Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 169 Soaring Freely! Hagrid's Heartbreak!

【Congratulations to the host! 】

[Gained autonomous high-speed flight capability!]

From now on, you can soar through the skies at will, relying solely on your own power, without the need for any flying magic items!

[Gain agile and swift dodging and hiding abilities!]

You can move and fly at high speeds anytime, anywhere, and skillfully evade various attacks and captures.

[Movement and flight range restricted to the size of the Quidditch pitch! Automatically banned.]

[Because the Golden Snitch is a key prop in Quidditch, its creator placed a magical restriction on it, preventing it from leaving the playing area. The host, after merging with it, also acquired the same restriction. Upon detection by the system, this restriction has been automatically disabled and is no longer in effect.]

[Gain some knowledge and skills in alchemy and magic to modify objects!]

You have learned the alchemical and magical techniques related to creating the Golden Snitch.

After silently listening to the system prompts in his mind, Dali jumped slightly and felt as light as a swallow, ready to take off and dodge at high speed at any time.

This made him extremely happy.

Flying is something that humans, as land animals, yearn for.

Now that Dudley has it in his hands, how could he not be overjoyed and thrilled?

He put away his belongings, and without a moment's hesitation, he swiftly darted across a long corridor and arrived at a window on the fifth floor of the castle.

Hogwarts's superconscious sensed Dudley's thoughts and automatically controlled the window to open quickly, making way for Dudley's flight.

Dudley paused slightly, then flew out of the window at such a speed that even his afterimage was blurry.

He soared and swooped through the sky outside the castle, flying freely and involuntarily letting out strange cries, which attracted the attention of the various school teams training on the Quidditch pitch in the distance. They hovered their flying brooms in the air and looked on in surprise.

However, Dudley was as elusive and unpredictable as the Golden Snitch; before they could figure out what was flying, Dudley had already gone far away.

……

After indulging himself for a while, Dudley slowed down his flight speed, flying at the normal speed of a flying broom over the Black Lake and between the various castle towers.

In the air, he recalled the knowledge and skills he had just acquired.

In this world, or more precisely, in the European magical world of this world.

Aside from brewing potions and making wands, there are roughly three methods for creating physical magical items.

The first one is alchemy. Alchemy can extract the essence of various magical materials, optimize and combine them to create alchemical items with new magical abilities and properties.

In some ways, alchemy is similar to potion-making; both require understanding the properties of a large number of magical materials and mastering the timing of heat and fusion. It is a kind of knowledge and skill that leans towards scientific and rational thinking.

The second method involves using spells to influence magical materials, ordinary non-magical materials or items, or even Muggle items, thereby creating magical items.

Without special magical techniques to maintain their power, magical items created using this method generally have a limited lifespan, unlike magical items created through alchemy which can maintain their magical abilities for thousands of years.

For example, using the Seamless Stretch Charm to transform a large suitcase, using the Disappearance Charm to transform the fur of an Invisible Beast to create a regular Invisibility Cloak, using the Permanent Invisibility Cushion Charm on a flying broom, and so on.

While this method can also create certain magical items with well-established manufacturing processes, it lacks the same level of scientific rigor.

Magic in this world is more of a matter of the mind. Sometimes, on a whim or by a stroke of inspiration, a wizard might unintentionally use some strange and wonderful magic to cause objects to undergo peculiar transformations and gain some kind of magical ability.

This transformation was something that even the sorcerer who cast the spell could not replicate; it was entirely a random event.

Some wizarding families that have been passed down for generations possess several magical items with special effects, which are most likely created through this method.

Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, was a master at this. He loved collecting and modifying Muggle technology items. In the original story, the flying invisible car that Ron and Harry drove to school was Arthur's creation.

That flying car even developed its own consciousness and was able to autonomously rescue people.

In the original story, Ron and Harry went to the eight-eyed spider's lair to ask Aragog about the events leading up to the Chamber of Secrets. After they finished questioning Aragog, he allowed his spiderlings to attack Ron and Harry. It was this flying car that miraculously appeared and saved them.

The third method is quite rare; it involves soaking certain materials and items in special potions to create unique magical items.

In the magical world, only Potions Masters like Snape and Slughorn occasionally use this method to create magical items.

Potions is currently Dudley's weakness; he doesn't know much about this method.

Dudley is currently skilled in the first two: alchemy and spellcasting.

He fused with the magic stone and gained some advanced alchemical techniques;

By combining the large-capacity briefcase that Dumbledore made for him, he gained some magical modification techniques for spatial magical items;

In addition, he supplemented his basic alchemy knowledge through self-study by reading books, and now he has combined the knowledge and skills he gained by integrating with the Golden Thief.

While his skills were insignificant compared to those of alchemists and spellcasters like Nicolas Flamel and Dumbledore, they were still exceptionally good compared to the average adult wizard.

Dudley flew alone in the sky, multitasking.

Thinking about techniques that combine alchemy and magical manipulation, his eyes casually glanced down and saw Hagrid, a burly man walking along, looking sullen and wiping away tears.

Judging from the route Hagrid was taking, he had clearly just come out of the castle and was heading back to his stone hut.

Dudley, unaware of the situation, thought for a moment and decided to ask Hagrid what trouble he had encountered.

He accelerated and swooped down, heading straight for Hagrid who was walking below.

In less than a few seconds, it landed nimbly in front of Hagrid, blocking his path, accompanied by a gust of wind.

"Hagrid, what happened?" Dudley asked.

"Waaaaah... Daddy!"

With tears blurring his vision, Hagrid saw Dudley and cried even harder.

He stopped walking, and after a long while, he stopped crying and explained:

"I heard that Professor Ecclesia was seriously injured by the eight-eyed spider, which I found hard to believe. After breakfast today, I went to the school hospital to visit her and met Professor Snape, who was preparing an antidote for Professor Ecclesia."

He told me that Aragog wanted to help its children eat human flesh, and Professor Eckeris was their first target.

Dudley, I heard you were at the maze at the time. Is what Professor Snape said true?

I don't believe Aragok would break his promise to me! Waaaaah…