Summer vacation flies by, and in the days that are not long before it ends, Daphne is returning to Greengrass's house. She'll have to go to Diagon Alley with her sister to buy the books and wands she needs this year.

Ning An stayed alone in the old mansion and continued to study magic. Using the beasts of the woods as the object of practice every day, he has mastered three powerful unforgivable spells.

At the same time, according to various records in the magic book, Ning An also learned another advanced magic, the phantom manifestation.

This is a kind of magic that allows a wizard to appear where he wants to appear in an instant, and it requires not only great magic power, but also precise control.

It just so happened that after Ning An had completely practiced the Brain Occlumency, his mental power had a feeling of exponential growth, and this level of control was not difficult for him.

These days, he always stays quietly in the study, researching another magic, which can be regarded as a semi-self-created one, the Black Snake Mark.

Originally, it was just to make it easier for the members of Serpentine to sense each other, but after reading Voldemort's magic notes, he found that Voldemort had already had the idea of creating the magic of the "Dark Mark Mark" long after leaving Hogwarts.

In his notes, he wrote:

"I have a hunch, I can sense that they should listen to me and accept my control! - I will give them this mark so that they will always be able to perceive my presence. ”

Ning'an's black snake mark has a short distance limit, and the perception of each other is chaotic, and there is no obvious master-slave system.

But now, he had decided to make a change, and by imitating the Dark Mark, he had succeeded in removing his magic from the distance limit.

The person who is marked with the black snake can also be used as a point, Ning An can phantom to them at any time, and under Ning An's summoning, the marked person must also immediately appear by Ning An's side.

At the same time, it also has a more negative effect, it is like a chronic, small Imperius curse, which allows the caster, under the influence of Ning An's will, to unconsciously become more and more obedient to the owner of the curse.

And the only source and owner of the black snake mark is naturally Ning An himself.

There were two more people in Shafiq's old mansion recently, and Ning An allowed Baron William to know about the base, of course, after he was engraved with the Black Snake mark. He also became a member of the Serpent's Letter.

Following the old bat, the ghoul also moved in.

"What do you command, sir?"

Baron William's name for Ning An has also changed since joining the Serpent Letter, a vampire who pays great attention to the etiquette of humility and, in his words, respect for tradition.

"I'll leave it to you, William."

Ning An didn't care what others called him, he only knew that it was enough for the other party to complete the things he explained and achieve his goal.

William bowed his head, looking solemnly ready to obey the dispatch, since his resurrection, his whole hope in life was to kill Voldemort and avenge himself.

And now this hope is completely pinned on the organization he joined called Snake Letter. Baron William had never heard of and didn't know anything about the snake letter, and the only reason for him to join was Ning'an.

When Ning An pointed his wand at him, let out a killing curse flying over his ear, and told him to choose to "join" or "die", William felt as if he saw the shadow of Riddle who killed him back then, but Ning An seemed to be less arrogant, more ruthless and ruthless.

William has reason to believe that the boy in front of him, who doesn't look big, can definitely grow into a dark wizard or even a demon king who shocks the world.

But what does it matter? No matter how terrifying, vicious a wizard or demon he becomes, as long as he can help him kill Voldemort, then why not for him?

William never felt like a good man, he just came back from hell with a rage to get revenge on his murderer, an ordinary vampire.

"I want you to move to Big Hangleston for a while." Ning An said lightly.

"Yes." Without further doubt, William bowed.

"There's an old mansion there – maybe it's in ruins now." Ning An couldn't remember the specific situation clearly, so he could only send William to take a look first.

"The Gaunt family used to live in the old mansion, you go investigate and find out where the old mansion is—and then help me find a ring."

"Rings?"

"One is set with a black gem with a figure engraved on it, and a circle is wrapped around a triangle with a vertical line in the middle." Without any explanation, Ning An finished what he had to say.

Seeing that Ning An didn't say anything, William didn't ask any more, he remembered what he had just said, and saluted and prepared to leave.

"William."

"What else do you command?"

"Don't try to put it on." Ning An sat behind his desk, his deep black eyes staring at Baron William.

This made him shudder suddenly, and then he bowed his head deeply and said respectfully, "Yes"

When William left, Ning An opened the books on the table again, books and notes that he had never seen before, and there were too many magic records that he had never heard of.

Ning An didn't have time to rest, he used all his time, like a sponge, to absorb all the knowledge he could learn.

But time always runs out. The holidays are coming to an end, and the day of reporting to Hogwarts is approaching. William had already packed his bags and headed to Great Hangelton.

Ning An tidied up his salute a little, he didn't feel that he had anything to bring.

The shirt and some ordinary clothes he wore when he changed into it, Ning An flicked his wand, and with the sound of "crackling", he felt as if he had squeezed out of a narrow pipe.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already appeared in the alley next to the Leaky Cauldron Bar, and a beggar looked at Ning An who appeared out of thin air in surprise, dragging a suitcase.

When Ning An pulled out his wand and walked towards him calmly, he instinctively sensed the danger, holding his head in his hands, facing the situation that he didn't know what would happen, he whispered vigorously:

"Don't... Please, don't. ”

The wand was aimed at the beggar's head, and a cold voice rang out

"Forget it all"

Then Ning An didn't look at the beggar on the ground, and dragged the box to the Broken Cauldron Bar.

Since there were many wizards gathered here, Ning An was not afraid of being caught by the Ministry of Magic for casting spells as a minor, and they couldn't tell who had used magic here.

The bar owner is still the shriveled Tom, he still remembers Ning An, and actually greeted him warmly and said:

"Hey, you're here again! Little wizard, what? This year is the second grade? ”

Ning An smiled, came to the bar and said, "I want a room." ”

"Of course, two golden Gallons, I wish you a happy semester at Hogwarts~~"

Without saying anything more, Ning An dragged the big box to his room, packed up, and went around to the small patio behind the bar, knocked on the stone door of Diagon Alley, and entered Diagon Alley.

They have a few new courses this year, so Ning An has to buy a few new books, but he doesn't plan to buy Gidero? Lockhart's stupid books were nothing more than a waste of his Garon and Sico.

Ning An, who didn't want to stay in Diagon Alley longer, ran into an acquaintance. When he walked out of the Blott bookstore, he happened to meet Samantha who walked out of the fireworks toy store opposite? Powell.

Samantha sounded like a girl's name, but he was a boy, a boy who could be described as beautiful, and because of his face and name, he was bullied in Slytherin.

It wasn't until I joined Snake Letter last semester that I had friends for the first time.

"Ning'an!?"

Samantha, who was holding a large paper bag in her hand, greeted her with a look of surprise, his face was full of joy and excitement, and he said excitedly:

"Unbelievable, I thought I had to get on the train to see you."

"Hello, Samantha." Ning An smiled and nodded.

Feeling a trace of indifference from Ning An, Samantha's fiery mood lightened a little, and he calmed down his mood and asked:

"Well—where do you live now? Are they with Daphne? ”

He rubbed his hands through the paper bag, lowered his voice a little and asked, "I want to ...... Maybe? Can we go together? ”

“…”

Ning An was silent for a few seconds, he looked at Samantha in front of him, although he didn't expect to meet an acquaintance, but it didn't matter, so he nodded and said softly:

"That might just be better."

"Wow, that's great, will Daphne and the others come and join us too?"

Samantha looked very happy, he followed Ning An's footsteps, it seemed that he had already bought the things he needed, and he was probably just here to shop casually today.

"It's a pity that we didn't see Walter, we still have to communicate with each other during the holidays."

Samantha said happily, and then he said to Ning An with some loss:

"But, Ning An, you haven't sent us a letter for a holiday."

"Samantha," Ning An suddenly turned his head and looked at him with a flat expression.

"Uh-hmm, what's the matter, Ning An?" Samantha, who sensed that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, asked with a little uneasiness.

"Can you do me a favor?" Unexpected request, Samantha breathed a sigh of relief, for some reason, just now, he had a feeling of time stagnating, as if his breath was stuck in his throat.

He exhaled a big breath, subconsciously patted his chest, and said with a smile: "Of course you can, Ning An, I can do anything for you." ”

"I think Daphne, Walter and they might be here in the next few days." Ning An turned around and continued to walk towards the exit of Diagon Alley, but at the same time said in a voice that was neither salty nor light:

"Maybe they're already here, can you help me find them? - Once you've found it, ask them to go to the innermost room on the second floor of the Leaky Cauldron and come to me. ”

"No problem, just leave it to me." Samantha seemed to take Ning An's request as a sign of trust in him, and he was overjoyed, and his high-pitched voice made him more like a girl when he was excited.

He realized this, and immediately lowered his voice in embarrassment. However, Ning An still ignored all this, and just walked calmly towards the exit.