Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 59
Time passed quickly, three weeks passed, and October came unknowingly.

Draco and Harry needed to start training hard for the upcoming Quidditch match in addition to the intense lessons.

Perhaps because of the high-grade nutritional supplements taken at birth, Little Silver Teeth grows very quickly, and its body shape is not much different from that of a puppy. Its body has also grown beautiful hair that shines brightly in silvery white. Coupled with its unique emerald green pupils, everyone loves it.

During breakfast time, when Xie Lin took it to the auditorium, the appearance of Xie Lin and Xiao Yinya attracted the attention of almost all the students of the four colleges. Their eyes were mixed with various emotions such as envy, hatred, admiration, etc. A few courageous girls even took the courage to strike up a conversation with Xie Lin, wanting to ask where they could buy this silver wolf pet.

Ron stared straight at Little Silver Fang, and then looked down at Scabber with mottled fur and missing a finger. He couldn't help feeling jealous and resentful, and muttered, "What's the big deal, it's just a pet."

Hearing Ron's words, Hermione directly retorted: "That's a pet wolf. I dare say that no student in Hogwarts has ever brought a wolf pup as a pet. What's more, I have never seen a silver wolf with such a beautiful coat color. I can only say that he is indeed a man of the hour at Hogwarts, and even the pet is so different."

For some reason, Ron lost his temper with Hermione, got up and left without even finishing breakfast.The Weasley twins comforted Hermione and said, "Don't worry about Ron, we also think it's really cool to have a little wolf as a pet."

Almost all the Gryffindors present, male and female, nodded in agreement with the Weasley twins.

Usually novels like to have such a plot, the senior students rely on their strength, want to bid forcibly buy the protagonist's pet, and then get slapped in the face by pretending to be forced.But unfortunately, it didn't happen to the protagonist in this novel.After all, Schelling's family background and strength are all there. Not many senior students can guarantee that they can beat Schelling, not to mention offending the Malfoy family is no joke.

Xie Lin saw that Xiao Yinya was getting stronger day by day, and he no longer needed to take care of him so meticulously, so he began to prepare for the Patronus Charm Exchange Meeting.

After discussing with Cedric, Penello, and Percy, the date announcement of the Patronus Charm Exchange Meeting appeared on the bulletin boards of the major colleges.

The event was scheduled for two weeks later, on the evening of October 10. Since Schelling could not predict the number of people present at that time, he specially applied to the school to borrow an empty classroom enlarged by the No Trace Stretching Curse, which was large enough to accommodate 16 people.

There are still two weeks before the exchange meeting. In addition to the normal classes and homework, Schelling will also find time to hang out with Little Silver Teeth, delve into Professor Flitwick's duel notes, delve into "A Thousand Changes", and delve into Snape's elementary potion notes.

Professor Flitwick's dueling notes contain many dueling techniques, such as how to use the least amount of mana to release a spell with the right effect.For example, if the opponent is hiding behind a rock, instead of smashing the rock with the Explosion Charm, it is better to use the Displacement Charm to move the stone away.For another example, when the opponent releases the Fire Curse, instead of using the Water-Creating Curse to extinguish the fire, it is better to put a Water and Fire Impassion Curse on yourself to save mana.

These optimal ways to deal with different attacks are all experience gained from actual combat, which is very valuable to Schelling who lacks actual combat experience.Of course, the fact that Schelling lacks actual combat experience here is only a relative term—in the past two semesters, Schelling has encountered trolls, basilisks, Gallup, Harry, and Merlin successively. Schelling, who has fought these five opponents, is actually the one with the most combat experience among the more than 500 students at Hogwarts.

The metamorphosis theory of "Various Changes and Magic Jue" is slightly different from that of native European metamorphosis. European metamorphosis emphasizes the understanding and transformation of matter, and is a rigorous discipline similar to physics and chemistry.However, in the distant eastern countries, Transfiguration emphasizes creativity, focusing on meaning rather than form, and the transformation process should be done as one wishes, flowing freely and freely.That's right, the disadvantages of doing this are obvious. Once the deformation process goes wrong, it may cause serious consequences.But - for a seasoned and highly skilled shapeshifter - did the process go wrong?nonexistent.If the situation described in the book can be achieved in the end, then it can be said to be ingenious, changeable, unpredictable, and hard to guard against.

Compared with these two books, Snape's Potions Notes was nothing worth mentioning.There are indeed many improvements to the potion steps in it, and it is indeed very precious information, but it cannot give Xie Lin the amazing feeling of "opening the door to a new world".

Schelling didn't intend to keep this notebook privately. He used the copying spell to copy a copy for each of his fellow Slytherin students, including Goyle, Crabbe, and Millicent Burst, who had little communication with him.They were born in a pure-blooded family, and they knew how precious the notes were, so Xie Lin easily got their grateful eyes.

In addition, Schelling did not put aside his core plan of exploring Hogwarts and improving spells.

After successfully improving the Levitation, Luminescence, Amplifying, and Flame spells, this time he focused on the water-making spell.The water-making spell is a spell that causes the caster to spray a stream of clean, drinkable water from the tip of the wand, generally used to obtain drinking water in the wild, or to extinguish fires.But in the original book, "Prince of Explosion" Seamus Finney used it to throw out the effect of a high-pressure water gun in a spell class, knocking the unsuspecting Professor Flitwick into the air.Obviously, the water pressure sprayed by the water-making spell can be adjusted by improving the spell.

What made Schelling even more concerned was whether the so-called water-making curse could only create the purest water?Or in fact, the thickness and pH of water can actually be adjusted through magic spell improvement?According to this idea, once the improvement is successful, the water-making curse that can release strong acid water, wouldn't it add a "corrosion" feature to the curse?And the water-making spell that can release viscous water adds the "slimy" feature?There may even be many other changes that Schelling can't imagine for the time being, which shows how great the potential of creating water spells is.

This is not just Schelling's unrealistic imagination. He remembered that in the sixth grade charm class in the original book, there was a magic spell about liquid conversion, which turned vinegar back into wine.Note that this is not transfiguration, but the change produced by the spell itself. Explained by Muggle chemistry, the spell reverses the oxidation process of vinegar.It can be seen that the spell does have the ability to exert chemical changes on the liquid.

Schelling has already explored the Room of Requirement and the Forbidden Forest, and the next target site he plans to explore is the secret passage on the fifth floor that Dobby cleaned up and repaired during the summer vacation.

The secret path on the fifth floor is hidden behind a large mirror. This large round mirror is as tall as an adult. As long as you say the incantation "Secret Mirror Reveal" to the mirror, the mirror image in the mirror will reveal a deep path.Schelling reached out and touched the mirror, and found that his hand had directly penetrated to the other side of the mirror, just like the feeling of passing through the wall of platform nine and three quarters at King's Cross Station.

Although he knew that the secret path was unlikely to be dangerous, after all, the Weasley twins in middle and lower grades in the original book had used it many times, and Dobby was in charge of cleaning and repairing it not long ago, but Schelling cautiously put on the night star cloak, held his wand tightly, and entered the path in the mirror world.

Schelling whispered: "Lumos!", and the end of the lit wand illuminated the entire tunnel. Its slope was not steep, and it was easy to go up and down, but there was no end in sight.The tunnel was not straight down, and there were many turns along the way. Xie Lin estimated that he walked for about half an hour before reaching a large cave space.

It's empty here, except for the four stone walls, there are only two tunnel entrances (one of which is the entrance that Schelling came in).The stone walls can be seen to have been repaired by magic not long ago. It is not difficult to imagine that before being repaired, the four stone walls must have been covered with a lot of cracks, which is why they were crushed under the years of snow.

These traces of magical restoration should be Dobby's handwriting, but there is a slender and eye-catching crack that suddenly appeared on one of the stone walls.It was odd, given the house-elves' obsession with cleaning and grooming tasks, it was unlikely that such a glaring omission would have been left.Schelling then tried to cast a healing spell on the crack, but it had no effect at all—it was really weird!
Xie Lin opened the eyes of magic power, and saw the magic power fluctuation on the crack, but this magic power fluctuation is not the hazy white that he usually sees, but a bit dark green, it doesn't look like the handwriting of a wizard, but more like the traces of magic power left by creatures such as elves or goblins.Since Dobby's magic can't work on it, Schelling is more inclined to guess that this cave space is related to goblins.

Although goblins regard the magic that is unique to their own race as their own life, it does not mean that all wizards know nothing about it. One of the books Xie Lin got from the house of his grandmother Druella contained a record of goblin magic. It was written by a cruel ancestor of the Lestrange family. This ancestor was obsessed with the study of magic. The secret of the magic used by fairies and elves.

Although this book cannot be said to truly analyze the magic system of goblins and elves, it is qualified as a superficial basic enlightenment.Although Xie Lin couldn't use goblin magic, it didn't prevent him from understanding the magic traces on the crack, not to mention that with the magic eye, the magic fluctuations on the crack were clear to Xie Lin.

Schelling decided to try an ancient and rare magic. He first used the cutting spell to carve a complicated magic circle on the stone wall around the crack, then stood three feet away and pointed his wand at the magic circle and shouted: "Magic divides all magic, and all phenomena return to one!"

There was a wave of warmth from the Thestral wand, and the magic power on Xie Lin's body flowed into the wand like a burst of water. A white halo was emitted from the tip of the wand, like ripples in the water, spreading outward in circles - this scene only happened when Xie Lin held the wand for the first time.The magic circle seemed to come alive, sending out bursts of magic power fluctuations, and a mysterious ancient runic rune suddenly appeared on the stone wall - Xie Lin recognized this rune as "Kaunaz", which represented the meaning of "Holy Fire" or "Brightness".

Although Xie Lin has read in many historical documents that words can carry magic power, and knows that every ancient runic talisman was used to cast spells in the Middle Ages, but being able to witness the magic power emanating from a talisman was an eye-opener for Xie Lin. At this time, the ancient runic talisman broke away from the stone wall, floated in mid-air, emitted a fiery breath, and finally disappeared into a red-gold flame.

What Xie Lin didn't know was that the pupils of his eyes suddenly reflected the same fire light at the moment when the fire light disappeared, and then slowly disappeared in his eyes as if it had been faded.

"Is this the legendary ancient runic magic?" Xie Lin muttered to himself, "This flame seems to be different from the flame spell in modern magic... In addition to light and heat, there seems to be traces similar to soul magic. I seem to feel the passion and desire for knowledge in the flame. No, no, it should be the guidance and inheritance of knowledge..."

(Note: "Kaunaz" stands for "sacred fire", "passion for knowledge", and "emphasis on inheritance" are obtained by the author from consulting the ancient runic dictionary of Muggles, not invented by the author)
Looking at the crack again, the magic wave was no longer there, and Xie Lin closed it with a repairing spell.Going forward through this cave space, it finally leads to an empty shop in Hogsmeade Village. It has been abandoned for a long time, full of dust and cobwebs, and even smells musty.

Looking out from a window of the empty shop, you can see an old bar with a striking wild boar's head hanging on the signboard at the door. Obviously, the location of this shop is not on the main commercial street of the village, but on the same remote side street as the Pig's Head Bar. No wonder it can't be rented out.

Schelling didn't want to be caught wandering around Hogsmeade, so he turned around and went into the tunnel, returning the way he came, ending today's adventure.

On the surface, this adventure didn’t seem to benefit Xie Lin, but it actually opened another door for Xie Lin in the theory of magic. Witnessing the ancient runic magic with his own eyes not only increased his knowledge, but also inspired Xie Lin’s various ideas of trying to cast spells with the ancient runi magic talisman that he was still proficient in.

(End of this chapter)