Apart from the unique restlessness of adolescence, everyone's inexplicable anxiety mainly stemmed from the worsening situation in the magic world.
This was something Elwyn did not want to talk about, but he had to.
Every morning, the newspaper brought by the owl would have some bad news. Last week, the bad news was that the conductor of the Knight's bus, Stan Sampark, had been arrested on suspicion of being a Death Eater, but any wizard with an IQ would know that he was not a Death Eater at all.
He was just bragging, and the Ministry of Magic had arrested him to prove that they had not done nothing.
If one really had to say, bragging and spreading rumors was also a crime, and Sampark indeed deserved it in this regard.
After all, he would be released after a while, and without the Soul Eaters, Azkaban would not be able to cause too much damage to him.
Apart from this, there was also the news of Eloise Midgen's withdrawal and the student's parents being harmed by Death Eaters …
The second week of the new semester. Although this week had not yet ended, the terrible situation maintained its original trend and became even worse.
On Tuesday, Hermione told Elwyn that another two students had confirmed their withdrawal.
On Friday, the Hogwarts Magic Newspaper brought everyone a terrible news. A team of five fully armed Auras had been killed during a mission. It was the work of Death Eaters. This was the first death of an Aura since the return of the Lord Voldemort.
The shadow of war and panic had enveloped the entire magic world, and had begun to seep into the Hogwarts …
The students were now trying their best not to take the initiative to talk about the Lord Voldemort and the news, at least not in public.
On the surface, everything was immersed in a strange calm and quiet.
Yes, it was quiet, at least in the area of the senior students.
Now, whether it was in the common room or during meals, Elwyn often saw the sixth and seventh years staring at something with flushed faces, secretly competing with him, as if they had taken an overdose of cryptos.
In fact, they were painstakingly practicing the ability to make magic work without saying the incantation aloud.
It all started in the sixth-grade class. After Snape asked the students to master the Silence Incantation, the other professors also made the same request in the first and second classes. Mastering the Silence Incantation was one of the compulsory skills of N.E.W.TS. However, this advanced spellcasting technique was very difficult. Not to mention the sixth-grade, many seventh-grade students who had practiced for a year last year were unable to master it.
Among all the sixth graders, Elwyn was the only one who had mastered the Silence Incantation. Many people asked him for advice.
In the last few D.A. events, he had also dedicated a lot of time to explaining the technique of using this spell.
Regarding the Silent Curse, Elwyn's advice was to practice a lot. Practice makes perfect, and one should not give up just because it was difficult. The method was fixed, and in this case, thinking less and doing more was much more effective than reading books or asking for the so-called trick.
Hence, it wasn't surprising that Neville was faster than the others in mastering this magical technique.
He was stupid, but his perseverance and perseverance were the strongest among all the students, and his growth potential was probably the strongest as well.
Next to Elwyn and Hermione, Neville became the third student in the entire grade to successfully use the Silence Incantation.
Although there was still a long way to go before he could completely master the Silence Incantation, the news of Neville's success still spread. More or less, it made the others feel anxious and irritated, combined with the pressure of the heavy classes in the upper grades.
Think about it, even Neville had succeeded in using the Silence Incantation, but they did not feel anything at all. It was too embarrassing!
This was something that happened not long ago. After that, many people obviously became more diligent in practicing the Silence Incantation, including the seventh-grade students.
These two things were the main reasons for the spread of anxiety in the school. Apart from that, Elwyn also had his own troubles.
For example, his current main task was to find clues about the key left behind by Hufflepuff.
After talking with Dumbledore and using Ravenclaw's Coronet to think about it many times, Elwyn decided to summon the house-elf demon under the school kitchen in the near future. He did not know what would happen then, but Dumbledore said that after Elwyn was ready, he would go with him.
He did not intend to help with the summoning ritual. Elwyn could understand, and Dumbledore also had so many things to do.
Moreover, it was Elwyn who was completing Hufflepuff's test, which was both a test and a personal improvement in his spellcasting ability.
As for the time, if everything went well, it would be a few weeks later when Dumbledore's second training …
As long as Dumbledore could go, it would be the biggest help to Elwyn!
This was not all that was troubling. For example, the invitation from Hagrid …
It was an invitation that they could not refuse, or rather, it was really difficult to refuse. Last week, after they went to visit Hagrid to help him recover, Hagrid kept inviting them to visit Gloop and the seriously ill Aragok.
No one wanted to go. Of course, this matter could be delayed as long as possible, but no one wanted to make Hagrid sad again, so they had to go sooner or later …
Speaking of invitations, they had to mention another annoying and hard to refuse invitation.
On the first day of the second week of the semester, Professor Slughorn sent an invitation to Elwyn, Harry, Hermione, Elaine, and Ginny, inviting them to a party that would be organized this weekend.
Needless to say, it was the Snot Club again.
Without much consideration, the five of them rejected the invitation.
No one wanted to have dinner with a bunch of Slytherin and some annoying people, and waste the whole night listening to Professor Slughorn reminiscing about the past.
However, Professor Slughorn did not plan to give up. It seemed that Elwyn and the rest had not given him an accurate return visit, so he finally decided to show up in person and stop them before the weekend dinner. It seemed that he had been waiting at the entrance of the auditorium just to say this.
Considering Professor Slughorn's identity, it was not good to directly reject his invitation in front of him.
After receiving the news in advance, Elwyn and Hermione hid early.
The two of them spent the whole weekend in the House of Granted Requests, studying magic that was not known to outsiders. Even their lunch and dinner were delivered by Dobby.
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