030- Unexpected Letter

"Ivan, what you did tonight was amazing!" After everyone had left, Harry, who had been squeezed to the edge of the crowd before, stepped forward and gave Ivan a big hug.

"Maybe.." Ivan shrugged and then continued. "Actually, you shouldn't exaggerate the story soo much, It took a lot of effort to deal with the troll."

It's not that Ivan was being humble, but the rumors have been distorted along the way, In one of the versions that Ivan heard, the twelve-inch tall troll was told to be twenty feet tall!

That was a lot of change...

"Hey, come on, you are the hero of Gryffindor now, we could only watch you kill the troll and save Hermione, Merlin, it was over so fast." Ron hammered Ivan's chest and said with a smile.

"Besides, we just talked about what happened. Who knew it would end up like this?" Harry explained that they didn't exaggerate the story.

"Right, where's Hermione?" Ivan asked.

"I don't know, I saw her just now." Harry was also feeling a little strange.

"You saved her life, I expected that she would at least say thanks," Ron supported angrily.

"Maybe she's overwhelmed" Ivan shook his head, Hermione was's that sort of person.

Since Hermione had taken all the punishments for the incident before, Harry and Ron accepted Ivan's statement.

Next, Harry and Ron snuck Ivan to show him a package, which contained the brand new Nimbus 2000, which was a gift to Harry from Professor McGonagall. Ivan was in the library all day because of which he missed its arrival in the main hall.

Although he was not interested in quidditch, Ivan seeing the excitement of his two friends said a few words about the broom, and then hurriedly sent them to sleep.

Ivan, who was finally alone now had time to look carefully at the rewards he received for killing the troll.

[Blood Fusion Reagent (Potion Formula)

Required materials: Dried Nettle, Epiphyllum, Valerian, BaneBerry, Black Veratrum Petals, Buckthorn, bat Spleen, Aconite pollen...

Special material: 150ml of recently extracted blood from magical creatures.

Prerequisite: Potions Level 6 (Note: Potions Level 4 is required under the master experience card status)]

Looking at the list of expensive names in the required materials section, Ivan felt a little dizzy, Isn't this a little too much?

And many of them were advanced potion ingredients, the price was staggering, even if he goes to Hogsmeade Village or Diagon Alley to buy at the risk of being caught, the gold galleons he had wouldn't be enough.

The prerequisite of the sixth level potions also was concerning, even though his potions skill had been upgraded to level three, the higher the level, the slower the experience gain, and at level three, the difficulty was already a lot. It's even harder than going from level zero to level three!

Fortunately, Ivan was relieved of the loophole, he would still have a chance to work hard and get potions to level 4, but he didn't expect there to be a bonus when making potions in the master experience card mode.

The easiest thing for Ivan to get was the blood of the magic creature. Despite the limitation that the efficiency would decrease if the blood was extracted for more than three days, Ivan knew that Hagrid would hatch a little dragon soon.

Ivan can't beat an adult dragon, but a baby dragon should be easy pickings, right?

When the time comes, it would probably be easy to draw some blood... as long as you prepare everything else before the dragon is sent away to Charlie.

Tap Tap...

While Ivan was busy planning, he heard a faint noise from outside the window, he turned his head and looked over, a black-gray owl was tapping the glass window with its beak, with a letter tied to its leg.

Guala?

A word appeared in Ivan's mind, and Ivan guessed that this might be the name of this owl.

Ivan stepped forward to open the window, the black-gray owl flew in quickly, and fell on Ivan's shoulder, it shook its body, because the entire dormitory had gone to the welcome party arranged for Ivan, so this poor little thing was forced to wait in the cold wind all night.

Ivan was no longer in the mood to care about the safety of the owl as all his attention was on the letter hanging on its leg because it clearly said, Ivan Halls.

Ivan untied the rope, grabbed the letter in his hand but didn't have the courage to open it. The expression on his face kept changing before he finally sighed and braced for it.

He had long known that this day would come, what he didn't expect was that it would come so soon.

Ivan hesitated for a while and opened the letter. After reading the letter he felt a little relieved as the content of the letter was very ordinary. He just asked him about his current situation at Hogwarts and which house he was assigned to, It was Elisia Hals, his mother.

There were also three gold galleons as gifts, with a small note underneath, which says that he can send a letter back when he is short of money.

However, the more concerned about him Elisia sounded in the letter, the more Ivan feels guilty and worried...

Whatever happened, He was guilty, Although the reincarnation was not under his control, the truth was that he had taken over the body of the other party's child. Of course, there was some corner of his mind that felt a little guilty.

The worry also comes from Dumbledore's ambiguous evaluation of his mother, and the conspicuous black magic fear curse taught by her in the system bar...

Thinking of the fear curse, Ivan felt a little speechless. Generally speaking, a normal mother would not teach the fear curse to her child, right before going to school, this was dangerous black magic.

And the teaching process and environment couldn't be cheerful and peaceful, otherwise, he would not feel the emotion of fear when he recalled before. Obviously, his mother had personally let her child experience fear to gain quick success.

These unknowns made Ivan feel uneasy, which made Ivan feel an urgent need to have at least enough strength to protect himself before going home.

And the fastest way to improve his strength was to make this newly acquired blood fusion reagent. So even if Ivan felt that the three gold galleons in the letter were a little burden on his conscience, he put them away, he was not so short of money now...

"Cuckoo~" The black owl Guala who delivered the letter had been waiting for a long time, just to see Ivan loitering around, it tapped Ivan's head with its beak to remind him to write a reply.

Ivan also woke up from his thoughts and focused on the task to prepare a reply to the letter. While handing the treat box of his own owl Maca to Guala to make it a little more patient, he ignored Maca's protest and picked up parchment and quill.

After pondering for a long time, Ivan wrote down on a blank piece of paper that he was assigned to Gryffindor, as well as some interesting things that happened in the school recently.

Originally, Ivan intended to mention the troll incident, but before sending the letter, he erased all relevant text to the incident.

Not long after enrolling in school, he had encountered a troll in the school. Ivan estimated that his mother's first reaction should be to run to school in horror to question Dumbledore about what happened, and not to be proud of him.

It's better to keep a low profile and not cause any trouble...

After repeated revisions, Ivan closed the letter and bound it so that the Owl Guala allowing it to return.

After all this was done, the sky had gotten a little darker, Ivan pulled the quilt and lay on the bed.

In a daze, Ivan suddenly thought of a question. Did Dumbledore's surprise refer to the welcome party or the letter?

.....

The next morning, Ivan, who had only slept for less than two hours, reluctantly got up for classes. Harry and Ron had the same experience and they had been yawning as well.

However, after the three of them got up and looked at each other's thick dark circles, they couldn't help but laugh, and their spirits were also lifted.

After a night allowing rumors to brew, Ivan's feat of killing the troll seemed to have spread throughout the school, causing Ivan to hear whispers no matter where he went.

Ivan couldn't help speeding up his pace, and the situation got better when he arrived in the Transfiguration classroom.

Hermione had come earlier than the three of them, and she already sat quietly on the right side turning the pages of the book, the spaces beside her were all occupied.

The little witches of Gryffindor were chatting, discussing something, and from time to time they asked Hermione something. The latter had a very impatient look on her face. It was only after seeing Ivan that her face showed joy she put down the book and get ready to say something.

"Okay, students, get back to your seats, class will start now!" just then Professor McGonagall walked in, frowning while looking at the messy situation of the classroom.

Ivan, Harry, and Ron quickly found three empty seats to sit down, and Hermione had no choice but to sit back.

Professor McGonagall glanced at Ivan consciously, then cleared her throat, and said to the little wizards who had quietened down.

"I think I should have mentioned at the beginning of school that Transfiguration would be one of the most complicated and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. As long as you can learn it well, Transfiguration would be enough to solve most of the problems you will encounter."

"You should have heard about it, just yesterday, Mr. Halls successfully killed a troll in the corridors of Hogwarts, relying on a superb Transfiguration Charm and brilliant mind!"

"For this, Professor Dumbledore added a full twenty points to Gryffindor house!" Professor McGonagall added.

When Professor McGonagall finished speaking, there was an uproar in the audience, discussions started happening everywhere, and Ivan suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention.

Although many students had heard of the rumors, it came from Harry and Ron's mouth after all. It was not as credible as Prof. McGonagall's statement.

Even though Professor McGonagall had praised him, Ivan was not happy at all, because, in his experience, there was usually a 'but' which should follow her statement, which was in line with the speaking process of ordinary teachers.

Sure enough, Ivan heard Professor McGonagall continue, "But... I want to warn all of you, that the troll is a very powerful and dangerous creature. It is definitely not something a student who has not even graduated can overcome! Halls was just lucky, even your teacher Professor Quirrell of Defense Against the Dark Arts class was so frightened that he passed out at the Halloween party!"

Having said her warnings, Professor McGonagall's eyes became sharp, and she continued.

"If I hear that someone else is doing some similar dangerous things, I will definitely advise Professor Dumbledore to expel him."

"And even for Halls, defeating the trolls was not as easy as you think." After speaking, Professor McGonagall glanced around and noticed that the students in front of her were all silent before looking at Ivan. She gave him a look and motioned for him to cooperate.

Ivan immediately stood up knowingly, and with a solemn expression said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Professor, I swear, Trolls are definitely the most difficult opponent I have ever encountered in the past eleven years!"

As soon as Ivan finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter from the students, because many smart students had heard the meaning hidden in Ivan's words.

As a first-year, eleven-year-old wizard, in their opinion, the troll should be the first opponent Ivan had encountered and was of course the most difficult one.

Professor McGonagall was very dissatisfied with Ivan's perfunctory attitude. She hoped he would talk about his fear when facing trolls, not the thrilling process, so as to give these children less of a motive to chase things.

Ivan shrugged slightly, admiring Professor McGonagall's brilliant methods in his heart.

First, She used his defeat of the giant monsters to arouse the enthusiasm of the students to learn the Transfiguration Spell, and then set the tone for the matter in the official speech, and put an end to the more exaggerated rumors.

After all, it is better to keep it out there, instead of concealing this matter and letting everyone guess, it is better to use it as a model to promote the positive effect of learning. Use expulsion as a warning to prevent some students from having the idea of ​​" if he can do it, then I can do it" and go further and further down the road to death.

The last thing was to suppress his reputation, so that he won't be proud and complacent after defeating the troll.

The only one who ate a loss was Quirrell, who was used by McGonagall as a background for the strength of the monster and will probably become the laughingstock in students' minds after today.

Ivan, who was far older than an eleven-year-old, had guessed Professor McGonagall's thoughts.

Ivan wouldn't mind cooperating with Professor McGonagall. After all, being low-key was the kingly way. Unfortunately, there were a lot of rumors about his process of killing the troll. The more he tries to explain, the worse it will get.

Otherwise, Professor McGonagall could ask him again, why he was trying to transform a bunch of sharp iron spikes.

As a result, Professor McGonagall who had prepared the opening remarks carefully for today, under Ivan's uncooperative attitude, only achieved half of her expectations.

This led to Professor McGonagall solemnly reminded Ivan that if he answers questions without her consent again in class, she would consider using the Silence Charm so Ivan can shut up for a while and give others an opportunity to perform.

Ivan looked at his double-digit grade point and the potion that was only 731 points short of proficiency to upgrade. He could only say with difficulty that he would consider the professor's valuable advice, play fair and try to raise his hands before speaking.