The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 419 Black Magic Quill
After the Christmas holiday, the weather was gloomy, and everyone's mood was similar to the weather. Because Umbridge's presence made everyone feel uncomfortable, especially since she started to use the quill filled with dark magic to physically punish students. Maybe she felt that she could no longer control the situation in the school, so she had to resort to violence to shut everyone up.

For example, after Christmas, Harry made little progress in the brain-blocking exercises taught by Professor Snape, which annoyed him. At the same time, the relationship between his father and Snape made him suffer a lot in class. So he couldn't control his temper and contradicted Umbridge in a class, questioning her class order and teaching content. As a result, he was put in detention by the pink toad. When he came back from Umbridge the next night, he had white wounds on his hands that had just healed.

As soon as Harry returned to the common room, Ginny asked with concern about the content of the toad's confinement. Although Harry didn't want to worry Ginny and only said that the confinement was just writing some sentences, the careful Ginny still noticed something wrong from the slightly frowned brows of Harry when he just held his hand. Soon, she found the scar on the back of Harry's hand.

"Is this what you said about making you write a sentence?" Ginny looked very angry, her red hair burning like a flame. Harry thought he vaguely saw a younger version of Mrs. Weasley. "That old hag! She's not normal! Go talk to McGonagall about this!"

"No," said Harry without hesitation, "I don't want Umbridge to know that she's upset me. She'd be pleased. Besides, Professor McGonagall can't control Umbridge now."

"What about Professor Dumbledore?" Ginny offered another option.

"No, I haven't even seen him at school recently. And I feel like he's avoiding me. I guess it might have something to do with the terrible nightmares I've been having lately." Harry was a little frustrated.

"Well, if you don't want the professor to know, that's fine. But your hand can't be like this." Ginny pulled Harry to the corner of the common room. "Hermione, Ryan, can you help me see what's wrong with Harry's hand?"

Ryan and Hermione looked up from the pile of parchment and saw the marks on Harry's hand.

"The old woman Umbridge's detention was to cut your hand with a razor blade?" Hermione looked at the marks on Harry's hand in surprise. "Do wizards allow students to be tortured?"

"No, it's not." Harry waved his hand. "She just made me write with a black quill, and when I wrote, cuts appeared on my hands, and the quill seemed to write with my blood."

"At least this thing is likely to meet the definition of dark magic items by wizards." Ryan said as he pulled out his wand. "Stretch out your hand, let me see." Harry was a little reluctant. He didn't want to show his wound to his companions because he felt that it would make him look weak. But in the end, he couldn't resist and stretched out his hand when Ginny pulled him.

"The Light of Elendil." Ryan tapped the wound on Harry's left hand with his wand and chanted a spell in Elvish. A silver-white light full of vitality enveloped Harry's left hand. Under the silver light, a faint black mist floated out from the back of his hand, and then quickly melted in the silver light.

"This is a very cleverly made dark magic prop." Ryan took out a ceramic box and threw it to Ginny. "Apply this to Harry's wound, and the wound will heal quickly without any sequelae."

"Ingeniously made? How did you know that?" Ginny opened the lid and found that the box was filled with a green paste that looked like emerald green and had a pleasant smell. She used her little finger to pick up a little bit and put it on the back of Harry's hand, and asked at the same time. "Wizards have many magical props like this that can inflict wounds on the opponent without touching them. My father encounters several of them every year."

"No, this is different." Ryan found that several people were staring at him curiously, so he decided to explain. "Generally, dark magic props will have obvious dark magic reactions, and even the wounds caused by these props will have the same dark magic reactions, but Harry's wounds don't have that obvious reaction." After saying that, Ryan asked Harry: "Is it true that every time you finish writing a sentence, the wound on the back of your hand will heal quickly, leaving only a little pain, but this pain will slowly accumulate, until the time you finish confinement, the pain has accumulated to the point where it is unbearable."

"No, I can bear it." Harry paid attention to an inexplicable point, and Ryan looked at him helplessly. He immediately realized something and said, "Yes, this is what happened to me."

"Then this reaction means that the outer layer of the black magic pen made by Umbridge is likely to have a magic similar to the healing spell, so it conceals the fluctuations of the black magic power inside. Ordinary people cannot detect the black magic inside unless they destroy the quill pen. And as the senior prosecutor of Hogwarts and the senior deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic, no one can perform destructive inspections on his magic items." Ryan explained in a low voice.

"Can we find out something from the origin of this pen, such as purchasing illegal dark magic products?" Hermione thought of something.

"There shouldn't be anything to be found." Ryan shook his head. "As far as I know, Umbridge is a very careful person. So she shouldn't be caught in this situation. And I think it's very likely that she made this pen herself."

"How is it possible? Her?" Harry laughed contemptuously, "That old woman who only taught us to study is capable of this?"

Ryan finally understood why Harry and his friends in the original book were so bold as to hold their DA meeting as usual when they were inexplicably short of one person. It was because in Harry's mind, this person who had never shown her magical skills in front of everyone was probably the same kind of person as Lockhart in the second grade, so naturally he didn't take her seriously.

"Don't look down on Umbridge. It's true that her ability to climb to this position today is closely related to her scheming. But a person who only knows how to flatter others would not be able to climb from the lowest level of the Ministry of Magic to this position today." Ryan saw that Harry and the others still had expressions of disbelief on their faces, so he revealed a bombshell. "According to the information I collected before, Umbridge can conjure a cat-like patronus."

"Merlin!" "It's unbelievable." Harry and the others opened their eyes in surprise when they heard the last sentence. Especially for Harry, as a wizard who could create a physical Patronus, he knew how difficult it was.

"Then why doesn't she show her magic? I've never seen her show her magic." After a few seconds of silence, Ginny asked the question in her heart, because wizards would respect those with powerful magic anyway, and if Umbridge showed her magic level, the resistance she would probably encounter would be much smaller than it is now.

"Because she knows that she entered Hogwarts as a member of the Ministry of Magic. In this case, she must make the most of her identity. If she uses magic, she will put herself in the front line of the fight. Umbridge is an extremely selfish person. She turned to Fudge only because Fudge could bring her benefits, so she would not give everything for Fudge."

At this point, Ryan used his wand to dissolve the remaining dark magic power on Harry's other hand, then put away his wand and said to Ginny and Harry, "Okay, the wound on Harry's hand has healed, but I personally suggest that you try not to provoke Umbridge recently, because we have more valuable things to do than venting our emotions."

"There is some truth in what you said. I will try my best to control myself." Harry turned his head and said solemnly when Ginny was applying the medicine on Harry.

(End of this chapter)