A single match wasn't enough to make Hamish MacFarlane reach a decision.
However, according to Tonks, Lewis and Shirley's performances that day had indeed left a deep impression on Hamish.
What impressed him just as much was Ravenclaw's series of tactics.
Hamish was surprised to discover that the tactics Ravenclaw had employed during the match were unprecedented in previous Quidditch games.
It wasn't that no players had ever used tactics such as "screens" or "run-and-gun."
The difference was that other players had treated them merely as individual tricks. They had never systematically organized them into complete tactical systems and implemented them as part of an overall strategy.
From this perspective alone, Hamish developed a tremendous interest in Ravenclaw and stated that he would watch every one of their remaining matches.
Aside from that, the report on the match published by The Quibbler caused quite a stir.
In particular, Lewis's technique of breaking through four defenders at once drove a large number of Quidditch enthusiasts wild.
Many people believed that such a maneuver was simply impossible.
They claimed that everything shown in the photographs published by The Quibbler was fake and that special effects had been added.
After all, numerous professional Quidditch players had tried to imitate the maneuver, yet no one had ever managed to reproduce it.
Not everyone could perform such a maneuver without using magic.
However, many young wizards who had witnessed the match personally came forward to testify that Lewis had indeed performed it.
The argument sparked widespread discussion, and The Quibbler consequently enjoyed another surge in popularity.
Lewis's maneuver even attracted the attention of the Quidditch Committee of the International Confederation of Wizards.
According to Professor McGonagall, a friend of hers on the Quidditch Committee had told her that Lewis's maneuver met the requirements for an official Quidditch technique, both in terms of its difficulty and its effectiveness.
That person had asked whether Lewis wanted to register the maneuver under his name.
If the registration succeeded, Lewis's maneuver would be included in the official Detailed Explanation of Quidditch Techniques published by the Quidditch Committee and officially named after him.
Professor McGonagall therefore wanted to ask Lewis for his opinion.
What opinion could Lewis possibly have?
Of course he agreed!
If he could complete the certification before the British Quidditch national team finalized its roster, it would provide him with an enormous advantage in securing a place on the team.
In the days that followed, aside from preparing for each Quidditch match, Lewis began focusing on another task.
He started organizing the magical books he had collected in the tower, as well as the books from the Hogwarts library that he had stored within his mental library.
There was simply no helping it.
He had obtained far too many magical books from Sirius.
With all these books filling the tower's library, the collection had already reached a considerable scale.
It had reached the point where systematic organization was absolutely necessary.
And during this process, Lewis happened to have an idea he had wanted to pursue for a long time.
He wanted to formally incorporate the spell system of the Harry Potter world into the Arcane magic system.
He had conceived this idea as early as when he learned his first Arcane spell.
But it wasn't until this semester that the desire became increasingly strong.
Because through the Scholars' Society, he had begun systematically teaching other people Arcane magic for the first time.
Only then did he discover that, for wizards without sufficient talent, studying even a single magic system was already extremely difficult.
Trying to master two different magic systems simultaneously was an even greater challenge for many young wizards.
If this problem couldn't be solved, it would inevitably affect their progress in learning Arcane magic.
Fortunately, Arcane magic had greater theoretical compatibility, while the underlying principles of the two major magic systems were actually quite similar.
Therefore, completing this task wouldn't be particularly difficult.
The problem was simply the enormous amount of work involved.
And so, for a long period of time afterward, Lewis devoted most of his free time to this project.
Book by book, he roughly recorded the Black family's collection into his mental library.
Then he made use of the library within his mind.
Starting with the simplest books related to spells, he reconstructed their contents based on the principles of Arcane magic.
Afterward, he classified them and rewrote the resulting knowledge using [Copying Spell].
Put simply, he was attempting to compile a magical equivalent of the Yongle Encyclopedia or the Complete Library of the Four Branches of Knowledge all by himself.
It was easy to imagine just how vast and complicated this undertaking would be.
Completely finishing it would require an enormous amount of time.
But it also carried tremendous significance.
As long as he could complete the project, this transformed knowledge would become the most important foundation of the new magical civilization he was about to create.
Of course, Lewis had no intention of completing the entire project in a short period of time.
Nor did he plan to devote all his time to it.
His initial plan was to complete adaptations of some of the core materials first.
For example, the contents of Hogwarts textbooks, as well as certain advanced spells and Dark magic.
These could then be provided to the Scholars' Society and to the studious girls around him.
As March arrived, the days became clear and cloudless, and the weather began to warm.
It was the kind of weather that made people want to take a few pints of chilled pumpkin juice outside the castle, casually play a few rounds of Gobstones on the grounds, or simply watch the Giant Squid glide dreamily across the surface of the lake.
What a pleasant life that would be.
Unfortunately, such leisure belonged to other people.
For Lewis, he could only squeeze his schoolwork into whatever fragmented moments he could find.
Even adapting and organizing only the core knowledge and books still consumed almost all of his free time.
For him, listening to simple knowledge during lessons almost felt like a form of relaxation—a chance to rest.
Compared to Lewis's relaxed performance in class, the other young wizards weren't nearly so fortunate.
Perhaps influenced by the busy revision schedules of the older students, the professors seemed unable to stand seeing their students with nothing to do.
They assigned mountains of homework.
The students could no longer continue enjoying themselves outside.
Instead, they were forced to remain inside the castle, concentrating intensely on their studies while desperately trying to ignore the tempting warm breeze drifting in through the windows.
Shirley and Penelope had also become busy.
Penelope was focusing on passing her N.E.W.T.s—the Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests, currently the highest level of academic qualification available in the wizarding world.
To become an Auror, one needed to obtain at least "Outstanding" or "Exceeds Expectations" in a minimum of five N.E.W.T. subjects.
Because of this, Penelope had neglected even her golden hair.
She merely tied it loosely behind her head.
The simple style gave her a more intellectual beauty, and at this moment, she couldn't help admiring Shirley's sharp, stylish short hair.
Heavy schoolwork, organizing and adapting entire systems of magical knowledge, and Quidditch training…
With all three combined, even someone as powerful as Lewis couldn't help feeling physically and mentally exhausted by the end of the day.
It was truly hard work.
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