"Snape is a Hogwarts professor and one of the people who cares about it!" Hagrid said, pointing at a few of them, "Anyway, don't meddle in matters that don't concern you." Forget everything you know, this is the ...... between Dumbledore and Nicol Lemay."

"So, there's a guy named Nicol Lemay involved, right?"

Dudley didn't even want to pay attention to Harry's idiot, Hagrid would have finished talking to himself, but Harry interrupted him again, which eventually led to Harry no matter how much Harry asked Hagrid, he didn't speak anymore, just took a bite of rock pie and a sip of strong tea, sulking alone.

The rest of the time was not very pleasant, so they had to go back early.

As soon as he walked out of the room, Harry slapped his mouth with his palm in frustration, "You are so fast. ”

On the way back, Harry first complained indignantly about why Hagrid didn't believe that Snape would steal the three-headed dog's guard, and then he asked Ron if he knew about Nicol Lemay, and after asking to no avail, they discussed trying to find evidence of Snape's crime, and they wanted to beat it to death to let Hagrid know that he wasn't telling a lie, and also invited Dudley and Hermione to join him.

Hermione rejected the idea that they were spying on Snape, but offered to help Harry find Nicol Lemay in the books.

Although Dudley knew everything, he couldn't take the initiative to tell Harry, unless Harry came to beg him, he remembered what Harry said in the underground vault, and besides, he was not as idle as Harry and Ron, knowing that it wasn't Snape who had to go through the fun to find evidence. He had something more important to do - learn the Patronus Charm.

The Patronus Charm is an ancient and mysterious spell that summons a magical Patronus and is the most positive reflection of the user's feelings.

Of course, the Patronus Charm is also an extremely complex spell that is difficult to cast. The vast majority of wizards are unable to summon Patronus charms in any form.

The difficulty lies in the fact that in order to use this magic successfully, the caster must concentrate on recalling the happiest memories they can think of, and the stronger the happiness of the memory, the more powerful the spell becomes.

Dudley carefully recalls his happiest memories and makes his wand draw circles, the most important step is to build up power for the spell, he can feel the mana accumulating, but in the end the mana always dissipates in the air because he can't summon the Patronus.

Dudley thought that he was casting something wrong, and he studied the Patronus Charm thoroughly, but in the end, he couldn't get into it. He put the target of his suspicion on his memory, and what he recalled was that in his previous life, he could receive rent every month without going to work, and he woke up naturally every day, woke up to eat, ate and played, and slept when he was tired. He thought it would be fun, but the Patronus Charm didn't react at all.

Dudley changed his memory, recalling his joy at receiving a letter from Hogwarts and learning that he was not a Muggle who couldn't spell, and this time he succeeded, but only with a small beam of silvery-white gas. He changed a lot of memories in his mind to cast the Patronus Charm separately, but the end result was the same, either it couldn't be released, or it was a beam of silver-white gas, and it couldn't summon a specific Patronus at all.

Dudley's Patronus Charm can be considered successful or unsuccessful, as he can only summon gas with a specific memory, which belongs to the non-physical Patronus.

The non-corporeal Patronus is not like any living being, it does not possess any distinguishing features. It is a cloud of silvery-white gas or smoke that sprang out from the tip of the wand, which is the most primitive and weak form.

He began to wonder if he had true happy memories.

One evening, Professor McGonagall visited the Gryffindor common room.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Christmas is just a week away, and if anyone doesn't go back, please sign this retention form. ”

After Ron signed his name, Harry asked curiously, "Aren't you going back?"

"Nope. Ron shook his head and said, "My parents are going to Romania to visit my brother who works there." ”

"That's a shame, we're going to go to your house to have some fun. I haven't seen what a magical family looks like. Harry's face was full of pity.

"Then why don't you go along, it should be interesting to go over there and see the dragons. "Dudley has some yearning, if there is a dragon, maybe he can live the addiction of being a dragon knight.

Ron blushed and bowed his head as he stammered, "Budget... The budget is not enough. ”

"Ron, you don't need to be ashamed or inferior for this kind of thing, what are you ashamed of? we're not friends, we're going to taunt you?"

"Of course we're friends!" Ron was a little depressed, "but I..."

"But I always feel that I am not worthy of you, my magical talent is not as strong as yours, my mind is not as smart as yours, and my family background is not as good as yours. ”

Dudley opened his mouth, and what Ron said seemed to be true, he shook his head and pulled back the thoughts that had gone off the rails in his mind, he thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if you remember? I said something to Harry on the night of the duel between Harry and Malfoy. ”

Ron nodded his head frantically, and he said, "I remember, you said - geniuses are all one percent talent, plus ninety-nine percent perspiration. He rejoiced, "Then if I work harder, then my spell can be like yours." When I practiced spells with you before, I always wanted to be lazy, and it seems that I will have to practice more in the future. ”

"But that one percent talent is often more important than ninety-nine percent of perspiration. ”

As soon as Dudley finished speaking, Ron immediately twitched his cheeks, which really pierced his heart. He said with a frustrated face, "You don't really need to tell me that. ”

"Why didn't you say that?" asked Harry, surprised.

"Speaking of which, you will swell again, there are many people who are more talented than you, including me, I am working hard, why don't you work hard!" Dudley said.

"You're not saved, you're the one who really swells. ”

Dudley found that this kind of thing was not suitable for Ron, because now Ron was even more frustrated, he changed his mind and said: "Actually, this is to let you know that everyone's talents are different, just like you can fly with a broomstick, and Harry is the best of them, he can be selected for the Quidditch house team in his first year, and I can't even call a broomstick, I have to learn to find my own shining point and use it." ”

"According to you, I can't be friends with you? ”

"Of course not. Ron said hurriedly.

"As for the family, then none of us can be friends with Harry, no one can be friends with him, after all, none of them have any money. ”

"Ron, do you think I'm here to make friends with money?" asked Harry.

Ron didn't speak, just shook his head down.

Dudley patted Ron on the shoulder and said very solemnly: "Making friends is not relying on these superficial things at all, if you really only look at these things, then you are not making friends, real friends are heart-to-heart." You need to be confident. ”

"yes, Ron. Harry agreed.

Ron's low self-esteem is also due to the family, they have a total of seven children, he has five older brothers and a younger sister, he always feels that he is inferior to his older brothers, and his parents prefer the youngest sister. Later, Ron would react surprisingly well when he wore a Slytherin locket, and for this reason, he had been suppressing his inferiority complex.

Dudley wasn't going to say anything, as it was up to Ron to figure it out.

Early the next morning.

"Get up, get up, it's snowing. ”

Dudley opened his eyes in a daze, and he was startled, the person in front of him was none other than Hermione Granger. He shrunk to the side, wrapping himself tightly in the quilt, "How did you get in?" This is a boys' dormitory. ”

"I know, I don't need to be reminded. Probably because of Dudley's movements, Hermione stood a little farther away, and she said disdainfully, "Why do you boys sleep like pigs and can't get up so late?" ”

"It's not fair!" yelled Ron. He remembered an unpleasant experience some time ago.

Some time ago, Ron annoyed Hermione, and she exerted her unique right to be a top student, forbidding Dudley and Harry from lending their homework to Ron for plagiarism, otherwise she would never help Dudley write her homework in the future and would not lend her homework to Harry for plagiarism.

Ron didn't think so at first, but then he found out that he was wrong, Dudley and Harry didn't borrow homework for him to copy at all, this must not be given, Hermione has spoken, it is better to die one person than to die three, who told Ron to die himself.

Ron struggled to go to the dorm room to ask Hermione for forgiveness, and halfway up the stairs, it turned into a smooth slide, and the result was self-evident.

"Hurry up, I'll be waiting for you outside. Hermione finished and went out.

The exterior of Hogwarts Castle was covered with several feet of snow, and the lake was covered with hard ice.

"It's beautiful. Dudley sighed at the sight in front of him, he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen it, and he was like a child, stepping on the thick snow, listening to the squeaks and giggling.

Dudley waved his wand, and bundles of ice crystals flew out of his wand. The snowflakes swirled in the air, turning into a snowman with a carrot nose and a row of large teeth. It ran around and rolled as if it were alive.

"It's no fun for you to conjure a snowman out of magic. Hermione said.

"You don't understand. This is not your average snowman, it's called Snow Treasure. Dudley was nostalgic, in his previous life, Dudley liked the animated movie Frozen, which had magic that he envied, and songs that made him excited, but it was a pity that his transfiguration could not really give life to Snow Treasure.