After Xie Lin was 9 years old, maybe Lucius and Narcissa felt that it was an age for children to make friends, or maybe they saw Xie Lin's tendency to become a homebody, so they began to invite some children of similar age and status to their home. I hope Sherrin and Draco can find like-minded friends before enrolling.
But among the so-called "closer" children invited, almost all come from pure-blood families whose status is similar to that of the Malfoy family, such as Theodore Nott of the Nott family and Pansy Parsons of the Parkinson family. Kinson, Millicent Burstead of the Burstead family, Gregory Gower of the Gower family, Vincent Crabbe of the Crabbe family, and so on.
In Xie Lin's eyes, these are a group of arrogant, ignorant, and spoiled brats by their parents. It's surprising that Xie Lin can get along with them! What's more, as far as Schelling knows, more than half of the children here have fathers who are Death Eaters!
Draco was quite impressive. Relying on his Malfoy family background, he easily conquered the two followers, Goyle and Crabbe. Although these two older boys were a bit stupid, their strong bodies made them good bodyguards. material. Even Pansy Parkinson, who has eyes higher than her head, seems to have a good impression of Draco and admires Draco's slightly childish arrogance.
To be honest, Pansy at this time had short black hair, big black eyes, a straight nose, and two dimples. She looked quite cute, but her character was very bad. In addition to facing Germany, When she was with Laco and Sherin, her words were very harsh and she always took pleasure in ridiculing others. Goyle and Crabbe both called her "the little witch" in private.
Theodore Nott is one of the few people who does not lower his status to flatter Draco. The Nott family has not lost its reputation in the British wizarding world. It owns many industries that manufacture alchemical items. Together with the Burke family, it is the two largest alchemy circles in the UK. Giant. Theodore himself has pretty good talents, but his personality is a bit stinky. To put it bluntly, he is unbearably narcissistic.
But Draco liked him quite a lot. Draco told Schelling more than once that he felt Theodore was the only peer worthy of his equal association.
Whenever these little brats get together, Sherrin will find various excuses to evade it. If the gathering place is at Malfoy Manor, Sherrin will find an opportunity to sneak out in advance. Draco, on the other hand, was intoxicated by the mutual compliments between the few people. He was very keen to participate in various activities of this small circle. Sherlin could often see him going out to play and party with his friends.
Xie Lin was also invited by them several times, but after being rejected by Xie Lin several times, Draco felt that his very thoughtful brother didn't seem to particularly like hanging out with his friends, so he didn't take it seriously. From now on, everyone will automatically leave Xie Lin behind at gatherings.
Narcissa was not very happy when she found out about this incident. She nagged Xie Lin several times, but seeing Xie Lin's indifferent look, she knew that her words were probably playing tricks on others, and over time she could only criticize Xie Lin's withdrawnness. Just let it be.
However, after Schelling noticed the strong and tall bodies of Crabbe and Gower, he also began to put physical exercise on his agenda.
Just because you can't learn magic spells doesn't mean you can't enhance your fighting strength.
In the magical world of Harry Potter, the outcome of a battle between wizards generally depends on three factors: the power of the spell, the hit rate and the dodge rate of both combatants. After all, the only way to win is to hit the target. The magic spell is the effective magic spell.
Only in a few very rare cases, the battle between wizards will be dragged into a protracted battle due to even strength, and the total amount of magic power will become the final factor that is the key to victory. It can be seen that for combat wizards, physical fitness is actually very important. Only agile wizards have a great survival rate in melee.
Without the knowledge of his family, Schelling began secretly training with Dobby every day in the dead of night. When reading the original work, Schelling wanted to complain. The young wizards in Hogwarts never participated in any physical training, and only focused their time on learning knowledge and spells. For seven years, Hogwarts The only thing in the Woz education system that can be related to physical education is the flying class in the first grade, and it only lasts for a short year.
It's no wonder that the little wizards can master so many magic spells, but their actual performance is extremely poor. This may be because in peaceful times, unless they aspire to become Aurors, it is more practical for young wizards to learn a few more household spells instead of spending time on physical fitness.
In his previous life, Xie Lin was an expert in survival in the wild. He had considerable attainments in long-distance running, climbing, diving, and fighting. Based on the description of the battle between wizards in the original book, he drew on the training methods of war games in the Muggle world, and personally designed a systematic physical training process specifically focusing on dodge rate and hit rate.
He asked Dobby to aim at him and release a harmless marking spell (being hit by the spell would only leave an ink-like mark), while he moved around in a small space, practicing various dodge skills, and one step at a time In one step, Dobby speeds up his casting speed to increase the difficulty of his dodge.
After practicing his dodge skills, Xie Lin took a short rest and asked Dobby to use flying spells to create paper birds flying in the sky, while he used darts to practice aiming. The goal was to practice until he could hit every paper bird. until.
During the day, Xie Lin also cultivated the habit of reading the Daily Prophet diligently every day, taking the initiative to understand the major and minor events happening in the magical world in today's peaceful era.
When he had nothing else to do, Schelling remembered that Bill, the eldest son of the Weasley family in the original novel, seemed to have a pen pal in Brazil who was studying at the Castrobushe School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. On a whim, he wrote a letter to him in an unintentional mood. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper said that he wanted to use a small column to publish an enlightenment on international friendship under the pseudonym "Xiao Xiami".
What Xie Lin didn't expect was that the newspaper's reply came very quickly. Within a few days, he received a reply from the newspaper's editor-in-chief. He agreed to publish this dating revelation for Xie Lin for free in order to promote exchanges in the international magic community. Xie Lin I can't help but think that this may be because newspapers in peacetime are extremely short of material.
A few weeks later, Xie Lin received several friendship letters and successfully made several foreign pen pals. Among them, the one with whom he communicated most frequently and was most compatible was a pen pal living in North America and a pen pal in Japan. Through the communication between pen pals, The exchange of letters also provided a preliminary understanding of the magical world outside of Britain. From then on, Schelling had another habit of reading and replying to letters every weekend.
After his parents found out about this, Lucius curled his lips with disdain but refused to comment. In Lucius's eyes, the British wizarding world is the most powerful and noble wizarding world in the world, and other places are just remote. It's just a backward barbarian land - there are not a few people with this kind of thinking in the British wizarding world. After all, the inheritance of North American wizards comes from the UK, and the far east is recognized as somewhat backward, both economically and politically. .
What Narcissa was thinking about was Xie Lin's mental health. She often stared at Xie Lin with complicated eyes. She probably misunderstood Xie Lin's lack of like-minded friends, which caused her inner loneliness. She could also see it. , Xie Lin did not like the small circle of pure-blood descendants, so her heart was filled with guilt as a mother.
Of course, Xie Lin didn't really care about his parents' opinions.
When Xie Lin told his parents that he had read all the hundreds of books in the family library, even the aloof Lucius couldn't help showing an expression of surprise and joy.
Narcissa then proposed to take Sherrin to visit Sherrin's grandmother, Druella Black. Druella came to the house once when Sherrin was very young, and she loved the naturally intelligent Sherrin very much. In fact, Sherin and Draco were also the only two grandchildren she recognized.
Sherin has two aunts - her eldest aunt Bellatrix joined the Death Eaters after they got married and did not give birth to any children, while her second aunt Andromeda was removed from the family tree because she married a Muggle wizard. eliminated.
Druella lived alone in a small house in Wiltshire. When she saw her favorite grandson coming to visit, her face was filled with excitement. She was so happy when she heard that Sherrin wanted to come and stay for a few days. Incredible. So when Schelling asked to see the collection of books, Druella brought out all the books at home so that Schelling could read them all.
The collection of books in Druella's home was inherited by her and her deceased husband, Signus Black, from their respective families. Druella was originally the daughter of the Rochiel family before she was married, so some of the books in the collection are from Black. Some of the books in the Black family (Black) are also part of the Rosier family (Rosier), a large part of which was sent to Malfoy Manor with Narcissa's marriage very early on.
Then aunt Bellatrix and his wife were caught and sent to the wizard prison Azkaban after the first wizarding war, and were sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the wizard property law, except for the vault of Gringotts, they The rest of the property must be transferred to Druella's name. This allowed Schelling to take advantage. In the Druella family's book collection, he not only found the classics of the Black family and the Rochiel family, but also found some bits and pieces of the Lestrange family's collection. There are more than a hundred books in total.
Although Druella is old, she is not yet demented. The book she took out for Schelling did not contain any books on black magic, but some secret spells of the Black family, the Rocher family and the Lestrange family did. It is indispensable. Xie Lin knew that these were the most precious knowledge of pure-blood families, and he used the hourglass of time every day to greedily absorb all the knowledge he could.
After living in their grandmother's house for a month, Sherrin and Narcissa said goodbye to Druella, whose face was full of reluctance. Druella took the initiative and gave all the books to Sherrin and ordered a The house elf Sasha delivered the books directly to Sherrin's bedroom at Malfoy Manor.
[Obtained the Black Family Heirloom Curse! Obtained the Rochiel Family Heirloom Magic! Obtained the Lestrange Family Heirloom Spell! 】
Narcissa was helpless and amused when she saw that Xuelin's bedroom was filled with messy books. She bought a portable book bag engraved with the Traceless Stretching Charm. The space inside was like an empty library. Let Schelling store tens of thousands of books.
Xie Lin liked this gift very much. It made him feel as if he had his own private library. He couldn't wait to put all the books from Druella's house neatly into the book bag space, only to find that I can barely fill up one percent of the bookshelves in the space.
【Private library obtained! 】
