The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 501 Learning to Fight (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan arrived at the reading party on the second Saturday of the school term early. Because today was the time for the members of the reading party to make a decision on whether to learn combat, perhaps for this reason, others also came early today. After seeing that everyone below had arrived, Ryan simply started today's activities early.

To his surprise, everyone chose to learn how to fight. When asked why, Zhang Qiu's answer was the most representative. "I really don't like war, but the problem is that even if I don't actively approach the war, the war is coming straight to me. In this case, seriously learning some combat skills can at least allow me and my important people to survive in this cruel war."

Yes, to survive, this is such a small wish. And in war, such a small wish is hard to fulfill. Ryan sighed silently in his heart, then nodded and said to the people below: "I will teach you how to fight. These methods may not have strong lethality, and may not look impressive. But I promise that what I teach you are the experience summed up by countless people in the bloody war, which can help you survive this war."

After quickly solving the homework problem, Ryan and Hermione took turns to let the members of the reading club learn to fight directly in battle through actual combat exercises. At the same time, they also taught them some magic suitable for combat, such as imitating Professor McGonagall's extremely simplified version of the fire control combat method.

Everyone practiced very seriously, especially the new magic that they learned, and sometimes they would hurt themselves. But the injured students just applied a little potion given by Ryan on the wound and continued to practice. They didn't stop practicing until curfew was approaching. After telling everyone to pay attention to safety during practice, he stood on the podium and watched everyone leave before packing up and walking out of the classroom. At this time, Hermione was waiting for him at the door.

"I always feel that practicing like this is quite dangerous. Everyone is too impatient." On the way back to the common room, Hermione said with some concern. "Can you think of a way to make them slow down their pace of study a little bit next time? After all, they are just students now, and this kind of practice is too much pressure on them."

"I don't think this is a problem, and I think the way everyone is practicing now is just right." Ryan said in a low voice: "Members of our reading club either have ordinary parents like the Creevey brothers, or are destined to face the mysterious man like Neville. In the current situation, they may need to step onto the battlefield at any time to fight to defend themselves or people important to them. I think what they need now is to quickly improve their strength. As for safety issues, I think we need to pay more attention to them and try to minimize the harm they suffer."

"Damn dark wizards, I really don't understand why they would harm the elderly, the weak, women and children, when these people obviously pose no threat to them." Hermione clenched her fists and spat out these words through her teeth.

"Because this is war, war never changes." Ryan sighed. "So this is why our hands are stained with blood, hoping that this will allow as many innocent people as possible to survive."

The war affected everyone. The next day, when they were having breakfast, they found that Hannah Abbott, a member of the reading club, was in a low mood. After asking, they learned that Eloise Midgen from their college had dropped out. Her father took their family to the United States.

This was not the only example, because last night Hermione heard in her dormitory that Parvati Patil was also preparing to leave Hogwarts. Their father felt that Britain was not safe and was going to take them back to their hometown in India. However, she and her twin sister did not want to leave school, because compared to the hometown they had never returned to, Britain was their real home.

Of course, many people chose to leave for their own reasons. While Ryan was eating, Neville came over and handed Ryan an open short letter, which he had received this morning. The sender was Hannah Abbott.

In the letter, Hannah Abbott told Longbottom that she was woken up by Professor Sprout at 2 a.m. yesterday and went directly to St. Mungo's because her mother escaped from the attack at home with serious injuries and was sent here for rescue. She was out of danger only half an hour ago. So she might need to take a leave of absence to take care of her mother at St. Mungo's for a long time recently.

The reason why Neville showed this letter to Ryan was because Hannah expressed her gratitude to Ryan in a very grateful tone. It was because of Ryan that her mother bought the highest level of protection bracelet in the first place. And it was the bracelet that blocked two sudden spells during the attack, giving her mother the opportunity to launch an emergency escape method and escape. If it weren't for this bracelet, her mother would probably have died yesterday.

After saying goodbye to Neville, who was full of relief, Hermione said she was going to finish reading the book "Abnormal Transfiguration" that she borrowed from the restricted section of the library yesterday. So Ryan could only go to the Quidditch field alone with his classmates to watch the selection of the Gryffindor team this year. On the way, they saw Ron, who was participating in the selection, interacting with Lavender from a distance. However, when Ryan rushed over, he found that the participants in the selection had already stayed on the field, so he had to shrug and climb onto the stands.

There was nothing interesting to see at the beginning of the preliminary selection. There was even a group of freshmen who couldn't even fly. After Ryan saw that there was no one around, he simply took out a piece of mithril from his space bag and started carving. Since many places needed alchemical consumables after the outbreak of the war, he planned to make an alchemy table that could mass-produce low-level alchemical products, and now he was making the core alchemy array plate used for operation on the alchemy table. Just when Ryan had carved the magic flow line, he felt someone sitting next to him. He turned around and found that it was Hermione who had just rushed over from the castle.

"It seems I arrived just in time." Hermione looked towards the center of the field and said, "Harry probably hasn't selected all the players yet."

The final goalkeeper selection was in progress at this time, and Cormac McLaggen saved five goals in one go. Fortunately, with Lavender's encouragement, Ron also saved five goals.

"Ron, come on, I believe you are the best!" Lavender put her hand to her mouth and shouted. At this time, Harry decided to play an extra time to choose a goalkeeper from Ron and Cormac. After hearing Lavender's shout, Ron in mid-air first looked down, and after seeing who shouted, his face turned from green to red, and he looked very excited.

"That's it." Ryan said to Hermione after seeing this scene, because Ron is a nervous player, and his overall performance is greatly affected by his emotions. And now Ron, who is in high spirits, is in the best condition.

Sure enough, in the next competition, Cormac McLaggen made a mistake on the 11th ball, and Ron finally qualified as the goalkeeper. Ryan and Hermione came down from the stands to congratulate him.

After leaving the stadium, Harry and Ron decided to visit Hagrid. Although Hagrid was not angry that they did not sign up for the course this year, Harry still felt the need to visit. And Ryan, like last weekend, used Hermione as his cover and ran to the centaur village in the Forbidden Forest to treat the werewolf that Lupin had brought.

The werewolf brought this time was a former Auror named William, so after the treatment, he only needed Lupin's guidance to quickly figure out how to use the giant wolf's body. Taking advantage of this time, Lupin told Ryan about something he was worried about recently.

"The news about us is spreading more and more. I'm worried that more and more werewolves will be attracted, and it is very likely that they will not be limited to werewolves in the UK."

"What's wrong with that?" Ryan asked curiously, "The You-Know-Who can look for helpers all over Europe, so why can't we also go to Europe to shelter werewolves who want to live a peaceful life? As far as I know, neutral werewolves are the majority. We may be able to win over most of the werewolves to our side in the future, which can also weaken the power of the You-Know-Who in disguise. Why are you worried about this?"

"I am mainly worried about the saturation of our farm's production." Lupin said what he was worried about. As for the land, it was enough. At worst, he could plant some more magical plants that required a lot of manpower. Lupin recently discovered that after treatment, werewolves had a special affinity for nature and were no worse than some professional wizards in planting.

"Don't worry, there will be enough market for what you grow." After hearing Lupin's worries, Ryan smiled and comforted him.

(End of this chapter)