Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

It can be seen that the owner of this house is indeed a relatively young person, and the layout of the house is more similar to modern times.

On the first floor there is a spacious hall and a fireplace, which is a must for every wizard family, a clean and bright kitchen and two simple bedrooms.

The living room in the middle of the second floor is slightly smaller, and there are six bedrooms surrounding the living room. The style of the bedrooms is typical wizard style, and most of the furniture is log color, but the surface is very smooth.

The third floor is the living room. In addition to the master bedroom, bathroom, and tea and chess room, there is a semi-open-air terrace of more than 100 square meters, from which you can see the distant mountains and Hogsmeade below.

There is a not-too-wide staircase in the tea and chess room leading to the attic above. The attic is about 50 square meters, with a height of four meters in the middle and the base of the wall at the edge is about two meters high. People will not feel cramped at all when moving around in it.

There is a spiral staircase on the third floor that leads directly to the underground, and the basement is the highlight of this house.

According to Conte's report, the stone walls of the basement are at least five feet thick and are mixed with a large amount of metal building materials. Unless there is an earthquake that does not occur for many years, there is basically no risk of collapse.

The base of the basement is obviously larger than the above-ground part. Even though a lot of it is occupied by the ridiculously thick walls, the total usable area is estimated to be around 300 square meters.

Except for the necessary thick ashlar load-bearing columns, the basement has been cleaned up and is visible at a glance.

The original owner cleaned up all traces of himself, leaving no trace of magic.

satisfaction!

Cool!

Speaking of a wizard's residence, we cannot just look at the physical area. The actual usable area depends on the strength of the wizard's magical ability.

The Ministry of Magic explicitly prohibits private use of the Extension Charm, so it is completely reasonable for the original owner to remove any traces of it when selling the house.

However, Sainz's current abilities are still lacking, so this aspect has to be put on hold for the time being.

Overall, the 300-square-meter basement is sufficient for temporary use.

Fortunately, the original owner had kept the anti-Apparition magic cast on the perimeter of the yard, at least ensuring that Sainz's house would not be walked back and forth through the city gate.

Sainz thought he still had some ability to protect himself as long as he wasn't attacked suddenly.

"Sir, the looking glass has been set up."

"Thank you, Conte, for your hard work."

Conte had placed the spyglasses he had prepared in the house and yard to ensure that if any malicious wizard broke in without permission, Sainz would know in advance.

Sainz waved his wand and cast several defensive spells that he had learned from "Practical Defensive Magic and Its Control over Dark Magic".

The most important of these is the howling spell used for early warning, "Kaite Ohling (Howling Warning)."

This is the only way for now. This is the tragedy of people with magical disabilities. Even if they have their own industries, they will always live in fear.

Every wizard is a super-powered person who possesses magical powers. You have no idea what kind of magic someone might use. If you really want to ensure your own safety, you can only work hard to make yourself stronger.

The Saiens are not a family with a heritage. Their settlement is protected by magic accumulated from generations to generations, so it is generally not easy for others to invade.

The house he bought was almost as undefended as a Muggle house, except for a limited number of defensive magics.

The only defensive spell that can truly make Saienz feel at ease is the Fidelius Charm.

But these truly cutting-edge knowledge are placed in the restricted books area.

This made Sainz's desire to master the art of invisibility even stronger.

As for the purchase and search of ordinary invisibility cloaks, he had been keeping an eye out for relevant information since he entered the magic world, but unfortunately, after a year, there was no news.

It's understandable if you think about it. This kind of thing is not something that can be circulated in large quantities. Even if it is sold in certain places, it seems that he can't know about it in the first place with his information channels.

Furthermore, he speculated that invisibility cloaks must not be common. In the original trajectory, apart from Harry's one, the only person who explicitly mentioned having an invisibility cloak seemed to be retired Oromoodi, not even other members of the Order of the Phoenix.

Moody was a master who had spent his entire life in war, so it was possible that all of his items might have been seized from some illegal dark wizard.

It is understandable that this kind of thing is not circulated on the market.

If there is no progress in the study of invisibility during this holiday, he will have to take a little risk next semester.

Fortunately, after a year, he finally dealt with Peeves.

Currently, the two are in a state of not interfering with each other.

Sainz was not nosy and went over to stop the other party's prank when the other party was not around.

Peeves promised not to play pranks on Sainz, and even if it was a prank, he would try not to do it when Sainz was present. If Sainz happened to see him, he also promised to take the initiative to avoid him.

However, these are just Peeves' verbal promises and have no real binding force.

Sainz has been strictly observing discipline for the past year, one of the reasons being because of Peeves. He has to prevent Peeves from reporting his violations to the professor.

If you believe Peeves' promise, although he usually doesn't say a word, if at some critical moment, for example, when you are reading dangerous magic in the restricted area, he goes to the professor or the headmaster to trip you up, it would be really difficult to deal with.

You are not Harry Potter, so don't challenge the school rules at will. Don't bet that Hogwarts will not expel students at will.

In fact, with Sainz's current level of pseudo-invisibility spells, after eliminating the uncertain factor of Peeves, it would be no problem for him to hide from Squib Filch and Mrs. Norris.

Sometimes he wondered if he was being too cautious. With the pseudo-invisibility spell and the Marauder's Map, he could go wherever he wanted at Hogwarts at night.

If the Weasley twins had his configuration, they would have made Filch uneasy a long time ago.

Hey, it’s useless to think too much. The right thing to do is to step up the research on real invisibility.

"Conte, thank you for your hard work these past two days. I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time."

"Sir, it is my honor to serve you."

"You can't say that. After all, you are still a house-elf of Hogwarts. It's understandable that you stay in the castle. It's my fault that you stay outside the castle for such a long time."

"Sir, Conte..."

"Conte, I'm not disliking you. I need you to come back to the castle and take care of the plants for me."

“At your service, sir!

Take care of yourself then, goodbye sir!"

"Goodbye!" With a crackle, Conte disappeared.

If Sainz were to be truly satisfied with a research environment, it would have to be the Room of Requirement. If he made a request, he believed that Conte would be willing to Apparate him directly to Hogwarts.

But, as I said before, Conte is still a member of the castle after all. Asking her for help is already too much, and asking her to betray Hogwarts is a bit too inhumane.

That’s right, bringing people from outside the school into the school without the school’s permission, for Conte, the house-elf affiliated with Hogwarts, what else could that be but betrayal?

He often reminded himself in his heart that he must not let his friends who loved him suffer and endure hardships! He must not!

………………

Another two days were spent reinforcing and defending the house, and purchasing daily necessities, kitchen utensils, and food ingredients.

Only then did he finally move from the Leaky Cauldron into his own home.

Comfortable!