Chapter 15.

  The two-week Christmas holiday passed quickly, and Soreuro Hogwarts with Draco.

  During the past two weeks, Soren had a leisurely time; apart from occasionally helping Draco with his homework, he would go out to explore the Muggle world, as he didn't pn to live his whole life only in the wizarding world, which was too dull and b.

  In his free time, Soren also did not fet to study the first-year spell course. In his view, whether it was the Lumos, Sonorus, or Indio spells, the school only taught the most basic things. As long as he could dissect these spells and trace their ins, there was a lot of potential to be explored.

  Soren had always believed that the power of a spell depended on the caster, rather than the spell itself. Instead of blindly pursuing high-powered spells that ed a lot of magic, it was better to choose the most suitable basic spells for various enviros. This not only saved magical energy but also produced surprising effects.

  Fire, in essence, is a state of gas bustion, and the principle of the Fire-Making Spell is to vert magical energy into an energy that ighe air. The power of the Fire-Making Spell depends on the size and temperature of the fmes released; the more magical energy ed, the rger the fmes released. In the inal novel, Dumbledore once jured a vast sea of fire to drive back thousands of dark creatures, a rare and valuable spell in the wizarding world that could cause rge area damage.

  The magical energy of a young wizard was insuffit to replicate Dumbledore's sea of fire effect, but that did not prevent Soren from finding alternative approaches to achieve the same effect.

  Soren's first idea was reted to Potions. He referenced some Muggle chemistry textbooks to uand the essence of fire and bustion. He wao use Potions to create a magical potion simir to an accelerant, which, when thrown into a fme, could instantly make the fire spread into an endless sea of fmes.

  This was not too difficult, as buying a bottle of gasoline from Muggles could easily achieve this. Soren merely wao use his knowledge of Potions to create an accelerant potion that could both expand the burning area and increase the temperature of the fmes.

  After dug several experiments in his family's Potion b, and having gotten himself into trouble several times under Narcissa's angry gaze, Soren finally created his very first potion – the Blue Fme Potion!

  As the name suggests, this potion could raise the fme temperatures to that of blue fmes and could spread fmes across ahe size of a .

  Before Soren began studying the Fire-Making Spell, it had basically bee his most practical magical bination for dealing with group battles.

  The wonderful holiday quickly passed, and Soren and Draco returo Hogwarts once again.

  Walking down the corridor, the joyful atmosphere of Christmas seemed not to have pletely faded, as the walls of the Great Hall were still covered in silver frost.

  Sihe end of the holiday, Soren noticed that the homework assigned by the professors had bee increasingly burdensome. Many professors had already started outlining key points for their exams, hinting that the exam dates were approag.

  Even with Soren's abilities, he began to feel the pressure. He gathered Daphne and Meredith to form a study group, sharing study notes and quizzing each other on potential exam topics.

  Although Daphne and Meredith also had det grades, they were far from Soren's level, so the study group was generally led by Soren. He was responsible for tut and guiding the two girls with their homework and exam preparation.

  Soren didn't pn to keep this a secret, and somehow it spread. Daphne and Meredith became the envy of many.

  Throughout the semester, not just the Slytherin wizards, but even some from Ravend Hufflepuff had heard of Soren's reputation as a "studious wizard." Those who had borrowed Soren's notes or sought his help with homework knew well that his study notes were almost exam preparation artifacts—many young wizards found opportuo inquire with Daphne and Meredith, trying to get hold of Soren's study notes.

  tally, Hermione was also tut Harry and Ron with their homework and preparing them for exams. After hearing about Soren's as, a petitive spirit ignited within her. It was as if she was waging an invisible ressing Harry and Ron step by step, applying pressure and making their lives miserable.

  That m, when Soren was having breakfast, he casually flipped through the test issue of the daily Prophet and a small news article published in an inspicuous er caught his eye.

  It was a wanted notice for a smuggler, as this guy had retly been smuggling dragon eggs into the UK, and he had currently gone missing, with witnesses firming that he was st seen staying at the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade.

  Soren had a premonition that Professor Quirrell had gotten his hands on that dragon egg and would soon be in tact with Hagrid.

  After a week of preparation, on a day when Professor Quirrell was teag other css, Sorely used the Disillusio Charm to sneak into Professor Quirrell's office. Soren didn't think Professor Quirrell would dare to cast various dangerous defensive and monit spells over his office right under Dumbledore's nose; doing so would only raise suspi.

  Sure enough, apart from one locked door that Soren opened with his thieving skills, he entered no other obstacles and slipped into the office.

  Soren carefully donned Muggle anti-fingerprint gloves and began to search Professor Quirrell's office meticulously—Professor Quirrell's css sted a full two hiving Soren ample time, but to prevent any unforeseen circumstance where Professor Quirrell might return early for some reason, Soren hurried to locate his target and leave.

  After some searg, Soren finally found a rge, bed egg in a hidden partment of a drawer—aha, this must be the dragon egg Quirrell inteo use to extraformation about the three-headed dog from Hagrid.

  Soren smiled and was about to steal the dragon egg wheiced that there was also a well-maintained diary o it. Soren's magical eye revealed no magical fluctuations from the diary, indig it was an ordinary diary—hmm, could it be that Professor Quirrell has a habit of keeping a diary? Soren casually took both the diary and the dragon egg.

  [Quirrell's Diary Obtained!]

  [One Dragon Egg Obtained!]

  Although the magical eye firmed that there were no indications of trag magic attached to the diary or the dragon egg, for safety's sake, Soren had Dobby help him hide both items in a cave deep in the Forbidden Forest, casting a spell at the entrao alert him. If anyoo breach the cave, Dobby would se a to Soren as quickly as possible.

  Two weeks passed, and soon it was March.

  Soren observed that Quirrell's plexion was getting paler, and his tone of speech began to sound weak. Sorehat Quirrell was likely being heavily punished by Voldemort for losing the dragon egg. Moreover, the spell set in the cave hadn't been triggered, which meant Quirrell was now stu a predit where he couldn't get past the three-headed dog.

  Soren couldn't help but smirk; anything that could cause Voldemort trouble was something Soren wouldn't mind doing again.

  The Malfoy family was not actually a staunch pureblood supremacist. A careful study would reveal that the aors of the Malfoy family were often intermarried with Muggle nobility.

  The so-called pureblood extremist faainly referred to the Bck family and the Lestrange family. The Malfoy family merely used the ideology of pureblood supremacy as a facade to influehe Ministry of Magito passing ws favorable to pureblood families, allowing them to exploit Muggles for wealth and resources.

  Initially, Lucius and other pureblood families supported Voldemort believing he could bring them more bes. If a society ruled by wizards gles was truly established, they could plunder vast amounts of resources ah.

  But what they never expected was that after creating Horcruxes, Voldemort's as became increasingly extreme and ihey merely sought a puppet to help them plunder, only to discover that Voldemort wao bee their master, leaving these deg families powerless against him.

  Regarding this, Sore deeply; the magical world is a realm where strength speaks. The bat power bestowed upon every wizard by magiders ws and rules mere empty words, uhe Muggle world. No matter how skilled a Muggle might be, they ot withstand the well-equipped enfort forces.

  However, wizards are different. A wizard on level of Grindelwald or Voldemort easily take dowen Aurors, and how many Aurors are there in all of Engnd? Although new blood is drawn from Hogwarts each year, when ating for retirements and those who died in the line of duty, the overall number of Aurors has never exceeded double digits.

  As for the Ministry of Magic's seajor force—the Law Enfort and Iigation Team—no matter how many there are, they are still not enough to fill the gaps against Voldemort. In the inal he Minister of Magic, Fudge, once believed that dealing with just Sirius Bck required the elite "Hit Wizards" from the iigation team, which shows that the general strength of the iigation team is not that formidable.

  This made Soren realize that wealth, resources, reputation, and influence are all superficial; what truly matters in the magical world is one's own strength. Only by possessing the strength for self-prote oruly hold onto those aforementiohings.

  With this in mind, Sore a stronger sense of crisis. If he wahe Malfoy family to survive the uping turmoil in the few years, his current strength was far from suffit. He could only employ various means to dey Voldemort's return, allowing himself more time tthen his abilities.

  While it's true that acc to the inal storyline, Voldemort would eventually be defeated by the savior Harry, that was not the oute Soren wanted—Lucius imprisoned, Draco forced to kill Dumbledore, Lucius's reputation in ruins, and the family falling into dee... If possible, Soren preferred to rely on his own strength to deal with Voldemort, the vilin from the inal story.

  This semester, sihere was no i of Hagrid hatg a dragon egg, there was also no i of Harry, Hermione, and Neville losing points during a nighttime adventure, nor the ter event of entering the Forbidden Forest.

  At the same time, because Harry did not join Quidditch, this year's Quidditch Cup was still dominated by Slytherin.

  Additionally, due to Soren's presence, his outstanding performan every css—whether it was Charms, Transfiguration, or Potions—earned a lot of points for Slytherin. Under Soren's influence, Draco, Daphne, and Meredith also worked exceptionally hard on their studies. Their grades might not be as good as Hermiohe true academic star, but they undoubtedly outperformed the rest of the Gryffindor students.

  By the way, at a Transfiguration Club meeting, at Professonagall's request, Soren submitted a paper to "Today's Transfiguration." This paper discussed the cept of using Transfiguration to create a magical mp that could grow wings and fly in the air, alined several practical applications for this idea, such as eliminating the o use wands to cast the Lumos spell while navigating unknown tunnels, allowing wizards to retain their wands ready for bat in case of emergencies; or using the magical mp to explore bottomless pits and measure their depth.

  This paper earned Soren the "Most Promising Newer Award" from "Today's Transfiguration," and even the usually stern Professonagall showed a rare smile, directly awarding Slytherin 50 points.

  With Soren's impressive tributions, Slytherihe house points by a full 50 points over the sed pce Ravencw, while the bottom-ranked Gryffinded behind by as much as 150 points.

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