The days that followed at the Burrow were very comfortable for Aine.
Aside from his morning training, he spent most of his time having fun with the twins and Cedric.
The Weasley family’s greenhouses and chicken-and-duck shed had gotten on track, and one month before the start of the Hogwarts term, the Weasleys finally received the substantial income they had been looking forward to.
It amounted to more than a thousand Galleons.
This income completely turned around the Weasley family’s difficult financial situation.
The first thing they did after receiving the money was rebuild the Burrow.
The old Burrow had been a little cramped, so the newly rebuilt Burrow became a large three-story house with a floor area of more than three hundred square meters.
As Aine put it: “Although it still looks a little strange on the outside, it’s good enough!”
After the new Burrow was completed, the Hogwarts enrollment season finally arrived.
This also meant that Aine was finally going to integrate into this magical society.
On the train to Hogwarts, Aine used his wand to cast a Silent Levitation Charm, placing the luggage of the three of them into the storage racks in the compartment.
As soon as they boarded the train, Charlie went off to find his classmates, while Fred and George went looking for Cedric.
After all, Cedric was the first friend the twins and Aine had made.
Aine had just finished putting away the luggage when Fred and George came back from a distance carrying Cedric’s luggage.
Aine found it rather amusing and deliberately did not help them.
After the twins finally put the luggage away, Cedric spoke.
“Why didn’t you ask Aine to use the Levitation Charm to put it up?”
Exhausted, Fred and George only remembered then that Aine had learned magic directly after getting his hands on the first-year textbooks.
Both pairs of eyes turned toward Aine, who was comfortably reading his book.
At first, Aine did not notice anything and continued reading.
However, Fred and George’s gazes were simply too intense, so Aine eventually raised his head and looked at the twins.
Seeing their resentful expressions, Aine’s eyes seemed to say: You two forgot yourselves.
What does that have to do with me?
Just then, the moving food trolley on the Hogwarts Express arrived.
To reward the twins for carrying his luggage, Cedric bought some snacks, such as Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans.
It was Aine’s first time encountering these enchanted snacks, and he wanted to try them too, so he bought some as well.
Besides Chocolate Frogs and Every Flavour Beans, there were Rainbow Bees locked inside boxes, Honey Snakes that could bite your tongue, and chocolate transformation wands that looked like real wands.
Aine tried an Every Flavour Bean first and picked up a white one.
“Mmm~ Mint flavor!
Looks like I’m pretty lucky.”
Fred also picked up a green one and put it into his mouth.
“Oh~~~!
Horseradish flavor!!” The green Every Flavour Bean had also been enchanted, causing it to stick to Fred’s tongue and making it impossible for him to spit it out for a while.
Hearing Fred’s cry, George burst out laughing.
Fred did not let him off either and immediately stuffed a blue Every Flavour Bean into George’s mouth.
George then shouted, “It tastes like frog liver!
That’s a little disgusting~”
Cedric picked up a red Every Flavour Bean and put it into his mouth.
After a while, his entire face turned red.
He suddenly opened his mouth and sprayed a stream of fire all over Fred, who was sitting beside him, before hurriedly shouting, “Water!
Water!
Water!
Give me water~”
Hearing Cedric ask for water, Aine immediately took out his wand and cast Aguamenti into Cedric’s open mouth.
However, Aine’s magical power was too strong, and Cedric was directly flooded with water until his entire body was soaked.
After drinking the water, Cedric finally recovered, but when he realized that he was completely drenched, he looked at Aine somewhat helplessly.
Only after the three of them had eaten several more Every Flavour Beans did they discover that the strange flavor only lasted for the instant the bean entered their mouths. New chapters come out on novelping . com first.
Once the strange flavor passed, it tasted like an ordinary candy.
The magical world was truly amazing.
Even flavors could be controlled with magic.
The four of them continued eating and snacking throughout the journey until they were almost at their destination.
Only after being reminded over the train’s announcement did they change into their Hogwarts robes.
By the time the train arrived at Hogwarts, it was already evening.
Following the tradition established by the founders of Hogwarts’ four Houses, the four of them crossed the Black Lake in a single boat and arrived at the Hogwarts boathouse.
When they got off the boat, all four of their trouser cuffs were inevitably wet, but with the help of Aine’s magic, they were soon dry again.
Aine’s use of magic caught Professor McGonagall’s attention, but after sensing the peculiar magical fluctuations coming from Aine, she put the thought aside.
After seeing all the new students get off the boats, Professor McGonagall said, “Quiet!
I am Professor McGonagall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Everyone, follow me inside.”
With that, Professor McGonagall turned around and walked into the corridor leading to the school’s Great Hall.
Aine, the twins, and Cedric followed Professor McGonagall into Hogwarts.
Along the way stood stone statues dressed in suits of knight’s armor.
Aine did not find this unusual.
After all, using magical constructs as a defensive system had been common more than a thousand years ago.
What truly caught Aine’s curiosity were ghosts.
When he saw ghosts walking toward the Great Hall with them, Aine reached out and touched one, but all he felt was a faint chill.
He could not actually touch anything.
When George and Fred saw Aine touching the ghost, they also came over and tried touching it.
After walking for a while, the group arrived at the Great Hall of Hogwarts.