Harry Potter and the Old Ones

In May 1991, a mottled owl flew over the city of London with a letter in its beak.

At the same time, in a dilapidated attic in the Old Town of London, an eleven-year-old Chinese boy was taking notes with a serious face.

The boy's left hand in a black glove was lightly pressing on the old yellowed parchment, while the other hand quickly wrote and drew some very complicated geometric figures on another blank parchment.

After about 30 minutes, the Chinese teenager finished his last stroke, leaned gently on the seat, picked up a bottle of light blue liquid on the table and drank it down.

"Hmm..." The Chinese boy, or Tierra, was almost vomited out by the choking smell in the light blue liquid, but fortunately, he covered his mouth in time and forced himself to swallow it.

The moment the blue liquid was swallowed, Tierra felt as if he had returned to the night when the laboratory exploded. The heavy ultra-low temperature refrigerator fell down in the air, and a huge shadow pressed down on him. The short four-second death time seemed to be suppressed. Stretched for eternity, the dull pain of the refrigerator hitting his body, the sharp pain of his skull being crushed inch by inch, tormented him frame by frame.

I don't know how long it took, Tierra woke up from the hellish torture covered in cold sweat, but his spirit was incomparably uplifted, like waking up after a long and comfortable sleep.

"I feel desperate when I think about continuing to drink." Tierra sighed, helped up the chair that he kicked down while taking the medicine, and went to the downstairs bathroom to take a hot shower.

The potion that Tierra just drank is called Heris Potion, which is one of the research results in Merlin's diary. It can enhance mental power, and its residual potion can build a temporary spiritual barrier for the user for about a month. , which can effectively reduce the probability of the user accidentally and the Old Dominator mentally aligning when learning forbidden spells.

Of course, the side effects are also quite obvious. Within ten minutes to half an hour of taking the medicine, the user will experience the most painful experience in his life over and over again.

For Tierra, it was naturally the experience of being crushed to death by a freezer under an explosion.

Although he didn't feel anything at the time, the pain was subconsciously recorded and burst out in the phantom created by Herries' potion.

After taking a bath, Tiera lay softly on the bed. After a short break, prepare to learn the next spell.

He only has one short day a week to learn magic without being affected, so he must hurry up.

It has been five years since he left the orphanage. Although he was carrying a huge amount of ancient coins, Tierra cautiously took out a few pawns in exchange for enough money to live on for nearly a month or two. After that, he planned to get a job.

It's just that it's not easy for a six-year-old kid to find a job. Either he was rejected directly, or someone with bad intentions wanted to sell him to some underground places.

Tierra, who has not had a job for a long time, has to follow the example of other street children on the streets of London and do some petty theft.

However, this situation changed quickly. During a theft, she was stopped by a Chinese aunt who could not speak English, and after discovering that Tierra's English was much better than her husband's fluent English. The Chinese aunt with a wide body, a fat body, a beautiful heart and a kind heart offers Tiera a job-to work as a cashier in her restaurant.

Food and lodging are included, six days off and one day off, monthly salary is 20 pounds, and the usual job is to sit at the cashier and translate what the customers need to order. When I am busy, I may go to the back kitchen to help out.

Now the attic in this old city originally belonged to a friend of hers, who temporarily left it to her to take care of it when the friend returned to the country, and it was also vacant, so it happened to be arranged for Tierra to live here.

Most of the salary Tierra earned was saved by herself.

It didn't even cost much to brew Herris potion. After all, this library is not just a library, it is also located on a planet with a similar ecological environment to the earth. Merlin has opened up more than ten acres of herbal medicine around the entrance of the library. field.

Although Merlin has been away for nearly five or six hundred years, most of the herbs grow wildly like weeds due to the suitable climate here. Tierra took the "Comprehensive Explanation of Magical Herbs" found on the third shelf and easily gathered them together. Most of the materials for brewing Helisi's potion were collected, and a small part of the remaining part was also gathered in the Chinese medicine store in Chinatown.

"Knock, knock, knock"

Just when Tierra was about to get up and learn another spell, there seemed to be a sound of knocking on glass in his ear.

A few seconds later, he saw a mottled owl land in front of his skylight with a letter in its beak, and tap the glass three times with its short beak.

"Knock, knock, knock"

"Could it be..." Thinking of some possibility, Tierra rolled down from the bed in excitement, and hastily picked up the iron rod to push open the skylight.

After the mottled owl flew in and put the letter on Tierra's desk, he stood alone on the back of the chair to preen its feathers.

Tierra picked up the thin envelope, stamped red on a white background, with his name and address written in emerald green ink on the back, a wax seal on the front, a coat of arms, and a capital H surrounded by a A lion, a snake, an eagle, and a flat-headed man.

Agitated, Tierra laid the envelope flat, carefully cut off the part where the wax and letter paper were released with a paper knife, and peeled off the whole piece of wax completely.

Tierra took out the letter paper that still smelled of pungent ink from the envelope, and read it word by word carefully.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore.

(President of the International Federation of Magic, President of the Wizarding Association, first-class magician of the Merlin Sir Order)

Dear Mr.Wu:

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Enclosed is a list of required books and equipment.

Semester is scheduled to start on September 1. We will wait for your owl to bring your reply before July 31st.

Vice Principal (Female)

Sincerely, Minerva McGonagall

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

[uniform]

First-year students need:

1. Three sets of plain work gowns (black)

2. A plain peaked hat for day wear (black)

3. A pair of protective gloves (made of dragon skin or similar material)

4. A winter cloak (black with silver buckle)

Please note: All student attire must have a name tag

[textbook]

All students are required to prepare the following books:

Standard Spells, Beginners, by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

A Theory of Magic by Adbe Woflin

The Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emery Swich

A Thousand Wonderful Herbs and Mushrooms by Phyllidas Pohr

Magic Potions and Potions by Arsenigiger

Monsters and Where They Come From by Newt Scamman

Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense by Quentin Trimble

[other equipment]

a wand

1 large pot (pewter, standard size 2)

A set of glass or crystal vials

a telescope

a brass balance

Students may bring an owl or a cat or a toad

Parents are especially reminded that first-year freshmen are not allowed to bring their own broomsticks.

It's true, it's true!

Tierra looked at the owl standing on the table in a daze, causing the owl to flap its wings in frustration.

But Tierra was only in a trance for a while.

Immediately, he took out a blank piece of paper, picked up a pen and wrote:

Dear Professor Dumbledore:

It is a great honor to enter Hogwarts Magic Court to study magic.

After writing this passage, Tierra thought for a while, then continued writing:

But I don't have anyone around me who has studied magic, and although I am very yearning for magic, I have never touched it, so I don't know how to prepare the things on the list, nor how to get to Hogwarts hereby.

If I can, I mean if it is convenient for you, if any faculty member happens to be living in London or working in London, can you guide me into the magical world of wizards by the way?

student

Tierra Wu

Folded this reply letter and handed it to the owl.

But the owl didn't open its mouth, but flapped its wings and let out a cry, then stared at Tiera with very humane eyes.

"Oh, yes, you must be hungry when you fly here." Tierra only reacted when she saw the owl's movements.

"It's just right, I have your favorite delicacy here." After speaking, Tierra opened the door of the second floor and ran down, and when she came back, she was holding a fat squirrel with a bit of a tail in her hand.

This is the drug rat that Tierra caught in the attic while practicing the Levitation Curse. Now that it has been proved that the Helis potion is indeed useful, it is no longer needed, and it is simply given to the hard-working messenger as a snack.

"Squeak—cheep—" the squirrel yelled frantically when it was caught in its hand, but it was a pity that Tierra was holding him by the back of the neck, no matter how hard it tossed, it couldn't bite Tierra.

Tierra held the squirrel to the owl's beak.

The owl looked at the big mouse, then at Tiera.

After pecking at Tierra's hand, he picked up the reply letter and flew away without looking back.

"Don't owls like mice?"

Looking at the back of the owl, Tierra said with some doubts.

"Do you want to eat cooked?"