Chapter 3 Family Heritage
Since Sherin caused the magic riot, Lucius couldn't wait to cultivate Sherin's learning in magic. What surprised and delighted the whole family was that Sherin's learning talent actually extended to the field of magic.
Sherin also showed outstanding talent in learning magic. He learned all kinds of magic knowledge in one go, and even asked some questions that Lucius couldn't answer from time to time. Soon Lucius gave up personally guiding Sherin and let Sherin tinker and study on his own.
As a top student in his previous life, Sherin saved the process of learning language and writing. From the age of 4, he inherited his thirst for knowledge and tireless learning in his previous life, and often soaked in the family library to read a lot of books.
For centuries, members of the Malfoy family have been enriching the family's collection of books. The general categories of books are all-encompassing, whether it is history, spells, transfiguration, herbology, magic beasts, or even rare and unpopular ancient magic literature and alchemy can be found in the library.
There are also many very precious rare books. The value of an out-of-print magic book is inestimable and can be said to be priceless. These are the foundation of the inheritance of pure-blood wizard families. No one will take them out unless it is absolutely necessary.
Schelling's favorite is history books. Through the historical documents of his family, he can get a deeper and more complete understanding of this magical world than the original book.
He deeply understands that this is a complete magical world, and everyone is a living character. This world not only has the savior Harry and his friends, but also the dark lord Voldemort and his followers, but also other people and lives of all kinds, such as the curse breakers of the Egyptian pyramids, the magical biologists who travel around the world, the alchemists who create magical items, and so on.
What makes Schelling puzzled and puzzled is that as a family that stands on the side of the dark lord in the original book, there are no books about dark magic in the library. Is it because the dark magic books are inherently dangerous, and his parents are worried that he and his brother will accidentally touch them and have an accident, so they are collected by his parents separately?
Well, let's not say, Schelling guessed that this possibility is not small. In the second part of the original novel, when Harry and Ron pretended to be Goyle and Crabbe to ask Draco, Draco accidentally revealed that there was a secret room under the living room of the manor, which was used to store the contraband of the Malfoy family.
Pure-blood families, especially the holy 28 pure-blood families, all have an extremely ancient historical heritage.
Although several pure-blood families in the original novel were submissive in front of Voldemort, the real heritage of these families was never reflected in force and fighting, but relied on monopolizing the lucrative industries in the magic world to control the economic lifeline of the magic world, and then possessed countless wealth and powerful political influence.
What enabled them to do this was not a simple inheritance of wealth and heritage, but the various very precious magic secrets mastered by these ancient families. For example, the Ollivander family, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, relied on controlling the secrets of wand manufacturing, and thus created wealth by monopolizing one-third of the wand industry in Europe.
These documents recording family secrets are the most precious treasures of a family.
Xielin knew that there were only a few years left before Voldemort returned. If he wanted to protect himself and even the family, he had to race against time to strengthen his strength. He was originally a top student, and he absorbed all the knowledge in the family library more diligently than ordinary people.
Xielin and Dobby had a good relationship. After Xielin spent several years of soft and hard work, he finally persuaded Dobby when he was 5 years old to take him with him to Apparate when the whole family was out and sneak into the family's secret room under the living room.
Because the entrance to the secret room was blocked by heavy protective magic, it was impossible to enter without the correct unlocking spell, but the protective magic of the wizarding world had a loophole, that is, it did not pay attention to the magic of creatures that they considered inferior, such as house elves. So Xielin could rely on Dobby to cast the unique elven magic of house elves to sneak into the secret room.
There were several skulls emitting strange fluorescence hanging on the ceiling of the secret room, filling the dim secret room with a little weak light.
Rows of shelves can be seen on all four walls, filled with many strange items that can be seen at a glance as full of traces of black magic, including black skulls, blood-stained daggers, strangely shaped masks, rusty chains, etc.
None of these items came with any instructions, so Schelling had no idea about their names and how to use them.
Schelling moved carefully in the small secret room, carefully avoiding accidentally touching any of the items here.
Just kidding, even a figure like Dumbledore would die if he accidentally touched Voldemort's cursed items. As his father was a former Death Eater, Schelling was sure that this kind of terrible black magic item must have been collected in large quantities.
Among the many items, one of them was recognized by Schelling. It was an old-fashioned diary with a black cover. The style was very ordinary, just like an ordinary diary in the Muggle world, with Tom Riddle's name written on it.
Xie Ling knew that this was Voldemort's first Horcrux in his life. With Xie Ling's current strength, he would not touch it rashly and seek trouble.
Xie Ling quickly glanced at these terrible black magic items and came to the corner where books were stored. The books here were particularly old, and some of the covers were so worn that even the words on them could not be recognized.
Schelling picked out three magic books from the pile of books, namely "Dark Potion", "Fallen Creatures" and "Abatyr Volume 1".
These three books look very old, and many of the contents are even written in ancient runes.
Then Schelling found a family spell notebook in a secret compartment, which recorded the secret spells that were only passed down by the direct descendants of the family, so he asked Dobby to copy one for him. Since young wizards under the age of 11 are not allowed to have wands in the British wizarding world, Schelling can only copy the principles and methods of releasing spells in advance, but cannot really learn to use them.
["Dark Potion" obtained! "Fallen Creatures" obtained! "Abatyr Volume 1" obtained! 】
【Malfoy family heirloom spell obtained!】
With a full harvest, Xie Lin was about to leave with satisfaction, but he accidentally caught a glimpse of a dusty and worn-out hourglass in the corner. If Xie Lin's magic eye had not seen a faint magical fluctuation on the hourglass, the old appearance of this item would not have attracted anyone's attention.
In the magic world, items such as hourglasses and pocket watches that can emit magical fluctuations usually mean only one thing - this item has time magic attached to it!
Xie Lin packed up the hourglass with excitement, then summoned Dobby to come over, used the elves' unique magic to imitate the magic book and the fake hourglass and put them back, and then carefully eliminated all traces before he and Dobby Apparated and left.
【Time hourglass obtained! 】
Yes, this time hourglass is a time converter, an early sample handed down from the Middle Ages.
In the sequel to the original book, when all the known time converters had been destroyed, Lucius still let Theodore Nott make two new time converters for him from scratch. Nott might have some talent, but Schelling in his previous life had always been very skeptical that Nott could make a time converter without a sample or reference drawings.
At this moment, Schelling confirmed his conjecture in his previous life - in fact, Lucius had already had the oldest time converter, and Nott just used it as a blueprint to improve the time converter with more practical functions.
Time magic is one of the most mysterious magic fields. Schelling knows that time magic has many rules, and he doesn't want to cause terrible consequences by breaking the rules.
This oldest time converter, although it can only bring Schelling back one hour each time the hourglass is flipped, is enough for Schelling. All he needs is more time to read and study, similar to the use of Hermione's over-learning in the third grade in the original book.
Being able to get such a cheating device at the beginning, Schelling had to sigh that he was really lucky.
Although the time hourglass has no limit on the number of times it can be used, excessive use is still a burden on the body, just like Hermione in the original book had to give up because of excessive fatigue. Therefore, Schelling only flipped the hourglass four times a day, and used the extra four hours to study, and indulged in reading and learning day after day.
There are hundreds of books in the library, but with the help of the time hourglass, Schelling still read all the books at the age of 9, and has a knowledge that ordinary people cannot reach.
As for the three dark magic books, Schelling does not plan to touch them for the time being, because dark magic books usually carry dangers. With Schelling's current strength, it is undoubtedly reckless and stupid to touch them rashly. As for the Malfoy family magic, although Schelling has never practiced it, he has already memorized the steps and details of the spell.
With nothing to do, Schelling began to think crookedly again.