Hogwarts: Fusion of all things multiplied by ten thousand

Hope travels through Harry Potter’s world and awakens the fusion of all things system member 10,000 times critical strike version

Fuse with the fire dragon and transform into a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex, immune to all physical and magical attacks.

By integrating the power of the Sniff and extracting the digging properties, an underground world can be built in a single thought with ten thousand times the power.

Fuse with the Phoenix, extract the characteristics of rebirth from the ashes, and achieve a ten thousand times critical strike.

Huh? I had a mouth ulcer, and it exploded and reborn!

Fusion of bird and snake, extraction of transformation characteristics, 10,000 times critical strike, transformation into humanoid Ultraman!

Hogwarts: Fusion of all things multiplied by ten thousand
Chapter 1 Members Only
In a magic material store in Knockturn Alley, an eleven-year-old boy with a crew cut and an oriental face was observing his surroundings with a sly look.
Seeing that there was no one around, he stepped onto a low stool, stood in front of a tall cabinet, and stood on tiptoe to reach out to a glass bottle on the top.
After successfully getting the fist-sized glass bottle, Hope immediately showed a smile on his face. He jumped down quickly, holding the glass bottle in both hands, and rushed up to the second floor via the stairs on the side.
He came to his room, closed the door, jumped onto the bed, and then looked at the glass bottle in his hand.
There was a faintly fluorescent red liquid in the glass bottle. It looked alive and a faint light could be seen flowing inside.
Dragon blood!
The blood in the glass bottle was actually dragon blood, from the Ukrainian Ironbelly, a giant fire dragon.
This ten-ounce amount of dragon’s blood is already a high-priced item in his store. A small bottle sells for two hundred to three hundred Galleons.
Hope carefully placed the dragon’s blood on the table and took out a bronze key from his pocket.
This key is not the key to any door, but it can also be said to be used to open a door.
The counters in the store were cast with black magic by his mother, Hannie Ho, to prevent thieves with bad intentions from breaking in.
Once these thieves set their eyes on those tempting goods and rashly reach out to touch them, they will be directly attacked by the black magic and branded with a terrible curse.
However, after staying in Knockturn Alley for so many years, Hope had only seen a daredevil whose arm was dyed black by black magic. He could not move and felt a pain like a needle.
The key in his hand is the key to bypass the black magic, so he dares to steal things from his own counter.
Obviously, such a sneaky method can predict that the key in his hand did not come from a legitimate channel, but was a spare key that he secretly found in his mother’s room when his mother was out to buy goods.
The reason for doing this is not to resell it for money, but because of one’s own secret!
Hope is a time traveler who was reincarnated into this magical world. He also learned about the existence of Death Eaters from the scary stories his mother read to him when he was a child.
“If you don’t behave, the Death Eaters will come and take you away!”
There is no doubt that this is the world where Harry Potter lives, and according to Hope’s calculations based on the time, he will probably enter school in the same year as Harry, which is this year.
Hope was reincarnated into this world. At first, he was no different from an ordinary baby. He was confused and dazed until he was about two or three years old. Then he awakened his wisdom and began to understand the world.
When Hope learned that she would be the same age as Harry Potter, her first reaction was to stay away from him.
Both the Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry next door will be much safer than Hogwarts.
But after he cried several times and refused to go to Hogwarts, he was severely scolded by his mother Hanni, who was also a Hogwarts student. This idea was strangled because in his mother’s eyes, he was just an ignorant child.
Unless he dared to reveal his identity as a time traveler and pointed out that Voldemort would return to Hogwarts, there might be some chance of a turnaround, but it was only a possibility. The greater possibility was that he would be educated by his mother again.
He had no choice but to accept his fate and work hard to become a wizard who was more powerful than Dumbledore before his first year.
But this was just his idea. In fact, there was a reason for starting school at the age of eleven. Even though he secretly bought his first wand in his life with the pocket money he saved up, his age was still a factor.
Compared to his peers, he was only a few steps ahead in common spells, and as for dark magic,
Although he came from a family with a background in dark magic and his mother was from Slytherin House, and he was naturally interested in the dark arts, his mother would never let him touch it at all. The reason was that the dark magic was too harmful for children, and early exposure to it might overly affect their character.
All the neighbors are dark wizards, but if you want to learn dark magic from them, you have to help count the money even if you are sold.
Reality is so cruel. When he reached school age, he was no different from other little wizards from wizard families.
The business failed halfway through… No matter how well the plan is written, its execution still depends on the defense.
Just when Hope thought he was about to enter Hogwarts, a miracle happened!
The system finally appeared when he received the Hogwarts admission letter. You can’t tell me how relieved he felt at that moment.
It’s late but it’s arrived. What else can I do? I can only forgive you.
All things fusion system (members 10,000 times crit version)
Well… there was a VIP logo on the upper right corner of the system screen, which almost made him think that this was not a system, but a cheat that charged a membership fee…
This system can fuse all things, extract properties from the fused items, and based on membership privileges, can obtain ten thousand times the properties.
I have to say, VIP is awesome!
The process of extracting features is called parsing. Currently, the number of tasks that can be parsed is two, which means that the number of tasks that can be merged is now two.
The bottle of dragon blood in front of him was naturally what he prepared for his own system.
He learned from the system that currently it can only fuse living things, so he naturally thought of the magical animals in this world.
The fire dragon is undoubtedly the most powerful magical animal, and its namesake is the phoenix.
But phoenixes are rare, and even the materials on them are hard to come by. Fire dragons are more numerous, and he has ready-made ones at home, so there is no need to look far away.
Hope held the glass bottle and unscrewed the wooden cork. A strong smell of blood immediately rushed into his nose.
And as if sensing something, the bright red blood in the glass bottle began to surge, hitting the wall of the glass bottle like a tide.
It is indeed a magical creature. Hope was amazed and felt that the blood still had strong activity even after leaving the fire dragon’s body, as if it was a unique life split from the fire dragon.
Hope raised his eyes, reached out and pulled a glass on the table closer, slowly tilted the glass bottle in his hand, and aimed the bottle mouth at the glass.
Bang!
A slight sound was heard, and a drop of bright red blood fell to the bottom of the glass.
Seeing this, he withdrew his hand in time, straightened the bottle, and re-corked the mouth of the bottle of dragon blood with the cork.
Then he picked up a plate of keys, walked out of the room quickly, carefully stuck his head out in front of the stairs and looked at the first floor. After making sure that his mother had not returned yet, he quickly ran downstairs and put the dragon blood back to its place.
After putting the spare key back, he ran back to his room and breathed a sigh of relief.
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You don’t need a lot to fuse the items, just a little sample is enough.
Besides, this bottle of dragon blood is worth two or three hundred Galleons. If I waste all of it, my mother will definitely give me a beating of love when she comes back.
Just a light touch of black magic can make his butt feel as hot and painful as if he was hit by a belt a dozen times, and the key is that there is no side effect.
As if recalling something, Hope touched his buttocks fearfully, then withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
He shook his head to shake off the memories, hurried back to the table, picked up the glass on the table, and carefully stared at the dragon blood inside.
There was only one drop, but it did not spread out like ordinary blood. Instead, it condensed into a ball, like a plump ruby.
Hope then stretched out his index finger with anticipation and touched the drop of blood.
Fusion!
Hope whispered in his heart.
[Detected fusionable items, started analysis task. 】
[Current fusion item: Ukrainian Iron Belly Fire Dragon
Difficulty of analysis: A level
Analysis progress: 1/10000
Current extraction characteristics: 1. Tough skin]【Tough Skin: Effectively resist physical damage, effectively resist magical damage.
Note: The degree of this feature is linked to the analysis progress. When the analysis is completed, the ten thousand times feature can be obtained. 】
[Current analysis efficiency: Increase by 1 point per day, and the analysis progress can be improved through related tasks. ]Tough skin?
Hope stared at the contents on the system with wide eyes, and for a moment he felt that his skin seemed to have changed, but when he touched it, he found nothing special.
In other words, he now has an extra layer of defense?
Hope was still extremely surprised by this feature. If there was a turtle shell that no one could break, wouldn’t it be invincible to some extent?
He just didn’t know to what extent this characteristic could be achieved. But after thinking about it, he realized that this was a characteristic extracted from the fire dragon, so it should be pretty good.
And when the analysis is completed, he will have skin that is ten thousand times tougher. Even if it is weak, after it is multiplied ten thousand times, he will be truly invincible!
Thinking of this, Hope showed a sincere smile on his face. It seems that it is not impossible to break into Hogwarts, this dangerous place.
But…the parsing speed seems a bit slow.
One point a day means that the analysis will take 10,000 days, which translates to 27 years.
It’s not that long that his life is hopeless, but he may not live to that time. When Voldemort returns completely, if he is unlucky, he may not have enough time to develop.
Besides, you shouldn’t be reckless when you are young. What’s the point of having this system?
Task?
Hope noticed that it seemed that progress could be accelerated through tasks.
I quickly scanned the system page and found the tasks that appeared due to analysis.
Exclusive Quest: Eating Goats
Each goat eaten will increase the analysis progress by 1, and this task can be repeated.
Note: This task is exclusive to the Ukrainian Iron Belly Fire Dragon Fusion Task.
Looking at this task, Hope couldn’t help but twitch his lips. What kind of a task is this?
But after thinking about it, I found my blind spot. It seems that creatures like fire dragons particularly like to eat goats. Could this be the reason?
Hmm…it seems that he only needs to eat 9999 goats to successfully analyze and completely integrate.
It’s so simple… bullshit.
Not to mention how much money these nearly 10,000 goats would cost, even just this one goat would take him several meals to eat, and he didn’t know whether it included some internal organs and the like.
Hope shook his head slightly and thought, never mind, it was a task that needed to be accelerated after all, so he could only do what he could.
After taking another close look at the analysis task, Hope made a new discovery.
The difficulty of analysis is S-level. Does this mean that the analysis time and difficulty are linked? If he chooses some weaker tasks, will the analysis speed be faster?
A hint of thought flashed in Hope’s eyes. He could now set up a fusion task.
If we choose some weak creatures, perhaps the analysis speed can be faster. After the analysis is completed, we can set up another analysis task. In this way, wouldn’t we be able to obtain ten thousand times more characteristics? It seems to be more cost-effective than fusing creatures like fire dragons?
Thinking of this, Hopeton felt that he had made a mistake. If another task took more than 20 years to analyze and complete, then the system would be ruined.
He secretly warned himself that it would only take about four or five years for Voldemort to return completely. If he only had two characteristics by then, he would be doomed.
At the same time, Hope also discovered that this analysis task may not only be able to analyze one feature, but this is just his guess.
After thinking for a while, Hope lay on his bed with a smile on his face. No matter what, he would be a person with a system in the future!
But…what is the next magical beast to be fused?
Hope immediately began to ponder. It would be best if it was a weak magical creature. The difficulty of analyzing it should be as easy as possible, and it should be one that he could reach.
Because there are only a few days left before school starts, he doesn’t have much time left.
He received the acceptance letter around the end of July, and it took him almost a month to plan this little bit of dragon blood. After all, he had to wait until his mother was not in the store, and this one month wasted.
Suddenly Hope sat up. He thought of something, flew downstairs, went to the cupboard and picked up a feather duster.
This feather duster is black, and the feathers used are from Xiu Xiu.
It is not a magic prop, it is just an ordinary duster. On the one hand, it can sweep away dust, and on the other hand, it symbolizes wealth.
After all, creatures like the Nifflers are particularly sensitive to gold, silver and jewelry, and this duster symbolizes attracting wealth.
Pull off a strand of fluff from it and hold it in your hand.
[Current fusion item: Sniff
Difficulty of analysis: D
Analysis progress: 1/500
Current extraction characteristics: 1. Treasure sensing][Treasure Sensing: Has the ability to sense valuable treasures within a certain range.
At this moment, Hope was suddenly a little dazed. Unlike the changes brought about by the tough skin, the feeling sensed by the treasure was particularly obvious to him.
He seemed to see many fluorescent lights, some weak, some strong.
He looked at the counter in the store and could see many fluorescent lights in the dark. Among them, the fluorescence represented by the bottle of dragon blood was the brightest of all.
Hope then ran around the store to see if his mother had hidden any treasures, but there was nothing.
But think about it, it’s natural. This is Knockturn Alley. How could anything really valuable be placed here? It would have been stored in Gringotts long ago.
Chapter 3 Vulnerabilities (Old Version)
Hope opened the system curiously and also discovered new exclusive tasks.
[Exclusive mission: Treasure Hunt
Each time you obtain a treasure worth 100 Galleons, you will gain 1 progress point. This task can be repeated, and the progress points are limited to the progress of the Sniff Analysis. 】
As he had guessed before, as the difficulty of the fusion object decreased, the time required would also vary.
Five hundred points, and the progress point increases by 1 every day, so the integration can be completed in just over a year!
Compared to the fire dragon, this time is greatly shortened, but this feature is relatively more auxiliary and not as practical as tough skin.
And this mission…
Hope raised his eyebrows. One hundred Galleons can be increased a little, so the progress of 500 points will require 50,000 Galleons.
Fifty thousand Galleons…Hope felt that only a pure-blood family with a long history could afford such a sum.
Suddenly, he thought of something, hurried to the second floor, hurriedly took out the key he had put back before, and returned to the first floor.
Open a cabinet at random and touch it gently with one hand.
He touched several of them in succession, opened the system and his expression instantly became one of surprise.
I saw that Xiu Xiu’s analysis progress jumped from 1 to 2, which means that his previous operation was actually recognized by the system.
The so-called obtaining does not require you to hold it all the time, you only need to hold it for a short time!
His face was excited and he quickly moved around the store, soon touching all the fluorescent things in the store.
Analysis progress: 11/500]The total value of all the goods in the store is about one thousand Galleons.
The most surprising thing was that he found that the sensing range of his treasure had become much larger.
It seems that the so-called ten thousand times feature does not necessarily require waiting for the analysis to be completed, but is gradually enhanced as the analysis progresses!
However, when he was immersed in this joy, he heard a click and the shop door opened.
A cool and beautiful blonde woman walked in, her tall body shrouded in a black robe. Her eyes fell on Hope, or to be exact, on the key in his hand.
With another glance at the open cabinet door, everything became clear.
“Mom, listen to my explanation!”
Hope’s smile froze, and just as he was about to say something, he saw his mother had already drawn her wand.
“ah!”
The magic light fell on Hope, and then a scream was heard in the store.
In a blink of an eye, Hope sat at the table with an honest look on his face, watching Hanni put two bowls of fried rice on the table.
Hope took it quickly, and the tempting aroma made his mouth water, and he gobbled it up as usual.
“Hmph, eat slowly!”
Hanny frowned and said unhappily that looking at her son like this, if you didn’t know, you would think he hadn’t eaten for several days.
Hearing this, Hope’s eating speed suddenly slowed down a lot. In just a short while, most of the fried rice in the bowl was empty.
“You won’t be able to eat these when you get to Hogwarts.” Thinking of the upcoming separation from her son, Hanny’s expression eased a little and she touched Hope’s hair with one hand.
Hope didn’t feel much discomfort. Although he had the mentality of an adult after traveling through time, he really regarded Hanni as his mother.
After all, as a single-parent family, Hannie is very strict with her son, but behind her strictness she also hides the tenderness of a mother.
After Hope finished eating, Hannie took out a cloth bag and placed it on the table, drawing his attention directly to it.
From the rustling sound, Hope probably knew what was inside and his eyes widened.
“You are eleven years old now. Go to Diagon Alley and buy your things tomorrow. The Galleons here should be enough. You don’t need to buy things you already have at home. Just buy some textbooks and wands.”
Hannie instructed slowly, still trusting her son more.
Hope quickly took the purse, opened it and took a quick look. He saw that there were about forty Galleons, which was a large sum of money for him.
“By the way, you can buy yourself an owl with the remaining money.”
Hanni continued to instruct.
Hope nodded and happily accepted the purse. Hanny didn’t know that he had secretly saved the money to buy a wand, which meant that the seven galleons in it would belong to him.
“Mom, which college do you think I will be assigned to?”
Hope looked at Hanni and asked curiously.
“Slytherin, of course.”
Hanni answered without any hesitation.
“Can’t it be another college?”
Hope couldn’t help but ask. In his impression, Slytherin was not a good place. It was definitely a reserve army for Death Eaters.
What’s so good about Death Eaters? Although Voldemort advocates pure-blood theory, pure-blood wizards have more rights than Muggle wizards.
But… Voldemort is still the one who is suppressing the pure-blood theory that Voldemort is talking about. Every Death Eater is Voldemort’s servant. Where does their power come from? No matter how powerful a servant is, he is still a servant.
“What are you thinking? You have the blood of a pure-blood wizard. How can you go to another academy?”
Hannie rolled her eyes at Hope and said unhappily.
Hope’s expression changed. From the tone of the voice, he realized that the father he had never met was also a pure-blood wizard.
As far as Hope knew, his father in this life had passed away long ago, and Hanny never mentioned him, but she would occasionally let something slip.
As can be seen from Hanny’s last name, Hope’s father is an oriental wizard.
As a pure-blood wizard, Hanny was fortunately not involved in the Wizarding War. During the period when Voldemort was at his most powerful, Hanny went to the East as an exchange student.
He stayed there for many years, got married and had children, and when he came back, Voldemort had been defeated.
Hope shook her head helplessly and did not continue arguing. Everything depended on the Sorting Hat.
As long as it’s not Slytherin, other houses are pretty good, but it’s not something he can decide.
The next day after the career change arrived, Hope was woken up by Hannie early in the morning.
Hanny tidied up Hope’s clothes, who looked helpless, and then pulled Hope to the fireplace.
Hope, with his purse in his pocket, grabbed the Floo powder from the elevated wooden basin in front of the fireplace with his right hand and sprinkled it casually.
The next moment his whole body was engulfed in flames and his figure disappeared in front of the fireplace.
He was very skilled in all of this. As a child from Knockturn Alley, he was strictly forbidden by Hanny to go out on weekdays. Even when he went to play, he would just use Floo Powder to go to Diagon Alley directly.
Knockturn Alley has never been a good place for little kids to play.
Hope felt his eyes blurry, and then he appeared in the Leaky Cauldron.
“Good morning, Mr. Tom.”
“Morning, little Hope.”
Hope greeted the bar owner skillfully and then entered Diagon Alley through the bar’s door.
As school is about to start, Diagon Alley is very busy.
Although there are very few new students at Hogwarts now due to the ten years of Voldemort’s rule, there are not only new students here, but also students of other ages.
Chapter 4 Analysis Completed (Old Version)
Hope looked at the wizards all over the street with undisguised excitement on his face, which was different from his previous visit here.
Even his look and feel is different today, and one can faintly see the entire street emitting fluorescent light.
The treasure sensing can be turned on and off under his control. It is just a sensing method and will not affect his vision.
Through this induction, he can even know which wizards walking on the street have hidden huge wealth.
If you become a thief, you will definitely have a bright future!
Of course, the reason for his excitement was not because he realized that he had a promising career option, but because he decided to completely integrate his treasure perception characteristics today.
Fifty thousand Galleons. He didn’t believe that Diagon Alley couldn’t produce enough goods for fifty thousand Galleons.
His treasure had a wide range of perception, and he could sense a glow as bright as the red sun from afar. He followed the guidance and came to the glow like a moth.
But when he looked up, he saw the sign of Gringotts. Indeed, there was no place richer than a bank.
But it was obvious that he couldn’t touch any money in the bank that didn’t belong to him even if he wanted to.
Hope turned around and left, went to the bookstore first, and bought all the books required in the notice. While buying books, he took the opportunity to take in the fluorescent lights in the bookstore.
Although many books are duplicates, the system seems unable to recognize them and simply counts each book as a valuable treasure.
In a short period of time, his analysis progress increased rapidly, his perception continued to expand and become clearer, and he could even vaguely see what the treasure he perceived was.
However, this behavior still attracted the attention of the store owner, and he had no choice but to leave.
Hope then went to the pet shop to buy an owl, but found that such magical creatures would not be considered treasures, so she hurriedly left with the treasure in the cage in her hand.
He went straight back home, put his things down, and went out again.
This time Hope came to the flying broom shop. The fluorescent light here was much brighter and more intense than that in other shops. A simple new model broom cost thousands of Galleons. It was simply a holy place for completing missions.
He pretended to visit the store and kept touching the flying brooms in the store. His analysis progress suddenly soared by nearly two hundred points.
However, he was soon noticed by the owner of the store, who treated him as a naughty child and kicked him out. After all, Hope was an eleven-year-old child and could not be considered a potential customer. It would be a different story if there were adults following him.
Just as Hope was about to continue looking for the next store, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he rushed out quickly, squeezed through the pedestrians on the roadside, came to a place, squatted down, and picked up a Galleon from the ground.
A smile could not stop flowing across his face. His treasure perception ability had been greatly improved, and he could now even select the treasures he sensed without spending much effort.
Soon Hope continued to rush out, and a young man appeared on the streets of Diagon Alley, walking busy, and he could earn a Galleon every time he stopped.
In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen Galleons in his purse. Some of them had just fallen, and some were hidden in more hidden places and were easily found by him.
Not bad!
Although the amount was not large, this act of picking up money was really good, and Hope smiled with satisfaction.
“How did you find out? Did you use some magic?”
At this moment, a childish female voice sounded beside him.
Hope looked back and saw a girl with thick, shaggy brown hair, frowning at him.
Hope couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. He didn’t expect to meet an acquaintance, but the other party didn’t know him.
The girl was none other than Hermione. Seeing Hope moving around, she became interested and secretly observed him for a while. She discovered that he could even find Galleons hidden in corners. She was very puzzled as she had never seen such magic in textbooks, so she opened her mouth and asked.
“I’m just lucky. Have you heard of the Felicity Potion?”
Hope said this casually, and when he sensed again, he found that there were no more lone Galleons. As for the two coins, Sikor and Nat, he didn’t waste time picking them up. He could only put the Galleon in his hand into his pocket with a little regret.
Hermione’s brows furrowed even more as she saw Hope so casually put the Galleons he had picked up into his pocket.
“What is that?”
Hermione asked more concernedly.
Hope looked at the encyclopedia lady in astonishment, wondering if she didn’t even know this. Then he suddenly realized that the encyclopedia lady seemed to have just come to buy books today, which was indeed understandable.
“It seems that your knowledge is somewhat lacking.”
Hope said with a slight sigh, I believe this sentence can only be said now.
Hearing this, Hermione narrowed her eyes and wrinkled her nose, as if she had entered some kind of combat state. Just as she was about to say something, she heard shouting in the distance.
“Hermione, we are ready to go to the next one.”
Hermione turned her head and looked at Hope again, her eyes seemed a little unwilling. In the end, she could only snort coldly and leave.
Hope didn’t care and continued to aim for the next store.
Next, he visited the magic material store, ready-made clothing store, second-hand robe store and even the beauty potion store.
Every time I was driven away by the store owner, but the harvest was really good.
It took quite some time to finally complete the analysis of Sniff.
[Successful fusion of Xiuxiu, analysis obtained the following features:
1. Treasure Sensing
2. Digging and rock digging
Hope felt that his current treasure perception already encompassed the whole of Britain, and all treasures were clearly visible.
However, this perception seemed to only include items from the magical world, and he did not find any pounds or gold bars.
I did see countless Galleons and other treasures hidden in Gringotts.
In addition, he saw many familiar things.
The Elder Wand of Hogwarts is very similar to the Sword of Gryffindor, and can even easily detect something as hidden as the Invisibility Cloak.
Moreover, when he wants to find a specific treasure, even if the fluorescence of the treasure is weak, he can sense it directly.
For example, the locations of several of Voldemort’s Horcruxes can be directly determined, which is truly magical.
When the parsing task of Xiuxiu is completed, a new feature is also extracted.
Digging soil and rocks?
Hope’s face looked a little strange. Combining these two characteristics, he felt that he had a new career plan. Perhaps tomb robbing was suitable for him.
These two characteristics are ten thousand times more powerful. Hope was a little curious about the power of digging soil and rocks. He simply lowered his body and stuck his hands into the mud on the ground. There was no obstruction at all, and his five fingers sank directly into the ground.
When he raised his hand, five finger-sized holes were left on the ground.
Chapter 5: The True Ten Thousand Times Feature (Old Version)
hiss!
Seeing such an effect, Hope couldn’t help but take a deep breath. This ten thousand times feature was too overbearing.
He really didn’t feel any hindrance, it was no different from moving in the air.
No! It even feels more free than being in the air.
Hope’s eyes were shining. Perhaps this career of tomb robbery was really suitable for him.
His heart moved, and many fluorescent lights in his eyes dissipated, and many fluorescent lights appeared again. At this moment, the fluorescent lights he sensed all belonged to ownerless objects, buried underground, waiting for people to discover. In addition to Garlon, there were other treasures among them.
After just a quick look around, I found that there was no such treasure in Diagon Alley. After all, it was full of shops and a normal person would not choose this place to bury treasure.
With his stomach growling, Hope returned to his shop through the Leaky Cauldron.
At this moment, Hanni had already prepared lunch, including hot rice, a dish of green vegetables and braised pork belly.
This was thanks to Hanni’s trip to the East, where she learned many oriental dishes. Otherwise, he would have to live on dry food at such a young age.
Just the aroma made his stomach rumble again. He wolfed down the food quickly and put the dishes in the sink. The next moment, he saw the dishes cleaning themselves. They were guaranteed to be cleaner than those washed by a dishwasher.
Only now did Hope have time to activate the treasure sensor, and he discovered that there were indeed a lot of treasures buried in Knockturn Alley.
Some of them looked like they were buried by dark wizards, while others seemed to have not been seen for a long time. Even their owners might have forgotten their existence, or perhaps their masters had already died.
Hope’s eyes moved slightly. It would be a lie to say he wasn’t tempted.
Most of the treasures he sensed were pure Galleons, numbering at least hundreds.
Of course, there are not only Galleons, there are also some strange things, such as bones, crystal balls, daggers and the like. You can tell from the fluorescence that they can be sold for a good price.
But this is Knockturn Alley, and it doesn’t take much thought to know that all these strange things are related to black magic. The risk is too high, and he has no idea what to do now.
These riches were buried nakedly underground waiting for him to take care of them, and he couldn’t help but be tempted.
Hope looked down at the floor, muttering to himself where to start digging.
If the hole dug from the house was discovered, it would be a disaster. If we reach the top of the treasure and then dig, we will inevitably enter Knockturn Alley.
Knockturn Alley was definitely a high-risk area for an eleven-year-old boy like him. It was like being in a bandit’s den. Anyone he met on the street was not a good person.
Maybe… we can start digging from Diagon Alley. Knockturn Alley is very close to Diagon Alley, so it doesn’t take much effort to dig from Diagon Alley to Knockturn Alley.
With an idea in mind, Hope immediately began to prepare.
He ran back to his room, took out the wand he had hidden under the bed, stuffed it into his robe, and then took out a black robe and put it on himself.
Even in Diagon Alley, there are many people dressed like this. It is an ancient tradition. According to legend, this is how people dressed before the Statute of Secrecy was implemented and wizards gathered together.
He sneaked into Hanny’s bedroom again. At that time, Hanny was watching the store downstairs. If he was careful, he would not be caught.
He opened the drawer of the cabinet next to the bed and took out a fist-sized crystal ball from the messy things inside.
After getting the stuff, quickly flee the scene.
This is not an ordinary crystal ball, but a magical item that can detect whether an object is cursed or has been subjected to any black magic, just like a test pen.
These treasures buried by dark wizards are bound to be enchanted by their dark magic, so it is better to be careful.
After finishing her preparations, Hope hurried downstairs, came to the fireplace and grabbed a handful of Floo powder, and said as she sprinkled it, “Mom, I’m going to Diagon Alley.”
Flames burst out and the figure disappeared.
Hope appeared in Diagon Alley with a goal in mind. He walked through the crowded crowd, followed the street to the end, and turned into an alley.
Seeing that no one was following him, he used a large trash can to hide his figure and then squatted down.
Without any hesitation, he started digging in the ground with his hands. There was no need to even dig out the mud. He just inserted his hands and pushed to both sides. He directly dug out a hole. It was as easy as breathing.
In a short time, a hole large enough to accommodate his body was dug out.
He jumped directly down, but just as he was squatting and preparing to continue digging, he suddenly had a feeling in his heart that he didn’t need to put so much effort.
As soon as this thought came to mind, the earth wall in front of him began to move on its own. The soil seemed to have come to life and naturally moved to both sides.
Hope himself was shocked. Could it be…!
The next moment the soil began to move again, and according to his wishes, a passage appeared directly and continued to extend forward.
Seeing this, he couldn’t help but gasp. Is this the ten thousand times characteristic? This is not digging the earth or rocks, it’s clearly the land god!
Hope discovered that with the blessing of the ten thousand times characteristic, he didn’t need to do it himself at all, he could control the soil with just a thought, which was too exaggerated.
As soon as he thought about it, the passage in front of him was blocked and returned to its original state. The mud under his feet began to wriggle, and he felt like he was riding in an elevator, his whole body sinking continuously.
When he was about five or six meters underground, a passage opened up in front of him, leading to a direct route to his goal.
Hope did not rush forward, but looked up. The passage above was directly blocked, so even if someone passed by, they would not find anything unusual.
The entire space fell into darkness. Hope took out his wand and waved it gently.
“Fluorescent flashing~”
In that instant, a bright light emanated from the tip of the magic wand, illuminating the passage.
Fortunately, this kind of life-related magic is relatively easy to master.
But Hope was not sure that this would cause lack of oxygen.
After thinking about it, he dug a few fist-sized holes in the passage above him and then started moving forward.
Before coming here, Hope thought this would be a hard job, but unexpectedly it was like an outing.
Under his will, a two-meter-wide avenue was built and continued to extend forward.
After a while, he arrived at the bottom of Knockturn Alley.
Through treasure perception, he can see that many treasures underground are waiting for his visit.
It’s as simple as just walking over and taking the stuff with you.
However, Hope still suppressed the thoughts in his mind and moved forward according to his original goal.
He heard a click and saw the light of the wand in his hand, and he saw a broken wooden box fell on the passage ahead.
It seemed that because it had been buried for so long, the wooden box itself had already rotted. When the soil on all sides was suddenly removed, the wooden box fell directly and broke apart, revealing the gold galleons on the ground that were slightly shining in the light.
Chapter 6 Gringotts (Old Version)
Even though I had expected it, the mood was different when I saw it with my own eyes.
Hope did not rush to get closer. Instead, he reached into his pocket and took out a crystal ball. He then approached step by step, keeping his eyes on the crystal ball.
If the crystal ball detects traces of black magic, it will release white light. The stronger the black magic, the brighter the white light released by the crystal ball will be.
So Hope came to the tattered box on the ground, squatted down, and brought the crystal ball closer, but there was nothing unusual about the crystal ball.
Such a close distance meant that the pile of Galleons in front of him had not been subjected to any black magic.
Hope heaved a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on his face, he quickly put away the crystal ball, took out a cloth bag, reached out and grabbed it, and felt a full metallic texture in his hand, which was also a little cold.
He grabbed five or six Galleons and stuffed them into the cloth bag in his hand.
Soon the bottom of the cloth bag began to sink. It looked heavy, and when I shook it casually, I could hear a crisp rustling sound coming from inside, which was extremely pleasant to the ear.
This place is obviously not suitable for careful counting. I don’t know when I might fall into a state of hypoxia.
Just in case, he opened several small holes along the upper soil wall while cleaning up to allow oxygen to flow in.
After all, this is not an underground passage that has been opened for a long time and does not contain any gas.
As he opened the ventilation channel, the air from above rushed in urgently. Standing here, he could also feel the cool breeze coming from several small channels above, so he would not faint from lack of oxygen in a short period of time.
Soon, he had picked up all the Galleons on the ground, lifted up the tattered wooden boards, and left nothing behind before he stood up.
Instead of continuing to other places, he quickly returned along the passage.
As he returned, the passage behind him was quickly blocked by mud on both sides and returned to its original appearance.
Back at the entrance, the passage above was opened again. He didn’t even have to climb. The soil under his feet naturally surged up and lifted him up continuously, like a vertical elevator.
His figure appeared in a remote alley in Diagon Alley, and the ground under his feet had returned to normal, with no sign of anything unusual.
What was different from before was that he now had a bulging cloth bag in his hand, and of course there were inevitably some more mud spots on his body.
He casually patted his body with his hands, looking at the cloth bag in his hand, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but grin.
Although there is no detailed count, the number of Galleons here is definitely over a hundred.
He reached into the cloth bag, took out a Galleon, and examined it carefully in the daylight.
There is no sign of decay on its appearance. Although it has been buried for who knows how many years, it still looks as good as new without any trace of time.
At first glance, it looked like a gold coin, shining brightly, but Hope knew that this Galleon looked golden, but it was not a gold coin.
There may be some gold in it, but the proportion is not high. It is just magic coins made of some material, so it has been buried underground for many years, but it is still like this.
Such an amount of Galleons is not too much, but not too little either.
If he dared to bring it home, Hanni would definitely find it, and he wouldn’t be able to explain himself clearly, and would have to endure another magical fried meat meal.
The safest way is naturally to keep it in Gringotts.
Of course, there is another way, which is to buy a purse with a traceless extension spell cast on it, so that the number of Galleons in it cannot be seen from the outside.
However, in the British wizarding world, such items are strictly prohibited.
But…he knew Hanni had one.
After all, only those that are caught are contraband. Such contraband is under the management of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, but it will not trouble the Aurors, but other wizards in the department will be responsible for it.
Even Aurors rarely enter Knockturn Alley on weekdays, let alone other wizards from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
As far as Hope knew, there were many wizards in Knockturn Alley who were selling these contraband items.
Of course, there was no such thing to be found in Diagon Alley Custody.
For him, it is not difficult to get such things. Such things are buried under Knockturn Alley, and even Hope can pick them.
But the probability of such magic items being cast with dark magic is definitely not low.
Finally, Hope appeared in front of Gringotts. His bulging wallet was covered by his black robe and was not very conspicuous.
There were quite a few wizards coming in and out of this place, so Hope didn’t hesitate and walked straight in.
As soon as you enter, you will see a spacious marble hall that looks like a bank.
In addition to the goblins sitting behind the counters on both sides, there were also goblins in suits standing in the hall. They were short, about the same height as him, and looked similar to humans, but a little weird.
Looking at the goblins in front of him, Hope’s eyes flashed slightly.
Fairies are also living creatures after all, and perhaps they can be an alternative to his fusion system.
I just don’t know how difficult it would be to analyze the goblins. It’s amazing that they have nearly human intelligence, and they have a pretty good talent for magic. It’s said that every adult goblin can cast spells without a wand. Of course, the main reason is that they can’t hold a wand either.
According to Hope, it would be difficult to fuse fairies.
But it’s hard to say. In his opinion, wisdom is a precious treasure. However, no matter how smart a fairy is, it cannot fight a fire dragon one-on-one, or most of them cannot do it. In terms of combat power, the fire dragon is obviously stronger.
Of course, Hope only listed the fairies as alternatives. No matter what factors the system uses to determine the difficulty, the difficulty of the fairies will not be low.
I already have an A-level difficulty analysis task on my shoulders, so I won’t consider this potentially difficult option for the time being.
Besides, even if we have to choose a difficult fusion object, it won’t be a fairy. Wouldn’t the phoenix in the principal’s office be nice?
As he was thinking, Hope had already come to an empty seat, raised his butt and sat down directly. Opposite him was an elderly goblin wearing a pair of glasses, with slightly drooping eye sockets, just looking at him.
“You are a rare little wizard. You don’t seem to have any parents with you. What business do you need?”
The fairy’s voice was a little sharp, and sounded a little old due to her age.
“I want to save money.”
Hope said bluntly, placing the purse on the counter.
Seeing this, the goblin did not rush to take it. Instead, he adjusted the frame, looked at Hope, and said, “It looks like this is your first time to deposit money, otherwise you should take out your vault key.”
“I don’t have the key to the vault.”
Hope had expected this and was not flustered.
“Well, then you need a vault. We have three types of vaults here: large, medium and small. They can be rented or purchased. Rented ones can be used for a certain number of years, while purchased ones can be used permanently. They are generally used as family inheritance. It is precisely because they purchased the vault that their family wealth has been preserved, making their status today different from that of ordinary wizards.”
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Chapter 7 Vault (Old Version)
Hope blinked, his mind thinking rapidly.
Based on the two characteristics he currently possesses, he will probably have plenty of Garlons in the future.
Moreover, the expected income was the unpopular Galleons at Knockturn Alley, so it seemed more cost-effective to directly purchase a vault.
“How much does it cost to buy the vault?”
Hope asked immediately.
Hearing Hope’s question, the fairy did not show any surprise. After all, he had lived for so many years and had seen all kinds of storms. He immediately introduced everything to Hope with an expressionless face.
“A small vault is 500 Galleons, a medium vault is 1,500 Galleons, and a large vault is 3,000 Galleons.”
Um…excuse me.
“How much does it cost to rent a vault?”
There was no trace of embarrassment on Hope’s face. When he heard the price, he asked about the rental price without thinking.
“The rental period here is generally ten years. Small vaults are 20 Galleons, medium vaults are 50 Galleons, and large vaults are 100 Galleons.”
Hope was slightly relieved when he heard the price. It was still affordable.
Now I know why there are Galleons buried under Knockturn Alley. This is the reason. It makes sense, very reasonable.
“How big is the mini vault?”
Hope then asked carefully.
According to the goblin, the small vault is actually not small, about eight cubic meters in size, which is more than enough to store Galleons.
As for the medium-sized vault, it is more than 50 cubic meters, equivalent to the size of a room.
The large vault is nearly 300 cubic meters.
“Let’s rent a medium-sized vault.”
In the end, Hope gritted his teeth and spent fifty Galleons to rent a medium-sized vault. After all, it would last for ten years, so it wasn’t a big loss.
The goblin nodded slowly, without any other thoughts, took the purse in front of him and poured out all the Galleons inside, which formed a small hill.
The goblin’s nose twitched slightly, as if he smelled the rotten mud smell on these Garlons, and looked at Hope with a little surprise.
Then he began to identify each coin one by one to make sure there were no fakes.
This took quite some time, and Hope looked around with some boredom.
He had been to Gringotts before, and together with Hanny, he had seen its own large vault.
It is indeed as the fairy said just now, it is passed down.
But he had a rough idea of ​​how much money was in it, but it wasn’t much anyway.
As a pure-blood family, they have neither a manor nor a large amount of savings, which means they are just a poor family, at most similar to the Weasley family.
The Galleons stored in it are not necessarily more than what is needed to purchase a large vault.
Of course, it is also possible that the cost was not so high when Gringotts was first established.
Hope turned on the treasure perception and saw countless Galleons and other treasures in the basement of Gringotts. He couldn’t help swallowing.
Compared to the few Galleons at the bottom of Knockturn Alley, this is the real treasure trove.
At this moment, he seemed to be in the moonlight, surrounded by dazzling fluorescent light.
Faced with such temptation, he couldn’t help but be tempted.
Given his characteristics, perhaps he could really dig into the vault quietly and without anyone noticing.
Of course, Hope knew that the vault in Gringotts must have some powerful anti-theft magic set up, which was not something he could touch, so he just put some thought into it.
After a while, the old goblin at the counter finally cleared all his Galleons, a total of 132 Galleons. After deducting the rental fee, only 82 Galleons were left.
Hope did not accompany the goblin to send Garlon to the vault, but just took a golden key and left.
Hope was busy all afternoon. If he wasn’t in a hurry to go back for dinner, he would have continued this promising job to the end.
After dinner, Hope returned to his room, closed the door, and took out a small cowhide bag from his pocket. There were two drawstrings on it, which could be tightened with a slight pull.
This is not an ordinary cowhide bag, but a money bag cast with the Traceless Extension Charm.
He had carefully selected it from Knockturn Alley, and he had spent an entire afternoon on this purse.
Although there were quite a few of these things, they would glow whenever they were close to the crystal ball. He could sense that there were Galleons hidden in these purses, but he didn’t even dare to touch them.
The methods of dark wizards are hard to guard against. Even as powerful as Dumbledore was eventually hurt by the dark magic that Voldemort set on the Resurrection Stone. How could he, a newbie in the wizarding world, dare not be careful?
Even though the progress of Tough Skin has increased to 3 in the past two days and should have been strengthened, Hope is not sure if he can withstand the erosion of black magic, and he will not take the risk to try the power of Tough Skin.
The purse in his hand had no black magic cast on it, but there was no money hidden inside it either. It was just a purse.
When Hope found it, there were several other money bags around it, which seemed to have been mass-produced and buried for some unknown reason.
After all, they were magical items, so Hope carried one of them with him and stored the other two in the vault.
He lifted the mattress in his room and took out the ordinary cloth bag he had hidden away. In it were the twenty Galleons he had saved and picked up yesterday. He put all the Galleons into the bag that had been cast with the Traceless Stretching Charm.
From the outside, there was no sign that this small bag contained twenty Galleons.
He shook the purse vigorously, but there was no sound at all, and he also did not feel the weight of the twenty Galleons.
After some experiments, Hope was very satisfied with the purse. It not only had the Traceless Extension Charm, but also other spells such as the Levitation Charm.
The only drawback is that it has been buried underground for an unknown period of time and inevitably has a muddy smell, so we need to find time to dry it in the sun.
After studying it for a while, he put away the purse and started to check his system panel.
With the analysis of Xiu Xiu completed, he can now perform a fusion. He has not yet figured out which creature to fuse.
Fortunately, my family sells magical materials. In addition to some magical plants, most of them are related to magical animals.
In Hope’s opinion, not all magical creatures need to be fused.
Some magical animals actually have no special features, and Hope cannot guarantee that any useful characteristics can be obtained after fusion.
Moreover, the reason why the fusion was completed so quickly this time was largely because the exclusive task allowed cheating, otherwise it would take him more than a year to complete the fusion of 500 points of progress.
The exclusive task of the next fusion may not be completed quickly, so once he chooses some useless magical animals, his time will be wasted, so he needs to choose carefully.
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Chapter 8 New Features (Old Version)
Hope thought about the magic materials in the store and had two options in mind.
The first one is the crup. Although the name sounds ordinary, it is actually extremely ordinary.
The only difference between it and an ordinary dog ​​is its tail, which is forked on both sides like a swallow’s tail. It is not naturally generated, but the work of a wizard.
It only exists as a pet dog in the magical world. The reason why it was listed as one of the candidates by Hope is because it has another characteristic, which is that it can eat.
They can eat almost anything and digest it very quickly.
Hope feels that this ability may help him complete the fusion of the Ukrainian Iron Belly Fire Dragon as soon as possible.
Perhaps he could move towards breeding magical creatures in the future. After all, he had the system. If he managed to breed some strange magical creatures, it would definitely be much more efficient than learning magic.
The second option is a Fire Crab, a magical creature whose shell can be used to craft a cauldron.
The key is that the fire crab can spit fire, although it comes from its butt, but at least it is fire.
When talking about fire crabs, we have to mention the blasting-tailed skrewt. It is said that the blasting-tailed skrewt was bred by Hagrid using fire crabs and other creatures. Although it was criticized by students,… Hope was very interested.
The Exploding-Tailed Skrewt can also spray flames, but unlike the Fire Crab, the process of spraying flames will create propulsion!
This seems very cool to Hope. Isn’t this just a jet aircraft?
If he integrated this characteristic and superimposed it ten thousand times, wouldn’t he be comparable to a rocket!
Of course…the flames of the blasting-tailed skrewt are ejected from the tail.
Hmm…Hope was a little distracted and had a picture in his mind, but if he could become a human rocket, it would not be unacceptable.
However, this type of exploding-tailed skrewt should not have been born yet. I remember which grade it appeared in, but it is definitely not now, otherwise he would have chosen to merge directly without any hesitation.
This creature looks very low-level at first glance, so it is estimated that the difficulty of fusing it would not be that high, but the effect would definitely be explosive after being multiplied ten thousand times.
However, this also made Hope determined to engage in animal breeding in the future, and he could also involve Hagrid in it, as he was indeed a talent.
After thinking for a long time, Hope finally decided that the next creature to be fused would be the crup.
If we can really speed up the process of integrating the Ukrainian Iron Belly Fire Dragon, it will definitely be worth the money.
He had already seen the effect of the ten thousand times characteristic, and had no doubt that if the tough skin characteristic was also multiplied ten thousand times, then let alone Voldemort, even if a real fire dragon came, it would be useless.
Once he successfully integrates the characteristics of the fire dragon, Hope can be a middle school student with peace of mind.
The crup item in his store was a forked tail that was actually worthless.
Because at the request of the Ministry of Magic, every crup’s tail must be cut off after it grows up to avoid being discovered by Muggles.
As pets allowed by the Ministry of Magic, there is no difference between them and ordinary animals in appearance. For example, the admission letter states that pet owls, cats, and toads are allowed to be brought into Hogwarts. These are all magical animals, but their appearance is no different from that of ordinary animals.
Hope remembered that the tail was just casually hanging on the wall and had not been put into the cabinet, so there was no need for a key.
After Hanni fell asleep, he quietly pushed open the door, and a ray of candlelight streamed out through the crack.
That’s right, candlelight.
Even though Hope had lived in this world for eleven years, he still couldn’t figure this out. In the 1990s, people still used candles for lighting. This was hard to comment on. If you didn’t know, you would think you had traveled back to ancient times.
It is outrageous that the wizarding world still uses candlelight when the Muggle world already uses computers.
Perhaps it was because of the pride of pure-blood wizards, who disdained to use Muggle things, or it could be because of the severance from Muggle society under the Statute of Secrecy.
Only people like Arthur Weasley whose positions are related to Muggles actually come into contact with some Muggle technology.
Hope went straight to the first floor in the dark, and with the faint moonlight outside, he touched a tail hanging on the wall, which felt somewhat elastic.
Seeing that he had got the thing, he carefully returned to his room without making any noise.
When he returned to the room, he couldn’t wait to look at the tail in his hand and chose to fuse it directly.
The next moment, the tail in his hand disappeared. Hope was too lazy to cut it open to take a sample for fusion. Anyway, the tail was not worth even one Galleon, and Hanny would not notice even if it disappeared.
[Current fusion item: Croup
Current extraction characteristics: 1. Devouring][Swallow: Swallow and decompose the food in your mouth, absorb the beneficial substances from it, and directly destroy the harmful parts
Note: When the body cannot bear the beneficial substances that need to be digested and decomposed, they will be excreted in various ways. 】
Seeing the text on the system panel, it was just as he expected. Hope couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Fortunately, it is not a feature like split tail, otherwise who knows what the split parts of his body would be, especially when multiplied ten thousand times, then…
Hope couldn’t help but gasp at the thought. Just thinking about the scene was shocking.
Swallow?
Hope touched his chin. This trait seemed to be better than he had expected.
His eyes were glowing slightly, and he felt that the fusion of the fire dragon was a foregone conclusion, and it would not take more than 20 years!
Ten thousand sheep…I guess Hanny can’t prepare them for him, so he has to rely on himself.
However, the number of Galleons needed for ten thousand sheep is not a small number, and his wallet may not be able to support it.
And I will be leaving for Hogwarts the day after tomorrow, so it seems that I will have to wait until after Hogwarts to figure out a solution for this matter.
Hope was not in a hurry. He looked at the night scene outside the window and couldn’t help yawning. He had been trying hard to hold back his sleepiness in order to get the crup’s tail, and now his eyelids could hardly stay awake.
He blew out the candle, lay down on the bed, and soon he heard a soft snoring sound.
The next day, Hope continued to go out treasure hunting. This time, with a purse cast with the Traceless Stretching Charm, everything became much easier.
Of course, he was not careless. If he met Garlon who was cast under the spell of black magic, he would never get close to him.
At the end of the day, all the Galleons that could be taken from Knockturn Alley were taken away, and even his purse looked a little bulging.
He didn’t plan to keep all these Galleons on him, so it would be more reliable to deposit them in the bank.
He appeared in Gringotts again, and this time he walked with his back straight.
He simply slammed the purse and the safe key on the table and was about to deposit the money. The fairy this time was not the same one from yesterday. Although it was difficult to distinguish her appearance, she looked much younger.
Chapter 9 Lessons (Old Version)
The goblin glanced at the purse and reached out to take it. As soon as he got it in his hand, his expression changed, but he restrained it in an instant.
“Save money!”
Hope noticed the look on the goblin’s face, but didn’t care about exposing the purse and cast a traceless stretching spell.
The goblins are not honest, law-abiding citizens who would go out of their way to report someone and ruin their business.
If you were to ask where the place with the most dark magic items is, it’s not Knockturn Alley, but Gringotts.
Whether they are white wizards or dark wizards, their first choice will be to store their things in Gringotts. Once they are in Gringotts, even the Ministry of Magic will be helpless.
Of course…Except for the poor.
The goblin reached into his purse and took out a handful of Galleons, which he gently sprinkled on the counter. He seemed to sense something and put his fingers to his nose and sniffed.
“Sir, these coins of yours must have been stored for a long time. They have a smell. If you deposited them in our vault earlier, they will be kept just like freshly minted coins.”
The fairy’s eyes flashed, and countless thoughts flashed through her mind, but she didn’t say them clearly. Instead, she praised her own bank.
“Indeed, isn’t it coming?”
Hope smiled and responded casually.
The goblin then bent down, took out a scale from under the counter, counted out ten Galleons, put them aside, and began to weigh them.
This is to prevent the quality of the coins from being damaged too much. Under normal circumstances, these magically refined coins will not be short of weight, but there is no guarantee that someone will secretly reduce the quantity and make ten Galleons into eleven.
Seeing the fairy staring at the scale very seriously and moving very meticulously, Hope couldn’t help but think of a word: “assessing damages by lantern”.
I don’t know how long it took before the inspection was finally completed. The cart on the side was already filled with Galleon coins.
At this time, Hope had already put on the hood of his black robe to cover his face.
This time he was really careless. The goblin in front of him kept dawdling and took a long time, and this pile of Galleons had already attracted other people’s attention.
He could feel eyes on him coming and going. In the eyes of other wizards, this would not be a big deal, and they would not dare to have such thoughts so openly in broad daylight. But he was short and looked like a child, which attracted the attention of others.
“Sir, the count is complete. The total is 2,652 Galleons.”
Hope was not surprised at this number because he was counting nearby to make sure that not a single Galleon had been embezzled. It turned out that these goblins were quite reliable.
But Hope didn’t intend to deposit all of it. Under the fairy’s gaze, he took back the two hundred Galleons and put them into his purse.
Next, Hope, led by the fairy, walked towards the vault. Another fairy wearing a white shirt inside and a woolen sleeveless suit outside pushed a cart, and together they entered the underground vault from a side passage.
The passage remained the same as before. After the goblin unlocked the door and lifted the cart, all the Galleons poured down like a waterfall, making a clear and pleasant sound, like a symphony.
He took the key back, put it in his pocket, and left.
Just as he walked out of Gringotts, he saw a gloomy face coming towards him. The eyes were staring at him, as if trying to imprint his face completely in his mind, and the corners of his mouth were grinning exaggeratedly, like a crooked-mouthed god of war.
Although the man turned his head quickly, Hope realized that he was being stared at.
He has a skill, which is to judge people by their treasures. From time to time, he will use his treasure sensing to check if others have any treasures on them.
Of course, just curious.
The man just now was wearing a necklace around his neck. He had sensed it in Gringotts. The man had been standing in the hall before, and had stopped for a long time, as if observing something.
He hadn’t thought much about it before, but now it seemed that this person was observing him.
Sure enough, when he was walking on the streets of Diagon Alley, he could feel that the distance between the necklace and him remained the same. When he stopped, the necklace also stopped. When he walked, the necklace also moved with him, which meant that the person was following him.
His treasure perception is not a kind of vision, but a kind of perception. Even without looking back, he can sense the treasures around him. This perception is directly presented in his mind.
Hope couldn’t help but frown, but never looked back, making himself look unaware.
He didn’t think the other party was brave enough to attack him in the street. This was not Knockturn Alley. Even if he did, how could he take the vault key from him?
I guess he’s just waiting for the right opportunity to see if he’ll be left alone.
In fact, even if Hope did nothing and went home normally, nothing would happen.
But…he felt very uncomfortable with this kind of malicious peeping.
His eyes narrowed slightly and an idea suddenly came to his mind.
Continue walking forward as if nothing happened.
At this moment, a corner of a bluestone floor tile quietly lifted up. The black-robed wizard, who had been staring at Hope’s back, did not notice this insignificant and imperceptible change.
In a moment of carelessness, the boot on his foot hit the slightly raised floor tile, and his whole body lost balance. His hands could not help but wave in the air, and he staggered and fell forward.
His head hit the ground hard, landing on the sharp corner of the bluestone brick. A scream rang out, immediately attracting the attention of everyone on the street.
I saw a pale-skinned wizard struggling to sit up from the ground, covering his forehead with one hand, blood flowing out from between his fingers, and screaming in agony.
But Hope didn’t stop, nor did he even look back, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
He was also a little helpless, as this involved using his ability to dig soil and rocks, but this was all he could do.
He dared to say that he was an underground god because of his ability to dig soil and rocks. Even if there was a fire dragon underground, he was confident that he could fight it.
But the gods underground don’t care about what happens on the ground.
Being able to achieve this level was almost his limit. He found that although he could still control the soil, stone walls on the ground, he could only open a passage at best and could not do it as he wished.
The limit of the power of this characteristic is the ground. Just like a basement, even if it is built underground, its characteristics are still powerful.
But it’s not bad to do this, and Hope showed a smile.
Combining the treasure’s perception to locate it, and then making minor adjustments to the ground to create an ‘accident’, it not only taught the other party a lesson, but also did not alert other people. It was simply perfect.
He couldn’t just put a barb on the ground and let it penetrate directly into the brain through the eyeball and hit the back of the head. This would attract the Aurors, although his characteristics did not allow him to do that.
When the unfortunate wizard recovered, he looked up and found that Hope was no longer there.
Chapter 10 Stealing Chicken (Old Version)
After dealing with the malicious wizard, Hope went straight home.
He couldn’t guarantee that there were no other wizards spying in secret, so he used Floo powder directly through the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron to return to his own shop. Even if others had bad intentions, they would not be able to find him.
Thinking that he would leave tomorrow, he didn’t go anywhere else and just stayed in the store.
Hannie was packing his luggage at the moment, including clothes, books, and so on.
Hope was guarding the store while checking his system panel.
【Fusion object: Ukrainian Iron Belly Fire Dragon
Analysis progress: 4/10000]【Fusion object: Cup
Analysis progress: 2/500]Hope then remembered that he had not checked the exclusive task of the crup fusion. He was so sleepy after the fusion yesterday that he fell asleep directly. Today he got up and dug treasures for a whole day, and now he has some free time.
Check it out immediately.
[Exclusive mission: Dog catches rat
Drive away any invading creatures in the building where you are located. Each time you drive away one, you will gain 1 progress point.
Note: This task is exclusive to the fusion crup. 】
A dog catching a mouse?
When Hope saw the name of the mission, he was stunned. Was he asked to catch mice?
After reading the details, I realized that it does not refer specifically to rats, but means any invasive species.
But invading creatures? They were also hard to find in his house, especially ordinary animals, whose chances of appearing were even lower than those of magical creatures.
Which wizard doesn’t have magic to drive away animals? Just a little potion can keep mice away, and even insects can do the same.
But as far as Hope could remember, there had been invading creatures in his home before.
For example, the ghoul, a magical creature with a slimy appearance and ugly appearance, which feeds on small insects and moths. It crawled into the small attic on the third floor of his house at some point in time, and gave him a great fright at the time, after all, its appearance was too unsightly.
Finally, Hanny took it to make magic material and it appeared on the counter the next day.
Hope’s eyes turned. Since there were no invading creatures, why not let him create one?
The idea of ​​stealing something suddenly came to his mind. Since the conditions were not available, he would create them.
Catching a mouse was not a difficult task, but he was in no hurry.
When it was almost time to fall asleep at night, Hope entered the room and looked at the window.
He came to the window, pushed it open, and snapped his fingers. With a puff, a figure leaped in and landed on the table.
It was the owl he had bought, looking at him with its head tilted.
Hope gave him a name, Jili, which means auspicious and smooth.
He raised his hand and touched Jili’s head. Jili did not avoid it and it could be seen from his eyes that he was enjoying it.
Pets in the magical world are indeed very psychic and have some wisdom to a certain extent.
He opened the cupboard and took out a chocolate frog, quickly tearing open the wrapping paper. The chocolate-colored frog instantly came to life, bounced its two hind legs, broke free from his hands, and leaped forward.
However, before it landed on the ground, a bird beak quickly approached, grabbed it, then raised its head and threw the chocolate frog into the air. The bird beak attacked again and swallowed the chocolate frog in one gulp.
“Gilly, go catch me a mouse.”
Hope gave the benefit and immediately began to give orders.
Gilly looked at Hope with some confusion, but the next moment he flapped his wings and flew out.
After a while, Jili came back flapping his wings, holding a mouse at his feet. The mouse was nearly 20 centimeters long, not counting the tail.
Seeing this, Hope took out his wand without any hesitation.
Sure enough, after entering the room, Jili’s claws loosened, and the huge fat rat fell directly onto the table.
Hope waved his wand hastily, muttering, “Wingardium Leviosa.”
Floating spell!
Magic light burst out and hit the mouse that had just landed.
The next moment the mouse was suspended in midair, waving its hands and feet vigorously in the air, but to no avail.
Seeing this, Hope couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and glared at Jilly unhappily, but saw Jilly sitting on the table, looking at him with innocent eyes.
Looking at the mouse, it was so lively and its body was bigger than a kitten. If he really let it fall to the ground, it would run around the room and it would be very troublesome to catch it.
Fortunately, the spell was successfully cast. It was one of the few spells he mastered, and it sometimes failed to work, but fortunately it was successful.
The mouse stared with its small black eyes and kept kicking in the air, but to no avail.
Hope frowned slightly. Now that he had the mouse, what should he do with it?
He glanced at the open window and immediately had an idea. He climbed onto the table using both hands and feet, and then carefully grabbed the mouse’s tail with his hands, somewhat afraid of being bitten.
Holding the mouse by its long tail, he slowly dragged it out of the window, leaving its entire body outside the house.
Then Hope did not loosen his fingers and checked the panel.
Analysis progress: 3/500]The progress is a little bit higher than before, which means it is effective.
Hope had anticipated this, so he immediately pulled the mouse back in and then out again.
Analysis progress: 4/500]Seeing this, Hope couldn’t help but laugh. It turned out that he could still steal the chicken!
The same invading species can continue to invade and then be driven away by him, which makes it easy to deal with.
Things suddenly became simple. Hope kept swinging the mouse’s body back and forth, and the analysis progress increased rapidly.
After a while, the mouse was knocked unconscious, but it did not stop him from making progress.
He repeated the exercise nearly a thousand times, switching to the other hand when one hand got tired. Even so, by the time he finished all the exercises, both of his arms felt numb and sore.
【Cuppet fusion successful! 】
This time, the second characteristic did not appear. The fusion difficulty was obviously D-level, but Hope didn’t care much.
Seeing that the mouse had been used up, he threw it out of the window. Looking at Jili who was still in a daze, he stretched out his hand and chased him out.
Jili’s birdhouse is located next to the window outside the house. It is a small wooden house about thirty to forty centimeters in size, and is thoughtfully covered with dry straw inside, which at least can shelter from wind and rain.
I will be going to Hogwarts with him tomorrow. It’s really exciting.
Hope’s eyes flickered, and now he was not as worried as before.
Devouring has become a ten thousand-fold characteristic. As long as he can deal with ten thousand goats and successfully fuse the iron belly, he will not be afraid even if Voldemort is resurrected.
Since there was no danger, how could he not look forward to the magical Hogwarts.
Hope then quietly slipped out of the room, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, then came back and went straight to bed.
Chapter 11: First Meeting (Old Version)
The next day, Hope slept until noon.
I was half asleep and was awakened by a burst of fragrance.
When I got up and walked out of the room, the smell became stronger. My stomach growled involuntarily, as if it was stimulated.
I hurried to the dining table and saw that it was filled with six delicious dishes, colorful and steaming.
He took a deep breath, his nostrils flared, and the fragrance rushed into his chest crazily.
Beef stew with potatoes, meatballs, and eggplant with fish sauce
“What a feast!”
Hope couldn’t help swallowing. It was difficult to have such a sumptuous meal in the past.
And if you want to buy these materials, you have to go to Muggle society at least.
“Today is your school day, so I’ll give you a good rest. Go wash up.”
Hanny walked out of the kitchen with two bowls of rice in her hands. Seeing Hope’s greedy look, she couldn’t help but smile and said.
When Hope heard this, he hurried into the bathroom, came out in less than a minute, and jumped onto the chair in front of the dining table.
“tasty!”
He swallowed in big gulps, waving his chopsticks rapidly, his mouth moving and his eyes fixed on the other dishes.
Naturally, he did not use his devouring ability in this case.
“Be careful when you get to Slytherin. Those little wizards are not like us. Some of them have bad intentions. You have to be careful and don’t hang out with them.” Hanny looked at Hope who was eating voraciously and gave him instructions.
Although she is a pure-blood wizard, she doesn’t necessarily look down on those Slytherin guys. It was the same when she was in school.
Not to mention that after returning, he learned that most of his former classmates had followed Voldemort as Death Eaters, which made him look down on them even more.
Of course, there is also the factor of family differences. Although Hannie entered Slytherin, her family assets, status, etc. were not as good as other pure-blood wizards, so she was naturally excluded. However, with the target of Gryffindor around, this exclusion was only potential.
“knew…”
Hope responded while eating.
Soon it was afternoon. Hope’s small body was dressed in a suit, looking like a little kid. He was dragging a suitcase with one hand, and on the suitcase stood the owl Jilly.
Hannie brought him to King’s Cross Station, a Muggle society, and observed the station like him, with a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.
“Let me think, it seems to be Platform Nine and Three Quarters. Yes! That’s right, this is it. It’s hard to imagine that more than ten years have passed and there has been no change here. Could it be that they also want to imitate Hogwarts and become a thousand-year-old castle?”
Hanni said with some surprise that the familiar memories were used in her mind and the key was to be able to compare them one by one.
He brought Hope to Platform 9 3/4 and pointed at the wall pillar.
“The entrance is right there, just go in boldly without hesitation. I won’t follow you in. Can you go in by yourself?” Hanny touched Hope’s hair and spoke in a rare gentle tone.
“No problem.”
Hope said firmly, and the reluctance in his heart was driven away.
After saying goodbye to Hanny, Hope looked at the wall, pulled the suitcase without any hesitation, and rushed straight towards it with Gillie.
In fact, there was nothing to worry about. Hope could sense that there was no wall there. It was just that the wizard had cast a powerful spell. Even ordinary wizards could not see it, but he could see it because there was no controllable wall there.
Once you actually break through the wall, the scenery in front of you suddenly becomes clear.
He appeared on a platform. In front of him was a very primitive steam train that looked very old. There were many young-looking wizards around. Some of them were even wearing ridiculous clothes that did not fit them well. They were obviously worn to deal with Muggles.
He could even see Chinese characters on some of the clothes; it seemed that Eastern goods were beginning to flow into Britain.
Following the instructions, he came to the carriage reserved for freshmen.
I randomly chose an empty room, walked in, and stuffed the suitcase into the empty space at the bottom.
His Gilly has already boarded the cattery on the express train, and will then go to the owl dormitory at Hogwarts with other owls.
Looking out the window with a little emotion, a new life has come.
There was no one there at the moment, so Hope closed the door, took off his suit, took out his wizard robe from the suitcase, and changed into it in advance, so as not to have to change after the train arrived.
Compared to a suit, this wizard robe is obviously more comfortable.
As time passed, more and more students got on the bus. At this time, a girl passed by the door of the car. She glanced around the room and finally her eyes fell on Hope. She stopped suddenly and then walked in pulling her suitcase.
“The Luck Potion is a luck potion. The brewing process takes at least half a year. In fact, some wizards think this is a misunderstanding. This potion actually improves the wizard’s ability to cast spells, not luck. In addition, this potion is very complex and precious, so it is impossible for you to drink the Luck Potion at that time.”
The person who came was Hermione Granger. Before Hope could react, she forced her to learn about the Felicis Felix with an expressionless face.
“Really? But I just asked you if you had heard of the Felicis Follicles. I didn’t say that I drank the Felicis Follicles. These are two different concepts.”
Hope smiled slightly and caught the mistake in Hermione’s words. It seemed that this little witch must have made up for her shortcomings in Potions after returning home. She was really studious.
Hermione frowned when she heard this, and when she thought about it carefully, she found that it was just as Hope said. At that time, Hope only said that he was lucky and asked her if she knew about the Felicis Felix. He never said that he had drunk the Felicis Felix.
But…combining these two things together, it was obvious that the other party had set a language trap to mislead her, but she really stepped on it.
snort!
Hermione was helpless and could only snort coldly. She glanced at the carriage and saw that Hope was the only one there. She immediately put her luggage on the ground and sat opposite Hope, observing him with her brown eyes.
“My name is Hermione Granger.”
“Hope.”
Seeing Hermione introduce herself, Hope also said.
“You are from the East? This should be the name of the East.” After suffering a defeat, Hermione began to show off her knowledge in an attempt to regain her sense of superiority.
“You could say that.”
Hope didn’t refute it, this sentence actually pointed to his essence.
“Excuse me, is there anyone sitting here?”
Just then, a voice sounded outside the carriage. Hope turned around and raised his eyebrows slightly. It was Harry Potter.
After Harry’s arrival, Ron also showed up.
Looking at these three young wizards, Hope couldn’t help but touch his chin and fell into deep thought. Could it be that this was the fate of the trio, and he was the superfluous one?
Chapter 12 Planning (Old Version)
“You’re Harry Potter?! The Boy Who Lived?”
Ron asked loudly, his eyes wide as Harry Potter introduced himself.
Even Hermione was the same. Even though she had only been in contact with the wizarding world for a short time, she knew the name Harry Potter.
It can be seen that the name Harry Potter has become a symbol of the British wizarding world.
The red-haired Ron then casually asked about Harry, and Hermione listened secretly.
Hope didn’t care. He supported his head with one hand and looked at the scenery outside the window. In fact, the express train had not started yet, so there was no scenery to speak of.
After a while, the train finally started moving, and with a long whistle, the scenery outside the window began to fade away.
Ron’s chattering was in his ears, and Hope tilted his head towards the window, thinking secretly about his next plan.
Of course, it is to enjoy the wonderful school time.
If Voldemort hadn’t existed, this idea would have been possible.
I go to class normally, play around after class, ask others for help with homework, and learn magic based on my interests.
Wait until the fifth grade to start preparing seriously for the wizard level exam. If you pass it, everything will be fine. If you fail, you can retake the exam or repeat the grade.
You can still have fun for one more year in the sixth grade, which is actually a very important year. After all, you need to start looking for jobs and submitting resumes in the seventh grade.
Moreover, sixth graders are mature both mentally and physically, and have not yet taken any academic exams, making them a perfect age for dating.
After graduating from Hogwarts, you can work for a year or two and then get ready to get married and have kids. Although you can see the end at a glance, this is life.
As Hope thought about it, he felt a little emotional. In fact, this kind of life is not bad.
Of course with Voldemort this wouldn’t work.
There was one more thing that prevented him from ever doing so.
Who made him a cheater? He is destined to shine.
“Need a snack?”
Just then, an old witch pushing a cart passed by the carriage door, interrupting the conversation and attracting everyone’s attention.
“Okay, how much?”
Seeing this, Harry immediately took out a handful of shiny golden Galleons.
Hope did the same, but he was not so generous and only took out two Galleons.
But in fact, it doesn’t take many Galleons to buy these snacks.
“I’ll treat you.”
After hearing the price of the snacks, Harry Potter said without hesitation.
Seeing this, Hope also put away the Galleon and took a chocolate frog from the table without any hesitation.
Tear open the wrapper, grab the jumping chocolate frog, and stuff it into your mouth.
Even in the mouth, it really seemed to be alive and struggling.
This feeling was indeed strange, but he had been eating it since he was a child, so he was not surprised. He had even collected cards for a while before.
He bit down hard with his teeth and easily broke the chocolate frog in his mouth, which exploded and turned into chocolate.
“Hope, are you Oriental?”
Ron, with his mouth full of chocolate, asked Hope.
“You can say that my father is Oriental.”
Hope said casually, winking at Hermione.
Even Ron could see his identity, so Hermione’s previous behavior seemed unnecessary.
Hermione saw the look in Hope’s eyes and instantly knew what Hope meant. Her nose wrinkled immediately, but she was busy eating and didn’t say anything.
In fact, it was not difficult to see Hope’s identity because he looked obviously different from them.
Surprisingly, Hope’s face is not much different from his previous life, but because of Hanny’s bloodline, it is also a little different.
The bridge of his nose was unexpectedly high, his eye sockets also looked higher, and besides that he had a pair of blue eyes.
At this moment, several figures suddenly stopped at the door.
“Harry Potter, there’s a seat left in my carriage, why don’t you come over here?”
The people who came were Malfoy with slicked-back blond hair and his two followers. They raised their heads slightly, with a hint of obvious arrogance on their faces, and spoke loudly to Harry.
“No, I already have a seat.”
Harry saw Malfoy and refused directly.
Malfoy, who didn’t expect to be rejected, was slightly stunned, then sneered disdainfully.
“Oh, it looks like you’re going to sit with the red-haired Weasleys. They’re all Gryffindors, stupid lion!”
Malfoy opened fire directly.
“It’s my freedom to sit with whomever I want. You are not welcome here!”
Harry said coldly when he saw Malfoy attacking Ron.
Hearing Harry’s impolite words, Malfoy’s face changed. After a while, he looked at Harry coldly and said, “Humph, let’s wait and see.”
Then he left with two followers.
“There’s nothing good about Slytherin. My two brothers said they were cold-blooded reptiles. I should probably join Gryffindor. Which house do you want to join, Harry?”
Ron looked at Harry gratefully and asked.
“Gryffindor.”
Harry said firmly, in fact because he heard that his parents were both Gryffindor students.
“What about you, Hope?”
Harry asked, turning to Hope.
“I can do anything.”
Hope said casually, except that the Sorting was decided by the Sorting Hat, and he would probably be in Slytherin.
“Have you heard? I heard that our branch is very dangerous and students get hurt every year?”
Ron shared the information he had received from his brother.
Hope smiled and stopped discussing. He looked at the scenery outside and could see tall buildings in the distance from time to time.
While eating snacks, I was thinking about the next plan.
With the successful fusion of the crumpet, another fusion position became vacant on the system panel, which meant that he could start choosing the next object to be fused.
There is no rush. Compared to before, this time I can make a careful choice and I don’t necessarily have to go for a low-difficulty magical creature.
Because his devouring characteristics have been confirmed, the fusion with the Ukrainian Iron-Belly Fire Dragon can actually be said to be just around the corner, and it will no longer take an exaggerated twenty years.
As long as the goat problem can be solved next, it will only be a matter of time before we have ten thousand goats.
Because he hadn’t tried the devouring feature yet, Hope wasn’t sure exactly how long it would take.
Besides that, there is the issue of Galleons. Although he currently has more than 2,000 Galleons in savings, he is considered wealthy among any student.
But what he needed was 10,000 sheep. Even if each sheep cost one Galleon, he still needed 10,000 Galleons.
Of course he didn’t think a sheep would be so cheap.
So he still needs to solve the problem of Galleon, and all of this needs to be solved after arriving at Hogwarts.
However, he has the ability to sense treasures, so Garlon is definitely not a problem, it just might be a little more troublesome.
Chapter 13: Sword (Old Version)
In any case, the fusion of the fire dragon has been put on the agenda, which means that there will be one more vacancy, so the fusion this time can be slightly more difficult.
Hope hasn’t decided on the specific choice yet, and when he arrives at Hogwarts he’ll need to find materials for magical creatures.
Hope already had an idea in his mind. The place with the most materials was not any professor’s office, but Hagrid’s hut.
Moreover, Hagrid is a rare genius, and the task of exploding the skrewt will fall on Hagrid’s shoulders, so it is imperative to make friends with Hagrid.
Hope raised his head slightly, perhaps he needed to prepare a gift, what would be suitable?
Time passed slowly, the sky outside the window gradually darkened, and night was about to fall.
However, the train was about to arrive at the station and everyone started preparing to get off.
They also don’t need to take their suitcases off the bus; the house-elves will help deliver the suitcases to their dormitories.
As soon as I got off the car, I saw the huge Hagrid, who looked as tall as a floor.
We took a small boat to the gate of Hogwarts and arrived in front of the great hall as soon as we entered.
A bunch of little wizards were chattering, their faces showing excitement but also worry about the Sorting Ceremony.
Hope looked calm as he observed the thousand-year-old castle.
Led by Professor McGonagall, we entered the door of the auditorium, and the scene suddenly became clear.
The auditorium was much more spacious than Hope had expected and not that crowded. At this moment, all the students except the freshmen were seated, and many eyes were looking at them.
Many more of them were searching for the Boy-Who-Lived.
A group of professors sat in the professorial chairs in the front.
Professor McGonagall walked over to a chair, holding a directory of new students in her hand.
On the chair was a weather-beaten, patched hat that looked particularly dirty.
You have to know that something will be covered with dust if it is left for just one month, let alone a hat that is thousands of years old.
Maybe he could still find traces from thousands of years ago on the Sorting Hat?
As the Sorting Ceremony began, Hope looked at the Sorting Hat.
He turned on his treasure perception, and the fluorescence of the Sorting Hat alone was enough to tell that this was a rare treasure.
But hidden within this fluorescent light is an even more dazzling one, which is a sword!
The Sword of Gryffindor, Hope saw the appearance of the sword very clearly, hidden so clearly in the Sorting Hat.
“Harry Potter!”
Before she knew it, Professor McGonagall had called Harry Potter’s name.
There was no surprise in the result, Harry went to Gryffindor.
As the Sorting Hat announced the results, there was loud applause from the Gryffindor table.
“Hope!”
The next name was Hope. Under the gaze of everyone, Hope slowly walked out and came in front of the Sorting Hat.
Unexpectedly, there was still some tension in the end. Hope suddenly smiled and became a little expectant.
He picked up the Sorting Hat, put it on his head, and then sat down.
Because there is still some gap between the brains of these little wizards and those of adult wizards, half of their heads are directly stuck in the Sorting Hat.
“Let the Sorting Hat see which house you are suitable for?!”
Hope suddenly heard the slightly exaggerated voice of the Sorting Hat, chattering on and on, as if it could continue talking all day even if no one responded.
The slightly noisy sound could be compared to that of the little wizard. Hope gradually became distracted by the sound and did not listen carefully to what the Sorting Hat was chattering about.
Instead, he was sensing the great sword of Gryffindor.
This was not difficult for him.
The sword was hidden upright in the Sorting Hat.
Hope should be thankful that the sword had the tip facing up and the hilt down, otherwise he would never dare to wear this hat.
If the tip of the sword is facing downwards, then this hat doesn’t need to be called the Sorting Hat. It can be called just the Execution Hat or the Beheading Hat?
Hope raised his head slightly. The sword was right above his head. He even felt like he could touch it.
As this thought came to his mind, he seemed to have actually touched the hilt of the sword.
Hope was stunned. He felt a heaviness on his head. He was still a little unsure and shook his head immediately.
However, as he shook his head, the hilt of the sword deviated from his crew-cut head and slipped and fell directly.
The sharp blade passed by his face, almost touching his body. Hope’s heart suddenly tightened and he felt a little cold inside.
Snap!
The sword with a ruby ​​on its hilt hit the chair and finally fell to the ground.
In an instant, the entire auditorium fell silent, and everyone looked at the sword on the ground, somewhat dazed.
What is going on? In all the previous sorting ceremonies, such a thing has never happened, and I have never heard of such a period from the elders.
A moment later, the entire auditorium was in an uproar, and all the students were discussing what was going on!
Dumbledore, sitting in the professor’s seat, looked at the sword on the ground, his eyes flickering slightly with a hint of surprise.
Some of the other professors knew what this thing was, while some were seeing it for the first time and were as confused as the students.
McGonagall was right next to Hope. When she saw this, her eyes sparkled slightly under her glasses. As the head of Gryffindor, she naturally knew what this thing was.
This was the first time she had encountered such a situation in all her years of teaching, and she had never heard of such a situation happening before.
This is the sword left by the founder of Gryffindor, but it suddenly appeared at the sorting ceremony of a freshman. There must be some meaning behind it.
“Oh! The Sword of Gryffindor! You actually pulled it out! There is no doubt that you are a natural Gryffindor!”
At this moment, the Sorting Hat was like the sound of a cell phone that had suddenly been turned up high. A huge sound rang in Hope’s mind, making his brain numb, and he almost pulled the Sorting Hat off and threw it on the ground.
“Gryffindor!”
The Sorting Hat called out loudly, and the Gryffindor students immediately stopped worrying and applauded.
When Hope heard this, he immediately took off the Sorting Hat.
“Pick up this sword of Gryffindor and put it in the Sorting Hat, Mr. Hope. It appeared because of you, so it is up to you to put it back.”
McGonagall spoke up with a very kind look on her face, which surprised the Gryffindor students because the head of the house usually had a stern face most of the time.
Of course, the main reason was that those mischievous Gryffindor students forced McGonagall to keep a stern face all the time.
Upon hearing this, Hope obediently picked up the sword of Gryffindor from the ground. It felt a little heavy in his hand, and a name was clearly engraved on the sword.
Godric Gryffindor!
Chapter 14 Sudden Hope (Old Version)
In front of everyone, Hope held the sword of Gryffindor and stabbed the tip of the sword into the bottom of the Sorting Hat.
At first glance, I thought it was a scene of a murder.
After completing this operation, Hope placed the Sorting Hat on the chair and walked straight to the Gryffindor table.
“Professor McGonagall, what is that sword?”
The red-haired Fred Weasley asked curiously at the moment, and everyone else looked at Professor McGonagall, obviously wanting to know the answer.
Professor McGonagall hesitated when she saw this, and turned to look at Dumbledore. After feeling Dumbledore’s gaze, she spoke solemnly.
“This is the sword left by Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts. Legend has it that only a true Gryffindor can take this sword out of the Sorting Hat.”
This sentence sounded like a compliment to Hope.
Hearing this, Hope couldn’t help but shrug, but he didn’t know what Hannie’s expression would be when she knew the news.
“Turns out my son is a true Gryffindor.”
People from other colleges were fine, but the Gryffindor students’ faces froze when they heard this, and they all turned their eyes to Hope, observing what was special about this freshman who was praised by Professor McGonagall as a true Gryffindor.
Then, the group of Gryffindors looked at the Sorting Hat with fiery eyes. If there weren’t so many professors present, they might have rushed up to grab it to prove that they were also real Gryffindors.
Seeing the looks of these little lions, Mag felt a headache. She could already foresee that these naughty students would focus their attention on the Sorting Hat next.
But then I thought, the Sorting Hat is usually kept in the principal’s office. Can they still get into the principal’s office?
But if you think about it carefully, it is not impossible. For these little lions, the temptation to prove that they are real Gryffindors is too great.
“Besides that, he’ll only be drawn out when needed, and Mr. Hope is just a special case.”
Professor McGonagall immediately added.
But it’s of no use, everyone is an exception.
As the sorting ceremony ended, Dumbledore began his speech and the banquet officially began.
Although it’s not as delicious as Chinese food, it’s at least a very hearty meal.
But Hope didn’t expect that he would become another “celebrity” among the freshmen, and many senior Gryffindors took the initiative to seek out him.
Another celebrity is of course Harry Potter. It is said that he who defeated Voldemort is not comparable to Hope, a true Gryffindor.
Fortunately, Harry Potter attracted the fire for him, so Hope could finish his meal in peace.
While eating, he thought that he was not a real Gryffindor. The reason for this was probably because of the treasure’s perception characteristics.
It seems that it was obtained because it was perceived. This is an important discovery.
It was magical that it bypassed the magic set on the Sorting Hat. I didn’t expect that treasure perception could have such an effect.
This made Hope interested. You know, in this thousand-year-old castle, there is something that has been tempting him like the red sun.
Philosopher’s Stone!
Hope had naturally thought about this and was very interested in it.
Whether it’s the powerful ability to turn stone into gold, or the ability to create the elixir of life, it’s enough to show how precious it is.
Moreover, Hope also has a system for the fusion of all things. Although it can only fuse living things at present, it is known as the fusion of all things, so who says it can’t fuse non-living objects in the future?
Just based on the abilities of the Philosopher’s Stone itself, Hope knew that the properties that would be possessed after a successful fusion would definitely not be simple.
Midas Touch? Or immortality?
But he also knew his own abilities, and it would be difficult to successfully steal the Philosopher’s Stone from under Dumbledore’s watchful eyes.
I have the ability to sense treasures, so I can know where the philosopher’s stone is hidden, without having to go through the layers of checkpoints set up by the professors.
Then he used the characteristics of digging soil and rocks to directly open a passage and reach the location of the magic stone. This was not difficult for him.
But he knew there was still one more step to steal the Philosopher’s Stone, which was the Mirror of Erised.
The Philosopher’s Stone is hidden in the Mirror of Erised. Only those who want to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone but do not want to use it can take it out of the mirror. This is a very test of the mind. Who would not be greedy for such a thing?
At least Hope can’t do it. He thinks that after getting the Philosopher’s Stone, it would be like controlling a printing press and he can print money at will.
But now it seems that maybe he can really bypass the Mirror of Erised and get the Philosopher’s Stone!
Thinking of this, Hope found that his heart was beating wildly, as if urging him to act immediately, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
I have already made up my mind. Since there is a chance of success, I naturally have to give it a try.
Take a chance and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
However, there is no rush for this matter and it still needs to be considered carefully. Hope let out a breath and dispelled the evil thoughts in his heart.
The Philosopher’s Stone will stay in the Mirror of Erised like this, and there will be no changes in the short term. Even if there are any changes, he will be able to sense them.
Since you have to take the risk, it is best to wait until you are more confident to avoid unexpected events.
After all, he was not the only one who was staring at the Philosopher’s Stone. Thinking of this, Hope couldn’t help but look up at Professor Quirrell sitting in the professor’s seat.
The purple turban wrapped around his head looked very strange, but Hope knew that the remaining soul of Voldemort was hidden under the turban.
Anyway, the matter of the Philosopher’s Stone is not urgent, so he will see if he can come up with new features before that.
Even if the tough skin multiplier is increased a little bit, it will be much safer.
Time passed slowly, and the matriculation banquet finally ended. Next, under the guidance of the prefects, they returned to the Gryffindor common room.
A group of freshmen came to the seventh floor, and Hope met Gryffindor’s guardian angel, the Fat Lady.
After answering the password, the door to the Gryffindor common room opened and everyone entered in an orderly manner.
The common room is a slightly cozy room with two spiral staircases on one side of the room, one leading to the boys’ dormitory and the other to the girls’ dormitory.
Following the prefect to their dormitory, Hope was surprised to find that he was in the same dormitory with Harry and the others.
There were four people in a dormitory. Besides him and Harry, the remaining two were Ron and Neville Longbottom.
However, there were not many freshmen in this class, and the probability of being assigned to the same class was not low. He just thought it was a coincidence.
Until he walked into the dormitory and found a bald dwarf with pointy ears and big eyes walking in. He was wearing dirty clothes and turned out to be a house-elf.
“I’m sorry Mr. Hope, I sent your suitcase to the wrong place.”
The house elf said with a guilty look on his face, feeling slightly uneasy.
Chapter 15 Student Life (Old Version)
Upon asking, Hope found out that his luggage had been mixed up with that of another Gryffindor freshman.
Listening to the house-elf’s explanation, Hope’s eyes flickered slightly, as if their luggage was the only one in the entire Hogwarts that was delivered to the wrong place.
This inevitably made Hope think too much. Maybe he was not sent to the wrong dormitory, but his dormitory was temporarily changed?
Before the freshmen were sorted, the luggage was looked after by the house-elves, and after they were sorted, their luggage was hurriedly delivered to the dormitories.
Hope glanced at the other three people in the dormitory, and suddenly realized that the other two people except Harry were very reliable.
It goes without saying that Ron is a typical Weasley, and Neville’s parents are both Aurors and members of the Order of the Phoenix. They can be said to be the second generation of Deng.
If this kind of sorting is not a coincidence, but Dumbledore carefully selected roommates for Harry, then it would make sense.
Would Dumbledore do that? It’s possible.
The original person in this dormitory was not Hope, but was transferred to this dormitory only after Hope became a real Gryffindor by chance?
Hope felt that he had grasped the truth, but it could not be confirmed.
“It’s okay, what’s your name?”
Hope waved his hand casually, not caring at all, and asked the name of the house-elf in front of him.
“Mr. Hope, my name is… Beaton.”
The house-elf didn’t expect Hope to ask his name, and he suddenly became flustered, stammering and almost forgetting his own name.
“Thank you, Mr. Beaton, for helping me solve a problem.”
Hope smiled gently and spoke gently to Beaton.
“It’s…nothing. It’s our pleasure, sir.”
Hearing Hope’s thanks, Beaton was a little overwhelmed, but there was still some joy in his eyes. After all, he was recognized.
Before Hope had the chance to chat for a few words, the house-elf ran away on the pretext of work, which made Hope feel a little regretful.
It is rumored that there are hundreds of house-elves in Hogwarts. There is no doubt that this force ensures the stable operation of Hogwarts and involves all aspects of Hogwarts.
Hope wanted to make friends with a house-elf, as they were also responsible for the kitchen.
He would inevitably have to give special treatment later, so he made some preparations in advance. Although Beaton ran away, at least he knew his name.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Hope didn’t do much during these three days. She just attended classes honestly and hung out with Harry and the others in her free time.
He originally thought that he was a good student who would improve himself every day, but after only three days, he knew that he was not.
There was no way. This magic was far from being as simple as he had imagined, and it contained a lot of knowledge points.
In order to successfully cast a spell, you need to pay attention to every aspect. Not only do you have to recite the spell accurately, without making any mistakes in the byte, but the gesture of waving the wand must also be precise. Any mistake will result in the magic failing to be successfully cast.
In order to become proficient in casting spells, it requires a lot of practice over time.
What’s even more outrageous is that magic, in addition to spells and hand gestures, also relies on the heart.
Or in other words, emotions. If the emotions are not right, you cannot perform successfully. This is very metaphysical, and you don’t even know what’s wrong.
His talent is just average, and his diligence is just okay. He is the type who listens carefully in class but forgets everything as soon as get out of class is over.
He basically didn’t spend any time reviewing after class. It felt like apart from the word “magic”, it was no different from going to school. He couldn’t get obvious and effective feedback quickly, which caused Hope’s interest to drop a lot.
There are other classes besides spells.
Among them, Herbology and History of Magic were the most boring courses Hope had ever taken.
Herbology is full of knowledge points. It’s just full of knowledge points. Hope wanted to take notes seriously, but his mind would wander from time to time and he would become dazed.
There is not much to say about the history of magic. The only thing that can be praised is that the hypnotic effect is really good.
Professor Spencer’s lecture on the history of magic in a ghost state was really no different from the Book of Heaven, just like a Buddha chanting scriptures in his ear.
However, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class taught by Professor Quirrell, who had Voldemort hidden in his body, was somewhat beyond Hope’s expectations.
This was one of the few courses he could listen to. Apart from his strange appearance, Quirrell’s teaching style was quite humorous, which was rare in other professors.
Perhaps because of his young age, Professor Quirrell talked a lot about his travels, and in the process he incorporated knowledge on how to deal with evil magical creatures, which was very vivid.
Of course, Hope did not forget that the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was a hands-on course. After all, if one really encountered danger, one could not rely on these interesting experiences to duel with evil magical creatures. But this point… Professor Quirrell seemed to have forgotten.
I just don’t know if Voldemort was behind this.
Well… in just three days, Hope was convinced that his identity as a poor student had not changed because of the time travel.
So he can only put his hope on the system.
These past few days he had also been thinking about the next object to merge with.
He was still hesitating, but the frustration of being a poor student made him make a decision.
He aimed at the house-elf.
Although these wizards’ servants are very humble, they have strong magical talents.
Almost every house-elf has the ability to cast spells without a wand, and also has superb Apparition abilities, able to break through even Hogwarts’ anti-Apparition system.
This is actually quite incredible, considering that Hogwarts has always been trying to prevent other wizards from easily entering Hogwarts.
Not only was there anti-Apparition magic on the Hogwarts campus, but there were no Floo tubes either.
Students can easily reach Hogwarts through Floo powder, but they have to take the risk of going to the Muggle station to take a magic train. On the one hand, it is for the safety of the students, and on the other hand, it is indeed to prevent wizards from easily entering Hogwarts.
Of course, no matter how hard the school tries, it cannot avoid the secret passages that have been passed down in this castle.
It is a leaky sieve in itself, and no matter how you try to block it, it will be of no use.
So Hope thought that the magical talent of house-elves would not be that bad, but he also thought that this was because they had lived for a long time, and the so-called ability to break through the anti-Apparition magic of Hogwarts might be because the anti-Apparition magic was aimed at humans…
But Hope plans to take a gamble. At worst, there is a guaranteed explosion rate of 10,000 times. No matter how useless a characteristic is, it can become a magical skill in the face of 10,000 times.
Chapter 16 Snape (Old Edition)
However, if we want to get some samples from the house-elves, we need to think of some way.
There are no house-elves materials on the market, after all, there are no wild house-elves.
Fortunately, Hogwarts is the largest gathering place for house-elves in the UK. Maybe he should take some time to go to the kitchen? On weekdays, these house-elves usually do not appear in front of students.
On Thursday morning, Hope was eating breakfast in the auditorium, but he didn’t look very happy.
The breakfast here is not bad. He could accept it at first, but now he misses the hot meat buns.
At this moment, a group of owls flew in from outside, delivering letters or packages as usual.
Hope had also received a letter from Hannie on the first day of classes, asking him if he was getting used to the school, but she didn’t even think of asking him which college he was assigned to.
Obviously thought it was a done deal.
Hope thought about it and decided not to tell Hanny about this matter. He planned to wait and see when Hanny would ask about it.
If he hadn’t asked before, Hope planned to tell her proactively when they graduated. He believed that Hannie would look very happy at that time.
“Today’s candy has arrived, who wants some?”
I heard Malfoy’s shouting voice and looked up, only to see Malfoy tearing open the package in his hand with a look of pride on his face.
In fact, this has been going on since the first day.
To Hope, this seemed like just takeout ordered from off-campus every day.
Thinking of this, Hope raised his eyebrows slightly. Since candy can be sent by mail, perhaps even food can be sent by mail.
Anyway, it is his owl Jili who is doing the hard work, so he just regards it as daily exercise.
Hope thought so and decided to find time to send a letter to Hanny.
“He’s showing off again! As if he’s afraid that others don’t know that his family is rich.”
Ron looked at Malfoy and immediately started to complain.
“Hey, Harry! Do you have something too? Who sent it to you?” Ron asked when he saw Harry opening a letter.
“It’s Hagrid. He invited me to his house on Friday afternoon!”
Hearing this, Hope raised his head. He was no longer sleepy when he heard this.
However, he did not speak immediately, but prepared to find a suitable time.
“Neville, you have something too.” Ron looked at Neville again and found that even Neville had something.
His eyes then fell on Hope, and he seemed relieved to see that Hope didn’t receive anything.
“This is what my grandma sent me. It’s called a memory ball. If I forget something, it will remind me!”
Neville held up the glass ball in his hand and showed it to everyone.
However, at this moment, a hand suddenly reached out and snatched the glass ball from Neville’s hand.
“Malfoy!”
Harry and the others exclaimed in anger upon seeing this.
Seeing this, Malfoy shook the memory ball in his hand and said with a mocking smile: “If you want it, come and get it!”
When Harry heard this, he rushed out with Ron without hesitation.
As soon as he ran in front of Malfoy, Malfoy smiled and threw the memory ball in his hand.
“Go on, Goyle!”
Hope narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw this, and an idea came to his mind. Gore, who had his hands raised high, seemed to have kicked something with his feet. He staggered and fell forward.
“not good!”
Harry and Ron’s face changed and they couldn’t help but exclaimed. Of course, they were not concerned about Malfoy knowing how to follow Goyle, but the memory ball, which was falling down because of Goyle’s fall.
Just when Harry and his friends thought that the memory ball was about to fall to the ground and shatter, a hand appeared out of nowhere and steadily caught the falling memory ball.
“Return it to you.”
Hope stuffed the memory ball directly back into Neville’s hand. To be honest, with the treasure perception activated, he could even predict the trajectory of the memory ball’s fall, which was very accurate.
“Good job! Hope.”
Harry Ron breathed a sigh of relief and shouted excitedly.
However, this action was met with Malfoy’s cold treatment. Just as he was about to say something, Professor McGonagall was already walking towards him.
Seeing this, Malfoy could only snort coldly and leave with his two followers.
“Thank you, Hope.”
Neville thanked Hope sincerely.
“It’s okay.” Hope patted Neville’s shoulder casually. After all, they were roommates, so how could he bear to see Neville being bullied like this?
This was just a trivial daily matter, and Hope felt a little helpless. It had only been a few days since school started, and Malfoy was jumping up and down like a grasshopper, full of energy.
After breakfast, they came to the classroom. As soon as they entered the classroom, they saw Snape with a gloomy face, looking at Harry affectionately, which made Harry secretly complain.
Sure enough, as soon as the class started, Snape started to make things difficult for Harry.
Hermione’s hands were about to break through the sky, but Snape turned a blind eye and continued to love and hate Harry.
After one class, even Hope was attacked from all sides. Fortunately, with Harry attracting the fire, life was finally a little better.
However, Hermione seemed very angry. She raised her hand for the whole class, but was completely ignored by Snape. After the whole class, Gryffindor was deducted a full ten points. It was inevitable that she felt emotional.
Hope was also sure that she had no talent in potions. Even if she did, with a professor like Snape, no one would be interested in the course.
He felt that he had exercised great self-control, otherwise he would have resorted to ulterior motives.
Professors should indeed be respected by students, but Snape is definitely not in that category. Even Professor Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort, was many times better than Snape.
Hope let out a slight breath, truly feeling disgusted.
Snape doesn’t just output to Harry, but belittles everyone equally, except Malfoy.
Yes, even Slytherins were not immune to Snape’s attacks, but Malfoy was indeed an exception.
Hope couldn’t help but think about one thing. During all the years Snape had been teaching, didn’t even the little lion who disregarded school rules sneakily put him in a sack when it was dark and windy at night?
Could it be that Snape is very powerful, or is he afraid of school rules? Although such behavior may result in expulsion.
But as long as you don’t get caught, nothing will happen.
Hope had already put this matter on the map in his mind.
He is not a little wizard, but has a mature soul in his body, so he cannot tolerate such humiliation, or PUA.
Degrading the little wizard to nothingness just to satisfy some kind of pleasure in your heart?
Hope couldn’t stand it anyway. School rules were nothing to him, but the laws of the Ministry of Magic might still make him a little afraid.
Just wait, Hope said secretly in his heart, sooner or later Snape will have a sack on his head.
Chapter 17: First Time (Old Version)
The first class in the afternoon was flying class, which was the class Hope looked forward to the most.
Even though Hope was born into a wizarding family, she had never touched a broomstick since she was a child, and had never experienced the feeling of flying!
Mainly because Hannie doesn’t use a broomstick on a daily basis, so there is no such thing at home.
In addition, Hanny was worried that Hope would use it without permission, and he might fall from a high altitude and lose half his life if he was not careful, so Hope has never experienced the thrill of flying.
At this moment, Hope was holding the flying broom distributed by Mrs. Hooch, the flying class professor, with an excited look on his face.
However, the wooden handle of this flying broom has many cracks on it, and it may be older than Hope.
He began to wonder if the bike would fall apart and fall from the sky while he was riding it.
“Place your broom on the ground to your right, place your hands on top of the broom, and yell ‘Get Up'”
Madam Hooch stood in front of the crowd and spoke loudly, then began to demonstrate.
“stand up!”
The broom suddenly took off from the ground and flew into Madam Hooch’s hands.
“That’s it.”
Hope’s eyes lit up, he stretched out his hand eagerly, and shouted expectantly, “Get up!”
But the flying broom on the ground was like a lazy pig, it just lifted its feet slightly and did it perfunctorily.
This wasn’t an anomaly, in fact no one except Harry and Malfoy succeeded once.
He was lucky enough, at least the flying broom was willing to take some time out of its busy schedule to give him a try.
Hope narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the broom on the ground, feeling that the other party was being too disrespectful to him.
The treasure’s perception was suddenly opened, and he focused his perception on the flying broom.
At this moment, the flying broom trembled slightly. If it had intelligence, it would have felt a pair of majestic eyes staring at it, making it instinctively afraid.
It’s a pity that it has no intelligence, but it has the spirituality of a magical item.
The next moment, before Hope could recite it again, it suddenly jumped up and flew into Hope’s right hand.
Seeing this, Hope immediately showed a hint of satisfaction. This is what is right.
He felt that under the influence of treasure perception, his connection with these treasures would become even deeper.
Especially for treasures like this that are already in your grasp and close enough, a connection can be established just by gazing at them.
In a trance, he seemed to feel the broomstick in his hand surrender, like a puppy wagging its tail.
Of course this is just a feeling. This flying broom does not yet have such advanced intelligence.
After a while, many people were able to control their broomsticks.
Of course, there are still some people who are trying to take advantage of the situation, such as Hermione, who was seen with a flushed face and a broom in her hand.
Hope just happened to see Hermione bending down to pick up the broomstick from the ground.
I guess the temperature of her face should be enough to cook the eggs at this moment. She glanced around guiltily to make sure no one saw her.
Not everyone is the protagonist in life, and there are not so many audiences, but Hermione happens to be one of the protagonists of this world.
Those eyes met Hope’s, and one could clearly see the mockery in Hope’s eyes.
Hermione’s eyes widened and she turned her head sharply, feeling as if her head was already smoking.
Next, at Madam Hooch’s command, they slung their brooms over their shoulders and sat on the wooden handles of their brooms, slightly relaxed.
At least his butt would hurt if he sat on the broom for a long time. Maybe he should add a comfortable seat to the broom?
An idea popped into Hope’s mind, but this flying broom was not his, but a public one.
Then, under their control, the flying broom carried them slightly up into the air, allowing them to sit firmly on the wooden handle with their feet still touching the ground.
“When I count down to three, two, one and blow the whistle, you will push up as hard as you can. Do you understand?”
Huo Qi continued to teach and began to count down.
“three!”
However, just as the countdown began, Neville, who was next to Ron, kicked his feet hard and flew straight into the sky under the help of the flying broom.
“Ah~”
A call was heard, but Neville was not sitting on it. The broom was turned upside down, above and below.
Neville was seen staring with his feet in the air, hanging by the handle of his broomstick with both hands.
The broom just turned and threw Neville down from the air.
“Neville!”
Harry’s face changed when he saw this and he shouted loudly.
However, it did not slow down the falling speed at all.
At this critical moment, Hope had an idea.
bump!
Neville fell to the ground, creating a big crater.
Hope also hurried over and saw that the ground was like a swamp, with Neville easily creating a deep pit.
But Neville’s face was still a little pale, I don’t know if he was scared or…
Madam Hooch had already checked and found that he was only slightly injured. She was relieved, but she eventually took Neville to the school hospital.
There was a group of little wizards left on the scene to roam freely.
“Hahaha, did you see that just now? His pants were almost kicked off, they were so white!”
Malfoy began to scoff.
Harry Ron’s eyes suddenly lit up with fire, and he started to confront the enemy.
Neville’s recent change suddenly reminded Hope of something. He sat on the handle of the flying broom with his feet slightly raised.
Sensing the memory ball left by Neville on the ground, he drove the broomstick slowly and low, like a children’s tricycle.
He came to the memory ball on the ground, then bent down and reached out to pick it up.
However, at this moment, a figure flashed past at such a speed that Hope could only see an afterimage.
A hand stretched out to the place he was about to touch and snatched the memory ball in advance.
Hope looked up and saw Malfoy floating in the air on his broomstick with a smug look on his face, a memory ball in his hand.
“Isn’t this the boy’s glass ball? Whoever picks it up gets it!”
Malfoy said jokingly.
“you!”
Harry’s eyes widened with anger, and he was about to fly up to the sky when he was stopped by Hermione in time.
“Madame Hooch asked us to stay where we are. You’ll lose points from Gryffindor if you do this!”
Hermione urged urgently, but Harry Potter obviously wouldn’t listen.
And so Harry flew into the sky, chasing after Malfoy.
Hope’s eyes flickered slightly, and he naturally did not follow the sky. Instead, he got off the broom, took a step forward with his right foot, held the broom in his right hand, and stared at Malfoy, as if waiting for some opportunity.
Harry is worthy of being a future Quidditch player. He is naturally talented and seemed very skilled when he rode a flying broom for the first time.
Hope wasn’t worried at all that Harry wouldn’t be able to catch up with Malfoy.
Chapter 18 Out of Control (Old Version)
Sure enough, Harry was getting closer and closer to Malfoy.
“Bring the stuff here!”
Harry said angrily, but Malfoy ignored him.
Seeing this, Harry’s eyes darkened and he drove his broom directly towards Malfoy, as if he wanted to die together with him.
This frightened Malfoy so much that he threw the memory ball in his hand away instantly.
Harry did not continue to pester Malfoy and instead chased the memory ball.
Hope below was watching this scene with a smile on his face. At some point, the broom in his hand began to tremble.
No! It began to vibrate, like a car with a motor, or like an angry wild horse.
As Hope loosened his right hand, the broom suddenly rushed out, like a wild horse running away from its reins or a car out of control, flying towards the sky.
The speed was so fast that he was close to Malfoy in just a blink of an eye.
Malfoy had a triumphant smile on his face as he watched Harry chasing the ball. Thanks to his masterpiece, Harry couldn’t catch the glass ball no matter what.
With a smile on his face, his eyes were fixed on Harry who was moving at a very fast speed, and he didn’t notice that a broomstick was flying towards him on the ground.
When he sensed something out of the corner of his eye and turned his head with a little confusion, he saw an unmanned flying broom rushing towards him, only one meter away from him.
“careful!”
Pansy Parkinson from Slytherin College on the ground saw this scene and gave a sharp warning.
But it’s too late.
The wooden handle of the flying broom was like a stick, stabbing Malfoy’s jaw.
Malfoy felt a sharp pain and a dizzy head. He immediately loosened his hands on the broom and was knocked out. He fell off the broom and fell directly to the ground.
Peng!
Hope fell heavily to the ground, raising a layer of dust. The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was very dull.
Fortunately, the ground was grass, otherwise Malfoy would have suffered a lot.
A shrill scream was heard, and Malfoy covered his arm with a pale face.
Malfoy’s right forearm was bent in an unreasonable posture. The scene was really scary, and Hope raised his eyebrows.
This was followed by a burst of screams, and some little girls closed their eyes, not daring to look directly at the scene.
Hope shook his head slightly. If these little wizards had mastered the levitation spell, Malfoy wouldn’t be in this state. It turned out that learning was useful.
As long as there is an experienced wizard who knows the levitation spell, such as Professor McGonagall, he can use it to catch Malfoy.
Although the levitation spell cannot be used on people, it can be used on clothes, which can greatly slow down the falling speed, so that nothing will happen in the end.
As for why Neville fell from the air when Madam Hooch was present.
This is enough to show Madam Hooch’s level…
“Mr. Hope!”
Suddenly a cold voice sounded from behind Hope, which startled him and made him get goosebumps instantly.
Hope looked back and saw Professor McGonagall, who had appeared out of nowhere, staring at him seriously.
But he just took a look and quickly walked to Malfoy who was still screaming.
Seeing Malfoy’s injuries, Professor McGonagall’s face suddenly turned ugly, and then she cast a levitation spell on Malfoy.
“Mr. Hope, help get Mr. Malfoy to the hospital wing! And you, Mr. Harry, come along too!”
Professor McGonagall’s voice was cold, but she specifically mentioned Hope’s name.
This made Hope suspect that Professor McGonagall had just witnessed everything.
It’s not doubt…it’s certainty.
He immediately walked over obediently, grabbed Malfoy’s other arm and pulled him up from the ground.
With this movement, Malfoy screamed again, his golden slicked-back hair was very messy, beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans appeared on his forehead, and his little face was distorted.
Looking at Malfoy like this, Hope did not feel any sympathy. Instead, he found it a little funny. Malfoy, who usually bullied others, acted like a normal person when faced with problems. He thought he would maintain the qualities of a pure-blood wizard.
“Professor McGonagall, all this is because Malfoy picked up Neville’s Remembrano and refused to return it!”
Seeing this, Hermione ran out anxiously to explain.
“Ms. Granger, I will take care of this matter. Before that, please let me take Malfoy to the school hospital.”
Seeing the only little witch in the academy who made her feel at ease, Professor McGonagall’s tone eased a little.
Then, several people, led by Professor McGonagall, walked towards the school hospital. Harry did not help, but followed behind Hope.
As for Ron, he wanted to follow, but when he saw Professor McGonagall’s expression, he instinctively backed off.
On the way, they met many students who were observing curiously, but they all felt Professor McGonagall’s aura and wisely did not approach.
However, some people were communicating secretly, such as the Weasley twins, who smiled when they saw Malfoy’s appearance.
Although she didn’t dare to get close, she winked at Harry from a distance, trying to satisfy her curiosity.
However, seeing Harry’s look, he immediately guessed that all this was related to Harry Hope, and secretly gave them a thumbs up.
It was not until Professor McGonagall stopped and glanced coldly at the Weasley twins that they scattered in panic.
Arriving at the school hospital, Madam Hooch’s face changed when she saw Malfoy in such a state. She didn’t expect that there would be two injured people in the first flying class for freshmen. This was too unlucky.
Eventually Malfoy was taken to the ward, on the bed next to Neville’s.
“Professor McGonagall, this flying class is too dangerous. Perhaps first-year students should not be allowed to take flying classes.”
Madam Pomfrey couldn’t help but complain to Professor McGonagall. In her opinion, even a dangerous sport like Quidditch should be banned.
“I will consider it, Madam Pomfrey. Please treat Mr. Malfoy first.”
Knowing Madam Pomfrey’s temper, Professor McGonagall didn’t say much.
“You two, come out here!”
Professor McGonagall then whispered to Hope and Harry, seeming to be able to hear her anger.
In a blink of an eye, Hope and Harry were standing in the corridor outside the ward with honest looks on their faces, and opposite them was Professor McGonagall.
“Tell me, Mr. Hope!”
Professor McGonagall first pointed the finger at Hope, because she saw from afar that the broom in Hope’s hand crashed straight into Malfoy, causing this disaster.
“The broom is out of control, Professor McGonagall. It seems to have been used for too long and may have malfunctioned.”
Hope shrugged and said innocently.
Chapter 19: Visit (Old Version)
If he didn’t have the ability to sense treasures, it would have been difficult for him to do that.
How can a car be driven in the direction it was intended to go without its driver?
It was precisely because of the deep connection he had established with his broomstick that he was able to move forward accurately even without control. Of course, this could not last forever.
Therefore, it is impossible for him to be caught and there is no evidence. Rather than thinking that he has such means, it is more reasonable to think that the accident was caused by the aging of the flying broom.
Professor McGonagall didn’t say anything. She looked at Hope deeply, trying to see something from Hope’s face, but the result obviously disappointed her.
“The school’s flying broom has indeed been used for many years, but we have never had the funds to purchase a new one. I hope that this time Lucius will realize the necessity of repairing the teaching aids.”
Professor McGonagall sighed slightly and accepted the result.
Then he looked at Harry. Compared to Hope, Harry was obviously a little nervous. Seeing Professor McGonagall, he hurriedly explained: “Professor McGonagall, I just want to get back Neville’s memory ball. It was taken away by Malfoy.”
Professor McGonagall didn’t pay attention to this matter, and asked instead: “Mr. Potter, is this your first time using a flying broom?”
Harry was a little confused by this question and nodded without knowing why.
Hope clearly saw a hint of surprise in Professor McGonagall’s eyes, but this surprise was insignificant compared to her serious expression.
Professor McGonagall looked at Malfoy in the ward with some hesitation. She wanted to take Harry to see Gryffindor Quidditch Captain Wood immediately, but now was obviously not the time to leave.
“You guys leave first.” Professor McGonagall said immediately.
“I want to take a look at Neville, can I?”
Harry did not choose to leave immediately, but instead spoke.
“certainly.”
Hearing this, Professor McGonagall finally smiled.
Hope and Harry entered the ward immediately. Neville was fine, he just fell and was a little frightened. He felt much better after drinking some sedatives.
As for Malfoy, he was lying on the bed with a pale face. He had stopped screaming and was covered in sweat. When he saw them come in, he looked at… Harry fiercely.
Hope felt relieved. As expected, Harry had taken all the responsibility. Looking at Malfoy’s resentful and hateful eyes, he obviously blamed all the faults on Harry.
Malfoy opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but looking at Professor McGonagall on the side, he didn’t say anything in the end.
With Madam Pomfrey’s permission, Hope and Harry then left with Neville.
The matter was temporarily over, and the next day Hope heard the news from the Weasley twins.
Malfoy’s father Lucius ran to the headmaster’s office, had a tantrum, and even held Dumbledore responsible.
In the end, he was dismissed by Dumbledore with a light remark.
“Lucius, I’m sorry about Mr. Draco Malfoy’s injury, but this was just an accident. The broomstick was out of control due to aging. Minerva proposed to replace it with a new batch of broomsticks at the school board meeting last year, but you refused.”
Just one sentence made Lucius so angry that his face turned blue. So it was he who was responsible for his son’s incident!
“In view of what happened to Mr. Draco Malfoy, I think the matter of replacing the broomstick must be put on the agenda. I have sent a letter to each member of the school board, and I believe you will receive it when you return home.”
Finally, Lucius left the headmaster’s office angrily, took Draco Malfoy with him, and went home to recuperate.
Both Harry and Ron seemed very happy about this.
Time turned to noon, and after lunch they returned to the dormitory. Harry was called away by Professor McGonagall.
When Harry came back, Ron asked Harry, and just as Hope had expected, Harry met Wood and joined the Quidditch team.
It was unprecedented that a first-year student could join the Quidditch house team, and Ron couldn’t help but be happy.
“We don’t have classes in the afternoon, what should we do?” Ron said excitedly.
“I’m going to visit Hagrid this afternoon,” said Harry, a little embarrassed.
“Can I come with you?” Ron said first.
“No problem, I don’t think Hagrid will mind.” Harry agreed immediately, and then he felt a burning gaze. He turned around and saw Hope looking straight at him, and immediately asked tentatively.
“Hope, why don’t you come with us?”
“OK.”
Seeing Harry’s understanding, Hope readily agreed.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the three men appeared in front of a cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
After they entered the cabin, Harry introduced them to Hagrid. As for Ron, Hagrid naturally knew the red-haired Weasley and was very familiar with him.
When Hope was introduced, Heger looked at her with some surprise, then stretched out his big hand and shook hands with Hope’s small hand.
“I know you, a true Gryffindor.”
This sentence made Hope feel a little amused and helpless. He didn’t expect that he already had a title like the Boy-Who-Lived.
“Oh. Your mother was Hannie Mack, a pretty little girl, as I remember.”
Hagrid recalled that his memory of Hannie still remained at the time when Hannie was in school.
After the introduction, Hagrid immediately asked about Harry’s life this week, while Hope wandered around the cabin alone, looking at the magical materials everywhere.
However, his ability was limited and he could not recognize these things, but this did not stop Hope from being amazed, because these things symbolized magical creatures.
After an unknown amount of time, Hagrid stood behind Hope and shouted in a hoarse voice, “Hope, you seem to be very interested in these things?”
“Yes, I am very curious about magical creatures. These things should all come from magical creatures.”
Speaking of this, Hagrid was no longer sleepy, especially when he heard that Hope was very interested, so he immediately introduced it to Hope.
Most of these magical materials were given to him by others. This was due to Hagrid’s wide circle of friends. He had so many friends that he received a lot of things.
Following Hagrid’s introduction, Hope was also amazed. He felt that there was everything here. It was truly a treasure trove for him.
The teeth of a three-headed dog, the horns of a unicorn, the shells of fire crabs, the tail hairs of centaurs, the feathers of hippogriffs, etc.
In a blink of an eye, the afternoon passed, and Hope and his friends returned to the castle with a lingering feeling, feeling that they had spent a very fulfilling afternoon.
After dinner, Hope did not go back with Harry and others, but went down the stairs to the basement of Hogwarts.
There is not only the Slytherin common room, but also a kitchen.
Chapter 20: Unexpected (Old Version)
As soon as he walked in here, Hope felt an endless sense of security in his heart, because this place was underground and it was his territory.
This place can be completely buried with just a thought. If you encounter danger, you can just run here and you will be safe.
The passage here was more damp and dirty than other places. He followed the passage to the kitchen.
The kitchen is located right below the auditorium, and food in the auditorium is usually delivered from bottom to top through the kitchen.
As soon as I came in, I saw many busy house-elves working hard, using magic to make the kitchen utensils move by themselves.
Seeing Hope coming, the house-elves turned their heads and looked at Hope curiously.
“Mr. Wizard, what can I do for you?”
A house-elf immediately put down the work in his hands, ran up to Hope, and asked respectfully, not looking down on Hope because of his age.
“I want to find Beaton.”
Hope said simply.
As soon as these words came out, one of the many house elves appeared and said, “Mr. Hope, are you looking for me?”
Hope immediately nodded with a smile on his face. In fact, he didn’t know whether this house-elf was Beeton.
These house-elves all look the same, ghosts can recognize them.
Beaton then took Hope to a slightly quieter place, a cubicle.
“Mr. Hope, what do you want to talk to me about?”
Beaton asked with a curious look on his face, he couldn’t imagine what Hope wanted to see him about.
“It’s been a while since I last saw you. I wanted to see how you were doing. It seems you’re doing well. I even brought you a gift.”
Hope reached into her purse, which she had cast a traceless stretching spell on, and pulled out a handful of snacks.
“Is this…is this for me?”
Beaton stared with his huge eyes full of surprise and said in disbelief.
This was the first time he received a gift from the little wizard!
As Hope nodded affirmatively, Beaton’s eyes suddenly became tearful. He took it excitedly and jumped up and down happily.
“Mr. Hope, you are the best wizard I have ever met besides Dumbledore. No one has ever given me a gift alone.”
It was just a few snacks, even a little scattered, and not carefully packed in a gift box, but one could feel Beaton’s happiness and excitement.
This made Hope feel a little ashamed. A trace of guilt flashed through his mind, but it disappeared in an instant.
“We are friends, isn’t it normal to give gifts?”
Hope asked sincerely, as if a domineering male president had directly and domineeringly announced that she was my girlfriend without any consent.
“Friend…?! I’m Mr. Hope’s friend?!”
Beaton looked at Hope in shock.
Hope finally understood why, as humanoid magical creatures, goblins have a certain degree of freedom, while house-elves become slaves of wizards. It turns out they are so easy to deceive.
However, Hope accidentally heard an old rumor from Hanny that house-elves used to exist independently, were more powerful and prosperous than human wizards, and even posed enough of a threat to wizards. At that time, the relationship between wizards and house-elves was not harmonious, but rather a mortal enemy relationship.
It was because of this relationship that a war broke out between wizards and house-elves, and the wizards won in the end.
In order to prevent house-elves from posing a threat in the future, they were deliberately tamed as slaves. After a long period of time, the underlying culture of the group was completely changed, making the house-elves instinctively and spontaneously believe that they were born to be slaves of wizards.
Of course, Hope didn’t know whether this was true or not.
Hope did not get straight to the point, but instead chatted with Beaton about family matters and asked about Beaton’s daily life.
Not until the atmosphere was brewing did Hope reveal his true intentions and get straight to the point.
“Beaton, can you give me some of your nails? I’ve been into collecting magical creature stuff lately.”
“Of course, Mr. Hope.”
Without any hesitation, Beaton picked out a little bit of nail from his finger under Hope’s guidance and held it directly in Hope’s palm.
After getting the things, Hope said goodbye to Beaton directly.
Beaton had no doubts and said goodbye to Hope warmly.
In fact, Hope actually wanted to ask about Hogwarts’s procurement channels for food raw materials, but she thought it would be better to wait until their relationship was more solid before making plans.
After walking out of the kitchen, go back up the stairs to the first floor.
Feeling the touch of the palm of my hand, I said in my mind: “Fusion!”
[Current fusion item: House-elf
Difficulty of analysis: B
Analysis progress: 1/5000
Current extraction features: 1. Life Skilled]【Life Expert: Proficient in magic related to daily life.
Hope couldn’t help but stop and his mouth opened.
What the hell is this?!
Hope never expected that the analyzed feature would be this!
A life expert? Could it be that his future career direction is to compete with house elves for food?
Become the butler of a certain manor and the world’s number one wizarding manservant?
Hope was a little speechless, but since he had already drawn this trait, there was no other way.
Continue walking down the stairs towards the Gryffindor common room.
While checking the exclusive tasks.
[Exclusive task: cooking delicious food
Each time you make food, you get 1 progress point.
Note: This task is exclusive to the fusion of house elves. 】
oh?
Hope raised his eyebrows. This task was unexpectedly simple.
He knew how to steal the chicken without much thinking.
Making food five thousand times is actually quite simple, especially in this country where people live in a simple food world.
It’s just a proper lunch and it won’t be too much trouble.
Heat two pieces of bread, put a slice of bacon on them, spread some butter on them, cover them up, and you’re done, right?
Of course, Hope has an even simpler way. Just boil the eggs in boiling water.
How long does it take to boil an egg in boiling water?
Hope couldn’t help but touch his chin when he thought of this. He just didn’t know if boiling 5,000 eggs at a time could speed up the progress. It would be much easier if he calculated it.
Although Hope was not completely satisfied with the characteristics extracted this time, the task was simple after all and it would probably not take much time to complete, so he was actually very happy.
This feature seems to be something that is gained for free, and you will not suffer any loss in any way.
The next day arrived quickly, and Hope planned to find Bitton again today, trying to successfully fuse the house-elf within a day and increase its characteristics ten thousand times.
Chapter 21 Quarrel (Old Version)
However, because today was the weekend, he slept in and didn’t wake up until almost eleven o’clock.
When she woke up, she saw Ron playing wizard chess with Harry. Hope had no interest in wizard chess.
This was too boring for him. In fact, it was not only wizard chess, but also other aspects of the magic world.
Having experienced the entertainment era, it was undoubtedly very bad for him when he first left the mobile phone, computer and television. Even now, he misses it all.
He had already planned that once he graduated from Hogwarts, he would return to modern life, which was the most important thing.
The wizarding world is like a closed paradise, with its own culture and entertainment. But for him who has experienced the real entertainment era, these are far from enough.
At this point in time, game consoles should have already been invented, and they can be used directly with just a TV, a game console and a controller.
Maybe he doesn’t need to wait until graduation. He can just find some time to go out to Muggle society and buy it back directly.
The only problem is electricity, which is actually not a big problem for wizards, and they can just use magic to transform it.
Of course…Hope doesn’t know how to do that, so this plan is temporarily unsuccessful.
“Hope, where are you going?”
Seeing Hope getting ready to go out, Ron asked curiously.
“I’ll go look for Beaton.” Hope did not hide anything and told them about Beaton’s existence.
Ron immediately lost interest after hearing this. He thought Hope was going somewhere else to play.
“What are your plans for the afternoon?”
Hope didn’t rush to leave, but asked Harry Ron.
“Play wizard chess!” Ron said bluntly, and Harry had no objection.
There’s really not much else to do.
Hope patted his head immediately, it seemed that this was the only way, he couldn’t go to study.
“Have you finished your homework?”
Just then, Neville asked in a low voice.
The whole dormitory fell into silence in an instant, and even Hope couldn’t help but gasp.
I almost forgot about this!
Almost every professor leaves homework, even in astronomy classes, and the total amount of homework is actually quite large.
“Have you finished writing?”
Suddenly the three of them asked in unison, looking at Neville, the only one who might be doing his homework.
Although Neville looked honest, he was also the type who didn’t do his homework. He shook his head at the gazes of the three people.
At this moment, Hope felt a little regretful. He should have been assigned to Ravenclaw College, so that he could at least find a roommate to do homework with.
“Hermione should have written it!” Ron thought of Hermione at this time.
Hope and Harry looked at Ron as if he was an idiot, wondering how could he say that.
“Do you think she’ll lend us her homework to copy?”
Harry asked the question for Hope.
“…Definitely not.” Ron answered very self-awarely.
Suddenly the whole dormitory fell silent, and Hope began to rack his brain, wondering who he should ask to borrow the homework.
The key point is that the assignments these professors assign to each college are different. Even if they go to find Ravenclaw students, it will be useless because their assignments are not the same.
Not doing homework is actually not a big deal…Besides, he is essentially an adult, so why would he care about such things?
At most, Professor McGonagall would punish him by standing in the corner, and Snape would taunt him. In the end, Professor McGonagall would send him a letter to inform his parents. What a big deal.
Well…both Hope and Harry Ron changed their afternoon plans and took out parchment and held quills in their hands.
But I just couldn’t put pen to paper for a long time. I kept scratching my head and ears, and couldn’t say a word for a long time.
At this moment Hope felt humiliated. He never expected that one day he would become a poor student like Harry and Ron.
Even so, he still had to work with these poor students, with each person responsible for one subject.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that his life was hopeless.
Looking at the blank parchment, Hope suddenly thought that perhaps he should seek help from outside forces.
For example, Tom’s diary contains fragments of Tom’s soul when he was young. At that time, Voldemort was very outstanding and was a top student in every way.
Having this diary is like having a reference book of answers. I should be able to complete all my homework for the next seven years smoothly.
In addition, there is the Ravenclaw crown. I heard that wearing it will give you extraordinary wisdom. I wonder if this function still exists now.
If not, he still has the All-Things Fusion System, but it’s a pity that it can’t fuse inanimate objects now. Otherwise, after fusing with the crown, he would become a top student, and then homework would be a piece of cake.
Moreover, the crown was in Hogwarts, and he could sense its location, so it would be easy for him to get it.
Hope thought he was thinking about solutions to the problem, but in fact this behavior has another scientific name: mind wandering.
Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and neither Harry, Ron, nor Hope had written a single word.
Looking at Neville again, he had fallen asleep.
“I think we should beg Hermione, maybe she will agree.”
Harry said suddenly, even though he didn’t believe it himself.
“agree!”
Hope immediately agreed without any hesitation.
In fact, Hope knew Hermione’s character better than either of them, but what if!
Several people then happily threw down their quills and started off.
Hermione was not in the dormitory at the moment. Harry and Ron were about to look around, but Hope spoke directly.
“I think she should be in the library now.”
Harry and the others thought there was some truth in this and immediately headed towards the library.
Hermione was indeed here. She was a little surprised to see Hope and the others appear in front of her, as if they were looking for her on their own initiative. She was still somewhat self-aware and knew that she was not popular.
Just as he was about to ask, he saw the librarian, Madam Pince, looking at him. He immediately shut up and stood up and walked out of the library.
“Impossible! You are deceiving the professor!”
However, it happened just as they expected, Hermione said loudly and fiercely.
Not only that, he then went on to educate several people with righteous words.
“Humph, if you don’t want to borrow it, just say so, you stingy bastard!”
When Ron heard Hermione’s remarks, he immediately spoke angrily and blamed Hermione.
Hope also felt a slight headache. It seemed that this was a very bad idea.
Seeing that several people left in a bad mood with red faces, Hope was helpless. As an adult, he was not the one to hold a grudge.
After thinking about it, I finally gave up the idea of ​​doing homework and walked towards the basement.
Chapter 22 Smooth (Old Version)
When Hope arrived at the kitchen, he could still see the busy kitchen. There were still a few hours before dinner, but the house-elves were already busy in advance.
“Mr. Hope, are you here to see me?”
Before Hope could say anything, Beaton popped up first, his excitement visibly evident.
He immediately stated his purpose and asked to borrow kitchen utensils.
“That’s naturally no problem, but… the eggs in the kitchen are the property of Hogwarts, and Beeton has no right to give you the use of them.”
Beaton said with some embarrassment that borrowing the kitchen was a small matter, but although eggs were small things, they were the property of Hogwarts. As house-elves, they had no right to hand them over to Hope on behalf of their master.
“I can buy it with my own money!”
Hope naturally understood, and also learned from Beeton about the procurement channels of food raw materials for Hogwarts.
But I didn’t expect this to be related to goblins.
As the Vice-Principal, Professor McGonagall was usually in charge of the school affairs. Of course, she was not specifically responsible for the food procurement matters. She was only responsible for approving the money, and the rest was left to the house-elves.
As house-elves, they are reliable enough to handle these matters.
Every morning a team of house-elves would go out early, just like Little Red Riding Hood picking mushrooms, happily going out.
Eventually spend money to buy them from the fairies and bring them all back.
As for the source of this food, Beaton had no idea.
However, according to Hope’s guess, the source is probably still from Muggle society.
He didn’t believe that these wizards would grow their own land. Even if they had magic, it wouldn’t be easier than buying it directly.
As for house-elves, they are only available in pure-blood families and are already rare on the market. How could we possibly let these house-elves farm?
“Beaton is happy to help Mr. Hope!”
As long as money was not involved, Beaton was easy to talk to and volunteered directly, which made Hopeton feel relieved.
Even if you are not their owner, you can still get their help as long as you make friends with them. It is really worthwhile.
After thinking for a moment, Hope took out his purse from his pocket and handed it to Beaton.
“Then thank you very much. Please check how many eggs you can buy with the Galleons here. If it is enough, then buy 5,000 eggs. If not, then buy as many as you can.”
Hope didn’t know the prices either, so he could only leave it all to Beaton.
If Galleons are not enough, you can only go to Gringotts to withdraw money.
Just getting to Gringotts was a hassle, especially as a first-year student, unlike third-year students who could go to Hogsmeade on weekends.
But it’s not impossible to sneak out.
“Five thousand?!”
When Beaton heard this, his eyes widened and he looked at Hope in surprise. This number was beyond his imagination. Even the entire Hogwarts could not digest five thousand eggs.
“Mr. Hope, what are you going to do with all those eggs?”
“eat!”
Hope said without hesitation, only five thousand, but he had a devouring trait that he had never tried.
Of course, he didn’t want to be exposed in front of these house-elves.
Even if you can’t finish it, you can share it with the house-elves, or just use it as dinner at Hogwarts.
After all, the exclusive task only mentions cooking food, so how to process the food is not a requirement of the task.
Beaton looked a little hesitant, but he had no choice but to persevere due to Hope’s insistence.
Hope just waited in the kitchen, while Beaton simply used Apparition to leave.
Hope was a little jealous, he thought he could get this trait, but it turned out not to be the case.
If he has this trait, he can go anywhere.
Coupled with the ten thousand times characteristic, he didn’t believe that the anti-Apparition magic in Hogwarts or other places could stop him.
After a while, Beaton returned, but he had only his purse in his hand and nothing else.
But he did not return empty-handed, as he brought him some good news and some bad news.
The good news was that the eggs were cheap enough. One Galleon could buy fifty of them, and five thousand eggs only cost one hundred Galleons. This was cheaper than he had expected. It seemed that he didn’t need to go to Gringotts to withdraw money.
As for the bad news, there are not that many eggs, with only about a thousand in stock at present.
But you can make a reservation in advance, and the goblin will be able to get the remaining eggs early tomorrow morning.
Hope naturally had no objection. It was just one more day, no problem at all.
Then Beaton left again, and when he reappeared, he was still holding the egg box in his hand, which was filled with eggs.
It took five or six trips back and forth to finally move more than a thousand eggs back.
Hope was very happy to see this, and immediately chose an empty large pot to boil water.
Although the food in the UK is relatively simple, the kitchen tools at Hogwarts are still very complete.
It was Beaton who helped to carry the firewood and also lit the fire.
But at least Hope poured the water into the pot himself.
The iron pot was burning with a big fire, and from time to time you could hear the crackling sound coming from the firewood.
After a while, the fire was already boiling, emitting billowing hot steam. You could feel the intense heat just by standing in front of it.
Hope took out two eggs directly and carefully stretched out his hand far away, a little worried about being splashed by boiling water.
thump!
Two eggs fell into boiling water and quickly turned from raw eggs into cooked eggs under the boiling water.
Hope didn’t rush to fish it out, but opened the system to take a look.
The progress of fusing house elves has increased by two points compared to before, which means that each egg counts as a separate food, even if they are cooked at the same time.
This made Hope look happy. It seemed that he didn’t have to cook them one by one. Even if it was just boiling eggs, it would be a big project if he really had to repeat it five thousand times.
Since the cooking was completed, Hope was not worried that Beaton’s intervention would cause the system to determine that he did not cook the food himself, so he immediately asked Beaton to help fish it out.
The next thing was very simple. He only had to keep putting raw eggs into the big pot, and when they were cooked, Bitton was responsible for taking them out. This division of labor was too comfortable.
As time slowly passed, his analysis progress continued to increase rapidly, and pots of cooked eggs appeared next to the big pot.
Hope quickly called for the house-elf in the kitchen to help.
Even though it was just an ordinary, tasteless hard-boiled egg, it was Hope’s friendship.
Although it was a help, Hope’s words were inviting the house-elves to eat eggs. How could these house-elves refuse such a kind gesture?
Hope was in a very good mood. Look! Although these house-elves looked rather special, they were really capable.
Just because of the favor of eating eggs today, from now on the affairs of this group of house-elves will be his, Hope’s, affairs of Hope will be the affairs of this group of house-elves!
Chapter 23: Academic Master (Old Version)
These house-elves had good appetites, especially after they ate to their heart’s content. By the time he had finished cooking the thousand eggs, their stomachs were bulging.
Analysis progress: 1251/5000]I glanced at the system and my mood instantly became cheerful.
However, it was obvious that the elves had run out of food, and there were still more than fifty eggs left on the table.
Seeing this, Hope did not waste any food. He peeled them one by one quickly and swallowed them one by one.
Of course he used his swallowing ability, and didn’t even need to chew, it disappeared directly into his throat.
If it weren’t for the presence of these house-elves, he wouldn’t even bother to crack the eggshell.
His devouring properties allow him to swallow and decompose anything.
When Hope finished dealing with the fifty or so eggs, he saw the group of house-elves looking at him in shock, their eyes wide open and their mouths open, even stopping the work in their hands.
They were obviously shocked by Hope’s big appetite.
“If everyone had an appetite as big as Mr. Hope’s, the Galleons given by Professor McGonagall would probably not be enough.”
A house-elf said absentmindedly.
“I’m growing.”
Hope explained casually, then looked down at his arm, only to find some grayish-white particles on the surface of his arm, like salt.
Just wipe it and your hands will be full of it.
Not just on the arms, but all over the body.
Hope understood immediately that these should be the beneficial ingredients decomposed by the phagocytic property. The body could not accommodate them, so they were all discharged through the pores.
He immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought it would be done through other means, but he didn’t expect it to be just this. That way it was much simpler.
Just as he was about to draw out his wand and cast a cleansing spell on himself, he felt magic power surge in his body, and all the gray particles on his hands and arms disappeared.
Clean up!
Hope’s eyes widened in surprise.
He just wanted to cast a cleansing spell, and the cleansing spell was cast naturally.
This was no longer at the level of casting spells silently and without a wand. Cleansing seemed to have become his innate magic. He didn’t even need to recite the spell, it could be cast naturally with just a thought.
There is no doubt that this is the reason for the life master characteristics!
Is this what it means to be proficient in life-related magic? !
If this is true for the Cleansing Spell, then it is also true for other spells.
Hope was excited. Only then did he realize that he had underestimated this characteristic. Under multiple superposition states, even a weak characteristic could show incredible effects.
He finally felt the charm of magic.
This is magic! It should be done as you wish, not with a stick and a spell.
Hope really wanted to try other spells, but this place was obviously not suitable, so he suppressed his restlessness for the time being.
After getting the purse back and making an appointment with Beaton for tomorrow morning, Hope left.
It was almost dinner time, but Hope didn’t feel hungry. After all, he had eaten more than fifty eggs.
They went all the way back to the Gryffindor common room, and the Fat Lady opened the passage after they gave the password. In fact, Hope could have forced it open as well.
This passage undoubtedly has traces of magic, but the so-called magical power cannot stop him from digging soil and rocks.
Hope is still confident about this. Maybe he is not good enough, but in his professional industry, he is definitely the most professional. Even if Dumbledore comes, it will be useless.
When I returned to the dormitory, I found that it was empty. Everyone should have gone to eat at this time.
Hope couldn’t wait to find a textbook, “The Standard Book of Spells, Elementary”.
I took a quick look and roughly wrote down all the life-related magic above.
As a result, after just one glance, without any in-depth study, he had an idea that he had learned it completely.
Could it be that he is a genius? !
Unfortunately, this feeling only applies to life-related magic.
But this spell textbook is only a first-grade textbook. The spells in it are basically simple magic used in daily life, which basically conforms to the concept of life-related magic.
So after just studying a little bit, he felt like he had finished the book. That feeling!
Hope jumped up from the bed, walked quickly to the round table in the middle of the dormitory and sat down.
He took out a piece of parchment, held the quill pen and started writing quickly on the paper.
In just over ten minutes, a large amount of content was written on the parchment.
He is not only strong in practical skills, but also a master in theory of the life magic he has mastered.
It was a piece of cake to complete the homework assigned by Professor Flitwick.
Even though the homework was just a simple question and answer, he forced himself to write an academic paper.
This feeling! Hope almost burst into tears. It turned out that he was different from Harry and Ron, the poor students.
When the entire page was filled with words, he finally stopped, put the tip of the quill pen to his mouth, and exhaled.
Like a victorious Western gunslinger blowing away the smoke from his gun.
Then Hope began to experiment with spells.
As he thought about it, all the candles above the head went out. This was the extinguishing spell that could extinguish the flames.
The room suddenly darkened, and Hope immediately drew out his wand and pointed it at the candle chandelier on the ceiling, and the flames all rekindled.
This is not a spell, but the candle chandelier on the ceiling is a magical creation. It can be extinguished or lit with a light tap of a magic wand, which is very similar to an electric light.
Unfortunately, this book “Standard Spells, Elementary” is too simple and does not even contain some complex magic.
After all, it is a first-grade textbook, so his life-skill characteristics cannot be brought into full play.
Although it is only life-related magic, this type of magic already covers a large part of magic.
If you can master all of them, you will become a master.
Hope couldn’t sit still anymore when he thought of this. Although he only had this first-grade spells textbook, there should be no shortage of spells books in the library.
I immediately left the dormitory and went to the library.
I found some magic books on the bookshelf and took them out one by one.
The Standard Book of Spells, Level 2
The Standard Book of Spells, Level 3
…
The Standard Book of Spells, Fifth Level
The names of the textbooks are enough to show that the author of these books is the same person as the author of his textbook.
Holding the four books, Hope sat down at an empty table and began to flip through them quickly.
If you encounter other types of spells, just skip them. If you encounter life-related magic, just stop for a while, read it briefly and then continue looking for the next spell.
It’s even easier than eating memory bread.
After a while, Hope had finished reading all the books and benefited a lot from them.
Chapter 24: Big Project (Old Version)
Hope’s eyes flashed slightly. Although these life-related magics did not include defensive spells and offensive spells, some of these spells were no worse than these spells in terms of effect.
For example, the Flying Spell can summon the things you want to your hand, which is very practical.
And in Hope’s hands, it will be even more practical. There is no need to chant spells or wave a wand. Just a thought and the Dingxi he wants will fly into his hands.
In addition, Hope felt that books like the Standard Spells did not represent all forms of life magic.
The books that can be included in the standard spells are just the spells that people think students should learn, and they are not comprehensive.
For example, Hope did not see some cooking household magic or some weaving household magic on it, but he had seen Hanni perform them at home.
Thinking that these spells were hidden in other books, Hope stood up, picked up all the spell books on the table, and put them back to their original places on the bookshelf one by one.
Then he left the library and walked towards the dormitory.
There is a long time to come, and tonight’s harvest is enough. He is not in a hurry to become a fat man in one day.
When he returned to the dormitory, Harry and others had already returned.
But Hope seemed to have noticed something unusual. They looked at him in a strange way, and whenever he glanced over, no matter if it was Harry, Ron or Neville, they would actively avoid his gaze…
Hope looked confused, why did he feel isolated?
“What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?”
Hope asked directly, feeling that they were a little guilty, could it be that… they had secretly done the homework behind his back?
Of course this is just a joke. After all, they are not like him, the top student who can turn his homework into a paper.
Thinking of this, Hope couldn’t help but feel a little proud. He could understand Hermione’s existence.
After hearing Hope’s question, they seemed even more guilty, hesitating, wanting to say something but not daring to.
Finally, Ron spoke out.
“We have finished our homework…”
Hope’s eyes widened. She really was doing her homework secretly behind his back!
Even if I had finished my homework, I wouldn’t have such an expression, unless…
No way!
Hope frowned immediately and glanced at Harry, but Harry simply avoided his gaze.
Looking at Ron… and Neville, it was the same.
“I can’t copy it?”
Hope asked incredulously.
However, this was indeed the case, and Harry and others immediately began to explain.
This story begins after the falling out with Hermione in the library.
Harry and his friends returned to the dormitory angrily, but not long after, Hermione came to them on her own initiative. She didn’t want to lend them homework to copy, but to help them complete their homework.
Harry and the others finally compromised. After all, without Hermione, they would not be able to write a single word even after trying for a long time.
However, Hermione had one request, which was not to lend the homework to other people, and it was not just directed at Hope.
Harry and the others wanted to find Hope, but they didn’t find him.
Hope sighed slightly, it wasn’t their fault.
However, he would not force them to lend him their homework, after all, it was something they had promised.
“I understand.”
Hope couldn’t help but sigh, but he didn’t really care that much.
He just thought that everyone would stand in the corner as punishment, but in the end he was the only clown.
“But you don’t have to lend me your homework, you can ‘tutor’ me!”
But Hope turned around and thought about it, then spoke directly.
He is now very adept at this kind of stealing.
This tutoring was certainly not tutoring in the true sense, but simply reading the answers to the homework to him.
This also circumvented Hermione’s request.
“Is this still possible?!”
Harry said in disbelief with his eyes wide open.
They hadn’t thought it could be done this way, and after listening to Hope’s detailed explanation, they felt like their lives had been turned upside down. But when they thought about it carefully, it was indeed feasible.
Then Harry and the others took turns reading the answers to him, and his homework was finally finished.
Hope put down his quill and shook his sore palms, he didn’t expect that there would be another day when he would be troubled by homework, this was a feeling he hadn’t had in a long time.
The last time was the last time.
The next day, Hope got up early, jumped out of bed quickly, and left the dormitory in a hurry without waiting for Harry and others. It took less than five seconds in total.
After exiting the common room, follow the stairs from the top floor of the castle to the underground.
Entering the kitchen, the house-elves were busier than each other. However, even so, when they saw Hope, they all greeted her.
After these two days, everyone got to know him.
“Mr. Hope, all those eggs have been delivered, but you may have to make them yourself today. We are a little busy here.”
Beaton appeared in front of Hope and said apologetically that it was not that he didn’t want to help, but he had to prepare breakfast for all the teachers and students in the school, and this matter obviously had a higher priority than Hope’s.
“fine.”
Hope didn’t care.
But even if Beaton was too busy to help, he had already prepared an iron pot of boiling water for Hope, so all he had to do was put the eggs in.
Even if many eggs can be put in at once, nearly four thousand eggs is still a big project.
Moreover, the constant steam coming out of the boiling water made him feel as if he was in a sauna in this closed environment.
After staying there for a long time, I was covered in sweat and my clothes stuck to my skin.
Fortunately, he was a life expert and his clothes were cleaned in a flash.
But this temperature is unavoidable, and sweat keeps dripping down my forehead, almost turning into a spring.
In this case, even cleaning it out will have no effect.
Time passed slowly as Hope kept putting eggs in and taking them out.
There were actually not enough wooden basins to hold the eggs, but Hope simply cast a copying spell and easily created a dozen wooden basins.
When he fished out the last egg, he looked around, but found that the egg was nowhere to be seen, and saw Beaton standing nearby.
“Where are the eggs?”
“Mr. Hope, all the eggs are cooked.”
After hearing what Beaton said, Hope suddenly came to his senses. Looking around, he saw wooden basins filled with eggs all around him. It looked a bit exaggerated. If they were all piled together, he could see a mountain of eggs.
“Mr. Hope, it’s almost time for class. Do you want to go?”
Beaton reminded Hope.
“Has it been that long?”
At this moment, Hope’s stomach was rumbling and he felt a pain in his back and waist. He had been standing here for two hours.
I was so engrossed in the game before that I didn’t notice it, but now I just feel like I can’t stand anymore.
“Is there anything to eat?” Hope asked a little weakly.
Beaton had already prepared it and handed over the breakfast.
This time Hope didn’t have time to savor the food. He stuffed the bread into his mouth and swallowed it directly. In less than ten seconds, this breakfast was completely broken down into energy, which allowed him to recover.
Chapter 25: Apparition (Old Version)
After breakfast, Hope didn’t waste any time, and hurriedly left the kitchen, rushed down the stairwell, and returned to the Gryffindor common room. He was exhausted, and then he picked up the textbooks he would need for class, and rushed to the classroom without stopping for a moment.
When we arrived at the professor’s place, the bell had just started to ring.
Sitting next to Harry and the others, Harry whispered to Hope where he had been so early in the morning. Hope explained in a low voice that he had gone to look for Beaton.
This class was Professor Spence’s History of Magic. Normally Hope wouldn’t listen, so after taking a short break while breathing heavily, she finally recovered.
Only at this time did he have time to open the system page. As the five thousand raw eggs turned into cooked eggs, the progress of his fusing the house-elves also reached full speed.
One of the only two fusion positions is vacant.
Suddenly, a hint of joy flashed in Hope’s eyes. He discovered that he had extracted a new characteristic when fusing the house-elf.
[Apparition: More talented in Apparition magic, and quieter movements.]Not expecting such a surprise, Hope’s mouth curled up slightly. If he wasn’t in class, he would have laughed on the spot.
Less noise?
Hope looked at this explanation of Apparition with a little confusion, what did this mean?
The movements are lighter, just like walking, without footsteps, so no one will notice when you approach quietly.
Hope suddenly thought of a possibility. This might be the reason why the house-elves could ignore Hogwarts’ anti-Apparition magic.
The movement was so light, so light that even the anti-Apparition magic didn’t detect it.
Like a thief who broke into a house, his movements were so subtle that he failed to attract the owner’s attention.
The same is true for the house-elf’s Apparition. It’s not that the anti-Apparition magic is useless, but that it is not discovered at all.
At this moment, Hope had a feeling in his heart, as if he could reach a certain place directly as long as he wanted.
His body trembled and he quickly stopped thinking about it, because he knew it was not an illusion, but that he could really do it.
If I really come up with this idea, I might disappear in front of everyone, which would be too bad.
However, this feeling of wanting to try but having to endure made Hope a little impatient, as if he was scratching the wrong place.
Time passed slowly. Hope did not feel sleepy throughout the whole class. On the other hand, Harry, Ron and the others nodded from time to time, and then woke up in an instant.
Finally, the get out of class was over, and the few of them prepared to walk towards the auditorium, eat there first, and then go back to the dormitory to rest.
But Hope was in no mood to eat at the moment. He immediately covered his stomach and pretended to have a stomachache. He told Harry and the others not to worry about him and he went back to the dormitory first.
Harry didn’t suspect anything and asked with concern whether he needed to be taken to the school hospital, but of course he refused.
When he returned to the dormitory, Hope couldn’t wait to throw his textbook aside and start trying out his new features.
As far as Hope knew, Apparition was an advanced magic that was only taught to senior students.
Moreover, this magic is very dangerous when you first learn it. If you are not careful, you may be cut into pieces. If you learn it on your own without an experienced wizard by your side, the consequences will be very bad.
However, although this magic is very convenient, it is not without its shortcomings.
First, before going to the place you are going to, you need to meditate carefully and feel the image and location of that place. This is a kind of positioning. You must position yourself before you can arrive.
This also means that the Apparition can only go to places that have been visited, and places that have not been visited cannot be successfully located.
The second is that it cannot support long-distance crossing, and there is still a certain distance limit.
But at this moment, Hope felt that his Apparition seemed different from others.
Just like the perception of a treasure, he can sense many things.
Hope then calmed down and felt it. With his intuition, like the perception of a treasure, he saw an illusory planet, which was exactly the one he was standing on, and was fictionalized in his mind.
Then the geographical features, mountains, rivers, basins, etc. appeared on the virtual planet.
Then, buildings appeared one after another, densely covering the entire sphere.
He seemed to be immersed in a dark space, his body suspended, and in front of him was a small blue glowing planet, the size of a basketball. As he stretched out his finger and pointed to a certain location on the planet, the imaginary planet instantly expanded, continuously magnifying the place he pointed to, and finally his finger fell on a concrete street.
At this moment, Hope felt a very noisy sound in his ears, as if he was on a street with a lot of people passing by.
He couldn’t help but open his eyes, only to find that he was actually on a street.
“Ding Ding, make way, make way.”
A familiar rural accent sounded, and a middle-aged man with long hair and somewhat old-fashioned clothes was riding a bicycle of old style but shiny appearance, and he rang the bell at him.
Hope couldn’t help but step back and make way.
The middle-aged man then staggered forward on his bicycle, turning his head from time to time to look at him curiously.
“Why are you dressed so strangely and have blue eyes? Are you a foreigner?”
Hope ignored his muttering and looked around. Although this place was different from what he remembered, it still felt familiar, especially the long-lost language.
There are not so many tall buildings or cars here, everything seems a bit simple, but this simplicity gives him a sense of security.
His sudden appearance did not attract any attention. In fact, as was his nature, his movements were lighter, making his sudden appearance not so abrupt.
Unless someone stares at this place intently, it would be difficult to notice that he appeared suddenly.
But after only a short while, it attracted the investigation of others.
After all, Hope was wearing a wizard robe at the moment, which looked very special in this era.
“Hello? How are you?”
Hope was a little amused and confused. Some people had already treated him as a foreigner and were using him to practice English.
“What?”
Hope’s strong smell of stubble immediately made people lose interest.
He did not use Apparition to leave directly. After all, he had attracted attention now. If he disappeared in front of others, it would be on the news tonight. He didn’t plan to come here again in the future.
So he followed the flow of people until he came to an alley. He looked around to make sure that no one was following him, then he entered the alley. In an instant, his figure disappeared.
Hope reappeared in the dormitory with a complex expression on his face, a little excited and a little melancholy.
But it was only for a moment, and Hope recovered with a smile on his face. Sure enough, the Apparition with the ten thousand times characteristic was different from the ordinary Apparition.
He crossed a continent directly without feeling anything, as easy as breathing.
Chapter 26 Plan (Old Version)
And I heard that it was not comfortable when Apparating, but he didn’t feel that way.
Hope grinned and felt like he had a door to anywhere and could go wherever he wanted.
The small Hogwarts could no longer restrain him.
It seems that he won’t have to endure the terrible food in Hogwarts anymore. No matter it is breakfast, lunch or dinner, he can go directly back home to eat, and then come back to continue his classes. This kind of life… is simply too comfortable.
The only problem is that he has no money, but that’s not a big problem. At worst he can go to some country’s treasury to look around. Of course, the prerequisite is that he has to learn the Disillusionment Charm.
With the ability to Apparate and the ability to sense treasures, money is no longer a problem for him.
Hope then tried Apparition several more times, appearing in some desolate and uninhabited places, such as deserts and mountains, and his grasp of the properties of Apparition became better and better.
In the end, he could even change the scene with every step he took, as if the entire planet was under his control. He didn’t need to sense anything and could do it directly based on instinct.
Apart from long-distance movement, there is no hindrance in short-distance movement. He can appear several meters away in an instant, and according to his perception, this only takes a moment.
After an unknown amount of time, Hope finally stopped the experiment and sat on the bed.
Not long after, Harry and others came back and brought some food to Hope.
“Hope, is your stomach feeling better?” Harry asked with concern.
“It’s all right.”
Hope waved her hand casually, took the lunch Harry brought back, and found two eggs in it.
“I don’t know what happened today, there are so many eggs. Could it be that Hogwarts has been turned into a chicken farm?”
Ron lay on the bed and complained to Harry.
Hope ate in silence, pretending that this matter had nothing to do with him.
But the matter did not end like this. In the afternoon, Hope was called by Professor McGonagall, and only then did she realize that the matter had been exposed.
After all, there were five thousand eggs involved, so it was normal for them to be discovered.
“Can you tell me why you did this, Mr. Hope?” Professor McGonagall sat behind her desk, observing Hope through her slightly lowered glasses.
In fact, she had worked at the school for many years and had seen countless scenes, but she couldn’t guess why Hope did this.
Five thousand eggs! It cost a hundred Galleons, which was obviously a bit too much for a student.
“I’m learning cooking lately, professor.”
Hope already had an idea in mind, so he answered directly.
Well, this reason doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, but Professor McGonagall had no intention of delving into it. After all, Hope was a member of Gryffindor, so such behavior was not too outrageous.
In particular, Hope took out the sword of Gryffindor on the day of the sorting ceremony. She is a true Gryffindor, and it is fortunate that she did not choose to challenge the dragon.
“I hope you can stop this behavior and spend your time on studying. Otherwise, I can only send a letter to Hanni, hoping that she can control your spending behavior.”
Mag directly warned using parenting techniques.
“Yes, Professor.”
What else could Hope say but to nod his head sincerely in agreement.
After walking out of Mag’s office, he thought for a while and decided that he couldn’t ask Beaton to help buy the goat, otherwise Mag might really send a letter to Hanny, which would be terrible.
But now Hope no longer needs Bidun’s channels, he has a better way.
My hometown is vast and rich in resources, but there are only ten thousand goats.
He could even eat one here and then run to another county to eat another one. There were so many goats in the county, so what were ten thousand goats?
If he is not particular, he can actually eat it raw, which can save more time.
But he is a particular person and is not so anxious.
After the afternoon Herbology class was over, Hope couldn’t wait to separate from Harry and the others, ran into a bathroom, and directly performed Apparition to appear in her hometown.
However, he apparently forgot about the time difference. When he appeared here, he found that it was already dark and almost dawn.
However, the early mornings of this era are not as lively as those in previous lives.
After thinking about it, Hope Apparated again, his figure disappeared in an instant and appeared in the Demon City.
As expected, the flow of people here is incomparable to that of a small county town, and it is already beginning to become prosperous at this point in time.
However, he just wandered around here casually and returned to Hogwarts. It was still too late there and not suitable for walking around.
After returning to Hogwarts, Hope went into the library and began looking for some books that recorded daily spells.
Learning magic is just a matter of glance, but finding these books is a bit troublesome. In the blink of an eye, it was five or six in the afternoon, and Hope had completely become a master of life.
Whether it’s cooking or weaving clothes, he is adept at it.
In addition to this, there was another surprise. He found a kind of magic in a book on advanced spells, which was actually recognized as life magic, and Hope was very familiar with this magic.
It is the Untraceable Extension Charm. This spell used to expand space is also identified as the Untraceable Extension Charm.
For Hope, this was definitely a good deal. The Traceless Stretching Charm was an advanced magic and very difficult to learn. Now he saved a lot of hard work and learned it easily.
He used it directly on his purse and successfully expanded the space inside the purse. Apart from this, Hope had not thought of any other uses for it for the time being.
The next day arrived in a flash. Hope was eating breakfast in the auditorium as usual, only to find that Malfoy had reappeared. There were no injuries on his hands, and his face had regained that arrogant expression.
But after seeing them, his face darkened noticeably, and it seemed that he had not forgotten the torture he had suffered before.
When they finished their meal and walked out of the hall, Harry suddenly stumbled and was hit hard on the arm by the person behind him. He couldn’t help but groan in pain.
“Malfoy, what are you doing!” Ron said angrily when he saw it was Malfoy.
“Go away, poor redhead, this has nothing to do with you.”
Malfoy spoke rudely to Ron, followed by two followers.
“Harry, the last incident is not over yet. If you have the courage, come to the trophy display room tonight. We will duel there, a duel between wizards. If you are afraid, just don’t come.”
Malfoy whispered viciously to Harry, threatening him and challenging him to a fight, then without waiting for Harry’s response, he turned and left.
It seemed as if he didn’t want to give Harry a chance to refuse.
Hope narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling somewhat familiar, but the few of them did not have time to dwell on this matter and hurried towards the classroom.
Chapter 27 Interlude (Old Version)
“Harry, are you really going to go tonight?”
After class, Ron couldn’t help but ask.
“Of course, I’m not afraid of him.”
“Okay, I’ll go with you then.”
Ron had no other opinion after hearing this.
“Is there a possibility that he is actually lying to you?”
Hope knew it well and gave a subtle reminder.
“That’s right, only you would believe Malfoy’s words. Besides, if you are discovered, you will cause Gryffindor to lose points!”
Without waiting for Harry to speak, Hermione, who had heard their conversation at some point, stepped forward and spoke.
“This is none of your business. Don’t think you’re the only smart person in the world!”
Hearing Hermione say this, Ron couldn’t help himself.
“You guys want to lose all the points I worked so hard to earn for Gryffindor, how come it’s none of my business!”
Hermione retorted immediately.
This made some sense. After all, Hermione earned all the points for Gryffindor. The points she earned alone were at least one-third of the points for the entire Gryffindor.
You should know that in the previous few classes, Gryffindor’s house scores have always been at the bottom.
With Hermione this year, the situation has indeed improved a lot. It is rarely ranked second. Slytherin is still in first place. After all, it is difficult to carry the school alone, and there is an entire college that has been dragging it down.
It is actually incredible to be able to maintain the current results.
“I don’t want Malfoy to tell me I’m scared!”
Harry was also annoyed by Hermione’s attitude, and said it toughly, then ignored Hermione.
Hope shook his head slightly, and it seemed more appropriate for him to remind Ron to bring a stick.
This way, if Malfoy really goes, at least he won’t suffer any loss.
As for him, of course he wouldn’t go with them. He would rather sleep than spend that time there.
The first class in the afternoon was Charms class. As expected, when Hope handed in his homework, it immediately caused Professor Flitwick to be amazed.
“This is incredible, Mr. Hope.
The contents of your homework are very wonderful. It is hard to imagine that they were written by a freshman. Moreover, these contents also touched me, which is enough to show its value.
What a pity! If you were not a freshman, I would definitely invite you to join my spells club.
But I think that day will come sooner or later.”
When Flitwick saw Hope’s homework, he was first shocked by the length of the page. Then, after reading the contents carefully, he was shocked all at once.
He also didn’t think that these things were copied from anywhere, because some of the content was very novel and he had never seen it anywhere else.
As a professor at Hogwarts, he is a cutting-edge wizard in this field and has sufficient judgment.
“Thank you for the compliment, Professor Flitwick.”
Hope felt the astonished looks from the others and thanked Professor Flitwick.
Is this what it feels like to be a top student?
Especially his roommates Ron and Harry, who looked at him in disbelief, obviously unaware that Hope had secretly become a top student.
Hermione was a little dissatisfied. She didn’t even get such an evaluation, so how could Hope deserve it?
“Based on your homework, I decide to give Gryffindor ten extra points!”
Grades are the best recognition for a person, especially in Gryffindor.
However, Gryffindor’s logic is that the more points you lose, the more you become a Gryffindor.
After class, Hermione took Hope’s homework unconvinced and rudely and looked at it carefully.
However, the result was very embarrassing. She couldn’t understand it because there were very deep things involved.
But because of this, she immediately looked at Hope with suspicion. She knew Hope well, so how could such a thing come from Hope’s hands?
Even though she had doubts, she didn’t say it out loud because she had no evidence.
Soon it was night, and Hope watched Harry and Ron sneak out the door. Ron was holding a stick in his hand, and he was obviously very receptive to advice. After all, with their current level, the stick was undoubtedly more intimidating.
Hope fell asleep straight away, and when he woke up it was already the next morning.
Harry and Ron, who had returned home very late last night, were so fast asleep that even though Hope and Neville kept pulling them, it took a long time to wake them up.
I rushed to the cafeteria and had breakfast before rushing to the classroom, and was almost late.
“Hope, you don’t know what we went through last night. You really should have gone. You don’t know what you missed!”
Ron whispered to Hope with a beaming look on his face.
From Ron’s tone, Hope probably guessed what they had been through.
Sure enough, Ron told them about their encounter with the three-headed dog.
“Its head is as big as a hut, and it can bite us to pieces in one bite!”
Ron seemed very excited and had no recollection of the expression he had when he met it last night.
“But Harry said that the three-headed dog might be guarding something, so we can’t spread the word!”
Ron said with a little regret, otherwise he would have directly promoted their thrilling adventure.
This incident was just an episode, at least for Hope. Harry and Ron sometimes talked about what the guarding was.
In the next few days, Hope did not take any other action, and there was an empty fusion position on the system panel.
However, Hope was not in a hurry. He planned to complete the exclusive task of fusing the fire dragon first, at least until the progress points increased significantly so that he could make other plans earlier.
On Thursday morning, Harry received a package containing the latest model of broomstick, the Nimbus 2000.
And it was decided that Harry would join the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Soon it was Friday noon, and compared to other times, both Harry, Ron, and Hope were more active than usual.
Because this means that their classes for the week are over, and including the afternoon, they have a total of two and a half days of vacation!
If you don’t consider the time left for homework.
But no one has considered this matter.
“Harry, let’s play wizard chess this afternoon!”
After lunch, Ron said excitedly.
“I’m afraid not. I have Quidditch practice to start this afternoon.”
Harry said with a hint of regret.
“Then Hope, let’s get down!”
When Ron heard this, he could only look at Hope.
“I have plans for the afternoon as well.”
Hope shook his head slightly and refused.
“Ah? What’s the plan? Can I come with you?”
Ron asked, his eyes suddenly widening.
“The library, do you want to come with me?”
Hope blinked and asked, but Ron refused without a second thought and had to go find Neville.
In fact, Hope told a little lie. He planned to go back to his hometown to do the exclusive task of fusing the fire dragon.
It was also expected that Ron would definitely not go to the library, so the lie was perfect.
Chapter 28: Things Underground (Old Version)
In fact, Hope was very anxious. After returning to the dormitory, he stuffed a set of Muggle clothes into his purse.
It’s already twelve o’clock in the afternoon, and it’s already past eight o’clock in the evening back home, so he doesn’t have much time left.
He then walked out of the dormitory and entered the bathroom in the Gryffindor common room, walked into a cubicle, put on a brand new suit that he had only worn a few times, and stuffed the wizard robe directly into his purse.
After doing all this, he thought about it and his figure disappeared instantly.
Hope’s figure then appeared on this vast land.
This time he did not appear openly, but carefully chose a remote corner.
After all, there are still confidentiality laws in this world, and this law is prevalent in every corner of the world.
And my hometown is undoubtedly one of the member organizations of the International Confederation of Wizards and has also signed the Statute of Secrecy.
Since he hadn’t learned the Forgetfulness Charm, if he was really seen on the spot, there would be nothing he could do, and he would probably be discovered by the Ministry of Magic in the end.
It’s not that he has to go all the way to England, but it would be inconvenient for him to come here next time.
Moreover, just in case, Hope didn’t even bring her wand this time, also to prevent the trace magic in the wand.
Although Hope didn’t think the Ministry of Magic could still detect this side, it was better to be cautious.
Besides, even if he got the magic wand, it would not be of much use. The magic he mastered now were all simple magic, belonging to daily life magic, which could be cast directly.
Fortunately, Hope was lucky enough not to be noticed and walked out of the alley.
At this moment, he was wearing a suit, looking smart and handsome, and coupled with his young age, he attracted quite a lot of attention, but that was all.
At this night, if you didn’t look closely, it would be hard to see any traces of mixed blood in Hope.
He still looks like an oriental, but he is more handsome, and his blue eyes are the most exposed feature.
When Hope appeared in the land of Magic City, his pockets were empty, and it seemed that Garlon would be of no use.
So he planned to find some money first.
Then he activated the treasure perception, and suddenly a lot of fluorescent light appeared around him.
Normally he would actively block out Muggle things, but now that he let go, everything was fluorescent.
He picked again, choosing some of the brighter fluorescent ones, requiring them to be as small as possible. Wouldn’t it be better if they were ownerless objects buried underground?
This time, the fluorescence he perceived decreased a lot, but it was still countless. If he looked at them one by one, he might see the sky light.
Relying solely on his perception, he scanned all the fluorescent lights like a computer and roughly knew what was inside.
Oh no!
This place is worthy of being called the Magic City, it has a long history and was even the most developed and prosperous city for a period of time.
Because of this, the underground is simply a treasure trove, buried with many things.
Of course, banknotes are rare. After all, banknotes are a new thing and need to be updated every once in a while. Even if they were useful before, they are useless now, unless they are treated as antiques.
But there are a lot of precious metals buried underground, not only gold bars, but also big gold. Some are even hidden in boxes. If others just take one box casually, they may not have to work hard in this life.
If I could exchange this money for real estate here, I wouldn’t have to worry about my descendants for many generations.
However, there was more than just these underground. Hope even saw some guns. They were a bit old in style, but they looked brand new when they were taken out.
In addition, there are also antiques, such as porcelain bottles and jade pieces.
Hope was amazed by what he saw. If he could take some time to dig out all the treasures under the ground in his hometown, he would probably become the richest man.
However, most of these are of no help to Hope now. After all, he is only an eleven-year-old boy. Even if he takes the gold bars to exchange for money, those people will have to call the police even if they are not greedy.
Hope looked around and made sure that there was no one. The soil on the ground began to wriggle and his body sank rapidly as if he were trapped in a swamp.
Soon Hope’s figure could no longer be seen on the ground, and even the holes on the ground disappeared in an instant.
Hope sank into the ground, and the space he opened up was spacious enough, but as the hole above closed, the entire space fell into endless darkness.
As soon as he thought about it, a spot of light appeared on his finger, like a 200-watt incandescent lamp, illuminating the entire space.
Fluorescent flashing!
Then a chair made of clay quickly formed and appeared behind him. Hope lifted his butt and sat down directly.
The next moment, a passage quickly formed in front, avoiding the underground pipes and reaching the target directly.
The armchair on which Hope was sitting began to move, like a speeding car, moving rapidly along the aisle in front.
The speed is comparable to that of a high-speed train. The passage he created does not have obvious corners, so there is no need to turn, just keep driving forward.
He soon reached his destination, and the thing was already lying on the ground waiting for him.
All I saw was a tattered black cloth on the ground, with the silver dollars wrapped in it leaking out.
Hope stood up, squatted slightly, pulled the black cloth strip and threw it aside casually.
There were actually not many silver dollars on the ground, only thirteen, but it was enough for the time being.
He took out a purse from the inner pocket of his suit, untied the rope, and pulled the bag. The silver dollars on the ground immediately moved, flying into the purse one by one, colliding with each other and making clear sounds.
After getting the things, Hope was ready to leave. The passage that had just been opened quickly closed, and even the soil on both sides pressed towards him from all directions, as if to bury him underground.
But just as the soil was about to touch him, his figure instantly disappeared and returned to the alley where he started.
The magic power in his body surged slightly, and the tiny spots of mud on his suit disappeared, no longer stained with a trace of dust.
Hope then walked out of the alley and found a gold shop on the roadside. It did not simply sell gold and silver, but also engaged in recycling.
“Boss, help me take a look at these things.”
Hope walked into the store. The owner behind the counter was a skinny old man wearing a pair of reading glasses and a simple white vest. His white hair was sparse, like grass just breaking through the soil. If you didn’t look carefully, you would think he was a bald head.
There was a sturdy, dark-skinned man sitting at the door of the store. As Hope walked in, his eyes were fixed on him.
Hope reached into the inside pocket of his suit and took out the newly acquired silver dollar, which was still covered with dust.
“Silver dollars.”
The boss could tell the authenticity of the thing at a glance, put it close to his mouth, blew hard, and the silver dollar immediately made a slight sound.
“I’ll give you thirty dollars each.”
The boss said casually while checking each silver dollar.
Chapter 29: Far View (Old Version)
Hope couldn’t help but widen his eyes. Was this bullying him because he was a child?
Goodbye!
He collected all the silver dollars and left.
After a while, Hope came back again and met the boss’s teasing gaze.
“Little brat, now you know that this is my honest price, right? I tell you, it’s because I’m optimistic about the future of this thing, otherwise I wouldn’t offer such a high price.”
The boss said with a smile, not caring about the fact that Hope had just left.
Hope was silent for a while, then he realized that he was wrong. This thing is not considered an antique yet, and no one collects it. Plus, there are actually quite a few of them, so the price is like this. The boss in front of him is not bluffing.
He went to some other stores to ask about the prices, but the prices were lower than the last, so he had to come back.
“390.”
The boss handed over the money with a smile, and Hope took it honestly. Actually, this amount of money was not small in that era, but it was not much either.
“By the way, boss, what’s the price of the pound now?”
Hope asked casually.
“About 14 yuan. The price changes every day. It’s hard to tell. If you want to change it, I have foreign exchange coupons here.”
The boss looked at Hope with a little surprise. He just wondered why this little boy had a foreigner’s eyes, but he didn’t expect that he was a real foreigner, but he spoke Mandarin better than he did.
14?
Hope raised his eyebrows. The price was high enough.
He immediately calculated in his mind. The price at Gringotts was one Galleon to five pounds. So, that meant seventy to one?
One Galleon could be exchanged for seventy dollars, which meant that he could exchange only two hundred Galleons for fourteen thousand dollars.
Two hundred Galleons could turn a millionaire into a ten thousand dollar household. In this era, a million dollar household was very valuable, yet it only cost two hundred Galleons.
Hope then calculated in his mind that ten thousand Galleons could be exchanged for seven hundred thousand, which was considered very wealthy nowadays.
Even after becoming a wizard, Hope did not look down on everything about Muggles, especially the property market.
Seven hundred thousand…in 1991…with this money he could become a big shot here. In ten or twenty years, his wealth would skyrocket.
The most important thing is that this is legal property and does not require any effort, so why not get it?
Hope was slightly excited and included this matter in his future plans.
Of course, he doesn’t have to use Galleons.
Hope came back to his senses, put the money away, and glanced around casually. It was not a lot of money, but he still looked like an eleven-year-old child, so he was afraid that someone would have evil intentions towards him.
However, there was no one else in the store except the skinny boss and the lazy strong man, so he felt relieved immediately.
It seems that I still need to learn some offensive magic when I have time, otherwise I won’t even be able to defend myself.
Of course, this is not just his problem. The other first-year students are the same. They may look like wizards, but if they really want to take action, they may fall into the hands of Muggles.
“Yes, if I have one.”
Hope said calmly that the appearance of money exchange in this slightly cramped little shop did not sound very legal.
However, judging from the price of the silver dollar, this boss is quite honest.
Hope then went out and wandered around the city casually. The atmosphere of this era was indeed different.
It was night and many people came out for a walk to enjoy the cool air. They walked slowly, often with smiles on their faces. There were also many young couples holding hands, and the atmosphere was full of life.
Walking on such a land, a smile can’t help but appear on your face.
As I was walking around, I suddenly stopped in front of a store.
The smoke from inside rolled out through the windows, bringing with it an enticing aroma. This was a mutton restaurant, and it seemed like it was doing pretty good business.
Then he walked in, chose an empty table and sat down.
Soon a waiter came up to greet them. When he saw Hope, he was stunned for a moment, with an uncertain look in his eyes.
From the outside, Hope does look like a child, but he is wearing a neat and well-fitting suit, which makes him look out of place among other children of his age. Instead, he looks a bit like a little adult.
“Little boy, where are the adults in your family?” The waitress was a young girl, who asked gently with a smile.
“I’m alone, don’t worry, I have money.”
Hope was a little helpless. Knowing the other party’s intention, he immediately took out the banknotes he had just received and shook them casually.
Seeing this, the waiter immediately took Hope’s order.
Hope ordered a lot of food, which made the waiter remind him that he could never finish it all by himself.
“It’s okay. If you can’t finish it, take it away. Don’t waste it.”
Hope smiled slightly. In fact, he just wanted to try the exclusive task. How would the system judge that he ate a goat?
I don’t know if it’s possible to use the same amount of mutton, but it would obviously be more convenient if it is possible.
He can’t really eat it raw like a fire dragon, and he won’t eat the internal organs too.
As the waiter brought the hot pot filled with boiling soup, Hope asked specifically.
Only after confirming that the mutton came from goats did I feel relieved. After all, the system specified goats.
According to his experience, the reason why the system allowed him to steal chickens was because it was not very smart. It was just like a plug-in made by a programmer with many bugs.
But because of this, Hope believes that the storage of sheep meat does not meet the requirements of the system.
In addition, I learned from the waiter that the meat yield of an adult goat is about 40 to 50 percent, and a goat can produce about 30 to 40 kilograms of meat.
In fact, Hope had thought about stealing chickens. As a goat, he could have chosen a lamb.
Soon the mutton was served, and he stopped thinking and started eating.
With the sauce, the heat from the hot pot, and the noise from the nearby table, everything was perfect. He concentrated on eating and no longer thought about his special task.
This made him feel so satisfied that his face turned red in the heat, his mouth was greasy, and sweat dripped from his head. He couldn’t help but take off his suit jacket and put it aside.
When he couldn’t eat any more, there was still a lot of mutton left on the table, waiting for him to cook.
However, he actually only ate more than one pound of mutton, which was not comparable to the meat production of a goat, not to mention the weight of a whole goat.
Next, Hope directly used his devouring ability, and the hot and tender lamb slices were swallowed and decomposed as soon as they entered his mouth.
In a blink of an eye, he ate up all the mutton on the table, stunning the waiter who passed by. He hurried to the kitchen, apparently to look for the manager.
Soon someone came to ask about Hope’s physical condition. After all, that was five kilograms of mutton, and even an adult could not eat so much.
The manager was a little worried. It was not because he was afraid that Hope could not pay the money, but because he was afraid that Hope would starve to death if he stayed here, and then he would have no business in the future.
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Chapter 30 New Choices (Old Version)
Hope was a little helpless and could only say that he had no problem, but it was obviously impossible to continue eating here.
But five kilograms of mutton was still far from his goal.
Of course, just because you can’t eat here doesn’t mean you can’t take it away.
Under the waiter’s surprised look, he continued to order food.
A pound of mutton here costs about three dollars and a half. Hope ordered another 65 pounds of mutton and asked him to boil it before taking it away.
The waiter was obviously stunned, looking at Hope in disbelief with his mouth wide open, thinking he had heard it wrong.
“There are more people at home.”
Hope explained forcefully.
The waitress, who had recovered from her shock, looked at Hope with a complicated expression. This didn’t mean there were too many people at home; it meant they needed to set up a table.
In the eyes of the waitress, Hope had become a rich young man. After all, it was the first time she saw someone who did not take money seriously.
However, when the waiter came back, he told him that there was not that much mutton left in the store, and there were only nearly 30 kilograms of mutton left.
Hope frowned slightly. This was a little too little, but this was the only way for now.
He then started to pay the bill and counted out one hundred and twenty yuan from his pocket. He couldn’t help but sigh, it was really a bargain.
Why do I suddenly feel like I’m watching a skit in my previous life?
In one night, even if you want to deposit 100 yuan, you have to go through the VIP channel and be escorted by a special person.
Hope’s behavior inevitably attracted the attention of other people. He could feel that other people in the store were looking at him from time to time and talking, but he didn’t care much.
While I was waiting, the waiter hurried out with a board with words hanging outside: Sold out today!
At his request, the mutton restaurant cooked all the mutton in boiling water, then scooped out all the meat slices, without any soup, and put them into plastic bags in the store.
Soon, Hope was carrying several large bags in his hands, which were filled with cloth bags outside the plastic bags. Everyone in the store looked at this scene in shock. When they passed by, they could clearly smell the tempting meat aroma coming from inside.
The seemingly heavy cloth bag seemed light in his hand, as if it had no weight at all. Hope inadvertently cast a levitation spell.
But after leaving the mutton house, he found that he had nowhere to go. He couldn’t take the mutton back to Hogwarts.
Hope eventually disappeared quietly into an alley without attracting anyone’s attention, just as he had arrived.
The sky suddenly brightened, and the bright sunlight was so bright that he could hardly open his eyes. It took him a while to adjust.
At a glance, there was boundless sea in front of him and fine sand under his feet.
This is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean. He doesn’t know whether there are any people living here, but he doesn’t care.
Sitting casually on the beach, he started eating mutton, using the devouring attribute directly while feeling the sea breeze.
In a short time, all the mutton slices in the bag were eaten and broken down completely.
Hope checked his system and found that when he had eaten twenty-five or twenty-six kilograms, the progress of fusing with the fire dragon increased a little.
Including the mutton he had eaten in the mutton restaurant before, he ate almost 30 kilograms.
It seems that Sanshi Jin is the goat recognized by the system, and no other internal organs are needed. He couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Hope lay on the beach, basking in the sun comfortably. This kind of wonderful time, lying down after eating, was what he should pursue.
While planning in his mind, he decided that as long as he prepared enough money, his exclusive mission could be completed successfully.
A goat produces 30 kilograms of meat, so 10,000 goats produce 300,000 kilograms of meat.
Well…that is about 150 tons. Even if we use dump trucks to load mud and sand, we will need dozens of them. The picture is exciting just to think about.
According to the price of the mutton restaurant, wouldn’t it be one million and five hundred thousand? One million and five hundred thousand yuan.
Hopeton sighed. The calculation was even more profound. He didn’t expect that to complete a task, he would need to mobilize all the assets of 105 rare millionaires.
But he definitely planned to continue stealing chickens. Instead of choosing 10,000 adult goats, he would rather choose 10,000 lambs.
This should greatly reduce the amount of mutton he needs to eat.
After basking in the sun for a while, Hope prepared to leave. He took out his purse from his suit pocket, pulled out his wizard robe, and began to change his clothes.
With a thought, he located the bathroom in the Gryffindor common room at Hogwarts.
In fact, when he performed Apparition, he could sense whether there were any objects at the place he was about to teleport to, so as to avoid collision.
He felt one of the compartments for a moment, made sure it was empty, and then disappeared, leaving behind a garbage bag on the ground that was picked up by the breeze and fell into the azure water.
After coming out of the bathroom and returning to the dormitory, he found that he was the only one in the dormitory.
It was obviously still early here, not even three in the afternoon.
Hope lay in bed, thinking about how to make money.
In fact, he could bring the gold bars buried underground in the Magic City here and exchange them for pounds, which would undoubtedly be the most cost-effective.
But it is not easy to do it, especially since he is just a child. If he wants to hide his wizard identity, he cannot use magic in Muggle society.
This is like a child carrying gold through a busy street, how could he not be noticed?
Relatively speaking, Gringotts is safer, and there is no way those goblins would target him.
Ultimately the problem lies in his appearance and age. Hope is a little helpless. If he were an adult, it would at least be safer.
Thinking of this, Hope was stunned for a moment, and a trace of contemplation flashed in his eyes.
It seems that his next fusion partner has been decided.
Boggart!
A creature that can transform into anything it wants should have some nice properties if it can fuse!
Hope’s eyes lit up and he jumped off the bed, but where should he go to find the Boggart? He wondered if Diagon Alley sold the materials.
In the end, Hope decided to ask Hagrid, after all, he was an expert in this area.
He immediately walked out of the lounge, followed the stairs to the first floor, walked out of the castle, and headed towards the Forbidden Forest.
It wasn’t long before they appeared in front of Hagrid’s hut.
“Oh, you mean Boggarts. I hate those guys. They will give me unpleasant experiences.”
Inside the cabin, Hagrid said as he made tea for Hope.
He seemed very happy that Hope came to him and asked about magical creatures.
“No one knows what they really look like, because the first time you see him, he will appear in the appearance you hate the most.”
Brother Hai talked eloquently and he is indeed an expert in this area.
“They’re not dangerous though. Well…if you want to collect Boggart-related items, their bodies should be the only ones.”
Chapter 31: Changing Money (Old Version)
“When they die, they turn into a handful of ashes.”
Hagrid said seriously.
“Do you have this?” Hope became excited when he heard it and asked.
Hagrid shook his head and said, “No, I really don’t like this kind of magical creatures, and this thing has no value, and not many people sell it on the market. But if you want, I can help you ask an old friend of mine. I remember he wrote to me at the time to complain about how to drive away these damn Boggarts.”
What a sudden turn of events! Hope’s heart was sinking as Hagrid spoke, but he didn’t expect there would be a twist later.
“Thank you so much, Hagrid.”
Hope naturally didn’t refuse and said quickly.
“It’s a small matter. I didn’t expect you to be so interested in magical creatures. You can ask me anything. It’s a pity that you are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest, otherwise I would introduce some of my old friends to you. I believe you would be interested.”
Hagrid said with a look of regret.
When Hope heard Hagrid’s words, his expression froze. The old friends in the Forbidden Forest couldn’t be those eight-eyed giant spiders. That would be such a pity.
The problem was solved, and Hope said goodbye to Hagrid and left the cabin.
It would obviously take some time for Hagrid to find the Boggart’s body.
Before that, let’s just use Garlon for now.
Hope returned to the dormitory, opened his suitcase, took out a black robe from the suitcase, put it on casually, covering most of his body in the black robe, put on the hood, and concealed his face to a certain extent.
He planned to go to Gringotts, mainly because he was worried about meeting acquaintances, especially Hanny. It would be too bad if he was unlucky enough to be caught.
After putting on his clothes, Hope disappeared directly into the dormitory.
When he appeared again, he was already standing on the street outside Gringotts. There were many wizards walking around him. His sudden appearance did not attract anyone’s attention, and even if someone saw him, no one would care.
He then walked into Gringotts, picked an empty seat at random, took the vault key from his purse, and slammed it on the counter.
“Take two thousand Galleons and change them all to pounds for me.”
Next, under the guidance of the goblin, Hope entered the vault and took out a full two thousand Galleons.
A large cart of Galleons was finally exchanged for only two stacks of banknotes, each with a face value of 50 pounds, a total of 10,000 pounds.
It turns out that banknotes are easier to carry, Hope couldn’t help but complain.
After getting the pounds, I didn’t stay any longer and went straight back to Hogwarts after leaving Gringotts.
Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends, and Hope plans to spend both days in his hometown, so in order to adjust to the time difference, he goes to bed early.
But Hope couldn’t fall asleep just because she wanted to. Finally, Hope hurried to the school hospital, pretended to be insomniac, and asked Madam Pomfrey for a small bottle of dreamless sleeping potion.
Madam Pomfrey naturally would not refuse, and she also expressed her concern for him and asked Hope to not put so much pressure on his studies.
“You first-year students are working too hard. You can actually hang out in the school when you don’t have classes. The first-year students in your college were also like this a few days ago. They looked much more haggard. It seems that the students nowadays are different from ours.”
From Pomfrey, Hope roughly knew that the person was Hermione, and she couldn’t help but sigh.
The reason why the top student is the top student is that he studies hard secretly.
After getting the potion, Hope quickly returned to the dormitory, lay on the bed, and drank the potion in one gulp. His face suddenly turned bitter. The taste was really peculiar!
Not long after, Hope felt sleepy, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
The dreamless sleeping pill, just as its name suggests, will help you have a dreamless night.
But he couldn’t help hearing Ron shouting in his sleep, and it seemed like someone was trying to wake him up, but he ignored it.
When I opened my eyes again, it was dark outside the window and I could hear Ron and others snoring in the dormitory.
I sat up, stretched myself, and felt very energetic. It turns out that sleep without dreams is the most comfortable.
To some extent, dreamless sleeping pills are quite scientific.
I quietly got up from the bed, put on my clothes, opened the door, and slipped out.
He went all the way to the bathroom, changed into a suit, and disappeared the next moment.
This time, the location Hope chose was more hidden, on the rooftop of a building.
It seemed to him that the world suddenly lit up. Fortunately, he was prepared and closed his eyes in advance.
After adjusting to the sunlight outside, Hope walked down the stairs to the street.
He only has one day here today, so he plans to buy a piece of clothing first.
The sun is shining and it’s still September, but just walking down from the balcony my back is already soaked with sweat.
With some money left from selling silver dollars yesterday in his pocket, he ran to a supermarket building.
When he came out again, he looked completely different.
He was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, sneakers, and a pair of black sunglasses.
But this outfit cost a full two hundred yuan, which was too expensive in this era. Of course, it wasn’t that all the clothes were expensive, but the things sold in this supermarket were very expensive.
Hope then went to the gold shop he had been to yesterday, and the owner recognized him at a glance.
“The young boss looks so noble, it’s hard not to recognize him.”
The dry boss smiled and praised, saying that he had guessed yesterday that Hope was a child from a wealthy family.
He was even more certain when he saw it today. He recognized the brand of the new clothes and they looked expensive. Perhaps they were bought with the money from selling silver dollars yesterday. But his family had no money, so how could he dare to use that money to buy a set of clothes?
If his son dared to do this, he would see if he would spank his son’s butt into pieces.
Hope turned around casually, like a spy making a contact, and confirmed that there was no one in the store except the old man and the strong man, and immediately asked, “Didn’t you say yesterday that you could change money?”
“Of course, young boss, what kind of bill do you have in your hand?” The boss smiled immediately when he heard it, and thought to himself that business had indeed come to him.
“Pounds,” Hope whispered.
“Oh? That’s a good thing. What do you want to exchange? You can exchange it directly for cash or for foreign exchange certificates, but the price of foreign exchange certificates is much higher.”
From his boss, Hope learned what foreign exchange coupons were.
In fact, the British pound cannot be used directly here and needs to be exchanged for foreign exchange certificates before it can be used. However, Hope Apparated here and is a complete illegal resident. Of course, he himself does not have a household registration in the Muggle world.
Although the boss didn’t know where Hope got the pounds, the fact that he came here to exchange money instead of going directly to the bank showed that the source of the money was unknown.
However, this is not always the case, because there is black market exchange that bypasses the bank. In this case, the price of exchanging foreign exchange certificates is not much different from that of the bank, but the price of exchanging cash directly is slightly higher.
Chapter 32 Huge Sum of Money (Old Version)
“Just change the money.”
Hope did not hesitate and spoke directly. The result of this direct money exchange is that it will be very difficult to exchange it into pounds or US dollars.
“How many do you have?”
The dry boss nodded, this was better. After receiving the pounds, he would make money by exchanging money for people who wanted to go abroad but didn’t have foreign exchange.
Hope couldn’t help but hesitate when he heard this. He looked at his boss. The pounds in his hand were not a small amount in that era.
“Oh? That seems like a lot. Don’t worry, I can eat as much as I want.”
The dry boss immediately understood what Hope meant, smiled, and said confidently.
“Ten thousand.”
However, as Hope said this, the dry boss’s expression obviously froze, and a hint of doubt flashed in his old eyes under his reading glasses.
“You want to exchange it for 10,000 yuan?” the dry boss asked uncertainly.
“No, ten thousand pounds,” said Hope accurately.
“Hiss, this is really big, let’s take a look first.”
The dry boss took a deep breath when he heard what Hope said, and secretly wondered where this kid came from. Could he really be a foreigner?
However, in order to avoid being fooled, I still suggest you take a look at the things first.
Hope directly took out two stacks of banknotes, each stack containing a hundred bills.
“Really? Haha. This is the first time I’ve seen so much money. But it’s okay. This is the Magic City. Ten thousand pounds is nothing. But I have to find a few more stores.”
Although the skinny old man was a little shocked, he was not frightened. After all, this is the Magic City. Where else could there be more millionaires than here?
“1 to 14.52, how about this price? The price at the bank today is 1 to 14.35.”
“Sure.” Hope said calmly, not taking the small amount of money seriously.
“Okay, wait for me here for a while. Ah Hu, you are responsible for entertaining the guests and let the young boss try the tea cake I hid.”
Hearing Hope’s reply, the skinny old man smiled brightly and was about to walk out, kicking the burly man guarding the door.
Then Hope sat in the shop drinking tea and waiting for the dry boss.
It’s not that he hadn’t thought about the possibility of greed from the boss. After all, the exchange price was more than 140,000 yuan, which was quite exaggerated in this era, and it was also reasonable for him to have bad intentions.
But…he didn’t want to reveal his identity as a wizard.
But he couldn’t care about these things when he was really in danger. Apparition had become his instinct now. He could return to Hogwarts to catch up on some sleep in a moment. The mess left here would naturally be taken care of by the Ministry of Magic.
When it comes to the magical society here, Hope can be said to know nothing about it.
Even though Hope’s father in this life came from the magical society here, he could actually be considered a wizard here.
But he really knew nothing. Hanny never talked to him about these things, and even when he asked, Hanny avoided the question.
But even if he didn’t say it, he could probably guess something.
My hometown has also signed the International Statute of Secrecy, which means that the wizarding and Muggle worlds are completely isolated.
They must be hiding somewhere, living a life of paradise.
It was not difficult for Hope to find the gathering place of wizards, after all, he had the ability to sense treasures.
Thinking of this, Hope held the teacup in one hand and looked around.
In an instant, I entered the realm of treasure perception, and the whole world was shrouded in fluorescence.
Then they began to eliminate the treasures of Muggle society, and the whole world suddenly became much quieter.
However, treasure perception is only the perception of treasures, not maps. He can sense the specific direction of the treasure and how far it is from him, but cannot mark it on the map.
Unless the positioning of Apparition is added!
The two characteristics combined in an instant to construct a 3D planet in his mind, on which many fluorescent lights could be seen.
As his mind moved, the planets suddenly moved closer, and only the vast land of his hometown appeared.
There are fluorescent lights everywhere on the basic map, but most of them are just dots. However, in some places, there are many fluorescent lights gathered together. He guessed that this should be the gathering place of wizards.
In fact, there are quite a few of these gathering places, because his hometown has a large population and a large area.
Gatherings also come in different sizes. Hope focused his attention on the larger ones and after a careful counting, he found that there were six of them.
What surprised him the most was that he saw that the largest gathering place was actually in the capital, and there was also one in the Magic City.
There are four remaining, one each in the central, coastal, southwestern and northwestern regions.
Originally, Hope thought that the gathering place would be set up in some remote places. Now think about it, maybe wizards also need to live. Although they are isolated from the world, they cannot be truly isolated from the world.
There is one in the Magic City, and it’s not far from here.
Hope couldn’t help but take a sip of the scalding hot tea. Should he go and take a look?
It is actually risky to rashly step into an unfamiliar place, especially since Hope is an illegal immigrant and has not reported anything.
After thinking about it, he decided not to make any changes for the time being, at least until the progress of fusing the fire dragon was improved.
Even though it won’t be able to use attack magic at that time, at least it will be difficult to break through.
Hope is still somewhat confident about the system.
Hope had been waiting for an hour and was getting a little impatient. He almost thought that his boss had been arrested and would never come back.
The skinny boss finally showed up, with a few people who looked like bodyguards. As soon as he came in, his eyes darted around and finally landed on Hope.
“Sorry for the wait, little boss. It will take some time to find all the hundred-dollar bills.”
The skinny boss was sweating all over his face and breathing heavily. He was holding a white woven bag in his hand, which seemed to be quite heavy.
Then the shabby boss waved to the burly man nicknamed Ah Hu. Ah Hu immediately walked to the door of the store and pulled it down. The whole store suddenly became much darker.
Hope narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Ah Hu, but the shop door was not completely closed, but left one-third of a gap.
He almost thought that the woven bag contained nothing but machetes.
With his treasure sense, he knew that there was indeed money in it.
“Forgive me, young boss. After all, these are not small amounts, and there is no need to worry about being disturbed.”
The tacky boss took out a silk scarf to wipe the sweat off his face while turning on the lights in the store.
“Understanding.” Hope said calmly, too steady to be an eleven-year-old child.
The next step was to count the coins. Hope took out two stacks of pounds, placed them on the tea table, and raised his head slightly to signal.
“Haha, young boss, you are a straightforward person.” The dry boss grinned, took the banknotes and began to check them one by one.
That being said, what happened next for Boss Ganba was not so pleasant.
Two hundred British pounds took more than an hour to check, which was even more outrageous than the goblins at Gringotts.
Chapter 33: Negotiation (Old Version)
“Haha, the number is correct. The young boss is really an honest man.”
The dry boss chuckled. It could be seen that Hope was getting impatient, but there was nothing he could do. He could never be too careful in business matters to avoid getting pecked by an eagle.
“There are 145,200 yuan in here. Count it, boss. It won’t count once you leave the house.”
The dry boss immediately handed over the woven bag and reminded that it would be unreasonable to say that the number was wrong after leaving the house.
“It’s just a small amount of money, why count it!”
Hope had obviously been waiting for a long time, so he was naturally a little impatient, and his tone was naturally a little off.
That being said, the reason he didn’t count was actually because of the treasure’s perception. He could tell how many banknotes were in there with just a sense, and since they were all hundred-dollar bills, the number was correct.
“Young boss, you’d better count them. We won’t be responsible once you leave the store. It’s better to explain anything to the store.”
The boss was a little stunned. His tone was a bit arrogant, but his heart was even bigger. This was not a small amount of money. He was the only one who was honest. If it were any other boss, there would be at least many “mistakes” in the money.
“I know the rules.” Hope insisted without listening.
“All right.”
The dry boss was a little helpless and couldn’t understand Hope for a moment. He thought Hope was mature beyond his years and age was not a big problem, but now it seemed that Hope had the temper of a child.
“Then, young boss, I won’t keep you for dinner. I will definitely treat you well next time you come. Do you need me to send someone to take you to the bank? Ah Hu is my man, so don’t worry.”
The dry boss then said that of course he would not keep Hope at this time. After all, there were hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bag in Hope’s hand, and he also had 10,000 pounds in his hand.
Not to mention offering to take Hope to the bank, just because he was worried that something might happen to Hope on the way.
“Need not.”
Hope refused directly. After all, he was not planning to go to the bank.
However, as soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the three sturdy men who had escorted the boss back earlier suddenly lit up, but they quickly concealed it.
The dry boss wanted to persuade them again. He thought he didn’t have any bad thoughts, but the people who escorted him back were not his people, but subordinates of other bosses. He was afraid that they were not as honest as him.
However, Hope refused to listen and insisted on leaving. Finally, the dry boss sighed slightly, walked to the door himself and opened the rolling door.
“Then I won’t send it. Just be careful, young boss.”
The dry boss still reminded, and then watched Hope leave.
“Boss Liu, now that the matter is over, we will leave first.”
When the three strong men saw Hope leaving, they said goodbye to the dry boss.
The anxious expressions on the three people’s faces were almost written all over their bodies. How could the boss not know what they were about to do, so he stopped them immediately.
“I’ll send you all the way. The little money I have is from your boss. If you leave and I get robbed, who will be responsible?”
The dry boss spoke righteously, and his words made a lot of sense, which immediately made several people hesitate.
Finally, a few people had no choice but to stay, but one of them looked at a figure walking outside the store, his eyes flashed slightly.
Hope walked on the street carrying a woven bag. He casually slung the bag over his back and walked swaggeringly on the turbulent street.
Who would have thought that a child would be carrying a woven bag containing a huge sum of 140,000 yuan, so Hope was not worried at all that the people on the road would see anything.
Of course, just because these passers-by don’t know doesn’t mean that some people don’t know.
Hope didn’t know if anyone was following him and was going to take the risk, but based on his understanding of human nature, he could boldly assume that there was someone. Even if it was just his own illusion, it was better than being robbed.
He finally chose to come to a nearby residential area, where commercial buildings had already been built, but they were not as tall as the ones in the future, with more than 30 floors.
As soon as I walked into the building and stepped onto the stairs to the first floor and turned the corner, the figure disappeared instantly.
I appeared in the same building again, sitting on the rooftop with a woven bag in my hand, overlooking the scenery of the Magic City.
If someone really had designs on him, it would be a busy process. The people in that unit would have to check every household, or they might have to wait for him outside the unit for their entire lives.
Hope then took out a purse from his pocket and stuffed the stacks of money in the woven bag into the purse.
After being expanded by his Traceless Extension Charm, it was easy to put in the money, and there wasn’t much anyway.
After packing all the money and just about to throw away the woven bag in his hand, he suddenly stopped and stared at the woven bag in his hand. There was no text or pattern on the woven bag, and the quality was pretty good, so it could be used as a purse.
Then he stuffed the woven bag into his purse, ready to cast the Traceless Stretching Spell to carry the treasures hidden underground in the Magic City.
Next, he could finally get down to business. He had wasted too much time exchanging money. He did not forget why he came here today, which was of course to complete the mission first.
Then Hope wandered around the city again, looking for mutton restaurants in the streets and alleys.
Of course, it’s not a roadside stall, but a mutton restaurant that looks larger in scale.
I spent the entire afternoon running around and communicating with these bosses.
When it was completely dark, he finally stopped and ran to a grocery store with a tired face to buy a bottle of soda.
This afternoon was indeed quite rewarding.
For example, he roughly knew the amount of meat a lamb produced, which was about ten kilograms.
In other words, the amount of mutton he needed to eat was reduced three times.
Secondly, under the power of his money, he negotiated deals with some bosses.
The main thing was to buy lambs. He chose three mutton restaurants, which could get him a hundred lambs a day.
Compared to the number of ten thousand, these fifty heads were obviously not many, but he was already very satisfied. After all, he was not going to put all his eggs in one basket.
There are so many cities in my hometown. If there are 100 heads in each city, the total would be enough.
Chapter 34 Villa (Old Version)
After the negotiation, Hope found another agency that mainly provides services to foreigners.
The reason why he chose such a company was mainly because of his identity issue. He had no real identity and communicated in English throughout the process.
He spent a small amount of money and asked this company to help him rent a house. He pretended that he had lost his identity documents and so on, so the company helped him to get the identity documents needed for renting a house.
It was just a matter of adding some money to get around Hope’s illegal status.
Money makes the world go round. He directly hired an agent, who was a top student named Gao Lin.
A monthly salary of one thousand was considered a high salary at that time.
With a local agent, everything became simple. No matter whether it was matters concerning the factory or the mutton restaurant, all were left to Gao Lin. He only had to pay the money, which immediately made him feel much more relaxed.
But everything takes time, and Hope returned to Hogwarts only when it was dark.
After a busy day, I felt a little tired. I returned to the dormitory and found Harry and the others playing wizard chess.
“Hope, you’re back. Why haven’t I seen you all day? Did you find some interesting place?”
Ron asked curiously when he saw Hope come in. Harry also put down the wizard chess piece in his hand and looked at Hope with the same curiosity.
“Actually, I sneaked out.”
Hope said in a low voice, as if afraid of being heard. This was not wrong. After returning to his hometown, he would still leave Hogwarts.
He knew he had to give a reason. After all, he would be leaving frequently in the future, and the people in his dormitory would definitely notice something unusual. If he kept lying, they would not even have basic trust and would undoubtedly be ostracized.
“Really? Impossible. Fred and George said that only students above the third grade can go out with their parents’ consent.”
Ron was a little unconvinced.
“The school also said that we can’t go out at night.” Hope said disdainfully. Aren’t school rules meant to be violated? This should be common sense in Gryffindor.
“Then how did you get out?” Harry believed what Hope said and asked curiously.
“There are some secret passages in the school where we can sneak out.”
Hope spoke immediately.
“Is it fun outside?” Ron looked at Hope expectantly again.
“Not very good, about the same as Diagon Alley.” Hope immediately belittled, somewhat worried that these people would be bewitched by him and sneak out to play.
Of course, there wasn’t actually anything fun to do there, but compared to the boring Hogwarts, it was really nice, just like the commercial street outside the university in the previous life. The prerequisite was that you had money, which of course Harry had.
“Where are those secret passages?” Harry’s eyes widened. He had obviously been seduced by Hope. He played wizard chess with Ron here day after day, not because it was fun, but because he had nothing else to kill time.
“I can’t tell you this. It’s not that I’m stingy, but I heard from others that this is a unique project of Hogwarts. Exploring the castle and finding the secret passage, don’t you think it’s interesting?”
Hope shrugged helplessly and didn’t tell Harry because… he didn’t know himself.
Of course, with his ability to dig soil and rocks, he actually has a special sense of the architecture of the entire castle, so finding the secret passage is easy for him.
But… this is not an ordinary castle, but a magic castle. Most of these passages cannot be opened easily. Some require specific passwords. For example, the passage leading to Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets needs to be opened with Parseltongue, and the same is true for most others.
Hope himself can force it to open by using the digging and rock-digging properties, but Harry and the others obviously can’t.
“That makes sense, Harry. Let’s go find it now.” Ron took Hope’s words seriously. His eyes lit up. He dropped the chess piece in his hand, jumped up, and said excitedly while pulling Harry.
Then Harry, Ron and Neville left, leaving Hope alone in the dormitory.
“It’s really easy to fool.”
Hope smiled. This solved the problem of him often being away from the dormitory in the future.
As soon as they left, the dormitory suddenly became quiet. Hope, who had been busy all day, felt a little tired. He yawned and went straight to bed.
When he woke up again, it was still late at night. Hope ran to the Magic City again and went to the agency to find the agent Gao Lin.
This way of contacting is indeed a bit troublesome, but there is no other way.
Mobile phones had not yet been released, but there were mobile phones. However, they were very expensive and could not be compared to the fruits of later generations. A mobile phone would start at 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which was already a huge amount of money in that era.
What’s more, applying for a phone number requires queuing up, which is even more troublesome, so Hope simply gave up the idea.
As for pagers, Hope instinctively rejects them, just as some older people reject learning about smartphones.
It’s really not as convenient as his own owl, Hope thought helplessly, but Gao Lin also gave him a phone number so he could contact him through this number if there was an emergency.
“Mr. Huo, this is the house I found based on your requirements. You can take a look. The only house that can satisfy your requirements of being quiet, single-family and in the city center is a villa.”
Gao Lin handed Hope a pile of materials, which were the house information he had selected overnight, and they were all in English.
Hope took it and looked at it, his brows raised slightly. The information on it was very detailed, including the location, area, and price.
The price of a single-family villa was only a few hundred thousand, and he was tempted, but he had no identity.
The rental is not expensive, only two thousand a month.
Hope randomly picked one of the buildings and asked Gao Lin to get it done as soon as possible.
“No problem, if the funds are in place, it can be done today.”
Gao Lin immediately said confidently.
Money was naturally not a problem, and Gao Lin carefully took the money that Hope handed over.
“By the way, Mr. Huo, I have also completed the things you asked me to do yesterday. I have also contacted a few more families and can probably get an extra hundred lambs.”
Gao Lin then spoke again, saying that it was exactly what Hope had instructed him to do yesterday. He did not expect Gao Lin to be so efficient and got results overnight.
“Very good. After the house is rented, you can contact those merchants and have them deliver the goods to me every night according to the address. You will be responsible for receiving them when the time comes. You can leave the goods in the house and then leave.”
“No problem, Mr. Huo.” Gao Lin naturally had no problem with it. He just picked a time every day to help collect things. This job was too easy.
“By the way, you have to watch out. I want a lamb. Others use goat meat instead. Tell them that if I find out, you won’t get your money.”
Hope thought of something and immediately reminded.
“Okay, I’ll pay attention.” Gao Lin said honestly.
Chapter 35: The Telltale Ghost (Old Version)
In the following time, Hope and Gao Lin parted ways. Gao Lin took his money to do business, while he wandered around the Magic City.
It’s like a tourist, wandering around, fortunately I have money in my pocket, so I never feel sorry for spending money when I see something that interests me.
Life here is definitely more interesting than in Hogsmeade.
Hope returned to the agency when the sun was about to set. As expected, Gao Lin had already arranged the rental of the house and he could even move in on the same day.
“Come on, Mr. Huo, I’ll take you over to have a look.”
Gao Lin said excitedly and immediately pulled Hope over.
When they got downstairs, Gao Lin pushed a motorcycle that he had borrowed from somewhere and took Hope to the villa.
It took quite some time to drive before we arrived at the villa.
There are many villas of this type around here. Geographically, it is close to the suburbs but not too far from the city.
Hope saw the villa he rented with his own eyes. Gao Lin was like a real estate agent, holding a set of keys in his hand and introducing it to Hope.
The style of this villa is more similar to those in foreign countries, which is not new to Hope as he has seen it too many times.
“Mr. Huo, according to your request, today’s lambs should be delivered soon. I have already told them the address here, but there should only be 100 lambs today, and the number will increase to 200 starting tomorrow.”
After introducing the layout of the villa, Gao Lin said to Hope.
Although he was somewhat curious about why Hope did this, he naturally would not ask based on his professional ethics and a monthly salary of one thousand.
“Yes, sure.”
Hope nodded slightly, very satisfied.
The lamb he wanted was naturally not a whole sheep, but just the meat, or cooked lamb slices.
Sure enough, not long after, the people from the mutton restaurant came on a pedal tricycle with a cart of mutton, and carried the mutton in the iron basin into the villa.
There were three companies in total, and with Gao Lin’s prior contact, they all delivered the goods at almost the same time, so he didn’t have to wait too long.
One hundred lambs, weighing nearly a thousand pounds of cooked mutton, were piled up in the villa.
Then Hope sent Gao Lin away, closed the door, and started to deal with the problem.
He grabbed the cooled mutton slices in the iron basin and stuffed them directly into his mouth. Before they completely entered his mouth, they had already been swallowed and decomposed.
There was no one else present, so Hope devoured it quickly. If his mouth wasn’t so small, he would have just poured it out.
In fact, it didn’t take long for the entire thousand pounds to enter his stomach.
And his progress in fusing the fire dragon suddenly increased by more than a hundred points.
Feeling such progress, Hope was in a very happy mood. At the rate of two hundred fire dragons per day, it would only take more than a month to completely fuse them, which was already fast enough.
He could even be faster. He planned to go to the capital next weekend and find an agent to finalize the matter. He believed that there would be no shortage of mutton available there, and the time for fusing the fire dragon could be shortened again.
Of course, money matters must also be put on the agenda.
Two thousand kilograms of mutton every day means that he has to spend 7,000 yuan every day, and the 140,000 yuan in his pocket will not last long.
After finishing his business here, he did not stay any longer and went straight back to Hogwarts.
No matter how successful he is outside, he still has to do his homework.
It’s as difficult as ever. Apart from the Charms homework, there’s really no way to do the other homework.
In the end, I had no choice but to shamelessly run to the library with my homework, and sure enough, I found Hermione still studying on the weekend.
Although Hermione’s personality is not very likable now, she still does her job conscientiously when faced with her classmates’ humble requests for advice, albeit a little long-winded.
She was going to elaborate on the answer to an assignment, and Hope just wanted to hear the answer, but from Hermione’s mouth, the effective ingredient was only a mere 20%.
Hope couldn’t get impatient yet, so she had to listen patiently to prevent Hermione from going on strike.
As for Harry and the others, they had been missing for the entire afternoon. It was obvious that they had been deceived by his words yesterday and were still looking for the secret passage.
In the blink of an eye, a week has passed, and it is the much-anticipated Friday noon again.
Nothing else happened during these days, just normal classes, except that he would run to the Magic City before dinner every day, eat two thousand kilograms of mutton, and put the money on the table in the living room, waiting for Gao Lin to take it away the next day.
Harry and the others have been looking for the Chamber of Secrets these days, but it only lasted a few days. After that, they gave up this stupid behavior and turned their attention to Hope, hoping to get the location of the secret passage from him. Hope also tried his best to temporarily get around it with some words, but the effect was getting worse and worse.
“Hope, do you want it this afternoon?!”
Ron asked eagerly as soon as they came out of the Great Hall, even Harry was the same.
Looking at the expectant eyes of the two, Hope felt a little headache. It seemed that he could no longer hide it.
He felt that if he didn’t reveal the location of the secret passage, these two people would keep an eye on him all afternoon, and he wouldn’t have to go to the Magic City.
Before he could say anything, a voice suddenly interrupted.
“This is a serious violation of school rules. If you are caught, Gryffindor will lose points!”
Hermione said angrily, but her eyes were looking at Hope, obviously knowing something.
Of course, it was not Hope who leaked the information, but Harry and Ron. Their behavior of looking for secret passages everywhere in those days was seen by Hermione, and Harry accidentally let the secret slip during the conversation with Hermione, so now they also know that Hope had sneaked out.
Facing Hermione’s questioning, Harry and Ron did not refute as they did in the past. Instead, they looked at Hope guiltily. They swore that they had never revealed it on purpose, and even if they did, they would never reveal it to Hermione.
“Actually, I’m going to go see Hagrid this afternoon. I don’t think it’s against school rules.”
Hope said helplessly that being targeted by Hermione was indeed a troublesome thing.
“I’ll keep an eye on you! If I catch you sneaking out, I’ll tell Professor McGonagall!”
Hermione did not believe Hope, but said firmly that in her opinion, the school stipulated that only third-year students could go to Hogsmeade village for the safety of the students. In her mind, the reason why she stared at Hope so intently was that it was an act of caring for her classmate.
However, before Hope could say anything, Ron exploded when he heard this!
“Go ahead, go ahead, you snitch. No wonder no one likes to hang out with you. Even your roommate doesn’t like to play with you!”
Ron said angrily, his voice stabbing like a knife into Hermione’s heart.
Chapter 36: Boggart (Old Version)
In an instant, Hermione’s face turned pale and she looked at Ron in disbelief. She didn’t expect Ron to say such a thing. Her eyes turned red and she bit her lips tightly. Without saying another word, she turned around and left quickly.
Seeing this, Hope covered his forehead helplessly. As the saying goes, the truth is the most hurtful.
The atmosphere in Gryffindor College is like this now. Although Hermione has earned a lot of house points for Gryffindor, it is of no use. No one will be grateful for it. Instead, Hermione’s uniqueness makes her often alone.
But even if it’s the truth, he shouldn’t say that. Hope looked at Ron speechlessly. It was already Friday, and Ron hadn’t thought about homework at all. Without Hermione, who in the whole academy would lend him homework?
“Ron, you’re going too far!”
Harry had to say it, after all, looking at Hermione’s reaction he knew how hurtful these words were.
“That’s right!” Ron looked a little flustered, but still said it stubbornly.
“Hope, let’s go to Hagrid’s place together this afternoon. I haven’t seen Hagrid in a long time.”
Hope naturally had no objection, and was somewhat looking forward to it. He received a letter from Hagrid in the morning, telling him that the Boggart powder had been obtained, which meant that he could carry out a new fusion. How could he not be happy?
Then they walked out of the castle and towards the Forbidden Forest, and soon came to Hagrid’s hut.
Hagrid entertained them warmly with hot tea and rock cakes that he made himself that were harder than stone.
You could tell from Harry and Ron’s faces how much effort they put into dealing with the rock biscuits in their hands. In contrast, Hope had no expression on his face. In front of Harry and Ron’s incredulous looks, he bit the rock biscuit in one bite.
“Hope, this is what you wanted.”
Hagrid pulled out a glass jar with a pile of ashes in it.
“What’s this?” Harry asked curiously, and Hagrid began to explain.
Hope held the glass jar in his hand, feeling a little uneasy. He wished he could fuse the Boggart right now.
And in fact he did just that, while Hagrid was chatting with Harry and Ron, he gently opened the lid, stretched out three fingers, and grabbed a small handful from it.
The next moment, the handful of ashes in his hand disappeared without a trace, and Hagrid and others on the side obviously did not notice anything unusual.
[Current fusion item: Boggart
Difficulty of analysis: C level
Analysis progress: 1/2000
Current extraction features: 1. Self-deformation][Self-Transformation: Ability to transform one’s body into any shape. ]Looking at the contents on the system, Hope showed a sincere smile. Just as he expected, he directly mastered the ability of transformation. Unfortunately, he could only transform himself.
Then he checked the exclusive task of fusing Boggart.
[Exclusive Mission: Prank
Use self-transformation to play a prank on wizards. This task can be repeated. Each time you complete it, you will get 1 progress point. This progress point can only be used to fuse Boggart. 】
Hope immediately understood this exclusive mission. Isn’t it just to scare people like Bogut?
It’s just… he frowned slightly, feeling that the description of this exclusive task was a little too detailed, as if it was preventing him from stealing something. He wondered if it was an illusion.
Is it possible that the system can evolve?
No matter what, the exclusive mission has already been done and he cannot change it. He can only think of a way to complete it.
This time, it was specifically stated that the target of the prank had to be a wizard. If it were just that, it would be fine. He could use some other means to carry out the prank, such as the ability to dig soil and rocks.
The Slytherin common room was right underneath Hogwarts, where he could use his digging abilities perfectly and do whatever he wanted with the Slytherin students.
But now he was required to use his self-transfiguration ability, which meant that he had to actually show up in front of the wizard.
Hope couldn’t help but rub his brows. The mission had to be completed no matter what. Although the difficulty of the analysis this time was only C-level, the progress points were as high as 2,000 points, which was only 3,000 points less than the difficulty of B-level. If he only relied on the automatic increase of progress points every day, it would take a full five years. Obviously, he couldn’t wait.
Maybe he can use his Apparition and self-transfiguration to scare people…
Soon Hope came up with an idea, but even just for that, the workload of installing it two thousand times was quite large.
He stroked his chin in thought, wondering if scaring multiple wizards at once would be considered completing multiple tasks.
He would have to try it to know the details, so he withdrew his thoughts and started chatting with Hagrid and the others while drinking hot tea and eating rock cakes.
As for his hometown, there was no rush. It would be dark by then anyway. He decided to wait until tomorrow to go to the capital and select an agent like he did in the Magic City to speed up the process of fusing the fire dragon.
It was almost dinner time when the few of them left Hagrid’s hut.
“Hope, are you going to sneak out tomorrow?”
Ron obviously hadn’t forgotten about this and asked.
“Well, since you don’t want to experience the joy of finding the secret passage yourself, I’ll take you there after dinner, but I have to go to the bathroom first.”
Hope shrugged his shoulders. He had to make up for the lie he had told no matter how hard he tried!
However, if Harry, Ron and the others were really able to experience true happiness, they would probably linger there often.
And they even told Hermione about the secret passage, so how could he not worry that this matter would eventually affect him.
In this case, the first experimental subjects of the exclusive task will be my two playful roommates.
While going to the toilet, Hope had actually used his teleportation skills to run to the villa in the Magic City.
After a few days of experience, he already knew how to quickly and conveniently handle the two thousand kilograms of mutton.
Hope opened his mouth, revealing his neat teeth. Then the mutton in the iron basin on the ground spontaneously lined up and rushed into his mouth, continuously, and was completely decomposed the moment it entered the mouth.
The devouring attribute plus the survivalist attribute enabled him to finish eating the two thousand kilograms of mutton in less than ten minutes.
The reason why these muttons can be lined up in an orderly manner is naturally because of the flying curse.
Soon Hope came out of the bathroom and walked towards the hall with Harry and Ron who were waiting for him.
Although he no longer needed to eat, he never missed breakfast, lunch, and dinner because he was afraid that missing meals several times would arouse suspicion from others.
Chapter 37 Roommate (Old Version)
I didn’t see Hermione the whole time we were having dinner in the auditorium, but I heard from her roommate that she was crying.
Both Harry and Ron felt uneasy when they heard the news.
Hope didn’t feel anything, after all, he didn’t say anything.
“Maybe we should apologize to Hermione.” Harry couldn’t help but say after dinner.
“Why? I’m telling the truth!”
Ron said this stubbornly, but his voice seemed a little lacking in confidence.
“What do you think, Hope?” Harry then looked at Hope.
Hope was stunned for a moment. What did this have to do with him? However, he still followed Harry’s meaning.
“Indeed, I think you should apologize to Hermione. After all, you probably haven’t finished your homework this week.”
Hope nodded solemnly and took himself off.
The two’s faces changed when they heard this, and only then did they remember how important Hermione was.
“Let’s wait until tomorrow. Don’t we have something important to do tonight?”
Ron immediately changed his mind and agreed to apologize to Hermione, but that would be tomorrow’s matter.
“Well, a day later is nothing.”
The two of them suddenly showed a hint of excitement on their faces, and put Hermione’s matter behind their minds.
Hope shook his head, but still took them to find the secret passage.
Finally, under Hope’s guidance, they came to the corridor on the third floor and stopped in front of a wall.
“Is this the place?” Harry asked curiously. It was hard for him to imagine that the secret passage leading outside the school would be set up in the corridor.
Hope didn’t answer, but pulled out his wand from his sleeve and tapped the wall.
However, in Harry and Ron’s expectant eyes, the wall did not change at all.
“Ahem…obviously it’s not here.” Hope used coughing to cover up his embarrassment. In fact, there was indeed a secret passage leading to Hogsmeade village behind this place, but he didn’t know the password. He just came here to try his luck and see if he needed the password.
Then he continued to lead Harry and Ron to the next place.
However, after visiting several places, I was disappointed every time. There were very few secret passages that did not require passwords.
There was a hint of suspicion in Harry and Ron’s eyes as they looked at Hope.
Finally, Hope went down the stairs to the basement, where he found a dark utility room next to the kitchen, filled with a mess of things.
As soon as I came in, I felt the dust inside being stirred up as they opened the door.
Hope couldn’t help but wave his hand in front of his nose, trying to dispel the dust that had penetrated into his nasal cavity.
“Ahem, Hope! Are you sure it’s here? It looks like no one has been here for a long time.”
Harry coughed due to the irritation of the dust and was very suspicious. If this was the secret passage that Hope usually used to enter and exit Hogsmeade village, why did it look like no one had ever been there?
“I promise, it’s right here.”
Hope said immediately with a solemn oath.
“Lumos!”
Hope took out his wand and cast a spell. A little fluorescence appeared on the wand, illuminating the entire utility room.
“Before, I actually wanted to take you to find a new secret passage so that you could experience the fun of exploration, but obviously I didn’t find it. Now this secret passage is the one I usually use.”
Hope’s explanation to the two was, of course, just another lie to cover up the lie.
He assured that the secret passage here would definitely work. If not, at most he could force open the entrance to the secret passage. He could even create a secret passage leading to Hogsmeade village here.
Hope came to a wall, his eyes flashing slightly, and tapped a slightly protruding wall tile with his wand.
Suddenly a dull sound was heard, and the wall in front of them really split apart.
Hope couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief and pointed at the entrance to the secret passage.
“See, I said it was here.”
Harry Ron’s face showed a hint of excitement when he saw this, and he jumped up and down for joy, and immediately wanted to step in first.
“oops!”
At this moment, Hope suddenly screamed, covering his stomach with one hand, looking a little ugly.
“What’s wrong with you?” Harry couldn’t help but ask with concern.
“I have a stomachache. I need to go to the bathroom!” Hope said a little anxiously.
“Don’t worry about me, I’ll come find you later.”
“Okay!” Harry and Ron looked at each other. They didn’t expect Hope to escape at this moment, but they didn’t doubt anything. At this time, the adventurous spirit of Gryffindor in their hearts had awakened.
Hope left in a hurry, leaving Harry and Ron alone.
Harry took out his wand, cast a fluorescent flash, and took the lead in stepping into the secret passage, while Ron followed closely behind.
Hope, who had just walked out of the utility room, straightened up. He didn’t look like he had a stomachache at all, and a sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He seemed to have forgotten to tell Harry and the others that sometimes something might get stuck under the secret passage.
After looking around and making sure there was no one around, Hope disappeared.
When he appeared again, he was already at the end of the secret passage.
What magical creature should I transform into?
Basilisk? But he doesn’t have the ability to petrify people, and Harry and the others might expose him afterwards.
Got it!
Hope suddenly had an idea, and the next moment he began to transform.
His body suddenly swelled, and even the clothes on his body were deformed.
Finally, it turned into a huge hairy spider with six long legs with many barbs on both sides, eight large ink-black eyes on its face, and two huge sharp mouthparts growing out of its mouth.
In fact, this is not a real Acromantula, because he has never actually seen one.
This was transformed from the images he saw in his previous life, and it underwent certain artistic processing to make it appear even more terrifying.
For example, there are eight eyes, each the size of a fist, arranged in vertical rows on both sides.
Hope instinctively controlled the six long legs, which felt a little strange. Moreover, this transformation was not as good as other features. It felt very awkward, probably because there was only one progress point.
He just sat there, waiting for the two unlucky guys to come.
After waiting for a while, he saw a ray of light at the end of the passage, and he immediately had an idea.
Here we come!
Harry and Ron were feeling very excited and were rushing forward quickly. Suddenly, Harry in front stopped and forced Ron behind him to stop as well.
“Why did you stop? Have we arrived yet?” Ron said excitedly, his eyes passing over the back of Harry’s head and looking ahead.
As soon as they looked up, they saw a scene that they would never forget in their lifetime: a hairy spider, its body so big that it took up the entire passage, and its eight dark eyes were staring at them mercilessly.
At that moment, both Harry and Ron felt the blood in their bodies run cold.
Ron almost fell to the ground, his body shaking uncontrollably.
Chapter 38 Thoughts (Old Version)
Harry was obviously frightened at this moment, his eyes were a little horrified under his glasses, but he was obviously calmer than Ron. He pulled Ron’s arm and moved back very lightly, trying not to disturb the other party.
However, Hope would not do as they wished. He just wanted to leave a deep enough impression on Harry and the others so as to dissuade them from going to Hogsmeade.
Immediately, his body moved slightly, and his six legs moved forward.
“run!”
At this moment, Harry regarded Hope’s action as an attack. He shouted without hesitation, his voice echoing throughout the corridor, and then pulled Ron and ran quickly back the way he came!
Hope then chased it madly from behind, but as long as Harry and the others looked back, they would find that the speed of this giant spider was not as fast as they had imagined, and it was even slower than their speed.
It’s not that Hope was deliberately letting up. Although he really had this idea, when he actually took action, he found that his speed was very slow. He was not as fast as the Acromantula should be after transforming, and he was not even as fast as Harry and the others.
Only then did Hope realize that the self-transformation feature was really just a transformation, and it did not change his physical fitness.
Harry and the others were running in a very awkward manner, and sometimes they almost fell to the ground. Ron’s face was pale, and if Harry hadn’t pulled him, he would have been left behind.
I don’t know how long I ran, but I finally managed to run out of the passage. However, I didn’t dare to stop for a moment. I ran straight out of the utility room and stopped in front of the stairs. I looked back, panting, but I didn’t see the giant spider, so I stopped.
“What…what is that?!”
Ron said breathlessly as he fell to the ground.
“I don’t know!” Harry supported his knees, breathing heavily, his eyes staring straight at the direction of the utility room. Once the big spider ran out, he would immediately pull Ron away.
However, the spider did not chase them out, which made them feel relieved.
“I was so scared…I thought we were going to die there!” Ron still shuddered when he recalled it.
“Why are you here?”
Just then, a voice appeared behind them. When they turned around, they found it was Hope.
“There’s a big spider in the secret passage, as big as a house!” Ron gestured exaggeratedly when he saw Hope, as if he had seen a relative.
However, Hope didn’t believe it and thought they were joking.
“It’s true! Haven’t you encountered this before when you passed by there?”
Harry also testified for Ron, and Hope became somewhat skeptical.
“I’ll go and take a look!” Hope walked towards the utility room despite Harry and the others’ objections. As he passed them, a smile appeared on his face.
Seeing this, Harry and the others could only follow Hope closely.
Hope drew out his wand, cast a spell, and came to the door of the utility room. Light poured into the utility room, illuminating the inside.
With the help of the fluorescent light, they could see that there were only sundries inside and no spiders as Harry and the others had mentioned, and the entrance to the secret passage had been closed at this moment.
Seeing the situation inside, Harry and Ron finally relaxed completely.
“We really didn’t lie to you!” Ron said loudly, fearing that Hope wouldn’t believe him.
“Maybe he sneaked in. It’s normal for this kind of thing to happen in such a dark secret passage.” Hope immediately comforted the two.
Apparently, the trip to Hogsmeade ended before it even began, and Hope and the others had to return to the dormitory. Ron described the scene to Neville in an exaggerated manner, scaring Neville so much that his face turned pale.
“Will that giant spider come out and eat people? Why don’t we tell Professor McGonagall?” Harry said worriedly. He had no doubt that the spider’s huge mouthparts could bite them off in one bite.
“Yes, that’s right! We need to tell Professor McGonagall.” Ron agreed immediately, stroking the goose bumps on his arms. He felt that with such a thing in Hogwarts, he would not be able to sleep well tonight.
The two then looked at Hope, wanting to hear Hope’s opinion.
“I have no objection, but how are you going to tell Professor McGonagall that you want to sneak into Hogsmeade through the secret passage?”
Hope spread his hands and asked back.
“We have to think of a reason.” Harry nodded and said solemnly.
Finally, Harry and Ron hurried out of the dormitory door and went to find Professor McGonagall.
Hope did not follow them. After all, he had not just experienced all this. He used the excuse that he had sneaked out before to ask Harry and the others to remove him from the matter. Harry and the others naturally understood.
Hope lay on the bed in a happy mood, humming a melody, wondering if Harry and the others would pester him to go out with them again in the future.
Even if he really found other secret passages, Ron’s personality would not allow him to take risks again.
He then thought about the exclusive task of fusing the Boggart.
Pranks, many behaviors can be considered pranks, not just scaring people, in his opinion, it should be to make others feel negative emotions through certain behaviors.
He looked at the progress of the Boggart fusion on the system, which had increased by two points. Apparently his previous idea was valid.
The number of completed tasks is not determined by an act, but by the number of people who have been pranked.
Hope touched his chin. If he transformed into Voldemort and ran to Diagon Alley, the mission should be completed quickly, but it was a bit unethical.
Of course, it’s just a thought, completing a task doesn’t have to be so extreme.
If we talk about the person he most wanted to play a prank on in the entire Hogwarts, it was none other than the Head of Slytherin, Snape.
There was a gleam in Hope’s eyes. This mission gave him a reason, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
How about playing a good prank on Snape.
Transform into Harry’s mother, Lily Potter?
It’s just that… he thought Snape would just curse him the first time he saw him.
Although Snape never forgot Lily, he was not a naive person, so how could he be fooled? Besides, he didn’t know what Lily Potter looked like.
Or transform into Harry, run to Snape, and tell him that Lily made the right choice by choosing James Potter instead of him.
hiss~
Hope couldn’t help but gasp at the thought. If he did this, Snape might not doubt Harry’s truthfulness. He would most likely believe it directly and would probably explode with anger on the spot. Harry would probably explode as well afterwards.
But this is an idea. He doesn’t necessarily need to transform into a dark magic creature to scare people. He is worried that this might lead to the closure of Hogwarts. Of course, it is more likely that Dumbledore will do it himself.
It is not easy to find someone who transforms into a well-known wizard to mess with people’s minds, and the key is that it seems quite interesting.
Chapter 39 Gold Bars (Old Version)
About an hour or two later, Harry and Ron came back from outside, looking depressed.
Upon questioning, I learned that they had told Professor McGonagall about this matter, and only said that they had discovered the secret passage by accident.
When Professor McGonagall heard that there was a giant eight-eyed spider in the secret passage, she naturally would not sit idly by. She followed Harry and the others all the way to the entrance of the secret passage. After a thorough investigation, they did not find the so-called eight-eyed giant spider.
Professor McGonagall didn’t think that Harry was making fun of her, but the Acromantula was indeed gone, and the matter had to come to an end for the time being. However, McGonagall also reminded Snape, who was on night patrol tonight.
The result is predictable, he was scolded by Snape.
“I don’t think they discovered it accidentally, but were looking for it on purpose. They wanted to use the secret passage to do something against school rules, but they got dazzled and scared themselves. That’s why this happened. Professor McGonagall, I suggest that Potter and Weasley be deducted points and be put in detention!”
Although it was not ultimately as Snape said, both Harry and Ron felt a sense of frustration at being questioned but unable to prove it.
“Since we can’t find it, maybe he has run out of Hogwarts. Maybe there are other entrances to the secret passage, but I didn’t notice it when I passed by there before.” Hope immediately comforted.
Hope didn’t chat for long and soon fell asleep. The same went for Harry and the others. They were frightened and didn’t have their usual high spirits.
When I woke up naturally, light was already visible outside the window, around five or six o’clock.
He got up quickly. Five or six o’clock here meant it was already afternoon back home.
Hope hurriedly took the purse, quietly pushed the door and went to the bathroom, changed his clothes and then Apparated directly.
This time the target is not Shanghai, but Beijing.
Hope looked around casually and heard the vigorous shouting from the roadside. It seemed that compared to the Magic City, the atmosphere of life here was more intense. Everyone had their own things to do, and it could be seen that the flow of people was much greater than in the Magic City.
Hope did not waste any time. After asking for directions, he found an agency like the one in Modou. He paid them some money and asked them to help rent a house and purchase mutton.
He didn’t stay in the capital for long before he appeared in a villa in the Magic City.
He took out the woven bag that he had put away earlier from his purse and cast a traceless stretching spell on it, and the space inside the bag expanded instantly.
As his mind moved, the tiles under his feet cracked instantly and continued to sink to the ground, revealing a hole, and his figure continued to fall.
Deep underground, Hope opened the mouth of the woven bag and stood there blankly, as if waiting for something.
At the same time, the treasures buried deep underground in the Magic City were all wrapped in a ball of soft soil and began to move underground.
They bypassed the human traces that were also buried deep underground and rushed towards this side from all directions.
After a long time, the first thing emerged from the ground. It was a somewhat rotten wooden box filled with heavy gold bars. The gold was shiny and heavy, and they were directly put into the woven bag when they approached the opening.
This was just the beginning. Many things broke out from the earth walls on all sides and flew straight into the mouth of the woven bag.
The woven bag became more and more bulging. Who would have thought that this ordinary woven bag contained countless treasures.
At first Hope was quite excited, but as time passed, he became numb.
When the last item fell into the bag, Hope finally stopped. The soil under his feet surged up and lifted his body up. In the blink of an eye, he reappeared in the villa.
The tiles on the floor did not recover as he dug the soil and rocks.
Hope waved his hand casually and cast a recovery spell. The ground was instantly repaired and there was no difference from the beginning.
He looked at the woven bag in his hand. As long as he put his head into the bag and performed a fluorescent flash, he could see the things piled up in a mess inside.
There was no other way. All he could do was cast a traceless stretching spell on the woven bag, expanding the space in the bag to an incredible extent.
But after all, it is still a woven bag, at most a woven bag with a larger space. It is different from the magic suitcase in Newt Scamander’s hand. It is an exquisite alchemical product and is definitely not just a traceless extension spell.
If Hope hadn’t cast a levitation spell on it, it wouldn’t even be possible to pick it up.
I used the treasure sensor to count the treasures inside and found that there were 412 gold bars alone.
This number is already quite a lot. After all, these are just treasures that have been forgotten underground for various reasons. The real treasures had long been taken away.
In addition to gold bars, there are also some antique paintings, guns and bullets, and jewelry.
But the largest number of them were boxes of silver dollars. However, Hope already knew that these were not worth much now, so there was no need to take them out.
As for gun bullets, they are not of much value in this era.
Antique and famous paintings can be collected and displayed when you have your own house.
Then Hope cast a flying spell, and gold bars flew out of the woven bag and fell into his purse.
As for the woven bag filled with so many things, it was a bit difficult to deal with. He couldn’t take it back to Hogwarts or his home, as there was a risk of being discovered.
If it is placed in this villa, it is possible that someone may sneak into it.
Suddenly, Hope had an idea. The ground began to wriggle as if it had become a swamp. The woven bag continued to sink and was wrapped in mud. Then a recovery spell was cast to restore the ground to its original state. In this way, no one knew that there was a valuable treasure hidden underground.
After staying here until dusk, Hope turned around and used self-transformation, transforming into a muscular man with extremely white skin. He wore a black vest, the muscles on his arms were very obvious, and he had a fierce look on his face. Just by looking at his appearance, you could tell that he was not someone to be trifled with.
Then the figure disappeared, and when he appeared again he was back in England, but not in Hogwarts, but in a corner of London.
Hope then walked into a gold shop, took out a gold bar and asked the price.
“Show me the receipt for the gold bars.”
The middle-aged man in the gold shop looked through the gold bar that Hope handed over, and obviously did not find the number imprinted on the gold bar by the gold bar manufacturer.
“This is the gold bar left by my grandfather. There is no such thing.” Hope was obviously stunned and said quickly.
“I’m sorry, sir. We don’t want any trouble. Perhaps you could look somewhere else.”
When the middle-aged man heard this, he shook his head, handed the gold bar back, and said indifferently.
Chapter 40: Black and White (Old Version)
Hope had not expected this to happen, so he could only take back the gold bars, push the door open and walk out, looking for another gold shop.
He ran into a few more setbacks afterwards. Some gold shops were willing to accommodate him when they heard that he didn’t have proof of purchase, but they required Hope to produce his passport for registration, so he naturally returned empty-handed.
But I have almost figured out the price of the gold bar in his hand.
The current price of gold is 240 pounds an ounce, and after weighing, his gold bar reached 11 ounces.
That is to say, one gold bar can be sold for 2,640 pounds, and he has 412 gold bars, which can be sold for millions of pounds. If converted into money in his hometown, he will definitely be a multi-millionaire.
With all your net worth, you can buy dozens of single-family villas in Shanghai!
I can’t help but feel excited, but the prerequisite is that I can sell it.
Although he hit a wall several times, Hope didn’t believe that he couldn’t find a black shop, so he continued looking.
“215 pounds an ounce, I don’t care where you get your stuff from.”
The middle-aged man with a bald head and thick black beard said directly after hearing that Hope could not produce the purchase receipt that the price was about 10% lower than the normal price.
Hope narrowed his eyes and looked deeply at the boss, but the boss was not afraid and looked indifferent.
“Sure, but I want cash.”
Hope had no choice but to agree. After all, without the receipt of purchase or even identification, he could only sell it as contraband. A 10% discount was not unacceptable.
“no problem.”
The bald boss shrugged, understanding Hope’s thoughts.
Then the middle-aged boss saw the man in front of him take out four more gold bars from his trouser pocket and put them on the table.
After the price is determined, there will be some more tedious inspections to ensure that there is no problem with the purity of the thing.
After a long while, the bald boss nodded with satisfaction. He asked the shop assistant to look after the store first, and then went up to the second floor through the stairs in the store, apparently to withdraw money.
After a while, the boss came down from the second floor with brand new banknotes in his hand.
13,200 pounds!
There was a glimmer of joy in Hope’s eyes. Converted into the money in his hometown, it would be 190,000, which was enough for a short time.
He stuffed the bills into the pocket of his loose overalls and then pushed the door open and left.
When he walked into a remote alley and was about to use Apparition to leave, he saw a sturdy black boy walk into the alley, staring at him straight, and then he stretched out his hand and a butterfly knife flew nimbly in his hand.
Hope was not panicked. He looked behind him and saw a man standing at the other end of the alley. It was a white man. It was obvious that the two men came as a team and surrounded him from the front and back. They were the Black and White Duo.
However, this Bai Ge was holding a sharp dagger in his hand, which could probably easily make a bloody hole in a person’s body.
“Be honest. If you don’t want to have another hole in your body, hand over all the money you have!” Heiwa said sternly, slowly approaching Hope.
Hope was not at all panicked, and looked at the approaching black and white evil spirits calmly.
If these two men were holding guns, he might have been a little afraid, but with two knives, who are they looking down on?
Although he has not yet mastered any offensive magic, he has the property of tough skin.
The progress points of his tough skin property have now exceeded one thousand. He had tried it before with the kitchen knife in the villa, but he couldn’t even cut a bloody wound on his finger. Even after chopping it hard, it didn’t leave a trace. Who can he scare with just two small knives?
Hope thought with a little disdain in his heart, but he cooperated by reaching his hand into the loose pocket of his work pants. In fact, he reached through the purse in the pocket and touched a Galleon inside.
The moment Garlon came out of the purse, it turned into a revolver with a long silver barrel and a mahogany handle.
At that moment, both Heiwa and Baige were stunned where they were.
“Whoever moves first will be shot.” Hope said coldly with a blank expression.
The two men who were about to escape stopped instantly, raised their hands skillfully, and let the knives in their hands fall to the ground.
A soft crisp sound was heard, which frightened the two men directly. Panic was obvious in their eyes, and they saw that the revolver in Hope’s hand was already loaded.
“Don’t kill me! I have an 80-year-old mother who is counting on me to support her!” Heiwa immediately begged for mercy, with a pleading look in his eyes. He raised his hands very naturally and slowly knelt on the ground.
Hope looked at the other person again, and that person did the same, kneeling on the ground like Heiwa and raising his hands high.
“We did something wrong, you can do whatever you want to us, just don’t kill me!”
Hope shook his head in disdain, two cowards!
The revolver in his hand is of course not real, but the result of its self-transforming properties.
In fact, he discovered that the self-transformation feature can not only transform the body, but also not everything.
Just like the deformation of clothes on the body, the self-transformation feature can only deform the objects that he is touching. Other objects that he is not touching cannot be deformed even if they are close.
“Who asked you to come?” Hope asked coldly, raised the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Heiwa, which frightened Heiwa so much that he trembled all over, as if he could feel the approaching breath of death.
“No…no one! We just…saw…you staying in the gold shop for a long time.”
Heiwa stuttered, and suddenly Hope saw a clear puddle of water on the ground, and immediately looked at Heiwa with some disgust.
However, this answer was somewhat beyond Hope’s expectations. He thought that the boss wanted to rob him, after all, the one who came was a black kid.
“Did you just say you wanted to make an extra hole in my body?” Hope smiled and asked as if he was chatting.
“I didn’t say that, he said it!” When Brother Bai heard this, he immediately threw the pot away and shook his head violently.
“I…I…” But Heiwa stuttered for a long time and couldn’t utter a word.
Seeing this cowardly look, Hopeton felt bored. He shook his head in disappointment, shook the muzzle of the gun slightly, and pointed it at the knife on the ground.
“Pick up the knife!” Hope suddenly shouted.
Heiwa was so scared that he quickly did as he was told and picked up the butterfly knife on the ground.
“I’ll give you a chance. Make a hole in you and I’ll let you go.” Hope said with a sneer.
When Heiwa heard this, his face fell and he was about to cry. His hand holding the butterfly knife was shaking a little.
“You too.” Hope turned and looked at the white brother who was watching the show.
Seeing that the two of them were slow to move, Hope showed a hint of mockery on his face.
“Count down to three. If you don’t want to move, I don’t mind making a hole in your forehead.”
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Thanks to the monthly ticket from the little mushroom boss in ginger soup
Chapter 41 Self-study (old version)
“two!”
Hope counted down with an expressionless face, and it was clear from his voice that there was no joking involved.
Before the last count was sounded, Heiwa and Baige finally took action. The sharp tips of the knives pierced through the fabric of the pants and went straight into their thighs. Blood splattered out and the two men screamed in pain with distorted faces.
“Oh.”
Looking at their miserable appearance, Hope had no sympathy at all. He walked past Heiwa, leaving behind two figures groaning on the ground holding their legs, and left directly. The revolver in his hand turned into a golden gallon again.
He walked a little away from that alley and entered another one. After making sure that no one was trying to attack him this time, he used Apparition and disappeared.
When Hope returned to the villa in Magic City, he found that the two thousand kilograms of mutton had been placed there, but Gao Lin had already left.
After finishing the mutton, he felt a sense of satisfaction when he saw that the progress points of the fusion fire dragon had increased by nearly two hundred points.
I don’t know if his tough skin can withstand bullets. Fortunately, he has some ready-made gun bullets.
Of course, this was just a thought, and he was not stupid enough to shoot himself.
Afterwards, he Apparated to the capital and came to the agency he had visited at noon.
“Mr. Huo, this is the villa information you requested.”
A young man wearing a slightly old-fashioned suit and with a greasy hair respectfully handed a stack of information to Hope. Even though Hope looked very young, he was worthy of respect in his eyes.
Hope flipped through the books casually. The prices were a little higher than those in Shanghai, but not that much more expensive.
This is the Sanhuan Villa. The people who live here are either rich or noble. Of course, most of them are foreign businessmen who don’t lack money.
“Let’s take this one.” Hope picked out a detached villa that looked more pleasing to the eye and also had a swimming pool.
“No problem, you just need to pay one year’s rent in one lump sum.”
When the young man saw Hope agreed generously, a hint of joy appeared on his face. The commission he would get would not be small!
Hope took out two stacks of money from his purse, counted them and handed them over. He was not afraid of being cheated, as it would be too easy to find the money he handed over.
“By the way, Mr. Huo, regarding the other thing you asked me to do, I have contacted several suppliers and the initial agreement is to supply about 500 lambs per day. But are you sure? A lamb costs about 30 yuan, and 500 lambs will cost 15,000 yuan. This is not a small amount.”
Hearing this, Hope’s face suddenly brightened up. He didn’t expect that the capital city would give him such a big surprise. Moreover, because he was purchasing goods from suppliers, the price was much cheaper than in the Magic City.
“Of course, you help keep an eye on this matter. Remember, I want goats. If you do a good job, I will give you a big red envelope.”
“Yes, Mr. Huo, I will do my best.” The young man became excited when he heard it, and patted his chest to promise that he would never let Hope down.
Hope’s eyes flickered slightly. In this way, it would only take a dozen days for him to completely merge with the fire dragon.
After confirming some things with the agent, Hope left. With the introduction of the agency, he found a company with some strength in the city and exchanged all the pounds he had. The price was a little lower than that in Shanghai, but he still exchanged a total of 190,000 pounds.
Together with the remaining money on him, it was enough to complete the task of fusion of the fire dragon.
When we returned to Hogwarts, it was already three o’clock in the afternoon. Today was Saturday, and no one in the dormitory was anywhere to be seen.
Hope came to the library rarely and looked around. Hermione, who usually appeared in the library, was not seen today. Could it be that she was still angry with Ron?
He wasn’t worried at first, after all, those hurtful words didn’t come from his mouth, but he didn’t know if Hermione would take it out on him.
Maybe I should prepare a gift for Hermione. After all, she is my homework partner.
After secretly making a note of this matter in his mind, he came to the bookshelf in the library, walked around, and took down a few spell books from the shelf.
It is a shame for a wizard not to know spells. In the situation he encountered today, if he had not successfully scared the other party, he probably would have no way out… that would be strange.
If he really wanted to attack an ordinary person, there were actually many ways to do it. In that case, even without self-transformation and tough skin, he would still have ways to make the other person pay the price.
All he had to do was dig a hole in the ground. As long as the other party stepped into it and any part of his body appeared below the ground, he would be at his mercy. He could easily pull him into the ground and bury him alive.
As he thought about this, a strange idea suddenly came to Hope’s mind. If an invincible enemy appeared in Hogwarts one day and was not on the first floor, could he directly sink the Hogwarts Castle into the ground so that he could use the ability to dig soil and stones?
He couldn’t help but touch his chin, feeling that this idea was very feasible.
Hope came here simply to learn some self-defense magic and have more magical skills.
Then he quickly searched through the magic book. Most of the attack spells appeared in the textbooks for senior grades.
In the end, Hope found a more suitable spell, the full-body binding spell!
The spell is to petrify everything.
After use, the target can be paralyzed and unable to move.
The most important thing is that this is not a very advanced magic. It is a little more difficult than the first-grade magic, but it is still far from the real advanced magic.
Hope then put the other magic books back to their original places, took this magic book to Madam Pince, registered it, and borrowed it.
Back in the dormitory, Hope took out his wand and began to practice according to the instructions in the book.
Facts have proved that his talent for magic is not that strong, and it is more efficient to attend lectures than to study on his own. Without Professor Flitwick’s experience, he can only figure everything out on his own.
In the blink of an eye, the afternoon passed and Harry and his friends came back one after another. Upon asking, I learned that they had gone to watch Harry practice Quidditch.
Then the four people in the dormitory walked to the auditorium together to start today’s dinner.
“Potter, I heard that you tried to sneak out yesterday but failed. You were so scared that you peed your pants. You ran to ask for help at night, but found nothing. Hahaha! Is this the little lion of Gryffindor? I think you should still be called the frightened stupid lion from now on!”
Just as they sat down, Malfoy and his group came in. When they saw Harry, they immediately spoke loudly with a mocking look on their faces, and their voices echoed throughout the hall.
Chapter 42 Calmness (Old Version)
Harry’s face suddenly turned ugly, and before Harry could say anything, Malfoy turned and went to the Slytherin table.
“Snape must be slandering us!”
Ron said with certainty that only a few people knew about this matter, and how did they know it?
In fact, just as Ron said, this matter was ‘accidentally’ leaked when Snape was chatting with Malfoy.
“I think we shouldn’t tell Professor McGonagall that the secret passage is right next to Slytherin. Even if the giant spider comes out, Malfoy will be the first one to be eaten!”
Harry also said indignantly, but it was just angry words because the big spider was also gone.
Hope’s eyes flashed when he heard this. This was a good idea.
They started eating immediately. Hope glanced at the Gryffindor table. From the time they came in until they were almost done eating, she didn’t see Hermione. It seemed that she was still angry.
Hope didn’t have much resentment towards Hermione. On the one hand, Hermione was just a little proud and a stickler for rules, and she valued house points and rules more than anything else. She was particularly sensitive towards Harry and Ron, and most of the time she would think about controlling Harry and Ron to prevent them from deducting the house points she had worked so hard to earn.
In fact, Harry and Ron were often deducted points, mostly because of Snape’s malicious targeting.
And because Hope got extra points in the Charms class both times, Hermione didn’t have such a strong desire to control him.
On the other hand he knew that Hermione would change, it was only temporary at the moment, and that she would be sorted into Gryffindor, and in fact she was the same type as the other Gryffindors.
“Have you gone to apologize to Hermione?” Hope couldn’t help but ask, although he had already expected it.
“I forgot. I was so busy watching Harry practice Quidditch today. You don’t know how handsome Harry was at that time…” Ron really forgot about this matter and didn’t take it seriously.
Hope shook his head secretly. Given Ron’s personality, he would probably only think of this on Monday when he has no time.
It seems that he really needs to prepare a gift tomorrow. I wonder what kind of gift would satisfy Hermione, pounds? Galleons?
What price would it cost to complete seven years of homework, Hope couldn’t help but wonder. Of course it was just a joke, he knew Hermione’s personality.
After returning to the dormitory after dinner, Ron asked Hope where he had been that day. After all, Hope was nowhere to be seen when he woke up in the morning.
“I slipped out.” Hope was prepared and said frankly.
“Aren’t you afraid of that big spider?” Harry and Ron said in disbelief, their eyes wide open.
“Didn’t Professor McGonagall find it yesterday? That means it ran away. How about going out together tomorrow?”
Hope said nonchalantly, quietly observing the expressions of Harry and the others.
Sure enough, the two men’s faces changed, and they refused without any hesitation. Their yearning for the outside world was not as great as the safety of their own lives.
Hope chuckled to himself before leaving the dorm and heading for the bathroom.
He used his treasure sense to locate the wand on Malfoy’s body and saw that he was walking towards the Slytherin common room and was almost on the first floor.
As soon as he entered a cubicle in the bathroom, Hope used Apparition to appear in the same utility room as last night, where no one was around.
The next moment he began to transform, and in a flash he turned into the eight-eyed giant spider from yesterday. Moreover, because the space here was not as narrow as the secret passage, the size he transformed into was twice as large as yesterday. The mouthparts in front of his mouth alone were as long as an adult’s arm.
Hope then used this body to perform Apparition and appeared at the corner of the corridor on the first underground floor, which was also the only way to Slytherin.
Fortunately, his timing was just right, there were no other Slytherin students around, and he sensed that Malfoy would soon have an intimate encounter with him.
“I saw Harry Potter training at the Quidditch grounds today, Malfoy.”
“Humph, it seems that Gryffindor is so desperate to win that they actually let a first-year student be the Seeker. Just wait and see, Gryffindor is going to fall flat on its face soon. Let’s see if Potter can still smile then!”
Hope heard their voices before he saw them, and soon saw three figures coming out from the corner ahead. They were Malfoy and his two followers.
I just walked in from the corner and didn’t notice the giant eight-eyed spider that occupied the entire passage at first glance.
They glanced forward inadvertently, and in an instant everyone stopped.
The expressions on Malfoy’s and the other two’s faces were stunned as they stared into the eight huge eyes on Hope’s face. I wonder if he could see the smile on the face of this eight-eyed giant spider.
“Spider…Spider…Spider!” Malfoy was trembling all over and couldn’t even speak clearly. He felt his legs go weak and he was about to fall. His eyes were full of horror and his mouth was wide open.
In just a few breaths, Malfoy and the others did not react at all, as if they were frightened and just stood there.
The next moment Hope opened his huge mouth and roared silently at them.
“Help…Help!” Malfoy and others shouted loudly. Just as they were about to turn around and run, their legs went weak and they stumbled to the ground. They just sat on the ground, looking at Hope with pale faces.
His two followers, Goyle and Crabbe, had already run a few steps, but found that Malfoy did not follow them. Turning around, they saw Malfoy sitting on the ground, facing the giant spider, and the giant spider was slowly approaching Malfoy!
The two looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and regardless of the fear in their hearts, they ran back at the same time, quickly pulled Malfoy up from the ground, and then ran for their lives towards the first floor of the castle.
Watching them disappear around the corner, Hope showed a smile on his face, but he did not chase after them. He glanced at the system and found that the progress points of Boggart fusion had increased by three points. The effect was obviously good.
The next moment Hope disappeared and appeared in the utility room. He turned back to his original form and Apparated again, returning to the bathroom in the Gryffindor common room. He walked out calmly and returned to the dormitory. All this happened in less than five minutes, and Harry and the others didn’t notice it at all.
A few minutes after Malfoy left, Snape hurried over with a wand in his hand, his face extremely gloomy. He didn’t expect that a giant eight-eyed spider really had sneaked into Hogwarts.
However, after searching the first basement floor, nothing was found, not even a trace.
Soon Professor McGonagall appeared here, looking very serious.
“I think we need to go to that secret passage and take a look.” Professor McGonagall said solemnly, and then she and Snape came to the secret passage, but this time they still found nothing.
Chapter 43 Exploration (Old Version)
Hope had fallen asleep while Snape was still patrolling the castle looking for the Acromantula.
The next day, at dawn, Hope had already arrived in Beijing. The agency had already confirmed the villa here.
Of course, the identity was provided by someone from the agency. Hope had already paid them two thousand dollars for this order alone, so they naturally would not shirk such a small matter.
However, the matter of goats and lambs was not so quick. He had to place an order first and pay for it before they could be shipped from other places to the capital. They would then be handed over to the slaughterhouse and processed according to his prior requirements. Finally, the cooked mutton would be delivered to the villa.
Just like in Shanghai, Hope specially hired a young man from an agency to do things for him and gave him a key to the villa, asking him to help receive the mutton.
There is one thing that is different from the Magic City. He paid Gao Lin over there to be his agent, but the person here was just a part-time worker he found at a casual cost of a few hundred yuan. He estimated that he would not be needed after the matter of fusion of the fire dragon was over.
Standing on the balcony on the second floor of the villa and looking into the distance, the scenery is superb, and the ears are quiet without so much noise, which is extremely rare in Beijing.
He had nothing else to do today, so he glanced at the swimming pool below, thinking maybe he could take a swim.
It can be seen that this swimming pool has been vacant for a long time and needs to be cleaned by professionals, but Hope himself is a professional cleaner.
After a whirlwind sweep and a cleansing spell, the swimming pool was free of dust and looked brand new.
Clear water like a spring!
Clear water gushed out from the bottom of the swimming pool, and the water level continued to rise, filling the pool in a blink of an eye.
Hope couldn’t wait to walk down the stairs to the first floor. When he came out of the living room, he was only wearing a pair of swimming trunks. He leaped forward and splashed water everywhere.
There is nothing more comfortable than this in this hot weather.
After swimming for a long time, Hope lay down on a lounge chair by the swimming pool, hiding in the shadow of the sun fan.
It’s a pity that I haven’t bought much for the villa, otherwise I would definitely have a bottle of ice-cold Coke at this time.
Maybe he should put buying a game console on the agenda. It would be too boring to play it alone.
Hope narrowed his eyes slightly, enjoying the beauty of this moment.
Of course he wanted to buy such a villa outright, especially since he knew that the values ​​of the villas here would continue to skyrocket over time.
But there is one thing that cannot be avoided, which is the issue of identity.
It’s not that he hasn’t thought about solving this problem. In fact, it’s not that troublesome. After all, he is also a wizard.
With a Confusion Spell, there would always be a way for the Muggles in London to find him a real identity. If magic doesn’t work, then use the pound!
But he doesn’t know how to cast the Confusion Spell, and the Confusion Spell doesn’t belong to daily life magic, so there is no way to solve this problem for the time being.
Hope suddenly remembered that today was Sunday, which meant that his homework had to be completed today, and he couldn’t help but think of Hermione.
What kind of gift should I give her so that she would give him her homework for reference?
Hope couldn’t help but turn his head and look in one direction. Maybe he should go to the local wizard gathering place to take a look. Maybe there might be something new and interesting there.
I don’t know what the difference is between the wizards here and those in Britain.
He then turned on the treasure’s perception and could feel that there were two main places in the capital where a large amount of fluorescent light gathered, which also meant that there should be two relatively large gathering places in the city.
Hope immediately sat up from the recliner, walked into the living room on the first floor, looked at the map hanging in the living room, and then turned on the treasure sensing.
He used the positioning feature of Apparition to construct a 3D model of the capital city, and checked the locations of the two gathering places by comparing them with the map on the wall.
This sight shocked him. He looked at the map in disbelief, thinking he had seen it wrong. He checked it again and found that there was no mistake. The two gathering places were indeed in those two places.
One is a royal garden in the past, and the other is a royal palace in the past. Today, both are must-visit spots for tourists. It is incredible that they set up gathering places in these two places in a dignified manner.
Suddenly Hope became more interested in them and couldn’t wait to see what it looked like there.
But he still needed to make some preparations before going. He didn’t know how the wizards here dressed, so he couldn’t directly use self-transformation to imitate.
But I think the wizards here will go in and out of the Muggle world more or less, so directly using the local Muggle clothes should not cause any abnormalities.
Then he used his self-transformation ability, and his body suddenly grew taller. A middle-aged man with a serious face and a slightly thin body appeared. This was the appearance he had seen on the streets of Magic City before, and at this moment he was using it to conceal his identity.
As for his clothes, the upper body was a plain short-sleeved shirt with a large pocket on each side of the chest, the lower body was a pair of black suit pants, and his feet were wearing a pair of leather shoes.
Hope looked at his outfit and couldn’t help thinking that maybe he should put on a suit like the ones in the UK.
No matter how hot the weather is, wizards will never wear just a short-sleeved shirt when going in and out of the Muggle world, after all, they still have to hide their wands.
After thinking for a moment, Hope put on a suit jacket.
After getting ready, Hope began to locate himself, choosing a spot in the royal gardens, and then began to Apparate. It was not that he had not thought about being discovered, but wasn’t Apparate a normal thing in the wizarding world? Even if he was discovered, he wouldn’t be surprised.
The next moment, Hope’s figure suddenly disappeared.
After Apparating to the location, Hope looked around carefully. When he found that there was no one around, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to look around.
This place is located in a remote corner of the garden. It seems that a traceless extension spell has been cast, making the space here very wide and directly isolated from the Muggle world.
The scenery is also unexpectedly beautiful. In the distance, you can see a large area of ​​ancient buildings, surrounded by trees, birds singing and flowers blooming. It seems that a wizard has rebuilt it to its original appearance.
Hope was inexplicably in high spirits. Compared to Hogwarts and Diagon Alley, this place was obviously more spectacular. Just look at the buildings and you will know that even though Hogwarts Castle has a history of thousands of years, it cannot compare to the beautiful art here.
“There’s no one over there, let’s go over there.”
“Would it be bad for us to do this?”
Suddenly, two voices were heard, one male and one female. Judging from the voices, they seemed to be two children, and the female voice sounded hesitant.
After thinking about it, Hope did not choose to hide. After all, he did not feel guilty. If an adult wizard came, he might consider taking shelter temporarily, but if it was just two children, he didn’t need to worry too much.
Chapter 44: Exposed (Old Version)
Soon, two figures appeared at the front of the stone road under his feet, which stunned Hope. The two figures also saw Hope.
If they hadn’t been there, Hope would have opened his mouth wide and exclaimed “What the hell!”
He never expected that these two people would be dressed like this.
The two people looked young, at most fourteen or fifteen years old. The boy was wearing a gray gown and the girl was wearing a black gown.
Hope couldn’t help but gasp. At first glance, he thought it was a crosstalk performer or an intellectual from a certain era.
The attire was nice, but it didn’t match his current outfit. He never expected that the local wizard would have this style.
The two men had also seen him and were looking at Hope with strange eyes.
“Someone’s here!” the girl said shyly, and her face turned red for some reason, as if Hope had heard everything she said. She pulled the boy’s sleeve and was about to leave.
But the boy frowned at Hope and walked straight towards him.
At this moment Hope noticed that there was a fan hanging around their waist.
“Who are you? Why haven’t I seen you before? You shouldn’t be a teacher in school.” The boy asked loudly.
Hope immediately sensed something strange in his words and realized why it was so quiet here. It turned out that this was a school!
It was really bad luck that one of the two large gathering places was actually a school, which made his presence look very suspicious.
But Hope did not panic. He smiled, making himself look calm and unhurried, and asked back, “If you are not a teacher, can’t you be here?”
“Of course, but why are you dressed like this?” the boy nodded and asked.
Since this is a school, it is normal for these two people to be dressed like this. It turns out to be school uniforms. I just wonder if adult wizards also dress like this, Hope thought to himself.
There was no sign of anything unusual on his face, and he replied gently, “Just came back from…there.”
Hope was secretly shocked and almost said the word “Muggle”. Who knows how Muggles are called here?
“No wonder.” The boy nodded suddenly in understanding.
“Let’s go back, the next class is about to start.” Seeing this, the girl whispered to the boy.
Hope’s eyes flicked between the two of them. Next class? If the next class was about to start, why were you still here? It was obvious that you were planning to skip class.
Skipping classes and going into the woods? You are incredible.
But Hope also breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he had been fooled. Then he made up his mind that after they left, he would leave directly.
In a school, the appearance of unfamiliar faces is easy to attract attention.
“You don’t seem to know me?” Just when Hope thought they were about to leave, the boy suddenly asked, looking at Hope suspiciously.
Hope was shocked. Who are you? How could I know you? Could it be that he met the Eastern version of Harry Potter?
“Why, are you famous? Are you worried that I will tell your teacher about you skipping classes and running into the woods?” Hope asked stiffly.
As soon as these words came out, the girl became visibly nervous.
The boy smiled and said confidently: “What’s there to be afraid of? Even our parents support our cause. How can the teacher interfere?”
“My reputation is okay, and not everyone knows me, but the weird thing is that you don’t know me, and I don’t know you!”
The boy was saying something incomprehensible, but Hope couldn’t quite understand the logic or what was so strange about it.
Then the boy was seen reaching his hand into his clothes from around his neck and taking out the jade pendant hanging around his neck.
The boy kept staring at Hope, as if observing something.
“Don’t you recognize this jade pendant?” The boy smiled and asked Hope.
At this moment, Hope knew that he had aroused the suspicion of the boy in front of him. Although he didn’t know where the problem lay, it was obvious that the other party had been testing his identity. It seemed that his identity was exposed.
Feeling his identity exposed, Hope felt relieved. He grinned at the boy and said casually, “I don’t know him. What is this?”
It’s easy now that there’s no need to hide his identity. If he’s exposed, just run away. What can these two little brats do to him? After they leave, he can transform himself and change his appearance to continue. Who’s afraid of who?
“That’s interesting. You don’t even know what this thing is.” The boy suddenly showed a mysterious smile, and it seemed that he was really pretending.
Hope was already thinking in his mind, now that his identity was exposed, should he teach this little brat a lesson? Seeing the boy’s smile, he suddenly thought of Malfoy, who showed off the snacks sent by his family in the auditorium every day. His expression at that time was exactly the same as the boy in front of him now.
Hope’s mouth curled up into a strange smile, his eyes revealing undisguised disdain.
“You are just pretending!”
Hope cursed unceremoniously, saying that perhaps returning to his hometown had stimulated his mother tongue.
I can’t stand people who pretend to be cool, Riddler, right?
The next moment, the stone road under the boy and girl’s feet suddenly collapsed, and the two people who didn’t react in time fell down.
The two men’s faces changed drastically. Just as they were about to make some movement, the mud on all sides turned around and wrapped around them. In an instant, the sunken mud recovered and repaired the pit, leaving only the two men’s heads on the ground.
The two looked at Hope in horror, not expecting that they would be buried alive in an instant.
“What kind of magic is this?!” the boy asked in disbelief.
“This is United College! What do you want to do?! The professors won’t let you go!” the girl shouted loudly, pretending to be calm.
United College? Hope had just learned the name of the school. Like the clothes, it followed the old custom, but it was somewhat incompatible with the word professor.
“Come on, keep smiling for me. Don’t you like to laugh?” Hope ignored the girl, squatted down, looked at the boy’s head and asked.
“If you have the guts, let me out. I want to duel with you!” At this moment, the boy’s face looked very ugly, without a trace of smile, and he shouted unwillingly.
“If you have the ability, come out yourself.” Hope said disdainfully, and flicked his right index finger. A stream of water shot out and landed directly on the boy’s face, splashing him all over.
When the boy wanted to talk again, Hope continued to shoot out a stream of water to stop him from speaking, which made the boy very angry.
After playing for a while, he stopped and asked, “How did you know I have a problem?”
Hope really didn’t know how he was exposed, but he guessed that he was just not familiar with some common sense here.
“If you beg me, I will tell you!” The boy was not convinced and said angrily.
Chapter 45 Good Nephew (Old Version)
Hope couldn’t help but shake his head. This kid really didn’t know his place.
The next moment, Hope reached into his suit, and when he took it out, there was a revolver in his hand.
“Common weapons! The Ministry of Justice strictly prohibits common weapons from appearing in the magic world!”
When the boy saw what Hope was holding, he recognized it immediately and cried out in surprise.
Hope suddenly understood that the Muggles here were called “baiding”, which was quite appropriate.
Hope then put the gun to the boy’s forehead, and the boy showed visibly panic.
“Wait…wait, we are relatives!”
The boy finally lost his arrogance and spoke anxiously.
As if afraid that Hope wouldn’t believe him, the boy shouted again: “Your last name is Huo, right?”
When Hope heard this, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. This was not something that could be guessed by random nonsense.
Seeing Hope’s expression, the boy felt relieved, it seemed that he was right.
“My last name is Huo, and my name is Huo Bufan. The jade pendant I just saw is owned by everyone in the family. It is used to distinguish the closeness of blood relationship and the status of the family. When it meets someone from the same family, it will become hot. The closer the blood relationship is to the main lineage, the hotter the jade pendant will be.”
“The temperature of the jade pendant just now is the same as the temperature I felt on my uncle from the second branch, so you must be a member of our Huo family, and your blood relationship is similar to that of the second branch. But our Huo family, regardless of the main branch or branch, will have such a jade pendant, so it is impossible not to recognize it.”
The boy spoke a lot in one breath, as if to save his own life, fearing that the man in front of him would shoot him if he spoke too late.
Hope understood it, but he didn’t expect the problem to lie here. But the family… the main branch, the branch branches… the direct line and the collateral line… Hope felt a little dizzy after hearing it.
But this is obviously an ancient tradition in my hometown.
He couldn’t help but be a little surprised. He didn’t expect to meet relatives as soon as he entered the magical world here.
“So…what kind of relative am I to you?” Hope continued to ask, without removing the gun from Huo Bufan’s head.
“I have seen people from the second and fourth houses. You can only be from the third house. The third house… I heard that there is only one bloodline left in the third house. You should be that person. In terms of seniority, you are my uncle, but you can’t be that old!”
Huo Bufan analyzed quickly, but his voice became softer and softer as he spoke, and he began to doubt himself. He was already two or three years old when the third wife’s child was born.
Hope’s eyes flashed, and he was somewhat shocked in his heart, feeling that the situation was already doomed.
“Which room are you from?” Hope couldn’t help but ask. In fact, although he was sure, he hadn’t figured out the relationship yet.
“I am naturally from the first house. My grandfather is the current head of the Huo family and the patriarch of the Huo family! If you are really the blood of the third house, your father and my grandfather are brothers, and my grandfather is your uncle!”
Although Hope’s mind was a little confused, Huo Bufan’s words had helped him sort it out. However, after hearing what Huo Bufan said, Hope suddenly became confused.
“Patriarch? Are there so many people with the surname Huo?” Hope couldn’t help but ask, can a family produce so many wizards? And they have become a clan.
“Of course, my Huo family has a history of thousands of years and has never been interrupted from ancient times to the present. We are one of the top five families in the world!” Speaking of this, Huo Bufan said proudly.
“Since… you are relatives, could you please let us out… first and then talk!” Just then, the girl on the side interrupted timidly.
“No hurry. Since I’m your uncle in terms of relationship, why were you so arrogant just now?” Hope waved his hand and asked.
Huo Bufan snorted coldly when he heard it.
“Humph, I am the eldest wife! Besides, you…”
Huo Bufan originally spoke with a proud look on his face, but as he seemed to remember something at the end, his face changed and he quickly shut up.
Hope smiled slightly, realizing that the unspoken words were the main point.
Hope simply turned the hammer behind the revolver, making a clear sound.
“Besides what?”
“Besides, your third branch has been expelled from the Huo family. Strictly speaking, we are not relatives!”
Huo Bufan was frightened and shouted loudly.
Hope’s brows suddenly frowned. Expelled?
“Did you kill my father?”
Hope asked in a serious tone. Although Hannie had never told him about his father in this life, he had long guessed that the man was dead. Of course, it was also possible that he had abandoned his wife and children, but Hope had never felt any resentment from Hannie.
This sentence already reveals Hope’s identity.
When Huo Bufan heard this question, he looked at Hope in disbelief, with a look of horror on his face, and blurted out excitedly: “How is it possible! To remove a name means to remove the name from the family tree. Your father’s death has nothing to do with us. My grandfather would visit your father’s grave every New Year! However, I don’t know much about adults’ affairs, and I don’t know why they were removed. Anyway, this matter is never discussed in our family.”
Hope’s eyes flashed, and seeing Huo Bufan’s excited expression, it sounded like it was real.
He nodded and said to himself, “I see. Now that the matter has been explained clearly… should I kill him? He saw me carrying a weapon. Who knows if he will report me.”
Huo Bufan’s eyes widened in an instant, a trace of fear appeared in his eyes, Silence… Silence? !
“I won’t tell. You’re my uncle. I can’t possibly tell on you!”
Huo Bufan spoke very urgently, fearing that he would be silenced if he spoke too slowly. The muzzle of the gun was still against his forehead. From what he had seen in Bai Ding’s movies, he knew that his head would explode like a watermelon if he pulled the trigger!
“Huh? Didn’t you say that technically I’m not your uncle?” Hope asked in surprise and confusion.
“No, you are my uncle, you are my real uncle! The family may not recognize you, but I will definitely recognize you, even if my grandfather comes!”
Huo Bufan shouted from the bottom of his heart, his face flushed with anxiety.
“Really? It seems our blood is thicker than water.”
Hope smiled harmlessly, and then the revolver in his hand returned to its original shape.
“Look how frightened you are. Haven’t you ever learned Transfiguration? Get up, my dear nephew.”
Hope’s mind moved, and the mud on the ground suddenly parted, lifting the two men up from the ground. He held Huo Bufan and patted the mud off his legs, just like a good uncle.
He casually fell on the fan and pulled it hard, and the fan was immediately taken off by him.
“You…!” Huo Bufan was angry but dared not say anything. However, from the methods that Hope had just displayed, he knew that it was not someone that the two students could handle.
Hope casually looked at the fan in his hand, spread it out, and saw a landscape painting on the fan, with a red seal printed on it.
He used his treasure perception to search for all the treasures on the two people and found that there was no wand, but this fan was a magical item. He couldn’t help but suspect that this fan was a wand, just with a special style.
Chapter 46: The Horrible Huo Family (Old Version)
Hope put his arm around Huo Bufan’s shoulders affectionately and turned his gaze to the nervous girl beside him.
“Is this your little girlfriend?”
“That’s right.” Huo Bufan said through gritted teeth.
“She can’t report us, or we…”
Hope made a slashing motion, scaring the girl back a step, and her eyes seemed to be moist.
“She won’t!” Huo Bufan said hurriedly.
“Haha, I’m kidding. Well, you go back first, and I’ll take you around. If she tells us off, I’ll take you and run away.”
Hope threatened secretly, but both the girl and Huo Bufan understood Hope’s subtext.
“You go back first. If the professor asks, just say that I went home and this is my uncle. There will be no problem.” Huo Bufan looked at the worried girl and said.
After the girl left, Hope let go of Huo Bufan’s shoulders, spread out the fan and fanned himself.
“Come on, tell me about the situation here. I’m a wanderer. Since you know my story, tell me what you know.”
Hope then strolled around the garden. The scenery was truly stunning, worthy of being a royal garden.
“I heard my mother say by chance that after Third Master passed away, Third Grandmother took you away. Because Third Master had been removed from the list, no one stopped them.”
Huo Bufan followed, with a helpless look on his face, and began to tell the story.
Hope’s eyes twinkled, and that seemed to sound okay.
“You should be younger than me, so how come you look like this? Did you use the transformation potion?” Huo Bufan couldn’t help but ask curiously.
From Huo Bufan, Hope learned what the polyjuice potion was, which was the compound decoction, just with a different name.
“That’s right. Why don’t you tell me about the Huo family? I heard that you said they are so powerful, is it true?” Hope used a normal attack and forced Huo Bufan to use his ultimate move.
“Of course we are powerful. Our Huo family is one of the top five surnames in the world. During our heyday, the entire magic world listened to us!”
Then Huo Bufan began to tell the history of the Huo family, and even Hope was stunned.
The Huo family originated more than two thousand years ago. They have been a big family in the magic world since ancient times, and their inheritance has never been broken. At their most powerful time, they really controlled half of the magic world.
Unlike the West, the magic world in my hometown never emphasizes the pure-blood theory. Instead, it encourages interactions with ordinary people. This is why the Huo family has not been cut off for two thousand years.
Don’t go for quality but quantity.
Isn’t the probability of a wizard low? Then have more children.
The probability of a Muggle child giving birth to a wizard is different from the probability of a wizard giving birth to a wizard and a wizard giving birth to a wizard, or a wizard and a Muggle. The ancestors of the Huo family discovered this truth a long time ago.
Back then, magic was regarded as a mysterious power bestowed by God. In order to keep this power in his blood, he married wives, concubines, and had children. He created a large number of wizards by himself, and the results were horrifying.
The same thing happened to the children of the Huo ancestors. They kept marrying wives, concubines and having children. They had many wives and concubines and a large number of children, including both wizards and Muggles.
Of course, there have been problems as well. After several generations, it was discovered that no wizards could be born. It seemed that magical talent was being diverted along the bloodline.
Another ancestor made a rule that every wizard’s wife must be a wizard, thus increasing the probability of wizards appearing again.
After several generations, the Huo family gradually developed into a large clan, but only wizards could be included in the Huo family tree.
In order to gather the strength of the family, it is divided into the main line and branch lines, the direct line and the collateral line. The entire family is headed by the direct line of the main line, who leads the entire magic family.
This practice has enabled the Huo family to become a powerful force. It can be said that the entire village is made up of wizards named Huo, who can both better protect themselves and hide themselves.
Of course, wizards from other families are also welcome, whether they marry into the Huo family or marry into the family. They can be thoroughly absorbed as nutrients by the huge Huo family, making the Huo family more prosperous.
How could those wild wizards born from the Muggle group fight against the wizards from the family group, especially in that era when people needed to stick together for warmth. Once heresy was discovered, they would be killed and beaten. Basically, wild wizards would be absorbed into the family, and even their children would have to have the surname Huo.
As for the Muggles in the family, no matter how close the relationship is, they can only be subordinates. In the old days when the patriarch held the power of life and death, no one dared to report the patriarch. He would be beaten to death, and even the government would not care.
Even if the matter really leaked out, at most the family wizard would be dispatched to erase the memory of those who knew about it.
However, with such a long history, there have been problems. During the most prosperous period of the Huo family, they controlled half of the magic world.
This made the clan leader at that time arrogant and conceited, and he attempted to control the mortal emperor. Eventually, the conspiracy was exposed, which made the emperor furious. He assembled an army of 100,000 to encircle and destroy all nine clans.
In secret, a wizard with ulterior motives led the army, causing heavy casualties to the Huo family. In the end, they had no choice but to flee into the mountains. After years of secret development, they finally regained some vitality.
This is roughly the history of the Huo family, which makes Hope sigh that it is really awesome.
There is no discrimination against purebloods and half-bloods, but it is more pure, with power and status as the most important, and strength as the most important.
No matter what, Muggle wizards will not become a hindrance to the family, so why should we discriminate against them? Not only should we not discriminate against them, but we should include them.
Even the direct descendants of the main bloodline are not truly pure-blooded wizards. Historically, the wife may not give birth to a wizard child, so the position of head of the family can only be inherited by the concubine’s children.
Of course, such history is bound to involve fights for the throne, but they are only a minority. Most of the time, the eldest son inherits the throne. Even if there is a fight for the throne, the Huo family will eventually become the head of the family, and there will be no problem with that.
“Tsk tsk tsk!” Hope couldn’t help but smack his lips. Such a family was much stronger than those pure-blood families in the West. At least most of the time, when the patriarch’s words were still counted, he could command a large group of wizards with a wave of his hand. Isn’t this better than the Minister of Magic?
The main lineage not only has the power to command the wizards of the clan, but most importantly, it also controls the property rights and clan knowledge!
In ancient times, magical knowledge was not shared. Only wizards from the direct lineage could learn all the magical knowledge. Others could only learn limited magical knowledge, and were granted different levels of magical knowledge based on the closeness of their relationship.
This leads to a power gap between the main line and the branch line, and between the direct line and the side line. Although some knowledge will be leaked out as the bloodline is marginalized, the only orthodoxy is always in the hands of the direct line.
Chapter 47: The Old Capital (Old Version)
“There are only five families with this surname that have survived to this day, and our Huo family is one of them.”
Huo Bufan said proudly that there were many families like theirs, but there were very few that could survive thousands of years until today.
“Since you, the Huo family, have your own clan school, why did you go to this United Academy? It doesn’t sound like the Huo family school.”
Hope keenly sensed something unusual.
When Huo Bufan heard this, his arrogant expression froze for a moment and then collapsed.
“Strictly speaking, this is also our clan school, but it is a joint academy with four other surnames. Our Huo family is also a member of the board of directors.”
“It sounds like he’s just a director. So which family is in charge here?”
“Uh…neither. The dean of the academy is a wizard who was born into a humble family.”
Huo Bufan said this hesitantly, as if it was a shame for him to talk about this.
Hope stared at Huo Bufan with some suspicion. This sounded… as if it was different from what he had just said about the glory of a noble family.
Huo Bufan glanced around to make sure no one was eavesdropping on their conversation, and then he defended himself, “Although the dean was born a commoner, he is a genius that only appears once in a thousand years, and he is the most powerful wizard today.”
At first, Hope thought the other party was talking about Dumbledore.
“More than forty years ago, the dean appeared out of nowhere and led a group of lay wizards to overthrow the five clans and establish the Wizard Union, integrating the power of the entire magic world. He served as the first president of the Wizard Union, and later required the five major clans to hand over their clan schools and run a unified school. In addition, regardless of status, everyone could share magic equally.”
Huo Bufan whispered mysteriously.
Hope was a little surprised and interrupted, “How come this is completely different from what you just said? Didn’t you say that the clans are powerful? Can the combined power of the five clans be overturned by a group of amateur wizards?!”
In that case, he almost believed whatever was said just now.
“I don’t think it’s possible, but that’s how it is.”
Huo Bufan said this very aggrievedly. In fact, he still wants to understand how the situation was overturned back then, but this is a secret of the older generation and he is not qualified to know.
From Huo Bufan’s narration, Hope also understood the situation of the magic world in his hometown. In a word, the five clans were powerful, but they were being dominated by a white wizard. Although they had been suppressing clan privileges in recent years with the intention of equalizing rights, they did not kill them all. The five major clans still had considerable power in the magic world today.
“So your father will be the head of the Huo family in the future, what about you?”
Hope asked casually. It sounded like Huo Bufan was indeed of noble status and was the son of the future patriarch.
“I’m the fifth child.”
Yes! After hearing what Huo Bufan said, Hope immediately knew that Huo Bufan’s most honorable identity in the future would be the son of the clan leader at most, and the position of the head of the family had nothing to do with him.
“Okay, in that case, then take your uncle for a good stroll. Are there any shops here?”
Hope did not forget his original plan and put his arm around Huo Bufan’s shoulders. Although Huo Bufan had been so arrogant before, how could an uncle like him bother with a junior?
“There’s none in the academy…there are some in the nearby ruins of the old capital.” Huo Bufan was not used to being hugged by his “uncle” who had just wanted to silence him. His body twisted unconsciously, but he was firmly held by Hope and could not struggle free.
The ruins of the old capital are where wizards gather, located in the old imperial palace.
According to Huo Bufan, that was the most prosperous gathering place, gathering more than ten thousand wizards.
The Wizarding Union is right there, and there are four departments under the union, namely the Ministry of Etiquette, Works, Civil Affairs, and Criminal Justice, which together form the Ministry of Magic in my hometown.
Hope nodded. It would be much easier if he went over there, but coming here was not bad either. At least he had one more relative. Even if it was only a blood relative, he would have no choice but to accept him even if the other person cried.
He looked down at the clothes on his body and realized that this outfit was obviously not suitable. With a thought, the clothes on his body changed immediately. In a blink of an eye, he was wearing a grey gown like Huo Bufan, with another set of clothes inside.
“How did you do that?”
Huo Bufan couldn’t help but widen his eyes when he saw this.
“Transfiguration, don’t you teach that here?” Hope answered casually.
“But you didn’t recite any spell!” Huo Bufan was very puzzled and asked.
“Wandless and silent spellcasting, don’t you teach that here?”
Hope said with a confused look on his face, feeling that the kid was making a fuss out of nothing.
Huo Bufan blushed when he heard this, but he couldn’t complain. Of course he knew, but this was Transfiguration! It wasn’t an ordinary spell, and he had never heard of any student being able to do it so easily. Besides, Hope was a few years younger than him…
After changing clothes, Hope prepared to go to the ruins of the old capital. Holding Huo Bufan’s arm with one hand, the next moment, the two figures disappeared.
Huo Bufan looked at everything in front of him blankly, a little confused. Of course he knew where this was? But how did he suddenly appear here from the United Academy? Could it be that he had just been cast with a forgetfulness spell and lost his memory? !
He stared at Hope with wide eyes in disbelief. Was this really his cousin whom he had never met?
At this moment, he had to suspect that the jade pendant of the clan was damaged, otherwise all this could not be explained.
“How did you do it? The United Academy prohibits Apparition magic!”
Huo Bufan asked in a somewhat lost voice. He was eager to know the answer and held Hope’s arm tightly with one hand.
“Maybe the teaching here is different from ours.”
Hope responded casually, but his eyes were scanning everywhere. This place seemed to have maintained its old appearance, just like an old palace.
There are tall palaces standing in the distance, but here is an ancient street with bluestone paved on the ground and old-style buildings on both sides. They seem to be quite old. At first glance, you might think you have traveled back to ancient times.
There were many wizards walking on the street, but their uniforms were different from those of the college students. Some wore Muggle clothes, and some were dressed like wealthy officials in ancient times, wearing all silk.
His eyes were full of joy, and he immediately took Huo Bufan for a walk.
Soon he was dazzled by the sight. This place was completely different from what was in Diagon Alley.
Just like magic wands, there are many different kinds, many of which are modeled after ancient styles.
There are whisks, brushes, hair sticks and even Zen staffs, which are actually magic wands that can cast magic.
“In order to conceal their identities, ancient wizards naturally tried their best to make their wands into items that would not arouse suspicion and could be carried around. I heard that many people at that time would pretend to be Taoist priests or monks in order to carry their wands.
But these are just for the sake of novelty, not practical.”
Huo Bufan directly acted as a tour guide. Looking at Hope’s fussing look, he secretly despised him in his heart, but of course he didn’t dare to show it.
Chapter 48 I’ll Help You (Old Version)
Hope looked at the women’s hair buns with green beads hanging on them and thought of using them as gifts, but then she thought that Hermione’s hair probably wouldn’t be used, so she gave up the idea.
“My dear nephew, this is the first time we meet, shouldn’t we give each other a gift?”
Hope suddenly patted Huo Bufan’s shoulder affectionately and spoke.
“No need for that.” Huo Bufan suddenly felt obvious resistance in his heart. Their first meeting was not a pleasant one, and Hope was the third branch that was expelled from the family. He didn’t want to have anything to do with Hope.
“Why should we be so polite to each other? That fan is good!”
Hope pointed to a paper fan spread out on the wall, on which was painted a picture of birds flying at sunset.
“I already have it, so there’s no need for this.”
Huo Bufan immediately thought of a reason and politely declined.
“But I didn’t.”
Hope smiled and said softly.
Huo Bufan was instinctively stunned when he heard this, but then he reacted and pointed at himself in disbelief.
“You mean I’m giving you a meeting gift?!”
“Of course, wasn’t it you who shamelessly cried and acknowledged me as your uncle? It wasn’t me, so what! You want to deny it now?”
Hope said as a matter of course.
Huo Bufan gritted his teeth, looked at Hope with a red face, and finally took out the money to pay the bill.
Hope noticed that the coins that Huo Bufan took out were the same style as ancient copper coins, but they were golden in color. He thought that these should be the magic coins from his hometown.
Hope was very satisfied when he got the thing. He kept looking at it as if he had got a new toy.
According to Huo Bufan, this fan can be used as a magic wand when folded, and can resist sudden spells when opened.
Ordinary spells can be resisted, but slightly powerful spells can only be resisted once. As for fire spells, they have no effect on them, and truly lethal spells are of no use either.
Even so, Hope thought it was very good. At least in terms of style, it was many times better than that bare wand.
Moreover, there is a green tassel at the end of the fan, which is very beautiful. When the fan is placed near the pants, the tassel will automatically tie up.
“Let’s go, keep shopping!”
Having gained something, Hope became more interested in the next journey.
Then they came to a broomstick shop.
Of course… the name of this store is not Flying Broom, but Hope saw the flying broom hanging inside when he passed by.
I didn’t expect that the magic world here also uses flying brooms.
“I’ve never seen anyone use this thing. If you don’t believe me, ask the boss and see how many of these things he has sold.”
Huo Bufan looked at the flying broom and could not help but complain expressionlessly that if anyone in the academy used such a flying device, they would be ridiculed by others for the rest of their lives.
“Haha, I just wanted to try it for fun, but I didn’t expect that I couldn’t sell any of them. Fortunately, I didn’t buy that much.”
When the shop owner heard what Huo Bufan said, he was not angry. Instead, he laughed and felt somewhat fortunate.
Hope looked at other things in the store, his eyes shining.
Unlike the British wizarding world, which only restricts one type of flying objects, there are all kinds of flying objects.
Hope reached out and grabbed a peach wood sword, took a deep breath, and found that the peach wood sword was also a flying device.
He knew how to use it without Huo Bufan’s introduction!
I’m afraid that there are rumors of immortals in ancient times, and they probably came from here, flying with swords! Unexpectedly, it was magic. Hope was a little excited and a little disappointed.
In addition to the peach wood sword, there are some other flying devices, such as a carriage, but it needs to be used in conjunction with magical beasts. There are also some proud ones, which have a large space inside, but are mainly used for multi-person flight.
There were also some personal chariots, but Hope was more interested in the mahogany swords than anything else.
In fact, peach wood swords are more popular in the magic world. I heard from Huo Bufan that there are special sword-wielding competitions in the academy.
Even though they are all peach wood swords, they can be divided into high-quality and low-quality ones.
There is nothing surprising about the normal version of the peach wood sword, but the more expensive peach wood sword has a shrinking spell and an anti-shrinking spell. When not in use, you can shrink it and carry it on your body, and then throw it out directly when needed.
Compared to the peach wood sword with the shrinking spell, the normal version of the peach wood sword is simply nothing!
Hope’s eyes lit up, as if he had seen a luxury car. How could he not be tempted!
Hope patted Huo Bufan’s shoulder affectionately again, but Huo Bufan, who had been observing Hope, had anticipated this and carefully dodged Hope’s hand.
“Don’t give me that, I don’t have any money for this!”
Huo Bufan said with a vigilant look on his face, this thing is not a magic wand, it requires a lot of money.
However, Hope didn’t believe this. The main lineage! The future patriarch’s son, the grandson of the current Huo’s patriarch, actually said he had no money. If the Huo family didn’t even have money, who else would have money?
It’s not that he didn’t have money, he could always take out some money to exchange, but he felt that the exchange was a bit troublesome. The more important reason was that he didn’t want to pay and just wanted his dear nephew to spend money for him.
In one word, his nephew lost everything!
“Nonsense, you are the head of the Huo family, you must never say such things outside, otherwise others will think that the Huo family has fallen to the point of not being able to afford a peach wood sword.”
Hope directly gave value to his dear nephew.
“Don’t you have a girlfriend? She’s my niece-in-law, so we’re still short of a wedding gift. But your uncle is still single, and it’s not reasonable for a single person to pay for this kind of money. When she gets married, she’ll have to give me a red envelope.”
Hope tried to persuade him earnestly, but Huo Bufan refused to listen and kept shaking his head until it almost fell off.
“Do you think I can snatch this peach wood sword and run away with my Apparition skills? As for you, you probably can’t run away. You, a member of the Huo family’s main branch, will be captured and wait for your father to come and pick you up. As for me, I’ve drunk the Polyjuice Potion now. Do you think they can find me after the effect of the medicine wears off?”
Seeing this, Hope had no choice but to take a hard approach and whispered in Huo Bufan’s ear.
Huo Bufan’s face suddenly turned pale, and he imagined as Hope’s voice sounded. He was afraid that he would have to stay and take the blame, and be sent directly to the Ministry of Justice. This was not a big deal, as he was the head of the Huo family, he could just pay the money directly, but the key point was that it would be an unforgivable crime to lose the face of the Huo family.
“Boss, that peach wood sword!”
Huo Bufan finally had no choice but to accept his fate and took out a jade pendant from his pocket, but it was not the one Hope had seen before.
Seeing this, Hope couldn’t help but chuckle, and hugged Huo Bufan affectionately and gave him some sweet dates.
“Don’t worry. With our relationship, I will definitely help you if you want to compete with your eldest brother for the position of the head of the family. Not to mention your eldest brother, I will also help you if you want to compete with your father for the position of the head of the family. It is absolutely worthwhile for you to recognize me as your uncle.”
Hope promised solemnly.
Chapter 49: Extinction (Old Version)
Huo Bufan looked at Hope with horror. If anyone else heard what he said, he would beat his father to death!
“I don’t need it, stop talking nonsense!”
Huo Bufan said hurriedly.
Hope raised his eyebrows and gave Huo Bufan a look.
“I understand! You want to surprise everyone quietly.”
Huo Bufan’s eyes suddenly became more frightened. He really had no idea in his heart! He wanted to continue to say something, but when he saw the boss coming over with a peach wood sword, he immediately closed his mouth, fearing that he would be heard.
The boss handed over the sandalwood box containing the peach wood sword with a flattering look on his face, and returned the jade pendant as well.
“So you are the son of the Huo family. According to the rules, I will give you a 30% discount.”
Just as Huo Bufan was about to take the jade pendant, he saw a hand taking it before him.
Without even looking, Huo Bufan knew whose hand this was, and a trace of helplessness emerged on his face.
“Is this thing discounted?” Hope said in surprise. This is indeed a good thing.
Not only that, he didn’t see Huo Bufan take out any money, which means this thing can also be used as money.
“My Huo family is famous for making things. All the tool shops in the magic world have shares of my Huo family, so we can give discounts. It’s useless for you to take this thing. The family will pay for it after verifying that it is correct. If an outsider takes it and pays for it carelessly outside, the family will report it directly to the Ministry of Justice.
Oh…when my dad finds out I spent so much money, he will definitely beat me up!”
Huo Bufan explained helplessly, this time he didn’t look that arrogant anymore, instead he looked depressed.
Hope couldn’t help but gasp when he heard this. This time he truly felt the arrogance of the Huo family. They were the tyrants of the magic world.
I was even more curious about how someone could have turned the tables on him even though he was so rich and powerful.
If he didn’t have the system, he might have ignored his removed status and fought for the inheritance rights, so that he would have no worries for the rest of his life.
But then again, without the system, what can he do with his weak arms and legs to fight against a big clan?
“Haha, I’m just taking a look.”
Hope laughed out loud, not feeling embarrassed at all, and threw the jade pendant in his hand back to Huo Bufan.
Then he picked up the long sandalwood box with a look of joy and anticipation, holding it carefully as if he had a new toy.
Of course, he knew that the British wizarding world would definitely prohibit this kind of flying equipment, but he didn’t care about that.
Then he held the wooden box and continued to drag Huo Bufan around the street. Huo Bufan had already accepted his fate, knowing that he was temporarily this uncle’s money bag.
Hope finally found something suitable as a gift, and he found it in an alchemy shop.
It was a pen, but of course it was not just an ordinary pen. It had magical powers and could write according to the user’s thoughts.
The British wizarding world seems to have the same thing. Of course, the main function of this pen is to free up your right hand so you don’t have to write with it.
Hope thought about it and just bought five. After all, he was spending the small treasury of his beloved nephew.
It was almost dusk when they finished shopping. Huo Bufan, who was standing by, looked bored and seemed to hate shopping.
Just as Hope was about to end his shopping trip, he suddenly found a shop in a remote corner, which seemed to have some magical materials.
Only at this moment did he realize that he had been walking around the street for such a long time but had never seen a store that directly sold magic materials!
He immediately asked the tour guide Huo Bufan.
“That’s normal. These things are originally monopolized by the five major families. It’s more profitable to sell them as finished products. And if you want to open a store, you just need to purchase from us. If you really want to make them yourself, your price will only be higher than ours, not lower.”
Huo Bufan said as a matter of course.
After thinking about it, Hope also felt that there was some truth in it. For example, the Huo family basically controlled all the utensil shops. If there were any real competitors, they could easily squeeze them out. It was a complete monopoly business.
Hope looked at Huo Bufan standing aside, his eyes flickering. What a monopoly business! The clan’s treasury must be full. In the magic world, they can be said to be rich enough to rival a country.
If he were to try to seize the position of the Huo family heir himself, he would find it troublesome. After all, he had already been removed from the family tree. It would be very troublesome to get back on the family tree. In the end, he would have to fight for the position of heir. How could this be faster than stealing?
But if he directly supports an heir, he won’t even have to steal. If he wants money, he can just take it. How can his dear nephew not give it to him?
When Huo Bufan looked at Hope’s eyes, his heart trembled. He instinctively felt that Hope was up to something bad. Was he going to buy something expensive again?
Hope was just joking before, but now he really had this idea in mind.
“Don’t worry, one day you will find out how much your efforts today will be rewarded!”
Hope immediately patted Huo Bufan on the shoulder and said with emotion.
“Need not!”
Huo Bufan quickly refused. He just hoped that this little money could send the old man away.
“Since it’s a monopoly business, then what’s the matter with this store?” Hope asked.
“That’s the Bai family’s shop. They mainly collect materials, and selling them is just a by-product. But there won’t be many good products!”
Huo Bufan was obviously very familiar with this place.
Bai family? It sounds like one of the five major families.
“The Bai family mainly grows magical herbs and breeds some magical creatures, and sells materials. Normally, the family purchases directly from the Bai family when needed, but they won’t take out the real good stuff. It is said that there are real dragon remains in their clan treasury, but we don’t know whether it is true or not.”
“A real dragon?!”
Hope asked in shock, frowning.
“Yes, a real dragon! It’s a legendary magical creature, but it’s just a legend. Although there have always been rumors, no one has ever seen one, and no one has ever seen one in the Huo family’s 2,000-year history.
It’s just that the Huo family history states that our ancestors clearly stated that real dragons do exist, and that they once saw the remains of a real dragon with their own eyes, but they were never able to obtain one.”
Huo Bufan said with great emotion that if it had not been recorded in the clan annals, they would have simply thought it was a fabrication.
However, no matter which family they belong to, they are very sure that real dragons have long been extinct in history, and the time of extinction may even be longer than the history of each family.
If real dragons were still alive, those fake dragons in the West would not be qualified to be called dragons.
Hope’s breathing became inexplicably rapid, a real dragon!
It turns out that it existed in history, and there are even remains!
I don’t know what characteristics will be obtained after the fusion!
“Where is the Bai family library?”
Hope’s voice was a little hoarse, which scared Huo Bufan. He looked around, and fortunately there was no one around, so no one heard what Hope said.
“Don’t say that. If someone hears this, they will think it’s a provocation to the Bai family, and it will cause a big disaster!”
Huo Bufan whispered that to explore the clan treasury of a big clan would require a life-threatening battle.
Chapter 50: Missing Knowledge (Old Version)
“Then where do you think it might be?” Hope followed up with a firm look in his eyes, as if he was determined to get the answer.
Huo Bufan hesitated for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he whispered, “There may not be only one clan library, especially for storing more valuable things. Even ordinary clan members don’t know about it. If there really is such a thing… I mean if… then only each clan head knows about it. It may be near their clan residence, but it is possible that it is anywhere.”
This is just his personal speculation. God knows where the Bai family’s treasure house is stored.
At certain times, the clan library may even become a family’s trump card for a comeback. It is possible that others may know about it, but those who know about it will not betray the family.
Hope frowned slightly. It made sense. Perhaps this kind of family treasure house would cast magic like the Fidelius Charm.
“Where are they based then?”
Hope continued to ask.
Huo Bufan was a little frightened, feeling that Hope had made up his mind. He didn’t think Hope would succeed. But then he thought again, Hope was not a member of their family, so even if he caused trouble, it would have nothing to do with their Huo family.
“Their family’s base is in the Poison Bee Valley in the southwest. I heard that there are poisonous bees that eat people near this valley. Bai Ding didn’t dare to get close to it. He used to hide himself because of this.”
Huo Bufan spoke in a low voice, looking around from time to time to make sure no one was eavesdropping.
Hope nodded secretly and kept this matter in mind.
Now that he knew the approximate location, he would just rely on the treasure sensing to find it slowly. He didn’t think that magic like the Fidelius Spell could block his treasure sensing.
Of course, it’s not that he didn’t use the treasure to perceive, but he has already used it.
He scanned all places in his hometown, but at least he did not find any remains that resembled a real dragon. The rest could only be identified slowly based on the size of the fluorescence, which would probably take some time.
If the Bai family’s treasure house is not in the southwest, then the range would be too large.
Hope then took Huo Bufan into the Bai family shop for a tour. As Huo Bufan said, there were indeed no high-end items.
He discovered that most of the magic materials here were not available in the West, and he had never even heard of them!
Hope looked at a half yellowed nail in a glass jar, then looked at Huo Bufan.
“This is a zombie’s nail. It can be used to make an antidote.” Huo Bufan took a look and identified it carefully.
“Zombies?” Hope couldn’t help but raise his voice a little. Of course he had heard of zombies, but this was actually true!
Huo Bufan couldn’t help but curl his lips when he saw Hope’s ignorant look, and started to explain to Hope.
“A dangerous humanoid magical creature with a deadly poison in its body. If you are bitten and not treated in time for a period of time, you will be assimilated into a zombie and it is irreversible. A long time ago, the toxins in this creature’s body could not be cracked, but now there is an antidote, which is their fingernails. As long as you drink the antidote in time, there will be no problem. They usually like to find a place to sleep underground, which is very rare.”
Hope opened his mouth slightly, feeling that he had learned something new. It sounded somewhat similar to a werewolf, but after a moment’s thought, this magical creature did not seem suitable for fusion.
“The fish scales of the mermaid…”
“Tengu’s teeth…”
Hope finally realized how inadequate his knowledge was, especially regarding magical creatures. All he knew before was things from textbooks or previous lives, and he knew very little about the magical creatures in his hometown.
However, as Huo Bufan said, this shop is only used by the Bai family to collect materials, so there are not many things.
But Hope still waved his hand and bought everything. Huo Bufan was already used to it. He had already paid the bulk of the money and didn’t care about the small amount.
Hope stuffed all these things into his purse, intending to study them slowly after returning.
The most urgent thing now is that he needs to expand his knowledge about the magical animals in his hometown, so he asked Huo Bufan: “Where is the bookstore? I want to buy a book about magical creatures.”
However, Huo Bufan’s next sentence shocked Hope.
“We don’t have a bookstore here.”
Hope looked at Huo Bufan with confusion. What was he talking about?
“Knowledge has always been a valuable asset. Before the United Academy, knowledge was monopolized by clans. Today, things have changed, but only in the academy. If you want to learn knowledge, you have to study hard and pass the examinations to learn more advanced knowledge, so that students can understand that knowledge is hard-won. This is the philosophy that the dean upholds.
Of course, the descendants of the main line of the family naturally have privileges. After all, the United Academy relies entirely on our family school for support, but your third branch has been expelled.”
Huo Bufan said calmly, not thinking there was anything wrong with it.
Hope stared at Huo Bufan, as if he was thinking of something.
“You don’t need to look at me. It’s useless to look at me. Most of the knowledge of the clan is copied to the library of the academy. It has been completely sealed and stored in the clan library. As children of the family, we have to go to the library of the academy to learn knowledge on weekdays. Of course, you can have your eyes on the library, but don’t blame me for not reminding you that the dean’s office is upstairs in the library.”
Huo Bufan guessed what Hope was thinking at once. In fact, it was very easy to guess. From the beginning of their contact to now, Huo Bufan roughly knew what kind of person Hope was.
A bold, irreverent and peculiar man!
Hope couldn’t help but click his tongue, it was really a smart move, but it was not impossible to sneak in, but this matter was not urgent, and he didn’t have to watch it at this time, at least wait until the fusion position was vacant.
As night fell, the lanterns hanging outside the shops on both sides naturally lit up, illuminating the surroundings and dispelling most of the darkness.
Hope was also ready to leave. He looked at Huo Bufan with a bright smile.
“Well, I’m about to leave. Do you want to come over to my place?”
“No thanks.” Huo Bufan refused without any hesitation.
“Really?” Hope revealed a sinister smile, put one hand on Huo Bufan’s shoulder, and before he could react, he disappeared with him the next moment.
In the blink of an eye, Huo Bufan had appeared in another place. He only had time to react, but found that this was actually the United College. When he turned around, the figure had disappeared and he was the only one left there.
After returning to the academy, Huo Bufan did not move immediately. Instead, he stood there in a daze. Everything today was a little too psychedelic for him. Even after experiencing it once, he still found it a little unbelievable. Could the Apparition magic from other places break the Anti-Apparition magic of the United Academy?
You have to know that even the most powerful head of the clan, that is, his grandfather, has to go through the main gate when he comes here.
Chapter 51: Changes (Old Version)
Hope returned to Hogwarts with a lot of harvest. It felt like a long time had passed, but when he came back, he found that it was only noon here, just in time for lunch.
There was no one in the dormitory at this time. I guess everyone had gone to the auditorium to eat, so Hope also walked towards the auditorium.
As soon as we arrived at the hall, we saw Harry and the others with smiles on their faces, especially Ron, whose face was glowing and he held his head high like a rooster.
“What’s wrong?” Hope asked slightly confusedly as he sat down next to them.
“Haha, Hope, you’re too late. You didn’t see how ugly Malfoy’s face looked just now.”
Ron said excitedly, ignoring the half-chewed food in his mouth.
Hope was relieved after narrowly avoiding Ron’s spray. Only then did he realize that it was because of how he scared Malfoy yesterday.
Malfoy was seen being dragged away in a panic by Crabbe and Goyle, and soon most people in Hogwarts knew about it.
As expected, Harry and Ron just mentioned it, and before they really started to mock him, Malfoy’s face turned dark. The key point was that he couldn’t retort, so he was so angry that he left without even eating.
Hope also laughed along with Harry and the others. Just by listening to it, one could tell how ugly Malfoy’s face was. Finally, he was no longer arrogant.
After lunch, Harry had Quidditch practice, and Ron went to watch as he had nothing better to do, without any intention of doing his homework.
Hope thought about it and it seemed that she hadn’t seen Hermione just now. Could it be that she was still angry?
As soon as he returned to the Gryffindor common room, he ran into Hermione coming down the spiral staircase. The hall was almost empty at this hour. Was Hermione deliberately avoiding them?
When she saw Hope, Hermione snorted coldly, turned her head to the side arrogantly, and continued walking forward, as if she had no intention of saying hello to him.
Hope was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He didn’t expect that Hermione would really blame him as well. Her angry look was quite cute.
Naturally, he would not fight with a little girl. He suppressed the smile in his heart, walked quickly to Hermione and stopped her.
“Hey, I haven’t seen you for a few days. You seem to have become dumber. You don’t even recognize me. Do you need me to take you to the school hospital? I’m happy to help.”
Hope teased directly, successfully angering Hermione.
“You’re the one who’s become stupid!” Hermione immediately retorted when she heard Hope say that.
“Well, if you’re angry about what Ron said the other day, I can apologize on his behalf, if you accept that.”
Hope then said it slightly seriously, just taking himself out of it all at once, he was not apologizing for himself.
“No!”
Hermione said forcefully, walking around Hope and continuing forward.
Hope turned and followed, walking closer.
“Well, I understand. After all, what Ron said was a bit too much.”
Hope immediately stood on Hermione’s side and criticized Ron, but Hermione did not respond.
“Hiss, you’re not angry with me, are you? The Hermione I know won’t take her anger out on someone else because of someone else’s business.”
Hope took an exaggerated breath, as if he had just discovered the truth.
Hermione stopped walking when she heard that, looked at Hope seriously and said, “I’m not mad at you, I just don’t want you to think I’m meddling in your business.”
“I don’t think so. You must be talking about someone else.” Hope immediately shook his head and denied it.
“So do you think I’m meddling in your business by not letting you go to Hogsmeade?”
“Not at all!”
Hope followed Hermione’s words completely without any hesitation.
“Will you sneak into Hogsmeade again in the future?” Hermione continued to ask.
“What you said is not true. Have you ever seen me sneak out? If not, how can you say I sneaked out?”
Hope blinked and asked back.
“You…!” Hermione was speechless for a moment. Knowing that Hope was quibbling, she continued to walk around Hope and towards the auditorium.
However, after the interruption just now, the relationship between Hope and Hermione had eased a lot. At least when Hope spoke, she would not ignore him.
In a blink of an eye, Hope was back in the Great Hall, sitting next to Hermione.
He lowered his head slightly, reached into his purse with one hand, fumbled around for a while, and finally found a wooden box. He took it out and placed it on the table.
“This is a gift I specially gave you as a thank you for helping me with my homework.” Hope said sincerely.
Hermione’s eyes immediately swept towards the box. This was the first time a wizard gave her a gift.
“No need. I just don’t want you to lose points for not finishing your homework!” Hermione still insisted.
“Of course I know you’re trying hard, but this is something I picked for my friend. Harry and Ron also have it, and it’s especially suitable for you. Are you sure you don’t want it?”
When Hermione heard this, her eyes fell back on the wooden box. Even Ron had it, so why shouldn’t she want it?
He immediately opened the wooden box and found that it contained a pen. He looked at Hope with some confusion.
“This is not an ordinary pen. It will write whatever you want according to your thoughts,” Hope explained immediately.
Hermione looked at the pen in amazement. This way she wouldn’t have to get sore fingers from taking so many notes!
“Of course, it needs to be refilled with ink. You should know how to do that.”
Hope turned and reminded.
Hermione couldn’t let go of the pen. She solemnly put the pen back into the wooden box, turned to look at Hope, her eyes shining slightly, and said seriously: “I am very satisfied with your gift, thank you.”
Hope smiled, shrugged, and said casually: “That afternoon…”
“Okay, but I have one condition. You can’t lend your homework to Harry and Ron. Um… in any form. I know you secretly circumvented my previous condition that you should not lend homework.”
Hermione instantly understood what Hope meant and agreed immediately.
“No problem.” Hope agreed without hesitation. It seemed that Harry and the others were in big trouble now. They had offended the only top student in the academy who would lend them homework. Now they didn’t want to apologize and went out to play. They would suffer for it.
Just as Hope was about to leave, Hermione suddenly said, “You said you didn’t sneak out, you must have bought this pen outside.”
Hope looked at Hermione in shock. She didn’t expect her obsession to be so deep.
“Well… But I’m still very grateful to you. Thank you for taking the initiative to reconcile with me. Otherwise, I would have lost a true friend.”
However, before Hope could speak, Hermione said seriously with a straight face, and he seemed to see a hint of gratitude in Hermione’s eyes.
Hope was stunned for a moment, and the next second a sincere smile appeared on her face. She felt that Hermione was different at this moment.
Chapter 52: Fifty Minutes (Old Version)
Hope returned to the dormitory first. He couldn’t wait to reach into his purse with one hand, took out a long wooden box from the palm-sized purse, and placed it on the only table in the middle of the dormitory.
Opening the lid, an exquisite peach wood sword lay quietly inside, with a piece of yellow silk cloth underneath.
He took out the peach wood sword and placed it carefully on the ground.
This is actually the same principle as a flying broom. Hope shouted softly, “Get up!”
The next moment, the peach wood sword floated up five or six centimeters off the ground.
This is not about the language, but the influence of the wizard’s emotions and magic that made the peach wood sword sense it.
Hope’s eyes lit up slightly, and he came to the side of the peach wood sword with great interest. He first raised his right foot and stood on it, causing the peach wood sword to sink slightly, but it could bear his weight.
Then he pushed his foot forward with his left foot, and the whole person stood directly on the suspended peach wood sword.
It was his first time flying a sword and he instinctively shook his body to keep his balance. In the end, he found that his feet were firmly attached to the sword, as if he was walking on flat ground, and his center of gravity was not unstable.
A hint of excitement appeared on his face. The first step has been successful!
The next step is to control the peach wood sword.
As Hope’s mind moved, the peach wood sword suddenly flew out at an extremely fast speed, like a car refueling. In just a moment, a plop was heard, and when he looked again, Hope had fallen under the dormitory wall.
Hope quickly sat up, ignoring everything else and looking at the peach wood sword on the ground. Seeing that it was not damaged at all, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
As for him, there was no problem. Even though he hit the wall hard, he didn’t feel anything.
If Hope had a flying broom at home, he would probably know one thing: don’t play with it at home, and the same goes for the peach wood sword.
The space here was obviously not suitable for him to try flying the sword. After thinking about it, he could only give up for the time being and prepare to find another time to practice.
This thing cannot be seen by the light for the time being. Hope immediately stretched out his hand, and the peach wood sword flew into his hand. It quickly shrank under Hope’s eyes and turned into a small sword of four or five centimeters. At first glance, it looked like a toy.
After putting away the peach wood sword, he turned to look at the fan hidden under the wizard robe at his waist. It is not a bad thing to have an extra wand like this on him. Maybe it can be used in an emergency at some point. Even if it is not a magic wand, it can be used as a decoration. It turns out that the aesthetics of his hometown are much better than that of the British magic world.
Hope then went out with his homework and found Hermione. He quickly finished his homework under Hermione’s guidance. With the magic pen, he didn’t even have to use his hands. It turned out that magic can change life.
He had finished all his homework almost before dinner and returned to the dormitory contentedly, only to find that everyone had already returned.
“Hope, have you finished your homework?!”
Hope had just returned to the dormitory when Harry and the others’ eyes fell from him to the parchment full of words in his hand, and they couldn’t help but ask.
After playing for the whole day, they finally returned to the dormitory and suddenly remembered that they had homework. They were worrying about it when they saw Hope coming back.
“Yes, but unfortunately, Hermione is still angry. When she was tutoring me on my homework, she specifically reminded me not to lend it to you in any form, so…”
Hope shrugged, looking helpless.
Three pairs of shining eyes suddenly dimmed. Even Ron stopped clamoring for homework. After all, the root of the problem lay with him.
“I think if you can apologize properly, maybe Hermione will relent and you’ll have a chance to finish your homework before curfew.”
Hope had to point out a clear way for them, otherwise the entire Gryffindor would have to suffer Snape’s sarcasm during the Potions class.
Harry and the others felt that it made sense and prepared to go out.
Before leaving, Hope gave away the magic pens, so that at least they could do their homework faster.
At dinner time, Hope came to the hall alone and found that Harry and the others were not there. He should still be with Hermione.
The auditorium was full of students, but the professors were busy with something and there was no one in the professor’s seat.
Hope looked at the empty professor’s chair, then glanced at the noisy auditorium, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.
The progress requirement for his exclusive task of fusing Boggart is 2000, which is not a small number. If he plays a prank on only a few people each time, it will probably take a long time. The easiest way is to choose the occasion to play the prank.
As long as he is in a crowded place, more people will be affected and he can complete his task faster.
Looking here, all the students of Hogwarts add up to about three hundred people, and they gather in the hall especially for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Theoretically, he only needs to play pranks in the auditorium six to ten times to complete this exclusive mission, which seems easy enough.
As for how to play a prank, Hope probably had the answer in his mind. He couldn’t help but smile and left without eating a few bites. He would go back to the Magic City to eat mutton anyway.
Not long after Hope left, Harry and the others came in together, with Hermione beside them. It seemed that they had reconciled.
Not long after they came in, Snape also walked in, with his usual gloomy face. He glanced at Harry and the others, making them feel unlucky.
Snape walked all the way to the professor’s seat and sat down, but did not eat. Instead, he glanced at the students in the auditorium with a gloomy face. In an instant, the atmosphere in the whole auditorium became colder. It was like being stared at by a poisonous snake while eating, as if the snake was waiting for them to finish eating and become fatter, and then it would open its mouth and swallow them all.
“What is he going crazy about again!” Harry secretly complained to Ron and Hermione. He was very sensitive to Snape’s eyes and felt that Snape was spying on them.
However, just after Harry complained, Snape stood up and walked straight towards the Gryffindor table.
“Damn it, he wouldn’t have heard it!” Harry was suddenly a little panicked, and so were Ron and the others.
“Is this what your dean taught you? You’re making so much noise during meals. Do you have one more mouth than others? One mouth for eating, and the other for spouting useless nonsense!”
Snape directly attacked the entire Gryffindor. People from other houses immediately started to watch the fun, and the Slytherin students were almost laughing their faces off.
After all, although Snape was often bullied in private, his authority as a professor was unquestionable, and no one in Gryffindor stood up to refute it.
“Gryffindor is deducted fifty points!” Snape seemed dissatisfied and continued to speak mercilessly.
In an instant, the entire hall fell completely silent, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. All the Gryffindor students looked at Snape with disbelief, and for a moment they thought they had heard it wrong.