[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-410":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},2250648,4210,"Chapter 410: Face-to-Face Communication","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-410",410,"\u003Cp>Hogwarts had magic that forbade Apparition, so they could not return quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, just as they had at the start, they came to the path leading to Hogsmeade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around was silence; the night was deeply black, with only a few streetlamps and a handful of lit windows visible upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did we complete our mission excellently?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore said, tapping his wand against Wizard Sean’s arm, where the wound still oozing blood had already healed considerably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they had anticipated, the cave was filled with Voldemort’s magic designed to torment intruders, which was why the wound bled continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean lifted his head and saw a star’s glow shining brightly—he recognized it as Jupiter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go. I hope Madam Pomfrey is still awake…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore stepped first onto the path blooming with purple flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the winding path, the wilderness and fields surrounding Hogsmeade came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only a few small wooden cottages here, but their gardens were large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They headed toward the foot of the mountain, where the path back to Hogwarts lay hidden in its shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you have anything for me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore took Wizard Sean’s hand and suddenly smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean nodded; his Wizard’s Book instantly unfurled and spat out a peculiar little object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Dumbledore held the lens in his hand, his smile slowly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Magic Hand Mirror. It enables communication regardless of distance—a variant of the Two-Way Mirror, capable of supporting up to seven people simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It allows face-to-face conversation or voice-only transmission.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean explained in detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, excellent. Very excellent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore took the mirror, and within it soon appeared a miniature Wizard Sean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was reading a book in the mirror’s surface until ripples spread like Black Lake water, and the miniature Wizard Sean closed the book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real Wizard Sean quickly appeared within the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you wish to say anything now, you may speak directly, Headmaster Dumbledore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean “ended” the hand mirror; inside his mirror, the miniature Dumbledore, who had stopped eating lemon drops, resumed eating candy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Wizard Sean’s design to display actions during different call stages, borrowing principles from magical photographs—merely by reconfiguring the internal magical circuitry from auto-trigger to trigger via distinct call phases of the hand mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the miniature Wizard Sean began reading again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This discovery stirred Dumbledore’s keen interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed at the figures in the mirror:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minerva McGonagall had transformed into a tabby cat licking her fur; Severus Snape was brewing a potion; Filius Flitwick was preparing to climb a stack of books as a podium…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, a fascinating creation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hand mirror rippled—Dumbledore had clearly dialed another connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is Minerva asleep?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke as if to himself, yet his gaze rested on Wizard Sean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The remaining copies haven’t been delivered yet…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…This is unusual. I must tell you—perhaps someone awaits it more eagerly than I do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You were pulled straight into my office.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean finished his earlier statement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence quickly fell; not a word was spoken, yet even the shouts of patrons from the Hog’s Head could be heard from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go. We must return to Hogwarts quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore acted as if he had asked nothing, no longer even attempting to inquire about the locket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They passed through the dark, winding alleys they had traversed earlier; the evening breeze brushed past Wizard Sean’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Puckidge the butler was inside the partially open Wizard’s Book, guiding the animals to their proper places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on, come on, little heroes—you’ve accomplished a great task!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean could hear Will muttering enthusiastically to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Except you, you gluttonous pig!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Wizard Sean heard a loud thud and a plaintive grunt from the warthog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voldemort’s potion was meant to inflict great pain upon wizards; the potion Wizard Sean retrieved from the vault, however, induced vigor, joy, and hallucination in those who drank it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, aside from possible unpleasant taste, the animals suffered no ill effects—this was Wizard Sean’s conclusion after checking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hogwarts has anti-Apparition wards against Puckidge, but the cave did not… I’m glad you noticed that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore’s voice drifted slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, Voldemort despised house-elf behavior, as many pure-blood wizards do… They never imagined elves might possess magic he lacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed corpses at the Black Lake’s bottom, but corpses are nothing to fear, Wizard Sean—just as darkness is nothing to fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Voldemort did not think so. He secretly feared both.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He revealed once again his lack of wisdom. When we face death and darkness, what we fear is not the things themselves, but only the unknown.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Dumbledore’s voice drifted gently, they finally returned to the familiar Hogwarts Castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Pomfrey had not yet rested; Wizard Sean, unusually, lay in the hospital wing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voldemort had always advanced further than any other wizard in the branch of curses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Dumbledore could not fully remove the weakness caused by the curse; Madam Pomfrey was astonished and quietly asked Wizard Sean where he had been injured—she had never seen such a vile magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Pomfrey forbade Wizard Sean to leave the ward; for a week, he must cooperate with the curse removal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Headmaster Dumbledore, however, smiled and granted him two weeks’ leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leave did not actually affect Wizard Sean’s studies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Wizard’s Book had been created, many of Wizard Sean’s study tasks could be completed within the Wizard’s Cottage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only unfortunate point was that his Magic Hand Mirror could only be delivered by Bai Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the locket…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean took it out and placed it inside a magical box in the Wizard’s Cottage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His plan was progressing steadily; now that he had the locket, he could use it as leverage to get Kreacher’s help in finding the real one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to find Kreacher—that would depend on Harry…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hospital wing had always been silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moonlight seeped through the window, spilling over the locket on the young wizard’s chest and his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a layer of salt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, injured Quidditch players let out low moans, and mechanical devices clicked and clacked as they coupled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mist slowly rose, and when the thin veil enveloped each bed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean opened his bright eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed… the time had come…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today he had much to do in the Borderlands—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speak with Headmaster Dumbledore… investigate the influence of the Cat Club’s ball of yarn… and most importantly, Lady Ravenclaw…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To all dear readers:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caught a cold—taking a day off. Three chapters starting in January.\u003C\u002Fp>",1089,"2026-06-19T10:00:42.198Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6f1792aae6548b49242f0e20ac77c83ee9489a72367c691cb8876d20e616137c","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-411","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-409",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]