Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 320 Letters from Friends and Birthday Gifts
After Lin Xia had left the Researchers Association.

The Researchers Association has already contacted the Ministry of Magic in each place, and solemnly recommended to them the inventions of Lin Xia, the official researcher who joined this year:
【Voice Guardian】!
At the same time, Lin Xia's invention also quietly appeared in the booklet where the researcher was looking up information.

This booklet records the research topics of all researchers. When some researchers are stuck in a dilemma, they will flip through this book and get some inspiration from it.

When necessary, you can also discuss previous research topics with other researchers, invite others to join your own topics, etc.

In short, the research atmosphere of the Researchers Association is very strong and the restrictions on researchers are also very loose.

So Skeleton Pun was not wrong about this.

This is a paradise for all researchers, research comes first!
It will take some time for Lin Xia's research topic to be discovered by researchers.

The Researchers Association will only inform the entire association if it discovers something special.

Although the topic that Lin Xia is researching has great promotional value in the magical world, its research value is far inferior to that of other people's research.

Therefore, the outside world discovered Lin Xia's topic faster than the people in the research association.

The Minister of Magic of each country received the message from the Researchers Association at the same time.

Dumbledore was dealing with heavy official business, and the slightly hot key gave him some time to rest.

He clicked on it to check, and his expression changed from tiredness to surprise, and then from surprise to thoughtfulness.

"Lin Xia, what an amazing little girl! She actually came up with this kind of thing. What on earth is going on in her head?"

Dumbledore liked to study magic and was keen to find the truth in magic, but when it came to research and invention, he didn't have much talent.

Even in his youth, he discovered the many uses of dragon's blood.

But that was only when I was young.

As he grew older, he found it difficult to muster enthusiasm for research, except for his study of spells.

Out of trust in Lin Xia, Dumbledore was the first to accept Lin Xia's achievements.

The British Ministry of Magic responded to the call of the Researchers' Association at the first opportunity and was willing to install "Voice Guardians" throughout the UK!
The Ministries of Magic in other countries have also heard of Lin Xia's reputation. After all, the "Magnetic Wand", "Natural Wand" and "Guardian Button" are all very practical.

Although I was skeptical whether there was really such a magical thing, I still accepted the experiment.

After a while, except for a few Ministries that did not respond promptly, almost all Ministries of Magic were willing to install [Voice Guardian]!
The Researchers' Association immediately issued a task, asking senior wizards to lay down sound guards in every territory under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic and collect the relevant gold Galleons on a monthly basis.

Even if the efficiency is very high, it will take about one to three months to lay it out throughout the entire magical territory.

Lin Xia didn't know all this.

She likes to be a hands-off boss. If she has to worry about every invention, she may not have time to study during the day.

She rode her magic car and soon arrived at the family manor.

As soon as Lin Xia arrived at the manor, Malfoy's house-elf Gaseppe appeared at the door and sincerely invited Lin Xia to visit Malfoy Manor.

Lin Xia also had some things to discuss with Draco, so she said, "I'll go over there tonight, Gaseppe, and you can bring back the gifts I bought for them."

These gifts were brought from Romania.

The place has a high temperature climate all year round and the business is not developed, but it has many local specialties.

What Lin Xia brought them were all artworks from there.

Those "fire leaves" that were not allowed to be sold were not reserved for them.

Just keep these things quietly for yourself, they will be used in experiments.

Entering the manor, a mechanical voice sounded automatically in the room: "Good afternoon, Master Lin Xia, do you need a cup of hot tea prepared for you?"

In the past, Lin Xia thought that this intelligent system was first invented by her father.

But after seeing the magic spirit of the Researchers Association, she felt deeply that this set of intelligence was already very crude.

Lin Xia declined the offer to make tea, sat on the sofa that was still as clean as new, and asked, "No need, did anyone send me a letter?"

"Yes." The mechanical voice listed the name of each sender as if they were his own family, while Lin Xia was also flipping through the envelopes.

Ever since that villain Fudge went back on his word, Lin Xia has no interest in interfering in the family business.

Anyway, her parents have authorized the Malfoy family, and she doesn't want to interfere. It's up to others to take it or not. There is a market for the rare items made by the Lin family.

So Lin Xia didn't read any envelopes related to business dealings, and only read letters from a few friends.

She opened one of the letters first.

The letter was stamped with the Gryffindor emblem, the lion was dyed red and sprinkled with a little gold powder.

There are only a few people who know her home address.

Hermione is a practical person and she certainly wouldn't be so flashy with the letter.

Lin Xia guessed that this should have been sent by Ron Weasley.

I opened the envelope and a birthday card and a brief fell out.

Lin Xia first looked at the briefing, which was a black and white newspaper from the Daily Prophet.

The people above were all moving around, looking a little anxious and uneasy, but in the end, they all had a smile on their faces.

Ministry of Magic employee wins huge prize

Arthur Weasley, Head of the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, has won the annual Daily Prophet's grand prize, Galleon Prize.

Mr. Weasley happily told the Daily Prophet: "We are going to use the money to spend the summer vacation in Egypt, where our eldest son Bill works as a curse breaker at Gringotts Bank."

The Weasleys will be in Egypt for a month...

Lin Xia looked at the photos of the event. The Weasley family was standing in front of a huge pyramid, waving vigorously towards the front.

She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

The Weasley family has six sons and one daughter. Although it cannot be seen from the black and white photos, their genes are very strong. They all have the same color and similar personalities.

And strictly speaking, the Weasley family is actually a pure-blood aristocracy.

It's just that their family was too poor, and Arthur's personality didn't allow him to get along with others, so even though he was a pure-blood, he was treated as a Muggle by the nobles.

In the photo, the tall, thin and clumsy Ron stood in the center with his pet mouse Scabbers on his shoulder. He hugged his sister Ginny and smiled brightly.

Lin Xia didn’t quite understand.

The Weasley family was so poor that even Ron had to work part-time while studying to earn enough living expenses.

As for the twins George and Fred, they started their business very early.

So after winning the lottery, why was their first reaction not to improve their lives, but to travel to Egypt with the whole family?

Many people believe that traveling is a game for the rich, and this is true.

Prices vary from region to region, and the cost of food and lodging alone is prohibitive. If you travel from a high-price region to a low-price region, you can still have fun, but it will also cost money.

But if you are traveling from a low-price area to a high-price area, the cost of traveling can be sky-high.

Maybe Egypt is poorer than Britain?
Or maybe the Weasleys have saved enough money.

Lin Xia turned to look at the birthday card Ron sent her.

[Dear Lin Xia:

Life is good!

I have been sending you letters this summer, but unfortunately I never got a reply from you. But this is normal, after all, you are in Romania.

I tried to send it to Romania, but my owl didn't want to go there, and neither did the other owls, unless I paid more. Forgive my lack of money, but I finally sent the letter to the manor.

I just realized when I was writing that you and Harry have the same birthday. This is incredible!
You look more mature than Harry (oh, this is not to belittle Harry).

By the time you read this letter, I may have returned from Egypt. My brother Bill took us to see all the ancient tombs, which were full of strange-looking corpses...

Oh, I can't believe Dad won the Daily Prophet jackpot, 700 Galleons! Most of it was spent on this trip...

I will be back a week before school starts, and then go to London to buy the things I need for school. I wonder if I will run into you in Diagon Alley?
——Ron

Lin Xia suddenly thought that it would be a good idea to use it for traveling, as it was only 700 gold galleons.

For example, the laboratory she set up in the school received an annual subsidy of 2,000 gold galleons from the school alone, and if it was not enough, she could apply for more from higher levels.

Seven hundred gold Galleons might be burned up in one experiment.

Lin Xia glanced at the photo.

Ron's older brother, Percy, is about to graduate from seventh grade. He looks very ambitious, and his hair is always neat and tidy even when he is traveling.

He wore a beautiful Turkish hat with the student union president's badge pinned on it.

When Percy was just a prefect of Gryffindor, he liked to meddle in other people's affairs.

Now that he's the president of the student union, I'm afraid that next time we meet, he'll be so arrogant that he'll be out of control.

Lin Xia turned and opened the birthday present Ron sent her. Under the gift was a note written by Ron.

[Lin Xia - This is a pocket looking glass. It's also the birthday present I gave Harry. I really can't think of any gifts for you, so I'll give you the same one.

Please forgive my laziness!

If there are suspicious people around, the mirror will light up and rotate. My brother Bill said it is a shoddy product sold to wizard tourists and is unreliable...

Happy birthday to you again!

——Ron

Lin Xia was very interested in this little gadget.

If it spots a suspicious person, it will light up and spin, which means that the object can detect some kind of malice and then issue a warning.

This is spiritual magic.

Mental magic is difficult to learn, not necessarily accurate, and very mysterious.

In Lin Xia's eyes, this is a bit like the local metaphysics version of the magic world.

Unfortunately, she has never been able to learn it, and she doesn't know if it is the restriction of this world on her. Only the compass of fate in her mind will not be affected when she is fortune-telling.

Then, she pulled out a second letter, this one from Hermione.

The gift Hermione gave her was a magic book which she thought was very interesting and which recorded many kinds of commonly used magic in life.

Lin Xia flipped through the book. It was very useful to her. It helped her get inspiration from commonly used magic and research new spells from it.

As the young wizard grows up, he has an extremely high sensitivity to magic, and can often make his wishes come true and create his own magic.

However, few young wizards have explored this phenomenon, and when they reach adulthood, the magic in their bodies tends to stabilize, so they cannot explore it even if they want to.

Lin Xia actually intended to use this special period of growth to create many new spells.

Hermione wished her a happy birthday as well.

[…I am currently in France. I wanted to send my owl to Romania to deliver a letter to you, but it refused. It seems that the climate in Romania is very bad and even owls are unwilling to go there.

You must have learned a lot of useful knowledge in such a difficult place, which makes me a little anxious...

And Ron, I buy the Daily Prophet every day, and seeing that their family won the jackpot, that's amazing!
His whole family went to Egypt for vacation, and I envied him very much. He was sure to learn a lot in Egypt.

I'm so jealous of him - the ancient Egyptian wizards were amazing.

But France has some interesting local history, and I've already done my thesis on the history of magic, in which I've written about what I've discovered here...

Ron said he was going to London for the last week of the summer vacation. Can you come? I really hope to see you there and hear about your trip to Romania.

If you can't, see you on the Hogwarts Express on September 1st!
——Greetings from Hermione]

Lin Xia looked at the time and thought with some regret: She is really too busy, otherwise she would be looking forward to going to London.

Because she was going to take the train tomorrow and they could meet on the train, she put the letter carefully and didn't plan to reply.

After getting herself ready, Lin Xia headed to Malfoy Manor.

After not seeing each other for two months, Draco has grown a lot taller. Having been trained as an heir, he looks quite mature.

After Narcissa left, Draco returned to his childish self and talked incessantly about what he had learned.

Lin Xia listened patiently.

Draco finished speaking, his eyes turned, and he whispered: "Lin Xia, I have already practiced the "Purple Gold Mysterious Gang Secret Record" you gave me to the late stage of foundation building."

Lin Xia's eyes flickered slightly, and she whispered, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

This speed is very fast.

At least in her previous world, even for a top genius, it would be difficult to advance from the early stage of foundation building to the late stage of foundation building within one or two years.

Because this technique consumes a lot of resources, and Lin Xia had already written down all the necessary resources to Draco in advance, she did not pay too much attention to it.

Now it seems that the Malfoy family is indeed wealthy.

If there are not enough resources, Draco's training will be affected, and it will manifest itself in his body.

But now Draco's face is still quite rosy and healthy.

Draco said, "It's okay. I feel great physically, and as I continue to practice, I feel my intelligence has also increased. I'm learning the heir course very quickly."

Lin Xia said, "This is an all-round improvement. Of course, your combat effectiveness will improve faster."

(End of this chapter)