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"No, he—" The serpent on the office door did not continue, for the office door was suddenly opened, and Snape stared at Catherine with a puzzled expression, until he saw the two stone tablets in her hand, and then suddenly spoke:

"Put it back!"

The two snakes hurriedly closed their mouths and shook their heads repeatedly.

"I think they've learned their lesson!" Catherine looked at their pitiful appearance and smiled and persuaded them.

The two snakes hurriedly nodded.

"What trick do you want to play? Well! Snape stared at her for a moment before asking in displeasure.

"This morning, Mr. Ollivander has written to me," Catherine said straight to the point, "let me go over Christmas, and he has prepared me a new wand." ”

"I'll cross your name off the retention list." With that, Snape prepared to close the door.

"I want to stay at Hogwarts for the holidays," Catherine said to stop him from closing the door, "can I borrow your fireplace and go to Diagon Alley?" ”

"You're not going home?" Snape looked at her, his cold tone finally relieved somewhat.

"All of the Princes' possessions have been auctioned off by me, and—" Catherine tried to smile, but found that she couldn't, so she lowered her head to hide the bitterness on her face, "it was never my home. ”

"When are you going to pass?" Snape's tone was a little more worried.

"Tomorrow morning—" Catherine sighed silently, looking up and smiling again, "I want to buy something else by the way." ”

"Come here after breakfast," Snape pursed his lips, "any more questions?" ”

"Nope!" Catherine shook her head, and Snape immediately closed the door, and a "bang bang" sound rang out behind the door.

"Am I really—too much?" Catherine asked cautiously, and both snakes nodded quickly.

"I'm sorry to bother you!" Catherine said apologetically, "What should I call you two?" ”

"My name is Andrew and her name is Annette." The giant serpent on the office door pointed its tail at another snake and said.

"You're a girl?" Catherine looked at the serpent called "Annette" on the classroom door.

"Basilisks are not male or female," replied the serpent named "Annette," "and I just happened to be given a girl's name." ”

"You're basilisks?" Catherine was surprised.

"It's not surprising, basilisks used to be common, and Slytherin was especially popular as pets." Andrew wagged his tail and said excitedly, "It's a pity that the basilisk is almost extinct now, and even that guy is always sleeping." ”

"That guy?"

As soon as Andrew opened his mouth to answer, he heard Snape's growl from the office door:

“Shut－up! Or－I－kill－you!”

“He－can‘t－kill－us!” Andrew replied in a very low voice, and then obediently shut his mouth.

Catherine covered her mouth and snickered, waved at them, and quietly left.

The last lesson of the day was Potions class, and it was also the last Potions class before Christmas.

I don't know if it's because of Catherine's behavior in the morning, or because of the holiday tomorrow, Snape's mood seems to have improved, and it's rare that he didn't deliberately curse people during the whole class, even Harry was not embarrassed, and of course Gryffindor was still deducted points.

To the relief of the Slytherin students, who thought that Catherine and Snape had finally "reconciled", they all ran happily to the Great Hall after class, but as soon as they left the basement, they found that the corridor in front of them was blocked by a fir tree.

"Can you get out of the way and stay out of the way?" Seeing the two big feet sticking out from under the tree, and hearing the loud snort, Draco asked in a deliberate procrastination.

"Oh! I'm sorry! Hagrid looked back to apologize, but forgot about the fir tree he was dragging, and the end of the branch slammed into the hallway wall with a "snap", and the splattered needles spilled straight at the Slytherin, causing them to retreat.

"Did you do it on purpose?" Draco slapped his clothes and shouted, Pansy clenched his fists, and Blaise looked like he was watching the show.

"No, I just forgot about it again." Hagrid hurriedly said, apparently he wasn't just doing it this time.

"Forgot about it again!" Draco said coldly, "Should we consider ourselves unlucky?" ”

"Hagrid said he didn't mean it, what else do you want?" Harry, who had just walked over, heard Draco's words and immediately defended Hagrid.

"Oh! How dare I? Draco deliberately pretended to be afraid, "This guy is so big, and he has a savior 'escort', how dare I?" ”

"Hah!" Blaise burst out laughing, and Crabbe and Goyle immediately let out louder laughs.

"Shut up! You idiots! Ron yelled angrily, but was unfortunately heard by one of the calf guards, and a very elegant aria was heard.

"Insulting classmates, Gryffindor deducts five points, Weasley, you should be glad you didn't deduct more." Snape said with a sneer.

Draco and the others immediately let out a smug laugh, and Ron angrily tried to defend himself, but Harry and Hermione stopped him, and any speech or action by Gryffindor would always give Snape an excuse to deduct points.

Seeing this, Catherine, who had just come over, could only say helplessly: "Hagrid, can you go faster?" ”

"Ahh

"I'll help you!" Catherine drew her wand and pointed at the fir tree.

"Catherine!" Snape suddenly shouted, but the red-haired girl had already uttered the incantation.

“Wingardium－Leviosa!”

The fir tree shook its body for a moment, floated into the air, and then flew smoothly towards the auditorium, sprinkling needles all over the ground.

Everyone looked at the fir tree that had disappeared at the entrance of the auditorium in shock, until suddenly there was a loud "bang" around them, and everyone looked to the source of the sound and saw that Catherine was looking helplessly at her right hand, and the wand that was supposed to be there was gone, leaving only some wood fragments.

"Catherine!" Snape roared angrily again.

The people who heard it collectively shrank for a moment, but Catherine said calmly, "I'm sorry, I forgot." ”

"Confinement in my office this holiday!" Snape shouted in a rage.

Everyone looked at him in disbelief, but instead of the dissatisfaction in the eyes of others, Catherine's eyes were surprised.

"Yes, Professor!" Catherine hurriedly lowered her head, afraid that others would notice her abnormality.

"Ah, Severus!" Professor Flitwick's voice suddenly came from the door of the auditorium, "Did you get that fir tree in just now?" ”

"Nope! It's some self-righteous girl! Snape walked past the crowd towards the Great Hall.

Catherine raised her eyebrows and sighed helplessly, even though she knew that he cared, but what she said was always so easy to make people angry.

Being locked up during the Christmas holidays, such an unfortunate thing actually just sighed, and the first grade present couldn't help but admire Catherine from the bottom of their hearts, even if they knew that she was the culprit who had been deducted points recently.

"What a wonderful levitation spell!" As soon as Catherine reached the door of the auditorium, she was pulled by Professor Flitwick, "You show me again." ”

"My wand exploded again." Catherine spread out her hands in frustration, and Professor Flitwick stared at her in shock for a few moments before letting her go.

The auditorium has been beautifully and spectacularly furnished, with walls covered with weeping ribbons of holly and mistletoe, and a full twelve towering Christmas trees erected throughout the room, some with shiny Xiaoice pillars, some with hundreds of candles, others with strings of golden bubbles.

When Catherine sat down in her place in a trance, she realized that there was still half an hour before the meal was served, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Haven't you and my godfather been 'reconciled'?" Seeing her bored, Draco asked in a whisper.

"I don't know?" Catherine looked at the professorship, but Snape deliberately avoided her gaze, "I guess so, after all, he finally let me into his office again." ”

"What do you mean?" The surrounding Slytherins were curious, but Catherine suddenly smiled brightly.

"Guess what!"

They could have guessed that Catherine didn't know, but when she came to Snape's office the next day and saw him standing by the fireplace looking at the burning flames, she could never have guessed that what would happen next.

"Professor!" Catherine called him softly.

Snape jerked his head back at her voice, but when he saw the girl with long hair and shawl in front of him, he couldn't help but call out the name he had just been thinking about with some excitement: "Lily! ”

"What did you just call me?" Catherine noticed that her voice was shaking.

"I'm sorry!" Snape's voice grew tense, "I just mistook you—"

"Enough!" Catherine suddenly shouted angrily, "Where's Floo Powder?" ”

"Over there!" Snape looked embarrassed and pointed to a jar on the mantelpiece with shiny powder.

Catherine ran over and reached out and picked up a pinch of powder from the jar, threw it on the flame, and with a "whoop", the fire immediately turned turquoise and flew higher than Snape.

“Diagon－Alley!” Catherine shouted, and quickly walked into the flames.

As soon as she entered, Catherine noticed herself spinning rapidly, and a deafening whistling sound sounded in her ears. Then, suddenly, she stopped, which almost caused her to fall, and she hurriedly clung to the wall of the nearby stove.

"Is it the first time to use Floo.com? Little girl. A voice rang out.

Catherine looked up and found herself in the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron, the owner of which happened to be standing in front of him.

"Hey, it's you!" He recognized Catherine, "You're the girl who came with Snape that day!" ”

Catherine nodded, stepped out of the fireplace, and quickly walked through the bar to Diagon Alley, which was more crowded than her first visit, perhaps because of Christmas, and she carefully made her way through the crowd and pushed open the door of Ollivander's shop.