Taking a vacation always makes people happy both physically and mentally.
This is especially true for students.
Although there were annoying holiday homeworks to complete, they couldn't affect Albert's good mood.
In fact, Albert had already finished all his unfinished homework as quickly as possible the day before the Christmas holiday.
A holiday without homework is undoubtedly enjoyable.
During the Christmas holidays, I can sleep in late in the morning, lie on the sofa and watch TV after dinner. When I am bored, I can play with the cat, listen to music, chat with Nia, play chess, or sit by the fire and read a book.
However, just after Christmas, Albert found something that interested him, and after the town's library reopened, he went to the library to look for records related to the runes.
This happened because he bought a book called "Ancient Magic Rune Simple Introduction" a while ago. He spent a lot of effort to finish the book, but no skills related to ancient magic rune appeared on his skill panel.
Albert thought that this situation was similar to alchemy, so he decided to deepen his understanding of runes by reading more related books and master it.
As for, waiting until the third year to take the ancient magic class as an elective
Albert didn't have the patience to wait for two and a half years. After all, he had a control panel, and as long as the relevant skills appeared on the panel, subsequent problems would become very simple.
There are few records of runes in the library, but Albert still found relevant records in Germanic mythology:
Runes, also known as runes, originated from Germanic mythology and are related to the famous Odin, the father of the gods. Legend has it that Odin exchanged one of his eyes for the knowledge of runes. (The word rune itself means "mysterious")
Odin belongs to Germanic mythology, runes belong to Germanic language, and when it comes to Germanic people, the first thing Albert thinks of is the Germans.
Yes, that’s right, the old-fashioned Germans. German evolved from Germanic languages.
However, there is a problem!
Albert still vaguely remembered that the author of Harry Potter used a lot of Latin when designing spells. However, Latin and Germanic are two different languages.
Albert never considered himself an archaeologist, let alone a language expert, and he never thought about solving these confusing questions. He chose to record his doubts, and perhaps, as he mastered more knowledge about runes, his doubts would be solved automatically.
Later, Albert actually found the connection between the two in the library: after the runes disappeared, Germanic languages also used part of the Latin alphabet.
This explains why Britain and Germany use the Latin alphabet but are classified as Germanic languages.
After spending several days, Albert finally understood why Hogwarts offered an elective course in ancient magic.
Germanic mythology originated in Scandinavia, in what is now Sweden.
According to Albert's research on Germanic languages, the languages of Denmark, Norway and Iceland near Sweden are all evolved from Germanic languages and belong to North Germanic languages.
Old English comes from Anglo-Saxon Ftoc, which is a West Germanic language, that is, runic alphabet.
Later, it seems that due to religious reasons, a large number of Latin letters were introduced. The whole of Europe was seriously influenced by Latin. Albert thought that this might be one of the reasons why the runes disappeared.
However, one thing cannot be denied, the Runes do have magical powers, and these ancient runes are engraved on ancient magical items to enhance their magical power.
Albert believed that this was due to the Rune Stone, which was very famous in the magical world in his previous life.
Although many things come from his own speculations, Albert is still passionate about it. He explores these ancient texts, touches them, and tries to learn to identify and understand them.
After Albert consulted a lot of information, he found that the records among Muggles were very limited.
For this reason, Albert wrote a letter to Truman and, at the other party's suggestion, bought "The Magic Syllabary" and "The Magic Dictionary" from Flourish and Blotts Bookstore.
Compared with the ordinary world, the magical world knows more about runes. After all, this thing originally belongs to the mysterious side.
During the following vacation, Albert spent a lot of time trying to decipher the runes. It was a difficult task, but the attempt was finally rewarded. A skill called "Magic Runes" finally appeared on his panel. Although it was not quite what he had imagined, Albert still used the experience pool to upgrade the skill to level 1.
Soon, he found that he could finally understand the runes. It was a wonderful feeling, and he could vaguely feel the magical charm of the ancient magic runes.
Albert continued to invest experience in "Magic Runes" and after directly reaching Level 2, he found that he could read and understand most of the runes without the help of the "Magic Pronunciation Table" and the "Magic Rune Dictionary", and could also read them aloud.
This is a very interesting thing. The runic letters that Albert mastered with the help of the panel were undoubtedly correct. However, when he looked at the "Magic Phonetic Table" and "Magic Dictionary" again with his own cognition, he was able to find some interesting errors.
Sometimes, words cannot be expressed clearly and accurately in another language, and errors are inevitable.
Especially for those runestones with religious overtones, most interpretations are actually somewhat wrong.
A rune has somewhat different meanings in terms of symbolism, magical application, function of the runes and interpretation of divination.
Once these things are mixed up, the final results will be biased.
After mastering the runes, Albert became keen on finding errors, looking for mistranslations and recording them.
Later, Albert began to design and study the magic uses of magic runes. The amulet that had been forgotten before became Albert's latest research topic. However, before he finished the magic runes on the amulet, the Christmas holiday was over.
Albert returned to Hogwarts on the express train the day before school started.
As he expected, Fred and George did not make a garlic cross, but they secretly got a bunch of garlic from home, and Lee Jordan did the same.
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 holiday homework?" Albert changed the subject. He really didn't want to continue to dwell on the issue of garlic.
"Oh, there's one more thing." Lee Jordan said while eating pumpkin pie, "I'll go to the library to find some information later, and I'll be able to catch up soon."
"There's no problem on our side." The twin brothers said in unison.
"Copying each other?" Albert saw through their trick at a glance.
“No, it’s called reference.”
Li Qiaodan snorted disdainfully and continued to eat.