Chapter 44.

  At King's Cross Station, Soren and Draco said goodbye to their parents, passed through the wall at Ptform 9?, and boarded the Hogwarts Express.

  During the summer, Draco had learned many new and iing spells, and after bidding farewell to Soren, he eagerly went off to show off to his friends.

  With Lucius losing his position as a governor, the Malfoy family also lost the privilege of having their own partment. However, with Soren's abilities, he quickly found ay partment and sat down leisurely, flipping through this semester's textbooks.

  Meanwhile, orain, a girl with silver eyes, light golden hair, rge eyes, pale skin, light eyebrows, wearing a pair of carrot-shaped earrings and a neckce made from a Butter-beer bottle cork, was struggling to walk down the aisle with a suitcase that was disproportionately rge for her petite frame. The girl's expression was sometimes alert, sometimes dazed, giving her a peculiar, floaty quality.

  She huffed and politely pushed open the doors of several partments, only to be met with students who looked her up and down before saying, "There's already someone here."

  She apologised and stepped back out, looking for another partment.

  Iy, she khat no ohey reised would be ing into those partments anymore. She walked to a partment located towards the middle of the train, where the door was slightly ajar. Peering inside, she saw no one was there. She felt a bit pleased, pushed the door open, and first pushed her suitcase inside. But wheood up, she realized that oher side of the seat she hadn't seen, a boy was sitting by the window, quietly flipping through a third-year Potiobook.

  She reised this boy; in fact, very few people at Hogwarts wouldn't reise him. The top student, the legendary person who killed the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, the one who defeated older students to win the Order of Merlin, he was surrounded by tless accodes, plemented by a noble lineage and handsome appearance, making him someohat students in the same year could only look up to.

  He seemed very focused on the book in his hands, not even notig the girl who had just entered. However, the girl realised she should leave because, for some reason, a sudden feeling of inadequacy washed over her, so she flusteredly said, "Sorry, I thought this partment was empty. I'll just go out..."

  "Ah..." What she didn't notice was that two female students passed behind her. Just as she was about to step out, she was jostled, and she fell to the ground. This was a small i, and the two girls were more at fault, especially sihe dazed girl fell while they were unharmed.

  But the two girls stood at the door, scolding and mog her, "What's wrong with you? 't you watch where you're walking?"

  "Exactly, didn't you see there were other people passing by?"

  "Do you know you almost knocked me over? If I got hurt, would you take responsibility?"

  The fallen girl stood up, repeatedly saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

  The two girls exged gheir eyes full of mockery, and coldly said, "sider yourself lucky this time; we won't hold it against you..." They left with satisfied smiles.

  Soren watched the se at the door with a slight frown. He clearly saw that the two girls had do on purpose; when they passed the door, they iionally bumped into the girl who was moving her luggage, even putting on a victim's face.

  From the girl's peculiar outfit, Soren deduced her identity. Her name was Luna Lovegood, a character in the inal story. Due to her odd behavior and unventional thinking, she was often bullied and was the target of teasing and ridicule from the Ravencw collective, even earning the niame "Loony."

  Seeing her clumsily tugging at her luggage and preparing to leave, Sore an inexplicable emotion swell within him for her plight, and he gently said, "There's still space here; you stay in this partment."

  Luna Lovegood was taken aback, exg, "Ah."

  "Um... okay, thank you..." Luna Lovegood looked directly into Soren's eyes and quieted doting his kindness. The little girl sat quietly on the bench, spreading a magazine on her p, with her wand surprisingly tucked behind her ear.

  Soren did not sider himself a meddlesome person. Everything he had done up to this point was to help himself increase his strength as much as possible before Voldemort's return. However, this time he had indeed vioted his usual style; he never expected that he actually felt a sense of empathy for this girl.

  Soren was a traveler from another world, and he had always felt somewhat out of p this one. He harboured too mas in his heart, making it difficult for him to open up and make friends. He couldn't even be ho with his closest family members. Over time, no matter how strong he appeared on the surface, he could not hide the deep loneliness within him.

  He tried hard to think about his emotions and unsciously activated his magical eye towards the girl across from him. The girl did not possess strong magical power, but there seemed to be a special force hidden in her bloodline. Soren could sehat her magical fluctuations were very close to the breath of nature, a magical characteristic that felt pure and tranquil.

  Soren remembered that this girl ure-blood witch. In the inal story, her ending was to marry Sder's grandson and bee a magical biologist. She was usually a bit offbeat in versation but had an astonishingly sharp intuition.

  Perhaps at this moment, the girl did not know that her bloodline tained some a mysterious power. Since he had the eet her and was currently researg bloodline magic, he thought he might help her discover her bloodline's power.

  In his pns, he wao establish a force at Hogwarts that was not limited to just the Slytherin house. The number of Slytherin students was already the smallest among the four houses, and subtrag those who were irrecible with his ideology, the followers he could recruit were quite limited.

  In his mind, aside from Gryffindor, which was naturally at odds with Slytherin, he also wao wiudents from Hufflepuff and Ravencw. Luna articurly suitable as his breakthrough in Ravencw. As long as he helped her master her bloodline power, her strength would surely be signifitly enhanced, making it easy for her to establish influen Ravencw.

  Breaking the silence, Soren took the initiative to speak, "You are Miss Lovegood from Ravencw, right? I am Soren Malfoy; you just call me Soren."

  Luna did not expect Soren to talk to her. She stared at him with her big eyes, fused, as if she doubted whether she had heard him correctly. This aight seem a bit rude to others, but Soren uood her personality and did not mind. He smiled lightly and poio the magazine she was reading, asking, "What book are you reading?"

  Luna seemed to e back to her senses, her face turning red as she said, "You call me Luna." After saying this, she felt her face burning, even her urned red. She quickly closed the book, revealing the cover, and happily introduced to Soren, "This is 'quibbler,' which talks about some little-knows and aes in the magical world. My dad is the editor of this magazine, so if you want to read it, I give you a copy of every issue."

  "It sounds quite iing. What kind of secrets does it tain?"

  "You know that a magic was cast using A Runic scripts, right? This article talks about A Runes, and if you reverse these a runes, you actually see that they form a spell to drive aesky flies. By the way, you probably don't knoesky flies are, right? They are..."

  Just then, the partment door opened again, and Daphne and Meredith appeared at the entrance. Seeing Luna, dressed in a peculiar outfit, and the handsome Soren sitting ihe partment, both of them couldn't help but feel aremely strange sensation.

  If oo say that Soren was one of the most pures at Hogwarts right now, no one would likely dispute that, even Gryffindor, who was at odds with Slytherin. It had been a long time since such a dazzling presence like Soren had appeared among the youudents, and people had even begun to specute that he might be the Dumbledore.

  Undoubtedly, Soren was the most popur choice for a dream partner among the opposite sex at Hogwarts—besides his superb strength and dazzling fame, he also had a noble background, handsome appearance, and a polite, approachable personality.

  Daphne had not fotten that Trad Audrey, from the same year, were eyeing Soren with i, often taking the opportunity to approach him. It seemed that the Slytheri Gemma Farley had also asked Soren out to py during the summer vaore than once, but Soren always kept a cold distance from them. Although he maintained a sistently polite demeanor on the surface, anyone could feel that he was iionally keeping his distance.

  Among so many girls, besides Daphne and Meredith, it seemed that there was also a beautiful Ravencw girl with long bck straight hair, Moray McDougall, who had a det retionship with Soren.

  If someoo spread rumors about Soren and Luna, Daphne and Meredith would never believe it—yet at this moment, the two girls saw Soren and Luna chatting and ughing, and they found it hard to believe.

  Seeing the two girls standing there in a daze, Soren immediately said softly, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and e in and sit down! You're blog the aisle."

  The two girls came back to their senses aered the partment with a bit of embarrassment. Soren then said, "Let me introduce you, this is my new friend I met today—Miss Luna Lovegood. She's in Ravencw, a year below us, but she knows a lot of iing things…"

  Daphne and Meredith had naiheir posure, first introdug themselves to Luna, and then obediently cooperating with Soren to warm up the atmosphere, chatting with Luna about fial magical creatures they had never heard of, like the Snorkad the Crumple-Horned Snorkack.

  Luna had never entered cssmates who showed i iopics, and she instantly let down her guard, chattihusiastically with the three of them, which made their retionship more familiar, and they spent the entire m in pleasant versation.

  At lunchtime, Senerously bought a table full of sweets from a witch pushing a cart. Sharing food was indeed a good way to build retionships, and sooed by the delicious treats, Luna also set aside her reservations and joined in the feast.

  After lunch, Luna began to flip through her "The Quibbler again.

  Daphhen steered the versation toward Slytherin's new prefect for the year, "Hey, have you heard? There refects' meeting in the special carriage for prefects orain, and this year Slytherin's nerefect is Cassius Warrington…"

  A flicker of perceptible sharpness passed through Soren's eyes as he coldly remarked, "So, does that mean the Lestrange family's Gellert was not selected?"

  Meredith picked up the versation, "Hearing you mention this now does feel a bit strange. Although there's no written rule, the position of prefect has always been passed down among pure-blood families. The Warrington family is not only half-blood but also far from powerful; having him as prefect will probably make many people unhappy."

  Daphne said, "Yes, I think so too. Besides, even if Gellert wasn't selected, Slytherin has other didates! Myles Bnch is quite good; he's pure-blood aedly quite strong…"

  Soren said lightly, "Then who is the female prefect?"

  "It's Irina Selwyn from the Selwyn family. The Selwyns are quite mysterious; although they are also a pure-blood family, not many people know what their main business is. Don't be fooled by her low profile; I've heard privately that she's quite ruthless," Daphne expined iail.

  Soren had had a certain premonition sihe st semester during Merlin's trial—when the didates were selected, Gellert was not chosen, and Cassius icked; he felt that there was something strange behind it. Now, the sele of prefects felt the same, and Soren did not believe that there was no hidden agenda behind it.

  The only doubt was whether the hidden agenda was orchestrated by Snape or Dumbledore. Was this person gerying to help him deal with the opposing forces within Slytherin, or did they have malicious i, wanting to exacerbate the flict between him and other pure-blood families?

  *****

  Want to read more of this fanfid support me :- Patreon [I've uploaded few character's photos there, you check them out if you like.]