Harry Potter: The Atypical Alchemist

Four days later, Stone still had two [Shocking Helm] wooden tokens left in his hand.

In the fifth grade, Penello was very busy and could only meet him in the morning.

The favor had to be repaid, otherwise Stone would feel uneasy, so he got up early and gave the wooden sign to Penello.

After handing out the wooden sign, he quickly jumped back.

No way, this senior's hobby is a bit weird - she likes to pat other people's heads.

"Hehehehehe-" Penello smiled and grabbed Stone's shoulders, "Why are you running so far?"

"Thank you."

As he spoke, Penello ruffled Stone's hair, and did not leave contentedly until class was about to begin.

"Alas -" Stone sighed.

When not in class, Hermione would most likely be in the library, and Stone found her with the money and wooden sign.

"This is interest." He handed over the wooden sign.

"This is Neville's wooden plaque of courage. How can you have it? - Oh, yes, Anthony is your roommate - but isn't this thing very expensive? Where did you get the money? - Hiss - it turns out you made it ?"

Hermione asked and answered questions for a while, and the expression on her face also switched back and forth between 'confused' and 'I see', which made Stone look at her blankly.

"...Yes." He then found the opportunity and took out five gold galleons:

"This is the principal."

"Oh - you make money very quickly!" Hermione took the gold Galleons and asked curiously: "Then why did you hear Anthony say that you won't sell it? It's a very profitable business, and many of us in Gryffindor are rushing to get it. Woolen cloth!"

"It's not very profitable, and that's not my goal. It's just my practice."

"Oh - that means you have other things you want to do? Can you tell me?"

"Emm...if you can keep it a secret."

"Yes!" Hermione nodded heavily, with a look of curiosity on her face.

"Ok."

Although it seems unreliable, as an angel investor, you are still qualified to know.

"As a Muggle, you should know about projectors, right?" Stone asked.

"Hmm, do you want to do that? But electronic devices are not allowed in Hogwarts?"

"That's why I want to learn alchemy."

"There's also a bill..."

"That's why I ask you to keep it a secret." Stone blinked, "You will keep it a secret, right?"

"Sure - but - I mean, breaking the rules is always bad, right?"

"Huh?" Stone said in surprise, "Is breaking the rules bad? You are a Gryffindor."

Everyone's impression of Gryffindor is that they like to be reckless and don't follow the rules. Stereotypes are definitely bad, but it seems that Gryffindors don't care about such comments and actually like them.

"...Hmph! I'm not Harry Potter or the others." When she mentioned this, Hermione became angry and said angrily:

"Did you know? A few days ago, Harry fell into Malfoy's trap because of this and foolishly ran out to duel, almost killing us!"

"You guys?" Stone nodded clearly, "So, you're going too?"

"I went to stop them!" Hermione understood Stone's expression and said depressedly, "You don't know, those two idiots are so stupid, Malfoy didn't come at all!"

"Well - wouldn't that be nice?"

"What's good? Filch came. Then we ran and ran, and guess what we saw?"

"What?" Stone held it with interest.

"A three-headed giant dog!" Hermione said exaggeratedly: "It almost ate us!"

"What? A three-headed dog? Is there such a thing in school? Are you dreaming?"

"No!" Hermione said eagerly, "It's true. It seems to be guarding something. I guess it's what the dark wizard was looking for in the Gringotts robbery some time ago."

"Why is it in school?"

"Well - I can't say that. I guess they want to keep it a secret."

"...Then you should have said nothing from the beginning. I almost guessed it."

Stone also read the newspaper and said that nothing was stolen and that it had been withdrawn that morning.

Based on Hermione's words, the owner of the vault is someone from Hogwarts, and the only person who has the ability to arrange defensive measures in the school is Dumbledore.

"Oh - yes, hey hey hey -" Hermione let out a silly laugh.

"Okay, I'll just pretend I didn't hear anything."

A dark wizard who has the ability to rob Gringotts; Dumbledore needs to arrange something for defense and protection. The combination of these two conditions almost made the word "danger" written on his face, and Stone didn't want to join in the fun.

In addition to this incident, Stone could also learn from Hermione's words that Malfoy could no longer sit still and started to cause trouble for Harry Potter. This meant that a new hot event was about to appear and he could keep a low profile. .

"Hello?" Hermione waved her hand in front of Stone's eyes, "Wake up, do you hear me? I heard others say you like to be in a daze before, but I still didn't believe it. This time I really saw it."

"Huh? Well, what did you say?"

"Oh -" Hermione sighed, "I said, can you tell me the secret to carving the [Shocking Helm]? I want to try it."

"Of course, it's not difficult."

The complete alchemical logic is very complicated, but if it is just a [Shock Helm], it is not difficult, as long as you master three runes. Stone taught her the order of carving the three characters and symbols.

Then, he took out his carving knife bag, took out the smallest one that was two inches long (one inch ≈ 2.5 centimeters), handed it out, and said:

"I'll lend you this first. I won't need it. It suits you well."

"Emm——" After thinking for a moment, Hermione took out one of the gold galleons. "This is used as collateral to prevent me from breaking it."

"Okay." Stone was not polite.

After exchanging the quality of the knife and the ransom, Stone stretched and said, "If nothing happens, I'll go back first."

"Let's go together." Hermione gestured with the carving knife eagerly, "I also want to go back to the dormitory and give it a try."

"It's better for everyone to go their own way. You have to pick up some branches." Stone refused decisively.

He had picked up all the larger branches in the school, and he needed to be very careful to find the right ones. He didn't want to waste time with them.

"Hmph! Stinky stone!" Hermione naturally understood Stone's subtext, "I'll just go myself!"

The name "Stone" is taken from the homophonic sound of "stone". The purpose is to hope that he can be as hard as a stone, which entrusts the best wishes of the Capet couple.

Of course, the word stone is also appropriate in other places, because Stone really left without looking back.