Reborn at Hogwarts

"Dear Ivan:

I hope this letter gets delivered before you leave school, I don't know if Hogwarts is willing to let owls into the school after what has been such a horrible experience.

Regarding the matter of your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, unfortunately I was unable to attend his funeral because I was on a business trip in Egypt at the time. Words cannot express the respect I have for such a professor who is willing to fight to the death to protect his students. I hope you can go to Dumbledore and ask about Professor Searles' family information. Your mother and I would like to visit his family.

...I'm glad you got an 'O' in Transfiguration, no doubt you inherited my talent in this area, I was always able to beat Severus in Transfiguration when I was in school, But he's much better at Potions than I am.

I heard that this year's House Cup was won by Slytherin again? Your mother was a bit morose when she received the news, but I'm actually very happy about it (please don't let your mother find this letter), as did Severus' letter.

...I will pick you up at the station with your mother, we can't wait to hear about your experiences at school.

Your father, Jon Vesemir"

Ivan folded the letter paper in his hands neatly according to the creases, then picked up the envelope, and glanced inside with one eye.

Nothing at all.

The boy muttered, stuffed the letter back, and put it in his pocket.

"Have you packed it yet?" Eddie asked hurriedly.

"It's all sorted out." Ivan nodded.

He turned to look at his roommate.

Eddie and Ralph were burying their heads in trying to stuff as many things as possible into their respective suitcases, they were sweating profusely from exhaustion and at the same time they were still murmuring something.

Ivan didn't bother to listen carefully either. The two guys became distracted after the results of the final exam came out, and they were probably lamenting because of this problem.

"Calm down, buddy." Atwood, who was sitting on the bed playing wizard chess with Dean, glanced at them, "Didn't you just fail the exam, this is just the first grade, relax, relax."

"I have nothing to say to the guy with an E in all subjects." Ralph said, "If you have any conscience, just help me fool Professor Snape when I was in Potions class, come and help me Pack your things."

"Why didn't Dean help you clean up?" Atwood asked.

Eddie and Ralph looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"We can still talk to people with E's in general subjects." Eddie said, and Ivan felt that he said this through gritted teeth, "Dean, who has taken O's in addition to flying lessons Man, I don't think there's anything else to say to him."

Dean scratched his head and smiled honestly.

"Remember what Professor Snape said in the first class?" Atwood looked at the two roommates maliciously.

"Can not remember."

"Shut up."

"If your grades next year are still so dismal, I think the dean may really want to take you to ask the sorting hat if it has put you in the wrong college." Atwood turned a blind eye to this obvious threat, cheerfully Said, "Remember? This was originally used to talk about Ivan, but I think it is more appropriate to use it on you."

Eddie and Ralph looked at each other again, suddenly jumped up like a hungry wolf, and threw Atwood to the ground.

"I think you need a lesson." Eddie gritted his teeth.

"Wait a minute and I'll show you a treasure." Ralph said eccentrically.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" This is Atwood's miserable cry.

Dean on the side escaped because of his shy personality. At this time, he quietly leaned to the side, and conveniently put away the wizard chess that he had fallen into a disadvantage, and stuffed it into his bag.

... These guys who don't know anything are really happy.

Looking at the messy scene in front of him, Ivan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The first year of school at Hogwarts is officially over.

After the Marauder's Map was destroyed, he visited Dumbledore and got some vital information from the old wizard.

Paracelsus, the alchemist hidden in the long river of history, was indeed hired by Dumbledore.

The reason for this incident dates back to when Voldemort applied for the job.

The former Tom Riddle had an inexplicable obsession and attachment to the position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

When he had just graduated, he visited Armando Dippet, who was the headmaster of Hogwarts at the time, hoping to get the position, but was rejected by the latter on the grounds that he was too young.

For a long time after that, Tom Riddle disappeared from the public's sight, and when he reappeared, he had become hideous under the influence of black magic.

Tom Riddle, who reappeared under the name "Voldemort", came to Hogwarts and applied to Dumbledore, who had become the principal, for the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but was rejected by Dumbledore who suspected his real purpose. Since then, this position has been cursed by Voldemort, and no professor can teach for more than a year. They will either have a tragic end, or have to leave the position for various reasons.

However, during the long period of fermentation, this news turned into rumors that intensified and spread among wizards, resulting in fewer and fewer wizards willing to apply for this position.

Dumbledore clearly knew what the problem was, but he was also helpless about it. Before the 1990 school year began, he thought of a way.

If wizards, and even humans, cannot resist this curse, what about non-human beings?

Before the start of the school year, Dumbledore found Paracelsus, hoping that he could send an "alchemy puppet" to teach at Hogwarts.

This alchemist, who has disappeared for hundreds of years, had a close relationship with the "Dark Lord" during Gellert Grindelwald's peak period. Through the information provided by Gellert Grindelwald, he jointly developed the "incarnation technique" ", imagining the era when the "International Statute of Secrecy" was broken and wizards stood on top of the world and ruled Muggles.

But to his surprise, in the world-renowned duel in 1945, Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald who was holding the Deathly Hallows, and the mighty Dark Lord was imprisoned in Nurmengard. This cut off contact with the outside world.

After hearing the news, adhering to the principle of "hide if you can", Paracelsus immediately packed his bags and prepared to leave his residence and hide in an even more unknown place.

But at this moment...Dumbledore and Newt Scamander, through the letter he sent to Grindelwald, traced back to the alchemist's location and blocked him at the door.

What kind of agreement the three finally reached, Dumbledore did not elaborate, but said that under the witness of Newt Scamander, he made an unbreakable oath with Paracelsus, and then let him go up.

Decades later, when Dumbledore found Paracelsus' residence again and offered him to teach at Hogwarts, the latter had no right to refuse.

Later, under the arrangement of Dumbledore, the alchemy puppet carrying part of the will of Paracelsus came to Hogwarts, and placed alchemy props in the Room of Requirement, and the magic power stored in the puppet was exhausted. when replaced.

Since then, most of the doubts hidden in Ivan's heart have disappeared.

As for questions such as "what did Paracelsus do at Hogwarts" and "why did he suddenly choose to feign death to escape", Ivan knew that he would not get an answer if he asked.

If Dumbledore was willing to reveal something, he would definitely tell himself straightforwardly, without concealing it.

...Of course, the bigger possibility is that Dumbledore hasn't figured it out yet.

Before the conversation with the old wizard ended, Ivan asked about the black-robed wizard, and Dumbledore spread his hands, expressing that he didn't know.

"I suggest that you don't get too into this matter." Dumbledore said this, his blue eyes hidden behind half-moon lenses looked a little tired, "The only thing we can be sure of at present is that he is very familiar with Hogwarts. , I have no real hostility towards you."

Ivan nodded, then bid farewell to the old wizard politely, and left the principal's office.

In the coming last semester, everything gradually got on the right track.

There is no longer any strange professor, and the black-robed wizard has disappeared without a trace, as if he had never appeared before.

Under the arrangement of Dumbledore, Professor Flitwick of Ravenclaw temporarily took over the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts until the end of the school year. This also caused some changes in the class schedule, and occasionally even students from the four colleges crowded together The "grand occasion" of class.

Other than that, everything works fine.

Classrooms, libraries, auditoriums and dormitories, Ivan's life has returned to the ordinary "four points and one line".

In this way, the third week of June came quietly, and Ivan's first school year at Hogwarts was about to come to an end.

...

"Don't be dazed, let's go!"

Eddie's greeting snapped Ivan out of his memory.

The boy shook his head, seeing that the roommates had finally finished their quarreling, they all picked up their suitcases and stood at the door of the dormitory, ready to leave.

Ivan responded, picked up the boxes he had already packed, and left the dormitory where he had lived for a year with his roommate behind him.

The common room was overcrowded at this time, and the students were carrying their suitcases, shoving and huddling together. Ivan saw the prefect Alan standing on tiptoe, trying to maintain discipline with his voice. Unfortunately, when he waited His face was flushed, and no one cared about his voice.

After standing in the lounge for a while, the male and female prefects finally came up with a good idea: they stood on the sofa and cast a "loud voice" spell on themselves, which silenced the students.

"It should have been like this a long time ago." Allen murmured to himself.

It's time to leave school.

Under the leadership of the prefect, the students left the dormitory and joined the students from the other three colleges. Ivan saw the Weasley twin brothers winking at him in the crowd, and then the students from the four colleges were killed by the hunting ground together. The guard, Hagrid, led them to Hogsmeade Station through the slightly humid campus in the early morning.

The Hogwarts Express train had already stopped here, and the students flocked to it immediately. You pushed and squeezed onto the train, and each sat in the box of his choice. When they were almost all in, Ivan took the suitcase and got into the car. Only then did he find that the Weasley twin brothers and Zoe were standing nearby waiting for him.

"You're not going to leave us to occupy the whole box, are you?" Fred winked at Ivan.

"We all know you're a guy who values ​​your friends," George said.

Ivan was a little helpless to the twin brother's words, but he knew that the two really had good intentions, and he was afraid that he would be bored by himself.

He then looked at Zooey.

"I heard that you always carry a lot of snacks with you." Noticing Ivan looked over, the little girl blushed slightly, "I didn't eat in the morning, I'm a little hungry."

"..." It's really a real and unpretentious reason.

Ivan and the Weasley twins got into the car first, and then helped Zooey carry her surprisingly heavy suitcase up. When the four of them had packed their luggage, the siren sounded "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"What are your plans for the summer vacation, Ivan?" Fred asked, and George and Zoe also looked over curiously.

Ivan thought about it.

"Probably learn Russian...and then preview what you will learn next semester. It's probably like this." Ivan said uncertainly.

To be honest, he hasn't thought about it yet.

"I shouldn't have asked you," George muttered.

"Is your family in London too, Ivan?" Zoe asked.

"Yes. Do you want to come and play with me?"

Zooey's face turned red again, but this time it returned to normal immediately, and Ivan almost thought he had an illusion.

"If I have time, I will." The little girl hummed and said, "I will send you a letter in advance."

"Oh—" the twin brothers yelled in unison, and then hugged each other with giggles and laughs.

At this time, there was a loud clacking noise from the aisle, and a woman with a smile on her dimpled face pushed open the box door and asked, "Honey, do you want to buy food from the car?"

Ivan took out a Galleon from his pocket and put it in the woman's open palm: "I want them all."

The twin brothers stared at the gleaming Galleon.

"Does all the assets of our family add up to one Galleon?" George looked at his brother.

"Maybe, maybe not." Fred replied inscrutablely, "I learned this answering method from a classmate. Does it sound very esoteric? He said it was a kind of "philosophy" the art of language."

The "philosophy" in my impression seems to be related to a man named Billy... Ivan murmured to himself.

After receiving Jin Jialong, the saleswoman with a bright smile took all the snacks off the car and piled them on the empty seats in the box.

"Oh..." Zooey looked at the mountain of snacks in surprise, a little speechless.

"Didn't you not have breakfast? Eat it and be full." Ivan pouted at Zoe, took a pack of cockroach piles from the snack mountain, happily stuffed it into his mouth, and began to chew carefully.

"The bursting pulp that I bit into...it's amazing." The boy couldn't help but admire.

The other three people present cast disgusted looks at him in unison.

"Why do you look at me like that? This is really delicious, don't you want one?" Ivan eagerly piled a whole cockroach in front of the three of them, its legs were still twitching realistically.

"I'd rather eat an expired sandwich all holiday than pop this thing in my mouth for even a second."

"I could eat an expired sandwich for two holidays."

"ah!!"

...

The train slowly stops at platform 9 of King's Cross Station.

The students got out of the car one by one, and the three of them passed the partition wall together under the watchful eyes of a shriveled old guard.

"Remember to come and play with me." Ivan waved to the Weasley twins and Zoe, and the three also waved goodbye to him, and then got into the wall under the urging of the old guard.

Ivan was the last one to pass through the partition wall. When his eyes suddenly lit up, he saw his father, Mr. Vesemir, standing not far away, looking at him with a smile.

"Good boy, how are you doing?" Mr. Vesemir took the initiative to greet him, and before Ivan could speak, he hugged him vigorously.

"...Not bad." Ivan tried his best to press "Dangerous" into his stomach.

"Let's go, your mother said that she will cook you a whole table of meals." Mr. Vesemir said as he took the suitcase and owl cage from Ivan's hand and walked out of the station.

"Have you not found Frodo yet?" Ivan suddenly became a little depressed when he thought of the house elf who disappeared on his birthday.

"No, he seems to have evaporated from the world. But don't worry, your mother's cooking skills are now as good as Frodo's. I can guarantee that you will forget all your troubles after taking a bite." Vesemir explained , he obviously didn't want to worry Ivan, so he just dismissed the matter lightly.

Chang Wei quacked twice and flapped his wings in the cage.

The two walked out of the station, and Mr. Vesemir's car was parked not far away. When Ivan got closer, he realized that his mother was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, looking desperate.

"Oh, Ivan—" The moment Madam Vesemir saw her son, tears immediately began to roll in her eyes. At this moment, a small hand stretched out from the back seat and handed over a tissue.

"Thank you, thank you, dear—" Mrs. Vesemir took the tissue tremblingly, wiped away her tears, then quickly stepped out of the car, and gave Ivan a hug that almost suffocated him.

"Cough, cough, cough—Mom, loosen up, loosen up—" Ivan nearly rolled his eyes.

The father and son comforted Mrs. Vesemere, who hadn't seen her son for nearly a year. The latter gradually calmed down, and helped Ivan stuff the suitcase and owl cage into the trunk that had been cast with the No Trace Stretching Charm. inside.

"Don't worry about Chang Wei, we've punched vents in the trunk." Mr. Vesemir said this with a smug tone, "I'm pretty good at Muggle things now—go in."

The three got into the car, and when Ivan sat in the back seat, he found another familiar person sitting beside him.

"Hermione?!" Ivan was taken aback.

The future Miss Know-it-All has not changed much since the first meeting, with long, fluffy brown hair hanging on her shoulders, and her front teeth protruding slightly, looking like a beaver.

Hearing that, before Hermione could speak, Mrs. Vesemir turned her head from the co-pilot and said, "Hermione heard that she is coming to pick you up today, so she wants to come over to have a look."

"I couldn't see you off last year. Hermione was disappointed for a long time." Mr. Vesemir smiled and looked at the two people in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

Miss Know-it-all blushed a little.

"Long time no see, Ivan." The little girl poked her neck, glanced from Ivan's face to the car window, and said stiffly, "Congratulations on passing the first grade. You sent I received the incoming letter, but I have to say that there is a mistake in the grammar you used in the letter. Also, what is the name of your owl? Chang, Chang—”

"Chang Wei." Ivan reminded.

"Oh, yes, Chang Wei. It's so delicious and lazy!" Hermione said angrily, "It ate at least five meals at my house, and then flew away sneakily. I'm only halfway through writing the letter-" —It's too unqualified to be a messenger!"

So what kind of letter needs you to write for a day and a half... This thought flashed through Ivan's mind.

"I'll teach it a good lesson." Ivan wisely didn't dwell on this topic, and laughed dryly, "I brought you a present, and I'll give it to you when I get home."

"Hermione, will you have dinner at my place tonight?" Madam Vesemir asked.

"Ah - I, I want to ask my parents first." The little girl stammered.

"Let them come too. I brought gifts for my uncles and aunts," Ivan said.

"ah……"

The car started slowly, and drove out of the station amid Mr. Vesemir's exclamation of excitement.

The afternoon sun was a little harsh.

Ivan squinted his eyes looking at the sun outside the window.

"it is finally over……"

...

Hogsmeade village.

A figure in a black robe came out of Honeydukes.

He was holding a bag in his hand, which contained the things he had just purchased.

Behind him, the shopkeeper who was in a trance suddenly shuddered and looked around blankly.

"What's the matter? Huh? Who left the money here?"

By the time he rushed out of the shop with the money, the black-robed wizard had disappeared.

"Is it over? It's still early..."

The story of the first grade is over, this chapter is 5888 words, 6000 is not too much, right (laughs)? This ending is actually a bit hasty, but I don't intend to continue to go underwater in some irrelevant places, it is better to end this plot as soon as possible. Brothers who have recommended votes vote for it, thank you