Chapter 045: Halloween Eve

Compared to these three, the other Hogwarts staff were more friendly to Catherine, and whenever and wherever she had questions, they would answer them seriously, and Professors like Sprout and Flitwick would even enthusiastically take her to their offices to see objects or materials.

Even Quirrell, who stammered, would rarely become unusually fluent when he heard questions related to dark arts, which showed that he did have a good connotation, but he was really problematic in other aspects.

As for the ghosts and portraits of Hogwarts, they have a kind of affection for Catherine that makes her feel unbelievable, whether she has something or not, they will take the initiative to help, and as long as they see her, they will always greet her warmly and talk to her, which makes Catherine learn a lot of Hogwarts secrets and gossip, which shows that ghosts and portraits are indeed the most boring "people" in Hogwarts.

The other first-year life, while not as complicated as Catherine's, is also exciting, because Hogwarts, a school of witchcraft and wizardry, seems to hear everyone's wishes.

Hermione, for example, suddenly became intrigued by the differences between the two systems of knowledge in the Muggle and wizarding worlds because of Catherine's question, and when she complained that she couldn't find any useful references, she found a secret room full of research notes from previous people on this subject, which made her almost ready to stay in it with excitement.

Draco was stimulated by Catherine's becoming a Seeker, and his subsequent whereabouts became mysterious, and according to Pansy's "torture" of his two "bodyguards", he found the training room established by the Malfoy family at Hogwarts, and began an intense family training, seemingly with the goal of preparing to reach the seventh rank before the final exam.

The most bizarre of all is Ron, who is said to have gone up the stairs one Saturday morning without noticing the sudden disappearance of the steps under his feet, and then fell into a secret room, and when he reappeared the next afternoon, he never knew what had happened, but his spirit, which had languished since the wizarding chess duel, finally returned to normal, and the aftermath was that whenever it came to Catherine, he objected to it for 100% no reason.

The other first-year students also basically had adventures, but Slytherin's chose to keep them secret, Ravenclaw encountered real rooms, Hufflepuff found most empty rooms, Gryffindor encountered the most varied, bizarre and incredible situations, even the Weasley twins, who liked to mess around the most, could not repeat most of these experiences, maybe others would think that Gryffindor had the least gain, but they enjoyed it.

In the midst of such an unexpected day, two months passed quickly, and Halloween was just around the corner, which was an important holiday for Catherine, because her birthday was Halloween's Eve, but this year may be the last time she will celebrate Halloween.

Because of Mrs. Apet's words, Catherine is also looking forward to finding her background, but it has been almost three months since she got Tracey, and she has not found any more clues, but has heard a lot from the portrait about the feud between Harry's father James Potter and his three friends - Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, and Snape, whose wonderful journey could be interpreted into a novel.

Although Catherine had heard a lot about their student careers, the portraits were vague about where they would go after graduation, and as for Harry's mother, Lily Evans, Catherine kept silent every time she asked, or she didn't know that someone had issued a gag order until she asked Barrow the Blood, so he couldn't even say it, but he still told her that the old newspapers in the library could find relevant information.

But Catherine found that all the information related to them was missing, and asked Mrs. Pince to find out that it had all been borrowed by Dumbledore, which could not help but surprise Catherine, and did not understand what the old headmaster wanted to do.

Because of this incident, on the morning of Halloween, Catherine forgot to ask Hermione, and never found her until the evening on the way to the banquet in the auditorium, she overheard Parvati Patil of Gryffindor telling her friend Lavender Brown that Hermione was crying sadly in the women's bathroom, and Catherine ran to the women's bathroom.

As soon as Catherine arrived at the door of the women's bathroom, she heard a slight cry, and she followed the sound to the door of a toilet.

"Hermione, open the door," Catherine knocked on the door, "it's me." ”

The crying in the door stopped, and after a while, the door slowly opened, and Hermione walked out with red eyes.

"Come, sue me, who made you cry! I'll beat him up for you. Catherine said, holding up her fist.

"If it weren't for the fear of being deducted points by the professor," Hermione burst into tears, "I'd have told you to beat him up!" ”

"Him!" Catherine noticed the word, "It couldn't be Ron Weasley!" What nasty things did he say again? ”

"He said people couldn't stand me," Hermione's face darkened immediately, "and said I was a nightmare." ”

Catherine thought for a moment and said, "Hermione, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" ”

"Of course it's true!"

"He's right, you really make others unbearable, you are self-righteous, nosy, like to call the shots, and your temper is not very good, and it is indeed a nightmare for many people to come to you."

Hermione lowered her head, as if in repentance.

For a long time, when Catherine thought she was asleep, Hermione suddenly whispered, "What about you?" Do you think I'm a nightmare too? Her head didn't rise.

"No," said Catherine with a smile, "maybe there are some aspects of you that do displease me, after all, people are always more or less faulty, but when you heard that I was an orphan, your sincere apology made me understand that you are a girl with a good heart." ”

Hermione looked up and looked at Catherine in surprise, but Catherine didn't seem to notice it, and said to herself.

"I grew up in an orphanage, and the first skill I learned was to read people, from the orphanage to the Princes family, I had seen enough of many people who were beautiful on the outside, but ugly on the inside, which made me decide to break off my relationship with the Princes family and come to Hogwarts."

"You're the first person I've ever met on Hogwarts Express, and it's true that you're not pretty on the outside, and your attitude is sometimes uncomfortable, but you're a very kind and helpful girl. Since then, I've considered you my best friend, how about you? ”

"Of course I consider you my best friend!" Hermione said nervously.

"Well, wash your face," said Catherine with a smile, "we're going to the Halloween dinner!" And then there's my birthday party! ”

"Ahh I almost forgot, it's your birthday! Hermione hurriedly washed her face.

"Don't worry!" Catherine took a towel from her handbag and handed it to her, "We'll go to the eighth floor after the Halloween dinner." ”

"What are you doing on the eighth floor?" Hermione wiped her face, "Are you going to Gryffindor Castle?" ”

"You'll know then." Catherine said with a smile, suddenly smelling a disgusting smell, "This toilet stinks, how can you stay here?" ”

"Stink, it's really true!" Hermione returned the towel to Catherine, "Strange, I remember it didn't stink that much just now!" ”

"Forget it, let's go, let's go to the auditorium." Catherine took the towel and walked towards the door first.

The two walked out of the toilet, only to find that the outside smelled worse than the toilet, and Catherine hurriedly covered her nose with a towel in her hand.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked, covering her nose as well.

"I don't know."

A muffled grunt and the sound of huge soles dragging on the ground came from their right, and the two of them looked over to see an ugly humanoid monster twelve feet tall appear at the end of the hallway.

"Hermione!" "Catherine!" The frightened voices of the two boys rang out behind them.

Catherine looked back and saw that behind a statue on the left side of the hallway, Harry and Ron were looking terrified, as their screams caught the monster's attention, and it spotted Catherine and Hermione and rushed towards them.

Hermione hurriedly pulled Catherine into the women's restroom and closed the door, however, the monster lightly smashed the door with the stick in its hand. Catherine and Hermione ran to the innermost part of the toilet, and they had no way out.

"We're dead!" Hermione trembled as the monster stood in front of them, smashing the stick in its hand at them.

"No, not yet," Catherine slammed Hermione away, raising her left hand to block the falling stick, "Don't forget we're wizards. She drew her wand and pointed at the stick.

"Except for your weapons!"

"Bang!" There was a loud bang on the ground, and the monster's wooden stick slammed into the ceiling and then slammed into the ground, almost hitting the two boys who rushed in.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked aloud.

"Bang!" There was another loud bang, a flash of white light, and the wand in Catherine's hand exploded, and her hand was blown bloody.

"Catherine!" The other four exclaimed.

"I'm alright, your wand?" Catherine called out as she checked her right hand.

"Here!" The two boys hurriedly took out their wands.

"Mine didn't bring." Hermione grumbled, but she then shouted a spell, "Wingardium-Leviosa!"

The two boys hurriedly shouted, and the monster suddenly left the ground and floated up, and the monster never seemed to have encountered such a situation, and for a moment it was actually stupid.

Catherine followed the direction in which the monster floated and saw the piece of ceiling above its head that had been cracked by its sticks.

"Hold on!" Catherine yelled at the boys, then jumped up and kicked the monster in the jaw.

"Bang!" There was a third loud bang, and the monster's little head slammed through the ceiling and jammed, its massive body like a pendulum - swaying and shaking.

Catherine fell to the ground, leaning against the remnants of the door, and she found herself soaking wet. The two boys stood there, wands held alof, as if they couldn't believe they had just done it. Hermione's feet were limp, and she barely managed to fall to the ground by holding on to the wall.