snake catcher

Today is rare without rain, the sky is clear.

Even the unpalatable breakfast at Hogwarts didn't dampen Mel's good mood!

Of course, the food at Hogwarts wasn't that bad, Mel said in all fairness.But for Mel, who likes to eat green vegetables and has a very light diet, it's okay to eat once or twice, but if you eat too much, you will get a little tired.

However, vegetables are more expensive than meat, and Hogwarts does not charge tuition fees, such a rich diet is already very good.

Mel absently forked the bacon on her plate, then wrapped half a piece of lettuce leaf with the meat, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Hi! Mel." As soon as the twins entered the auditorium, they ran to Mel and greeted her enthusiastically, "Happy birthday!"

Mel quickly swallowed the bacon, and replied, "Thank you! George, Fred!" Then, he looked them up and down, back and forth several times.

"What are you looking at? Mel!" The twins grinned wickedly!

"Where's my gift?" Mel looked at them expectantly, "I've been waiting all night!"

"Don't worry, Mel. It won't be until evening!" The twins looked mysterious.

Just when Mel and the twins were bargaining for the gift, an owl jumped on the long table in front of Mel, squatting firmly on it, it was 'Athena', father's owl messenger.

"Oh, daddy's birthday present is here!" Mel shouted happily, half of it was joy, and the other half was for the twins, who told them not to reveal what the birthday present was.

Athena lifted her leg gracefully and asked Mel to take off the 24-carat box on her wrist.

"Thank you, Athena." Mel fed it some meat, "Will you wait for me in the owl shed? I'll write back to my father at noon."

Athena blinked her eyelids, as if she understood Mel's words, she flew away with the meat in her mouth.

Mel couldn't wait to open the box, wanting to see what novelty it was.The twins also moved their heads curiously, staring at the box.

It was just a letter, Mel was a little disappointed and tore open the envelope at George's urging.When I opened it, I saw a document, which contained a notice and a certificate of title to Mel from Mr. Brooke Dalton's gift of a house near the small town of Nuwells on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales to Mel.

"Wow——" the twins exclaimed, "Your family must be rich as a house gift for your birthday, right? Mel."

"What!" Mel was a little embarrassed, "I—" Just as I was about to speak, the light above my head was covered by a shadow.

Then a taupe hawk landed on the back of her chair with a locket tied to her foot.

"It's Bill's eagle!" the twins yelled, and Mel quickly untied the small box and couldn't wait to open it.

"The enchanted sphinx!" Mel yelled in surprise, the little statue she held in her hand was pacing gracefully, turning her head and nodding, as if she was thinking about a philosophical issue. Mel giggled amusedly.

Afterwards, Mel received another gift from Charlie, a colorful copy of "Quidditch World Cup Picture Appreciation", and a gift from Percy, a quill that automatically corrects spelling mistakes.All surprised her.When she was happy, Mel ate two more bites of bacon, which made Mel uncomfortable all morning.

At noon, I took the time to write a reply to my father and Bill. In the letter to Bill, Mel thanked Bill very warmly, but the reply to her father was flat, because she thought that his father was too perfunctory, and even found a house to send her away. she!Although she didn't express her thoughts in the letter, it can be seen from the fact that she didn't write "Hug you!" at the end of the letter as usual.

There was only history of magic in the afternoon. After Mel finished his class, he went back to the dormitory, placed the moving sphinx on the bedside table, inserted the automatic error-correcting quill into the pen holder of the desk, and put "Quidditch World Cup Picture Appreciation" is on the pile of books to be read this week.

Looking at the letter from his father, Mel curled his lips, and put the property title certificate that he hadn't come and received in the envelope into the envelope, only to find that there was something else in the envelope.Mel pulled it out.It's a post-it note.

"Dear Mel:

I hope you enjoy 'Heinburg', which is left behind by your 'Grandmother' Tilda Mar-Hine-Dalton.But because of some strange phenomena, no one in our family can live anywhere since her.Since then, it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and people in the neighborhood call it 'Haunted Castle', hope my adventurous little babe will like it!

love your father"

"Ahhh—" Mel screamed like a werewolf, jumping up and down on the bed excitedly, making the bed boards creak.

Oh, she's going to answer her father's letter, she's going to kiss him a thousand times, and Mel jumps out of bed, unwraps the parchment, and lets his own joy and guilt shoot the letter like a machine gun.Then, he quickly ran to the owl shed, Athena had already flown away, Mel tied the letter on Poseidon's leg, watched it disappear into the evening sky like a black glider, and Mel returned to the castle.

On the way back, Mel received a note from the twins asking a Gryffindor to bring her a smaller dinner and meet them at the door of the Hufflepuff common room at 11 o'clock.

Mel couldn't figure it out, and sure enough, he didn't see them at dinner.

She also only ate a little, and went to the common room to do her homework.After finally surviving until 11 o'clock, there was no one in the lounge.Mel put her schoolbag back in the dormitory and went to the door to wait for the twins.

As soon as she arrived at the door, she saw the twins waving to her from the stairs in the distance.

Mel went over, "Be careful, don't make any noise, come with us." George told Mel quietly, the corridor was very dark, only a few magic torches were burning flickeringly.Mel followed George, with Fred leading the way.

They walked cautiously to the hall on the first floor and turned to the back of the marble stairs. Suddenly, Fred, who was walking in front, stopped and extinguished his wand that had cast the 'luminescent' magic, "Hide inside, Phil Odd here!" Then Mel followed them into a very small corner.A dark shadow slowly approached, and then slowly walked away.Only when Filch's footsteps could no longer be heard did Fred light up his wand, carefully glanced at the large piece of parchment in his hand, "It's safe, let's go."

Mel followed them around a few more turns, but now she didn't want to know where they were going.Her attention was completely drawn to the parchment in Fred's hand.

If she guessed right, it was the famous 'Marauder's Map'.

How useful this map is, she knows this fact better than everyone here.

It would stay in the hands of the twins for five years, and then it would fall into Harry Potter's hands, saving him from many dangers.

I want to have it - she has such a strong desire now.With it, she can take the initiative. When Rocky comes to school, she can use this map to spy on him. When Ginny opens the secret room, she can use it to avoid touching her.She could even use this map to try and kill Voldemort.

Mel suddenly felt a pain in her chest, and she pressed it with her hands, only to realize that her hands were sweating.And the reason why her chest hurt just now was because she was so nervous that she forgot to breathe.

Fred stopped in front of a fruit oil painting and scratched the pears on it.Lizi giggled, and a door appeared in front of them.

"Come in, Mel!" George interpreted Mel's strange expression as surprise, and smiled mischievously.

Mel stepped through the door and saw the hundreds of small, eccentric creatures busy before her, and knew immediately where she was, the Hogwarts kitchen, that the creatures were house-elves.

"Happy birthday to you!..." George and Fred sang the birthday song, and at the same time, they lit up the things they deliberately ignored just now. The ribbons were hung on the ceiling of the whole kitchen, and the house elves were covered with Carrying small paper cone hats of various colors.A birthday cake as tall as Mel, don't push it in front of Mel.It is very delicately made, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, but every floor is decorated with delicious food.Standing on the top is a little Mel, holding a magic wand, waving it, and after a while, a few English words "Happy Birthday Mel!"

"George! Fred!" Mel screamed, before throwing himself on both George and Fred, kissing each of their cheeks.

Then George and Fred performed what they had prepared for her.It made her and the elf laugh so happily.It's just that she laughed out loud, and the elves pursed their lips and sniggered shyly.

When they left the Hogwarts kitchens, all three were covered in cream.Saying goodbye to the enthusiastic house elves, the twins sent Mel back to the dormitory in the basement, and they also quietly slipped back to rest.

Mel washed up and went to bed in her pajamas before thinking about the Marauder's Map.

She shook her head and put it behind her, falling asleep with a smile on her lips.

The next morning, Mel, who woke up with 5 alarm clocks, did not wash his face, brush his teeth, and go to breakfast as usual.

Because she had a wonderful idea in her head, yes, wonderful!

The Marauder's Map is a very important item. Although it is not impossible to get it from the twins now, it may change the plot, and Mel's biggest reliance in this wizarding world is to understand a little bit about what will happen in the future and be a half-timer. Tone of the Prophet.Therefore, Mel must not move the 'Marauder's Map' now.

Moreover, the 'Marauder's Map' was made by four problematic students who were mischievous in school at the time, and it doesn't mean that a genius like Dumbledore could make it.

They were students at the time, and she was also a student. What they could do, she couldn't?

So, after entering Hogwarts, Mel's first clear task was born - making a Marauder's Map by himself!

The poor girl completely overlooked the rags of her TNT*** magic.

Since then, Mel, who usually likes to go to the library, loves to go to the library even more, and she doesn't even go to the Forbidden Forest, which she usually loves most (to make the creatures in the Forbidden Forest happy like a new year).So, when the Christmas holidays come.Mel's notes and thoughts on the method of making the Marauder's Map have already filled a notebook.