This year's Halloween Eve is a rare good day for most Hogwarts students. Everyone can go to Hogsmeade village to have fun for a day, and then participate in the Halloween feast in the evening, which is simply double the happiness.
This is no exception for Albert.
This is the last time to relax before attending the magic school potions tournament.
After breakfast, after meeting Isobel in the hall, the two left the castle together and headed towards the school gate.
Two cloaked Dementors stood guard on both sides of the school gate, making the students passing by feel fear and uneasiness.
As soon as he approached the gate, Albert could feel an inexplicable chill coming towards him.
"Don't worry, I'm here." Albert reached out and held Isobel's hand, pulling out the wand from his pocket and summoning the Patronus, letting it transform into a ball of light that surrounded the two of them to prevent the Dementors from affecting Isobel.
His actions attracted many curious looks from the students. Everyone was curious about what the light balls surrounding Albert and Isobel were, but no one came over to say hello.
When passing through the gate, Albert could clearly feel that the two Dementors were intentionally or unintentionally sucking on the happy emotions of the passing students. They could undoubtedly have a good meal.
There was a cold wind blowing outside. This was the impact of the large number of Dementors around Hogwarts, otherwise the weather would not have become so bad.
The hike to Hogsmeade was not a pleasant experience, and many students had to wrap their faces with scarves to prevent the exposed skin from being hurt by the cold wind.
"Use Apparate."
After a distance from the school, Albert took Isobel to a deserted place and cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself. Then, he used Apparition to come to the vicinity of Hogsmeade village.
"Trace is such a big trouble." Albert muttered. "But, after we have a house here, we won't be restricted in using magic."
Before reaching adulthood at the age of seventeen, the only way to break free from the constraints of the Trace and use magic without being troubled by the wizarding world is to use magic in the wizarding world.
Although the use of magic will also be detected by the Ministry of Magic, they cannot determine who is using magic.
After all, in the wizarding world, anyone could use magic around him, so the Ministry of Magic would naturally not cause trouble for Albert.
"I thought you studied it?"
"Although the power of the contract can be confused and shielded, it's too late. If a powerful Confusion Spell had been used on the paper when it was signed, it should have been possible to deal with it, but now... it's a little too late." Albert reached out and held Isobel's hand, and they walked towards Hogsmeade village together.
"You won't remove the Disillusionment Curse?"
"Not yet. Let's go check on our house first. Beetee should have taken care of it for us."
There are no Dementors around Hogsmeade village. Perhaps because they knew that some students would come to Hogsmeade for a visit, the Ministry of Magic withdrew the Dementors here to avoid any bad things from happening.
After entering Hogsmeade, the two walked to a secluded corner on the east side of the village.
That's one of the reasons why that house is so cheap.
There was a small yard outside the house. The plants in the yard were withered and warm yellow light shone through the windows. When the two walked in, Albert raised his hand and knocked on the door five times.
This is a code.
"Master, are you invisible?"
The house-elf opened the door and stared into the air in confusion.
“I don’t really want people to know this is my house.”
Only after the door was closed again did Albert remove the Disillusionment Spell from the two of them.
The house-elf immediately brought them milk tea and desserts.
"It looks good here. Although it's a bit old, with a little renovation, it will still be a nice place." Albert looked around the empty hall and was quite satisfied. At least the money was not wasted.
"What are you going to do here?" Isobel was even more curious about this question. She never thought that Albert would spend money to buy such a place for no reason.
"Laboratory." Albert didn't intend to hide it.
"What are you going to build here?"
“From now on, even during summer vacation, I can come here anytime through the Vanishing Cabinet.” Albert pointed to the suitcase on the table.
"The Vanishing Cabinet?"
"Yes, the Vanishing Cabinet. That thing was very popular during the First Wizarding War."
Albert opened the suitcase, revealing a staircase leading down.
The interior of the suitcase had been expanded by a traceless extension charm, and contained two vanishing cabinets.
"You are well prepared." Isobel said with a strange expression: "If the Ministry of Magic knew about this, they would definitely throw you into Azkaban prison."
"They don't know, and they won't know," Albert said disapprovingly.
Back in the hall, the two of them toured the house together.
Kitchen, study, bedroom, and utility room...
The house was empty, with only some old furniture left.
Albert plans to get some new ones from the Muggles.
"I still prefer a spacious place." Isobel stood by the bedroom window, looking at the yard below, and said to Albert with her head tilted, "It's not safe here. Once chaos occurs in the wizarding world, we may be targeted at any time."
"They won't find this place. I'll cast a Fidelius Charm on this house, and no one will suspect us."
At that time, it was a house-elf who came forward to buy the house.
Who else would associate a house-elf with a Muggle wizard
"We always need a place to practice," Albert said mysteriously, "You can also use this place as our secret base. We can meet here anytime in the future and do what we like."
"You always like to keep things mysterious. Perhaps this is a common problem among fortune tellers." Isobel looked at the undisguised heat in Albert's eyes and moved her face closer.
"If things are really bad, just leave England!" she whispered.
Isobel was not a fool. She could naturally see that Albert was not optimistic about the future prospects. At least there would be a "period of chaos" in the future, and he was actively preparing for it in order to deal with possible dangers in the future.
"Don't worry, the situation is not as bad as you think." Albert put his face close to the girl's ear and whispered to comfort her, "Otherwise, I would have taken you away long ago."
In the following time, Albert and Isobel discussed the renovation of the house in the hall.
He planned to make this place into two floors, like Nico's house, where one would need the owner's permission to enter.
Then, he also planned to use the traceless extension spell to expand the rooms in the house.
An ordinary wizard family would naturally not dare to do this, but Albert had no intention of letting other people enter the house, so he was naturally not worried about breaking the law.
Once Albert cast the Fidelius Charm on the house, no one could find it.
Even if someone came from the Ministry of Magic, they could only stand on the street and stare.