Chapter 678 Slughorn's Invitation, Neville's Communication Skills

The weak magic wave spread out, and a slot popped out from the forehead of the mechanical single soldier test number.

Qiao Sue installed the alchemical chip into it, and pushed the slot back into the forehead of the mechanical single soldier test number. With his magic wand brushing again, the forehead of the mechanical single soldier test number became smooth again.

After completing all this, Qiao Sue put the magic wand against the heart of the mechanical single soldier test number, and obscure syllables came out of his mouth.

After Qiao Sue took back his magic wand, the eyes of the mechanical single soldier test number suddenly opened, releasing a strange light.

But soon, the mechanical single soldier test number showed a confused look again, and only heard the voice of Elebik from the mouth of the mechanical single soldier test number: "Mr. Qiao Sue, I am..."

Elebik seemed to have lost his memory after sitting on the metal chair, including the painful memory of his soul being tortured. His memory only stayed at the moment when Henry took him into the laboratory.

Hearing Elebik's voice, Qiao Sue's face showed a fanatical and joyful expression.

"Great! Great! Consciousness loading is successful! Come on, wand!"

Qiao Sue turned around enthusiastically and said loudly.

Soon an alchemist handed a wand to Qiao Sue.

Unlike the wands used by most wizards, which have a wooden shell and the body tissue of magical animals as the wand core, this wand is a metal wand.

Countless alchemical arrays are embedded together and hidden inside this metal wand, replacing the role of the wand core.

Compared with the wands used by other wizards, this metal wand may be more appropriately called a "magic conduction amplifier".

Josué took the metal wand and handed it to Elebik. He said soothingly: "Relax, Mr. Elebik, wave your wand and cast a spell you are best at!"

In front of the mechanical single-soldier test number that carried Elebik's consciousness, Josué changed his name and called him "Mr. Elebik" again.

Hearing this, Elebik carefully took the metal wand, waved it gently, and said: "Wingardium Leviosa!"

Invisible magic power was released from the inside of the mechanical single-soldier test number, and then concentrated in the metal wand in his hand, and released by the metal wand.

The next moment, the metal seat not far away slowly floated up under the effect of the floating spell.

"Great... Great!"

Josué looked at this scene with wide eyes, his body and tone were trembling.

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At the same time, on the Hogwarts Express, which was still moving slowly.

After receiving the invitation from Slughorn, Harry came to the C carriage. He was surprised to find that in addition to Neville, who was traveling with him, Slughorn had also invited many people to have lunch.

In a seat not far from Slughorn, Harry saw Marcos Belby, whose uncle was Damocles, who invented the wolfsbane potion.

Except Belby, the people Slughorn invited were all old acquaintances of Harry.

The reason was that except for Marcos Belby, all the little wizards who received Slughorn's invitation were members of the D.A. Army.

Sitting on Slughorn's left was Cormac McLaggen of Gryffindor. Unlike the original book, who joined the reorganized D.A. Army later, McLaggen had become a member of the D.A. Army as early as the first meeting.

Don't forget that compared with the original book, the number of D.A. Army members has more than doubled, and McLaggen is one of the extra D.A. Army members.

In addition, Blaise Zabini, who was invited by Slughorn in the original book, was unexpectedly not invited. Perhaps it was because Zabini's attitude was more inclined to Voldemort, and the current situation made almost no one willing to pay attention to Zabini.

Sitting on Slughorn's right was Ginny Weasley, although Ginny was not seen by Slughorn when she cast the Bat Curse as in the original book.

However, during the battle of the Department of Mysteries, Ginny's performance of using the Crushing Curse to kill multiple Death Eaters was reported by the Daily Prophet, which made Slughorn love her talent and invited her.

In addition to these people who were invited in the original book, many D.A. Army friends also received Slughorn's invitation.

Among them were Irving and Astoria, whose performance in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries was well-known, especially Irving's ancient magic Thunderfall, which killed countless Death Eaters.

In addition, Elsa Jones from Hufflepuff College was also invited by Slughorn.

Elsa's performance in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries was not impressive, but her aunt Gwengar Jones was the captain of the Hellyhead Harpy Quidditch National Team, which was why she was invited.

After all, Slughorn values ​​every talented little wizard, but he also values ​​the connections behind the little wizard.

After all the invited little wizards arrived, the small banquet held in the carriage began.

Slughorn was wearing a velvet suit, and the gold buttons on his vest looked dazzling in the sunlight outside the carriage window.

Slughorn warmly greeted Harry and Neville, who arrived last: "Oh, Harry, my child! It's great to see you, so great! So, you must be Mr. Longbottom?"

Facing Slughorn's greeting, Neville was not shy. He smiled and nodded at Slughorn, and then sat down in the empty seat.

Compared with the timid Neville in the original book, Neville, who has experienced countless illusion tests, seems much more mature, both in terms of dealing with people and in his own personality.

You know, when the alchemy detector generated an illusion for Neville, the future Gryffindor Swordmaster, Lynn intervened specifically and customized the content of the illusion test for Neville.

The contents of the illusion test are varied, including combat illusion tests against dark wizards, and illusion tests that test infiltration and penetration abilities.

In this type of illusion test, Neville needs to completely disguise himself as another person, and use that person's style, speech and behavior to contact the NPCs generated by the illusion test without being noticed by the other party.

With the experience of disguising himself as someone else and communicating freely, Neville's own communication skills have naturally improved, and even his own character flaws have been compensated to a certain extent.

Not only that, in order to cultivate this future Gryffindor swordsman faster, Lynn even added some private goods to Neville's illusion test, that is, adding some tasks that must be completed using swordsmanship. (End of this chapter)