The Bard at Hogwarts

Without Tom and without the Basilisk, the Halloween dinner in the second year was extremely lively.

Everyone is having as much fun as possible, and the curfew will be extended to 12 midnight on the day of the dinner. After all, the next day is Halloween, and Hogwarts will have a day off as usual.

Although it is extended to 12 o'clock, generally after 10 o'clock the little wizards will slowly disperse.

Of course, this is not about going back to the dormitory to sleep.

Because there was a second banquet waiting for them in the college common room, a banquet belonging to this college.

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Slytherin common room.

Although everyone gathers together happily, the hierarchical system still exists in the hearts of the little snakes.

Based on their family background and ability, although they are all in the common room, they are divided into small circles, which is very complicated.

Just like at this moment, the only people sitting next to Ino were Draco, Pansy, and Daphne, who respectively represented the twenty-eight pure-blood holy families: Malfoy, Parkinson, and Greengrass.

As for other little snakes in the same grade, they will never take the initiative to get together here.

Even though these are not Ino's original intentions, the rules are like this and the system is the system. Slytherin has had its own system for thousands of years.

In the common room, the noisy atmosphere lasted until 11 midnight.

After 11 o'clock, although no one went back to the dormitory to sleep, the overall atmosphere gradually became quiet.

Now most of them sit together, drinking pumpkin juice, butterbeer, eating all kinds of novel candies, and chatting about topics of interest to each other.

After feeling that the time was almost up, Ino stood up and walked towards the largest and oldest group in the lounge.

"Sorry to bother you! Mr. Flint, may I detain you for a few minutes?"

Ino smiled and looked at Marcus Flint, the Slytherin Quidditch captain.

"Of course! Mr. Swinburne, please follow me." Flint grinned, inadvertently revealing his iconic buck teeth.

The two of them came to a quiet corner of the common room one after another.

Eno looked at Flint and said, "That's it, I need your help with something! I want to go there during the holiday tomorrow. I need someone who is in third grade or above and is qualified to go to Hogsmeade. The little wizard’s hair.”

He stated his request directly and honestly, and at the same time, he handed over two Galleons calmly.

Ino also got to know Flint a lot in the past few days. The big man opposite him was a different kind of shrewdness.

Because Flint doesn't seem very smart, but he has his own set of rules: don't do it early without benefit.

To put it bluntly, you are taking advantage. As long as he feels that he can get benefits from you, even if it is not an immediate benefit, he will greet you with a smile.

Similarly, once Flint is deemed mediocre, incompetent, and worthless, he puts away the smile on his face and transforms into a stingy and rude senior.

"Hahaha, these are all trivial things!" Flint seemed to do these things often, and he took the money naturally, while the smile on his face grew stronger.

With a wave of his hand, he had already put two Galleons into his pocket, and then promised:

"I'll wait for you here at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning at the latest. And you don't have to worry about getting dressed. The person who contributed the hair will keep his promise. He will never step out of the common room before you come back. I promise!"

"I believe in your guarantee!" Ino smiled.

Flint still has great credibility and reputation in Slytherin. After all, I have never heard of him accepting money without doing anything.

On the contrary, there are many rumors that the money was doubled because things went wrong.

After making the promise, Ino said something to Draco and others, and then went straight back to the dormitory.

After all, I have to get up early to go to Hogsmeade tomorrow, so I must get enough sleep.

"You don't even break school rules, you deserve to be deducted points..."

As he walked on the road, he couldn't help but think of the little lions who escaped from Hogsmeade in the story.

There are secret passages, invisibility cloaks, and all kinds of fancy methods, but none of them are mind-blowing.

Not only did it make me nervous, like a shady dark wizard, but more importantly, I didn’t have any experience. The whole process was just running secret roads and exercising my legs.

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A night of silence.

The next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, Ino came to the Slytherin common room on time.

On the other side, Flint was sitting on the sofa, yawning profusely. After seeing Ino's figure, he stood up tiredly, and then took out a folded parchment envelope from his pocket.

"Rick Sparrow! Half-blood third year, the weight here is enough for you to use for a whole day, don't worry! I'm here!"

Ino took the envelope and said, "Thank you! Mr. Flint."

After the two exchanged a knowing look, Flint turned and walked back to the dormitory. After all, the morning of the holiday should be spent sleeping.

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The path leading to Hogsmeade.

A little Slytherin wizard who is slightly fat, short, and full of acne is walking alone at the moment.

And this is exactly what Ino looked like after drinking Polyjuice Potion.

After easily deceiving Filch's inspection, he walked towards Hogsmeade hurriedly. If nothing else, the main reason was the taste of the polyjuice. It was really hard to swallow. Every time I took another sip, I was refreshing the bottom line of my taste buds.

About half an hour later.

Ino went to the bookstore as quickly as possible and bought a copy of "Advanced Potion Making", then left the main commercial street and turned into a quiet alley.

The Davis Bangs store is far from the main street of Hogsmeade, and the store is located in a relatively remote residential area.

This is also easy to understand, after all, it is a store that mainly deals in repairs.

Just like the Muggle home appliance repair shops, they are never opened in busy commercial streets, but basically opened in various corners of the community, so that those housewives can come to repair damaged appliances.

Hogsmeade, a hidden street.

The houses on both sides of the street stand silently, and the mottled traces of time are all over their walls.

At the corner of the street, there is an old store of less than 10 square meters.

The walls of the store have turned yellow, and the sign on the door has long faded.

However, such an inconspicuous store has its own special charm.

The door of the store is open, and people can see the minimalist furnishings inside at a glance, a long walnut table, a high-back chair and a simple storage rack, nothing else.

Sitting on the chair was a gray-haired old man, wearing a navy blue robe, his face was full of wrinkles of years, but his eyes were bright and energetic.

The old man was wearing a pair of black round-framed glasses and was busy at the table.

The long walnut table was full of various strange parts and tools. The old man picked up a tool from time to time, polished it for a while, and then put it back.

At work, the old man's movements were very smooth, his hands turned flexibly, sometimes with a wand, sometimes with a carving knife, as if every detail had been carefully considered, and the whole person seemed focused and calm.

Ino stood quietly in front of the door, and he did not disturb him rashly.

After the old man inside put down the tools in his hand and the work came to a brief end, he knocked on the door gently.

"Good day! Mr. Davis!"

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