Watching all these changes unfold, Tom once again felt overwheld with amazent.
Sotis he truly wanted to pry open Wade's skull and study his brain to see how it was built. And then use the skull as a bowl afterward.
Comparison brings pain.
Next to Wade, the other second-year students felt like a bunch of undergrown trolls.
All the commotion outside didn't affect Wade much.
Even the newly established Moral Education class didn't prompt him to intervene right away.
It was better to wait a little longer.
Only when Professor Slughorn beca thoroughly exhausted by the job would Wade step in to help. That was the best way to achieve the desired effect.
By then, Slughorn would surely be more than happy to hand all the troubleso work over to Wade.
During this period, Wade wasn't idle either. He focused mainly on studying alchemy and the two blueprints the Senior had given him.
After having Toby purchase all the materials and place them in the wizard tower, Wade began attempting alchemy there.
The alchemical collar that could control magical creatures wasn't particularly difficult. After spending so effort, Wade successfully produced a prototype.
The other device, the converter, was much more complicated.
Wade spent several days just to roughly understand its operating principles.
There was no doubt that alchemy was the most complex and the most difficult discipline he had ever encountered.
Not only because the books on alchemy in the library were sowhat outdated, but also because this technical discipline couldn't be mastered with strong mory alone.
Because of this, Wade often had to consult Professor Dumbledore.
This couldn't be helped. Ever since he had outsourced most of the research workload to the Senior, she had less and less free ti to communicate with him. Recently, she had been communicating solely through written ssages.
So for now, getting more direct guidance from her was impossible.
And in addition to being a master of Transfiguration, Dumbledore was also quite a skilled alchemist.
His skill wasn't on the sa level as Nicolas Flal's, but he was more than capable of guiding Wade.
With his senior unavailable, consulting Dumbledore was a very good option.
Naturally, Dumbledore never refused Wade's questions.
In fact, although he trusted Wade, he still preferred that the boy not devote too much energy to Dark Magic. So seeing Wade turn his attention to alchemy made him very pleased.
Because of that, he even took out a manuscript given to him by a certain friend and let Wade study it.
This manuscript, likely from Nicolas Flal, was far better than the outdated alchemy books in the library and helped Wade imnsely.
As ti passed, Wade's grasp of alchemy grew deeper and deeper.
Finally, on the eve of Christmas, Wade followed the blueprint step by step and completed the converter.
"Haah.. finally..."
He looked at the palm-sized sphere in his hand.
To test whether it worked, he urgently needed a source of strong emotion.
Whether it was positive or negative emotion didn't matter, as long as there was enough of it.
Thinking this, Wade slipped out of the Somnolen wizard tower and back into Hogwarts Castle.
The entire castle was filled with the joyful atmosphere of Christmas Eve.
But Wade couldn't harvest any of those emotions. He couldn't just grab these cheerful students and extract their emotional residue directly from their bodies.
Should he… maybe beat Tom up, then catch him while he was full of resentnt and refine him on the spot?
Wade abandoned the idea as soon as it appeared.
Tom had been behaving well lately, and hitting him now felt a bit too heartless. After all, Wade was a good person!
Umm.. well.. it was just that he didn't have a valid excuse to hit him.
Besides, Tom often went to Dumbledore these days to discuss his insights about the magic of love. Wade worried that if he hit him now, the boy might run straight to Dumbledore to complain…
Maybe… he could find a Dentor. Those things fed on positive emotions and were pure negative emotion from head to toe. Perfect experintal material.
In the end, still under a Disillusionnt Charm, Wade knocked on Grindelwald's office door.
Grindelwald opened the door and paused for a mont when he saw no one there.
"It's ," Wade said.
Hearing Wade's voice, Grindelwald's eyes brightened slightly.
He opened the door fully and let Wade inside.
After closing it, Grindelwald smiled. "I haven't seen you in a while. Your magic has improved nicely. This Disillusionnt Charm didn't give you away even to ."
Wade dispelled the charm. "You flatter . It's nothing special, I just practice blindly."
Grindelwald naturally didn't believe that. "Alright then, what brings you here? Don't tell your plan is about to begin?"
"No rush on that. I need to wait until Professor Slughorn can't handle things anymore before I step in," Wade replied.
"Tsk, you really are sharp. Fine, then you didn't co here just to wish an early rry Christmas, did you?"
"Well, that too… but mainly, I need a favor," Wade said.
"Oh? And what kind of favor requires coming to instead of Dumbledore?" Grindelwald asked with interest.
"It's about one of my experints," Wade said vaguely.
"Interesting… what do you need?" Grindelwald imdiately perked up.
Since Wade had co to him, it ant the experint was likely not very "legal."
And when it ca to conducting Dark Magic experints in a school, who could possibly be more qualified than Grindelwald?
After all, he had been expelled from Durmstrang precisely for performing Dark Magic experints that went terribly wrong.
"I need a Dentor. A living Dentor."
"What? A Dentor? Absolutely not!" Grindelwald rejected him on the spot.
"Why not?" Wade asked.
Grindelwald said sternly, "Wade, have a bit of self-awareness. You cannot practice the Patronus Charm. If a Dark wizard tries to force it, sothing terrifying will happen. I'm not letting you die yet."
Wade: ???
"Wait… am I really that evil?" Wade protested.
"What do you think?" Grindelwald looked at him with an amused half-smile. "If Tom ca to asking for a Dentor, I'd give him one imdiately. That child is kindhearted."
"..."
"Are you kidding …" Wade felt personally insulted.
"Actually, I'm the kind one… forget it, there's no explaining this to you!" Wade said helplessly. "I want a Dentor not to learn the Patronus Charm. I already told you, it's for an experint."
"Well… if it's for an experint, that's fine. But don't do anything stupid. You cannot learn the Patronus Charm."
"You really don't need to repeat that," Wade said through a dark expression.
"Ha! I'm just reminding you!" Grindelwald said, then grew serious again. "If it's not for practicing the Patronus Charm, I can get you a Dentor. Azkaban has plenty. But… you have to prove you can control it. Without a Patronus, how do you plan to handle one? Give a convincing reason."
"Bring one first. I'll demonstrate. If you think I can't control it, you can take it back," Wade said.
"Well… taking it back might not be possible," Grindelwald said while rubbing his chin. "If you can't control it, I'll just have to destroy it."
"Hm? Why?"
"Because I can't cast the Patronus Charm either," Grindelwald said with a shrug.
"Pfft. You really do have good self-awareness," Wade snorted.
"That's why I hope you also have so self-awareness and don't go trying the Patronus Charm."
"Can you stop already… I told you it's for an experint!"
"Ha, young man, don't be angry. You want a Dentor, then… as you wish. Just rember not to go back on what you ...promised ."
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