Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 14 The Curse of Distress
Looking at the three people who disappeared into the yard, the corners of John's mouth curled up. He had prepared a big gift package for that old bastard.

Just during that period of time, John had left a curse on him through the conductive connection with that cousin.

Although the curse cast at John's current level, for the magicians in Hal's world, the amulets they wear can be easily lifted.

But for wizards in the main world, this is a completely different magic system. This kind of curse that does not directly act on the human body, but achieves its effect through connection, is difficult to be noticed in the first place.

As long as his cousin returns to the family's manor and gets in touch with that old bastard, then this curse will exist in every part of the manor along the transmission between him and the manor, and every entry is harmful to him and his family. Anyone whose mother has evil thoughts will suffer from this curse.

"Bless my mother, evil thoughts will bite back, and hardship will last forever"

It can be seen from the words that the effect of this curse is only to make people sleepy. The more malicious they are towards them, the more sleepy they will be.

And the way to avoid the curse is also written on the surface. As long as he does not harbor ill will towards his mother Miranda, then the curse will not work.

At that time, it will depend on those guys, how long it takes to discover this, or lift the curse.

But now John doesn't care about these, he cares more about another thing.

Although the curse was successfully released by him just now, compared to releasing such a small curse in Hal's world, there is almost no consumption. The magic power consumed in the main world has almost reached a scale.

After careful perception through the Raven Staff, John had a rough guess about it.

If the two basic magic principles in Howl's world are simplified, the core of its magic system is actually one word, that is "connection".

Whether it is the connection between matter and concepts, between all things and the world, or between magic power and magicians, all supernatural powers are based on this foundation, and magicians use this connection to achieve various incredible magic.

If the world of Hal is the strict Professor McGonagall who treats everyone equally, the connection between everyone and the world is not weak.

Then the main world of Harry Potter is like Professor Snape, who only shows his preference for "Lily" who he cares about the most, and as for other people, he is a smelly and hard stone.

So even if someone like John was resurrected from the dead, he was just one of the common people in the main world, not comparable to wizards like Harry Potter and Dumbledore who have attracted the attention of the world.

If there is no system, he wants to rely on the transmission with the world to release magic, that is just a dream.

And with the help of the system, in the eyes of the main world, he changed from a passer-by to a Hannah Abbott-like existence. He could remember the name, but he would not pay too much attention to it.

There is conduction but not much, this is the current situation, so if you want to use this conduction connection to release magic, you need to consume more magic power.

John guessed that if he taught Harry the magic of Howl's world, with the initiative of the world and his conduction, he would grow into a powerful magician like adult Howl in a very short time.

And there is almost no consumption when the other party releases magic, because it is not he who uses the connection to mobilize the power of the world, but the world is actively cooperating with him.

This feels a lot like the "protagonist", but it's not actually the same.

He couldn't help thinking of a word, that is legendary value.

Countless people passed on the word of mouth and finally formed a legend. The wider the legend is spread and the more people know it, the higher the value of the legend will be.

Undoubtedly, Harry Potter, Dumbledore and others are all existences with high legend value. Whether it is the Boy Who Lived or the White Demon King, these are names that have spread widely.

John tentatively guessed that the strength of the conductive connection in the main world was related to the other party's legendary value in the wizarding world. The higher the legendary value, the stronger his conductive connection with this world.

This point can also be applied in the world of Howl, those famous powerful magicians all have existences relative to legends.

Even the notoriety of the Witch of the Wilderness has created another kind of legend and gained a fairly high legend value, isn't it?

John estimated that this is because the higher the legend value, then naturally your name will appear repeatedly in all things and in this world, thus further strengthening the conduction effect between you and the world.

For example, is it easier to attract traffic to an unknown person, or is it easier to attract traffic to a person who is known to the masses because of legends?
However, this is only his preliminary guess based on the current situation, and the specific situation needs further research.

For example, there will be a best experimental target in the second grade in the future - Gilderoy Lockhart.

Before being exposed as a liar, he estimated that Gilderoy Lockhart also had a fairly high legend value, so was his conductive connection with the world at that time very strong?

After all the lies constructed with the Oblivion Curse are exposed, will his legend value drop, and will his conductive connection with the world disappear?
However, these speculations are temporarily kept in John's mind. His primary goal now is to enter Hogwarts, related magic research, and it will not be too late to learn more magic knowledge related to the main world.

Put away the Raven staff in his hand and close the door again.

John walked slowly up to the study room on the second floor, and as he opened the door to enter, Momo, who had been obediently sitting on the chair listening to his words, immediately jumped off the chair and trotted away the chair behind the desk.

"Sit down, little master!"

John didn't refuse either, he walked to the chair and sat down naturally, then silently brought the refreshment and tea that he didn't know when to prepare, and placed them on the desk in front of him.

Naturally, he noticed as soon as he entered the room that, except for his desk, the rest of the room was tidied up.

He didn't point out the fact that the other party sat obediently on the chair when he heard that he was going upstairs. This can be regarded as his groping out during getting along with Tom. He can express his kindness to the maximum without making the house elf emotionally agitated, thus doing any harm. own business.

Mo Momo, who was about to do something, stretched out his hand, and John asked in a calm tone, "Momo, how is mother during this time?"

"Silently promise that the master can't talk to the little master." Momo showed pain and covered his mouth with both hands.

John naturally has a way of dealing with this.

"Is my mother having a bad day? Nod or shake her head" John asked, looking into silent eyes

Subconsciously, Momo moved his head. Seeing such a reaction, John didn't give Momo a chance to respond, and asked again.

"Has mother been placed in some remote room by the old bastard? Nod or shake her head"

"Did the old bastard do something sorry for my mother during this time? Nod or shake your head"

Like a continuous machine gun, John's questions kept being thrown out, taking advantage of the other party's characteristics of almost completely obeying the wizard, and did not give him time to think silently, so that he could only nod or shake his head subconsciously.

Realizing that he had given away too much information, John's questioning was interrupted with a silent scream.

Then he squatted down silently and curled up, while closing his eyes tightly, covered his ears with his hands, and kept chanting
"Momo will not answer, Momo will not answer!"

Looking at the silence like an ostrich in front of him, John could only smile helplessly. Although there were still some questions he didn't ask, he had already understood the basic situation.

Sure enough, as I thought, the Selwyn family was only a little more civilized than those medieval nobles, but it was still that rotten, viscous, dark thing in its bones.

This is also good, and I won't feel any guilt when I liquidate in the future.

Patting Momo's back, John said softly, "I won't ask any more questions. Don't you still want to take a picture of me? Don't make mother wait."

"Yes, yes, Momo still has tasks! Momo still needs to take pictures!"

So next, under John's arrangement, I silently took a lot of photos for John. After these photos were washed out, they could be moved with developing potion

In addition to the photos, John also wrote a letter and handed it to Mo Mo, asking the other party to take it back to his mother.

After a long time, until Tom came back from the Ministry of Magic, Momo, with reluctance for John, envy and displeasure for Tom, disapparated and disappeared into the room.

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1991. 7, 31

John, who had studied alchemy at home for nearly three months, walked out of the laboratory under Tom's reminder.

After a simple wash, change into a set of custom-made clothes from Mrs. Malkin's robe store.

Then, with the sound of Tom snapping his fingers, John and Tom disappeared into the room in a burst of transformation.

Charing Cross Road, Westminster, London, England, is located between a large bookstore and a record store, in a small and dilapidated Leaky Cauldron pub that has been cursed with Muggle confusion.

With a twist in the air, John and Tom appeared in front of everyone in the bar.

Immediately, John smelled the complex smell that permeated the air. This smell was a mixture of rot, sweat, food and many other complex smells.

The strongest smell among them came from a man with a purple turban on his head, who was sipping the wine in his glass.

He felt the slight trembling of the amethyst amulet on his wrist. This was one of the amulets he specially made in combination with alchemy in the past three months. The effect was to specifically detect whether there were evil spirits active nearby.

He stretched out his hand to press the amethyst amulet to stop its trembling. He didn't expect the amulet made for Voldemort's remnant soul to come in handy so soon.

It seems that Voldemort should be awake now, and since Quirrell is staying in the Leaky Cauldron, it is self-evident that the other party's purpose is to come for Harry Potter.

Calmly pretending to observe the Leaky Cauldron, the blue crystal amulet on John's other hand trembled just now, which meant that Voldemort was watching him.

John didn't want to have anything to do with Voldemort now, and that was after he had researched the means for the soul, so he walked directly towards the bar.

Standing behind the bar at the moment, Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, who was already bald, looked away when he saw John walking towards him.

As soon as John appeared, Tom secretly observed John while wiping his glass.

From the house elves around John, the clothes on his body, and his first reaction when he came here, he guessed that it was a little wizard from a pure-blood family, but he didn't know which one it belonged to.

No family crest was worn on his body, and although the red hair was a symbol of the Weasley family, it was obvious that the 'poor' Weasley family could not afford John's clothes.

And the other party's dark blue dragon eyes also denied this answer. It seems that none of the 28 families own such eyes. Could it be the pure blood family in France?

"I'm a freshman this year, I would like to ask how to get to Diagon Alley," John said

'Um!It must be from a pure-blood family out of twenty-eight,' Tom thought to himself.

There was no change on his face, and he said, "Come with me!"

(End of this chapter)