The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 568: Class (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
"By the way, who are those two girls over there? They don't look very happy." Because the topic just discussed was too serious, when Ron walked into the yard after dinner, he pointed at a pair of girls who were walking over and tried to change the subject.

"They are the Montgomery sisters. Their brother was bitten by a werewolf. It is said that it was because their mother refused to help the Death Eaters." Harry said with a grim expression. "Although I heard that their brother was saved by a powerful wizard, he still turned into a werewolf."

"Oh, sorry. I really don't know about their affairs." Ron apologized sincerely. He originally wanted to make a joke to make Harry relax, but he really didn't expect to hear such bad news.

"So Harry, you must get that memory. This is all to stop the mysterious man, right? All the terrible things happening now are caused by him..." Hermione said with a somewhat gloomy look.

"Don't be so depressed, at least little Andrew is doing well now." Ryan comforted Hermione through the Phoenix Mark. "Last weekend when I went to treat the werewolves, Professor Lupin told me that the Montgomery family of three is now doing well in Norway. Montgomery has found a job that suits them, and little Andrew has made new friends."

"I know." Hermione nodded imperceptibly. "But this incident itself is indeed a tragedy, and we cannot guarantee that everyone will be as lucky as he is. So I hope Harry can find that memory, so that he can defeat the You-Know-Who as soon as possible and prevent such a tragedy from happening again."

"I'm sure things will get better, and I wish you a good afternoon." Ryan said. At this time, the bell in the castle rang. Ryan and Hermione hugged her and said goodbye to her. Then he watched her and a group of classmates leave the castle gate to go to Hogsmeade to take the Apparition test.

There were only four people in Potions class that afternoon. Apart from Ryan and Harry, the only others were Ernie and Draco Malfoy.

"You're all under Apparition age?" Slughorn asked amiably. "Under seventeen?"

Everyone nodded, and Slughorn suddenly became excited. "It seems that the students in your class are all a bit older. When I was at Hogwarts, there were often more people in my class during the first Apparition test every year than there are now."

Ryan could understand why this happened, because Voldemort was completely destroyed the year they were born. In this case, everyone would naturally go out from their homes where they had been hiding for a long time. It was not like when Voldemort was wreaking havoc, hiding at home with not much to do, except eating and sleeping and making children. So it was normal for the birth rate in the wizarding world to be low during this period.

"Well," just as Ryan was thinking about these historical details from more than a decade ago, he heard Slughorn clapping his hands and saying happily, "Since there are so few of us, let's do something fun. I want each of you to give me something interesting!"

"Sounds great, sir." Ernie rubbed his hands and flattered. Malfoy did not smile at all. It seemed that his father's imprisonment and the task assigned by Voldemort brought him too much pressure. "What do you mean, 'interesting' things?" He asked irritably.

"Oh, give me a surprise," Slughorn replied easily. But this did not excite Malfoy. Ryan saw him scowling as he opened his Advanced Potion Making, looking unhappy. It was obvious that he thought this class was a waste of time. Sitting in the dungeon was undoubtedly a waste of time that could have been spent in the Room of Requirement.

Ryan had just gone to the Room of Requirement a few days ago to check on the progress of the repair of the Vanishing Cabinet. He also used his newly improved understanding of the rules of space to strengthen the traps he had set on the Vanishing Cabinet, improving both the effectiveness and concealment of the traps. He was a little worried that Malfoy would find out what he had done in the Vanishing Cabinet. But after a careful inspection, he realized that he was overthinking it. Malfoy's level of alchemy was far lower than he had imagined. Take the Vanishing Cabinet that Malfoy was currently repairing. His progress in repairing this alchemical device was very slow. Ryan felt that if he were in his place, he would only need two hours at most to complete the work he had spent more than half a semester repairing.

In addition to the slow progress, the level of repair of the Vanishing Cabinet is also unsatisfactory. During the inspection, Ryan found that only the core space transfer array of the entire prop was repaired, and many of the attached magic runes were still damaged. This means that in actual operation, items can now be transferred between the two Vanishing Cabinets, but in the absence of the coordination of those magic runes for positioning and protection, the items being transferred are likely to be irreversibly damaged during the transfer process.

Of course, it is impossible to teleport people under such circumstances. So Malfoy now looks much thinner and weaker than at the beginning of the semester, and his skin has become paler, even with a dark blue color. He is completely different from the arrogance Harry mentioned on the train before. Come to think of it, if you spend a lot of energy but find that the Vanishing Cabinet is still unusable and the mission cannot be completed. Anyone would become like him now.

Ryan was not a saint, so Malfoy's misfortune made Ryan in a good mood. In addition, Slughorn did not specify the potion to be brewed this time. So he decided to take this opportunity to slack off and make something to pass the time.

"Ah, that looks wonderful." An hour and a half later, Slughorn was the first to walk up to Harry and clapped his hands as he stared at the sunshine-golden liquid in Harry's cauldron. "Cheerfulness, isn't it? What's that smell like? Hmm... you added a sprig of peppermint, didn't you? Not very orthodox, but what a genius idea, Harry. Of course, this can offset the occasional side effects of singing too much and twisting your nose. I really don't know where you get these wonderful ideas, my child... unless it's your mother's genes that are showing up in you!"

"Oh... maybe." Harry said, and then he said in a slightly flattering tone, "Can I come visit you tonight?"

"Of course, kid, of course. The door of my office is always willing to open to a genius like you." The fat Slughorn seemed very happy after hearing what Harry said, with his beard twitching, looking like those fat seals in the zoo. "We can hold a small party in my office tonight."

Ryan made a perfect mental soothing potion in this class, of course! This was definitely not as good as Harry's creative recipe that went beyond the textbook in Slughorn's eyes. But it was much better than Ernie's, who hurriedly invented his own potion because he tried to beat Harry in class, but it congealed into a purple glutinous substance at the bottom of the crucible. Malfoy, like Ryan, slacked off for the entire class and only made a pot of decent hiccup potion.

"Okay, the first step is done." After the bell rang, the four of them quickly walked out of the classroom. Harry lowered his voice and said to Ryan after seeing Ernie and Malfoy turn around the intersection in front and disappear. "The next step is to go to Professor Slughorn's office and act on the situation."

"Then I wish you good luck tonight." Ryan took out the bottle of Felicity Potion from his arms and handed it to Harry. "This potion will take effect immediately after drinking it, so I suggest you drink it before you set off to ensure that the potion can have the best effect."

"Thank you, I hope everything goes well tonight." Harry took the bottle and smiled nervously. "I've been preparing for so long, whether it will be successful depends on tonight."

(End of this chapter)