Marvel's Hogwarts Wizard

Chapter 144 The Invisible Thestral (First Update)

Taking a small boat across the Black Lake to Hogwarts Castle is a tradition only for first-year students; normally, young wizards travel in an automatic carriage to start school.

Right now, Jerry, Hermione, and several other young wizards are riding in an automatically moving carriage from Hogsmeade Station to the entrance of Hogwarts Castle.

However, while the carriage might appear to be moving automatically to other young wizards, Jerry saw not nothing in front of it, but rather a magical creature pulling it.

Jerry certainly knew what this magical creature was, because he had even specifically looked up information about it in the library.

It is a branch of the Pegasus family, a magical creature with an xxx-level rating—Thestral.

Thestrals are all emaciated, with dragon-like faces and bat-like wings. Only those who have witnessed and understood death can see their existence.

Therefore, Jerry, who has died once and has killed many of his men, can clearly see them.

Jerry has always been quite interested in Thestrals, mainly because they are currently the fastest mounts in the entire wizarding world.

It was even much faster than the best flying broomstick that would come later, the "Firebolt".

The journey from Hogwarts to London by Hogwarts Express takes most of the day, but by Thestral it takes only a short time.

Moreover, it has a location-finding ability similar to an owl, except that an owl can accurately locate a person's location simply by stating their name.

Thestrals can pinpoint a place's location accurately as long as you name it, even if they've never been there before—it's magical.

However, Thestrals are very rare in the wizarding world and are extremely difficult to tame. Hogwarts is able to have so many Thestrals to pull the carriage thanks to Hagrid, the master of magical creatures.

He successfully tamed the first Thestrals and then helped them reproduce and grow to their current size.

In fact, there are many ways to travel in the magical world, such as Apparition, Floo Powder, Portkey, Flying, Flying Broomsticks, Flying Magic Cars, Motorcycles, and Pegasus, etc., but each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Apparition is equivalent to teleportation, but you can only go to places you've been before, and the farther the distance, the more magic power it consumes.

If you're a Floo fan, you'll need to build a Floo network and a fireplace first.

Door keys allow for point-to-point teleportation over extremely long distances, even across countries. However, you must first have two door keys, and place one of them in advance at your desired destination.

Flying spell, the only spell that allows one to fly without the aid of any magical items, was created by Voldemort. Only Voldemort himself and Snape can use it. It is extremely difficult, incredibly fast, and consumes a great deal of mana.

Flying brooms are slow but very simple and common. However, they are easily blown away or struck by lightning in bad weather.

Magic cars and motorcycles are of average speed but are comfortable and can be used by multiple people. However, they violate the laws of the Ministry of Magic and can only be used secretly.

Pegasus, normally, is not very fast and is almost always used as a flying carriage, but it looks luxurious, prestigious, and high-class.

Special Pegasus horses, such as Thestrals, are incredibly fast, rare, and difficult to tame.

Jerry's current situation is that he only has the most common flying broomstick, which means that he needs to take a plane to go to places that are a little further away in the main world.

That's why he wanted to see if he could recruit a Thestral for his use in the main world.

However, abducting a Thestral is not an easy task; I'll need to find time to consult Hagrid more often.

The carriage passed through the gates of Hogwarts and stopped on the lawn. Jerry, Hermione, and the other young wizards who had also returned to school stepped into the castle once again.

"Jerry, you seem to have grown so much taller in just two weeks!"

When Harry and Ron saw Jerry again, their first words were of surprise at Jerry's sudden increase in height.

Jerry was originally about the same height as the two of them, but over the Christmas holiday, in just two weeks, he had grown noticeably taller than them, which was hard for them to accept.

"Yes, I hadn't noticed that at all!"

After being reminded by Ron and Harry, Hermione immediately compared her hand to Jerry's and realized that Jerry was indeed half a forehead taller than her.

"Everyone's growth spurt occurs at a different time; some grow taller early, some grow taller late. I probably grew early, so I'm currently in my peak growth period. You guys are just a little later!"

Jerry casually offered a word of comfort.

Unfortunately, in Harry's eyes, it had only been half a month since they last met, but in Jerry's eyes, it had been more than three months.

The Christmas holiday lasted two weeks, and there was more than a month to upgrade in the main world panel. Then there was another month of cooldown after returning to the second small world, which added up to more than three months.

At his age, the changes over three months are quite noticeable.

Just like when you're about to enter junior high school, after a summer vacation, you'll find that some of your elementary school classmates have obviously changed a lot in height and appearance.

After hearing Jerry's explanation, Harry and Ron didn't dwell on it too much, but they clearly showed envy on their faces.

For boys, height is still quite important; every boy hopes to be taller than his peers.

Next, Harry and Ron talked about some interesting things that happened during their Christmas at Hogwarts.

For example, on Christmas Day, Hogwarts hosted a Christmas dinner with all sorts of delicious food, piles of wizarding firecrackers, a snowball fight among the young wizards, and Harry even received a precious invisibility cloak.

In short, Harry and Ron's Christmas at Hogwarts seemed quite fun, and Hermione even said she wanted to try spending Christmas at Hogwarts next year.

Jerry didn't have many thoughts about Harry's invisibility cloak.

Now that he has mastered the illusion technique, the invisibility cloak is nothing more than a useless trinket to him.

To be honest, Jerry doesn't really think the so-called Three Deadly Weapons in the Harry Potter world are that great.

Once you learn the Illusionist Charm, the Invisibility Cloak becomes useless. Its invisibility effect isn't much stronger than the Illusionist Charm, and Dumbledore can easily see through Harry when he's wearing the Invisibility Cloak.

Besides, wearing an invisibility cloak is nowhere near as comfortable as being completely invisible.

The resurrection stone is even more useless; it cannot truly revive a person and might even kill the person who uses it.

Only the Elder Wand is somewhat better, as it can amplify the power of magic, but it is only slightly stronger than a regular wand, not several times stronger, and it is also more likely to attract the covetous eyes of dark wizards.

In "The Legend of the Three Brothers," the eldest brother was killed in a midnight attack and had his wand stolen because he was showing off the power of the Elder Wand.

(End of this chapter)