The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

The captain of the Willump Sylvia Explorer is a retired Navy soldier. In his twenty years of sailing, this middle-aged man has never encountered such a strange thing.

After docking, he immediately contacted the shipyard and requested an engineer to come and investigate the situation. But it was clear that a whole piece of ship board collapsed last night, but it was restored to its original state during the second review.

He could read the confused looks on the engineers' faces, and every look in their eyes said "Are you kidding me?"

What could he do? Did he say that there were wizards on the ship and that these were all wizards' magic?

The captain could only laugh and forced the engineers to do a series of safety checks. After getting the answer that the ship had no safety hazards, he let them leave.

Fortunately, the first mate and second mate were both present when the incident occurred. Everything was done in accordance with the regulations and sufficient evidence was left. Other than the company losing money, no one else was punished.

Perhaps because the passengers on the ship were all rich or noble, the organizers did not dare to offend anyone, so they arranged a car and driver the next day to take the passengers back to London and promised a full refund.

No matter how you calculate it, the voyage of the Willump Sylvia Explorer was a heavy loss. Hermione even felt a little guilty about this.

But Loren made a calculation for her, "Think about it, if we hadn't eliminated the dementors, everyone on the ship would have been killed. The compensation would have made the losses even more severe, and the organizer would have made the profit."

Yes, is that so? Hermione accepted this statement dubiously.

…

"Flamell, do you think my memory loss is due to concussion and drugs, or is it due to magic riot?" Loren asked thoughtfully as he lay on the table.

After the cruise ship docked, they quickly returned to London from Sunderland. When Loren returned home, he immediately entered the book of fantasy and told Flamel about the adventures along the way: dementors, huge patron saints, and... There are memories awakened by the soul-stirring stone.

As for Loren's patron saint, Flamel had already felt the majestic patron saint light, so he was not surprised. Instead, he was very interested in the newly discovered soul-stirring stone.

On the workbench of the alchemy laboratory, Flamel wore a monocle and kept fiddling with a smooth black stone. From time to time, magic lights of various colors appeared on his fingers and scratched on the surface of the stone.

The Book of Fantasy mapped the soul-absorbing stone into a virtual body, and he was doing some alchemical analysis on the properties of the soul-absorbing stone.

The light flickered for a long time, until the surface of the hard Dementor Stone was covered with scratches. Flamel then took off his monocle and marveled: "Absorb positive emotions and memories to grow, and finally transform into a Dementor. There will be no more Physical things are transformed into entities, which are materials that have never been seen before.”

"If it can be applied to alchemy, this will be the greatest discovery in three hundred years."

Seeing that he didn't even listen to her question, Loren turned his head dissatisfied and said, "mass-energy conversion, right? I can also give you an equation of relativity."

"Conversion of mass and energy? What an apt description." Flamel heard his dissatisfaction and said with a smile, "I don't know the reason for your memory loss, but I think you are more interested in finding out the reason than in finding out the reason. Concerned about retrieving memories.”

"Is there any way to use this soul-absorbing stone?" Loren looked at him expectantly.

Flamel shook his head, "While the soul-stirring stone awakens memories, it will also absorb your happiness. When a person's happiness is absorbed too much, he will lose the ability to be happy and become an empty shell."

"Then what's your solution?"

"Do you still remember that mirror? Mary's mirror can go deep into the depths of your consciousness. As long as the mirror is repaired, you can retrieve the memory from the ocean of consciousness." Flamel said, beckoning for a parchment, and started Display the properties of the Soul Capture Stone on it.

Unexpectedly, this matter would happen to the mirror. Loren nodded, "I will go to Windsor Castle as soon as possible to find the unicorn horn."

"It has a hard texture, can absorb the growth of positive emotions, has biological activity, and can awaken people's memories..." Flamel wrote, then suddenly looked up at Loren, "When refining a new mirror, you can use this Add a stone and it will make the mirror absorb emotions and become even more powerful.”

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"Windsor Castle covers an area of ​​7 hectares and is currently the largest inhabited castle-style building in the world. All buildings are made of stone and have nearly a thousand rooms, including the king and queen's dining room, studio, ballroom, Audience Hall, Drawing Room, Waterloo Hall, St. George's Chapel, etc..."

A British-looking girl introduced Windsor Castle to her classmates and talked about it in great detail.

In the crowd on the side, Loren and Bates mingled with the tourists, listening to all kinds of information about Windsor Castle.

Thousands of years ago, King Henry I held a pilgrimage ceremony here, and since then Windsor Castle has officially become a venue for palace activities. After continuous expansion by successive kings, Windsor Castle has now become a huge castle complex with many exquisite buildings.

After the death of royal family members, they were buried here, and the country's meritorious knights were awarded here. The famous writer Shakespeare was invited to come here to collect stories and write a play based on it.

"The Order of the Garter is the highest honor in the UK. Each Knight of the Garter has a fixed seat in the hall, and the armor, sword and flag of each knight are hung on the wall behind the seat..."

The introduction of the girls continued, and Loren and Bates had disappeared into the crowd. Loren was not interested in those historical artifacts, he just came to confirm the traces of the unicorn horn.

To be honest, Bates was completely idle after taking care of the bank affairs. Moreover, living in the city does not require herding sheep or farming. Life is more leisurely than in the alpine pastures, but it is also more boring.

After the last cruise trip, Loren and Hermione had no plans to continue traveling during the holidays. Bates was reluctant to leave Loren alone at home and travel by himself. After all, for boarders, the year's vacation is fixed. .

When Loren asked to come to Windsor Castle to find some unicorn horns, Bates immediately agreed. We drove him here early the next morning, located in the town of Windsor, 32 kilometers west of London.

"I think you can practice magic outside. The effect will definitely be better than staying at home all the time. You can tell Hermione later and I will drive you every day."

At this point, Bates suddenly frowned and thought of something, "Have you told Hermione that you won't be at home today? Will she come and find you?"

Loren sighed: "As I said, I mastered the freezing spell and the expansion spell before her. In order to catch up with my progress, she will not come to me these days and say that I affect her study."

Loren felt a little depressed when he thought of this. Listen to what she said. What does it mean that I affect learning? Am I a bad student?

Bates was proud of Loren in his heart, but he still said with a straight face: "Hermione is a girl, you should let her go."

"Oh," Loren replied.

The two followed the guidance, walked through the long path guarded by giant trees, and entered the gate of the castle.

This is a building that is a mix of Gothic, British garden and Victorian styles. The magnificent dome and white stone walls all show the simplicity and heaviness left by the years.

In addition to the living area of ​​the royal family, it is more of a large museum and art gallery. Transportation, jewelry, sculptures and paintings, almost everything. There are collections of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer.

They wandered from one end to the other, back and forth several times, but they didn't find the unicorn horn. Loren even carefully identified the ivory sculptures and rhinoceros horn sculptures. They were indeed ivory and rhinoceros horns, not unicorn horns.

"The golden scepter is beautiful, and so are the paintings." Bates fiddled with the fabric flowers on the door curtain and looked around, "But I didn't see a unicorn, not even a painting of a unicorn."

This seemed like something interesting, and Bates laughed: "Hey, this is something on the royal coat of arms, but there is no painting."

Unlike Bates, who was looking at various collections with great interest, Loren already felt a dull pain in the soles of his feet. The castle covers an area of ​​7 hectares. In addition to the greenery, the floor area is nearly 500,000 square feet. You will break your legs if you look at it like this.

He had to find a more efficient and direct method... He closed his eyes, and under the cover of his eyelids, his eyes rolled. When he opened his eyes again, they were already filled with crystal blue light.

In an instant, the gorgeous works of art and rare paintings all over the room lost their color. These were all objects without magic, and they were unremarkable in the eyes of magic.

At this moment, a ray of milky white light shone in, and following the guidance of the light, Loren walked aside.

There is a majestic knight statue in front of the door. The white marble is carved with every inch of armor and muscle texture. He is tall and straight, and it seems that such a knight really exists.

Loren's attention was on the lance, which had a long and slender tip with spiral patterns emanating from the tip. In his field of vision, the milky white magic light emanated from here, revealing holiness.

Not sure if the royal family knew it was a unicorn horn, they made it into a statue and hid it perfectly.

Magical perception is only available to a few top wizards, and few of them come to visit Windsor Castle, so this unicorn horn has been preserved.

But no one expected that Dumbledore was an outlier among the top wizards. Rather than leaving the London Underground route map in her lap and visiting Windsor Castle to discover a unicorn horn, Loren found it very Dumbledore.

"It's going to be easier for me in the end." A smile appeared on Loren's face.

Bates saw him staring straight at the tip of the gun and followed his gaze, "Is this the unicorn horn? It doesn't look like anything special."

"For most people in the world, it's really nothing special." Loren turned around and walked towards the exit, "Let's go, we can go back."

Now that you have done a good job, all that's left is to practice the Apparition and Disguise spells. I don't know if the opening of the Alajo Cave will work on the code lock, but it doesn't matter if it doesn't. The opening of the door will definitely work.

Bates' gaze stayed for a while, then turned to catch up with Loren, "Why don't we watch for a while? What's the use of a unicorn horn..."

At night, in the duel room of the Book of Fantasy.

"[Apparition]" Loren's wrist first moved the wand to draw a section, and then drew an arc counterclockwise.

There was a huge "bang" sound in the air, and Loren's figure disappeared from the spot and appeared on the floor in the distance, as if teleporting.

The front lobe of the brain was slightly dizzy due to the feeling of spatial dislocation, but the solid feeling from the soles of his feet quickly offset the dizziness, and Loren was stunned for a moment before regaining consciousness.

I felt it first, and there was no familiar pain anywhere in my body, which meant that there was no separation. He took another look at the white circle mark at his feet, which showed that the teleportation point was accurate.

"Successful!" Loren clenched his fists excitedly.

Flamel, sitting on a desk beside the wall, said lazily: "This is only in the Book of Fantasy, but in the real world, I still advise you to try it under the supervision of the professor."

He paused for a moment: "There will be a certain lag in the command of the body by consciousness, and this lag may cause your body to pass and your hands and feet to stay in place."

Loren thought about the scene for a moment and shook his head resistingly. Although he was eager to get the unicorn horn, he didn't have to be so anxious:

"I'd better wait until I get back to school and practice under the supervision of Professor Snape. He has plenty to do."

Flamel knew that he was not a reckless person and said with relief, "Don't be in a hurry to get your memory back. You have been here for so many years. Take your time."

"[Apparition]" Loren flashed next to him with a smile on his face, "So can you cooperate with me in practicing the Forgetting Spell? I promise, you will be very careful."

Flamel disappeared with a bang. Obviously, he is very skilled in apparating, and he has already managed to cast spells silently and without a wand.

He appeared in another place, saying with a serious expression: "For a magical portrait that relies on memory, the forgetting spell is equal to murder."

Loren curled his lips, you have hundreds of years of memory, you can't even figure out how effective the forgetting spell of a beginner like him can be. But what Flamel said made sense, so he had to give up this tempting idea for the time being.

The vacation was coming to an end. In the remaining days, Loren used his conscious body to practice Apparition and Disguise Charm at night, but Flamel refused to cooperate with him in practicing the Forgetting Charm.

During the day, he and Hermione studied together. The basic spells in second grade were already considered easy for them now. Loren can master it after practicing it several times by himself, and under his guidance, Hermione learns very quickly.

Loren's Legilimency and Hermione's Occlumency have both made great progress. Between the advance and retreat of offense and defense, Loren has also experienced the confrontation between invasion and defense at the edge of the brain and soul, and has his own ideas about brain defense. understand.

However, he could not test whether he had learned it or not.

At this point, the only three memory magics left are the Forgetting Spell, which probably requires a famous teacher who is proficient in the Forgetting Spell and a guinea pig who can be used to practice.

But why can't the two be the same person?