days at Hogwarts

Chapter 84 Back to School Day

After Flamel demonstrated once, Loren began to try to outline the alchemy circle for the first time.

The previous preparations were sufficient. He already fully understood the structure of this elementary alchemy circle, and the three pairs of runes were also imprinted in his mind.

The nature of the unicorn tail hair after being activated by magic power, and related theories are also well known.

The sketching process envisioned in my mind was compared with Flamel's demonstration.With a well-thought-out plan, it can be said that everything is ready, just waiting to get started and practice.

Sitting cross-legged, waved a box over, and used the levitation spell to stop the unicorn's tail hair in the air.Loren couldn't arouse a bundle of unicorn tail hair all at once, he could only do it one by one.

The tip of the wand touched the tail hair of the unicorn, and Loren carefully injected magic power into the tail hair through the wand, and the tail hair was aroused, emitting a silver-white light.

The tail hair became brighter and brighter, ignited with a prick, and dissipated in the air as a wisp of white smoke.

The first unicorn tail hair scrapped.

He was still a little confused, how could this evaporate.

"You've input too much magic power, and the tail hair can't bear it." Flamel floated around above the black boiler without looking at Loren at all.

In the second attempt, Loren controlled a small amount of magic power to enter the tail hair, but the tail hair just adhered to the wand and did not dissipate or be activated.

He slightly increased the magic power output, fearing that it would be too much, so he increased it a little and then decreased it.

The unicorn's tail lighted up, lasted for a while, and then dimmed, turning into black ashes and falling into the box.

The second tail hair is scrapped.

"Maintain a stable output of magic power. Once the unicorn's tail hair is stimulated, all of its own magic power will be exhausted." Flamel floated leisurely, still not looking at Loren.

Loren remembered the newly increased magic power, and output it stably according to the standard just now.

The unicorn's tail hair stuck to the wand, emitting a glowing white light.

With a happy face, he held his wand and showed it to Flamel.It was a big move, but it failed to maintain a stable infusion of magic power.

The unicorn tail hair turned into white smoke and dissipated, and the third unicorn tail hair was scrapped.

"Calm down, stay focused until the drawing of the magic circle is finished." Flamel seemed to be falling asleep.

After failing three times in a row, Loren stopped, the hand holding the wand was trembling, and he felt his shoulders were a little stiff.

Fortunately, this is a virtual laboratory in the fantasy book. If this is in the real world, the unicorn tail in the Forbidden Forest must be bald by him.

Loren couldn't help asking: "How did the previous alchemists practice? Are there so many materials enough for them to consume?"

"Otherwise, why do you think alchemists are after the Midas touch?" Flamel replied.

Well, this kind of training method really needs a touch of gold to afford it.

"call!"

Loren closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing.Thinking back to the operation just now, to stimulate the tail hair of the unicorn, the magic power should be in a suitable range and remain stable.

He adjusted his state and tried again.

Smoothly draw unicorn tail hairs, and use the wand like a quill to trace a magic circle on the inside of the leather case.

Tremblingly, he tapped his wand on the leather case, and white streaks of light appeared on it. Loren was thankful that the unicorn tail hair wouldn't smudge like ink.

He moved the pen carefully, and the white light of the unicorn's tail hair adhered to the bottom of the box.

Before the crooked circle could close its mouth, the tail hair dissipated.

As a kind of magic material, unicorn tail hair cannot be stimulated all the time, even if the magic power is stable, it will dissipate beyond the time limit.

Loren can't draw a magic circle with one tail hair like Flamel, and must quickly use one tail hair to complete an independent stroke in the composition, and it will dissipate after timeout.

If a circle is drawn with multiple unicorn tail hairs connected end to end, the magic flow will be blocked at the connection, which may cause damage to the alchemical item.

Loren tried again and again like this, and after drawing a bundle of tail hair in the suitcase, he still couldn't draw the double rings at the base of the magic circle, and even one ring was crooked and asymmetrical at all.

There were bursts of soreness in his neck and shoulders, "Why is the body perception so real in the alchemy laboratory, not the duel room?"

"Completely imitating the real environment can achieve the effect of practice."

Seeing that Loren was on the right track, Flamel disappeared, leaving him here alone to repeat and repeat.

When he woke up the next day, Loren's head was still full of gleaming unicorn tail hair. Looking at the bright window, he felt a sense of relief.

I don't know how long it has been in the fantasy book last night, anyway, he used dozens of unicorn tail hairs, and only drew a circle that looks good.

Sigh, I also have things to do during the day, and I have to practice the No Trace Stretching Mantra.

The alchemy circle just makes the Untraceable Stretch Curse work better, provided that he knows the Traceless Stretch Curse.

In the end, the practice site was placed in the Room of Requirement. Loren conceived a pile of sand in the Room of Requirement, cast the No Trace Stretch Mantra on a honey bottle, and filled the bottle with sand to test the effect.

As an advanced spell, his magic power can barely be released, but the effect is not good.It took me a long time to make a bottle of sand lighter in my first attempt.

Using the talent of correction, Loren made rapid progress, the bottle gradually became lighter and lighter, and more and more sand could be contained in it.

During the rest of the vacation, Loren drew the magic circle at night and practiced the Untraceable Stretching Mantra during the day.

Another letter from Hermione during the holidays, this time on the title "Dear Loren".

Introduce her to read the textbook manuscript of Miranda Gosak brought back from the Room of Requirement, and she has a deeper understanding of some elementary spells.

Telling the scene of her visit to the museum, talking about the British economy is recovering, some government policies have achieved results, and Hermione wants to use the money from her building society to make some investments.

In the last paragraph, I mentioned that I wanted to use magic to make my front teeth smaller, but my parents objected, and they preferred to use orthodontic appliances

Loren was a little hesitant. The Christmas holiday would be over in less than two weeks. Is there any need to reply?

Raising his head, he found that Hanhan didn't even eat the jam and bread, and stared at him with a pair of round eyes.

He was finally supervised by Hanhan and wrote a reply letter.

Recalling the United Kingdom during this period, the British government has undergone a series of measures and reforms to reduce inflation, promote economic growth, and bring about consumption growth, but this is because Hermione came from a middle-class family, and everything she came into contact with was positive. Influence.

In September 1992, there was going to be a currency crisis in the UK that would lead to a sharp depreciation of the pound.

In the reply, he analyzed some currency content, and advised Hermione that if she wanted to manage money, she might exchange the money in the building society for dollars or marks on the basis of the rising national debt of the United Kingdom and the possible depreciation of the currency.

Regarding the little witch's front teeth, Loren replied that she thought squirrels were cute too.

Thinking of the currency crisis, he also sent a letter to Grandpa Bates, advising Bates to exchange his property.

Think of relatives who have supported their comrades-in-arms on farms in Scotland in the past few decades. He came to Hogwarts to live on more than some pure-blood families.Grandpa Bates can still run around the UK and conduct his own annual tour.Loren felt that Grandpa Bates might be a very rich man.

At the end of January, the snow at Hogwarts started to lighten up, and it took several days to see scattered light snow. They could no longer have a happy snowball fight, and spring was coming soon.

Loren was finally able to completely outline the foundation of the formation, the double ring and the hexagram inside the ring.Compared with the magic circle, the Untraceable Stretching Curse has already been prepared, and now it is only waiting to outline the three pairs of runes.

The day before school starts, Loren rushes from the Room of Requirement to the auditorium for lunch.

I was still thinking about the Untraceable Stretching Curse in my mind, and I didn't notice that there was a little witch beside me.

"What have you been up to lately?" came the girl's soft voice.

"The Untraceable Stretching Curse." After Loren finished speaking, he turned to look at the little witch beside him, "Hermione, you are back!"

There was joy in his voice that he didn't even know he had.

Hermione, with shoulder-length curly hair, stared into Loren's face with large, bright brown eyes, smiling with her squirrel-like front teeth showing.

The girl's delicate face frowned when she heard the reply of the Untraceable Stretching Curse, "Personal use of the Untraceable Stretching Curse is expressly prohibited by the Ministry of Magic."

"I know." Loren nodded, "Are you going to report me?"

Such an answer made Hermione feel a familiar feeling of clenching her fists unconsciously, and it was Loren himself who was right.

The two walked down the hallway side by side.

"I don't think you're right."

"I know."

"We're only in first grade and shouldn't be trying this spell."

"I know."

"This violates both school rules and the law."

"I know."

Bang!

With a slap on Loren's shoulder, both of them felt comfortable.

Talking about the issue of currency at the dinner table, Hermione said that her mother agreed with Loren's point of view and was curious about him, so she invited Loren to visit Granger's house during the summer vacation...

Loren counted down his summer vacation arrangements, he wanted to eat Grandpa Bates' roast lamb, he went to Weasley's house to see The Burrow, and now he added one more thing, he was going to Granger's house as a guest.

Talking about Miranda's manuscript, talking about the colorful firecrackers at the Christmas party.

Talk about the forest while camping, talk about the dark wizard in Albania.

From monetary policy to fiscal deficit, the dinner table is chattering.

Neither of them has a talkative personality, but they always want to talk more with each other unconsciously.Perhaps, the letter is not enough to tell the longing that has been frozen for half the winter, and when the spring has not yet come, sprouts sprout.

In the afternoon, there was a little witch in the Room of Requirement. She was filling sand in a honey bottle, and Loren was filling a big stone in a honey bottle.

Hermione had somehow been convinced that having a portable space would be handy for gear, and the beaded pouch, which could hold all the luggage and books, sounded really tempting.

Dinner time, in the auditorium.

Draco Malfoy dragged a black leather suitcase to the Gryffindor long table, his blond hair was pressed against his scalp, and he was slightly sweating, "Loren Morgan, this is a return gift for you."

Open the box, and there is a box of frozen pears stuffed inside.There are blue lines inside the box, and when it is opened, blue ice crystals are released around it.

Over the past month, Loren has been fed the frozen fruits from the little wizards one after another. Seeing so many frozen pears makes her scalp tingle.

He looked at Malfoy, "I'm afraid you're trying to murder me—" The words of refusal hadn't come out of his mouth.

"Malfoy's gift, you have no right to refuse."

Malfoy looked at Loren, his chin raised high.

The child's stinky expression and stinky words made Loren laugh, and he didn't want to conflict with him.

"Okay." Loren closed the box, "I'll return the box to you tomorrow."

"There's no need to return the box." Malfoy was very satisfied with Loren's knowledge, and returned to the long table in Slytherin in a loud voice.

"whispering sound!"

Ron, who was sitting not far away, made a strange noise, and before he had time to say a few words, he was dragged by Harry, who had just returned to school, to talk about his Christmas vacation.

Sirius took him to Godric's Hollow, where he saw his parents' graves.

Sirius was so anxious to settle accounts with Peter Pettigrew that he didn't even have time to attend the funeral of the Potters.

The cemetery is huge and there are many tombstones.

There are many wizarding families in Godric's Hollow. Sirius took Harry to look at each tombstone and searched for a long time.

Harry had never felt that way before, walking farther and farther in the graveyard, feeling a thrill of fear and anticipation each time he stepped into a headstone.

Finally, next to the Dumbledore family cemetery, he saw his parents' tombstones.

The white marble gleamed in the dark, and Harry memorized the inscription on it.

[James Potter

Born on March 1960, 3

Died October 1981, 10]

[lily potter

Born on March 1960, 1

Died October 1981, 10]

[The last enemy to destroy is death]

Sirius said that it may be written down by Dumbledore, which means that life is beyond death, and death is still alive.

Harry agrees with this guess, because Ariana Dumbledore's tombstone is next to it, which also seems to be something that Headmaster Dumbledore would say.

But they were gone, and now the rotting corpses of his parents lay beneath ice and stone, cold and lifeless.thought Harry.

Walled in grief until seeing the ruins of Potter's house.

White snow and black ivy buried the broken debris and wooden signs blossomed through a tangle of nettles and weeds.

On it was written in gold letters:

[March 1981, 10,

lily and james potter died here

Their son Harry is the only one

A wizard who survived the Killing Curse.

The house, invisible to Muggles, was preserved as it was,

To commemorate the Potter couple with this ruin,

and warned of the violence that destroyed their family]

There are also various inscriptions of wizards who have come to pay their respects one after another over the past ten years, and the magic graffiti of the past ten years is shining:

[Good luck, Harry, wherever you are.

Hope you read it Harry we are all behind you

My most sincere blessings to the boy who survived]

"Long live Harry Potter!" Sirius said the words aloud.

Such behavior burned Harry's cheeks and pulled him out of his grief.

The two went back to Black's old house for a few days.For Harry, being able to spend time with his godfather is a joy, and the two of them can ride broomsticks and discuss Quidditch together.

But Sirius couldn't stand the noisy old house-elf and took Harry to play in the Muggle world.

Harry wasn't surprised at all that Sirius knew the Muggle world, as evidenced by his modified flying bike.