Chapter 15： Strange Lost

The two-week Christmas holiday soon passed, and Schelling and Draco returned to Hogwarts.

In the past two weeks, Schelling had a very leisurely life. In addition to occasionally pointing Draco's homework, he occasionally went out to the Muggle world to see. Schelling didn’t plan to live only in the wizarding world all his life. That’s true. Too dull and boring. In his spare time, Schelling has not forgotten to study the spells of the first-grade spells course. In his opinion, whether it is a fluorescent spell, a sound reinforcement spell, or a flame spell, what the school teaches is just the most basic and simple way to use it. As long as these spells are peeled away and traced back to their origins, these spells still have a lot of potential to be tapped. Schelling has always believed that the power of a spell depends on the releaser, not the spell itself. Instead of blindly pursuing a spell that is as powerful and consumes as much, it is better to choose the one that is closest to and best suits the needs of the environment in various environments. Exquisite basic magic spell, not to mention saving mana, can also achieve unexpected results.

To put it plainly, the flame is a gas burning state, and the principle of the flame curse itself is to convert the magic power into a kind of energy to ignite the air. The power of the flame curse depends on the size and temperature of the flame released, and the more magic power is consumed. The greater the amount of flames that can be released, Dumbledore in the original book once released a large sea of ​​fire to knock back thousands of corpses. It is a rare magic that can cause range-type damage in the wizarding world. The magic power of the little wizard is not enough to imitate Dumbledore’s sea of ​​fire effect, but this does not prevent Schelling from finding other ways to achieve the same effect from other angles. Schelling’s first idea was to use potions, he referred to After reading some chemistry textbooks from the Muggle world, he understood the nature of flame and combustion. He wanted to use potions to create a kind of magic potion similar to a combustion-supporting substance. As long as the combustion-supporting potion was thrown into the flame, the flame could spread all at once. Into the boundless sea of ​​flames.

This is not a difficult task. After all, it is easy to buy a bottle of gasoline from Muggles. Schelling just wants to use the knowledge of potions to create a combustion-supporting potion that can simultaneously spread the combustion range and increase the flame temperature. . After doing several experiments in the family's potion laboratory, and after several times humiliating herself in Narcissa's angry eyes, Xie Lin finally created his first potion-Blue Flame potion! As its name suggests, this potion can raise the temperature of the flame to the temperature of the blue flame, and spread the flame to the size of a classroom. Before Schelling started to learn the Fire Curse, it had basically become his most practical magic combination for dealing with group battles.

The wonderful vacation passed in a flash, and Schelling and Draco returned to Hogwarts again.

Walking on the promenade, the joyful atmosphere of Christmas seems to have not completely dissipated, and the walls of the auditorium are still covered with silver frost.

Since the end of the vacation, Xie Lin has found that the homework given by the professors has become more and more onerous. Many of the professors have been dividing the focus of the exam, suggesting that the date of the exam is getting closer. Even with Schelling’s ability, he began to feel the pressure. Schelling asked Daphne and Meredith to organize a review group to share study notes and compare questions that might appear in the exam. Daphne and Meredith. Although Diss’ grades are not bad, it is far from being compared with Schelling. Therefore, the review group is generally based on Schelling. Schelling is responsible for tutoring and instructing the two women's homework and test preparation.

Schelling did not intend to conceal this matter, and somehow it spread. Daphne and Meredith became the envy of everyone. For a whole semester, not just the little wizard of Slytherin, even Ravenk. Some of the little wizards in Lao and Hufflepuff have heard of Schelling’s reputation for "learning God." Those who have borrowed Schelling’s notes or consulted Schelling on homework are even more aware of Schelling’s studies. Notes are a legendary exam preparation artifact-many little wizards look for opportunities to inquire about Daphne and Meredith, and find ways to obtain Schelling's study notes.

Coincidentally, Hermione was also tutoring Harry and Ron with homework and preparing for exams, so after hearing about Schelling’s actions, her unyielding fighting spirit ignited. She seemed to be fighting an invisible war. Pushing Harry and Ron step by step, exerting pressure, made them miserable.

On this morning, Schelling was eating breakfast and reading the new issue of the Daily Prophet at will. A small piece of news published in an inconspicuous corner caught his eye. This is a story about a smuggler. The seller’s wanted, because this guy was smuggling dragon eggs to the UK recently. At present, this person has disappeared. Witnesses have proved that the last time he appeared was to stay overnight at the pig’s head bar in Hogsmeade. Schelling had a hunch that Professor Quirrell had already acquired the dragon egg, and he would soon come into contact with Hagrid.

After Schelling made a series of preparations for a week, one day Professor Quillo sneaked into Professor Quillo's office with a phantom spell while he was teaching senior students. Schelling didn't think that Professor Quirrell dared to cast all kinds of dangerous defensive magic and monitoring magic on his office under Dumbledore's nose. Doing so would only arouse suspicion for himself. Sure enough, except for a locked door that was opened by Schelling with Muggle's universal lock opener, Schelling slipped into the office without encountering any other obstacles. Schelling carefully put on Muggle fingerprint-proof gloves, and searched in Professor Quirrell’s office. Professor Quirrell’s course lasted two full hours. Schelling actually had plenty of time, but to prevent Professor Qiluo returned early because of something, but Schelling still speeded up to find his goal as soon as possible and then left.

After some searching, Schelling finally found a large dark egg in the dark compartment of a drawer—aha, this must be the secret dragon egg that Quirrell intends to use to get the three-headed dog out of Hagrid’s mouth. Up. Xie Lin smiled. When he was about to walk along the dragon egg, he found that there was a well-maintained diary beside the dragon egg. Xie Lin’s magic eyes could tell that there was no magic fluctuation in the diary. This is an ordinary diary—hey, is it possible that Professor Quirrell still has the habit of writing a diary? Xie Lin also passed the diary along with the dragon egg.

Killuo’s diary is obtained!

One Dragon Egg!

Although the Eye of Magic can confirm that there are no signs of tracking magic attached to the diary and the dragon egg, for safety reasons, Schelling asked Dobby to help himself hide these two things in a cave deep in the Forbidden Forest. At the entrance of the cave, he casts the special warning magic of the elves. Once someone breaks into the cave, Dobby will sense it and report to Schelling as quickly as possible.

Two more weeks passed, and soon came March. Schelling observed that Quirrell’s face became paler and paler, and his tone of voice began to become weak. Schelling knew that Quirrell probably had been punished by Voldemort for losing the dragon egg, and the warning magic of the Forbidden Forest Cave had been None of them were triggered, which meant that Quirrell was now in a dilemma that he couldn't break through the three-headed dog. Xie Lin couldn't help but sneered secretly, and Xie Lin didn't mind coming to the matter that Voldemort could eat turtles.

The Malfoy family is actually not a stubborn pure-blooded supremacist. If someone carefully studies and investigates it, it is not difficult to find that the Malfoy family's ancestors have many examples of intermarriage with Muggle nobles. The so-called pure-blood supremacy extremes mainly refer to the two big families of the Black family and the Lestrange family. The Malfoy family just uses the pure-blood supremacy concept as a cover to influence the Ministry of Magic to pass some anti-pure The blood family's favorable bill allows the pure-blood family to plunder money from Muggles and take advantage of it. At the beginning, Lucius and other pure-blood families would support Voldemort because they thought that Voldemort could bring more benefits to the pure-blood families. If a society where wizards ruled Muggles were really established, they could plunder a lot of resources and wealth. But what they never expected was that Voldemort after making Horcrux became more and more extreme and crazy. Originally, they only wanted to find a puppet to plunder for them, but they found that Voldemort was going to become their master, these declining families. There was no resistance to Voldemort.

Schelling feels deeply about this. The magical world is a world that speaks with strength. The combat power of every wizard conferred by magic has reduced the so-called laws and rules to empty talk, which is different from the Muggle world. of. No matter how powerful a Muggle martial arts is, it can't beat the crowded and well-equipped law enforcement forces. The type of characters like Lambau only exists in the movie. But wizards are different. A magister-level Grindelwald or Voldemort can easily bring down more than 10 Aurors. How many Aurors are there in the UK? Although fresh blood is drawn from Hogwarts every year, the total number of Aurors has never exceeded 30 when counting the number of people who have retired and died in the service. As for the Ministry of Magic’s Second World War, the law enforcement reconnaissance team, it was not enough for Voldemort’s teeth. In the original book, Minister of Magic Fudge once thought that the reconnaissance team must be dispatched to deal with Sirius Black alone. Elite "hitters" are good, so it can be seen that the strength of the average reconnaissance team is really not that good.

(Note: There are three groups of armed forces in the Ministry of Magic: Auror is equivalent to Muggle agents, proficient in various abilities, and can perform various special tasks; HitWizards is equivalent to anti-terrorist special forces, specialized One item of fine combat; the law enforcement reconnaissance team is equivalent to Muggle police, specializing in handling all kinds of small thieves or non-dangerous illegal activities.)

This made Xie Lin understand that wealth, resources, reputation, and influence are all imaginary, and that in the magical world, one's own strength is the most important. Only if you have the strength to protect yourself, can you really keep the things mentioned above. Thinking of this, Schelling’s sense of crisis has become stronger. If the Malfoy family is to survive the chaos of the next few years, his strength is far from enough, and he can only use some means to delay the return of Voldemort as much as possible. , So that you can buy more time to increase your strength.

Although according to the original plot, Voldemort will be destroyed by the savior Harry in the end, but this is not the result that Schelling wanted-Lucius was put in prison, Draco was forced to kill Dumbledore and Lucius. Sullivan was ruined and his family was weakened... If he could Schelling still prefers to rely on his own strength to solve the boss in Voldemort's original book.

As there was no incident of Hagrid hatching a dragon egg during this semester, there was no deduction of points for Harry, Hermione, and Neville's night tour, and no incident of entering the Forbidden Forest later.

But at the same time, because there is no Harry to join Quidditch, this year's Quidditch game still has the highest score of Slytherin.

Coupled with the existence of Schelling, under Schelling’s outstanding performance, every class, whether it’s the spell class, transformation class, or potion class, can win a lot of points for Slytherin, and Draco, Under the influence of Schelling, Daphne and Meredith have also become extremely hard in their studies. Their homework grades may not be as good as Hermione's real schoolmaster, but they beat the other little wizards of Gryffindor. There is no doubt. By the way, at a transformation club gathering, at the request of Professor McGonagall, Schelling wrote a paper and submitted it to "Today's Transfiguration". This paper is about the use of transformation to create a structure that can grow wings. The idea of ​​a magic lamp flying in midair, and several practical applications for this structure, such as walking in an unknown tunnel, you can omit the use of a magic wand to release a fluorescent spell, so that the wizard can still keep not casting the spell The magic wand of the state guarantees the combat power in emergencies; for example, when exploring the bottomless cave, the magic lamp is used to explore the way and measure the depth. This paper earned Schelling the "Most Potential Newcomer Award" from "Transfiguration Today". Even the unsmiling Professor McGonagall showed a rare smile and directly rewarded Slytherin with 50 points.

Under Schelling’s showdown, Slytherin led the second-placed Ravenclaw by 50 points in academy points, and Gryffindor, who was at the bottom, led by as much as 150 points.