From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Hi, Fred and George! Thank you for the gift, that fake wand is great!"

"As long as you like it," the twins responded cheerfully, "We absolutely love the set of team peripherals you gave us!"

"Want to sit with us?"

"No, we have an appointment with someone."

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The twins, who were very popular among Gryffindors, spent a long time greeting each other before finally finding an empty box. After entering, they immediately locked the door with magic and breathed a sigh of relief.

Normally, the two of them are typical in refusing to admit anything as long as they are not caught red-handed, but at this moment, both of them felt guilty.

This Christmas vacation, they seemed to have come up with a very, very amazing thing. After the two of them brainstormed together, they prepared to take the thing to school, and now it is placed in their boxes...

"Isn't it too dangerous, George..."

"It shouldn't be...right?"

George frowned. He didn't know if the thing they made would be too much to joke about, but it was really...

"Anyway, we should check it out. Check it carefully. It's folded like this. I'm really worried."

After making eye contact, the two finally chose to open the box.

A simple, folded and powerfully large scarecrow appeared in the box. Its head was made of a bag filled with beans, its left hand was a mop that was broken beyond repair, and its right hand was connected to a wooden pole. The spoon, the body is a smashed chair. At this moment, they are piled together and it is extremely difficult to separate them.

The two patiently opened it and carefully inspected it, and then breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no transportation damage.

"The spell doesn't do any damage, let's give it a try..."

They arranged the scarecrow, then poured a thick black potion from a large bottle, carefully applied it on the scarecrow's body, and then waved their wands at the same time to start casting spells.

The viscous potion began to evenly wrap around the scarecrow. As it gradually covered the scarecrow, the potion began to change rapidly, taking on a color similar to skin.

About five minutes later, a 'Ron' appeared in the private room.

"Even the scarecrow we made ourselves looks less cute when it turns into Ron."

George sighed, then took out a small bottle from the box and stuffed it into the scarecrow's mouth along with a small prop.

"After all, Ron is easy to deceive and can get a lot of experimental materials, otherwise he would always look weird looking at his face."

Fred poked 'Ron' with his wand, and a clear voice came out.

"What do you want, Fred?"

It was Ron's voice, and 'Ron' even waved his arms impatiently to drive them away.

"Anyway..." The two stared at each other, and finally shook their heads, "There is still something wrong."

This was something they had been busy working on for two months before the holidays, and were finally completed during the Christmas holidays.

Originally, the two of them just laughed at Ron's knitting of scarecrow dolls, but after Ron's unconvincing demonstration of the materials, the twins became envious and quickly learned related things in about a week.

Just as the fireworks were being prepared, Dumbledore refused to retire, which frustrated the two of them and began research on a new topic - the candying of Polyjuice Potion.

Because they had a lot of truant potions as a base, it took them some time to come up with several less successful works.

The first is the voice-changing potion - this is a thing created to reduce research costs. After referring to the production and information related to polyjuice potion, they successfully came up with this potion that can only change the voice, except for joking It's no use anymore.

The second method of using the transformation mud that fails to make transformation candy is to smear it on the body, wait for a period of time, and then you can easily use the transformation technique to transform yourself into the person mixed with the materials in the mud. appearance.

Again, it has no use - the original potion only needs a sip, and does not require the assistance of polymorph... However, they are currently trying to remove the restriction of designated targets and make it more arbitrary, and there is almost no progress so far.

The third type, a gender-changing potion... is a version of one's own gender, also a modified variety of Polyjuice Potion - or an unexpected version that tries to save materials.

The fourth type, the random face-changing potion - sounds good, but there is still a big problem, the facial features always have their own ideas...

If they didn't have a good enough foundation, they would never take action on the dangerous level of compound soup medicine, but the results were not satisfactory...

It happened that these things met the things that Ron had put out to become voodoo dolls. The two of them, who had roughly mastered the production process, suddenly came up with an idea - after studying the polyjuice potion for a long time, why not try a big transformation? Where are people?

The process of making voodoo dolls was somewhat similar to making magic props. After thinking about it for a long time, the two finally decided on the plan at home.

They just did what they said. Anyway, the two of them did not experiment once or twice at home. They got some props at home and started to make a huge voodoo doll, and then tried their best to make it successful.

This is not too difficult - other things may be difficult to enlarge, but the voodoo doll is originally intended to be delicate and difficult. If you want to make it thick and silly, it shouldn't be too easy.

Because the scarecrow was large enough to withstand the curse, the two of them experimented with all kinds of ideas on it, so many that they couldn't even remember them. By about Christmas Eve, they were close to success.

It can perform some less complex movements, imitate the voice of the designated object, and imitate the appearance of the designated object after applying ointment - except that it is not flexible enough, it can almost become the person the twins wish it to be.

The two were greatly surprised, and became more concerned, and began to focus on solving the final problem, how to make it flexible enough.

As for going further, the two of them considered it, but both decisively chose to give up - that is, let it have its own ideas.

It may be difficult for others... but they know that they can do it, because their father, Mr. Weasley, once modified a Muggle car in his house, and that car is currently banned in the school. Running freely in the forest...

There was no doubt that the car had a mind of its own... Mr. Weasley never told anyone else, but it was hard to guard against thieves day and night, and not many things in the Weasley household were safe from the twins. They had done some experiments before. When the props are not enough, they will go to Mr. Weasley's repair room to get materials. The two of them have already seen the relevant experimental records.

"We just need to make it move on its own like that car..."

The two of them poked 'Ron', watched 'him' complaining, and finally realized how their father felt - it was really great to make an inanimate object move...

Perhaps this is what the professor meant when he said that only after you have mastered the knowledge can you truly conduct experiments, right?

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"Have you heard about what happened in Azkaban?"

While the twins were hiding in the carriage and marveling at their new invention, everyone on the train was discussing Azkaban.

Minister Fudge bravely stood up and admitted this huge mistake - they had to deploy a large number of Aurors and strikers to prevent something similar to the American wizarding world from happening in Diagon Alley and other areas where wizards mainly live and shop. Used for security, Azkaban prison was raided by a murderer who has not yet been identified.

The remaining Aurors and strikers cooperated with the dementors on the island to launch a heroic counterattack. However, due to their own shortage of manpower and the overpower of the opponent, the opponent successfully escaped after paying a huge price.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the strikers even sacrificed four of them, but they left the other party to try to rescue the people who had left, and successfully killed the most important target that the masked men tried to take away, the former Death Eater Um. Richie and a large number of Death Eaters who have begun to escape from prison.

[We speculate that those people are Death Eaters remaining in the magical world, but there is no way to confirm it. The Ministry of Magic will not easily conclude the identity of the attackers. We will conduct a thorough investigation! 】

The newspaper recorded the speech of the director of the Auror Office. At the same time, he also promised the public that due to the outstanding performance of students in self-defense courses over the years, the Auror team will soon expand and they will have more abundant manpower to deal with it. All challenges.

The newspaper even reported in detail the contents of the attack - how the other party sneaked in, how to bypass the protection, how they incited the prisoners to escape, and provided them with enough weapons. The newspaper even listed where and how many people were killed this time. The jailbreakers have spoken out, which greatly satisfies everyone's needs.

As for the complaints, there aren't many complaints - the main reason is that the Azkaban raid has not affected anyone's life so far, and people can clearly see the guards that were added everywhere before the attack. And compare it to the other side of the ocean. thing, happiness came out instead...

Besides, the Ministry of Magic has said that it is preparing to recruit a group of strikers to deal with the current situation, so what else do you need bicycles? Compared to the attack on the commercial street opposite, this is a minor problem. Besides, Umbridge, the Death Eater that the other party was most concerned about, was not rescued, so it is not considered a complete failure of the Ministry of Magic...

In short, for the students on the train, this incident had little impact on their lives. There were just a few more thugs on the street, and they didn't hear about other crimes. It could basically be treated as an interesting topic to discuss.

For example - if their self-defense scores suddenly improve, students in fifth grade and above can proudly claim that this is due to their efforts, while students in fifth grade can secretly curse a few words and complain about the massive amount of holiday homework.

For example, the expansion of striker recruitment and the expansion of Auror recruitment sound very cool.

In addition, mixed with some messy discussions, everyone is very happy.

Even Harry didn't escape these discussions.

"So, Professor William really went to Azkaban to investigate?"

In a box mostly occupied by Ravenclaw girls, Harry was trying to deal with Cho's somewhat annoying best friend.

"Yes, the Ministry of Magic sent a letter asking the professor to do a live deduction. The professor went over to watch it that afternoon."

Harry tried his best to make up the lie without blushing or turning pale.

He knew about Dumbledore's visit, but he obviously couldn't tell.

"Wow! I said, how could professionals outside the ministry not go to professors!"

The rest of the people also nodded - although Hogwarts has never announced it, many people regard the professors at Hogwarts as the best in the industry, and the students are convinced of this.

"By the way, what do Professor and Professor Lupin do during their holidays?"

"Yeah yeah!"

A new question was asked again, and Harry tried hard not to show impatience on his face - he actually just wanted to have a date alone...

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"It's time to get off."

Everyone was thinking this when the Hogwarts Express stopped again.

The Christmas vacation is great, but for most students, they cannot cast spells when they return home. Although the attachment to home is still a few hours ago, everyone can't wait to go back to their beds to rest. .

They discussed with great interest the attack on Azkaban and the attack on the shopping street in the United States. They also speculated on the affairs of the Ministry of Magic, and also conducted research on the dead and undead Death Eaters. Judging is really exhausting.

Now, everyone wants to rest.

But - what is going on?

"Get off the bus in an orderly line and undergo security inspection!"

William stood under the station. The station had already used rain clouds to concentrate the rain in one place.

"Well, I haven't seen you during the holiday. I hope you all have a good time. You can just bring your luggage once. We will arrange a drying area later!"

"This is a safety measure that has passed the Ministry of Magic's inspection. It only needs to be passed once. In addition, according to our tripartite discussions with the Ministry of Magic and the Examination Authority, the self-defense courses for all students this year will be changed and a large amount of practical content will be added. , the corresponding changes will also appear in the exam!"

"So, even for fifth grade students, the next courses will add a lot of practical content!"

The students who were still a little dissatisfied suddenly cheered, especially the fifth grade students who were the happiest - the magic comparability theory makes people happy!

Among the cheering crowd, the twins' faces turned a little pale.

They looked at each other with despair in their eyes.

‘What I said was wrong, it turned out to be here. ’

'We actually forgot about the professor...'

'Ruined…'

"You two, what are you doing standing still! Come and check!"

Under William's special search, the twins did not escape - or in other words, no matter who came to check, these two students who had been playing pranks for six and a half years were the focus of the inspection.

Of course, half an hour later, the two of them took the box and entered William's office as if they were dead.