Chapter 40: Volume Summary

Let me explain the overall setting of this volume.

The title of the first volume is "Harry Potter and the Hopping Pot." Actually, I originally wanted to write "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," and you can see that the specific content is also mostly about the Deathly Hallows, but because "Deathly Hallows" is the title of the original seventh volume, I changed it to the Hopping Pot.

But the seventh volume is about hunting Horcruxes with the Deathly Hallows, and this volume is about finding the Deathly Hallows with the Hopping Pot. It can also be said that this "selling dog meat under a sheep's head" is a subtle tribute to the original work.

The official "Tales of Beedle the Bard" is very popular among children in the Wizarding World. The original work held back until the seventh book to write it, but we felt that since we want to establish that Harry realizes Voldemort is the enemy from the first book (this is also a tribute to "Rationality"), we might as well get to know everything that should be known. It might be a bit overwhelming for Harry, but for the readers, this information should have been known from the start.

When discussing the Tang Dun part, it was actually just to arrange a growth environment different from Stone Wall Primary School, giving Harry a chance to learn some modern knowledge. At the suggestion of fans who like his looks, we added an aristocratic temperament to Harry. It is a bit fake for the KGB to set up Tang Dun, so we set George Crowley as a pro-communist aristocrat who had limited cooperation with the Soviet Union. Specifically, the Soviet Union operated his assets, and he was responsible for adopting Harry and arranging for Soviet personnel to be his tutors.

Speaking of the Muggle education Harry received, we think he should just have these concepts and can try to apply them in the magical world. The Statute of Secrecy still cannot be broken. One of the charming aspects of the Harry Potter worldview is the distant relationship between the two worlds. Writing a Harry Potter world that breaks the Statute of Secrecy is not as good as just writing another magical world.

Then I want to talk about some settings that won't be explicitly stated in the text. We think novels should have hidden threads, but readers who don't want to dig into guesses should also have a place to see the answers.

Yanayev is laying out on both sides, so Voldemort can receive some advice from Soviet dog-headed military advisors. Here, he decided not to take risks himself, and he also admitted that he was not very rational because of the Horcruxes. In short, he let Quirrell and Snape (Snape has never been exposed) plot freely at Hogwarts. Deng Buliduo's miscalculation was that they really set up a Council (instead of just finding an excuse to pretend to go out like in the original work), and then he was besieged as soon as he arrived at the venue, so he couldn't get back in time. The Death Eaters who participated in the siege were all Soviets, because Yanayev knew that they could break out of prison at will later, and Deng Buliduo wouldn't kill people he caught, only send them to prison. Plus, there were people of their own in the Ministry of Magic (Jim Hack), so this group was equivalent to going to Azkaban for recuperation.

In addition, I will add the author's attitude towards Yanayev (Soviet line), which is the original words of a book friend who is a fan of the Soviet Union: For today's China, the dead Soviet Union is the best Soviet Union. But once upon a time, we also had dreams of the Communist International. If conditions permit, I hope to finish this dream in the magical world.

Ge Xuan's character setting is slightly more complicated (to avoid censorship). He traveled from the Ming Dynasty and used his love for the nation to become an "Earth Immortal," which means he is invincible domestically but can never go abroad. The "Heavenly Dynasty" mentioned in the text is the modernized Ming Dynasty, and the "Yingzhou" that may be mentioned later is set as an autonomous prefecture incorporated into the territory. This is also to avoid sensitive topics in reality and to create a fictional background. Harry will not go to the Heavenly Dynasty in the main text. The task Ge Xuan gave Zhang Qiu is to witness the events of the original work; it is not necessary to see every single one, just a requirement for the overall progress, and the events that can be witnessed are overflowing compared to the progress bar.

Snape is a character we think can avoid internal friction. Readers all know that he is actually one of our own, but we still have to pretend not to know in the text, which is very tiring. So Harry used a small cheat to make Snape feel that his talent in Potions is good, greatly reducing his disgust and forming a feeling of "I want to protect you but you'd better stay away from me." In this way, Harry, who doesn't know the truth, can just stay away from him. In fact, during the final confrontation, Snape was watching from the side; he knew that the blood of the enemy he cheated on Halloween was enough, and Voldemort's resurrection was a sure thing, so he didn't care much about the ownership of the Sorcerer's Stone. Then Snape wanted to protect Harry but didn't want to be exposed. He wanted to wait for Harry to pass out before making a move, but he didn't expect Zhang Qiu's teleportation to disrupt his plan. ===== CHAPTER 41 =====