Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 46: Summer Vacation Life
The whole past year has been a troubled year for Lucius.

At the Ministry of Magic, the nemesis Arthur Weasley came to the mansion again and again to investigate. Although nothing was found, he caused himself a lot of trouble.I finally came up with a good idea, expelling Dumbledore from Hogwarts in one fell swoop, and making the little girl from the rival Weasley family bear the blame for the murder of Muggle wizards by the descendants of Slytherin.

Unexpectedly, Dumbledore, who seemed harmless to humans and animals, had unknowingly grown to the point where he could cover the sky with his hands, and the plan to blame Weasley was finally screwed up by his second son, but he still couldn't tell - he didn't dare to let people know that the diary was leaked from his hands, even if the person was his son.

In the end, the whole plan was like shooting himself in the foot. Not only did he lose a house-elf because of it-you must know that every house-elf was rationed by the house-elf resettlement office of the Ministry of Magic.

(Note: The house-elf resettlement office is not invented by the author. It comes from the author's brief introduction of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". It belongs to the Alien Branch of the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures. Newt once worked in this office.)
Worse than the house elves, he also lost his position as the school manager of Hogwarts - this is simply the biggest blow to the reputation of the Malfoy family!

For a long time, Lucius has been able to have the status in the British wizarding world today precisely because he believes that he has three major identities in his hands - the chairman of the Hogwarts school board, the chairman of the board of St. Mungo's Hospital, and the personal friend of the Minister of Magic. These three identities are obtained by himself after spending most of his life and a lot of family wealth. The blow caused by losing one of these identities is not small, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it hurts the bones.

Lucius found that when attending gatherings in pure-blood noble circles, people were no longer in awe of the Malfoy family as before. The worst thing was that old guy Avery dared to publicly mock the Malfoy family, and he also got responses from several other families that should not be underestimated, such as the Nott family, the Carlo family, and the Lestrange family.Every time Lucius thought of this, he felt resentful.

What worries him even more is that if he can't stabilize the situation, will the vassals around him, the Gore family and the Crabbe family, have some undue thoughts, not to mention that his allies such as the Parkinson family and the Burke family may also shake their positions. Whenever he thinks of these shitty things, he will feel very bad.

The only thing that comforted Lucius was that his second son's performance did not disappoint him.

Although Schelling had screwed up his plot, he knew it was just an inadvertent mistake. After all, Schelling had no knowledge of his plot in advance.Moreover, Schelling also gave himself a big face in Hogwarts. He had heard about it from Snape, his good personal friend. In Slytherin House, Schelling severely taught that bastard Gallup Lestrange who dared to provoke the majesty of the Malfoy family, and maintained the dignity of the Malfoy family.

Not to mention, Schelling also received a special Medal of Honor issued by the Order of Merlin. This kind of honor has never been obtained in the history of the Malfoy family. The Malfoy family has paid too much attention to the cultivation of politics and business in the past few generations.

There was another thing that made Lucius look at Xie Lin differently. His son made him more and more incomprehensible.It's okay to have a terrifyingly outstanding magical talent, and even the performance in the field of business investment has caught him by surprise.

In March, Ellerby and Badmore Broom Company, in which Schelling holds half of the shares, launched an unprecedented work - the Firebolt. This flying broom has become the first choice of every major international level Quidditch team in just a few months. Judging from this trend, it is expected to surpass Nimbus Broom Company's market share within a year.Compared with the profits that Schelling was about to make, the losses of the Malfoy family this year seemed nothing.

Moreover, his eldest son Draco has also changed, as if he was influenced by his younger brother.

Since Schelling received the honor of the Order of Merlin, Lucius heard Narcissa's praises at the dinner table at home, and saw Draco's envious eyes. Draco was no longer as foolish as before, but matured and improved a lot. During the summer vacation, he could often be seen reading and studying in the library, or practicing spells on alchemy puppets in empty rooms.

Narcissa was overjoyed by Draco's change, and even the aloof Lucius felt very relieved - he now counted on his two sons to be able to live up to their expectations and contribute to maintaining the glory of the Malfoy family.

The plot returns to Schelling.Schelling has arranged a lot of plans for himself this summer vacation:

First, learn the Patronus spell.The theoretical knowledge and release method of the Patronus Charm can be found in the "Book of Spells" written by Miranda Gosak. This book has long been out of print. If ordinary little wizards want to consult it, they can only find a way to get a professor to approve it. Borrow it from the restricted area.But there is one in Schelling's own private collection. He no longer remembers which family's library he got it from. The important thing is that he has already read this book by heart, and he knows all the contents of the 22 spells in the book.So all he needs to do is spend time practicing and practicing.

The second is to study the blood research materials of the Greengrass family, hoping to discover the hidden ability in their own blood.It would be even better if he could help the Greengrass family to break the family's blood curse. He believed that he would be able to gain the full support of their entire family. Although he knew it would not be an easy task, he still had to try.

Thirdly, Schelling plans to write a book about his experience at Hogwarts last year. The title of the book is "Me and the Basilisk at Hogwarts". In his previous life, he has rich experience in writing adventure books. In order to cater to the reading taste of the wizarding world, he can also directly refer to Lockhart's book series.

At the same time, a new house elf was purchased in Malfoy Manor, named Lele, a very optimistic elf who usually likes to hum a little song.Father Lucius beats it occasionally, and it doesn't take it seriously.

Lucius still didn't like Schelling's kind behavior towards the house-elves, but this time he didn't really reprimand except for a cold snort with a bad face.Obviously, Schelling's status in the family is no longer what it used to be, and even the stern Lucius will never reprimand Schelling for such a trivial matter.

Schelling remembered that it was mentioned in the original book that there were seven secret passages in Hogwarts leading to the outside, four of which were controlled by Filch, the remaining one was under the Whomping Willow, one was behind the one-eyed witch statue on the fourth floor, and the other was behind the big mirror on the fifth floor.

The first two will be frequently used by Sirius and the Weasley twins respectively in this upcoming semester, and the last one—the secret passage behind the large mirror on the fifth floor was collapsed by heavy snow this winter, so the Weasley twins who knew this secret passage will no longer use this secret passage—just enough for Schelling to monopolize.

If Schelling remembers correctly, the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor has a very spacious space. In the original book, Sirius even suggested that Harry set up the headquarters of Dumbledore's Army here.

Taking advantage of the two-month summer vacation, Dobby was idle anyway, and could not show up at home to be discovered by his parents, so Schelling sent Dobby to Hogwarts to secretly repair and clean up the secret passage behind the big mirror on the fifth floor. This secret passage will come in handy next semester.

Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Schelling's "The Basilisk and I at Hogwarts" has been finished. He personally went to the Rumihart Book Company in Diagon Alley.

The editor-in-chief was a kind-hearted middle-aged man. Although Schelling was young, he had heard about Schelling's deeds in Hogwarts.

After a short discussion, he gave Schelling a very favorable contract, and he could get a [-]% commission for every book sold, which was more than what Lockhart got. The premise was that if Schelling had any inspiration to write a book in the future, he must first cooperate with Rumihart Book Company.

After this matter was completed, Schelling also started to learn the Patronus Charm and research materials on the bloodline of the Greengrass family. In this way, Schelling started his boring study life day after day.

At the same time, Ron and Weasley's family won the "Daily Prophet" annual Golden Galleon Award. The whole family set off for a trip to Egypt in the second week of the summer vacation, and visited their eldest son Bill by the way. They would not be able to return until the end of the summer vacation.Hermione also traveled to France with her parents.Harry was once again tragically locked up by the Dursleys, not even allowed to go out.

While Schelling was indulging in study and research, on a certain day in August, an unprecedented event happened in Britain——Sirius Black escaped from prison!
Almost every wizard knows the name of this wizarding prison in England.

It is located on an isolated island in the middle of the North Sea. It was originally a fortress built by a dark wizard named "Ekrizdis".When he died, the various concealment spells he released on the island became invalid, and the island was discovered by the Ministry of Magic and transformed into an officially controlled wizard prison.

In this famous prison, all the guards are a kind of indigenous dark creatures called "dementors".

Considered the ugliest things in the world, they are able to suck the joyful emotions out of other creatures, thus leaving those who come close to them feeling gloomy and hopeless.In extreme cases, they will also suck the souls of creatures, turning them into a sort of walking corpse.

It can be said that no one would think of staying in this prison for even a quarter of an hour.And this frightening and famous wizard prison is called "Azkaban".

"Sirius Black." Schelling sat by the window, flipped through the "Daily Prophet", nodded thoughtfully, his mind flashed through the planned plots in this year's original book and his own various plans.

Time passed day by day, and Schelling used the principle of the Happy Charm to trigger happy emotions by analogy. It only took a week to master the Patronus Charm and successfully released a complete physical Patronus.

In the next week, he also carefully read all the materials he got from Daphne, which gave him a deeper understanding of the theory of blood power. He already had some ideas about how to tap the power hidden deep in the blood, but he still needs some samples to do experiments, so that he can verify whether his theory is feasible.

Two weeks before the start of school, with nothing to do, he suddenly remembered that he still had three unopened books of black magic.

Generally speaking, if one wants to read black magic books, one must have at least the strength of a senior student—with his current strength, he is not much worse than Percy, Penello and the like, and should be enough to safely read these black magic books.

Xie Lin hastily skimmed all three black magic books. He found that the content was very difficult to understand, and many parts were still recorded in ancient runic characters. Even with the help of Hourglass, he couldn't finish reading them in a short period of time. Fortunately, Xie Lin's own ancient rune writing skills are extraordinary. Otherwise, it would take a long time to decipher the work alone.

　For the convenience of readers who have not read the "Book of Spells", the 22 spells are Levitation, Water Creation, Lockpicking, Fluorescence, Flame, Bird Transfiguration, Appearance, Swelling and Shrinking, Digging, Copying, Repairing, Descaling, Bat Spirit, Iron Armor, Summoning, Cutting, Barrier, Hardening, Disarming, Smashing, Stunning, and Patronus.Except for the Patronus Curse, Xie Lin has not mastered it yet, all others have at least a low-level mastery; fluorescence, levitation, and flames have mastered advanced methods of use.

　　
　
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