Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 63: Cold winter

Perhaps Matthew Wakefield will never have the chance to get the answer to this question again.

Because after that, whether it was in the Transfiguration class or the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he never found an opportunity to talk to Professor Troka alone.

However, Matthew did not forget Professor Troka's warning at that time.

Since even Professor Troka thinks that Hogwarts is very dangerous now.

Then, Matthew naturally has to be more cautious.

For a period of time after that, except for meals and classes, he seldom left the Slytherin common room at other times; at the same time, he also avoided walking in the corridors of the castle alone as much as possible.

Despite the entire Hogwarts Castle, it was still peaceful during this time.

All is well.

……

As the weather became colder and colder, the clothes on their bodies became more and more thick.

Because December is here.

This winter seems to be very cold.

Although the common room, classrooms and auditorium are burning with blazing bonfires, it is warm; but the glass of the classroom is still rattling by the biting cold wind. The corridor was also bitingly cold, especially on the way from the basement to the castle, and they would form a cloud of white mist when they breathed out.

This also gave Matthew Wakefield more reasons not to leave the common room.

One morning in mid-December, when they woke up from their sleep, they were surprised to find that the castle was covered with snow that was almost several feet thick.

And a layer of hard ice formed on the surface of the Black Lake.

Professor Kettleburn would dig a hole in the ice of the Black Lake every morning and evening, and then put some egg shell powder of the fire snake into the lake to prevent the precious fish in the Black Lake from freezing during this season. die.

Everyone is naturally very happy, because it means that they can have a happy snowball fight...

Draco Malfoy was punished for attempting to slip a snowball into Harry Evans' collar without being seen by Professor Sinistra.

Immediately afterwards, the students who were happily playing in the snow outside the castle were all driven back to the castle by Mr. Pringle angrily, and then they left countless footprints at the gate.

Mr. Tang sat down by the oak gate with a dejected expression on his face. He seemed to have no intention of stopping the students who violated the school rules.

Since the attack on Ronald Weasley, this formerly vigorous golden retriever has become decadent... Even though Mr. Pringle commissioned Professor Slughorn to make a potion or two , neither seems to work for it.

For each class of the first-year students, the teacher assigned a lot of homework... Among them, the class with the most was undoubtedly Professor Rozier's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Yes, Professor Rozier has returned to school, and her body has fully recovered, just within a week of the Christmas holiday.

Of course, everyone is disappointed by this news. Undoubtedly, they all hoped that Professor Rozier's recovery would be better a week later.

And Matthew also noticed that just a few days before Professor Rozier's return, Principal Grindelwald, who used to appear at the guest table every day, disappeared again... This further verifies that Hermione. Granger's original point of view.

But none of this can stop everyone from eagerly longing for a holiday.

That's right, the term is coming to an end and the Christmas break is upon us.

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However, there is also bad news.

That is, with the advent of the Christmas holiday, the number of remaining students at Hogwarts began to decrease.

Even in the wizarding world, Christmas is the most important festival of the year, although their purpose of celebrating this festival is different from that of Muggles (why do wizards celebrate Christmas? There is a detailed explanation in Chapter 30 of "Legend of Special Xueba", interested readers can go and have a look).

But they still care about family reunion on this festival.

And due to the impact of the previous attacks, Hogwarts still had a bit of panic atmosphere.

The students were almost scrambling to reserve seats on the Hogwarts Express, looking forward to going home for the holidays.

As for Matthew and the other young wizards from Muggle families, they are in a state of homelessness.

Therefore, they had to stay in Hogwarts, which became increasingly deserted.

Especially in Slytherin House, this situation is even more obvious. Because of the admissions standards of Slytherin House, there are few Muggle-born students here.

And during the Christmas break, it's pretty much the same as, there won't be a few students left here.

……

On the first day of the Christmas holiday, when Matthew left the dormitory where he was alone (Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Nott had all gone home), he came to Slytherin's public room again. In the lounge——

As expected, there are only three students left in such a big college, including him.

One of them is a seventh grade girl who is concentrating on reading by the fireplace ~IndoMTL.com~ preparing for the N.E.W.Ts exam in a few months.

There is another one, Agnes Lestrange who is in the same grade as Matthew.

"Why did you stay?" Matthew found her curiously and asked, "Aren't you going back to reunite with your family?"

Lestrange looked up with a disgusted expression on his face.

"I have no family!" she said coldly, and then left the common room.

But before walking out of the gate, she turned around and reminded: "You'd better look at the bulletin board!"

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"The bulletin board?" Matthew came to the bulletin board with some surprise.

In addition to the new password during the Christmas holiday period, there is also a notice.

The content of this notice is to tell everyone that during the Christmas holiday, the passage between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade will remain open, and students can come and go freely.

Hogsmeade is said to be the only village in England that is full of wizards and has no Muggles, and it is also a well-known place in the wizarding world.

"What does this have to do with me." Matthew spread his hands and said to himself, "Isn't Hogsmeade only for students above the third grade?"

No... Just as Matthew was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly realized something.

He quickly lowered his head and read the notice again from beginning to end.

In the entire notice, there is no mention of a matter that only students above the third grade can come and go freely.

"That's not bad!" Matthew grinned and smiled.

At the same time, he also touched his pocket, which contained dozens of gold coins.

These Galleons were also given to Draco Malfoy when he left school.