[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

It's not just Defense Against the Dark Arts that is giving most fourth graders a headache.As soon as the semester started, everyone obviously felt that the burden of homework increased.

Professor Binns in the history of magic class assigns a paper on the personality analysis of the leader of the goblin rebellion in the 12th century in each class, which makes almost all the students feel the same. Binns said it when he was in class.So during that time, Lynn's extremely detailed history of magic notes were borrowed and returned, returned and borrowed again, and in the end she didn't even know who had the notes.In the Potions class, they began to learn how to brew various types of antidote. The brewing steps of these potions were cumbersome and similar, and they were often mistaken by everyone. In class, there were often accidents after accidents. Professor Slughorn shuttled back and forth. Helping the students "put out the fire" in the classroom, I was too busy to touch the ground.Thankfully, Lily usually taught Lynn some tips to simplify the potion handling process, but even so, Lynn and Marceline still had to work hard to prevent the cauldron from exploding.In the Charms class, Professor Flitwick assigned seven reading tasks to prepare for learning the Flying Charm.In the Transfiguration class, they began to practice cross-species conversion, which meant that the difficulty of learning had been greatly increased, and the students complained incessantly.When the term started for about a month, Lynn even heard Andrew Selwyn angrily say in the lounge that he wanted to give up the class now because he was the only one in the class who hadn't succeeded in turning the hedgehog into a A student who satisfies the pincushion.Even Peter, who is always laughed at by everyone, completed this transformation more than a week ago.

"It's all because of Professor McGonagall's partiality. Pedilu has become no better than me. Why should he pass and I should be considered unqualified!" Selwyn complained angrily.

"How dare he spread the word in the break room? Why doesn't he reflect on how much he has lost to Slytherin? Pediluna looks like a pincushion anyway, he's become a pinball It doesn't count." Back in the dormitory, Marceline complained to Lynn with a disgusted face.

Outside of schoolwork, Lynn, Lily and others have been participating in Avalon's activities.It has been more than a year since Lily joined Avalon. In fact, she has been recognized by everyone within less than a month since she joined the group. Even Xia Kelin, who has always been reluctant, has to admit that she really can't pick out Lily. what's wrong.

However, both Lily herself and other members of Avalon can feel Xia Kelin's unusual indifference to Lily.For this reason, Croy, who is the least wealthy, even asked Xia Kelin what she thought in private. After all, she was the one who first proposed the invitation to Lily to join her. Can't get up.But Xia Kelin just said that she didn't have any opinion on Lily, but her personality didn't fit well.

Xia Kelin said so, and Croy didn't have the nerve to ask further.Fortunately, no matter how cold they are in private, during group activities, there should be respect. Xia Kelin has never been short of Lily, so everyone tacitly did not reveal this matter.

Speaking of Croy, I have to mention another new member of Avalon she recommended, her new boyfriend, Ravenclaw's top student Anthony Goldstein.It is said that Anthony is a top student because compared to Sirius, a problem student who is exceptionally talented but doesn't pay attention to exams and always makes trouble in class, Anthony is definitely the teacher's darling.Just like Lily, except for one subject that he learned exceptionally well (Lily is potion, Anthony is herbal medicine), he has always been at the top of other subjects, and his final test scores have been rising all the way (fourth in first grade, fourth in second grade) third, third grade second).

Anthony and Croy bonded in herbal medicine class.Croy's academic performance is also very good. Although he is not as good as Anthony, Lily and Sirius, he is still the leader of Hufflepuff.But the sad thing is that Hufflepuff students generally have good grades in herbal medicine, but Croy's herbal science is weirdly terrible. Professor Prout couldn't help yelling at her in public.In order to improve Croy's performance in herbal medicine, Professor Sprout put Anthony and Croy into a group in the third grade. Under Anthony's guidance, Croy finally became familiar with herbal medicine. As a result, their relationship became increasingly close, and finally they officially became lovers at the end of the third grade.

Meanwhile, James' passion for courting Lily reaches new heights.As soon as the semester started, Sirius told James about her life experience with Lynn's consent.So James "shamelessly" joined the research team of Lynn, Lily and Sirius' blood tracer.In the process of researching the tracker, they discovered the marauder tracking method that can mark the location of each person, so they used this method in the Hogwarts secret road map they made two years ago, and the secret road map became Marauder's map.Using the letter encryption potion and overlay potion invented by Lily and Lynn, they also made this map only usable by designated people, other people they hate, like Snape, get this map and only see e.g. "We salute Snape and ask him not to poke his unnaturally large nose out to meddle in other people's business" kind of mean words.

Lynn really admired the imagination of these boys, but Lily was furious about it and chased James down three corridors.However, the more unhappy Lily treated James, the more excited James was.This made the eyes of our Slytherin classmates Snape look at James more and more sparks.

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The days passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, there was only less than a month left before Christmas.This year's Christmas is very different for the fourth grade students, because they are about to attend the Hogwarts Yule Ball for the first time.

The Yule Ball is held every four years, which was a proposal made by Dumbledore after he became the headmaster.Dumbledore's original intention was to take this opportunity to promote the exchange of students from various colleges, but unexpectedly this activity became one of his few policies recognized by the Slytherins.The reason is simple: Most of the students in Slytherin are trained by their elders to shuttle on the dance floor which is smaller than that of various balls. Compared with many students in the other three colleges, their postures are so rigid that they don't even know where to put their arms. The Leitlins danced gracefully.Therefore, every Christmas ball has become a place for the Slytherins to show off.

And when there is a dance, there must be a partner.

Speaking of a partner, of course Lily wanted to be Snape's partner.But she also knew that Snape didn't want people to know that he was still in touch with her, so after learning that Snape had invited a girl from a lower Slytherin class, she decided to be celibate at the Christmas ball.James, who accidentally got the news from Lynn, immediately went to invite Lily, but Lily sternly refused the invitation seven times.Finally, on the eighth time, Lily, who was annoyed by James and couldn't bear it, slapped the table and said amazingly: "Lupine, how about you being my dance partner?"

Lynn later asked Lily what she was thinking, and Lily covered her face and said, "I was just in a tizzy, thinking that if I invited Potter's buddies, he wouldn't be ashamed to bother me anymore. You know, Peddie Lu is too short for my height, and Blake has already invited Alison, so I can only choose Lupin."

For some reason, Lynn suddenly felt that although Lily still had bad things to say about James, she was no longer so indifferent and disdainful. Maybe it was because James helped many Muggle-born classmates recently?

Oh, and on that note, let's chime in and talk about the latest situation.Recently, the Death Eaters supporters who were suppressed last semester began to stir again.The professors in the school worked overtime to patrol, but they still couldn't completely prevent the Muggle-born students from being attacked.Because Gryffindor is almost the college with the most Muggle-born students, James and Sirius often stand out for their classmates, so their fights are no longer limited to Snape.As more and more students learned the surnames of those known Death Eaters from the newspapers, and almost all of these surnames appeared in Slytherin, they didn't like the arrogant and rude Slytherin students. The dislike of Slytherin among the other students of the three houses quickly rose to a new stage.

This made Lynn, who was born in Slytherin, feel extremely awkward.

Back to the dance partner.

In the end, Remus was too shy to rob James, but invited a third-year Gryffindor girl, and Lily finally attended the Christmas party alone.

As for Lynn, Sirius actually invited Lynn before inviting Alison.That day, she went to the Room of Requirement to practice Animagus as usual. During the break, she listened to James complaining about Lily's life and death refusing to agree to be his dance partner, while Sirius gloated and said that James' rank was too low. After chasing Lily for two years, there is no effect at all.

"Your rank is really high, but it's a pity that you can't go too far!" James said contemptuously, "I don't know who, in order to avoid those enthusiastic big sisters and younger sisters who invite you to be their dance partner, they refuse to go to the auditorium for dinner every day. Help bring food."

This is true. During this period of time, if you want to talk about the boy who is the most popular among girls in the school, it is definitely Sirius.From the seniors who are about to graduate from the seventh grade to the juniors who have just entered the first grade, all of them are eager to invite Sirius like they have been injected with dragon's blood.

"Don't mention this to me, if you mention it again, I'm in a hurry with you!" Sirius immediately lost his temper when he thought that there were girls waiting for him outside the door even when he went to the bathroom recently.

"Isn't it useful if I don't mention it? There's no way you're going on like this. You have to invite someone, right? Now that you're famous, maybe everyone won't be so crazy." James said earnestly.

"Who said I plan to go on like this forever? I plan to settle the matter of the partner today." Sirius said, turning to look at Lynn, "Linen, you won't die, right?" He blinked rather emotionally.

"Merlin, I just promise you, don't make such an expression on me, I will fall in love with you." Lynn groaned while covering his eyes.

Sirius laughed immediately, and shook his head triumphantly at James.James opened his mouth wide and said in disbelief, "It's... so simple?"

"Sorry, it's that simple." Sirius smiled triumphantly, while James complained to Lynn bitterly: "How could you agree so easily? You should at least hesitate for a few days before giving him an answer. Let him also feel how I feel when I can't sleep at night because of Lily." He said while beating the ground in pain.

"Ah, if people know that I was invited by Senior Colonel Sirius Black and hypocritically said that I have to go back and think about it, I will be torn apart by the girls. No, if everyone knows that I have become their dream lover I will still be torn apart. No, Sirius, before the dance, please lie that you didn’t find a partner.”

"What?! Then don't I have to endure this kind of life of being chased and robbed by girls!" Sirius said with eyes widened in horror.

"Ah, just bear with it," Lynn shook his head and sang the aria innocently, "You can't let me be chased and robbed by girls instead of you? You know, women are always better than women. It's more cruel to men."

Sirius stared at Lynn for a while, and finally turned his head up at a 45-degree angle sadly, and sighed quietly: "Oh, life, why are you so cruel to me?"

James, who was on the side, had already laughed so hard that he fell under the chair.

That night, Lynn lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.She knew in her heart that Sirius invited her because they were friends, and she never dared to take this invitation as a signal that Sirius liked her.She herself agreed to him as a friend.But at that moment, Sirius gave her an affectionate wink, and she knew he was joking, so her heart still stopped involuntarily.

Sirius, that handsome face of yours is really a disaster.She patted her face hard, closed her eyes, and began to say silently: "One wand, two wands, three wands... three hundred and forty-two wands... five hundred and sixty-eight wands... Merlin, where am I counting?" It's..."

However, on the second day, Lynn changed his mind.Because a person who was really unexpected to her sent an invitation to her.