Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 68 Hermione's Cry
After drinking the enchantment potion, Schelling felt that his magic power had greatly increased. Since the end of the Christmas holiday, he spent a lot of time every day, hiding in Newt's suitcase space, practicing complex and powerful spells.

In the past two months, he has successively practiced the "Wind Whirl Curse Curse" and "Magic Flame Protection Curse", and practiced these two spells until he can control the wind force and direction of the former and the form and consciousness of the latter with ease.

The Whirlwind Spell is a very practical spell. In the Fantastic Beasts movie, Newt used it as a repelling spell to blow enemies away. Once he has mastered it and can fine-tune the wind force and direction, he can completely induce a tornado to roll his opponent into the air and enjoy the feeling of spinning the world.

Mo Yan is also another very practical spell. In the Fantastic Beasts movie, Grindelwald, surrounded by a group of people, uses Mo Yan’s ability to distinguish targets independently, and creates a circular wall of fire around him that can distinguish between enemy and friend. Only those who are completely loyal to him can cross the fire wall. It is a bit like Monkey King’s demon circle in the oriental novel "Journey to the West".For Mo Yan, who is interested in recruiting followers, the skill that allows him to distinguish true loyalty is really important.

After learning these two spells, Xie Lin finally started to get in touch with the extremely difficult and dangerous "Fiendfire Curse" and the corresponding counter-curse.

I have to say that the difficulty of the Fiercefire Curse is much higher than the spells I have learned before. Not only does it have extremely high requirements for magic power, but it also has great requirements for the control displayed by mental concentration.

(Note: The counter-curse of the Fiendfire Curse is not "every spell ends", but the magic used by the caster to control and extinguish Fiendfire. In the original book, Ron mocked Crabbe for "not listening to them how to put out the fire". This shows that the caster can extinguish Fiendfire. Although Ron knew nothing about Fiendfire, Hermione, who obviously knew about Fiendfire, did not object to this)
That night, Xie Lin had just finished practicing the Fiendfyre Curse. He rubbed his sore shoulder, intending to suspend the practice of the spell, and swim to the restricted area of ​​the library at night to read some black magic books.

Unexpectedly, because Schelling was in an invisible state, and because he was a little tired, he didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, but at the corner of the corridor, he bumped into Hermione who was running.

With Xie Lin's physical fitness, such a collision was just a trivial matter for him, but it was different for Hermione who was fragile.

The book in Hermione's hand was knocked backwards along with her body.

Under the unthinking nervous reaction, Xie Lin quickly grabbed Hermione's wrist with one hand to hold her, so that she would not fall to the ground; the other hand was clasped into a claw and aimed at the big book, and the big book flew into Xie Lin's hand lightly.

(This is not Qiao Feng's Dragon Capturing Kung Fu, laugh, it's the Wu Staff and Silent Summoning Curse!)
In the next second, the two of them suddenly heard the annoying voice of the administrator Filch coming from not far away, "Who is there! Damn student, wandering around all day and night, let me catch you and have a better life!"

Schelling grabbed Hermione's hand, and the two of them ran in tacit understanding, and the sound of Filch's footsteps from behind also showed that the administrator was chasing after him.The two ran all the way to the abandoned girls' bathroom on the third floor and hid in it. Schelling made a silent gesture to Hermione, picked up his wand and tapped on the two of them, and they became transparent in an instant.

Following Filch and his cat who broke into the girls' washroom, they stood in front of them, but turned a blind eye to them, and could only leave angrily.After leaving, he happened to meet Harry who came out to look for Hermione in a certain corridor. Poor Harry turned around and fled, while Filch chased after Harry while cursing.

After the catastrophe, Xie Lin and Hermione looked at each other, and Xie Lin realized that his left hand was still holding the girl's hand tightly.Sherin smiled awkwardly, let go of his hand, and asked to divert his attention: "Okay, Miss Granger, can you tell me what happened?"

After a lot of running and tossing, Hermione found that she seemed to have forgotten all the unpleasantness in the lounge. She shook her head and said, "Thank you, Malfoy, I'm fine now."

Schelling looked at her eyes that were still red and swollen, and deduced and guessed the whole thing from the plot he knew. He smiled slightly and said, "If you don't tell me, let me guess. It's probably just a few things that can make such an excellent and well-behaved Miss Granger break the school rules and come out to go out at night. Is there a fight with a friend? Is it Potter or Weasley?"

Hermione looked at the young man in surprise. Although the young man's face was handsome, he still looked immature, but his tone of voice was so calm and confident, and his judgment on things was very accurate.

She unconsciously felt a sense of trust in the boy in front of her, and couldn't help but confided: "It's Ron...he thought that Crookshanks—I mean my pet cat, ate his pet mouse, Banban, and lost his temper with me...Actually, I don't know if Banban was eaten, but Ron didn't want to listen to my explanation at all...I don't know why, I'm in a bad mood recently, so sad..."

Xie Lin chuckled and said, "Actually, I know where your problem lies."

Hermione couldn't help but let out an "ah", and her eyes suddenly revealed a look of anticipation.

Schelling smiled and said, "You are too rational. Both Harry and Ron are just 13-year-old boys. Adolescent boys are always prone to lose their temper. Ron thought his pet had been eaten, but he would rather turn his back on his good friend than see him try to find out the truth. From this we can see—in fact, he doesn't care whether Scabbers is dead or alive. He cares about your attitude. He thinks you don't value his pet or his feelings, so that's why he burst into anger. Say you understand?"

Hermione was stunned when she heard it. Although her knowledge of gender psychology was very shallow, as a top student, she was able to tell that Schelling's words were very reasonable.

Seeing that Hermione had listened to his own words, Schelling continued: "As for your own emotional problems, it's because you put too many things on your shoulders, completely ignoring your own ability to bear both mentally and physically."

"Don't be in a hurry to refute," Schelling saw Hermione hesitated to speak, and interrupted her: "I heard that you have taken 12 courses this year. Although this is an excellent performance, such a heavy study is enough to overwhelm anyone. But you are lucky, you still have to worry about Harry, Ron and Hagrid when you know that your studies are already overloaded..."

Hearing this, Hermione couldn't help but feel a sense of grievance in her heart, yes, she was nosy, telling Professor McGonagall about Harry receiving the Firebolt, it was not for his own good...

"By the way, I have also heard about Hagrid. I heard that you are working hard to help Hagrid find information and write a defense statement. The three good friends who originally agreed to help together, in the end, you are the only one who is still struggling with this matter... What's more, I think these things you have done are completely meaningless, and you probably know it in your heart—Buckbeak has no chance of winning, and the result of this hearing is that he will undoubtedly die!"

Hermione's face turned red when she heard this, and her hands were tightly clenched into fists. She wanted to refute loudly, and wanted to tell the boy in front of her that he was wrong, but she couldn't speak.

Seeing Hermione like that, Schelling waved his hands and said, "Okay, don't look at me like that. You should know that the so-called hearing is just a process, behind which is actually a political game between the Ministry of Magic and Professor Dumbledore. You know, there are actually many people in the Ministry of Magic who don't like Dumbledore. Because he advocates friendly treatment of Muggle-born wizards, many rich and powerful pure-blood families want to take advantage of this to damage Professor Dumbledore's prestige. The most likely crime is to use Buckbeak as a scapegoat, so no matter what testimony you write, it will definitely die."

Hermione suddenly remembered that the young man in front of him was from the Malfoy family. Isn't the Malfoy family the so-called pure-blood family he just said?At the same time, he was the son of the hateful Mr. Malfoy, the younger brother of the annoying Draco, and his own and Harry's rivals. For some reason, he suddenly felt a little lost and sad, and even suddenly felt a little angry.

She closed her eyes and yelled loudly: "So? Are you saying these words just to break my fighting spirit and make me give up? Are you showing off the strength of your pure-blood family? You are as annoying as—— and Draco!"

Schelling didn't take it seriously, and said indifferently: "You made a mistake—although I was born in the Malfoy family, I never believed that Muggle wizards should be inferior to others—what I just said was just a cruel reality, and it's up to you to listen to it or not. Well, that's all for today's conversation. I want to go back to the dormitory to rest, and you too. While the invisibility effect is still there, Filch can't see you, go back quickly!"

Xie Lin's words came from the heart - pure blood is worthy of glory, but not because of the stupid blood, but because of the various inheritances left by the family ancestors, Xie Lin's ability to grow so fast is taking advantage of pure blood; however, this does not mean that Muggle wizards are doomed to achieve nothing.

Birth does determine a person's starting point, but Xie Lin clearly knows that in a person's long life, there are too many factors that can determine his future destiny, such as character, talent, will, and choices...

Compared with blood, Schelling pays more attention to a person's character and ability.

It's a pity that he grew up in the notorious (in the eyes of Muggle wizards) Malfoy family, so it is destined that his words will not be convincing, so he doesn't bother to talk to Hermione - since you want to think so, then it's up to you!
After finishing speaking, Xie Lin turned around and left cleanly.

Hermione opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't make a sound no matter what she said, and she couldn't help feeling a trace of regret in her heart.

(End of this chapter)