Protego Diabolica

The Great Hall

After the banquet

In addition to eating and drinking, today's banquet also covered one important topic: Quirrell, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, was seriously injured by a dark wizard and is now on leave. The specific length of the leave is unknown.

Starting this week, Professor Snape will teach the Defense Against the Dark Arts class concurrently until Professor Quirrell returns or the end of the semester.

But Ethan doubts that Snape can handle teaching two classes at the same time, especially with seven grades.

And the times for the two classes will conflict!

Although this can be regarded as a dream of his.

Ethan is not surprised that Quirrell can't come to class.

At that time, his condition was not very good, and the last blow had likely caused significant damage. Maybe he can come back after ten days or half a month of recuperation, or maybe he won't come back at all.

But it doesn't matter. As long as Voldemort is not dead and the Philosopher's Stone is still at Hogwarts, he will never give up.

At present, he still needs the Philosopher's Stone to revive.

"Malfoy?"

Ethan, who was about to return to Ravenclaw, looked at Draco blocking his way and was a bit confused.

Ever since he had been beaten by five senior Slytherins, Draco had avoided Ethan like a mouse seeing a cat. Except for class time, he would not be around him otherwise.

Now, he was just heading home to spend Christmas. What gave him such confidence?

"Sorry, Adrian, I was the one who pushed that incident last time. I apologize to you."

"This is my compensation gift."

Draco handed a yellow book to Ethan.

The cover of this book was not written in mainstream European languages but resembled something from the Middle East. Ethan had not studied this area, and even with his intelligence, he could not understand it. The material seemed to be made of some animal skin, which was quite thick.

A very old book from the Middle East?

"This is the Book of Balance written by Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, the most famous alchemist of the eighth century. It is a collection from my family, and I brought it here as an apology."

Seeing that Ethan did not immediately take it, Draco became anxious and hurriedly introduced it.

During this period, Draco had been worried that Ethan would cause trouble for him. He had woken up from nightmares many times because his limbs had been broken by Ethan.

Unable to tolerate it any longer, Draco told his parents everything about Ethan, from the Hogwarts Express incident to the time when he instigated five Slytherin seniors to cause trouble for Ethan and was subsequently punished. He hoped they could find a way to resolve it. As for being forced by Muggles to find parents, it was embarrassing!

To his surprise, his father did not comfort him or offer to help teach Ethan a lesson. Instead, he scolded Draco for being brainless and demanded that he apologise and seek Ethan's forgiveness. If Draco couldn't do that, his father wouldn't help, even if Ethan beat him to death.

This book was chosen by his father as an apology when he heard that Ethan often read alchemy books recently.

To be honest, Draco didn't understand why his father had to do this. He was the head of the Malfoy family and a director at Hogwarts. Shouldn't the matter be resolved as soon as his father showed up?

Draco was now regretting it.

"In that case, I'll take this book. Forget about the last time. If there is a next time, it will be more than just this."

Ethan took the "Book of Balance" and glanced at Draco as he spoke slowly.

The name Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan was familiar to Ethan. He was one of the most successful figures in Islamic alchemy. Many alchemical advancements were based on his work.

It's just that there are too few of his works in existence. Those that do exist are collected by some major families and are definitely quite valuable.

Books from the 8th century, which is one or two hundred years earlier than the establishment of Hogwarts.

The Malfoy family has a long history. They originally followed the Muggle king who conquered Britain. It is normal to have such books.

"I understand!"

Malfoy finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had completed his father's instructions and hoped to avoid nightmares in the future!

After leaving, Malfoy rushed to the owl shed to write a letter to his father about this. It was also his request.

Draco was a completely spoiled child. He had no idea how troubled his family was. He looked so glorious and was still part of the sacred pure-blooded 28 clans.

But because he stood on the wrong side, a lot of investment was lost to Voldemort. Voldemort didn't treat them as human beings initially, just as dogs, and they didn't gain much benefit when he was in power.

After Voldemort was overthrown by Harry, in order to protect himself and avoid accompanying his sister-in-law to Azkaban, Draco's family spent a lot of money to make arrangements.

They lost a significant amount of family wealth and gold Galleons.

Otherwise, how could a Death Eater known to everyone stay at home safely?

If he provokes a young wizard with unlimited potential now, he might be expelled from the pure-blood family in the future.

Lucius Malfoy knew how quickly talented young wizards grow.

His father was once Voldemort's senior and had told him that Voldemort, who left school a few years before becoming a genius, was someone who could not be suppressed, quickly establishing the Death Eaters. All those who offended him were eliminated.

This is also why Lucius asked Draco to apologize. It was not about building a good relationship but not offending him!

Although Lucius had always despised Muggle wizards, it was just a matter of political correctness and habit. Even if he despised those capable of defeating him, he couldn't show it.

"Ethan, what did Malfoy ask you to do just now?"

After returning to the dormitory, Ethan was stopped by Terry, who liked gossip.

Terry knew that the relationship between these two people was not good.

"He apologized to me!"

Ethan showed the book in his hand.

"Is that so!"

"By the way, Ethan, do you know why my phone won't turn on?"

"This is a Christmas gift from my parents. It's convenient for me to contact my family. Owls are still too slow."

Terry soon took out a flip phone and placed it in front of Ethan. He and Michael had studied it for a long time but couldn't find the reason.

It's not that it's out of power. It was charged before leaving. He was just worried that he couldn't find a place to charge it at Hogwarts.

Maybe he could ask Professor Flitwick if there is any magic to charge the phone.

"Muggle items cannot be used at Hogwarts. Didn't you know?"

Ethan looked at Terry speechlessly. Although the notice was not clearly written, it would be recorded if he read more books. He should stop gossiping all day.

And this phone is a new model from Motorola. The family is quite well-off!

It seems that a Muggle boy who worships Harry will come in the second half of this year. How will he use his camera?

Doesn't it have a battery inside?

"Is that so!"

Terry thought about it with some distress. Now he didn't have to bother Professor Flitwick.

"I'm going out. You guys chat!"

Now Ethan was not shy about going out at night. There was no need for it.

Entering the Room of Requirement, Cassandra and Penelope were already inside.

One was practicing weather spells, and the other was reading the "Runic Dictionary" and "Runic Pictograms".

As for Hermione and Cho Chang, they had never been here.

After Hermione stopped spending time with Ron and Harry, she became a standard good student. She never did anything against the rules. Although she was studious and talented, she had no interest in practical combat. (Or maybe Hermione has no talent for practical combat)

Cho Chang had to practice Quidditch every weekend, even on school nights, which consumed a lot of her energy.

"Ethan, this is what I found at home: the spell book of Fire Protection(Protego Diabolica) and Gubraithian Fire. "

Cassandra approached Ethan as soon as possible and took out two books as if offering treasures.

After Christmas, Cassandra took advantage of her father's work at the Ministry of Magic to search the library, her father's study, and the secret room at home, but found nothing.

Later, her mother had to attend a tea party, so Cassandra made an excuse to decline and secretly ran to their room to search.

Perhaps her father had specially put it away; fortunately, she found it.

"…Good job!"

Ethan was quite surprised. Although Cassandra had hinted that she had found what Ethan needed on the train, he was still excited to see it now.

The power of Fiendfyre had already been demonstrated when Voldemort was beaten a few days ago. With this magic, the wizarding world could be very successful. Except for a few people, no one could match it.

And these two magics are as famous as Fiendfyre, and they are definitely not inferior.

"Well, Ethan, can you teach me the Fiendfyre after you learn it?"

Cassandra asked a little embarrassedly. She originally regarded Ethan as an opponent, but now she almost sees him as a teacher.

"No problem."

Given Cassandra's talent, it shouldn't take much effort to teach her, and Ethan had no reason to refuse.

Ethan would not be stingy with his own people, and he was not like Snape, who could lose a situation he was sure to win.

Then Ethan flipped through the Gubraithian Fire Spell Book and realized that he had been thinking wrongly.

He had only heard of its name before and knew it was the everlasting fire that Dumbledore gave to the giant.

In terms of power alone, the Gubraithian Fire is not very strong and is not as powerful as the Fiendfyre Curse but overall it is about the same level as the Fiendfyre.

It does not require combustibles or subsequent injection of magic power. Once it is burning, it will not go out unless extinguished by magic. It is the magic of the end of all spells. No other method can extinguish it.

Fiendfyre has no combustibles, and it will go out when the magic power is exhausted, but Gubraithian Fire is different.

Without combustibles and with the magic power exhausted, it can still maintain its burning state and be in its largest state.

It can burn as vigorously as there are combustibles, and then it will maintain this state, becoming a real everlasting fire.

"Gubraithian Fire!"(Incantation Unknown)

As the spell was recited, a ball of fire appeared out of thin air in front of Ethan's wand and floated in the air.

The flame was not big, with a diameter of only about one meter. After Ethan disconnected the magic power and stopped controlling it, it began to fall to the ground, neither gathering nor being particularly kind, but "quite stable."

The color was similar to that of a burning candle, showing a bright yellow.

Ethan felt it for a while. It was not the kind of violent burning that gave a burning sensation; it was warm.

Then Ethan tried the Protego Diabolica to protect himself, which was faster to learn.

After reading it once, the magic wand drew a circle on the ground, and a black flame ignited. In addition to the property of burning everything, it also had the function of protecting himself.

Next, Ethan needed to practice these two magics and write the post-destruction spell to combine them.

If the Fiendfyre spell had the characteristics of Protego Diabolica to protect himself and Gubraithian Fire, then there would be a qualitative improvement.

But before that, there was one thing to do.

Under the surprised eyes of Cassandra and Penelope, Ethan roasted the fire dragon egg in the Gubraithian Fire.

This led them to wonder if Ethan was going to eat roasted dragon eggs.

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