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But things are different with Lucius.

Dolly can get Lucius and the senators he's connected with to look after dissenters, and that should be fine.

Whether Lucius is willing to do it or not is irrelevant.

He's not important, so let's have someone sing a different tune and reveal Lucius's hidden history from his early days as a Death Eater, the kind of history that can't be made public.

After considering all of this, it was already March.

Hogwarts has basically returned to normal, and everyone has resumed their normal study routine.

There was one thing that bothered everyone: the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was without a teacher.

Snape was more than willing to do this, even if it was just as a substitute teacher, but Dumbledore still refused.

Because Defense Against the Dark Arts is a really weird course.

Voldemort once cursed this course, so that any teacher who taught it for more than a year would suffer misfortune.

You must understand that in the world of Harry Potter, magic is a miracle of the mind.

When a wizard of Voldemort's caliber believes in something, it can actually happen.

Just like the prophecies about Voldemort and Harry, perhaps it wasn't an inevitable fate.

But as Voldemort, Dumbledore, and more and more people believed in this destiny, it truly became destiny and strangled Voldemort.

All I can say is that in this world, belief and magic are truly wondrous things.

The fact that Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers are cursed is now widely known and familiar due to the fact that Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers have been around for decades.

Even Dumbledore had to start considering Snape's safety and prevent him from becoming the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

At least not now.

So for the next few months, this course became nothing more than a self-study course and a course for slacking off.

That sounds outrageous.

But upon closer reflection, it's not entirely unreasonable.

After all, neither Quirrell nor Lockhart taught anything truly useful. Quirrell was worried that if he taught his students, it would threaten his and Voldemort's future plans.

Lockhart really doesn't know how, and there's nothing to teach him.

Lockhart already made a fool of himself when facing first- and second-year wizards, let alone when facing older students.

At Hogwarts, each professor teaches all students from the first to the seventh year, unless the course is only offered to students in certain years, such as the flying course which is only taught to first-year students.

In other words, the course progressed faster after the Defense Against the Dark Arts class lost its instructor.

Aside from the fact that everyone's mastery of spells is not up to par, at least everyone is keeping up with the pace of textbook knowledge.

Apart from that, everything is as usual.

Dolly enjoyed a rare period of leisure.

Elective courses will be offered in the third year, and unless Dolly plans to skip classes and get points deducted and punished by the professor, she won't have as much time then.

During this time, Dolly certainly didn't simply give up.

Having gone through so much, Dolly naturally knows how important it is for her to prepare for the next crisis.

One of the first things Dolly did was learn how to use the Patronus Charm.

After all, if Sirius breaks out of prison again next school year, Dolly will most likely still encounter Dementors.

The spell for the Patronus Charm wasn't hard to find; it was recorded and explained in spellbooks on the market. However, learning the spell was more difficult than Dolly had anticipated.

Dolly only needs to master the basics of one spell, in other words, she only needs to successfully cast it even once, just enough to make a spark appear.

Dolly can then acquire the Lv.0 skill and subsequently use attribute points to upgrade it.

However, Dolly practiced the Patronus spell for a long time without any improvement.

Even though Dolly secretly reminisces about her kiss with Luna, and the joyful times she spent with Hermione and Cho Chang in the bathroom or bed, she still can't break the spell.

Isn't it said that Patronus only needs to think about happy and joyful things?

Isn't everything Dolly did happy enough?

Dolly was puzzled and planned to ask a professor for advice if that didn't work.

I just don't know if Snape will kick him out.

In addition, Dolly naturally taught herself more spells while continuing her research on anti-magic powers.

Thanks to the Unseen Stretching Charm, Dolly's research made great progress.

When Dolly crafts something entirely from dragon hide, such as a dragon hide backpack, the magical interference within it is not as severe.

It still exists, because all Dolly needs to do is open it, and the magic in the air will naturally flow in.

In other words, this also proves it.

There is indeed an invisible and intangible magic in the air, or rather, there is magic in space, and it can move in a certain way to form a magic field.

Dragon skin is a material that can block the movement of this magical field. As for how to completely block it or create a magical vacuum, that is a more difficult problem.

As for the plan to plant cameras all over Hogwarts, Dolly was willing to start implementing it, but Dumbledore ruthlessly rejected it.

This plan was originally intended to deal with the locked room crisis, but now that the crisis has been resolved, Dolly came up with a solution, which naturally failed to catch Dumbledore's eye.

However, Dolly's plan for the dragonskin room became somewhat feasible.

In other words, Dolly planned to use dragon skin as wallpaper to cover the entire dormitory, so that the dormitory could be completely normalized and any electronic devices could be used.

This way, Dolly can enjoy a truly modern life in her dorm room.

Even building power and communication networks is no longer a distant dream; simply using sheathing material for cables can largely solve this problem.

The only remaining problem is that there obviously wouldn't be enough dragon skins to do such a thing; even slaughtering all the dragons in the world wouldn't be enough.

Therefore, Dolly can only use the Unseen Stretch Charm to build one or a few small bases for the time being. Large-scale deployment will have to wait until a more universal material or solution emerges.

Besides these two parts, Dolly also continued to squeeze out more attribute points for herself.

Dolly was originally only supposed to get 12 attribute points per month.

This is the level that can be achieved by continuously using Bone Regenerating Spirit to restore the bones of the sacrifice.

After Luna recovered from a month of rest, she learned that Dolly had treated her so badly, and she almost reported it to Dumbledore on the spot.

Fortunately, Dolly hugged Luna and spent the afternoon in the Room of Requirement persuading her. Luna managed to hold back for the time being and agreed to Dolly's request to keep her secret.

However, Luna also stipulated that she must be by Dolly's side whenever Dolly made a sacrifice.

Even though Dolly had gotten used to all of this, she still couldn't ignore Luna's good intentions, especially since this was the result Dolly wanted.

From then on, Luna became Dolly's assistant in the sacrifice and began to learn how to brew potions.

Luna isn't particularly talented at potion brewing, but fortunately, Dolly is the main force, so Luna mostly takes turns with Dolly, saving Dolly some time.

This is also why Dolly had time to study dragon skin technology.

With Luna's help, Dolly's monthly attribute points finally increased again.

The reason is that Dolly's potion quality has improved, requiring fewer attribute points to enhance it and achieve better results, which means lower costs and increased output.

Starting in April, Dolly has been able to gain 15 attribute points per month.

In the blink of an eye, Dolly had accumulated 50 attribute points, and the semester was about to end.

Dolly was pondering when she should add more magic.

At this time, Newt wrote a letter to Dolly.

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Chapter 221 Summer vacation is coming.

"It's been a long time, Miss Doris."

Newt's words were light and humorous, and it seemed that just by reading the letter, one could tell that he was in a good mood.

"It's been a few months. I hope you are in good health."

"I have a little pet here that misses its owner terribly. I wonder if you have time to visit it."

Dolly knew perfectly well that the little pet Newt was referring to was Snow, the pet she had tamed herself.

Because once Dolly and Harry start school, the Dursleys' condition will make it very difficult for them to take care of Snow.

Although Snowton is humane and wouldn't attack the Dursleys, the two of them can't exactly take a big blue dog for a walk.

They would definitely become the focus of everyone's attention, and might even make the front page the next day.

As a result, Snow was left to be fostered by Dolly and Newt.

Newt, a magical creatures expert, also wanted to investigate Snow's secrets, so Dolly agreed to let him take Snow away.

Hogwarts is a boarding school, and second-year students like Dolly are not allowed to leave the campus for the entire term.

Although Dolly could leave school, she could do it with Dobby's help.

But Dolly still had no reason to do something that would provoke Hogwarts' sensitive nerves.

Sure enough, it's been almost half a year since I parted ways with Snow.

Dolly already misses her pet, but how much will Snow miss his owner?

Dolly thought it would be hilarious to imagine Snow wag his tail like a propeller.

Dolly then continued reading.

"Also, if you are really busy, please reply to me in writing."

"I have some research reports about Snow's situation that I'd like to share with you, and this matter may also be related to you."

“Your loyal friend, Newtscamander.”

The letter was long, but most of it described Snow's situation and changes over the past six months, some of which were noteworthy.

That's why Newt insisted that Dolly make the trip.

If Dolly really can't go, then Newt plans to continue communicating with Dolly about it through letters.