The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 297 Teaching and Learning (Please subscribe, collect, and vote)
"Rita Skeeter is a troublemaker. How could she say that?" The next morning, when Ryan went to the restaurant for breakfast, he saw Ron holding the Daily Prophet and said to Harry beside him.

"What's in the newspaper that makes you so angry?" Ryan sat down, took a piece of bread, spread jam on it and asked.

"That old witch actually accused Crouch of wasting taxpayers' money by using the Ministry's public funds to pay for his medical expenses." Ron was a little excited. "Although everyone in our family doesn't like Crouch and thinks he is too old-fashioned, it is undeniable that the doctor said that he was hospitalized this time because of excessive psychological pressure and fatigue. Think about it, he was busy organizing the Triwizard Tournament during the holiday, so this should be considered a work-related injury. Do Ministry of Magic staff have to pay for their own treatment for work-related injuries in the future?"

"Too much psychological pressure? Maybe it's because his son ran away." Ryan thought so, and of course he wouldn't say it out loud before there was solid evidence. Of course, he also understood why Ron was so angry. After all, his father and brother both worked in the Ministry of Magic. If the Ministry of Magic really cut the subsidies for workers injured because of this, the poorer families like Ron's would be the most unlucky.

So he comforted Ron. "Anyway, everyone knows that Rita Skeeter is a boaster, and so many staff members of the Ministry of Magic need this work injury compensation, especially those Aurors, strikers and members of the incident reversal team who are fighting on the front line. So I don't think the Ministry of Magic will believe what that woman says."

Because today is Saturday, Ryan and Hermione practiced magic in the Room of Requirement as usual this morning. It must be said that Hermione's fighting ability is constantly improving in this kind of practice, especially as a girl who is good at thinking. After each failure, Hermione will summarize the reasons for the failure to avoid the same mistake next time, which also allows Ryan to find her progress in each sparring.

During a break after a sparring match, Hermione wiped the sweat off her face, drank a sip of water and asked, "By the way, Ryan, I felt like you've been out recently. Did you learn any new magic? After all, I couldn't learn the life magic and nature magic you taught me before because of my talent problem. So I want to see if you have any new magic."

"Wait? How do you know I went out recently?" Ryan asked in surprise. After all, he had never told anyone about this kind of thing.

"Just observe carefully." Hermione said, brushing the hair stuck to her forehead by sweat behind her ears. "I noticed that you have changed a lot today. You seem to be more elegant than yesterday. This cannot be achieved in a short period of time. So I think you have gone to another world, just like the last time we went to the world of Beauty and the Beast."

In fact, Ryan had already noticed the change in his temperament, so when he came back, he tried to calm down and return to his original state. This method worked very well, and neither Harry nor Ron noticed these changes. However, it still couldn't be hidden from Hermione who had been noticing him.

"Well, I stayed in a world with dragons and magic for more than half a year." Anyway, since the last incident, Hermione also knew that Ryan would sometimes go to other worlds to wander around. So he admitted it straightforwardly.

"Although the level of magic used in that world is not as good as ours, there are some very unique magics. But to learn them you must first learn High Valyrian and Asshai." After saying that, Ryan used his wand to draw a silver-blue ball of light from his temple.

"What is this?" "This is a new method I recently developed after studying alchemy. It can copy part of one's memory to other people. Of course, this kind of memory is limited to directions that do not involve too strong supernatural powers. The only requirement is that the recipient must completely trust the memory giver."

"It's okay, give it to me." After saying that, Hermione took the ball of light with her wand and placed it on her temple without hesitation according to Ryan's instructions. Then the entire ball of light was absorbed.

An hour later, Hermione happily watched a mouse made of shadows dragging a wooden target from the bookshelf under her command. Then she pointed a finger at the wooden target next to her and chanted a high Valyrian spell. A trace of blood mist emerged from her fingers and left a shallow cut on the wooden board as if it were a blade. "These magics are quite useful, just enough to make up for my lack of magic in combat, especially since they don't require a wand. But you still need to practice to become proficient. Especially the curse spell, I don't think this spell should be so good that I have to chant the spell for more than ten minutes to reach this level." After saying that, Hermione pointed to the potted flower next to her. There was only a coin-sized spot on one leaf that looked strangely like a burnt spot.

"This kind of thing can't be accomplished overnight. If you are too impatient, you will only hurt yourself." Ryan stopped Hermione, who seemed a little too excited, from practicing. After all, she was a little overdrawn in magic power. If she continued to practice for a while, he would have to help Hermione out. In order to avoid this embarrassing scene, Ryan could only stop Hermione, who was a little out of control because she had learned new knowledge.

"That's right." Hermione waved her hand to disperse the mouse made of black fog. "Being too impatient is not a good thing."

When the two of them sat on the cushions to rest, Ryan seemed to recall something and asked, "What do you think of the magic today?"

"Very good!" Hermione said with eyes wide open. "Simple and effective. It shows that every civilization has its merits. I am now more eager to learn about this world."

"What I mean is, do you feel that the magic we learned today is like dark magic? There is blood, shadows, and curses." Ryan finally asked his question.

"Of course not." At this point Hermione sat up straight, "I said a long time ago that the biggest feature of dark magic is that it can only be released with the help of various negative emotions, so learning dark magic is a very bad thing. Until now, I stick to this view and refuse to learn any dark magic."

"But your magic doesn't require negative emotions to drive it, so it's not black magic. As for the issue of magic effects looking evil, think about it, for the victim, being burned to death by flames is much more painful than being killed directly by Avada Kedavra. So the spell effect doesn't mean anything."

Hermione shrugged. "Of course I know that most people out there don't agree with our way of dividing things, so I will definitely try not to use these magics in front of everyone. You don't have to worry about that."

Well, it seems that I was overly worried, Ryan thought. Sure enough, Hermione and I had similar understandings of black magic. In distinguishing what is black magic, she insisted that only magic that uses negative emotions to cause adverse effects on the soul is black magic, and nothing else is considered black magic.

This is why Hermione knew Ryan could use life magic and had seen Ryan controlling the mummy in the pyramid temple but never said anything. In her eyes, these magics were just ordinary spells like the usual spells and transformations, just a neutral force, without any distinction between good and evil.

After resting for a while, the two practiced for a while before leaving the Room of Requirement. However, when leaving, Hermione took several history books in High Valyrian from Ryan, saying that she wanted to learn more about that magical world.

(End of this chapter)