"Andy, hurry up and come down for breakfast, I don't want to say it a second time!"
Hearing the shouts coming from downstairs, Andy Collins rubbed his eyes in a daze and struggled to get up from his bed.
The Ottery St. Catchpole Village, located in Devon, along the River Otter, was a small village where wizards and muggles lived in mixed communities.
As of today, Andy has been living in this village for ten whole years.
Speaking of which, when Andy learnt that he had travelled to the Harry Potter Wizarding World, he was only surprised for a short second before decisively accepting the fact that he had reincarnated in the wizarding world.
After all, in Andy's previous life, transmigration and reincarnation was no longer a novelty.
It was no big deal.
'If I had known, I would've memorised the entire Harry Potter Book collection back then!'
It was not the first time Andy regretted this matter.
Although Harry Potter was a bestseller all over the world, Andy had only heard of it in his previous life but had never read the books.
After all, it was an English novel.
As for the series of Harry Potter films...
Well, Andy had only seen the first part of the films.
When Andy saw that the first film's villain, Quirrell, who could set a fire ablaze with a snap of his fingers, chose to strangle Harry Potter with his hands, he only felt that his IQ had been greatly insulted.
Was the director's brain kicked by a donkey, or was Quirrell's head caught in a door?
Andy still hadn't figured that question out.
Does he really have the brain of a troll?
Moreover, Quirrell actually thought that he could kill Harry Potter by having him fall off a flying broomstick with so many professors around, what the hell was he thinking?
Did Voldemort really eat his brain?
And there were more than a few brain-dead plot points in the film.
"Hey!"
Andy sighed.
Right now, it was too late to think about all this.
Thump thump thump!
After jogging all the way downstairs, Andy stopped when he passed by the mirror.
His fluffy brown curls were slightly dishevelled, and there was still a hint of drowsiness in his royal blue eyes. He rubbed his face and thought, well, it's going to be another beautiful day for the handsome me.
"So lazy!" Isabel Collins, who had long been sitting on a chair waiting for her meal, stuck her tongue out and made a face at Andy.
Bam!
After knocking the little girl's head, Andy snorted and sat opposite to Isabel, lazily saying, "Day after day, you just know how to eat, when you become a ball of fat, I will push you to go to Hogwarts for school."
"You're the one who will be fat as a ball!"
The little girl fiercely glared at Andy, then turned her head to Helen Collins and complained,
"Mum, Andy is picking on me again."
"Then you beat him senseless!"
Helen said in a good-natured manner, waved her wand, and the already prepared food flew up into the air, after being automatically filled on the plates, it steadily landed on the dining table.
"Dad, what's the news today?" Andy asked, looking at Kyle Collins.
Kyle set the Daily Prophet aside and said in a somewhat excited tone, "The paper says that the boy who survived the greatest tragedy - Harry Potter - is going to school this year as well, in the same year as you."
Right!
Andy moved back to England with his family when he was a year old, and having lived here for a whole decade, he is fully aware of just how big of a name 'Harry Potter' had become.
In the words of his previous life, he was immortalised in history.
And it was all because of one man - Voldemort!
In Andy's past life, many Harry Potter fans claimed that Voldemort was no match for the first Dark Lord, Gellert Grindelwald.
Voldemort was a terrorist at best.
However, it is precisely because Voldemort is a terrorist that he brings fear to the wizarding world beyond Grindelwald.
Just like how people feared Voldemort, but not Dumbledore, who was stronger than him.
"How nice, I have to wait..."
Isabel wiggled her fingers and silently counted one, two, three...
Then said with some dissatisfaction, "I have to wait six more years before I can go to school, and at that time Harry Potter will soon graduate."
"Andy, can you get an autograph of Harry Potter for me?" Isabel looked at Andy with a gleam in her eye.
You're asking me to get an autograph from an eleven-year-old kid?
Won't it embarrass me?
"It's only meaningful if you ask for your own autograph!"
Andy said in a good-natured manner, "When you go to school, Harry Potter happens to be in his seventh year..."
When he said this, Andy suddenly realised something.
Going to school in the same year as Harry Potter would be tragic though, after all, the seven years were plagued with disasters. By enrolling when Harry Potter was in his seventh year, he worried that Harry Potter would be duelling with Voldemort as soon as she arrived at the school.
Could first-year Isabel be able to defend herself against the minions of Voldemort?
I've heard that the final showdown took place at Hogwarts.
His little sister is so unfortunate.
Andy scratched his head and didn't take this to heart.
As survivors of the last wizarding war, his Mother Helen and Father Kyle had their own way of surviving.
At the peak of Voldemort's reign, Andy had been lying in his crib and had seen it all first-hand.
At that time, his family were not in Devon, but in a house in France.
According to Kyle, he was in charge of the task of convincing the French Ministry of Magic to send Aurors to support the war in the British Magical community.
At that time, Kyle had just graduated and was not yet an employee of the British Ministry of Magic, however, after he made contact with a distant relative in a high position in the French Ministry of Magic, he became an employee of the Department of International Magical Co-operation of the British Ministry of Magic.
So he stayed there until the end of the war.
And that job lasted until now, more than a decade later.
His current boss was Barty Crouch.
If Voldemort made a comeback, Andy would probably be left at Hogwarts - there was Dumbledore, after all - but Kyle and Helen would definitely run off to France with Isabel.
Well...after all, there was a school of magic in France, which was a perfect excuse.
The family ate breakfast, Kyle went to work at the Ministry of Magic through the family fireplace, and Helen waved her wand, and the messy dining room table automatically tidied itself up, rags wiping back and forth on it, and plates cleaning themselves in the sink.
'How magical!' Andy mused in his mind.
No matter how many times he saw it, the magic of the Harry Potter world made Andy yearn for it.
If one looked at it solely from the perspective of being powerful or destructive, the magic of the Harry Potter world was actually not too strong.
But if you look at it from the perspective of being magical and as well as being comprehensive, the level of magic in this world is very high.
There were quite a few wizard books at home, and Andy had already read most of them over the past few years. Coupled with his parents' explanations, Andy already had a general understanding of this world's magic.
It was just that the magic power of young wizards under the age of eleven was still unstable, and casting spells too early was detrimental to the body, so Andy hadn't learnt a single spell until now.
"Andy, you take your sister and teach her to recognise words, I'm going to prepare a cauldron of potion, I can't be disturbed."
Isabel made a face, Helen glared at her and said, "If you don't study seriously enough, I'll give you one meal a day from now on."
"Got it!" Isabel replied feebly.
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Compared to the muggle world, the education in the wizarding community seems to be stuck in a few hundred years ago.
There is no primary school or university here, only a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that is equivalent to a combination of a middle school and a high school, and the teaching time is only seven short years.
Moreover, the teaching standard was quite worrying!
Andy Collins vaguely remembered that a flying class professor couldn't even handle flying accidents when he watched the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in his previous life.
What she was called has been forgotten, anyway, the plot was quite watered down.
Children born in the wizarding community generally wouldn't go to muggle schools, they believed it wouldn't serve much of a purpose.
In the past eleven years, the only thing that his Mum Helen had taught Andy was how to read, some simple arithmetic, and general knowledge of the wizarding world.
Other than that, Andy was expected to read books on his own.
Now Isabel has also reached the age of reading and writing, so the task of teaching Isabel to read and write fell on Andy's shoulders.
Who told Andy to display his talent and love of learning all along?
Kyle and Helen had stated more than once that Andy would definitely be sorted into Ravenclaw.
"Little miss, let's go!"
After patting Isabel's little head, he said, "If you can't finish today's study task, I'm afraid you'll be hungry tonight."
"Baddy Andy!"
Isabel covered her head and glared at Andy's back with a pout. She was hesitant about sneaking away, but when she thought of what would happen after sneaking away, the little girl sighed, hung her head and followed Andy's arse towards the study.
Andy's family in this life was a standard ordinary wizarding family, a family of four, living in a village where wizards and muggles inhabited.
Kyle worked at the Ministry of Magic, and Helen stayed home to take care of the two children.
However, she was a master potion maker, and would usually boil up some potions and send them to Diagon Alley to sell, earning more money than Kyle had earned in months of work.
Andy would also help out sometimes and make preparations.
Although St Catchpole village is said to be where wizards and muggles coexist, the muggles basically live together, while the wizards are scattered around the village, and usually hardly come and visit the muggles.
Kyle and Helen had also strictly forbidden Andy and Isabel from going to play with the muggle children.
And the nearest wizarding neighbour to Collins House was two hills away to encounter.
This resulted in Andy and Isabel having very few friends.
It wasn't until Andy got a little older and Kyle bought Andy a child's version of a flying broom that Andy was able to fly to the neighbours' house occasionally to 'see the world'.
Other than that, it was just following Kyle and Helen to meet outsiders when they visited their friends' houses.
All in all, the young wizard's childhood was both laid back and boring.
"Well, that's enough for today's task." Stretching his back, Andy closed his book.
Teaching a child to read and write was a tiring job, especially since this child was also disobedient and often behaved lazily.
"Andy, let's go play hide and seek!"
Isabel felt all her fatigue sweep away, and her whole body was in high spirits, as if the person who had lost her temper with Andy before wasn't her.
"I found a secret base yesterday, by hiding there you will definitely not be able to find me." The little girl said mischievously.
"I hid your snacks last night."
Andy still has a book to read that he didn't finish last night, seeing this little doll pestering, he had no choice but to resort to a desperate move. "You won't have a snack this week if you can't find it."
"Andy-"
Isabel was on the verge of being infuriated, Baddy Andy had hidden her snacks again, she had obviously kept a tight guard. "You wait for me!"
After sending away the explosive little girl, Andy pulled out a book from the bookshelf but didn't flip it open immediately.
'System!'
A semi-transparent virtual interface surfaced in front of Andy's eyes.
The system interface was very simple, in the very centre was a sphere pattern, the sphere was transparent and contained close to one-third red liquid.
Below the sphere was a row of words.
[Potential Points: 1]
From awakening the system at the age of six with a magical outburst to today, for five whole years, Andy had only saved up one potential point, and so far, he couldn't bring himself to add it to his attributes.
The system didn't have intelligent prompts, so Andy still couldn't figure out how the red liquid in the sphere actually increased.
The left and right sides of the sphere were personal data.
***
Left side data:
[Charm: 3]
[Transfiguration: 4]
[Dark Magic: 2]
[Alchemy: 3]
[Divination: 0]
***
Right side data:
[Magic: 2]
[Soul: 4]
[Mind: 3]
[Thinking: 3]
[Will: 2]
***
The function of the system was clear at a glance, it was nothing more than a point-adding system, very much in line with the noble status of a time traveller.
However, just from the data given by the system so far, although the system did not give a specific evaluation, Andy still thought that he just had a medium-level talent.
After all, Kyle and Helen weren't any famous great wizards, they were average students when they went to school, and Helen was only good in Potions class, as for Kyle - he could basically be said to have no distinctive qualities at all.
It was already the beginning of June 1991 today, and according to the past routine, an owl would deliver the Hogwarts acceptance letter next month.
So even if the figure of [Potential Points: 1] looked much better than [Potential Points: 0] by far too much, Andy now had to consider the issue of adding points.
As for which attribute to add, Andy had already decided it long ago.
Charms Talent was undoubtedly the most crucial thing when it came to most of the magic spells, Andy decided to add up the Charms Talent first, and then consider the problem of adding points for other attributes.
With a thought -
'Insufficient potential points!'
The system that had been unresponsive all along finally gave a response, only this response almost made Andy uninstall the system.
'Screw your arse, system, do you know how much determination I've mustered to make this decision?'
'How many potential points are needed?'
"..."
The system seemed to be dead.
'Since it's a shortage of potential points, is it an incremental increase like 1, 2, 3, 4, or a doubling like 1, 2, 4, 8?'
'It's fine if it's incremental, but if it's doubling...'
Wouldn't that mean that it would take a full 16 potential points to add from [4] to [5]?
Taking the attribute [Charms: 3] alone, adding from [3] to [4] would require only 4 Potential Points if it was an incremental increase, and 8 Potential Points if it was a doubling increase.
"Well ..."
Andy pondered for a moment.
Although the method of obtaining Potential Points had not been ascertained for the time being, judging from the current difficulty alone, a talent point of [4] might be classified as an ordinary genius.
'So... how exactly are potential points obtained?'
It could be said that Andy had tried all sorts of methods over the past few years, and a few times he had even created an embarrassing dark history, but the red liquid inside the sphere was mostly either indifferent or it had sneakily risen a bit at some point.
So much to the point that Andy was clueless until now.
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