Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Hermione found a quiet table in the bookstore, opened the book and started reading.

Hermione was shocked to find that this was a spell book, and it discussed all about guardian magic!
On the first page, it says "The Curse of Loyalty and Faithfulness".

Function: Hide secrets in the souls of living people. Only the person who keeps the secret can leak the information. Others cannot perceive the protected target.

Limitation: When the Secret Keeper dies, the secret is lost forever.

Hermione turned to the second page and her eyes lit up. It recorded another spell.

【Virtual Image Curtain】

Function: A layer of false reality projection is covered on the surface of a specific area (such as a building or an object). Outsiders can only see preset ordinary scenes (such as dilapidated ruins or empty rooms). Only those who meet the "blood bond" or "specific memory resonance" can penetrate the illusion.

Limitations: Maintaining the illusion requires a regular sacrifice of the caster's happy memories. If these memories are exhausted, the caster will permanently lose the ability to feel joy.

【Heart Key Resonance】

Function: Convert confidential information into soul code that can only be deciphered by "emotional sync". The code will only appear on the parchment when the guardian and the protected feel strong concern or love at the same time.

If a third party forcibly uses Legilimency to read the ciphertext, the text will turn into a poisonous snake that bites back at the intruder's mind, causing mental damage.

Limitations: If one party is not emotionally ready, the ciphertext will be lost forever, and there is only one chance to decipher it. If one of the guardian and the protected dies, the ciphertext will disappear.

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These are all magics that hide secrets, involving protection, loyalty, transmitting information, etc.

Hermione first looked at the "Fidelius Charm". Without a wand in her hand, it was difficult to cast it to see the effect. She could only take a pencil and practice it over and over again.

While waving, Hermione found that the magic power in her body was being mobilized repeatedly. The moment it was accidentally mobilized, the pencil she used as a wand quickly disappeared.

The spell failed!

Hermione immediately looked around and found that they were all reading with their heads down and no one was looking at her.

Hermione stuck out her tongue and stood there waiting for a while, but she never received a ticket from the Ministry of Magic.

She hesitated for a moment, "Could it be because I didn't use a wand, so the trace couldn't track where the magic was used, and the magic fluctuation I just caused was very small, so the Ministry of Magic didn't notice it?"

With this guess in mind, Hermione continued to learn the "Fidelius Charm".

She failed three times in a row and lost three pencils.

Finally, I waited until the bookstore closed before leaving and returning home.

This time, she continued to practice the "Loyalty Spell" and put aside other study plans.

The practice went on till late at night and Hermione felt so sleepy that she had to go to bed.

While she was asleep, she didn't notice that the hands of her golden pocket watch began to move backwards.

It's another early morning.

"Hermione, Hermione!" Mrs. Granger woke up her dear daughter.

"Hurry up and get up, Hermione. Why did you sleep so late? Didn't you say you were going to the bookstore to study today?"

Hermione said subconsciously: "Mom, I just studied in the bookstore all day yesterday and went to bed very late."

Mrs. Granger raised her eyebrows: "Hermione, you must have been sleepy. You stayed at home to study yesterday."

Hermione: "How is that possible? I clearly went to the bookstore!"

Mrs. Granger: "My memory is correct. You were at home helping us look after the store yesterday!"

Hermione: "You're talking about the day before yesterday, right?"

Mrs. Granger said with certainty, "It was yesterday."

Hermione frowned and got up. She looked at the calendar and was startled. "This is yesterday's date. Mom, didn't you tear off the calendar?"

Mrs. Granger raised her hand and touched her forehead, but she didn't have a fever.

"I think you are really sleepy. It's today!"

Hermione didn't believe it, so she quickly ran out after washing up and looked at other people's calendars, but everyone told her that today was "yesterday".

Hermione's eyes widened and she looked down at the golden pocket watch in her hand.

Did she unconsciously turn the pocket watch yesterday and go back to the past?

But that’s not right. If I go back to the past, where is “her” from the past?

Hermione didn't know what to do, so she could only go to the bookstore first and hang the golden pocket watch around her neck.

Since no one turns it, the time should return to normal tomorrow, right?

She had been learning the "Loyalty Mantra" for a whole day, and practiced it until late at night just like "yesterday", but this time she did not fall asleep, but stayed awake until dawn.

During this process, Hermione did not notice any problems with the speed of time flow.

Without her mother's urging, Hermione got up as soon as the sun rose and brushed her teeth and washed her face.

She thought to herself: Today's time should finally return to normal, right?
However, when she finished washing up and went downstairs, she looked up at the calendar hanging on the first floor and was stunned. The calendar was still on "yesterday".

That was Thursday.

According to the normal flow of time, she should have arrived on Saturday today.

Hermione couldn't help but ask, "Mom, didn't you tear off the calendar yesterday?"

Mrs. Granger shook her head. "I tore it up!"

Hermione swallowed a few times and asked, "Mom, I'm a little sleepy. Can you tell me what I was doing yesterday?"

Mrs. Granger looked at Hermione lovingly, "You stayed with us yesterday and helped us look after the store. We were so busy yesterday, and you were our little assistant!"

Hermione: ...

Hermione asked persistently, "But Mom, why do I remember going to the library yesterday?"

Mrs. Granger smiled and said, "You mean the day before yesterday? You went to the library the day before yesterday and stayed at home to help yesterday."

Hermione: ...

She was shocked, but she had to accept one thing——

She seemed to be stuck on Thursday forever.

Hermione subconsciously looked at the golden pocket watch hanging around her neck. One thing she was sure of was that on the previous Thursdays, she had always kept the golden pocket watch in her pocket or schoolbag, not hanging it around her neck. Only yesterday did she choose to hang it around her neck.

When I woke up today, although the time was still Thursday, the position of the golden pocket watch had changed.

That could only mean one thing: she was stuck on Thursday forever, and it was the golden pocket watch that was causing all this trouble!

Hermione frowned, her expression kept changing, she hesitated and thought for a long time, and finally decided to ignore the matter for the time being, and make good use of the indefinitely recurring Thursdays.

She wanted to use all the extra time to learn the hidden spells recorded in the magic book that suddenly appeared.
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At the same time, Mikel is undergoing combat assessment for outstanding students at Hogwarts.

The person who took him to take the test this time was an Auror from the Ministry of Magic, not a professor from Hogwarts.

Mikel had inquired about the assessment process for outstanding students. It might be led by professors, or the Ministry of Magic might send people to conduct the assessment. Among them, the Ministry of Magic sent more people to conduct the assessment.

Because once you become an outstanding student at Hogwarts, you can enjoy many special treatments.

Even adult wizards outside are envious of such treatment. Every year, many wizards want to join Hogwarts and become professors. A large number of them come for the excellent welfare of Hogwarts.

Therefore, in order to prevent Hogwarts from showing favoritism and turning the qualifications of outstanding students into an internal exchange of interests, general assessments are conducted under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic.

Unless the examination for outstanding students is extremely dangerous, the Ministry of Magic will send professors from Hogwarts to supervise it, just in case.

Mikel originally wanted to get a place as an outstanding research student in the school, but with the emergence of Lin Xia, a rising star in the research field, the internal review of outstanding research students became stricter.

Even if it does not reach the level of being able to publish a paper, the content of the research should be universal enough to make people see its universality at a glance, which is the so-called potential.

Mikel always thought that his idea of ​​"changing the wand into a sword" was very clever, and that some wizards would definitely like it, but as soon as this research content was handed over to Professor McGonagall, it was ruthlessly rejected.

He was unwilling to give up, so he studied privately for another month or two, and created a "magic sword". He quietly evaluated all the relevant data and handed it back to Professor McGonagall.

This time, Professor McGonagall finally met with him and first encouraged his enthusiasm and ideas for research, which was quite clever in some ways.

But unfortunately, his ideas did not conform to the mainstream ideas of the wizarding world. They suggested that he start from the existing size of the wand and then make more powerful improvements to the wand, or add more abilities to the wand.

When Mikel heard this, he thought, doesn't this mean they want him to study the same thing that Lin Xia is studying?

Then he definitely won’t do it!
Lin Xia has already studied this type of research. No matter how much he studies it, it will only be icing on the cake. He will never reach the same reputation as Lin Xia, nor will he be able to reach her position.

Lin Xia has made many contributions to the magical world through his research. He was awarded the Wizengamot Third Class Medal and became a member of the Wizengamot.

If he wanted to be as powerful as Lin Xia, he could only avoid the topic of magic wands and start with other objects.

Only in this way will others shift their attention from Lin Xia to her.

But for the moment, Mikel couldn't decide which one to study, so he took part in the assessment for outstanding students in combat type first.

It won’t be too late to do research after he passes the exam to become an outstanding student of the combat type.

So when Hogwarts was on holiday, Mikel left early and did not catch up with the battle in Hogsmeade village.

Because he was still under assessment and was cut off from all outside news, he had no idea that such a big thing had happened in Hogsmeade village.

Now, the assessment has reached a critical moment. Mikel has found out where the pollutants are hiding and is waiting to strike for the victory!

"What do you think of this outstanding student reserve at Hogwarts?"

The Auror who was observing secretly asked another Auror.

These two Aurors had only been Aurors for three years and were unable to participate in the battle at Hogsmeade, nor did they learn any news from it.

A serious-looking Auror said, "I feel his ability is quite good, and the attack spells he casts are very powerful."

He paused and whispered, "In fact, I think he has the potential to learn black magic. The power of his attack spells is very strong. If he can turn it into black magic, he will definitely be more powerful than those dark wizards."

Another Auror quickly said, "The Ministry of Magic has not yet reached a conclusion on whether to include dark magic in the regular casting of spells, so it's better not to say this."

The Ministry of Magic generally does not restrict what spells Aurors learn, but only forces Aurors to learn certain spells that they must master.

Aurors can learn both conventional magic and dark magic through the Restricted Section.

As we all know, the power of dark magic is stronger than conventional magic, so recently some people in the Ministry of Magic have been proposing to include individual dark magic spells as regular spells, which can increase the combat capabilities of the Aurors.

But there is a drawback to using black magic. When using it, it is easy to be disturbed by the evil god's whispering, so this part of the Auror will be more dangerous.

Auror is a high-risk profession in the first place, and if they are asked to learn such high-risk spells, it will be easier for Auror to become corrupt wizards.

The stakes were so high that every time someone proposed something it was rejected.

However, the wizarding world has been getting more and more chaotic recently, and someone has proposed letting Aurors learn the dark arts. This time, everyone discussed it for a long time and it was not quickly rejected.

While the two Aurors were discussing, Mikel had already locked down the hiding place of the pollutant.

The assessment he received was not difficult, but in terms of intensity, it was far inferior to the assessment that Lin Xia and Draco had participated in.

But the test was extremely difficult, so many wizards participated in it, and Lin Xia and Draco's safety was guaranteed.

The difficulty of Mikel's test was relatively low, which resulted in only Mikel taking action throughout the entire process, while the other two Aurors just watched from the sidelines.

It has been five days since Mikel came to this deserted, sandy place, and finally found something unusual about it.

After arriving at this place, the two Aurors told him that there used to be a village here, but it was covered by yellow sand, causing everyone in the village to leave. The village became deserted and then was invaded by the yellow sand.

A few years later, a powerful wizard passed by this place and found that the evil god's whispering content was very high here, so this place was listed as a "medium-risk" area.

The Ministry of Magic originally wanted to send someone to deal with the evil god's whispering here, and just happened to give the person to Mikel to solve.

If this place were the Ministry of Magic, they would only need to send an Auror and it would be resolved in one day.

Since Mikel wants to be an outstanding student at Hogwarts, his potential must be better than that of an Auror, and his ability should be equivalent to that of an Auror who has just joined.

Mikel had just walked into the detection range of the infected object when suddenly, the long-silent system sounded in his mind.

"A high level of contaminants has been detected. Do you want to activate defense?"

Mikel was stunned. Wait, high level?
Something is wrong. Isn't this a low-level pollutant? If it is a high-level one, why would we have to wait for him to solve it?

Mikel's body immediately stiffened and he stood still.

He wanted to retreat, but found that he had entered the lock range of the pollutant. Once he retreated, the huge sense of danger hanging over his head would fall.

Mikel immediately broke out in a cold sweat. He was not sure how long his system could last!

He wanted to take a gamble, but quickly rejected it, no, he couldn't gamble!
The system is his last trump card. Why should he consume the system's energy? And if he runs away, he will just be leaving the problem to others.

If we all have to consume it eventually, why not try our best to solve the problem of high-level pollutants?

Mikel began to communicate with the system in his mind. (End of this chapter)