Hogwarts: From Little Wizard to White Lord

Vaughan wrote down his observations and thoughts from the experiment in a 5 or 6-page notebook.

After a short break, we started again.

It didn't stop until the evening.

When Crouch came back from get off work, he had just come out of the basement and was constantly searching through the heavily polluted memories of Barty Crouch Jr. It was certainly a very hard job, but it was not without rewards.

For example, magic!

After dinner, I wanted to see my son Crouch, but before I could say anything, I heard Vaughn say, "Barty, do me a favor tonight."

"what?"

"I wanted to learn Apparition. Yesterday, I found your son's memory of him practicing this magic in his brain. Then I remembered that I had actually forgotten to learn it."

Vaughan had indeed forgotten, mainly because he had been in Hogwarts. Hogwarts, including a large area around it, was shrouded in an anti-Apparition spell, making it completely unsuitable for studying.

Crouch was speechless. He hesitated for a moment, "Should we wait for a while? This is a Muggle neighborhood. Even though I deliberately chose a secluded place, there are still a lot of Muggles..."

Vaughan interrupted him, "There's a golf course nearby. I went there this morning and checked it out. It's very private, and there are no Muggles around at night. It's perfect for me to practice."

After a pause, he added, "By the way, I also need to practice the Fiery Curse and other minor curses. Little Barty's brain is really a treasure trove of dark magic... By the way, you can cast the End of All Curses, right?"

Crouch was tempted to say he wouldn't.

Apparition was one thing, but he actually wanted to practice dark magic... He couldn't imagine what would happen if there was an accident like loss of control.

But...he can't refuse Vaughn now!

At night, Crouch went out again and came back with a few bottles of potions.

They come in a kind of eyedropper bottle that's so small it only holds about a mouthful of the drug.

"This is Baixian Essence, a very powerful healing medicine..."

Crouch tried to introduce it.

Vaughan interrupted, "I know what it is, Barty. Don't forget, I'm a pharmacist."

"Oh... I always forget... your age always makes people... sorry!" Crouch said dryly.

Vaughan picked up a bottle of white savory essence and held it up to the light to examine it.

Looking at the scarce essential oil in the small dropper bottle, which was soaked with leaves and roots, he looked a little disdainful: "Poor craftsmanship, how much did you spend?"

"...10 Galleons."

"Tsk!" Vaughn hesitated to speak.

He knew why Crouch prepared the dill essence. It was to prevent the occurrence of splitting, which was the most dangerous accident when practicing Apparition.

Specifically, the Disapparition spell is successful, but only part of the wizard's body is teleported away, while the other part remains in place or flies away to an unknown place.

From ancient times to the present, countless wizards have used their blood and lives to prove the dangers of splitting. Their various bizarre ways of splitting have even been compiled into a thick book in the magical world.

Dictambu essence is currently the best known choice for dealing with separation. Its raw material is Dictambu - different from the Rutaceae plant of the same name known to Muggles, the Dictambu that can be used to extract the essence is a magical herb with magical properties.

Its own magic gives it super healing effects, which can help wizards heal wounds quickly when separation occurs.

The premise is that the wizard can find his separated bodies and put them back together.

This is also the reason why Vaughn asked Crouch to help him practice Apparition. Although Vaughn thought it was unlikely that he would split into two, if there was someone to help watch over him, at least the worst situation could be avoided.

Late at night, Vaughan took Crouch to a place he had chosen, a golf course not far away.

The stadium was already dark as it was approaching midnight, and the Muggles had already gone home from get off work.

But the two cautious people deliberately chose a relatively remote and flat lawn, walked around it, and waved their wands to cast spells such as exorcism spells and safety guards to prevent Muggles.

After casting the spell, the two returned to the center of the lawn. Crouch said self-deprecatingly, "The Ministry of Magic has regulations that to learn the Apparition Charm, wizards must be adults and need to be instructed by a designated instructor licensed by the Ministry of Magic... I broke at least 20 laws today!"

Vaughan shrugged. "The day you brought little Barty out of Azkaban, you broke every law in the Ministry of Magic!"

Crouch shut his mouth in frustration.

After a long while, he asked dryly, "Anything else to prepare? Should we start now?"

"Nothing to prepare, let's get started!"

After more than a month of experience, Vaughn slowly discovered that as the Armor Spell and Disarm Spell reached the maximum level 5, there were actually some subtle hidden effects beyond the two spells.

Casting any spell requires the use of magic power and emotions. The two full-level spells gave Vaughn a lot of similar experience out of thin air.

Now, he can mobilize his magic power faster than before, and his emotional output is more stable than before.

The specific manifestation is that he is now less likely to make mistakes when casting spells.

This would be a big help for him in learning new spells, so there really wasn't much to prepare.

Crouch nodded, walked about three meters away, and drew a circle on the grass with his wand: "The most important trick to Apparition is the three Ds. The first one is Destination."

He pointed to the circle he had drawn next to him and said, "Now, focus your attention on this circle. Don't waver, hesitate, or get distracted. Let it fill your vision and your mind..."

Vaughn listened attentively. Confidence and arrogance are two completely different attitudes. Even though he thought he was ready to learn spells, he still listened carefully.

And this kind of content is not difficult for him as a master of memory magic.

Soon, Vaughn followed Crouch's instructions, cleared his mind of all distracting thoughts, and focused all his attention on the circle with a diameter of about one meter, firmly imprinting its existence in his mind.

"The second is determination. Mobilize your emotions, the desire to occupy this circle, the determination and resolve to traverse space, flooding your entire body, leaving no room for even the smallest corner..."

Listening to Crouch's explanation, Vaughn easily summoned the corresponding emotions, and all other emotions were suppressed at this moment.

He only felt desire and determination surging from his brain.

Thoughts and emotions affected the body at this moment, and the heart pumped violently, pushing blood to all parts of the body.

The body feels slightly hot, and the brain is clear, but also a little dizzy due to the excitement.

His hearing gradually became hazy, and he heard Crouch say the last D: "Deliberation. Are you starting to feel your whole body getting hot? Now, release your magic power, raise your wand and spin it on the spot. During this process, pay attention to maintaining your current emotional state and the flow of magic. Pay attention, deliberation, don't be too tense or relaxed, be sure to be steady and calm... Listen to my command, count to three, one!"

Following Crouch's instructions, Vaughn released his magic power and spun on the spot.

When Crouch said "one", he had just turned around calmly and smoothly.

Then, something incredible happened. In Vaughn's perception, he "saw" ripples around him as he rotated. The waves were not caused by air or magic, but by another kind of thing, which might not have any material or energy form at all, but was a conceptual thing.

"space……?"

The thought flashed through my mind.

"two!"

Vaughan was concentrating, trying to control himself, with focus, determination and composure, and he spun faster and faster.

The ripples around were becoming stronger and stronger, with a frequency so fast that it looked like the surface of water being blown by gusts of wind, or like a transparent plastic plate that had caught an iron ball falling from a high altitude, denting and bouncing back, and constantly vibrating.

"three!"

As Crouch's last voice fell.

Vaughn's rotation and the ripples around him seemed to have broken through a critical point at that moment.

crackling——

The "space" was shattered, and Vaughn felt as if he had crashed into a narrow pipe. Everything in front of him quickly became bizarre, everything was stretched and twisted, and the whole world seemed to have turned into a huge washing machine.

And he was in the middle of it, spinning madly around a center.

Chapter 87 Magic

The squeezing feeling of the "pipeline" becomes stronger and stronger as it rotates.

Perhaps only a second passed, or perhaps a long time passed. Time seemed to have lost its meaning here. When Vaughn felt that he could no longer resist the squeeze of the "pipeline" -

He was sprayed!

There was another "crackling" sound, as if something exploded.

Vaughn falls.

There was soft grass under his feet. He shook his head and his vision was dizzy for a few seconds before he could see clearly that he was next to Crouch.

He looked down and saw that he was standing in the circle!

"You succeeded...at once!"

Beside him, Crouch's eyes widened. Although his tone was still dry, the two slightly trembling mustaches on his upper lip revealed his shock.

Vaughn was in no mood to care about his thoughts.

The success of the Apparition certainly made him happy, but he was more worried about whether there would be other accidents. He quickly lowered his head to check his body and asked, "Barty, do I have a clone? Or something else?"

Crouch also hurried to check: "... all four limbs are there, no obvious bloodstains on the body... Oh, one of the shoes is missing..."

The two checked for a while and found that during this apparition, Vaughn had lost a shoe, a button, and a small piece of nail.

The nails were found where they had been standing, but the shoes and buttons were nowhere to be found.

Crouch said in his dry voice, as if wrung out of a rag, "This is quite normal. Or rather, your performance has exceeded my expectations... 99% of wizards fail to Apparate on their first try."

"Most people were defeated, standing there stupidly until they became dizzy from spinning and stumbled to the ground. A small number of people suffered even worse. I still remember Amelia's first time, one of her arms flew straight into the crowd... At that time, I had just started working and was assigned by the Ministry of Magic to supervise the exams at Hogwarts!"

He thought Vaughan was upset.

In reality, Vaughan was wondering where his shoes and buttons had gone.

But Crouch said he didn't know the answer to this question.

"Perhaps no one in the entire wizarding world knows about this. This is also the most terrifying aspect of Apparition errors and splitting accidents. No one knows where your thigh or arm has landed. Ideally, it would still be there."

Vaughn frowned. "No one's trying to solve this problem?"

"There's no way around it," Crouch explained. "There's no pattern to this. For example, you just Apparated over three meters, but your shoes and buttons could easily be thrown five or ten miles away, or even appear in the sea... It could be anywhere!"

He shrugged, "So all along, the Ministry of Magic has taught Apparition at Hogwarts. There's the most powerful anti-Apparition spell in the world, and it can even partially dispel it."

"Usually the Ministry of Magic would choose an empty classroom in Hogwarts and temporarily lift its restrictions. That way, when the young wizards practiced Apparition inside, even if they split into two, their bodies wouldn't appear outside the classroom—because the space outside the classroom was locked."

Listening to Crouch's words, Vaughan found that he had another area of ​​interest.

For example, what is the principle of Apparition?

Or to go deeper, what exactly is space in this world?

As he learned more about magic, Vaughn found that he encountered more unknowns. To be more precise, the magic system of this world was like a huge black box.