"Manus, it feels like I haven't seen you in ages."
Bathed in the morning sunlight inside the greenhouse, Jasper teased Manus.
After confirming that Manus really would share the knowledge worth five thousand Galleons—which no one had currently applied for—many Ravenclaw students wanted to learn it. Manus simply found an abandoned classroom and began holding lessons.
"It hasn't been that long."
Manus paid no attention to the teasing in Jasper's words and instead asked:
"Aren't you interested in those five thousand Galleons?"
"I'm not interested in alchemy, and I don't have the talent for it."
Jasper curled his lips:
"That's why I know that if I attended your lessons just for those five thousand Galleons, I'd only end up filling my head with knowledge I couldn't use or understand."
Manus could indeed cash in the knowledge worth five thousand Galleons after the teaching session, but the prerequisite was that they had to learn it well, not merely attend the lessons.
Manus would teach them how to stack Filling Charms, but he wouldn't directly teach them the details of how to stack two Filling Charms. Passing the review of Charms Innovation Review required more than just the relevant theoretical knowledge.
They had to actually produce a magical item with two stacked Filling Charms!
In Jasper's view, those eager students had been attracted by the bait on the hook, completely ignoring how sharp the hook was...
Manus merely smiled instead of arguing.
A hook?
There was nothing bad about learning about Compound Spells. Different people had different standards for judging the value of knowledge.
Jasper had no talent in this area, so he looked down on this knowledge. But could the King Family Library really contain nothing but knowledge that the King Family's ancestors had possessed both the talent and interest to