Anyway, Xiao Ao, who occasionally gets arrogant, is very cute.

Then a few seconds of silence for the enraged Gryffindor cubs, Snape's venom must not taste good, right? (laughs)

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Sword 3 (upright): Divert attention.

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Hogwarts Potions Classroom

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[Draco, Professor Snape seems to be in a bad mood today, what's going on?] ]

Stirring the olive juice to dissolve the flippers of the toad, Opal whispered as he glanced at Gryffindor, who had been deducted points by the Potions professor.

"Huh?"

Draco, who was slicing rhino horn, looked at her a little strangely, and then glanced at his godfather, a little puzzled as "why do you suddenly ask that".

[I always feel that Professor Snape is angry today...... It's several times bigger than it used to be. ]

Extinguishing the flames and stopping the heat of the potion, Opal shrugged as he continued to stir the discolored liquid, while Draco carefully sprinkled the rhino horn fragments into the potion in the direction Opal was stirring.

"Is there one? Have you forgotten that Professor Snape gets by the Gryffindor bunch of idiots every class? ”

So he really didn't think there was anything to be concerned about.

[Didn't you notice that Professor Snape deducted twice as many points today as he did some time ago?] ]

In the past, it was 5 points and a deduction, but now it is simply a 10 points and a deduction, and it has only been a long time since the class has been deducted 30 points, and the faces of the group of Gryffindor cubs have begun to match the colors of the Slytherin flag.

"Who knows...... But isn't it better for those stupid lions to have as few scores as possible? ”

After scattering the rhino horn shards, Draco clapped his hands at the table to clean up the debris before taking over Opal's mixing task, "But according to the senior, it may be because the joint class with Quilo was disrupted by the students yesterday afternoon." ”

[Stirred up by a student?] ]

While adding salamander tears and bat droppings to the potion according to the board book on the blackboard, he concocted the "anti-pox potion" (Amane: Will anyone really drink this potion after it is concocted?). Opal tilted his head to look at Draco in a strange way, [What the hell is going on?] Why haven't I heard of it? ]

"Didn't you mention it at the dinner table yesterday? But you were reading a book at that time, how could you have the heart to listen to others! ”

Draco rolled his eyes at someone, a little frustrated.

[uh...... Although I pay a lot of attention when I read a book, it's not that exaggerated, right? ]

Opal protested.

But what turned out to be a slanted glance at Draco, and a complaint, "So tell me what you had for breakfast today?" Is that possible? ”

[Ah...... This ......]

After meditating for a long time, Opal lowered his head and looked at his finger depressedly, [I don't remember......]

"So I said it."

Barely holding back his laughter, Draco continued to stir his hands while diverting his attention.

[So, what the hell is going on?] Although Professor Gryffindor Snape has always had a hot temper, it is not as good as it is today, right? ]

In fact, Opal said it mildly - Snape's current state is simply not spontaneous combustion.

"Listening to the seniors, it seems that the Weasleys' pair of 'demon twins' are in super trouble."

Draco shrugged his shoulders as he didn't care about him, and Opal added the newly ground canary bone meal to the potion he was stirring in five parts: [Is it another prank by the Twins?] ]

"Who else could it be but them? I guess if it weren't for their good homework and a lot of extra scores, they would have been cleaned up internally. ”

With a slight sneer, Draco said what he had heard, "I heard that they built a snowman over their heads, and if Professor Snape hadn't been fast, they would have turned into a snowman like Professor Quillor." ”

[Snowman?] ]

Opal's eyes widened in astonishment, and he unconsciously imagined Snape's gloomy, thin, tall appearance and the chubby snowmen he usually saw on campus, and then ...... With a shake of his hand, he almost threw the lizard's legs that he wanted to add to them into the magic flame that had just been ignited.

No, no, no, no! Can't laugh, can't laugh, can't laugh!

After repeated hypnosis...... Opal finally put a smile back into his stomach.

In fact, I really can't blame her for being so self-controlled, but because ...... The contrast was too strong.

"That's right, that's what you think. So it's normal for Professor Snape to be angry. ”

Draco, who had probably guessed what Opal was thinking, stopped stirring, took the potion from the flame, and left it there to cool down naturally, "It's also strange to say, I heard the seniors say that in the past, the twins' pranks were only limited to students, but this time they didn't know why they would use the teacher to make a fuss. Weird, isn't it? ”

[Sort of......]

Opal nodded, [With their usual way of making people suffer without evidence even if they play pranks, they shouldn't make such a low-level mistake.] ]

After all, if the prank hits the teacher, it means that the nature of the incident is very serious. If you look at it in a big way, dropping out of school is light.

But should she sympathize with the Gryffindor cubs now, or should she regret that Snape didn't succeed in being pranked by the twins, which would have been a memorable one?

"Who knows...... After all, I'm afraid even Merlin doesn't know what the brain structure of those stupid lions is, ha! ”

After ending the conversation with a not-so-malicious sarcasm, Draco took the potion vessel and cleaned it.

And Opal chose to be silent very sensibly - well, judging by the little regret that came up in her heart, she regretted that she didn't get the news that Snape had been successfully mischievoked, right?

Carefully pouring the potion that had been naturally cooled into the cleaned vessel, Opal asked the twins about their condition as if unintentionally: [Speaking of which, what happened to the twins?] Wasn't it repaired by Professor Snape? ]

"They? It seems that in the end, it was Headmaster Dumbledore who intervened, and because he had been punished by Professor Quillo for labor service, Professor Snape only meant that he deducted 20 points. ”

Draco pouted, "Speaking of which, the Headmaster is biased towards those stupid lions, if it were to be me......"

[Draco.] ]

The soft voice succeeded in making Draco stop what he was talking about, so he pouted and pressed the "Done" button on the Potions desk, and began to fill out the Potions experiment report.

However, he couldn't help but think in pieces: "Opal, you are too easy to relent." The kind of child of a wizard family who doesn't have the slightest aristocratic consciousness...... I think we should educate them more! ”

[Draco, if you really can't see it, then wait until you have the strength to educate them.] ]

Raising an eyebrow, Opal smiled and pushed the notes he had made to him, stabbing him without a trace, [otherwise your words will always give me the illusion that 'I can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour'.] ]

"Cut, who would envy that kind of family!"

Draco rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything more, instead digging into the lab report.

[Yes Yes Yes ......]

Actually, she thought it was okay, although the Weasleys were very noisy, but just watching their interaction felt very warm. Unlike Slytherin, although they are gentle with each other, there is indeed a turbulent undercurrent under the surface of calm.

Hawkers, this kind of thing is probably the opinion of the benevolent and the wise, anyway, she doesn't dislike the atmosphere of Slytherin.

Smiling and chin on the Potions books spread out in front of him, Opal glanced at Snape, who had hastily added five points to Slytherin after examining her and Draco's potions, and pursed his lips secretly.

Listening to the recent statements of friends in the Forbidden Forest, it seems that Snape has often run into the Forbidden Forest, intentionally or unintentionally, during this time.

Although in retrospect, Opal also knew that on the edge of the Moon Lake that day, Snape's mean words were meant by good intentions, but they were just ......

Her anger can't be extinguished so easily, huh! (Tianyin: Xiao Ao Nai is arrogant...... ）

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Hogwarts Corridor

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After the Potions class in which the Gryffindor cubs were tossed by the venom-spitting Snape, and the Slytherin snakes were smiling and copying each other's lab reports, the Gryffindor students left the Potions classroom in silence for their house hourglass, which had become much emptier again.

When Opal and Draco, who were on duty, came out of the classroom, they found that a large fir seemed to be blocking their way at the end of the hallway.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were stuck there.

[it's ...... Fir? ]

Opal blinked in confusion, [Why is it here?] ]

"I said Opal ......"

Draco pressed his forehead a little unbearably, "Don't tell me you didn't know that the Christmas trees used to decorate the room were mostly made of fir. ”

[I don't know!] ]

Opal replied with reason.

After all, when she was in the Forbidden Forest, she never had the concept of the so-called "Christmas", although she had also read it in books, but those vague things in her memory, if she could contact the real thing at once, it would be called a ghost, right?

"Really, where did you live before...... He has such great power and noble blood, but he doesn't even know this bit of common sense......"

Draco sighed a little unbearably, "I really don't know how your previous tutor taught you. ”

He never heard about Opal's background from his father, only that she seemed to be from a German nobleman, and that there was a considerable amount of power behind her, which made his father fear.

But in some respects, Opal behaved as if she had not received the elite education of the aristocracy at all—for example, she was completely ignorant of the common sense that some of the children of the nobility should know.

[My tutor is incompetent, Draco doesn't need to be concerned, right?] ]

After hearing Draco's poor assessment of her teacher before entering Hogwarts, Opal felt an inexplicable irritability, so much so that she was stunned for a moment after she spoke.

Also stunned was Draco: "Opal? ”

He couldn't understand why the usually mild-mannered Opal had such a sharp and cold reaction to this—in fact, his comments weren't even harsh, were they?

[Sorry, something doesn't seem quite right with me.] Went first. ]

Sensing that he was abnormal, Opal hurriedly lowered his head.

"Huh?"

Before Draco could speak, he saw Opal's figure swiftly pass through the gap between the fir and the corridor and disappear from his field of vision, "Ob...... Hey......"

Draco, who had hurried after him, was stopped by the fir, and when he realized that the fir was in front of him was the Gryffindor trio he hated the most, he gave up the idea of passing through the gap.

"Can you please open it?"

Standing behind the three, Draco said coldly in a long tone, "Weasley, do you want to make some pocket money?" Want to be a gamekeeper after leaving Hogwarts, right? Hagrid's cabin is a small palace compared to your home. ”

"What did you say!"

Hearing this, coupled with the ease of Opal, who was usually present, Ron immediately pounced on him.

"Weasley!"

At this time, Snape, who had just come out of the Potions classroom, walked up the stairs, his eyes flashed when he saw that there was only Draco in the hallway, and then snorted coldly.

"Professor Snape, it's because Ron is enraged."

Hagrid's furry face emerges from behind the tree, trying to help exonerate him, "Malfoy is insulting his family. ”

"Anyway, Hagrid. Fighting is a violation of Hogwarts rules. ”

After looking around and making sure he didn't see the petite figure with long silver-white hair, Snape's brow furrowed slightly, "Deduct 5 points for Gryffindor's Weasley, ah, and Mr. Potter, as a companion, don't stop it, deduct another 5 points." Now, get out of here! ”

Draco wouldn't have let go of the opportunity to mock the trio, but at the moment, he was concerned about Opal, so he just greeted the two who were far behind him, and walked through the passage that Hagrid had managed to get out of.

Snape left in the other direction

"Wait and see, I'll have to clean up that guy sooner or later."

Looking at the backs of several people leaving, Ron gritted his teeth and said.

"Harry, what's wrong with you?"

Hermione, on the other hand, noticed that Harry seemed to be looking distracted in the direction Draco had left.

"Ah, nothing."

Harry, who always felt as if something was wrong, came back to his senses and pushed his glasses and said, "I just think Malfoy and Snape are really annoying to the extreme." ”

"Forget it, be happy, it's Christmas."

Hagrid shifted the subject, "Come with me to the hall and see what surprises are there." ”

So, the corridor was calm again.