Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 509 A restless youth at Hogwarts! The budding romance of three little ones!

The story of Dudley transforming into an orca and swimming through thunderclouds and storms did not generate much discussion at Hogwarts.

The students of Hogwarts were already used to Dudley's powerful ability to create miracles. Compared to the Dream Realm, which could accommodate wizards from all over Britain to learn and train, the fact that Animagus could still use magic after transforming was nothing.

Meanwhile, the professors and students from the seven exchange teams gradually came to understand the peculiarities and absurdities of Dali.

Although none of the Hogwarts faculty or staff, including Hagrid, knew the truth about the founder's blessing spells to the various exchange groups, some astute individuals within the groups had already begun to associate the blessing spells with Dudley.

However, these are merely unfounded speculations and doubts.

These intelligent people wouldn't voice their speculations and doubts, much less dare to ask Dali directly.

Dudley adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards this, since he had already fixed a passive conceptual repair spell on the entire world, so any bad intentions towards resurrection abilities and resurrected people would regress and disappear when they arose.

I kept going back.

When those with ulterior motives bypass the specially packaged claim of Hogwarts' founder bestowing blessings and instead glimpse the truth, what awaits them is a setback in their lives.

Dali's current style of doing things is to be low-key when he wants to be, and to show off when he wants to be.

As long as it's passable, that's fine.

There's no way around it; being invincible at the conceptual level is just that casual.

Rather than observing the adults in the group, openly or secretly curiously exploring the truth behind the so-called blessing magic, Dudley preferred to watch the children, whose minds were not yet so complicated, learn, make friends, and experience the beautiful budding emotions of adolescence.

During this academic year's exchanges, learning, and experiences...

Harry has accepted the reality that Cho Chang and Cedric are a better match.

Harry realized that he liked Cho Chang because she was confident, sunny, and radiant in the spotlight, but he didn't like her vulnerable, sensitive, and emotional nature when faced with situations she couldn't handle, and her tendency to seek support.

At the same time, Harry also discovers that Cho Chang's feelings for Cedric are unchangeable and cannot be altered.

After figuring all this out, Harry began to acknowledge Ginny's infatuation and adoration for him, realizing that he was the only exception in Ginny's eyes.

This exception is not solely due to his so-called savior status.

When he felt frustrated because he was too weak to participate in the important things his cousin was doing, and when he was worried and doubting himself because he was trying his best to study but couldn't beat Hermione, Ginny's love for him did not diminish in the slightest.

Moreover, Ginny is so brave and fearless that she can recover quickly from setbacks and blows. She can even make her teammates laugh and help others get out of the shadow of difficulties by joking around.

Having grown up with Dudley and been influenced by him from a young age, Harry, who is good at analyzing, summarizing, and dissecting psychology, saw his true feelings clearly and got out of the confusion of love at a speed and pace far exceeding the original story.

But even though Harry has figured things out, he hasn't found a suitable opportunity to talk about it yet, and neither has Ginny.

However, their relationship was no longer the same as that between friends and partners, and even the oblivious Ron vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

Ron is finding it hard to accept that his best friend is his sister's boyfriend, but he has neither confirmed the matter nor has the extra energy to deal with it.

Besides studying hard, he now also has to deal with Durmstrang's Viktor Krum.

Ever since he discovered Hermione's excellence and erudition, this guy has always tried to get close to Hermione whenever he gets the chance, which has annoyed Ron to no end.

He wasn't really sure why he disliked it, but after Hermione forcefully rejected Lavender's invitation to join their team and dragged him along to form their Four Houses team.

Ron could vaguely sense his feelings for Hermione, and Hermione's feelings for him were different from those for her other companions.

After Dudley's changes, Ron, who is now braver and stronger than in the original story, will not remain indifferent and sullen when he sees Krum approaching Hermione. He will always try to get Krum away or take Hermione elsewhere to avoid Krum.

This left Krum somewhat helpless, as he was unable to defeat Ron.

In Dudley's class, there was a regular student duel session. Krum, as an exchange student, once invited Ron to duel with him.

But faced with Ron's freely movable and coordinated stone knights, soldiers, kings, and queens, he, Durmstrang's top student, seemed utterly powerless.

Often, as soon as one thing is destroyed, another one comes crashing down; once one is dealt with, the original one is repaired. To capture the thief, you must first capture the king. When attacking Ron's main body, there are even stone shield-armored soldier statues protecting him.

Every now and then, a maddened bison would be summoned from behind him and charge at his lower back with its horns.

The bison could be teleported away by the reverse spell of the summoning spell, and at any moment another bison could be summoned from another unexpected place to charge at him.

His Ironclad Spell Shield could withstand one hit, but not two. If he tried to dodge, the stone knight statues would block his movement.

What he found most unbearable was that after defeating him, Ron told him that, to avoid an unfair victory, he hadn't used spatial magic that allowed him to move the statue at will.

Ron thought he was explaining things out of kindness, but to Krum and the others, it sounded like he was attacking their morals.

Krum acted with integrity and uprightness. He did not harbor resentment towards Ron because of this. Instead, after his frustration subsided, he worked even harder, often entering the dream realm at night to conduct simulations and reviews to improve himself.

This also spurred Ron to work even harder.

Within the dream realm, Hogwarts students enjoy a much higher rate of time acceleration than exchange students from outside the school.

Hermione was pleased with everything Ron had done; she had a good impression of Krum, but unfortunately, it was just mutual recognition between two academic high-achievers.

However, Hermione did not indulge in romantic feelings with Ron at this stage. After the house-elves liberation incident, she understood the reasoning Dudley had given her and secretly accepted Dudley's expectations of her.

Dudley hoped she would focus on resolving the relationship between wizards and Muggles, a goal that required broader and deeper thinking, as well as strong power to command respect.

Therefore, after acquiring the Dream Realm, Hermione not only made full use of her daytime hours, but also made the most of every second she spent in the Dream Realm at night.

She always used the highest time acceleration, a hundred times faster, and was the most hardworking person at Hogwarts, without exception.

In this way, her year can be used as a normal person's 101 years, because normal people need to sleep soundly at night.

Furthermore, Dudley has completely unlocked the bloodline shackles of his friends, so Hermione is expected to become a legendary wizard in just one year.

As for Krum's feelings, he was initially attracted by Hermione's ability to disregard his status as a world-class Quidditch player and simply discuss magical knowledge with him. He was drawn to Hermione's pure and rational wisdom.

After witnessing the relationship between Ron and Hermione, and losing to Ron, he was unwilling but gradually let go of his feelings.

Compared to Hermione and Ron, Krum was older and not as naive as Ron; he could see Hermione's true feelings.

He only regretted that he appeared too late and hadn't met Hermione sooner.