From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 71 The vacation is over
Happy holiday times always pass so quickly that before people have time to savor them, they have become yesterday's bubble.

For Ivy, the Christmas holiday was quite fulfilling. In addition to replying to the greeting cards from the Slytherin students, he wrote a paper on pneumatic spells, or communicated with Whitehorn through letters about the design of a new flying broom.

As for Tom Riddle's diary? Ivy was not interested in experimenting with dark magic in an unprotected mansion. In order to maintain his glorious image as a wizard, Ivy had paid a priceless wand. He would never use dark magic like "Avada Eats the Big Melon" to put himself on the Ministry of Magic's suspect list.

Unless he can bypass the Ministry of Magic's surveillance, of course not by "blending into wizard gathering places", but by some more clever method, such as releasing the "three unforgivable curses" through his eyes. For someone like Ivy who is accompanied by dark magic all day, it is really hard not to be able to use the "Avada Big Melon" to bite something.

As the saying goes, when you are too quiet, you want to move. During the days when he stayed at Malfoy Manor, Ivy's biggest exercise was to ride in circles in the air on his Nimbus 2001. He couldn't wait to find some unlucky guys in the Forbidden Forest to warm up his hands, preferably some magical animals that looked ugly, had a certain degree of danger and commercial value, and could provide a lot of experience points.

Yes, it is the giant acromantula. Thanks to Hagrid's careful care, these furry little cuties are almost overwhelming the ecosystem of the Forbidden Forest. More than a hundred years ago, Ivy fought against dark wizards in the Forbidden Forest. More than a hundred years later, Ivy is fighting against giant acromantula in the Forbidden Forest. How can this not be considered a kind of dedication to one's job?

As for Malfoy, since he got Ivy's ceramic dragon on Christmas Day, he spent the rest of the Christmas holidays sticking to the little dragon day and night.

One day, he was even nearly suffocated by the black magic nightcap that Charmander used to build his nest. If the ceramic Charmander hadn't set its nest on fire with its flaming dragon breath and curled Malfoy's hair, the manor would have been celebrating the seventh day of his death.

From then on, Malfoy loved chasing the ceramic fire dragon around the mansion and causing trouble for the house-elf Dobby everywhere. His favorite prank was to command the dragon to spit fire everywhere, and it had burned the curtains of at least three windows.

Malfoy finally abandoned the "Night Smoke" that he had suggested to Ivy, and instead gave the ceramic dragon a rather strange name - "Thuban", which sounds like "Thuban". According to him, the word stands for "Alpha Draconis", and because Malfoy's own name "Draco" refers to the Draco constellation, "Thuban" can be understood as "Draco's number one little brother".

This naming habit was obviously brought over from the Black family, whose names were almost all constellations. Sirius, needless to say, his brother Regulus referred to the first-magnitude star in Leo, and his cousin Bellatrix's name referred to a bright star in Orion.

As a member of the Black family, Narcissa brought this naming habit to the Malfoy family and named her son "Draco". Now her son has named his pet "Alpha Draconis", which can be regarded as a kind of inheritance.

When Ivy packed the last piece of luggage into the Grimoire of Destruction, an unexpected character appeared before him - the house-elf Dobby.

He had bat-like ears, a long, thin nose, and a pair of green eyes the size of tennis balls that were so bulging that they almost protruded from their sockets.

Although Ivy has always known of his existence, the gray-brown dwarf rarely appears in Malfoy Manor, because a good house-elf will not let his presence be felt by the host, let alone in front of guests.

Ivy guessed that Lucius had specifically told Dobby not to show up in front of him. For a wizard family that claimed to be pure-blood nobles, it was undoubtedly rude to let a dirty house-elf appear in front of guests. But Ivy felt that they were even more rude by letting Dobby dress so dirty and messy. Wouldn't they feel disgusted when eating food made by house-elfs? At least they should let Dobby change his pillowcase, right?

"Dobby says hello..." The house-elf twisted his fingers nervously together, hardly daring to look up at Ivy, "Mr. Harry Potter's friend..."

"Harry Potter's friend?" Ivy narrowed her eyes. "You read my letter?"

Since Ivy sent out the Audio-Technica Quill Pen, he has received several apologetic letters from Hogwarts, which were sent by Harry and Ron who were obsessed with the Mirror of Erised. In the letters, they expressed in very sincere words that they would definitely give Ivy a return gift next Christmas.

Ivy particularly remembered Ron's letter, in which he used a long list of unfamiliar words to express that the quill would save his remaining six and a half years at Hogwarts - from the endless homework assigned by the professors.

"No! Dobby didn't mean it!" Dobby screamed in pain, kneeling on the floor and banging his head against the ground. "While helping you clean up your room, Dobby accidentally saw the quill on the table that was automatically writing letters... Dobby couldn't control his curiosity! Dobby took a look and saw the name of the great 'Harry Potter' at a glance!"

The thumping sound of Dobby's head hitting the floor suddenly stopped because Ivy released the human immobilization spell that had always been in her eyes on him.

In the wizarding world, house elves like Dobby and goblins in Gringotts are all humanoid creatures, so the Human Hold spell can work on them. However, if facing the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, Ivy must use the 5th ring Monster Hold spell, because they refuse to share the identity of "human" with creatures such as humans, hags, witches, and vampires.

"Okay, stop it." Ivy used telekinesis to control Dobby to get up from the ground. "I forgive you, Dobby."

"But... Dobby made a huge mistake..." His tennis ball-like green eyes were filled with tears of guilt, but his body was controlled by Ivy's magic, so he couldn't wipe them with the dirty pillowcase on his body.

"Come on, I'm in a hurry to go to school, just say whatever you want to say." Ivy waved her hand impatiently. House elves are so servile that it's difficult to communicate with them normally. Compared with Dobby and the house elves in the castle, Ivy is more accustomed to Dicko, the house elf that Professor Weasley borrowed from him more than a hundred years ago.

Although the two were from different colleges, Professor Weasley, as the vice-president, still selflessly helped Ivy a lot. Perhaps he looked at Ron, the young boy from the Weasley family, differently, and partly wanted to repay Professor Weasley.

"Mr. Harry Potter's friend... Dobby hopes you can help bring the gift to him..."

(End of this chapter)