Hogwarts, Gryffindor Girls' Dormitory.

After a holiday without seeing each other, the girls were quite excited when they got together again.

After arranging the luggage and clothes a little, and putting their knick-knacks, alarm clocks, and dolls on the side of the bed, Hermione, Hannah and the others sat on Elena's bed, eating snacks and chatting.

As for the Gryffindor common room downstairs, not to mention that there are so many seniors, and it is the time when people have just returned from school, it is already crowded, and it is not a good place to chat.

After skillfully kicking off her shoes and climbing onto Elena's bed, Hannah glanced at the unopened box of handmade chocolates at the head of the bed, her cheeks bulged rapidly, and she folded her arms with a little displeasure.

"Wow! Elena, you haven't even eaten a bite of the chocolate I made myself!"

"Uh, it's been a bit busy these days......"

Elena stuck out her tongue and quickly took the box of chocolates next to the bed, opened the box with a flattering face, and stuffed Hannah, Hermione, Luna, and herself into their mouths one by one, explaining as she chewed.

“...... And I just want to wait until everyone comes back from vacation and then share it together. ”

"Hmph, it's all quibble!"

"So, you don't seem to have opened the book I gave you?"

Before Elena could calm Hannah, Hermione glanced thoughtfully at the neat and unopened copies of the Gilderoy Lockhart Collection tucked under the pile of gifts, and whispered leisurely.

Elena blinked, a playful smile in her eyes, and her eyes twinkled a little.

"Well, what's this...... What to say, Mr. Lockhart, he ......"

"Sister Elena, have you received all the photos I sent you?"

"Photos, uh-huh, of course...... I figured out where to put it......"

"Sure enough, I knew, Elena, you forgot about us as soon as we had a holiday, didn't you?!"

"It's just that, for so many days, there has not been a single letter except for Christmas presents, and there has been no response to your letters, and I almost thought that the owl that sent the letter had been captured by some monster. ”

"Huh...... I was wrong, I was wrong, don't scratch it! I'm going to fight back!"

"Let's go together, there is no need to talk about fairness and justice to deal with this white-haired ball!"

"Hermione?!You were deliberately filming me, didn't you? You traitor!"

In the face of the torture from the three little wings, Elena covered the shivering little derpy hair on her head, while playing and playing with the three little wings, and couldn't help but flash a trace of happiness in her heart - fortunately, there were gifts from old radish and old potatoes, otherwise she might have been cold tonight.

Of course, a well-known writer, who is one of the culprits, was silently noted by Elena in her heart.

"The dead and the missing are always the most difficult to overcome...... It seems that if you want to reverse Hermione's incorrect star-chasing values, the step of idol real disillusionment still has to be arranged. ”

In short, Hogwarts after the Christmas break became lively again.

For Elena, with Hermione, Luna, Hannah and others in the company, this castle can be regarded as a paradise without fighting with the world, and the waves of the outside world disappear in the slapstick of the girls.

All the layouts and chess pieces in the distance were already in place, and everything was going in the direction she expected.

Many outcomes are often predestined before the event begins.

......

With Gilderoy Lockhart, one of the most brilliant con artists in the wizarding world's history, joining the crew for the Ulyanovsk, the last gap in secrecy and improvisation has finally been filled.

Over the years, Lockhart's talent as a field agent is still quite recognizable—Elena needs more than just loyal and tough elderly saints, she needs a trickster like Lockhart who is savvy and sophisticated.

From then on, the Nikolaev shipyard will enter a silent period of up to half a year, and potato supply depots located all over the former Soviet Union are still "recruiting" those "salesmen" with a doctorate degree or higher, and there will be no big movement for the time being.

Professor Dumbledore has been in contact with Newt Scamander these days, working to complete the preparations for large-scale magical cultivation through the space authorization of the portable megafarm.

But for now, it seems that there is still a long way to go before the final result is formed.

At least for the time being, the idle land folded over the large portable farms could only be found in the Soviet Union, but at this time, the Russian magical community was in a particularly chaotic state - according to the International Magical Society, they were on the verge of even crumbling down on the basic magical government framework, so they could go directly past the local Ministry of Magic, and the International Magical Association would temporarily take over the secrecy and maintenance of the magic in that area.

In addition, with the cooperation of Elena and Dumbledore, Hogwarts seems to be unusually quiet, and the school mortgage crisis that occurred in the past few months seems to have subsided - the double statement of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore is still extremely useful, even if there is a slight discordant voice, it will not come out for the time being, but silently watch in the shadows.

As for the Ministry of Magic, which originally planned to sign a strategic binding agreement with the Gringotts elves, but also because of the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, the previous issue was temporarily shelved, Cornelius Fudge is not stupid, as a mediocre Minister of Magic, his biggest flaw and biggest advantage is that he will never make a choice that affects stability.

Looking at the entire wizarding world, wizards talk about it the most every day, the interesting and novel "New Singing and Singing", and the "Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue", which has just been spun off from this publication.

As for the recent upheaval in the distant Muggle country, it is not even enough to be the main talking point of wizards, at best it is just a few stupid Muggles, and the processes and restrictions on the exchange of foreign currency and various currencies in Gringotts Wizarding Bank have become more and more complicated.

Time is one of the most powerful forms of forgetting magic.

More than three months is enough time for most people to forget the huge loan that mysteriously disappeared after Hogwarts was mortgaged, and when the Auror Office gradually began to give up on tracking down this incident and began to focus on those trivial things, some things that had been written down for a long time finally began to show their fangs to the world.

In mid-January 1992, Orthodox Christians had just begun their Christmas holidays, while the rest of Europe had just emerged from the Christmas cheer and was ready for the new year.

In the past few months, although there have been many far-reaching events in both the magical and non-magical worlds, everything is still moving towards a better future in everyone's hearts.

Until one day, without warning, the whole situation suddenly became strange.

If you put it back thousands of years ago, it would be like one day when the sun rose from the horizon as usual, and followed a predetermined trajectory to the peak of noon, when everyone was bathed in the sun......

Suddenly, without warning, the sky darkened.

Little by little, the dazzling fireball disappeared, and the boundless darkness engulfed the whole world, and all the people and animals living in this world fell into a state of confusion, and no living creature knew what was happening and the reason behind it.

It is only after many, many years, as the human gaze gradually extends to the sky, that a few intelligent people will gradually come to understand the fact that the mysterious black shadow that seems to suddenly appear in the sky and swallow up all the warmth and light is actually the moonlight that guides people in the darkness every night......