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Chapter 4098 Chapter 4100 [Returning Home in Elegance]

Several senior students, including Thorfinn Rowle, Corban Yaxley and Rabastan Lestrange, often bullied younger students in the school corridors and cast curses on them.

Students often dare not speak out against their evil deeds.

Because Hogwarts' punishment for such evil behavior is not severe, at most it is just a few days of confinement, which is not painful at all. Not only does it fail to have a disciplinary effect, but it makes them do whatever they want.

In the original Harry Potter series, James Potter and Sirius Black often cast evil spells on classmates they disliked in the corridor, making their heads twice as big, and the punishment they received was just confinement.

They also once pulled off Snape's underwear in public. Although the book doesn't mention what punishment they received in the end, it was obviously not expulsion, because both of them graduated successfully.

In this case, even if the lower grade students complain to the school, the school will only punish them by putting them in solitary confinement. And when they are released from solitary confinement, they will retaliate against them.

In this case, it is naturally better to have less trouble than more, which makes these guys more rampant.

Now they have finally hit a wall.

After being punished by Xiang Nan, if they wanted to bully the lower grade students again, they had to first consider whether Xiang Nan was playing dumb. With this additional concern, they dared not bully others recklessly anymore.

In this way, the lower grade students would suffer less and be bullied less, and naturally they would all be grateful to Xiang Nan.

……

In late April, schools began their Easter holidays.

The Easter holiday lasts for half a month, and students can choose to go home or stay in school.

Xiang Nan and Lili both chose to go home.

Lily went home because she was only twelve years old. She had been away from home for three months since she returned to school in early January, so she naturally wanted to go home.

Xiang Nan went home to give his earnings to his parents. He started making medicine at the end of December, and in four months, he had earned 1,200 Galleons, or about 6,000 pounds.

This amount of money is enough for Tobias Snape to make a comeback. At least he can open a small shop, or buy two houses to rent out.

You have to know that in the 1970s, the purchasing power of 6,000 pounds was quite amazing. You could buy one or more houses in any city in the UK.

For example, in Lambeth, south London, a house cost only 5,000 pounds. By 2001, the price had risen to 1 million pounds. In 50 years, it has increased 200 times.

If you buy a house in Cokeworth, you can buy more houses, which is also a good option if you rent it out.

So the two of them boarded the Hogwarts Express back to London together.

Before going home, they all received notices from the school warning them not to use magic during the holidays.

Of course, this rule is mainly to prevent students from casting spells in front of Muggles, thus exposing the existence of the magical world. Therefore, children from wizarding families can cast magic at home during the holidays, and neither the school nor the Ministry of Magic can do anything about it.

Because schools and the Ministry of Magic supervise underage wizards mainly through "Tracing Threads". Tracing Threads can only detect when someone is casting a spell nearby, but it is unclear who is casting the spell.

Therefore, if a child is from a wizarding family, it will be considered that the parents cast spells.

Children from Muggle families are the only wizards in their family, so once they are tracked down by the system, they are likely to receive a warning letter, or even be expelled in serious cases.

……

"Sev, you are really hardworking. You are about to go home, but you are still reading." Lily said with a smile. Xiang Nan will stay at home for half a month this time, so he borrowed "Advanced Potions Guide" from Professor Horace Slughorn, "Analysis of Ancient Runes" from Professor Filius Flavy, "Transfiguration Today" from Professor Minerva McGonagall, and "Encyclopedia of Magical Plants" from Professor Pomona Sprout in advance, and planned to read them slowly after returning home.

Actually, he originally wanted to borrow books from the library, but Hogwarts has a rule that books in the library cannot be taken out of the school, so he could only borrow them from his professors.

Fortunately, all the professors at Hogwarts like him, so everyone is willing to lend him books. Xiang Nan is currently reading a book called "Analysis of Ancient Magic Runes".

"I'm used to it." Xiang Nan smiled, "Books are the ladder of human progress. If you want to climb higher and go further, you must improve yourself."

"That makes sense." Lily nodded. "Then where is your goal?"

"Goal? I don't have any." Xiang Nan was stunned and waved his hand. "Knowledge is infinite, but life is limited. It sounds stupid to pursue infinite knowledge with a limited life, but learning a little can bring a little joy. So I don't set limits for myself. I learn as much as I can and keep learning until I die."

"Sev, you have really high ideals," Lily said admiringly.

……

As we were talking, the train had already arrived in London.

Lily's parents Robin and Mary and her sister Petunia all came to the station to pick her up.

After Xiang Nan and his companion got off the car, they greeted everyone.

"Severus, how are you planning to get home? Do you want to take a ride with me?" Robin asked.

"No need, uncle. I'm going to the Leaky Cauldron and borrow the Floo to go home." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled.

Robin nodded, "Okay, then be careful, we have to change trains."

"Okay, goodbye uncle and aunt, goodbye Penny and Lily." Xiang Nan waved and smiled, then said goodbye to the Evans family and set off for the Leaky Cauldron.

Then he used the bar's Floo network to return to his home in an instant.

There was a flash of fire, and the scene in front of his eyes flashed. In an instant, Xiang Nan appeared in his home in Spider's Tail Alley.

"Severus~" Seeing her son return, Irene was naturally very happy, and a long-lost smile appeared on her face.

Tobias Snape looked at his son, finally nodded, and said lightly, "You're back. You didn't come back for Christmas, and I thought you didn't want this family anymore."

"Tobias, don't be like this..." Irene advised.

"Dad, it's not that I don't miss home, I have my reasons." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said.

"What's the reason?" Tobias asked puzzledly.

Xiang Nan didn't say anything more. He put the suitcase on the dining table and opened it.

In an instant, the dazzling golden light shocked both Irene Prince and Tobias Snape.

"This... this... this is..." Both of them were stunned in surprise.

"This is 1,200 gold Galleons," Xiang Nan explained, "worth 6,000 pounds."

"What?" Hearing him say this, Irene and Tobias were so shocked that they were speechless.