Felix watched the little witch leave. He stood in front of the window and could vaguely see through the darkness that in the distance, a pair of little wizards were holding hands and sitting together, enjoying a leisurely weekend.
"Peaceful times..." He chewed on this word with a little emotion. It was not until he returned to Hogwarts that he realized the impact of the war belatedly.
When the Dark Lord was rampant, Felix was still in the Muggle orphanage leading the older children to beat up the little hooligans from the neighboring school. It can be said that he was very happy. By the time he entered school, the Dark Lord had been dead for nearly a year.
At that time, the wizarding world was in chaos - Death Eaters were busy getting away with crimes, ambitious people were eager to seize the power vacuum, victims kept asking for compensation, and fugitives who were unwilling to fail hid in the gutter to plan a counterattack. Of course, all this did not affect him. What affected him was the little wizards in Hogwarts.
At that time, the pure-blood families in the wizarding world tried their best to distance themselves from the Dark Lord. Discrimination? Absolutely not, wizards and Muggles are one family. But what it was like back home and how to educate the next generation might be completely different.
He entered Hogwarts in this situation, and then -
hush! Don't make a sound, look what we found, a Muggle-born Slytherin! Come and bully him!
Well, this was the psychological activity of most Slytherin students at that time.
When the dinner was over, Felix was ready to use his expertise to make friends with his roommates, and a Slytherin said to him with disgust, "Get out, despicable mudblood!"
Until Felix subconsciously threw a petrified slap at the other party, he still didn't understand the meaning of the word, what was going on?
Both sides were a little confused at the time.
Fortunately, there was only one stubborn person, and the other two roommates had a terrible low moral value, and they could answer ten questions with one question, so when he lay in bed that night, he had already had a certain estimate of his future situation.
He realized that today's conflict was not the end of the incident, but the beginning of everything.
The subsequent development was as he expected, but fortunately, he was defeated in just one week, ugh! He forced himself to make friends with the freshmen. They said more than once in public that Felix was a good person, not only talented but also helpful.
Although he could not beat the seniors for the time being, they would not curse him because of the professors and school rules. After all, fighting between the same grade could be considered friction and conflict, but if the seniors attacked the juniors, they might be expelled.
And when he showed his strong magical talent, there were not many people who wanted to cause trouble.
It must be said that Slytherin was not short of smart people.
But the danger was not only in school. Felix could not remember how many death threats he received during his time at school, but he clearly remembered that the first one was at the Christmas party in his first year.
It was an anonymous shouting letter. Later, he guessed that the sender might be the parent of a freshman he had beaten.
But he still stayed in school cautiously that year, and the method was to overthrow the second-year Slytherin - this could not be blamed on him, because they started it first, and he just took advantage of the situation and followed the trend.
But he didn't expect that the death threats would become more and more serious. At the beginning of his second year, a batch of red howlers flew towards him. The whole hall was filled with "You dirty mudblood, get out of Slytherin!" or "Don't let me see you, or I will wipe out the shame of Slytherin with my own hands!" The
little wizards who were eating at the time were all terrified. Headmaster Dumbledore was particularly serious. He personally checked the remains of the howlers. But it was difficult to find out the source of such things. The owls were rented and the sounds were disguised.
Frankly speaking, he was in a dilemma. He wanted to study magic with peace of mind, but things were not always as he expected.
Felix had to continue his plan to make friends, making more friends and fewer enemies. For this, he had to endure misunderstandings - people who didn't know the truth thought he was retaliating.
Not long after, he found a third-year Slytherin who disliked him very much, and sent him to the school hospital for three weeks under the pretext of "seeking guidance."
Afterwards, he actively visited the patient and felt very sad for his "mistake", after all, it was an accident!
Professor, I am really heartbroken, you want to deduct my points? Deduct, I can bear it...
Felix suddenly found that if you want to make trouble for Slytherin, it is really easy, you just need to scold his family as garbage in a place where no one is.
This fishing method has been tried and tested.
After a few times, the third-year Slytherin was convinced - the most stubborn roommate he met was still that roommate, but even so stubborn, after sleeping on the floor for seven days, he happily accepted his friendship.
In the third year, he dealt with the last stubborn seventh-year Slytherin. When he finished all this, he really felt a sense of pleasure of beating monsters, upgrading, and graduating at the full level.
But he still didn't dare to leave the school, he still had to deal with the annual death threat.
So, he spent a whole year desperately grinding out two sixth-level magic, and his magic theory was only fourth level at that time!
Fortunately, everything was worth it. With the sixth-level "fainting" and "armor protection", he solved seven idiots who tried to attack him during the summer vacation of the fourth grade. These people are still living in Azkaban! The
family duel at the beginning of the fifth grade was not a big deal in his eyes. There was no formal duel at all - Shafik was picked up the next day.
From then on, he lived a comfortable life until graduation.
After graduation, Felix did not choose places like the Ministry of Magic and Gringotts. He was not interested in working there.
Good prospects? High salary?
Well, he can finally say with confidence that I am not interested in money.
He wanted to stay in school, but unfortunately, Headmaster Dumbledore rejected him.
"You are still young, go out and see more, or work for two years."
Felix finally chose to travel around the world. He felt the magic customs of different countries like punching a card, especially the black market in different countries, where there were many ancient magic manuscripts and alchemical products, and he urgently needed these things.
He also met some interesting (black) wizards because of this. Everyone covered their faces, so that they would not judge people by appearance, but each would take what they needed.
When he encountered black people eating black people, he would also happily test his own magic on them. It must be emphasized here that he has not personally ended any life, but he has created a bunch of idiots - I hope that relatives and friends will take them back for treatment.
His "thinking hut" has also taken shape little by little.
After the tour, Felix applied for a teaching position at Hogwarts again, but was rejected. However, it seems that he has no interest in the Ministry of Magic, and Dumbledore suggested that he live in the Muggle world for a while.
Felix chose to accept it. On the one hand, he thought that this might be Dumbledore's "assessment" of him. After all, what he did during his time at school was not really a "professor seedling"; on the other hand, he also wanted to pave a way for himself and create a scholarly identity for himself - so that even if the path to becoming a professor was not feasible, he could communicate with other famous wizards.
He was very confident about this. On Muggle research, he could say one thing and he could learn quickly.
If he was not afraid of shocking the magic world, he could write ten Muggle research books a year. But in the end, he decided to be patient and make his behavior more reasonable.
In the past two years, the frequency of his correspondence with Dumbledore increased dramatically. Felix kept sending him some research manuscripts, and the two exchanged letters on Muggle issues.
This gave him hope of returning to Hogwarts.
Although he failed to find a job for the third time in the middle... He still felt miserable when he recalled this journey. But from the letters, he realized that Dumbledore's attitude had quietly changed.
The next step was to publish books. His books received a mediocre response in the market, but in the eyes of professionals, they were of great reference value.
Felix Hepp was also given the title of "expert in Muggle issues".
Thanks to this, in the third year after his graduation, he established pen pal relationships with many famous wizards, which benefited him a lot.
The Ministry of Magic of some small countries also invited him to serve as the director of the department dealing with Muggle issues, but he declined.
Three years after graduation, he finally received an interview invitation from Hogwarts.
Everything started here...
Felix stood in front of the window, watching the sun set, and a ray of afterglow stuck to the horizon.