Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts

The Easter holiday is from the end of March to the beginning of April.

Like Christmas, young wizards can choose to go home or stay at school during the holiday.

Unlike the relaxing Christmas holiday, Hogwarts professors assign a lot of homework to students every Easter.

This year is no exception.

Even a bookworm like Hermione has to spend several days in the library to complete her homework on time.

Not to mention other ordinary students.

In addition, the Quidditch teams of each house will also use this time for intensive training to prepare for the final stage of the House Cup competition.

Oliver Wood, the Gryffindor team captain, approached Harry early for this reason.

"Potter, you're not going home this holiday, are you?"

Harry: "I—"

"Great, I knew you wouldn't go home!

I've already told everyone else on the team that the weather is nice this holiday, and we can fly every day, which is a good time to train."

Harry: "—"

"You know, we've already won two games!

As long as we beat Ravenclaw in the last game, we can win the championship trophy!"

Speaking of which, Wood's eyes flashed with wild light.

The whole person exuded an aura that strangers should not approach, which frightened Seamus and Dean, who were planning to talk to Harry, from approaching.

"It's settled then!

A week of closed training, a week of intensive training!

I'll let you know when the time comes!"

Harry: "."

As soon as Wood left, the Weasley twins walked over with their arms around each other's shoulders.

"Hey, don't worry, Potter, the training won't be as hard as he said."

"Oliver is already in his fifth year and has to prepare for the O.W.L. exams."

"What exams?"

Harry didn't react for a moment.

"Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, or O.W.L. exams for short."

At this moment, Hermione walked over from somewhere.

"This is a subject examination that fifth-year students must take, and it is managed by the Wizarding Examinations Authority.

Students can only decide whether they can continue to study this course in the coming year based on the scores they obtain in a specific O.W.L. exam subject."

Hearing Hermione's words, the Weasley twins exclaimed sincerely:

"As expected of Miss Know-It-All, you already figured this out in the first year!"

"So don't worry, Potter, have a happy holiday!"

"But we have to go, Lee Jordan thinks he has discovered a new secret passage that leads outside the school."

"I guess it's the passage behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy, right? We found it in the first week of school, goodbye."

After the twins left unsteadily, Hermione turned to Harry, "Are you going home this holiday?"

Harry shook his head.

Although his relationship with the Dursleys had improved a little with Sherlock's help, he still didn't want to return to Privet Drive.

He couldn't possibly spend Easter at Sherlock's house, could he?

"The professors left so much homework, I'm not going back, and Wood just came to me and said he wanted to use the holiday to strengthen training."

Hermione nodded, "Me too, I just asked Ron, and he doesn't plan to go back either—by the way, do you know where Sherlock is? He didn't go to the library today."

Harry shook his head again.

Even though he lived in the same dormitory as Sherlock, he had never grasped Sherlock's whereabouts.

If he had to use a word to describe it, it would be elusive.

Sometimes Harry even suspected that Sherlock had secretly slipped away wearing an invisibility cloak?

So even if he really agreed to Mycroft's surveillance request as Sherlock said, he couldn't do it at all.

Unless Sherlock deliberately leaked something.

Just as Harry and Hermione were scratching their heads, Dean and Seamus, who had been waiting beside them for a while, walked over.

"Um, I seem to have heard you talking about Holmes?"

"That's right, do you know where he is?"

Hermione's eyes lit up.

"Yeah, we saw him when we came over just now."

Next, Dean and Seamus pulled Harry to play wizard chess, while Hermione followed the direction pointed by Dean and Seamus to the Great Hall.

She didn't spend much effort to find Sherlock.

Because he was not alone.

"Ravenclaw?"

Looking at the two girls sitting next to Sherlock, Hermione couldn't help but curl her lips, and then walked over quickly.

When she got closer, she recognized that one of them was the girl who had approached Sherlock before Christmas—Hermione didn't know her name at the time.

But now she already knew that this girl's name was Cho Chang, a rare Asian at Hogwarts, a second-year Ravenclaw.

As for the other one———

"Penelope Clearwater?"

When she saw her face clearly, Hermione couldn't help but exclaimed.

A fifth-year student, and also a Ravenclaw prefect.

Her voice made the three of them turn their heads at the same time.

"Sorry—"

Hermione naturally also felt that it was a bit rude to call out someone's name directly.

At this time, she had already guessed that these two were probably consulting Sherlock, just like Hannah Abbott before.

"Maybe—I came at the wrong time."

"No, you came at the right time."

Sherlock looked at Hermione, "I think it must be Dean Thomas who told you I was here, right?"

"Yes, and Seamus."

Since Sherlock said so, Hermione sat down smoothly.

Fortunately, she knew both of the Ravenclaw girls, so she didn't need Sherlock to introduce them, saving some trouble.

As soon as Hermione sat down, she asked curiously:

"How did you see it? Because the direction I came from is the same as the direction they just left?"

"And time."

Sherlock's fingers tapped the table lightly, "And your walking posture—I noticed that you walked straight towards me, which shows that you have a strong purpose in coming here—okay, let's not talk about these irrelevant topics, let's talk about business."

Sherlock said and turned to the two Ravenclaw witches:

"Ladies, now please tell my friend the things you told me, and please be as detailed as possible, it is also useful for me to hear the process again.

Hermione, this case may be very interesting, or it may not be.

But I think you should be interested in it.

Now, I will no longer disturb you."

Cho Chang and Penelope Clearwater looked at each other, and both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

In fact, Cho Chang had just started to tell Sherlock when she was stopped by him.

The reason was that his friend would be coming over soon, and that friend would bring some help to this matter.

As a result, Hermione Granger came here not long after.

If it was just like this, it would be fine.

But what surprised the two even more was that from the communication between Sherlock and Hermione, it could be seen that Hermione herself knew nothing about this matter.

Being assigned to Ravenclaw, their logical thinking ability is naturally not bad.

The two understood what this meant almost instantly, and their surprise in looking at Sherlock was even greater.

Cho Chang glanced at Penelope Clearwater again, and then slowly said with the encouragement of the latter:

"Actually, I didn't want to bother Mr. Holmes again—this is just a small matter, I don't want to bring trouble to the academy, but Miss Penelope insisted that I should ask Mr. Holmes for help.

Miss Granger, I am not good at telling stories, so I can only state everything I have encountered in the most straightforward language."

Hearing this, Sherlock immediately leaned forward slightly, clasped his hands together to support his chin, which meant that he began to concentrate.

"Please forgive my rambling, but this matter must be said from last Christmas.

My father has been on business trips for a long time, and even on such an important holiday, he still couldn't go home in time to reunite with us.

Although my mother and I were not happy, we could understand my father, because he was too busy.

But we didn't expect that although he couldn't go home that day, he still specially sent me a gift—a seven-color eye shadow brought from an ancient magic supplies store in Hangzhou Old Street, packed in a sandalwood grid carved with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums.

When she received this gift, my mother was especially happy.

She said that it was the craftsmanship of a century-old shop in Qinghefang, the eye shadow used ancient mineral color embryos, and even the white porcelain for storage was re-fired in Longquan kiln.

Mr. Holmes, Miss Granger, to be honest, I was stunned when I opened the gift.

Because it was indeed very delicate, seven porcelain bloods were embedded in the sandalwood grid with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums in relief, from dark cyan to imperial concubine color, as if condensing the four seasons of Jiangnan in a square inch.

After returning to school, I have been keeping it in my dressing case.

My friends also like it very much, and we had originally agreed to go out together this Easter—"

Speaking of this, Cho Chang took a deep breath.

Sherlock and Hermione both stared at her intently.

Obviously, what she was going to say next was the focus of this matter.

..In the last potions class before Easter, my friends and I returned to the dormitory as usual, and found that the dressing case was in its original place, but the sandalwood box had disappeared.

We carefully checked the entire dormitory, but still found nothing, and after asking others, we confirmed that no one had been to the dormitory."

A wry smile appeared on Cho Chang's face, "I think it is also possible that I put it somewhere, but I forgot..

Actually, I don't think this is a big deal, it's just an ordinary box of cosmetics."

After Cho Chang finished speaking, Sherlock looked at Hermione, and then leaned back slightly, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

After a while, he slowly said:

"With all due respect, useless information occupies most of your description just now, but there is not much content that is really useful for the case."

Listening to Sherlock's undisguised and straightforward criticism, a blush flashed across Cho Chang's face.

"Sorry, Mr. Holmes, I don't know what information is useful to you—

Sherlock interrupted Cho Chang and directly asked:

"Is there anything special about that box of eye shadow?"

"From the perspective of color alone, the seven colors are indeed rich and unique, with auspicious golden red, which can make the eyes emit a warm and bright light after application.

The mysterious dark blue represents the deep starry sky, giving the eyes a mysterious and deep feeling.

The elegant pink is like the blooming peach blossoms in spring, showing gentleness and sweetness.

These colors are not mixed with ordinary pigments, but are integrated with a variety of rare magical plants and mineral powders.

So this seven-color eye shadow is not just for beauty, but also has certain magical effects.

When you are in a tense mood, you can apply the light blue eye shadow that represents tranquility, which can soothe your mind. The golden eye shadow that shines with tiny light can make the user more charming and attract other people's attention in social situations.

It can be said that each grid of eye shadow contains a unique magical charm."

Sherlock patiently listened to Cho Chang's introduction of the seven-color eye shadow, and then began to ask other questions.