Since the first Duel Club, Lockhart seems to have found that his status in the hearts of students has been declining rapidly, and the activities of the Duel Club have come to an end.
But after that, Schelling still maintained a good teacher-student relationship with Professor Lockhart.
From time to time, Schelling would visit Lockhart's office and ask for advice on defense against the dark arts, especially some vaguely described content in Lockhart's books. Of course, Schelling would not forget to give him advice every time. He brought a bottle of Ogden's Old Firewhiskey, which made Lockhart embarrassed to turn Sherrin away.
Lockhart felt bad for Sherrin's alertness and studiousness. Just like when Sherrin was talking to him about the humanoid restoration spell used in "Wandering with Werewolves", he could feel that there was no admiration in Sherrin's eyes. , more of a curiosity about this spell.
That genius is very interested in the humanoid restoration spell!
If it were in the past, teaching the other party the humanoid restoration spell would undoubtedly be an opportunity to build a closer relationship between the two parties. Unfortunately, Lockhart would never use this spell at all. When he heard Xie Lin ask him, he almost couldn't answer. In the end, he could only send Xie Lin away because he needed to take some time to sort out the professor's ideas, but Xie Lin seemed to have seen through him a long time ago. thought and expressed that he would come to visit another day.
Lockhart had to go back to his old residence during Christmas to look for something useful.
"Wandering with Werewolves" still left a deep memory in Lockhart - no matter what, the old Armenian wizard was old and ugly, and the clothes he wore were tasteless, which made him complain a lot. At the beginning, Lockhart spent a lot of time investigating this matter, and even visited the village that was plagued by werewolves. He cast a forgetting spell on the villagers living there to make everyone who knew about it forget about it. Got to be clean.
Lockhart naturally knew something about the Restoration Spell. After all, it was the core spell in "Wandering with Werewolves". It took him a lot of effort to get the spell out of the old wizard's mouth. This is a spell that the old wizard created by himself from the ancient magic handed down from the Seleucid Empire, but he seems not to realize the significance of this spell.
Lockhart once thought about relying on this spell to become famous. After all, the spell that can temporarily transform a werewolf into a human form is of great significance, so when he left, he not only erased the memory of the other party, but also stole the record of the spell to restore human form. and research. If he could learn and publish this magic, Lockhart knew that he would become famous in the international wizarding world.
Unfortunately, everything backfired. He tried for a full year but failed to even scratch the surface of this curse.
In his residence, Lockhart found the drafts he had written over the years before writing the book, as well as many secret achievements extracted from others - the chronic secrets extracted from the ghouls in "Wandering with Ghouls" Venom, the potion used to resist the mind control of the dominatrix in "Holiday with a Dominatrix", the vampire amulet used in "A Voyage with a Vampire", the humanoid restoration spell in "Wandering with a Werewolf"...
Lockhart looked through it carefully, and after making sure there was nothing else that could not be shown to Schelling, he took a whole box of research materials back to Hogwarts and handed them to Schelling.
[Obtain Lockhart’s research notes! 】
During the two-week Christmas vacation, Schelling spent the whole two weeks studying Lockhart's research notes. Although Lockhart was not very good at writing books, he did have a good way of writing books. The key point can be seen. Every detail spoken by the subjects he investigated is recorded in detail in the research notes, and is arranged very neatly and orderly, making it very comfortable to read.
Soon the first week of January has arrived, the second term has begun, and the little wizards have returned from the Christmas holidays.
The Harry trio probably learned a lesson and fell silent for a while. Hermione put a piece of cat hair into the polyjuice potion as human hair and turned into a cat lady. She was hospitalized several times in the school hospital. Week.
Although Harry and Ron escaped the punishment of being expelled, they were also imprisoned to Filch for various cleaning tasks. Filch still believed that Harry had killed his cat, and naturally he would not let Harry live. It was better to find ways to assign the dirtiest and most disgusting cleaning tasks to Harry every day.
Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe recovered quickly under the influence of magic and were discharged from the hospital on the second day. Although Draco's embarrassment was only seen by a few people present at the time, the embarrassment about his severe beating still spread like wildfire in Slytherin House, causing Draco, who had always been high-profile, to feel humiliated. During these days, his face has been very gloomy and his behavior has been much more low-key.
Ginny tried to get rid of the diary and threw the diary into the girls' bathroom on the third floor. It was then picked up by Harry. All this was watched by Sherrin who was invisible.
Schelling had experienced the Battle of the Dueling Club and the Battle of the Slytherin Lounge, and was already a minor celebrity in Slytherin College. His brilliant record of defeating Harry Potter twice made these little wizards deeply feel the connection between themselves and Schelling. Despite the gap between them, everyone recognized one thing: Xie Lin not only ranked first in academic performance, but also seemed to be the strongest among the students in his class in terms of real strength.
In the corridors of the school, many young wizards from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw began to greet Sherrin when they saw him, while the young wizards from Gryffindor gritted their teeth at Sherrin, as if they regarded Sherrin as As Gryffindor's public enemy number one.
Xie Lin sneered at the childish mentality of these little brats and ignored them.
To be fair, Schelling is different from Draco. As a child, Draco was full of admiration and fantasy for Harry, the figure who defeated the Dark Lord. As a result, when he proposed peace on the Hogwarts Express, When Harry made friends but was rejected, it can be said that he had a complex emotion towards Harry that turned from love to hate. He wanted to hit Harry from all sides. He wanted Harry to understand what a stupid mistake it was to refuse to be his friend!
Sherrin didn't hate Harry and Ron. To be honest - in his opinion, the feud between Harry, Ron and Draco was purely childish.
He has never regarded Harry and Ron as opponents of the same level. His ambitions and goals have always been focused on defeating Voldemort. Of course, there is also the intrigue with Dumbledore and other pure-blood families; he crushed them twice. Harry just did it casually. The first time it was Snape's selfishness that fueled the situation, and the second time it was just Harry who was looking for a beating. This is why, in both incidents, Schelling chose to deal with Harry cleanly, without even thinking about how to humiliate or ridicule him.
The duel club incident gave Schelling a wake-up call - Schelling decided to open a small duel club within Slytherin, and only invited first-year and second-year Slytherin students to participate. Schelling quickly became famous. Many members were recruited to the Duel Club, and almost everyone was present, even Theodore Nott and Blaise Chabini, who thought highly of themselves.
Schelling did not teach them any powerful spells or combat skills that could quickly improve their strength. Instead, he started from the basics of holding and wielding a wand.
In the first few activities, the little wizards were more or less disappointed because of Xie Lin's fame. However, after participating in several activities, they each found that they were in the usual spell classes and They all made great progress in the Transfiguration class, and then they realized how much Schelling had helped them, and Schelling once again gained a good reputation.
Since the battle in the Slytherin Common Room, there had been no more attacks in the castle, and in a blink of an eye it was the Easter holiday in April.
Sophomore students choose two electives for their junior year.
Schelling had no interest in the three subjects of Divination, Arithmancy, and Muggle Studies. As for the study of ancient runes, Schelling was not modest. Schelling doubted that Professor Bathshedda Barblin could teach him anything he could still do. Things I don’t understand.
In order not to waste time on these courses that had no practical use and interest for him, he and Draco only chose one course of magical biology after several correspondences with Lucius, and then Lucius passed His influence as a school director allowed Hogwarts to reopen the "Alchemy" course that had been discontinued for centuries.
Alchemy was a highly specialized subject, and it was discontinued for two reasons: insufficient demand among students, and the difficulty of finding a qualified professor.
These two questions were not problems at all for Schelling.
He was confident that he could convince most of his Slytherin classmates to take Alchemy together, and finding a professor would not be a big problem for the pure-blood family. As far as Schelling knows, the two giants in the British alchemy world are the Nott family and the Burke family. Both families are pure-blood families that have deep interests in the Malfoy family. If Lucius is willing to come forward, they will not refuse to sell. Lucius's face.
At the same time, Professor Sprout also announced that the mandrakes had a lively and noisy dance party in the third greenhouse. It will not take long before they are fully mature, and then all the petrified victims can be cure. The continuous good news gradually makes people happy. The young wizards also turned their attention back to the upcoming Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff Quidditch match.
Just when Schelling thought that such dull days would last until May, the reality of deviating from the established track slapped Schelling hard.
Most of the little snakes in Slytherin come from wizarding families with deep backgrounds. The relationship between several ancient families has always been intertwined and complicated. These families are allies that support the concept of "pure blood supremacy", but at the same time they are also competing for power and pursuing interests. Competitors, for young successors, the family will instill in them from an early age a sense of competition and the law of the jungle.
At the same time, in the sorting ceremony of the Sorting Hat, careerists and conspirators with ambitions and plans are usually sorted into Slytherin. This has caused a strange phenomenon in Slytherin where there are many factions and the jungle is strong.
Whether it's Draco borrowing the financial power of the Malfoy family to successfully occupy the position of seeker on the Quidditch team; or Sherrin defeating the famous Harry Potter twice and successfully becoming the little wizard in Slytherin. Established popularity and reputation; it was regarded by other pure-blood family children in Slytherin as a manifestation of the Malfoy family's intention to get involved in Slytherin.
Of course, with the current financial power and influence of the Malfoy family in the British political and business circles, not many forces dare to openly provoke the Malfoy family, but some testing is indispensable.
Among the pure-blood families, the Lestrange, Rochiel and Black families were originally the most powerful. However, in the First Wizarding War, these three families, as the leaders, were also the most severely damaged - the Lestrange The two brothers from the direct bloodline were both imprisoned; Ivan Rochier died directly at the hands of Crazy Eyes Moody; the two brothers from Black's direct bloodline were jailed and the other died inexplicably.
Except for Ivan Rochier, who was rumored to have left an illegitimate son and fled overseas, the direct bloodlines of the other two families were almost cut off. Fortunately, Lestrange found a clansman from the common branch and gave him an identity to inherit. The Black family was much more unlucky. The descendants of the other Black branches were all daughters. As a result, the Black ancestral home was reduced to the embarrassing situation of having no one to inherit it.
In contrast, the families who knew how to protect themselves at the beginning retained a lot of strength. After the Death Eaters were liquidated, they took the opportunity to absorb the industries and markets vacated by these three families. In addition, the newly appointed Minister of Magic Fudge's If you let it go, these pure-blood families will gradually grow up.
The most powerful among them is the Malfoy family. The small Malfoy family has even attracted the Goyle family and the Crabbe family to become its own vassal families. It also has a close alliance and cooperation with the Parkinson family and the Burke family.
Followed closely by the Avery family, the Nott family and the Carrow family. These three families had retained a lot of strength at the beginning. After some hard work, they considered themselves not much inferior to the Malfoy family.
Of course, Xie Lin also knew from Daphne that some less high-profile pure-blood families, such as the Greengrass family and the MacMillan family, although these families do not often talk about pure-blood supremacy, their behavior is not so eccentric and extreme. These low-key families have also cultivated powerful forces secretly.
Take Greengrass, where Daphne belongs, for example. In recent years, it has quietly annexed some small and unknown families. Even the long-standing Shafiq family eventually lost control of the family because of Daphne and Meredith's relationship. And became a vassal of their family.
