Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 264: The best fortune reappears, waiting for the flowers to bloom
Lin Xia went to see Professor McGonagall again.

Naturally, I came here for the permission to read banned books.

Professor McGonagall thought carefully for a long time and did not agree to Lin Xia's request on the spot.

After Lin Xia made the request, she used her authority to retrieve the traces of Lin Xia's use of the key over the past few days.

Mag discovered that she had not only used up all the spots for reading banned books in physical form, but also used up all four spots for reading banned books online.

Reading banned books online does not mean that there is no danger, it is just not as harmful as physical banned books.

If Lin Xia’s physique had not been judged to be completely resistant to the evil god’s whispers, it would have been registered on the secret key.

Otherwise, considering how often she read banned books online, Hogwarts would definitely have to intervene and test her.

In fact, if Lin Xia read banned books online again within a short period of time, she would be dragged by others to undergo a comprehensive test.

Test whether she has been disturbed by the evil god's whispering and whether she has been completely corrupted and sealed.

Lin Xia also knew that her behavior was hasty and would arouse suspicion among the professors.

But her most urgent task at the moment is to increase her knowledge and elevate her realm to the Xuandian realm as soon as possible.

She couldn't think of any other way.

Professor McGonagall thought for a long time and said, "Lin Xia, you are of the Eastern Warlock bloodline, and you are currently undergoing bloodline awakening. Hogwarts will definitely help you through this difficult time.

It’s just that we don’t know much about Eastern sorcerers, so I need to do some more research and have a meeting with other professors to discuss it.”

Mag said solemnly, "Lin Xia, you are excellent, one of the best students I have ever taught.

If possible, I would also like to agree to it immediately. I understand your anxiety and I will handle this matter for you as soon as possible. "

Lin Xia felt that Professor McGonagall was still worried about something, but she couldn't find the reason.

Maybe he felt that the excuse she used was not very good?
But how could she find a better excuse than that of an Eastern warlock?

Just when Lin Xia was about to say something, the destiny compass in her mind suddenly started to turn and stopped at the "fortune-seeking" column.

After a while, three different roads appeared in front of Lin Xia.

Lin Xia just glanced at it and said without hesitation: "Okay, Professor McGonagall, I will wait for your reply."

After Lin Xia went out, she recalled the signature she had just glanced at.

[Medium Sign]: Argue with Professor McGonagall, emphasize the importance of the Eastern Warlock to yourself, and that the dragon blood in your body is boiling. You need to accumulate enough knowledge and turn it into power.

Professor McGonagall sensed your urgency, and in the subsequent meeting, she excluded dissidents and allowed you to read the banned books again, but you could only read one book at most.

But because there has never been such a precedent before, your share of banned books for the next four months was taken away at the meeting as compensation for your emergency expenses.

At the same time, Dumbledore will also pay attention to you.

[China-Kyrgyzstan lottery]: Wait for the opportunity, keep an eye on Mikel in these three days and follow his actions.

He is making a deal with the evil god, planning a leak from the restricted area to disrupt the peaceful magnetic field of Hogwarts.

[Best Fortune]: You don’t have to do anything, just wait for the flowers to bloom. After three days, stay in the forbidden book area and read forbidden books. You will get everything you want.

In the destiny compass, the "fortune-seeking" column is considered a relatively special prediction.

It's too explicit, revealing enough, and also identifies the best choices.

Just like the almost superstitious belief of Chinese students in "three short and one long, choose the longest one", whenever there is a message about asking for fortune, they will definitely blindly choose the best fortune.

If you don't have a very good lot, then choose a slightly better lot.

If your luck is bad, then it’s not a question of whether to choose or not, but to find ways to avoid it.

There is no need to think about things like "everything has its limits", "after adversity comes good times", or "extreme bad luck is extreme good luck".

Reality is not fiction. Fiction requires logic, but reality does not.

It often presents the final scene in a dramatic way, but unsurprisingly develops in a direction that everyone can guess.

So Lin Xia chose the [best fortune] approach without hesitation.

Speaking of which, the compass of destiny and the scales of fate are different.

The destiny compass is itself the result of the knowledge she learned in her previous life.

But after coming to the wizarding world, she lost her ability to predict and turned into a compass that would pop up at certain specific times to give her warnings.

There are good and bad things about this.

The downside is that it is not flexible enough, and she herself cannot control when the famous compass will turn, which is full of uncertainty.

But there are also many advantages, and those few advantages are enough to cover all the disadvantages.

That is when she can count on her own safety.

In her previous life, she would never be able to calculate anything related to herself.

As for why such a change occurred, Lin Xia was not quite sure.

Maybe it's just like she can't come into this world with her original spirit, and she has to reincarnate and find a new body.

All the knowledge about divination in her mind was assimilated by this world according to another rule.

After Lin Xia left, Professor McGonagall thought for a long time and decided to contact Sprout first. She had to inform other professors first.

……

"What do you think?"

Mag contacted Sprout and told him Lin Xia's request, and Sprout asked her back.

Mag hesitated and said carefully: "I want to help her, but I find it too difficult. I probably can't help her."

Sprout couldn't help but look at Lin Xia several times, then smiled.

"McGreg, it seems like you really like Lin Xia. I rarely saw hesitation on your face before."

Mag turned a deaf ear to her teasing, "She is a student of your college, you want to push her more than I do."

Sprout nodded and said, “Yes, I would like to push her, and I will support her in the next meeting, but I am not sure if it will pass.

You know, there are a lot of old-fashioned professors in school who don't want to break the rules for a student.

After all, Lin Xia has come into contact with too few professors, and we don’t have much say in voting.”

Sprout thought for a moment and said, “If we want to vote, we can allow Lin Xia to read the physical banned book again.

First we have to convince someone, that's Snape.

He is the most stubborn of the stubborn. If we can impress Snape, then we don't have to worry about others."

Mag asked hesitantly, "What are you going to do?"

Sprout shook his head and said, "No, as professors, it is not appropriate for us to interfere in this matter. I can only reveal this information to Lin Xia and let Lin Xia take action on her own."

After talking to Sprout.

Mag thought about it and decided to contact someone.

That person was Dumbledore.

She would not contact him unless it was something important, because Dumbledore was very busy with affairs in the Ministry of Magic.

Dumbledore had mentioned to her more than once that she should put aside her school affairs and go to the Ministry of Magic to assist him.

The Ministry of Magic was in need of outstanding wizards. Although he could mobilize wizards from Hogwarts to serve him, Hogwarts was ultimately a place for teaching and educating people.

Not every professor is available to accept his transfer order.

McGonagall never went to the Ministry of Magic after all.

She prefers the school atmosphere.

"McGreg, what's the matter that makes you so embarrassed? You were in a daze when you contacted me."

McGonagall came back to her senses and said solemnly, "Principal Dumbledore, I want to report a student to you.

That student needs the help of Hogwarts, she is very outstanding..."

She originally thought that she could use Dumbledore as a breakthrough point.

As long as Dumbledore nods, Lin Xia will definitely be able to enter the restricted area again.

After Dumbledore finished listening, his answer was very subtle.

His eyes, as blue as the sky, were as wise as ever, but due to the unstable space on his side, his voice was not very clear.

It can even be said to be intermittent and ethereal.

But Professor McGonagall accurately translated what Dumbledore said in her mind -

“McGonagall, from what you described, I also admire this little witch, but the restricted book area has been very turbulent recently, and I have a feeling that something big is going to happen in the near future.

Just now, I have decided to enter the restricted books area in the next few days, and decided to stabilize this turbulent space. Maybe I can catch some bugs hiding in the shadows.

I know the awakening of the Eastern Warlock's bloodline is very important, but believe me, these few days are not a good time to enter the restricted book area.

If the child hasn’t made it to the final step, I would advise her to wait.”

Mag was rarely silent.

After a while, she said, "I can feel that the child has reached the final stage, just one step away from success, and she may not be able to wait any longer.

If I let her wait this time, I don’t know how many years it will take for her to find another chance next time.”

Although the breakthrough of a wizard is different from that of a warlock, the general direction is similar.

They all have to find a suitable time, act according to their heart on a whim, and then make an all-round breakthrough.

Once you miss that opportunity, it may take several years to find it again.

There are still many people who take it even for decades.

Dumbledore's voice was disembodied, still intimate but without texture, and it came again in fits and starts.

"I'm so sorry, but why not leave this opportunity to fate?

I will not interfere in this matter, as long as she can win the vote and enter the restricted section."

After hanging up with Dumbledore, McGonagall sighed again.

She just had no hope for Lin Xia, so she thought of starting with Dumbledore.

It seems that this time we really have to leave it to fate to decide.

That evening, Lin Xia received a message from Professor McGonagall, asking her to go and persuade Professor Snape first.

If Ron was around, he would definitely collapse and cover his face.

"You actually want to convince Snape? That gloomy guy with greasy hair, who always looks at people with his slanted eyes like a venomous snake - Professor Snape?!"

"No, I can't do that, absolutely!!"

This time, Lin Xia's opinion rarely agreed with Ron's.

Coincidentally, she also thought she couldn't do it.

With the hint of a good fortune, she was not in a hurry to find a way to convince Professor Snape.

Lin Xia opened the diary and continued talking to Tom.

The two of them tacitly agreed not to mention the topic of their last communication, which was the question "Tom, how can you gain my trust?"

Perhaps, when Lin Xia raised this question, it became a false proposition, just like Schrödinger's cat.

Trust is a very subjective concept.

If you trust someone very much, you will still trust him even if that person betrays you again and again.

But if you don't trust that person, you will think there is something wrong with him even if he does something slightly wrong, or even if he doesn't do anything wrong.

Before he makes a mistake, he will always oscillate between the two states of [making a mistake] or [not making a mistake].

Without certain conditions, it is a fantasy to talk about trust.

Lin Xia knew it, and Tom knew it too.

So they all stopped talking about it.

Tom still communicates with Lin Xia about daily matters, and keeps praising her for being proud to have her as a friend.

As he was speaking, Tom suddenly changed the subject.

[Lin Xia, what have you been doing recently? I feel your aura has become stronger again]
Lin Xia: [Doing some small research]
Tom: I'm happy to be involved in these studies. Why don't you ask me to deduce formulas and theorems anymore?

I remember you said before that you are very interested in alchemy. I happen to know a few magic runes related to alchemy. Do you want me to teach you? ]
After dealing with Lin Xia for a long time, Tom has also become quite good at it.

Without waiting for Lin Xia to answer, it threw out one of the magic runes, just wanting to continue the conversation.

With Lin Xia's current sensitivity to magic runes, she easily recognized this magic rune -

It means scorching, hot, and hot.

If it were before, Lin Xia might still be very interested.

But since she had already sacrificed the Philosopher's Stone, she was not so eager for the precious magic runes.

Before, she couldn't understand the magic words no matter how hard she tried, but now, for her, it was as easy as waving her hand.

The importance is no longer equal.

But Tom didn't know about this, and he still wanted to throw out a magic word to get some information from Lin Xia.

Lin Xia: [Tom, thank you for your kindness, but I have learned the magic rune you gave me]
Tom immediately threw out another rune.

Lin Xia recognized it. It meant "fire", which was a very basic magic word.

Lin Xia: [I also know this magic word]
Tom felt a deep sense of crisis.

Lin Xia's progress is so fast!

It knew that Lin Xia was not lying. If she didn't know, she would definitely try every means to trick her into believing it, but she didn't.

After realizing that Lin Xia was not very interested in magic runes, Tom immediately changed his route.

Tom: [I like doing research. What topic are you working on recently? Let me know. I want to join in!]
Lin Xia thought that it was not appropriate to allow it to research the redevelopment and utilization of products related to Guardian Magic Rune.

She would actually be at a disadvantage if she taught Tom this knowledge.

So Lin Xia wrote these words.

Lin Xia: [Great! We recently developed a camouflage product that can disguise ourselves as various beastmen. I was just wondering how to improve it!]
Tom: [...Orcs?]
Why disguise yourself as an orc?
Have wizarding tastes become that weird?
(End of this chapter)