Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 42 Christmas Attack

The time soon came to Christmas. Last Christmas Eve, Tom cooked half a table full of Chinese people, which made John very full.

So he woke up a little later in the morning, and now he is standing in front of the Christmas tree in his living room, under which there are so many presents that it seems to cover up the Christmas tree.

Picking up the top copy, I tore open the package and found a well-preserved but slightly old note inside. When I opened the cover, the beautiful handwriting came into view.

[Respect for Transfiguration - Minerva McGonagall]

This is an old notebook of Professor McGonagall when he was in school, and this gift surprised John.

Because he just flipped through it and found that apart from Professor McGonagall's slightly immature thoughts back then, there were also Professor McGonagall's current thoughts and notes, which had been immersed in Transfiguration for many years.

The value contained in this notebook is no less than that of Professor Snape.

Draw a protection circle on the cover of this notebook, and put it aside solemnly.

John picked up a gift again and opened it, only to find that it was still a notebook, but compared to Professor McGonagall's, this one looked weather-beaten.

After reading it, John also knew who sent this notebook.

This is Professor Flitwick's duel notes when he was young, which records a lot of his original duel thinking and failure summary.

At the same time, there are also a lot of skills and experiences in using magic, which have brought different inspirations to John.

And this book is not a copy made by the copying spell, it is the real original just like Professor McGonagall's book.

Do the same thing with Professor McGonagall's notes, carefully put them together with Professor McGonagall's notes.

The next gift was a small bag of plant seeds and a precious herbal cultivation manual, which was a gift from Professor Sprout, and the professor also left a message asking John to give Neville a copy of the manual. I am very optimistic about this Gryffindor introduced by John.

Picking up a gift again, he opened it and found that it was a gift box. John was really shocked after opening it.

Because in the velvet lining of the gift box, a small bottle of potion like flowing gold lies quietly in it.

Professor Snape... sent a bottle of Felicia?

Looking at the bottle of potion in the gift box, which could be said to be precious even in the wizarding world, John seemed to realize that he had underestimated his weight in Professor Snape's heart.

Thinking about it, Professor Snape really regarded him as his successor, and he was his favorite student.

Thinking of the photo he gave Professor Snape, John felt that he was a little too much.

What John didn't know was that in the old house on Spider Lane, Snape was sitting in the dark quietly looking at the photo in his hand, his empty eyes seemed to be lost in memory, and he kept repeating the word in his mouth.

"Lily..."

Above, a boy and a girl stand side by side, behind a huge willow tree whose branches are swaying in the wind.

The girl's green eyes are as bright as emeralds, her red hair is like the most beautiful morning glow, and her smile is as bright as a flower like a midsummer.

But the boy smiled introvertedly, except for the light in his black eyes, he seemed to be able to see the figure of the girl beside him.

They stood side by side, so close, as if time had never passed, and all the sorrow had not yet happened.

This is because John spent a lot of effort to get the photos of Lily and Snape when they were young. He used alchemy combined with the magic of Howl's world to create PS photos that belonged exclusively to the wizarding world. Before that, there was no such thing in the wizarding world. photo.

John thinks it's better to wait until the start of school to see Professor Snape's reaction, and then see if he should apologize.

Call Tom and ask him to find a new box to store the Felicia.

Then John started unwrapping other presents.

Hagrid sent him a unicorn horn again, and left a message stating that it was sent by the unicorn he had saved in the first place, in order to thank him for saving his life.

Dumbledore's gift was a large gift box of candy from Honeydukes's Candy Shop, which contained every kind of candy, including the pile of cockroaches that were used as prank props by others.

Harry and Ron's gifts were put together, a box of candy and a set of wizard chess.

According to the letter they sent with the gift, what Ron sent was a candy made by Mrs. Weasley himself, which looked a bit like nougat, but without peanuts, and it tasted milky and sweet ,very delicious.

As for wizard chess, it was because Ron was teaching Harry how to play wizard chess recently, and Harry thought it was interesting, so he also gave him a set, and wanted to play chess with him after school started.

John actually has no interest in playing chess. Of course, it's not that he can't play chess, but that with his current ability, he can completely defeat the strongest wizard chess player.

But for the gift of the two, John still likes it very much.

Neville gave John a bottle of white fresh essence, which should be the result of his own cultivation.

According to John's active arrangement according to his memory, Neville discovered his talent in herbal medicine in advance, and successfully joined Professor Sprout's club.

Hermione sent several alchemy books published in the Muggle world, namely "Seventy Books" and "Balance Book" written by Arab alchemist Abu Musa Jaber ibn Hayan in the 7th century AD. ", and "The Darkness of the Secret Law", "The Cultivation of Gold", and "The Catalog of Various Studies" that were born in the 10th century BC.

John briefly flipped through these alchemy works from centuries ago, and the more he looked at him, the weirder his face was, not because these books came from Muggle publishing houses, but because what was written in these books were all true skills, and a lot of knowledge appeared In the book Ancient Alchemy in the Hogwarts Library.

So this is another kind of hiding in the city?As far as he knew, Jabir was also a follower of the Assassins, so what was it?Wizard assassin?

From this point of view, John is still a retro faction. After all, many ancient wizards have powerful ancient magic in one hand, and force beyond ordinary people in the other hand.

Filch also gave John a gift, which was a copy of "Biography of Famous People" written by Rita Skeeter, which was said to sell for 10 Galleons.

Although he was very grateful to Filch for sending this gift at his expense, John was very disgusted with this notorious illegal Animagus, so this book was directly taken by John as a cushion.

In the end, there was only the mother's gift left. Unlike before, John carefully opened the package with anticipation. When he opened it, he found a suit of well-cut shirts and a letter inside.

Opening the wax seal and taking out the letter, John read it word by word, but the more he read, the more anger he felt.

"So that's it, the old bastard has an illegitimate child." John looked at the information in the letter that was said to be silently investigated. "It was sent to the United States. He is two years younger than me. Did he cheat so early?"

"Childhood sweetheart? Heh, why didn't his mother talk about marrying the other party when we got married? Quiet Mimi was kept outside as a concubine, right?"

After a long time, John calmed down after reading the letter. He burned the letter in his hand to fly ashes, and then took out the shirt that his mother made by himself.

Picking it up, John clearly saw a fire dragon embroidered with silver thread on the clothes, and a vivid little badger embroidered on the neckline.

After washing up, John couldn't wait to put this shirt on. With his perception, he could feel the strong connection between this shirt and himself, so he could feel the maternal love in this shirt.

The dissatisfaction from reading the letter just now disappeared, leaving only happiness in my heart.

Then John put away these gifts by category. After finishing his clothes, he stepped into the fireplace, grabbed a handful of floo, and shouted clearly:

"Diagon Alley"

The floo powder was sprinkled, and the green flame rose up, engulfing John's figure, and finally the flame was completely extinguished in a flash, and John also disappeared into the fireplace.

Upon emerging from the fireplace in Diagon Alley, John cast a Cleansing Charm on himself to remove the ashes from his body.

Leaving the room where the fireplace is located, I came to the streets of Diagon Alley, perhaps because of Christmas, exquisite Christmas decorations can be seen everywhere.

Just when John was about to go to the Magic Zoo, he wanted to buy some magical animal materials for alchemy experiments.

Originally, he didn't have to come, but he thought that Tom had a lot of things to do recently, and it wasn't a troublesome thing, so he chose to come in person.

Perhaps because of Christmas, Diagon Alley was almost deserted in the morning, but it felt quite different.

But the good times didn't last long. The intuition trained in military training made John feel that something was wrong, and the Erlian Mum Ninety-two Form lighted up slightly in red, and the detection technique started.

Soon after observation, John found that a target was following him about 200 meters away from him.

Confirming that the target was no longer a problem, John began to consciously walk down the path, away from the sparse crowd, and headed for an inaccessible location.

When John came to a deserted alley and passed a fork in the road, he heard a hoarse voice behind him.

"Piercing to the bone!"

In the next second, the defensive spell was launched, and the shield glowing with blue light blocked the magic, and the red dragon wand fell into John's palm from the system backpack almost simultaneously.

Then a spell that had never appeared in the wizarding world was uttered by John.

"Shadow Wolf seeks blood!"

A faint light flashed on the tip of the staff, and then under the sun, the shadow behind John suddenly began to surge, turning into a black mud.

Then, under the astonished gaze of the sneak attacker, three black wolves with blood-red eyes sprang out of the mud.

"Roar!"

The black wolves let out a bloodthirsty roar and attacked the guy who had just sneaked up on John.

It was a man in tattered wizard robes who looked ugly because of some magic. At this moment, he raised his wand in a panic to attack the attacking black wolf.

But when the magic hit one of the black wolves, the black wolf suddenly twisted, and then split into two under the man's desperate eyes.

Seeing this scene, the man wanted to run away, but before he could use Apparation to leave here, the black wolf suddenly threw him down, biting the lower half of his face.

One after another, the rest of the black wolves also rushed forward, biting off the magic wand in his hand, and biting the opponent's arm and calf tightly.

John walked slowly in front of the man, staring at the man with indifferent Long Tong, this kind of look is very familiar to the man, it is the look of indifference to life.

But isn't he a first-grade kid, according to his employer?How could there be such eyes.

It's a pity that no one can answer the man's question anymore. John knew what the man was after seeing the pattern on the man's left forearm.

Death Eaters.

Voldemort's henchmen, supporters and believers of the Dark Lord, they are characterized by the Dark Mark being branded on their left forearms.

John didn't need to think about who sent this thing to kill him. It was either those pure-blood families with pure-blood theory or Voldemort possessing Quirrell. They were not good things anyway.

For such rubbish, he didn't have the intention of interrogating, and let a black wolf bite off the other's neck.

(End of this chapter)