Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 240 Redoing the Vanishing Cabinet

Making a vanishing cabinet is not easy.

During the summer vacation, Sainz disassembled the two disappearing cabinets he received into parts and found that the manufacturing process of the two cabinets was not exactly the same.

It’s like two cars produced by different manufacturers. The general functions of each component are the same, but there are many differences in the specific details.

From these differences, he concluded that the phrases that make up the runes are not fixed, just like a sentence, the same meaning can be expressed in different ways.

This reminded him that when making his own disappearing cabinet, he didn't need to copy the antiques completely, but could go his own way in some details.

"Conte, please do me a favor."

"At your service sir."

"Stay by the vanishing cabinet in the distance. I'll need you to tell me if anything appears in it later."

Conte followed his instructions and went to the other end of the Room of Requirement.

Sainz put a pen holder into the disappearing cabinet beside him and closed the door.

open the door.

“I’m sorry, sir!

But... there is no movement here."

There is definitely no movement, the pen holder is still in the disappearing cabinet.

"It's okay, Conte. I expected this. The two vanishing cabinets I built are essentially refurbishments, so it's understandable that the frequencies are a little off.

Wait a minute, let me adjust it, and then we'll try again."

Sainz used a walnut wand to cast a supersensory spell and carefully felt the feedback from the Vanishing Cabinet - wands made of walnut and phoenix feathers were more willing to innovate and try new things.

Adjusted it carefully several times.

"Come again!"

Open the door, put the pen holder in, close the door, open the door.

The pen holder disappeared!

"Conte, how are you now? Are you pregnant?"

"Uh... sorry sir, maybe there was something wrong with Conte's posture in opening the door, but there is nothing in the cabinet." Conte said cautiously.

"Well, Conte, don't consider my face. If you fail, just say it directly. Don't look for the reason in yourself."

This cabinet made the things disappear, or at least they "disappeared". It is hard to tell whether they were disassembled or teleported to an unknown place.

"Okay, Conte, we need to switch positions. This time I'll operate the one over there, and you'll observe this one."

Sainz went to the other side of the Room of Requirement and began adjusting another cabinet.

Repeat the previous actions, open the door, put things in, close the door, and open the door.

Things disappear!

The reason why Conte was asked to focus on this one first was because this one had been proven before to be able to make objects "disappear".

"Conte, is there?"

"Uh……"

"Conte, just say it, we have already agreed on this."

"Well, sir, no!"

"Okay, I get it. Don't be discouraged. Let's continue!"

Still using his walnut wand to cast the extrasensory spell, this time he chose to use his wand to directly touch the door of the vanishing cabinet and repeated the action of opening and closing the door.

The spatial fluctuation is very small, not at all as obvious as the feeling when Apparition occurs!

Fortunately, Sai is no longer the same person he used to be. His specially trained perception is not fake, and he caught the subtle fluctuation when the disappearing cabinet was operating.

He felt that the spatial fluctuation had a direction; it was not chaotic, nor was it gathering inward.

For example, a vortex in water appears to be moving in a circular motion on the surface, but anyone with a little common sense knows that its direction is roughly perpendicular to the surface of the vortex and moving downward.

Analogizing to the spatial fluctuations, he sensed that the spatial fluctuations formed a "similar" directional "vortex" and shot towards a certain direction in the air.

"Conte, help me find it... The direction is roughly in the direction of the Phantom Grass area... Help me find if there is a pen holder there."

Conte went over there to look for it, while Sainz continued to sense the aftermath of the disappearing cabinet's operation.

He was very pleased in his heart, as this spatial fluctuation meant that his vanishing cabinet was successfully made. It achieved "spatial displacement" instead of casting a disappearing spell on the object and turning it into air.

After a while, Conte came back empty-handed.

"There's none?"

"I'm sorry, sir. There is indeed a pen holder left there, but Conte doesn't know whether he should bring it to you... I think you might want to take a look at it yourself!"

Sainz was very happy. "Conte, great, keep up the spirit you are now. You are now able to make some judgments on your own instead of blindly following the wizard's orders. This is good."

Conte was trembling all over because of his praise, his eyes were wide open, and his expression seemed to be as if he wanted to devote himself to Mr. Autumn's career right now.

"Let's go and take a look together."

Conte led Sainz to the place where the pen holder fell. He said that Conte didn't know what to do. It turned out that the pen holder did not fall in the phantom grass area but in the hairy crab area farther away.

This is not the point. The point is that the pen holder is embedded in the stone box where the hairy crabs are imprisoned, as if it grew out of the stone.

It is still very difficult to remove the pen holder without damaging the stone box.

This is also the reason why wizards monopolize the magical world. Other magical creatures may be powerful in some aspects, such as house-elves, whose Apparition seems to be a natural talent, but other than that, they know very few magics, which is completely unlike wizards, who know a wide range of things.

In the original track, Dobby can Apparate with a large group of people, but after being hit by a knife, he can only wait to die. This is an example.

If he knew magical defense, he would not be completely without a chance to save himself even if he was stabbed by a poisoned dagger.

Conte obviously did not have the ability to remove the pen holder without destroying the stone box.

This is very easy for Sainz, he doesn't need to destroy it first and then repair it. He just needs to deform part of the stone box into a dog's head to spit out the pen holder.

After taking down the pen holder, Sainz sighed that he was lucky. The thing was still in the Room of Requirement. If it was directly teleported to an unknown place far away, it would be hard to be sure whether what he felt was correct.

With this experience verified, he used the same method to inspect another cabinet.

This time it was clearly detected that the spatial fluctuations did not form a direction, but the ripples were chaotic, just like throwing eight or ten stones into the water at the same time.

It took two days to gradually converge the spatial fluctuations of the Vanishing Cabinet into a "ray".

"Conte, try again!"

Repeat the action.

"Sir!" Conte said excitedly, "You succeeded!"

Following the general direction provided by Sainz, Conte found the pen holder that was teleported on the grass near the edge of the forbidden forest.

Sainz was also very happy. It was not easy, after so long, he finally saw hope!