They could not apparate directly into the room so they had to return to the lobby before walking back to the room. Hermione who had just apparated for the first time was feeling nauseous and looked really pale.
Everyone was surprised to see Adam and Hermione appear in the lobby with bloody clothes, then they saw that both Hermione and Adam were looking really pale. Hermione's clothes were also smeared with blood when she had hugged Adam after the duel. She did not care about it at that time in the basement but now she had finally noticed it. Adam was looking even worse with his clothes that had been nearly cut into rags. Hermione walked behind Adam hiding her body from being seen by all these people.
Professor Flitwik quickly cleaned Adam and Hermione's clothes when he noticed all these looks that people were giving them. Adam did not know why but professor Flitwik did not repair his clothes with magic. Many people had already recognized Adam and Hermione as two kids who had duel with Malfoy family. This scene had set a new wave of gossips in the wizarding world.
Professor Flitwik spoke when they arrived at the door of their room, "You both stay here. Ms.Granger, I hope you will help Adam to apply this medicinal cream and make sure he drinks this potion. Make sure to apply this cream on all the scars that wounds had left behind on his body or those scars won't ever disappear." Adam could see that professor Flitwik was deliberately trying to create this situation. He wanted to have some alone time with Hermione, but it was not the right time yet. His ship was sailing so fast that even he was finding it hard to have control over it.
First it was Lucius who made him Hermione's knight in shining armor. Adam could not help but thank Lucius Malfoy for this. He had unknowingly helped him a bit.
Then it was his wand that helped him in that strange black world.
Then it was Draco who helped him by making the duel so bloody that it created great impression on Hermione's mind.
It was like every single thing was trying to match him up with Hermione. He had crush on her but he didn't want to think too much about relationships right now.
Hermione immediately took this responsibility that Professor Flitwik had put in front of her on her shoulders. She didn't think that much about it as she felt that it was really her responsibility to take care of Adam, He was injured because of her. "Professor leave it to me."
Hearing Hermione's reply, Professor Flitwik was really happy. Maybe because Hermione was really sensible and good little kid or maybe because his plan had worked. Adam really wanted to loudly shout in professor Flitwik's ears, 'These things do not end up well when they are going so fast. Stop. Your. Idiot. Plans!!!!.' but he just stood silently.
"I will go get something for us to eat. You guys go ahead." Professor Flitwik said and left the scene quickly. Adam could only curse professor Flitwik in his heart before entering the room. Hermione followed behind him and told him to quickly drink the Blood-Replenishing Potion. Seeing the stubborn look on her face, Adam could only silently drink the bitter potion.
"Sit on the bed. I will help you apply this cream." Hermione pointed at the bed but did not wait for Adam to speak and pushed him to the bed. Adam was embarassed when he thought that he might need to remove his clothes for this scene. His mind kept playing countless scenes about this situation that he had read in the books. He could not help but turn red in embarrassment.
"I can do it by myself. Don't worry about it." Adam said softly when he saw Hermione opening the small container in her hands.
"No! You might miss some spots. I will help you." Hermione was stubborn as ever so Adam could only give in to his fate and closed his eyes to let her do whatever she wants. He was a boy who never had a relationship in his previous life so he was feeling really embarrassed about this situation.
Hermione had serious look on her face. She dipped her little finger in the cream and started her work from Adam's hands. Her touch was gentle, soft and really comfortable. Adam could not help but squint his eyes in comfort. This cream left really comfortable feeling wherever it was rubbed on by Hermione's little fingers.
After finishing her work on Adam's hands, She looked at his shoulders and then at his chest where most of the scars were. Now she finally realized what she was doing. She could feel her ears burning but she did not want to stop her work. Adam guessed the reason behind Hermione's pause so he immediately took chance to let her stop this, "I can do other places. So leave it to me."
Hermione was troubled by this situation but she didn't want to stop. It was her responsibility and she had to make sure that she completes her work. "No. I will do it. You just stay quiet."
Hermione took a deep breath and looked at Adam's chest. Adam thought that he might need to take his shirt off to let her apply the cream. But after few seconds, he knew that he had thought too much about this situation. Reality did not work like the novels.
Hermione let her small fingers touch Adam's scars through the gap in his shirt which was cut during the duel. It was big enough to let her small hands enter inside his shirt. Adam could see that there was no look of embarrassment or shyness on Hermione's face, he finally started feeling that he had expected too much from this 11 year old Hermione.
Hermione quickly finished applying cream to all of the scars that were on Adam's body. She had even triple checked if she had missed a spot. Adam could only thank Lucius for not hurting him on his important places both in the front and the back.
Adam wanted to change his clothes but he noticed that this room did not even have a bathroom. Maybe because they had asked for a large room to practise magic. Adam could only ask Hermione to turn around which was the only time he could see her act shyly during the entire scene that had happened just now.
"Where did you get these clothes from? You also took out so many chocolates to give them to Astoria. Where did you keep them? Hermione asked when she saw Adam in new clothes.
Before Adam could reply, she added "And by the way, don't give so many chocolates to the little kids in the future. It will ruin their teeth. And you should also not eat so many chocolates."
'HeHeHe! Typical Hermione Granger raised by two dentists.' Adam laughed in his heart.
"It's my little secret." Adam said while smiling mischievously as he bought more chocolates from his system shop and handed them to her. It costed him few special points so he did not care about the wasting his points. Adam could see Hermione looking at the chocolates with hesitation, he continued "Don't worry. These chocolates are mostly mint flavored. They won't ruin your teeth just by eating few of them."
Hermione finally took the chocolates from Adam's hand and put them in her pockets. Adam could see that she was still thinking if she should eat or not. But He was happy that he had successfully changed the topic from his strange way of taking things out of nowhere to these mint flavored chocolates.
At this moment, Professor Flitwik who had been missing for a while finally entered the room with house elves following behind him with covered trays. Adam knew that professor Flitwik was deliberately trying to delay his arrival to let him and Hermione stay alone for a while. Adam could now feel more and more that this professor Flitwik was not his teacher but rather some friendly uncle in the neighbourhood that would help him with all these different things.
"I brought delicious food with me. Come on, let's eat together. So did I miss something?" Professor Flitwik asked while giving a 'KIND' smile to Adam.
"Nothing. You missed absolutely nothing."
After a while, trio had already finished eating food. Professor Flitwik let all empty dishes disappear along with table and chairs that he had Transfigured. Professor Flitwik had been waiting for a while to ask Adam about his Transfiguration spell and the perfect levitation charm that he had used before in the duel. So he could not help but bring these topic in the conversation.
Adam knew that this was going to happen so he was already ready for Professor Flitwik's questioning. Adam did not want to upset professor Flitwik but he could not tell him about his system. So Adam mostly kept his mouth shut or kept denying all the possibilities that professor Flitwik had presented in front of him.
"Professor, I am really sorry but this is one of my secrets. So I wish to continue keeping it as a secret. Maybe one day I can tell you about this but I wish to let it remain as a secret till that day. I hope you can understand." Adam politely apologized to professor Flitwik. He was not nervous. He knew that professor Flitwik would not keep looking into his secrets if he denied his approach. As for Hermione, he did not worry about her as he knew that she was not the type of person who would keep prying into someone's secrets.
"I see. If it is your secret, then I think it should really be related to your soul's special ability. It is indeed very important to keep your special abilities a secret." Professor Flitwik spoke thoughtfully. This thing caught Adam's attention. He didn't know what this special ability thing was as it was not part of the original story.
He quickly asked professor Flitwik about this, "Professor, what is this special ability of soul that you speak of?"
"OH! You don't know about this?" Professor Flitwik asked in surprise. Adam looked at him doubtfully with his facial expression asking 'how was he supposed to know about this thing?' Professor Flitwik saw that Adam and Hermione were puzzled so he explained,
"You knew about two of the most influential pure-blood families- Malfoys and Greengrass. So I thought you should know about this thing too. This is not a big secret. Everyone in the wizarding world probably knows about this. I will explain it to you in brief."
Professor Flitwik created three chairs before sitting down to start his explanation. He was more than happy to explain these things to his students as he was one of the Ravenclaws during his time as student in hogwarts and also the current Head of the Ravenclaw house.
"There is actually no proper research on these abilities so it is hard to explain. Around 70 years ago, there was a sudden surge of magic in the wizarding world which brought tremendous benefits to the Wizards as their magical powers suddenly started breaking through the limit that they had been stuck at in their lives. There was also increase in lifespan of all the people in the Wizarding world. Most of these benefits were more prominent in pure-blood families as they started having strange and stronger abilities unique to them. These strong abilities were later called as soul abilities as some people researched about it and found out that there was certain change in the soul that had brought these special abilities."
Hermione quietly listened to this story as she still didn't have much knowledge about magic or magical world. But Adam started thinking about it. From the things that professor Flitwik mentioned, he could understand that original world probably started changing because of this event. But there were still many things that Adam could not understand so he asked,
"Then professor, why did you think that my ability to cast Transfiguration spell had something to do with soul ability? Didn't you say that only pure-blood families gained these special abilities?"
"Indeed, Only pure-blood families had this abilities in the beginning of this changed world."
"In the beginning?" Adam looked at Professor Flitwik in confusion.
Professor Flitwik gave Adam a smile and nodded, "Yes. In the beginning, only pure-blood families got these special abilities. Ofcourse hybrid species and magic creatures had also received the baptism of this magical surge but we'll talk about it some other day. After few years of this magical surge, even normal half-blood Wizards and muggle born Wizards started getting stronger and also Wizards with good potential started gaining special abilities. Even though these abilities were not comparable to pure-blood families, it still gave them the ability to dominate dozens of normal Wizards with single special ability wizard. Those were hard times but we'll talk about this some other day. It has a long history. I can recommend you 'Baptism of magic', 'Changes of the wizarding world: Magical surge' These books if you want to understand about consequences of this event."
"Now back to the special abilities, those abilities were identical in the members of same family. Malfoy family has the ability to learn the magic spells beyond their magic limit, with the help of external magical source, which made them quite strong which later brought them great prestige and influence in many pure-blood families and in the ministry of magic. Their aptitude to learn attacking magic had also increased because of this special abilities. Lucius can use large variety of attacking spells which is why he is probably one of the finest duelers in the pure-blood families. I don't know if Draco has awakened his ability or not but from his performance today, I think he might have awakened it or is really close to awakening it."
"So when Draco used knockback jinx on me, he used his special ability?" Adam asked. He was not sure why Draco was so strong but now pieces of this puzzle were falling into their places. It was normal for Draco to have this strength if his family ability is so strong and useful in duels.
"I think so but I also have some other suspicions but I don't have proof so I won't say anything. Now that we are talking about special abilities then you should have noticed Mr.Ollivander's eyes that were shining with strange blue light?" Professor asked but he fell in his own thoughts for a second when he thought of the scene where Adam and Hermione were getting hit by that strange golden light from their wands. He could not help but glance at Hermione's wand that she had been playing with in her hands.
Hermione noticed Professor Flitwik's gaze but she thought that professor Flitwik was asking her this question so she hurriedly replied, "Yes, Professor. I saw it when Adam was closing his eyes after receiving his wand. Mr.Ollivander's eyes were really strange and shining with blueish light. It felt like he could see through everything."
Professor Flitwik smiled at Hermione and spoke, "It was indeed like that, Ms.Granger. Ollivander's special ability is to see through harmony and contradiction in magical powers. His ability is not a secret but not many people know about this. He can see through if the magic of a certain things or a person is in harmony with the other. It helped him achieve greater height in wand-making world."
Adam sighed as he recalled how Ollivander was looking at his and Hermione's wand with those strange eyes. He had thought that Ollivander wanted to take those wand back. He knew Ollivander was originally kind to everyone but who knows if he had changed in this world.
"So just like Mr. Ollivander, there can also be other abilities that are not just used for gaining power but rather have a practical use in the magical world."
"You are absolutely right. Most of the people keep their abilities secret. It can even determine life and death of a person in critical times. There is also one famous person- Newt Scamander. He has the ability to communicate with all kinds of magical creatures. You also have one of his books as your care of magical creatures textbook- 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' ." Professor Flitwik said as they kept having their question and answer sessios. But Adam didn't manage to get anything useful from Professor Flitwik. Somehow Professor Flitwik always managed to avoid the things Adam wanted to know about regarding magical surge. After a while Professor Flitwik took out his pocket watch and checked the time. "It's time for me to go back to Hogwarts. I have to make report about new students coming to Hogwarts."
"Professor, one last question." Adam said as he looked hesitant, not knowing what he was thinking. "Does muggle people using magic also have something to do with this magical surge?" This question was going around in Adam's mind for a while now. 'How could normal people use magic? They were not born Wizards as him and Hermione or other hogwarts students. ' He once had thought that this was normal in this world but after getting Hogwarts admission letter, he knew that this was not normal at all. There should've been no possible way for normal people to use magic in Harry Potter's world.
Hermione looked at Professor Flitwik with excited look. She really wanted to know what professor Flitwik was going to say about this. For her, Adults using magic was a normal thing. Even her father and mother could create small fire in their hands.
"Since you are asking this question, then you should already know that muggle could not use magic about fifty years ago. They were normal people without magic. There were some muggle-born wizards but they were Wizards, not normal people. They had the ability to use magic since their birth, it was just that they could not control it in their childhood. 20 years after the magical surge, wizarding world started noticing countless weak magical fluctuations in muggle world. That's when wizarding world got aware of the real consequences of this magical surge. These things have quite the history so we can talk about this in the future. You are still just stepping into the wizarding world so you should not try and search about everything that you are curious about. Many things are harmful to you and you need to have a limit as to where and how far you can venture into something." Professor Flitwik's voice kept getting serious and serious. He was also going down in his memories but he didn't show it on his face. Adam could see that he would not get these things out of Professor Flitwik so he did not ask about it.
Professor Flitwik gave Adam and Hermione a serious look then asked, "I have to go back now. What are you going to do now, Adam? You should not go back to your house for the day with all these scars. Your family would be worried."
"I think so too, Professor. I hope you can deliver a letter to my parents so that they would not be worried about me." Adam said as he took out paper and a pen out of nowhere. Adam had bought these from his system shop, after all his special points could only be used for such useless things. But Professor Flitwik could not understand where Adam had kept these things, but he still did not ask about it and agreed to Adam's request before turning to Hermione who was still thinking about all the information she had received from Professor Flitwik.
"And as for you Ms.Granger, I will drop you back to your house. You can come back tomorrow with your parents and get the school supplies. You can even continue your date with Adam tomorrow if he is available. It would be better if you two can buy these supplies together. I would be relieved if both of you can stay together and take care of each other during your visit to Diagon Alley." Professor Flitwik smiled at Hermione before giving Adam a look. Adam didn't know what professor Flitwik had thought about him and Hermione but he was sure that this charms professor was trying to assist him in his own way.
Adam looked at professor Flitwik thankfully "That's a great idea, Professor. Hermione, would you like to go for the shopping tomorrow? We can even use these Galleons that we won from the Duel. We can buy many books."
Hermione had originally wanted to go with Adam and she was even going to ask him by herself about this. Now when Professor Flitwik mentioned the word 'Date', she could not help but lower her head in shame. But at this moment she heard Adam mention books which immediately woke her up from her embarrassment and made her look at Adam in excitement. She really loved reading books. But when she wanted to agree to Adam's words, she thought of something and immediately said,
"Those Galleons are yours. You won them. I didn't do anything so I can't accept it."
Adam knew that she was a stubborn girl so he didn't try to persuade her as he knew that she might refuse these Galleons right now but she won't refuse the books that he was going to buy with these Galleons. "So you are coming back tomorrow?"
"Yes, I also want to buy books to learn more things as soon as possible. I don't know what kind of books will they have. Maybe there will also be similar things in magic just like our science books. Or..." Hermione started speaking excitedly, Adam knew that she would go on forever about this topic so he quickly interrupted her,
"Hermione, we can talk about these things later. You don't want professor to be late to his work, do you? Tonight, you should forget about everything else and have a good rest. You should be tired after crying so many times"
Hermione looked embarrassed when Adam mentioned her crying. She glared at him but still nodded obediently. She really didn't want to let Professor Flitwik wait for her or delay his work because of her.
"See you tomorrow. Good night." Hermione gave Adam a quick hug before looking at professor Flitwik. She was ready to go back home. She had so many things to tell to her mother. She wanted to tell her mother how she got her first friend and how this friend stood up for her in front of so many people. In short, she was really looking forward to talk about these things to her mother.
"Professor, I will thank you in advance for delivering this letter." Adam handed his letter to professor Flitwik and watched them leave the room.
Adam was really looking forward to check his system. He had defeated Draco in the duel. He learned Disarming charm. So he now had quite the amount of gold. Even though he was far from having the amount of gold to buy Apparition spell, he was still happy. In fact he was not even thinking about buying Apparition spell with his current magical level as it was quite useless. And if possible, he wanted to learn it by himself to save 40000 Gold which he could use to buy so many spells.
Adam closed the door and went to the bed which was placed in the corner of the room so that they could have enough space to practise magic. He silently sat down on it in comfortable position before opening his system.
Name: Adam
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 11
Magic Status: Active
Level: 7
Special points: 62000
Gold: 7090
Tasks:
1.Visit Diagon Alley and explore 5 places/ shops. 4/5 completed.
Reward: 500 special points and 20 gold per shop.
2.Learn different types of magic. (permanent task)
Reward: Minimum 1000 special points and 100 gold per spell. (Rewards vary according to difficulty of the spell. Learning spells before entering hogwarts will give ten times the reward.)
3.Read books about magical mysteries. (permanent task)
Reward: Special points and gold according to difficulty and information level of books.
Map (nearby secret space) : None.
4.Go for the meeting with Sophie Greengrass.
Reward: 1000 Gold.
Shop: ☆ Apparition, 40000 Gold. (Warning: Maximum distance traveled with current magical level is 500M. Trying to exceed this limit may cause Splinching. Frequent Apparition may cause headache, depletion of mental strength and strain on human soul that may lead to long term soul problems.)
☆ Knockback Jinx, 2000 Gold.
☆ Sectumsempra Curse, 5000 Gold.
☆ Smokescreen Spell, 1000 Gold.
☆ Snake summons spell, 2000 Gold.
"Hahahahaha!!" Adam laughed madly when he saw the changes in his status window. "I received 5000 gold by learning Disarming charm! "
Adam was extremely happy right now. He had made 7090 Gold in a single day from initial 0 Gold. He did not have any Gold to buy spells in the morning but he now had enough to at least buy few more spells. Ofcourse he was not going to buy them and waste his Gold. He had already decided to save this gold for emergencies like the one he had faced today.
He had received 1000 Gold by defeating Draco in a duel. He had received 500 Gold by learning Disarming charm which turned into 5000 Gold because he had learned it before going to Hogwarts which multiplied his reward by ten times.
His total profit from this Duel was 6500 Gold by removing 500 Gold that he had used for Basic Transfiguration spell. He was extremely happy about this profit.
He saw the list of the tasks that he had right now. He could see that there was one more task added in it which was the task regarding his meeting with Sophie Greengrass. He didn't know why it had such a high reward but he was happy to receive free Gold.
Adam finally saw his favorite section in the shop, Magical spells. He could see that there were many spells added in it which he had faced in the duel today. He really wanted to try these spells but he controlled himself when he saw the prices. Adam was sure that these spell were definitely not worth the price but he couldn't understand why these prices were so high.
After thinking about it for a minute, he thought of a possibility, 'Maybe prices of these spells increased as he bought more spells or got more spells added in his spell shop. Otherwise how could it be explained as why difficult Disarming charm was cheaper than the knockback jinx and why basic Transfiguration spell was cheaper than Smokescreen Spell which only created fog.'
Adam sighed in his heart while closing his status window. He could not help but think about the future while laying himself on the bed. He did not know what his future will be like but when he thought how the Wizards from this world were stronger and had special abilities, he could not help but shudder in fear. Today he had finally understood that nothing in the future was going to be as easy as the original story.
He had to think of a way to get stronger quickly. He did not want to have no strength to protect himself and his parents when voldemort finally gets his body back. This voldemort was destined to be stronger than before and he would also have great special abilities as he was the only living heir of one of the greatest Wizards 'Salazar Slytherin'.
As Adam finally entered the deep sleep, he was unaware of the fact that he had unknowingly set warning bells ringing loudly on top of the pure-blooded community's head. He had performed exceptionally well in the duel against Draco which created many speculations in their heads.
One of the most approved speculation was that Adam had already been in contact with wizarding world and someone taught him those spells ahead of the time.
Another speculation was that Adam had special ability that let him learn magical spells quickly and professor Flitwik taught him those spells right before the match. This speculation was frightening for them so not many people approved of it.
There were still many speculation in their heads but they still had to accept the fact that Adam was probably the strongest 11 year old wizard that they had ever seen. This was not that big of a deal to them as they knew that Adam had no support behind him and he could do nothing in the magical world in the future as a muggle-born.
But Adam was not the only worry that they had in their minds. Another problem that had appeared in front of them was Malfoy family. This was not a small muggle born problem like Adam, but one of the ancient pure blood family.
Everyone had understood that Draco used some illegal means to increase his magical power during the duel but it was normal in pure-blood families who knew many forbidden potions to temporarily increase the magical power. But what surprised them the most was that Draco was able to use difficult magic like Knockback Jinx and Snake summons spell with such proficiency. It made every pure-blood family realize that there was a hidden gem slowly getting polished in Malfoy family. Even Lucius probably have had a breakthrough in his magic which greatly increased his control and ability to cast non-verbal magical spells.
The consequences of this small duel that had started from a 11 year old little girl had finally reached to the younger generations of the pure-blood families. All heads of the family could not help but feel the urgency to increase the strength of their younger generation, no one wanted to fall behind Malfoy family or a muggle-born little boy.
Today's event had made pure-blood younger generation's life hell for the next month before Hogwarts would finally start. This event was not less influencing to pure-blood families than the magical surge that had happened around 70 years ago.
Today's event had initiated a race between pure-blood families to train their younger generation to become stronger than each other which would eventually increase their strength and prestige in the wizarding world if everything could go well.
All of this was going on behind the scenes of wizarding world while Adam, one of the main characters of today's event had fallen deep into his sleep.