The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 506 Busy
Katie was discharged from the school hospital the next day, and the news that she was attacked at the Three Broomsticks spread throughout the school. Unfortunately, in her memory, she was controlled by the Imperius Curse as soon as she opened the bathroom door. The only thing she could remember was that the person who controlled her spoke in the voice of a little girl.

"Information of no reference value." This was Ryan's evaluation. "A person who can buy a cursed necklace for 1500 Galleons can definitely buy a polyjuice potion, and turning into a little girl would hardly arouse suspicion even if someone saw it."

Harry nodded after hearing this. He still believed that Malfoy was plotting something this year, and Ryan's guess about the attack perfectly matched his thinking. "I've said a long time ago that Malfoy is now a Death Eater."

"But to be honest, we don't need to know who Malfoy is now, but we need to find out what conspiracy he is planning to come to school this year." Ryan looked at Harry. "So, you were a little impulsive before. Malfoy seems very alert now, and it's difficult for us to track what he is doing recently even if we try hard."

When Monday came, Headmaster Dumbledore asked Harry to go to his office as usual. In the Herbology class the next day, while everyone was dealing with the knotty vines that were covered with knots and could hurt people, Harry told Ryan and the others about the memory that Professor Dumbledore had taken him to see before.

"Wow, that's terrifying, You-Know-Who as a teenager," Ron whispered. "But I still don't understand why Dumbledore would let you watch that. I mean, it's interesting, but what's the point?"

"Of course it does make sense—" Ryan replied. He and Hermione had just worked together to pull out a grapefruit-sized, pulsating pod from the stump of the knotweed vine, which looked extremely disgusting. But before he finished answering, a voice came from far away.

"Well done!" Professor Sprout said loudly. She hurried over to praise Ryan and Hermione, then looked at Harry and his group, "You are lagging behind. Other students have already started, and some have already got a pod!"

Harry and his companions could only deal with the plant in front of them. As soon as Ron stretched out his hand, a long thorny vine suddenly sprang out from the top, swinging in the air and even catching his clothes. Harry had intended to take this opportunity to reach out and take out the pods in the tree hole, but as soon as he reached in, his elbow was caught by the hole. The two could only fight the plant with all their strength, desperately dragging and twisting the vines to reduce the pressure on Harry's hand.

"How did you do that?" Amid the chaos, Ron shouted to Ryan and the others who were all dressed neatly.

"Look, the book 'Carnivorous Trees' says that making a sound of a certain frequency can make these trees quiet down for a while." Ryan said as he used his wand to knock a tuning fork. Ron found that Ryan had carved several runes on the tuning fork. "I prepared in advance when I was preparing for the class." Ryan and Hermione worked together to take out the sixth pod from the hole of the basically motionless knotweed tree.

"Alchemists are simply cheating—" Ron helplessly pried open the tree hole and finally got their first pod. At this time, Ryan and the others had already started squeezing the pods. A slender three-edged dagger appeared in Hermione's hand. She held the dagger and pointed quickly, piercing the pod perfectly with each strike. Soon, the bowl was filled with small, wriggling, light green caterpillar-like bumps.

When they returned to the castle after class, Ron asked Ryan, "I haven't finished talking about that thing in class just now. Why do you think that the story of Harry reading the mysterious man when he was a teenager is meaningful?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ryan found that Harry also came over to listen. After looking at Harry and the others, Ryan said seriously: "The mysterious man and Harry are lifelong enemies. If Harry wants to defeat that devil, he must be fully prepared. And thoroughly understanding your opponent is an indispensable part of preparation."

At this point Ryan looked at Harry who seemed a little unconvinced and asked, "Harry, what do you know about the You-Know-Who? Apart from the fact that he is a powerful dark wizard and your lifelong enemy, did you know anything else before Headmaster Dumbledore taught you? For example, the You-Know-Who's hobbies, habits, tone of voice, etc."

"--Sorry, I don't understand." After thinking for a while, Harry's face became serious. Because he found that he really knew almost nothing about Voldemort just like Ryan said. After being enlightened by Ryan, a sense of shame rushed directly to his mind, making his whole face turn red. "Harry, are you okay?" Seeing Harry's face flushed as if he had a fever, Ron asked with some concern.

"It's okay." Harry shook his hand. "I just feel that what I did before was far from enough. Since I have to fight Voldemort, I can't be as ignorant of him as I am now. I will definitely take Headmaster Dumbledore's lessons seriously in the future. Voldemort came to kill me directly because he heard half of the prophecy and didn't understand the details. As a result, he was killed by the Killing Curse. So Voldemort has become much more cautious now. That's why he sent the Death Eaters to the Ministry of Magic to snatch the prophecy ball. It can be seen that he is trying to understand me thoroughly and then kill me. If I want to defeat him, I must really understand him. He can't know me thoroughly now, while I know nothing about him."

In the following days, Harry seemed very busy because he needed to integrate his new Gryffindor Quidditch team. Ryan tried to make some new magic props. Although the necklace was taken away by Professor McGonagall last time, Ryan figured out what the death curse was with the help of the runes on the box on the way to school. Now, Ryan tried to integrate this magic into some of his offensive alchemical props.

However, the first step is to find some kind of counter-curse, otherwise it would be terrible if it accidentally hurts friendly forces. So during this period of time, while Harry and Ron were sweating on the Quidditch field, Ryan and Hermione were busy in the alchemy laboratory making defensive props that could resist the instant death effect.

On the night before the first game of this semester, Ryan finally made a new defensive prop. Of course, this was inseparable from Hermione's help. After she began to learn and master the rules of death, their analysis of this kind of thing containing the power of death became much simpler than before.

"Is your new creation useful?" Hermione stood beside the alchemy table and looked at the bracelet in Ryan's hand with suspicion, because in her eyes, this bracelet looked no different from the gold defensive bracelets Ryan had made before.

"Of course it works." Ryan replied proudly, "Although it looks like an old product, I added a rune inlaid with mithril to prevent instant death magic. At least it can match the rune of that level on the necklace that day. As long as you wear the bracelet, it will be fine even if you always wear the necklace around your neck."

"It sounds good." Looking at Ryan, who was showing off like a proud rooster, Hermione teased, "Can you tell me how much this thing costs?"

"Uh - the cost is at least 850 Galleons, because Mithril is too expensive, but other materials can't achieve such a good effect." This question made Ryan a little embarrassed, so he quickly changed the subject. "Of course, this is an experimental product for our own use in the future. Naturally, we have to choose the best materials. I will optimize this thing later."

"That's good." Hermione nodded and said, "By the way, can you give me your pair of deathclaw puppets?"

Ryan opened the space door without saying a word, took out two palm-sized obsidian statues from the grocery store and handed them to Hermione, then asked: "I remember I made a giant monster puppet for you. It was originally for protection, but I didn't expect us to grow so fast. This thing is not of much use to us now, but I still keep them for commemoration. By the way, what do you want this thing for?"

"I want to try to use the power of death to transform these things, maybe they can be reused." Hermione said after taking the puppet. "Okay, we should go have a good dinner. We have been too busy these past two days and haven't eaten well."

(End of this chapter)