After heating the chimaki at home, Victor left a note for Aunt Julie explaining how to eat them, then took Aliya with him to Hogwarts.
Aliya, who was a little nervous, grabbed Victor's arm. She only felt a flash of light in front of her eyes, and then she found herself in an extremely luxurious garden. In her mind, only the large estates of the wealthy could have such a view.
"Wow! Where are we? It's so beautiful!" Aliya exclaimed as she looked at the beautiful scenery, but at the same time, she was also very confused. "But aren't we going to Hogwarts? What are we doing here?"
"This is Hogwarts. It's a small room inside the castle," Victor explained. "The sun and the white clouds in the sky, and the scenery you see in the distance, are all illusions created by magic."
"There's such a thing as that?!" Aliya was overjoyed, and her eyes sparkled. "Can you make my room look like this too?"
"Of course!" Victor immediately agreed, but then quickly said with a playful tone, "I can turn your room into a haunted house."
"Go to hell!"
The siblings joked around, and then they arrived at the resting area of the Fairy Tail guild. Not far away, on the steps in front of the wooden house, Harry and Ron were sitting there, dripping with sweat and looking like they were on their last legs. In contrast, Hermione, although her face also looked a little tired, seemed much more relaxed.
"Hermione!" Aliya ran over to her as soon as she saw her. Hermione, hearing a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar, immediately looked up. When she saw that it was Victor's sister, she quickly got up and ran towards her.
"Aliya!" The two girls happily hugged each other.
"Aliya, what are you doing here?" Hermione asked happily.
"I heard from Victor that you were at school, so I asked him to bring me over," Aliya said, her face also full of smiles as she held Hermione's hand.
On the other side, Harry and Ron looked at the scene in front of them with a bit of a strange expression. Ron looked at Aliya, whose face was completely unfamiliar to him, and asked, "Harry, do you know her? I don't remember there being such a pretty girl at our school!"
"I'm not sure. I haven't seen her either," Harry shook his head. "But it looks like she and Hermione are good friends. Is she from another House?"
Just as the two of them were wondering why a strange girl had suddenly appeared at school, Victor silently appeared behind them. He quietly reached out his hands and slapped them on their heads, startling Harry and Ron. The two of them looked back and saw Victor standing behind them with a smile on his face.
"No need to guess. She's my sister, Aliya Swinton," Victor said, letting go of their heads. "She said she wanted to tour Hogwarts, so I brought her over."
Harry and Ron instantly understood. But Harry looked at the two girls who were laughing and chatting not far away and asked with a confused expression, "But Dreyar, your sister is a Muggle, isn't she? Aren't you afraid of being found out by bringing her to school like this? You know that the Ministry of Magic has a clear rule that no Muggles are allowed into Hogwarts, not even students' parents."
"The Ministry of Magic's rules are for ordinary people," Victor said nonchalantly. "There are many things that can't restrict you once you reach a certain level of power. It's like Professor Dumbledore, whom you are all familiar with. You think he's some great Samaritan? When he was young, he wanted to blow up the Ministry of Magic more than once. He only held back because he was concerned about the stability of the wizarding world."
"How is that possible?!" Harry looked shocked.
"Don't be so naive, kid. Both Voldemort and Dumbledore are known as Dark Lords, except one is black, and the other is white," Victor said, giving Harry a look of disdain, then patted them both on the shoulder. "Alright, you guys must be hungry after working all morning. Come and eat lunch!"
With that, he controlled a large pot of chimaki that was floating in mid-air, placing it on a large wooden stump. Then he shouted to the two girls not far away, "Hermione, Aliya! Time to eat!!"
Harry and Ron walked over, smelling the unique aroma from the pot. They wiped their hands, then each took a steaming hot chimaki from the pot, looking a bit confused.
"How do you eat this?" Harry asked, holding a long, cylindrical chimaki.
"Just unwrap the leaves on the outside. You can eat the long ones with white sugar or honey, and the others you can just eat as they are," Victor explained. He then looked around. "Where are Fred and George?"
"Not long before you came, they said they wanted to go and check out the Black Lake…" Ron said.
"Oh, those two! Are they really not afraid of being grabbed by merpeople and taken for a good time?" Victor said in amazement. "Forget about them. Let's eat first."
With that, he waved his hand and created a few chairs, then took out the prepared white sugar and honey, and they all started eating.
As soon as Victor took a bite of a chimaki, tears immediately streamed down his face. Waaaaah!!! This is the taste! The chimaki even had red bean paste inside. It is so delicious!!!
The others, seeing Victor's moved expression as he ate, also curiously put the food they were experiencing for the first time into their mouths. Soon after, their eyes also lit up, and they all screamed in their hearts: It's so good!!!
After that, it was the usual lunch and break time…
A little over an hour later, Victor saw that Harry and Ron were still lying on the grass like dead snakes and couldn't help but urge them, "I told you two to get up and get back to work after you've eaten and rested!"
"Huh?! Can't we rest for a little longer?" Ron said with a long face. "And Fred and George aren't back yet, are they?"
"Whether they come back or not has nothing to do with when you start working!" Victor said mercilessly. "Also, I just went and checked, and you two boys' efficiency is even worse than a single girl who's not even working! What's with that?"
"She can use magic!" Ron argued with a wronged expression.
"Heh, I would have thought you were a Muggle if I heard you say that!" Victor said, looking at Ron with disdain. "Remember, you're a wizard. If you don't know a spell, just practice it a few times and you'll get it! With your impatient attitude, you're just wasting your talent. Don't be surprised if your first-year spells are just barely passing by the time you're done with your second year!"
"Talent? What talent could I possibly have?!" Ron said with a self-deprecating look at Harry next to him, but the only response he got was a shake of the head.
"I heard from Hermione before that in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class, you used a broken wand to turn a mouse into a goblet! Is that true?" Victor decided to transform into a professor and guide him.
"I think something like that happened, but the goblet had a mouse's tail…"
"Then have someone else try to use a broken wand and see if they can do what you did, especially when they've just started learning Transfiguration. They would be lucky if they weren't hit by a backfired spell!"
"So, you're saying I have a lot of talent in Transfiguration?!" Ron's lips started to curl up when he heard that.
"You're thinking too much. You only have a little," Victor cruelly interrupted Ron's beautiful fantasies that were about to come. "Every student in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration club is stronger than you."
"…" Ron's face immediately fell.
"Alright, why are you talking so much? Get up and get to work!" Victor said impatiently, taking out his wand and starting to threaten them. "If you keep lying on the ground, I'll use the Imperius Curse to make you work!"
This last sentence scared Harry and Ron so much that they quickly got up from the ground, because they knew that the person in front of them was really capable of using a foul curse like the Imperius Curse.
"What about Hermione? Does she not have to work too?" Ron said, looking with a wronged expression at the two girls playing with a Pygmy Puff on the grass in the distance.
"Hermione has the afternoon off!"
"Why?!" Harry and Ron shouted in unison, sounding the trumpet of rebellion at the same time.
"You can't be biased just because your sister is here and you want Hermione to keep her company!" Harry said indignantly.
"Yeah, don't forget that she's also serving her punishment with us!" Ron also chimed in with a nod.
"How dare you two say that?!" a vein popped up on Victor's forehead. "Hermione is a girl, and she did more work in one morning than both of you boys combined! If you talk back again, don't blame me for getting serious!"
"What about Fred and…"
"I'll go get them back!"
With that, Victor kicked Harry and Ron into the wooden house, then walked over to Hermione and said, "Hermione, you don't have to work this afternoon. If you can, take Aliya on a tour of the school. I'm going to go find Fred and George."
"Okay!" Hermione said, hugging a Puffskein and nodding.
After giving them a few instructions, Victor walked out of the Room of Requirement and flew out of the Hogwarts castle through the window. He flew over the Black Lake and looked down.
His eyes turned into vertical pupils, and he suddenly had the sight of an eagle. The entire Black Lake wasn't that big, with a diameter of less than a kilometer. He looked around in the air, but he couldn't find the Weasley twins anywhere.
"They didn't run into the Forbidden Forest, did they?!"
Just as Victor was wondering, he suddenly noticed some drag marks on the lawn of the Black Lake's shore, which was the closest to Hogwarts. He quickly landed to check it out. He saw two shallow drag marks on the grass by the shore. They were so faint that you wouldn't notice them if you weren't looking closely. There was also a lot of mucus around the marks.
Victor immediately put his hand to his forehead and sighed.
Those two idiots might have actually been grabbed by merpeople!
Just as Victor was complaining that the Weasley twins might be in trouble, a few dark figures quietly approached him from the Black Lake. A few rope loops made of water plants suddenly shot out of the water, aiming for Victor's neck.
But Victor didn't even spare them a glance, and the rope loops all turned into dust not far in front of him. Then, with a hook of his finger, a few ugly-looking merpeople were dragged directly out of the water by Victor.
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