themonasnovels Chapter 205 The So-called Treasure
Chapter 205 The So-called Treasure
Chapter 205 The So-called Treasure
Professor Babling wrote a large glossary on paper and threw it to William for translation.
This woman didn't mean to teach him well at all.
It takes a year just to get started in the ancient magic text. Even in the Owls exam in the fifth grade, most of the exams are vocabulary, and the advanced class only involves grammar.
She is usually impatient in class, and she is not in the mood to teach after class.
She wrote a lot of vocabulary, just to persuade her to quit.
She doesn't believe that a second-year wizard can translate?
Unless the other party is like her, looks young but has a mature soul.
Babling found eggplant-flavored potato chips out of nowhere, and happily ate them there.
She seems to be a drag queen, the court dress just disappeared and replaced by skinny jeans.
She also asked Hermione with concern if she would eat, but the girl refused her, which made her quite regretful.
In less than 10 minutes, William translated all the five pages she had written.
The form of ancient runes is more inclined to the combination of hieroglyphs and ancient Germanic languages, and the word creation is changeable and complex, and its meaning is closely related to ancient times.
For example, the abstracted characters of invisible beasts represent that the invisible ability of this animal is symbolized as "0".
In the ancient runes, all magic related to invisibility contains the core word 0.
Another example is the unicorn, the horn of this animal symbolizes "1"; the horn of the horned camel symbolizes "2"; the three-headed creature like the rune snake symbolizes "3"...
The basic vocabulary of the ancient runes is extremely complicated, and it took a long time for William to master the basics.
But he still can't understand sentences, only words, and grammar is not enough.
Babling did not expect William to translate the vocabulary so quickly.
She re-examined William after carefully reading everything written by William.
Really a genius?
The woman seemed to have found something interesting, she smiled and said, "I can teach you, but you have to promise me one thing, um...not for you to do it now."
William laughed, let alone one promise, so why not promise a hundred?Anyway, Professor Babling has no memory.
Do you think everyone is Dumbledore?
William said without hesitation: "Okay."
Babuling looked like she was succeeding. She rubbed the amulet on her neckline and said with a slight smile, "Don't be too careful. I taught Dumbledore ancient runes, but he wanted to play tricks on him later, so he had to obediently help me in the end." .”
William didn't say a word, but a turbulent sea suddenly set off in his heart.
Dumbledore is over 100 years old. William doesn't think that the headmaster learned the ancient runes in the last ten years. He must have started to learn about them when he was in school.
Emotional Babling... is actually an old fairy who has lived for hundreds of years?
But always with the same face?
Fuck it, grandma Treasure!William was going to squeeze her dry!
Babling coughed, snapped her fingers, and changed into a dark green robe.
This should be what she wore to class, but the color was too old-fashioned, even Professor McGonagall would be fine with it.
Her white hair was also all lifted up into a bun, and the shape...was the same as Professor McGonagall.
However, if they stand together, Babling is more than enough to be Professor McGonagall's granddaughter.
Babling said seriously: "Since I said I want to teach you, let's understand one thing first."
"Why do we seldom translate ancient magic texts into languages we know well, but instead try our best to understand the meaning?"
William shook his head.
"Have you seen the Slytherin statue?"
William looked up at the corner of the table, where a famous statue of Slytherin stood.
"Yes."
"Then have you seen his face?"
William nodded. It was an old, monkey-like face, a long sparse beard that almost reached the hem of the wizard's robe carved in stone, and two gray feet standing on the smooth surface of the room. on the floor.
"Do you know why Slytherin has this image?"
William shook his head, he really didn't know.
"Because it's a mistranslation, a mistranslation of the image of Slytherin.
The original image of Slytherin was only recorded in the Slytherin family, but it was all in the form of ancient runes.
Later Corvinus Gaunt - a direct descendant of Slytherin - translated this part into Latin.
But he mistranslated "Slytherin's face seemed to be glowing" in the ancient runes as "his face is like a monkey".
Since then, artists and sculptors have begun to depict Slytherins as monkeys. "
"Wait, I think I've heard the name Corvinus Gunter."
William squinted, thinking for a moment.
"I remember Corvinus Gaunt repairing the plumbing at Hogwarts."
When William was in the first grade, he wanted to make a map, and Professor Dumbledore recommended him to see the structure of Hogwarts Castle.
There is a record of this passage.
"That's right." Babbling said meaningfully: "That's right, he rebuilt the pipes of Hogwarts, and the repairs are very complicated."
"Okay, let's leave him alone. A simple mistranslation, and the result?
The great Slytherin has since become this grotesque figure. "
"I bring up the example of Slytherin," Babling said, "to show that one word, one mistranslation can rewrite history."
"The meaning of the ancient runes is often misunderstood, and the meaning cannot be accurately expressed.
We usually don't translate it, but treat it as our mother tongue and try to figure out the meaning repeatedly. "
"Boy, this is the first knowledge I teach you, and language can also keep secrets very well.
And the ancient rune is like this... Treasure! "
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Five hours later, William left the office of the ancient rune.
He learned a lot today, so he decided to go back and digest it.
Hermione had never been exposed to this aspect, as if she was listening to a book from heaven, she fell asleep after eating at noon.
Babling suggested that Hermione sleep here, but William refused.
These days, girls have to protect themselves when they go out, Professor Babling can't see it as a serious person.
William carried the girl on his back and walked towards the Gryffindor common room.
But just reached the fourth floor, Hermione woke up.
The girl lay on William's back in a daze, and asked, "Is it over?"
"Ah."
"Professor Babling is a bit strange..."
"So, in the third grade, you must not choose ancient runes." William said with concern.
Hermione quietly made a face at William, put her little head on his warm shoulder, and asked softly, "Then you teach me?"
"OK……"
William continued walking with the girl on his back. The setting sun fell on the two of them, casting a long shadow.
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(Thanks to "Fengling Fifteen" for the reward)
(End of this chapter)