Science students at Hogwarts

When Elios and the others arrived at Professor Snape's new home, he stood expressionlessly in the foyer to greet the guests.

He looked at each guest silently through his greasy bangs, not even bothering to offer a stiff smile.From that look, no one could tell that he was experiencing a housewarming.

Elios also understood his complicated psychology.

For Severus Snape, Spider-End Alley was the source of his lifelong pain, but it was also the place where he met the love of his life.

He only returned to the gloomy old house he inherited from his father during holidays before conducting a series of Muggle chemistry experiments.

Snape often sat on a worn and fluffy sofa, looking at the rows of lifeless windows, recalling that warm memory and his only light in the world.

But since he came into contact with Muggle science, all this changed.

Brand-new Muggle instruments are constantly stuffed into the small living room. Most of the old black-covered books on the bookshelf are replaced with recent scientific journals. The dim candle lights hanging from the ceiling are also replaced with waterproof and dust-proof fluorescent lights.

After some renovations, the desolate and deserted atmosphere of this place is no longer visible.

This cabin is hidden in the maze-like town of Cokeworth, and its dilapidated appearance is its best protection.

Snape put in a lot of effort when renovating this hut. Just to ensure smooth access to electricity, he used confusion spells to get Muggles to change the circuit of Spider-End Alley eight times.

Lucius also put in a lot of effort, after several pleasant dinners with Fudge.Fudge destroyed the Office's manuscripts.

Relying on this silent understanding, Snape became more unscrupulous. He then made some small modifications, such as casting some invisible stretching spells on the narrow room, applying some magic on Muggle instruments, etc.

Unfortunately, things went wrong after a lot of mistakes were made, but it was with the Muggles.

Snape used confusion spells many times to make Muggles ignore that they had modified the circuits of this residence, but he never expected that there were Muggles in the world who would check the electricity consumption.Protection from the Muggle Repelling Curse

In a declining industrial town like Cokeworth, especially a Muggle garbage dump like Spider End Lane, the electricity used in a year is surprisingly low. Such high electricity consumption immediately attracted the attention of the relevant departments.

The year 1991 was a critical time. Dai Ying, who had always been poorly informed, received a piece of news that an unknown power was about to collapse.

According to Daiying's consistent tradition, no one believed this ridiculous statement.But now that the power company's report came in, they still sent someone to take a look.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you will be shocked when you look at it.

No matter how many elites were sent by the British, they could not find the source of the problem.

After the news reached Downing Street, conspiracy theories abounded.Most people think this is Mao Xiong's conspiracy. With such a large amount of electricity consumption, they must have a major task.

And the best way to prevent this problem is to cut off the power.Anyway, few people in such a poor place can afford electricity.

Long-term and frequent power outages made Snape very annoyed. He "finded" maintenance personnel several times but could not solve the problem.

After a cordial and friendly conversation, he finally understood the cause of the matter: it was all the fault of Cokeworth's poverty.

To solve the problem once and for all, he simply moved to London.

John helped to settle the new home in London. He originally did it all in a low-key manner, but after Lucius found out, he made sure to hold a housewarming party to celebrate for him, and this was the beginning of the scene.

"Quiet!" Elios heard Draco whisper nervously to a bamboo basket embroidered with beautiful patterns.The cloth on top was vaguely raised, and soon fell down again.

Elios felt that Professor Snape definitely didn't want this gift.He looked at Draco who was very excited and swallowed the words that came to his lips.

"Let's go in through the back door. Don't let others find us. I asked John about the structure here before we came here." Draco looked at the professor not far away, biting his ears with Elios mysteriously.

OMG!Elios wished he could look up to the sky and sigh, here he comes again.

Along the way, Draco has resolutely implemented this principle.

First, they told the Malfoy couple that they were adults and could go alone, then mysteriously went to the candy house to retrieve their gifts, and finally arrived here with the help of the Knight Bus.

Recalling that wonderful bus ride, Elios swore he would never take a Knight Bus again in his life!

While he complained, he and Draco slipped into the back door, but before he could go in, he heard Draco's earth-shattering scream, who had slipped into the house first.

He rushed in quickly and saw a short, fat old man carrying the bamboo basket.

His shiny bald head and two large silver mustaches caught the light and shone like the gold buttons on his vest.

"We're all here now." He handed them a few candies with a smile, "It's not easy to catch you two little guys."

Draco stared nervously at the basket in his hand. Elios looked at the old wizard in front of him and had a guess in his mind.

"Professor Slughorn!" Narcissa's surprised voice came from the distance.

Today she was wearing a sea blue robe, the skirt was dotted with diamonds, her long, slightly curly black hair fell on her shoulders, and Lucius followed closely behind her.

Horace turned and greeted them cordially.

"Did you just arrive too?" Narcissa was obviously very happy to see her favorite professor.

"It's been a long time, dear, I've been visiting this house with Filius, and I really like it here. By the way, would you like some glazed pineapples?" Horace handed the box to them.

Narcissa readily agreed, and she happily introduced the two children to Horace.

After a while of greetings, Narcissa handed over the bamboo basket and asked them to play there.

"That's weird. Mom clearly said she would never eat high-calorie foods this month." Draco murmured to himself as he left the back door.

"I probably didn't say it was zero card." Elios pulled him around the corner and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

"What did they bring to Sev?" Lucius didn't have time to look at the bamboo basket.

"A swallow-tailed dog," Horace wiped his hands slowly. "That's a cute little guy. Look at it, with its shiny black nose and short yellow and white hair. I bet Sif will like it. ."

The Malfoys smiled helplessly and looked at each other.

"Those two little guys have good aesthetics. They did an excellent job of understanding Dumbledore's hints and Merlin's beard. I really hope it can help Sev." He looked into the distance and made a joke.

"Maybe he needs Filius' help. You know, people can't stay immersed in the past."

Brush, brush, brush, the bushes at the gate kept ringing.

Horace strode towards the door, "It seems we have a few more guests."