Because of this sudden accident, the morning's teaching plan was temporarily suspended.
After Newt finished writing the letter and sent it off with an owl, he went upstairs, intending to check on his little apprentice's condition again.
However, before he could even knock, the bedroom door opened automatically and silently.
His eyelid twitched. Intuitively feeling that nothing good was happening, he knocked on the door and then pushed it open, walking straight in.
"Kate, why aren't you resting properly? Are you still practicing spells?"
As soon as he entered, he saw his little apprentice still sitting on the bed, chanting words under her breath, her wand pointed at the tightly closed window.
Newt felt like he had endless things to worry about. He hurried over to reclose the window that had just been opened.
He then turned around, frowning at her with a stern look. "Didn't you just drink the magic-suppressing potion? Why aren't you lying down to rest?"
Kate shrank back, frightened by his expression, and cried out pitifully, "Teacher, I just wanted to test the effects of the potion. I'm sorry..."
No matter how great his anger, faced with such a pure and pitiful child, Newt couldn't bring himself to flare up again.
He could only move a chair over and sit by the bed. "Then you rest now. I'll watch you sleep."
Kate pursued her lips in hesitation and asked tentatively, "Teacher, have you written the letter to Professor Snape?"
"Yes, I asked him to reconfigure the potion's ingredients. How do you feel now?"
At the mention of this, Newt's attention was immediately diverted.
Kate secretly gripped the wand hidden under the covers and spoke hesitantly, "I feel like the burden that has been pressing on me seems much lighter."
As she spoke, she leaned over, grabbing Newt's sleeve and pleading, "If Professor Snape is going to improve the formula, he should also know my current state, right?"
"Teacher, how about letting me use magic first to feel my current physical condition? Then you can write down the details and send them over. What do you think?"
"Besides, with a wizard as powerful as Teacher here, I definitely won't get hurt, right?"
Her words were earnest, her reasons were reasonable, and they even carried a bit of flattery that looked exceptionally sincere.
Newt sat there and actually began to consider the feasibility of this proposal.
"But your body..."
"Teacher, don't worry! If I feel unwell, I will definitely say so!" Kate hurriedly guaranteed.
Ultimately, she was taking advantage of her current appearance.
Although Newt had seen plenty of storms and waves, when facing a child, he wouldn't impose his past experiences on Kate.
Seeing that her words were truly earnest, Newt could only agree.
Having successfully persuaded her teacher to watch her cast spells, Kate instantly became hyper-excited.
The only spells she had unlocked so far were the Levitation Charm and the Unlocking Charm. Both were simple, entry-level spells. If she followed ordinary practice methods, it would be boring.
The essence of the Levitation Charm lay in controlling magic to make objects float.
The Unlocking Charm was even easier to understand: opening locked doors, windows, or objects.
However, in many plotlines of Harry Potter, there were doors that even the Unlocking Charm couldn't open. This belonged to the limitations of the Unlocking Charm itself.
Unless one created a new Unlocking Charm specifically for an object that the standard spell couldn't open, but that was already outside the scope of magic Kate could currently cast.
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
"Alohomora!"
Two magical commands were recited in succession. The small wooden box Kate had specially prepared and locked floated up and clicked open at the same time.
This move wasn't exactly exquisite, but what surprised Newt was that after drinking such a potent magic-suppressing potion, Kate still had the spare energy to fire off two spells in a row.
Sure enough, Dumbledore was right. This child's magic power was already stronger than that of many adult wizards.
In the future, he would have to be doubly careful to prevent this child's emotional fluctuations from causing another magical riot.
"Alright, Kate, you should rest now."
He thought the practice was over and wanted his apprentice to lie down for a while longer. However, he didn't expect Kate to take out several iron circles from the small wooden box before her.
Some of the circles had already been separated, while others were still linked together.
"Failed again." Looking at the remaining few rings that were still strung together, Kate couldn't help but pout in disappointment.
She had originally prepared to show her teacher how she used the Unlocking Charm to solve this thing.
"Er..." Newt looked at this strange and slightly crude little gadget, and a bad premonition welled up in his heart. "Little Kate, what is this thing?"
She raised her head, her small face still carrying a bit of distress from the failure. "It's a Nine Linked Rings puzzle. Don't you know it, Teacher?"
Well, as a standard British man, a wizard who only paid attention to magical creatures everywhere even when traveling the world, he naturally wouldn't know about such a thing.
"This is called the Nine Linked Rings. It can be counted as a type of small toy," Kate explained as she reassembled it.
"I was bored alone at home before, so I asked the old butler to help me craft this toy."
"Every ring of the Nine Linked Rings constrains the others. To solve it, you need 256 steps. If it were a ten-ring puzzle, it would take 682 steps."
"When I was practicing the Unlocking Charm today, I remembered I had this thing, so I wanted to try and see if the Unlocking Charm could solve it."
The old butler doted on her. Before she left, he had stuffed a small handbag into her hands, which had also been cast with an Undetectable Extension Charm.
Not only did it contain changes of clothes, but he had also packed all the things she used to play with at home to relieve her boredom.
Kate deftly reassembled the Nine Linked Rings, then raised her wand and cast the Unlocking Charm once more.
And this time, the Nine Linked Rings were actually all unlocked.
"So when separated by the wooden box, the magic power exerted was still insufficient..." She looked at the parts that had been dismantled into scattered pieces and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.
Just like leveling up in a game, the higher the difficulty of the object the spell was cast on, the higher the spell proficiency displayed by the System.
Her energy for the day was limited, so she could only try to increase the difficulty to exchange for time costs.
Fortunately, Snape had sent her the magic-suppressing potion, which drastically reduced the energy required for her to practice once, so she didn't have to stay up late like yesterday.
Looking at his little apprentice who had fallen into her own world again, Newt wanted to speak but stopped, feeling exceptionally bewildered.
Was his apprentice now developing at flying speed towards mastering everything she practiced?
Are all young wizards like this nowadays?
When he practiced the Unlocking Charm and the Levitation Charm back in the day, he had never thought of these tricks.
"Kate, look at me first."
He hurriedly called a halt to his apprentice's contemplation and asked with a troubled look, "You... um, why do you use this method to practice?"
In the final analysis, the purpose of the Unlocking Charm and the Levitation Charm was to unlock and levitate things; otherwise, they wouldn't be introductory spells for wizards.
The point was that they were simple and easy to understand, allowing young wizards to quickly get started with Charms.
But he really couldn't figure out why Kate chose this abnormal practice method. Wouldn't the final result be the same?
"Why?" Kate paused, tilting her head in confusion. "Isn't magic supposed to be like this, possessing the infinite joy of exploration?"
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