Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 20 Spotted and Casting the Curse

Looking at the napkins flying in the air, Harry felt extremely grateful to John at this moment.

Even though he received a letter from Hogwarts and learned from Hagrid that he was a wizard, he still worried about whether he could perform magic because of his low self-esteem.

He was afraid that everything that happened during this period was a dream, and when he arrived at Hogwarts and was found unable to perform magic, this dream would wake up.

He'd be back in the closed storage room of the Dursleys, treated like a freak by the Dursleys and Petunia, and bullied by Dudley.

It can be seen that he has seen the world of wizards, can he still endure that kind of life as before?
But it's different now, he has successfully cast the magic, and he no longer has to worry about the things he guessed happening!
Just like his own parents, they are both genuine wizards, so he finally has a chance to get rid of the gloomy life in the past.

After a long time, the excited Harry calmed down, and the napkin flying in the air fell back onto the table under Harry's control.

"Congratulations, Harry!" John smiled and clapped his hands.

Harry blushed slightly, and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "This is thanks to you, John. If it weren't for you, I might not be able to cast magic!"

Hearing Harry's words, John looked at him seriously and said, "You're wrong Harry, I just acted as a guide, and you have to rely more on yourself to release the magic."

"As I said, Harry, you are very talented, don't question yourself, believe in yourself!"

Looking at the extremely serious John, at this moment, the soil called "inferiority" in Harry's heart suddenly cracked a gap, and the seed called "confidence" quietly sprouted out of the gap in this gap.

Without further ado, Harry looked at John and nodded firmly.

At this moment, the sliding door of the box was opened, and a red-haired boy walked in with his luggage. Seeing the two of them holding a magic wand in the box, he took a step back in fear.

Especially the boy with the same red hair as himself, but with dark blue dragon pupils.

But soon he still stumbled and asked: "That... that... Is there any room here? The other places are full... I can't help it... If not, I can leave directly"

Seemingly aware of scaring the other party, Harry smiled at him apologetically, and then put the wand in his hand into his arms.

"We were practicing wands just now, don't be afraid, there is no one here, you can sit here!"

John didn't say much. He naturally knew the boy's identity, but he didn't show it. He just nodded slightly in agreement, and then put the wand in his hand into his arms.

Hearing Harry's words and seeing the boy with long eyes nodding in agreement, the boy was obviously relieved. He pulled his luggage in and put it away happily, and then sat beside Harry.

Although he knew that the other person was probably not a bad person, the other person's temperament and appearance still made him a little scared, so the boy subconsciously chose to stay away from the other person.

When Harry noticed that the boy had a piece of dirt on the tip of his nose and wanted to remind him.

The box was pushed open again, and two heads with the same red hair as the boy and almost the same appearance poked in from the outside.

"Hey Ron"

The twin brothers walked in directly after seeing the boy and saying hello.

"Listen, we're going to walk around the middle car now, Lee Jordan got a big bag spider."

"Oh." Hearing what the two said, Ron mumbled.

At this time, the twin brothers also noticed Harry and John in the box, and their eyes naturally fell on John's hair.

One of the twin brothers said in surprise: "Look, George! Another redhead, maybe he's also a child of our family!"

"I saw Fred" another person said in surprise, but at this moment John turned his head and looked at them. "Oh! He has dragon eyes, he must not be a child of our family!"

"Hello! Let me introduce myself, I'm George Weasley!" George held out his hand to John

"I'm Fred Weasley, we're Brother Weasley" Fred didn't reach out, but stood close to George's shoulder, pointing with one hand at the boy sitting next to Harry, "This is our little brother, Ron Weasley!"

John reached out and took George's outstretched hand: "Brother Weasley, hello, I'm John Williams."

Just then Fred suddenly yelled, "What is that!"

At this moment, he stretched out his fingers a little excitedly and pointed at Harry's wind-blown hair, and he could vaguely see a lightning-shaped scar.

"Oh, my God," George said excitedly, "are you—?"

"Are you?" Fred continued.
For such a reaction, Harry naturally saw that the other party recognized him because of the scar.

Without any hesitation, Harry, who had been through such situations many times, lifted his hair skillfully to reveal the scar: "Yes, I am Harry Potter."

"Harry Potter!!" Excluding John and Harry, the other three people in the box shouted in unison.

"Are you really Harry Potter?" Ron blurted out in disbelief.

Harry nodded, seeing that he got a definite answer, Ron became excited
"I've heard your name and things since I was a child, so you're really doing what everyone said...you know...mysterious people or something..."

Ron pointed to Harry's exposed scar, and George and Fred also looked at Harry curiously.

"Yes," said Harry, "but I don't really remember anything, I still got that from Hagrid."

"Don't remember at all?" Ron asked eagerly, and George and Fred also approached Harry

"Well... I just remember a lot of green lights, and nothing else." Harry said, looking at the three red heads in front of him
"Oh." Ron's tone was full of pity.

He stared at Harry for a long time, and it took him a long time to suddenly realize how impolite he was, and quickly turned his gaze out of the window.

After George and Fred saw the scar, heard those words, and knew Harry's identity, they said excitedly, "I want to tell others that Harry Potter will enter this year", and ran out of the private room at the same time. He took the box door behind him.

It seemed that he wanted to ease Ron's embarrassment, or that Harry was also very interested in Ron, so Harry asked directly, "Are all your family wizards?"

"Oh, yes, I think so," said Ron, "but my mum has a distant cousin who's a Squib. They say he's an accountant in the Muggle world, but we never talk about him."

Hearing Ron's words, Harry asked, "What's a squib?"

Just as Ron was about to answer, he heard John's voice from the side, with a calm and emotionless tone: "Squibs refer to those who have at least one parent who is a wizard, but they don't know magic."

Hearing John's answer, Ron nodded and said that was it.

But Harry, who was more familiar with John, sensed that something was wrong with the other party's emotions, and could faintly feel the anger and sadness contained in it.

But looking at John who turned his head to look out the window, Harry still suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask any questions. After all, everyone has things they don't want to say.

Just as Harry was wondering how to skip the subject, Ron spoke again.

"By the way, I heard you ended up living with Muggles." Ron looked at Harry and asked, "How were they?"

Hearing Ron's words, Harry immediately said, "It's too bad, of course not everyone is like this, but my uncle, aunt and cousin are too bad, if only I had two wizard brothers."

"Five." Ron corrected Harry, but for some reason he suddenly looked unhappy.

"I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I should follow their example. Bill and Charlie have graduated. Bill is Head Boy and Charlie is the Quidditch team captain. Now that Percy is a prefect, and Fred and George, despite their mischief, have top grades. Everyone thinks they're interesting and expects me to be like them. But then again, if I It's no big deal if you can, because they've done it before me. If you've got five brothers, you'll never have to use anything new. I wear Bill's old robe, and Charlie's old wand, and Percy tosses unwanted mice."

As Ron said, he reached into the inner pocket of his jacket and took out a fat gray mouse, which was sleeping.

"It's called Scabbers, and it's pretty useless, and sleeps all day long. Percy became a prefect, and my dad gave him an owl, and they couldn't afford a new... I mean, Percy put the The mouse gave it to me."

Just at this moment, John's voice sounded again: "Can I see Banban?"

"Oh, of course, but Banban is already very old. He has lived in our house for 12 years. I hope you will be lighter!"

Ron handed Banban to John, who naturally reached out and took it gently.

Of course, it is impossible for John to directly contact Banban like Ron, after all, he knows who Banban's real identity is according to his memory.

Peter Pettigrew, Harry's father's former friend, Voldemort's running dog, the betrayer who caused Harry's parents to be killed by Voldemort, is also a rare Animagus shapeshifter in the wizarding world.

It is naturally impossible to say that he is not interested in Animagus, but he is only slightly interested. It is impossible for John to perform such a cumbersome ritual with a low error tolerance rate.

After all, compared to what John saw in the library of the Howl World Academy of Magic, it can retain its sanity, easily transform into other people or creatures, and most importantly retain the ability to cast spells.

There are too many uncontrollable factors in the Animagus ceremony in the main world, and the cost of failure is also very high. Once you fail, you will easily lose yourself and really become another creature.

Maybe in the future, I have enough knowledge reserves, so I can study this ritual for improvement.

There was a faint red light in John's palm, which was the brilliance of John's magic power. He was using magic power to build a magic circle in his palm at the moment. He wanted to cast a curse on Peter Pettigrew, or an insurance.

After all, the opportunity is rare now. Although Peter Pettigrew is not very eye-catching in memory, his magic level is actually good. If he is in human form, he may discover the fluctuation of magic power.

But now it's different, he can't cast magic when he becomes a mouse, and he has maintained the form of Animagus for 12 years. It is still unknown how many people's thoughts he can still maintain.

"Know its name, always know where it is"

Through contact with Peter Pettigrew, and the sympathetic rune corresponding to the rat, the curse was soon successfully cast on him by John.

In the future, as long as the curse is not removed, or Peter Pettigrew is still alive, no matter where Peter Pettigrew goes, John will know where he is.

You must know that the events related to Peter Pettigrew are a good opportunity to earn legendary value, so plan ahead now.

At that time, it will be very convenient to use this to gain the friendship of Sirius in the future, or to study Animagus after accumulating enough.

Even so, he is not worried about the cancellation of the curse for the time being, perhaps because it is magic from another world system. According to his mother's reply letter, many people in his family can't wake up every day, no matter how The investigation found nothing unusual.

After confirming that the curse was in effect, John returned Scabbers to Ron.

(End of this chapter)