Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 237: The Guardian Button is selling well, a new discussion on Animagus, and the authority is upgraded again

Harry et al.

Very interested in fighting clubs.

Originally they didn't think how poor their combat experience was.

But during this trip to the manor, they discovered that there was a big gap between them and Lin Xia and Draco.

When they arrived at that strange manor, they could do nothing but watch silently and let Lin Xia and Draco make plans there.

Even someone as smart as Hermione couldn't offer any helpful suggestions, which was a bit frustrating for them.

No one wants to be the one who holds back.

Even their magic power is indeed inferior to that of these two.

Hermione came to the Gryffindor table, thought for a while, and said to Ron and Harry:

"Joining a fighting club is a good idea. I think we should not only join the club, but also do some special training privately."

Ron asked curiously, "What special training?"

Hermione said seriously: "It is a characteristic that focuses on oneself and strengthens one's own abilities."

She asked back: "Have you noticed that we are too dependent on Draco and Lin Xia?"

Ron said quickly, "No, I don't think Draco helped us at all, but Lin Xia did help us a lot.

We also learned a lot of alchemy knowledge from Lin Xia.

I’m not sure if this knowledge is useful, but I know it’s not something a normal little wizard can access.”

Hermione's brows relaxed: "So in order not to fall behind, we have to do some special training."

Harry agreed with Hermione's idea.

Since neither Ron nor Harry had any plans, Hermione decided to make one herself.

She emphasized in advance: "I have a feeling that we will be very busy after the special training."

Harry smiled and said, "Hermione, Ron and I are already prepared."

Ron muttered, "That's right. I don't know your personality. You either don't do it, or you do it seriously and with all your strength!"

When these three people reached a consensus.

Lin Xia also came to Professor McGonagall's office.

Professor McGonagall said straight to the point: "Your Guardian Buttons are very popular. It's hard to imagine how many have been sold.

In addition to Hogwarts, we have put your guardian buttons on sale in other magic academies through special channels, and they are all very popular.

In addition to the magic academy, your backstage guardian button production plan has also sold many copies."

Because Lin Xia only had the Hogwarts Outstanding Student Badge and the Alchemist Association Badge, she could only see the sales situation on these two platforms and had no idea about other places.

It can only be sold by Hogwarts for her.

On the Hogwarts side, they got the sales data before Lin Xia.

As for whether there will be misreporting or omissions in the data, this is unavoidable.

Everyone knows it tacitly.

Lin Xia knew very well that when sales were made through middlemen, the seller would only sell for the amount stated.

As for how much to give?
Well, it all depends on conscience.

Lin Xia asked curiously, "Professor, can I know how many copies have been sold elsewhere?"

A faint smile flashed across Professor McGonagall's serious face.

"According to what I understand, 5000 copies have been sold."

"Wow!" Lin Xia couldn't help but marvel at the sales data.

You should know that the recipe for the Guardian Button is only on the shelves for one week.

In such a short period of time, 5000 copies have been sold through various channels.

As the Guardian Button is distributed in various places or other countries, its production formula will be known to other wizards and then they will buy it.

This shows that these sales data will continue to grow.

As for how long the positive growth can last, Lin Xia can't say for sure.

Even Professor McGonagall couldn't make a judgment.

Professor McGonagall asked Lin Xia to come along on this trip, in addition to letting her know how popular the Guardian Button is.

I also want to tell her about the reward from Hogwarts.

Because of the button protection incident, the school decided to upgrade her authority again.

Professor McGonagall said, "The school checked your level of authority and found that you were only 0.4 points away from reaching 3.0 authority, so they gave you 0.4 points directly, bringing you to the intermediate level of authority."

Generally speaking.

No matter how well the work is done, only 0.2 points will be given.

Since becoming an excellent student, Lin Xia has solved many problems, which basically adds 0.2 or 0.1 points.

This time the school actually gave a score of 0.4, which shows that they are indeed very satisfied with the Guardian Button.

Lin Xia thought of the intermediate authority of 3.0.

According to her original authority, she could enjoy 8% discount on primary materials and 9% discount on intermediate materials.

But coming to the intermediate level of authority.

There is a 7% discount on primary materials and an 8% discount on intermediate materials. At the same time, more material exchange lists are available.

At the same time, in the past, one banned book could be read online every two months.

With the current intermediate level of authority, you can receive one book per month.

Every two months, you can get a physical copy of the banned book to read, whereas before it was only once every six months.

In addition, the laboratory cost at least another 3,000 gold galleons to renovate.

There are also various benefits, big and small, that were not available to those with previous basic permissions.

A wave of fat!

While thinking, Professor McGonagall on the opposite side said cryptically: "Many places are in urgent need of the products on this side. If you have relevant ideas, you might as well boldly do experiments.

If there are any materials you need, the school will get them for you."

Lin Xia raised her eyebrows, heard the underlying meaning, and asked back:

"Professor, does it include some rare materials that cannot be exchanged with my authority?"

Professor McGonagall said, "Of course, the amount of rare materials is limited, so we must produce some results as soon as possible."

Lin Xia must have made up her mind.

This is another welfare delivery!
If she didn't take advantage of this opportunity, she would feel sorry for the school's cultivation.

After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, Lin Xia did not leave, but continued to discuss Animagus with her.

Lin Xia’s idea was: “Professor, through reading many documents, I found that Animagus is different from real animals.

Even if a wizard maintains the Animagus form for a long time, his thinking will gradually be assimilated by animal nature.

But humans are not animals after all. As long as they can cast spells, they can eventually become human beings, no matter if it takes five years, ten years, or twenty years.

From the literature I have read, some wizards use their own Animagus for experiments.

He lived in beast form for twenty years, and was finally unsealed by his relatives, and he successfully returned to wizard form.

After a period of human life, all previous memories returned. "

Professor McGonagall listened with interest.

She enjoys discussing Transfiguration with others.

"So, what do you think?"

Lin Xia smiled and said, “My final thought is whether it is possible to artificially induce the Animagus form to change.

But I found this topic too difficult. At least for me now, it is the ultimate topic.

So I decided to take it step by step, starting with the easiest subject first.”

Professor McGonagall asked curiously: "For example?" Lin Xia: "For example, let's start with the Animagus that can detect changes in humans."

Professor McGonagall nodded and said with interest, “This is a very interesting topic, and it doesn’t seem to be of any help to the Animagus induced form.

But if you can detect it by some means, it means that you have a deep understanding of Animagus."

She thought for a moment and said, "If you need any help, just let me know. I'm happy to help you."

Lin Xia thought for a moment and said, "Professor, I really need your help with something.

I wonder if you could give me the contact information of the students you have taught over the years who have great potential in Transfiguration. I would like to write to them one by one to discuss Transfiguration with them. "

Professor McGonagall's brows relaxed and she nodded gently, "This is a very good method."

She waved her wand gently, and the automatic quill on the table floated up and danced gracefully.

Although she did not take the initiative to contact her students after graduation, those students would occasionally write to her.

She remembered the way of correspondence.

In the evening, Lin Xia returned to the golden wooden house.

After she got the contact information from Professor McGonagall, she didn't waste any time and used all ten automatic quills at full power.

Not only did she write down her regards for them and invite them to join in the discussion, she also asked about their lives lately.

With Lin Xia's superb thinking, it would be no problem at all to write ten letters with different contents in each letter.

After doing all this, she called the magic carrier pigeon in the dormitory.

Let a pigeon carry the letter to the eagle cage at Hogwarts, and let an owl deliver the letter.

I only have one owl, so I'm sure it will be too busy.

So Lin Xia prepared the reward in advance and asked a carrier pigeon to convey it on his behalf so that any owl who wanted to help could deliver it together.

The carrier pigeon pecked at the magic feed in Lin Xia's palm and flew away flapping its wings.

When Lin Xia returned to the table, there was already a line of words written in the diary on it.

[I heard the sound of birds flapping their wings. Lin Xia, were you writing a letter just now?]
Lin Xia snapped her fingers, letting the automatic feather pen do the work.

[Yes, I was discussing the Animagus issue with someone else]
Tom: [Animagus? The topics you study are really broad. I find that you never stop at a certain field. You are really philanthropic.

But why don't you talk to me about Animagus? To be honest, I have a lot of experience in the field of Transfiguration.]
Lin Xia: [I thought you would care more about the secret room]
Tom: [Yes, I care, but I care more about you, Lin Xia, my friend. You are the only light in my darkness.]
Lin Xia smiled gently.

Lin Xia: [Really? Then dear Tom, why don’t you give more help to your only light?
Don't you have a lot of insights into Animagus? Why don't you tell us about your findings?]
Tom: [Don't worry, let's talk about the Chamber of Secrets first, and the little wizard being petrified?]
Lin Xia: [Yes, several people were petrified. The situation is getting more and more serious. Hogwarts is about to face bankruptcy!]
She deliberately exaggerated and said that the point was to create an information gap.

When Tom heard the news, he was obviously excited and immediately wrote a long paragraph.

Lin Xia took a look and saw that everyone was complaining about why Hogwarts was doing nothing, and at the same time they also gave many solutions.

These methods are even more detailed than those mentioned last time.

It seems that Tom spent a lot of time thinking about the solution and how to improve it when he was alone.

Lin Xia: [I think your methods are all good, Tom.

But there is one thing you didn't take into consideration. The little wizards' magic power is not as good as you imagined. They have no way to implement your plan.

Perhaps, you can think about how to use lower magic power to deal with the basilisk in the secret room.]
After writing this paragraph, Lin Xia closed the diary without hesitation.

She felt that Tom's strength was returning.

It is not safe to ban the magic runes. Perhaps, she should learn newer magic runes.

The next day, their first class in the morning was Potions.

Everyone could clearly feel that Snape was not in a good mood.

But he never seemed to be in a good mood.

In this class alone, Snape roared and yelled a lot more often.

This sudden startle caused the young wizard to make more mistakes during the Potions class, resulting in several errors.

Later on, some of the little wizards even made medicines that exploded!
Snape quickly cast a defensive spell -

"Armor protection!"

Thanks to his magic, the explosion did not affect more little wizards.

Everyone finally made it to the end of Potions class.

When the bell rang, the little wizards immediately left the Potions classroom quickly, and even Lin Xia was no exception.

They went to the laboratory together.

In Hermione's private laboratory, the Polyjuice Potion seemed to be almost ready, so Hermione specially asked Lin Xia to go and take a look.

Ron whispered, "I heard that a quarrel broke out in the Slytherin common room last night.

It seems to be about the conflict between purebloods, half-bloods, and mudbloods.

Those people seemed to be debating, and some young wizards were so excited that they even took out their wands and pointed them at the students of the academy.

If Professor Snape hadn't arrived in time, a fight might have broken out."

Harry frowned: "Can a Slytherin student be so impulsive?"

He had thought that only Gryffindor wizards would fight during an argument.

Draco said with understanding: "This is not surprising. Pure-bloods, half-bloods and mudbloods are the most fundamental contradictions in the theory of aristocratic bloodline.

The bloodline theory is the belief of many Slytherin wizards. They are not just discussing the issue, but also engaging in a battle of faith. "

Hermione suddenly asked, "What about you, Draco? Are you also a supporter of the bloodline theory?"

Draco smiled calmly: "I used to be like that, but I am not like that now."

Hermione asked doubtfully, "No?"

Draco said calmly: "Hermione, what is more fascinating than bloodline is power, and everything is only for the greater good.

I don’t believe in blood, but I believe in a higher power.”

At this time, Hermione still didn't have a deep understanding of this sentence.

Lin Xia knew it, but she had no obligation to explain.

A group of people came to the laboratory.

Hermione, Draco and Lin Xia's laboratories are all separate.

It's just a merger of three laboratories to form a laboratory group, so that they can share the benefits of decoration expenses.

Hermione's laboratory is full of passion, with red elements everywhere.

But they are arranged neatly and not messy.

Lin Xia checked her polyjuice potion and shook her head for a long moment.

"No, although it looks like it's finished, Hermione, are you missing any ingredients?"

Hermione immediately opened the Potions book and read it word by word.

After a while, she covered her face with her hands and screamed, "Oh, I forgot to add the horn of the bicorn and the skin of the African boomslang!"

Found a workaround though.

But unfortunately, they did not have these two precious materials.

Lin Xia thought of something: "I went to Snape's office before and saw these two things in his office, both displayed in plain sight."

Ron took a breath and said, "Then we have to steal..."

Lin Xia interrupted: "No, no, no, maybe we can communicate with the professor first and apply to borrow it."

Harry objected strongly: "No way, Professor Snape won't give it to us, he hates us!"

Lin Xia said meaningfully: "It may not have been possible before, but now, it's really hard to say.

If Snape's approach doesn't work, Hermione can also redeem these items with points."

Hermione's eyes lit up, "Yes, I still have points to redeem."

If one person is full, the whole family will not be hungry.

Lin Xia received additional subsidies from Hogwarts, and the other people who participated in the experimental project also got some benefits to varying degrees.

(End of this chapter)