Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 158: Fall into the pit
Albert has never seen Gryffindor students so united, maybe everyone has been suppressed by Slytherin for too long!
Now, everyone is working hard to earn points for the academy. Even if they don't earn points, try not to let themselves be the reason for being deducted.
Most Gryffindor students stop to take a look when they pass the giant hourglass recording the House Cup score, even Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students want to see Slater Lin lost the Academy Cup.
The atmosphere in the castle has changed, it's like a storm is coming.
The tradition of Slytherin House is to win at any cost, which is why Slytherin has long held the Quidditch Trophy and House Cup.
They don't give up easily.
The most immediate change is Snape's class, which has become more serious and depressing. The potions professor will always walk back and forth in class, using his stern eyes to force students who are weak in their hearts to make mistakes. Everyone Everyone knew that Snape was looking for a reason to deduct points.
The way to deal with the potions professor's fault is to seriously admit his mistakes, not to talk back, and he won't be able to deduct more points from you if you don't talk back.
Since the last time Gryffindor won the Quidditch trophy, the smell of gunpowder with Slytherin House has grown stronger. One day the two sides suddenly fought, and Albert would not be surprised at all.
However, for the sake of the Academy Cup, everyone still resisted conflict with each other and let Snape find any opportunity to deduct points.
Because once there is a fight, Gryffindor House's slight advantage will be taken away.
"They did this to Ravenclaw," the student council president warned in the Gryffindor common room, "if you have any complaints, you can keep it until we get the House Cup. Processing."
The conflict between the two sides has been suppressed to a minimum. Everyone is gearing up in private, but they are still holding back for the Academy Cup. As long as they are not fools, they can smell the smell of gunpowder between the two sides.
However, as the final exams approached, everyone was distracted and the original smell of gunpowder faded.
As time goes by, many people have to bury their heads in their studies in the sweltering weather, and even rush to the library when there is no class, so as to avoid being late and unable to find a place.
However, since the end of May, Albert has rarely been to the library, and he hates crowding the library with everyone in the big muggy weather.
Albert misses sorbets, cold drinks and air conditioning in the sweltering heat.
"Don't you have to review?" Hagrid greeted him.
"I have exam tips here." Albert shook his notes, which recorded the key points that the professors in the class had talked about. He will look at it and then recall the relevant content, thanks to his extraordinary memory.
Anyway, Albert wasn't worried about the exam at all.
"Exam Tips?"
"Hagrid, do you know of any magic that can make ice, or cool it?" After putting the notebook back in his pocket, Albert asked Hagrid about the magic of cooling.
"I don't know, what are you going to do?" Hagrid shook his head. After the last incident, the relationship between the two sides returned to normal, and the two sides were tacit understanding and did not mention those things again.
"Of course I'm getting myself some cold drinks, the weather is too hot," Albert said of course.
"Cold drink? Let's go, where can I go, I'll treat you to an ice-cold butterbeer. It's an early celebration of winning the House Cup from Gryffindor." Hagrid slapped his head with a big hand and invited Albert to drink at his place. Butter beer.
Hagrid's so-called cold butterbeer is not far from what Albert guessed.
Hagrid threw an oak barrel of butterbeer into a well, and when he picked it up and drank it, he felt pretty good, not too icy, but certainly a treat on a hot summer day.
Seeing the garlic in his garden, Hagrid asked suddenly, "I remember you guys were growing garlic."
"It's growing well, it's ready to be harvested soon."
Albert thinks this is a little funny. He said he was going to make a garlic cross, but what happened?
After a long time, the group of people in the dormitory forgot about it.
Albert is not surprised, children's patience is always limited, and it's good for them to remember to water garlic.
"By the way, Hagrid, can you get me some alcohol?"
"What do you want alcohol for?" Hagrid asked in confusion.
"Purified allicin."
"What is that?" Hagrid was even more confused.
"It's nothing, it's just used to extract garlic...allicin, you know, we're going to make a garlic-flavored amulet, so..." Albert briefly described to Hagrid the reason for growing garlic in the first place," Well, that's the case, and some beeswax is needed."
"You know, vampires hate garlic, and many dark magic creatures also hate the smell of garlic, so we're going to use the protector tree and garlic to make a garlic-flavored amulet to see if it can have a significant expelling effect on dark creatures. ."
Hagrid was stunned when he heard that. Garlic-flavored amulet, you've come up with it.
"This...if you want alcohol, I can ask for you. If Diagon Alley doesn't have it, try your luck at Knockturn Alley."
"Knumpturn Alley?" Albert asked tentatively.
"Knumpturn Alley is adjacent to Diagon Alley. It is a place where dragons and snakes are mixed. There are many dark magic shops..." Hagrid suddenly realized something, looked at Albert seriously, and reminded : "Don't go to Knockturn Alley!"
"Okay, Hagrid, I actually knew about Knockturn Alley before I came to Hogwarts." Albert said, "I'll trouble you with the alcohol problem."
Speaking, Albert was going to give Hagrid a few Galleons, but the latter didn't take it.
Albert didn't force himself to see Hagrid, and Hagrid shouldn't be short of money. Although the house looks a bit shabby, there are indeed a lot of valuable things in the Forbidden Forest.
It can only be said that Hagrid is used to his current life.
……
After leaving Hagrid, Albert didn't plan to go back to the castle, but walked down the **** slowly, came to the lake, and sat under a tree to blow the wind.
Not far away, a giant squid basks in the warm shallow water.
"This is the summer that people live." Albert felt the cool breeze blowing on the lake and couldn't help but sigh, "Unfortunately, there is no comfortable hammock."
After an unknown amount of time, footsteps were heard not far away, and a figure was reflected on his face.
Albert opened his sleepy eyes, blinked, and looked at the girl who was leaning forward and staring at him.
"Anything?" he asked.
"You're quite laid back." Katrina looked at Albert sleeping under the shade of a tree, and sarcastically said, "Should I say, is it really a genius?"
"It's okay!" Albert replied casually: "Anyway, everything that should be reviewed has already been reviewed, so it is useless to care about the questions of the exam. It is better to relax and adjust your mentality to face the next exam."
“Everyone is working hard to review, but you have the guts to say sarcastic things here?” Katrina stared at Albert’s face, and suddenly said seriously, “I think if you say this by the library When those people heard it, they probably wanted to beat you up."
"I practiced karate and they couldn't beat me."
"I heard that you have exam tips?" Katrina sat down next to her, feeling the cool breeze blowing from the lake, and suddenly asked.
"The secret of the exam?" Albert couldn't help laughing when he heard this. It was estimated that the translation he had just said to Hagrid was overheard by the other party.
"What are you laughing at?" Katrina frowned in dissatisfaction.
"Don't you want to read it too?" Albert took out a notebook from his pocket and shook it in front of Katrina.
"Isn't it?" Katrina was indeed a little curious. She grabbed the notes and flipped through the contents, but couldn't help frowning. The notes were all records of the required exams that the professors mentioned in class. content, but only the title.
"How is it?" Albert asked rhetorically.
"Is this the thing?" Katrina suddenly felt that she was being teased by the other party.
"Otherwise, what do you think it is, as long as you understand the required exam questions given by the professors, you will definitely get a high score." Albert said as a matter of course.
"I thought you wanted a perfect score." Katrina had lost interest in the so-called exam tips.
"What do I do with a perfect score in the test, I have never specifically pursued that thing, it is enough to get a show." Albert doesn't care about the perfect score, anyway, the school is based on excellent, good... this kind of The model is used to divide the grades. The full score of the test is not an excellent one. Since they are all excellent, why are they so entangled.
Katrina suddenly felt a little angry that the guy in front of her didn't consider herself a competitor at all.
"What's wrong with you?" Albert felt that the aura of the girl in front of him was a little off.
"Want me to have better final grades than anyone else," Katrina suggested.
"No." Albert flatly refused.
Although there is a task of comprehensive crushing, he still does not want to entangle the opponent in this regard.
"Why?" Katrina asked, "Are you afraid?"
"There is no reason." Albert completely ignored the other party's agitation, "I just feel more tired than this kind of thing."
"Tired?" Katrina felt that she couldn't understand Albert's thinking at all, and he would reject her for this reason.
"If you want to bet..." Albert thought for a while, and after secretly changing the concept, he was ready to dig a hole for the other party, "Or, let's bet in another way!"
"What gambling method?" Katrina asked immediately.
"You need to answer the riddles when you enter the Ravenclaw common room, right." Albert said with a smile, "If you can answer a hundred riddles, even if you win, I admit that you are better than me. ..."
"A hundred riddles right?" Katrina raised her voice. She looked up and down Albert, as if wondering if the other party was deliberately amusing herself.
"Why didn't you get a hundred riddles right?"
"Of course." Albert tempted. "If you win, I'll give you a gift of about 10 Galleons as a prize."
"Are you rich?" Katrina asked Albert suspiciously.
"Yes, I won a hundred Galleons last time I bet who would be the Minister of Magic." Albert almost patted his chest to assure. In fact, Albert doesn't mind spending some money on Eagle Ring Riddles, and the problems that can be solved with Galleons are not problems at all.
Katrina was silent for a while. She found that the guy in front of her seemed to be surprisingly rich. One mouth was 10 Galleons?
"How about it, bet?" Albert asked with a smile.
"Your smile is fake," Katrina asked. "What if I lose?"
"If you fail, you can continue to challenge." Albert continued, "I don't want you to do anything anyway. Of course, there is a premise that you don't come and compete with me during this period."
"Are you really going to give a prize?" Katrina asked again.
"You can find a notary, the ghost of your college, or I can find Nick who is almost headless." Albert added, "Of course, when you challenge the Eagle Ring, you need me on the scene, You win if you answer 100 riddles correctly."
"Could it be a dung bomb?" Katrina looked at Albert suspiciously.
"Then I'll give you 10 Galleons and admit that you're better than me."
"Of course I'm better than you, I don't think you can answer 100 riddles." Katrina suddenly said, "If you can answer 10 riddles, even if you win, I'll give you a gift , of course, I'm not as rich as you. But you can only try it once ~IndoMTL.com~ and before me."
"Okay, I agree." Albert just responded, but the next sentence changed to, "I gave up, I guess I can't answer one."
"No." Katrina said seriously, "You have to try, I don't believe you can't answer one."
"Okay okay." Albert said perfunctorily.
"We're going to find Lady Grey now." Katrina took Albert to the west side of Hogwarts Castle and found Lady Grey at the end of a corridor.
Katrina briefed the woman and asked her to act as a notary for the bet.
Ms. Gray agrees, which is certainly interesting to her.
Even Ravenclaw students rarely answer 100 riddles in a row. For non-Ravenclaw students, getting 10 riddles in a row is even harder.
"Are you going to start now?" Ms. Gray asked.
"No, I think Miss McDougall should be given more time to prepare. You can wait until the end of the exam, or next semester." Albert is not in a hurry, he needs Katrina to provide himself with questions and answers, he must Let the other party be fully prepared. Otherwise, Miss McDougall would be meaningless without a few questions.
As for the outcome?
Albert didn't care at all.
At this moment, he suddenly wanted to praise his wit.
Yes, this method is really good.
Simple, easy, and convenient to solve the Eagle Ring problem.
Katrina, reluctant to Albert's mind, happily walks away, ready to beat Albert in this block and win 10 Galleons.
Before that, however, it takes some practice, and Katrina will never allow failure.