Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 83 Badge, Approval

Wade took note of McGee's warning, but it was not something he needed to think about for the time being.

He used to practice potions in the potions classroom when it was free, and was probably seen by Slytherin students a few times. But they didn't know that since discovering the Room of Requirement, Wade rarely went there.

As for who those people are, Wade naturally knows it.

He decided to leave them alone for a few days, but not for too long - if it took too long, those Slytherins might choose to give up.

After class on Thursday, Wade went to the Astronomy Tower to see Professor Murray as usual, and unexpectedly met a few seventh-grade students on the way. They were much taller, but they all looked dejected, which made them look shorter for some reason.

A girl was saying to the person next to her: "I want to kill Jennifer! She told me before that the alchemy course was very interesting and Professor Murray's requirements were not high - is this not high?"

"Professor Murray was really easy to talk to before! Remember? When we were in sixth grade." Another student sighed and said, "It's just that the professor accepted a new student this year, and suddenly he doesn't like us - he used to like me very much."

The girl in front of me said angrily, "You're teaching yourself runes in the first grade? That's crazy! If we weren't all in school, I would have thought it was a lie!"

One student lamented: "Alas...why doesn't he spend more time on Quidditch?"

"Has any of you ever studied the Book of Friends?" a boy suddenly asked.

"I tried."

"It's hard."

“There’s no way to crack it.”

"It's easy to use the Transfiguration Spell to generate heat or display characters, but to display complex text or even pictures on a fragile material like parchment, and to ignore the distance in space, is a bit..."

The boy was talking nonstop when someone poked him in the arm, and his voice stopped abruptly.

At the corner of the corridor, several people suddenly met Wade.

The two sides looked at each other. Seeing Weed Grey, who was still like a child, and thinking about what they had just said, they were all very embarrassed. After a moment of silence, they nodded stiffly and passed by.

After walking a long distance, the voice was heard again.

"—that's Weed Grey?"

"Yes."

"——Looks... quite pretty."

"Ah."

“…He probably didn’t hear it, right?”

"—heard it, I suppose."

"Ahhhhh... why did you say that?! Can't you just lie to me for a second?"

"Stop shaking... I want to die right now too... Really."

……

"Huh?" Professor Murray looked at Wade and asked doubtfully, "Are you a little different today?"

Wade smiled and asked, "Professor, what do you think is different about me?" "It seems that there are indeed changes... Hmm..." Professor Murray touched his chin and looked at Wade carefully. After a long while, he said uncertainly, "It seems... I have become more beautiful than before? But it's not the effect of the beauty potion..."

Vader smiled and took off a badge from his chest.

Suddenly, the visual sense of fair and flawless skin with a faint glow disappeared. Even though his facial features were still delicate and his looks were still handsome, he was no longer as radiant as before, making people involuntarily focus their attention on him.

"Oh?"

Professor Murray took the badge in his hand and examined it with great interest. Naturally, there was no anti-detection spell cast on the work that Wade showed to the professor.

"Luminous Charm... Reflection Charm... and Solidification..." Professor Murray looked at Wade with a smile in his eyes: "You used light?"

"Yes." Wade said, "As you know, I take photos a lot recently. In the process, I found that the core of photography lies in the use of light. Proper use of light can cover facial flaws, make people look thinner, highlight the three-dimensional sense of facial contours, and make people look better. So I made this soft light badge, which can produce just the right amount of light to reflect onto the wearer, making them look more... dazzling."

In short, it is a wizard version of the beauty filter.

"You always have wonderful ideas that amaze me." Professor Murray praised: "Many people have to drink beauty potion to make the effect last for 20 minutes, but you can achieve it with a small badge - how long is the shelf life of this thing?"

"About ten days," said Wade.

"That's not bad." Professor Murray didn't take such a small thing too seriously, and said casually: "Some silly young girls will like it - are you going to let Marchionne's magic workshop still produce and sell it?"

"Yes." Weed took out the application to go to Hogsmeade Village from his pocket and said frankly, "Actually, I came here today to ask the professor for permission to go to Hogsmeade on Saturday. Regarding the modification of the Book of Friends and the production of the Soft Light Badge, I need to meet with Mr. Marchionne to discuss in detail."

"Just for this?" Professor Murray was a little unconvinced.

During this time, he got to know Wade very well. Given Wade's personality, he would never specifically ask for his permission for issues that could be resolved through correspondence.

"Uh... Actually, I want to meet someone else." Wade was a little embarrassed. "You know I'm in school, and many things are not convenient. My father is not suitable to deal with wizards frequently. I'm worried that he will be in danger. So I found an agent - I plan to meet him this Saturday."

"Agent?" Professor Murray shook his head disapprovingly. "An unreliable agent is more dangerous than no agent at all. Who are you looking for? Do you know him before? Or is he related to your parents?"

"I don't know him." Wade said honestly, "I asked my father to place an advertisement in the newspaper, and he wrote a job application letter. After meeting him, my father thought he was a gentle and reliable person, so he chose him as the agent - his name is Remus Lupin."

Wade knew that he didn't need to explain to his parents why he trusted a stranger - they would choose to believe him without any excuses, and that was how it had been since childhood. But he should have a suitable reason to explain this to Professor Murray, Dumbledore, and other people in the wizarding world.

So Wade reversed the cause and effect a little bit - it wasn't that he posted a job ad targeting someone, but that someone saw the ad and applied for a job, so they were hired.

"Remus Lupin?" Professor Murray frowned slightly, his expression seemed a little melancholy and full of memories.

"Do you know him?" Wade asked curiously.

"Well." Professor Murray lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "He and his three friends were once the celebrities of Hogwarts. They made a lot of big news when they were in school. Few people didn't know them. It's a pity..."

"--pity?"

"Someone died, someone became a traitor, that's all - there are many such things in wartime, there's nothing much to say." Professor Murray changed the subject: "You said you made an appointment to meet him on Saturday?"

"Yes."

"I can approve it." Professor Murray crossed his fingers and said seriously, "But I have to be present too."

(End of this chapter)