From Azkaban

Locke's main purpose in collecting the list of Muggle wizards is not actually the Muggle wizards themselves, but the Muggle relatives behind them.

These Muggle wizards' relatives, like the Dursleys, are the most suitable candidates.

Before, Locke didn't consider these things because he focused his attention on the magical world, but now that he has taken the first step, he must naturally make subsequent arrangements.

Volume 1: Chapter 78: Knockdown Alley

It was a new day, and one day had passed since Harry arrived at Malfoy Manor. In the early morning, six children, big and small, gathered in the garden of Malfoy Manor, each holding their own wand in their hands.

"Begin, just like you did yesterday, and feel the magic flowing through your body."

The six children stood in a row according to their height, and after hearing Locke's words, they all closed their eyes nervously.

As the six people closed their eyes, a magic specially designed to interfere with emotions enveloped them.

This is the training that Locke gave these children. It was not about teaching magic or theoretical knowledge right from the start, but about laying the foundation first.

He used a small magic that he had developed in Azkaban to interfere with the enemy's emotions. This magic, like the previous silent spell, was developed for wizards.

It can easily influence the enemy on a mental level, making the enemy feel all kinds of emotions as desired, making them happy if they want, and sad if they want.

Of course, Locke couldn't use that kind of strength against six children. What he released was just a degraded version of magic with little impact and random emotional fluctuations.

With the help of this magic, the six children can exercise control over their own emotions and improve their perception and control over their own magic power.

For children, laying a solid foundation is more important than anything else. For wizards, the importance of a good foundation is self-evident. Among the foundations, personal improvement is more important than pure theoretical knowledge.

To be honest, Locke has never agreed with the teaching method of Hogwarts. Unless one is really talented, most wizards will become wastes like their predecessors when they graduate.

Some people may say that wizards like those in the past were all untalented, but in reality, does the education at Hogwarts really tap into the potential and talents of every student?

With the kind of education that Hogwarts provides, it wouldn't be a big deal if Locke said the population base of the wizarding world was huge, but the situation is quite the opposite.

With a small population base, Hogwarts, as the only magic school in the British wizarding world, does not try to optimize and improve the overall quality of wizards, but instead continues to produce waste.

Is it because the educational resources at Hogwarts are not good? Obviously not. Not to mention the absolutely top-notch professors, the knowledge, books and other heritage accumulated by Hogwarts for nearly a thousand years are worthy of its title of a thousand-year-old school.

Again, the real problem is not one person, but the world... the entire magical world, the entire environment, and the mainstream thinking.

But these are all problems for the future. Hogwarts has already been in Locke's little notebook, and its transformation is only a matter of time.

"grown ups"

Just as Locke was standing in front of the six children, carefully sensing the situation of each child, synchronously fine-tuning his own magic effects and recording the situation of each child, Lucius trotted to Locke's side.

Lucius ran to Locke's side and first looked at his baby son, then looked at Harley standing next to him, before bowing to Locke.

"Sir, everyone is here. The entire Knockturn Alley has been completely blocked by a magic barrier. We are just waiting for you to come over."

Today is the day to take down the Knockturn Alley black market, and all members of the Round Table have rushed back from outside.

"Are you ready? Let's go."

Locke nodded and looked at the six children in front of him who still had their eyes closed.

"Today's time is the same as yesterday. After finishing, I will go to study with Professor Snape."

Locke's voice reached the ears of the six children. No one answered him, but Locke knew that the children heard it.

Just like Locke's foundation, Snape's teaching is also the theoretical basis for making potions for the six children.

Unlike the classes at Hogwarts, Snape, who had accepted Locke's theory, did not intend to teach the children to identify medicinal herbs by rote as before, and then follow the steps in the textbook to make potions.

Before starting, he would teach the children so that they would understand what potions were and why potions had to be brewed.

In addition, you also need to understand the medicinal properties of various medicines, understand why potions require a variety of materials to be matched, and know that the purpose of matching is to allow the medicinal properties and magical properties of the materials to collide and fuse through brewing, and finally combine to create new magical properties.

Among his six children, Snape made no secret of his preference and expectations for Harry, and he very much hoped that Harry would inherit her mother's talents.

.....................

After arranging the children and calling Narcissa to look after them, Locke followed Lucius into the carriage and headed for Knockturn Alley.

It's interesting to say, it's been almost ten days since Locke was released from Azkaban, but he still can't Apparate or Disapparate.

This meant that he could only go out by carriage or use Feilu powder.

"I need to take some time to learn how to Apparate and Disapparate."

Sitting in the carriage, Locke looked at the scenery rapidly receding outside the window and made a decision in his heart.

The carriage was moving very fast and stopped steadily in front of the Leaky Cauldron after a while. Locke and Lucius walked into the Leaky Cauldron, passed through the doorway, and entered Diagon Alley.

"grown ups"

As Locke passed through a layer of magic barrier and walked into Knockturn Alley, the members of the Round Table Council who had been waiting for a long time lined up in two vertical rows and saluted in unison.

Borgin Blog, who was standing at the end of the team at this moment, observed Locke carefully, wondering if this was the new master of these Death Eaters.

Except for Bo Jin Blog, all other shops in Knockturn Alley had their doors and windows closed at this time.

In fact, after Rodolphus and others began to act, many dark wizards felt something was wrong and planned to use Apparition to escape immediately.

But under the magic barrier, no one could escape, and all the dark wizards who wanted to escape soon found that their magic was completely ineffective.

In addition to Apparition, some secretly registered Floo Network fireplaces have also lost their effectiveness. It can be said that Knockturn Alley has now become an isolated island completely isolated from the outside world.

"let's start"

Looking at the members who were all dressed neatly in suits, Locke slowly took out the wand from his pocket.

"Yes"

As Locke gave the order, a group of burly men who had been prepared waved their wands like thugs in suits and quickly broke open the doors to pull out the dark wizards hiding inside.

Seeing this unique scene, Locke was a little speechless. The situation was not like this originally.

Ever since he used the sex change technique to permanently transform Lupin's clothes into a black suit the day before yesterday, these guys thought that this was the style Locke liked, so they all followed suit and got themselves a suit and put it on.

Even Lucius changed his original attire and put on a top-notch custom-made black suit from the Muggle world, with a coat on the outside. Not to mention, he looked quite handsome.

Volume 1: Chapter 79 Big Move

The members of the parliament acted extremely quickly. Because they had made sufficient preparations in advance, they quickly cleared all the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley into the alley and stood with the visitors who dared not resist.

As soon as the matter was done, Sirius used Apparition to report to Locke.

Seeing that he had taken the lead, Lucius and Rodolphus gritted their teeth secretly, but still hurried to Locke.

Seeing that everyone had finished, Locke raised his wand and pointed the tip of the wand at the sky. The next moment, a silver-white light shot out from the tip of Locke's wand, and quickly hit the magic barrier that was covering the sky like a firework rising into the sky.

"Oh!"

With a loud muffled sound, a silver-white curtain of light quickly unfolded over Knockturn Alley, merging with the existing magic barrier and spreading rapidly. In just a few seconds, it completely enveloped the entire Knockturn Alley.

Skynet

Just like the name suggests, this silver-white light curtain is the main body of Skynet developed by Locke specifically for the Knockturn Alley black market.

Its essence is a powerful magic barrier with a series of functions such as concealment, protection, exploration, restricted space transmission, retrieval, broadcasting, automatic enemy search and attack (this requires subsequent assembly of corresponding weapons), etc.

However, as mentioned above, this barrier is just the main body, and Locke will add a series of extended functions to it later.

The reason why the barrier is deployed first and then added to later is because Locke is currently unable to achieve a magic that has all the functions.

For example, the Marauder's Map technology that he obtained from Sirius Lupin and then optimized.

After finding it out from Lucius's collection of books, he also optimized the magic image broadcasting technology.

Locke and I plan to develop a management system, registration system, information collection and processing system, etc. depending on the situation.

All of these need to be done specifically, and Locke is not able to compress them all into a magic barrier now.

"Oh!"

A few seconds later, another muffled sound was heard from underground in Knockturn Alley. From this moment on, the entire Knockturn Alley was completely surrounded by the barrier in all directions without any blind spots. Now Knockturn Alley was like being locked in a crystal ball.

.......................

As the barrier was successfully closed, Locke clenched his wand with a serious expression. Next, he was about to cast the largest-scale magic since he came to this world.

Because the barrier completely covers the entire Knockturn Alley, the entire Knockturn Alley has now become an independent and closed entity in the conventional sense.

Since it is a closed whole, it meets the basic casting conditions of the Traceless Stretching Spell.

That's right, Locke will next regard the entire interior of the barrier as one space, and he will also cast the Traceless Extension Spell on this space.

"Boom~~!"

The bricks and stones under his feet rose up and turned into steps, rising and falling as Locke took steps forward, carrying him higher into the air little by little.

As he moved, all the dark wizards who were dragged to the street below looked up at him. The members of the parliament who were walking around to control the crowd also stopped and looked up, staring at Locke with curiosity, wondering in their hearts what the adults were going to do.

At this moment, Locke, who was standing in mid-air, was brewing, and the vast magical power in his body was constantly surging and flowing.

Soon, under the gaze of pairs of eyes below, Locke's wand in his right hand drew an elegant and light arc and waved gently to the right.

"!!!!!!"

Following Locke's actions, everyone on the ground suddenly felt that everything around them was rapidly retreating and stretching. By the time they reacted, their surroundings were already bare, and the originally compact and narrow alley suddenly became spacious.

Turning around with stiff necks and looking behind them, the dark wizards saw that the wall of the house that was just behind them had moved very far away.

Some dark wizards who were originally standing against the wall fell to the ground due to inertia because their bodies were stiff. Seeing this, everyone knew that this scene was not an illusion, and Knockturn Alley had really become bigger!

At this time, Locke, who was standing in mid-air, did not care about the reactions of the people on the ground. After successfully expanding the space on the right, he waved his magic wand to the left again. In an instant, the same scene reappeared.

This time, the dark wizards standing on the opposite side saw clearly that as Locke waved his wand, the space on the left expanded rapidly and flew backwards at a very fast speed, and some dark wizards leaning on that side fell to the ground because they did not react in time.

"........................."

World-weary novel group⑦1④4⑧67⑦0

The dark wizards who saw this scene were collectively petrified. Having been hanging around in dark corners for years, they had never seen this level of magical power. Their eyes were about to pop out of their sockets, and their minds were either on Merlin's pants or his beard.

But it's not just them. At this moment, the reactions of Rodolphus Lucius and others are not much better than theirs.

Although Rodolphus, Sirius and others had seen Locke's strength in Azkaban, they did not expect that Locke could achieve such an exaggerated level by himself.

As for Lupin and Lucius, who had never actually seen Locke cast a spell seriously and had only heard about it from Sirius and Rodolphus before, their performance was even more exaggerated at this moment. Lucius even lost his grip on the cane in his hand and it fell to the ground.

"Whoo~~~"

After expanding the plane, Locke stopped temporarily and began to check the current area. Looking around, the originally narrow Knockturn Alley was now many times wider.

"It can actually expand so much! Magic really surprises me all the time."

Just now, Locke cast a spell seriously for the first time since coming to this world. He took out his wand, mobilized a large amount of magic power, and raised his emotions and beliefs to the peak.

To be honest, the final product also surprised him, because he was standing high and could see far, and his eyesight was enhanced by magic, so Locke only took a few glances to roughly estimate that the expanded Knockturn Alley was probably a circle with a radius of about one thousand meters.

Why is it a circle? Of course it is because the barrier itself, which serves as an expansion carrier, is spherical, and Diagon Alley, which is located in the middle of the barrier and unfolds in a plane, is naturally a circle.

Looking at such a huge area, Locke felt at this moment that the magic ceiling of this world really had no limit.

This is a circle with a radius of at least one kilometer. Converted into another unit, it is at least 3.14 square kilometers, 314 million square meters, or 4710 acres. This area is already larger than some small countries in the world.

For example, the two small countries of Vatican City and Monaco are 0.44 square kilometers respectively.

To put it more clearly, Huaguoshan, known as the largest slum, covers only a little over 6,000 acres, but is home to nearly 500,000 people.

"If this were to be made public, who knows how many countries would be furious."

Don't get me wrong, Locke was not talking about Knockturn Alley, but his hand's traceless extension spell.

After all, this is pure creation out of nothing, and it is actual usable land that can be obtained for free.

The law of the universe has always been that creation is more difficult than destruction, let alone creation out of nothing like Locke's. It can only be said that the magic of this world is really too strong. After all, this is not Locke's full strength. He is just serious, which does not mean that he will spare no effort to use all his strength.

If he used all his strength, the area of ​​this space would definitely be larger. Even if he was willing to stay here for a while, constantly casting spells to stretch it, and expanding it by repeatedly casting spells like the British Ministry of Magic did, then this space would be even larger.

After all, the Traceless Extension Spell is a magic that can be continuously improved on the original basis, and as long as it is well maintained after expansion, there is no need to worry about stability.

However, Locke is already satisfied with the current area of ​​​​the space and does not plan to expand it further.

Space is three-dimensional, so the real majority of this space area is never the plane, but the height space above the plane.

Thinking of this, Locke looked up at the sky over Knockturn Alley. At this time, the sky above had been replaced by a magic barrier wall. Seeing this, Locke waved his wand and raised the space above.

Soon, the expansion above was completed. At this time, Locke would proceed to the next step and use transfiguration to reshape the buildings in this space and build an extremely huge black market with five levels of areas.

In Locke's vision, this black market will not only receive wizards from all over the world in the future, but also Muggles, so it is necessary to divide them into levels.

Volume 1: Chapter 80: The Upper and Lower Cities

Before he could begin reshaping New Knockturn Alley, Locke had one more thing to do.

As the crowd below looked at him as if he were looking at a god, Locke walked out of the high platform and landed lightly in front of the crowd below.