Ravenclaw has been gone for a thousand years.
The consciousness she left behind to see her daughter has also been sleeping for a thousand years.
Her portrait certainly doesn’t know what the Scholars’ Union, which was founded more than five hundred years ago, is.
After listening to Scott’s story, the Ravenclaw in the painting said, “You can join them.”
She looked at Scott standing in front of the portrait with a look of surprise on his face and smiled slightly.
“Because of the prophecy, because of Medea staring at you and Salazar hiding behind you, you need to grow up as soon as possible. You don’t have time to weigh the pros and cons carefully, child. As long as it is beneficial to improve your strength, you don’t have to refuse.”
Scott nodded in agreement.
Now he really doesn’t have much room for nitpicking.
Although he should be safe before graduation, two years is not a long time and will pass quickly.
He must seize every minute and second and not waste any opportunity to improve his strength.
“I know you very well, my apprentice.” Ravenclaw in the painting said again, “You are not interested in anything other than magic itself. You have no desire to become a leader. Power is equal to trouble for you, so I am not worried that you will be attracted by the ideas of those people.”
“You are right.” Scott said with a smile.
At this moment, he decided to accept Grubbly-Plan’s invitation to join the Scholars’ Union, of course, the purpose is to use credits to get wool.
As for how to get credits?
Scott glanced at the door of the inner room. There was a lot of knowledge in Helena’s study outside the door that could be exchanged for credits.
Although much of the knowledge recorded in the books stored in this study is no longer applicable to modern times, for the Scholars’ Union whose original intention is to revive ancient magic, these can all be exchanged for points.
Grubbly-Plan also said that as long as it is knowledge that has not been included in the [Knowledge Bank], it can be used.
And Scott has no doubt that the collection of books prepared by Ravenclaw for Helena contains rich knowledge.
Although this is the plan, Scott cannot act on his own. He has to tell the portrait of Ravenclaw and Helena, the owner of the study, and obtain their consent.
As expected by Scott, the Ravenclaw in the painting agreed to his request, and both Helena in the painting and Helena in the ghost agreed.
Because they all knew that the magic knowledge thousands of years ago was outdated.
For today’s wizards, those books don’t have much other use except to broaden their knowledge.
Scott knew this very well, so he didn’t study this knowledge in depth.
It’s not that he didn’t try to learn some ancient magic. It was after trying that he realized that although the power of those spells was stronger than the spells in the modern magic system, they couldn’t keep up with the fast-paced combat style of modern magic.
In addition, the way those spells consumed magic power in the past was much more extensive than modern spells.
In short, ancient magic is not more sophisticated than modern magic.
Concise, fast, delicate, and moderate, these are the advantages of the modern magic system, and Scott is more adapted to this style.
That night, Scott returned to the dormitory and was questioned by his roommates. They all wanted to know how Dumbledore evaluated the so-called Scholars’ Union.
Scott simply repeated Dumbledore and Professor Flitwick’s evaluation of the Scholars’ Union.
After listening to this, Eddie was a little surprised and said, “So, although the Scholars’ Union is not that good, it is not that bad either?”
Roger patted Eddie’s shoulder, “Anyway, this is also a magic society that has been established for more than 500 years. Even the alchemist master Nicolas Flamel was a member of it during his lifetime, and we are not qualified to be invited by them.”
“Okay.” Eddie shrugged his shoulders, “I am interested in the so-called [Knowledge Bank]. If we have such technology…”
At this point, his eyes lit up.
“Then we can build the Internet of the magic world and easily become the media tycoon of the magic world!”
Roger nodded in agreement.
As the two talked, the topic went off track.
“Scott!” Eddie rushed over and held Scott’s hand, staring at him with hopeful eyes, “Please exchange the knowledge of the magic internet!”
“Do you think it’s possible?” Scott quickly pulled his hand out and said unhappily, “Wizards who have this kind of knowledge may not exchange it to the [Knowledge Bank]. Even if there is such knowledge in the [Knowledge Bank], I won’t have the credits to exchange.”
“Okay.” Eddie also knew that it was indeed unlikely, so he walked back to his bed and sat down dejectedly.
“Scott, do you really want to join them?” Milton asked worriedly.
Scott nodded, “Join.”
Milton opened his mouth and finally just said, “Be careful.”
Scott smiled at him and said, “Don’t feel burdened. I’m going to the [Knowledge Bank], not because of you.”
“That’s good.” Milton smiled.
Scott added, “It would be even better if I could solve your problem at the same time.”
Milton shook his head quickly, “Didn’t you say that you have to exchange credits for everything you want, and credits require knowledge they don’t have, which is too precious. I can’t let you use your credits on me.”
“Didn’t I say that?” Scott laughed again, “Miss Grapplein said that as long as I agree to join the Scholars’ Union, she is willing to pay credits to fulfill your wish of exchanging talents with Caccini.”
“Did she really say that?” Milton stood up after hearing this.
Scott nodded affirmatively.
At this time, Roger walked to Milton and patted his shoulder, “So, Milton’s musical talent will soon return?”
“Oh!” Eddie also walked over and looked at Milton with a smile, “That’s great, Milton, but I have to say, I hope your overly sensitive personality won’t come back with it.”
Both of them were happy for Milton.
“No.” Milton shook his head, “That’s not what I meant.”
He said to Scott: “According to Miss Grapplein, credits are extremely precious. Why is she willing to pay such a price to win you over? There must be some reason we don’t know!”
He walked in front of Scott and looked at him seriously.
“I think you’d better be cautious, Scott.”
“Don’t worry.” Scott said, “Maybe the credits required to achieve your and Caccini’s wishes are not that many.”
But Milton didn’t believe this. He was afraid that Scott would get into trouble because of his affairs, so he said a lot of things and persuaded Scott for a long time.
In fact, Scott didn’t agree to join the Scholars’ Union because of Milton’s affairs.
He needed to improve his strength as soon as possible because of the threat of the prophecy, and decided to join after carefully weighing the pros and cons.
Milton didn’t know about the prophecy. He believed that part of the reason why Scott joined the Scholars’ Union was because of him. Scott couldn’t explain it for a while, and he was quite amused.
Although he made the decision within one day, Scott was still prepared to wait until the next week’s Care of Magical Creatures class to tell Grubbly-Plank about his decision as agreed.
He didn’t want the other party to think that he was attracted to the Scholars’ Union and even wanted to join it eagerly.
On Saturday morning, because there was a Quidditch match for the Ravenclaw College team that day, Roger, the captain of the team, and Eddie, the intelligence officer, got up early to prepare.
Until the long table for breakfast, Roger and the team members were still discussing tactics.
They also provoked each other with their opponents, the players of the Gryffindor team.
Not long after, the newspaper delivered by owl broke the cheerful atmosphere in the hall.
“Terrorist attack! Senior officials of the Ministry of Magic attacked!”
The huge black headline on the Daily Prophet attracted everyone’s attention, and the lively hall became quiet in an instant.
Everyone who got the newspaper couldn’t wait to start reading.
This silence did not last long. Soon, exclamations rang out one after another.
“The person who was attacked was Mr. Barty Crouch, Director of the International Magic Exchange and Cooperation Department!”
“He was attacked in the Quidditch World Cup venue built by the Ministry of Magic. He went to inspect the construction of the stadium!”
“Fortunately, there was a team of Aurors stationed there, and they rescued him in time!”
“But the dark wizard who attacked Mr. Crouch quickly escaped using Apparition, and the Aurors did not catch him.”
Scott also held a newspaper in his hand.
This report was not accompanied by photos, and no one took photos at the scene.
Mr. Crouch was attacked by a wizard wearing a black robe and a mask yesterday afternoon in the World Cup venue built by the Ministry of Magic.
“Black robe and mask, could it be a Death Eater?” Eddie said to Scott.
Scott understood what he meant.
In the pictures they secretly took in Little Hangleton Village, the group of Death Eaters were dressed in black robes and masks.
“Who knows.” Scott put down the newspaper in his hand.
He also suspected that it was his son who attacked Crouch.
But suspicion without evidence is suspicion.
Given the current chaotic state of the Ministry of Magic, the possibility of solving such a case is very low.
I don’t know what happened to Voldemort.
Scott thought.
Under Medea’s aggressive pressure, the Dark Lord should find a way to restore his strength as soon as possible.
If he wants to use Harry’s blood to revive like in the “original book”, he must lurk and patiently look for opportunities. Scott doesn’t know whether the Dark Lord has such patience now.
Maybe he can’t wait any longer?
The bones of his father, the flesh of his servants, and the blood of his enemies.
These are the three materials used in the “original book” when Voldemort was completely resurrected.
But speaking of it, Harry is not the only enemy of his.
