The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 258 Back to School
The annual opening day of school.

But the weather now is terrible - when Ryan got up, he saw heavy rain hitting the window outside.

After breakfast, Mr. Weasley decided to drive everyone to King's Cross Station in London. Bill and Charlie decided to go to King's Cross Station to see everyone off. Percy was going to go too, but a serious incident happened in Plymouth, so he could only eat a few bites of bread and put on his coat and leave.

"Percy's job is good in every way, except that there are too many emergencies like this." Mrs. Weasley said with some heartache after watching Percy Apparate and disappear in the rain.

"It's always like this when you run a business. When I first joined the Ministry of Magic, I had to work overtime every few days." Mr. Weasley walked forward and hugged Molly to comfort her.

"Yeah, you were so capable back then." Molly began to recall the past, and then quickly responded. "The children are here, I have to clean up the house."

Everyone present felt like they were being fed a mouthful of dog food. After dinner, everyone took the old car to London. Unfortunately, the weather in London was just as bad. When they got off the train at King's Cross Station, it was raining even harder than before, and they couldn't even see the scenery outside the window. After opening the door, raindrops poured down on them. When they carried their boxes through the busy streets and walked into the station, they were soaked.

The weather is very bad today. After entering Platform 9 3/4, you can see many Hogwarts students and parents on the platform, looking like dark ghosts under the billowing smoke from the front of the train.

After finding a place to put his luggage, Ryan ran to the platform to say goodbye to Mrs. Weasley, Bill and Charlie. When Charlie hugged Ginny and said goodbye to her, he revealed that he would probably see everyone in school again soon this year. Later, when asked by the twins, he revealed that Hogwarts might hold some major event this year. Unfortunately, the whistle blew before she finished speaking, and everyone had to hurry to get on the train.

"Thank you for letting us stay, Mrs. Weasley," said Hermione, leaning out of the window to speak to Mrs. Weasley once they were on the train and the doors were shut.

"Indeed this summer will be a very fond memory of my student years, Mrs. Weasley," Ryan said.

After thanking him and using magic to dry his clothes, Ryan sat in his seat and began to recall something: "Moody was not attacked this morning, which means something has changed. But Persa's disappearance shows that Voldemort's return has become a reality. But how will Voldemort be resurrected this time?" After losing the advantage of prophecy, Ryan felt that the future seemed to be hidden in a fog.

Later, Harry also came to this carriage and told about the nightmare about Voldemort he had during the summer vacation. Ron and Hermione just thought that Harry might be too nervous, and only Ryan knew that this meant that Voldemort's return had entered the countdown. However, he did not say this because the plot has changed now. Saying this without knowing where the enemy is lurking will have no effect except being regarded as a lunatic.

The journey was uneventful, except for Malfoy who came in to provoke Ron. This made Ron doubt the tutoring of pure-blood families again. However, Malfoy's words were indeed hurtful, and Ron still had a gloomy face when the train arrived at Hogsmeade Station.

The weather outside was the same as Ron's mood: even though they took a half-day train ride from the south of England to the north of England, the weather still did not improve, and it could even be said to be worse. The rain was falling fast and hard, like buckets of cold water constantly pouring on their heads.

Ryan took the owl cage from Hermione and cast a waterproof spell on his friends around him. Then he stepped on the puddles of water and got on the carriage.

"Oh my god, taking a boat across the lake in this weather. It would be very dangerous without magic." After getting on the bus, Hermione sighed as she looked out the window at Hagrid and the first-year students walking towards the lake.

"Magic can be dangerous too. I remember a boat capsized in this kind of weather. Luckily the squids in the lake rescued us in time." Ron's mood had calmed down a bit at this point, so he explained to the three people in the carriage who were not born in the magical world.

When we arrived at the castle and walked into the hall, Peeves started throwing balloons filled with water. Fortunately, Ryan was prepared to help himself and Hermione block all the water drops. But Harry was unlucky and was hit on the head by a water balloon, so that when he walked into the restaurant, his hair was still dripping. As we all know, Peeves represents the souls of all the children in this school who are suppressed by their emotions, similar to Dementors. So he is different from other ghosts. He can pick up various objects but can also be attacked by various objects.

However, because Peeves is too old, even when Dumbledore was a student, Peeves was already here, so the teachers only manage Peeves to a limited extent to prevent him from going too far. Of course, this is also because Peeves is directly tied to Hogwarts Castle. As long as the castle exists, Peeves will always exist.

However, as far as Ryan knows, the most important information about Peeves is the unsuccessful exorcism of him in 1876 in "Hogwarts, A History". The administrator at the time used scimitars, crossbows, pistols and a cannon in Hogwarts. However, he failed. Peeves even randomly shot at the windows after escaping the trap, putting everyone's lives in danger, and the castle was evacuated. Until the headmistress at the time, Eupraxia Moore, made concessions.

You have to know that in 1876, guns had entered the era of metal shell breech-loading guns. After seeing this record in the book, Ryan confirmed two points: First, the reason why electronic products cannot be used in Hogwarts is because of the strong magical radiation, similar to the electromagnetic pulse bomb that seriously interferes with all electronic products. It is not an anti-Muggle item or anti-technology spell imposed from the world rule level as some fan fiction in the previous life said.

Second, from the description in the book that Peeves opened fire and put everyone in danger, Muggle weapons can indeed pose a sufficient threat to wizards, at least young wizards. This conclusion prompted Ryan to use the Fat Man nuclear bomb to bomb the group of dark wizards in the pyramid. However, the dark wizards who survived the explosion in the pyramid also proved that Muggle weapons posed almost no threat to some powerful wizards, which also dispelled Ryan's plan to use the Fat Man nuclear bomb to attack Voldemort.

After everyone entered the auditorium, the senior students dried their clothes and began to help the junior students sort out their clothes. After all, today was the opening ceremony, and it was definitely inappropriate to be sloppy.

After sorting out the clothes, everyone started talking. Colin Creevey told Ryan that his younger brother would also enter school this year. Ryan deeply suspected that their parents were probably not Muggles but Squibs, because for Muggle wizards, the probability of two brothers becoming wizards was too small.

A man with fake scars sat on the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's seat on the podium, and many people noticed this. Ron looked at him and whispered, "Oh my god, Mad-Eye Moody. He's the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this year?"

"Mad-Eye Moody? Who is this?" Harry asked curiously.

"A retired top Auror." Ron explained to the people who gathered around him, "My father admires him very much, and it's no wonder that half of the cells in Azkaban are filled with him. But because of this, he has a lot of enemies, which gradually made him a little neurotic. Once someone tried to shake his hand but he mistook it for an attack and injured the other person, so he retired. I didn't expect Dumbledore to ask him to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts this year."

"PTSD," Ryan concluded.

"P--what's that?" Now it was Ron's turn to be confused.

"Post-traumatic stress disorder often occurs in people who have experienced war. Their past experiences make them irritable, overly alert, amnesiac and easily frightened. One of my parents' Iraqi patients was like this," Hermione explained.

"Indeed, that's what Moody is like." After listening to Hermione's narration, Ron expressed that he absolutely agreed with her point of view.

As soon as they finished discussing this topic, the door of the auditorium opened, which also meant that the opening ceremony officially began.

(End of this chapter)