Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way

A few days before Christmas, the professors started the important part of decorating the castle with great fanfare.

Considering that there will be guests from other schools this year, the arrangement is particularly serious.

The first was the Great Hall, where Hagrid had cut twelve thick pine trees from the Forbidden Forest himself for the Christmas tree.

And Professor Flitwick cast a lot of magic on it, and stood it stably in every corner of the auditorium.

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

There is a star at the top of each Christmas tree, engraved with the school badge of different schools.

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

Harry also clearly saw the cross hanging on it, and really wanted to ask, are the professors serious?

Fortunately, a blood professor with a very weak sense of existence left Hogwarts because of an emergency after giving Harry a last alchemy lesson before Christmas.

Otherwise, I don't know how Professor Babling will feel when he sees this scene.

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

That's all right, Professor Babling probably won't have any ambiguities, and is even happy to conjure up some bat patterns on the cross.

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

Like diamonds, these statues do not melt at all and shine brightly 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 the suggestion was good and offered it to Professor McGonagall.

And Professor McGonagall seems to have awakened some incredible attributes, and his attitude towards this matter is extremely positive.

She even took out some precious materials from her collection, and it seems that something has been tampered with in these ice sculptures.

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

Except for the auditorium, other places have also been decorated.

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

The armor in the corridor is also decorated with Christmas ornaments, and the spears held by the armor in the armor have small gifts hanging from the tips.

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

The residences of other magic schools have also been redecorated.

For example, the lantern on Beauxbaton's carriage was replaced with a Christmas style, and Ilvermorny's cottage was painted white like snow.

However, Durmstrang's big black ship that had just been repaired looked unchanged, and even more gloomy was highlighted in this joyful environment.

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

As for the Institute of Magic and Castro Busche, one of these two magic schools is located in Brazil, and the other is located in the 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 little wizards in the first and second grades who obeyed the school rules and disciplines, everyone 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 does not allow me to attend the Yule Ball, but there are so many people, can you do everything?

Filch's squib will definitely not be able to stop everyone at that time, and there will definitely be fish that slip through the net.

Based on this idea, the auditorium at Hogwarts was as lively as ever.

Everyone chatted while watching today's Daily Prophet.

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

But today, Rita wrote the article that made the front page of the newspaper herself.

First, as usual, she continued to respond to the requirements of the Ministry of Magic, implemented the general policy strategy, and continued 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.

In order to prove this, she also wrote the three pieces of parchment with Harry's name on it that was sprayed out of the Goblet of Fire for the first time in the article.

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

The Ministry of Magic also adhered to the principle that more things are worse than less things, and tacitly did not make any speeches.

But now, Rita directly disclosed this matter in the newspaper.

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

She could only secretly say that she had collected 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 that make up the words written on the few pieces of parchment seem to come alive.

In Rita's own words:

These words are like the tracks left by the devil crawling in the world, and like the contract signed between the devil and humans.

On the parchment that says 'Azkaban', the word contains the wail of death;

On the other piece of parchment that only has 'Harry Potter' written on it, the font is seeping like blood. I even suspect that it is real wizard blood.

They exude infinite fear, and when the author witnesses these words, I even feel that my soul is about to be sucked in.

It has to be said that Rita has always been good at producing 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 to accuse someone of intentionally cursing Harley to cause an accident in the Big Six Tournament.

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

She put forward her own point of view, thinking that this unknown murderer used Azkaban as the prefix of Harry Potter's registration, 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 early in the morning, many officials began to contact the various editors of the Prophet newspaper, asking them to find a way to remove this article.

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

As a group of wizards with high production capacity, they are not busy, and usually have problems at home.

The daily life of many people is to create new problems for themselves every day, so as to help St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries to test the medical level.

Lockhart randomly stole some memories, carefully polished them, and wrote them into a book, which caused an explosion in the entire wizarding world.

And some singers sang a pot of fiery love repeatedly, which was even called a classic and sang 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.

After the initial feeling of fear has passed, the parent's reaction is not mentioned for the time being.

Anyway, those wizards who didn't have children in school all wrote to the headquarters of the Prophet, asking Rita to update it as soon as possible.

After sending a few roaring letters to Professor Dumbledore to question and express their attitudes, the parents also joined the ranks of reminders.

After all, this group of wizards belonged to big hearts. When the heir of Slytherin attacked Hogwarts, many young wizards wrote letters to their families.

But their parents didn't respond much. At most, they just sent a few shouting letters to the Ministry of Magic and Professor Dumbledore and it was over.

At that time, there was not much reaction to such a big danger, so what is the level of danger now?

Hurry up and update! What is the safety of the child, I want to see the fun!

Seeing that there is money to be made, the sales of newspapers, which had been almost stagnant, once again rose sharply.

The Prophet directly waved his hand and withstood the pressure from the Ministry of Magic for Rita.

Don't worry about so much, what you have, what you can make money now is the real one! In front of Jin Jialong, Merlin is not easy to come!

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

In Hogwarts now, whenever the three parchments are discussed, everyone agrees that the mastermind behind the scenes will be disappointed.

He probably didn't expect that Harley, a little witch who was only fourteen years old, would be so capable of fighting.

Not only was she not in danger, she also won the first place in the first event of the Six Powers Tournament in one fell swoop when facing the dangerous fire dragon, and she was also the favorite to win the championship.

As for the conspiracy that was brought up again, everyone only discussed it for a while and then left it behind.

Now the little wizards are most concerned about the Christmas presents tomorrow morning, and the most important thing tomorrow night-the Yule Ball.

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On Christmas morning, Halle woke up early.

It's impossible not to get up, Hedwig stood at the head of her bed, rubbing her little head against her cheek.

By this time Harry's bed had been surrounded by gifts, even piled up to the head of Lavender and Parvati's bed on the other side of the room.

Harley didn't disturb her sleeping roommate, and didn't even wake up Hermione, who was still sleeping wrapped in her own quilt after chatting with her 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 fans and Hogwarts classmates who were inexplicable.

Now that Harley is much more proficient, she won't think about returning gifts after receiving gifts from these people.

After all, some people are not native British wizards, and I don’t even know them, so how can I give you a gift in return?

Most of these gifts were chocolates and various candies, and these were all packed and sealed in a special pocket by Harry.

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

What's worse, the laws of the Ministry of Magic can't control these!

However, Harry would not throw away this candy directly, but used it for experiments, trying to separate the various potions in the candy, and trying to decompose the potions.

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

But instead of a potion brewed by someone else... Harley can only sigh, it feels so good to go whoring for nothing!

And watching other people's potions recover their original shape bit by bit in their own crucible, shedding the outer mysterious veil, showing the deepest and most true appearance of potions.

In a sense... this is not a kind of tauren (bushi)!

And the gifts from the masters I met are much more interesting.

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

Although these are only semi-finished products, their value in terms of magic is probably higher than the value of all the previous candies combined.

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

Magic is applied to those bottles to ensure that the potions inside are always in the most drinkable condition.

Labels were thoughtfully attached to the walls of these bottles, and Harry couldn't help but gasp when he saw the names on them.

These bottles contained either Felix Felicia, or compound potion, and many other precious potions.

Moreover, these potions have two notable characteristics, that is, they are extremely precious, and they can be used for things related to combat.

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

And Professor McGonagall gave Harry a magic book made of papyrus, all of which were written by hand, and it was the oldest Latin.

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

Professor Flitwick gives Harley his new thoughts on weather spells.

Apparently, Professor Flitwick was inspired by Harley's magic against dragons and developed more content in this area.

He also handwritten a greeting card to encourage Harley, and even stated that Harley hoped that she could give full play to her talent for conjuring and return to Hogwarts as a professor of charms in the future.

Professor Sprout's presents were the most inconspicuous, little packets 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...all those plants that are extremely deadly to ordinary wizards.

Harry couldn't help sighing, sure enough, one can 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 would be able to scatter the seeds of a murderous plant by raising her hand, and be able to quickly spawn and manipulate these plants flexibly?

The gift that Sirius and Professor Lupine gave together was put aside by Harry after a brief look.

The two of them were probably sincere, and sent Harley a set of pure ladies' decorations, and suggested that Harley wear them at the dance.

To this, Harley can only say: I took the things, and take them back with my heart.

Not to mention, it looks pretty good for my dance partner.

Fleur gave Harry an exquisite silver necklace with Veela magic on it, and the companion could vaguely smell the unique fragrance of a 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.

And that greeting card was stuffed by Harry at the bottom of his pocket, and Hermione was determined not to see it.

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

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

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

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

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

It was the ring that Harry and Professor Dumbledore found in the old house of the Gaunt family during the summer vacation after the end of their third year.

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

At first, he sealed it himself.

It seems that Professor Dumbledore has dealt with it thoroughly and gifted it to himself.

And there are a few words on the parchment:

Harry, I have prepared two Christmas presents for you this year, and one of them is quite special.

So please be sure to pick a suitable time during the Christmas period to visit the principal's office, and I will present it to you personally at that time.

After reading, Harry raised an eyebrow.

I really didn't expect that Professor Dumbledore made it so mysterious this year, and the gift was so special.

This made Harry's curiosity instantly full.

Suddenly, there was a swishling sound from his own bed opposite Harry, and a head poked out.

Good morning and Merry Christmas! Hermione greeted sleepily.

Merry Chrismas!

Harry responded, throwing the ring back into his pocket.

Regardless of the use of this thing, anyway, there is still a week for myself to ask, so I am not in a hurry.

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 was writing, I suddenly felt that the parents of the little wizards were outrageous. Such a big incident happened in the second grade, and in the end, few people made a fuss to pick up the children? And in the end, such a major accident was so ambiguous Is it over in a daze? I can only comment, this is indeed a fairy tale.)