomfort to habits to numbness, less than an hour.
At nine o'clock, Professor Hayp sent the three of them out, "Harry, you can usually find places where no one is to record them. If you encounter any problems, come to me."
Then he said to Hermione, "Tomorrow's magical literature study will be temporarily cancelled, and I have something to deal with."
Chapter completed!