Chapter 21: Chapter 21: First steps into the magic world
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"I have some books in the Trunk. I swear!!! Please, don't hurt me anymore," Carl cried again when he sensed that the knife started opening a path for itself in his body. Because he was sensitive after all the adrenaline went away after Max stopped torturing him, everything hurt like hell. "This thing is called a Trunk. And you can open it using a magic spell or mechanically using the keys. I had the keys in my robe, so please put the knife away."
"Oh, excellent. That is what I like to hear. See!!! If you have answered quickly like that from the start, you wouldn't have suffered much. So, let's have a look!!!" Max said those words as he got close to Carl to search in his robe, and it was indeed as Carl said. Max found a strange-looking key, and he did not wait to use it because he was quite excited. How could he not be when he waited for this day for more than eight years?
Max jumped directly towards the Trunk and used the key to open it. Once the key entered the lock and made the unlocking sound, the Trunk opened to five compartments. When Max looked at this scene, he had to admit that it was magical. Just looking at the Trunk from the outside made him feel amazed. Each compartment was like a room that contained many different things. "Wow, how convenient!!!"
Max did not wait and turned to Carl to ask him where he could find the spellbooks. "Uncle, where are the books? I don't have the whole day!!!"
"The first compartment has every book that I gathered from around the world," Carl did not even hesitate for a second before telling Max everything. He did not want to experience that torture anymore.
"What about the others?" Max asked as he looked at the other compartments with some interest in his eyes. What made him look like that was the strange objects that he found in the third compartment and the gold in the fourth.
"The second one has parchments and quills. The third had many dark objects used for dark magic. The fourth has the fortune I kept away from the eyes of my brother and the rest. I wanted to give them to the dark lord when I see him. The fifth contained ingredients from different beasts and plants I gathered for potions and other things," Carl explained with a pained expression on his face. If it weren't for this situation, he would never let anyone see what he had in that Trunk.
This thing had everything Carl gathered in the past eight years he spent in France. Not only that, but the Trunk had many things he took with him when he left for France.
"Cool!!! At least, waiting for you for the past eight years was not a waste after all," Max said with a smile on his face as he entered the first compartment to take some books that were suitable for him out and read them. He could not believe the number of books that Carl had. Max did not expect all this. At best, he thought that Carl would have some wizard money with him, and he would lead him to some shop where he could find those books.
Max was not an idiot that would take any book just because he was excited. No, he wanted to read the history of magic first before going anywhere. So Max found a book called A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot and took it with him. He then looked at a book called magical studies, and he felt that this might be helpful to him, so he took that book as well before going out.
After getting out of the first compartment, Max looked at Carl with a smile. He was satisfied with the things that he found inside, and his face explained how happy he was. Max did not wait before opening his mouth. "Look here, uncle. I won't make things difficult for you for now. Since you lost your hands, I will feed you as long as I found you are useful. I will fix this chair for you so that you can piss and shit yourself as much as you wanted. I will see what I will do with you after reading all those books, and you will have to stay in that chair until I finish everything or until I am satisfied with what I read, at least. While I read those two books, start explaining everything you know about the magical world at the moment. The moment you stop, and I am not satisfied, you will have only yourself to blame. Am I clear???"
Carl's expression changed many times after hearing Max's words because he knew how many books he had in that place, and Carl was sure that he, himself, would need years to finish everything. Not only that, but Max would read those books for the first time, unlike him, and he would need more time to understand and experiment. That meant that Carl would get stuck in that chair for god knows how long. But could he change anything?? Even if he had his wand that Max held in his hands, he would need a few seconds to get rid of all the things that Max tied him with in the chair. Not to mention that his hands started rotting in the bin since they did not get treated immediately. If it weren't for Max, who stopped the blood and stitched him, he would have died from blood loss long ago. After calculating his chances of survival, Carl concluded that he would die unless Max let him go.
Carl could only listen to Max's words and open his mouth to explain everything as Max opened the book called A History Of Magic and started reading. "The magical world has three factions that are standing against each other. The light faction and the dark faction are at each other throats, while the grey faction doesn't participate much. The dark lord, followed by almost every pure-blood family, is trying to clean the magical world from the mud-blood wizards. The only one that could stand against him is Dumbledore. He is a teacher in Hogwarts and the more likely one to inherit the position of headmaster..."
But before Carl could continue anymore, Max, who was reading his book, raised his head to look at Carl to stop him. He heard something interesting and needed more clarification about this matter. "What is this thing called Hogwarts? Tell me more about it. Also, explain everything you know about Dumbledore and the dark lord."
After saying this piece, Max looked down again and continued to read while listening to Carl's words. He waited for this moment for eight years, and he did not intend to waste any more time. That was why his attention was always on the book in his hand. And since he wanted to know the situation in the magic world, Max used his ears to figure everything from Carl.
Carl could only take a long breath after hearing Max's words. He did not like this feeling of defeat, but he would do anything for his life. Even if Max ordered him to bark, he would do it. "In the magical world, the children would awaken their magic at seven, and the talented ones would do that a year earlier or something like that. But the children could not control their magic quite well. So, they go to Hogwarts or other magic schools at eleven. As you heard, Hogwarts is one of the oldest magic schools in the world, and every child with magic in Britain should receive an invitation by eleven. The pure-blood families tried to stop the school from recruiting the muggle-borns, but they could not do that until this moment."
"As for Dumbledore, everyone claims that he is the strongest wizard alive at the moment. But if you wanted the truth, the dark lord is more powerful than him and much younger as well. Dumbledore is a control freak that would not allow anyone with a dark side to grow. He tried many times to stop our lord and the other families from practicing the dark magic, but he would never succeed. According to the rumors, that man would use Legilimency on nearly all the students to check their memories without their permission and find everything they did and stop them if he had to do that. Not only that, but he could sense their magic as well, and if he found anything abnormal, he might interfere. The good thing about him is that he never killed an opponent, or that is what I heard. He goes around asking the light faction to capture the dark wizard without killing them."
"As for the dark lord, I don't really know his identity, but I am sure my brother does because he said that he was the dark lord's follower since they were at Hogwarts. I heard that the lord started moving lately, and I am sure that it won't be long before he started the fight with the light faction," Carl said everything that Max wanted to hear, but when it came to the dark lord, his tone changed, and he became like a dog praising its master.
As for Max, he raised his head again after hearing those words with his hand on his chin, thinking about everything he heard. 'That means that I will receive an invitation to Hogwarts in three years, and I will join the magical world sooner or later. Well, I can hide in the muggle world and do whatever I want, but that will be boring. I want to meet this dark lord and find some interesting targets in that school. So, I should attend. But the problem is that man called Dumbledore. I can't let him into my mind, and according to this idiot Carl, that man should be quite powerful. I should find a way to keep him away from my mind and hide my magic as well. I know for some reason that I had much more magic than the others, and I am fine with it, but that man would cause me trouble. But he should be a good target for me. If I could kill someone as powerful as that man, I can't imagine the joy of doing something like that.'
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