Chapter 14 Three Major Goals
After Halloween, it was November.
The Quidditch season began. The first game was between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
Unlike the original book, Harry did not become a seeker, nor did Quirrell try to curse Harry on the Quidditch field, nor did Snape try to save Harry but was misunderstood by Harry and his team.
The final result of the game was that Slytherin's seeker Terence Higgs caught the Golden Snitch and Slytherin won, which once again widened the score between Slytherin and the other three houses.
As in the original book, Harry and his team still believed that Snape had ill intentions towards the treasure hidden in the corridor on the fourth floor, so after some investigation, they got the name of Nicolas Flamel from Hagrid. In the following time, the three of them worked hard in the library to find clues related to the name Nicolas Flamel.
But all this had nothing to do with Schelling.
Schelling had a very fulfilling life these days. In addition to daily study and homework, Schelling had to take time to participate in the activities of the Charms Club and the Transfiguration Club. The two clubs exchanged and studied more advanced and difficult knowledge, which benefited Schelling a lot.
At the same time, Schelling also made plans for his life in Hogwarts for the next few years.
With the brain block, Schelling had the capital to hide his thoughts. It was time to start implementing the three goals he had planned to complete before Voldemort's return:
First, he must enhance his own strength. For this, Schelling has planned to learn more powerful spells, as well as silent and wandless spells, which are very important in actual combat.
In addition, he must also solve his weakness of insufficient magic power. Because of the limitation of magic power, many powerful magics that he had been eyeing for a long time could only be read in books but not learned because the magic power required exceeded his own magic level. It is not easy to solve this problem. He hopes to find and collect various legendary magic artifacts that can be used in actual combat by studying the history of magic in depth.
In the First Wizarding War, a large part of the power of the first Dark Lord Grindelwald came from the artifact Elder Wand in his hand. He studied historical documents to find the whereabouts of the three artifacts of the god of death, and after many twists and turns, he snatched the Elder Wand from a wand manufacturer.
The above two points were Schelling's original plan at the beginning. However, after discovering the magic of blood power, Schelling added research on blood power to his original plan, hoping to discover the hidden power in his blood.
Blood magic has long been lost in the modern magic world with thin blood. The modern magic world lists all kinds of research involving blood transformation as strictly prohibited projects. Schelling currently bets his greatest hope on the forbidden book area in the library, but the forbidden book area requires the signature of the principal or the professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to enter, so Schelling also needs to plan for this point in the long run.
Second, develop a force loyal to oneself, an organization similar to the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix.
Just look at Tom Riddle who began to recruit followers when he was in school, and you will understand that school is the place where most wizards gather and the best place to build power. Whether Sherin wants to become the next Dark Lord or to revive the family's glory in the future, it is very necessary.
Third, explore Hogwarts.
As a magic fortress with a heritage of thousands of years, Hogwarts has hidden countless secrets inside and outside the castle. No one, including the headmasters of all generations, dares to say that they know all the secrets of Hogwarts. What makes Sherin most curious is that since Slytherin can leave a secret room as a heritage, what about the other three great wizards who are also the founders? Did they also leave behind any heritage that is not mentioned in the original book?
Sherin spends a lot of time every day practicing silent casting, wandless casting, and the family spells of the four major families: the Malfoy family, the Black family, the Lestrange family, and the Rochiel family.
Interestingly, the four families have taken completely different routes in the research of family magic:
The Malfoy family is very inclined to spiritual magic; the Black family is inclined to soul and transformation magic; the Lestrange family magic carries the shadow of a strong curse, mainly to create physical pain and harm; the Rochiel family magic is mainly elemental, including various magics that control fire, water, whirlwind, and lightning.
After Schelling discovered the inclination of each family in magic research, a vague and bold idea suddenly flashed through his mind. Could the magic inclination of these pure-blood families correspond to the power hidden in the blood of each family?
Schelling had discovered earlier that he had an extraordinary talent in spiritual magic, which might be because he had awakened the blood power of the Malfoy family.
The Black family had Nymphadora Tonks, a natural disguising Magus, which might explain the Black family's inclination towards transformation magic?
In the original book, the Lestranges were masters of the Cruciatus Curse. They tortured a couple of Aurors into madness. Perhaps it was because they had a talent for using evil curses to torture people hidden in their blood?
As for the Rochiel family, the original book rarely mentions them, but the first Dark Lord Grindelwald is indeed a master of playing with fire, controlling water, and controlling thunder. A fire almost burned down the whole of Paris, and a Hudson River almost drowned all the Aurors on the prison van... In addition to his unclear relationship with his female subordinate Vida Rochiel, maybe Grindelwald himself also has some blood of the Rochiel family?
If my guess is true, I have awakened the blood power of the Malfoy family. Is it possible for me to awaken the power of other family blood?
Thinking of this, Xie Lin couldn't help but feel itchy. It's a pity that the information about blood magic is very rare. I have read a lot of books but still have only a superficial understanding of this magic field. You must know that I still have at least a quarter of Black blood and a quarter of Rochiel blood.
My grandmother died before I was born, but I still vaguely remember that my father seemed to mention that my grandmother was from the Lestrange family, which means that I actually have the blood of these four families at the same time. If he could awaken other bloodline powers, his strength would definitely improve dramatically!
Xielin's study and practice of family magic and spellcasting skills continued until the end of the second week of December.
At this time, he was full of confidence in every move, and was very proud of the strength he had gained from his closed-door hard work these days.
He could already perform wandless and silent spells skillfully and freely. The wand was only an auxiliary for him and no longer necessary. At the same time, Xielin also stopped the actual combat training with Dobby. This was not because Dobby could not beat him, but because he had reached a bottleneck and continued to practice without change, which would not make any progress.
[Learn wandless casting! ]
[Learn silent casting! ]
Xielin touched his chin, and it was time to put the exploration of Hogwarts on the agenda.
But before that, Shaylin had to prepare for the two-week Christmas holiday. Originally, Shaylin planned to use this Christmas holiday to explore Hogwarts, but Narcissa had sent a letter a month ago asking the two brothers to go home to spend Christmas. After all, this was the first time that the two sons had been away from home for such a long time. Shaylin could fully understand Narcissa's longing for her children.
The day before Christmas, when Shaylin returned the book he borrowed from the library to Ms. Pince, he was stopped by Hermione at the door of the library.
Hermione's expression was a little timid. To be honest, she mustered up a lot of courage before coming to Shaylin this time.
Influenced by Harry and Ron, she has always had a bad impression of Slytherin. If Shaylin hadn't saved her last time, she would probably never have any intersection with him in her life. At this moment, she stopped Shaylin, and with a feeling of both expectation and fear, she said, "Hello, Mr. Malfoy, I didn't have time to express my gratitude to you for the troll incident last time, so I came here today to say thank you."
Shaylin looked at the girl who played the role of brain trust in Harry's trio in the original book. At this moment, Hermione's facial features were still childish, with fluffy hair and conspicuous front teeth, just like a simple and beautiful girl next door. Of course, girls change a lot when they grow up. Hermione will start to show her feminine charm after the fourth grade.
Shaylin is surrounded by beautiful women in Slytherin. Daphne is charming and generous; Meredith is cold and beautiful, and graceful. Hermione is indeed inconspicuous compared to them in appearance.
But Shaylin still has a good impression of this principled, persistent and intelligent girl. In the process of Harry searching for Horcruxes all over the world, even Ron couldn't stand it and left, only Hermione stayed with Harry to the end.
Shaylin replied kindly: "You're welcome, Miss Granger. Although we are in different colleges, we are all classmates at Hogwarts, so I'm just doing what I should do."
Hermione's eyes lit up and smiled: "Yes, we are classmates. I hope we can help each other in the future."
Shaylin nodded and was about to leave. Hermione stopped Shaylin again, "Um... do you know who Nicolas Flamel is?"
Shaylin raised his eyebrows. Oh-Harry's trio is going to advance the plot of the Philosopher's Stone so soon, "Nicolas Flamel is the greatest Alchemist, he is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, which is also known as the Sorcerer's Stone. It can make immortality potions and turn stones into gold. He is also a good friend of Professor Dumbledore. Is this enough? "
"I know, it must be the Philosopher's Stone!" Hermione suddenly reacted and said to Sherin excitedly, "The Philosopher's Stone must be hidden in the restricted area on the fourth floor. The three-headed dog must be to protect the Philosopher's Stone-Hagrid said this is an agreement between Dumbledore and Nick Flamel."
"Oh, then what? Knowing that there is a Philosopher's Stone, then what?" Sherin asked curiously.
"Then-uh..." Hermione hesitated for a moment, but still said: "We suspect Snape wants to steal the Philosopher's Stone. Harry saw that his leg was injured. He must have been bitten when he tried to pass through the three-headed dog. "
Sherin looked at Hermione with a scrutinizing look, and after a while he said: "Listen, you are suspecting a professor, or even slandering him, which will get you into big trouble. "
"The most important thing is that Professor Snape has taught at Hogwarts for more than ten years. Being able to become the head of a house shows that he is deeply trusted by Professor Dumbledore. I don't think anyone can have evil intentions under Professor Dumbledore's nose for so many years. Although Professor Snape is unfair in class, I know that other colleges don't like him except our Slytherin students, especially Gryffindor students, but - I don't think he should be accused without reason."
"But..." Hermione still wanted to refute.
"Listen, if you can think of something, why can't others think of it?" Shaylin looked into Hermione's eyes and said, "Do you think Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Professor Sprout knew nothing about Professor Snape's foot injury?"
"Okay, I think this topic ends here. No matter how much I, a Slytherin, say, you probably won't listen. You probably just think I'm biased and protecting my own dean... Christmas vacation is tomorrow, and I haven't started packing yet, so I'll take my leave first. Merry Christmas to you." Shaylin waved and turned away. In the corridor not far away, Daphne and Meredith were looking at him and Hermione with curiosity, waiting for him to go back to the Slytherin dormitory together.
Hermione looked at Shaylin's gradually receding figure. She had heard the unkind tone in Shaylin's last sentence. For some reason, she felt inexplicably sad. Could it be that she, Harry, and Ron were really prejudiced against Snape? Is the difference between Slytherin and Gryffindor really unbreakable?
Elixir of Life was changed to Potion of Eternal Life. The author believes that the new translation is more appropriate. In the second Fantastic Beasts movie, Nicolas Flamel is so old that he no longer looks like a living person. When he shook hands for the first time, he broke his bones due to severe osteoporosis - this shows that this potion can only maintain the vitality of the survivors, but cannot maintain eternal youth.