Chapter 106 The so-called treasure
Professor Babuling wrote a large piece of vocabulary on paper and threw it to William for him to translate.
This woman didn't mean to teach him well.
In ancient times, it took one year to get started with the magic text. Even in the fifth grade o.w.l.s exam, most of the tests were still vocabulary, and the advanced classes involved grammar.
She is impatient in class and is not in the mood to teach after class.
She wrote a lot of words to persuade her to give up.
She doesn't believe that a second-grade wizard can translate?
Unless the other person is like her, he looks young on the outside but has a mature soul.
Babuling didn't know where to find the potato chips that smelled eggplant, and she ate them happily.
She seemed to be a drag queen, and the palace dress disappeared just now and replaced with skinny jeans.
She also asked Hermione with concern whether to eat, but the girl refused her, which made her quite regretful.
Less than ten minutes later, William translated all the five pages she wrote.
The forms of ancient magical texts tend to combine hieroglyphs and ancient Germanic languages. Their words are diverse and complex, and their meaning is closely related to ancient times.
For example, the words abstracted by the invisible beast represent that the invisible ability of this animal is symbolized as "0".
In ancient magic texts, all magic related to invisibility all contain the core word 0.
For example, unicorns, the animal's horn symbolizes "1"; the horns of the horned camel beast symbolizes "2"; the biological symbol of three-headed snake, such as Nishima snake, is a symbol of "3"...
The basic vocabulary of ancient magical script was extremely complicated, and William could only master it after a long period of hard study.
But he still cannot understand sentences, only knows words, and does not understand grammar.
Babuling didn't expect William to translate the vocabulary so quickly.
She carefully read all the things William wrote before she reexamined William.
Really a genius?
The woman seemed to have discovered something interesting, and she smiled and said, "I can teach you, but you have to promise me something, well... I'm not asking you to do it now."
William smiled. Not to mention asking him to agree to one, what's wrong with just agreeing to one hundred? Anyway, Professor Babuling has no memory.
Do you think everyone is Dumbledore?
William said without hesitation: "Okay."
Babuling looked like she was successful. She rubbed the amulet on the neckline and smiled and said, "Don't have any thoughts. I taught Dumbledore's ancient magic script back then. He wanted to cheat on him later, and in the end he had to help me obediently."
William didn't speak, and his heart suddenly felt storm.
Dumbledore is over 100 years old. William does not think that the principal is an ancient magical literature that he has only learned in the past decade. He must have started to come into contact with when he was in school.
Love Babuling... is actually an old fairy who has lived for hundreds of years?
But always with an 18-year-old face?
Damn, treasure grandma! William must squeeze her dry!
Babuling coughed her throat, snapped her fingers, changed into a dark green robe.
But the color was too old-fashioned, and even Professor McGonagall was fine.
Her white hair was also raised and she became a bun, and her shape was the same as Professor McGonagall.
But the two of them stood together, and Babuling was more than enough to be Professor McGonagall's granddaughter.
Babuling said seriously: "Since I have said I want to teach you, let's understand something first."
"Why do we rarely translate ancient magical texts into languages we are familiar with, but instead try our best to understand the meaning of them?"
William shook his head.
"Did you see the statue of Slytherin?"
William looked up at the corner of the table, where there was a famous Slytherin statue.
"Yes."
"Then have you seen his appearance?"
William nodded. It was an old, monkey-like face, a sparse and long beard that almost dragged to the hem of the wizard's robe carved from stone, and two gray big feet stood on the smooth floor of the room.
"Do you know why Slytherin has this image?"
William shook his head, he really didn't know.
"Because this is a mistranslation, a mistranslation of Slytherin's image.
The initial image of Slytherin was only recorded in the Slytherin family, but they were all in the form of ancient magical texts.
Later, the direct descendants of Covinus Gunter Slytherin translated this part of the content into Latin.
But he mistakenly translated the ancient magic text "Slytherin's face seemed to be glowing" into "his face looked like a monkey".
Since then, artists and sculptors have begun to portray Slytherin as a monkey.”
"Wait, I seem to have heard the name Covinus Gunter."
William narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment.
"I remember Covinus Gunter repairing Hogwarts' piping system."
When William was in his first grade, he wanted to make a map, so Professor Dumbledore recommended him to see the Hogwarts Castle structure.
There is a record of this paragraph there.
"That's right." Babuling said meaningfully: "That's right, he renovated the Hogwarts pipeline, and the repairs were particularly complicated."
"Okay, let's not mention him for now. A simple mistranslation, and what about the result?
The great Slytherin has since become the strange-shaped one now.”
“I mentioned the Slytherin example,” Babling said, “is to illustrate a word, a mistranslation is enough to rewrite history.”
"The meaning of ancient magical texts is often misunderstood and cannot accurately express the meaning.
We usually don’t translate it, but treat it as our native language and repeatedly speculate on the meaning.”
"Boy, this is the first knowledge I have taught you, and the language can also keep secrets very well.
And ancient demonic writings are like this...treasure!"
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Five hours later, William left the office of the ancient magic script.
I learned a lot today, and he decided to go back and digest it well.
Hermione had never been exposed to this content, as if she was listening to the heavenly book, and fell asleep after lunch.
Babuling suggested let Hermione sleep here, but William refused directly.
Nowadays, girls have to protect themselves when they go out. Professor Babuling is obviously not a serious person.
William walked towards the Gryffindor Public Rest with the girl on his back.
But when she reached the fourth floor, Hermione woke up.
The girl lay on William's back in confusion and asked, "Is it over?"
"Um."
"Professor Babuling is a little strange..."
"So, in the third grade, you must not choose ancient magical texts." William said with concern.
Hermione quietly grimaced at William, put her little head on his warm shoulder, and asked softly, "Then...you teach me?"
"Um……"
William continued walking with the girl on his back, and the sunset fell on the two of them, pulling out a long shadow.
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(Thanks to the rewards for "First Five-Year Plan" and "20200")
Chapter completed!