The days at Hogwarts

Ron quickly thought of another possibility, "He was planning to marinate himself to make the vampires so disgusted that they wouldn't want to suck his blood!"

Everyone laughed again, even Hermione was distracted.

Loren laughed as he recalled the plot. Voldemort and Quirrell were almost unable to hold on. They were about to go to the Forbidden Forest to hunt for blood food.

Loren planned to remind Hagrid.

……

At lunch on Friday, Loren received a reply from Grandpa Bates.

The letter said that although he would still be very weak for a while after the transformation, he could indeed control his body, and he would not hurt others even if he did not go to the cave and lock himself up.

Grandpa Bates plans to start traveling, visit his hometown, and then maybe go to other old places in his memory.

The last part of the letter questioned Loren. He suspected that Loren had deliberately put something in the medicine so that it was so bitter that even a man in his seventies or eighties couldn't stand it. Coupled with the sentence that sugar must not be added, it looked even more like a prank.

"You'd better pray that I don't catch you, or I'll squeeze sheep's bile into your mouth."

Loren smiled at Grandpa Bates' childish words. It seemed that the wolfsbane potion really made him relax a lot.

Loren was very supportive of Grandpa Bates' plan to travel. The werewolf problem had trapped him in the mountains for decades. It was a good thing that he could now be freed and travel around.

……

That evening, completely different from the previous ones, this time Loren came to Snape's office with a happy mood.

"Come in."

Once again, Loren was discovered without knocking on the door. He suspected that wizards who had reached a certain level would have extraordinary perception.

Snape was not marking homework; he was replying to a letter.

Loren sat across from Snape, and there was a paper on the table that had been reviewed. It was the one-foot-long paper that Loren submitted last time. Although the word count was a little bit shorter, the main points were still extracted by Loren in combination with Snape's teaching, and he did not read out the book by heart.

The above annotations are very detailed, and Loren benefited a lot from reading every word.

One person was writing a letter while another was reading a paper, and the office fell into a harmonious calm.

Loren has accepted Snape. Putting aside the grudges from decades ago, and putting aside the matters of Voldemort and the Death Eaters, he is a qualified professor of Potions.

When Snape put the letter into the envelope, Loren put down his paper and expressed his gratitude to Professor Snape and told him about Bates' good condition.

Snape did not reply immediately. He looked at Loren, his eyes still calm, but without the spying feeling of a cold-blooded animal.

"Potions, a great subject. The lucky ones can get a glimpse of glory, immortality, and the secret of rejuvenation. You happen to have a tiny talent for it."

“Walk this path with reverence, all for your own good.”

Loren felt that Snape was saying something immature again, but his tone made people think about it.

Voldemort chose Horcruxes, Nicolas Flamel used the Philosopher's Stone, but does potion really have a way to the ultimate secret?

Without waiting for Loren to think about it, Snape started today's teaching.

Chapter 46: Charms Class on Halloween Eve

Snape's words kept echoing in Loren's ears, making him think about immortality.

There are many paths to immortality in the magical world, but none of them are perfect.

The ghost of the Eagle House - Ms. Grey, whose original name was Helena Ravenclaw, was the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the four founding masters. After she was killed by the Bloody Baron, she turned into a ghost and has been staying in Hogwarts for thousands of years.

Professor Binns, the History of Magic professor, can give lectures, assign homework and answer students' questions, almost the same as when he was alive.

They have portraits of wisdom and a thousand-year-old sorting hat. They have memories and can think. Is this considered immortality?

Although Helbo created the Horcrux, the cause of his death is very vague, with only some speculations without evidence.

Voldemort explored the mystery of the Horcruxes and made himself bloodthirsty and insane.

Nicolas Flamel's elixir of life only sustains his life, and his body becomes extremely fragile over time. Perhaps in a few decades, a gust of wind will blow Nicolas into pieces.

It seems that there are roads that lead to immortality everywhere, but it also seems that there is a cliff in front of every road.

Loren had a guess that the person closest to immortality was actually Headmaster Dumbledore.

The Dumbledore family owns the phoenix that can be reborn from the ashes.

Everyone who has learned the Patronus Charm knows that the Patronus cannot be a magical animal, but Dumbledore's Patronus is a phoenix. Dumbledore is also good at fire magic, and with the help of Fawkes, he can use space magic in Hogwarts.

So what about the ability of Nirvana?

Could Dumbledore also be reborn from the ashes, but in the end he chose death. Even after death, Dumbledore could meet Harry in the Twilight Zone, which is enough to show his extraordinary control over life.

"Flamel, can you make the elixir of life without the help of the philosopher's stone?" Loren chose to ask Flamel for help.

Flamel carefully sorted out his long memory: "In fact, there are many legends about immortality..."

Flamel tells the stories of the golden apple in Norse mythology, the peaches in Eastern mythology, the Holy Grail of Jesus, and the legendary fountain of youth.

“Civilizations separated by oceans and mountains have very similar legends about immortality, and some of the legends clearly share the same prototypes.”

Loren followed this line of thought and thought, "It's possible that the immortals in the past left behind legends when they traveled through these civilizations."

"Before the Age of Navigation, only wizards could cross the barriers of oceans and mountains." Flamel guided Loren's thinking.

Loren clapped his hands and suddenly understood, "A long time ago, there were wizards who achieved immortality, and then used their long lives to explore the entire world!" His tone was very excited, without pausing, "Just like Mr. Nico!"

Loren had a new doubt, "What about the former immortals? Where are they now?"

Flamel did not continue to explore with Loren. He flew into the air and said, "Who knows? Maybe their immortality also has flaws, and in the end they still cannot escape the pursuit of the god of death."

"It's time for us to start today's content."

It is difficult to have a true answer to the truth behind the ancient legend. In the end, Loren treated these conversations as idle chats after class, and Snape's words were temporarily put aside.

……

Loren attended classes at Hogwarts during the day, took language and dueling classes in the Book of Magic at night, went to Snape's office on Fridays to help with potions and learn about the preparation of various potions, and read thick books with Hermione in the library on weekends.

This kind of life is regular and simple. Time passes by unknowingly and soon it is Halloween Eve.

The elves had been preparing for the dinner since morning, and the corridor was filled with the sweet aroma of pumpkin. Smelling this aroma, it felt as if the sweet and thick pumpkin flesh was right next to your mouth, making you drool unconsciously.

During the Charms class, the sweet pumpkin scent in the classroom became even stronger.

In such an environment, only Hermione could concentrate on listening and taking notes without any distractions.

"It smells so good!" Loren exclaimed from time to time.

Ron and Seamus swallowed and nodded in agreement.

Harry, who was sitting next to him, leaned over and whispered, "Neville's Rafe is missing again. Look around to see if he's under the desk."

This is a very common thing, and everyone is skilled at lowering their heads and looking for toads on the ground.

"Merlin's beard~" Ron opened his mouth wide and exclaimed, "I think I may have found it."

Everyone followed his gaze and exclaimed in unison, “Oh wow!”

Radford had already jumped onto the stool that Professor Flitwick was standing on, and was about to jump onto the professor, as if he wanted to jump onto the podium through the professor's body.

Neville couldn't bear to watch any longer, he lowered his head and almost buried it in the table.

Rifle jumped twice and landed on Professor Flitwick's shoulder.

Professor Flitwick was standing on a stool, lecturing about the Levitation Charm, when a toad suddenly jumped out and stepped on his white beard.

The students below all laughed, except Neville, who wanted to turn himself into a toad and jump out of the classroom.

Professor Flitwick was not angry. He also smiled with his nose sticking out. "It seems that I speak so well that even toads want to get close to me!"

The students made even more joyful noises. Neville raised his head, covered his blushing face with his hands, and looked at Professor Flitwick through his fingers.

"I'll show you how to do it!" Professor Flitwick said, turning to look at the toad on his shoulder and pointing his wand at Rafe. "Wingardium Leviosa"

The toad flew into the air and circled the classroom at a constant speed.

"Cool!" There were exclamations from the audience.

Leif flew past the students one by one, and finally stopped in front of Neville and landed on his desk.

Neville looked at Professor Flitwick, who was smiling gently at Neville, "Take care of your pet, next time it runs around, let it fly a few more times."

Neville was so excited that he couldn't speak and just nodded.

Professor Flitwick ignored this little episode and said, "Let's move on to the Levitation Charm, which was invented by the 16th century wizard Jarrus Hobart..."

After the scene just now, the students wanted to learn the levitation spell more and were more focused, so the influence of the pumpkin smell was weakened a lot.

Soon, Professor Flitwick showed off his skills again. He used a levitation spell to send a handful of feathers into the air and distributed them to each group of two students.

According to the positions, Harry and Neville were in one group, Loren and Hermione were in one group, and Ron and Seamus were in one group.

"Well, don't forget that subtle wrist movement we've been training!" Professor Flitwick stood taller, adding another pile of books to the stool. "Swing and flick. Remember swing and flick."

"It is also very important to pronounce the spell correctly. Wizard Baruffio made a mistake in saying a letter. He said s instead of f and found himself lying on the ground with a bison standing on his chest!" After some instructions, the professor allowed the students to start trying.

Professor Flitwick kept a close eye on them to prevent any bison or something from suddenly appearing in the classroom.

Chapter 47 Ron in the Toilet

Loren had already mastered the spell and was looking at the feathers in boredom.

He was thinking about the plot. Quirrell would bring the troll into the castle tonight, but Hermione probably wouldn't go to the bathroom.

Hermione is now considered a friend to everyone, and everyone has gotten used to Hermione's pointing fingers at them, and they just joke about it and no one will take it seriously. So Hermione won't get so angry that she hides in the bathroom and cries, and no one will get into danger at night.

Hermione, who was being talked about, was looking at the feather teaching aid with a serious face. She had practiced this spell before, but failed.

She followed Professor Flitwick's instructions to the letter, and within a few seconds the feathers were already fluttering.

Ron gave up after trying a few times. His wand was too worn out, and whether he could cast a spell depended on luck. Obviously, his luck was not good today.

Hermione had made the feathers fly, and Professor Flitwick gave Gryffindor five extra points for that.

Hermione wanted to give Ron some experience. "It's Wingardium Levi'osa, not Wingardium Levi'osa."

"Of course! I'll pay attention next time." Ron didn't want anyone to notice his wand, so he changed the subject, "Maybe you should look at other people."

Loren didn't want the two to conflict, so he tried to make Hermione understand that it wasn't Ron's problem. "Ron's wand was holding him back, not the spell or the action."

Hermione looked at Ron's wand, revealing the unicorn tail hair core, and apologized quickly: "I'm sorry, I didn't notice your wand."

"No, it's okay." Ron felt bad, and a feeling of inferiority surrounded him. He hoped that everyone would think that he did not cast the spell according to the rules, rather than paying attention to his wand.

All of Ron's things were used by his older brothers. He had no new clothes, no new textbooks, no wand of his own, and even his pet was left over from Percy.

When he was at home, he was fine, just laughing and joking. He never blamed his parents, it was not their fault, his parents had done their best to maintain the family life, his parents' love was revealed in every aspect of life, he could feel it.

After arriving at school, the constant comparison between him and his classmates became a thorn in his heart.

From the time I bought snacks on the train, that emotion first appeared and took root in my heart. At that time, I could comfort myself - this is the famous Harry Potter, and it is normal to be rich.

Later, I found out that it wasn't because my classmates were too rich, but because my family was too poor. As a pure-blood family, I was even poorer than Muggle children.

Compared with his brother, he also seems mediocre.

Bill has excellent grades, Charlie is the Quidditch captain and a class leader, Percy is also a class leader, and even the twins have good grades. Although they are naughty, many professors like them very much.

Before entering school, he also wanted to study hard and not bring shame to the Weasley family name. However, in a magic school, the wand problem made him very embarrassed.

He is naughty and mischievous everywhere, making jokes just to cover up his inferiority complex.

Ron knew his friends wouldn't care about this, but he couldn't help thinking about it. He couldn't tell anyone about his bitter feelings, not his parents, not his brother, not even his friends, so he had to keep it to himself.

Seamus was still trying the feathers. He noticed that Ron was a little depressed and thought that it was because the spell failed. Seamus encouraged him, "Hey! Brother, cheer up. Look at me, it will work this time."

After that, he chanted a spell loudly towards the feather and pointed forcefully: "Wingardium Leviosa"

boom!

Seamus's talent worked again. The feathers exploded, turning Seamus' face black, and Ron's face also turned black.

The classmates around him laughed, and Ron felt even worse.

……

At the Halloween dinner, the ceiling was enchanted by the professors, dark clouds filled the castle, lightning and thunder flashed, and the pumpkin lanterns suspended in the air created a very scary atmosphere.

On the dining table, there were lemon lollipops, cream chocolate balls, roast lamb, fried steak, fried sausages, and various pumpkins!

After smelling the aroma of pumpkin all day, Loren finally got to eat it. He scooped a spoonful of stewed pumpkin and put the whole spoonful into his mouth. The sweet pumpkin flesh oozed juice and melted in one sip.