days at Hogwarts

Chapter 72 Starts the Angler’s Christmas Vacation

Just as Loren put the pears outside the window, Ron lowered his head and came back with the chessboard and two chess pieces.

"Ugh."

Ron sighed loudly, trying to get Loren's attention, with his head turned forward and his eyes sideways, quietly gauging Loren's reaction.

Loren ignored him, he was thinking about how to improve the frozen pear.

There are a total of 18 pears in the basket this time. Loren divided them into 3 groups, 6 in each group. One group was frozen like this. Regardless of him, the other two groups were frozen once a day and thawed once. After thawing, put them away. Go back and freeze it, and eat one every time you thaw it.

"Alas~" Ron continued to test, this time the sigh was longer and louder.

"Is Harry gone?"

Loren was afraid that he would not have enough lung capacity if he continued to sigh, so don't pass.While talking, on the table outside the window, use snow to draw grid lines and divide the area.

Seeing that Loren finally noticed him, Ron said hastily, "Yes, he's running fast and can't wait to spend Christmas with his godfather. If you want me to say, there's nothing wrong with spending Christmas at school."

"Is there a possibility, I mean possibility, that he really doesn't want to play chess with you."

Loren closed the window, walked to the soft cloth chair in front of the fireplace and sat down, wiped his snow-wet hands with a handkerchief, and stretched out his hands to warm the fire. His hands were now cold.

"What's wrong with Wizard Chess? It increases intelligence. Many great wizards loved playing Wizard Chess when they were young." Ron muttered.

"No childhood is complete without Wizard Chess."

"I can guarantee that the first 50 steps will not kill your army."

"Come on, just one game."

Ron was really bored, and the twin brothers didn't know where they went.

Loren's hands warmed up, rubbing his hands left and right, and looked at Ron helplessly, "Let's play a different kind of chess."

"I can do it, you say." Ron cheered up after changing his weak look just now.

Loren took out his wand and moved towards the table next to him. A neatly arranged square grid appeared on the wooden table, consisting of 15 horizontal lines and 15 vertical lines.

The two books on the table spread out on their own, and the paper inside kept flipping, as if they were being blown by a strong wind and were about to fall off the bookcase, but there was no wind in the lounge.

The pages of the book quickly broke free from the hard cover, curled up together, and turned into black and white, round and flat-bottomed cool jade chess pieces, exactly what Loren had in mind.

The hard-shell cover with the bare rods turned into a box for chess pieces, and a high-end backgammon was transformed in this way.

Ron stared at this scene dumbfounded, and exclaimed, "Oh, let me tell you, Ni's Transfiguration is much better than Hermione's!"

Loren spent some time explaining the rules of backgammon to Ron, there is no forbidden hand.

With such simple and interesting rules, and round chess pieces, Ron is willing to try this kind of chess that he has never heard of.

The two officially started "playing chess". Loren wanted to give Ron some sweetness, so as not to dampen his enthusiasm, and pestered him to play wizard chess.

But soon, he himself was hit.

"It turns out that it can still go down like this!"

After Ron experienced double-three, three-four and other classic defeats, he became excited and enthusiastic. He seemed to be addicted to this simple backgammon.

Loren thought he could abuse Ron for a long time, at least a week's novice period would be fine.

Things didn't go as he expected. Ron is really good at playing chess. He won't suffer from the losses he suffered, and he can quickly absorb Loren's routine just now and use it on Loren.

Good guy, your talents are all on this.

Loren couldn't abuse the food, and even if he went down, the car would overturn.After struggling to cope with a few rounds, he excused that it was time for dinner and hurriedly ended the battle.

It's just that Ron still can't forget it. Even after repeated defeats, he is still full of enthusiasm for this novel gameplay.

Playing wizard chess with other people, there is basically no suspense in the result, and he has to worry about the opponent's emotions so that he can't kill the killer. Compared with this kind of backgammon that he will lose, he is more fascinated.

"Let's go to the table and continue."

"You go down with the roast turkey."

At the dinner table, while dealing with the chicken legs in front of him, Loren checked the situation on the tables of other colleges. He noticed that many people from the four colleges stayed for the holiday.

The Slytherin people stayed the least. Loren took a look, most of them were half-blood wizards, and basically all the pure-blood wizards went home.

Loren tore off a large piece of meat with his teeth and chewed, enjoying the wonderful feeling of gravy and salty aroma rolling in his mouth.

Ron poked his head over from the side, "Play chess after dinner?"

Loren turned his head, ignored the possessed man, and continued to destroy food.

Ron walked around to the other side, "Anyway, there's nothing to do, let's play a few rounds."

Loren chewed the brittle bones in his mouth, and ignored Ron.

It is impossible to play chess, you can only play one or two games occasionally to maintain a tight frame, and give you experience to feed it. Wouldn't it be shameful if you were accidentally overturned.

Ron couldn't get any feedback, so he turned and walked towards the twins, "George, I just learned a new game..."

At night, the Gryffindor common room.

Thanks to the fact that most of the students had gone home, the common room was much less crowded than usual, and they were able to snag good seats around the fire in the more comfortable upholstered chairs with armrests.

The twin brothers brought out a lot of food from the kitchen, all of which could be poked with a fork and put into their mouths, such as bread, mushrooms, fruit pieces, and cut steaks.When it's cold, warm it up on the fireplace.

Loren stared at the churning fire. This fire looks very suitable for grilling. I must find a chance to try it in the future.

Right now, they are sitting there, chatting while enjoying the food.

Fred told some interesting stories about the professors. George was beaten by Ron in backgammon.

George was already very satisfied, and they were laughed at by Ron even more when they could only play wizard chess.

The twins severely reprimanded their parents for their partiality, preferring to go to their brother's side for Christmas, leaving them homeless.

They talked about Dumbledore's lady's hat, Professor McGonagall turned into a tabby cat, and the twins said that they were going to do something different in the future, and that they would let the whole wizarding world know their names.

Speaking of Professor Quirrell, the twins said they had had a full opportunity to see the back of his head for what it really was.

They exchanged their experiences of night tours, which floors Filch always patrolled, and which books in the restricted section were wonderful.

"Professor McGonagall will turn us all into fat pigs if he's here!" said George.

"Maybe it's turkey, so there will be a few more roast turkeys at the Christmas dinner." Fred rarely disagreed with George.

Everyone laughed together, and the laughter stirred with the fire.

The party didn't end until midnight, and Ron received rejection from everyone, and they didn't want to play chess with Ron anymore.

……

The next day Loren got up early, he had important things to do today.

Loren opened his eyes and sat up to see that Ron was fully dressed, sitting cross-legged on his bed, playing chess with himself.

The chess pieces fell silently on the cotton sheets, and the chessboard with 15 lanes was almost full, and it seemed that it had been played for a long time.

The patterns on the sheets were transformed into checkerboard lines by him.I don't know what changed the chess pieces. It seems that the size is not uniform at all, and the shapes are also strange. The colors can only be divided into dark colors and light colors.

Loren stared at the chess pieces carefully for a while. Ron had an idea. Bibi's multi-flavored beans turned into chess pieces that could be played while eating.

Maybe you can consider teaching him to play Go, eat a chess piece as soon as you pick it up, and whoever eats his fill first wins.

Seeing Loren get up, Ron cheered up and invited Loren with a chess piece, "Want to play a game?"

"No, no, no." Loren shook his head quickly, the child was already possessed.

Loren changed out of his pajamas and dug out another item from the bottom of the box, the blanket that Nicole had sold him along with the book.It can prevent wind and keep warm, and it will not be cold overnight in the snowy mountains. It is very suitable for things to do today.

Ignoring Ron's entanglement all the way, the two came to the restaurant for breakfast.

The decoration here is more gorgeous than yesterday, and some ornaments have not been hung up yet, and it seems that the construction has not yet been completed.

Loren looked at the guest table while eating. There were only Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick on it. It seemed that the professors' holiday life was irregular.

Snape was not at the guest table.

He might be sleeping in, Loren thought.

Dumbledore caught Loren's gaze and winked playfully at him.

Too naive, Loren pretended not to see it, turned his head and looked around, and returned to the dinner plate in front of him.

Ron was still whispering in his ear, "Let's play chess, let's play chess."

Loren pressed his hand on the wand and squeezed it again and again. He made up his mind that if Ron woke up tomorrow morning, if the first sentence was still playing chess, he would give him a stun spell and let him play enough in his dream.

Picked some carrots, bread, and chicken legs on the dining table.

Putting them into the food box made from the dinner plate, holding the food box in one hand, and covering his body with a white fur blanket, Loren set out towards the Black Lake.

It's almost two months into winter, and the fish under the black lake have been hungry for a long time, so it's a good time to catch big fish.

There are warm blankets, and there are polymorphs to conjure various fishing rods at will.

The right time, place and people are all in my hands, and today will definitely be full of harvest.