Chapter 626 Low-Key, Pragmatic, Diligent and Studious

PS: The information that Merlin is a Slytherin comes from the Slytherin freshman welcome letter in POTTERMORE. As for the various contradictions in it, such as the age issue, I can’t sort it out. After all, I’m not JK ​​Rowling, so I can’t be sure what she really thinks , can only be written based on information that is searched and has an official source.

Since there is such a source, just treat it as another Merlin who has many differences from the legend.

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Ethan was observing the spell while searching for various details about Harry Potter in his mind.

There are many things I can think of, but not many useful ones. I just remembered that the world of Harry Potter has clearly stated that magic cannot conjure food out of thin air.

But magic can make 'food more' (inject magic power and convert the magic power into the same substance as an item?), then the food in front of me can be explained clearly when it appears with a lot of magic power fluctuations, so Dumbledore Lido is to increase the already prepared food and transfer it to the students' dining table.

After the dinner, the Slytherin students went to the dormitory led by the prefect Gemma Farley.

Slytherin's dormitory is uniquely located behind a stone wall in the lower dungeon of the castle, and the Slytherin common room is directly known as the Slytherin dungeon.

"It's an uncomfortable environment."

Ethan turned his head to look at the person who was speaking, and found that it was actually Illya.

"Where did you go just now?"

"The professor asked me to talk to me privately about some things."

Like Ethan, Illya was also sorted into Slytherin House, but she was called away by the professor halfway through the sorting ceremony, so Ethan didn't notice when she came back.

"Because Xiaobai?"

"Um!"

No matter how cute and cute Xiaobai looks, he is also a pet that does not meet the college's regulations.

Because this is a white bear cub, not a cat, owl or toad that the academy allows.

No one cared about it before, because before the sorting ceremony was over, no one knew what kind of pet Illya brought, and after the sorting ceremony, the students will be sent to the corresponding college dormitory, At this time, I saw Xiaobai brought by Ilya - this pet obviously did not meet the college's regulations, so I naturally had to report it.

As the dean, Snape and the vice-principal McGonagall both had conversations with Illya, but in the end they didn't know whether it was because of Illya's cuteness, or because Snape saw Illya's outstanding talent and reluctantly Tolerated her behavior that did not conform to the school's regulations, and allowed her to continue raising Xiaobai in the academy.

But because Xiaobai's situation is special. Therefore, most of the time, they cannot be brought into the dormitory like ordinary pets, but they are raised and lived in a separate place.

After talking about Xiaobai's situation, Gemma has already told all the freshmen how to enter the dungeon from the college and pass through the stone wall into the Slytherin common room. At this time, the freshmen can also take a good look at it and rest The appearance of the living room, after all, they will live here for at least seven years.

"It's not very comfortable."

Slytherin's common room and dormitory are all underground or at the bottom of the lake. The lake can be seen through the windows, with rough stone ceilings and green lights hanging on the walls, as well as some decorative skulls. , The whole room exudes a strange and cold atmosphere.

Ethan grinned, very much wanting to complain about the person who made these designs.

But looking at a group of 'Secondary Two' kids with expressions like 'we are so awesome, we should live in such a cool place', I guess if he complains, he will immediately become a public enemy in Slytherin House.

"I hope the dormitory is not so cold and damp."

Although there is a huge fireplace in the lounge, and the flames are burning very vigorously, but this is at the bottom of the lake after all, it is impossible to avoid the cold and damp, and it is just a little relief to make the situation not so bad.

"The password is changed every two weeks. Freshmen remember to pay attention to the bulletin board. Don't forget to read the new password and you won't be able to get in... Believe me, if someone makes such a stupid mistake, no one will let you in."

After the prefect Gemma Farley finally explained some things, he asked the freshmen to go back to rest.

Starting tomorrow, the freshmen will officially start their study career at Hogwarts, and they will learn all kinds of magical knowledge from scratch.

The freshmen were all looking forward to it, including Draco Malfoy, who usually looked down on everyone, was also very excited.

But no one is like Harry Potter who can't even sleep and wakes up late the next day. After all, most of Slytherin's recruits here are children from pure-blood families. It's not like these people have never seen magic. 'Rookie' so not excited to that level.

So when it was time to get up the next day, all the freshmen got up on time, including of course Ethan who didn't need to sleep at all.

"Looking at you, you slept well yesterday. Didn't you lose sleep because you saw a whole new world?"

Ethan shook his head speechlessly.

"I've seen a lot more new things than you think."

Malfoy didn't expect Ethan to answer him like this, what does this answer mean? Laughing at yourself for not seeing the world?

"Who do you think you're talking to?"

"Draco Malfoy, a brat who doesn't know anything?"

There is no doubt that the other party is indeed mocking him, Draco Malfoy just felt a rush of heat rushing to his forehead, and he wished he could immediately draw out his wand and give this guy who didn't know anything a hard lesson.

His two followers have already rolled up their sleeves to make Ethan look good.

Especially when I saw Ethan's "Come on, come on, come up if you have the ability!" ’ expression, these two children with not very flexible brains have even raised their fists.

"What are you doing?"

Ethan curled his lips. The appearance of the prefect Gemma meant that this matter came to an end. As a prefect, it is impossible to allow students from the same academy or even the same class to fight in private.

No matter who wins or loses, it is the Slytherin house who will be ashamed in the end.

So when Gemma appeared, everyone showed regretful expressions.

Some feel that it's a pity that they can't teach Ethan, a Muggle-born guy, and let him put himself in the right place;

"What's the pity, even if you beat all these brats to death, there's nothing to be proud of."

"Yeah, Basaka is the strongest!"

"You already know my situation, so don't call me Basaka?"

Ilya didn't speak, just pretended she didn't hear, then hugged her Xiaobai and continued walking towards the classroom.

The first class was taught by the head of Gryffindor and the vice-principal of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall. They didn't dare to go too late.

Since Slytherin is in class with Gryffindor, the competition between the two houses is almost everywhere, and the snake and the lion are almost always hostile. In fact, the relationship between Slytherin and several other houses is very different. Not good, and the relationship with Gryffindor is the worst.

However, although several Hogwarts branch deans are very concerned about their own college's victory in the competition, none of them will deliberately trip up other colleges, or even intentionally discriminate in treatment. Cover up the mistakes made by their own students - such as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley were late to class on the first day, and were cleaned up by Professor McGonagall.

Every professor is very conscientious in imparting all kinds of knowledge to the students, and Ethan also starts to learn and understand the magic knowledge of this world from the basic part.

As he judged before, the magic system in this world is very different from the magic system he practiced before.

First of all, the magic system in this world is very talented. The height a wizard eventually grows depends on the level of personal talent, and talent is almost guaranteed to die from birth, and there is no way to improve it later.

The growth and improvement of magic power depends entirely on talent. The magic power of poor talents grows slowly, and it is impossible to achieve any great achievements in a lifetime. In the end, they can only hang out at the bottom or even the edge of the magic world.

Even the release of magic depends on talent. There are no secrets or points in many methods of casting magic. They just tell you to raise your wand and chant a spell, and believe that you can do it, and then you did it... This made Ethan very uncomfortable , even though he could easily find the feeling of 'casting a spell' with the staff and successfully release the magic, he still felt uncomfortable.

The magic is released, but how? How does magic work? What kind of nature? Has any model been constructed? rune? Magic circle? What else?

He needs to think about it carefully, so he spent more time studying some simple things than other students, which slowed down his learning speed countless times.

But even so, his speed of mastering magic is still much faster than most people, and only a few people can keep up with Ethan's learning speed.

Accidentally becoming a top student is not without its benefits. For example, the dean of Slytherin, Snape, now sees Ethan as particularly pleasing to the eye.

Because Ethan is low-key and pragmatic, he studies hard and never causes trouble—since Ethan began to show super talent, the favored children of Slytherin no longer reject him, because he has proved that he is worthy Status as a Slytherin student.

Of course, there are still people who are unhappy with Ethan, such as Draco Malfoy. Anyone who is more prominent than him will be hated by him. After lying on the cold stone floor in a daze all night, he never troubled Ethan again.

Malfoy was arrogant and conceited, but he wasn't stupid—the other party was obviously much stronger than him, so jumping out to provoke him at this time was purely asking for trouble for himself.

It was that time that Malfoy realized that Ethan was much stronger than he showed.