The "locking" conjecture about the Room of Requirement is easy to test.
At Elena's request, Dumbledore first followed them out of the "Magic Door" of the Room of Requirement. As expected, he also appeared in the corridor on the eighth floor of the castle. Then, he followed his usual path.
, go to the principal's office again.
The shiny oak door seemed to be blocked by someone from the inside, and was firmly welded between the stone walls.
In fact, at the beginning, Elena thought about trying the effects of various lock-picking spells.
However, after the explanation and persuasion of Mr. Hogwarts Principal, she finally gave up this slightly arrogant idea.
Facts have proved that if the "any door" function of the Room of Requirement is turned on, Hogwarts Castle will automatically lock the corresponding entrance and exit in that area to the entrance and exit of the Room of Requirement. However, the scope of this space blockade is only internal and not external.
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For example, if we take the principal's office as an example, although the door to the "Loading" office in the Room of Requirement has been replaced, they can still choose to jump out of the window, but they cannot fly in from the outside. This is because the original defense measures are different from Raven.
Crow, Gryffindor's undefended tower, the windows of the principal's office are inaccessible from the outside, and are equipped with very high-level magical protection.
As for the subsequent verification process of the conjecture, there were not many twists and turns.
The only thing worth mentioning may be that after everyone left along the "exit" of the Room of Requirement, the lock on the principal's office was not unlocked as planned because Elena "accidentally" left a certain little phoenix in the room.
In the office.
And when they returned to the principal's office, little Phoenix was still lying in his den without any change.
"Oh, this is multiple testing, it can explain two things..."
In Dumbledore's confused eyes, Elena extended her hand to take the little phoenix away while explaining.
"In addition to humans, if creatures such as phoenixes and elves exist, the Room of Requirement will not automatically reset. At the same time, this behavior is harmless to the creatures. Otherwise, what we are seeing now should be a big one.
A pile of ashes.”
"Well, Professor Dumbledore, you won't blame me, right? After all, a phoenix can reach nirvana."
Glancing at the old wizard with a complicated expression, Elena touched the little phoenix's head affectionately, teasing the little fledgling who knew nothing about it.
Just as Grindelwald quietly told her, Phoenix never holds grudges.
Each of their lives is equivalent to a brand new life. In addition to the inheritance of power, life and contract, no memory of the previous life will remain. Phoenix's wisdom, character, and spirituality mostly depend on her growth in each life.
environment.
There is no doubt that as a highly intelligent magical creature that is one of the best in the magic world, the education of baby Phoenix cannot be left behind.
In Elena's plan, when the little Phoenix gets a little older, she will try to start letting it read and write along with the food reserves.
Although I don't know where the intelligence limit of Phoenix is, according to Elena's current preliminary estimate, it can at least reach the IQ of a fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old child. Judging from this, the initial upper limit is set to the fourth grade of Hogwarts.
Courses shouldn’t be too much.
Of course, it's still a pretty rough plan right now.
After all, Elena hasn't made up her mind yet on how to maximize the potential of little Phoenix.
The infinite nirvana and the magical properties of growing up are both very tempting.
Maybe she would have to quietly ask a few other Major Arcana later to see if they had any better suggestions.
Of course, this must be hidden from Newt and Dumbledore.
The principle that a loving mother often loses her children does not only apply to the field of human education.
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By the time they left the office and headed to the off-campus research institute, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
"Hogwarts-College Urban Institute" is located outside the gate of Hogwarts School.
It took half an hour for Elena and others to cross the castle covered bridge and forest farm clearing, and arrived at this newly built area.
With the flick of the wands of two top wizards, Dumbledore and Grindelwald, a messy forest clearing returned to its original flatness and cleanliness in less than ten seconds, without slowing down Elena and the others at all.
The two of them are getting better and better at it now.
When Elena and her team arrived at the research institute, the researchers were already immersed in their own work.
It's no surprise that the Christmas holidays at Hogwarts are only for wizards.
For those Muggle researchers from the former Soviet Union, there is nothing worth celebrating on December 25th. Russian Christmas is not at this time. This day is only a holiday for the Western world, and their Christmas is also
Wait until half a month later.
Moreover, the more crucial point is...
At the same time last winter, the hammer-and-sickle flag over the Kremlin fell forever.
Looking around, the huge research institute is almost full of researchers in pure white work uniforms. On the contrary, none of the "chicken farm" employees who were stationed here a few days ago are seen. It seems that they should still be there at this time.
Enjoying their respective Christmas holidays...
Except for the huge work area located in the center of the institute, there stood a wizard wearing a forget-me-not purple robe.
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows in surprise, walked through the crowd, and looked at the wizard curiously.
"Professor Lockhart? I didn't expect you to be here on Christmas Day."
Gilderoy Lockhart glanced at Dumbledore and nodded, but did not answer immediately.
Only then did Dumbledore notice that not far in front of the young wizard, a complex Muggle instrument was repeating the process of sparking, deforming, and then returning to its original shape, while on the other side
It is a machine that is constantly drawing irregular curves.
It was obvious that they were conducting some kind of magic-science fusion experiment.
Hogwarts Castle will conduct "indiscriminate attacks" on surrounding Muggle electronic devices, or "fixed-point super electromagnetic interference."
Therefore, if directly exposed to the "Hogwarts Magic Field", most non-magical electronic devices will be completely broken for about half a minute at most, but wizards have a completely unreasonable magical countermeasure.
Restoration spell.
Under the deliberate debugging of Elena and others, the institute specially customized a batch of extremely fragile electronic equipment.
When they are directly exposed to the "Hogwarts Magic Field", there is a high probability that many observable damages will occur directly.
At this time, all it takes is a wizard to keep casting restoration spells on the damaged object, which will occasionally trigger a very strange loop phenomenon. The device may always be in a cycle of crashing, repairing, crashing, and repairing.
Keep running.
This cycle will only be broken unless the wizard actively discontinues spellcasting, or there is a flaw in magic manipulation.
For example...
"Concentrate, Mr. Lockhart... well, forget it."
A few seconds later, Elena and others heard a helpless sigh.
Immediately afterwards, a female researcher with disheveled hair stood up and pulled off the last waveform pattern spit out by the scrapped machine.
"You've almost reached your limit. It's seven minutes and twenty-three seconds. You should take a rest first."
"As for you..."
Arkhipovna turned her head and looked at the culprits who caused Lockhart's distraction, her eyes obviously angry.
However, as a senior researcher at the Landau Institute, she is well aware of another law of the scientific research world:
Never get so absorbed in academics that you forget what reality is.
Not to mention that the wizards directly in front represent the strongest existences in "that world", the little witch alone is enough to hold up half of the bridge between mystery and science, not to mention that she is also
She is also the "mother" of the entire institute.
In fact, the combined use of restoration as before was the idea first proposed by Elena.
Although the results did not fully meet her expectations, it also pushed the progress of the institute a big step forward.
Needless to say, restoration is indeed a powerful magic.
But it is not omnipotent, and its "restoration" is still an idealistic and subjective magic product.
Perhaps it can repair those electronic devices destroyed by the "Hogwarts Magic Field", but it cannot restore data, and the most important point is that when facing some more complex and cumbersome instruments, even with a recovery spell, it must be
Just check for any problems.
However, for most researchers, this is almost a good progress.
After all, in the very beginning, no electronic devices could be used in the Hogwarts area.
Even if the "Faraday Field-Magic Version" barrier was later adopted, it only solved the problem of basic use.
And the time of each use is also very limited, because they must sneak in when "Hogwarts is not paying attention", and they cannot stay inside for too long, otherwise the "Hogwarts Magic Field" may
Directly attack the entire barrier.
More importantly, if they want to measure and collect special wavelength data of the magical world, they must leave the barrier.
"I heard you guys were having problems? Um... with the final presentation?"
Before the other party could speak, Elena asked first.
She would not foolishly let Ms. Arkhipovna speak first as she had done before.
Just like Arkhipovna's nickname among the researchers, the name "Landau's madwoman" is no joke.
If she can't keep the topic firmly in hand, in less than a few minutes, Arkhipovna will be able to come up with a lot of troubling scientific research material needs. In terms of resources and establishing new projects, these geniuses have a lot to do.
IQ can never be underestimated.
As a little witch with strong self-esteem, Elena does not intend to be abused twice in the same field.
She opened her collar, fumbled around carelessly for a few times, and finally took out a mirror.
"No, a freshly baked, top-notch magic prop, the wishing mirror."