Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Of course, there were actually more ordinary women who were mistakenly burned as witches, or rather, the vast majority of them.

Wade looked at the notice - complex magic circuits appeared on the seemingly ordinary parchment. Under West's urging, he did not have much time to study it and could only pick up the pen and sign his name.

As he signed, Wade felt something invisible, like a contract, entangled with him.

"Don't think you can use magic secretly at home." West finally warned: "Underage wizards have traces on them. Once they use magic, they will be discovered by the Ministry of Magic immediately. Every year, there are two or three idiots who receive warning letters from the Ministry of Magic. I hope you won't be one of them."

Chapter 47 Gift Friends Book

The time at school is heartbreakingly short. In the blink of an eye, it’s time to leave.

When the first-year students lined up and left behind Hagrid, the few students who chose to stay stood by the window and looked at them enviously. But in fact, Wade also envied these students - they could stay in school freely for two weeks, almost monopolizing the library and potions classroom, and ask professors for advice at any time, which was almost one-on-one tutoring.

Vader sighed.

If Fiona hadn't been looking forward to the day when he would come home a month ago, Wade would have really wanted to stay in school.

Of course, it feels good to be home.

Having been away from home for half a year, the longing and love that his parents had accumulated almost burst out the moment they saw him. Fiona would hug him at least ten times a day and kiss his forehead lovingly from time to time. Ferdinand was a little more reserved, but he would touch his hair and pat his shoulder from time to time.

In the few months at school, Wade grew three centimeters taller. Because he climbed stairs all day and sat for a long time, he would exercise for about ten minutes to half an hour. After a period of time, his body became stronger and he could even see more obvious abdominal muscles.

But Fiona only saw two words for all these positive changes: "thinner."

The mother touched Wei De's face and said distressedly: "Did you not eat enough at school? Wait, I will prepare a big table of delicious food for you today!"

She rubbed her hands and got to work.

Wade looked in the mirror - the eleven-year-old boy in the mirror still had some baby fat on his face, which made him look a little round, rosy, and in good spirits.

Ferdinand sat next to Wade and asked in a serious tone, "Wade, you have always only reported good news in your letters, not bad news. Now tell me the truth - is anyone at school giving you a hard time?"

Wade also said seriously, "No - this is true. Ravenclaw itself is a peaceful college. Most of the students only look at their abilities, and not many people care about their bloodline. I am the top student in several subjects. Professor Flitwick, the dean of our college, likes me very much. There is also Professor Murray. He takes out two hours every week to teach me alchemy, and even invited me to his private party before the holiday."

"That's good. It sounds like you've met some good teachers." Ferdinand smiled. "Are you happy at school?"

"Of course," Wade smiled, "very happy."

……

Before Christmas, Wade mailed out all the presents. When he woke up the next morning and went downstairs, he saw a pile of gift boxes under the Christmas tree.

Fiona came towards him, hugged his head and kissed his forehead hard, and said happily: "Thank you, dear. I like your gift very much."

Wade gave her a bottle of beauty potion that he had made himself, a finished product that had been approved by Professor Snape.

Ferdinand nodded as well. "Great magic razor. But is there any special use for the parchment you put in the gift box?"

"This is an alchemical work I completed independently - the Book of Friends." Wade said with some pride.

He took out a bound book from his pocket. On the cover was written "Friends' Account" in Chinese and English. When he opened it, he saw the word "Family" written on the top of the horizontal line of the first page. On the right side was written "Name" in smaller font, followed by a horizontal line.

Wade took out a feather pen and gave one to each of his parents, then wrote his name on the right side.

"Our three friend books are linked together. Write down your name like this, and then I'll write what I want to say here—"

He wrote in the blank space below the horizontal line: "Merry Christmas."

Fiona let out a small cry of surprise, and saw a line of words appear on the parchment in her hand:

【Vade: Merry Christmas.】

"Oh, I get it."

Fiona quickly wrote her name in the upper right corner, and then wrote a sentence below: [Merry Christmas, baby.]

The same words appeared on the parchment of both father and son.

Ferdinand understood: "Like a forum?"

Home computers had been around for many years and cost only a few hundred pounds, so the Gray family naturally bought one early on, as they were no strangers to computers.

"Yeah, it's like an Internet forum." Wade spread his hands. "It seems a little magical because the carrier is just a piece of paper. It can't transmit video and sound, and it's actually not as good as the Internet, but it is not affected by magic magnetic fields. This way, even if I'm at school, you can contact me at any time."

To be more precise, "Friends' Book" is a magic version of WeChat. However, nowadays, similar apps like MSN Messenger, WhatsApp, QQ, WeChat, etc. have not been developed yet, so Wade's "Friends' Book" seems to be very advanced.

"I have to say, this is the best Christmas present I've received this year, Wade." Ferdinand's eyes sparkled: "But what's even better is that you really learned something at Hogwarts - I'm proud of you, kid."

Fiona soon became addicted to "online chatting" like most people who first came into contact with communication software. Even though Wade and Ferdinand were less than two meters away from her, she still used the friend list to communicate.

Soon, words began to appear on other pages of Wade's Friends Book.

The second page is associated with SSC members.

【Michael: Hello?】

[Padma: Merlin, I really saw what you wrote. ]

[Hermione: Can you see what I wrote too? Oh my god, it really appeared! How did you do that? I didn't see a similar spell in the book! ]

[Padma: Don't mention books, Hermione. Today is Christmas. You should be happy.]

[Michael: Wade, I thought you were just starting to learn alchemy! You should have told me earlier that you had made something so amazing!]

[Theo: I read the instructions and just figured out how to use it—this is amazing! This is the best magic item I've ever seen!]

[Lian: ...I'm so shocked, I don't know what to say. I'll just write a sentence to prove that I saw it.]

[Neville: I accidentally fell off the sofa, and my grandma thought I received some dark magic item and almost confiscated it. ]

【Vade: Merry Christmas, everyone.】

His words seemed to ignite the oil pan, and everyone's messages kept popping up. They soon discovered that the space each line of text could occupy was limited, and each sentence would disappear after about one or two seconds after reading. At most, only fifteen lines of text could be displayed on the page at the same time. The "online chat" was forcibly limited in speed, so there would not be a situation where "999+" unread messages appeared in just a few minutes.

Within a few minutes, they quickly learned how to send emojis without any instruction, and it seemed that they couldn't stop for a while.

Wade flipped to the back, and the third page was the house-elves page. The house-elves who were close to him all received one. They carefully wrote words on the parchment and wrote many words of gratitude to Wade.

Professor Murray, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape followed. Except for Snape who gave a "barely usable" evaluation and Professor Murray who reconfirmed the invitation in two days, everyone else praised his wonderful ideas and said that they could also tutor him during the holidays.

Chapter 48 Everyone Else Has It

After a while, the Friends Book gradually became quiet again. Wade guessed that they might be busy creating another chat group.

The Christmas gifts he gave out, of course, included not only the friend book related to his own, but also blank parchments related to two, three, four, and five people. The professors also added an extra stack of 10 people, which together made it a thick booklet, so it could be called a "BOOK".

In Wade's vision, in the future, every student at Hogwarts will have a friend's book. They will exchange parchment with friends or family and set up chat groups of all sizes. Perhaps it won't be long before Hogwarts will add a school rule - no opening of the friend's book during class time, otherwise it will be confiscated! Or perhaps students will compete with each other on the thickness and value of the friend's book, and some students will buy blank parchment to put in their friends' books to save face, pretending that they have joined many chat groups.

But Professor Murray asked him not to sell the Book of Friends for the time being.

Seeing his "promising path" cut off, Wade sighed in frustration, put away his friend book, and began to unwrap his presents for this year.

Most of the gift boxes under the Christmas tree came from Ferdinand's employees. Wade has been hanging around in the toy factory with his father since he was a child. He is smart, sensible and cute. Many old employees like him very much. Even if they haven't seen him for more than half a year, they still send gifts. They sent all kinds of toys popular among ordinary people, exquisite pens and notebooks, children's books, etc.

There were a few gifts given to Wade by his Muggle classmates in elementary school, but these were relatively simple, mostly candies, greeting cards and small toys.

These were what he received every year, and Wade had of course sent him gifts of similar value in advance.

Then there are the gifts from the wizarding world.

Unlike Wade who gave everyone the same gift, the gifts given to him by everyone were all kinds of books.

Professor Murray gave him a handwritten alchemy notebook, which Vader carefully put away, planning to read it after dinner;

Professor Flitwick gave Wade a copy of "The Complete Book of Spells" - this book can only be borrowed from the Hogwarts library with the professor's approval, and Wade also plans to take time out of the holidays to finish reading it.

Michael got a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Hermione got The Alchemist; Padma's gift was Wandering with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart; Theo got The World's Oldest Magical Plant; Ryan got The Beauty of the Stars; and Neville got The Secret of Transfiguration.

Perhaps his image as a book lover was so deeply rooted in everyone's mind that everyone chose to give him books.

It seems that he will be busy this holiday.

………………

Hogwarts.

When Dumbledore got up in the morning, even the shoes he placed beside his bed were overwhelmed by the gifts.

He has been a professor at Hogwarts for nearly a century and has taught countless students. Almost 80% of the wizards in the British Isles are his students.

He is also the President of the International Confederation of Wizards, Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot, and is recognized as the greatest wizard of our time and the greatest headmaster of Hogwarts in history - although Dumbledore himself does not care so much about these titles and praises, it is obvious that most people care about it, and there are wizards all over the world who want to have a good relationship with him.

So every Christmas, Dumbledore would receive so many, so many gifts that they almost flooded the headmaster's tower.

Fortunately, he used the traceless stretching spell very well.

So Dumbledore usually spent the entire week after Christmas opening presents.

This is an activity he enjoys very much.

Of course, Dumbledore did not choose the gifts because of the value they represented, but because he could see some people's growth, some people's desires, and occasionally some small surprises - perhaps a curse, or perhaps a harmless prank.

Most people who didn't know him would give him books out of admiration for this wizard, both Muggle and wizard books. Dumbledore had already read many of them, but he still happily accepted them.

Those who knew him well knew that the old man was an incurable sweets lover. His gifts were often cakes, chocolates, cockroach piles, fizzing bee candies and other sweets. Some of them would contain deadly potions, and the process of identifying them was a fairly interesting game for Dumbledore.

There are also some people... Even though they never contact each other on weekdays, they will still give gifts on this special day. Even if it is just a piece of paper, a leaf, or a pair of ugly wool socks that smell of sheep, Dumbledore will treasure it and collect it.

Just as Dumbledore was opening a gift box that was half a person's height, an owl suddenly flew in through the window and dropped a small package on Dumbledore's knees.

Could it be that someone remembered him when he woke up in the morning and sent him a gift?

Dumbledore thought so, put down the gift box, and opened the small package first.

There was only a piece of parchment inside, and a long thin note -

[Dear Albus: This is the work of my student, Vider Grey! I am extremely proud to share my joy with you!

I wish you well.

Murray

Even the "all-knowing" Dumbledore was confused by this letter without a beginning or an end. He unfolded the parchment and read both sides to make sure that there was nothing written on it except Murray's own name.

Dumbledore was about to cast a spell to check it when he received another visit.

Dumbledore walked into the entrance hall. Filius Flitwick was standing in the doorway, holding a similar parchment in his hand. He said cheerfully, "Oh, Professor Dumbledore, this is my piece. I must say, I knew he would achieve something great, but not so soon! He's only been studying magic for three and a half months?"