Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 1 The Boys of Gloucester

"Mr. Friesen, please come this way. Little Ike usually reads under the oak tree in the backyard at this time."

Ms. Julian smiled more and more kindly on her face.

"This child likes to read very much. Many times, no one will call him, and he will even forget to eat."

Mrs. Friesen frowned, with some doubts: "Is this child a little... I mean, too withdrawn?"

"No, no, Ms. Friesen." Julian quickly replied, "Little Ike is just a little quiet. In fact, he has a lot of friends, and the children in the yard like to play with him."

"Dean Julian." Mr. Friesen said flatly.As a partner in Gloucester's leading law firm, he knew exactly what the welfare chief was trying to hide.

"Maybe we should have a chat with the little Ike you are talking about first. After all, only face-to-face communication can get to know a person better, isn't it?"

"Of course..." Julian seemed a little embarrassed, "As you wish, Mr. and Madam Friesen."

The group of three came to the backyard of the Santa Maria Welfare Institute, and saw a young man sitting under a big oak tree, holding a book in his hand.The sun shone through the dense leaves of the oak tree and fell on the young man, very peaceful and serene.

"Little Ike, little Ike." Julian greeted, and Ike Stride raised his head when he heard the sound, calmly closed the book and stood up, walked a few steps in front of Julian, and saluted slightly.

"Good afternoon, Dean Julian. Good afternoon, Mr. and Madam."

"Hi, little Ike," Mrs. Friesen replied with a smile.Apparently, Little Ike made a good first impression on her.

The clothes on his body were a bit big, but they were clean, and the white shirt was well tucked into the trousers.The cuff of the right hand was rolled up, exposing a white arm.The trousers were also rolled up, just covering the ankles, and covered the light brown leather shoes.The light blue eyes are clear and charming, and the black hair is a bit messy, but not disturbing.

"What a handsome fellow," Mrs. Friesen smiled. "Isn't it, dear?"

Mr. Freeson nodded, stretched out his right hand, and said, "It's the first time we meet, you can call me Mr. Freeson, this is my wife, you can call her Mrs. Freeson."

"Hi, Mr. Friesen, Mrs. Friesen."

Ike reached out to shake hands with Mr. Friesen, and smiled at Mrs. Friesen who was beside him.

"I'm Ike, Ike Strider."

"Hello, Mr. Strayed." Mr. Friesen nodded, but Mrs. Friesen replied with a smile, "But I think you may have to change your name, how about Ike Friesen ?”

"Oh, so... have you decided?" Julian was very happy.

"Yeah, I don't think anyone would dislike a kid with that angelic smile?" Mrs. Friesen replied, laughing.

"Ike, I think you should understand what's going on now, yes, you're going to have a new family."

"Sorry." Ike still had a smile on his face, "Mr. Friesen, Mrs. Friesen, I actually think Santa Maria's life is very good, and I have no intention of changing to a new environment."

"Ms. Julian." Mr. Friesen's tone became flat again, with a long tail, "I think you need to give us an explanation."

"This..." Julian looked a little at a loss, "Sir, believe me, this kid is just reluctant to leave here, he will..."

"Dean." Ike interrupted Julian who wanted to explain, "I have no intention of leaving, isn't that what I said a long time ago?"

"In that case, please excuse me, Dean Julian." Mr. Friesen raised his hand to stop Julian, took Mrs. Friesen, nodded at Ike, turned and left.

"Wait, wait, Mr. Friesen..." Julian quickly chased after him, but Friesen's attitude was very firm, so he had to send the two of them away, and patted Ike on the head with a look of helplessness.

"Little Ike, tell me yourself, which couple of adopters are you rejecting?"

"As far as I can remember, this is the seventh pair." Ike lowered his head to avoid Julian's hand, his face still indifferent, "You know, after all, I have some..."

"Is it special? Child." Julian said, "But aren't you already able to control it?"

"Of course." Ike nodded. "But there is always a chance, isn't it? Who knows if things like five years ago will happen again. You know, I don't want to hurt others."

Julian hugged Ike in her arms, and slowly touched Ike's small head with her right hand: "Little Ike, you... hey, forget it, let me do it, I won't find you an adoptive family anymore .”

"Thank you, Dean Julian." Ike raised his head and showed a bright smile.

Julian also smiled, pinched Ike's face in revenge, patted his head again, and left helplessly.

"Don't forget about dinner time."

"I won't forget."

Ike watched Julian leave, sighed slightly, turned and sat back under the oak tree, raised his head slightly, and looked at the sunlight scattered among the leaves.With a thought, a few lines of words suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

Name: Ike Stride

Age: 11 years and 283 days

Title: Magician (Magic only blooms in a few people, you are one of them)

Oak Guardian (Oak will always guard you, of course other trees are the same)
Occlumency (the fog that protects your brain and hides your deepest secrets)
Julianne's favorite (yes, it's you, it's you, it's you)

Talent: Magic Affinity

Skill: Occlumency (custom version) (Your most intimate secret will not be known, if you do not speak out, as for the rest, it is up to you) (not upgradeable)

Knowledge mastery (compared with others, you will learn new knowledge faster, but that's all) (not upgradeable)

A few lines of words are the biggest secret of Ike's life.

Ike recalled the past memory when he was five years old, and at the same time brought the most serious crisis in the history of the Santa Maria Orphanage.

That night, Ike inexplicably had a nightmare, and scenes of happiness, sadness, excitement, or loss kept flashing in the dream.Accompanied by the last scene, an unknown creature suddenly sprang out from the side of the road, subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and the steering wheel shook suddenly...

Then Ike woke up.

What came into view was Dean Julia, who looked at him in horror, and a room full of flying things.

Lockers, shoes, six beds, and five sleeping children.

Ike was also blindfolded, subconsciously wanting to restore everything to its original state.

Fortunately, he did.

Even Ike didn't know exactly how he did it.

In the following years, with continuous experiments, Ike was finally able to control this telekinesis-like ability well, but he couldn't make everything in the house fly anymore.

Yes, far more than the ones in Ike's house flew that night.

Otherwise, Julian wouldn't have been so frightened that she would have been slowed down for half a month, so she wouldn't walk without drifting.

Dean Julia is a very good person. As the only witness that night, she did not have any emotions such as fear and fear towards Ike, but was full of worry.I often talk to Ike quietly and give him many inexplicable books.

For example, "Witches: Roots of Medieval Unrest", "Witches and the Black Death", "One Hundred Ways to Defeat Vampires", "The Devil is by Your Side", "The Bible", "Learning Magic from Scratch"...

Etc., etc.

Goodness, I don't know where Julianne got all this mess.

Of course, the end result is good. At the age of 10, Ike was already able to control this power.

After controlling the three stones to fly quickly in front of Julian, Julian found five adoptive families for Ike in just one year.

Of course, according to Julianne's words, her ability is limited and she cannot give Ike a good education. Ike deserves a better environment and better education.

This can be seen from the identities of these five families.

Lawyers, doctors, teachers, managers, researchers are all highly educated elites.

It's just that Ike doesn't want to leave the Santa Maria Orphanage. He firmly believes that no one is more tolerant and understanding than Julianne.

After all, he was "Julianne's favorite."

(End of this chapter)