Hogwarts: Harley from the Witch Path

Chapter 308 Isn’t this a kind of tauren (bushi)? ([-] per day today)
A few days before Christmas, the professors started the important part of decorating the castle with great fanfare.

Considering that there are guests from other schools this year, the arrangements are particularly careful.

The first is the auditorium. Hagrid personally cut twelve thick pine trees from the Forbidden Forest as Christmas trees.

And Professor Flitwick used a lot of magic on it to make it stand stably in every corner of the auditorium.

At the same time, under the spell of Professor Flitwick, these pine trees were further enlarged.

There is a star at the top of each Christmas tree with the emblem of a different school engraved on it.

The Christmas tree is covered with all kinds of candies, crystal balls and small toys.

Harry could clearly see the cross hanging on it, and wanted to ask, are the professors serious?
Fortunately, a vampire professor with a very weak sense of presence gave Harry one last alchemy lesson before Christmas, and then left Hogwarts due to his own urgent matters.

Otherwise, I don’t know what Professor Babling would think when she saw this scene.

Wait, this vampire seems to be able to hang a cross made of pure silver as a decoration on his coffin board.

That's okay, Professor Babling probably won't have any different meanings, and will even be happy to conjure up some bat patterns on the cross.

Directly under the wall where the banners of each college were hung, Professor McGonagall conjured four ice and snow statues, corresponding to the four colleges.

Like diamonds, these statues will not melt at all and sparkle in the auditorium.

This is still the suggestion put forward by Furong.According to her, Beauxbaton always filled the auditorium with such ice sculptures at Christmas.

Harry thought this was a good suggestion and provided it to Professor McGonagall.

And Professor McGonagall seemed to have awakened some extraordinary attributes, and her attitude towards this matter was extremely positive.

She even took out some precious materials from her collection and seemed to have tampered with the ice sculptures.

And when she was admiring these ice sculptures in the auditorium, her face was relieved, as if she had fulfilled some wish.

In addition to the auditorium, other places were also decorated.

The professors created a large number of icicles on the handrails of the stairs that would not melt due to changes in the environment, but were very warm to the touch.

The armor in the corridor is also decorated with Christmas ornaments, and small gifts hang from the tips of the spears held in the armor's hands.

Although no students have gone to the classroom, the professors still arranged for their teachers to make it more colorful.

Other magic school locations have also been re-decorated.

For example, the lanterns on the Beauxbatons carriage were replaced with Christmas styles, and the hut in Ilvermorny was painted snow-like white.

However, Durmstrang's newly repaired black ship looked unchanged, and it even became more gloomy in this joyful environment.

This caused many Hogwarts students to lament that that bastard principal named Karkaroff was really a boring person.

As for the Magic School and Castello Buscha, one is located in Brazil and the other is located in an eastern island country.

They don't have the habit of celebrating Christmas at all, so the residence is the same as usual, without any decoration or change.

On the last day before Christmas, students gather in the auditorium for breakfast.

Considering the existence of the Yule Ball, except for some first- and second-year wizards who strictly abide by school rules and disciplines left, everyone else chose to stay in Hogwarts.

Especially those little wizards in the first, second, and third grades, everyone had the same idea.

Even if the school doesn't allow me to attend the Christmas dance, there are so many people, can you do everything possible?
Filch, that squib, will definitely not be able to stop everyone by then, and some will definitely slip through the net.

Based on this idea, the Great Hall of Hogwarts was as lively as ever.

Everyone was chatting and reading today's Daily Prophet.

During this period of time, in response to the call of the Ministry of Magic, the Daily Prophet has been reporting on the Christmas atmosphere in the wizarding world, and occasionally intersperses the Christmas life of some foreign friends in Hogwarts.

But today, Rita took it upon herself to write the article on the front page of the newspaper.

As usual, she continued to respond to the Ministry of Magic's requirements, implement the overall strategy, and continue to exaggerate the beautiful atmosphere of Hogwarts.

But then, Rita changed her style of writing, thinking that the beautiful atmosphere of Hogwarts was only superficial.

Under the deepest water, there are actually unknown dangerous waves hidden.

To prove this, she included in the article for the first time the three pieces of parchment with Harley's name on them that were ejected from the Goblet of Fire.

Initially, due to various factors, Professor Dumbledore did it for safety, while others agreed not to announce the matter publicly from their own interests and the perspective of the school.

The Ministry of Magic also adhered to the principle that doing more is worse than doing less, and they tacitly agreed not to say anything.

And now, Rita directly revealed the matter in the newspaper.

Of course, Harley told her this information, but Rita did not dare to directly write the specific source of the information.

She could only secretly express that she had collected the relevant information through special channels.

At the same time, Rita also described in detail the fonts on the two extra parchments, including their specific content, color and writing method.

The description was as specific as if she had seen these parchments herself.

And considering that there are no photos, Rita can do whatever she wants.

Under her pen, the letters forming words written on those pieces of parchment seemed to come alive.

In Rita’s original words:

"These words are like the tracks left by the devil crawling around the world, and they are also like the contract signed between the devil and humans."

"The parchment with 'Azkaban' written on it, this word contains the wail from death;"

"On the other piece of parchment that only has 'Harry Potter' written on it, the writing seems to be bleeding like blood. The author even suspects that it is the real wizard's blood."

"They exude an aura of endless fear. When the author saw these words, I even felt that my soul was about to be sucked in.

It has to be said that Rita has always been good at creating exaggerated news.

She racked her brains and tried her best to forcefully create a more terrifying atmosphere this Christmas.

At the same time, she took advantage of this terrifying atmosphere and accused someone of deliberately using curses to cause Harley to have an accident in the Six Wizards Tournament.

At the same time, Rita also tied Harry to Hogwarts and the British wizarding world.

She expressed her opinion that this unknown murderer used Azkaban as the prefix when registering Harry Potter. At first glance, he was slandering the British wizarding world and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and wanted to tarnish its honor and reputation. , is simply his heart can be punished.

The Ministry of Magic is naturally a little unhappy. After all, the peaceful and beautiful environment I have worked so hard to create has been destroyed by you. Who will take the responsibility?
After seeing this newspaper in the morning, many officials began to contact the editors of the Prophet newspaper and asked them to find a way to remove the article.

But the people in the wizarding world don't care.

As a group of wizards who have high productivity, they are not busy and usually have a problem at home.

The daily life of many people is to create new problems for themselves every day, thereby testing the medical level of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries.

Lockhart stole some random memories, carefully polished them, and wrote a book, which caused a stir in the entire magical world.

Some singers have repeatedly sang "A Pot of Fiery Love" and it has been dubbed a classic and has been sung for decades.

The article written by Rita now contains a series of elements such as horror, suspense, and close to life, and it is simply the new favorite of these wizards.

Let’s put aside the parents’ reactions after the initial fear has passed.

Anyway, those wizards who had no children and were in school wrote to the headquarters of the Prophet newspaper, asking Rita to update it as soon as possible. If not, they would send shouting letters and curse letters.

After parents sent several shouting letters to Professor Dumbledore to question and express their attitudes, they also joined the ranks of urging the update.

After all, these wizards are big-hearted. When the Slytherin heir attacked Hogwarts, many young wizards wrote letters to their families.

But their parents didn't respond much. The most they could do was send a few shouting letters to the Ministry of Magic and Professor Dumbledore.

At that time, there was not much response to such a huge danger. What is the level of danger now?
Update quickly!The child's safety doesn't matter, I want to have fun!
Seeing that there was money to be made, newspaper sales, which had almost stagnated, once again skyrocketed.The Prophet newspaper directly waved its hand and withstood the pressure from the Ministry of Magic for Rita.

Never mind that there are so many things that are not available, the ones that can make money now are the real ones!In front of Jin Gallon, even if Merlin comes, it won't work!

When the little wizards saw this report, they just regarded it as a funny joke.

Now in Hogwarts, whenever the three pieces of parchment are discussed, everyone agrees that the mastermind behind the scenes will be disappointed.

He probably didn't expect that Harley, a 14-year-old witch, could be so good at fighting.

Not only was she not in danger, she also won No. 1 in the first event of the Six-wizard Competition when facing the dangerous fire dragon, and she was also the favorite to win the championship.

Regarding the conspiracy that was brought up again, everyone only discussed it for a while and then forgot about it.

What the little wizards are now most concerned about are the Christmas gifts tomorrow morning, and the most important thing tomorrow night - the Yule Ball.

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On Christmas morning, Harley woke up early.

It was impossible not to get up. Hedwig stood at the head of her bed, rubbing her cheek with her little head.

At this time, Harry's bed was surrounded by gifts, and even piled up to the bedside of Lavender and Parvati on the other side of the room.

Harry did not disturb his sleeping roommates, nor did he even wake up Hermione, who was still sleeping wrapped in her own quilt after chatting with him until twelve o'clock in the morning.

She quietly sat down on Hermione's empty bed and began to unwrap the presents.

Needless to say, most of the gifts were sent by various inexplicable fans and classmates from Hogwarts.

Now Harry is much more proficient and won't think about returning gifts after receiving gifts from these people.

After all, some of them are not wizards from the UK, and I don’t even know them. How can I give you a gift in return?
Most of these gifts were chocolates and various candies, and these were packed and sealed in a special pocket by Harry.

After all, the wizarding world is full of good and bad, and there will always be some scumbags who deliberately put love potions or other potions in candies before giving them to Harley.

What's even more disgusting is that the laws of the Ministry of Magic have no control over this!
However, Harley would not throw away the candy directly. Instead, she would use it for experiments, trying to separate the various potions in the candy and try to decompose the potions.

If it were the potion that Harley brewed herself, she would definitely feel very sorry for Jin Galleon.

But if it were a potion brewed by someone else... Harley could only sigh, it felt so good to have sex for free!
And watching other people's potions return to their original shape bit by bit in their own crucible, the outer layer of mysterious veil faded away, revealing the deepest and truest aspect of the potion.

In a sense... this is not a kind of tauren (bushi)!
And the gifts from the masters I got to know were much more interesting.

They sent either some brand new handwritten notes, or semi-finished products of some magic items, charms or potions.

Even though these are just semi-finished products, their magical value is probably higher than the value of all the previous candies put together.

In the professor team, Professor Snape gave Harry a big gift bag, which contained a lot of bottles and cans.

Those bottles are enchanted to ensure that the potions inside are always in the best condition for drinking.

Labels were thoughtfully attached to the walls of these bottles. Harry looked at the names on them and couldn't help but take a breath.

These bottles contained either the Elixir of Fortune, the Polyjuice Potion, and many other precious magic potions.

Moreover, these magic potions have two distinctive characteristics, that is, they are extremely precious and can be used in combat-related matters.

Looking at the potion in front of him, Professor Snape was probably bleeding profusely.

Professor McGonagall gave Harry a magic book made of papyrus. The contents were all handwritten and in the oldest Latin.

Obviously, this book has a long history and belongs to Professor McGonagall's collection.

Professor Flitwick gave Harry his new thoughts on weather spells.

Apparently Professor Flitwick was inspired by Harley's magic against the fire dragon and developed more content in this area.

He also wrote a handwritten greeting card to encourage Harry, and even expressed his hope that Harley could give full play to her talent in magic and return to Hogwarts as a professor of Charms in the future.

Professor Sprout's gift was the most inconspicuous, just a few small bags tied with clean handkerchiefs.

But in fact, the things wrapped in these humble handkerchiefs can scare ordinary wizards.

Poison tentacles, fang geraniums, strangling shadow vines... are all plants that are extremely deadly to ordinary wizards.

Harry couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, you should never underestimate any professor at Hogwarts...the dean.

Looking at Professor Sprout, who is ordinary and dressed like an old farmer in the field, who would have thought that she could spread the seeds of a killer plant with just a raise of her hand, and that she could quickly spawn and flexibly control these plants?
The gift that Sirius and Professor Lupin gave together was briefly looked at by Harry and put aside.

The two of them, probably because of their evil intentions, sent Harley a set of pure ladies' decorations and suggested that Harley bring them to the dance.

In this regard, Harry could only say: I received the things and took them back with my heart.

Don't tell me, it looks pretty good for my dance partner.

Fleur gave Harry an exquisite silver necklace, which also contained Veela magic. The companion could vaguely smell the unique fragrance of a certain mixed-race Veela.

After reading the greeting card, Harry put the necklace on directly, and a black flame ignited in his hand, burning the package clean.

The greeting card was stuffed into the bottom of Harry's pocket, determined not to let Hermione see it.

As for Hermione, her gift had been delivered last night, so Harry didn't have to open it.

Finally, there is Professor Dumbledore’s Christmas gift, which is usually placed at the bottom of all the gifts.

But this time the gift box was small and very flat.

When Harry opened it, there was a ring and a roll of parchment inside.

There was a black gemstone attached to the ring, but there was a crack on the gemstone, as if it had been split open by a sword.

It was the ring that Harry and Professor Dumbledore found in the Gaunt family's old mansion during the summer vacation at the end of their third year.

Harry remembered that this ring was made into a Horcrux by Voldemort and had a lot of dark magic attached to it.

At first, he sealed it himself.

It seems that Professor Dumbledore has completely taken care of it and gifted it to himself.

There are a few words on the parchment:

"Harry, I have prepared two Christmas gifts for you this year, one of which is quite special."

"So please be sure to choose a suitable time during Christmas to come to the principal's office, and I will personally give it to you then."

After reading it, Harley raised her eyebrows.

I really didn’t expect that Professor Dumbledore would be so mysterious and the gift would be so special this year.

This made Harry's curiosity instantly full.

Suddenly there was a "rustling" sound from the bed opposite Harry, and a head poked out.

"Good morning and Merry Christmas!" Hermione greeted sleepily.

"Merry Christmas!"

Harley responded, throwing the ring back into her pocket.

Don't worry about the use of this thing. Anyway, you still have a week for yourself to inquire, so there is no rush at all.

Today, she has more important things to do.

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(Thanks to the "Nine-tailed Flaming Fox" boss for the reward!)
(ps. As I write this, I suddenly feel that the parents of the little wizards are so outrageous. Such a big thing happened in the second grade, but not many people made a fuss to pick up the children? And in the end, such a major accident was so confusing It ended in confusion? I can only comment that this is indeed a fairy tale.)
(End of this chapter)