Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 253 My son is going to an academic party?

  Dear Mr. Anderson:

  When I received your letter, I was very surprised. It is rare to be able to summon a physical patron saint at your current age. I am proud of you. Regarding your concern about the Animagus in your letter, I think it is superfluous for the time being.

  While the animal an Animagus transforms into always seems to be the same as the Patronus they cast, that doesn't mean the two are necessarily the same. As far as I know, there are no known Animagus capable of changing their own shapeshifting animals when the Patronus changes. Of course, this may have something to do with the rarity of Animagus with the ability to transform and cast spells.

   If you plan to learn Animagus someday, don't have to practice secretly by yourself, I will help you in this regard.

   Merry Christmas!

  Vice Principal Minerva McGonagall.

   After reading Professor McGonagall's letter, Albert's mood did not improve. Professor McGonagall's meaning was already obvious. She thought it was too early for Albert to consider Animagus. Moreover, Professor McGonagall is obviously not very clear about this matter, after all, there are too few examples that can be used as research.

   "Perhaps, I can write to Principal Dumbledore." Albert had just taken out a new parchment, but after thinking about it, he temporarily gave up the idea.

  Maybe, I am really too anxious, no matter what the result is, I will not change because of his will, unless the panel can help me.

  Throwing away these thoughts, Albert got up, stretched himself, and returned to the living room. Tom lay on the sofa to take a nap. When there was no one at home, he always liked to lie on the sofa with large characters.

When Albert sat down on the edge of the sofa, the lazy cat's ears finally trembled. It leaned over by itself, rubbed its head against Albert's arm, and then climbed onto his knee. very heavy.

"It's time to lose weight. Eat so much fat that you can't even catch a mouse." Albert babbled, reaching out to scratch Tom's ears and chin, and combing Tom's fur with a comb. The guy squinted his eyes enjoying it. .

"Tom, do you want to go to Hogwarts? But then you will have to catch mice to fill your stomach." Albert jokingly said, "Many students in the school have cats, maybe you You can only find it with your eyes."

   "Meow!" Tom seemed to feel Albert's deep malice, jumped off his knees, his stubby legs swayed, and quickly hid behind someone's feet.

   "Are you going to take Tom to school?" Nia asked curiously, holding Tom in her arms.

   "No, just to scare Tom, this guy has gained weight recently."

  At this time, there was a sound of knocking on the glass outside. Nia walked over and opened the window to find a brown owl. It flew into the house and threw a letter in front of Albert.

   "You have so many letters!" Nia looked at Albert who picked up the letters in surprise. After returning from the Christmas vacation, I have received at least six letters, and each letter is not sent by the same person, and the sealing wax badge on the back is different.

"Your vacation is busier than mine!" Herb joked, he put another cup of hot cocoa in front of Albert, and asked curiously: "Who sent it this time, is it a pen pal? "

   "Professor Broad, the professor who worked at Hogwarts last semester." Albert took a sip of hot cocoa, opened the envelope casually, glanced at the letter inside, and knew what was going on.

   "Here." He handed the letter to Herb.

   "Can you?" Herb raised his eyebrows.

"Um."

"That Professor Broad invited you to a party?" Herb felt a little confused after reading the letter. A professor invited his son to a party about alchemy. What was going on? , Herb really didn't understand.

   Like inviting a junior high school student to participate in academic research with a university professor?

Moreover, the other party also arranged the itinerary very sincerely, and asked Albert to meet at the Leaky Cauldron first, and then the other party picked him up to be a guest at his manor, and then went to the alchemy party together, and finally , the professor will send Albert back to Hogwarts. There is no need to worry about Albert's safety at all.

   "This... is an academic gathering anyway." Albert replied after thinking for a while.

  "Academic gathering?" Herb's face became even weirder, he sighed lightly, and said nothing more, "I'll take you there then."

"What are you talking about, don't leave me alone, okay?" Nia pouted a little angrily, and Daisy came out of the kitchen, curious about what they were talking about, but after listening to Herb's explanation, she was a little confused. Daze.

   "You have to go out to play by yourself again!" Nia was a little unhappy. Albert finally went home, but he had to go out again after a few days. No one chatted with her, told stories, or watched TV.

   "I won't stay for long, I'll be back in two days." Albert promised.

   "Oh, well, I know you are a busy person." Nia touched Tom's belly and said to herself: "As expected, Tom is the best."

   "Meow!" Tom rubbed Nia's hand, and the latter took out a small dried fish from somewhere and fed it to it.

   Albert was speechless immediately, no wonder this cat was raised so fat.

At noon on January 10th, Albert appeared at the Leaky Cauldron. The time he had agreed with Professor Broad was twelve o'clock. When he was about to dine at Old Tom, the cloaked Professor Broad suddenly Show up at the bar.

   "Good afternoon, Mr. Broad, would you like a drink?" Old Tom greeted Professor Broad with a smile.

   "Oh, no need, I'll pick you up." Professor Broad greeted Albert, "I hope you didn't make you wait too long, hold on to me, I'll take you to a place."

   "Apparition?" Albert asked curiously.

"Yes, there is no Floo powder connected to that place, so I can only use this method." Professor Brod stretched out his left hand, and when Albert raised his hand to catch it, the two disappeared together in the Leaky Cauldron Bar. in the backyard.

  They appeared outside a villa with a very nice environment. If you insist, it can be regarded as a small manor. However, it seems that no one has lived here for a long time.

"This will be the venue for this alchemy gathering, and we'll be living here temporarily for the past two days." Professor Brod winked at Albert and said, "There are a lot of interesting books in it, I think You might be interested."

   "It seems that no one has lived here for a long time." Albert asked with raised eyebrows.

"You are right. However, it will usher in a new owner soon." Professor Brod didn't care too much, and explained with a smile: "The house elves have been carefully maintained, so it is very It's clean and you can live in as you like."

  The two of them passed through a layer of mist-like protective magic and entered the manor.

  A house-elf stood at the door and bowed to them, leading the two into the hall.

"Noel, we will stay here for a few days and help Mr. Anderson arrange a room, which is the one next to the study." Professor Broad instructed the house elf, who secretly glanced at Albert , then bowed slightly and left.

  (end of this chapter)