The years of welding at Hogwarts

Perhaps because he is a magical creature, Fawkes's progress in learning Transfiguration is amazing.

In just over ten days at Professor McGonagall's house, its Transfiguration skills had reached the level of a third-year student at Hogwarts.

Of course, this is also due to the generous teaching of Professor McGonagall, the master of Transfiguration.

As an auditor, Noah, who had Professor McGonagall review the Transfiguration knowledge from the first three grades, also felt that he benefited a lot.

After checking Noah's progress in learning Transfiguration, Professor McGonagall happily announced that as long as Noah mastered the knowledge in the sixth-grade Transfiguration textbook, he could begin to try to practice the preliminary human Transfiguration required to master Animagus.

What surprised Professor McGonagall even more was Gwen's mastery of magic.

According to Noah, when Gwen, the little spider, was picked up by him some time ago, she was just an ordinary Muggle who knew nothing about the magical world.

But during these ten days, she witnessed Gwen's transformation from a wizard apprentice with absolutely zero magical knowledge to an outstanding wizard.

I can only say that he is worthy of being a top student who graduated from Imperial State University.

Perhaps because she already had a certain understanding of the existence of magic, Gwen accepted magic very quickly.

At the very least, it is much better than when Doctor Strange first entered Kamar-Taj.

Originally, Professor McGonagall had planned to teach Gwen the magic knowledge for the first and second grades at Hogwarts during the six months that she stayed at her house.

Then, when Hogwarts opens in September next year, Gwen will be allowed to enter Hogwarts as a third-year transfer student.

But now it seems...

Judging from Gwen's learning progress, she mastered all the first-grade knowledge in just over ten days, even her learning speed would slow down due to the increased difficulty.

By next September, her learning progress will at least be far beyond the scope of a third grader.

Maybe, I can skip directly to the fifth grade?

As a fifth-year transfer student, he reviewed the knowledge he had learned previously in Hogwarts, and then directly took the OWLs wizard level examination.

It is not impossible.

Professor McGonagall was very optimistic about Gwen's talent. Just as Noah said, Gwen had a very high affinity for magic, as if she was born for magic.

She had already begun secretly planning to adopt Gwen as her goddaughter.

After all, this child is a poor orphan like Noah, isn't he?

The older cat girl would never admit that she was jealous of the boy's magical talent.

……

"You want to learn Apparition?"

At the dining table, Professor McGonagall asked Noah a soul-searching question.

"Did you know that the Ministry of Magic has expressly prohibited wizards under the age of seventeen from learning that?"

"That's because the Ministry of Magic is worried that wizards who haven't reached the learning qualifications may become split while learning Apparition."

Noah pretended to be ignorant, "But I think my talent can support my mastery of Apparition."

Looking at Noah's malicious pretending to be cute but actually very determined, Professor McGonagall sighed helplessly.

Before Noah entered school, she, who was responsible for the family background check of the new students, already had a clear understanding of the child's nature as an outlaw.

It was only later that Noah's series of performances and his superb magical talent blinded Professor McGonagall's eyes.

Seeing the expression on Professor McGonagall's face gradually wavering, Noah stood up silently.

He put a strange ring in the shape of a brass knuckle on his hand and began to draw circles in the air in the kitchen.

In Professor McGonagall's puzzled eyes, a golden spark suddenly emerged from the void in front of her.

Then, the dot extended into a line until the ends were connected together, and a circular portal appeared in front of Professor McGonagall.

Looking at the familiar castle on the other side of the portal, Professor McGonagall rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

Gwen on the side was already accustomed to Noah's various methods. As a newcomer to the magic world, she had no say in the conversation between the two big guys, so she just continued to eat.

"This is a portal, Professor."

Facing this older cat lady who had a cautious mind and adopted him as her adopted son, although Noah did not intend to learn from a certain horse like Red Hare and become a third-rate family...

A slave of three surnames.

But if Noah was only able to reveal some of his little secrets to Professor McGonagall in a limited way, that would be something he could accept.

After all, compared to Dumbledore who hardly cares about anything on weekdays, Professor McGonagall, the vice-president, is the actual manager of Hogwarts College.

If Noah wanted to establish his own power in Hogwarts and act according to the rules and methods of Hydra, he would inevitably have to get the permission of the vice-headmaster.

Seeing Professor McGonagall tentatively reaching her hand to the other side of the portal, Noah kindly reminded her, "Be careful with the edge of the door, professor. It's very sharp."

"If you want to go out and see, you'd better ride on a broomstick."

Because Hogwarts prohibits a series of spatial teleportation methods including Apparition, Noah's portal is actually opened right above the Hogsmeade village.

Just headed towards the direction of Hogwarts Castle.

Looking at the familiar castle opposite the door, Professor McGonagall carefully stuck her head out and immediately felt the whistling wind coming towards her.

The ice and snow carried in the cold wind from high altitude slapped coldly on the face of the older cat girl, which instantly extinguished her plan to fly away on the broom.

"Is this... a space portal?"

Even though she had never seen similar magic, Professor McGonagall was clearly well-informed.

After her initial surprise, she quickly calmed down.

"You have already mastered the means of space teleportation, why do you still need to learn apparition?"

Noah closed the portal in time before the ice and snow blowing in from the other side of the portal made a mess of the food on the table.

Then he answered Professor McGonagall's question very honestly -

"It takes time for the portal to open. When encountering an emergency situation that requires emergency escape, it is obviously not as useful as Apparition."

With the portal as a premise, Professor McGonagall obviously didn't care so much about Noah's violation of the Ministry of Magic's ban on wizards under the age of seventeen from learning Apparition.

She also did not ask Noah how he mastered, or more precisely, developed, the magic of the portal, which had never appeared in the magic world before.

After all, everyone has their secrets, right?

What's more, Noah had already demonstrated his extraordinary creativity in magic in various courses, just like the storage space that Noah showed in Professor Flitwick's spells class.

Now having one more portal doesn’t seem like something unacceptable?

Chapter 156 Theory of Relative Strength

Time flies so fast that the holiday seems to have happened just yesterday.

In the blink of an eye, Noah was sitting at the dining table in the Hogwarts Great Hall, enjoying his first lunch after returning to school with his classmates who were returning on the Hogwarts Express.

There seemed to be not much change in Hogwarts before and after the holidays, except that the Christmas decorations throughout the castle were removed.

Only a few sharp-eyed students noticed the blonde girl sitting next to Professor McGonagall at the staff table.

"Noah, who is that?"

Draco naturally recognized the blonde girl who had visited their home that day with Noah and Snape.

It was just that Noah didn't take the initiative to introduce them that day, and Gwen had no intention of introducing herself, so even if they met, they didn't know each other's name.

"That's Gwen Stacy."

Noah knew who Draco was talking about without even raising his head. "A violent woman with serious violent tendencies. You don't want to know her."

Next to the two of them, a somewhat annoying voice suddenly sounded, "I think she is quite cute."

Looking at Marcus Flint's eager look, Noah grinned.

"Oh, if you want to pursue her..."

He suddenly wanted to see the Slytherin gorilla captain being punched by Gwen and flying dozens of meters away.

Marcus Flint didn't notice at all the malicious intent in the smile on Noah's lips.

Of course he's not completely a fool.

Before preparing to take action, he did not forget to ask Noah one more question, which was about the relationship between Noah and Gwen.

"Between you and her..."

"It doesn't matter."

Marcus Flint naturally couldn't believe Noah's lies. The other party knew Gwen's character very well. How could it be possible that the two of them had no relationship?

Even if his brain wasn't working very well normally, he wouldn't be confused at this time.

Turning his head silently, Captain Gorilla began to deal with the food on his plate.

Noah felt a little bored because there was no show to watch, so he started to eat his meal in silence.

Draco came over in a mean way, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously, "Noah, have you really... done that with the mysterious man?"

What does that mean?

If you can't speak, you can choose to shut up.

Noah wanted to just pick up the plate and slap Draco in the face. You know, the plates at Hogwarts are all made of pure gold.

Given the density of gold, this heavy dinner plate with a diameter of nearly thirty or forty centimeters would be able to flatten Draco's face if it hit him.

With a wave of his hand, an invisible soundproof barrier rose up around the two of them, ensuring that their conversation would not be leaked.

"I did fight him."

Speaking of Voldemort, Noah held his forehead with his hand, feeling a little headache.

"He is much more difficult than I imagined, especially since your father lost his diary. Otherwise, it would be much easier for us to deal with him."

Although he had heard the term Horcrux, Draco had not heard any definition of the Horcrux from his father or Snape.

"By the way...what exactly is that Horcrux you're talking about?"

Noah didn't have the time to teach Draco all the knowledge about Horcruxes.

"You can think of it as a life-saving tool. Tear out a piece of your soul and put it in there to hide..."

"This way, even if you are hit by the Killing Curse, since half of your soul still exists, you only need to rebuild a body to make a comeback."

Draco realized the seriousness of the problem at this time, "The diary..."

"Voldemort created more than one Horcrux."

Noah shrugged. "As far as I know, there are seven in total. Professor Snape and I have found two so far."

"As for the remaining five, except for the diary, which I have no clue about, I have clues about the other four Horcruxes.

Draco looked stunned. "Seven, seven?"

"Yes, now the diary is lost, we are doomed, and we have to face Voldemort who can never be killed."

"If it wasn't because his soul was split into too many parts, causing his..."

At this point, Noah suddenly paused.

and many more?

Split into so many parts that the soul is greatly weakened?

So this is why Voldemort was so eager to retrieve his Horcruxes?

Although a torn soul cannot heal again to the way it was before it was separated, if Voldemort can find a way to patch it up, it can also make up for the damage to his soul to a certain extent.

Noah's eyes gradually brightened.

Therefore, when the first game of the Quidditch season started, Voldemort had to spend so much effort and put on such a trick with Dumbledore to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

The purpose was to enable him to obtain Harry's blood smoothly while buying him enough time to go to the Room of Requirement, which was located on the eighth floor of the castle like the Gryffindor Tower, to find the Ravenclaw Diadem that he had made into a Horcrux.

That makes sense.

He turned his gaze in the direction of Snape. Although the severe daughter-con man had been paying attention to his baby daughter, when Noah's gaze touched him, Snape turned his head as if he had sensed something.

The two people's eyes met invisibly in the air.

"Horcruxes."

Without avoiding Dumbledore beside Snape, Noah directly conveyed the message he wanted to express to Snape through mouth shape.

Anyway, Dumbledore had already obtained some information from Snape that Noah had deliberately leaked, which would help the Order of the Phoenix fight against Voldemort.