The years of welding at Hogwarts

Among them, Flourish and Blotts, Obscure Books, and Whitney Hardy Books are all legitimate businesses.

Especially Flourish and Blotts, which sells textbooks to Hogwarts students. They would not sell these messy gadgets to students, otherwise they would be smashed by angry parents in minutes.

As for the Omoro Book Company and Whits Hard Book Company, they are only responsible for publishing books, not selling them.

The only remaining bookstore is a second-hand bookstore hidden in the shadows of Diagon Alley, where you can see all kinds of messy books. If you are lucky, you may be able to find the notes of the Big Four among a pile of junk. If you are unlucky, it will really be just a pile of useless junk.

Of course, wizards who know what's good know that in places like second-hand bookstores, which require both luck and vision, valuable things will never be displayed openly.

So, at this time, you have to use all kinds of intelligence to communicate with the boss, or

Only if you act like you are knowledgeable will the boss take out the real good stuff for you to choose from.

For example, you have to pretend to be sophisticated and walk around among a pile of junk with your hands behind your back, and then approach the boss mysteriously and tell him, "What new tea do you have recently?"

Only at this time will the boss enthusiastically invite you to the small compartment behind the bookstore lobby to discuss tea tasting.

As for what kind of tea you are tasting, I can only say that those who understand will understand.

A rich man like Harry, whose parents left him a large inheritance, generally would not go to a second-hand bookstore to buy textbooks for the next school year.

Only a family like Ron, Mr. Weasley, who had worked diligently in the Ministry of Magic for decades and had only a pitiful huge savings of one Galleon, would need to go to a second-hand bookstore to buy his textbooks for the next school year.

That's why he had the opportunity to get in touch with the unscrupulous owner of the second-hand bookstore, and also had the opportunity to buy some animated magic comics from the owner.

Of course, this reason doesn't explain why Draco has a suitcase full of books of the same type.

Don't ask, the answer is Lucius's collection.

……

When Shirley returned to Spinner's End, her face was filled with unhappiness.

Her appearance immediately attracted Snape's attention. This old bat, who doted on his daughter extremely, indiscriminately fixed his eyes on Noah, who was secretly taking his daughter out.

If Shirley hadn't brought the Resurrection Stone with her, and if Lily hadn't told him before they left that they were going to secretly visit Harry who was staying at the Burrow, Snape would have hung Noah up and beaten him by now.

Seeing Shirley's appearance, Snape had some vague guesses in his mind, but in front of Shirley, he couldn't show the darkness in his heart too clearly.

He came up to Shirley happily and asked, "What's wrong? Did Harry make you unhappy?"

Upon hearing her father's question, Shirley immediately complained to Snape, and madly complained about how obscene and disgusting her perverted brother was, and how he was already infected with the seven deadly sins at such a young age.

When she said that she would never meet such a tasteless brother in her life, Snape almost laughed his head off.

He silently gave Noah a look of approval, indicating that if he had such an opportunity in the future, he should let Shirley see more often what kind of scumbag Harry Potter was, who inherited all of James' shortcomings.

To which Noah simply rolled his eyes.

He didn't want to get involved in the love and hatred between Snape and the Potter family at all.

Didn’t you see that when Snape was comforting his adopted daughter as a father, Lily, who was floating in the air beside him, didn’t look very happy?

Shirley is his daughter, but Snape now regards himself as Shirley's father. So, what kind of relationship do he have with Snape?

How would James react if he saw this scene?

What is certain is that if the soul summoned by the Resurrection Stone had even a little bit of magic power, James would risk his own life to cast an Avada Kedavra curse on Snape.

This kind of hatred with the Hulunbuir grassland above his head is an irreconcilable hatred for a man, even if Snape has raised his daughter for more than ten years.

That's why, when Snape handed the Resurrection Stone to Shirley, Lily immediately stopped Shirley from summoning James' soul projection as well.

Although Lily really wanted to see their family of four get together, but...

It's better to wait for a while.

The timing may not be right now.

……

Once people start to be busy, they will feel that time passes quickly.

In Spider's Tail Alley, a few days passed in a flash.

That morning, when Noah, with dark circles under his eyes, put down the carving knife in his hand and held up the Eye of Agamotto, which was shaped like a miniature rugby ball, with satisfaction, there was a sudden loud slam from his door.

"Noah! Open the door! Get up and eat your birthday cake!"

Hearing Shirley's excited shouts outside the door, Noah looked like an old man on the subway with his cell phone on his face.

"No, you guys eat. I didn't sleep last night, so I'm going to catch up on some sleep."

No, who eats birthday cake so early in the morning on their birthday?

In his three lifetimes, he had only ever heard of birthday dinners, but had never heard of such a thing as a birthday breakfast.

However, such an operation seemed very normal in Snape's family.

No matter how much Snape, the doting daughter-loving man, obeys Shirley in everything, he will not comply with all of Shirley's outrageous requests like an unprincipled bootlicker.

But on his birthday, as long as Shirley didn't ask for something outrageous like trying some Muggle flour to taste, he would make a slightly more indulgent request, such as having cake as the staple food for all three meals of the day.

Snape would still nod in agreement.

This also led to the birthday parties at the Snape family. No matter whether it was the birthday of Snape, the cold old bat who didn't like sweets, or the birthday of Shirley who was as addicted to sugar as an old bee, four cakes a day was just the basic operation.

Why three meals a day, but four cakes?

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, four is not normal?

Noah had just put away the completed Eye of Agamotto when Shirley's voice came from outside the door again, "How long has it been since dinner yesterday? Aren't you hungry?"

"Get up, have breakfast and then go back to sleep! There's also my birthday present!"

Hearing Shirley's commanding words like an old lady, the corners of Noah's mouth twitched.

It’s fake to care about whether you are hungry or not. Your real purpose is actually wanting a birthday present, right?

With the click of the door lock, Noah's panda face appeared behind the door. With lightning speed, he stuffed a huge gift box through the crack of the door into Shirley's ordinary arms outside the door, and then slammed the door again.

The process was so rapid that Shirley didn't even have time to see if there were large unknown yellow condensed objects hanging from the corners of his eyes. Noah's figure disappeared behind the door like a whirlwind.

Following the sound of heavy footsteps and a heavy object falling into the soft mattress and being covered by the bouncing quilt, Shirley knew that this guy would never get up from the bed no matter what.

However, she had already achieved her goal, so she did not force this little bat, who would sooner or later die from practicing Taoism, to get up and attend the Snape family's unique birthday breakfast.

Anyway, for banquets like this, there are two more at noon and in the evening.

Besides, Hermione, Neville and others would not come to his birthday party until the evening.

In the room, Noah, who was lying on the bed in a "Tai" shape, did not close his eyes and fall into a deep sleep. Instead, he pulled out from his collar the finished Eye of Agamotto, which had just been carved with all the magic runes.

Looking at this artifact that can control time, uh...

It is a youth version of a magic tool that can control time within a certain range.

Noah jumped up from the bed with swift movements.

Thinking silently about the records about time magic in the Book of Cagliostro, Noah, unable to suppress his curiosity, got out of bed, ran back to his desk and sat down.

According to the records of the Book of Cagliostro in his mind, Noah made the gesture to activate the Eye of Agamotto.

As the fingers touched and the arms crossed, the Eye of Agamotto hanging on Noah's chest began to rotate slowly, and a not-so-bright green light flowed out from it.

A moment later, a slowly rotating magic circle appeared like an arm guard, with one ring inside another, covering Noah's right hand.

The fluorescent green magic circle was filled with complex curves and straight lines that intertwined with each other. It was held in Noah's hand like a knob that could be adjusted freely.

He pointed the circular magic circle in his hand at the half-eaten piece of bread on the desk that he had eaten as a midnight snack last night. As Noah slowly turned his palm in a counterclockwise direction, something shocking happened -

It was as if an invisible mouth was spitting out the gnawed bread, and at the same time repairing the gnawed part of the bread with healing magic. The half-gnawed bread soon returned to its perfect appearance before it was eaten as Noah's palm turned.

Although this method can achieve the same effect as the Summoning Spell and the Repairing Spell, it is actually much more difficult than the Summoning Spell and the Repairing Spell.

This isn't about repairing the bread at all, it's about reversing time.

Although Noah already knew that his magic could achieve such an effect, he still felt extremely excited when it was perfectly reproduced before his eyes.

This is the power of time!

Among the many novels, movies, and cartoons that Noah had read in his previous life, the power of time has always been one of the most powerful mysterious powers.

Even in the scientific Three-Body Problem, even though humans finally succeeded in building a superluminal spacecraft, no one could build a machine that could transcend time and go back to the past to shoot Cheng Xin, the saint who killed two worlds.

This shows the mystery of time.

After trying to reverse time, the next step is to speed up the passage of time by turning it clockwise...

It was as if an invisible big mouth was gnawing at the bread. The whole piece of bread disappeared piece by piece, until only a few crumbs were left on the table.

After the initial ecstasy, Noah gradually calmed down.

Although the power of time is strong, the side effects of using it carelessly are also unimaginable.

Randomly disrupting the boundaries of space and time and disturbing the order of space and time may create time tributaries, and ultimately lead to a series of terrible consequences such as space paradoxes and time loops.

Noah doesn't want to be trapped in an endless loop of time like Dormammu, nor does he want to be like a lucky person chosen by the Speed ​​Force who is easily erased from the timeline and then sacrificed to restart.

However, the power of time is like a powerful magnet, constantly attracting Noah to make suicidal attempts.

if he……

The horrible thought in his mind only lasted for less than half a second before Noah drove it out with great willpower.

No no no!

If it comes to a last resort, for example, if Dormammu is about to swallow up the universe, he will definitely be finished if he does not use the power of time at that time. Using the power of time will only make it possible for him to be finished.

Otherwise, Noah would not have taken the initiative to commit some drastic deaths that broke the space-time continuum.

Of course, if it is only within the scope permitted by the rules, for example, like Doctor Strange, using the power of the Time Stone to observe the only ending in which the Avengers can defeat Thanos.

That's still acceptable.

Chapter 268 Hairline Crisis

Noah slept very soundly, under the dual protection of soundproofing magic and defensive magic, so much so that when Shirley came and knocked on his door at noon, he didn't notice at all.

It was not until almost dinner time that Noah, who maintained his shady schedule, appeared on the stairs in the living room, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

As soon as he stepped out of his room, he heard the noise in the living room downstairs.

Shirley grabbed his clothes viciously and said, "Sleep, sleep, sleep. All you do is sleep all day long. Look how lazy you are! You don't even help to greet the guests when they come!"

Listening to Shirley's tone of voice, which was like the time when there were guests at home during the Chinese New Year, but she slept until noon, and her grumpy mother stormed into the room and dragged her out of bed, Noah raised his eyebrows speechlessly.

He ignored Shirley, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs like an angry old woman, and waved to the other people in the living room.

"Hello, Hermione and Neville."

Noah casually rubbed his messy hair, and the magic power attached to his hands was like hairspray, automatically smoothing out the bird's nest on his head and creating a distinct texture.

I often stay up late to do research, and I feel lazy after getting up, so I don’t want to spend a lot of time and effort to style my frizzy hair.

So Noah mastered the hairspray technique that all villains have without any instruction.

"Oh, Draco, you're here too?"

"I didn't even notice you. Why are you sitting next to the trash can?"

Hearing Noah's greeting, Draco, who was originally waving his hands enthusiastically, suddenly turned his pale face several shades darker than Kingsley's.

If he could beat Noah, he really wanted to rush over and punch Noah's face, which was so annoying no matter how he looked at it.

"I used to not believe why some people could follow the same schedule as an owl, a nocturnal animal that stays up during the day and comes out at night."

Hermione sighed heavily, "Now I finally see it."

Although endocrine disorders caused by irregular work and rest should not be included in the scope of dentistry, dentists are also doctors and have the same heart to save lives and cure illnesses.

As the descendant of a dentist, Ms. Beaver naturally could not stand Noah's irresponsible and indulgent behavior towards his own health.

"No matter how important your magical research is..."

Seeing that the little beaver was gradually showing signs of being possessed by Madam Pomfrey, Noah quickly raised his hands and made a "pause" gesture to signal Hermione to stop.

"You guys are supposed to be here for Shirley's birthday party, not here to lecture me."

Noah clasped his hands together.

"So, please, Hermione, on such an important and happy day for Shirley, please put aside your teacher-like heart and let me go for the time being."

Noah's reckless look made the little beaver feel helpless, "Okay."

Having said that, she still put her hands on her hips and looked aggressive, "But I still want to remind you that studies have shown that staying up too late can lead to severe hair loss, and the baldness rate of British men is among the highest in the world."

"So, if you don't want to turn into a Mediterranean skin early, it's better to stay up less late!"