024- Halloween and the Troll

Of course, the thought only flashed through Ivan's mind. If he tried this again, Snape will probably deduct a large number of house points from Gryffindor.

Ivan doesn't care about house points, but he doesn't want to lose favor from the entire Gryffindor Academy just for earning grade points.

So in the next few days, when Ivan was in the potions class, apart from engaging in small actions in private and collecting some materials needed to make potions, he tried to lay low.

Ivan's preparation lasted until Halloween. Ivan looked at the system tab and was very satisfied with the results.

[Ivan Halls

Occupation: Wizard

Magicks: Fear Curse Level 2 (265/400) Levitating charm Level 2 (97/400) Transfiguration spell Level 2 (382/400) Severing Charm Level 2 (84/400) Petrification Curse (191/400) Shrinking Charm 1 Level (74/200)... (The rest is omitted)

Theoretical knowledge: Magic Item Making Level 0 (435/500) Potions Level 3 (1/800) Basic Magic Principles Level 2 (218/400)

Magic item: magic wand (yew wood, unicorn hair, eleven inches and three-quarters long)

Magic: Medium

Fit: 72.5%

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Grade point: 107]

After nearly half a semester of hard work, in addition to the newly learned shrinking charm, Ivan had upgraded all the spells he knew to the second level. Both the power and the stability have improved greatly compared to the first level.

Among them, the knowledge of potions was the first to reach level three, and the only thing that remained unchanged was the production of magic items, and Ivan had no clue how to improve that for the time being. He had even collected enough grade points for one experience card, just in case.

To celebrate the upcoming Halloween, pumpkin lanterns have been hung in the hall of Hogwarts, which contains magic spells cast by Dumbledore himself, which continuously emit a faint blue light.

Peeves hid insidiously in one of the lanterns. Whenever an unsuspecting student passes by, Peeves will suddenly pop out of the lantern and startle him, and as the students would scold him, he would laugh at them and hide into another lantern.

Because of the presence of Peeves and his antics, this year's Halloween had a horrible atmosphere.

At least Harry and Ron didn't like the festive atmosphere brought by Peeves, and they would subconsciously shy away as long as they saw a pumpkin lantern glowing in the castle.

"Ivan, what are you doing with so many thorns?"

In the big main hall, on the long table of Gryffindor, Harry looked strangely as Ivan transfigured the wooden branches he had picked up from unknown sources into half-circular spikes.

These semi-circular iron thorns looked very ugly, but the spikes on them were thin and long, and the faint gleam of cold light made Harry shiver.

"Of course it's Halloween for everyone to have some fun," Ivan said with a smile.

"Have fun?" Harry and Ron glanced at each other, they had a bad feeling about this.

"Just kidding,v practicing some spells." Ivan waved his hand and explained.

But the movement of Ivan's hand didn't stop. He waved his wand and pointed it on the newly transfigured spike, shrank the spike dozens of times with a shrinking charm, and threw it into a bag.

There was a sound of metal clashing in the bag, as Ivan put it away.

"By the way, where's Hermione?" Ivan looked left and right but didn't see Hermione at all, which was a little weird.

"Hmm...this..." Ron's face was suddenly flushed red, and he couldn't squeeze out any words for a long time.

In the end, Harry, who couldn't stand it any longer, told Ivan that Hermione had heard when Ron secretly said bad things about her.

"I was right, she was like that!" Ron flushed.

Ivan frowned. He didn't expect this, he thought he had changed enough things, but it still happened. After thinking about it, Ivan stood up, picked up the wand, and walked towards the exit of the hall.

"Ivan, the feast hasn't started yet, where are you going?" Harry asked.

"Of course I am going to find Hermione..." Ivan replied, leaving only Harry and Ron behind.

Leaving the lively main hall, Ivan found a secret corridor and went to the abandoned girl's bathroom as quickly as possible, intending to persuade Hermione to leave first, so as not to disturb his actions against the trolls later.

But halfway through, Ivan changed the plan again after careful consideration, because Ivan was a little concerned about how long it would take to persuade Hermione, and he did not know when the troll will be released if it happened to be there when he will be in the bathroom with Hermione, and if they were blocked by trolls, let alone fighting it, it's would be hard to escape!

In contrast, it is better to fight the troll directly at a place a little far away from the bathroom.

Because he knew where the troll would end up, Ivan quickly found a suitable corridor and threw a few pieces of rock cakes that Hagrid had given him before to the center of the corridor.

These rock cakes are all soaked in powerful sleeping potions, and the dose was enough to put several adult wizards to sleep.

As for why he choose a rock cake?

Ivan read that, trolls are not picky eaters, they can eat everything, and the rock cakes that Ivan got were a waste, so why not use them rather than let them be left in the dormitory waiting for insects?

Since Hagrid, the half-giant, likes to eat so much, maybe the troll will like it too?

After making sufficient preparations, Ivan hid in a corner of the corridor and waited to defeat the trolls in the simplest way. Ivan would hold the magic wand hard and he was ready...

'Everyone had only one life, and it should be cherished.' Ivan thought.

Less than a minute after Ivan got into position, there was a slight tremor on the floor. Ivan faintly smelled a foul smell, his expression suddenly became nervous, the trolls had arrived!

At the next moment, a behemoth twelve feet tall troll appeared on the other side of the corridor.

The first thing Ivan saw was its thick tribal clothing, and the troll's fat waist was like a huge bucket made of an old tree, with ugly green paint painted on it, with a small head on the top. Its head barely looked a little bigger than Ivan's at best, and with his burly body, it looked a little absurd.

The most important thing was that it was holding a thick wooden club in its hand, which it drags on on the floor creating a long, sharp, and piercing noise.

Ivan swallowed hard, and then he understood why Dumbledore chose a troll as one of the barriers to defend the Philosopher's Stone. The huge body alone was enough to make any adult wizard treat it with caution.

For a student who has not even graduated from a wizarding school, it is even more along the lines of a nightmare!

Ivan couldn't help but feel fortunate that he didn't plan to directly fight the troll. If he accidentally got struck by that giant club of the troll, he would have been crushed to death...