[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-261":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250499,4210,"Chapter 261: Duel","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-261",261,"\u003Cp>Harry is back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news exploded like a bomb, causing everyone who had planned to stay overnight at the pub to rush out from the second floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, since they hadn’t brought any Jin Jin Jialong, their overnight expenses were sponsored by Jia Jia Siting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good heavens! Harry, what happened to you? We haven’t received a single reply from you in nearly a month.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone sat around the dim, modest bar counter, and Luo En was the first to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I encountered a monster...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry began describing everything he had experienced, and the others occasionally gasped in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>En was preparing to return to Maige Villa; it was only ten o’clock, not particularly late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before going back, he needed to settle Harry in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo En was the first to invite Harry, followed by Jia Jia Siting and Nawei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after glancing at En, Harry ultimately chose Luo En—Luo En was his first friend, and always made him feel more at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Luo En realize how late it was; he hurriedly pulled Harry out of the Leaky Cauldron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came Jia Jia Siting and Hemin; their parents were even waiting outside the pub for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Nawei vanished through the fireplace. Only then did En mount his broom and streak across the sky like a meteor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After rescuing Harry, the group frequently wrote letters to each other, and Maige Villa’s living room was always filled with all kinds of owls flying in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>En paid no attention to this; instead, he counted the days—another month was nearly over, and he would soon complete the first step of his Animagus transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, the Fairy Workshop would welcome its second opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As usual, En practiced Transfiguration by the Black Lake, levitating a stone and instantly transforming it into a stone guardian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its height was still very low—barely three meters—and far shorter than Professor McGonagall’s stone pillars, which stood four or five meters tall; moreover, Professor McGonagall’s pillars possessed enhanced durability—they could leap from several stories high without sustaining any damage, something ordinary stones could never achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>En’s stone guardians could not do such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suspected that Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration, even among masters, surpassed the expert level—just one step higher, and it would nearly reach Headmaster Dumbledore’s standard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he grew tired from practice, his thoughts began to drift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dobby appeared, reminding him that the Basilisk was about to be released from the Chamber of Secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make Basilisk cookies and block the danger, he needed at least the same strength as the Basilisk itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was: where exactly did his strength lie?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had experienced few battles; he had rushed through encounters with trolls and professors’ trials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, they offered no useful reference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When sunlight streamed into the room, En slowly turned his gaze toward Marcus Maige, who was sipping tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had heard from Professor McGonagall that the old wizard Marcus Maige had once been an Auror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a young wizard’s training request, Marcus Maige found no reason to refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even happily lifted his beard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the young wizard was exceptionally gifted, Marcus Maige himself had once been an Auror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After enduring heart-wrenching pain, he had once channeled his rage into fighting against the Dark Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the Dark Lord was rising for the first time; Death Eaters committed ever more atrocities, using intimidation and bribes to recruit wizards, gradually escalating into open violence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against those who resisted, they ruthlessly used Unforgivable Curses to massacre them; this terror even led to many innocent Muggles being murdered “for amusement.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, Barty Crouch, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement under the Ministry of Magic, issued an extraordinary order—authorizing Aurors to use Unforgivable Curses to interrogate Death Eaters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could imagine the severity of Voldemort’s impact at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus Maige was one of the Aurors who fought relentlessly throughout those ten years and survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His difference from today’s Aurors was that he had endured the baptism of war and fought on the most dangerous battlefields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after being injured, his strength had not declined much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only regret was that he could not find a successor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He refused to let his children go to those dangerous battlefields, for he could not endure another such soul-crushing grief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he also knew that if you love a child, you must teach him to face danger, to strengthen his wings, to equip him with the ability to protect himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when he possesses sufficient talent and is destined to confront fate and shoulder responsibility—you cannot forever shield him like a hen protecting her chicks. You must train him like an eagle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on, child! Show me your strongest magic! Don’t worry about hurting me—I’ve seen it all as a veteran Auror—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus stood on an endless field not far from the farm, a vast expanse he had fortified with a Barrier—undoubtedly an excellent place to train young wizards in real combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll give it my all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brooch hummed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>En’s eyes sharpened; his wand moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not speak the incantation, so he could only use the Silent Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this did not weaken his power much; on the contrary, nearly all the spells he excelled at had reached the Silent Spell level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burst of flame erupted from his wand tip, growing within seconds into a two-meter-tall fire dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus watched the dragon roar toward him, his body trembling slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even he had never seen such a sight—was this really his adorable child, a first-year wizard?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Finite!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red light struck the dragon but did not immediately dispel it—instead, scales like a lizard’s skin instantly appeared across its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was multiple Transfiguration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus did not hesitate—he prepared to Apparate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t move at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, En had already raised his wand; the Barrier Charm, cast silently and instantly at a master level, could hold back even an elite Auror like Marcus for several seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a spell-combination technique taught to him by Professor Flitwick, granting him the ability to cast two spells simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus was genuinely stunned now, but his gaze instantly sharpened. He broke free from the Barrier Charm and roared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Protego!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A transparent shield rose with his incantation, blocking the now-shrunken dragon—but the dragon still roared, hurling him far away and kicking up clouds of dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Close call—nearly got knocked out...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus’s disheveled figure emerged from the dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to take this duel with full seriousness, En sat down heavily on the ground far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandpa Marcus is amazing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcus heard a mature voice say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His old face flushed red.\u003C\u002Fp>",1111,"2026-06-19T10:00:41.888Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1093eb040f303342407499ea14f13c0acb8e28887b32e8dd542096c35de7e94e","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-262","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-260",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]