One year has passed and Xie Lin has turned 10 years old. During this year, due to a nutritious diet and sufficient physical exercise, Xie Lin has a very slender and tall figure, which is half a head taller than his brother Draco. With his handsome appearance and gentle temperament, he looks very rich and handsome.
As an older brother, Draco was often envious and jealous. Just looking at his height, Draco had the illusion that Sherrin was his older brother. Not just in appearance, the two brothers are obviously biological twins, but their personalities are completely different.
Draco developed a arrogant and arrogant style similar to Lucius because of his blind worship of his father, although his behavior is still childish; Schelling did not inherit the character of his parents at all, and was always low-key and quiet. Modesty and polite, confident but not ostentatious, more like a Hufflepuff.
Although Lucius and Narcissa were very satisfied with Sherin's maturity and stability beyond his peers, they loved the domineering Draco even more. After all, Draco's personality was more in line with the Malfoy family's usual style, and it was a little bit... Childishness can also inspire parents to protect their calves.
During this year, with Xie Lin's tireless efforts, he finally finished the collection of books he took from his grandmother's house, and Xie Lin began to make plans to go to No. 12 Place Grimmauld. In the past year, Schelling had written to his grandmother who loved him in many ways, and he had already figured out the exact location of Blake's old house.
On this day, he Apparated to No. 12 Grimmauld Square under the leadership of Dobby, and met the house elf Kreacher who lived alone there.
At this time, Kreacher was already over 600 years old. Even based on the age of an elf, he was already very old. As described in the original book, Kreacher lived alone in the empty old Black house and had a small family. The elf is bound by contract magic and cannot leave the old house without the owner's permission. It can only talk to the portrait of its old owner, Mrs. Black, all the year round, so its character has become a bit crazy.
But when it knew that Xie Lin was the son of Narcissa and also had Black blood, it automatically regarded Xie Lin as its half master, and its tone and attitude were full of respect and obedience.
Schelling knew that intelligent creatures like house elves actually knew how to repay kindness. Only by being friendly to house elves could they gain their true loyalty. Sirius in the original book made this mistake and died indirectly.
Schelling did not use a condescending attitude to boss Kreacher because of his apparent submissiveness. Instead, he showed concern and condolences to Kreacher in a gentle and friendly manner, allowing Kreacher to change into clean clothes for himself and gave them to Kreacher. Some candies and snacks brought from home immediately moved Kreacher to tears of gratitude, and earned him a fierce loyalty.
Kreacher took the initiative to take Sherrin around the old Black mansion. As the mansion of the Black family, No. 12 Grimmauld Place is a typical pure-blood wizard's house. There are decorations everywhere that have hundreds of years of history. , many of which are silverware forged by ancient fairies. If these objects were placed outside, they would definitely be priceless antiques.
After Voldemort returns, this house will be used as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, but it is still uninhabited and naturally has not been protected by magic. It can be seen from the thick dust around it that it has been here for a long time. No one has been here.
Arriving at the studio on the second floor, there was a very large tapestry hanging on one of the walls, almost covering the entire wall. The tapestry recorded the genealogy of the Blake family. Schelling was surprised to find that his name appeared in the Blake family. After asking Kreacher about the family's genealogy, he found out that Mrs. Black died in 1985, when he was 5 years old.
Xie Lin remembered that the Slytherin pendant, one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, was stored in this room, but Xie Lin, who had not yet gone to school at the moment, did not dare to have any illusions about it. He knew in his heart the consequences of coming into contact with a Horcrux. Danger.
The goal of Schelling's trip was the Black family library. As the oldest pure-blood family of the Holy 28, the Black family's book collection is far superior to the Malfoy family in terms of quality and quantity. There are many out-of-print magic books in it, even from medieval times. The only rare book in the century excited Schelling, who was hungry for knowledge.
Anyway, the Black family has no heirs. Instead of letting these precious books end up in the hands of Harry Potter, a man who doesn't like to read, and let the treasures become dusty and wasted, it would be better to benefit himself, and he can barely be regarded as a Black branch. No matter what, he is more qualified than Harry Potter's surname!
After Schelling obtained Kreacher's consent in the name of a member of the Black family, he unceremoniously packed up all the Black family's books and took them away in his bag. There are hundreds of books in the collection here, which are as comprehensive as the Malfoy family's collection, covering almost all areas of magic. Many of the records about ancient magic symbols can be found in the Malfoy collection with Sherrin. What he had seen confirmed each other, which surprised and delighted Xie Lin.
But the most precious thing is the Black family's secret spell notes that can only be passed down to direct descendants. Schelling had already read some of this note at his grandmother's house, but after all, the Black Mansion was a paternal surname inheritance, and Druella had only daughters, which was only considered a matrilineal surname, so it was found here at the Black Mansion. The notes are relatively more complete and complete.
[Obtained the Black Family Curse Addendum! 】
Unfortunately, there are still no dark magic books in the Black family's collection. Schelling deduced that, like the Malfoy family, the Black family also has a secret room dedicated to storing prohibited items.
Schelling specifically asked Kreacher about this, but Kreacher said he knew nothing about it. Due to the slave nature of the house elf, Kreacher was unable to lie to Sherrin, and he had no motive to lie. Xie Lin could only deduce that the secret of this secret room was probably only in the hands of the core members of the family, and the house elves were not qualified to have access to it.
After that, life returned to a simple two-point and one-line routine - reading books like crazy during the day, and doing physical training with Dobby at night. Only on weekends could I relax a little, read letters from my pen pal, and write replies to my pen pal with all my heart.
Before his 11th birthday, Xie Lin, a top student, successfully read through the Black family's collection of books and documents with the help of a time plug-in.
Through the cross-comparison and integration of the two families' book collections, Schelling not only gained a clear understanding of the history of the wizarding world, the formation of magic, and the development of spells, but his biggest gain was that he pieced together a lot of clues based on the clues in the massive books. About the historical secrets of the Middle Ages, and successfully mastered the interpretation and deciphering of the ancient runes through self-study.
The ancient rune script in the wizarding world and the ancient human language of Muggles have the same mother writing system, both composed of 22 Phoenician characters. However, as the wizards discovered the magic hidden in the characters, over time, In the development and evolution of ancient runes, the ancient runes gradually formed their own writing system. Ancient wizards developed various exclusive rune symbols to gather and transmit magic power through rune symbols. This is especially common in alchemy, but With the advent of the peaceful era, the use of magic has become more and more life-oriented, and the use of ancient magic texts has gradually declined.
Xie Lin was an expert in ancient human languages in his previous life. Through his experience in his previous life and the rich collection of books from the two major families, he quickly figured out the rules of the ancient runes and the secret to deciphering them. If anyone knew this, it would be very amazing. Achievement.
It is well known that the ancient runes are difficult to understand. According to the normal progress of Hogwarts, the ancient runes course is an elective subject that can only be taken in the third grade, and that course only teaches how to identify common basic rune symbols and words. .
In contrast, Schelling, who is already able to hold historical documents written in ancient rune magic and read them with relish, his level of ancient magic literature far exceeds the highest level that Hogwarts can teach. .
Xie Lin, who is only a few days away from his 11th birthday, began to review his progress in the beginning, and he has to say that he is very satisfied with his achievements so far.
Although I was born into a family that was on the wrong side and would probably be involved in a family tragedy a few years later, my start was much better than that of Harry, the protagonist in the original work.
Compared to Harry, who is a novice in magic, he has a very thorough understanding of the wizarding world. The family's bloodline power and secret spell inheritance guarantee his future potential. More importantly, he has the hourglass of time, a cheating device that allows him to My life at Hogwarts is destined to be a super academic.
Just when Schelling was full of fantasies and longings for life in Hogwarts, his 11th birthday came soon, and both Schelling and Draco received invitations to enroll in Hogwarts.
On the second page of parchment of the invitation, the textbooks, wizard robes, cloaks, wands, crucibles, etc. required for the first grade of Hogwarts were also listed.
"I think Durmstrang is more suitable for him." After seeing the letter, Lucius made a last-ditch effort. After all, there are few restrictions on the study of dark magic there, and there is no need to live with non-pure-blood students. Lucius believes that Malfoy should receive a better education there.
"Are you willing to let our precious son go to such a far away place? It's still a small island, how inconvenient that must be!". Narcissa still insisted on her opinion and wanted to send her two sons to Hogwarts, which was closer to home. "You are considered a college director here, so maybe you can take care of me."
"You know I'm not on the right track with that old man with the white beard." Lucius looked a little ugly.
"I still decided to go to Hogwarts." Sherrin said his decision calmly. Draco himself had an all-or-nothing attitude towards these things, and his younger brother and several close friends who were already familiar with each other would go to Hogwarts, so he naturally voted for Hogwarts. Facing the unanimous opinions of mother and son, Lucius could only shrug helplessly in agreement.
Since both Schelling and Draco needed to buy necessities for the new school, the family of four took the family's luxurious Thestral carriage together. After Lucius recited the incantation and destination, the patterns on the carriage had a faint magical light flowing, Slowly rising into the air, he flew all the way to Diagon Alley.
Xie Lin, who is familiar with the original work, knows that in front of the empty carriage, the invisible Thestral is responsible for pulling the cart. Only people who have seen death can see the Thestral with the naked eye.
The Malfoy family is indeed the most powerful family today. Schelling and others can descend directly from the sky to the exclusive carriage parking space in Diagon Alley without passing through the dirty Leaky Cauldron.
