A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

This is a shabby hotel.

The surroundings were not spacious and somewhat dark, with half a candle burning faintly on the wooden table.Dusty floor, made bed, a few pieces of old-fashioned oak furniture, a burning fireplace, a half-closed window, and a steaming cup of tea...

Ian Traister was sitting on the bed (he had been living here for the past period of time), his eyes slightly dazed.

Recalling everything that happened before, he couldn't help but have some doubts——

Could it be that he was dreaming?

……

Ian is a time traveler.

Just a month and a half ago, he traveled here from an Eastern city in the 21st century.

He came to London, England, in the early 90s; the specific place of travel was a dilapidated orphanage in St. Giles Parish; he became an orphan in the orphanage.

And life for half a month after time travel can be said to be a disaster.

Ian could swear on a 50p coin that this was definitely the worst life he had ever had in his two long lives.

The director of the orphanage, Mr. Cole, is a big man with a weird temper; his main purpose of opening this orphanage is to defraud the government subsidies.

The daily meals were like pig food. The room where I lived was only cleaned once every two months and the smell was overwhelming.

What's even more frightening is that from Mr. Cole's sneaky eyes, Ian deeply suspects that he may have an unusual wailing.

This terrible life only lasted for about ten days. Ian, who was completely familiar with the surrounding environment, quickly found an opportunity and escaped from the orphanage.

In the process of escaping, Ian unexpectedly discovered that he actually had special powers——

He can make an object disappear from before his eyes; it is almost a complete disappearance, which is equivalent to being sent to another dimension.

At the same time, you can also bring back things that have disappeared.

This is how the big hole in the wall of the orphanage appeared.

……

I encountered something unexplainable like traveling through time, and at the same time, I actually unlocked special abilities.

Ian Traister, who received more than 20 years of materialist education in his previous life, said he was very shocked.

After regaining his freedom, what he wanted to know most urgently——

So how exactly did he travel through time?

And what is the source of my mysterious special powers?What's the principle?

On this basis, for this reason, he quickly made certain plans for his future in this world:

The first step is to find a public middle school with fairly good teaching quality.

The second step is to live the foreign middle school life again.

The last step is to apply to a prestigious university that is well-known around the world; study "theoretical physics" and continue your studies after that.

It could also be "theoretical mathematics".

Ian is still unable to determine which direction can explain the strangeness in his body.

But the first step is actually very troublesome!

In England, a fairly good public middle school needs to pay tuition fees of almost 3200 pounds a year, and living expenses of about 400 pounds a month; in the end, it is necessary to leave 1000 pounds for emergencies.

So, you need to prepare 9000 pounds!

When he escaped from the orphanage, all Ian had was a bag of coins accumulated from years of living in the orphanage, totaling 9 pounds and 15 pence.

Ian Traister is only 11 years old.

In the city of London, "child labor" is a very sensitive term.

This is also related to the city’s less than glorious experiences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Therefore, it is impossible to work part-time.

In the end, Ian came up with a way to use his special powers to perform magic shows.

He spent several days and relied on his willpower to master the skills of using his own special functions.

Then, go to the gathering places where "upper class people" gather and perform.

It turned out to be a masterstroke.

Only halfway through the summer vacation, he had already saved two-thirds of the money he needed; this did not include the two months of living expenses reserved and the cost of changing his outfit.

We also received responses from several public high schools.

Everything seemed to be going well.

……

Until a few hours ago, at the end of the last magic show in July.Ian Traister encountered a scene that made people wonder if it was a dream——

The fine tabby cat suddenly turned into a woman in front of him.

Not the kind of young, beautiful, and figure-shaped cat lady you think of...

But an old lady who is old enough to be your aunt, and whose expression is ten times more severe than that of your elementary school teacher.

Cat lady...ah, the lady who called herself Minerva McGonagall told Ian that he was actually a wizard, and his previous special powers were also a manifestation of his identity as a wizard.

And invited Ian to go to their magic school, a place called Hogwarts, for further study.

Mrs. McGonagall is proud to say that Hogwarts is the best wizarding school in the world!

Ian didn't believe it at first!

What, Hogwarts?

Translated into Chinese, it is "Hog Wart Magic School"?

【Warthogs; Hogwarts】

Please, even when you are trying to lie, you have to be more serious about your name!

But soon, after reading the "Admission Letter" that Mrs. McGonagall handed him, and then seeing her display of magic and her unique temperament as a teacher, Ian realized that this might not be a lie.

So that he had to believe her words...

The world I live in seems to be getting further and further away from the "materialist path".

……

All in all, Ian Twisted agreed to go to that weirdly named magic school.

And following Professor McGonagall, he came into contact with the real magical world for the first time.

Unexpectedly, there is such a wizarding street hidden in Charing Cross Street, an academy street that has never been known to anyone.

The large and small bags of things in front of me were all bought in that "Diagon Alley"; including a wand that looked no different from a small wooden stick.

Of course, after all this is over, it will all feel like a dream.

“Either the world is crazy,” Ian muttered, thinking to himself, “or I’m crazy!”

At the same time, he took out the "Daily Prophet" (a newspaper in the wizarding world) from his bag. The portraits on the newspaper were still moving around.

In an inconspicuous corner of the newspaper, a piece of news instantly caught his attention:

"The Boy Who Lived" Harry Potter appears in the Leaky Cauldron and will be attending Hogwarts this year! 》

"Harry Potter..." Ian murmured.

He frowned, with a serious expression on his face.

In Ian Twisted's previous life, he was not sensitive to the unique word Hogwarts (in English), had no understanding of Minerva McGonagall, and knew nothing about the entire wizarding world...

But I still have some impression of the name "Harry Potter"!

He clearly remembered that this seemed to be the protagonist of a classic series (novel, movie).