All things are three at Hogwarts

Hogwarts, unlike the silence at the entrance to the third floor under the stairs where the huge stone beast closed and did not split into two ugly pieces, at this time the end of the spiral staircase hidden behind the stone beast was a shining oak tree. The door was made of wood and had a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin's head. There were noisy and funny little sounds coming from inside the door.

In the principal's room, in this spacious, beautiful round room, there are many strange silverware placed on the table with slender legs, spinning and blowing out small puffs of smoke. The huge table in the room Behind the headmaster's desk with claw-shaped feet, on a shelf next to the glass case containing the Sword of Gryffindor, the school's sorting hat and the wall are covered with portraits of the old male and female headmasters who are looking a little indignantly. of complaints.

"Merlin! You guys have made this mess just after Albus left!" complained a portrait of a male headmaster on the portrait. He looked like a very smart wizard wearing a silver and green Slytherin costume, with a black Hair, dark eyes. He has sparse eyebrows and a goatee.

"Complaining, sir!" shouted a fat wizard with a red nose, waving his fist, "disobeying your duties!"

"We have an obligation to serve the current master of Hogwarts!" shouted an old wizard who looked frail, whom Harry recognized as Dumbledore's predecessor, Armando Dippet. Phineas!”

On the huge table in the principal's office in front of them, all the personal belongings that Dumbledore had placed had disappeared.

The dusty, worn-out Sorting Hat was placed on the shelf at the edge of the table, and he watched with interest a group of elderly wizards playing poker and gambling below, "Dalys Derwent! Or who? Go ahead and take care of that noisy one." Phineas! He's just angry because his family's position as school director is gone! Ha, Owen, you lost again, so I said I'm going to play the King of Hearts."

"I'll whip him!" A shrewd-eyed witch in the portrait raised a very thick wand, which seemed to be made of birch branches. After saying this, she was about to move from her frame to the one who was evaluated as the most unfaithful person in history. The picture of the popular headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black made Phineas quickly surrender and glance at the wand with a little fear.

"Shut up! Damn hat, if you hadn't revealed that I had this card, why wouldn't I have been able to play?" Owen complained as he watched several old men divide his chips.

"Owen, you have to forgive it! I heard that in this British school, the poor sorting hat has only one task for the whole year, which is to write a song to be sung at the beginning of each school year. How boring it is." Sitting opposite him. The red-nosed old wizard adjusted the small felt hat with a feather on his head. He had some Bavarian accent.

Owen said nothing more, and asked the long-eyed Vladimir who was temporarily serving as the croupier to shuffle the playing cards, and then distributed them one by one to him and the old wizards sitting around the table. They were all once Grindelwald's. Their subordinates are capable, and their family descendants are currently working for the Harris family. Owe, who is somewhat distantly related to them, is a descendant who dare not put on the airs of the Minister of Magic in front of them.

After receiving the card, Owen opened the card in his hand and leaned back to the right, with a sneaky look in his eyes to prevent the talkative Sorting Hat from leaking his card again. The Sorting Hat made a very human expression of helplessness. It was hanging on the shelf and could not move its body. But after seeing the card, Owen held the card in both hands. The powerful 33rd Ministry of Magic The minister seemed to have encountered something unexplainable at this time, and his brows were furrowed. He felt that his luck at poker today was particularly bad. Most of his chips had been won by the red-nosed wizard Grimson on the opposite side.

Many wizards also gathered in other places in the principal's office. Today, to celebrate Allen's gaining ownership of Hogwarts, and Harris also had important announcements, they gathered here. From time to time, some people used floo powder to come from came out of the fireplace.

This group of remnants of the first-generation Demon King clamored to change the celebration venue from the Harris family manor to Hog in order to save the shame of Dumbledore's victory over Grindelwald in a duel in 1945. Watts's principal's office wanted to celebrate this decades-overdue victory in the stronghold of their sworn enemy.

On the other side where the portraits of the old headmasters were hung, Lunn and Albert were holding wine glasses and talking with the portrait of Evra. The headmaster's portrait was also hung in the Ministry of Magic. The two brothers were very familiar with him. However, this was the first time they met in the principal's room, and Albert's mood seemed a little low.

Unlike her fiancé, Fleur was dressed radiantly today. Together with her mother-in-law Morgan Le Fay, she was surrounded by witches of all ages dressed as other noble ladies. She was smiling and sharing her beauty and skin care experience with Hermione and Peggy. Nello was also passed by Josephine Harris.

After putting on the evening dress, Penello looked very decent and could even be said to be honest. She would only say a few words when necessary. Hermione, who served as an executive officer at Umbrella and had seen big scenes, was originally She was not as abnormal as Penello, and the group of old witches who had some contempt in their eyes saw her domineering side, but the aura she maintained was eventually overtaken by the tall gold-plated perch that was originally perched behind the door. The ankh on the branch was ruined, and it couldn't help but settle on top of Hermione's head as it hadn't gotten used to the new room yet.

Beside the circle of witches, Daisy, who was left aside by her mother to play by herself, rolled her eyes involuntarily. She knew what her mother meant. The Muggle origins of Penelope and Hermione would be more or less rejected by those conservatives. The old women looked down upon them, so her mother's display of her attitude made them restrain themselves at least openly, but Daisy couldn't stand Fleur's smile and hypocrisy, which she considered hypocritical. She and Nymphadora Tonks, who was her escort, took a few steps away in the opposite direction. She had never had the opportunity to enter the principal's office during her studies, so she began to observe various places with great interest. Research.

It's just that Tonks who was next to her was not very interested in this. She felt uncomfortable appearing in such an occasion where all the core members of the Harris family were present. She was only acting as a guard for her honey friend, since Daisy wanted her to accompany her. , she also had to appear here.

Daisy touched the glass cover and looked at Gryffindor's sword inside. The hilt was inlaid with rubies. From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Tonks' uncomfortable look in the reflection of the glass: "Tonks, what are you doing? It is justifiable that you and Lupin are here, no one will have any objection."

"Of course I'm not worried about you...Dumbledore was in a bad situation the past few days. Now all the wizards in the wizarding world know that he is the worst headmaster in the history of Hogwarts...and those pure-blood school directors...before The school board's magazine is also attacking him, trying to portray those areas criticized by the founder as being fooled by Dumbledore..." Tonks said, her hair became a lot darker, "In the small school In Sirius's ancestral home, Phineas's portrait said that he finally obtained Allen's permission, described that Allen had actually controlled Hogwarts for a long time, and then used these portraits to spy on Dumbledore and the others... Moody and the others felt that they had been tricked and were very angry... Lupine did not dare to come over tonight because of this. To be honest, Moody has been very irritable recently. We didn't know what was wrong. We began to suspect that he was under a curse. As a result, I haven’t checked to find out the reason, I mean, since he is already so old, it can’t be attributed to his second menopause, right?”

"Well...if the Order of the Phoenix and the others are angry with you like this, then it's not worth your worry. Tonks, you can't be afraid of Mad-Eye just because he took you." Daisy did not look back, her She consoled her with a somewhat awkward tone. In fact, as a member of Harris, she already knew that Moody's state was related to Luna's random use of several magical spells that affected emotions. Mad-Eye's furious state was estimated to last for a few more days. It takes weeks to completely subside.

Tonks didn't notice Daisy's expression. She opened her mouth and looked hesitant. After the incident of Hogwarts changing ownership, she began to doubt the accuracy of the statement that Luna was Ravenclaw, and she had hidden worries. She especially wanted to see Luna. I hope I can use some Auror talking skills to test it out: "By the way, I didn't mean to announce something. Why haven't you seen Alan and Luna coming?"

"The two of them have been busy with something that we ordinary people don't know about since they entered school! In addition to managing Hogwarts at the beginning and appeasing the professors and students..." Daisy looked around and found that Hermione and Penelope were not around, so her tone became careless. She held her tongue and replied: "Now these two people lock themselves up whenever they have free time and don't know what else to do. I asked Alan out of curiosity what do you think he did? Respond to me? My scumbag brother looked at me like he was looking at a pumpkin in a field. I don’t understand it... Humph! To be honest, ever since the Ministry of Magic and the others came back from ancient times last year, I feel that they have always been a little bit... Damn it, I think Allen will turn into a crazy boy sooner or later..."

"Dad, you added thirty bets for such a bad card?" At the gaming table not far behind Daisy, her sister Emily shouted in a surprised and somewhat disgusted tone.

After Emily's words fell, in addition to the old wizards sitting on the temporary chairs at the principal's table, there were also some younger wizard gamblers who were not seated, and they all quickly piled their chips into the middle of the long table. , couldn’t wait to shout out: “Follow!”

Owen pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows, looked at the red-nosed wizard and said, "A pair of Q's, and the rest are all 9's."

"Oops..." All the wizards who had just placed their bets leaned back helplessly.

The red-nosed old man Grimson couldn't help but ask Emily, who was leaning on Owen, "Hey, kid, do you know what three strips plus one pair means?"

"Of course I know! I often play cards with my classmates in my lounge." Emily tilted her head and showed a cute smile: "In addition, I also know what bluffing is."

Everyone else at the table couldn't help laughing when they saw the slumped expression of the red-nosed old man and the cunning look of the little girl.

"Love you so much, baby." Owen excitedly raised his hand to high-five Emily. Emily was so proud that she couldn't help but shake her palm that was a little painful from Owen's slap.