Hogwarts: I Can Still Learn

"Hogwarts: I Can Still Learn"

"Can I borrow your fireplace? I think I should go back." Vincent put the empty bottle back into his pocket watch. The potion was used up and he had to go back to the laboratory if he wanted to refill it.

He really didn't want to ride the Knight Bus again, not for the rest of his life.

"of course can!"

"Our home is over there." Fred and George pointed at the disfigured woods that had been destroyed by Vincent.

In just one hour, it rained, snowed and hailed in the woods, and several poor trees were uprooted and replanted.

"It's just through the woods."

"very close."

oh?Was the Burrow so close?

Vincent calmly cast a few magic spells to restore the place to its original state.Since his home is here, it's better to tidy up the messy grass he made.

"Well, I may come here often in the future. Can I also use your fireplace then?"

Stoat Mountain is a sparsely populated area, and even if there are occasional Muggles, they will be scared away by Fred George. It is simply an ideal experimental place, and Vincent will not let it go easily.

At worst, it's better to put some effort into restoring the environment every time you use it.

"Of course!" The twins agreed readily as expected.

"That's great! Please lead the way."

As Vincent walked, he waved his wand to dispel the cold air still lingering in the woods, which had just been caused when he was experimenting with the "Hail Volley".

The so-called "Hail Salvo" is actually created by stacking three magic arrays together: a Clear Water Like a Spring Curse, a Freezing Curse, and a Ten Thousand Bullets Salvo.The effect is not bad, but if you can practice it a few more times and control the ice cubes to form a cone shape, the lethality will be even better.

"We're here! Look!"

Vincent was thinking, but was suddenly interrupted by a voice.

He looked in the direction pointed by Fred and George, and in the distance was a crooked building.Although it was rude to think so, Vincent still preferred to believe that it was a ruin that was forcibly propped up rather than a house.

"That's our home, we usually call it 'The Burrow.'" The speaker didn't know whether it was Fred or George. From his tone, he didn't feel ashamed because his family was poor. On the contrary, they both loved him. This home.

The Burrow is four or five stories high. It can be seen that each floor is newer than the one below. It is obviously built up one floor after another.The top roof was the same red as the Weasley family's hair, and there were four or five chimneys on it.

Vincent used to naively think that the architectural structure of Gringotts was already very anti-Newtonian, but now he discovered that the Burrow was the king of anti-Newtonian architecture.

Next to the door of the Burrow were a few high-top leather boots and a rusty cauldron.Behind the gate is the yard, where several fat brown chickens are pecking at something on the ground.

There were some peonies growing in the garden, but it was mostly weeds and old trees with tangled roots.Even though he didn't see it, Vincent was still sure that there was a small pond surrounded by those weeds, because he heard the "cuckoo" or "croak" calls of frogs, and there were quite a few of them.

Seeing Vincent staring in the direction of the garden, George gave a friendly reminder: "I suggest you stay away from the garden. There are a lot of goblins there."

Goblin?Vincent had seen such creatures in books. Their bodies were small and rough, and their heads were as bare as a potato.

But unfortunately, Vincent was not interested in them - they could not be used as medicine, not to mention that he had never wanted to go to the garden in the first place.

"Oh, there's no need to be afraid of them. Those goblins are very stupid. We usually pull them out of the ground, stun them and then throw them out, so that they can't find their way home."

"But the annoying thing is that they keep popping up from the ground. You can't imagine how many gnomes are buried under that garden!"

Fred and George looked at each other, looking deeply hurt.

Vincent followed the twins into the house. The interior of the Burrow was not as shabby as its appearance. Although it was small, it was very cozy.

The first thing he saw was a clock hanging on the wall. There were no numbers on the clock. Instead, it said "at home", "at work", "at school", "on the road", "making tea" and "hospital". "Something like that.

At the moment they entered, two almost identical hands moved from "on the road" to "at home." Vincent suspected that the two hands might not have separated at all.

"This clock is really interesting!" Vincent blurted out subconsciously.

Isn't it? It was so interesting that he wanted to take it off, take it apart, and explore every inch of it with his left eye.

"Oh, you mean this clock?" Fred noticed that the hand representing Mrs. Weasley was pointing "on the road".

"It seems mom is not at home." The twins looked at each other again, grinning in a sly arc, as if they had reached some consensus without Vincent knowing.

However, Vincent didn't realize that he was obsessed with this wonderful clock in the Weasley family and couldn't help but cover his right eye with one hand.

It can’t be dismantled, but you can always take a look!

And if you don’t know this, you will be shocked when you see it.With just one glance, Vincent was sure that there was a magic circle hidden in this clock that he didn't recognize - a magic circle that was very similar to the tracking spell, but completely different.

"Hiss—(sniffing sound)!"

Now it was Vincent's turn to be surprised.Maybe he doesn't have confidence in other aspects, but when it comes to magic circles, Vincent is not bragging. Over the years, he has seen and recorded eight hundred magic circles, if not a thousand. It can be regarded as a walking encyclopedia of spells. .He has read through all the spell books available on the market, and he knows all the unpopular medical magics, but he doesn't use them much.

But not using it and not knowing it are two different things, and he, who has a hundred and three thousand magic books in human form (no), happened to encounter an unknown magic circle today, which made him calm down so much.

"Hey! Did you bite your tongue?"

"No, this, this clock! It, it..." Vincent was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly. Unfortunately, he couldn't clearly see the details of the magic circle just by observing it from a distance.

"It seems so." Seeing Vincent stuttering, Fred George automatically acquiesced to the fact that he bit his tongue.

"We don't have any medicine at home, so why don't you just bear with it."

But Vincent still waved his hand, pointed at the clock, then pointed at himself, and said: "Awesome!"

"...We know you are awesome, but you don't need to be so high-profile."

Vincent was anxious. He just wanted to dismantle the clock and take a look. So he took a deep breath, but what he shouted out was an irrelevant sentence: "I mean this clock is awesome!"

Fred and George stayed for a few seconds, and then shouted back to Vincent with twice the volume: "Oh——!"

Then there was a roar from upstairs: "Fred George——! Please be quiet——!"

"Hahahaha——" the twins laughed at the same time.

"That's Percy," George paused to explain to Vincent.

"He must have been doing homework or reading a book just now."

"Then he jumped up in shock."

"Hahahaha——" The twins laughed so much that they squatted down, holding their stomachs. Vincent felt that Posey was going to come down and beat them if they kept laughing, so he kindly interrupted them.

"Can this clock be taken off?"

"Huh? This clock? It shouldn't be possible. I've never seen my mother take it off."

"Speaking of Vincent, do you know Patsy at school? He should be in the same grade as you."

Poor fools, they really thought he was 12 years old.

"...I don't know." Vincent felt that he had to leave. Since there was no way to take down the clock and look at it, there was no point in staying.Although I'm very reluctant to part with it, I'd better come back and ask Mr. and Mrs. Weasley for advice next time.

"I have to go."

"Oh, okay, the fireplace is over there."

Vincent originally thought that Fred George would keep him for a while, but he didn't expect that they would let him go so readily.

So he took one last longing look at the wall clock and walked towards the fireplace.

"Goodbye!" Vincent grabbed a handful of Floo powder and disappeared into the fireplace.

The moment he was about to be teleported away, he seemed to hear Fred or George say something with a smile.

It seems like...see you later?

You heard me wrong.