Chapter 57: Transition
Chapter 57: Transition
"The foundation of the stabilizing spell?" Madam Pince was a little surprised. He examined Coven and said, "It is a very unpopular book. Few students come to borrow it. Where did you hear it from?"
"Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick recommended me to borrow it." Coven answered honestly.
"I see." Madam Pince understood and nodded. "Come and fill in a reading form."
"Yes, Madam." Coven stepped forward, took the quill from the other party, and filled in the form.
After filling in the form, Coven inserted the quill into the ink bottle, got up, and asked, "Madam, can you tell me which bookshelf that book is on? You know, there are more than a thousand bookshelves in the entire library. I'm afraid I can't find where the book is on my own. "
"Of course." Madam Pince raised his hand and pointed to an area in the library. "Over there, on the bookshelf number 3116, if I remember correctly, it should be on the second level of the bookshelf."
"Okay." After Coven got the answer, he turned around impatiently and walked in the direction Madam Pince pointed.
Behind him, Madam Pince warned, "By the way, be careful when climbing the ladder."
"I will be careful. Thank you for reminding me, Madam." Coven turned his head and thanked him with a smile.
Not long after, Coven successfully found the book on the ladder. Because he could not help but be curious, he did not climb down from the bookshelf ladder first. Instead, he began to read the book the moment he got the book.
The magic spells recorded in the book were more than those in the previous book. There were 'Calm Mantra' that could reverse one's emotions when one was in distress, ad a few magic spells that could make people happy, happy, and other positive emotions.
Behind the book was a very long paper. Coven roughly looked at the beginning and found that it was a paper about the relationship between emotions, magic spells, and the wizard's character.
Coven did not continue reading. He closed the book in satisfaction and climbed down from the bookshelf ladder.
After greeting Madam Pince, Coven left the library and returned to the dormitory to read.
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Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, late autumn passed, and winter arrived.
In the past few months, Coven gradually found that he seemed to have passed the trust crisis without doing anything. Headmaster Dumbledore did not peep at him again, and the professors did not alienate him. Instead, they took more care of his studies and life.
Thus, Coven gradually put down his guard and stopped being an actor. He only did his true self every day and spent most of his time concentrating on studying.
Occasionally, when he was in a good mood, he would participate in gossip between some classmates, unlike when he first entered the school.
Because Coven's life pattern was basically between the canteen, classroom, and dormitory, he got several nicknames - Gryffindor Bookworm, Ravenclaw spy, and Sorting Hat's enemy.
Of course, these nicknames were all a joke, but it was just a joke that Coven seemed to have sorted in the wrong house.
But if Coven really transferred Ravenclaw, no Gryffindor would agree. After all, after a few months, Coven had added more than 150 points to Gryffindor. Even with Professor Snape constantly favoring and constantly adding points to Slytherin, now Gryffindor's' - House points 'were a head higher than Slytherin House's, 20 points higher.
This made Coven very popular in Gryffindor, allowing him to speak with the students of the same grade.
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In the blink of an eye, Christmas was coming. The students were looking forward to the short holiday of Christmas. Of course, other than Coven, he did not understand why the wizard wanted to celebrate the festival. Logically, the two should be mortal enemies.
For this reason, Coven even went to the library to check the information and finally found two reasons.
One was the old version of the reason. It was because the so-called 'witchcraft removal exercise' in the Muggle World was a joke.
At that time, the wizard was very keen to tease the Holy See and was deliberately caught by the Holy See. Then, when he was tortured, he used all kinds of spells to ensure his own safety and then watched the reactions and faces of the Muggles in the execution ground.
In the past, this kind of behavior was very popular among wizards. The 'fire repelling spell' had almost become a compulsory spell for all of wizards. Most of wizards liked to pretend to scream while watching the reaction of the muggles while pretending to be tortured.
Therefore, in order to highlight the wizard's nobility and Muggles, the magic world also set the Christmas of the Holy See as a holiday to allow wizards to collectively have fun on the day of the festival and share their experience of teasing muggles.
As for the second reason, it originated from the modern era.
Because of the gradual reform of the magic world, in the modern era, the children of Muggles and mixed-blood families were led into the magic world more and more.
In this way, the magic world's Christmas was also assimilated by more and more Muggles and mixed-blood wizards. Therefore, Christmas gradually lost the meaning of the past, and the holiday finally turned into the Muggle world.
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The night before the Christmas holidays.
After reading Ollivander's letter, Coven opened the letter and wrote back.
As usual, he complained that he wanted to learn too many things. He complained that he felt that his time and memory were not enough, and he wrote down the learning situation and bonus points of this week into the letter.
Finally, Coven stated in the letter that he did not need Ollivander to pick him up at the train station. He would go to Penelope's house first, and then he would take the knight bus back to Diagon Alley.
After checking the letter from the beginning and finding nothing missing, Coven called the owl and handed the letter to it.
"Good child, don't come back to school after sending the letter." Coven raised his hand and gently stroked the owl's back feathers. He said softly, "Just stay in the wand shop. I will go back tomorrow."
"Ou - Ou -" Owlivia responded in human language, then flew out of the dormitory window and disappeared into the night sky under the push of Coven's arm.
This time, Coven no longer watched Owlivia leave, but immediately closed the window of the dormitory.
Because since winter came, the wind outside the window had become a little ghostly and ghostly because of the castle's cover. Every night, even if there was a window cover, it still couldn't stop the sound of ghosts and wolves.
For this reason, Coven had no choice but to ask Professor Flitwick to specially learn a 'Sound Dispel Spell'. Every day before sleeping, he would add a spell to the window to ensure that he could sleep peacefully for a few hours before the spell was activated.
Tonight was a good dream.
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The next morning, Coven ignored the cold weather and trained his body by the cliff before returning to the auditorium for breakfast.
After breakfast, the students left the school with their respective luggage and headed to the station...