Chapter 700 Secret Base
Halloween this year is a rare and good day for most Hogwarts students. You can go to Hogsmeade Village for a fun day and then attend the Halloween feast in the evening, which is simply double fun.
For Albert, it is no exception.
This is the last time to relax before going to compete in the Magic School Potions Championship.
After breakfast and meeting Isobel in the hall, the two left the castle together and headed towards the school gate.
Two cloaked dementors guarded both sides of the school gate, making students passing by feel fearful and uneasy.
As soon as he approached the door, Albert could feel an inexplicable chill coming towards him.
"Don't worry, I'm here." Albert reached out and held Isobel's hand, took out the wand from his pocket and summoned the patronus, turning it into a ball of light that surrounded the two of them to avoid the dementors. Impact on Isobel.
His actions attracted many students to look at them curiously. Everyone was curious about what the light **** surrounding Albert and Isobel were, but no one came to say hello.
While passing the gate, Albert could clearly feel that the two dementors were sucking the happiness of the passing students intentionally or unintentionally. There was no doubt that they could have a feast.
There is a cold wind blowing outside. This is the impact of the large number of Dementors' activities on the surrounding area of Hogwarts. Otherwise, the weather would not have become so bad.
The walk to Hogsmeade was not a pleasant experience, and many students had to wrap their faces with scarves to protect their exposed skin from the cold wind.
“Use Apparition.”
After some distance from the school, Albert took Isobel and turned to a deserted place, and cast a disillusionment spell on her body. Then, use Apparition to get around the village of Hogsmeade.
“Zusi is such a big trouble.” Albert muttered under his breath. "However, after we have a house here in the future, there will be no restrictions on the use of magic."
Before coming of age at the age of seventeen, the only way to get rid of the constraints and use magic without being troubled by the magic world is to use magic in the magic world.
Although the use of magic will also be detected by the Ministry of Magic, they cannot determine who is using magic.
After all, in the magical world, anyone may use magic around him, so the Ministry of Magic will naturally not cause trouble to Albert.
“I thought you had studied it?”
"Although the power of the contract can be confused and blocked, it is already too late. If I had just used a powerful confusion spell on the piece of paper when I signed it, I should be able to deal with it, but now... it is a bit late." Albert He reached out and took Isobel's little hand, and walked towards Hogsmeade together.
“Aren’t you going to lift the phantom body curse?”
“Not yet, let’s go check out our house first. Bit should have already taken care of it for us.”
There are no Dementors around Hogsmeade Village. Perhaps because they knew that students would come to Hogsmeade to play, the Ministry of Magic removed the Dementors here to avoid some bad things happening.
After the two entered Hogsmeade Village, they walked to a remote corner on the east side of the village.
This is one of the reasons why that house is so cheap.
There was a small yard outside the house. The plants in the yard were all withered, and the windows shone with warm yellow light. When the two walked in, Albert raised his hand and knocked on the door five times.
This is a secret code.
“Master, are you invisible?”
The house elf opened the door and stared into the air in confusion.
“I don’t really want people to know this is my house.”
After the door was closed again, Albert lifted the disillusionment spell on the two of them.
"This place looks good. Although it is a bit old, but with a little renovation, it is still a good place." Albert looked at the empty hall and was quite satisfied. After all, the money was not wasted.
“What are you going to do with this place?” Isobel was more curious about this question. She never thought that Albert would spend money to buy such a place for no reason.
“Laboratory.” Albert had no intention of hiding it.
“What are you going to make here?”
“From now on, even during the summer vacation, I can come here at any time through the disappearing cabinet.” Albert pointed to the suitcase on the table.
“Vanishing cabinet?”
“Yes, the Vanishing Cabinet. That thing was very popular during the First Wizarding War.”
Albert opened the suitcase to reveal the stairs leading down.
The suitcase has been expanded by the Traceless Extension Spell, and there are two disappearing cabinets inside.
"You are well prepared." Isobel said with a strange expression: "If the Ministry of Magic finds out, they will have to throw you into Azkaban Prison."
“They don’t know, and they won’t know.” Albert said disapprovingly.
Back in the hall, the two of them visited the house together.
Kitchen, study, bedroom, and utility room…
The house is empty, with only some old furniture left.
Albert plans to get some new ones from Muggles.
"I still prefer a spacious place." Isobel stood by the bedroom window, looking at the yard below, and said to Albert sideways, "It is not safe here. Once chaos breaks out in the magic world, you may be targeted at any time. superior."
"They won't find this place. I'll use the Fidelity Charm on this house and no one will doubt us."
At that time, it was a house elf who came forward to buy the house.
Who would associate a house elf with a Muggle wizard?
"We always need a place to practice," Albert said mysteriously: "You can also use this as our secret base. We can meet here at any time in the future and do something we like to do."
“You always like to be mysterious, maybe this is a common problem among diviners.” Isobel looked at the unconcealable heat in Albert’s eyes, and took the initiative to move her face closer.
‘If it gets really bad, leave the UK!’ she whispered.
Isobel is not a fool. Naturally, she can see that Albert is not very optimistic about the future prospects. At least there will be a "chaotic period" in the future, and she is actively preparing for this in order to deal with possible dangers in the future.
"Don't worry, the situation is not as bad as imagined." Albert put his face close to the girl's ear and comforted her softly, "Otherwise, I would have taken you away long ago."
In the following time, Albert and Isobel discussed the renovation of the house in the hall.
He plans to turn this place into an inner and outer storey. Like Nico's house, you need the owner's permission to enter the house.
Then, he also plans to use the Traceless Expansion Spell to expand the rooms in this house.
Ordinary wizard families would naturally not dare to do this, but Albert had no intention of letting others enter the house, so he naturally did not worry about breaking the law.
After Albert casts the Loyalty Charm on the house, no one will be able to find it.
Even if someone came from the Ministry of Magic, they could only stand on the street and stare.
(End of this chapter)