The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 563 Rescue
When Ryan arrived at the Great Hall, Hermione was waiting for him at the door. It must be said that the Phoenix Mark was indeed useful, allowing the two people to keep in touch at any time. Even a place full of defensive magic like Hogwarts Castle could not prevent the connection between the two mark holders.

"How was practice today?" Ryan asked as they walked into the auditorium together.

"Everything is fine." Hermione said in a calm tone. "You should believe our current level in this area. We have no problem Apparating directly to the castle or to Marseille. It is too easy for me to Apparate in Hogsmeade."

But not everyone who attended the training was as calm as Hermione. When Ryan and the others walked to the table, they heard Ron's excited voice from afar, who was also going to Hogsmeade today. "I succeeded - or almost succeeded. Originally, I was supposed to Apparate to the outside of Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop during this training. I went a little too far and ended up next to the Men of Letters, but at least I moved!"

When they got closer, Ryan found that Harry had already sat at the table, and Ron had just been talking to Harry. After noticing Ryan and the others coming over, Harry and the others immediately asked Ryan and the others to sit down. After Ryan sat down, Harry asked curiously, "Where did you go just now? Why didn't I see you in the castle?"

"Oh, it's like this, I just went to the Black Lake to relax. By the way, I discussed some things about studying in the reading club with Luna." Ryan said frankly. After listening to the specific questions Luna asked, Hermione nodded thoughtfully and said, "There shouldn't be many people who can think of asking this question. I think Luna is probably the only one in the reading club who would ask these questions besides me."

"You are surprisingly in sync!" Ryan said after scooping a spoonful of mashed potatoes into his mouth and swallowing it. "It's hard for me to understand how people like you who have completely opposite personalities can reach a consensus on many things."

"It's not a consensus." Hermione shook her head and said seriously. "In fact, I am also very curious, how on earth is it that Luna can always choose the right option based on her intuition, which I need to analyze carefully to reach the correct conclusion."

"Maybe this is fate." Ryan said in a slightly superstitious tone. Because he remembered what JK Rowling said in an interview in his previous life. Luna is "the opposite of Hermione." This is not to say that Hermione is a boring person, but she acts completely based on common sense and rationality, while Luna is like a fairy in a fairy tale.

"Are you talking about the crazy girl?" Ron asked in confusion. This question reminded Ron that it was very rude to comment on others behind their backs, so he quickly changed the subject to try to divert attention. "Harry, what were you doing just now?"

"Wandering around the castle, and then..." At this point, Harry looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping and lowered his voice. "And thinking about how to get that memory from Professor Slughorn. Oh, and I ran into Lupin in the corridor. He came over with Tonks arm in arm."

"Really?" Ron suddenly became excited, and it seemed that gossip filled his mind at this time. "Great, the two of them finally got together. When Tonks and Lupin came to our house last year, it was really painful to see them love each other but couldn't be together due to external reasons. Fortunately, Lupin may have thought it through this year."

"That should be the case." Obviously this was good news, so Harry smiled. "They came here because Tonks couldn't stand living apart from Lupin anymore. So she told Dumbledore that she wanted to resign and go to Northern Europe to find Lupin. But at Dumbledore's request, Tonks decided to continue to be an Auror for a while, and then go to the North after this busy period."

"What a damn war." Hermione cursed in a low voice after hearing what Harry said. Ryan and others around her also showed sympathetic expressions on their faces. It would be great if there was no war now.

For the next period of time, Harry kept trying to think of a way to get Professor Slughorn to hand over that memory. But the problem was that Harry knew he only had one chance, so he would never act rashly before he was sure enough.

In this situation, time passed quickly. Soon, summer arrived in Scotland. Patches of clear blue sky began to appear above the castle tower, but these signs of the coming of summer did not make Harry feel better. He could neither detect what Malfoy was doing, nor talk to Slughorn alone to ask him to hand over his memories that seemed to have been hidden for decades. At the same time, everyone was very busy during this period. Ron was busy preparing for his Apparition test, and Ryan and Hermione were so busy that they could not be found except during the night rest and class time.

During this period of spring and summer, Ryan and Hermione have been advancing their respective understanding of the rules. After all, the war has broken out now, and the two of them must improve their combat capabilities as quickly as possible, and studying the rules is a very important part of it. If they cannot break through the current level in rule research, they will not be able to reach the level of Voldemort or Headmaster Dumbledore, let alone achieve their predetermined goals in this war. So during this period of time, whenever they are free, they will go to the alchemy laboratory to study these contents. Naturally, it is difficult for others to find their whereabouts.

However, during this period, the brutal war outside the school still affected the people inside the school. On a Friday afternoon, after all the classes for the day were finished, Ryan was preparing to go to the laboratory with Hermione to continue their research as usual. When the two walked into the corridor, he suddenly felt a tie clip decorated with a silver cast wolf head on his school uniform tie vibrate slightly.

"This is - Lupin?" Ryan took out his tie clip, looked at it and frowned, then turned a corner at a fork in the road ahead and came to a corridor that usually no one came to, and turned on the communicator, while Hermione stood at the side of the corridor to help Ryan keep watch.

"Professor Lupin, what happened?" Ryan said to the wolf head on the tie clip. "Is anyone injured or has the manor you are in been discovered by the Death Eaters? How is everyone now?"

"Nothing bad has happened, and everyone is fine now." The wolf head on the tie clip opened its mouth, and Lupin's voice came from it. "But we really have no other choice this time. A five-year-old boy was bitten by a werewolf and is now seriously injured. St. Mungo's is powerless to treat the child's injuries and can only watch him slowly die. So our only hope now is to find you through this emergency contact method and see if you can help the boy?"

"Is the injured child still in St. Mungo's?" Ryan seemed a little hesitant. At this time, he did not ask about the cause, process, and result of the incident. After all, saving people is the first priority now, and other things can be put aside.

But the problem is that even if we don't consider the troubles he might encounter after some things are exposed, St. Mungo's doesn't have the props and alchemical equipment he needs for treatment. In this case, even if Ryan's magic level is not low and he has a way to deal with the poison in the werewolf, he can't provide help without adequate preparation. So he asked the most important question directly.

"He has been taken home by his mother because St. Mungo's can't cure him now." Lupin said helplessly. "In this case, Clark, the oldest former Auror here, had a good relationship with the child's parents when he worked at the Ministry of Magic. So after being questioned by the child's parents, he persuaded them and took the child home."

"Just persuasion? Are all Aurors so eloquent?" Ryan found it a little unbelievable.

"No, he didn't just rely on verbal persuasion." Lupin paused for a moment before continuing, "Clark gave the child some of the life-preserving potion you gave him for self-defense. Although it couldn't cure the damage caused by the wolfsbane, at least the child's condition didn't get worse."

"It's okay. That kind of potion is used to save people." Ryan knew why Lupin felt embarrassed just now. He must have thought that the potion Ryan prepared for the fighters was very precious, so he thought it might be inappropriate to use it on other people. But Ryan didn't think so. The raw materials of those life potions were sunlight crystals, which were not precious to him. It was just that he only took out a little bit for Lupin and others out of caution, which might have caused Lupin and others to misunderstand.

"Then tell me where the child is first? I'll be there right away." After Ryan said this, he quickly heard Lupin say a place, and then immediately ran towards the principal's office.

(End of this chapter)