He received the letter from Xue Ya, which was from his mother Theresa. The letter said that she had arrived in Hogsmeade Village and asked Hope to go to Hogsmeade Village to find her. There was an anti-Phantom Movement in Hogwarts. She couldn't Apparate in without the Apparition Charm, and she couldn't be bothered to walk to Hogwarts.
Reluctantly, Hope bid farewell to Hagrid and headed to Hogsmeade. At this time, Hogsmeade was very lively. After spending Christmas Eve with family reunions, people on Christmas Day were even more joyful.
Hope came to the place mentioned in the letter, but he did not find her mother's figure. While looking around in confusion, a hand suddenly stretched out from the alley behind her and pulled him in.
When Hope instinctively wanted to resist, a voice that was very familiar to Hope but a little irritated came over.
"Why did you come here so late? Hogwarts is not far from here."
"Sorry, Mom, I'm helping Hagrid and Professor Flitwick decorate the hall. There is a Christmas party at Hogwarts tonight." Hope apologized softly and looked back. After seeing the figure clearly, Hope froze. In situ.
The lady in front of him was disheveled and haggard. Although she sounded like his mother, Hope couldn't believe that this was his usually bright and beautiful mother, so he subconsciously asked: "Auntie, who are you?"
When Teresa heard this, her veins were immediately exposed, and she stretched out her hand to grab Hope's ears: "Little bastard, don't you recognize your mother after not seeing her for several months?"
As Teresa got closer, an intoxicating fragrance came over, which was Hope's favorite smell. This time Hope believed that the lady in front of him was really his mother.
Because this smell comes from the perfume he gave to Teresa, which was a perfume he accidentally modified when he was bored by preparing a love potion. After discovering that this potion can make him smell his favorite smell, Hope tried it Eliminate all the ingredients in love potions that make people obsessed with someone.
The experiment was so successful that after perfecting it, Hope gave it to Theresa as a Christmas present.
Hope repeatedly begged for mercy. After Teresa let go, he rubbed his painful ears and wondered: "Mom, did you go to the wilderness to survive?"
When Teresa heard this, she tried to pull Hope's ears again, but Hope quickly dodged it. Teresa did not continue and said angrily: "I just got off work and didn't have time to wash up."
Then he said with some excitement: "I have recently made some new discoveries in the study of time."
"What discovery?" Hope asked curiously. Judging from Teresa's appearance, she must have been researching it for a long time. This discovery must be very powerful.
"Keep it a secret," Teresa said very naughtily.
Hope curled her lips with disdain. It's really bad taste and appetizing. Could it be that you changed the time-turner from traveling in the past to traveling in the future? He can also do this kind of thing. He can travel to the world five seconds later by closing his eyes for five seconds. The longer he closes his eyes, the longer he can travel. It's amazing.
It's a pity that Teresa can't read minds, otherwise she would be pulling Hope's ears again.
"Let's go home." Teresa took Hope, waved her wand, and then the space was distorted, and Teresa and Hope returned to their home.
Theresa left Hope behind and went to wash up and change clothes.
Hope calmed down for a while, but he still couldn't get used to this feeling like rolling in a washing machine.
"Isn't there a spell that prohibits Apparition in our home? How come we just returned?" He remembered Joey telling him about this. For family safety, many protective spells were applied to their home. Apparition was not prohibited in the house, but Others cannot Apparate into the house.
Teresa said casually: "You have become a little wizard, and when you live in Hogwarts, we don't have to work hard to maintain those protective spells."
When Hope heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched and he complained in his heart: Did our family offend someone? Was it because we were so careful about safety in the past because we were afraid that I would be kidnapped by the enemy?
"You go and clean your bedroom. We haven't touched it since you went to school. Of course you can use the magic wand. The magic shielding at home is still on. The magic wave cannot be transmitted and the trace will not be triggered."
"I'm going to catch up on some sleep. Your grandparents and grandparents are coming over tonight."
Although she looked a little unkempt, she was actually quite clean under the Cleansing Charm. However, the Cleansing Charm would not clean up the mental fatigue, so she decided to take a hot bath, apply a facial mask and have a good sleep. .
After Hope heard that the bedroom was to be cleaned, he suddenly remembered something and ran back to the bedroom in a hurry.
Because he had tidied his bedroom before going to school, there was just some dust in the bedroom at this time.
"Cleaned up."
Hope skillfully used the cleaning spell to clean the bedroom, then closed the bedroom door, came to the bed, reached under the bed, and after feeling a secret compartment, pulled out the drawer in the secret compartment.
His diaries and novels were neatly placed together. It seemed that no one had touched them. Hope breathed a sigh of relief, then took out the storage box he carried with him and left these notebooks in another book. It was packed in one piece at a time. This thing is better to be carried close to the body.
Looking through the novels he wrote at that time, Hope felt awkward unconsciously. Some of the plots didn't seem to matter when he was writing them, but now they looked really embarrassing. He wanted to carve out a three-bedroom and one-living room with his feet. If this was done by his parents, If he found out, he would want to leave home.
He has to find time to optimize these books. Maybe he can adapt a whole wizard version of the novel and publish it in the wizarding world to earn Galleons. As far as he knows, there are also books in this style in the wizarding world. I think wizards should be able to accept it. .
How about releasing a Muggle version to the Muggle community in England and earn some pounds? However, although there are computers now, they are not widespread, let alone the Internet.
He had seen in a magazine that a physicist named Tim Berners-Lee was making the World Wide Web.
Therefore, it is impossible to publish it online. You can only contact the publishing house. If you want to sell it well, you have to advertise it. Serialize it in some magazines first. If the response is good, then continue to sell physical books. Perfect.
What if the magazine refuses to serialize it and the publisher doesn’t approve it? Do I have to publish the book at my own expense?
Although he currently has several thousand gold galleons in his small vault, the pound sterling is zero. No, he also has a piggy bank, and he may be able to scrape together one or two hundred pounds.
Forget about selling the gold galleons for pounds. Although the gold galleons are really made of gold, there is fairy magic on them. If they don't burn it when burned in a gold shop, that's inexplicable. I just don't know if Gringotts has a business of exchanging gold galleons for pounds.
So Hope immediately decided to publish the wizard version first, and then try to submit articles to magazines in the Muggle world.
There is an easier way, that is to ask his parents for help, but Hope is not going to say it because he is afraid that his parents will not accept this.
His grandparents are both old professors. Joey may not be able to accept this new subject matter under the influence of the two of them. His maternal grandparents are also from an old family, and Teresa may not be able to accept it.
If both parents object, can he still go into a rebellious phase? So Hope decided to succeed first.
