Chapter 4 Strengthening Strength

After Shaylin was 9 years old, perhaps because Lucius and Narcissa felt that their two children had reached the age to make friends, or perhaps because they saw that Shaylin was becoming a homebody, they began to invite some children of similar age and status to their home to play, hoping that Shaylin and Draco could find like-minded friends before entering school.

However, almost all of these so-called "similar status" children who were invited were from pure-blood families with similar status and status to the Malfoy family, such as Theodore Nott of the Nott family, Pansy Parkinson of the Parkinson family, Millicent Bulstrode of the Bulstrode family, Gregory Goyle of the Goyle family, Vincent Crabbe of the Crabbe family, etc.

In Shaylin's eyes, these were a group of arrogant, ignorant, and spoiled brats. It would be strange if Shaylin could get along with them! What's more, as far as Shaylin knew, more than half of the children here had fathers who were Death Eaters!

Draco was quite impressive. He relied on the family background of the Malfoy family and easily subdued Goyle and Crabbe, two followers. Although these two big boys were a little silly, their strong bodies made them perfect bodyguards.

Even the arrogant Pansy Parkinson seemed to have a good impression of Draco and admired Draco's slightly childish arrogance.

To be honest, Pansy at this time had short black hair, big black eyes, a straight nose, and two dimples. She looked cute, but her personality was very bad. Except when she was talking to Draco and Sherin, her words were very sarcastic and she always enjoyed mocking and ridiculing others. Goyle and Crabbe called her "little witch" in private.

Theodore Nott was one of the few people who did not lower himself to flatter Draco. The Nott family was still famous in the British wizarding world and had many industries that made alchemical items. They were the two giants in the British alchemical world together with the Burke family. Theodore himself has good talent, but his personality is a bit arrogant, to put it bluntly, he is unbearably narcissistic.

But Draco likes him very much. Draco has told Sherin more than once that he thinks Theodore is the only peer who deserves his equal communication.

Whenever this group of little brats get together, Sherin will find various reasons to shirk. If the gathering place is at Malfoy Manor, Sherin will find an opportunity to sneak out in advance. Draco is intoxicated by the mutual flattery between several people. He is very keen to participate in various activities of this small circle. Sherin can often see him and his friends going out to play and party.

Sherin was also invited by them several times, but after being rejected by Sherin several times, Draco felt that his brother who had a lot of ideas did not seem to like hanging out with his friends, so he did not care. From then on, everyone would automatically leave Sherin out of the gathering.

Narcissa was not very happy after knowing this. She nagged Sherin several times, but seeing that Sherin was unmoved, she knew that her words were probably talking to a cow, and over time, she could only let Sherin's loneliness go.

However, after Sherin noticed the strong and tall stature of Crabbe and Goyle, he also began to put physical exercise on the agenda.

Not being able to learn spells does not mean that you cannot enhance your combat strength.

In the magical world of Harry Potter, the battle between wizards, under normal circumstances, the victory or defeat depends on three factors: the power of the spell released, the hit rate of both sides of the battle, and the dodge rate. After all, only the spell that hits the target is an effective spell.

Only in a few very rare cases, the battle between wizards will be dragged into a protracted war because of equal strength, and the total amount of magic power will become the final factor that is key to victory. It can be seen that for combat wizards, physical quality is actually very important, and wizards with agility can have a great survival rate in a melee.

Without his family's knowledge, Shaylin began to secretly do physical training with Dobby every day in the dead of night.

When reading the original book, Shaylin wanted to complain. The young wizards in Hogwarts never participated in any physical training. They only focused their time on learning knowledge and spells. The only thing that had anything to do with physical education in the seven-year Hogwarts education system was the flying class in the first grade, and it only lasted for a short year.

No wonder the young wizards can know so many spells, but their actual combat performance is so poor. This may be because in peacetime, unless they are determined to become Aurors, it is more practical for young wizards to learn more household spells instead of spending time on physical training.

In his previous life, Shaylin was an expert in wilderness survival, with high attainments in long-distance running, climbing, diving, and fighting. Based on the description of the battles between wizards in the original book, he borrowed the training methods of war games in the Muggle world, and personally designed a set of systematic physical training processes specifically for dodge rate and hit rate.

He asked Dobby to aim at him and cast a harmless marking spell (only a mark like ink would be left when hit by the spell), while he moved around in a small space, practicing various dodging skills, and gradually asked Dobby to speed up the casting speed to increase the difficulty of his dodging.

After practicing the dodging skills, after a short rest, Sherin asked Dobby to use the flying spell to create flying paper birds, while he practiced aiming with darts, aiming to hit every paper bird.

During the day, Sherin also developed the habit of reading the Daily Prophet diligently every day, and took the initiative to understand the major and minor events happening in the magic world in the current peaceful era.

When he was free, Schelling remembered that Bill, the eldest of the Wesley family in the original book, seemed to have a pen pal who was studying at the Castelobuscher School of Magic in Brazil. On a whim, he wrote a letter to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, saying that he wanted to use a small column to publish an international friendship notice under the pen name "Xiao Xiami".

What Schelling didn't expect was that the newspaper's reply came very quickly. Within a few days, he received a reply from the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He agreed to publish this friendship notice for Schelling for free to promote exchanges in the international magic community. Schelling couldn't help thinking that this might be because newspapers in peacetime were also extremely short of materials.

A few weeks later, Schelling received several friendship letters and successfully made friends with several foreign pen pals.

Among them, the most frequent and most compatible ones were a pen pal living in North America and a pen pal far away in Japan. Through the exchange of letters between pen pals, he also had a preliminary understanding of the magic world outside the UK.

From then on, Xie Ling had a habit of reading and replying letters every weekend.

After his parents knew about this, Lucius curled his lips with disdain but did not comment. In Lucius's eyes, the British magic world is the most powerful and noble wizard world in the world, and other places are just remote and backward barbaric lands - people with this kind of thinking are not a minority in the British magic world. After all, the inheritance of North American wizards comes from Britain, and the distant East is recognized to be somewhat backward in both economy and politics.

Having said that, after all, he is his beloved son. Although Malfoy Manor already has 4 owls for mailing letters, one day Lucius asked someone to buy a majestic gray eagle owl named "Urisi", saying that the number of owls in the family is insufficient and needs to be supplemented, but in fact the current number of owls in the family is more than enough.

Xie Ling knew in his heart that this was bought specifically for sending international letters to him.

(Note: In the original English book, Malfoy's owl is an eagle-owl, the most ferocious and domineering owl species, but Renminshe directly translated it into owl for the sake of convenience. Ulysse is the name of the eagle-owl animal actor who delivered the letter to Malfoy in the movie)

Narcissa was thinking about Sherin's mental health. She often stared at Sherin with a complicated look. It was probably because she felt that Sherin lacked like-minded friends and felt lonely. She could see that Sherin didn't like the small circle of pure-blooded descendants, so her heart was full of guilt as a mother.

Of course, Sherin didn't care much about his parents' opinions.

When Sherin told his parents that he had read hundreds of books in the family library, even the cold Lucius couldn't help showing a surprised and happy expression.

"You are worthy of being my son. You have the style of me back then." Lucius said with a rare complacency.

"Come on!" Narcissa rolled her eyes at him, ruthlessly exposing his lies, "Why don't I remember you liking to read? I clearly remember that when you were studying, the time you spent flirting with girls was several times more than the time you spent reading!"

"This..." Lucius was speechless.

Shaylin interrupted his parents' conversation at the right time and relieved Lucius from his dilemma. "Father, mother, besides the family collection, do we have any other channels to obtain such rare magic books?"

"Hehe," Lucius snorted, "such books are usually the secrets of the pure-blood families. How can they be easily lent to others? Even if we are pure-bloods... Apart from the pure-blood families with a long history, I have only heard that the collection of the European Wizarding Federation in the Middle Ages is comparable, but these old antiques who are arrogant seem to be impossible to buy, and even I have tried to join them several times but failed..."

Narcissa then proposed to take Shaylin to visit Shaylin's grandmother, Druella Black. Druella came to the house once when Shaylin was very young, and she loved the naturally intelligent Shaylin very much. In fact, Shaylin and Draco were the only two grandchildren she recognized.

Shaylin has two aunts - the eldest aunt Bellatrix joined the Death Eaters after getting married and did not give birth to any children, and the second aunt Andromeda was removed from the family tree because she married a Muggle wizard.

Druella lived alone in a small house in Wiltshire. When she saw her beloved grandson visiting, she was so happy that she couldn't hide her joy. When she heard that Shaylin wanted to stay for a few days, she was so happy. So when Shaylin asked to see the collection of books, Druella took out all the books in her house in one breath for Shaylin to see enough.

The collection of books in Druella's home was inherited by her and her deceased husband Cygnus Black from their respective families. Before Druella got married, she was the daughter of the Rosier family, so some of the books in the collection were from the Black family (Black) and some were from the Rosier family (Rosier). A large part of them were sent to Malfoy Manor with Narcissa's marriage very early.

Then, after the First Wizarding War, my aunt Bellatrix and her husband were arrested and sent to the wizard prison Azkaban, and sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the Wizarding Property Act, all of their property except the vault in Gringotts had to be transferred to Druella's name.

This gave Shaylin a bargain. He found not only the classics of the Black and Rochiel families in Druella's collection, but also some collections of the Lestrange family, which totaled more than a hundred books.

Although Druella was old, she was not demented. There were no books on dark magic in the books she gave to Shaylin, but some secret spells of the Black, Rochiel and Lestrange families were indispensable. Shaylin knew that these were the most valuable knowledge of the pure-blood family, and he used the time hourglass every day to greedily absorb all the knowledge he could absorb.

After living in his grandmother's house for a month, Shaylin and Narcissa said goodbye to Druella, whose face was full of reluctance. Druella generously gave all the books to Shaylin and ordered a house elf Sasha to deliver the books directly to Shaylin's bedroom in Malfoy Manor.

[Black family spells obtained! Rochiel family spells obtained! Lestrange Family Heirloom Spell Obtained! 】

Narcissa saw that Shaylin's bedroom was full of messy books, and she felt helpless and amused. She bought a portable book bag engraved with the traceless extension spell. The space inside was like an empty library, allowing Shaylin to store tens of thousands of books.

Shaylin liked this gift very much. It made him feel as if he had his own private library. He couldn't wait to put all the books he brought from Druella's house neatly into the book bag space, but found that he could only barely fill one percent of the bookshelves in the space.

【Private Library Obtained! 】