HP’S PARALLEL WORLDS - Chapter 20
“Although I have long known that it is impossible to raise a dragon in your own yard, but even if there is no way to raise such a very dangerous magical creature, Hogsmeade Village, as a village completely free of muggle dwellers, should have many exotic plants cultivated or have many novelty animals as pets for the residents of the village, no matter what. The residents’ pets, right?
It was impossible for Vincent to say that he was not at all disappointed that his initial vision had not been realized after his actual visit to the village. After all, the houses in the village didn’t look much different from the buildings built by the muggles, so they didn’t have any strange magical visual effects. So, wanting to be able to have an eye-opening experience with a casual glance when you’ve only just arrived in the village is certainly not possible.
“It is better to see the scenery than to hear the scenery, and this saying works in many cases.” In her previous life, she had visited many famous sites, but was not able to have a good travel experience in these very famous national sites, Violet has long been used to the fact that famous locations often do not actually live up to their name, but simply have an empty and loud name.
“Although from the appearance is not a big deal, but, I think certain stores inside the sale of magical gadgets, but in fact is also worth a look.”
After walking past the Wenrenju quill store on the side of the street, there was no need to buy any stationery at all since all kinds of stationery were available at home, and Violet likewise did not intend to patronize the Fengya brand wizard clothing store on the side of the street, but quickly stepped into the Devis and Bangs store.
“This is a magical equipment store that sells many different kinds of magical equipment, including Quidditch paraphernalia, anti-demon glasses, and many different kinds of magical equipment and appliances, including memory balls. Of course, if you have any magical equipment that is damaged, you can come to this place to have it repaired, or rather just buy repair tools in the store and subsequently go home and do the repairs yourself.”
Although he hadn’t worn a wizard’s robe so far, he was able to use the pictures in the book to understand how windy and uncomfortable it was to wear in windy and snowy weather, and Vincent was so happy with his muggle attire that he had no intention of visiting the village clothing store.
“Do we have to use inefficient stationery like quill pens to take notes and do our homework after school?” Having asked Violet this question before visiting the village of Hogsmeade, Vincent, as someone who believes that a quill pen, which requires the tip to be taken inside an ink bottle and poked around a bit before you can write many words, is actually a very inefficient writing tool, thankfully got a negative answer from Violet.
“Frankly, I don’t actually think a quill pen is anything to use either. Without even a decent sleeve, the nib is completely exposed, and such a completely unprotected model would obviously lead to a significant reduction in the lifespan of the quill, or for people who casually poke their hands into their school bags to touch things indiscriminately to accidentally poke their fingers.”
“Every time we dip the ink, we also have to scrape the nib on the spout of the ink bottle after soaking the nib, so as to ensure that the excess ink will not fall on the parchment in large drops while we are writing, such a time-wasting operation will really greatly reduce our writing efficiency.”
Because such a conversation had already unfolded above, it was of course impossible to buy any stationery in Hogsmeade Village. Vincent, as a child who is still practicing writing with an automatic pencil today, would get a fluent pen with a shorthand quill from Violet in the future after he had bettered his writing skills.
“The stationery store in Hogsmeade village does not sell such high-class goods as shorthand quill pens, but Diagon Alley in London does. So, once you’ve been able to thoroughly address the oft-occurring writing errors that every language beginner faces, you can naturally leave behind the automatic pencils and erasers of today and subsequently get ink and a new pen.”
Although it does not have the function of automatically checking spelling for errors, but it can be a very qualified stenographer, such a magical quill pen, Violet in once followed his grandmother to Diagon Alley is in the stationery store there to see.
“If it’s unhygienic for you, then you don’t need to choose the kind that you have to put the tip of the pen in your mouth and suck on it for a moment before you can get it into working order. After all, there are shorthand quill pens that only need to be soaked in an ink bottle for a few moments and then can automatically enter working condition after it has absorbed most of the bottle of ink.”
“When the quill is brand new, the shorthand quill is only able to record all the sentences spoken according to the user’s dictation. Therefore, if the user needs to modify and process the language, he or she can only change to another pen after the shorthand quill has done its job.”
“The new shorthand quill was just sold as a handwritten version of the voice input method.”
“A voice input method?” Living in a time when smartphones were not yet available, Vincent was not able to understand exactly what a voice input method was, but he could probably understand what Violet meant.
“The longer a shorthand quill is used, the more it can slowly record the habits of the user and the style of the creator of the text as it continues to bond with its owner. So, after the shorthand quill has a certain degree of intelligence, the user speaks to it again, and the content it writes down is a processed manuscript that it writes out based on the various past data collected from the user.”
“So, whether your writing style is simple and true, or pompous and hypocritical, or rambling and nonsense, all these will be imitated by the shorthand quill, and then when it works again, it is very intuitively reflected in the words it writes.”
“Thus, the longer a shorthand quill is used, the better it will become. After all, all those words and sentences that the user is used to using on a regular basis, but that others don’t use much, will automatically jump out at you with absolute accuracy when they are mentioned again. And a first draft, like a revised manuscript, can be of great use when the user needs to write a very long article, and help the user save a lot of time.”
“Of course, such a stationery as a small secretary as convenient and fast, is not suitable for children to use, only because, how to be able to practice a beautiful and smooth font, and how to be able to accurately remember the spelling of words, these are the shorthand quill that will help us skip all this, can not bring us. ”
In a previous life, it relied heavily on voice input, so many times often forget the word, Violet does not intend to go to the examination hall in this life, because can not remember the spelling of certain words or a careless mistake in grammar, and very speechless to lose a lot of marks.
Therefore, the quill pen that can help users check spelling errors, like word, is obviously going to be able to play a bigger role for Violet who has not been able to get rid of her student days after crossing over.
Already know from Violet, along with the increase in intelligence, even when the user and other people to talk, automatically extract the main content of the conversation, and directly write it into an article shorthand quill, so also not interested in patronizing the literary house quill store, Vincent just followed Violet with great interest, step into the Devis and Bangs store.
“When you just moved into my house a few days ago, I wanted to take this for you to use, except that I just didn’t have it on hand at the time, so now, since we’ve come to Hogsmeade, it wouldn’t be right not to buy a detection crystal or something.”
“……” Vincent just walked into the store, which had not been opened for long, so there were not many customers at the moment, and before he could look up and take a good look around the store, he was shoved a translucent light blue crystal by Violet. Vincent didn’t even bother to see what kind of goods were displayed on the cabinets and partitions in the store, but focused his attention on such a crystal that he had never even heard of.
“What’s the use of this thing? And how am I supposed to use it?”
“It’s simple. It’s a crystal that can roughly detect what kind of magic a sorcerer possesses.” Without the need for anyone to come over to help him explain, he was able to explain to Vincent, having already used such a thing, and Violet was actually eager to see what kind of level this child, who had inherited a strong talent from his parents, had reached today.
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