Chapter 196: Growing Popularity and Growing Troubles
The second half of the second year has begun.
After returning to Hogwarts Castle from the Hogwarts Bar, Xiwen began a leisurely life of attending classes during the day, practicing combination spells at night, and petting cats in his spare time.
It's only been a little over a year, and the kitten has grown into a big cat before you know it. Shewin remembers that when she was brought back from the Magical Beasts Shop, she was about the size of one of Shevan's hands, but now she's a big guy who only needs two hands to pick up.
I don't know if the food given by Xiwen was too good or if she secretly added food when she was patrolling the site......
When the kitten was young, Xiwen and the clerk at the Fantastic Beasts store thought that she should have the blood of the British short silver gradient, but the kitten grew up and became less like a silver gradient, but she gradually faded the silver markings, and the hair on her body became white and soft.
In addition, unlike those domestic cats who are good at gills and become round and chubby, the kitten has a slender and light body, and every step she takes reveals a kind of grace from the inside out.
But all that elegance will be lost when the kitten comes back from a day out playing......
The little mischievous cat still likes to have fun on the various islands and woods around Hogwarts, and every time he returns to the cat cage, he is completely transformed from a clean white cat to a gray cat.
Xiwen was very fond and annoyed with her, but he still had to carefully clean her fur with a cleaning charm every day, and then held this naughty kitten in his arms and massaged her head while combing her hair. The kitten enjoys the comfort of massage, and Xiwen enjoys the happiness of petting the cat, mutual benefit, each takes what he needs!
After two months of quiet concentrating on class, studying, and petting the cat, Dumbledore happily sent the good news to Shevan that Nagini had also successfully learned the transformation of Animagus and tamed the blood curse of Meldigus in his body.
Nagini's Animagus form is also a viper, closely resembling her Melediths form. In other words, it was decades of Meldigus metamorphosis that subtly affected her, and it was only natural that the animal form that best suited her became a viper.
When the two combined, Nagini's fused form transformed into a seven-foot-long viper, which was not as large as the previous Melediths form, but was still about twice as long as a normal-sized viper.
This is the second successful example of taming the Blood Curse after Heven. This example almost proves that this method of dealing with the blood curse of Maledigus is practical!
After Dumbledore consulted with Shewin and understood his ideas, he and Shevin wrote a scholarly paper on the two examples and how to deal with them, which were published in the magazines Transfiguration Today and Wizard of Blood.
As soon as Dumbledore's academic paper was published, it instantly caused a sensation in the wizarding world.
Although the number of wizards in Melediths is as rare as that of the Animagus, Dumbledore is too famous to be the only top wizard who can compete with the Dark Lord Grindelwald, and the one chosen by the Kirin to lead the wizarding world forward!
Moreover, since Dumbledore became the head of Gryffindor, he rarely published articles of an academic nature to the outside world.
And this time, in the midst of growing tensions in various parts of the world, he suddenly released a well-documented research paper with two detailed examples, which diverted the attention of most of the wizarding world.
What's more, Dumbledore's dissertation this time is still about the problem of the Merradigus blood curse that wizards have been unable to solve in the past, and this paper is not only helpful for the solution of the Merradigus blood curse, but also has a great reference role for the study of bloodline magic.
Because of this, Xiwen, as the second author of the paper, has skyrocketed in popularity, and even the Rozier family's industry has also increased its performance slightly. Because people in the wizarding world don't know this wizard named Shivin Rozier, but they know the well-known surname Rozier!
"The Almighty Soldier King of the Female President"
In the time since Dumbledore and Shevan's paper was published, many letters were carried by owls and poured into Shevin like a tidal wave.
Among them, many well-known scholars expressed their intention to exchange academic with him, which made Xiwen very pleased.
More often, however, were wizards who wanted to cling to the power of the Rozier family, as well as letters from wizards who were not convinced that Shewin was the second author of Dumbledore's academic papers.
Those wizards are either just trying to say some flattering and flattering words, and want to share some of the dividends of the Rozier family; Either they think very highly of themselves, and feel that the entire wizarding world should listen to their own ideas, and they don't care what Xiwen writes, and just a random sentence is a scolding.
What's more, there are some "pseudo-experts" who have little ability themselves, but are very good at using other people's fame to increase their popularity. They attacked Xiwen's specific analysis of himself as an example, in fact, they wanted to use Xiwen's popularity during this time to brush up on his presence in the wizarding world.
After all, those people are some kind of existence that bullies the weak and fears the hard. They did not dare to question Dumbledore's problems at all, and only dared to find fault with the second author. Even if the paper doesn't clearly define what the two authors write, that's not a problem, as long as Dumbledore is not mentioned!
How could busy people who were busy fighting against the Dark Lord have time to pay attention to their doubts about the second author? Even if they paid attention, how could the pure people who were chosen by the Qilin personally go down to find trouble for them?
These messy letters annoyed Xiwen, and at one point he tried to hide himself with a shielding charm to prevent the owl from finding him, regardless of the willingness of learned experts and scholars to communicate.
The first author of the paper, Dumbledore, discovered Shevin's troubles just in time. So he called Shevin to the office of the director of the Transfiguration Division and had a long talk with him.
"Xiwen, did I put your name in the position of the second author, did it cause you a lot of trouble?" Dumbledore asked, smiling.
"It's not a bother." Xiwen was a little exhausted by various letters during this time, so he smiled reluctantly, shook his head and said.
"You're willing to put me in the position of second author, I'm too late to be grateful! Because of this paper, there are a lot of knowledgeable old-timers in the wizarding world who are willing to mention me, so I'm actually quite happy. ”
"It's a bit difficult to find the old-timers' letters from the mess of letters, and their speeches are really annoying......
"In fact, I've been in this situation before." Dumbledore patted Shevin on the shoulder and said earnestly. "It may not be as serious as you this time, but I did publish some articles during my school years, and I also gained a certain amount of popularity."
"Just because of those popularity, I have also encountered the phenomenon of being criticized and questioned."
Dumbledore said with a look of nostalgia and a smile. In his eyes, the criticism and questioning did not seem to be a nuisance at all.
"So, how did you solve it?" Xiwen couldn't help but ask.
Dumbledore smiled inscrutablely, curling the corners of his mouth—
"Of course, it is solved by strength!"
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