Patronus

Xiwen spoke words that he felt were deeply moving, looking gently into Helena's eyes, hoping to elicit a genuine response from her.

Helena was indeed moved for a moment.

However, her expression turned strange when she looked at the Young Wizard Xiwen.

"I have a strange feeling about you talking to me in this form," Helena said with a strange expression, resting her chin on her hand as she looked at the still-childish face of the Young Wizard Xiwen.

"Looking at you like this always gives me the feeling of looking at a child, especially when a sweet word suddenly comes out of this child's mouth, it feels really strange."

Xiwen's face darkened, and he said somewhat awkwardly, "Maybe I should separate my Soul Body..."

"Forget it, you should focus on mastering your Animagus first before worrying about anything else," Helena pouted, rejecting Xiwen's suggestion. "I'm not the kind of girl who can't live without her boyfriend."

"Alright," Xiwen shrugged, agreeing. "Who told you to be Helena Ravenclaw, with her extraordinary intelligence!"

"Alright, stop thinking about all that nonsense." Helena winked playfully at Xiwen, "While you're thinking about your happiest moments, hurry up and learn the Patronus Charm!"

Looking into Helena's bright eyes, Xiwen understood and raised his wand, pointing it towards the bright light of the distant full moon.

All the happy memories flashed through Xiwen's mind, whether they were memories from the previous world or experiences from this world. All the beauty converged before his eyes and condensed into a silvery-white light.

"Expecto Patronum!"

"Xiwen shouts!"

First, a silvery mist burst forth, and then a pair of silvery-white wings appeared in the mist, flapping powerfully in the air.

Then, a silvery-white goose flew out from the misty light, gracefully circling and soaring around Xiwen and Helena.

Its size is neither too big nor too small, but its wingspan is quite wide relative to its body. These large wings flapped comfortably in the air, appearing extremely relaxed and at ease.

"Is that a goose?" Helena asked Xiwen, looking curiously at the migratory birds circling and soaring around her.

"This is Bar-headed Goose, a magical bird that can fly over the Himalayas. I used to see them often." Xiwen stretched out his hand, and the silvery-white Bar-headed Goose Patronus landed on Xiwen fingertips. It was light and weightless.

"Flying over the Himalayas... doesn't that mean it can fly to an altitude of 20,000 feet?" Helena exclaimed in amazement.

"Mount Everest is 8,848 meters, which translates to 29,029 feet," Xiwen added. "Bar-headed Goose should be capable of flying to nearly 30,000 feet."

"That's amazing!" Helena said with a smile. "Then I'll congratulate you in advance on getting a pretty good Patronus?"

"The Patronus Charm can only prove the animal with the highest affinity; it's still uncertain whether my Animagus form is this Bar-headed Goose," Xiwen said modestly. But a slight smile couldn't help but appear on his lips.

"Anyway, as long as it's not Transformation like the big fat pig or the mangy dog that I'd be too ashamed to use in public, I'm already satisfied!"

After the autumn winds of November, the Scottish Highlands, with their temperate maritime climate, are greeted by damp and cold southwest winds.

The westerly winds came from the vast Atlantic Ocean, bringing moist sea air that caused snowflakes to flutter down in the sky above Hogwarts Castle.

Winter has arrived.

After a month of living in Hogwarts Castle, Xiwen gradually got used to the Mandrake Leaf stuck to his palate, and he could speak to others without sounding like a lisp.

A lot happened during that month, such as the Ghost Stephen Strange deciding to leave the castle and travel the world for a month.

Upon hearing this news, the many ghosts pleaded with him not to leave.

Especially Edmund Grub, that chubby little fellow, who clung tightly to the Ghost's leg, claiming that the Ghost Council was incomplete without Doctor Strange!

Thus, Ghost Xiwen completely transformed the Ghost Hall into a permanently open Mirror Dimension, and set up the hall's entrance as a spatial wall for the ghosts to enter and exit. At the same time, with the help of the Mirror Dimension's function, food in the hall is automatically generated by the space's magic after it is eaten, providing an unlimited supply for the ghosts.

After doing this, the ghosts beamed with joy and gave the Ghost Xiwen a lively send-off as he left the castle to pursue his "dream".

Of course, what they didn't know was that after leaving, Ghost Xiwen secretly returned to the Hogwarts dungeons through a portal and merged into the body of the Young Wizard Xiwen...

Furthermore, because first-year students Lestrange and Avery spent money on a large amount of self-defense alchemical products, Riddle could no longer maintain his previous significant advantage over them.

So, with the ostracism of his two roommates and the many Pure-blood in Slytherin House, his life became extremely difficult.

Xiwen intervened once or twice and tried to persuade the Pure-blood not to discriminate based on bloodline, but the effect was not significant. On the contrary, Xiwen himself was considered by the Pure-blood fanatics to have lost his mind and violated the traditions of the Rosier family.

He also tried to stop Lestrange and Avery's excessive behavior directly. But after he left, the two would retaliate against Riddle even more severely. They also used methods they learned from somewhere, leaving virtually no evidence.

Despite these difficult circumstances, Riddle refused Xiwen's help and decided to overcome the crisis on his own.

"You don't need to fall out with other Pure-blood over my affairs," Riddle said to him after Xiwen had once again helped him find his roommate's hidden personal belongings. "I can handle this kind of thing myself!"

"But I don't see how you're going to handle this," Xiwen said, frowning. "Even Professor Slughorn doesn't have a good solution. How are you going to deal with something so deeply ingrained among Pure-blood?"

"I'll be living at Hogwarts for almost seven more years, and I can't rely on your help for everything," Riddle said. "Believe me, after Christmas they won't make things difficult for me like this anymore..."

In addition to this, there was another matter: after the Blood Curse flared up multiple times, Elshiona was finally persuaded by Xiwen to take a break from school and return home to recuperate and alleviate her symptoms.

Xiwen and several of her friends saw her off in the Vice Principal's Office, watching her follow Mrs. Greengrass into the fireplace in the office.

Before leaving, Elshiona's eyes reddened. She turned back and gave Xiwen a deep look, opening her mouth as if she wanted to say something.

But Floo Network had already started working, and her figure vanished in an instant into the green flames.