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Alchemy, I must study it well in the future.
George pushed his trolley, secretly thinking as the enchanted car pulled up outside King's Cross station in less than twenty minutes. He declined the invitation from Tonks to let her take him inside.
In fact, the journey from The Boar's Head pub to King's Cross station had not been smooth, coincidentally hitting traffic jams.
But the car from the Ministry of Magic clearly had alchemy enhanced with advanced spatial magic, as Aldo pressed a button and the car seemed to compress, easily slipping through the gaps between cars that were less than a person wide.
The spells in this world are quite magical, and the magical items created with alchemy are also incredibly fascinating.
If he mastered Alchemy and Magic, in the future, he could transform the mutant school into a magical castle like Hogwarts, accessible only with his permission.
"Platform Nine and Three-Quarters."
George pushed his trolley straight into the partition wall between Platforms Nine and Ten.
Next, something magical happened: he and the trolley seemed to collide with a transparent water curtain, passing through it without any obstruction.
The scene shifted, and a very peculiar platform had appeared before him.
Among them, the most eye-catching was the deep red steam engine, on which it was written: "Hogwarts Express leaves at eleven o'clock."
He had learned about this enchanted magical train from a specialized magic history book earlier.
To deeply understand the magic of this world and to navigate the wizarding world with ease in the future, mastering magical history knowledge is of paramount importance.
Many methods of learning and decoding magic can be found in magical history.
So he would spend some time every day researching the various history books he had bought.
The Hogwarts Express was built in the middle and early 19th century by a Muggle engineer, a large number of Muggle railway workers, and most of the wizards from the Ministry of Magic at the time, working together.
The route of this enchanted train also made use of the most widespread Memory Charm and the largest scale of Muggle Exclusion Charm in the world.
It all began when the very responsible Minister for Magic, Otaelain Gampole, felt that the young witches and wizards using the Floo Network to go to Hogwarts was too dangerous and uncomfortable, and there were many instances where young witches and wizards lost themselves due to improper Floo Network use.
Inspired by the Muggle steam trains, this is how the Hogwarts Express and its extensive railway line were created.
It was said that this move had received protests from some pure-blood families, but it was suppressed by the Minister for Magic with a strong stance that not taking the train would result in not being admitted to Hogwarts.
This magical steam train travels back and forth between London's King's Cross Station at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and Hogsmeade Station, making a total of six trips a year.
There is one trip on September 1st for the opening of term, four trips on Christmas and Easter, and one trip in June for the holiday.
At that moment, the steam engine's thick smoke filled the air over the platform. George arrived earlier, so there were few young witches and wizards and their wizard parents on the platform, and they were not noisy.
Pushing the trolley into the carriage marked for first-year students, he found a compartment at random, quickly stowed his luggage on the shelves above, and then placed the cage containing the owl in the corner of the compartment nearest to himself.
"Sleep well, don't make any noise and scare the young witches who are coming later."
Having instructed Peachie, George took out a book titled "The Importance of Basic Magic Theory" and began to focus on reading it.
The journey from London to Hogwarts takes about five to six hours, and it wouldn't do to waste that time.
As time went on, more and more young witches and wizards, as well as various magical pets, appeared on the platform outside the window. The carriage also began to fill up with young witches.
"Oh wow, is that your pet? What a big owl."
A small boy with a magical camera around his neck, pushing his little trolley by George's compartment, was drawn in by the enormous owl, Peachie, and couldn't help but enter.
"He placed his luggage in the corner, picked up his magical camera excitedly and took a few pictures before introducing himself to George: "Hi, my name is [insert name]."
"Hello, my name is Colin Creevey."
"Just call me George."
George looked up at the boy and smiled by nodding his head.
He had a familiar name, which he knew was still Harry's biggest fan and liked taking pictures of his idol, Harry.
"George, I..."
Colin's personality was very outgoing and chatty, and he sat next to George, chattering away.
At that moment, George had to put away his magical book and talk with him for a few sentences.
Through their conversation, it was learned that Colin was from a Muggle family and had a younger brother named Dennis Creevey.
Because of his particular love for photography, he bought a magical camera with the money he earned from buying pets.
His biggest idol was Harry Potter, who was mentioned in "Modern Magic History", "The Rise and Fall of Black Magic", and "Significant Magical Events of the Twentieth Century" for defeating the infamous Voldemort when he was only a year older than Harry.
"By the way, George, all this time and you haven't said much about yourself."
After a long chat, Colin realized that he knew very little about George.
George smiled and said directly: "Let's talk about something else. "
"I'm an orphan; I've never seen my parents, nor do I have any family. So there's not much to introduce."
Upon hearing this, Colin was taken aback for a moment, then he immediately smiled sympathetically and changed the subject: "What about you?"
"Oh, by the way, your owl is so big. What does it usually eat?"
"It's an eagle owl, which is commonly found in Eurasia and mainly inhabits mountainous forests, plains, wildernesses, forest edges, sparse forests, as well as exposed high mountains and cliffs and other environments."
"It likes to eat field mice, wild rabbits, and partridges, sometimes also some frogs, snakes, and lizards."
"It is said to be one of the rare owl species that are not afraid of Basilisk's gaze, the other is the legendary Phoenix."
Suddenly, a slightly dazed voice echoed at the door of the compartment.
George and Colin turned to look, and there was a little girl with silver eyes, dark gold-brown hair. She had very pale skin, big eyes, but her eyes were not focused.
So her overall temperament appeared to be a bit hazy, strange and unusual.
"So it seems that I haven't seen any related information about eagles owls not being afraid of Basilisk's gaze in the books."
George looked at the girl with some surprise and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Since he had bought the eagle owl as a pet, how could he not search for related information? Most of the information the girl had just said was what he had read in the resources, except for the last piece.
However, whether the last piece of information was true was quite important, because that year, Hogwarts would indeed have a Basilisk appear, and it was a thousand-year-old one.
So he had to verify the information carefully.
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