Chapter 195: Snake Court Returns

After conquering this beautiful female subordinate, since there was no need to use her for the time being, Sherin arranged for her to enter the secret room of Ravenclaw to read Ravenclaw's rich collection of books and the mainstream newspapers of various European countries in recent years that Sherin had asked the house elves to collect in advance, so that she could grasp the latest situation in the wizarding world as soon as possible, increase her magical knowledge, and kill her time.

The last point is particularly important. Thinking of the strange eyes with strong emotions when she looked at him, Sherin made up his mind not to contact her frequently for the time being. Food, daily necessities, etc., were delivered to her regularly by the house elves.

Shalfu still lacked a wand, but as a person of unknown origin, it might be a problem for her to buy a wand from an open channel. After all, Sherin didn't want to expose her existence too quickly.

Fortunately, when Sherin was in the second year, he had seized a basilisk horn from the corpse of a basilisk, and he himself also owned a herbal trading company with an international trade license approved by the Ministry of Magic. Under the Apparition led by Dobby, he found his long-lost partner Ali Bashir and had a meeting with him.

Since Ali and Sherin got in touch, with endless financial support and the green light from the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Magic, he can be said to be thriving and living a comfortable life. Compared with the frustration in the original book (failure to introduce flying carpets), he has successfully opened up the international trade world in this world. He is already a celebrity in European countries, and even in Africa, North America and South America, he is also well-known.

Ali was extremely grateful to Sherin. Although he had a unique vision in business and a keen sense of future trends, he lacked political means and the wisdom to make connections, which led to his past experience often encountering such a dilemma - he clearly saw a lucrative market, but was often stuck in the legal provisions of the authority and could only watch the business opportunities slip away from his hands.

Since reaching a cooperation agreement with Sherin, he felt that it was the wisest decision he had made in his life, the turning point of his destiny, and the cornerstone of his rapid rise from then on. So when he knew that Sherin had something to do for him, he took Sherin's matter as the first priority without saying a word.

There were two things that Sherin asked him to do, which were not difficult, especially for him today, but only required him to travel across continents, which was quite time-consuming.

The first thing was to go to North America to collect the top-quality snake wood for him to make a stick.

That's right, since Selph is a snake tonguer, then obviously, snake wood with basilisk horn will be the most suitable wand for her. From the history of Hogwarts, we can know that Slytherin, one of the four founders, used a snake wood basilisk horn wand. When he used it to perform serpentine magic in serpentine language, he was invincible. The snake wood that Slytherin used to make his wand was found by him across the Atlantic Ocean to the North American continent.

The wood used to make the wand is actually different from ordinary wood. In addition to the requirements for the age of the tree as the source of the wood, a skilled wand maker can even infer its magic conductivity through the grain on the wood, so not every branch growing on a snake wood tree is suitable for making a wand.

For example, there is a snake wood tree within the scope of Ilvermorny School. This snake wood tree was planted by the founder inadvertently with Slytherin's wand in the early 17th century. The tree age is less than 4 centuries, and it can only be considered barely qualified to be used to make a wand.

The snakewood that Sherin entrusted Ali to find must have dark gold lines on it, which means that the age of the tree cannot be less than 6 centuries, and the quality of thousand-year-old snakewood is the best.

After all, if you want to match a thousand-year-old basilisk horn, you must find a thousand-year-old snakewood to make the stick body, isn't it reasonable?

The second thing is to go to South America and sign an exclusive agency agreement in Europe with the Pollachi Alchemy Workshop in Peru, which is responsible for the sales of Peruvian dark powder in Europe.

This product was eventually introduced by the Wesley twins in the original book. Because it is very suitable for use as a tool for escape, it became a hot-selling product during the period when Voldemort and the Death Eaters were rampant. As long as Ali signed the exclusive agency before the war started and eliminated all competitors, it would be a lucrative business.

After bidding farewell to Ali, Shaylin returned to Hogwarts, but received a report from Daphne. Since the disappearance of the head of the Ghost Society and the children of the pure-blood families, and after Draco deliberately faded out of the public eye, Slytherin has almost reached a consensus - to respect Shaylin!

Even if there are still a few students who are loyal to the Selwyn family, the Foley family, etc., who have formed a separate faction within Slytherin, with their meager numbers and appeal, they can no longer make a difference. It can be said that more than 80% of the students in Slytherin College have already followed Shaylin's lead.

In the Slytherin secret room, Shaylin sat firmly on the throne on the seventh-level platform, like a king with great power, looking down at the six people standing under the platform with cold eyes.

Under the platform, three men and three women all bowed their heads and lowered their eyebrows, standing upright respectfully. If someone else was here, they would be surprised to find that all the prefects of Slytherin House were gathered here. Some of them were originally prefects, and some were newly appointed prefects to replace the recently missing students.

The new prefects are 7th grade boy Gullit Peasegood, 7th grade girl Vinia Pilsworth and Vankanda.

The original prefects are Warrington, 5th grade boy Terence Higgs and 5th grade girl Serona Osbert.

Gullit's father Arnold Peasegood was originally a memory cancellation officer in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. Recently, he has been promoted miraculously and is now the captain of the Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team, with two major forces under his control: the reconnaissance team and the strikers.

Vinia's father Bernie Pilsworth was originally a staff member in the maintenance department of the Ministry of Magic who was responsible for the weather spell (every window and ceiling in the Ministry of Magic can show different climates, which is actually the effect of the weather spell). He was suddenly promoted to the head of the intelligence department in the Auror Logistics Corps, and he has control over all the investigators, informants and intelligence sources of the Auror Department.

Mrs. Vankanda's position in the Ministry of Magic has not changed. She is still the director of the Office for the Prohibition of the Abuse of Magic. However, the power of this office has been growing with the intentional support of some senior officials in the Ministry of Magic. Many young wizards who have violated the International Statute of Secrecy and the Trace Alert have been warned. It is said that Willy Weathersing, who has caused many toilet sewage backflow incidents, has been sent to Azkaban by her. It is said that Mrs. Vankanda's former boss Umbridge tried to interfere in this matter, intending to exonerate Weathersing, but was finally rejected by Mrs. Vankanda in a tough attitude.

The Warrington family had already fully surrendered to the Malfoy family very early (when Cassius was attached to Draco). After Sherin resolved his differences with Draco, Cassius, who had the power of a prefect, also turned to Sherin under Draco's arrangement.

The strength of the Warrington family can only be regarded as the bottom among the pure-blood families, but Cassius himself is not bad. This can be seen from the fact that he was selected as the Slytherin representative to participate in Merlin's test a few years ago. Moreover, he is one of the few people in Hogwarts who is both a prefect and a Quidditch player. Like Diggory of Hufflepuff, he is an elite who is good at both literature and sports.

Terence and Sherin established a relationship the earliest. His father was originally the director of the Pest Advisory Office of the Department of Biological Management and Control. Now he has been promoted to the director of the Alien Division. All alien creatures in the UK are under his jurisdiction, such as the Centaur Liaison Office, the Goblin Liaison Office, the House Elf Resettlement Office, the Werewolf Registry, and the Vampire Registry. Under his arrangement, the information and records of Sherin's house elves, werewolves, vampires, and hags were all destroyed, as if they no longer existed in Great Britain.

(Note: The Department of Creature Management and Control is the second largest administrative agency in the Ministry of Magic, and the job levels are divided into three levels: the director has the greatest power and commands the entire department; the three directors rank second, each supervising a branch; and the directors of the major offices come next)

The Osbert family, from which Serona was born, was originally a subsidiary family of the Malfoy family. Her great-great-grandfather, Axos Osbert, served as Minister of Magic from 1789 to 1798, but in fact he was just a puppet of Sherin's tenth-generation ancestor, Sethimos Malfoy. At that time, many people in the wizarding world believed that Osbert was just a puppet of Malfoy, and Sethimos Malfoy was the actual leader of the Ministry of Magic.

Now, with the re-emergence of the Malfoy family in the political arena, the Osbert family, which had gradually faded out of politics, has once again entered the public eye. Serona's father, Axos II, entered the Department of Creature Management and Control and became the director of the Beast Division. All the breeding, research and trading of beasts in the UK are under his control. Under his arrangement, the Greengrass family was approved for several project permits for the cultivation of new species of magical creatures, including the pygmy puff.

The purpose of the six prefects coming here this time is self-evident. They represent themselves and the attitude of their families.

After they swore allegiance to Schelling, Schelling planted a curse magic on each of them. A pure black dragon emblem was engraved on each of their arms. The lifelike black dragon on it spread its wings, bared its teeth and claws, as if it was about to fly.

The basic principle of this curse magic was learned by him from "The Secret of Advanced Black Magic Revealed", and it was originally the same magic as Voldemort's "Dark Mark". However, Schelling was not satisfied with the function and deterrence of the Dark Mark, which was why he put aside the things at hand and chose to intercept the curse on Sharf first.

In his opinion, the blood curse on Sharf was much more deterrent than the Dark Mark. According to Schelling's guess, Nagini, the predecessor of Sharf, was probably a subordinate of a dark wizard hiding in Borneo in Southeast Asia. The blood curse on her body was probably just a means for the dark wizard to ensure the loyalty of his subordinates. Because Nagini left Borneo privately, she could only rely on her own magic to suppress the curse, but she failed in the end and turned into a snake.

After he studied the "Gorgon's Curse" intercepted from Sharf, he integrated the characteristics of the two magics and created this new curse magic, which he named "Sleeping Dragon Mark".

The Sleeping Dragon Mark, like the Dark Demon Mark, can track the location of the seal holder at any time, and summon all the seal holders to gather using a specific spell. In addition, it allows Xielin, as the caster, to control their life and death. No matter where they are, as long as Xielin has a thought, they can be completely transformed into beasts without reason and humanity, which almost eliminates the possibility of these people betraying.

Xielin also knows that he is not omniscient and omnipotent, and there is still a possibility of betrayers who are lucky enough not to be discovered, so Xielin also installed another insurance - the forbidden word spell. If anyone says the word "Sleeping Dragon" outside of Xielin's secret base, Xielin will sense it, which means that there is a leaker in the organization.

Of course, these are just additional means. Schelling knew that the most reliable means were often close interests. Only by tying the interests of these people's families to his own chariot and forming an alliance of mutual benefit and mutual loss, would these people be unlikely to betray unless they were willing to sacrifice their entire families.

Although there were only six of these prefects, they each had their own connections and supporters. Their surrender also marked that Slytherin had officially entered an era dominated and controlled by Schelling.

Schelling arranged for them all to join the Sleeping Dragon Society and began to recruit senior students for him. These students would graduate in a few years and could then be arranged to intern in various corners of the business and political circles to help Schelling in the world outside school.

(1) Arnold Peasegood is from the fourth part of the original novel. Arthur introduced him to Harry during the World Cup. At that time, he was a memory canceler. Later, in the official Daily Prophet, he had become a striker and made great contributions by arresting three goblins in the goblin rebellion.

(2) Bernie Pilsworth comes from the seventh book of the original novel. It was raining in Yaxley's office, so Ron, pretending to be Cattermole, was sent to find Bernie Pilsworth to fix the problem.

(3) Axolus Osbert comes from Pottermore's long novel of magic. He is the tenth Minister of Magic and is believed to be a puppet of Sethimos Malfoy.