Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

After returning to England, Anduin found himself with a pile of things to deal with.

First and foremost, he had to prioritize the business orders, as he was now receiving trade contracts from multiple countries, and current production capacity couldn't handle it.

To this end, he spent over half a month expanding the underground factory, doubling the number of lathes, and immediately putting them into production.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Magic provided raw materials promptly, with various metals, furs, wood, and other materials being continuously transported to Silver Flash Trading Company. The Ministry even offered to assign a specialist to coordinate communication, essentially giving him an assistant and opening a green channel for him.

Seeing this, Anduin didn't stand on ceremony and directly requested Azariah. After learning that the Thunderbird had been dealt with, this guy became as docile as a quail.

Secondly, Minister Badano once again fulfilled her promise and nominated him for a Second Class Order of Merlin.

The reason it was a higher honor than the Third Class she had promised was mainly because, in addition to his academic contributions, he had brought more tangible benefits to the Ministry of Magic.

In fact, given his current international academic standing and his previous contributions to combating Death Eaters, awarding either a Second or Third Class Order of Merlin would have been acceptable.

This just goes to show that in this narrow-minded wizarding society, interpersonal relationships and vested interests have an even greater impact than in Muggle society. With Anduin's current connections and wealth, he already possesses a certain amount of influence in Britain.

Anduin's award ceremony was quite lively. Being so young and receiving the Order of Merlin was big news in the wizarding world, once again making him famous in the magical community, although he didn't care much about it.

...

On this day, a neatly dressed Anduin appeared in Godric's Hollow.

As he approached the monument in the valley, he once again saw the Potter family's statue. With a solemn expression, Anduin paused briefly in front of the statue before bypassing the monument and heading towards the church.

He wasn't here today to commemorate the Potter family.

Passing through the church in the valley, Anduin arrived at the cemetery behind it, relying on his memory to search for something.

Soon, he stopped in front of a tombstone, which read 'Gerard Stevens.' This was the Thunderbird's tombstone, the place he had given to Anduin, marking the location of all his belongings.

As for why the Thunderbird chose to put things in Godric's Hollow in England, his own explanation was...

Godric's Hollow was not only where Grindelwald and Dumbledore made their blood pact, but also the first stronghold established when the Sacred Twenty-Eight was formed. Therefore, Gerard had deep feelings for this place, perhaps this was also the tomb he left for his past self.

After arriving in front of the tombstone, Anduin first took out a signal jammer and turned it on, then took out the Thunderbird's wand and gently tapped the name on the tombstone, before softly saying in German, "For the Greater Good!"

After confirming that the wand and password used for the spell were correct, the grave behind the tombstone immediately emitted a rumbling sound, and then a crack appeared in the ground, revealing a wooden box more than a meter long.

Don't think Anduin opened the Thunderbird's secret treasure so easily. If anyone else tried, they could dig three feet into the ground and still not find the box, and if the wrong wand or password was used to try to open it, the tomb would not react in any way.

So the small opening in front of him was actually in another sub-space, and would disappear from this world once closed.

After confirming everything was correct, Anduin took out the box and placed a smaller box inside, containing the Thunderbird's ashes, which could be considered fulfilling Gerard's last wish.

After doing all this, Anduin closed the tomb and then focused his attention on the box in front of him.

The large box didn't have any anti-theft measures. Anduin gently tapped it with his wand to open it, and then saw what was inside.

The entire large box was stuffed full of items that were most important to Gerard, but most of them were personal items of great significance to him in his memory.

For example, a large stack of letters, including correspondence between him and Grindelwald, as well as the initial seven members of the Silver Spears. After roughly reading through them, Anduin was able to roughly figure out the names of those founders through the titles on the letters, although he still couldn't figure out exactly who was who.

In addition, there was not a single letter from Gerard to his adoptive father, 'Runewen Serpent,' in the entire box, which made Anduin, who wanted to collect more information, a little disappointed, but also showed how much the Thunderbird hated his leader.

In addition to the letters, there were also many magical photos, including many group photos, from which he could see the young Gerard, and even Grindelwald. Although Anduin didn't recognize the figures next to them, he still memorized all their faces, which might be helpful for future actions.

In addition, there were some small souvenirs in the box. He even saw a toy spinning top, which seemed to have special meaning for Gerard.

After a simple sorting, removing these extra, commemorative items, less than half of the items in the box were actually useful to Anduin.

However, after identifying these items, Anduin knew he had made a big profit this time.

First, there were several volumes of magical notes and notebooks in front of him, all of which contained the magic and dueling insights that Gerard had mastered over the decades. The notes detailed dozens of spells, as well as usage tips, precautions, and so on.

These included the Corrosive Curse and Blue Fiendfyre that Anduin had seen before. The Corrosive Curse was a black magic uniquely recorded within the Silver Spears, and even ordinary Silver Spear members could not reveal its incantation to outsiders. Blue Fiendfyre was Grindelwald's special skill, which the Thunderbird had learned from him, but because he was disappointed in Grindelwald in the later stages, he rarely used it. In the last ten years, he had only used it twice, both times on Anduin.

At the same time, Anduin also saw the Crimson Shield Charm that had saved Gerard's life many times. Of course, in the notes it was called 'Stevens's Insulating Shield,' which was actually Gerard's own creation.

This magic could form a 360° omnidirectional magical shield around the body, and it was extremely strong, and was very effective against all kinds of magical attacks. Except for the Unforgivable Curses, it could basically block all spells, and was a powerful guardian charm that surpassed the human-shaped Body-Bind Curse.

After seeing these spells with detailed annotations, Anduin nodded with satisfaction. There were at least a dozen new spells he didn't recognize, plus the Blue Fiendfyre and magical shield he had been coveting, all of which were now in his hands.

After putting away these notes, he also found a bottle of Felix Felicis and materials in it. Although the Thunderbird didn't like alchemy, he also knew the preciousness of alchemy materials.

Anduin actually found half a pound of Ulim steel and an ounce of refined mithril in the box, which was an unexpected gain, but after he opened the last box containing materials and identified the materials inside, his heartbeat couldn't help but quicken a little.

"This is... Leme alloy?" Anduin stared at the metal block of more than an ounce in surprise. Although he had never seen the real thing, he still recognized it immediately.

Anduin really didn't expect that the Thunderbird would have such a good thing in his hands. This rare alloy invented by the legendary alchemist Nicolas Leme was an even rarer treasure than refined mithril. He had only seen it once on the blueprint given by Professor Bones.

"With Leme alloy, wouldn't I be able to... make Mr. Scamander's suitcase?" After seeing the alloy in front of him, Anduin immediately recalled the scene when he met Newt.

At that time, Anduin would often go to the Scamander's house to study and research. Among them, when studying alchemy props, in addition to the travel kettle, Newt also showed him the magical suitcase several times.

Of course, this suitcase with huge storage space could not be given to him, but it was no problem for Anduin to study it, and Newt even generously gave Anduin the design drawings of the suitcase.

But when Anduin also got his wish and conducted a simple study of the suitcase, he found that he could not replicate this prop at his current level. It was not that the technology was so difficult, but that the production process required an alchemy material that he had never seen before.

It was Leme alloy.

And now with this material, it also means that he can make his own suitcase!

Suppressing the feeling that he wanted to study it now, Anduin took out the alloy and carefully put it away, and put away all the other things in the box, and quickly left the scene.

After retrieving the Thunderbird's collection, Anduin also had a deeper understanding of Gerard, which also made him more confident in playing the role of the Thunderbird.

Anduin scheduled the matter of cleaning up the Silver Spears club three months later. Fortunately, the Thunderbird had actually received half a year's worth of immortality potion before, and there were still about five months before the next time to receive the potion, so the time was still quite sufficient.

The reason for this arrangement was that he had to first deal with the trivial matters in the Silver Flash Trading Company, otherwise if the international trade was delayed, the Ministry of Magic would be the first to not let him go.

Secondly, in the next few months, Anduin will spend more time familiarizing himself with and learning Gerard's spells. After all, he will be the Thunderbird at that time. If he uses spells that he is not originally proficient in, it is easy to be suspected by others.

At the same time, the most important thing is that he is about to graduate from Hogwarts, so he has to attend the graduation ceremony and get his diploma before he can go out and have fun.