Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 700 Secret Base

   This year's Halloween is a rare good day for most Hogwarts students. You can go to Hogsmeade Village to have fun for a day, and then participate in the Halloween feast at night, which is simply to enjoy double the happiness.

  For Albert, it is no exception.

   This is the last time to relax before going to the Magic School Potions Tournament.

   After having breakfast and meeting Isobel in the lobby, the two left the castle together and headed towards the school gate.

  Two cloaked dementors stood guard on both sides of the school gate, making the students who passed by feel fear and anxiety.

  As soon as he approached the gate, Albert could feel an inexplicable chill rushing towards his face.

"Don't worry, I'm here." Albert reached out to hold Isobel's hand, pulled out his wand from his pocket to summon the Patronus, and let it turn into a ball of light, surrounding the two of them, avoiding the dementors Influence Isobel.

  His approach attracted many students to look at it curiously. Everyone was curious about the light ball surrounding Albert and Isobel, but no one came to say hello.

  While passing the gate, Albert could clearly feel that the two dementors were sucking the happiness of the passing students intentionally or unintentionally, and they could undoubtedly have a full meal.

   There was a cold wind blowing outside, which was the effect of the large number of dementors' activities on the surroundings of Hogwarts, otherwise the weather would not have become so bad.

   Walking to Hogsmeade village was not a pleasant thing. Many students had to wrap their faces in scarves to avoid the exposed skin from being hurt by the cold wind.

   "Use Apparation."

  After some distance from the school, Albert took Isobel to a place where no one was around, and put a layer of illusion spell on his body. Then, use Apparition to go around Hogsmeade village.

   "Zu Si is really a big trouble." Albert muttered softly. "However, after we have a house here in the future, the use of magic will not be restricted."

  Before reaching adulthood at the age of seventeen, the only way to get rid of the constraints of traces and use magic without being troubled by the magic world is to use magic in the magic world.

  Although magic is also detected by the Ministry of Magic, they cannot determine who is using magic.

   After all, in the magic world, anyone could use magic around him, so the Ministry of Magic would naturally not trouble Albert.

   "I thought you did research?"

"Although the power of the contract can be confused and shielded, it's too late. If I had used a powerful confusion spell on the paper when I signed it, it should have been able to deal with it, but now... it's too late." Albert Reaching out to hold Isobel's little hand, they walked towards Hogsmeade together.

   "Don't you want to lift the Illusion Curse?"

   "Not for the time being, let's take a look at our house first, Bit should have taken care of it for us."

  There are no dementors around the village of Hogsmeade, perhaps knowing that some students will come to Hogsmeade to play, the Ministry of Magic withdrew the dementors here to avoid some bad things from happening.

   After the two entered Hogsmeade Village, they walked to a remote corner on the east side of the village.

   This is one of the reasons that house is so cheap.

  There was a small yard outside the house. The plants in the yard were all withered, and the windows were lit with warm yellow light. When the two walked in, Albert raised his hand and knocked on the door five times.

   This is the password.

   "Master, are you invisible?"

  The house-elf opened the door, staring into the air ahead in bewilderment.

   “I don’t really want people to know it’s my house.”

   After the door was closed again, Albert lifted the illusion spell on the two of them.

  The house elves immediately brought them milk tea and desserts.

   "It looks good here. Although it's a bit old, it's still a good place with a little renovation." Albert looked at the empty hall, and he was quite satisfied. The money was finally worth it.

   "What are you going to use this place for?" Isobel was even more curious about this question. She never thought that Albert would spend money to buy such a place for no reason.

   "Laboratory." Albert didn't intend to hide it.

   "What are you going to make here?"

   "In the future, even if it's summer vacation, I can come here through the disappearing cabinet at any time." Albert pointed to the suitcase on the table.

   "The Vanishing Cabinet?"

   "Yes, the Vanishing Cabinet. That thing was very popular during the First Wizarding War."

   Albert opened the suitcase, revealing the downward stairs.

  The inside of the suitcase has been expanded by the traceless stretching spell, and there are two disappearing cabinets inside.

   "You are well prepared." Isobel said with a strange expression: "If the Ministry of Magic finds out, they will definitely throw you into Azkaban Prison."

   "They don't know, and they won't know." Albert said disapprovingly.

  Back to the hall, the two visit the house together.

  Kitchen, study, bedroom, and utility room...

  The house is empty, except for some old furniture.

   Albert was going to get some new ones from the Muggles.

"I still prefer a spacious place." Isobel stood by the window of the bedroom, looking at the yard below, and said to Albert sideways, "It's not safe here. Once there is chaos in the magic world, you may be watched at any time." superior."

   "They won't find this place. I will use the Loyalty Charm on this house, and no one will suspect us."

   At the time, it was a house-elf who came forward to buy the house.

   And who would connect a house-elf with a Muggle wizard?

   "We always need a place to practice," Albert said mysteriously: "You can also use this as our secret base, and we can meet here at any time in the future and do something we like."

   "You always like to be mysterious, maybe this is a common problem of fortune tellers." Isobel looked at the unconcealable heat in Albert's eyes, and took the initiative to move his face closer.

   "If it's really bad, get out of England!" she whispered.

  Isobel is not a fool. It is natural to see that Albert is not very optimistic about the future prospects. At least there will be a "period of chaos" in the future, and he is actively sitting and preparing for this in order to deal with possible future dangers.

   "Don't worry, the situation is not as bad as imagined." Albert put his face close to the girl's ear, and comforted softly, "Otherwise, I would have taken you away."

  In the following time, Albert and Isobel discussed the renovation of the house in the hall.

  He intends to turn this place into two floors, inside and outside. Like Nico's house, he needs the owner's permission to enter this house.

   Then, he also planned to use the traceless stretching spell to expand the rooms in this house.

  Ordinary wizard families naturally dare not do this, but Albert originally did not intend to let other people enter the house, so naturally he was not worried about breaking the law.

  After Albert used the Loyalty Curse on the house, no one could find it here.

  Even if the Ministry of Magic came, they could only stand on the street and stare blankly.

  (end of this chapter)