Chapter 257 Muggle Magic

"Are you Abdullah Ali?" Looking at the boy in front of him, the staff at the business class check-in counter frowned.

Les: ...

He answered with a stiff face: "Yes."

Staff: You told me you were eighteen? !

Seeing the staff's suspicious face, Les knew he couldn't delay any longer.

He stared into the eyes of the middle-aged man and said, "Yes, I am Abdullah Ali. I hope I can sit with Miss Aisha and Miss Leisha."

While confusing the airport staff, Les was also complaining: What kind of names are these? Anyone would be suspicious!

Fortunately, the confusion spell was strong enough, and the staff's eyes were immediately distracted. He mechanically typed a few words and printed out three tickets.

Les didn't want to delay any longer, so he took the ticket and walked to the boarding gate with Daphne and Astoria. At customs, Les used the same trick again and used the confusion spell to take Daphne and the others through customs. After that, they encountered the checkpoint called "security check" by the driver.

Watching the Muggles put their carry-on luggage into a strange alchemical creation one by one, Les had an ominous premonition in his heart: Do they even have to put their personal handbags in it? !

Looking at the appearance of those Muggle guards, it seems that they can see the items in the luggage through the alchemical creation. Will his small package be seen through? Or what kind of scene will they see? A small bag "squeezed" with a lot of potion materials?

He suddenly became curious, which is why he finally chose to travel by Muggle plane. Unlike most wizards, Les will not refuse to understand Muggle society. He will find ways to investigate Muggle technology and life, instead of pretending to be an ostrich like modern wizards.

Just now, Les seemed to have become a Muggle who walked into the "magic world": the Muggle society after a thousand years is so strange and terrifying. After Les, a wizard, rashly broke in, he was almost blocked everywhere. Those common sense loopholes cannot be made up by reading one or two books published by Muggles.

For example, he knew that Muggles had airplanes, but only after going there in person did he realize that there were so many complicated steps before boarding.

What he saw and heard at the airport made Rice even have the urge to leave Hogwarts and live in Muggle society for a few years.

When the small packages of Rice and the other two passed through the security check machine, an accident really happened: the machine could not display the items in the package.

"Is it broken?" The Muggle guard came over mumbling, and was once again fooled by Rice with the Confusion Charm.

After the three sat down on the bench outside the boarding gate, Astoria couldn't help but sigh: "It's so complicated... I finally got here..."

Daphne didn't respond, she was still immersed in the novelty of the journey. For her who grew up in the magical world, everything that just happened was so strange.

Rice was observing the passengers shopping in the duty-free shop at the airport. He found that modern Muggles no longer seemed to pay with metal currency, they would pay with some colorful pieces of paper and small cards.

'Is this the currency that Muggles use now? 'Rice remembered the "information" he had learned from chatting with Hermione before, that the currencies used by Muggles and wizards are different.

He did not ask about the details of these coins in depth at that time, but now he was really shocked after seeing it with his own eyes: Why can customers exchange merchants' goods with a piece of paper? The value of paper is actually higher than gold? Aren't they afraid that this kind of thing will be counterfeited?

Thinking of this, Rice suddenly realized a problem.

"Do you have money for Muggles?" Rice asked Daphne and Astoria.

Daphne, Astoria: ...

"Forgot."

"Gold Galleons are not okay?"

Rice sighed, stood up, strolled around the terminal, and then they had the currency of Muggles.

He, Daphne, and Astoria huddled in the corner of the terminal and studied these colorful pieces of paper.

"This one says '5', so it must be smaller than the one with '10'."

"So the coin with '50' is the biggest?"

"Should it be? After all, it's metal currency."

"But I saw that Muggle exchange a piece of paper for a lot of these coins."

The two sisters quarreled and argued, and they didn't make a conclusion until they started boarding.

Once they got on the plane, it was a new experience.

Daphne and Astoria couldn't understand why the lights above their heads would light up when they pressed a button? Is this the "Muggle magic" of the Muggles?

"Muggle" and "magic", these two antonyms are extremely magical when combined together, but they don't seem to be out of place on this magical plane.

Les watched coldly, thinking that the Muggles must have mastered a new way of using energy in the past thousand years.

Its essence is the same as magic, or it is another form of magic.

Maybe I should write a letter to Hermione, or have a long talk with her after school starts - these things can only be understood by a little wizard like her who comes from a Muggle family.

The novelty of the plane to Daphne and Astoria had not worn off until the plane landed in Egypt.

Finally, the two of them unanimously decided to sign up for the Muggle Studies elective course next semester.

"And ancient runes, I strongly suggest you sign up for it, it's a very useful course."

Listening to Rice's words, Daphne blinked: "But isn't that the knowledge of the Nordic false gods? What are we learning it for?"

Rice looked at her with a look of regret: "Although those false gods of the Nordic countries are not good things, the runes they left behind are the real essence, there is no harm in learning them."

He will never forget the scene of the God King Odin spitting out runes and tearing their domain apart. If any of the Norse gods could understand runes as well as Odin - even if it was only 70%, the outcome of the battle would be rewritten.

Les would definitely report ancient runes. He wanted to see what progress the magic world had made in the study of runes after a thousand years - but to be honest, he was very pessimistic about it.

The wizards had even lost their secret method of magic flow, so how could they delve into the knowledge of their defeated opponents? Les had a vague intuition: ancient runes might really only have textual meaning in the modern magic world.

The three of them walked out of the cabin while discussing the registration for the next semester. As soon as they got out of the plane, a wave of heat hit them.

Egypt in summer is terribly hot! But Les and the other two were fearless - their wizard robes were all high-end goods, with temperature-regulating spells attached to them, which could ensure that they could still stay cool in the hot summer.

What's even better is that wearing robes in Egypt is not out of place at all, they can wear them with open arms.

Les narrowed his eyes as he walked out of the airport: the journey to find Hufflepuff has officially begun.

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Updated, good night everyone.