Chapter 13： Patron saint

On the evening of October 16th, Schelling arrived at the empty classroom where the Patronus Mantra Exchange was held one hour earlier, and started his arrangement. This event was very important in his heart. It was he who fought for Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. An opportunity for this.

For a long time, among the four colleges, Slytherin and Gryffindor have always been fighting. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw have stated that they are neutral, but in fact the students of the two colleges are still more inclined to Gryffindor.

There are two reasons for this. The main reason is that there are also wizards from Muggle families in the two academies. They are very unhappy with Slytherin's support for pedigree. Secondly, the Slytherin Quidditch team always likes to Winning by despicable means, such as various fouls and malicious injuries, creates an image that Slytherin likes to use unscrupulous means. Although there are a few special cases of being willing to make friends with Slytherin students, it is the ironclad fact that Slytherin is the least popular among the four colleges, but the proud little snakes don't mind it.

For this kind of arrogant and stupid mentality, Schelling sneered. Hufflepuff and Raven Crowley have come out in large numbers, and there are no shortage of famous families and powerful characters. Let’s not talk about it, let’s take a classmate of Xie Lin’s class as an example.

Hufflepuff’s Ernie Macmillan and Hannah Abbot are both from the Holy 28 pure-blood family; the Smith family behind Zacharias Smith is one of the prominent Hufflepuff descendants. He His aunt is the Hepzibah Smith who was deceived by Voldemort of the family gold cup. Susan Burns's family was originally a famous family, but unfortunately, she was killed and wounded in the Second Wizarding War, and only her aunt Amelia Burns, who served as the Director of the Law Enforcement Department at the Ministry of Magic, was left.

As for Ravenclaw, Anthony Goldstein’s family was never mentioned in the original book, but later in the Fantastic Beasts movie, there appeared the blood branch of the Goldstein family in North America—Tina Go. Destin served as an Auror in the Magic Congress of the United States, and finally married Newt Scamander; her sister Queenie Goldstein is a natural photographer who is born with the ability to peek into other people’s thoughts, and There is no need to analyze the subject’s thoughts by interpreting abnormalities in the brain as in the original work, Risneppe said. The former is undoubtedly more similar to the "mind reading" or "electrocardiography" in Muggle science fiction novels, while the latter More like a brain wave tester or polygraph.

Ravenclawry also has an easily overlooked figure-Terry Bout. The British Boot family is actually inherited from North America. His ancestor, Webb Bout, was the adopted son of James Stewart and Isolt Thayer, founders of the Ifamoni School, and the younger brother of Chawick Bout, the author of "The Magic of Chawick".

Before the establishment of the Magic Congress of the United States, the New World was quite lacking in the implementation of wizard-related laws, and Webb Bout became an enforcer (the predecessor of the Auror). In the process of repatriating the black wizard back to London, he met a Scottish witch who worked in the Ministry of Magic and fell in love with her, and part of the Bute family returned to England.

Regardless of the British Bout family, the North American branch alone is enough to establish a foothold among the strongest families, and Schelling heard that the tribes of the two places have maintained friendly relations over the centuries.

The above-mentioned characters all joined Harry’s Dumbledore’s army in the end. They might have become well-known figures on their own, but they all became insignificant supporting roles in Dumbledore’s plan to nurture Harry—except for Han. Except for Na Aibo's final marriage to Neville, the others didn't even have a slight mention of their names in the ending.

There were more attendees at the event than Schelling expected. Almost all Slytherin students in the lower grades attended, which was close to sixty.

Hufflepuff has more than ten people under the leadership of Cedric; Ravenclaw has more than twenty people under the leadership of Penello, including Murray and Luna, whom Schelling is more familiar with, and Some characters Schelling knew from the original work, such as Zhang Qiu, Marietta Ekmo, etc. Gryffindor was embarrassed in many respects, and only one person was present—the maverick student was Hermione Granger.

Hermione seemed to have anticipated this situation, she took the initiative to integrate into Hufflepuff's circle, and the normally affectionate group of Hannah Abbots mixed together.

Gryffindor's attitude Schelling had expected, and didn't care, he was very satisfied with the attendance rate of nearly 100 people in total.

He briefly introduced himself on the temporary high platform, and then began to explain the various characteristics of the dementors. There are many knowledge that cannot be learned in books, which Schelling learned from "Fallen Life." The moving narration and the clear summary of key points made the students listen very attentively. Then he began to explain the patron saint curse, he first introduced the history and theory of the patron saint curse according to the book, and then shared his own experience of casting the patron saint curse, even if it is as subtle as the structure of the mantra, the continuous reading of syllables and break points, and the wand waving There are no omissions in the small details of the trajectory.

The last part is the actual combat demonstration. He decided to ask an assistant to come on stage to help him demonstrate the patron saint curse. Everyone who is familiar with Schelling thought that Schelling would choose between Daphne and Meredith, but the result was shocking-it was Hermione. Everyone, including Hermione, showed unexpected expressions, but suffered. Daphne, who was cultivated by the family and worked in a scheming manner, looked thoughtful.

Hermione was a little at a loss after being called to the stage. Xie Lin couldn't help teasing her and said, "Miss Granger, please don't worry. I asked you to come up because I saw that you took notes very carefully just now, so I feel that you are the most suitable person to help me demonstrate the spell. Not thinking about it."

Hermione was complacent because of Schelling’s praise, and she was also slightly disappointed, and her mood was mixed for a while.

Schelling asked Hermione to walk to the middle of the high platform and stand, and then he said: "There are many key points for the patron saint spell, but there is only one key point, and that is-in the process of casting, use your most positive and positive emotions. As a support, let your emotions explode."

"Then...what should I do?" Hermione couldn't help asking.

"There are many kinds of positive emotions, among which'happiness' and'guardian' are the most effective for dementors," Xie Lin explained in detail, "the object of'happiness' is yourself, and the object of'guardianship' is others. Either way, you only need the strongest, most direct, and firmest, which is the best. For example, remember your happiest things; or imagine that you want to protect someone who is most important to you." He continued, "Then read the mantra-'Call the gods to guard', try it out!"

However, the casting of the Guardian God spell was not easy. In the next half an hour, even Hermione, who was very focused on learning, could only let the wand release a silvery white mist on the fifth attempt. . Schelling nodded in satisfaction, complimented, and then said: "Now, you can try a real combat exercise. Please rest assured, I will make sure that you won't be harmed in any way."

Schelling drew out his wand, pointed at a large box placed on the high platform, and exploded the box with a touch. A genuine dementor floated out of the box-the temperature dropped suddenly, and everyone present felt like they had entered. A cold storage. They never thought that Xie Lin dared to capture a real dementor to the scene for a demonstration. At this time, he was suppressed by the dementor’s ability and could not bring up any happy emotions at all, so he could only try to lift his spirit and look towards the stage. on.

Xie Lin turned his back to the crowd and looked at the Dementor. A green glow flashed under his eyes. The dementor stopped moving as if under control. Xie Lin turned around and shouted, "Miss Granger, get ready. Yet?"

Hermione tried to maintain her wrist posture so that her hands wouldn't tremble too much. After seeing the encouraging glances from Schelling at her, her originally scared eyes became firm. She raised her wand high and exhausted her whole body. Vigorously shouted: "Call God to protect!"

A large amount of white mist erupted from the end of Hermione's wand, which gradually solidified in the intertwined winding. At this moment, Schelling blinked his eyes quickly, and the Dementor seemed to break free from some control, and flew in Hermione's direction.

Hermione suddenly felt a strong chill seep into her spine. Fear and despair kept accumulating in her heart, because the hand holding the wand began to tremble again, and finally the white mist that was summoned began to become unstable. , It looks like it's about to dissipate.

Schelling took a step, grasped Hermione's hand, and said coldly: "Remember what I said!" The tone was full of indisputability.

Hermione seemed to feel the temperature in the palm of Schelling's clenched hand, like a faint fire. The temperature traveled up her fingertips and reached the bottom of her heart. She felt a warm force in her chest—this force was very powerful. Complicated, Hermione felt the sense of security, courage, and belief in it, and seemed to feel the faint... happiness?

She was immersed in this warmth, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly unconsciously. Before she even recovered, her wand had exploded with a large amount of white haze far exceeding the previous one, and the haze was not only worse than before. Majestic, more solid, and successfully materialized in an instant—it's an otter!

It was surrounded by silver-white haze, and it was leaping and hopping to drive the dementors all over the stage.

In order to avoid the dementor being thrown off the stage and causing confusion, Schelling opened the window and threw a white light with his wand. After hitting the dementor, the white light pushed it all the way out of the window, and then quickly closed the window.

The audience in the audience couldn't help but talk, showing undisguised envy for Hermione's ability to master this spell in one night.

After Hermione knew that she had successfully released her patron saint, she was surprised and delighted, thinking of the moving emotion that had flowed in her heart before, she blushed on her face.

Schelling announced that everyone is free to practice, Schelling and Hermione will give instructions separately. Schelling is in charge of Slytherin, the largest number, and Hermione is in charge of the other two colleges.

Schelling walked through the students and gave each student a careful guide. In addition to the details of the wand and the spell, he also instructed them on how to find happy memories and how to guide their emotions to make the spell easier to release. As a junior student, Schelling can provide examples that are closer to the lives of the little wizards, which allows them to understand more quickly. Among the many students, Daphne, who was given special care by Xie Lin, succeeded the fastest. She was excited because she released a complete entity patron saint.

Then, Meredith, Astoria, Draco, and Pansy also succeeded. The others saw that even Astoria in the first grade had succeeded, each became full of fighting spirit, and practiced and tried more actively.

Solved Slytherin, UU Reading Xie Lin also took the initiative to walk to the other colleges to see if Hermione needed any assistance.

Schelling caught a glimpse of Daphne in the distance looking at herself with a smile, knowing that she was smart and she had guessed her intentions—she bothered to hold this event, shared her curse experience, and generously chose Gryffindor’s Hermione. As an assistant, it is nothing more than expressing your attitude towards other colleges and showing your acceptance and tolerance for them, even Gryffindor is no exception.

Schelling didn't want Slytherin to maintain this isolated situation anymore. In Schelling's view, if Slytherin is still stubbornly admiring himself, it will only be sooner or later that Slytherin is eliminated by the times under long-term behind closed doors.

Under the special care of Schelling, Luna and Murray successfully released the complete physical patron saint. Luna released a hare with big front teeth, and Murray released an elegant swan. Immediately afterwards, Penello and Cedric, who were already extremely good, also succeeded.

Including Hermione and the above nine people, there were ten people who successfully mastered the complete Patronus Mantra in today's event. This is an extremely remarkable achievement. You must know that even in Professor Flivy's spell class, not many people can master a spell so quickly, even the simplest floating spell. This is directly related to Schelling's guidance. After all, his teaching contains two parts: theory and practical demonstration, and the guidance to students is closer to the life habits of students. These are what professors lack.

Before the end of the event, more than half of the little wizards successfully let the magic wand release the mist. Although there is no formed patron saint, they are still excited about the achievement tonight.

In the grateful eyes and warm applause of everyone, Schelling announced the end of the event, and everyone left the scene contentedly.