From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 163 Looking Forward to the New School Year

"By the way, Lucius." Ivy stopped the Malfoy family head who was about to leave and threw him a document. "This is the patent document of the pneumatic spell sent by Devlin Whitehorn and the equity transfer instructions of the Light Wheel Company. You will help me manage this industry in the future."

"Thank you for your trust, Lord Doom." Lucius was stunned for a moment, then immediately bent down and bowed.

Although Devlin Whitehorn was the founder and largest shareholder of the Nimbus Corporation, after raising funds several times to expand production capacity, the shares he still held were no longer considered absolute control. The shares held by Ivy and the shares held by the Malfoy family were enough to overturn Devlin Whitehorn's position as a major shareholder.

This is like giving a sweet treat before doing anything. The Malfoy family will play a very important role in Ivy's plan, so there must be no room for error.

Lucius' wife, Narcissa Malfoy, was a daughter of the Black family before marrying into the Malfoy family. Her two elder sisters were Andromeda Tonks and Bellatrix Lestrange.

One of them was a loyal follower of Voldemort. Unwilling to accept the fact that the Dark Lord had fallen, she teamed up with her husband Rodolphus Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. to capture the Aurors Longbottom and his wife, and used the Cruciatus Curse to cause them indelible damage.

The other was expelled from the family because she married a Muggle-born wizard. Their daughter Nymphadora Tonks has graduated from Hogwarts, and Ivy still remembers her excellent pyrotechnics. If I remember correctly, she is now trying to pass the Auror training of the Ministry of Magic and become an important force in Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix in the future.

The three daughters of the Black family each chose their own path in life, but accidentally stepped into the power struggle between the centrists, the reformists and the radicals. It must be said that fate really played a joke on the Black family. If we count Regulus Black, who sacrificed his life to replace Voldemort's Horcrux, Sirius Black, who spent 12 years in Azkaban, and the love-hate relationship between these cousins, the story of this ancient family is enough for HBO to shoot a seven-season family ethics TV series.

The kinship behind Narcissa Malfoy was like a large net, and Ivy believed it would net him a good harvest. At least, the Hufflepuff Cup hidden in the Lestrange family vault was already in Ivy's pocket.

All I need is an excuse to visit my sister, and Ivy can meet Voldemort's old lover imprisoned in Azkaban through Narcissa Malfoy. In this way, the secret hidden in her mind will no longer be a secret, and the golden cup will be within her reach.

But Azkaban was also a place with a lot of tangled threads. Ivy felt that it would be a waste to go there just to find clues about the golden cup. How to arrange the Death Eaters imprisoned there and Harry Potter's godfather was the part that Ivy should think about the most.

But it was still early. Anyway, the main event of the 1992-1993 school year, the secret room, had been solved by Ivy in advance, so he had a whole year to plan his actions.

Fighting with Dumbledore for Voldemort's Horcruxes was only a not particularly important part. What was more important was Ivy's overall plan for his future career.

Ivy made a list and found that she still didn't have much free time during her second year at Hogwarts.

——Second year to-do list——

1. Raising a dragon, Nobelta will enter a period of rapid growth this year and can no longer be kept underground.

2. Find a time to relocate the basilisk hiding in the Chamber of Secrets, and disclose part of the matter to Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic, and find an opportunity to clear Hagrid's suspicion of being the heir to the Chamber of Secrets.

3. Continue copying the restricted area of Hogwarts library.

4. Deal with the OWLs exam. Considering that I have chosen as many easy courses as possible, this won't be too difficult. 5. Cultivate Cassandra. She is the second DND professional in this world and the best experiment to figure out the relationship between the contract master and the master.

6. Think about how to arrange Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew (Scabbers), and the Death Eaters in Azkaban. This will be a great gift for Voldemort who is about to return. Sirius is related to Slytherin's locket, and Bella in Azkaban is related to the gold cup. You must be careful - you may be able to get one or two heirlooms from Voldemort's Horcruxes, or one or two specialties, or at least experience points.

7. Crack the ancient ritual of Ravenclaw’s Diadem. As an ancient item, my use of it is still too rudimentary. Its potential is far more than just a +4 intelligence crown.

8. If Nicolas Flamel died during this year, his legacy and alchemy books would be enough to study for a long time.

PS: If he is not dead, then wait until next year.

9. Add a teleportation array to the secret room on the map. This 5th-level spell is the same as the one in Mordenkainen's private chamber. If you continue to cast it for a year, it will become a permanent effect. If I really use the 7th-level spell to teleport to the Kingdom Sky, I must have an anchor point to return to.

PS: Maybe Strixhaven is a good place, after all, it is a high-level magic school. And my profession as a dazzling warlock can also be regarded as an apprentice of the Purely Academy.

10. Don't get involved with Defense Against the Dark Arts!!! No matter how annoying Lockhart is, try not to kill him, or Dumbledore will have an excuse to make me a professor for another year.

11. Write letters to Fleur and send Christmas presents to friends (including Dumbledore and Lucius).

12. Apparition test. Since I can take part in OWLs, the Apparition test is of course not a problem. I hope this spell is not too difficult. I am quite good at short-range Flash, and the principles of the two should not be much different.

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Ivy stopped writing and silently closed the Destruction Grimoire. Just thinking about it casually, he had already written down a dozen to-do items, which were enough to fill the entire school year. If something unexpected happened again, he would probably be in a state of panic again.

Ever since learning magic, Ivy has felt that time is running out. No wonder so many people want to live forever...

Ivy sighed, reopened the Destruction Grimoire, and took out a small exquisite cage from it, which contained the Phantom of the Opera captured in the basement of the Garnier Opera House. Although the Soul Cage spell could only last for no more than 8 hours, Ivy found that to deal with some souls that were unwilling to go to the afterlife, there was no need to make the cage so advanced, as long as it was ensured that it would not escape.

There are no outer planes in the world of Harry Potter, and the afterlife is not as attractive to souls as imagined. To deal with soul fragments like those in Voldemort's Horcruxes, or characters like the Phantom of the Opera who are ghosts, Ivy does not need to consume a 6th-level spell slot to cast Soul Cage. He only needs to draw on the knowledge of this spell that prevents the soul from escaping.

The Phantom of the Opera is already the third soul Ivy has captured. If this continues, Ivy might become a master of necromancy.

(End of this chapter)