Chapter 23: Heartthrob and Studious

In reality, Orianna's appearance caused quite a stir, contrary to what Alaric had imagined. As a figurine doll, she was too exquisite and beautiful.

Alaric's three roommates all wanted to take a closer look at her.

Michael Corner even wanted to hold her and examine her, but he was promptly refused without hesitation. 

Orianna shyly crawled under Alaric's cloak, slipped into the pocket of his robe, only revealing her head to observe secretly.

Since then, Alaric became the most popular student in Ravenclaw—both among boys and girls.

Boys lined up, eager to see Orianna with their own eyes, while girls were drawn in by his appearance and the cute Himari.

In the Ravenclaw common room and at the dining table, there were always people crowded around him, chattering incessantly and causing him annoyance.

However, there were exceptions—Hermione mostly stuck with him, claiming they were studying together. 

Cho Chang always shuttled back and forth between her original friend group and him, but these two girls didn't make him feel irritated.

Then there was a beautiful senior prefect, Penelope Clearwater, who didn't join the crowd watching him.

Although she didn't hide her affection for him, she never did anything to make him uncomfortable.

Due to persistent harassment, Alaric often wore a cold expression to discourage strangers from approaching him.

The result was that, in the eyes of most people, he was molded into an aloof image. Boys and girls gradually stopped approaching him, but to Alaric's dismay, his popularity among girls continued to rise.

These girls even called him "Prince Charming" and "Heartthrob."

Whether they had Stockholm Syndrome or were masochistic, he didn't know.

Among the boys, only his three roommates had truly become friends with him so far.

Especially after learning that he was a Muggle-born orphan from an orphanage, Slytherin boys began to consciously reject him.

"You're just a superficial mudblood." Draco Malfoy once commented on him like this in front of him. 

The result was that in the entire break he was hit by the "Levicorpus" spell and hung upside down on the corridor ceiling until Professor Snape, who rushed over after hearing the news, saved him before the class.

As a result, Ravenclaw lost ten points, but no one blamed Alaric. Gryffindor students even developed a higher opinion of him.

For Alaric, these welcomes or resistances were meaningless. His main goals were studying "plots" and learning magic.

In fact, for the professors, Alaric was undoubtedly an excellent student. He could perfectly complete the tasks assigned by the teachers in Transfiguration, Charms, and Potions. No classroom question could trouble him.

Of course, there was the famous "know-it-all" Miss Granger. This pair of inseparable study nerds was loved by the professors, and Ravenclaw's house points were skyrocketing.

They were also regulars at Madame Pince's library. After class, the two of them always went to the library to continue studying, and Cho Chang also joined them, studying together until finishing their homework.

For Alaric, this kind of studying reminded him of his high school days, making him feel somewhat nostalgic.

He had always been a person who could endure studying, and when the content wasn't the somewhat dull high school curriculum but interesting magic, he wished he could spend all his time on it.

Even Hermione felt inferior to this level of enthusiasm. Coupled with his innate talent for learning, Alaric's learning progress soon reached the level of higher grades.

However, his learning process was not without obstacles.

In his opinion, the writing of technical and academic books in the magical world was quite unreasonable.

All the authors wrote quite casually. They would use large sections of gorgeous but useless rhetoric, often interspersed with extensive psychological descriptions and records of their own actions. 

This made the reader feel like they were not reading a magic book but the author's autobiographical novel.

Moreover, the masters in the magical world were quite arbitrary in their choice of technical terms. 

In their academic circle, there was no term like "scientific name." Most academic terms were based on conventional usage.

For the same magic, different authors described it in completely different ways, and quite arbitrarily at that, often leaving readers bewildered.

They also didn't have terms like professional names or academic language. 

As a result, Alaric often had to spend a considerable amount of time after reading a book organizing the knowledge—removing 80% of useless rhetoric and stream of consciousness, and comparing with other books to eliminate possible repetitions.

Since it was common to find two books mentioning the same spell but using different names and descriptions.

Then, he would use more "professional" and concise words to record his findings.

In less than a week since the start of school, he had already filled half of a notebook.

He believed that his notes, created by constructing his own system of professional vocabulary and recording it using academic paper style, were more concise and effective than these magical books.

He estimated that by the time he achieved his goal of reading all the books in the Ravenclaw common room and Hogwarts library within the seven years of school, his recorded notes would be enough to encompass the vast majority of the magical world's knowledge.

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