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However, Ethan felt that this spell still had room for improvement.

For example, incorporating the 'Pack of Wolves' spell, allowing it to split when subjected to magical attacks.

Or actively split, not necessarily limited to five heads, directly becoming a five-colored dragon, which would offer more flexibility and tactical arrangement.

Chapter 212: Third Year Summer Vacation

Time quickly arrived at the day of the holiday.

The Dementors were taken away from Hogwarts, and there were no more ripples like in the original story.

After completing the improved version of the Patronus Charm, Ethan planned the magic power's running route, making it more powerful, easier to cast, and easier to learn.

Finally, he continuously experimented, mixing the characteristics of the 'Pack of Wolves' spell into this Patronus Charm.

At the same time, he was also teaching Cassandra and others to practice this spell, but after Ethan's modification, while the Patronus Charm was more powerful, the difficulty of learning it also increased.

Hermione, in particular, couldn't learn anything at all. After a week, the others had made some progress, more or less.

But Hermione really couldn't even produce a wisp of black mist. It shouldn't be like this, Hermione's talent in spell learning is not bad.

Even if it was dark magic, as long as she wanted to learn, she would definitely be able to learn it.

Later, Ethan taught Hermione two simple dark magic spells, both with little power and easy to learn.

But Hermione still couldn't learn them. If Hermione wasn't doing it on purpose, then it was affected by the unicorn-version magic blood.

While making the Patronus Charm more powerful, it basically cut off the ability to learn and cast dark magic.

Ethan felt that she had directly lost out big time.

But Hermione didn't express anything. She didn't like dark magic in the first place, but she was a little sorry that she couldn't learn Ethan's invented version of the Patronus Charm.

Cho Chang also gave up learning. According to her, her Patronus was a cat, and even if she learned it, it probably wouldn't be of much use.

Moreover, in terms of talent for learning spells, she was indeed the worst among the girls.

Even after taking the magic blood potion, she couldn't catch up with Cassandra and the others.

Learning this spell would probably be even more difficult.

Ethan didn't force it.

Also, the Basilisk egg had been successfully hatched.

On a night with Sirius in the sky, Ethan brought ten roosters to the top of Ravenclaw Tower to let them produce successfully, but after the success, these roosters also died.

After that, he went to the magical animal shop in Hogsmeade Village and bought dozens of toads, throwing them all to the despicable Herpo.

Finally, it hatched successfully two weeks ago, but the newly born Basilisk was so small that you couldn't tell that it could grow to fifteen meters long in the future.

Sirius Black also transformed into a big black dog after that incident and stayed with Harry at Hogwarts for a few days.

After that, he returned to the Black family's old house, and as Ethan said, he gave Harry a rocket crossbow as a gift before the Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw match.

However, many people thought that Harry bought it from Ethan, after all, many people knew about this news.

Harry didn't explain, Sirius Black was still wanted, and Harry couldn't make his existence public.

However, during this time, Harry and Sirius Black's communication through wizard mail was quite frequent.

The only pity was that Harry still lost the Quidditch match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor.

Although Harry had a higher talent for using flying brooms and dared to fight desperately to grab the Golden Snitch, he was powerless against Cho Chang, who had stronger perception, reaction, and speed.

Wood's idea of ​​lifting the Quidditch trophy before graduation was directly shattered.

However, they didn't blame Harry, after all, Harry was injured and went to the school hospital to catch the Golden Snitch.

Also, Harry and Ron's relationship has become much more distant.

Anyone with eyes could see this. Many times when Ron tried to talk to Harry, Harry would coldly ignore him.

He didn't go to find Ron to eat in the auditorium anymore.

Instead, he became closer to Neville and several other roommates.

Regarding this point, although the young wizards felt a little surprised, they could also understand Harry.

It's really too difficult to get along with Ron.

However, many young wizards were also speculating about what happened between the two that made their relationship so stiff. You must know that they used to be the best of friends.

Even when Ron almost beat Harry to death with dark magic in the arena, Harry could forgive Ron and continue to be friends with him.

For this reason, various versions of the message came out, and it was spreading like wildfire within Hogwarts.

Harry and Ron did not stand up to make any explanations on this matter, and just let them guess.

After all, there were too many things Harry couldn't say about this matter, so he couldn't speak.

Ron didn't have the guts to say that he had released the chief culprit who killed Harry's parents, and also Voldemort's man, I'm afraid he would be dragged out and beaten on the way.

During the wizarding war, not only did Ron's mother die several brothers, but other wizarding families also suffered considerable losses.

If they knew about this, they would inevitably retaliate.

Finally, there was the ownership of the House Cup, which still belonged to Ravenclaw this year.

Gryffindor was directly hated by Snape for the whole year because of the cross-dressing incident at the beginning of the school year, directly breaking the lowest score record created by Gryffindor itself.

Professor McGonagall spent the entire gathering with a dark face. Because the low pressure she exuded was too strong, the seats on her left and right were empty, and no one dared to be next to her.

After all, the two lowest house score records were Gryffindor, which made her feel speechless in front of the previous Gryffindor deans.

I just don't know if Snape's hatred will continue into the next school year.

Hufflepuff scored a moderate 422 points this year.

As for Slytherin, it was only seventy points lower than Ravenclaw, which was of course the result of Snape arbitrarily adding points to his own house.

If it hadn't been for the Dementor incident at the beginning, which allowed Dumbledore to add two hundred points to Ravenclaw, this year's House Cup would have really been mysterious.

As in the previous year, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor did not miss the final evening's feast this year.

This had truly never happened in the past few decades.

Now, it has happened for two consecutive years, leading many young wizards and people from all walks of life to speculate whether the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position has been lifted.

After all, for two years in a row, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has completed a full year and is still alive and well.

Because of this, the Daily Prophet even came to Hogwarts to conduct an exclusive interview with Lupin, which they published as the cover story the next day.

But Lupin resigned as in the original story, except that in the original, it was passive, because his werewolf identity was discovered; now, it is proactive.

He is going to search for Peter's trail and continue wandering the wizarding world.

Moreover, Lupin is also clear that as long as he remains at Hogwarts for one day, Snape will continue to target him. This year, he was lucky that no one discovered his secret as a werewolf.

Or perhaps someone discovered it but didn't say anything, but next year, it's really uncertain.

It's better to leave early.

As for the final exams, as usual, Ethan was still the top student in the third grade at Hogwarts.

Only in Divination did Ethan receive an E, which represents 'Exceeds Expectations'.

All his other subjects were O, meaning 'Outstanding'.

Even so, Ethan was still the top student in the third grade.

The only two who could compete with Ethan, Cassandra and Hermione, both fell short in Divination.

They only achieved an A, which is 'Acceptable'.

This made Hermione extremely unhappy, and she exclaimed that there was no such thing as divination and that Trelawney was just an old fraud.

Thanks to being the top student in the third grade, plus Ravenclaw winning the House Cup this year,

Ethan completed two achievements again.

As in previous years, one was a self-selected spell, and the other was an increase in magic power.

The latter goes without saying; it is the foundation of a wizard. The amount of magic power, although it cannot be used to directly judge the strength of a wizard, can determine the upper limit of what level a wizard can ultimately reach.

As for the self-selected spell, the Patronus Charm, which was originally a backup, Ethan had already learned under the high pressure of the Dementors and had even successfully improved it.

Ethan had also completed the Animagus transformation. As for the remaining magic, Ethan didn't know what to choose for the time being.

So, he reserved it and didn't claim it. He could choose it later when needed.

As usual, he took the Thestral carriage to the station and then took the train to King's Cross Station.

Only today, Penelope's mood was quite low.

Ethan also knew the reason. It was the same every year at this time. At the Ravenclaw internal dinner last night, many seventh-year seniors cried at the end.

After they leave Hogwarts today, they may never have the opportunity to return.

Even if there is an opportunity, it will either be to come on official business as members of the Ministry of Magic or to come and watch some competition, but most graduates have no chance to seize this opportunity.

However, Ethan also has arrangements for Penelope.

She wanted to go to work at the Ministry of Magic, and Ethan naturally granted her wish.

Ethan's choice at the beginning was not a problem. Lockhart's most suitable position is the Ministry of Magic.

Now, he is thriving in the Ministry of Magic and has risen to the position of office director in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

A new department: the Dark Arts Defense Propaganda Department.

It was established successfully thanks to his shameless spirit and the help of a large group of middle-aged and elderly female fans.

Of course, this is also related to his publication of several novels, the organization of the school version of the Wizarding Duelling Competition, and the fact that he served as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts without the curse taking effect.

As long as he is not allowed to participate in casting spells and is allowed to express his views and fool people, there is really no problem at all.

Now, he is doing very well.

It's no problem for him to pull someone into the Ministry of Magic.

Penelope's grades are fully qualified, but her background is not good.

But if someone is willing to give her a hand, she can naturally enter.

Moreover, Ludo, the department head, is also in the Ministry of Magic. With Penelope working in the Ministry of Magic, Ethan is not worried that she will suffer.

Chapter 213: The Knight Bus

"You have to pick me up for the Quidditch World Cup!"

Hermione waved her hand and instructed Ethan at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.

"Don't worry, I'll definitely take you with me then."

Ethan immediately agreed.

At the end of this month, the Quidditch World Cup will be held in Great Britain. It can be said that this is the grandest event in the entire wizarding world.

At that time, there will be many tourists from various countries.

Even if Ethan is not too interested in Quidditch, he is also prepared to join in the fun.

Moreover, according to the old European tradition, the scale of betting on this game is quite large, and Ethan is also prepared to participate.

It's a pity that he doesn't have the ability to predict, otherwise, he would definitely make a fortune this time.

Ethan doesn't remember the other matches too well, and there is not much description in the original.

But Ethan knows the final. It involves Krum, the Triwizard Tournament contestant from Durmstrang, and the other is the Irish team.

The final result was that the Irish team won.

At that time, just bet on these two teams, anyway, you won't lose, it just depends on whether you make a big profit or a small profit.

"It's a pity, I'm going back to China next week and won't be back until the end of July."

Hearing Hermione and Ethan talking about the Quidditch World Cup, Cho Chang was full of envy.

She didn't go back last year. This year, her mother is preparing to go back to visit relatives and stay with the elderly at home for a month, so she naturally took Cho Chang with her.

Even though Cho Chang really wanted to watch the Quidditch World Cup, she couldn't refuse in the face of this kind of thing.

Even if she wanted to take the elderly at home to watch the Quidditch World Cup, it was impossible. This thing is not popular in China at all, and very few people are interested in it.