Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

66. Chapter 66 Busy Summer Vacation

    As expected, Ivan was very busy throughout the summer.

    The first day of the holiday, at four o'clock in the morning, Dobby the House Elf rushed to Ivan's house in a hurry. As in the previous Hogwarts or Malfoy home, he began to consciously pick up the housework.

    More than six o'clock, Mrs. Mason got up early to get ready to work, only to find that the breakfast was ready, the rubbish was cleaned, the floors, glass and furniture were also Scourgify, and even the lawn in the garden was neatly trimmed.

    It was incredible. She ran upstairs and asked Ivan what was going on.

    After figuring out what happened, Ivan had to tell her mother that it was all magical.

    Although it took a lot of tongue, but until the end, Mrs. Mason did not fully believe him. She really knows her son too much, and Ivan can't take the initiative to do housework, especially at four or five o'clock in the morning.

    Seeing his mother's skeptical look, Ivan smiled.

    By the time she left her room, Ivan immediately summoned Dobby and told the other party that she would not need to do this again, but the effect didn't seem too good.

    Dobby looked at Ivan with a big light bulb and looked at Ivan pitifully. He repeatedly asked if he hadn't done anything. After Ivan said more than ten times, he suddenly burst into tears and wondered Ivan wanted to put it. He drove away.

    In the end, Ivan had to turn to comfort him.

    Through this incident, Ivan found that trying to convince a house elf to reduce the workload was simply asking for trouble.

    Fortunately, "Hogwarts Magic" works a lot, otherwise he really doesn't know how to deal with a "workaholic" house elf.

    Unexpectedly, the sales of newspapers during the summer vacation were not much less than when they were in school.

    Even without Lockhart's photos and novels, Ivan's "I and Basilisk in Hogwarts" has aroused great interest.

    In addition to the young wizard, many adult wizards also began to subscribe to this newspaper. At first, they wanted to see the content related to the secret room and basilisk, but they were later attracted to other articles in the newspaper. Most people think that these articles are very interesting.

    This is mainly thanks to the help of thousands of ghosts across the UK, led by Nearly Headless Nick. They are now the main source of news for the newspapers. The ghosts have 24 hours of sleeplessness and a unique perspective that distinguishes them from humans. A lot of interesting news articles and little-known past secrets.

    In the next few days, the success of the newspaper allowed a large number of owls to fly home, this Mrs. Mason was frightened. In order not to worry about her mother, Ivan finally had to change the address to Hogwarts, let Dobby collect and organize it and send it to himself.

    Due to the enthusiasm of readers and ghosts, manuscript editing and review work is becoming more and more arduous.

    Ivan originally planned to come and help everyone, but the entire Weasley family was in the "Daily Prophet" annual Gold Galleon Awards. The whole family set off for Egypt in the second week of the summer vacation. By the way, they visited their eldest son Bill. I can only come back when the summer vacation is coming to an end.

    Hermione followed her parents to France, although she did not have a few articles on the review, but all other work was on Ivan.

    Harry and Colin came over and helped a few times, but the effect was very limited.

    Compared to the complicated word processing work, they are more inclined to discuss the recent Quiddich League, summer homework or the topic of jailbreak with Sirius Black, and they both visited Ivan only during the first few days of the summer vacation.

    Soon after, Colin went to his hometown in the country to spend the summer with his father and brother.

    Harry was unlucky. Since Ron made a call to the Dursley family on the fifth day of the summer vacation, he was confined and refused to go out.

    Even Ivan personally visited in the past, they did not let him into the house.

    Just as Ivan was ready to rescue Harry's, Harry asked Hedwig to send him a letter. Harry's means that he himself is the best to be honest in the near future, don't provoke the aunt to be angry, if he wants Uncle Vernon to sign his visit to Hogsmeade's parental consent.

    Since then, Ivan has been unable to let Dobby send some food to Harry every day, so as to ensure Mr. and Mrs. Dursley don't starve him.

    Although the manuscript editing work is heavy, Ivan can handle it alone.

    In his spare time, he also asked Dobby to help him go to Diagon Alley to buy a lot of magic books related to potion, Occlumency and Patronus Charm. These books are not cheap, and they have spent almost all of his savings.

    The application of Patronus Charm requires wand. According to the regulations governing the juvenile wizard, the underage young wizard does not allow magic to be used outside the school. Everyone's wand will be tracked by the Ministry of Magic, so Ivan is mastering this spell theory point. After that, focus on Occlumency and potion.

    As a magical art that resists the penetration of the outside world, Occlumency can close the brain against magical intrusions and effects.

    The trick to cast this spell is to empty the brain so that others can't get memories from your mind through magic. Occlumency masters like Snape can even make up a false memory to deceive an intruder.

    Ivan couldn't do this either. In fact, he had problems getting started, and he found it difficult to empty his brain.

    There are always some weird ideas in his head, or unconsciously studying a magic puzzle. After trying for a long time, he had to use Occlumency as a long-term practice project, hoping to master the spell before the end of the second school year.

    In addition to Occlumency and Patronus Charm, Ivan found that the addition of potion was not quite the same as originally thought. This medicine does not help the wizard to permanently increase the magic power. It only increases the magic power level for a period of time, assisting the user in combat or completing an esoteric magic.

    Ivan thought about it. The precious and lost magical potion like the potion is just too much waste to improve the endurance of a battle.

    After turning over all the magic books he could buy, he finally decided to use it to help him complete the Animagus transformation.

    Animagus is a deep deformation spell that turns the wizard itself into an animal. For most wizards, even adult wizards, this spell is extremely esoteric and dangerous, not to mention the 12-year-old Ivan. Young wizard.

    In the Animagus process, the practitioner is easily enchanted by various reasons, eventually leading to deformation failure or even death.

    Therefore, the Ministry of Magic strictly controls this spell and requires all Animals and traits of Animagus to be registered in the Ministry of Magic Improper Use of Magic Office. There is a person responsible for monitoring the entire deformation process. There are only seven people who have successfully registered Animagus throughout the twentieth century.

    Of course, this is certainly not the mastery of the total number of Animagus transformation wizard's.

    Ivan knows that there are a lot of Animagus that have never been registered, such as Peter Pettigrew, who has been swaying in front of him, and Sirius Black, who is about to debut. They all completed the transformation in their student days. In view of this, Ivan, who has helped with potion, decided to complete his own Animagus this summer.

    He has studied it carefully. To become an Animagus, in addition to the strong knowledge of deformation theory, it requires a lot of magic power support.

    Theoretical knowledge is not a problem. Ivan had consulted Tom Riddle about Animagus transformation during the last semester's journal, and got a lot of help from him. Although Voldemort is not very good at character, he is comparable to Dumbledore in mastering magical knowledge.

    The trouble is the magic power that needs to be consumed during the first deformation process. From human to animal, it needs a lot of magic power support. According to the deformer's physique, it is often one to five times the adult wizard's, which is also the failure of most wizards. The main reason for completing the deformation.

    The usual practice is to purchase a large amount of auxiliary potion to supplement the magic power.

    The price of this syrup is very expensive, and the effect is quite general. It is far from being effective like a potion-enhancing agent that greatly increases its magic power level.

    Therefore, Ivan's Animagus transformation has almost no problems with the addition of potion.

    He tried to practice many times and gradually mastered the trick. After more than a month of preparation, in the fifth week of the summer vacation, Ivan shut himself in the room and tried to make the first deformation. He told Dobby to stay outside his door, without his consent, no one. Allow to come in.