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In Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Florin Fosco sat idly in his shop.

Although it's close to the start of the school year and there should be many guests, the morning is a good time to sleep in, and eating ice cream in the morning is something that wizard parents don't support, which makes Florin Fosco very leisurely right now.

Florin didn't love his job. He inherited the family's ice cream shop simply because he couldn't find anything else to do, and he had plenty of free time. The shop was his own anyway, so there was no rent to pay, and he could just get by.

His favorite thing to do is chat with the customers in the shop, especially helping young wizards with their homework. He has a lot of knowledge about the A History of Magic.

He not only has extensive knowledge of the common medieval practice of burning witches, but also has considerable expertise in some unofficial histories, the Elder Wand, and the Ravenclaw's Diadem.

However, today is a very strange day. Early in the morning, three little wizards came to his shop, and according to Florin's observation, it was difficult to tell the relationship between the three little guys.

The handsome young wizard seems to have a very close relationship with both witches, like boyfriend and girlfriend, definitely not family or friends.

The black-haired little witch also seems to have feelings for both the little male witch and another tall, blonde witch that go beyond friendship.

The blonde witch is the same as the black-haired little witch.

"How strange! Which two of them are actually a couple?" Florin wondered.

However, the most unusual thing is not their relationship, but that even now, 20 minutes have passed, and they haven't exchanged a single word.

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Almost two months have passed since the underwater journey. Back in the castle, Ryan has spent most of his time using the main god to reorganize the layout.

From a magical perspective, Smith Castle is practically invincible, having even defeated Voldemort three times.

However, from a physical point of view, this castle was not built overnight. It was completed by multiple Smith working together to fill in the gaps and took a thousand years, so the layout is not very reasonable.

Plantations and pastures should be located closer to the inner perimeter of the castle to avoid being poisoned through food.

The outermost tower, presumably for receiving mail, is itself a natural fortress, situated deep in a canyon. During wartime, even flight was prohibited; any wizard attempting to attack Smith would be teleported here, fall to their death, and become trapped.

After resolving the layout issues, Penelope returned from France just before the start of the school year in September, while Kate wrote letters whenever she had free time, hinting that she wanted to discuss Atlantis again.

To welcome Penelope back to France, the three agreed to meet at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour at 8 a. m. on Monday, August 15, 1988.

Ryan finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing her for the first time.

Penelope didn't get tanned. In the original book, Hermione went to France during the summer after her second year and got a brown tan. Luckily, Penelope is still fair and delicate.

Thinking about this makes me laugh.

In my previous life, the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was performed at the London Palace Theatre, which tells the story 19 years after Harry defeated Voldemort.

All three main characters will appear as adults. Harry in the series is a man who is overworked in the Ministry of Magic, has a wife, and three school-aged children.

J. K. J.K. Rowling, one of the authors of Harry Potter, made Hermione a black woman for the sake of political correctness, completely disregarding the fact that Hermione was white in the original story, and how could a black woman be tanned brown?

True non-racism doesn't mean forcibly inserting other races' stories into them, but rather writing relevant stories in a truly equal manner, showing them as they were at the time.

Face history squarely and accept history.

Later, J.K. Rowling publicly opposed the idea that "transgender people" were taking away women's rights, and was subsequently expelled from Harry Potter, removed from the two largest Harry Potter websites in the world, and all her pictures and text were deleted.

Now it was her turn to be knocked down by the iron fist of political correctness.

"Oh, my poor Hermione." Ryan gave Penelope, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, a warm hug, while lost in thought.

Then, Ryan was pulled into Mind Games by Penelope.

"Damn it! It must be Kate," Ryan couldn't help but complain.

Thus began a new Mind Games, this time in the deep sea, using the previous trip as material. Penelope and Kate were dressed as Merpeople, while Ryan was dressed as the Aquaman from his previous life.

Penelope and Kate blushed at their own appearance, unable to contain their awe at the realistic and beautiful underwater world around them, while Ryan feasted his eyes on the sight.

Every physical detail was Kate Penelope's own subconscious, and it was no different from the real thing.

"Ryan, where are the weapons?" Kate quickly adjusted to the situation and was greatly disappointed that there were no cool weapons.

"The Merpeople's weapon, do you even need to guess?" Ryan casually pointed to the Lobalug that was about 10 inches in size next to him.

"Lobalug is an aquatic organism that lives on the seabed of the North Sea."

"It is a simple animal, ten inches long, consisting of a flexible nozzle and a venom sac."

"The Lobalug uses its venom sac as a weapon. When threatened, it contracts the venom sac and uses venom to drive away the attacker."

"The venom of the Lobalug doesn't easily dissipate in water and won't harm other creatures. Merpeople take advantage of this and use it as a weapon, similar to a water gun." Penelope easily recited the information about the Lobalug, but judging from her slightly reddened ears, she was probably trying to distract herself from her clothes.

"Do you speak the language of Merpeople?" Ryan asked.

"No," Kate said.

"The Merpeople's language is adapted for use underwater. This language is very strange; on land, it sounds sharp and shrill, but underwater it is no longer shrill."

"Just like Miranda Gossack's the Book of Spells has been translated into 72 languages, one of which is Mermish." Penelope still looked absent-minded. At this moment, she was like a search engine, inputting questions and getting answers that were not entirely irrelevant, but did not fit the question.

"Just say you don't know."

"The current game is set up so that you can shoot Grindylow. Every time you hit him, you get the pronunciation of a Mermish word."

"Oh, right, besides language, there's also a chance to get summon cards." Ryan conjured up a card with a shimmering gold edge. On it was a blue creature with a head and front body like a horse, and a tail and hind body like a large fish— Hippocampus.

"What's the use?" That's Kate.

"Shouldn't this be green?" This was Penelope, so knowledgeable that, to be honest, she didn't seem like Muggle-born little witch at all.

"This can increase your speed so you can keep up with the ever-increasing speed of Grindylow."

"Alright, enough talk, let's begin!" With Ryan's command, Kate and Penelope each had two Lobalug in their hands.

This is the penultimate chapter before jumping directly to the year Harry Potter enrolled.