Hogwarts in a parallel world

Chapter 24 Christmas Attack and Parseltongue

After Winters asked his golden eagle to post the letter, he received a letter from Hermione two days later.

"Hello Winters, Lydia's deduction is very reasonable, but we still have no idea what the alien creature is. By the way, Professor Lockhart is going to hold a dueling club after Christmas. I asked Professor McGonagall, Professor McGonagall's opinion is that you should not participate because your wand is too weird.

Elena's brothers are frightened every day and hope that you will come back as soon as possible, but Professor Dumbledore thinks that what you need now is to find a quiet place to improve your magic skills. After all, no one can say for sure about Elena's situation. .

Colin's petrification has not been lifted yet, and Harry, Ron, and I are planning to ask Hagrid after Christmas.By the way, Elena asked me to ask you, can you stop asking her about the translation of ancient documents.Elena said that you turned her into a living dictionary, and now Elsa has given Elena the nickname "Frost Translator". . . .I'm not sure if Jelena likes it.

Winters: "I think Lydia narrowed the search by half."

Aurora: "I think the search range is already very small. Foreign creatures... Hagrid must know about it."

Winters: "As expected of a person who travels in the ocean of mathematics, he can summarize so much based on fragmented information."

Lydia said proudly: "Of course, even the research on magic is logical."

Aurora: "Now just wait for the news... What is that? A raven?"

They turned to find a raven standing in the living room window with a letter hanging from its feet.

Lydia: "Who uses raven to deliver messages?"

Winters: "I don't know... I'll see if there is any problem first. After all, so many things happened in Hogwarts."

After Winters approached cautiously, he found that it was a raven, holding a letter with a tree drawn on it. There was no trace of magic.

Winters took it carefully and found it was Elena's letter:

"Hello, Winters. Can you ask me something else? I'm not your dictionary. That nickname Elsa gave me spread throughout Hogwarts. Now I'm not Irina Clara. Alright, I am now the frost translator of the Krall family. As for why it is frost, you know better than me.

Next time you write a letter, if you still ask me about the translation of ancient documents, don't blame me for being rude. I can't cast spells frequently, but I can still recite one or two spells a day."

Lydia: "The Krall family, is that Morlans Krall?"

Winters: "The one we met in Diagon Alley was the girl with the pale face."

Lydia suddenly realized: "I remember, Elena... Yes, how could I forget, that girl with a pale face.

Winters: "That's her. But I don't always ask her about ancient documents. I also ask how her illness is."

Aurora: "Obviously, you didn't get the point."

Winters asked doubtfully: "I didn't get to the point... Then how should I ask?"

"You think about it yourself," Aurora said, pretending to be mysterious.

Lidya said half-jokingly: "You can ask Elena, just ask her if she has found a boyfriend? You can also ask her what her friends are doing recently."

Winters "Are you kidding me? She's gonna beat me up."

Lidia: "I'm not joking. You know, Elena's current attitude is that she doesn't want to discuss knowledge with you. Then her friends and herself are left with the problem. As for the so-called goal in life, do you think she Are you in the mood to discuss it?”

Winters: "No, that's her privacy, I can't ask. Well, I'll write to her and tell her that I won't write to her for a while. I'll write first and say I'm sorry to bother her."

"Then you can guess. Should Irina reply immediately and say that your mind is occupied by magic, or should she just say that you are a blockhead? Or should she not reply to the letter and directly give you a curse after you arrive at school?" Laura’s tone was a little funny.

Lydia said seriously: I think Elena might give you a curse directly. "

Winters: "That's what I wrote first. Emotional issues and her friends are her personal privacy. I can't ask."

Aurora glanced at Lydia and shook her head.After Winters mailed the letter away, he went to read.The next morning, before the sun came up, Winters saw a raven in front of his attic window, squawking loudly, as if dissatisfied.

"Thank you for your hard work." Winters took some biscuits and water to feed the raven. The raven was happy to see the food and water and pecked Winters' hand.

After Winters opened the letter, he found that Elena only wrote one sentence, "See you at school, you wooden head."

During dinner in the morning, Winters told Aurora and Lydia the content, and both of them expressed that they were not surprised.

"It's up to you. Just don't hide behind me when the time comes." Ao Luola stretched her waist.Winters looked confused and thought, "Who did I mess with?"

Away from Hogwarts, a place where mysterious incidents often occur, Winters felt that time flew by quickly.Several of his friends, Matt, Jim, and Elsa, would come over every weekend to hang out with Lydia and Aurora.It’s December in a blink of an eye, and the wind is blowing every day.One Sunday morning they decided to visit the same cave from last year.Winters asked about the ptarmigan.

Jim: "It was later found out that it was indeed a conflict, a conflict with the poisonous flame dragon. And that dragon seemed to be a friend of Gryffindor."

Aurora asked in surprise: "Gryffindor's dragon friend?" "

"It should be like this...and" Jim hesitated and said, "and...I don't know who said your brother's name at the time, and then..."

"Then what happened... How long ago did this happen?" Winters felt like something would rush over at any moment, and he clutched his wand tightly.

Elsa gave Jim a dissatisfied look: "Then the dragon said that you and him would meet again. You will probably find out in two weeks after you return to school."

"I have to run quickly...Don't follow me..." Winters ran away.

"Winters, you are not lucky..." Aurora didn't even finish her words.They heard the sound of flapping wings, which was vague at first, but then became louder and louder.Everyone was frightened and frozen.

"Run, I'll hold it back," Winters shouted, and he immediately raised his wand.He mobilized his magic power with all his strength, and he kept thinking about the spell that could repel a giant dragon with a length of more than 30 meters.Due to being too nervous, he felt that all his stomach and six internal organs were being twisted together.

Not long after, a giant dragon appeared in sight.Then, with a bang, the giant dragon fell down, like an earthquake.Everyone present was stunned by this majestic creature and their minds went blank.

At this time, a figure transformed from the mist appeared, and as the figure became clearer and clearer.Winters saw the figure wearing gold and red ancient clothes and holding a sword in his hand.He always felt that he had seen this person before. . . .Godric Gryffindor?

"I am not Gryffindor. I am talking to you in the image of Gryffindor. Are you Wintersreno? Don't lie to me." The dragon's voice was unusually majestic.Winters was surprised that the dragon could see directly into the thoughts of his brain.

"It's me, what do you want to do?" Winters' voice was trembling.He no longer cares about Occlumency, he only has one thought now: he can't let this dragon hurt his friends and family.

"Ah... the breath of elderberry, I can feel the magic wand in your hand exuding extremely powerful power. I will remember you. When we meet again, don't be so hostile" said Then he took off.

Before he left, he said something else: "Winters Reno, you have to remember that the elderberry will definitely guide you to that magnificent destiny, and that destiny is about to begin."

After confirming that the giant dragon had left, Winters immediately collapsed. His clothes were soaked with sweat. The moment the cold wind penetrated his collar, his sweatshirt stuck directly to his body. He didn't know whether it was because of the cold or whether it was because of the cold wind. Feeling relieved after surviving the catastrophe, his body softened and he lay directly on the ground that was frozen like a stone.

Winters was almost helped back all the way by Matt and Jim. They praised his bravery all the way, but he didn't listen to a word.When he woke up the next morning, he only remembered a dragon talking to him, and everything else was just a vague memory.

The Eisens were very worried and went to the local Magical Creatures Management Bureau. After explaining the situation in detail, Professor Nest actually laughed and said, "I think you are overly worried. If the dragon wants to attack Winters and Aurore If La still had their friends, they wouldn't be standing here. Of course, Winters might have gotten away with the person next to him. He just wanted to see who the wizard was who saved Thunderbird from a tragic fate. As for what to say about the next meeting, it should be that it thinks it will play some role in Winters' fate. Don't worry about the dragon, what you should worry about is the things in Hogwarts school."

Jack: "What the hell is that thing?"

Professor Nestor: "We are sure that there is indeed something wandering around the school. It is not clear why, and now the investigation is stuck. Therefore, you two cannot stop studying. The Supreme Council is discussing whether to dismantle Hogwarts. Rebuilt, but was rejected. If we can’t find the monster, we will be in trouble.”

Winters once wanted to leave Hogwarts, but Mary dissuaded him: "You are escaping. What should you do if something like this happens again in the next school. What you should do is to be prepared. Since Your wand is weird, so you should use its characteristics."

Mary looked at Winters and continued: "And there are almost 40 days from now to the end of the Christmas holiday. What if this monster is found during these 40 days?"

Jack: "So, don't think so much first. Didn't Dumbledore recommend a bunch of large books to you? Take the time to read them, maybe you will gain something unexpected."

"I will. That heir of Slytherin wants to cleanse Hogwarts. I can't control the others, but don't even think about hurting a hair on Aurora's head" Winters said and tightened his grip on his wand.As he spoke, black electricity and golden flames suddenly appeared on his wand, as if in response to his words.

Professor Nestor's eyes stopped on Winters' face and he murmured to himself. Winters seemed to hear what he was saying, what an obedient elder wand.

Without exception, the books recommended by Dumbledore contain all kinds of advanced spells and unspells, as well as a lot of magical knowledge, as well as all kinds of black magic.But fortunately, it has Dumbledore's own annotations on it.These notes at least made Winters less dizzy, and he felt like he was swimming freely for the first time.

As Winters read those tomes, he never stopped practicing to recreate his magical aggregation.There is a book that explains how to perform high-level spell fusions, and the examples are the two spells, Inferno and Storm.

The book says: The wizard does not need to name the spell for the newly fused spell, nor does he need to design actions for the newly fused spell to wave the wand, because the newly fused spell comes from the wizard's own will.Once the fusion is successful, you can cast spells 100% silently without waving a wand.But integrating powerful spells requires extremely high magic power.

Next to it is Dumbledore's note: Therefore, once these powerful spells are fused, they become powerful weapons. The new spell produced by the fusion changes completely with the will of the wizard who created it.

"But I have to wait until I get back to Hogwarts to try it," Winters thought to himself as he continued to turn the pages and look at Dumbledore's annotations.

Dumbledore mentioned magic aggregates: When a wizard summons his own magic aggregate, it at least means that the wizard can feel his own magic.It also means that this wizard can go on the road of magic at least more smoothly than a wizard who cannot summon magic aggregates.

Time passed calmly day by day, and the long-term strong wind finally stopped, and it was replaced by heavy snow for three days. When Winters thought that the snow would fall for a week, the heavy snow stopped on Christmas Eve.Winters, Aurora, Lydia, Jim, Matt, and Elsa ran out at the same time, and almost everyone in the town was having a snowball fight.

They also saw five reindeer pulling a sleigh through the crowd, and the people on the car shouted: "Merry Christmas!"This peaceful and cheerful day did not last for a few days before it was interrupted by a letter, a letter from Harry.

The letter said: There has been another attack, it was Filch's cat and a ghost, and Hagrid has found a lot of dead roosters in the past few days. Harry said that he often saw a long spider crawling towards the outside of the school.

"Ghost..." Winters looked at the letter and suddenly understood something.

He immediately wrote back to Harry: "Harry, if it is really a ghost that was attacked, it means that this creature must contain very powerful black magic, and it may be fatal. You must be careful, if you have to do it at night If you go out, it is recommended to bring your invisibility cloak in case of emergency."

"The ghosts have been attacked." Winters looked at Aurora's puzzled face. "I suggest you not go to Hogwarts this semester. That creature must have strong black magic, and it may be fatal." .

Aurora asked worriedly: "Then what should you do.

Winters: "Let me take a look at the situation first. Dark magic creatures that can even attack ghosts and have not been caught so far mean that they are very difficult to deal with. I can't let you take this risk. If it gets worse, I will Coming back”

Lidya: "Then you can't go either. If something happens to you, your parents will definitely be heartbroken.

Winters: "I just went to check on the situation. If it gets serious, I'll be the first to run away. Anyway, I'm not a Muggle.

Aurora: "Then what should I tell my parents?"

Winters "Let me talk to my parents. You should write to Professor Dumbledore now. Tell him your concerns truthfully. He will understand."

While Aurora was writing, Winters' golden eagle finally returned, carrying a large gray squirrel in its mouth. "Enough fun?" Winters asked angrily. The golden eagle dropped the squirrel and flew to Winters' head, chirping dissatisfiedly.

After Aurora's letter was sent, they could only wait.Winters used the waiting time to try to persuade the Eisens.The Eisens' attitude was that they understood Winters' good intentions, but they needed to wait for news from Dumbledore.

The next morning, when Winters was eating toast, a flash of fire flashed in the living room, leaving behind a golden feather and a letter, and Dumbledore replied.

Aurora opened the envelope and read: "Your brother's guess is not unreasonable. I have advised all Muggle-born students to stay at home. Please pay attention to my notice.

Winters breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing the content.

But his family is very worried.This worry also affected Winters, but he always felt that he should go back. If he didn't go back, he would regret it.

Winters returned to Hogwarts the day before Christmas. Aurora and her family accompanied him on the train and refused to leave. They did not follow him after Winters repeatedly promised that he would never show off. To Hogwarts.

What surprised him was that Ron came over and apologized proactively.Elena pointed her wand at Winters bitterly. Although there was no so-called curse, she was obviously very angry.

Winters asked in confusion: "What's wrong with her...I already said I won't disturb her."

Hermione shook her head: "Her parents agreed to Dumbledore's magic ritual. Elena was shocked, scared and happy, but she couldn't find anyone to tell her."

Winters: "Where's her roommate?"

Hermione: "Her roommates are with her all the time, and she doesn't want to complain about them anymore."

"That magic potion you mentioned..."

Harry immediately covered Winters' mouth: Keep your voice down, that's a secret.It is expected to be available in April.Let me tell you straight away, it's Polyjuice Potion, a magic potion that can turn one person into the appearance of another.

"Are you really going to do this?" Winters asked softly.

"I can't help it. Elena and her friends were very unhappy when they saw us questioning the Slytherin monster," Ron said helplessly.

The next morning, the dueling club organized by Professor Lockhart was discussed in the Great Hall, and it was expected to start this afternoon.Many people are already gearing up.

Delk's attitude was extremely arrogant: I can beat Gryffindor to pieces.Malfoy directly made a challenge to Harry: I will make Potter cry into the hospital.

Riley and Pansy looked at Hermione and Lavender pitifully.Elsa and Karai had nothing to say. Although it was not a duel arena, it was a competition of magic skills after all.

Faced with this tense situation, Winters could only run first.He decided to skip class and go to the training room to try to see if he could combine the two powerful magic spells of Inferno and Storm Thunder.He saw Jelena on the way to the training room.

Elena said angrily, "It's quite smart not to get involved."

Winters: Every time you learn something, you gain wisdom. "

Elena: "Where's Aurora? I didn't see her.

Winters: "She is a Muggle-born, so she should avoid it first... After all, no matter what the monster is, it is always dangerous. Dumbledore has advised all Muggle-born students to avoid it first."

Elena: That’s right. . .I asked why there were suddenly so many people missing.

Winters spent the whole afternoon practicing those two spells. By evening, he was very proficient in the Return of Purgatory. The amorphous magic flame had steadily turned into a warrior with pale golden flames.It's just that Storm Thunder is not even close.But it is not far from complete success.

"Aren't you hungry, Aurora... blueberry pie?" Winters was about to ask Elena if it was time to go eat, when he smelled the smell of blueberry pie.

Elena smiled faintly: "You were too involved just now. I called you several times, but you didn't respond at all."

Winters felt very embarrassed, "You should have just come over and pinched me awake. What if you had an accident?"

Elena took out the bottle of dark silver liquid and shook it: "I have the potion. Professor Dumbledore has made great improvements."

Winters shook his head: "Next time I bring my golden eagle over. If I get too obsessed, you let it fly over my head."

Elena raised her eyebrows: "Will it obey my orders?

Winters was stunned for a moment: "You can also bring your raven."

Elena waved her hand: "Okay, you still have to take me back to the Slytherin lounge. Take the time to practice."

It was around 9 p.m., and Winters couldn't believe he had mastered these two powerful spells in one night.Elena believes that it may have something to do with Winters' daily practice of recreating magic aggregates.

After Winters ran all the way back to the Gryffindor lounge, he saw many students whispering. Winters confirmed that he heard the word "heir of Slytherin."

Only when he found Harry did he learn that Malfoy used magic to conjure two snakes, and when the two snake apostles stopped attacking Justin of Hufflepuff, they were stopped by Harry's order.

"Salazar Slytherin and the descendants of Slytherin can talk to snakes, so the logo of Slytherin House is a snake," Ron concluded.

Winters guessed, "This means two things. Either Harry is not the descendant of Slytherin. Or Harry is the descendant of Slytherin, but weaker than another descendant of Slytherin. So that creature doesn't listen." Harry's"

Ron: "If the first scenario is true, then Harry shouldn't speak Parseltongue, but Winters, can you speak it? I remember your mother could."

Winters: "Me? I only know that my mother can. I'm not sure if snake language can be learned... I'll try to conjure a snake."

Hermione: "You don't need transfiguration, just recite the spell: Oolong comes out of the hole."

"An own mistake came out of the hole," Winters said softly. The tip of his wand made an explosion, and a 3-meter-long snake fell directly on the table with a "snap".

Harry looked at the three-meter-long snake and said with fear, "You tell that snake "Come here."

Winters: "Come here."

Harry shook his head: "No, he said it in a snake accent."

Winters was confused: "Harry... can you demonstrate again, I don't know what a snake talk is?"

After Harry walked over, he stared at the snake intently for a while, and then made an unpleasant sound: "Come here." But the snake just turned its head to Harry, and then stopped moving.

"Come here" Winters' voice remained unchanged after he did what Harry did. "But... "Harry, that's wrong, how can I understand what you are saying?" Winters quickly realized the problem.

"What?" Hermione was stunned.

"Harry asked this snake to pass, didn't you understand?" Winters was completely confused.

"You can understand, but can't speak?" At this time, a crowd of people had gathered around them, Fred asked in great surprise.

"I can understand..." Winters once again stared at the snake with all his concentration, then shook his head: "Yes, but I can't tell."

"This may mean that Winters' mother's ancestors are more or less related to Salazar Slytherin. Winters' mother is probably a descendant of the person who broke up with Slytherin." Neville's round face Full of anxiety and confusion.

Winters asked doubtfully: "But this makes no sense at all. If my mother is the descendant of the person who broke up with Slytherin, how could I only understand but not speak out?"

Ron said thoughtfully: "I think that person should understand what he means, but it is a waste of time to say more words to Slytherin, including the descendants of Slytherin. After all, we have already broken up, and there is no need to Nothing more needs to be said.”

Winters said hesitantly: "Parseltongue...Harry, you said you could hear that ghostly voice."

Harry: "Yeah, I can..." Harry was stunned for a moment and immediately understood: "You mean that ghostly voice is a snake or a close relative of a snake."

"But what kind of snake or snake's close relative can have the ability to attack even ghosts?" Hermione asked the key.

After a period of silence, they found that they could no longer advance, so they could only yawn and return to their respective dormitories to rest.

(End of this chapter)