At present, Madam Pince has not yet noticed that three books in the restricted area have been secretly "borrowed" by someone.
Albert was quite concerned about this matter. Every time he went to the library to do his homework, he would pay special attention to whether there were any reports of missing books in the library.
In fact, Albert was worrying too much. The books in the restricted section were locked on the bookshelf with iron chains, and the librarian would not be idle all day to check whether there were any missing books in the restricted section.
After all, the chains used in the restricted area are cast with protective magic, and ordinary students cannot open or break them at all. Maybe someone will run to the restricted area in the middle of the night to read books, but it is not easy to secretly take away the books in the restricted area.
Compared to what Albert cared about, another interesting story had spread in Hogwarts.
It is said that a student got up in the middle of the night for a night walk and made Filch, who was on night patrol, run around in a mess.
The administrator has looked gloomy in recent days.
Well, that was the expression on Filch's face most of the time.
The rumor started when a student happened to pass by Filch and heard him muttering:
I will definitely catch you, I will hang you up and whip you... and so on.
Combining the previous case, everyone quickly concluded that Filch had failed to catch the students who got up in the middle of the night to go out for a walk.
This is undoubtedly a fun thing for Hogwarts students who are desperate to find interesting topics.
Some students quickly made up their own stories and made the matter known to everyone in Hogwarts.
However, the rumors they made up were very consistent with the actual situation.
After being bombarded with rumors, every time the administrator stood in the corridor, he would glare menacingly at every student passing by, trying to find the guy who got up in the middle of the night to stroll around.
Filch's ferocious appearance failed to catch the culprit, but instead scared the younger students.
The administrator had no idea that the culprit behind all this was currently playing snowballs with others outside the castle.
George looked at the snowball suspended in mid-air and asked in surprise, "Have you successfully mastered the barrier spell?"
"Yes, I learned it not long ago." Albert said, "This magic is actually not too difficult."
Fred scoffed at this. One of Albert's lies: This magic is actually not too difficult.
"It's not easy to use magic to accurately hit a moving object." Li Jordan poked the snowball that was suspended in the air, turned his head and looked at Albert, and asked curiously: "How did you develop such a high accuracy?"
"Be careful." Albert warned.
"Be careful about what?"
As soon as he finished speaking, before Li Qiaodan could react, he was hit in the face by a snowball.
"I warned you." Albert spread his hands and explained innocently, "Although the barrier spell can make the target hit by the spell pause, the effect will not last too long."
Of course, if the wizard using it has malicious intentions, it can also have the effect of repelling the enemy, which is related to the wizard's own magical power.
Hahaha!
When the three of them saw this scene, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The next moment, George, who was still laughing, was hit in the face by a snowball, and some of the snow fell into his mouth.
George wiped the snow off his face and threw a snowball at Lee Jordan.
"I dare say that few of the freshmen can use the barrier spell." When Lee Jordan threw a snowball at George, Fred also threw the snowball in his hand at Albert.
Fred's sneak attack failed, and the snowball was suspended in mid-air by a blue-green spark. It was as if someone had pressed the pause button.
"The effect is pretty good." Albert reached out and pushed the snowball to one side. The next second, the snowball hit the snow next to him.
"You can't use magic when playing snowball fights." Fred couldn't help but protest loudly, "You're cheating. How can we still have fun?"
Fred envied Albert's speed in learning magic, and they were all learning the barrier spell. However, unfortunately, except Albert, no one else has successfully mastered the barrier spell so far.
There are a lot of things you need to learn in your daily life. If you want to master a magic, you need to spend a lot of time practicing.
Especially in the first grade, everyone's magical power is still in a period of continuous growth. People like Albert who can master magic quickly seem to be cheating.
"Okay, I don't use magic." Albert put his wand into his pocket, bent down, pinched out a snowball from the thick snow on the ground, and threw it directly on Fred's face as he was about to speak.
"Let me finish what I'm saying," Fred protested. Then, while he was speaking, he was hit by another snowball, this time thrown by Lee Jordan.
"You want to practice the barrier spell with snowballs?" Albert raised his eyebrows and said first, "That's a good idea."
"I… "
This time, before Fred could even open his mouth, he was interrupted by George next to him with a snowball.
"You three bastards," Fred shouted angrily.
"Who of you will go first?" Albert asked, ignoring Fred's protest.
"He first." George and Lee Jordan raised their hands and pointed at Fred.
"Fred, get ready." Albert bent down, made a snowball, and shouted to Fred, "I'm going to throw it."
"What preparations?" Fred was still a little dazed when he was hit in the face by another snowball.
"Of course, it's to practice the barrier spell!" Albert blinked and said, "This is a rare opportunity."
"Yes, this is a rare opportunity." Li Jordan and George nodded in agreement, "We have given you the best opportunity."
"Assholes, I don't want this kind of opportunity. Who of you will come out first and get hit?" Fred glared at the three men unhappily.
"Him." Both of them pointed at Albert.
"No, it's you, George." Fred was very dissatisfied that his brother, who was clearly on the same team with him, was actually taking advantage of him.
"Okay, I'll do it myself." George accepted the reality straightforwardly, but he added, "But let's make it clear first, everyone gets ten tries, and no one is allowed to hide. You can only use barrier spells to block the snowballs."
"I have no objection," Albert said simply.
"Of course you have no objection..."
As a result, as one can imagine, the three of them failed to use barrier spells to block the oncoming snowballs, and were hit by snowballs one after another. These guys especially liked to hit other people in the face.
Li Jordan shook the snow off his face, pointed at Albert and complained, "Let's go together, three of us."
"It's your fault that you don't know how to use the barrier spell." Albert waved his wand and easily stopped the three flying snowballs. He moved to the side and made the snowballs of the three people miss the target.
"What the hell are you doing?" Shanna, who was passing by, was hit by three snowballs.
"It's all Albert's fault. He got out of the way." Li Jordan was the first to put the blame on Albert.
"That's right, that's right," Fred and George agreed.
"Throw snowballs at them, or I'll help you." Albert enthusiastically offered to help.
"Hey, Sana, do you want to have a snowball fight with us?" Fred finally threw a snowball at Albert's face when he wasn't paying attention.
"Albert is so cunning. He actually used magic to block snowballs during a snowball fight." George said nonsense seriously.
Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at the twin brothers and muttered, "Actually, we are practicing magic."
"What magic?" Shanna asked curiously.
"Barrier spell." Albert said without hesitation, "You bastards, you actually want to sneak attack me."
"I'm giving you the opportunity to use the barrier spell," George argued.
"Would you like to practice together?" Fred invited with a smile, "This spell is quite interesting."
"No, I'm going to go ice skating at the lake." Shanna pointed to the ice skates in her hand, "I brought them from home when I went home for Christmas vacation last time.
"Skates?" Albert raised his wand, blocked the snowball that George was trying to attack him with, and said to Sana, "Are you alone?"
"Angelina, no one knows how to play this thing. You know, many wizards only like Quidditch." Shanna said helplessly, "By the way, can you skate?"
"Yes, I can. But I'm just average at this." Albert said casually, "But I thought you didn't like sports."
"That's very rude." Shanna raised an eyebrow and said, "I've been playing this all Christmas vacation. Do you guys want to come with me?"
"Is it interesting?" Fred asked curiously.
"I personally think it's quite interesting. There are also many people skating over at the Black Lake." Sana nodded in the direction of the Black Lake and continued.
"Let's go over and take a look." George was somewhat interested in ice skating.
"You don't have skates, why do you want to join in the fun?" Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at the three of them.
Learning ice skating is not easy. Most beginners who want to learn by themselves will inevitably fall and hurt their butts. Moreover, ice skates are quite dangerous and not very friendly to beginners.
"Don't we still have you?" Li Jordan reached out and pulled Albert. "When the time comes, use Transfiguration to make a pair of shoes. I believe you can do it."
"It's difficult to create shoes like that through Transfiguration." George rejected Lee Jordan's idea. "You should borrow ice skating boots from someone, and then use the Copying Spell to help us get the boots."
Albert was stunned when he heard this. All the people around him were talented!