A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 643: Christmas full moon night
The dinner ended in a relaxed atmosphere.
The invited guests left one after another. Felix scanned the crowd, but did not find Carlotta Pinkstone. He originally planned to find a chance to get in touch with this person, but from the Judging from the expression on Ms. Erns's return, it is estimated that the two had a bad chat, and Pinkstone left early.
Professor Slughorn is very satisfied with this party. At this moment, he is standing in front of the gorgeous fireplace, seeing off every departing guest. He enjoys it and is busy, according to everyone's status Give appropriate verbal and physical responses.
"Elder, my dear student, you have not published many works in recent years, and I am waiting to read your masterpiece one by one"
"McLagan, say hello to Tiberus for me! And Scrimgeour, he should be free recently."
"Mrs. Chabini, thank you for the gift..."
"Oh, Frank and Alice, can I call you that? That's great... It's a pity I didn't send my congratulations on your opening day, I was hesitant to accept the teaching position...Neville? Hmm , he performed very well..." Slughorn took Frank Longbottom's hand enthusiastically, and spoke in a very intimate tone: "To be honest, I think your performance in this war is completely worthy Get two Merlin Medals, but since you already have two first-level ones." He patted Frank on the shoulder heavily, "help me bring them to Augusta."
Alice kissed Neville on the forehead, and disappeared into the emerald green flames with her husband.
"How are you going to get back?" Hermione asked her parents, and Felix looked over the shoulders of the Grangers and saw Sirius and Ms. Burns saying goodbye to Harry.
"The Floo Network, of course." Mr. Granger said a little excitedly, "That's how we got here, it's incredible! Professor Slughorn said he temporarily connected our fireplace with magic, I guess it might be similar to accessing a network signal."
Hermione was taken aback.
"My God! How could you..." She said anxiously, "What if you call the wrong address? Harry once strayed into Knockturn Alley...Professor?" She looked at Faye for help. Lix.
"I can apparate one by one," Felix thought for a moment.
"Oh, don't worry!" After seeing off the Weasleys, Professor Slughorn came over with a big belly, with walrus whiskers up and down between his lips, and he said happily, "Thanks Amelia! I made a passing mention when accepting the invitation, and she graciously agreed to help."
Ms. Bones, who was called by name, nodded this way.
"That's it." Slughorn said with a smile, they came to the fireplace, Sirius and Harry embraced, and left through the fire,
Slughorn tapped his wand on the fireplace.
"Okay, then no matter what you shout, it will lead to a place-only for today."
"Thank you for the hospitality. We had a great time tonight." Mr. Granger said to everyone while holding Mrs. Granger's hand. "You are welcome to be a guest at home, Mr. Haipu." Mrs. Granger said politely. "That's right," Mr. Granger looked at Felix, seeming to think of something, "Actually, I have collected tooth specimens of various styles, if you are interested...
Mrs. Granger squeezed her fingers hard.
"Cough, um—bye."
The next morning, most of the students left the school on the Hogwarts Express to go home for the holidays. However, there are still some people who choose to stay in school,
And there are quite a few of them. Apart from the students in the 'Animagus class, there are also some people who were detained in school for abusing magic transformation.
Harry told Ron and Hermione what Sirius had said to him last night while they were having breakfast in the Great Hall.
They expressed their views one after another. Hermione looked worried, "Oh, I vaguely guessed it from Ms. Burns' letter." Ron responded flatly, "According to Sirius, it will be decades later, isn't it? We Let’s think about it.”
He frowned and said, looking around, the people who sat and ate with them all looked like they were eating slowly, which made people lose their appetite.
According to Professor McGonagall, starting from the full moon, she will provide a special recipe for students who are preparing for practice.
"Prevents some of you from swallowing mandrake leaves carelessly."
After breakfast, Hermione went to the library as usual, "We have twelve papers to write!" "It's eleven, Hermione," Ron pointed out her mistake, "Harry and I didn't count Divination class."
In the end, Hermione was the only one who went to the library.
Harry and Ron chose to go out for a ride on a broom. There was no one in the school now, so they could race around the Black Lake happily, but they accidentally bumped into Varun who was skating with the Yeti Sniffing Army. The two grinned and had a snowball fight with Varun.
Because they were too involved in the game, the ordinary blades of grass in Harry and Ron's mouths fell out several times in the middle of the game. After they returned to the castle and calmed down, they expressed pessimistic views on their respective futures.
"I don't think so, I can't help not talking." Ron said negatively, "Even if we do it, we still have to get up every morning and evening to chant spells, and wait for thunderstorms. Percy didn't even think about Animagus when he was in school."
"Don't be discouraged, Ron. We even made it past Voldemort's level." Harry said encouragingly, but when Ron pointed out that he would also preside over Quidditch training after school started, it would be inseparable from the loud voice. When speaking, Harry also got up in depression.
When she saw Hermione at night, she didn't show a good face either. Instead, she ridiculed the two of them for their irresponsible behavior, and went back to sleep early. It wasn't until the next day when Harry was unwrapping presents under the little Christmas tree that his mood improved.
As usual, the gifts Harry received included a sweater knitted by Mrs. Weasley, some candy, products from the twins, including punching binoculars. When he showed it to Ron, Ron threw it away angrily. step aside. Because the twins were given to him for testing, he saved it and gave it to Professor Haipu, but he was terrified when he remembered that it belonged to his two unreliable brothers.
Harry also unwrapped a gift from Ron - a tiger head hat.
"Collins picked it. If you don't feel good, go to her." Ron said, and he put on a parrot hat himself, looking around in the mirror. "Where did she get it?" Harry asked interestedly. This seemed to be a series, and he wanted to ask if there was an antler model, which he planned to give to Ginny next year.
"Funga's Wizarding Clothes Store," said Ron, "that's the only way to go."
"Is Collins all right?" Hermione asked as they came downstairs. "Aren't she and Tonks keeping tabs on Carlotta Pinkstone? Turns out she was at the party last night."
"It shouldn't be a big problem." Ron thought for a while and said slowly: "Their mission ended at noon yesterday. Who would have thought that that woman could have anything to do with Professor Slughorn? Invited."
On the other hand, Felix has just finished unwrapping the presents, which is a lot of work.
Felix is most satisfied with Luna's gift—perhaps because he helped to 'propose'—a portrait of himself, smiling so brightly that Felix doesn't know what he is doing. This kind of impression was left on Luna at that time, but he quickly solved his doubts. A small note said Luna's blessing:
Merry Christmas, Felix. Loved your gift, going to take it home to show Dad, and also - I was inspired by the magical portrait you hung on St. Mungo's while Dad was on the 4th floor for treatment.
Valen also received a painting, but—maybe this one fits Luna's aesthetics—it was a stone painting. In the one-foot-square picture frame, hundreds of carefully selected small stones were painted and pieced together into the shape of a sniff. The green cloak behind it was cut out of palm-sized leaves, and the corners It also swings majestically.
Warren babbled and watched for a long time, seeming to both dislike and like it.
Until Felix said in a sour tone: "We can exchange." Varen immediately hugged the painting and looked at him vigilantly, and when he came back after turning around, the second stone painting had already been placed Next to Felix's blank magical portrait. If one day the portrait of St. Mungo comes back to visit,
You'll be surprised to find yourself with an odd-looking neighbor.
Felix was about to ask, what on earth did he and Luna talk about to make them laugh so happily, and they were drawn and sent to themselves?
In the afternoon, a strong cooking aroma drifted into the house along the cold air.
Warren, who was nestled on the sofa watching cartoons, smelled the smell, and quickly reported a series of dishes. He and Felix looked at each other for a while, and agreed to turn off the projector and go downstairs to the auditorium.
The hall looks very empty, only one of the four college tables is left, and a bulging wizard color bag firecracker is placed every few places-from which can burst various styles of hats and weird little things. thing. They came too early for dinner, but there were already students there.
"Boom! Boom!"
Two sounds like cannons exploding echoed in the auditorium, a puff of purple smoke filled the air, the silhouettes of the two students were looming, and there were bursts of coughing, accompanied by "It's all your fault", "Obviously It was you who suggested it."
Felix couldn't help laughing. These are two Hufflepuff students. They were fined to stay in school for the crime of tarnishing the school's reputation. Professor Prout mobilized half of the college's Hufflepuff students to search the lounge for a long time before they found the unlucky guy.
The number of people gradually increased, and Felix chatted with Valen in a low voice.
"Those four? I heard that they belonged to the same dormitory, and they planned to secretly study the transformation of Animagus. For this purpose, a secret study group was set up, but they were discovered by the neighbor next door because of the uncontrollable roar of tigers. The other three were trembling with fright."
The four Ravenclaw girls glared at them in embarrassment as they passed by.
Professors also gradually appeared, sitting scattered on the long table, Dumbledore was wearing a moon white robe, with a happy face, "Merry Christmas!"
He said enthusiastically: "There are a lot of people this year, I temporarily added a batch of colorful firecrackers, please sit down!"
There are not many people as happy as him. Most of the students - either were punished (all four houses, mostly Gryffindor), or were members of the Animagus class, only a few were really voluntary stays.
He glanced around, looked at the frowning students, and said, "Today is Christmas, I think our task is to stuff our mouths with delicious food, not a small leaf... What do you think, Minerva? "
Professor McGonagall pursed his lips, "You are quite right, Dumbledore." As soon as the words fell, half of the students immediately took out the leaves from their mouths happily, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively. Dumbledore struck while the iron was hot, grabbing a handful of wizarding bundles of firecrackers and stuffing them to everyone he could reach.
Others followed suit, and the long table was filled with bangs, and clusters of smoke of different colors exploded. Felix won an ordinary wizard hat, which was drawn with thin lines of four colors to outline the pattern. Harry and Ron offered two sailor hats, which Felix thought were far inferior to the ones they wore on their heads. Tiger hats and parrot hats came wonderfully, and Hermione picked up a women's wide-brimmed hat, which she played happily.
Then they looked at Snape out of the corner of their eyes - last time he pulled out a lady's pointed hat, wondering what it was this time? Even Dumbledore watched him with interest, Snape pulled the firecracker expressionlessly, and when the smoke cleared, a buckhorn hat appeared in his hand.
This time it was Harry's turn to be unhappy. He looked at the pair of beautiful antlers with envy, and felt that the hat was a waste in Snape's hands. If no one wanted it after the dinner, he might take it away quietly... Snape really didn't like it, so he slipped the hat into it. Professor McGonagall, but Professor McGonagall liked his feather hat very much, so it ended up in Dumbledore's hands.
"Eat!" said Dumbledore with a smile in his antler hat.
Everyone began to enjoy the food, and Varen was also assigned a seat, sitting opposite Professor Flitwick. Their chairs were all custom-made, and they seemed to have a strange sense of symmetry.
Harry was munching on the slippery and soft mashed potatoes, Ron was biting the meat on the ribs, and half of the students were gobbling it with fierce eyes. pity.
However, that's all. Because tonight is the full moon. These students will undergo a more rigorous test. He has seen the special recipes that Professor McGonagall is preparing to give to the house elves in the kitchen. Most of them are tasteless but fast-filling things.
At the dinner party, everyone was busy eating, only Trelawney was holding a bottle of sherry and constantly spreading rumors that six-legged creatures would bring misfortune to the castle', and Felix was wondering what it was While doing something, Professor McGonagall quietly turned his head and whispered in a strange tone, "Albus is going to recruit a centaur into the school."
Felix suddenly realized.
When Trelawney mentioned this matter for the twelfth time, and her tone became more and more certain, Dumbledore stood up.
"...More than one death, I saw a—"
"Filch," Dumbledore asked cheerfully, "is that thing ready?"
Filch lifted his head from his plate and said stoopingly, "Yes, Headmaster, I have put it in a corner, covered with a green bitter cloth."
"Excellent." Dumbledore said, looking around, and everyone else looked over. Dumbledore pointed with his wand, and a piece of green cloth flew up from an inconspicuous place in the corner, underneath which was an exquisitely shaped machine.
The latest model of the projector one by one," he said happily, "I bought it and tried it myself, and I like the 'immersive experience mode' the most. "
He took a look at Felix, then pulled the machine closer to him.
Accompanied by a "click", a large amount of dark golden smoke was sprayed from the magic projector, as if it was endless, and it seemed that it was just to fill the place where they were - that is, the auditorium. Soon there was a pavement under their feet A foot thick golden mist.
"Meow one—
Mrs. Norris jumped out from under Filch's feet and jumped onto his lap. "Don't be afraid, Mrs. Norris." Filch said hoarsely, but his bulbous eyes were still wary. Stare at the machine.
At this time, there was singing in the air, as if it was ringing in their ears, and the smoke rose, gathering into golden dancers one by one. The same fine mist.
The eyes of the students were straightened. They seemed to be mixed into a lively party. They saw the performances of the Weird Sisters Group, the Skeleton Dance Troupe~IndoMTL.com~ and the thick dwarf dance. The soft singing voice is interspersed with a strange, incomprehensible language singing...
"Christmas was really worth it this year." Ron said with admiration. The surrounding students silently nodded in agreement with his words.
As the dinner ended, the students sparsely pulled out their chairs and prepared to leave. Felix glared at Warren, because he sneaked around Grindelwald and brought him a very beautiful Santa hat.
Grindelwald reflexively leaned back and touched his chest.
Dumbledore froze for a moment, then continued to stand up—Harry captured this moment keenly, and felt a strange feeling in his heart. "What's the matter, Harry?" Hagrid asked across two tables.
No, nothing—" Harry was suddenly at a loss for words, staring at Hagrid, who had a small slice of onion stuck in his bushy beard.
He remembered that Hagrid mentioned to them inadvertently that Dumbledore seemed to have known Professor Bagshot for a long time, and Bagshot was a follower of the dark wizard Grindelwald, and Harry happened to give him Lily from Sirius. In the letter, I accidentally learned that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were best friends when they were young... There is a vague clue in front of Harry, connecting the three of them.
What exactly is it?
The Animagus class stay," Professor McGonagall said loudly at this time, "get dressed, we are going to the courtyard. "
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