The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 497 Reading Club Practice (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Everything went smoothly during the class time after this week. Ryan took one night to go to the Room of Requirement to check the situation of the Vanishing Cabinet. After his inspection, he was sure that someone had checked the Vanishing Cabinet in the past few days, which meant that a conspiracy was about to begin.

However, Harry gave everyone a surprise in the Potions class this week. Except for the time when Ryan chose to use alchemy to cheat, Harry became the student with the highest potion-making skills in the Potions class. Slughorn praised Harry's ability and said that he rarely taught such a talented student.

Harry naturally shared the secrets of the Half-Blood Prince textbook with his comrades who had participated in the battle of the Ministry of Magic. After reading it, Ryan praised Snape's talent as a student. "If you don't master the basic analysis method of alchemy, you need to have an extremely detailed understanding of the properties of all the raw materials to complete these potion improvements. In addition, you need sufficient inspiration and meticulous observation. This requires very high personal qualities."

"That means the half-blood prince is most likely a girl." This was what Ron said suddenly after dinner on Saturday night, after listening to Ryan's analysis last week.

"Sissi Snape?" Ryan secretly complained, but Harry denied it categorically. "His name is 'Half-Blood Prince'. How many girls call themselves princes?"

Ryan looked up at the clock in the corner of the holiday common room and said to Hermione, "It's ten past seven. We need to go to the reading club meeting. Today is the first meeting of the year, so we may need to clean up first." After saying hello and goodbye, he and Hermione left the common room as Harry and Ron watched.

The house elves at Hogwarts are indeed hardworking. Even after a holiday, this party classroom is still clean and tidy. It can be seen that they will maintain everything in the school even when no one is around.

Before long, all the members of the reading club arrived. This year, there were a lot of personnel changes. The Weasley twins could not continue to attend the party because they graduated. Of course, they did not withdraw, but became members of the reading club as sponsors. In addition, the fight between Ryan and Hermione in the Ministry of Magic last year also attracted a lot of people. After a selection, three people joined the reading club this year, including the Creevey brothers who wanted to find another place to study because Harry no longer held the DA. And Hermione's roommate, Angela Marcus, who had a capable short golden hair.

Angela Marcus' joining was a small accident. Last semester, Hermione needed to introduce the Muggle force when she was working on the magazine "Look, This is Muggles", but she couldn't finish it for a long time. Angela came out of the bathroom after taking a shower and saw Hermione's problem and helped her. After that, the relationship between the two improved greatly. After observing Angela for half a semester, Hermione pulled her into the reading club after the start of this semester. According to Hermione, in the current situation, Angela, a Muggle wizard born in a military family, would be the most needed person.

After the introduction of the newcomers, it was time to answer questions. The lower grade students didn't have many questions, but the fifth graders and above had a lot of questions to answer. Fortunately, after such a long period of running-in, everyone had learned to answer each other's questions, so in the end, Ryan and his team didn't have many questions to answer. After an hour, all these questions were answered, and now it was time for practice.

"Our practice today is a large-scale melee. I know that even in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in school, practice is often one-on-one. This was of course not a big deal in the past, because when ordinary people need to use magic to fight, it is often only one-on-one, and Aurors and strikers will receive special training before taking up their posts. But according to the current dire situation, I think everyone needs to adapt to melee in order to be able to escape in a real battle."

"Why escape?" Neville asked in a puzzled tone. "Isn't it fighting?"

"I also hope that everyone has the ability to fight the Death Eaters." Hermione stepped forward to explain. "But based on our combat experience in the Ministry of Magic last year, the best contribution that most of you can make when encountering such a battle is to leave the battle group as quickly as possible to prevent those combatants from being distracted by protecting us."

"We're not that bad, are we?" said Justin Finch-Fletchley, who got an O in last year's Defence Against the Dark Arts OWLs. "At least we should be able to play a role in the battle."

"Is that really the case?" Ryan smiled. "To be frank, Hermione and I are on par with the Death Eaters. How about letting you experience it now? Hermione and I will fight you right here. Anyone who wants to challenge us can come up." "You mean, there are only two of you?" Neville asked in disbelief. "And we can all go on stage at the same time if we want to?"

"Yes, that's right." Ryan nodded. "I need to let you experience what it's like to face a real evil dark wizard, so that you can avoid unnecessary casualties." At this point, Ryan thought of the two Creevey brothers who died in the last battle in the original book. Since they are now members of the reading club, Ryan naturally hopes that the two of them will live well. In this case, it is very important to let every member of the reading club recognize what a real war is like.

After listening to what Ryan said, every member was eager to try, and finally they decided to participate in the fight as a whole.

"Then we need a bigger venue." Ryan said. Fortunately, the rooms on both sides of the corridor were empty, so after blocking both ends of the corridor, Ryan and Hermione spent fifteen minutes cleaning up the house and adding some obstacles, so that the entire corridor plus the empty rooms on both sides became their competition venue today.

"Okay, you can go in first. As soon as we step into the corridor in five minutes, the battle will begin. The situation we encountered in the Brain Hall of the Ministry of Magic is very similar to now, so you must take the practice seriously." After Hermione explained to the members of the reading club who were watching their arrangement, she and Ryan retreated to the corridor entrance and started counting.

Miss Marcus was elected as the organizer. Naturally, she couldn't make any detailed arrangements in just five minutes, so Angela simply divided everyone into four groups, and then roughly arranged their positions and what to do, and that was it.

After five minutes, Ryan and Hermione came out from the corner at the end of the corridor, holding their wands one after the other. The moment they stepped into the corridor, three or four magical lights burst out from both sides and shot towards them.

"Interesting. Angela, who comes from a military family, is indeed talented in combat. When organizing a group of rabble, she simply puts most of them on the front line and attacks with maximum power at the first opportunity. This is also the best way to unleash the combat effectiveness of these novices." Ryan thought as he waved his wand in a circle and dodged to the side. Several spells brushed past his body and fell to the ground. At the same time, a palm-sized translucent barrier appeared in front of him, blocking an unavoidable stun spell.

"Can the Shield Charm be used like this?" Neville widened his eyes in surprise, and then tried to command the group of young wizards with him to launch an attack.

However, Ryan and the others reacted faster. Just when the little wizards who had just attacked had finished casting spells and had not had time to decide whether to hide or continue attacking, they saw Ryan and Hermione shaking their wands quickly at the same time, and several spells were fired in a very short period of time.

The speed of these spells was amazing. Before the ambushed wizards could react, they were hit by a combination of disarming spells and stunning spells and fell to the ground. Less than half a minute after entering the corridor, Neville was knocked unconscious by a stunning spell. Ryan and his team successfully defeated most of the reading club members, leaving only Zhang Qiu, Angela, Justin and Luna.

(End of this chapter)