Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 738 Refueling

  After Albert delivered the prepared Christmas presents to the house elves, the Christmas holiday was approaching quietly.

The Christmas atmosphere in Hogwarts castle is even stronger. There are twelve Christmas trees in the Great Hall as usual, holly and tinsel are wrapped around the stair railings, and large bouquets of christmas are hung at intervals in the corridors. Mistletoe, girls like to get together under the mistletoe, looking forward to a romantic kiss from the Prince Charming of their dreams.

  By the fire in the Gryffindor common room, Fred and George were equally excited about the holidays. The two were discussing to quietly prepare an unexpected surprise for Filch on the day they boarded the Hogwarts Express train to leave school.

   "Where are you going for the Christmas holiday?" Lee Jordan stretched out his hand and poked Tom who was lying by the fireplace, "Are you planning to go abroad for vacation again?"

   "I don't plan to go anywhere, I plan to stay at home for the whole vacation."

  Recently, Herb has been running around outside, so the Anderson family has no plans to go out for the Christmas holiday this year, and is preparing to stay at home for the winter.

   "Oh, by the way, I asked my father to help investigate the incident last time, and I just received a reply not long ago."

   "Which thing?"

  Fred and George have apparently forgotten what it was.

"Investigate the rent of the shops in Diagon Alley, it is higher than expected, and I can't find a suitable rental shop." Lee Jordan took out the letter paper from his pocket and handed it to Albert, and said to Fred and George, "Unless you are willing to open shops in those locations where the location is quite bad. Of course, there are still many shops waiting for rent in Knockturn Alley, and the prices are quite cheap, but you also know that the law and order there is not very good."

   "What do you think should be done?"

  After Fred and George looked at each other, Qi Qi looked at Albert to see if the other party had a good solution to the problem.

"Waiting for two years, I believe that I can find a suitable location. The house price at that time will not be too expensive. Then you can pick a good location and buy it directly. So you should finish the seventh grade obediently, and don't always think about it ahead of time. leave school.

   "What will happen in two years."

  The three of them understood the hint in Albert's words, and it was obvious that something bad would happen two years later.

  In fact, this is not the first time Albert has hinted at this matter.

   "A while ago, when I went to Hogsmeade, I heard Professor McGonagall talking about Sirius Black with other professors in the Three Broomsticks bar." Albert changed the subject.

   "What about Blake?"

  The three of them were all very interested in this matter, but considering that they were in the common room and there were a lot of people around, they didn't specifically ask Albert about the follow-up of this matter.

   After returning to the dormitory to rest, Albert will naturally share the matter of Black with the three of them.

   "Harry's father is actually good friends with Black, and Sirius Black is actually Harry's godfather?"

  The three of them opened their mouths and listened to the ins and outs of the whole thing with shock on their faces.

   "If Harry knew about this, he would be very angry." George murmured.

   "He knows." Albert threw another blockbuster.

   "Harry knew, how could he know?"

  The three of them couldn't understand, and they looked at Albert eagerly, waiting for the other party to explain to them.

   "At that time, Potter was also there. He was hiding under the invisibility cloak, and happened to overhear the conversation between Professor McGonagall and the others." Albert looked at the three who gradually opened their mouths, with such a coincidence.

   "Some things really can't be said around." Lee Jordan muttered.

   "I also discovered a secret."

   "What secret?"

   "About the identity of the maker of the Marauder's Map." Albert motioned for several people to keep quiet, and slowly expressed his guess about the identity of the robbers.

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were all stunned after hearing this, especially after learning that Professor Lupine was actually a werewolf, they kept muttering things like no wonder.

   "No wonder, Professor Lupine takes sick leave every once in a while."

"Professor Dumbledore must be crazy, how could he hire a werewolf?" Li Jordan looked at Albert in disbelief, "Don't you know how dangerous werewolves are? Besides, he is not worried that Professor Lupine will help Black invaded Hogwarts castle?"

   "I don't think Black needs to do this." Fred pointed this out clearly, "If Black participated in the making of the Marauder's Map, he could easily enter and leave Hogwarts."

   "Screaming Shack, remember the Screaming Shack? I dare say that the werewolf hiding in it and transforming at that time must be Professor Lupine." George speculated, "The timing is exactly the same."

"Since they are friends, Blake must also know about the situation in the Screaming Shack. Do you think he is hiding in the Screaming Shack now?" Fred jumped up excitedly from the bed, thinking that he might have discovered Black's Whereabouts, "Maybe, we should tell the Ministry of Magic about this and earn a reward."

"It's impossible for the dementors not to check the Shrieking Shack." George shook his head. "The dementors must have carefully checked the hiding places around Hogwarts. As long as Black is hiding nearby, there is no way they can hide from the dementors." Hunting for ghosts."

   "I know when Black will appear." Albert said suddenly.

   "What?" George asked excitedly, "Did you get it?"

   "Yes, on the day that Hagrid's hippogriff was put to death, we'd go to ambush and catch Black, but the dementors would come out and cause trouble..."

   "We got Black?"

   "If you want to catch Black with me and get that rich reward, you'd better hurry up and train yourself.

   "We will face the dementors?" Lee Jordan's face was a little ugly, and he understood why Albert urged them to practice the Patronus Charm.

  They originally had similar ideas, but now they have been thoroughly confirmed. Although they have been mentally prepared, the pressure is still great. The three weak patron saints cannot resist the dementors at all.

  "Although the prophecy implies that we captured Black and drove away the dementors, it doesn't mean the result. If you don't work hard, it's hard to say whether the result will come true."

  Albert knew very well that money can make ghosts move, and he was able to use money to make the three of them unleash their unlimited potential.

  He needs other helpers to prevent any accidents.

   "With this amount of money, our plan to open a store will definitely be fine." Fred said excitedly, that was 10,000 Galleons, even if they only got 1,000 Galleons each in the end, it would be enough.

   Albert is very satisfied with the performance of the three, and the stimulation of interest can really arouse the enthusiasm of the three.

  That night, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were all practicing their Patronus Charms.

  The three of them worked hard all night, but the result was that the spirit of the next day was a little sluggish. Moreover, there is nothing to gain, which is a bit of a blow to people's confidence.

  However, after Albert linked the summoning of the Patronus with a large number of Galleons, Fred and George showed unprecedented enthusiasm, and even Lee Jordan was extremely shocked by this.

  Through repeated efforts and corrections, although Fred and George's patron saint was still a silver mist, the mist became more solid than before, and Albert had to feel the charm of Jin Gallon again.

   "I have to work harder, otherwise I will become a drag." Lee Jordan saw that Fred and George practiced the Patronus Charm so hard, and practiced it together, not wanting to be a drag.

  On the day they left school, the four of them were chatting about the Patronus Charm in the Thestral carriage.

   In fact, they have been talking about this topic for several days recently, almost like obsessive.

  Albert never doubted the potential of the three of them. As long as they continued to practice, they might be able to master the Patronus Charm earlier than Harry Potter.

   After entering Hogsmeade village, the carriage began to slow down, and finally stopped at Hogsmeade railway station.

  People got out of the train, took their luggage and rushed towards the open train door.

  Most of the students chose to go home for Christmas, maybe they were terrified by what happened to Blake, like last year's attack.

   "Mum was going to invite Harry to the house for Christmas, and then she seemed to think it would be safer for him to stay at school," Fred muttered.

   "This is the price of being the savior!" Albert tightened the towel around his body, raised his wand and directed the luggage to be unloaded from the carriage.

   "Let's go, let's talk about getting on the train if we have something to do, I don't want to blow the cold wind here." Lee Jordan shivered, and squeezed forward with his luggage.

  The three of them rushed towards the door of the carriage, pulling their respective luggage. Several train station staff were helping everyone carry their luggage onto the train.

   When it was almost Albert's turn, he suddenly felt that the air around him became colder, exhaling white mist from his mouth, and the surrounding temperature seemed to drop several degrees all of a sudden.

   "Look over there, there are dementors, they seem to be coming this way."

  I don't know who was screaming, and the noise of the entire platform stopped suddenly.

  The next moment, the platform suddenly became noisy, and the crowd crowded towards the carriage, as if only the carriage could keep them away from those evil monsters.

  Even the platform staff who helped carry the luggage were a little flustered. For wizards who have not mastered the patron saint, dementors are almost irresistible existences.

  People are instinctively afraid of this monster that **** happiness and brings depression and despair to itself.

  Crowded, shoved, chaotic in front of the carriage door.

  Damn it!

  Albert felt someone stepped on his feet, his luggage hurt him, and someone behind him pushed him, almost causing him to fall.

   Tom in the cage seemed to feel the restless atmosphere around him, and became irritable.

   Are the Ministry of Magic all idiots?

   Don't they know the consequences of causing chaos in such a place?

  He remembered what Fudge said in The Three Broomsticks, that guy actually advocated letting Dementors enter Hogwarts Castle to "help".

   Omg!

  What is a dementor, wouldn't he know?

   To say that Fudge is an idiot is really not wrong at all.

   "Quiet, stay where you are, everyone stay where you are."

   Albert cast a spell on Tom to close his ears, put his fingers on his throat, and the extremely loud voice resounded throughout the train station.

  Albert didn't expect to be able to stop everyone, but he could make his voice loud enough to shake the eardrums of all the students so that they had to raise their hands to cover their ears.

   There is no doubt that this method is very effective.

  The original confusion was suppressed all of a sudden, and everyone covered their ears in pain, wishing that someone would block the mouth of the shouting guy.

  Albert removed his hand from his throat, reached out to pull a fallen girl from the crowd, and at the same time drew out his wand, shooting a silver light at the dementors floating around.

   As if feeling Albert's emotions, the griffin ran directly towards the dementors, driving them away from the students.

   The dementors roared angrily, seeming annoyed that someone was interfering with their duties, but they still had no intention of leaving.

  Albert's patron saint looks a little lonely and not as powerful as imagined. In fact, this is more because the summoning is too hasty.

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan also raised their wands and tried to summon the Patronus, but they could only summon a wisp of silver mist, which was useless at all.

   At this moment, a silver white fox flew into the air in the carriage, and the two patron saints immediately kept the dementors surrounding them away from the train.

   "What the **** are you doing?"

  Two Aurors hurried towards this side, apparently also noticed what happened here.

  It never occurred to them that someone would interfere with a Dementor's routine inspection, which is something no one would dare to do under normal circumstances.

   After all, there are very few wizards who master the Patronus Charm.

"I also want to ask what the **** you are doing." Albert handed the luggage to Fred next to him, and handed Tom the cat cage to George. When he tried to push the crowd away, the students around him offered to let him go. There is a way.

Albert walked up to the young Auror and asked in a more indifferent tone than the other party: "What the **** are you doing? Why did you let the dementors come here? Are you planning to treat us as food for the dementors? ?”

   "These dementors are just doing routine business." The young Auror said in a standard tone, "You are obstructing the official business of the Ministry of Magic."

"Let the dementors **** the joy of the students, causing chaos on the scene, crowded, pushed, and trampled. Don't tell me, the Ministry of Magic uses this method to protect the safety of Hogwarts students." Ai Bert's tone couldn't help but raised a bit, making people clearly feel his dissatisfaction, and it was also a good way to stir up other people's emotions.

  Sometimes all you need is a leader.

   The young Auror seemed about to say something, but was held back by another Auror, who noticed all the students glaring at them.

   "Go away, we don't need the protection of dementors."

   I don't know who took the lead and yelled, and then someone threw something at the two Aurors, and a big dung egg directly smacked on the young Auror.

   "Fuck her for obstructing official business!"

   "A bunch of scum, haven't caught Blake for so long."

  …

  The young Auror's face was livid, and he raised his hand to block the thrown object.

   Seeing that the other party had no intention of leaving, and even drew out his wand, he didn't know who was hiding in the crowd and threw magic at the two Aurors.

  In the turmoil just now, many people were knocked and injured, and there was nowhere to vent their anger. This is a good thing, and everyone’s dissatisfaction has been detonated all of a sudden.

  Before the young Auror could react, another grabbed his arm and Apparated away before more magic could be thrown at them.

  (end of this chapter)