The latest chapter in the Harry Potter Bastard novel

To be honest, Solim never had Christmas. And he also wondered why wizards went to the festivals of ordinary people. Even more peculiar is that even Sgulle takes fifteen days off for this. You know, originally Solim had no concept of these Western festivals, but since he went to school in Sgulle, he immediately had a clear and profound concept of Christmas: a full fifteen days of vacation, no soul reaper curse, no heart drilling charm, no sneak attacks from others, no need to hold a wand when he slept at night. These fifteen days are arguably the most relaxing time of the year in Solim.

Yes, for Solim, Christmas is a comfortable day without the Reaper of Souls and Drill Curse.

And for the famous savior, this Christmas may be the best Christmas he has ever had. After all, referring to Harry’s experience in the past few years, every Christmas has been a torture for him. As long as he didn’t stay with the Dursleys, Harry wouldn’t care how to spend the holiday, so he happily signed the stay list.

But he’s not alone, his best friends: Ron and his two… Well, specifically, it should be that the three older brothers will also stay and spend Christmas at Hogwarts. This is certainly not to take care of Harry, but this Christmas holiday their parents are going to Romania to visit their son, who is also their older brother, Charlie Weasley.

While Harry and Ron wander around the empty school, Solim has returned to Selwyn’s castle – he doesn’t call it home.

Selwyn’s castle is located near the Isle of Man, and it is hidden by magic, and passing ships will actively avoid it to avoid being discovered by ordinary people.

This island, which wizards call Neasto, is not found on the map of ordinary people, and the Greek meaning of Neastor is unknown. After all, the island is only open to people from the Selwyn family, and very few who are qualified to come here. So for most wizards, everything here is unknown.

Solim didn’t know much about it, as he spent most of his time in the castle learning theory and practicing spell casting. Even if he wasn’t familiar, Solim knew that it would be troublesome to approach the castle casually.

Selwyn’s castle is indeed not majestic compared to Hogwarts. It doesn’t have tall towers like Hogwarts, nor is it full of life like Hogwarts.

If you let an ordinary person who does not know magic, Selwyn’s castle is definitely the standard template for the base camp of evil creatures in fairy tales: even on sunny days, light does not hit the castle – although there are few times when it doesn’t rain in this ghost place, there is always sunny weather. The whole castle is like in another world, the sunlight will avoid the castle, the light will not shine on it, compared to the bright colors around the castle, the castle itself is like a black and white photo – dead and lifeless.

And this is where Solim lived, a castle that instinctively wants to stay away from a glance. And he will continue to live here until Solim himself is capable of protecting himself.

Solim stands in front of the statue at the junction: the first patriarch of the Selwyn family, and the base of the statue is densely carved with his life deeds, such statues are lined with the road to the castle. They are all well-known wizards from the Selwyn family – whether they are evil people, great people who have made outstanding contributions to the wizarding world, or strange people who are dedicated to studying and studying magic. Good or evil, as long as Selwyn is known in the wizarding world, their statues will be placed on both sides of the road.

Selwyn has a long tradition, which leads to one thing: the more statues there are, and the road to the castle gets longer and longer. This road full of statues is enchanted, it will not become crowded with more statues, it will only get longer. If you are so long that you walk on two legs, it takes thirty minutes to reach the gate of the castle.

Sitting in the carriage, Solim looked at the statue outside the window, but his mind was thinking about how to sneak into the basement after returning to the castle. Not only his father’s family lived in this castle, but also the families of several of his uncles, who added up to nearly thirty people. If you count the wizards with foreign surnames who have passed the family test and joined, there can be more than fifty people. In addition to those wizards with foreign surnames, Selwyn can count the hands on which he can give Solim a good face.

Solim is reluctant to return here, and the environment and history here have created a dark wizard in the eyes of most ordinary wizards. And these people, almost all of them are his relatives, most of them are from Sgul. So the way they greet each other is a little scary: while you’re not looking, they give you a Heart Drill Charm or a Soul Reaper Charm — they call it a joke.

Indeed, it is not a big deal for a wizard who can graduate from Sgulle to get hit with a drill heart curse, and everyone has long been accustomed to the drill heart curse. And the Soul Reaper Curse, heh, wants to use the Soul Reaper Curse to easily control a wizard who graduated from Sgulle, which is simply delusional. They will break free from the effects of the Reaper Curse extremely quickly, or even react to your Reaper at all, and then turn around and give you an Avada. After all, more than ten years of experience in Sgulle have long given these wizards amazing resistance and immunity to the Drill Heart Curse and the Soul Reaper Curse.

Most of these Solim’s relatives are a little abnormal – this is normal. Whether it is the atmosphere of the Selwyn family or the environment of Sgulle, if you can create a normal wizard, it is called abnormal.

And these… The attitude of the abnormal relatives towards Solim is not friendly. Adults disdained to talk to Solim, and if they did, it was some extremely ugly, strongly insulting language, and if Solim’s grandfather was present, they would restrain a bit. But his peers, who were about the same age as Solim, were not so restrained, and it was common to draw their wands in the castle to attack Solim, and they took pleasure in bullying and teasing Solim. Of course, after Solim took out a nasty ghost at school through a black-glove duel, they relented a bit. But that’s just no longer attacking him with his wand.

“Oh, Solim, you’re back?”

Hearing this, Solim’s body relaxed—he was about to draw his wand.

“Cheetos? Oh yes, I’m back. Although very reluctantly. Solim shrugged.

A white, somewhat transparent figure emerged from the side wall—it was a ghost. Compared to people, Solim gets along well with the ghosts in the castle, of course, there are several ghosts who are very disgusted by Solim’s illegitimate son. These ghosts in the castle were all surnamed Selwyn during their lifetime, in other words, these ghosts in the castle were the ancestors of the Selwyn family.

“Be careful, Adelaide and his brothers are excited to hear that you’re coming back today.” Let’s go from Lab Three, there was no one there when I first came over. After that, Cheetos floated in front of Solim to lead the way.

“How is life at Hogwarts?” Cheetos asked.

“Good, no, it’s very good.” Even when walking, Solim’s left hand is always ready.

“yes, no matter where it’s better than that broken place.” Cheetos is arguably the ghost that fits best with Solim, probably related to his experience: Cheetos was also “once” a student of Sgulle during his lifetime. He said “once was” not because he is dead now, but because Cheetos was expelled from school that year, resulting in him not graduating from Sgulle. As for the reason for the expulsion, Cheetos did not say, and Solim did not ask much.

“Elrond is in his kennel, go yourself, I won’t go.” Cheetos said and disappeared through the wall.

Elrond is Solim’s grandfather, and among all Solim’s relatives, only his grandfather and sister Silna are genuinely good to Solim. But Solim’s grandfather Elrond … The position in the family is awkward, Elrond’s two brothers: Lesotho and Bride, both of them are great wizards – great wizards like Dumbledore and Voldemort. Lesotho is the head of the Presbyterian Hazard Committee, while Breed is the head of the Logistics Department of the Presbyterian Committee. Many of Solim’s elders worked under these two.

Look at Elrond: he is not a great wizard, although he is much stronger than ordinary wizards, but in the eyes of a family like Selwyn, so much time and resources have been wasted, and he is not a great wizard at this age, this talent is simply a shame for Selwin.

Elrond’s father and grandfather sometimes returned to Selwyn Castle, Solim’s great-grandfather and grandfather. As for why these two people lived so long, does it need to be asked? And these two old antiques are dark wizards in every sense. Although they will not do anything about their families, they will still sneer when they see the descendants of waste wood. In this way, the other juniors of the family also disrespected Elrond, although they would not do anything out of line in person, but they did not chew their tongues behind their backs.

Think about Solim’s squib sister, their grandfather and grandson are three people, the old one is scrap, and the two small ones: one is an illegitimate child and the other is a squib. It is already good that such a three people can live like this in a family like Selwyn.

Solim’s feelings about the rest of Selwyn are – no feelings. He only cared about his grandfather and sister, and as for the rest of the clansmen, it was not much different from strangers.

Elrond is not good at potions, he is not good at fighting, alchemy is so-so, of course, this so-so can be called a master in the outside world, Elrond’s real skill is spell breaking. There is only one spell breaker mentioned in the original book, and that is the eldest brother of the Weasley family, Bill Weasley.

In the circle of the Selwyn family, the status of the spell solver is very low, although every wizard inevitably has to deal with the spell solver, but the spell solver is looked down upon by these wizards. In Solim’s view, this is like the attitude of the ancient Celestial Empire towards doctors: indispensable, but inferior.

The role of spell solvers is to break spells, and their understanding and research of magic patterns, magic theory, magic spells and compound spells far exceeds that of ordinary wizards. They are good at cracking spells, inventing and improving spells. It can be said that the spells used by wizards now are the credit of the spell breakers. The “Fire Flash” spell that Solim used to deal with the trolls was taught to Solim by Elrond.

Solim called a house-elf to lead the way in front, not that he didn’t know the way, but there were some magical mechanisms on the road in the basement that needed to be temporarily closed, and these living Solim could not do it now, so the elf could only do it for him.

“Okay, you can go back, Zim.” Solim put down the box in his hand and prepared to knock on the door. “By the way, help me call Silna over, don’t let others find out.”

As soon as the elf disappeared, the door in front of Solim opened.

“Come in, I’m counting the time and you’re almost there.”

Standing in the door was an old man in good spirits, with the same black hair as Solim, but with a board-inch-hairstyle – not as long as Solim’s hair.

As for Solim’s hair… For him, he had never had the opportunity to grow long hair in his previous life, whether it was when he was in school or when he was working, but now Solim’s hair only just touched his shoulders. Long hair is a novel experience for Solim.

“Come on on in and tell me about your experience at Hogwarts.”