Harry Potter’s Book of Sin Chapter 656: Red velvet cake

"Come, please take a seat... Now the seats I have prepared are full! This is really a happy thing..."

When Harry, Hermione, and Ron also appeared at the door, Slughorn suddenly smiled and clapped gently. He looked left and right at the table, as if he felt that he could gather so many guests, it was really a great harvest for the social circle.

Speaking of which, since Slughorn returned to Hogwarts, this kind of private party at school has become more colorful.

Yes, under the leadership of this bald old man, the students also fell in love with this kind of small gathering-even if they could not get the permission to borrow the hall from Professor McGonagall, they could do it in the common room. There is still no problem with a small event that belongs only to my own academy.

Of course, as the leader of the private party industry, Slughorn must be the most demanding one.

Only today, even Maca did not expect that the old man actually invited Sarah Hornheim, a little girl, and he has to say that his hands and feet are fast enough.

"So..."

Maca was about to say something, but unexpectedly, the three of Hermione were not the latest, and the last one to arrive was Lavender Brown, who was entangled with Ron last semester.

"Oh... dear Professor Slughorn," Lavender said quietly in her slightly contrived tone, "I think I seem to be a little late--to express my apologies. Please be sure to accept this bottle of Ellis wine that I ordered from Three Broomsticks."

"Miss Brown, you really bother..." Slughorn waved his hand again and again, "You are not late, right? Come on, come in!"

While speaking, he took the bottle that Lavender handed him.

"This is really red wine produced from Ellis Moor Village. Although the price is not expensive, it is very collectible for wizards who really like red wine! Thank you very much, it’s touching. Of your heart!"

At the same time, Slughorn waved his wand again and added a chair to the table. Although his movements seemed very random, everyone guessed right now-Lavender was probably uninvited.

But even so, Slughorn, who likes to make friends and is quite easy-going, will naturally not turn away the visitor, besides, the other party is very "sensible" to bring a gift.

Instead, the uninvited guest was allowed to come in smoothly.

"Then, Professor Slughorn--" Maca didn't care about these little things either. When Lavender and Slughorn were seated separately, he sat here with everyone on the beautiful tablecloth. At the round table, she shrugged and smiled, "As the host of this gathering today, are you ready for the next opening speech?"

While he was speaking, Lavender first showed a smile to Hermione, and then those eyes swept across Ron's face, intentionally or unintentionally.

Hermione and Lavender have been roommates for so many years. Of course, it’s hard to be indifferent when they say hello to each other, although she doesn’t really like this girl at all—the relationship between the little girls can be. It's complicated!

Hearing that Maca opened his head quite cooperatively and jokingly, the old man touched his chubby belly, the smile on his face obviously became thicker.

"Oh, come on! Today I am hosting neither a dance party nor a dinner party. There is no such formal statement..." He happily said, "I can guarantee that this will be the purest dessert tasting party! Before filling our belly with those sweet and rich delicacies, I don’t want to let nonsense take up most of the time—"

"Oh, this sounds amazing!"

Maca smiled as Slughorn did before, expressing his approval of this good idea with applause. But there were a few people present who didn't know, and counted the fat old man's nonsense the most.

It's just that most people will not refuse desserts, even Hermione, who didn't want to come to participate in the first place, couldn't help but look forward to it. I have to say that this old man may be unreliable in other aspects, but he has always paid special attention to the details of eating and drinking.

"If you can like it, then I will be even happier!"

Slughorn said, he drew his wand straight away and swiped it in a circle from left to right. Suddenly, a cup of black tea immediately appeared in front of everyone.

And then, when he finally pointed to the middle of the round table, a brightly colored cake appeared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first dessert tonight," the old man put down his wand and clapped his hands, with a satisfied expression, "I think I probably know it, Ambu, the owner of the Honey Duke. Rosie Froome was a former student of mine, and at this dessert tasting tonight, most of the desserts were new ideas I asked him to specially prepare! Really, you can't find them anywhere!"

He first showed off his students as usual, and then introduced: "This is called'Red Velvet Cake'. I heard Ambrosio tell me that this kind of cake seems to be very popular in the Muggle world. Famous...but I want to say that Muggles would never have thought that this red velvet cake was only popular among American vampires at first!"

As Slughorn said, Muggle-born wizards are quite familiar with this kind of cake. Of course, even Maca doesn't know its origin. Hearing Slughorn said that he had appeared from the vampire family, he suddenly stopped.

The contrast between the snow-white cream and the fiery red embryonic body makes people feel that even if they were told that it was drenched in blood, they would not feel half surprised.

"Of course, we wizards can’t eat vampire desserts!" The old man continued, "So, this time Ambrosius and I spent a lot of effort to replace the real ones with the juice of blood tentacles. Blood. Believe me, it tastes sour and sweet, once you eat it, it is absolutely unforgettable!"

"I think..." Maca smiled and said, "It also makes us more sensitive to all the good things, so you chose to make it the first dessert tonight, right?"

"Oh, you tell me this little surprise that I hid!" Slughorn said helplessly, "Yes, it is indeed the case-the ecstasy formula contains the juice of blood tentacles. Regarding the characteristics of this kind of material, several students in the course can take a note!"

After speaking, he gave everyone a piece of cake and tasted each.

I have to say, this red velvet cake with some new tricks is really delicious.

Because it contains a lot of **** tentacle juice, the scarlet cake is put in the mouth with smooth cream, and the sweetness with a bit of sourness in the mouth quickly becomes more and more clear. With the addition of black tea at a suitable temperature, the fragrance is full of aftertaste.

But everyone came after dinner after all, even if there seems to be a tempting saying that "desserts are in the second stomach" in this world, overeating is always bad. Therefore, everyone is only assigned a small piece.

However, this excellent delicacy has once again aroused everyone's appetite, and soon everyone began to look forward to the second dessert tonight.

So after that, as Slughorn changed various desserts again and again, they were swept away by everyone here again and again, and everyone's satisfaction continued to rise.

After half of the party, at the suggestion of Lavender, Slughorn, who was especially happy, opened the bottle of red wine she sent and tasted it.

Of course, no one except him wants to share with him. Because Ellis wine is actually very famous-people who like it can buy it by barrel, and people who don't like it will never drink a second sip after one sip.

I don’t know how Lavender knew about Slughorn’s little-known hobby.

This dessert tasting event lasted a few minutes before the lights were turned off. In the second half of the time, everyone was enjoying the delicious food while chatting casually, but most of them had a comfortable time-at least much more enjoyable than the previous gatherings organized by the old man.

Well, except that Lavender turned his head to see Ron a little bit more times, everything was really good.

At the end, Slughorn, whose cheeks were flushed from drinking, stood up and smiled and announced that the dessert tasting session had ended successfully. The big guys also left their seats one by one, and the students hurriedly returned to their dormitories to prepare to go to sleep.

"Fortunately, tomorrow is a day off, otherwise I'll have to rush homework to the early morning..." In the corridor at the door, Ron said quietly as he walked.

"Yeah!" Harry couldn't help but echoed ~IndoMTL.com~ After reaching the sixth grade, the difficulty of homework has obviously become a lot more difficult, and it takes more time..."

Maca followed them and smiled casually.

"Even if you are off tomorrow, you better speed it up," he kindly reminded, "Tonight is Snape's night watch, plus he also knows that Slughorn is going to hold a private party-without me. Tell me more? Hurry up! If he gets caught, don't blame me for not telling you in advance!"

"Oh, Merlin's smelly boots!"

After Ron's whisper, the students who heard this, no matter which college they belonged to, immediately started trotting. Maca watched them disappear in the corner one by one from behind, and couldn't help but shook his head slightly.

"Today, I will have a good night's sleep too! I have to go to the greenhouse to change the baby bumps tomorrow morning. I can't always trouble Professor Sprout..."

Thinking about this, he also quickened his pace, and soon he turned to another corridor. It's just that no one noticed this time, there seemed to be one person who didn't leave with everyone.