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 the corner to eat melon with Harry and Ron. When Lockhart left the bookstore anxiously, everyone laughed heartily.
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However, their good mood was soon disturbed by two uninvited guests: Malfoy and his son came to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. They met Mr. Weasley, just like hydrogen ions meeting hydroxyl radicals, the two naturally formed a bond.
conflict.
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 has been studying for a period of time after that. He has 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 check 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 appropriate. It seems that Riddle didn't have access to this magical metal at that time.
Tom first wrote and drew on parchment for a while before settling on his ideas.
The alchemy creation first needs to identify and record the content in the book and the corresponding location. Then, it will record the words and sentences that the operator wants to find and find them in the book.
After thinking about the operating principle, Tom began to carve the runes.
Even though the principle may not seem difficult, the actual operation is complicated. Tom carved it all night and felt like he had just started.
Looking at the fallen hair, Tom fell into deep thought. This thing wastes hair!
Moreover, 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 am a wizard, why do I do things so much like programming?
In the days that followed, he helped Mr. Lawrence replenish and stock the goods at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, and acted as a guide to find books for wizards who couldn't find books. The job at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore was taken over by Tom, Hermione and Mr. Lawrence.
A temporary worker was hired as a full contractor - because Tom only worked three days a week. Having found a reliable helper, Mr. Lawrence could sit in the office every day, leisurely read a 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 he is free, he can even help Ollivander.
Sir, 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 approached day by day, this item was 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. Tom deliberately made it into a bookmark.
The method of use is also very simple. Clip the leaf into the book first, and it will automatically scan the content in the book. When you need to query, just write the word you want to find on the paper, and then paste the leaf on the writing.
, it will remember the words you are looking for, 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 the second book, the content 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 not be overwritten.
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, Tom scanned "Standard Spells·Level 1" and then scanned "Standard Spells·Level 2", and then Tom wanted to query the word "counterclockwise" in "Standard Spells·Level 2", leaf
The bookmark will first search for sentences containing "counterclockwise" from "Elementary", and after completing the instructions in "Elementary", it will start to display the sentences in "Level 2".
Another small problem is that once it starts pointing, it won't stop... This is a problem that Tom accidentally realized. Once he accidentally entered the letter g as the word he was looking for, and the bookmark became convulsed until
It stopped when its 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 had three stars! Is my bookmark and the chocolate frog the same grade?
However, after learning more about it, I realized that alchemical creations have an independent star rating system, and three stars is already quite good. His floating lamp only has one star, and the annotation also says, "The reason for rating one star is because the minimum is only one star."
In addition, Tom's alchemy has also broken through from level 0 to level 1, which 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.
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For Tom, the summer vacation ended too quickly. He could be said to have been 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. After school started, he
Maybe you can relax for a while.
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 he 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.