Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1046 Ice Christmas

"goodbye!"

   "Aren't you really going to take the train with us?"

   "I have a more convenient way."

   "Well, it's really like what you would do, keep in touch at any time." Lee Jordan dragged his suitcase towards the carriage, preparing to take a Thestral carriage to the train station with a few acquaintances.

   "We don't leave school by train?"

   After seeing off several of her friends, Katrina followed Albert into the castle.

   Today, most of the students have taken carriages to the train station, and the originally lively castle has become dead silent.

   "No, Dobby will send us away."

   Albert took Katrina to the appointed empty classroom, where the house elf Dobby was already waiting for their arrival.

  Katrina guessed what was going on when she saw the familiar suitcase. She looked sideways at Albert and asked puzzledly, "You seem to like having house elves apparating?"

"Because it's safer, house-elves can Apparate to areas that wizards cannot Apparate into, such as an area that has been banned from Apparating, which means that other wizards cannot follow their tracks." Albert walked into the skin Box, explained to Katrina, "Also, even the Ministry of Magic doesn't pay attention to the sight of a house-elf. They, and wizards, always look down on these hard-working little ones."

   "Just say you're afraid of death!" Katrina could understand, she just wasn't used to Albert's excessive vigilance.

   "Yes, I really don't want to die." Albert said solemnly, leaving Katrina next to him speechless.

  The two waited at the entrance for a while, because the trip was shorter than expected, and the house-elf moved in several areas that were prohibited from apparating.

   Then, arrive at their temporary new home: Nicole Flamay's safe house in Devon.

  The lives of the two old people were about to come to an end, so they gave Albert the safe house they stayed in the UK.

"this…"

  Katrina looked at the open space in front of her, and there was nothing there, so she guessed what was going on, turned her head to look at Albert, and asked tentatively, "The Loyalty Curse?"

   "Yes. This is somewhere in Devon, where Nicole Flamel and his wife used to live." Albert took out a piece of paper and handed it to Katrina.

  The latter took the piece of paper, glanced at the content on the piece of paper, and after thinking silently in his heart, he found that an old house with a strong French style suddenly appeared in front of him.

   "Don't be dazed, go in!"

   After Albert burned the piece of paper, he took the suitcase from Katrina and walked towards the entrance of the house.

  Here, the Fidelity Curse has been cast, and the secret keeper is naturally Dumbledore.

  In fact, the secret keeper of the safe house of Nicole Flamel and his wife is Dumbledore, which is one of the reasons why he gave the safe house to Albert.

  Even if you don’t give it away, only a few acquaintances can get in in the end. This is the bad thing about being protected by the Loyalty Curse. This spell can’t be lifted, it can only be inherited, or completely forgotten by people.

   "I heard you don't want to come here for Christmas?"

  Isobel came out of the hall when he heard the door open, staring at Katrina with his hands on his hips, his face was full of my displeasure.

   "You know, if you want to get good grades in the final exam, you'd better stay in school and prepare for the exam." Katrina argued stubbornly.

   "You can review while staying here, and there are others who can teach you, and don't you want to spend the Christmas holiday with your mother?" Isobel stared at Katrina: "Or, you don't want to spend the holiday with us?"

   "No, no, I..."

   "That's good, come and help decorate the hall!" Isobel took Katrina to the hall, and still didn't forget to turn around and say to Albert: "You come here too, I can't do it alone."

"coming."

   "Dobby, help put the suitcase back in the room."

   "Good sir."

Both wizards and Muggles like to use a lot of holly, mistletoe and gold and silver ribbons as Christmas decorations. There is a Christmas tree by the fireplace, and Isobel is decorating it with ribbons and ornaments. More of a Christmas vibe.

   "Are these packages real?"

   Katrina is arranging the Christmas presents on the table under the Christmas tree.

   "It's true, Albert receives a bunch of Christmas presents every year, and these are actually relatively few." Isobel used his magic wand to conjure many shiny snowflakes and hung them on the tree.

   "Exaggerated."

   "If you give out an exaggerated share of gifts every year, you will naturally receive a lot of gifts in return." The Christmas gifts that Albert sends out every year are prepared by Isobel.

   "We're going to be here this year for Christmas break?"

  Katrina looked into the fireplace and asked suspiciously: "I've been wondering what this smell is all about since just now?"

   "It should have something to do with the wood that was burned. The wood here is all left by Mr. Nico, and some of it will have a special smell when burned." Albert turned on the record player, played a brisk tune, and began to help decorate the hall.

   "That's about it."

  The three of them were sitting in the hall to rest, enjoying the French dessert and black tea brought by the house elf, and the Muggle Merry Christmas was playing in the hall.

   "Why not let the house elves help with the decoration?" Katrina has been wanting to ask this since just now.

   "I'll find something for you to do, so that you won't be too idle, and decorating by yourself will make you feel more festive." Isobel smiled and said choking words.

   "I already helped decorate the castle when I was in school." Katrina didn't want to talk, and tasted the food in silence. Compared with the meals at Hogwarts, Albert was always particular about food.

  She secretly looked at Isobel's figure, and didn't find any sign of him gaining weight. On the contrary, she was more attractive than before, which is incredible.

   "What's wrong?" Isobel raised his head and asked.

   "You eat so well at home?"

  Katrina ate another piece of freshly baked meat muffin, drank lipstick tea, and lay lazily on the leather sofa.

   "Because I insist on exercising every day." Isobel said proudly.

   "It's really enviable, how is the research on beauty potions?" Katrina asked.

   "Have you thought about opening a beauty shop?" Albert asked with a smile.

   "No, just ask."

  Katrina is indeed a little confused. She may not be able to work after graduation, because according to Albert, the first two years after graduation coincide with the most dangerous time in the magic world.

   "By the way, I recently learned their healing magic from Firenze, maybe you can use it." Albert took out a notebook from the deformed lizard leather bag and handed it to Isobel.

   "Is this considered a Christmas present?" Isobel took the notebook and asked with a smile and kissed Albert's cheek.

"right."

   "What's the matter?" Isobel noticed Katrina's expression and asked puzzledly.

"Firenze is a centaur from the Forbidden Forest, and he is now the new professor of divination at Hogwarts." Katrina looked away from Albert and reminded, "The magic of the centaur must be different from ours. Same."

   "Their healing magic is more inclined to the combination of herbal medicine and magic." Albert introduced.

   "Wizards can use it too."

   "I tried and it worked."

   "It's incredible."

Facts have proved that wizards cannot successfully use healing magic just by using white fresh branches like the centaur, and the success rate of using magic wands is also extremely low. They need to use the extreme healing magic wand specially made by Albert to succeed, and All three tried in turn, and only Mrs. McDougall succeeded in the end.

  So, under Isobel's resentful eyes, Mrs. McDougal took the notebook.

  That night, Albert took a lot of time to appease his girlfriend.

  Christmas is here in the blink of an eye.

Albert and Isobel woke up very late. After enjoying a sumptuous Christmas lunch, the McDougal sisters, at the invitation of Albert, built a snowman in the yard and made a snow room that could accommodate three people. In the house, I felt what it was like to drink tea in the wind and snow.

   Anyway, they don't have to worry about Christmas dinner at all, the house elves will prepare everything.

In the afternoon, Albert took out the "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" given by Dumbledore and read it with Isobel, talking about the comments Dumbledore left on it, while Katrina went back to her room, probably Don't want to stay for dog food.

  Mrs. McDougal was very busy at work and had to work overtime on Christmas, so she didn't come back in a hurry until eight o'clock in the evening.

  Fortunately, they didn't bother with roasting the turkey, otherwise it would be harder than a rock when it cooled.

   After enjoying the freshly baked international cuisine and drinking a glass of eggnog with a Christmas atmosphere, everyone sat on the sofa in the lobby and chatted. At first, we talked about Albert and Isobel's wedding. After all, Albert's family was not in the UK, but after confirming that the wedding of the two had been prepared, Mrs. McDougal looked a little regretful, but also seemed to be happy. She was relieved, because with the list of guests that Albert needed to invite, she alone didn't know how to deal with it.

Later, the topic was brought to the healing magic of the centaur. The effect of healing trauma is indeed very good, but the wizards don’t really need it, because most wizards can’t use it at all, and the white fresh essence can actually achieve a similar effect .

  Of course, if you can do in-depth research, you might be able to make new discoveries, but the difficulty of using it also limits its upper limit, so Isobel successfully got back the notebook.

"Oh, by the way, your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seems to be in some trouble." Mrs. McGonagall changed the topic and talked about what happened to Hogwarts today: "She seems to have drunk a compound recipe with toads added. Potion."

   "Compound potion?" Katrina blinked curiously. Of course, she had seen a toad before. She thought it was some kind of transformation curse, but unexpectedly it was caused by compound potion.

   "Did you tell her about it?" Albert was not surprised that Mrs. McDougall saw the toad.

"No, Madam Pomfrey said it was a skin disease. I think there may be some reason." Madam McGregor shook her head and said, "Besides, Umbridge is unwilling to go to St. Formal treatment itself is weird."

   "Well, because Umbridge did too much in school, the teachers and students in the school hated her, and she was retaliated against in the end." Albert explained with a smile.

   "You made someone do it?" Katrina asked suspiciously.

   "Harry Potter did it."

  Albert decisively dumped the blame, and this matter was indeed done by Harry Potter and his little friends.

   "It seems that Umbridge has indeed done a lot of bad things." Isobel raised his eyebrows.

   "Yeah, the school's education order is almost broken." Katrina complained, and she briefly described the bad things Umbridge has done in the recent period.

   "She actually used Veritaserum on the students?" Mrs. McDougal was very surprised by Umbridge's audacity. Once Veritaserum was used in excess, it may cause irreversible damage to the user. She suddenly understood why Umbridge became like that. No wonder Madam Pomfrey hated her so much. She was really hated for the **** things she did at school.

"It's actually not that bad." Albert passed a plate of fried shrimp dumplings among the crowd, and said with a smile, "Although Umbridge did make Hogwarts a bit bad, she also brought everyone There was a lot of fun and laughter.”

   "She is almost becoming a laughingstock at school by you now." Katrina dared to say that those things were definitely related to Albert, "When are you going to drive her away?"

   "I've never done anything to her. Others are retaliating against her." Albert shrugged and changed the subject: "I heard that Arthur Weasley was injured and hospitalized a while ago."

"Oh, you said Arthur Weasley, he was bitten by a poisonous snake, and his life is not in danger, but we haven't found an antidote, and we can't heal the wound completely." Mrs. McDougall recalled: "You Why do you ask this? He is also your friend?"

   "A few days ago, two of my friends were called away in the middle of the night. I think it was because of this incident." Albert suddenly said, "The tears of the phoenix are actually the best antidote."

   "That thing is too precious, and there is no phoenix in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries that can provide tears."

  Albert took out a small medicine bottle from the deformed lizard skin bag and placed it in front of Mrs. McDougal, "If you can't find the antidote, use this thing for him."

"This is?"

  Mrs. McDougal picked up the medicine bottle and looked up and down at the pitifully small transparent liquid inside, and seemed to guess what it was.

   "Tears of the Phoenix."

   "Where did you get that?" Mrs. McDougal was surprised.

"Professor Dumbledore asked me to pass it on to you." Albert explained, "He is in a bad situation now. If he comes forward, it may cause Arthur Weasley to be fired by Fudge. If after a while, you If you can't find an antidote, use this thing. Well, this thing is actually an antidote."

   "It seems that this matter is more complicated than I expected." Mrs. McDougall put away the crystal bottle, and did not delve into the meaning of this matter.

  (end of this chapter)