Chapter 38 Preparation
In general, the result of this family reunion was satisfactory. Harry quickly accepted Sirius as a godfather, and Sirius Black also found the shadow of his old friend in Harry, and the two quickly became harmonious.
After agreeing to meet during the holidays, Sirius left reluctantly. He could not stay in Hogwarts for too long. This visit to Harry was already Dumbledore's concession.
Unknowingly, the school year came to an end. In the month before the final exams, Hermione almost drove Harry and his group crazy. She made a strict review schedule for herself and asked Harry and his group to follow it. Ron tried to resist, but was easily suppressed. From then on, Harry and his group kept switching back and forth between the library, the hall, and the dormitory, and usually fell asleep as soon as they returned to the dormitory.
Such days continued until the exam. It must be said that Hermione's review plan was quite useful. Harry found that he could basically answer all the written test questions. Obviously, Harry was not the only one who felt this way. Vincent and his friends expressed their gratitude to Hermione after the first exam.
After the exam, Harry and his friends had a full week of free time and did not have to do anything. After a month of intensive review and three days of exams, Harry just wanted to have a good rest for a few days. However, he felt that his first level one spell had reached an important juncture and he might be able to successfully release it someday. So, he forced himself to train in the Room of Requirement for several days, and finally on the third day before the exam results were announced...
"Magic Missile!" Harry chanted the spell, using the magic net to guide the arcane energy. A small energy ball formed in Harry's hand and hit the wooden target in front. "Boom!" With a soft sound, the magic missile penetrated the wooden target and hit the stone wall behind it, creating a small, three-inch deep dent.
"Congratulations! Harry, you are now a first-level official wizard!" Sherry said to Harry. Being able to independently perform a first-level magic, Harry can be said to have officially gotten rid of the identity of a wizard apprentice and officially become a formal wizard. In the previous Arcane Empire, a first-level wizard would be considered a formal citizen, while the status of a wizard apprentice would be lower. Sherry still felt a little regretful. At this time, a formal wizard promotion ceremony should be held for Harry, but he still didn't even have a body, and couldn't get any materials and altars. He could only put it on hold for the time being and see if there would be a chance in the future.
Harry also showed a happy smile. After so much hard work, he finally waited for this moment. Although he had learned a lot of wizard magic, he still felt that he was more yearning for the wizard in the teacher's mouth. Whether it was the basic qualities of calmness and knowledge, or the highest height that could be reached in the end, it was obviously more attractive to him than wizards. Harry, who hadn't rested well for a month, was really too tired. He struggled back to his dormitory, fell on the bed and fell asleep, and slept until the afternoon of the next day.
Since Harry became a formal wizard, Sherry could not leave him when he was awake like before. It's not because of anything else. The magic net is Sherry. Once Harry finds that Sherry is not there when casting a spell, he can't cast the spell. Then it will undoubtedly bring a huge crisis to Sherry's reputation. It's not easy to raise the favorability of the savior to this level. How can he destroy the Great Wall!
However, after Sherry swallowed the Mirror of Erised, the benefits brought by him were not only the mastery of illusion magic and the reduction of the world's repulsion. There is also the simplest benefit, that is, Sherry has become bigger. That's right, he has become bigger, from the original radius of about five meters to about one hundred meters. That is to say, as long as he does not leave Harry for more than one hundred meters, Harry can use him to complete the casting of spells. Moreover, as long as Sherry can obtain the treasures of the four founders, he should be able to easily cover a certain range and move freely to a certain extent.
However, before this moment comes, Sherry is better to stay with Harry to prevent Harry from suddenly changing his position, such as the fireplace, the door key, and the apparition. However, Sherry believes that this moment should come soon. Now that the first year of school has passed, Sirius was almost released early. Sherry could almost see the moment when the locket and crown fell into his hands.
Harry was woken up by Vincent. To be honest, if Harry was not still breathing, Vincent would have thought he had fallen asleep. Harry was still a little dazed when he was woken up, but soon, the hunger in his stomach woke him up completely. He had not had a drop of water since yesterday noon, and now he felt that he could eat a cow.
"Let's go!" Harry, who had hurriedly washed up, dragged Vincent directly and set off on the road to the hall. Halfway, the two met the Feynman brothers, and the four of them came to the hall together. Because it was not during class, the students came in scattered, not as neat as before, and there was no one on the teacher's seat.
Harry didn't care so much, sat down at the long table, took a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth. William and Richard were frightened by Harry's posture. They looked at Vincent in confusion, hoping that he could give an explanation. Vincent told them about Harry's situation directly. The two brothers didn't say anything else, but just pushed the food in front of them to Harry.
After finishing four hams, three chicken legs, five large pieces of bread, and two large glasses of pumpkin juice, Harry felt that he was alive again. When he looked up, he found that Vincent and the other three were stunned, and the classmates around him were looking at him with the same expression. William looked at the empty plate in front of Harry, and then looked at the meat on his fork, and suddenly felt full. Harry didn't understand how much harm he had caused to the people around him. He shrugged and planned to go out to digest his food. He had eaten too much just now and was a little full.
As for where to go, Harry thought that he hadn't seen Hagrid for a long time. He was about to go home for the holiday, and Harry also wanted to see this kind big man again. When he arrived at Hagrid's wooden house on the edge of the forbidden forest, Harry found that there was no obvious change from the last time he came here. Hagrid was very happy about Harry's arrival. He welcomed Harry into the house, then picked up a photo album and handed it to Harry.
"I wanted to give it to you on the day you left school, but since you're here now, I'll give it to you in advance!" Hagrid said with a smile, "I spent some time collecting it, and I also wrote letters to people I knew before, and they all gave me a lot of help."
Harry turned to the first page and was stunned by surprise. On the first photo, there were two familiar figures holding a baby and smiling at the camera. James Potter and Lily Potter took a photo holding Harry Potter. From the smiles on the faces of the two adults, it is not difficult to see their happiness. Turning the pages one by one, there are not only photos of his parents after they got married, but also photos of the two when they were in school. In a separate photo, Harry looked at his father, standing next to Professor McGonagall with a green face, and took the Quidditch championship trophy from her hand, and the always serious Professor McGonagall also smiled particularly happily.
"Thank you, Hagrid!" Harry couldn't help it, he gave Hagrid a big hug, "This is the best gift I have ever received."
"As long as you are happy, Harry." Hagrid hugged Harry back and gave him a big honest smile. Harry stayed with Hagrid for more than an hour before he said goodbye to Hagrid and returned to the castle of Hogwarts when it was getting dark.
Two days later, it was the day to announce the results. The results of the review that Hermione forced Harry and the others to do were finally announced. Hermione took the first place with an absolute advantage, followed by Harry, Vincent in third place, the Feynman brothers in seventh and eighth place, Neville in tenth place, and Ron was a little behind in eighteenth place. Even though she got the first place, Hermione was still a little dissatisfied. She thought that she still had room for improvement in the history of magic. Harry and the others said that they had no way to deal with Hermione's obsessive-compulsive disorder.
This school year passed quickly. The day before leaving school, Dumbledore talked to Harry alone. He asked Harry to stay at his aunt's house for four weeks no matter what. But when Harry asked the reason, Dumbledore told Harry that his mother, Lily Potter, had cast a protective spell on Harry. This protective spell can guarantee Harry's safety to a great extent, but it can only be most effective when he stays near his mother's blood relatives. Harry had no choice but to agree to this condition. Fortunately, there are more than two months of vacation, and he still has enough time to spend some time with Sirius.
Sitting in the Hogwarts Express again, the carriage where Harry was this time was very lively, and all his friends squeezed in. Everyone was playing and fighting all the way, and time passed very quickly. When they said goodbye on the platform, Harry and his friends agreed to contact each other during the summer vacation, and then he walked out of the train station alone with a large suitcase.
In a remote alley, Harry stretched out his wand again, summoned the Knight Bus, and soon returned to the door of the Dursleys. Looking at the familiar house in front of him, Harry felt as if he had been away for a long time, so long that his memories of this place became a little vague. But this time, Harry promised that he would never swallow his anger like before. Apart from anything else, the Dursleys didn't know that he couldn't use magic outside the school. Moreover, even if they knew, he was not just a wizard. Thinking of this, Harry smiled triumphantly and knocked on the Dursleys' door. (To be continued)