Hogwarts Bloodline

Chapter 13 The Secret Hidden in the Restricted Book Area

"Come on, sit down wherever you want. You don't have to be so restrained." Hagrid brought a plate of rock cakes to the table and sat down on the chair first. The wooden support frame made a creaking sound, which made Ivan and others look a little worried. Fortunately, the quality of the chair was good and it was still stubbornly supporting the weight that it shouldn't bear. "Hagrid, this is Ron, and this is Hermione." After sitting down, Harry pointed at everyone and introduced Hagrid, but Ivan stood up before he introduced himself. "Hello, Hagrid, my name is Ivan, nice to meet you!" "Oh, me too." Hagrid stretched out his big hand and shook hands with Ivan, but the difference in their body shapes made the handshake look a little funny. The big dog Fang in the room was circling around Ron, and sometimes jumped on him and made Ron's face drool. Ron had already hidden Scabbers in his pocket the moment Fang pounced on him. Although he had never heard of a dog eating a mouse, the past few days had made Ron suspicious. It was as if someone was deliberately trying to murder his mouse. Next, Harry and Ron complained to Hagrid about Snape's deliberate targeting of them in class. Hermione frowned, but did not intend to refute. Ivan did not join their discussion. Although Snape disliked Harry and had many prejudices against Gryffindor students, he had no problem teaching. Many of the potion formulas he taught were improved by Snape himself. In particular, he unexpectedly gave him an excellent evaluation in the first potion class, which made Ivan unable to swear. Of course, it would be better if Snape could give more questions in class. "Gringotts Bank was robbed?" Just when Ivan was bored and wanted to try how hard Hagrid's cake roll was, a newspaper next to the teapot suddenly caught Ivan's interest. Harry and Ron, who were chatting, also stopped and came to the newspaper. They saw that it said that on the night of July 31st, a major robbery occurred in Gringotts. People involved believed that it was done by some dark witches or dark wizards, but the goblins of Gringotts insisted that nothing was lost. "It happened on July 31st." Harry suddenly shouted as if he remembered something, "Hagrid, I remember that day was my birthday, and we stayed there too!" "Really?" Hagrid said vaguely, and he didn't dare to make direct eye contact with Harry. The awkward topic turned to rock cakes and enthusiastically invited everyone to eat more. Harry, Ron and Hermione were all pitted by the rock cakes that were as hard as bricks, and almost broke their teeth, but seeing Hagrid's eager look, it was not easy to throw them away directly. Ivan secretly soaked the rock biscuits in tea to soften them, and reluctantly ate half of it. When they returned, Hagrid was still very enthusiastic. He took a basket of rock biscuits and stuffed a lot of them into everyone's pockets, even though no one wanted them. The four of them returned to the castle together, and then separated at the stairs. Harry and Ron returned to the dormitory, while Ivan took the time to look for traces of the Room of Requirement in the castle. Because in the previous experiment, Ivan found that no matter how sufficient the knowledge reserve is, without practical experience, the growth of proficiency may also stop. The search continued until the morning of Tuesday of the second week, when Ivan found some traces on the eighth floor of the castle. It was a wide corridor with many portraits, and at the end there was a tapestry of a giant monster beating a fool Barnabas with a stick. Ivan walked to the wall opposite the tapestry and focused on the practice field he needed. After walking back and forth three times, a door suddenly appeared on the originally flat wall. The door was close to the wall without any gap, as if it had been there before. Ivan pushed the door open with a hint of excitement. After he entered, the door behind him closed automatically. Inside was a super large training field. The hall was decorated brightly and transparently. The left and right rows were filled with dummies for practicing spells. [Ding, the mysterious place, the Room of Requirement, was discovered] The voice in his mind was within Ivan's expectations, but the exploration task increased by three percentage points. You have to know that the library of inherited knowledge only increased the progress by five points, which shows how important this place is. "Shattered into pieces!" After a little warm-up, Ivan waved his wand and practiced the spells he had learned. The white light hit the dummy directly, and one of its arms swelled and exploded with a "bang". Sawdust flew all over the sky, and Ivan restored it with a restoration spell. In the next half an hour, all kinds of colorful lights swept back and forth in the practice room. Transfiguration spell, petrification spell, flying spell, light spell. After nearly half a month of crazy learning, Ivan has learned all the basic spells. Although the level is not high, they have all been upgraded to the first level, so they are not always intermittent. However, when he first tried his hand, Ivan soon found that his spell hit rate was a bit worrying. It was okay for a fixed target, but if it was a moving target, he might not be able to hit it even after shooting several times. Ivan also tried to exchange a learning experience card during actual combat practice, and found that this learning buff was also useful during actual combat practice. The improvement of brain comprehension and analysis speed made Ivan faster and more accurate in casting spells, and his hit rate was greatly improved. He could even predict the movement of distant targets and the trajectory of spell light. This made Ivan's strength much higher than usual in the state of experience card, even though he mastered the same level of spells. "I have become stupider and stronger." Ivan couldn't help sighing after exiting the experience mode again. After each use, the decline of brain comprehension always gave Ivan a feeling that he had suddenly become stupider. After practicing for a morning, Ivan's brain was already drowsy and his magic power was almost dry. Considering the flying class in the afternoon, Ivan rested for a while and left the Room of Requirement. He found a secret passage on the eighth floor that he had never walked before, intending to go all the way back to the hall of Hogwarts. As soon as Ivan stepped out of the secret passage, the long-lost system prompt sound rang again. [Ding, the unknown secret passage has been discovered, and the progress of exploring Hogwarts has reached 40%. Bonus academic points: 20 points. Additional bonus: Please go to the bookshelf in the twelfth row of the seventh row of the restricted books area to claim it between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am.]