Chapter 417 Summer Vacation Is Halfway Over
July 26th, there are only 6 days left to welcome the end of July, which will also mean that half of the summer vacation has passed.
In the past 25 days, after Sherin settled his family and friends, he first went to the old house of Gaunt. Although the mission failed, he also realized the new magic secrets. Then after visiting Andromeda, he successfully persuaded her to return to the family and successfully conquered Nymphadora as a new servant.
Then he invested in the acquisition of one-third of the shares of the Tutshill Tornado Team, and formally met with the head of the Carrow family and signed a closer alliance. On the same day, he also won over the Runcorn family and helped Mr. Runcorn control a new force of the Ministry of Magic.
Then he went to the Ministry of Magic to apply for the international use of the wand, and took the opportunity to control Percy Weasley with the Imperius Curse.
Finally, he met with Grindelwald, waited for precious information about the Death Cult, and obtained a promise to fight the Death Cult together.
From this point of view, it can be said that the harvest is full, and Xie Lin spent a very fulfilling first half of the summer vacation.
Let's turn the screen to other people and see how their summer vacation is going!
Harry has been trapped in 4 Privet Drive since the beginning of the summer vacation, and every day he lives a life out of touch with the magic world. His only entertainment is to hide at the window sill outside the living room, secretly eavesdropping on the news broadcast on TV every day, trying to find any clues of Voldemort's resurrection. However, the facts are not what people want. Most of the news is meaningless news such as workers' strikes, regional droughts, or budgies water skiing.
This makes Harry feel extremely distressed. As the first person to personally witness Voldemort's resurrection, he believes that he deserves a reward, rather than being abandoned alone in this life isolated from the magic world.
Ron and Hermione lived better than Harry. They lived at 12 Grimmauld Place. At least they could get together with other members of the Order of the Phoenix and know the changes in the situation outside. But other than that, their lives were no different from Harry's. They were immersed in boring cleaning work every day.
The Black family home had not been cleaned for more than ten years. All the corners inside were covered with thick dust and bred many pests. This made them feel powerless, as if they could not clean the whole house no matter how hard they tried.
The three of them did not realize that almost half of the summer vacation had passed, and they still did nothing and wasted their time.
Draco followed Sherin's advice and signed up for professional Quidditch training hosted by Puddlemere United shortly after the start of the summer vacation. For safety reasons, he used a pseudonym when signing up and drank the Polyjuice Potion in advance to pretend to be a Muggle to attend the training.
Pansy also participated in similar training, but she participated in the training camp of the Holyhead Harpy Team. Draco, the captain of Slytherin Quidditch, has already chosen her as the new chaser. In order to meet and achieve Draco's goal, Pansy is also fully committed to training, with a very hardworking attitude. Even the captain Gwenog thinks she has made a lot of progress.
With the return of two outstanding players, Adrian Puse and Terence Higgs, who were kicked out of the team by the previous captain, and the leadership of three old players, Graham Montague, Cassius Warrington and Draco, the new team only needs to find two new members - Pansy is one of them, and the other one that Draco likes is Steven Vasey, who is one year younger than him. With extremely strong arm strength, he is very suitable to be a batsman.
Of course, what Draco doesn't know is that Steven Vasey is the next captain who takes over in the original book, which shows his excellence.
Daphne, Astoria, Murray, and Luna all live in Greengrass Manor. Since the manor hired several experienced retired Aurors as guards, the four of them also asked them for their experience and skills in actual combat.
The four of them had no shortage of powerful magic secrets in the study plan that Schelling had arranged for them. Rather than mastering new magic, they needed to fill the gap caused by lack of practical experience, so since the summer vacation, the four of them had made obvious progress.
Schelling didn't know this, he only knew that he had never stopped moving towards becoming stronger, and that was enough.
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An abandoned old port in Aalborg, northern Denmark.
In the evening, there were not many people at the dock. Several Muggles seemed to have remembered something important and left quickly. However, some people stayed.
"It seems that Durmstrang's ship has the effect of Muggle Repelling Charm. These people should be Durmstrang's students."
Schelling looked at the remaining people. Most of them were in their teens, looking at the sea bored. Although Schelling was an international celebrity, he dressed very low-key. The hood on his cloak covered his platinum-colored hair, forehead and eyes, revealing only the part below his nose, so no one recognized him.
At this moment, somewhere in the Black Sea, the surface of the sea was boiling, as if something big was about to rise from under the sea. The sea was surging, and even from a distance, the waves quickly pushed to the seaside and violently beat on the beach.
Immediately afterwards, a large whirlpool suddenly appeared on the sea surface, with several long, dark masts suddenly piercing out from inside, followed by sails and rigging... Finally, the first half of the big ship was wrapped around. The majestic momentum suddenly jumped out of the sea and fell heavily on the sea, causing a large number of higher waves.
In the moonlight, the wet boat gangway seemed to be glittering.
This is exactly Demstrong's ghost ship.
The big ship pounded on the undulating water surface and began to sail towards the coast. A moment later, Shelin heard a loud plop, several anchors were thrown into the sea, and then another snap, a long wooden board was placed on the shore.
The people on the dock had excitement on their faces and stepped onto the wooden boards one after another. Schelling tightened his cloak and followed the steps of the others onto the ghost ship.
Muggle schools in Nordic usually start in mid-August, half a month earlier than Hogwarts, but because Demstrong's school spirit pays great attention to competition awareness, many students choose to stand out in the undercurrent of competition. Go back to school early and do self-study or make-up classes - that is, let alone the students have talent for the time being, this is a school where everyone has Hermione style!
On the deck were several people who seemed to be guiding students. They were all wearing thick fur cloaks, unable to see their faces, and wore fluffy gloves on their hands.
As soon as Schelling stepped onto the deck, someone came towards them.
As we got closer, Xie Lin saw his face clearly with the help of the faint light. This is a young man with a feminine face, and his cold temperament is very consistent with the ice and snow of Nordics. He has some dark brown and shoulder-length curly hair and thick brown eyebrows.
"Hello, sir, I am Kritov, one of the seventh graders, and the person in charge of recruiting freshmen today," he then frowned and said, "In the list and photos on my hand, There is no character like you, do you have any proof of identity?”
The magic power of Kritov is not bad. Maybe it is not as good as Eleanor who unbuttons his wand and opens his full firepower, but it is not much worse than Krum. Schelling understood his cautious attitude. After all, Demstrong's location is one of the biggest puzzles in the world's wizarding world. Every year, countless fools find information about where to dock the ghost ship. Trying to hide his identity and head to Dermstrong on a ghost ship.
"Hello, uh, it's not suitable for talking here. I have something for you to show." Xie Lin said sincerely.
Kritov looked at Schelling suspiciously, then winked at his two followers, then held the wand in his hand, and said to Schelling, "Then let's go to the room, there is no Others, but you have to walk in front of me, and you have to put your hands where I can see them."
Damn, this is simply treating Xie Lin as a suspect.
Shelin was not angry, chuckled, nodded in agreement, and entered a room in the direction he pointed.
Who knew that as soon as Xie Lin stepped into the room, a sharp wind sounded behind him - this guy attacked him!
Unfortunately, he met Xie Lin. In front of Xie Lin, who had a magical glimpse of Amaterasu, the success rate of sneak attacks from any direction was infinitely close to zero!
There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!
Xie Lin did not take out the wand at all. He turned sideways slightly and gently stretched out his hand to swing back. The red light shot from the other party from behind seemed to be broken into silk, and turned into nothingness in an instant.
Kritoff was stunned for a moment, then shouted loudly as if he was awakened, "There are intruders here, come and help!"
At this time, Schelling took off the hood and said with a slight dissatisfaction in his tone: "I am the VIP invited by Kakarov. Is Demstrong's reception so unreasonable? Isn't confirmed my identity yet? Just take the lead in sneak attacking?”
"Everyone who sneaks into the ghost ship says this - over the past few years, we have captured several relatives of the principal, from cousin, cousin to grandpa. You have nothing to say, why do we believe it? You?" a fat follower behind Kritov shouted.
For some reason, although the two faces clearly have no similarities, Sherryn just couldn't help but see the shadows of Gal and Crab in this follower.
Shelin suppressed the smile in his heart and took out the iron plate of the Demstrong school emblem that Kakarov gave him, "Here, you want evidence, this is the identity certificate that Kakarov gave me. I just said I want to show you privately, but I didn’t expect you to take the initiative suddenly.”
Kritov and his followers looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do in the current situation.
They naturally knew the existence of this iron plate of Demstrong's school emblem, and also knew that the characters with this certificate could enter and exit Demstrong freely, but they did not know how to identify the authenticity of this object, and they also went from I have never heard of Kakarov handing over this iron card to anyone.
"A bunch of useless things," a nice female voice came into the room along the sound of the wind. "I just went to the communication station to receive the latest instructions from the principal. It took only five minutes to get it. In this way, you can pick it up. The fact that the new students is being recruited is messed up. It seems that your position as a chief is really not worthy of its name. Looking back, I seem to have proposed a new round of chief selection competition to the principal."
"No! Never!" Kritov let out a heart-wrenching scream, "It took me countless efforts and five years to climb to this position. I can't lose it. ! Please, the beautiful Miss Shafana, an angel as beautiful as you will definitely not be so cruel, right?”
Shelin instantly learned the causes and consequences from the lowly comments from others.
Unlike Hogwarts's chief who was appointed by the principal and was a decision that others could not oppose, Demstrong adopted a cruel selection system—
Every student can earn points by exam results, extracurricular activities, Quidditch competitions, and completing tasks from professors or schools. The people with the highest points can obtain the resources provided by the school - such as the predecessor and Quidditch. Participation seats, even banned book area certificates, and qualifications for academic clubs privately founded by participating professors.
Of course, the most famous way to earn points is duel.
Demstrong's school duel is prevalent. On the most conspicuous wall in the castle lobby, there is a curtain showing the list of combat power lists, and the strength rankings calculated by the update of the duels are announced in real time. Therefore, Demstrong's duel club is also the largest and most popular club in the entire school.
The half-closed door was suddenly pushed open, and a cold breath came with the sound of high heels.
Shelin subconsciously turned her head and her eyes fell on the person who came. What caught her eye was a tall woman in a white robe. She seemed to be no older than Shelin in appearance. She was probably old and Nifadora Tangke It was almost the same, and the moonlight outside the door poured on her body, as if she was covered with a mysterious veil for her.
Her figure is long and elegant, and her well-tailed white robe outlines smooth lines. The silver-white hair and the snow-white and clear skin emitted a glimmer of light in the moonlight, which complemented her clear blue eyes like an ice lake.
"Enough." Her cold voice was low and clear, with a coldness that people dared not overcome, and with an irresistible majesty. The room suddenly fell silent, "Who can tell me what happened?"