Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 198 What are you planning again?

  Friday, quarter past ten in the evening, in the Gryffindor common room.

  Albert was sitting in an armchair by the fireplace, flipping through the manuscript of "Advanced Magic Text Translation" given to him by Professor Mowen a few days ago.

   Not far away, Angelina, who finished her homework, was playing wizard cards with Alia, while Lee Jordan, who was always looking at the next game, was doing astronomy homework under Shanna's guidance.

   "I won this game." Angelina smiled and packed up the wizard cards, looked at Lee Jordan who was still doing homework, and asked with a puzzled face, "Why haven't you finished it yet?"

   "Why don't you do your homework carefully first, and then use the rest of the time to play?" Alia couldn't understand Lee Jordan's thinking mode at all.

  Angelina covered a yawn and asked, "Sanna, are you going back to the dormitory to rest?"

   "Go back first, I'm almost there." Shanna said looking at the button in front of her. She wants to turn a button into a beetle, but it's much harder to turn a non-living thing into a living thing than a living thing to a non-living thing.

   "Then let's go back to rest first." Aliya stuffed the wizard card back into her pocket, and returned to the dormitory together holding the hand of her friend.

   "Failed again." Shanna sighed, looked up at Albert and asked, "Is there any way, or trick?"

   "Practice a lot." Albert said without thinking.

   "Ah, these words again." Shanna muttered, "What have you been looking at since just now?"

   "Manuscript, the manuscript that Professor Babling asked me to help her revise." After Albert finished marking, he stuffed the manuscript back into the bag.

   "Professor Babling?" Shanna had never heard the name of this professor.

   "Professor Mowen." Albert reminded.

   "Ancient Runes? I heard that there is an elective course for the third grade. What do you plan to choose?" Shanna asked suddenly.

   "Elective course?" Lee Jordan asked curiously, "What elective course?"

   "Divination, protection of magical creatures, Muggle research, ancient runes, arithmetic divination." Albert quickly said five subjects, "I'm going to choose them all."

   "Select all, do you have enough time?" Shanna was very surprised.

   "Enough, there is a way to give me enough time." Albert said with a smile.

   "I heard from others that ancient runes are difficult to learn." Shanna was a little confused about whether she should choose ancient runes.

   "The ancient rune is like learning a foreign language."

   "I remember that you are very good at foreign languages." Lee Jordan looked at Albert with envy on his face, "I remember that you can also speak French, and you just went to France for summer vacation."

  After hesitating for a moment, Shanna said, "If it's not too difficult, I would like to choose all of them."

   "What's easier?" Lee Jordan asked.

   "Divination and Muggle research." Albert said without thinking, "I heard that it is two out of five."

   "Why?" Lee Jordan continued to ask.

"Divination requires talent. If you don't have talent, you just dawdle. It doesn't matter if you write homework randomly." Albert picked up his teacup and took a sip of the cold milk tea. "As for Muggle research, I feel that wizards don't understand Muggles. They may Can't figure out what a battery, a TV, a light bulb are?"

   "Really?" Shanna asked in surprise.

   "Do you know what a light bulb is?" Albert asked Lee Jordan next to him.

   "Of course I know." Lee Jordan couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said, "My family lives in the Muggle community, but some pure-blood wizards who are completely isolated from the Muggle world may really not know."

   "It's hard to imagine." Shanna was very surprised.

   "It's not hard to imagine." Albert joked, "It's like my father didn't know how to turn a slug into a potion, just like Fred and George's father didn't know what a rubber duck is for."

   "Rubber...duck?" Shannah bit her lip to keep herself from laughing.

   "I remember Albert giving Fred and George a rubber duck during the summer vacation." Lee Jordan also remembered this incident.

   "You are really..." Shanna finally couldn't help laughing, which immediately attracted the suspicious eyes of many people, "...It was definitely on purpose."

   "By the way, where are Fred and George?" Albert looked at Shanna who was holding back her laughter speechlessly. He really couldn't understand what the other party was laughing at.

   "You said the two **** Fred and George, they went to the kitchen." Lee Jordan thought for a while and said, "I said I was hungry and wanted to go to the kitchen to find something to eat."

   "Who are you calling an asshole!"

  The voices of the two came from the entrance of the common room.

  Lee Jordan looked in the direction of the sound and saw Fred and George walking towards this side. They both held a pie in their hands and ate it as they walked.

   "We worked hard to get you something to eat..." They walked over and couldn't help complaining, "Hmph, it's not for you."

   "Ahem, you misheard." Lee Jordan coughed dryly and asked, "What's delicious?"

  The people next to them tried their best not to laugh out loud.

"You think we are deaf? Huh, go away, you don't have a share of the pie." Fred laughed and cursed and pushed Li Jordan away, while George next to him took out the oiled paper bag containing the pie from the pocket of his robe, and handed it to him. The pie inside was given to Shanna.

   "What pie?" Shanna took the oil paper bag and asked curiously.

   "Steak and kidney pie," said George.

  She took a piece and handed the oil paper bag to Albert next to her.

   Albert looked down at the steak and kidney pie in front of him. To be honest, he had no appetite.

   "Give it to Lee Jordan!" Albert handed the oil paper bag to Lee Jordan.

   "Don't give it to that bastard." Both Fred and George couldn't help complaining.

   "Albert gave it to me." Lee Jordan took the oil paper bag and snorted softly, "It has nothing to do with you now."

   "You bastard."

   "Aren't you going to eat?" Lee Jordan quickly changed the subject and asked Albert.

   "No, I have no appetite." Albert shook his head.

   "How about I share half with you?" Shanna said with a smile, "It's not advisable to eat too much at night."

   As she said that, she really divided the steak and kidney pie into two halves, and gave half of it to Albert.

   Albert was speechless for a while.

  Steak and kidney pie is considered a traditional British delicacy, probably!

   This kind of thing has just been made, and it tastes good when it’s hot, but it doesn’t taste very good when it’s cold.

   It's worse than a completely cold meat bun.

  Under the watchful eyes of several people, Albert took a bite of the steak and kidney pie. The taste was a little salty and the texture was a little subtle.

   "The taste is not bad." George asked with a smile.

   "I prefer to eat it while it's hot," Albert said.

   While chatting, the common room is gradually emptying out, the windows are rattling in the cold wind, and the fire in the fireplace is dying out.

   "I'll prepare later..." Albert made a slip gesture towards several people who were playing wizard chess.

"What if I get caught?" Lee Jordan was a little worried, "Last time, William was caught traveling at night, and the angry Professor McGonagall made him use the chamber pot for several days. I don't want to get a chamber pot prince or something like that." nickname."

   "Little Prince of the Chamber Pot?"

   "In the Muggle world, there is a prince named William." Albert suppressed a smile and explained, "I remember he only swiped once last year."

   "More than once," Fred said with a smile.

   "It's not important!" Lee Jordan looked helpless, he was really worried that Ye You would be arrested.

   "Don't worry, we won't be caught." Fred and George looked at each other, blinked and said in unison, "You have to have confidence in Albert."

   "What are you going to do at night?" Lee Jordan asked in a low voice.

"Go to the restricted section to find books, remember Snape's ability to see through other people's thoughts?" Albert said in a low voice, "It is indeed a magic called Legilimency, I plan to go to the library to ban books Look for books that can counteract this magic."

   "When is the departure?" Lee Jordan asked excitedly.

   "Don't you want to go?" Fred couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

   "I also want to learn this kind of magic." Lee Jordan said excitedly, "What's more, if you are caught, everyone will be unlucky together. What are you afraid of?"

   "No one can catch us." George snorted softly, "However, I guess you won't be able to learn that Legilimency."

   “How will you know if you don’t try it.”

   "Legiliency is really difficult." Albert coldly poured cold water on Lee Jordan, which made Fred and George couldn't help laughing.

  (end of this chapter)