Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 4 Strengthening Strength
After Schelling was 9 years old, maybe Lucius and Narcissa felt that it was the age for their children to make friends, or maybe they saw that Schelling had a tendency to become an otaku, so they began to invite some children of similar age and status to play at home, hoping that Schelling and Draco could find like-minded friends before entering school.

But these so-called "close-identity" children were almost all from pure-blood families with similar status to the Malfoy family, such as Theodore Nott from the Nott family, Pansy Parkinson from the Parkinson family, Millicent Burster from the Burstead family, Gregory Goyle from the Gower family, Vincent Crabbe from the Crabbe family, and so on.

In Xie Lin's eyes, these are a group of arrogant, ignorant, foolish, and spoiled by their parents. It's no wonder Xie Lin can get along with them!What's more, as far as Schelling knew, more than half of the children here had fathers who were Death Eaters!

Draco was quite impressive. Relying on his Malfoy family background, he easily subdued Goyle and Crabbe's two followers. Although these two big boys were a bit stupid, their sturdy bodies were enough to make good bodyguards.Even Pansy Parkinson, whose eyes are above the top, seems to have a good impression of Draco, and admires Draco's slightly childish arrogance.

To be honest, Pansy at this time has short black hair, big black eyes, a straight nose, and two small dimples. She looks cute, but her personality is very bad. Except when facing Draco and Schelling, her words are very vitriolic.

Theodore Nott was one of the few people who didn't put down his dignity to flatter Draco. The Nott family was well-known in the British wizarding world and owned a lot of industries for manufacturing alchemy items. Together with the Bock family, they were two giants in the British alchemy world.Theodore's talent is not bad, but his personality is a bit stinky. To put it bluntly, he is unbearably narcissistic.

But Draco liked him, and Draco had told Schelling more than once that he felt Theodore was the only one worthy of his equal.

Whenever this group of brats got together, Xie Lin would find various reasons to shirk. If the meeting place was at Malfoy Manor, Xie Lin would find an opportunity to sneak out in advance.Draco was indulging in the mutual flattery among several people, he was very keen to participate in various activities in this small circle, and Schelling could often see him and his friends going out to play and party.

Xie Lin was also invited by them a few times, but after being rejected by Xie Lin several times, Draco felt that his thoughtful younger brother didn't seem to like to hang out with his friends, so he didn't take it seriously. From then on, everyone at the party would automatically leave Xie Lin behind.

Narcissa was not very happy when she found out about this. She nagged Xie Lin a few times, but seeing Xie Lin's reticence, she knew that her words were probably playing the piano to the cow, and she could only let Xie Lin's loneliness go by as time went on.

However, after Schelling noticed Crabbe and Goyle's strong and tall bodies, he also began to put exercise on the agenda.

Not being able to learn magic spells doesn't mean you can't enhance your combat strength.

In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, under normal circumstances, the outcome of a battle between wizards depends on the power of the spell released, the hit rate and dodge rate of both sides in the battle. After all, only the spell that hits the target is an effective spell.

Only in a few very rare cases, the battle between wizards will be dragged into a protracted war due to evenness, and the total amount of magic power will become the final factor that is the key to victory.It can be seen from this that for combat wizards, physical fitness is actually very important, only wizards with agility can have a great survival rate in melee.

Without the knowledge of his family, Schelling began to secretly conduct physical training with Dobby in the dead of night every day.When I read the original book, Schelling wanted to complain. The little wizards in Hogwarts never participated in any training to enhance their physical fitness, and they only focused their time on learning knowledge and spells. In the seven-year Hogwarts education system, the only thing that can be related to physical education is the flying class in the first grade, and it only lasts for a short year.

It's no wonder that little wizards can know so many spells, but their performance in actual combat is extremely poor.This may be because in peaceful times, unless they aspire to become Aurors, it would be more practical for little wizards to learn a few housework spells instead of spending time exercising their physical fitness.

In his previous life, Xie Lin was an expert at survival in the wild. He had a lot of accomplishments in long-distance running, climbing, diving, and fighting.Based on the description of the battle between wizards in the original book, he drew on the training methods of war games in the Muggle world, and specially designed a systematic physical training process for dodge rate and hit rate.

He asked Dobby to aim at him and release a harmless marking spell (hit by the spell would only leave an ink-like mark), while he tossed and moved in a small space, practicing various dodging skills, and step by step let Dobby speed up the casting speed to increase the difficulty of his dodge.

After practicing the dodging skills, Schelling took a short break and asked Dobby to use the flying spell to create paper birds flying all over the sky, while he used darts to practice aiming. The goal was to practice until he could hit every paper bird.

During the day, Schelling also cultivated the habit of diligently reading the Daily Prophet every day, and took the initiative to learn about the big and small things happening in the magic world in the current peaceful era.

With nothing else to do, Schelling remembered that in the original novel, Bill, the eldest of the Weasley family, seemed to have a pen pal in Brazil who was studying at the Castelobushe School of Magic. On a whim, he wrote a letter to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper with an unintentional mood, saying that he wanted to use a small column to publish a revelation on international friendship under the pseudonym "Little Shrimp".

What Xie Lin didn't expect was that the newspaper's reply came very quickly. Within a few days, he received a reply from the editor of the newspaper. He agreed to release this friendship revelation for Xie Lin for free in order to promote exchanges in the international magic world.

A few weeks later, Schelling received several letters from friends and successfully made several foreign pen pals.

Among them, the most frequent exchanges and the most compatible ones are a pen pal living in North America and a pen pal far away in Japan. Through the exchange of letters between pen pals, they also have a preliminary understanding of the magical world outside the UK.

Since then, every weekend, Schelling has another habit of reading and replying letters.

After his parents found out about this, Lucius curled his lips in disdain but refused to comment. In Lucius' eyes, the British wizarding world was the most powerful and noble wizarding world in the world, and other places were just remote and backward barbaric lands. There were not a few people in the British wizarding world who had this kind of thinking. After all, the North American wizarding heritage came from England, while the far east was recognized as somewhat backward both economically and politically.

Instead, Narcissa was thinking about Xie Lin's mental health. She often stared at Xie Lin with complicated eyes, probably because of the illusion that Xie Lin lacked like-minded friends, which caused loneliness in her heart. She could also see that Xie Lin didn't like the small circle of pure-blooded offspring, so her heart was full of guilt as a mother.

Of course, Xie Lin didn't care much about his parents' opinions.

When Schelling told his parents that he had read hundreds of books in the family library, even the aloof Lucius couldn't help showing a surprised and happy expression.

Narcissa then proposed to take Xie Lin to visit Xie Lin's grandmother - Druela Black, Druyla came to the house once when Xie Lin was very young, and she loved Xie Lin very much. In fact, Xie Lin and Draco were the only two grandchildren she recognized.

Schelling has two aunts - the eldest aunt Bellatrix joined the Death Eaters after she got married and did not give birth to any children, and the second aunt Andromeda was removed from the family tree because she married a Muggle wizard.

Druella lives alone in a small house in Wiltshire. When she sees her favorite grandson visiting, her face is full of joy, and she is very happy to hear that Schelling wants to come to stay for a few days.So when Schelling proposed to watch the collection of books, Druella brought out all the books at home in one go and let Schelling read enough.

The collection of books at Druella's house was inherited from her and her dead husband Cygnas Black from their respective families. Druella was originally the daughter of the Rosier family before she got married, so some of the books in the collection belonged to the Black family (Black) and some to the Rosier family (Rosier). A large part of it was married to Malfoy Manor with Narcissa very early.

Then Aunt Bellatrix and his wife were caught and sent to the wizard prison Azkaban after the first wizarding war, and were sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the wizarding property law, except for the Gringotts treasury, the rest of their property must be transferred to Druella's name.

This allowed Schelling to find a bargain. He not only found the classics of the Black family and the Rochell family in the library of the Druella family, but also found some collections of the Lestrange family. There are more than a hundred pieces in total.

Although Druella was old, she was not yet demented. The books she gave to Schelling did not contain any books on black magic, but some secret spells from the Black family, Rochelle family, and Lestrange family were indispensable.Xie Lin knew that this was the most precious knowledge of the pure-blood family, and he used the time hourglass to greedily absorb all the knowledge he could absorb.

After living in their grandmother's house for a month, Schelling and Narcissa bid farewell to Druella, who was full of reluctance. Druella generously decided to give all those books to Schelling, and ordered a house elf Sasha to deliver the books directly to Schelling's bedroom in Malfoy Manor.

[Blake's Family Heirloom Curse Obtained!Rochelle's family heirloom magic spell obtained!The Lestrange family heirloom charm is obtained! 】

Seeing that Schelling's bedroom was full of messy books, Narcissa was both helpless and amused. She bought a portable book bag engraved with the traceless stretching spell. The space inside was like an empty library, allowing Schelling to store tens of thousands of books.

Schelling liked this gift very much, it made him feel as if he had his own private library. He couldn't wait to arrange all the books from Druella's house neatly into the book bag space, but found that he could barely fill one percent of the bookshelves in the space.

[Private Library Obtained! 】

(End of this chapter)