Chapter 2 Eighty percent of time-travellers have it

Compared to the muggle world, the education in the wizarding community seems to be stuck in a few hundred years ago.

There is no primary school or university here, only a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that is equivalent to a combination of a middle school and a high school, and the teaching time is only seven short years.

Moreover, the teaching standard was quite worrying!

Andy Collins vaguely remembered that a flying class professor couldn't even handle flying accidents when he watched the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in his previous life.

What she was called has been forgotten, anyway, the plot was quite watered down.

Children born in the wizarding community generally wouldn't go to muggle schools, they believed it wouldn't serve much of a purpose.

In the past eleven years, the only thing that his Mum Helen had taught Andy was how to read, some simple arithmetic, and general knowledge of the wizarding world.

Other than that, Andy was expected to read books on his own.

Now Isabel has also reached the age of reading and writing, so the task of teaching Isabel to read and write fell on Andy's shoulders.

Who told Andy to display his talent and love of learning all along?

Kyle and Helen had stated more than once that Andy would definitely be sorted into Ravenclaw.

"Little miss, let's go!"

After patting Isabel's little head, he said, "If you can't finish today's study task, I'm afraid you'll be hungry tonight."

"Baddy Andy!"

Isabel covered her head and glared at Andy's back with a pout. She was hesitant about sneaking away, but when she thought of what would happen after sneaking away, the little girl sighed, hung her head and followed Andy's arse towards the study.

Andy's family in this life was a standard ordinary wizarding family, a family of four, living in a village where wizards and muggles inhabited.

Kyle worked at the Ministry of Magic, and Helen stayed home to take care of the two children.

However, she was a master potion maker, and would usually boil up some potions and send them to Diagon Alley to sell, earning more money than Kyle had earned in months of work.

Andy would also help out sometimes and make preparations.

Although St Catchpole village is said to be where wizards and muggles coexist, the muggles basically live together, while the wizards are scattered around the village, and usually hardly come and visit the muggles.

Kyle and Helen had also strictly forbidden Andy and Isabel from going to play with the muggle children.

And the nearest wizarding neighbour to Collins House was two hills away to encounter.

This resulted in Andy and Isabel having very few friends.

It wasn't until Andy got a little older and Kyle bought Andy a child's version of a flying broom that Andy was able to fly to the neighbours' house occasionally to 'see the world'.

Other than that, it was just following Kyle and Helen to meet outsiders when they visited their friends' houses.

All in all, the young wizard's childhood was both laid back and boring.

"Well, that's enough for today's task." Stretching his back, Andy closed his book.

Teaching a child to read and write was a tiring job, especially since this child was also disobedient and often behaved lazily.

"Andy, let's go play hide and seek!"

Isabel felt all her fatigue sweep away, and her whole body was in high spirits, as if the person who had lost her temper with Andy before wasn't her.

"I found a secret base yesterday, by hiding there you will definitely not be able to find me." The little girl said mischievously.

"I hid your snacks last night."

Andy still has a book to read that he didn't finish last night, seeing this little doll pestering, he had no choice but to resort to a desperate move. "You won't have a snack this week if you can't find it."

"Andy-"

Isabel was on the verge of being infuriated, Baddy Andy had hidden her snacks again, she had obviously kept a tight guard. "You wait for me!"

After sending away the explosive little girl, Andy pulled out a book from the bookshelf but didn't flip it open immediately.

'System!'

A semi-transparent virtual interface surfaced in front of Andy's eyes.

The system interface was very simple, in the very centre was a sphere pattern, the sphere was transparent and contained close to one-third red liquid.

Below the sphere was a row of words.

[Potential Points: 1]   

From awakening the system at the age of six with a magical outburst to today, for five whole years, Andy had only saved up one potential point, and so far, he couldn't bring himself to add it to his attributes.

The system didn't have intelligent prompts, so Andy still couldn't figure out how the red liquid in the sphere actually increased.

The left and right sides of the sphere were personal data.

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Left side data:

[Charm: 3]

[Transfiguration: 4]

[Dark Magic: 2]

[Alchemy: 3]

[Divination: 0]

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Right side data:

[Magic: 2]

[Soul: 4]

[Mind: 3]

[Thinking: 3]

[Will: 2]

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The function of the system was clear at a glance, it was nothing more than a point-adding system, very much in line with the noble status of a time traveller.

However, just from the data given by the system so far, although the system did not give a specific evaluation, Andy still thought that he just had a medium-level talent.

After all, Kyle and Helen weren't any famous great wizards, they were average students when they went to school, and Helen was only good in Potions class, as for Kyle - he could basically be said to have no distinctive qualities at all.

It was already the beginning of June 1991 today, and according to the past routine, an owl would deliver the Hogwarts acceptance letter next month.

So even if the figure of [Potential Points: 1] looked much better than [Potential Points: 0] by far too much, Andy now had to consider the issue of adding points.

As for which attribute to add, Andy had already decided it long ago.

Charms Talent was undoubtedly the most crucial thing when it came to most of the magic spells, Andy decided to add up the Charms Talent first, and then consider the problem of adding points for other attributes.

With a thought -

'Insufficient potential points!'

The system that had been unresponsive all along finally gave a response, only this response almost made Andy uninstall the system.

'Screw your arse, system, do you know how much determination I've mustered to make this decision?'

'How many potential points are needed?'

"..."

The system seemed to be dead.

'Since it's a shortage of potential points, is it an incremental increase like 1, 2, 3, 4, or a doubling like 1, 2, 4, 8?'

'It's fine if it's incremental, but if it's doubling...'

Wouldn't that mean that it would take a full 16 potential points to add from [4] to [5]?

Taking the attribute [Charms: 3] alone, adding from [3] to [4] would require only 4 Potential Points if it was an incremental increase, and 8 Potential Points if it was a doubling increase.

"Well ..."

Andy pondered for a moment.

Although the method of obtaining Potential Points had not been ascertained for the time being, judging from the current difficulty alone, a talent point of [4] might be classified as an ordinary genius.

'So... how exactly are potential points obtained?'

It could be said that Andy had tried all sorts of methods over the past few years, and a few times he had even created an embarrassing dark history, but the red liquid inside the sphere was mostly either indifferent or it had sneakily risen a bit at some point.

So much to the point that Andy was clueless until now.

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