Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 108: Running
A holiday is always a pleasure.
This is especially true for students.
Although there are nasty vacation assignments to complete, they can't affect Albert's good mood.
In fact, Albert swept away his unfinished homework as quickly as possible the day before the Christmas break.
A vacation without vacation assignments is undoubtedly enjoyable.
During the Christmas holidays, I can sleep until late in the morning, lie on the sofa after dinner and watch TV for a while. When you're bored, you can tease the cat, listen to music, chat with Nia, play chess, or sit by the fire and find a book to savor.
However, just after Christmas, Albert found something of interest. After the town's library reopened, he went to the library to find relevant records about the rune alphabet.
This incident stemmed from the fact that he bought the "Easy Introduction to Ancient Rune" a while ago. He spent a lot of effort to finish the book, but the skill panel did not show any skills related to ancient Rune.
Albert thought that this situation was similar to alchemy, so he decided to master it by reading more related books and deepening his knowledge of the rune alphabet.
As for, wait until the third grade to take the ancient rune class?
Albert didn't have the patience to wait two and a half years. After all, he is a man with a panel. As long as the relevant skills appear on the panel, follow-up questions will become very simple.
There are few records of runes in the library, but Albert still finds relevant records in Germanic mythology:
The rune alphabet, also known as the rune alphabet, originated in Germanic mythology and is related to the famous father of the gods, Odin. It is said that Odin exchanged an eye for knowledge of runes. (The word rune itself means "mysterious")
Odin belongs to Germanic mythology, the rune alphabet belongs to the Germanic language, and when it comes to the Germans, Albert's first thought is the Germans.
Well, yes, it's the old-fashioned Germans, and German evolved from the Germanic language.
However, there is a problem!
Albert still vaguely remembers that the author of Harry Potter used a lot of Latin when devising spells, however, Latin and Germanic are two different languages.
Albert never considered himself an archaeologist, let alone a linguist, and he never tried to solve the problems that confounded his mind. He chose to record his doubts, perhaps, the more knowledge of the rune alphabet he mastered, the doubts would be solved automatically.
Later, Albert really found a connection between the two in the library: after the rune disappeared, the Germanic language also used part of the Latin alphabet.
This explains why Britain and Germany use the Latin alphabet but are classified as Germanic.
It took several days for Albert to figure out why Hogwarts had an elective in Ancient Runes.
Germanic mythology originated in Scandinavia, now Sweden.
According to Albert's review of Germanic languages, the languages of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland near Sweden are all derived from Germanic languages and belong to North Germanic languages.
Old English, on the other hand, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Futok, which belongs to the West Germanic language, which is the rune alphabet.
Later, as if religiously related, a large number of Latin alphabets were introduced. The whole of Europe was heavily influenced by Latin. Albert pondered that this might be one of the reasons why the runes disappeared.
However, one thing cannot be denied, the runes are magical, and ancient runes are engraved on ancient magic items to enhance their magical powers.
Albert thinks this stems from the rune stone, which was famous in the wizarding world in his last life.
Although a lot of things come from his own guesses, Albert is still hot in it, he is exploring these ancient texts, touching and trying to learn to distinguish them, to read them.
Albert found that Muggle records were very limited after reviewing a large amount of information.
To this end, Albert wrote a letter to ask Truman, and at the suggestion of the other party, he bought the "Magic Phonetic Table" and "The Rune Dictionary" from the Lishen Bookstore.
Compared with the ordinary world, the magic world is more familiar with rune characters, after all, this thing is originally on the mysterious side.
Over the next vacation, Albert spent a lot of time trying to decipher the rune script. Although the skill called "Spell" was different from what he imagined, Albert still used the experience pool to upgrade this skill to level 1.
Soon, he found that he was finally able to understand the rune script. It was a wonderful feeling, and he could vaguely feel the magical charm of ancient runes.
Albert continued to invest experience in "Spell", and after directly rising to level 2, he found that he was able to read and understand most of the "Magic Phonetic Table" and "Spell Dictionary" without the help of Runic characters and being able to read them aloud.
This is a very interesting thing. Albert's runes mastered with the help of the panel are undoubtedly correct, and when he revisited the "Magic Phonetic Table" and "Magic Dictionary" through his own cognition ~IndoMTL.com~ can find some interesting bugs.
Sometimes words such as words may not be able to be clearly and accurately described with another type of word, and errors are inevitable.
Especially those runes with religious overtones, most interpretations are actually somewhat wrong.
A rune word is somewhat different in its symbolic meaning, the use of magic, the function of runes and the analysis of divination.
Once these things are mixed up, the final result will be skewed.
After mastering the rune alphabet, Albert became passionate about finding faults, looking for mistranslations, and writing them down.
Later, Albert began to try to design and study the use of Rune in magic, and the amulet, which was previously left behind, became the subject of Albert's latest research. However, before he could fix the rune on the amulet, the Christmas holidays were over.
Albert took the express train back to Hogwarts the day before school started.
As he expected, Fred and George didn't make a garlic cross, but they smuggled a bunch of garlic from their house, and Lee Jordan was no exception.
Looking at the garlic piled in front of him, Albert's eyelids twitched a little. He thought the three of them had forgotten about it.
"Have you finished your vacation homework?" Albert changed the subject, he really didn't want to dwell on the garlic issue.
"Oh, there's a little more," said Lee Jordan, eating the pumpkin pie. "I'll go to the library to find the materials later, and I'll make up for it soon."
"We're fine here." The twin brothers said in unison.
"Copying each other?" Albert saw through their trick at a glance.
"No, it's called borrowing."
Lee Jordan snorted disdainfully and continued to eat.