From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

Chapter 143 Nicolas Flamel's invitation

It was getting dark, and Ivy pointed his wand at his throat and shouted to the entire construction site: "It's time for dinner!"

Many wizards came out from the completed buildings one after another. Most of them were employees of the Ministry of Magic, and a few were contractors invited by the school board. There might be one or two temporary workers mixed in. Ivy had seen some guys with very shabby clothes among them.

The best thing about working for Hogwarts is the food, which is already a consensus among these construction workers.

The dining place is still the auditorium, but the original long table belonging to the four major colleges has been removed and replaced by a wider table.

There are also facilities for dusting at the entrance to the auditorium, including a mirror that can point out where there is dust, many feather dusters that can be waved automatically, and even a purple spray perfume bottle that will serve people. No one knows where Dumbledore found these things.

Not only that, Dumbledore even found a way to temporarily change the structure of the castle, replacing the waiting room next to the hall with a washroom. As for the construction site, there is a separate tent toilet there.

Normally, only breakfast and dinner are held in the castle's hall, and lunch is delivered to the construction site by the house elves. Although it is midsummer, the temperature in the Scottish Highlands is still stable, especially since Hogwarts is a castle built on a mountain, not to mention that Dumbledore and Ivy took turns casting weather spells to bring dark clouds to shade the sun for everyone.

Dinner is always very rich, and Dumbledore also contacted the Three Broomsticks to send a lot of butter beer from Hogsmeade. There is no strong liquor such as artillery whiskey. Hogwarts is a school after all, even if it is summer vacation and there are no students.

Therefore, after a day of hard work, the wizards can enjoy the delicacies and chat at the dining table.

Ivy and the professors are still sitting at the faculty head table, after all, the professors have their own social circles.

A burst of laughter came.

Ivy looked sideways and saw Professor Sprout. She was in a good mood recently because she had obtained permission from Professor McGonagall to build two more greenhouses with the construction of the "base". For this reason, she ordered a lot of new seeds from the herbalist in Diagon Alley and ordered a lot of magical animal feces from Professor Keltborn in advance as fertilizer.

After eating a few lamb chops, Ivy felt a little satisfied. Dumbledore did not appear on the construction site today, and he was not even seen at the table. I wondered what the old man was doing.

Perhaps it was because Ivy confirmed the conjecture about Voldemort's Horcrux, so he tried to verify it through other channels?

This is a complicated and long job. The easiest part is undoubtedly to start with Voldemort's former classmates and teachers, but apart from Dumbledore himself, it is hard to say how many are still alive in the world.

At least Ivy only knows one Horace Sglaghorn, the potion professor and Slytherin dean when Voldemort was studying at Hogwarts.

Sgraughorn should be considered as the helmsman of the school clique. He used his connections when teaching at Hogwarts to win over many influential figures in the magic world.

But now the British magic world should be considered to be prosperous and thriving. Everyone is immersed in the peaceful scene after Voldemort's disappearance and is accustomed to it. Sgraughorn will not hand over his memory so easily.

In the original book, even under the pressure of Voldemort's resurrection, Harry only got Sgraughorn's memory with the help of the Felicis.

"Oh--" A cry suddenly came from the long table of the construction workers. Ivy followed the crowd's line of sight and saw a silver shadow flying into the auditorium.

"It's the Patronus!" A sharp-eyed wizard recognized the true face of this spell.

"And it's a phoenix patronus! It belongs to Professor Dumbledore!" An employee of the Ministry of Magic took a sip of butter beer and sighed contentedly, "It's great to come to Hogwarts on business. I didn't expect that I could meet the only magical animal patronus in the entire magical world!"

The silver phoenix flew across the hall and landed on the head of the faculty table, uttering a series of familiar voices: "Come to the principal's office after dinner, Professor Victor. By the way, bring me a butter ice cream."

The spell of sending messages with the patronus is very interesting. This is Dumbledore's exclusive modification.

Ivy said goodbye to the professors at the same table, got up and left the table, and had no intention of waiting for the dessert after the meal. Because he had already used the teleportation spell to notify a house elf to go to the principal's office.

Everything in Hogwarts Castle is good, but there are too many stairs, and spells such as Apparition cannot be used, so Ivy had to use the three-ring flying spell to avoid the process of climbing stairs.

Seeing the gargoyle sitting in front of the principal's office, Ivy uttered the command that the Phoenix Patronus had just sent: "Butter Ice Cream."

Then the gargoyle jumped aside, and the wall behind it split in two, and a spiral staircase slowly moved upward appeared in front of Ivy.

He has been here many times, and the furnishings in the principal's office have not changed much, but today is different.

Dumbledore was wearing a white napkin, holding a golden knife and fork in his hand, staring at the feast in front of him. It seems that the house elves of Hogwarts are always particularly willing to serve the principal.

"I just asked you to bring me a butter ice cream, not a house elf!" Dumbledore complained. Even though he was the headmaster of Hogwarts, he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the house elves. Perhaps this was why he tried to appear in the hall every day.

"I'll take it as a thank you, Dumbledore." Ivy didn't sit opposite Dumbledore, because it was obviously impolite to disturb others' meals.

"Dumbledore! Get this kid's hands off me!" The Sorting Hat shouted at the current headmaster.

Ivy took his hand out of the belly of the Sorting Hat. He originally wanted to try to pull out the sword of Gryffindor from it.

"Don't be so polite, hat." Ivy put it back in place, "Don't you remember me? It was you who sorted me, a transfer student, into Slytherin more than a hundred years ago."

"Don't try to get close to me, kid! I don't know you!" the Sorting Hat shouted, "I treat every little wizard equally, especially those from Slytherin!"

Ivy shook his head: "When the Big Four made the Sorting Hat, did Gryffindor put too much of its own thoughts into it?"

"Forgive it, Ivy." Dumbledore swallowed a piece of sausage, "The old hat only has one chance to appear every year, so it takes a whole year to polish the lyrics, and before the start of the school year, that is, during the summer vacation, the Sorting Hat will be particularly irritable."

"Tsk tsk." Ivy sighed softly, "How can a guy who only works one day a year have so many problems?"

Ivy looked around the principal's office, and then regretfully found that he didn't see anything that could be linked to the Sword of Gryffindor. Ever since he got the profession of the Legendary Fighter, Ivy has been looking for other Legendary Magic Props.

The Sorting Hat and the Sword of Gryffindor, both relics of the Big Four, should have the qualities to become Legendary Magic Props, but Ivy already has the Ravenclaw Crown on his head, and he can't equip a Sorting Hat with a mind normally, so he set his sights on the Sword of Gryffindor, which is a one-handed sword.

According to the information in the original book, the Sword of Gryffindor can absorb substances that can enhance it, and it is precisely because it absorbs the venom of the basilisk that it becomes a weapon that can destroy Horcruxes. Isn't this property of growth perfectly in line with the professional characteristics of the Legendary Fighter?

But the only problem is that as an iron Slytherin, Ivy has never seen the true face of the sword.

"So, what do you want me for?" Ivy sat back in his chair and watched Dumbledore eat.

"Oh, it's nothing serious. Nico wants to see you." Dumbledore wiped the sauce off his beard with a napkin and replied.

"Nico?" There are not many people called "Nico" in the magic world, and the only well-known one is "Nico Flamel", not to mention that Ivy swallowed his Philosopher's Stone not long ago.

"Has he thought about what kind of compensation he needs?" Ivy asked.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

"The letter didn't mention it." Dumbledore poured himself a glass of butter beer and iced it with magic. "In short, I think that as a sinner who destroyed the greatest creation in the history of alchemy, you need to personally apologize to its owner."

"Okay." Ivy sighed. He just wanted to study it. Who would have thought that he would eat the Philosopher's Stone directly.

As a wizard and alchemist who has lived for more than 600 years, Nico Flamel must have collected a large number of precious magic books. Maybe Ivy can get one or two when he goes to see Nico Flamel this time.

"How do we get there? Floo powder?" Ivy asked. "I remember that you need to apply in advance to travel across borders using Floo powder."

"I'm sorry, Ivy, you can't use Floo powder." Dumbledore's blue eyes flashed with a smile. "If you are familiar with geography, you should know that there is a sea between France and Britain! The Floo powder network cannot be laid on the seabed."

"Why not? Muggles even lay cables and tunnels on the seabed." Except in Diagon Alley, Ivy has hardly used this way of travel that wizards are familiar with. He has always felt that the Floo powder network is similar to the teleportation array of DND, except that the exit is changed from a magic array with magical fluorescence to a fireplace full of coal ash.

"What is a 'cable'?" Dumbledore stopped eating and asked.

"Uh... a line that Muggles use to transmit energy. You can think of it as a water pipe, but the thing flowing inside is electricity. Muggles use it as energy to light up lights and all electrical appliances." Ivy explained.

Dumbledore's eyes widened with interest, and he smiled and said, "You know what, Ivy? As a wizard from more than a hundred years ago, you know more about this world than I do, especially about the Muggle half. How do you know all this?"

"The Encyclopedia Britannica," Ivy replied, "Hermione gave it to me as a Christmas gift. She seemed to think that after sleeping for more than a hundred years, I should try to understand this new world. I have to say, it is much more useful than I thought."

"It's always right to read, even Muggle books." Dumbledore was completely exhausted, but there was still more than half of the feast prepared for him by the house elf.

"Nicole always has a lot of time." Dumbledore got up from his desk, came to Fox's golden living branches, and fiddled with the beautiful bird, "So we can choose the travel method freely, the flying broom , Door key, phantom movement, or this gorgeous bird? "

Fox turned his head to Avi, looked at him sideways, and made a cry, followed by a tail feathers fell from it.

"Oh, was that for me?" Aiwei raised his eyebrows, which reminded him of the time when he was raised in Hogwarts more than a hundred years ago, the one he rescued from the black wizard Phoenix often expresses his love for him in this way.

But Dumbledore shook his head and turned around and said, "I don't think so. Tail feathers naturally dropped that Fox is about to start Nirvana. In the next few months, the feathers on it will become less and less and less. , Until it became a flame, and then reborn from the ashes.

Dumbledore still handed Fox's tail feathers that had just fallen to Avi. It was a particularly long one, which was very beautiful.

"Since Nicole Lame always has a lot of time, then we might as well use Muggles to travel?" Aiwei took the feathers and quickly changed the topic. The self -confidence just made him a little embarrassing.

"Phantom migration is not suitable for transnational travel, door keys and flying broom are not very comfortable, and I am old." Dumbledore found a reason for himself, "Besides A short trip, maybe a short trip will make me rejuvenate. "

"Given that you know the world of Muggle better than me, so the task of arranging the journey will be handed over to you, Avi." Dumbledore blinked and returned to the desk again. I don't know when to be cleaned up.

Dumbledore dragged a hardcover book, and found the page with a bookmark. From the pole of the cover, he could see the title "Wandering with the werewolf".

"Do you really don't think about teaching for another year?" Dumbledore asked how cold it was.

But Avi's answer is very resolute: "No."

"Well -for Hogwarts and me, it has become a difficult thing to find a suitable professor of black magic defense before school." Dumbledore moved his attention back to the book, "Go out Please bring your doors at time. If you have a suitable travel plan, you can notify me at any time, you know the password. "