Study Days at Hogwarts

"Procrastination is never a good habit."

In the foyer, Moody turned his magic eye to stare at Ron, expressing dissatisfaction with his procrastination.

"Isn't it Albert who will teach us the Fire Spell today?"

Ron took out his pocket watch from the inner pocket of his cloak, looked at the time, and muttered, "Besides, there are still ten minutes left until the time agreed upon by both parties. That guy is always on time. What are we going to do early?"

"Of course, go ahead and make sure the surrounding area is safe." Moody seemed to hear Ron's complaints and suddenly asked, "I remember you want to become an Auror in the future."

Ron pursed his lips and stopped talking.

He actually wanted to remind Moody that they had all dropped out of school and could not meet the Auror recruitment threshold in terms of grades, but he felt that it was pointless to continue arguing, so he chose to shut up and give in.

"There are no Death Eaters around. It seems that those guys finally stopped wasting time." After Sirius and Lupine came back, they told everyone about the situation outside and felt very sorry for the dark wizards who had been monitoring them all day. Happy.

No one likes to be watched all day long, even if the guys watching them can only wait outside.

"I think it's because it's raining heavily outside and no one is going to stay out in the rain."

Ron put on his hood and followed Harry into the rain curtain ahead.

The six people quickly formed a circle holding hands and apparated away despite the heavy rain.

When everyone regained their sight and came to the stronghold where they used to practice the Fire Spell, they found that it was still raining here.

However, the rain was not as heavy as at the shelter.

The sudden group of people did not care about the rain above their heads, but raised their wands and looked around vigilantly. After making sure that the surroundings were safe, Moody took out his pocket watch and looked at the time: "There are still about five minutes until the agreed time. Minutes, check the surrounding defensive magic first."

Sirius and Lupine left the crowd to check the protective magic around them to ensure that no one would disturb them when Harry practiced the Fire Spell later.

Moody waved his magic wand and conjured a huge umbrella out of thin air, giving everyone a shelter from the wind and rain. It was really stupid to stand in the wilderness and get wet.

"I hate rain."

Ron put down his hood and turned to look at Harry. He actually felt that it was more appropriate to spend the whole day practicing magic at the headquarters, and it was not necessary to practice the Fire Spell.

"I heard Neville was in trouble over there at school."

Harry took off his glasses and cast an invulnerability charm on the lenses, then talked about what he had heard Fred and George mention recently.

"Don't worry, Neville will be fine." Hermione comforted him.

"No, you know that's not what I meant."

Of course Harry is not worried about Neville's safety. Since Albert asked Neville to go to school to form Dumbledore's Army, there must be a way to ensure his safety.

But once Neville leaves Hogwarts, the newly formed Dumbledore's Army is likely to disband. This is a result that Harry does not want to see.

"He's here!" Ron said suddenly.

Harry and Hermione both raised their heads, looked in the direction of Ron's finger, and saw a figure wearing a cloak and holding an umbrella heading this way.

"I thought you would be on time."

Harry put away his pocket watch and stepped forward to shake Albert's hand.

"I've never been here." Albert explained.

"Didn't you meet Sirius and Lupine?" Moody asked warily. Sirius and Lupine went out to strengthen the defensive magic, but they actually wanted to find Albert.

"Lupine and Sirius are reinforcing the protective magic on the outside." Albert put away his umbrella, looked at Harry and asked, "How is your practice of the Fire Spell?"

"The Fire Curse is really difficult to control. As long as you use flames, you will lose control quickly." Harry looked at Albert expectantly, "Do you have any good ideas?"

"what about you?"

Albert was not surprised by Harry's answer, and turned to ask Hermione and Ron about the progress of their spell-breaking exercises.

"There has been some progress."

"It's difficult, we can't extinguish the fire yet." Hermione mastered the curse faster than Ron.

"It's normal. Your own magical power has not been fully explored. If you want to become more powerful, you should work more on this aspect." Albert stopped talking nonsense and waved his wand. After the big umbrellas above everyone's heads disappeared, Harry was instructed to use the Fire Spell on the fire pit next to him. He needed to find out the learning progress of the three of them first.

Harry took a deep breath and began to concentrate on the spell.

Black magic flames spurted out from the tip of the wand, igniting the fire pit all of a sudden. Although Harry had been trying his best to control the flames, the result was still the same as before, and the Fire Curse went out of control within a few seconds.

Moody just raised his wand, preparing to suppress the devil's flames, but there was someone faster than him. Just as the raging devil's flames were about to show their power, Albert waved his wand gently and suppressed them, leaving them only as big as a fist. of flame.

"Generally speaking, as long as Li Huo is separated from the wand, it will be significantly more difficult to continue to control him. Moreover, once the opponent deeply studies Li Huo's extraordinary dark wizard, it is easy to lose control." Albert said calmly: " Well, you are right, I am talking about the mysterious man."

The whole group was dumbfounded.

"Most people who use the Fire Spell will not leave it alone. They usually extinguish it quickly after use to prevent the fire from spreading and getting out of control."

As Albert spoke, the devil's flame in the firepit went out.

"The way we taught Harry the Fire Charm was wrong?" Moody couldn't help but interjected and asked.

"The exercise method you use is safer, but I have a quick fix here." Albert waved his wand, conjured a log out of thin air, threw it behind the fire pit, and turned his head to Harry, who was a little confused.

"Imagine burning that piece of wood," Albert said to Harry, pointing to the log.

"What difference does it make?" Harry was even more confused.

"You should have heard that using black magic requires evil power. This is why the more evil the dark wizard is, the better he is at using black magic." Albert said suddenly.

After Harry raised his hand to stop the others, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you think I can't master the Fire Curse because I'm not evil enough?"

"Of course... no. In fact, this sentence is only half correct." Albert explained to everyone, "The more evil the wizards are, the more fearless they are in using black magic, and the more they can show their full potential." Potential magical power.”

"When a wizard is afraid of using the Unforgivable Curse to kill people, it is usually difficult for the spell to directly kill the person. Because the person himself subconsciously controls his own magical power, just like a person is afraid of pain, so when he punches a stone I won’t do my best.”

"No one is stupid enough to punch a rock."

Ron shut up obediently after being looked at by Albert.

"Think about the out-of-control magic caused by anger, and think about how many spells can be used smoothly after using the elixir. In fact, they are all for similar reasons."

"And your situation is actually similar to this. You are worried that the Fire Curse will get out of control. This anxiety prevents you from performing at your normal level, and it also causes you to make no progress with the Fire Curse." Albert was very easy Then he saw through Harry's current problem: "Of course, the training method you used before is safer, but it requires more time to enhance your own magical power and control over magic."

"What should I do?" Harry asked directly.

"I'm standing here now. You don't have to worry about anything. Take a deep breath and calm down your emotions before trying to use the Fire Curse on the log." Albert guided Harry in a calm tone. "You don't need to worry about anything. Just stare at the log and use the Fire Spell on it."

Harry took a deep breath, raised his wand and pointed at the log and chanted a spell loudly. Flames flew out from the tip of the wand again, like a flamethrower, directly igniting the log.

"Don't worry, mobilize your consciousness, concentrate your attention, control the devil's flame to engulf the wood, and don't let the flame scatter randomly." Albert continued to give guidance in a gentle voice.

The next moment, the wood was surrounded by black flames and quickly turned into a black fire pillar, but the flames unexpectedly did not spread around.

"Success!"

When Harry's emotions fluctuated violently, the devil's flame that was originally controlled immediately lost control.

"Yes, you succeeded."

Albert waved his wand, suppressing the roiling black flames again, and cutting off the connection between the tip of Harry's wand and the devil's flame.

"You guys should try it too!" Albert said to Hermione and Ron who were watching nervously: "Try to extinguish the devil's flame, you go first."

Ron pointed his wand at the suppressed black flames and chanted the spell loudly.

However, the black flame only fluctuated slightly, and there was no other reaction, as if a gust of wind had just blown by.

On the contrary, Hermione's uncurse successfully extinguished the devil's flame.

"If you want to help Harry, you need to put more thought into breaking the curse." Albert turned his head and said to Ron, "It won't do you any harm."

"I will." Ron's face looked ugly.

Albert had no time to pay attention to Ron's mood, and waved his wand to create a big umbrella again to shield everyone from the rain above their heads.

"this……"

When a cup of hot cocoa was stuffed into Harry's hand, he became a little confused.

Didn't you say you were going to practice the Fire Spell? Why did you suddenly start taking a rest?

Albert took a sip of hot cocoa, smiled and said to Harry: "Think carefully about the experience just now, take a rest and we will continue training later."

"Start resting now?" Harry was even more confused.

"Balance between work and rest. Being too anxious can easily lead to mistakes. You need to concentrate on effective special training, at least until you have completely mastered the Fire Curse." Albert waved his wand and once again conjured up a few chairs for them to sit on and rest. " Please listen to me briefly about the information and application methods of the Fire Spell, which will be of great help to you in using this dangerous black magic."

They were all confused by Albert, but they still sat down and listened to him explain the Fire Spell.

From how the dark wizard who used the Fire Curse for the first time burned himself to death, to how dark wizards usually use the Fire Curse, to how powerful wizards use this spell in actual combat.

"Harry, I think..."

Sirius hesitated to speak. After hearing this, Albert wanted to persuade Harry to give up learning this dangerous spell.

At least, after listening to Albert's explanation of the Fire Spell, he realized how dangerous this spell really was.

Harry shook his head and motioned to Sirius not to say anything further.

He learned the Fire Charm not for fighting, but to ensure nothing went wrong when destroying the Hufflepuff Gold Cup. If they went through all the trouble to break into the Strange family's vault but couldn't find the gold cup among all the treasures, they would just set fire to the contents of the vault.

Harry would never allow the plan to fail and must not fail.

Once Voldemort knew that they were targeting the Horcruxes, he would definitely hide the Horcruxes again, and by then they would have no chance.

"You can consider becoming a professor at Hogwarts in the future. I think you will be very popular with everyone."

To be honest, Moody is a bit autistic right now. He also taught Harry the Fire Charm for a long time, but after more than a month, Harry made no progress.

"I don't have to think about it for the time being. I have a lot of things to do." Albert waved his magic wand and made the finished cup disappear. He listened to the sound of rain around him and asked with some confusion: "If it's not sunny, Wouldn’t it be better to stay at the Order of the Phoenix headquarters to train other magic?”

"Sometimes if you keep practicing, you can master the spell faster."

Moody took out a wine bottle from the inner pocket of his cloak, took a sip and said, "Besides, the weather is nothing. Just like you are training Quidditch in school, they will definitely encounter it in the near future. All kinds of difficulties.”

"Using Auror training methods?"

Albert didn't think there was anything wrong with using formal methods. The problem was that Harry was still in the stage of learning magic and had not fully grown up. Starting Auror training now would definitely take a long time to make up for the shortcomings.

"You don't seem to agree."

"Everyone has their own training method, and the most important thing is what suits them." Albert said noncommittally. Although he did not agree with Moody's training method, he would not go out of his way to deny it.

That is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to do.

"Have you heard about Hogsmeade?" Lupine changed the subject.

"I heard that the Death Eaters planned to turn it into a gathering place for dark wizards." Of course, Albert knew what was happening in Hogsmeade. Not only did house elves often report to him on the situation, but he himself even went there himself pass.

"What are you talking about?" Hermione interrupted after finishing her hot cocoa.

"As for Hogsmeade, I heard that it has become the home of dark wizards." Albert explained with a smile, "Hogwarts students may not be able to go to Hogsmeade to spend the weekend."

"Do you know about Neville?" Harry asked suddenly, "I heard that he was in some trouble."

"They were making too much noise a while ago."

"Noisy?"

Harry felt that Neville would be extremely depressed if he heard Albert's comments.

"I have asked Dobby to adopt Neville. He will stay in the shelter for a while and then receive formal training." Of course, Albert knew Neville's situation and had made appropriate arrangements for him.

"What are your plans?" Harry asked again.

"Not yet."

"I heard that after the Death Eaters took control of the school, they would even use the children who were in solitary confinement as candidates to practice the Cruciatus Curse." Ron also supported driving away Snape and the Death Eaters.

"They are Death Eaters, so it is not surprising that they will do anything." Albert laughed at himself, "What are you hoping for? It is probably the greatest mercy that they did not kill those children."

"No, you obviously don't understand enough. Using students to practice the Cruciatus Curse is nothing at all." Moody's eyes flashed dangerously: "Albert is right, 'They probably wouldn't have killed those children if they didn't. It's the greatest kindness.'

You probably don't know that a large number of Muggles have been mercilessly slaughtered recently, and how many wizards have been threatened and killed because they opposed the Death Eaters. "

"This war is more cruel than it was more than ten years ago." Sirius frowned, "You need to adapt to this cruel war as soon as possible."

"There is nothing we can do about it." Albert's tone was very calm, "Since Dumbledore died, the situation has been completely out of control, and it was stupid to place hope on Harry from the beginning. ”

"Don't you think Harry will win?" Ron retorted.

"Yes, but no one knows how long a war will last?" Albert said meaningfully, "One year, two years, or even longer. Don't forget that the last wizard war lasted for more than ten years. "

"I thought you said it was short," Harry said.

"Yes, but the future is uncertain. Unless you work hard to make the prediction form a closed loop, the predicted results will happen." Albert clapped his hands and said, "Okay, now that you have rested, let's continue. Practice!”