Chapter 586 Walking Forward (2 in 1)

Newcomer Gryffindor batsman Dudley Dursley's brilliant performance did not affect the mood of the older generation of departed batsman brothers.

George and Fred were worried that their leaving the team would affect the strength of the academy's Quidditch team, but they were very happy to see this situation. Naturally, they could devote themselves to the research of the hut with a more calm attitude.

However, they were obviously happy too early.

snap~

A thick pile of parchment rolls flew out of the suitcase and fell heavily on the long table of the laboratory bench in the corner of the hall.

Facing the puzzled eyes of the two of them, Anton just smiled slightly, and tapped the crucible with his wand, causing the viscous purple solution inside to float out, accompanied by a burst of fire in mid-air, turning into a little purple snack like popcorn, Gently stack on a plate.

"Gah~"

Fat Ball rushed over excitedly, pulled the plate in front of him, sniffed it happily, and stuffed his head into the purple popcorn.

"Eat slowly." Anton smiled and rubbed Fat Ball's head before turning to look at George and Fred.

"This is a complete testing process for testing the possibility of a new species as a potion material."

"Fat Ball was the eighteenth experimental product sent by the dragon farm to Snape's research. Almost all of the previous seventeen sub-dragons were skinned and tested from the inside to the outside."

The twins picked up the information curiously and flipped through it, "So this is the information about Fat Ball?"

"No!" Anton shook his head, "All the information about the sub-dragon species belongs to the dragon farm. I signed a magical experimental assistant contract with Professor Snape at that time. Information leaked."

"What you see is just about how to test."

George's eyes widened, he took a breath, and flipped in disbelief, "So much?"

Fred swallowed, "Oh, Anton, I think magic is something that needs inspiration, like this..."

"Okay." He spread his hands and looked at George, "We just want to be lazy."

Anton waved his wand to clean up the experiment equipment, "This is one of Professor Snape's housekeeping skills as the world's top potions master. Except for him, it is difficult for you to find this kind of systematic test magic anywhere else." methods of medicinal materials."

"It contains not only the wisdom of Professor Snape, but also the wisdom of countless generations of top potions scientists, which is the only one in the world."

"I also specifically asked for Professor Snape's permission, plus a large basket of 'rabbit fluffy dung', two flame mammoths, and a 'wizard's hut', which made him nod for my sake .”

"You also need to sign a magic agreement. Except for your direct descendants, it is forbidden to spread this experimental method. I need to hand over the agreement to Professor Snape."

As Anton narrated, the expressions of the twins also became serious.

"listen……"

Anton turned his head and looked at them seriously, "Mastering the testing methods and knowing every detail of the magical animals you raise will be useful to you not only in the field of potions, but also in your favorite fields of magic zoology, alchemy and magic. Item science has a crucial influence."

"It can lead you into the realm of experts and even masters, not just staying at the level of being good and lucky."

"certainly……"

Anton raised his eyebrows, "Luck is such a thing, I have recently felt the influence of fate on us more and more, I think now that we have come to this point, optimizing all the potion materials of the 'distorting human body deformation potion' must be In these animals bred in your stables."

George and Fred looked at each other, "Okay, let's learn!"

"Hey, seriously..." George put his arm around Anton's left shoulder.

Fred put it on Anton's right shoulder, "Didn't you really want us to help you research the optimization of potion formulas, so that we can learn this to help you do experiments?"

"Hey hey..."

Anton spread his hands, "You don't know how complicated this matter is. Just for animal hair, it seems that the hair of the whole body is similar. There are dozens of subdivisions such as hair on the top of the head, hair on the cheeks, hair behind the ears, etc. , without your help, I can't do it alone."

"It's honest, it's acceptable..."

"This is mutual help, we can be your experimental assistants to learn this method well..."

The two brothers quickly signed the documents, looked at Anton, gearing up, "Let's get started."

"No, no, no..." Anton chuckled, "You all need to read through these materials first, to have a complete understanding."

"!!!"

George and Fred stared blankly at the documents piled high on the table, "Read it once?" "All?"

"Yes."

"Oh~ no~~~"

"It's just hopeless..."

With some appointments, George and Fred came to the sofa in the middle of the hall with the pile of documents in their hands, and carefully read them silently.

Anton stared blankly at their backs, thinking that this might be the biggest influence he had on the twins.

Under their own influence, they opened a beast stable, raised so many magical animals, and began to study magic zoology with Hagrid, but this was not a particularly big change.

In the original book, the twins also bred many interesting magical animals, such as "dwarf cattail".

But this kind of influence that brings them into the high-end magic field, and brings them into the atmosphere of learning, is the most subversive.

George and Fred are excellent and smart far beyond the average person.

But as Aunt Mollie was outraged, the brothers didn't want to study at all.

You know, any promising career in the wizarding world can hardly meet the threshold without studying. For example, the threshold required by Aurors and pharmacists requires at least 5 ultimate wizard level exam certificates, and these are only It's just a threshold.

That is to say, Neville needs students who are excellent in academics, far above the average classmate, in order to continue walking on the Auror path of his father's generation.

And this level is just to reach the threshold, only for pharmacists, these certificates can only guarantee that they can join various medical organizations, such as St.

To this extent, one has to go far beyond ordinary pharmacists in order to join the top organization 'Extraordinary Pharmacists Association'.

Even Quidditch players who seem to have the lowest requirements for "sports specialties" need to reach the level of "international superstars" with extensive influence before they have the opportunity to join the Department of Sports of the Ministry of Magic.

A wizard is a particularly talented creature, either becoming a mediocre person or becoming a master, there is no middle option.

In the world of wizards, where there is not much economic activity at all, businessmen who only make money are mediocre. You must know that the 'bankers' at the top of the food chain are just slaves of wizards, and the currency of the wizarding world is still a currency created by magic.

A master alchemist may not be able to turn stones into gold like Nicolas May, but is it difficult to imitate Galleon? Is there anything more difficult than making a sorting hat?

In this regard, it is most unworkable to look at it with Muggle thinking.

In the wizarding world, strength comes first. In actual operation, there is a circle of top bosses exerting influence.

Such as the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists, such as the circle of professors at Hogwarts.

Anton smiled slightly, turned around and controlled the things on the shelf to float into the air, and began to prepare to study the characteristics of the potion materials of the black magic creature "A Thousand Feet and Mouth". Judging from the information and research he has so far, 'a thousand feet and mouth' and 'rabbit fluffy feces' are definitely the direction to optimize his potion of 'adding magical animal blood to Muggle Squibs'.

At this moment, Neville saw that everyone had finished talking, and walked over with a solemn expression.

"I'm researching the medicinal properties of the magical plant that Hannah grows." He spread out his palm, which contained a pair of unhulled twin beans.

"I found that this kind of bean has some characteristics similar to the soul, and the connection between the two beans has some kind of magical connection."

"The connection between them reminds me of the spell you cast on us and the puppet before."

Anton blinked, "Soul Shifting Curse?"

Neville nodded vigorously, "I want to learn this spell, do you think it's okay?"

"Of course." Anton chuckled, "You have to think about it, this is black magic. You said before that the Cruciatus Curse was the last black magic you learned."

Neville looked at the twin beans in his hand with some hesitation, and finally nodded vigorously again.

"I always feel that the Twin Beans, Soul Shifting Curse, and Cruciatus Curse are somehow related. Maybe I can find a solution to optimize the treatment of my parents here."

very good.

The original intention remains unchanged, great.

"Soul Shifting Curse..."

Anton looked at Neville thoughtfully, "Actually, this spell is especially suitable for you. The emotions it needs to cast the spell are 'indomitable momentum and unwavering determination' (mentioned in Chapter 3), which It's almost impossible for you."

"Tsk~"

"It's even especially suitable for you. Your firmness can no longer be described in terms of emotions. It should be classified into the field of will."

"Wait a minute~"

Anton waved his wand, causing alchemy materials such as silver nuggets, Erised stone, and mercury to float in the snuff box, quickly deforming them and blending in mid-air.

"The Faithful Maid written by Professor Dumbledore's father contains a detailed introduction to various commonly used alchemy materials and their refining methods, and even invented an alchemy spell for each material."

"On this basis..."

Anton held his wand against his head, and gently pulled out several silver threads, "I learned a way to make a 'Brain Memory Magic Book' from "Take apart the chest of a fire dragon and count how many ribs are there."

He shrugged, "Of course, what I need is copying, not cutting."

With a flick of the wand, these memories float and merge into the alchemy materials being refined.

Soon, a round silver mirror floated in mid-air, and the mirror surface seemed to be like viscous mercury, constantly rippling and rippling.

"This is all my memories of the 'Soul-Removing Curse'. You can open it in person by sticking your head into the mirror."

Neville stared blankly at the mirror, and then at the twins who were hard at work reading materials on the sofa in the middle of the hall, "Anton...Anton, you..."

choked up.

"Oh~"

Anton waved his hand, "Don't be moved blindly, this way of learning magic is particularly dangerous, and most people will be affected by my memory in this way."

"Given my experience, many people may go crazy after reading it with empathy. You need to return it to me and destroy it after reading it."

"Only someone like you with an extremely tenacious will can use this method."

"Of course, there is also a gentler method, that is, I will force my knowledge and memory into your head directly through magic. I have done this method in Azkaban, but it will also cause more or less damage. Influence."

Anton's explanation didn't have much effect. With tears in his eyes and an expression of extreme excitement and gratitude, Neville solemnly held up the mirror with both hands, "I understand, Anton."

Neville looked extremely serious, "I will definitely research it, and I won't let you down."

After finishing speaking, this silly child turned around vigorously and walked towards his own workbench and long table.

"..."

Anton looked at him helplessly, "Why don't you understand..."

"never mind."

He continued to sink his mind into the research on the properties of the 'Thousand Feet and Mouth' potion material.

...

I don't know how long it took. During the research experiment, Anton vaguely heard the voice of his friends saying hello. When he recorded the results of the phased experiment, he turned his head and saw no one. .

Looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the new hut, the Black Lake shone dimly in the moonlight, and the Hogwarts Castle farther away had become dim.

Unknowingly, the time has come to midnight.

"The dead are like a husband..."

Anton exclaimed, stretched his waist, quickly packed his things, and took the elevator in the middle pillar to go downstairs.

Not far away, there is a big banyan tree with many houses, Hannah's "Wizard's Hut", and a new plant with a height of 2 meters is added next to it. Obviously, one of her experimental results has already achieved good results. varieties, it will take more energy to ripen.

This magical animal has an emotion of 'life is flourishing' in the intuition of Anton's curse.

Behind him, the Elephant Elephant Vine was exuding a 'joyful' mood. Anton knew that it was the Elephant Elephant Vine that had penetrated its roots into the urine collection cave of the Flaming Mammoth, feeling the most suitable growth environment. Silly laughing.

"This ability to perceive emotions seems to have become stronger."

Anton sighed in admiration, and looked up, the mood of the flame mammoth sleeping deep in the mountain depression was also particularly interesting.

Moreover, there is also an extremely abrupt emotion that also appears in the perception.

——Patience that does not give up lightly.

"???"

"Is anyone here?"

Anton raised his brows slightly, pulled out his wand gently, and used the floating spell to control his body to float up. Following the night wind, he slowly floated in the dark in the direction of the emotion.

Drifting along the edge of an adult-height bush, turning a corner, a clearing appeared in front of me.

Shh~

A bow and arrow exuded icy air, pierced viciously into a wooden stake, and blasted a large piece of ice.

"Anna?"

Anton looked at the girl not far away in astonishment.

There are at least six or seven spells running beside Anna, there is a private Quidditch movement magic that assists the movement of vision, and there is a spell similar to the "Reverse Expulsion Curse" to accelerate the arrow...

At this moment, Anna showed a feeling of 'tiredness' and 'on the verge of collapse'.

The appearance of Anton obviously frightened her, Anna let out a small scream, the spell on her body broke, and she fell to the ground. "Why do you make no sound when you walk, hiss..."

She took a sudden breath...

Anton quickly stepped forward, tapped her forehead with his wand, checked for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just that your body is overdrawn, I'll make you some potion and apply it."

He looked at the girl dumbfounded, "Do you have a life-and-death enemy to kill? Do you need to practice archery so hard? Everyone learning from the coach is just for fun, and you are serious enough to die."

Anna just looked at Anton pitifully, "When I was playing games before, not only did I fail to help you, but I also became a drag on you. I don't want to do this."

Anton was stunned, "Just for this?"

"Hmm~"

"Is there a hole in your head?"

"You! Humph! I'd love to!"

Anton was a little speechless, and waved his wand to make Anna float, "I know your muscles are sore now, it must be very uncomfortable, please bear with me, I will take you back to the hut to make a recovery plaster."

"Don't float up!" Anna waved her small fist, "This is not a lady at all, put me down quickly, it's ugly."

Anton rolled his eyes, "Can you walk by yourself?"

"You carry me on your back!"

"Fine."

Anna is not heavy, light, limp, full of vitality and elasticity.

Anton raised his brows, and quietly added a floating spell in a very gentlemanly manner so that Anna could control her body a little away from her back. Unexpectedly, Anna suddenly put her arms around Anton's neck, squeezed up again, and put her little head on the ground. On Anton's shoulders.

"I'm so tired, hurry up."

"..."

Insects chirped softly in the night wind, converging into a song in this mountain depression, and the wind blew, and Anna's hair scratched Anton's cheek for a while.

He suddenly became a little silent, and walked in the grass with Anna behind his back, walking step by step.

"Why don't you talk?" Anna lazily hummed softly in Anton's ear.

Anton pursed his lips, "I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered a person I met before. Hiss, speaking of Anna, why do I feel that you have a strange sense of familiarity?"

"Hee hee, is it?"

Anton didn't speak any more, he just stared blankly at his constantly moving forward steps.

The memory of his previous life, which he subconsciously sorted out and arranged after magic, surged in his mind, and it was the memory of his ex-girlfriend.

In my memory, it was also such a summer night, he was instigated by his cohabiting girlfriend to go for a night run before going to bed, and the end result was that he carried the silly woman with a twisted ankle back to the small nest from far away.

That period of time was the only ray of light in his boring past life.

Living together gave him, an orphan, a unique concept of 'home' for the first time.

That kind of feeling is different from the time when he hung out with his senior sister later. The scheming senior sister couldn't give him ideas about home.

It's just that people always have to look forward. Anton now has a home, and there are so many friends in the hut, and he will no longer have that suffocating sense of loneliness.

Most of the memories about the previous life, even including everyone's face, have long been blurred in the memory deep in the soul.

Anton didn't bother to go to the lowest level of time to dig out these memories, it didn't make much sense.

It's good like this, it has dimly turned into a touch of the initial touch of 'home', and turned into the motivation to protect the current home.

Oh, that's alright.

"A long, long time ago~a giant dragon suddenly appeared~brought disaster~taken away the princess and disappeared~~~~"

Anton hummed a song, with a smile on his face again, and walked forward briskly.