Hogwarts on the tip of the tongue

On Halloween, Elena woke up early as usual.

As the head chef of Hogwarts, while having enviable privileges, she also shoulders important responsibilities second only to Albus Dumbledore. She is especially busy around such important festivals.

"Ha~ braised, shoes."

Elena sat up, yawned slightly, and shook her feet to tease the three little puppies sleeping beside the bed.

Feeling the little master's awakening, Xiao Luwei shook his head and opened his eyes, spit out a few blue sparks, and immediately reacted quickly, skillfully picking up the shoes that Elena kicked by the bed, and kicked them. Run to Elena's feet and lie down.

After more than a month of running-in, Xiao Luwei has fully accepted his new form, and has successfully transformed from a mighty and ferocious giant dog into a cute, super-obedient three-headed little licking dog.

"Is it already Halloween?"

Elena put on her clothes and shoes, glanced at the calendar that turned automatically on the dressing table, and whispered thoughtfully.

"Hopefully everything goes well today and some ugly guys better not come out and cause trouble."

Halloween at Hogwarts seems to be a cursed day.

If Elena remembers correctly, during the seven years of the original work written by JK Rowling, some unusual events would happen on this day every year. When Harry was in first grade, a troll broke into the girls' toilet, and something happened in Harry's second grade. There was the first basilisk attack. In the third grade, a big black dog came to the castle and tore the Fat Lady apart. In the fourth grade, the Triwizard Tournament started. In the fifth grade, a large-scale fight broke out between lions and snakes.

But thankfully, the plot has changed beyond recognition as Elena stirs up waves in Hogwarts Castle.

The three-headed dog Luwei, who was originally used to guard the Sorcerer's Stone level, has turned into a little milk dog that hums and eats and drinks among the girls every day. Naturally, Dumbledore also set up new magic levels to fill the gap. If Elena guessed correctly, the missing link of Hagrid's level should be filled by an enthusiastic "castle administrator".

Under the influence of Elena, although Hermione still has some unacceptable pride, her character has improved much compared to the beginning of the original work. At least no one will deliberately isolate and exclude her.

Coupled with Hermione's outstanding performance in tit-for-tat with Elena in class, and her unintentional behavior of helping other students with their after-school homework, Hermione Granger is now in the first grade of Hogwarts. Her popularity is extremely high, even vaguely surpassing Hannah's, and she has become the "second sister" in people's private discussions.

Under such circumstances, it is too difficult to recreate the classic scenes in the original Philosopher's Stone.

Therefore, after carefully thinking about the changes in all aspects, Elena felt a lot more at ease. She paid less attention to the synthetic beast: Quirrell Voldemort and focused on the layout and arrangement of the Halloween banquet.

Whether Voldemort can survive successfully and whether he can steal the Sorcerer's Stone and make a comeback are issues that Dumbledore needs to worry about and consider. She and Grindelwald are not in the mood to pay attention to these small things for the time being.

In the face of the huge changes that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people and affect every corner of the world in a month's time, which will inevitably affect the future destiny of both worlds, the little thoughts of a certain tool demon are really insignificant.

In order to ensure that Professor Quirrell would not take the initiative to cause trouble, Elena even secretly ordered the house elf to provide the poor professor with a snack after dinner alone, so as to prevent him from being unbalanced due to being exploited by the unscrupulous demon king for a long time. .

I have to admit that without any conflict of interest, Professor Quirrell can actually be considered a simple person. He just wants to get through this semester quickly, get the Philosopher's Stone, and then resign and leave this increasingly weird and unfamiliar Hogwarts. .

By the time the little wizards woke up one after another, the sweet and tempting smell of roasted pumpkin was already wafting in the corridor.

Since it’s Halloween, pumpkin-related dishes are a must.

Days in advance of the holiday, a large number of pumpkins and apples have been harvested in the Hogwarts vegetable garden, ready to be used for decorations and kitchen cooking today and tomorrow. Pumpkin pies, roasted pumpkin seeds, toffee apples, hot apples west dozen

In addition, Elena also specially purchased a batch of candies from Hogsmeade Village to enhance the festive atmosphere.

The original intention of Halloween is actually to praise the autumn festival. Hundreds of years before sects in the non-magical world designated this day as "Saints' Day", wizards had the traditional custom of celebrating this day.

The druids, the wizards of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, believed that on that night their great god of death, Saman, would come to the world, and along with the return of the god of death would be those evil spirits who had gone to another world, so they Light a bonfire that reaches into the sky and keep a close eye on these evil spirits.

This is how the idea that witches and ghosts were everywhere on Halloween began.

For Professor Sprout, this festival has another special meaning. The ancient Roman wizards called this day Pomona, which is the "Festival of the God of Fruit Trees", which heralds the prosperity of all fruit trees. Life and death, harvest and failure.

Therefore, although I know that all this is just a beautiful vision of my parents when they chose the name.

But whenever this day comes, Ms. Pomona Sprout is still quite happy. She appears in the auditorium early in the morning and helps the house elves decorate the school's Halloween decorations.

All the lampshades have been replaced by huge pumpkin shells, dazzling candlelight flickers in the belly of the pumpkin, and gold, purple, and silver ribbons decorate the edges of the corridors and windows. Everyone is in a good mood.

In fact, after telling Hermione not to run around after class, Elena's worries subsided a lot again.

Although the content of Gryffindor's first-year Charms class today is still the Levitation Charm, this is just a normal course arrangement and cannot explain the strange phenomenon of "World Line Convergence".

Moreover, for Elena today, it may be a bit difficult to confront Voldemort head-on, but with full firepower, there is still no big problem in dealing with a clumsy giant monster.

You know, when Rubeus Hagrid was a child, he went to the Forbidden Forest to fight trolls.

Faced with this big guy who has obvious shortcomings in intelligence, physical strength, and defense, even if Quirrell really lost his mind and let a giant monster enter Hogwarts like in the original work, Elena felt that she needed The more important thing to think about is how to hold back some of your strength so as not to kill it by accident.

However, just when Elena focused most of her attention on how to deal with the potentially "troublesome" Professor Quirrell,

An unexpected trouble suddenly found her.

After breakfast, Hogwarts Transfiguration classroom.

As time goes by, the difficulty of the Transfiguration courses gradually begins to increase.

Different from the simple transformation between dead objects in the previous lessons, starting from this lesson, Professor McGonagall asked the first-year students to try to use the transformation spell on living creatures. Today's content is to transform a snail into a living creature. glass bead.

As usual, Elena skillfully used the self-created "binary rewind magic to transform the structure" or the "blindness method" to quickly complete the learning content assigned by Professor McGonagall, and then began to be in a daze.

Ever since she learned part of the knowledge about ancient alchemy, Elena had long given up on the idea of ​​mastering the art of transformation.

The modern scientific concepts imprinted in her soul in her previous life, as well as her understanding of the microscopic world, made it almost as difficult as a squib when performing this type of unreasonable "black box magic".

According to her own speculation, if she can successfully perform the transformation technique one day, there are only two possibilities:

[-]. An extremely powerful wizard cast an amnesia spell on her, erasing her memory of modern science;

[-]. Like those ancient alchemists, she carried out the entire process of understanding, decomposing, and reorganizing matter.

Under such circumstances, even though Professor McGonagall's transfiguration seemed interesting, Elena simply chose to rely on visual magic to get through.

After all, it was difficult for her to explain to Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall what fusion reactions and fission reactions were.

And why her Transfiguration could burn Hogwarts to the ground if she's not careful.

"Elena Kaslana, perfect change, plus five points for Hufflepuff."

Professor McGonagall glanced at the smooth and round colored glass bead on Elena's desk, raised her eyebrows, nodded with satisfaction, and gave high praise and bonus points without hesitation.

Although this situation repeats itself in every class, as an impartial professor, Professor McGonagall insists that as long as she completes her course requirements perfectly, she must give extra points, even if Elena does not seem to be It didn't take much energy, and the whole person always looked a little lazy and in a daze.

Slytherin and Hufflepuff students are already accustomed to Elena's extraordinary speed in mastering magic.

Ever since the little silver-haired witch unexpectedly fainted and returned from the first class, no matter how complicated the transformation technique was, Elena could perfectly reproduce it immediately after Professor McGonagall completed the demonstration, as if she had already mastered it.

However, except for Elena, most students felt that the difficulty of this classwork suddenly increased.

Unlike transforming dead objects into another form, even just turning an invertebrate snail into a glass bead is already an extremely difficult task for most students.

Until the morning's Transfiguration class was about to end, not many students had successfully completed the transformation.

Even for those who barely succeeded, most of their glass beads still had some traces of snails on them, or some of the snail's abdomen and legs remained unchanged.

"Elena, please teach me."

After Hannah failed a dozen times in a row, she poked the disobedient snail in front of her with a frustrated look, turned her head to look at the white-haired dumpling next to her who was about to fall asleep, and sighed gloomily.

"It's really difficult to turn them into snails. If it's about turning them into cheese snails, I have no problem at all now."

"Don't be discouraged, just practice more. My method is not suitable for you."

Elena yawned absently, stretched out her fingers to pluck the "glass bead" in front of her, and naturally separated Hannah's left hand that wanted to touch the "glass bead".

It's not that she doesn't want to teach Hannah the techniques of transfiguration, the point is that she herself got through by cheating and is really not qualified to help others. Considering Hannah's future magic learning, at this time, she should follow Professor McGonagall's traditional method. It's better to come.

"Speaking of which, Elena, is this your new magic?"

Hannah, who was rejected again, had no annoyance on her face. Instead, she looked at Elena's finger with some curiosity. Her eyes were filled with envy and wonder. Unexpectedly, the beautiful glass bead had been wrapped around her. It touched the tip of Elena's finger, as if it was glued to it. There was no point of support, but it stopped firmly on the girl's fingertip.

"Magic" Elena blinked and suddenly came back to her senses.

Following Hannah's gaze and looking at her fingertips, she realized that the snail that had been "turned into" a glass bead had woken up at some point and was slowly crawling up her finger.

Of course, in the eyes of others, it is the glass beads that are rolling upward on their own against gravity.

"Uh, this isn't magic." A trace of embarrassment appeared on Elena's face, and she subconsciously flicked the "glass beads" in her hand onto the table, then placed them on the table again with a snap.

It neither rolled around nor jumped up, but stopped silently on the smooth wooden table.

Ok

Hannah tilted her head, the confusion on her face becoming more and more obvious.

It looks so weird

Always feel something is wrong

just like

"Wait a minute, you glass bead, there seems to be something wrong with you."

Before little Hannah could figure out the hazy confusion in her mind, a serious female voice suddenly reached the ears of the two of them.

"Uh-huh, McGonagall, Professor McGonagall"

The expression on Elena's face suddenly changed, and she turned around quickly.

She saw Professor McGonagall looking at her gloomily, her gaze falling on the slightly trembling "glass bead", her sharp eyes narrowed slightly, the expression on her face gradually became serious, and she slowly stretched out her hand forward. .

"Miss Kaslana, if possible, could you hand me the glass bead?"

The next moment, as the transfiguration professor's finger touched the "glass bead", the witch's expression instantly became extremely complicated.

Ruined

seems to be suffering

Seeing Professor McGonagall's face, Elena subconsciously shuddered

As expected, Professor McGonagall took a deep look at the flawless colored glass bead in her hand, felt the clear touch on the tip of her finger, took a deep breath, and her voice seemed to be shaking with anger.

"really"

"This is an illusion. What are you hiding?"

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