The mastermind behind Hogwarts

Chapter 54: Blind Box Lottery Brought by Glory

Moriarty grasped the golden shard in one hand. The Golden Snitch initially throbbed restlessly in his palm, but it quickly calmed down—Moriarty was holding onto his glory.

I also received 200 points for completing the task and an additional 300 points as a reward from the system for winning the Quidditch Trophy.

Moriarty raised his fist and swooped down from the sky, enjoying the glory of victory in the center of this grand arena.

The stands of Slytherin, Eagle, and Badger formed a green sea, but the Gryffindor stands were deathly silent, and no one cared about them.

Students from the three houses surged onto the field like a tidal wave, carrying the Slytherin team's players.

Tonks seemed to have been prepared, pointing his wand at the sky—and hundreds of girls, including Gemma, Lilith, and Penelope, did the same!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The wand burst forth with enormous magical fireworks, which transformed into dazzling stars and a gigantic silver serpent!

"This is a gift from the Everlasting Shining Fan Club to Mr. Moriarty!" Tonks cheered. "Match over! 150-0! Slytherin has slain the Lion, achieving a clean sweep against Gryffindor! This is a great victory for the Silver Serpents, Moriarty lifts the trophy! Let's celebrate!!!"

Surrounded by the crowd, Moriarty raised the trophy high, and time seemed to stand still at that moment, while the Gryffindor players knelt on the ground, utterly dejected.

Charlie's face was as red as his hair; the game was over!

The winter of Gryffindor is over, and it goes without saying that for a long time to come, perhaps three, five, or even seven years, Gryffindor will be a laughing stock.

Charlie looked up at Moriarty. As long as this man was there, his legend would continue, and Gryffindor would become the stepping stone for the protagonist in the legendary story, just like a joke, becoming the subject of conversation among others.

Bill Weasley stared intently at Moriarty. If the Golden Snitch hadn't appeared so early; if he had been able to break through Willian's goal; if Charlie had been able to catch up with Moriarty... then the outcome of the game would have been completely different!

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs." Bill shook his head and left. He would graduate in June and start a new life, so he felt only a little lost, not guilty.

The younger lion cubs were different; they would be living at Hogwarts for many more years, and Wood could already picture Marcus humiliating him.

In fact, after the competition, the snakes' mockery of the lion cubs actually decreased!

The lion cubs didn't understand. If it were them, they would definitely mock their hard-won enemy to death.

However, the Hufflepuff badgers agreed with the snakes' magnanimity, and the Ravenclaw hawks could more or less guess what the snakes were thinking: what successful person would care about the embarrassment and bitterness of a loser?

The lion cubs were relatively simple-minded and didn't understand these intricacies, but they remembered Moriarty's behavior during the badge incident and assumed that Slytherin's magnanimity was Moriarty's doing.

Gryffindors are always straightforward, and they showed their gratitude by bowing to Moriarty on several occasions in public. Percy often told Moriarty with envy that he had seen several Gryffindor upperclassmen secretly looking at Moriarty's magic posters.

Like the magic posters and magic fireworks, they were supposedly magical props created by Tonks' fan club, a fact that even Moriarty himself found puzzling.

Moriarty knew Tonks’ daily schedule perfectly, so where did she find the time to make these magical items?

Moriarty asked this question after practicing spells at the Room of Requirement.

Tonks smiled without answering Moriarty's question, instead telling him that there had been a breakthrough in the research on runes.

Under the tutelage of Professor Bassheda Bablin, Tonks successfully condensed the runes representing "space" into a rune.

As for how to inscribe this spatial rune onto the magic circle, that involves knowledge of alchemy.

It is obvious that Hogwarts does not have an alchemy class.

"Have you learned the Solidification Spell?" Moriarty asked.

"No..." Tonks pouted, turned her hair to milky white, and opened her innocent big eyes.

"Well, Jericho didn't learn the Memory Charm either." Moriarty rubbed his temples, and Tonks came over to massage his temples.

Moriarty seized the opportunity to ask the system, "Give me 1000 points to unlock the blind box lottery."

"Host has 1700 points. Confirm spending 1000 points to unlock the blind box lottery? System prompt: Rewards obtained by the host through the blind box lottery are entirely based on luck."

The implication is that Moriarty might win a big prize, or he might win some strange and worthless junk.

"Unlocked. I've always had good luck," Moriarty said. Just like the Quidditch match that ended earlier, everyone agreed that Gryffindor had been punished by Lady Luck, which is why the Golden Snitch appeared at the start of the match.

"Ding-dong~ Host unlocks blind box lottery, deducting 1000 points, leaving 700 points."

Ding-dong~ Congratulations, host, you have been awarded one blind box lottery draw. Would you like to participate?

Upon hearing a series of notification sounds, Moriarty decisively said, "Draw!"

"Congratulations, host, on obtaining Grindelwald's Magic Notebook (Part 1)! This lottery has ended. We wish you a speedy rise to become the mastermind behind the scenes in the Harry Potter world."

A white notebook appeared in Moriarty's system space. Taking advantage of the moment when Tonks turned around, Moriarty took out the notebook, flipped through a few pages, and found records about the Solidification Charm!

Grindelwald wrote in his notebook: "Cure spell: originally used to cure objects, later evolved to cure incantations and cure states."

Through my and AD's continuous efforts, the Solidification Spell has been able to stabilize certain buff effects within a specific environmental range...

Moriarty smirked. If you were to ask which team is the most powerful in the Harry Potter world, GGAD would definitely be at the top of the list!

As expected, Moriarty flipped through a few pages of his notes and came across a record of memory spells.

Moriarty nodded in satisfaction. With Grindelwald's notes, he was now fully confident in casting the Permanent Fixation Charm and the Great Memory Charm.

"Nymph, let's do an experiment." Moriarty thought for a moment and took off his boots.

"Nymph?" Moriarty looked up at Tonks after not hearing her reply for a long time.

Tonks stared intently at Moriarty's ankle, and upon noticing Moriarty's strange look, he gave a sly smile.

"Should I take off my shoes too, little junior?"

Moriarty pushed away Tonks, who was leaning in: "You misunderstood, cough cough. I meant for you to take out the runes. We'll try to engrave the runes on these Kara boots."

Half an hour later, the two finished their work, covered in sweat. Moriarty put on his boots and activated the speed-enhancing function.

Moriarty was instantly propelled forward by the boots, and with a "thud," he crashed into the mat.

He quickly stood up, took off his boots, and began to inspect them.

"Did we succeed?" Tonks asked tentatively. "Just now, I think I saw your figure leave afterimages, it looked a bit like you were teleporting."

"We still need a lot of testing," Moriarty said, his eyes gleaming. "The test subjects can't be the same person all the time; everyone's weight and height are different, which is exactly what we need!"

Tonks took a breath: "Given the basilisk's enormous size, how many people would we need to test to match its weight?"

"Let's start with snakes!"

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(End of this chapter)