Devero could hardly wait to start cultivating on the spot after seeing this description.
After all, this was a method that could strengthen his magical power!
In his earlier battle with Snape,
he had clearly felt that, as a minor,
his magical strength and reserves
were both significantly inferior to those of an adult wizard.
It had left him feeling a little insecure.
After all, in Britain's safest school,
he'd still have to fight Basilisks and wrestle dragons from time to time.
If he ran out of magic halfway through a fight,
he'd be done for!
But this Zen Meditation Method could solve his problem perfectly!
Devero immediately headed into the train,
hoping to find a quiet place to try out this Wisdom of the Sages
and see how well it worked.
However,
there were already plenty of people in the train cars.
Many of them were full,
and the surroundings were extremely noisy.
It was nowhere near quiet enough for meditation.
Devero checked every car, but they were all the same.
He had no choice but to put it off for now.
It wasn't as though he had to do it right away.
So Devero decided to find a less crowded car and spend the long journey there.
As luck would have it,
he spotted two red-haired boys struggling to help another boy with his trunk.
Yes, it was Harry Potter!
The two helping him were the Weasley Twins.
Devero saw that all three of them seemed to be having a hard time,
so he went over.
"Hey! Wait a second. This should make things easier."
As he spoke,
Devero drew his wand and lightly tapped Harry's luggage.
The three boys carrying the trunk immediately felt it grow several times lighter.
Even Harry, the smallest of them, could lift it with ease.
Working together,
they soon placed the trunk on the luggage rack.
"Merlin's beard! Was that the Levitation Charm?"
"That was brilliant! You must be a first-year, right? You're already so good at casting spells!"
The Weasley Twins stared at Devero in astonishment!
The other students nearby looked just as stunned.
Although the Levitation Charm was considered a fairly basic spell,
quite a few first-years still couldn't cast it properly by the time their final exams came around.
Wait... a spell?
The twins exchanged a look
and cried out,
"You just used a Silent Spell?!"
Devero smiled modestly.
"Yes, but it was only a simple spell."
After a brief spell of incoherent babbling and wild gesturing,
the twins immediately crowded around him.
"Wow, Merlin's beard! If we could learn that, there'd be so many things we could do!"
"Yeah, yeah! Um... we haven't introduced ourselves yet. I'm Fred, and this is George. Would you be willing to teach us?"
Fred leaned close to Devero's ear and whispered conspiratorially.
"We won't ask for nothing. Once we get to school, we can tell you all kinds of secrets about it. We didn't get a chance to explore the tower last year, but we know pretty much every secret around the Great Hall!"
"Yeah, we guarantee you won't find a third person at school who knows as much about it as we do!"
The twins bumped fists.
Devero's eyes shifted.
He smiled and said,
"Sure, but you'll have to show me some of them first. Then I'll teach you."
After all, for Devero,
learning a Silent Spell like this
was really just a matter of seeing it once.
And if the two troublemakers could show him around Hogwarts,
maybe he'd even get his hands on treasures like the Marauder's Map one day.
Why not?
"Woohoo!"
The twins threw their arms up and cheered.
Then they huddled together, whispering,
as if they were already planning all the pranks they could pull with Silent Spells.
Devero turned to Harry, who looked a little lost.
Clearly, all that talk about spells, Silent Spells, and the secrets of Hogwarts Castle had been completely unfamiliar to him.
He hadn't been able to get a word in.
Naturally, he felt a little awkward.
Devero went over and put an arm around Harry's shoulders.
"Come on, Harry. Let's find somewhere to sit."
Harry had been standing there in a daze.
At Devero's words,
he quickly nodded. The train was just about to leave, after all.
He turned to head back to the car where they'd been sitting.
"Harry? Wait... are you that Harry?"
The moment the twins heard Devero call him Harry,
their whispering stopped.
Harry had clearly been through this sort of thing many times before.
He casually swept back the hair from his forehead,
revealing the lightning-shaped scar.
The twins gaped at him.
It was Devero's first time seeing Harry's scar in person, too.
The scar looked more gruesome than it had in the movies he'd seen in his previous life.
Devero even felt an urge to reach out and touch it.
But he considered how Harry might feel
and held back.
Devero had always wondered:
why had the Avada Kedavra curse left a lightning-shaped scar?
The original story didn't seem to say much about it.
After they'd shown the twins the scar,
the two of them rushed out of the car, shouting excitedly.
They seemed eager to share the news with their family.
Devero watched them leave,
then took a seat in the car with Harry.
Devero had already added the two purple traits each boy had to his trait shopping cart.
He planned to load them at Hogwarts and see what they did.
Their traits were:
[Explorer (Purple)]
[Prank Inventor (Purple)]
He had to admit,
both traits were pretty good.
Generally speaking,
having a purple trait
meant someone could excel in that field.
A blue trait meant they had the potential to reach an above-average level,
while a gold trait meant they were naturally among the best in their field.
People with red traits were basically blessed with tremendous fortune.
They had, to some extent, become one with the laws of their field.
The Potion Spirit trait, for example,
seemed absurdly powerful to Devero.
Although his knowledge was still limited,
when it came to brewing Potions,
he might even be better than Snape in some respects!
Of course, that was just a hunch.
Devero hadn't actually tried it, and he didn't quite dare to.
Regardless,
the Weasley Twins really were incredibly talented.
No wonder they could become leaders in the prank business
at such a young age.
"Devero, you know so many spells!"
Harry was sitting across from Devero, looking a little dejected.
"Honestly, I grew up in a Muggle family, so I barely know any magic. If there's some kind of test when I start school, I'm done for."
Devero smiled at Harry's words.
He was just about to say something encouraging
when someone knocked on the compartment door.
A red-haired boy with freckles stood outside.
"Can I sit here? My name's Ron Weasley."
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