Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Among the several colleges, the only one that has a relatively good relationship with the Snake College is the Eagle College. However, this is just a good relationship in that they will greet each other and say a few words when they meet, and they are polite to each other. They don't often travel together.

Prewett was waiting for someone to ask him, so he introduced him: "This is Gaston Yaxley—"

The blond, thick-browed boy smiled and nodded at Vader.

"This is O'Neill Foley—"

The dark-skinned boy with a softer face smiled warmly.

"——They are all sixth-year Slytherin students. I heard that the inventor of the Book of Friends is in this carriage, so I wanted to meet him."

As Prewett spoke, although there was still a smile on his face, his eyes looked at Michael firmly, indicating - get out of my way, kid!

Michael couldn't stand in the way any longer, so he had to move aside awkwardly. He turned around and winked at Wade, silently conveying the message.

The boy named Gaston Yaxley then stepped forward, extended his hand and said politely, "Hello, Mr. Gray."

Under Michael's slightly nervous gaze, Wade stood up and shook hands: "Hello."

Although the tone is bland, people will naturally be more tolerant towards talented people.

As long as it is not a direct rejection, Slytherin considers it a friendly gesture.

Yaxley smiled faintly on his pale face. "I didn't expect the inventor of the Friends' Book to be so young. Ravenclaw hasn't had such an outstanding student in many years. Mr. Gray, you are a truly capable and talented person. You will be no less talented than Terence Morris in the future. I think you need a bigger stage to fully display your wisdom."

He paused, then stretched out his tone and said, "The Yaxley family is willing to provide you with some help."

Although Prewett was still smiling, a hint of jealousy could not be suppressed on his face.

Michael looked at him, then glanced at Foley on the other side - the Slytherin had an impeccable smile on his face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"Thank you very much for your kindness. I am deeply honored." Wade said politely, "But I am only an apprentice in alchemy. I am far from being comparable to Professor Murray."

"Of course - Professor Murray's level is beyond doubt, but I admire your future more." Yaxley's words revealed an unintentional superiority: "Although the alchemy level of the Book of Friends is very basic, many sixth and seventh grade students are able to do it, but what is more admirable is this fantastic idea - how did you come up with it?"

Wade nodded and said, "Speaking of this, I'm not the first to come up with this idea - do you know the Muggle Internet?"

"——Muggle?" The faces of the three people changed almost at the same time, as if they heard some polluting term.

"Yes." Wade smiled and said, "The core protocol of Internet communication is the TCP/IP protocol. By dividing the data into data packets for transmission, the client sends a request to the server, receives and parses the server's response. The server then returns the processed results to the client. The operation instruction sequence and the original data are in the process of input..."

Wade politely explained the working principles of computers, and then talked about the Internet, cloud computing, electronic chips, wide area networks, data planes and other messy concepts. He also talked about the future of e-commerce, the deep integration of artificial intelligence and big data, blockchain technology and digital currency.

He was the only one who spoke in the carriage. Everyone else stared blankly, as if they had turned into ignorant babies. Some students who had heard the news and wanted to meet Vid Grey stood at the door and dared not come in, as if there was some strange seal here.

When Wade stopped for a moment, the three people who had resisted interrupting him out of politeness immediately stood up and said goodbye. Their faces were as pale as if they had just been washed by a rainstorm, and their backs even looked a bit embarrassed as if they had fled in a panic.

Theo walked over to close the door, and saw the few people in the corridor hurriedly avoiding his sight, as if they were afraid of being pulled in by him and having their brains filled with magic music.

Theo closed the door and locked it with a spell, and all four of them laughed.

Chapter 63: Family, Death Eaters, and Witchcraft

"Excellent, really wonderful!" Michael couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "I thought you would just push back!"

Vader had no idea when he had made this Gryffindor impression on him.

"Just look at Malfoy and Potter to see how vengeful Slytherins are." Wade shrugged, used a spell to block out the sound of the carriage, then poured himself a glass of water and said, "I don't want to be harassed by them every day when I'm at school."

Theo nodded. "You're right - Yaxley is a vindictive man, and unlike Malfoy, who only resorts to petty tricks, he likes to use some despicable means, and even the professor has never caught him - Ryan, you should control your temper."

Ryan curled his lips, neither agreeing nor objecting, and asked: "Wade, can the Muggle's...computer really do that?"

He carefully recalled what Wade had just said, and finally extracted a small part of the content that he could barely understand -

“They can buy everything from all over the world at home?”

Wade smiled and said, "In fact, online shopping started about ten years ago. It will definitely become more convenient in the future. But I don't really know much about it."

Wade is not an expert in computers. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary college student. He returned most of the C language programming knowledge he learned to the teacher after taking the exam.

Reborn in this world, because he knew the future development of computers, Wade thought about studying this technology and making WeChat, TikTok, shopping websites, smart phones, etc. available in advance, so that he could become the richest man in the world before the age of 30. But Wade had just started his studies when he received an admission letter from Hogwarts...

Between being the richest man in the world and magic, Wade hesitated for only 0.1 seconds before choosing the latter.

Michael said in disbelief: "But I just saw that you made a very clear point -"

"I just said something I read in a magazine - it sounds scary, right?" Wade leaned against the carriage and said with a smile: "You don't understand, and Prewett and the others certainly don't understand, but I am very confident - they will think I know a lot, but they can't communicate with me, so they have to stay away, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable just listening."

"Merlin!" Theo said with emotion, "I thought you were a computer expert among Muggles! I've watched their TV, and the experts in the TV show didn't say anything as hard to understand as you do."

For a moment, Theo wondered if what he was hearing was English, or a language the Muggles had invented specifically for their computers.

——By the way, Wade seemed to have mentioned this concept just now...what computer language...C, C++, Java, Python...

Theo was lost in thought.

—So Muggles really did that? They invented a machine... and then invented a bunch of complicated languages ​​for that machine...

"You seemed a little nervous just now?" Wade asked Michael, "Who are they?"

"They are a more troublesome group among the purebloods - the kind of people who might readily join the old gang if You-Know-Who makes a comeback."

Michael said, "You probably haven't noticed Yom Prewett before. He is a sixth-year student in Ravenclaw. He is keen on hosting various large and small parties in the common room. He got excellent grades in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course even though he only relied on self-study in the OWLs exam, but he is better at various minor curses. He is narrow-minded, so it is best not to provoke him if you can."

Ryan sighed and said, "I used to think that all Ravenclaws were bookworms before I entered Hogwarts! Did you see the look on that Prewett's face? He looked like he was eager to be Yaxley's pawn!"

"——Because Prewett is not the real Prewett." Theo recalled, "I seem to have heard someone say that his great-great-grandmother married a half-blood wizard named Dion or Dick. Later, when the Pure Blood Directory was published, their family changed their surname to Prewett, one of the 'Twenty-Eight Sacred Clans.'"

"And then?" Wade asked curiously, "Did the Prewett family acknowledge this relative?"

"No, they have never been recognized by the Prewett family. But both brothers of the Prewett family were killed in the war against You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters. Prewett - I mean, Yom Prewett's father and uncle are now high-ranking officials in the Ministry of Magic. They claim to be pure-blooded Prewetts, but no one cares." Theo looked at the expressions of the people listening to the gossip and said with a smile, "In fact, the people in the school who are most closely related to the Prewetts should be the Weasleys of Gryffindor."

"Weasley?" Everyone was surprised.

"Yes, Ron Weasley's mother's surname was Prewett, and the two brothers who died that year were her elder brothers," said Theo.

"Are they all dead?" Ryan asked.

"Yes."

"It was terrible - I mean the war, thank goodness it's over."

Ryan silently thanked Harry Potter in his heart - although the boy did not show any extraordinary excellence or strength, he really saved the world, and this alone was enough.

Many people, including Ryan's parents, are very grateful and respectful of the boy who survived.

"What about Yaxley and Foley?" Vader asked.

"Yaxley..." Theo's face turned pale. "His father once worked for You-Know-Who, just like Malfoy. After You-Know-Who disappeared, they both claimed that they were under the influence of the Imperius Curse and escaped punishment with money. Unlike Malfoy, his father is still working in the Ministry of Magic. He is said to be a cruel and cold-blooded man. I have no doubt that Yaxley must be good at using the Dark Arts."

Michael was surprised: "Even if they are really under the Imperius Curse, they must have done a lot of bad things, right? And they are still working as officials in the Ministry of Magic?"

"Yeah, that's right." Theo said with a wry smile, "It's incredible, isn't it?"

Michael was silent. This clever boy suddenly felt that the majestic image of the Ministry of Magic in his heart began to collapse.

"As for the Fry family..." Theo continued, "They were once followers of Grindelwald. After that man was defeated by Dumbledore, the Witch Party disappeared from people's sight, and the Fry family kept a low profile. But no matter what, the Witch Party was once more terrifying than the Death Eaters. We must be extra careful of them."

The carriage was quiet for a while.

Michael and Ryan, both of them are half-blood wizards, and they don't know much about the families, forces and wars in the wizarding world, some of which are not recorded in the "History of Magic". Young wizards like them who were born in peacetime mostly think that war is a story in textbooks and a crazy point in exams, but they don't know that the shadow of war is among their classmates.

Thinking of Professor Quirrell who was possessed by Voldemort at school, and then thinking of those classmates who might aspire to become Death Eaters, the young child couldn't help but sigh deeply, feeling very heavy.

The journey after that was very peaceful. Occasionally, there were some students who came to watch the "Inventor of the Book of Friends", but Wade used the "Internet concept" as a weapon to end the topic in a few minutes. By the time he was about to get off the bus, no one came to talk to him about these annoying topics.

The train slowly stopped at Hogsmeade station. The students changed into thick clothes and got off the train. In the distance, the brightly lit Hogwarts was waiting for them.

Chapter 64: Carriage, Thestral

"Follow me, students!" a loud voice sounded.

Hagrid, who looked like a savage, was wearing a thick fur coat and holding a lantern, waiting for them on the dark platform, like a burly giant.

For students who didn't know Hagrid's inner self, his appearance was really intimidating. The noisy students immediately quieted down and followed Hagrid along the platform.

In a wide open space, there were many black carriages parked with dim lights hanging on both sides of the frames. Some of the carriages were shaking slightly.

The students boarded the carriage one after another. Wade and the others walked forward together, and suddenly they heard a greeting: "Hey, Wade, guys, this carriage is empty!"

They looked up and saw Hermione, Padma, Parvati and Neville all sitting in the same carriage. It was Padma who was speaking. She pointed to the side and saw an empty carriage parked next to it, covered with straw.

Several people climbed onto the carriage one after another. Michael was the first to wave and say, "Hello, did you have a good vacation?"

"That's great, except that someone never looks at the Friends Book," said Hermione. "I thought it would be easier to discuss things in the Friends Book! Especially when studying the Disarming Charm -"

"Oh, Hermione, wait a minute, we haven't started school yet!" Padma stopped her with a headache: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, okay? Let's talk about studying tomorrow."

Even though she was a Ravenclaw, she found Hermione's enthusiasm for learning scary.

"Let's meet at the library tomorrow afternoon!" Wade suggested, "I'm going to borrow some new books."

Hermione had no choice but to sit back down with regret, while Parvati beside her breathed a sigh of relief -

Although no one urged her to study, when she listened to the top students discussing study and she could not understand or participate in it at all, she felt as if she was trapped in an invisible glass cover and was almost suffocated.

While they were talking, Neville jumped off the carriage in a panic, holding his toad Riff tightly, and squeezed into Wade's carriage.

"Hey, Neville, there's enough of us here already!" Michael protested.

"Please, let me stay here, there are only girls over there—"

Neville begged in a low voice, looking like he had suffered a lot, but his body pushed Michael into the corner without hesitation and refused to go down no matter what.

Michael, who was forced to sit against the carriage, said angrily: "What's wrong with being with girls? The ones sitting next to you are the most beautiful girls in Hogwarts! And they are twins!"

There was crisp laughter coming from the girls, I wonder if it was because they heard what Michael said.

Neville lowered his head at a loss, not daring to look at who was laughing, and whispered: "They are always laughing - it's too embarrassing, I can't stay there alone -"

Michael cursed angrily: "Neville, you are such a hopeless idiot!"

He jumped down without hesitation while the carriage was still moving and headed straight for the girls' carriage. He got on the carriage soon and started chatting and laughing with Padma.

Neville breathed a sigh of relief and looked very impressed.

Wade and the other two couldn't help but burst out laughing. Neville chuckled and scratched his head embarrassedly.

The carriage was shaking as it moved along the uneven road. There was a musty smell in the carriage and there was a thick layer of straw under the buttocks.