Hogwarts: The Cat Wizard of the Moving Castle

Chapter 226 Apparition·Portal

Privet Drive was always shrouded in thick fog on summer mornings, and the air was so humid that Harry didn't know whether the sweat on his body or the vapor condensed by the fog was on his body.

Arriving at No. 4 Privet Drive, Harry grasped the door handle, turned it slightly, and walked inside.

The sound of sizzling in the pan came, and the aroma of bacon filled the entire first floor.

What came next was the stereotypical sound of a TV broadcast in the living room.

"The public must be aware that Sirius Black is armed and extremely dangerous. The city government has set up a special hotline. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Black and his accomplices must report it immediately!"

"Don't tell us he has bad intentions!!" A dull roar came. His roar had no target. It seemed to be that TV? Who knows, but you can tell just from his voice that he is a difficult person to get along with.

In fact, Uncle Vernon did, but he would hide it from most people.

But there is a limit to hiding, and you need an outlet after all.

Just as he was thinking about it, Harry had already walked through the corridor, passed outside the living room, and looked towards the TV. Sure enough, the photo on the TV was that of Sirius Black.

"Look at his virtue and dirty look! Look at his hair!

"Yesterday, the Minister of Agriculture and -"

"Go on!" growled Uncle Vernon, staring angrily at the announcer. "You haven't told us where this madman escaped from? What's the use? The madman might be coming down the street. Got it!"

"It's okay dad, Harry is here." Another buzzing voice said, followed by a chirping sound.

This is Dally, he is sitting next to Uncle Vernon, holding a bag of potato chips in his hands, like two meat balls, one big and one small.

When Vernon heard this, his body froze immediately, and then he said in a deliberate tone: "Yes, Sirius is a lunatic. Maybe they are the same kind of people, and will they feel like old friends once they see each other?!"

? ?

Hearing this, Harry couldn't control his mouth. Finally, he thought for a moment and said, "He is indeed a——, who escaped from our special prison."

Snapped--

There was the sound of plates being smashed in the kitchen, and Vernon was so angry that his face turned purple.

"I didn't disrespect you, I didn't say that word." Harry spread his hands.

Then, he looked at Aunt Petunia who was standing at the entrance of the kitchen, staring at him as if she wanted to kill someone.

"I can fix the plate."

"No need." Aunt Petunia gritted her teeth for a long time before holding back these brief words.

Harry nodded, not surprised by the answer, asking just out of politeness.

He could even say that if he had just fixed the plate, Aunt Petunia would have thrown him out as if it had been stained with something unclean.

Then, he turned around and walked into the bathroom.

"Really?" Dali suddenly asked.

Harry stood at the bathroom door and turned around.

"Really." He nodded.

"But don't worry, he won't come here. I can guarantee this. You can completely ignore this person."

After finishing speaking, he walked into the bathroom.

Vernon's small fat eyes looked at Harry's back with evil intentions and muttered to himself, "You're a waste of water."

In the bathroom, Harry washed his body happily and murmured in his heart.

"Yes, you always need an outlet to hide pent-up emotions - but it's not me anymore."

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Harry left the Dursley's house. This had become a habit. He was just a guest who came to live here, and anything else in the house had nothing to do with him.

fine.

Afterwards, he quickly arrived at No. 13 Privet Drive and started cleaning.

"That's right!" Mu En, who was lazily leaning on the sofa, suddenly became stunned.

"Are you going to Granger's house today to make up your math?"

Harry, who was repairing the window hinges, turned to look at Moon and nodded: "That's right, Uncle Moon, I'll be there after cleaning up in a moment."

Mu En nodded and yawned: "Forgot about all this."

Then he turned to ask: "Don't take the bus."

"Ah" Harry didn't respond, and then asked doubtfully: "Do you want to run over?"

You know, it takes two hours to take a bus from here to Granger's house.

running?

No matter how you think about it, it's a bit fanciful.

"What I mean is, it's time to learn how to apparate." Mu En said.

Harry was stunned, and what followed was a huge surprise. He looked at Moon in disbelief: "Is it really possible?"

If he mastered this spell, there would be a lot of room for improvement in dueling in the future.

In fact, if the previous match with Hedlund had not been in a school where Apparition was prohibited, Harry felt that he would have had no chance of winning.

"This is a 'life spell'. As long as the magic power is stable enough, you can learn it long ago." Mu En said.

As he said that, he stood up and clapped his hands: "Come now, let's try first to see if you have anything special about space."

Then, he turned and walked directly towards the basement.

"Life spell?"

As soon as he heard what Mu En said, Harry also gained some confidence. Well, to put it bluntly, his talent in life spells was acceptable.

I just don’t know what Uncle Mu En means by space.

Arriving in the basement, Uncle Mu En was already standing in the library, slowly selecting in front of the huge bookshelf.

Then, Mu En took out a booklet about one finger thick.

"This is the 'Portal' note."

Moon threw the notebook to Harry and then began to introduce it.

"As you know, my Apparition is not affected by regular anti-Apparition spells."

Harry nodded, he already knew this.

“Modern and contemporary Apparition spells are actually imitated by wizards who imitate various magical animals that disapparate.

But the one I use is not.

Its original name is "Portal", and the basic concept is the same as this one, so next, I will tell you the main points of difference. "

Harry nodded hurriedly and did not open the notebook he took, but quietly listened to Uncle Moon's story.

"Some of the books at Hogwarts have clarified a 3D principle, namely Destination, Determination and Deliberation. When performing Apparition, you must focus on the target and be determined to do it. Occupy the space you want, and be mentally calm and not afraid.”

Then Mu En sat down.

"There is nothing wrong with this theory. After all, no matter whether it is successful or not, it is inevitable to maintain an enterprising spirit. Otherwise, there will be no failure."

After saying that, Mu En changed his words.

"However, these are still words of encouragement for learners' psychology and do not touch the essence."

Then Mu En raised her hand, and a faint ripple echoed in the air, just like ripples in water.

"The essence is - space!"

“Find the space, tear the space apart.”

"Space." Harry's hand moved in mid-air, but he felt nothing, just like usual.

"Is there a passage in the space?" Harry couldn't help but ask.

"In space?" Mu En smiled and shook his head, not in a hurry, then took out a piece of paper and began to explain the most basic concept of wormholes.

As time passed slowly, Mu En suddenly stopped talking and stood up.

In Harry's mind, he was still reviewing what Moon just said.

"Crack-"

A snap of his fingers woke him up.

"Next, let's go back to the original question. As the name suggests, the portal is a door! In other words, the essence of this spell is to tear open a gap in the space that is enough for us to transfer our bodies.

And Apparition—"

The next moment, Mu En put her hand on his shoulder.

"Be mentally prepared!"

Harry took a deep breath, like a swimmer about to dive into water.

Soon, facts will prove that he made the right decision.

The same burst of air appeared as before, and his entire body suddenly folded like the piece of paper that had just been used to demonstrate the wormhole theory.

Even at this moment, he felt that his skin, which he had never felt physically touching before, came into close contact.

For example, your own cheeks and your own butt.

Just like the compressed garbage in the garbage dump was stuffed into an old, rusty and clogged water pipe, with the sound of whooshing in the ears, the whole body was released at once.

"Ahem!" Harry shook his head one after another and gasped for air.

He immediately understood the difference.

Apparition is to stuff oneself into a small space crack.

Forcibly, change position.

That is, "I" changes for the space.

The portal is the change of space for "me".

There may be no difference in effect between the two, but in terms of the most basic concepts, they are two different things.

"By the way, this is the teleportation method of magical animals." Mu En said while standing on the street.

"The portal is the method of transmission for magical creatures like wizards."

Then, he knocked on the door slowly.

Chris opened the door and when he saw Mu En, he was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed.

"Why are you here? Come in quickly. Hermione's tutor is already here."

As he said that, he looked past Mu En and looked at Harry, who looked a little unhappy: "Peter, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine." Harry shook his dizzy head: "Mr. Granger, good morning."

"Good morning." Chris nodded and led the two of them into the house.

Then there were thumping footsteps, and Hermione walked down the stairs quickly: "Harry, you're here!"

"You're not late."

"Not yet, the teacher has just arrived."

As she said that, the little girl pointed to the top of the corridor. A woman who looked to be about fifty years old and wearing glasses appeared at the entrance of the stairs.

Seeing Harry, she smiled kindly, and then introduced herself: "Hello, child. I am the tutor invited by Mr. Granger. You can just call me Bernard."

"Good morning, Mrs. Burna." Harry nodded.

Mu En glanced at the old professor, nodded with a smile, and allowed him to take the two children up.

"The lectures will be in the study room. I did some soundproofing in that room during Easter this year." Chris said with a smile and brought Mu En to the living room.

Granger's house is not big, but much tidier. Simple decorations fill the empty home. On the wall of one room, there are also childish "5+3=9" and other formulas left by Hermione. Drawing of pencil man.

Even the TV that was supposed to be placed on the wall was placed crookedly to make way for the painting.

It was this kind of move that allowed Mu En to ignore Harry's life safety based on the standards of experience.

But Hermione couldn't do this.

"When I see these graffiti, I think of how she was scribbling with a pen." Chris said with a somewhat showy tone: "Is this magic enough?!"

"That's enough. This is much more profound than magic." Mu En also smiled in recognition.

Martha walked out of the kitchen carrying a teacup cover with artichoke stripes, put down the teacup, and then looked at her lover: "Jones, please ignore him, what he likes most is to show off his girl.

If it weren't for the confidentiality regulations of the Ministry of Magic, I'm afraid he would rush out and pull up a banner right now to announce to the world that there is a little witch in our family. "

The Chris family had no objection to wizards at all.

Or maybe there was once, but after learning that his daughter was a wizard, even if there was any slight prejudice in his heart, it had long since disappeared.

Chris smiled awkwardly, then waved his hand: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore."

He stood up and looked at Mu En: "Come here and show you some good things."

"What?" Mu En also stood up and followed Chris to the corner of the living room.

There are not many things here, just a cabinet, a gramophone, and a low cabinet with four legs and double doors.

In the cabinet, there are either records or tapes.

"Did you find some good stuff again?" Mu En also became very interested: "Whose, Michael? He seems to have released a new album."

"That was all from 1991." Chris opened the cabinet: "It was from last year."

Before Moon could review any famous albums released last year, Chris said: "It was Christmas last year, remember? We went to Austria."

Then he took out a tape.

“We went to see the premiere of a new opera. I can’t say the premiere or subsequent performances, but it was indeed a new opera.

They released the tape some time ago, and I bought it right away. Among them, the third song in the second act is my favorite. Come and check it out. "

With that said, he started playing.

The first thing that caught my ears was the heavy drum beat.

Then, male and female voices chorused like they were arguing, questioning, resisting, until the final announcement!

Mu En gradually realized that this was a woman announcing death to the God of Death!

After a while, the passionate music ended.

Chris looked at Mu En's expression, rewound the tape, then took it out and handed it to his hand.

【Elisabeth】

"Act 2, Song 3."

Mu En's eyes moved and he quickly looked at the words on the tape.

【Wenn ich tanzen will】

"If I think dancing is interesting." Mu En smiled.