togophonebook Chapter 120 The Achilles Paradox
Chapter 120 The Achilles Paradox
Chapter 120 The Achilles Paradox
Ever since Hermione mentioned the matter of potion refining that day, Lean went to Snape to ask for a slip of approval and obtained the right to use a small classroom.
In fact, there are many small classrooms like Hogwarts, and most of them are used for students to form clubs.It was at this time that Lean realized that Hogwarts had many societies organized by students spontaneously.
This small classroom was located on the fifth floor, and Lean and Hermione almost failed to find it when they went there, because it was too remote.
This was deliberately arranged by Snape. He knew that the reason why Lean asked him to find a classroom to refine potions was entirely for Hermione.
So he simply found a remote classroom for Lean on the fifth floor, a floor without classrooms, so as to save friction between the two colleges.
Lean looked at the oil painting in front of him. If it wasn't for the note from Snape saying that this is the entrance to the classroom, no one would know that there is a classroom here.
Hermione tapped the setting sun on the oil painting with her wand according to the method on the note, and the sun that was originally hanging on the top of the mountain quickly set, revealing the keyhole behind her.
Seeing this, Hermione inserted the key she got from Filch, and then turned it lightly, and the statue of knight armor next to it as a decoration began to move silently to the side, revealing the full room behind. It is a dusty classroom.
"Ahem." Hermione kept waving her little hand in front of her nose, hoping to block some floating dust.
After the dust subsided slowly, Hermione and Lean walked into the classroom that already belonged to them.
"My God, it hasn't been cleaned here for at least ten years." Hermione picked the desk lightly with her finger, and found that the dust on the desk was almost a millimeter thick.
"It's normal. Hogwarts is so big, there's always room to spare. Well, don't complain, we still have a lot of work to do." Lean shook his head, and then released a Cleansing spell.
In an instant, all the thick and stubborn dust disappeared, revealing the yellow desktop.
But the next job is very troublesome.
In Hogwarts, it is not troublesome to apply for the right to use the classroom. You only need to have the professor's approval slip to get the key of the corresponding classroom from Filch.But after you get the keys, the first thing to do is to clean up the whole classroom.
This can also be regarded as an exchange. The school will lend you the classroom to hold club activities, and accordingly, you need to tidy up the classroom.
However, many students are willing to do this, because when tidying up the classroom, they may find some things left by the predecessors.This kind of excitement similar to opening a blind box constantly stimulates the young wizards in adolescence.
Having said that, after cleaning the classroom, you need to send the desks and chairs in the classroom to the designated storage room.However, the school has regulations that young wizards cannot cast spells in the corridor, so they can only move slowly by themselves.
This is physical work, and it is precisely because of this that most of the little wizards who want to try to open the blind box have been dissuaded.
Fortunately, Lean has a non-marking stretch bag, which is a sharp tool for transporting goods.
After transporting the desks and chairs in the classroom to the storage room, Lean moved the set of potion refining equipment in his dormitory to the classroom that had just been cleaned.
Then, the two put these things on the operating table one by one, and put them in order.
"There are still a lot of things missing." After the arrangement was complete, Li En looked around and said with a sigh.
Usually, when he refines medicines, because the place is too small, he takes all the materials he needs directly from his pocket, and there is no medicine cabinet.
Moreover, he dumped the potion residues into the trash can before and asked the house elf to help them dispose of them.
But now that the conditions are up, then naturally it must be fully equipped, right?
And the most important thing is that there must be an explosion-proof system.
Don't think that potion refining is safe. In fact, some potions will explode violently if there is a slight error.
However, today's laboratories are sufficient.
"So what to do with this pile of things next?" Hermione sat on a stool beside her, pointing to the pile of discarded items that had been picked up next to her.
"The Vanishing Curse?" Lean said tentatively.
Hermione became interested, the Vanishing Curse can be regarded as a relatively advanced spell.
"Let me try."
Looking at Hermione who was already holding the wand in her hand, Lean nodded.
"This is the test question in the OWL exam that the fifth grade will take. Are you sure you have mastered it?"
"Oh, of course, I'm improving too, okay?" Hermione let out a chuckle, and then said proudly.
But she also has the capital to be proud of.
"disappeared without a trace"
Hermione chanted the spell nervously, and more than half of the garbage on the ground disappeared.
Seeing this scene, Hermione breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at Rin with some complacency.
And Rian smiled at Hermione, snapped his fingers, and the rest of the trash disappeared.
Hermione pursed her mouth a little discouraged, and the little girl seemed to have received a bit of a blow.
"Okay, don't be unhappy. I believe that one day, you will be like me." Rin patted Hermione's head, messing up the little girl's already fluffy hair.
"When I reach your current strength, your strength will definitely be stronger than now." Hermione was a little frustrated, because she found that she was telling a fact.
"Know the Achilles Paradox?" Lean looked at Hermione and said.
"of course."
The well-read Hermione certainly knew about the Achilles paradox.
Achilles is a hero who is good at running in ancient Greek mythology. In a race, assuming that his speed is ten times that of the tortoise, and the tortoise is 100 meters in front of him, one person and one tortoise race at the same time.
When Achilles ran 100 meters and reached the starting point of the tortoise, the tortoise climbed another ten meters.After Achilles ran the ten meters, the tortoise moved forward one meter.When Achilles ran this meter, the tortoise climbed another tenth of a meter...
"But it's different, Lean. I'm Achilles and you're the tortoise, but the point is that you're ten times faster than me."
"Are you calling me a turtle?" Lean felt that he couldn't let this topic continue any longer.
"God, of course not." Hermione was also very smart, she understood that Rion wanted to end this topic.
In fact, Hermione just wanted to vent. Anyone who has been chasing a goal that will never catch up will be a little discouraged.
"Okay, why don't you try it out first, the first potion in the new laboratory." Lean placed the materials on the operating table and said seductively.
(End of this chapter)