Chapter 18: Guess and Quirrell

"I swear, Hagrid definitely knows something."

After coming out of Hagrid's hut, Harry swore an oath.

John put the dog food down and left with the three, and Hermione and Ron felt that Hagrid was hiding something.

Their only clue now is Nicol Lemay.

Harry, who was bent on revealing Snape's true colors, said, "I seem to have an impression of the name, but I can't remember it. ”

He always thought he had seen the name, but he couldn't remember it.

The bag Hagrid had taken from Gringotts was clearly Snape's target, and that thing had something to do with Nicol Lemay.

"John, have you ever heard that name?" Harry put his hopes in John, who was smarter than Hermione.

John recalled, shook his head and said apologetically, "Sorry, I don't remember either, you can go to the library and have a look, if there isn't one, then this person doesn't exist." ”

It was a great idea to make Harry's eyes shine.

Hermione had wanted to talk about going to the library, but now she agreed, urging, "Then let's hurry over, preferably before Christmas." ”

She and Ron are going home for Christmas, and there are still more than twenty days left, hoping to find out.

Harry's eyes darkened a little when he heard of Christmas.

He didn't want to go back to Dursley's house, where he would only live in a cramped staircase cupboard cubicle, and Dudley was always trying to bully himself.

Seeing that Hermione and the others had discussed their plans for Christmas, Harry said enviously, "I don't want to go back, it's too bad there." ”

Ron and Hermione sympathize with him, and it's hard for them to imagine that bad relatives.

"John, are you going home for Christmas?" Hermione knew that John was also a Muggle family.

John didn't plan to go back, shook his head and said, "No, I'm going to consolidate my knowledge during Christmas, and I can't use magic when I go home." ”

This attitude sent chills down Harry and Ron, and Hermione felt that she couldn't admit defeat, but if she didn't go home, her father would wonder what was wrong with her good daughter at school.

The four were separated on the fifth floor, and John did not plan to go to the library.

Although he was somewhat familiar with the name Nicol Lemay, his immediate priority now was to brush up on Occlumency.

After reaching the eighth floor, he found the Room of Requirement.

After a day's training inside, it was already dark when I came out again.

He was going to head to the kitchen to see if he could get a dinner.

On the way, he meets someone he doesn't want to meet.

"John Wick, good evening, evening."

Professor Quirrell, who was stammering as he spoke, seemed to have "encountered" John by chance.

John, who had silently touched his wand in his left hand and activated his Occlumency, smiled and politely replied, "Good evening, Professor Quirrell." ”

After seeing John's power to kill the trolls, Voldemort was moved to take John as a Death Eater.

Pureblood?

Voldemort didn't care.

He was like a crazy pure-blood during his reign, but he was a half-blood himself.

Although reluctant to mention it, Voldemort did not attach so much importance to half-blood purebloods, but more to whether the power could be used for himself.

The idea of pureblood is nothing more than a means of domination for him.

The little wizard in the first year is the easiest time to control.

Voldemort intended to raise John to be a Death Eater and an internal agent at Hogwarts, just like Snape.

He arranged for Quirrell to come into contact with John.

Professor Quirrell knew that John was a studious man, and pretended to say, "Y-Are you learning, really...... Diligent. ”

The excuses have already been thought of for John, and John doesn't need to use them in vain, nodding and saying, "I've forgotten to sleep and eat, if there's nothing to do, I'm going to eat." ”

He didn't want to stay with Quirrell, who knows if Voldemort would pop out of nowhere.

John wanted to leave quickly, but Quirrell didn't.

Quirrell smiled, "Really, really studious, maybe you'll be interested in the knowledge in the forbidden book section." ”

Forbidden book zone?

John left abruptly and unhurriedly, with a longing expression on his face for the forbidden book section.

This scene was taken into Quirrell's eyes, and a look of contempt appeared in his eyes.

Sure enough, wizards who pursue knowledge are interested in taboos.

The quickest way to turn a good boy into a Death Eater is to teach him the importance of power.

That's how Quirrell became Voldemort's subordinate.

Voldemort knew these wizards too well, and he was a regular visitor to the forbidden book section when he was younger, and there were many dark magic records in it.

The dark arts were powerful and demagogic, and by the time John had learned, they could easily harvest a little Death Eater with a little more guidance.

Thinking only for a split second, Quirrell smiled and stammered, "You're a good boy, I'...... I can give you a pass to the forbidden book area. ”

"Really? I've wanted to see it for a long time! ”

John behaves like a kid in pursuit of knowledge, which is exactly what Quirrell wants to see.

Quirrell told John to go to his office the following Monday to get the pass, which saved John from having to go to the forbidden area at night.

As for Quirrell's idea, John was able to guess a few.

But none of this matters, I'm not a child, as long as I get a signature, just ignore it.

Anyway, Quirrell was able to jump around in the first year, and he would automatically change people in the second year.

Defence Against the Dark Arts professor is known to be a consumable for the year.

...

Monday.

John retrieved the professor's signed note from Quirrell, and when he gave the note, Quirrell cryptically gave him the names of several books to induce him to read them.

Like "Sixteenth Century Dark Magic", "The Curse of Magic", "The Curse of the Nineteenth Century" and so on.

It is also said that the most basic thing to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts is to understand the composition of the Dark Arts, and John just laughed at this.

If I believe that you are a ghost, you are sick.

Showing great interest on his face, he turned back as soon as he arrived at the library.

At the library, he meets the trio who come to check out Nicol Lemay, and John doesn't alarm them.

After showing Ms. Pince the professor's note, John walked unhindered to the forbidden area.

Most of the books in the forbidden book area are very esoteric, and it is a little difficult to turn on the Xueba mode.

"It's still not enough to accumulate, and the foundation is too weak."

With a sigh of emotion, John saw a copy of "Goblin Foundry".

With a move in his heart, he thought of the Sword of Gryffindor, which the founder Gryffindor had commissioned the elves to build.

His current combat mode is similar to that of Gryffindor, but it is still dwarfed by weapons.

The last time I used medieval armor against trolls, the weapons were a bit difficult, and these magical creatures themselves had amazing defenses.

Similar to the fire dragon, the fire dragon's scale armor has extremely high magic resistance.

If you want to deal with the fire dragon yourself, it is obviously not possible to use ordinary weapons.

"Maybe I can forge my own."

John's eyes were hot, and it was naturally best to be able to have a weapon of his own.

Borrowing the Leprechaun Foundry, John began to study the book without sleep or food.

The book is a translation, and the original author was an Egyptian shaman.

John struggled to read, but it didn't matter, he still had time to grind.

In the days that followed, he borrowed another copy of the Basic Magical Script Guide from the library.

While enriching his knowledge, John was gradually able to grasp the content of "Goblin Foundry".

In the evening, he put away his books and prepared to go to the Forbidden Forest.

The punishment had not yet been erased, and John needed to go to the Forbidden Forest every night to patrol with Hagrid.

Upon arriving at Hagrid's cabin, Toothtooth enthusiastically ran over and sniffed John's body.

Hagrid laughed and said, "Tooth likes you very much." ”

Like?

John watched as Toothtooth sniffed at his pocket with the sandwich.

"Are you sure it's not hungry?"