Chapter 68 Harry, who wants to learn the Patronus Charm
"Stop studying, take a break, and go play something casually..." Tom sat slumped on a chair in the library, his eyes dull.
After returning from Siberia, Hermione seemed to be full of electricity and ignited a high enthusiasm for learning, while Tom was not so energetic. He didn't sleep well those few nights on the train - the aisle was really too crowded.
Narrow, my sense of smell is a little too sensitive...
It’s really too much to study hard after coming back. It feels like playing a game for three hours and then writing a 4,000-word essay.
"Yeah, okay," Hermione agreed, but her eyes never left the book in her hand. The crown speeded up her thinking and made her think more quickly. This kind of excitement in her brain
The feeling of the storm made Hermione want to stop. Now, she didn't want to stop and rest at all, she just wanted to read a book for a while.
Tom really couldn't stand it, so he closed his notebook and put it away together with the fragment of Riddle's diary that served as a scratch pad. However, he did not sit idle, but took out a piece of parchment and wrote
Then it started to freeze.
This parchment was exchanged by Tom and Hermione from the guild for points. It has a very special function: as long as a person's blood is dropped on it, the paper will "mark" him forever.
.No matter where the person goes, this piece of paper can find the marked person.
This was the prize that Tom had chosen before he set out, and the target of it was Peter Pettigrew. Tom knew that this mouse had a keen sense of smell and would definitely be able to find Voldemort. And he would stay with Voldemort for a long time.
, then mastering Peter's position is equivalent to mastering Voldemort's position. The maneuverable space here is relatively large.
Tom put away the palm-sized piece of parchment. He turned his head and looked at the blue sky outside the window. The four words "clear autumn air" could not be more appropriate to describe the world outside. Thinking of this, Tom felt a little sleepy and was about to lean on
While resting on the chair for a while, a man came to their table.
"Sorry to bother you, Yodel, Granger." The person who came was Harry. The expression on his face was a little awkward at this time, as if he was struggling with something in his heart.
Finally, he pursed his lips as if he had made up his mind and looked at Hermione: "Hermione, I heard that you successfully summoned a physical three-headed dog Patronus in Hogsmeade Village before?"
Hermione's previous feats in Hogsmeade have been spread to Hogwarts. However, many people do not believe it. After all, it is too bizarre that a third-year wizard can cast a physical magical animal Patronus.
.Besides, Hermione Granger? Who is this person? Those who have heard of her know that she is a know-it-all who loves to read, while others have never heard of her at all. She is neither a descendant of a pure-blood family nor a famous person.
As a savior, is there any natural reason for him to do such a thing? In addition, there is no real evidence, so many people think that it is either a rumor or that everyone got the name wrong.
But Harry believed it. His experience on the Hogwarts Express told him that Hermione was very likely to have actually summoned the three-headed dog Patronus.
After receiving a positive answer, Harry cheered up.
"Then can you teach me how to cast the Patronus Charm?" Harry asked expectantly. Ever since he fainted on the train, Dementors had become a worry for Harry. He always felt that he was being raped on the train.
The dementors "scared" him so much that he was a coward - Yodel also fainted, but he was choked by the dementors, so can it be the same? Maybe he was suffocated?
The direct reason that prompted him to come to Hermione for help was Professor Lupine's Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Professor Lupine found a Boggart and asked the students to fight against it one by one, but Harry was the only one left behind.
From Harry's perspective, Professor Lupine must have done this because the professor felt that he was not capable of dealing with Boggarts. This is really too bad.
At this juncture, he heard about Hermione's deeds. At first, he didn't know the value of it. He just thought it was another routine operation of Granger's top student. But after Percy's popular science, he realized that Hermione
The magic used is actually powerful enough to repel dementors!
"I'm sure there's something wrong," Percy vowed. "I admit that Hermione Granger is very good, but she's still not ready to release the physical Patronus, let alone a three-headed dog Patronus.
, this is too outrageous - I am more inclined to believe that it was done by a wizard with powerful magic. The scene was in chaos, and the senior did not disdain his reputation..."
Although Percy's explanation was the most common sense, Harry didn't think so. He came over with a glimmer of hope. He hoped that Hermione could teach him this spell that could fight dementors. In his opinion,
Come on, this has a high chance of success - Hermione has always been a kind girl and is usually very helpful to others. If she asks for help, she will not stand idly by.
"Eh, me?" Harry's request surprised Hermione. She never expected that someone would come to her to learn the Patronus Charm.
Hermione wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back. She thought seriously for a while and gave her answer: "I think I may not be able to help you... Of course, I am very willing to combine this spell with
What you shared is that the Patronus Charm cannot be cast only by knowing the spells and gestures - it needs to be based on happy and happy memories."
Hermione told Harry several key points of the Patronus Charm very seriously, but in the end she sighed, "That's the principle, it's not too difficult, but in practice it's not that different..."
Harry stared, listening to Hermione's teachings intently, for fear of missing a word. When he heard "happy memories", his heart skipped a beat: Where did he get his happy memories?
Of course, there is no need to mention the childhood life with the Dursleys, there are only negative emotions, but what about the life at Hogwarts?
Although the life here is good, if he is suddenly asked to find a happy point to talk about, he really can't say it. Everything here is happy, but it doesn't seem to be representative.
Is it the first time to sleep on the bed in the dormitory? Or the first time to attend a dinner party? Or... the first time to soar in the sky?
"That seems like a good idea," Harry thought as his memory turned to the first time he rode a broomstick, thinking it could be a happy moment.
"Invoke the God of Protection!" Harry recited the spell several times in his mind while trying hard to focus on that pleasant memory.
He tried quietly like this, muttering the spell in a low voice over and over again. Suddenly, a ball of silver-white gas came out from the tip of his staff.
"Look!" He couldn't help shouting, "Did you see it? There is a reaction!" However, his spell did not attract applause. Instead, it attracted the librarian Ms. Pince.
"The library is tense and noisy." She rushed over aggressively, holding a feather duster in her hand. "Also, if you want to experiment with magic, do you want to blow up this place?"
The feather duster hit the table so hard that Tom's water glass jumped.
Mrs. Pince is really not messing around +. Practicing spells is prohibited in the library of the magic school. It sounds as absurd as no one is allowed on the bed, no things on the table, and no garbage in the trash can. But think about it carefully.
The truth is: little wizards generally have difficulty controlling their own spells, and often cause huge damage unintentionally. For example, a certain Gryffindor student always makes ordinary spells have explosive effects. This way
For students, practicing spells in a library filled with books is a disaster.
Harry, who broke two rules at once, was kicked out of the library by Mrs. Pince with a feather duster. Tom winked at Hermione, and the two of them quietly left together while Mrs. Pince chased Harry.
A common room or an empty classroom is a more suitable place for them to study.
They randomly found a small classroom and walked in. The classroom was not big and could only accommodate a dozen people. However, although the classroom was small, it had all kinds of things - such as a fireplace.
Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at the fireplace, and a pleasant flame burst out in the fireplace.
"So do you know how to do it?" The two put their schoolbags on the table, and before Tom's butt even touched the stool, Hermione began to question him.
Tom:……
"You have to learn!" Hermione glanced at him with hatred, "You can't ask me to come to the rescue every time you encounter a dementor, right?"
"I can turn into a dementor and mediate with them." Tom said that he really knew the dementor language and could communicate with them.
This made Hermione so angry that she picked up the quill in her pencil case and hit him on the head.
"Calling the Guardian!" Tom couldn't stop Hermione's entanglement and cast a Patronus Charm. He tried hard to recall his happiest and happy times, and then a thick silver light emerged from the tip of his staff.
fog.
"Not a bad start," Hermione gave him an encouraging look. However, the subsequent progress was not so smooth. No matter how hard Tom tried, what he summoned was always a cloud of silver mist, but it was smaller than the first time.
It's thicker, just more.
After repeated attempts, time passed like this, and Tom still had no physical guardian angel.
Hermione realized that blindly urging him might not be effective, so she planned to give Tom a little sweetener, like a carrot in front of a donkey. She changed her seat from opposite Tom to next to him, and then spoke to him in a very low voice.
Fu Er said: "If one day you release the formed Patron Saint, then I can grant you a small wish - for example, I can wear the... clothes you want according to your ideas."
Tom:!
Tom perked up and looked at Hermione, "Really? It's really nothing-" Before he could finish his words, his lips were pressed by a cold finger.
Hermione shook her index finger and blinked, "Remember, it must have a real shape."
Hermione removed her fingers and distanced herself slightly from Tom, but the scent of her body and the warmth of her fingers still lingered in Tom's mind. Hermione was like a bullet.
, penetrated Tom's brain and lingered in his mind, causing his heart to skip a few beats and his breathing to become heavier.
Seeing Tom's indulging look, Hermione was also quite satisfied: This is how lovers should be! If you don't tie your boyfriend tightly, what will you do if someone kidnapped him one day? It's been so long.
After spending time together, she gradually figured out Tom's preferences, so she became more comfortable...
"Okay, it's dinner time now," Hermione looked up at the clock on the wall, decided to end today's self-study, and took Tom to the auditorium.
While eating dinner, Tom remembered something and asked Hermione on the side, "Hermione, do you know anything about prisons? I mean Muggle prisons."
Hermione put the spoon back into her soup bowl, tilted her head and thought for a moment, "I really haven't paid attention to the news in this area - the people in prison are bad people who deserve their crimes, and I have no interest in them.
, of course it’s impossible to talk about knowing anything.”
When Tom saw that Hermione didn't know much about the situation in British prisons, he knew that he might have to collect information on his own. Tom wanted to know about prisons, not because he was too idle, but because he had an extremely bold and rebellious idea -
—He wants to build his own prison! A new-age Azkaban!
The special national conditions of the UK gave him such an opportunity.
"Prison?" At this moment, Justin Finch-Fletchley, who was sitting at the next table, heard the conversation between Tom and Hermione and subconsciously responded. Only when he saw both of them looking at him did he realize that he was
He was so reckless and quickly apologized to Tom and Hermione.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, but I still know something about prisons. If you want to hear it, I can talk to you." Justin Finch-Fletchley showed a confident smile.
.He was sure that no one in the entire Hogwarts understood Muggle prisons better than him.
Because his family runs a prison.
It sounds very strange, but Britain has its own national conditions. Prisons can really be privately owned! And not only in Britain, but also in many European and American countries, prisons are privately owned.
Some people do the decapitation business, but no one cares about the business that is losing money. If it is unprofitable to contract a prison, no one will do it. But the private prisons all over the United Kingdom and the United States show that this thing can really make money!
Yes, in the United Kingdom and the United States, private prison contracting is a business that makes money just like opening a casino. In 2011, the total revenue of this industry in the United States actually exceeded 5 billion US dollars.
Therefore, the first question that Tom has to consider is actually: how to enter and how to join this carnival.
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