The "Elf Magic Lamp of Cornwall," judging by the name, seemed similar to Aladdin's magic lamp, but in fact, it was closer to the Aoandon from the Hyakki Yagyō.
The lamp's genie had a completely anime-style "Nichiyō" (casual) design. To experiment with creating Eastern-style artifacts using Western fantasy elements, Regulus Black had come up with many ideas and calculations — and judging by the results, everything had gone smoothly.
The best thing about the idealistic laws of the wizarding world was that it allowed for bolder and more daring designs in the future.
"I spent the entire summer designing new Quidditch tactics and training plans. To get used to the new strategies, we have to start training earlier,"said the captain as he gathered the Gryffindor Quidditch team members for a new tactical session.
However, as they approached the pitch, they spotted the Slytherin team — fully geared up and already heading onto the field.
"What the hell is going on?"Captain Oliver Wood immediately led his team over to block Slytherin's path.
"Where are you guys going, Flint?""Obviously, the Quidditch pitch."
"I booked the pitch today!""Don't get so worked up — I have special permission," Flint replied nonchalantly, showing Wood a note signed by Professor Snape.
"I, Professor Severus Snape, hereby specially authorize the Slytherin team to use the Quidditch pitch today to train their new Seeker.You have a new Seeker? Who is it?"
After reading the note, Wood felt completely helpless. With an official permission slip from their Head of House, it was much more effective than just booking the pitch in advance. Madam Hooch would definitely side with them.Why couldn't our Hagrid give us a permission slip too!
The Slytherin players made way, and Draco Malfoy stepped forward.
"I am honored to join the Slytherin Quidditch team,"he announced, raising his broom in a showy gesture — and finally, the Gryffindor players noticed the brooms in the Slytherin team's hands.
Each one of them held the latest Nimbus 2001.
"Those are Nimbus 2001s! How do you have so many?"Ron, who was always tagging along with Harry Potter, blurted out the obvious fact.
Wood could hardly believe what he was seeing. While their own team was still using a mishmash of broom models, Slytherin had already been fully equipped with the latest standardized gear.The Nimbus 2001 was even faster than Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 — and some of his teammates were still using school-supplied Comet series brooms!
"Courtesy of Mr. Malfoy's generous sponsorship — exclusively for Slytherin,"Flint said with a malicious smile, the kind that suggested they should just surrender and not even bother competing.It made all the Gryffindor players furious.
"Weasley! This was just a bit of pocket money for my father,"Draco said smugly. He was determined to humiliate the Weasleys — after all, there were twins on the Gryffindor team, and now Ron was tagging along too. How could he miss the chance to attack them?
"At least Gryffindor players earn their spots through real talent. None of us bought our way onto the team,"Harry said sharply.Normally, this would've been something Hermione would say, but today, it came from Harry himself. Draco had so openly insulted his friends — there was no way he wouldn't fire back.
"No one asked for your opinion, Scarhead!"Draco sneered, staring directly at Harry. His gaze landed on Harry's lightning bolt scar — and inspiration struck. He had just come up with a new nickname for Harry.
"You'll pay for that! Eat slugs!"Ron, Harry's loyal knight, pulled out his wand — the one that had been broken by the Whomping Willow and barely glued back together with tape — and tried to cast a spell on Draco.
But because the wand was broken, the spell rebounded straight back onto Ron himself.
"Ugh!"Ron immediately opened his mouth and vomited up a giant slug.
"I'll take him to Hagrid. I'm sure Hagrid will know what to do,"Harry said, rushing to help Ron.The fact that Harry didn't even think of taking Ron to the hospital wing, and instead placed such faith in Hagrid, really made you wonder where his head was at!
Ron walked all the way while vomiting slugs, drawing laughter and mockery from the students who gathered around to watch.
No one could even imagine what kind of nickname Slytherin would come up with for Ron after this.
"Kreacher! Collect all the slugs Ron just vomited,"Regulus Black ordered while he busied himself with his potion cauldron. The scents of several different potions mixed together in the room, forming a strange kind of smoke that was then absorbed by the [Golden Memory Dragon Egg Secret Realm] placed nearby.Inside it, the unicorn was still working hard to level up and refine her skills.The poisonous mist generated from potion-making had simply become her food — after all, she couldn't be left to starve.
Thinking of it that way, was this considered feeding the little loli?
This year, because Tom Riddle's diary had fallen into Regulus Black's hands, Ginny had ended up mingling in Hufflepuff, eating and drinking without causing any strange incidents.Thinking about it, life felt a bit boring.
When you don't have adventures, you yearn for them; but when adventures become everyday occurrences, you start feeling that an ordinary life is true happiness.
Could the essence of life really be summed up in just the word "tossing about"?
Meanwhile, Harry Potter brought Ron to Hagrid's hut, where the treatment offered was — hugging a large wooden bucket.
Ron continued to vomit slugs at a steady rate of two per minute.Watching the slimy pile of slugs accumulate in the bucket, feeling it grow heavier in his hands, Ron couldn't help but fantasize: if only that spell had hit Draco instead — then he could experience what it felt like to throw up slugs too!
"I'm afraid we'll have to wait until he stops vomiting on his own. Better out than in,"Hagrid said cheerfully, clearly not too worried."Who was Ron trying to hex, anyway?"
"Malfoy! He called me Scarhead!"Ron complained.
"So Ron tried to hex him? You need to understand, doing something like that can cost you house points,"Hagrid said seriously."And besides, pure-blood families like the Malfoys usually have all kinds of magical protection items. A small curse like that might not even work."
Hagrid knew this from experience — during his school years, he had been bullied by those types of wizards often, and most of his spells either failed or backfired.He understood all too well.
"You know, Harry,"Hagrid continued,"some wizards, like the Malfoys, think they're superior just because they claim to have pure bloodlines.They used to call me dirty blood too, just like they call Hermione a Mudblood now. It's all nonsense!In the wizarding world, no wizard is truly pure-blooded anymore."
After a long grumble, Hagrid waited until Ron finished vomiting slugs before letting the two kids head back to school.
Meanwhile, unnoticed by anyone, Kreacher had quietly gathered up all the slugs that fell on the ground.Once Harry and Ron left, and when Hagrid wasn't looking, he even managed to steal away the entire wooden bucket.
"Master! According to your instructions, I've collected all the slugs,"Kreacher reported.
Regulus Black then took out the [Elf Magic Lamp of Cornwall].
The chibi-styled lamp spirit, carrying her lantern, waddled over to the wooden bucket.Peeking inside, she turned to Regulus and made a gagging expression.
She slowly lowered her lantern into the bucket, and as she did so, all the slugs inside were sucked into the lantern.
By the time the lantern touched the bottom of the bucket, not a single slug remained.
"You actually made me collect such disgusting bugs, Regulus!Have you no regard for a little girl's delicate feelings?"the lamp spirit whined adorably after finishing her task.
"Milady! I think you've forgotten that you yourself are just a cluster of tiny spirits — your original form wasn't much better than a bunch of bugs,"Regulus teased, shaking his head after realizing he was bickering with his own creation.Still, it was a bit amusing.
He patted the chibi lamp spirit's head and looked over the attributes he had designed for her:
[Elf Magic Lamp of Cornwall]
Keeping it in the inventory grants multiple additional benefits.
Comes with the chibi lamp spirit "Cornwall."
Green Fairy Spirit Count: 153/777
+7 to Defensive Aura
+7 to Offensive Aura
+7 to Shouting Skills
+7 to Cursing Skills
+7 to Trap Skills
+77% success rate in converting magical lifeforms into Green Fairy Spirits
+77% chance for magical lifeform shapes to transform into Green Fairy Spirits
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