Chapter 20: Christmas Holidays (1)

After confirming that the owl did not refuse to leave the owl house due to fear of the wind and snow, the rest of the matter was out of Holly's concern. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The whole castle is in a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, and every remaining student and professor is actively participating in the decoration of the campus, adding some elements of their own. Of course, the main thing is to cover up Dumbledore's strange taste, so that he can have an area decorated according to his own ideas during Christmas. But none of this has anything to do with Hagrid and the Gryffindor trio.

On the night of his return from Hogsmeade, SHG picked up an owl that was about to freeze, and when Hagrid was about to return the owl to the sky the next day, he found that the parchment the owl was holding was the decision of his own eagle-headed horse-winged beast... The Harry Potter trio "just happened" to meet Hagrid with red eyes that afternoon. So the library has another trio in addition to Holly and Erinka, and during this "wonderful" Christmas holiday, there are really few students who want to show up in the library to read books, of course, the content of the trio is completely different from that of Holly and Erinka... Even the two groups had different spheres of activity, one group was studying the laws and regulations related to the Hippogriff, while the other group was in the forbidden area, looking up some information related to the operation of the dark arts. All until Christmas Day.

When it comes to Christmas gifts, Holly has a lot of them every year, but most of them are formalistic human exchanges, gifts that are really full of blessings, that is, those few people. Of course, there was an extra gift from Remus Lupin this year, but given Lupin's financial level, Holly wasn't too interested in it. However, the possible gift from Sirius Black that Harry Potter had piqued Holly's interest.

At dinner, all the remaining teachers and students at Hogwarts sat down, still Dumbledore's suggestion, "It's just us who stay, and it would be stupid to sit in separate houses." "No one would object to Dumbledore's proposal at this time, even if they didn't agree with Dumbledore. Slyerin and Gryffindor, who were sitting almost at the ends of the long table, naturally did not bite their ears to talk. Still, when it comes to the poor "sick" over Christmas, the students of the two opposing colleges focus their attention, albeit from different starting points. The Gryffindor trio and the Slajerin duo were relieved to hear Dumbledore borrow Mrs. Pomfrey to say that Lupin was just too weak to attend the dinner. Gryffindor didn't want Lupin to be unwell and have another substitute teacher, while Slagelin was glad that his new wolf poison potion was still under control. That's right, Holly and Erinka were trying a new potion of wolf poison, which was completely different from what Snape had come up with. That's why Slejelin and the two of them are concerned about Lupin's situation, and this very strange situation appears.

As the dinner progressed, the atmosphere between the students and teachers was no longer as tense as it had been at the beginning, and began to become a little more relaxed. Holly, for example, ran to McGonagall and Flitwick with a glass of red wine, conjured a chair from the air, and talked to the deans of the two houses. On the other side, the big-mouthed Ron Weasley struggled to squeeze into the rest of the student body, trying to say something. As for Hermione, who had just had a slight verbal altercation with Ron in the dorm room, she was a rare person sitting on the side, not trying to show off her profound knowledge in the crowd, but not noticing that someone was walking towards her behind her.

McGonagall and Flitwick were not surprised or dissatisfied with Holly's insertion, but they still told Holly at the beginning, "If it's related to what Hogsmeade talked about that day, let's talk about it another day." ”

Holly shook his head and said, "As much as I'd love to talk about that story, I'd rather talk about something else, about Animagus and the Magic Cycle. ”

"What's new? Since you put forward that idea at the beginning of school, Minerva and I have also studied a lot of things in this area, but considering that we don't have too deep knowledge in alchemy, we can only say that we think that kind of hypothesis is possible, but we haven't captured some magical creatures to study specific magic operations, and even we haven't fully mastered the magic operation in our own bodies, so the only help we can give you in this regard is probably the help of ordinary Animagus transformation and some magic arrays that maintain magic power。 Flitwick responded.

"But I've found a good way to do it, maybe we can use some potions to help with this transformation, you know, the polyjuice potion can help people with simple transfiguration and other transformations, there's no reason why it can't be on Animagus. Holly explained.

"That's a good idea, but I don't think this has anything to do with the Animagus of magical creatures, maybe you should call Severus over for this part. McGonagall said that despite being an adult wizard, she didn't have much interest in potions.

"I'll talk to Professor Snape, I'm currently doing a simple experiment, and I'll be fine when that experiment is over. Holly explained. "Professor McGonagall, how did a man's Animagus decide?"

"This is a more complicated problem, but simply put, it should be a kind of animal that is most suitable for itself, which animal is specific, it depends on your own situation, believe me, you don't need to think about this problem in advance, this problem requires talent, maybe at a certain moment, you will suddenly understand what your Animagus is, just like me, one day suddenly walking on the road, met a cat, and then suddenly had a feeling that your Animagus should be in this form, so it was decided. In fact, for many people, it is not difficult to realize Animagus, but they have not found a suitable form, which makes them have all kinds of accidents in the process of transformation, and even have a magical riot..."

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Ignoring the communication between Holly and the teachers, Ron Weasley finally found an opportunity to interject in the student group, and after each student told a lot of interesting stories to show off their Christmas gifts to set the mood, and everyone was a little tired, Ron finally dropped the bombshell.

"Did you know that Harry's Christmas present received a firebolt. Firebolts, that's the newest and fastest broomstick. ”

In the midst of the exclamations, Harry Potter wanted to show off, but also some of the justifications that he didn't want others to know, "It's just a broomstick." ”

In an instant, everyone turned their attention to Harry Potter, and in the envious and jealous eyes of a group of people, Harry Potter also found some confidence, trying to hold his chest up, trying to make himself appear more confident.

Not far away, Erinka had already come to Hermione Granger's side, and said something in her ear, only to see Hermione's face turn pale for a moment, and then nod weakly.