Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

The Hogwarts Christmas Ball was on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next morning. The Triwizard Tournament is now something that the British Ministry of Magic is vigorously promoting. The purpose is to make the public less concerned about what happened in Germany. What.In fact, most wizards have no interest in foreign affairs, they just like surprising news and excitement.

Although many people still have doubts about whether this competition, which has been suspended for hundreds of years, can win the final victory. After all, Hogwarts is only an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. Wearing the halo of "Savior", but it can't change the fact that he is only a fourth grade student.

If you want to compete for the championship, I'm afraid it's not enough.

After the first game was hyped, finally the wizards who weren't interested or optimistic were interested.

A dragon, the first game is to face a dragon, how exciting.

More importantly, all four players defeated the dragon.

The wizards have already begun to guess what the second game will be, and almost all the terrifying and dangerous magical creatures have been pulled out to gossip. Some knowledgeable people went to the ancient classics to check the content of the previous Triwizard Tournament.

The Yule Ball is a very tense day for all Hogwarts students to look forward to, and all students who can participate in the ball. Most of the wizards outside the school are also preparing ball gowns for their children, while waiting happily A special extended report delivered by owl the next morning.

When all the wizarding families were having breakfast, drinking milk and opening the newspaper contentedly, they saw more than a dozen photos densely published in the newspaper.

Four contestants and dance partners, three principals, Rita Skeeter described her previous mistakes with a particularly passionate text, the savior Harry obviously has a fourth girl who is closely related-Petty who is also from a foreign country in the east Miss Er.It's a pity that although Patil was very beautiful and her dress at the ball was outstanding, she was obviously inferior to the other three girls who were defeated by her and lost her qualification as the dance partner of the savior.Above the text, Padma Patil in the photo is dancing with Harry in full swing, hinting with his eyes that Harry should put his hands on his waist, but described by Rita Skeeter as an angry savior who is absent-minded Well, the movements in the photo of Harry were indeed distracted, first looking at Qiu Zhang outside the field, and then staring at Iris.

After Rita Skeeter briefly wrote about Hermione Granger who was snatched away by the outstanding player Durmstrang, she immediately turned to the second point, from the second half of the first page to The third edition is all about the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who stunned Hogwarts at the Yule Ball this year.

Suspected to be a blood relative of Iris Nyx, one of the contestants. It is said that he maintained his teenage appearance due to an accident while studying magic, and the reaction of the Hogwarts students who became silent when they heard about it. Rita Skeeter wrote a close-up, she began to suspect the foreign wizards, and then wrote about the horror that Hogwarts reimbursed a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor every year, and wrote with certainty that the 11-year-old contestant and That professor is definitely not human. The evidence is that the white wizard invited a werewolf's criminal record last year. As for what a Hogwarts student said, the Witch Weekly Best Smile Award cannot be assigned to non-wizard magical creatures.

The nonsense written by Rita Skeeter, almost all wizards didn't think about it carefully.

They all stared wide-eyed at the black-and-white photos in the newspaper.

Above, Iris and Salazar are repeating the graceful and light dance steps over and over again. The dizzy and panicked expression of the little girl is not realistic in the photo. Instead, it is Sarah wearing a noble and ancient style robe, with the overturned and gorgeous lines clearly visible. Zha, the expressionless cold face is elegant and radiant like quartz, and the cold curve is noble and dusty, and the pale skin is so pure that it is almost transparent... Merlin, the wizards are a little dumbfounded, and a few old wizards with noble blood or profound knowledge suddenly Frowning, he rushed into the dusty ancient book collection room without even having breakfast.

Half a day later, these wizards staggered out, grabbed the parchment, and began to write letters desperately.

Nicks family.

She doesn't believe in Merlin, has the talent of terrible curses, and can predict that the family's demise is because its last heir is a woman who married the Duke of Slytherin. After more than ten years, the castle was burned to ashes together with the castle.

The person who killed her was her own son, with a name known to the entire wizarding world.

— Salazar Slytherin.

At noon the next day, Iris finally climbed into the picture frame, her big orange eyes were bright red, and she tilted her head in an extremely aggrieved manner.It looked up at Salazar, turned its head blankly, [Stay here. ]

The basilisk who received the master's order had no choice but to swallow the cries and tears in its stomach, and crawled to the fireplace to watch Salazar go out of the door.

It's so warm, such a soft blanket, but it can't hibernate.

Aerys circled her huge body twice, and then prepared to put her head on the soft bed.

[Well? ]

The translucent curtain clearly sleeps a figure, the light of the magic hourglass on the bed cabinet shone with a green color on the pale face, the shadows hanging from the eyelashes on the tightly closed eyes were not clear, and the soft feather blanket It was covered all the way down to the neck, but there were weird bruises on the arms that were placed on the pillow, densely scattered on the fair and delicate skin.

[Owner? ]

The basilisk blinked, it has been in for so long, so close, why is the owner still awake?This is not right - the little girl thought hard, even if she was too tired to open her eyes, as soon as it approached, the master would immediately open her eyes and look at it.What happened today, first shut it outside for a whole night, and now pretend to sleep and ignore it, woo~~

——The little girl misunderstood, but the master does not like you, but is cautious and suspicious by nature, even if you approach him, he will wake up, but at this moment your master is in a special situation...

The basilisk rubbed Ling Cha's arm outside with its big head.

Ling Cha seemed to be aware of it, and frowned tightly, without even making a low, unconscious response, and still fell into a tired sleepiness.

The basilisk looked at him eagerly, and slowly moved closer to the bed. The cold scales rubbed against the blanket, feeling a little weird. Why does the blanket on the ground feel wrong?I lowered my head and looked, er, it seemed to be new, different from the previous pattern!The faint blue snake letter tried to spit it out and waited for a long time before retracting it and feeling it carefully. The air is full of the fragrance of clear water. Either the cleansing spell has been used a lot just now or the deep-sea mermaid dew used for bathing in the bathroom has leaked here. .

And what's on the master's arm?It seems to be bitten out by something, it must be very painful!

The pure and ignorant basilisk opened its eyes wide, and stretched out the snake letter in pain, wanting to lick it, just like when its scales fell off—fortunately, the basilisk was not so stupid as to think of its own saliva in time It is highly toxic.

Then the huge body disappeared in an instant, and the thin little girl who didn't even look ten years old squatted on top of her legs.

[Iris! ]

When the little girl withdrew her tongue back, she could already smell the aroma of fruit porridge. She jumped up happily and turned her head to pounce on the food, but was frightened by Salazar standing at the door and shrank back to the fireplace with tears in her eyes. .

Well.The other owner also had that strange bruising mark on his neck.

how come?

The little girl gasped. Its owner, how could it be bitten like this by something?

Reminiscent of the incidents of being locked out of the master's door many times recently, Aerys suddenly widened his eyes—could it be that he ate less for the dance recently, was too hungry in the middle of the night, sleepwalked in a daze, and gnawed on his master's arm?

[Wow... Aerys didn't mean it, Aerys doesn't know anything...]

[… What were you doing just now? ]

[The owner was injured, it wasn't bitten by Iris, Iris just wanted to lick it, and it probably wouldn't hurt. ]

[...]

How could Ling Cha not wake up like this? At the beginning, the lake-green pupils were not focused. It took him a long time to realize where he was and what happened. A slight annoyance flashed in his eyes, and then he looked strangely as if he had been greatly wronged. The little girl looked at Salazar who was putting the plate on the table.

[…Aerys? ]

His voice was so hoarse that his throat hurt, and his voice was no longer cold and watery. After moving a little, Ling Cha immediately frowned and kept lying down, and stretched out his hand towards the basilisk.

Aerys was bulky again, nudging her head under his fingers, sobbing and peeking at the food on the table.

[Hey, if you want to eat, go to the kitchen, that's my breakfast. ]

[But Master, it’s twelve o’clock now...]

Ling Cha froze, and looked at the longing eyes of the half-serious little girl who only had food and nothing else, and finally Iris reluctantly crawled out of the door, twisting her head three times, as if she was following her. Food is like saying goodbye.

"All right?" Salazar whispered in his ear.

Apart from not being able to move, the bones all over his body felt sore, the darkness in Ling Cha's eyes deepened; "Where did you learn that?"

Why was he distracted for a while last night?Why not Salazar?

"Learn what?"

"..." That's right, if Salazar really understands, then I don't have to be so embarrassed now.

"Fortunately, the Christmas holiday is seven days."

The two stared at each other, smiling quietly.

They would never leave each other when the other was unconscious and not alert. Even if it was a last resort, Aerys was there. Caution had penetrated into their souls.Even if there is no threat, no danger, there will never be any gaps.