The years of welding at Hogwarts

"It's not dead, Ginny. It can fly without an engine."

Mr. Weasley in the front row turned around and yelled at Ron, "It's over! Without the engine we're going to die!"

If it weren't for the large amount of levitation spells cast to reduce the weight of this piece of scrap metal picked up from the battlefield, the Quinjet would have fallen down under the pull of gravity.

Relying on the effect of inertia, the Quinjet continued to glide forward, but the Quinjet, which had lost power, could not avoid the final fate of gradually decelerating until it crashed.

"Hurry! Hurry!" Mr. Weasley frantically activated the repair spell he had left on the fighter plane. This solidified magic allowed the fighter plane to repair itself when damaged and thus restore its function.

He was hitting the button representing the Disillusionment Spell on the center console like a madman, but the magic runes engraved on the surface of the machine had already been destroyed in the explosion just now.

Alchemy is a very delicate and rigorous discipline. The slightest mistake will cause the magic runes to fail to form a complete magic circuit and become ineffective. Don't even expect the magic runes engraved on the surface of the fuselage to continue to work normally after the explosion just now.

A cold, artificial, and mentally retarded voice came from the cabin's audio system: "The Disillusionment Charm has failed."

This artificial idiot was originally on the Quinjet. After being transformed by the twin brothers, he became an assistant to Mr. Weasley in operating the plane.

"Then switch to the backup flight system! Get us out of here now!"

This Quinjet, which Mr. Weasley has poured a lot of effort and Galleons into, is more than just a flying system.

Even after several ground tests, Mr. Weasley still could not guarantee that the engine of this Muggle plane, which had been damaged before but had now been repaired by him using magic and hard work, would still be able to keep the engine running normally when flying at high altitude and high speed.

In order to avoid a crash due to engine failure, which would have made all his efforts and Galleons go to waste.

With the sponsorship of his two sons, Mr. Weasley spent a huge amount of money to order two Nimbus 1700s from Diagon Alley. He disassembled their flight systems and installed them on the Quinjet, which he had high hopes for.

But the next second Mr. Weasley heard a voice that broke his heart.

"Backup flight system damaged."

Mr. Weasley roared angrily, "What on earth is there in this plane that works!"

The artificial intelligence still replied in its cold and emotionless voice, "The air conditioning system is working well."

As luck would have it, a warning sounded once again inside the cabin.

Mr. Weasley showed his decisiveness as a father.

He did not hesitate to abandon this aircraft that he had devoted so much effort and energy to.

He got out of the driver's seat of the Quinjet and grabbed his wife who was still sitting in the passenger seat in a daze.

Although Charlie, who had woken up from a coma, was a little dazed, after hearing the alarm in the cabin and seeing his father's actions, his still confused brain realized that the situation was not good.

He helped Percy untie the restraints on his younger siblings, while violently smashing open the door of the owl cage on the luggage rack.

With his strong and powerful arms, he grabbed Harry and Ginny as if they were chicks and held them tightly in his arms. Charlie jumped out of the open cabin door without hesitation.

Percy beside him followed suit, picked up Ron, and jumped out of the cabin following his second brother's steps.

George and Fred followed closely behind, and the last to jump out of the cabin were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.

Almost at the moment when the Weasleys jumped out of the cabin, two air-to-air missiles with long tail flames hit the Quinjet, which had lost power and could only continue to glide forward relying on inertia and its original speed.

The poor old fighter plane immediately burned into a huge fireball in the sky.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley reacted quickly and in unison, casting a protective spell behind their backs at the same time, thus preventing their family from suffering a tragic fate of having several holes pierced through their bodies by the flying debris during the free fall.

Looking at the approaching ground, the Weasleys pointed their wands at the ground, and Charlie, Percy and the twin brothers did the same.

"Shock reduction and speed stop!"

Looking at the wreckage falling helplessly in the sky, not only Mr. Weasley, but also his sons had bitter faces as if they wanted to cry but could not.

"Our luggage!"

When Ron thought of the huge sum of money, one Galleon, hidden in his suitcase, he felt so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.

Ginny's shrill voice almost pierced through her eardrums. "Owl! Our owls are still on the plane!"

Charlie reached out and patted her shoulder. "I just opened their cages before jumping off the plane. They should be fine. Owls are much better at sensing danger than we are."

As if to confirm what he said, the sound of flapping wings came from far away, and the six black spots in the sky gradually enlarged until everyone could see them clearly.

Ginny breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her owl was safe and sound.

This is a school admission gift bought for me by my two older brothers after they became rich, so nothing can go wrong with it.

However, before they had time to be happy for long, they remembered a rather serious problem.

"How...should we get to Hogwarts?"

Percy, who was obsessed with studying, was the first to think of this difficult problem that they were reluctant to face but had to face.

His words seemed to trigger a switch, and Mrs. Weasley turned into an angry lioness, grabbing Mr. Weasley's ear with an extremely ferocious expression.

"Arthur Weasley! Look at what you have done! I wonder how you will explain yourself to the Ministry when the time comes!"

"Because of you! All the children will miss the train to Hogwarts! If they are expelled from Hogwarts because of this incident, you will be dead!"

Mrs. Weasley's face and neck were all red from the time she was so angry that her capillaries were engorged. "Even if Merlin came, he couldn't save you! I said it!"

Chapter 281 You always give me some new tricks

After everyone had vented their emotions, Percy pointed out the biggest problem they were facing in their current situation.

"What should we do now?"

"Our owls are all out," Charlie pulled out his wand and kept looking around for something that could be used as writing paper, "We can write to the professors at Hogwarts..."

"That's too slow!" Ginny's voice was full of tears, "I won't be able to catch up with the Sorting!"

Charlie naturally didn't want his sister to miss the Sorting Ceremony, but in their current situation, there was really no way...

Uh, no, there is another way, as long as they are willing to pay gold galleons.

They are a bunch of living people, you can't let them die from holding their urine, right?

Taking the Knight Bus from London in the southeast of England all the way to Hogwarts Castle in the Scottish Highlands, there are so many of them that the fare is definitely a considerable expense.

But the Weasley family is no longer the poor family it used to be, but Charlie's thinking has not changed.

However, this money was the prize money that the twin brothers received for winning the Order of Merlin, and Charlie did not want his two younger brothers to pay this money in vain.

Percy was the first to react. "We can take the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron first! Then we can use the Floo Network at the Leaky Cauldron to go directly to Hogsmeade village!"

Mr. Weasley's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. "And you can buy your school supplies again in Diagon Alley!"

All their luggage had been turned to ashes in the explosion. They couldn't just go to Hogwarts empty-handed.

Otherwise, if the time comes and there is no textbook for class, what is the point of attending the class?

After Harry recovered from the initial shock of the plane crash, he also remembered something very important.

"Noah is the real owner of the Leaky Cauldron now. Perhaps we can find Old Tom and ask him to help contact Noah and help us convey our situation to the professors at Hogwarts."

……

When Noah received reports from both Old Tom and Ward at the same time, he was confused.

Noah had known for a long time that their SHIELD plane had disappeared along with the weapons and ammunition on board.

Originally, he thought that this thing was secretly packed up by Hydra Military Industry's competitors and taken back for disassembly and research, so he didn't take it seriously.

The technology tree of their Hydra military industry is all built on the tens of thousands of tons of vibranium meteorite in Wakanda.

The aviation engine used in the Quin-type fighter is actually of very low technical level, and its aerodynamic layout design is also a mess.

After all, you can't expect an arms company that has only been established for a few years to be comparable to the standards of Lockheed Martin and Sukhoi.

The data of the Quinjet can beat the F22 and Su-27, simply because their Hydra designers simply and crudely used vibranium on the fuselage and engine.

If you don’t have enough skills, you can make up for it with materials.

Without considering the bearing capacity of the material itself, we pursue a rough design with great force.

Plus the combination of magic and technology, for example -

The floating spell reduces the weight of the fuselage to improve the thrust-to-weight ratio; the traceless stretching spell expands the volume of the fuel tank and weapon bay, allowing the fighter's range to easily reach 30,000 kilometers, which is enough for global projection; the seemingly small fuselage can also be easily stuffed with dozens or even hundreds of missiles of different models and specifications, covering air, ground and ship attacks.

So, what would happen even if those people picked up the plane and dismantled it?

Can they find vibranium as raw material, or can they research space folding technology based on the magic runes on the fuselage?

If he could firmly grasp the Vibranium Meteorite, and those people could develop equipment comparable to the Quinjet without such an extremely excellent material as Vibranium, then Noah would have nothing to say.

In that case, it means that there is at least a Tony Stark or a Reed Richards in the other party's research department. The IQ of these two big guys is enough to convince him.

But what Noah didn't expect was that their SHIELD's plane was actually picked up by the two naughty twins of the Weasley family for alchemical transformation.

"This is really..."

Noah's cheeks twitched. "You guys always come up with something new for me."

He turned around and handed the matter over to Professor McGonagall, the head of Gryffindor House, to deal with, because the family that caused the trouble were all from Gryffindor House.

Professor McGonagall was also feeling overwhelmed by Mr. Weasley's troublesome behavior.

Why is it that Gryffindor House always produces so many talented people?

Could it be because the actual mascot of their school is actually an immortal phoenix, and this phoenix is ​​now the vice-headmaster of their Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

Fortunately, Mr. Weasley didn't cause any big trouble.

Although they used magic in front of the Muggles, at such an extremely high speed and beyond visual range, the Muggles had no idea what measures they had taken to avoid the pursuit of missiles.

They are skydiving, oh no, skydiving is when you have a parachute, what they are doing should be called bungee jumping.

The use of a shock-absorbing and speed-stopping spell to protect themselves during bungee jumping was not discovered by the Muggles, so the trouble they caused was still within a controllable range.

Not to mention that it was S.H.I.E.L.D. under Noah that was responsible for the aftermath of the incident.

However, this behavior should be severely reprimanded.

A howler letter from Professor McGonagall, sent over a distance of 800 miles in an emergency, was delivered to Mr. Weasley by several owls at an extremely fast speed, just before the Weasley family stepped into the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron.

Even a layer of dust had been shaken off the roof of the Leaky Cauldron.

……

When Professor McGonagall dealt with this little incident on the students' way back to school, time had unknowingly entered night.

With the harsh sound of wheels rubbing against rails, the Hogwarts Express slowly stopped at the terminal of Hogsmeade village. Urged by the broadcast on the train, the students pushed and shoved to get off the train.

"First-year students! First-year students!"

Just like he did a year ago, Hagrid was shouting loudly on the small platform, asking the first-year students to gather over.

However, compared with a year ago, this small platform at the end of Hogsmeade village has changed a lot.

The platform, which was originally pitch black without any light, is now as bright as day under the lighting. The open-air platform, which would get soaked in the rain, has also been built with a waiting shelter that can shelter from the wind and rain.

A row of street lights extended directly from the platform to Hogwarts in the distance. Even the street that the first-year students had to take when they entered school in previous years was the street where the four giants who founded Hogwarts walked.

The initial route was also equipped with street lights.

The rugged mountain road was directly repaired, a large area of ​​bushes on both sides of the narrow mountain road was cleared, the narrow road was widened to more than three times its original size, and steps were built.

Looking at the path the freshmen were taking, Hermione rubbed her eyes in disbelief, "Are we in the wrong place?"

"There was clearly no such thing last year..." Shirley scratched her head and spoke uncertainly.

It can only be said that when Dumbledore was still the headmaster of Hogwarts, he was a typical lazy politician who "did not do his job" and was unwilling to take the initiative to do anything.

But Professor McGonagall is different.

Although due to the limitations of her vision, Professor McGonagall's management methods for Hogwarts are still stuck in the past few decades, and are no different from the old methods of that bad old man Dumbledore.

But the biggest difference between her and Dumbledore is that Dumbledore, this stubborn and conservative old man, neither takes the initiative to make changes himself, but holds the power of change tightly in his own hands and refuses to give it up.

Professor McGonagall was different.

Apart from the basic administrative affairs of the school, such as personnel appointment and dismissal, school curriculum organization and arrangement, logistics supply and support, and some other miscellaneous powers that she held in her own hands, Professor McGonagall gave all the power to Noah, the senior consultant of Hogwarts.

Even though it was extremely important financial power, Professor McGonagall only retained the right to make the final signature and approval.

Even if it is signed and approved, it is just a formality.

As for how and for what Hogwarts' funds were spent, she was too lazy to ask.

Perhaps others don’t know how huge the financial resources of their student are, but the older cat girl can’t say that she knows the scale of Noah’s wealth clearly, but at least she has heard of it.

Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, and Charing Cross Road next door, such a large piece of land, this tycoon bought it as he pleased.

Ever since the Leaky Cauldron, where one can enjoy the passionate dancing of Veela, was built, every wizard in the entire wizarding world knows the famous Crown Casino in London. Even young wizards who have not yet entered school can hum a few lines of the melody of "Elysium".

Is it necessary for such a wealthy student to embezzle the little funding that Hogwarts has?