Study Days at Hogwarts

On the way back to the castle, the two remained silent, but Albert could still see that Isobel was emotionally unstable.

There was no other way. As soon as the excitement of revenge subsided, he fell into the fear of killing. After all, Isobel is still an underage girl.

They returned to the castle without disturbing anyone.

As Hogwarts students struggle with their heavy holiday homework, the library, halls and common rooms are where they should be.

Now, the two need to find Katrina first. Smith has hidden her. When they broke into the Defense Against the Dark Arts office to retrieve the wand, no one was found.

"Are you sure Katrina is hidden in the Room of Requirement?"

"I can't find her name on the Marauder's Map." Albert pointed at the Marauder's Map and explained: "Only the Room of Requirement can block the tracking magic of the Marauder's Map."

"I need a place to hide people, I need a place to hide people, I need a place to hide people!" Isobel walked back and forth in front of the wall three times, but the door did not appear.

Albert was right, but how to get in now, they couldn't keep trying here.

"At this time, we have to try our luck." Albert motioned for Isobel to wait for a moment.

"Lucky Potion?" Isobel reacted immediately. Albert took the Fortune Potion. Although the lucky water could not really bring luck, she was willing to trust Albert's intuition.

"The effect is still there. My intuition tells me that Rowena Smith may have hidden Katrina in the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets!" Albert began to recite silently in his mind: "Ravenclaw's private library."

After pacing back and forth three times, a door appeared on the wall. Isobel immediately pushed the door open and went in. Albert glanced at the Marauder's Map to make sure there was no one around, and immediately followed her inside. Isobel had already After answering the question about the eagle ring, enter the Ravenclaw's chamber of secrets.

"She is here, Katrina is here!" There was unconcealable joy in Isobel's voice.

After Albert entered the secret room, he saw Katrina who had passed out.

Having said that, the McDougal sisters really look alike.

Albert stepped forward to support Katrina, and together with Isobel, they took her out of Ravenclaw's secret room.

In Ravenclaw's private library, a hospital bed appeared at some point, and the two of them put her on it.

"Don't worry, Rowena Smith is dead. The Imperius Curse he cast should disappear automatically. Katrina's breathing is stable. She should just be under a coma spell."

Albert pulled up a chair and sat down, comforting softly, "Now, you need to make sure whether Katrina's memory has been tampered with, and whether she has forgotten that part of the memory. It's best not to let her know about this. , it’s enough for the two of us to bear it.”

"You're right!" Isobel took a deep breath, regained her composure, sat across from Albert, and discussed the next thing.

"Do you have any good ideas?" Isobel asked.

"This matter is very simple. I just need to modify Katrina's memory later to say that I will take her to the Room of Requirement. I originally promised Katrina that I would take her to a place suitable for using the time turner." Albert took out the seamless stretch box from his transforming lizard bag, took out two cups and a large bucket of butterbeer, and poured himself a cup. This barrel of butterbeer was the reward he had prepared for the wizard card competition, but now he drank it first to celebrate their escape from death.

"Do you want it?"

"Hmm!" Isobel stared at the full glass of butterbeer and fell into a brief silence.

"I think you should consider your situation. Your mentality has not been completely adjusted." Albert took a sip of butterbeer and continued, "Actually, even if you don't do that, I will kill him. I People tend to hold grudges."

"I have been mentally prepared for a long time." Isobel looked up at Albert and said softly: "I have also thought about the things I need to bear. However, thank you for your concern."

"What are you going to do in the future? If you don't have a new goal after your revenge is successful, you will feel very confused." Albert reminded kindly.

Isobel held the wine glass, stared at the bubbles inside and said, "I plan to continue to complete my father's magic experiment."

"Do you need me to help you?" Albert blurted out almost directly.

Isobel raised her head and looked at Albert up and down. Her expression was a little weird, but she quickly nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, if you are willing to help."

"You have a beautiful smile, you should smile more often." Albert quickly received the reward related to Isobel's favorability on the task panel.

Then, he reached out to hold Isobel's hand and continued to find a topic to chat, "Also, don't honestly see through me. How does it feel to be a natural telegrapher?"

"It doesn't feel good. Many people are too hypocritical. When you can see through the other person's thoughts at a glance, but you have to pretend not to know, it feels pretty bad!"

Isobel looked at the hand held by Albert and had no intention of taking it back. She just told some of her secrets calmly.

The year she came to Hogwarts to attend school, she showed outstanding talent. It was only then that Uncle Mog began to instill in her the knowledge of Occlumency, and she understood how to control her abilities.

"What about you? You can actually apparate?" Isobel stared into Albert's eyes. At first, she thought that Albert had carried her out of the Forbidden Forest, but she found out that Albert had used Apparition. She really didn't know how to describe the feeling.

"I stole it from Professor Brod. You are the only one who knows that I can apparate. Remember to keep it a secret for me." Albert winked at Isobel and smiled.

"You are so brave. You actually dare to take someone to Apparate before you have completely learned Apparition?" Isobel understood why Albert was assigned to Gryffindor. This guy is really not brave enough. Generally speaking, you can tell from the way he behaves.

"No, I dare to do that because I am confident that I can guarantee that nothing will happen to me when I apparate you." Albert shook his head and said: "Don't forget, I drank the Felixir, and with its help, I can even Silent spells that cannot be used smoothly can be used easily, let alone Apparition."

"That's right!" Isobel nodded. Albert rarely did anything he was unsure of. The battle with Rowena Smith seemed dangerous, but he had already been prepared for it.

After the two drank butterbeer and chatted happily for another half an hour, Isobel found that her nervous mood had completely calmed down.

Their treatment of Katrina was actually very simple. Albert used rejuvenation to wake her up, and Isobel, who was hidden using the Disguise Charm, secretly used a fake memory spell to tamper with Katrina's memory.

Looking at the two people talking and laughing, the girl suddenly sighed softly.

The three of them quickly left. When Albert returned to the common room, Lee Jordan handed him a letter, which was a letter from Professor Broad.

The content of the letter is very short, but it contains a lot of information:

Don't worry, the matter has been resolved, and we will talk about it another day when we are free.

Isobel was in a similar situation and also received such a letter.

"It's so efficient!" Albert couldn't help but sigh.

"What's so efficient?"

"nothing!"

Albert returned the rewiped wand to Lee Jordan. His wand had been returned a long time ago, and Smith's office could not stop his lock-picking skills.

"I have something else to do, see you later."

After saying that, Albert prepared to return to the Room of Requirement, and before the effect of the Elixir of Fortune completely disappeared, he collected the remaining mission rewards.

"Where are you going?" Fred walked over quickly, "Did you take the parchment away?"

Originally, the two wanted to use the Marauder's Map to see if Albert had gone on a date, but they found that the Marauder's Map was missing. They were depressed about this for a long time.

"Here I am, I'll give it to you later!"

Albert quickly disappeared around the corner, and after returning to the Room of Requirement, he couldn't wait to open the task panel to view the rewards for the completed tasks.

The "Something Else" from long ago has been completed.

The secret behind Rowena Smith's arrival at Hogwarts was to identify the Wild Smith family and prepare to target two of their candidates.

The only candidates are probably him and Isobel, because Katrina is also considered the best among her peers, but the fact that she was not selected is already telling.

In addition to experience, the reward is to randomly obtain one of Rowena Smith's skills.

What could it be?

That guy knows a lot of magic, and Albert is really a little greedy.

"Buddha bless, God bless, Merlin bless, make sure I have useful skills at my fingertips!" Albert was nagging while receiving the mission reward.

When I opened the skill bar to check, I found that I had an extra Cruciatus Curse.

Albert suddenly didn’t know what to say.

After completing the Unforgivable mission, he learned the Imperius Curse again. Because he had thrown Avada Kedavra in the Forbidden Forest, he happened to have collected all three Unforgivable Curses.

It feels useless.

After all, the Unforgivable Curse cannot be used casually. If Albert really wanted to learn it, he would have learned it long ago.

It's better now, I have mastered it directly.

However, after mastering the three unforgivable curses, a new mission was actually triggered.

The Rise of the Dark Lord.

At a young age, you actually master the three unforgivable curses. It seems that you have the potential to become a dark wizard, so use black magic to bring pain to others!

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Reward: 2000 experience, obtain a designated black magic, reputation in the magic world +100.

Can it actually increase your reputation?

Don't tell me that increasing negative reputation counts as increasing reputation.

Albert couldn't help but want to complain.

To be honest, although Albert did not shy away from using black magic, he did not want to become a dark wizard.

The Dark Lord or whatever, forget it.

The two Dark Lords, Greenwalt and Voldemort, are the best examples.

The appearance of this mission made most of Albert's good mood disappear, and he also received the reward for "wrong decision", which included a Muggle dispelling spell.

This spell can only be said to be so-so, not useless, but Albert can learn it elsewhere. At most, he doesn't have to spend time and energy to learn it now.

Sure enough, randomly obtaining skills is too confusing.

The last time I was able to gain proficiency in potions, it was because of Merlin's appearance.

Rowena Smith knew a lot of magic. If the skills he knew were randomly selected, it would be more confusing. Albert felt that he might need a lucky halo.

However, fortunately, the "Confrontation" reward on the mission panel was to obtain a specific skill. The Cruciatus Curse was not in vain, and Albert decided to put this mission to the end before claiming it.

Speaking of the Cruciatus Curse, there is also a task on the task panel, which is similar to the rock-solid one triggered by the Imperius Curse, except that this task is called "Hard Bones".

The reward is +1 resistance to the Cruciatus Curse.

Albert suspected that if he survived Avada's Kedavra Curse, he might be able to trigger a similar mission again.

Collecting three rewards may trigger a new mission, just like the rise of the Dark Lord.

However, Albert soon gave up the idea of ​​seeking death. He was not Harry Potter. If he attempted to die like this, he might really die.

The next mission made Albert want to laugh, it was called "Innocent Wolf"

It is a mission triggered by the two unlucky werewolves captured by Rowena Smith. The reward is very little experience. Obtaining a skill called Werewolf Friend can slightly increase the werewolf's favorability towards you.

To be honest, Albert didn't think the two werewolves were innocent at all.

On Isobel's side, a mission called "Girl's Revenge" was triggered. The condition was to help Isobel complete her revenge. It happened to be done together with the "Tit for Tat" mission of killing Rowena Smith. The reward was not bad. One skill point and Isobel's favorability +40.

At the beginning, Albert suggested Isobel to let the Acromantula kill and eat Rowena Smith.

The three tasks of Girl's Revenge, Revenge, and Brothers in Suffering directly allowed Albert to increase Isobel's favorability to above 70.

The relationship between the two has taken a further step.

"Tit for tat" is second only to counterattack, providing Albert with 5,000 experience points plus 2 skill points.

In the end, it was what Albert was looking forward to the most. He couldn't help but rub his hands and receive the reward for the "Confrontation" mission.

The panel suddenly opened up a list of skills. It was a list of Rowena Smith's skills. There were more skills than Albert's. He was dazzled by the list. He didn't even know what the names of some skills were for.

What should I choose?

Half an hour later, Albert picked out a few skills that he found useful: dueling, spell mastery, and Finkley's spell casting technique.

It's a pity that the elixir of blessing is gone, otherwise you can choose based on your feeling.

After thinking about it, Albert still decided to choose Magic Mastery.

Duels may make you stronger, but with potion proficiency in front of you, maybe magic spell proficiency can bring you unexpected surprises.

As for Finkley's method of casting spells, Albert did not consider it for the time being. He felt that Professor Broad might be able to do it, and he might have the opportunity to learn this knowledge from him.