Chapter 059: Cleaning (Part I)

Hogwarts was dressed up for Christmas, and the Great Hall was magnificent, with a dozen or so silver frost-covered Christmas trees, thick friezes of mistletoe and holly crisscrossing the ceiling, and enchanted snow, warm and dry, falling gently from the ceiling.

At the Christmas dinner, Dumbledore led them in singing some of his favorite Christmas carols, and Hagrid's voice grew louder as he poured glass after glass of eggnog. Percy didn't notice that Fred had cast a spell that made the words on his prefect badge "", and stupidly asked everyone what they were laughing at.

The three of Draco and Harry seemed to laugh and grudge all night, and the six of them huddled together to talk happily, while the other Slytherin and Gryffindor students didn't have the slightest opinion on this, and looked like they were taken for granted, which made Catherine very puzzled, it seemed that she really missed a good show last night.

On the third day after Christmas, when Catherine returned from morning work and went to the auditorium for breakfast, she was surprised to find that the Slytherin table was already occupied, and she was not yet a student staying at the school.

"Ixissi-senpai!" Catherine whispered to the blue-haired young man who was watching her Daily Prophet from her place, "Why are you back at school?" ”

"Before the holidays, Headmaster Dumbledore issued a notice," Ixixesy turned to look at Catherine with a smile, "and asked the student council presidents, the prefects of the four houses, and the heads of the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades to return to school today to help with the 'cleaning'!" ”

"That's really 'accurate'!" Catherine pursed her lips and looked at the other end of the long table, and found that in addition to Kensaut, the sixth-year chief Ross North Carolina and the fifth-year chief Biss Demeter had indeed arrived, and the other four houses had also been named, obviously knowing very well that this was no ordinary "cleaning".

"Good morning, everyone!" When Dumbledore began to tell the story, the only Hogwarts adults were left with him, Madam Pomfrey, the four Headmasters, and Lockhart, who had been left behind, and the other professors either went home or, along with Hagrid and Filch, led the other students to Hogsmeade.

Originally, Catherine and the seven of them also needed to go, but Dumbledore thought that they had always been "parties" and could not be overlooked, so he agreed to let them stay and stay at the castle with the other seniors.

Harry followed the president of the male student council and the female prefect of Gryffindor;

Hermione followed the president of the schoolgirls and the male prefect of Ravenclaw;

Ron follows Percy and Penelo Crivet;

Pansy followed Ixacey and Ross North Carroll;

Brace followed Hufflepuff's sixth-year head and Cedric;

Draco followed the Hufflepuff prefect and the head of the seventh year;

Catherine followed Kensaut and Biss Demeter.

Twenty-one people were divided into seven groups to patrol the first floor of the castle to prevent the professors from running into the castle and affecting the health of the castle when cleaning up those eight-eyed giant spiders.

As for the seven adults, Madam Pomfrey stayed in the medical wing, ready to treat the wounded at any time, Dumbledore personally went to the base camp of the eight-eyed giant spider in the Forbidden Forest to carry out a strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and the four directors and Lockhart stayed on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest to form the first line of defense.

After Dumbledore activated Hogwarts' defensive barrier to prevent the eight-eyed spider from escaping over the wall to avoid affecting the surrounding area, he slowly walked into the Forbidden Forest, and after about ten minutes, the depths of the Forbidden Forest suddenly boiled.

Panicked birds, beasts scurrying around, and white mist and black smoke rising into the sky, it was clear that Dumbledore had made a move, and the commotion spread quickly, and within five minutes, the terrible sounds of birds and beasts and loud clicks could be heard outside the Forbidden Forest.

Suddenly, a black, hairy behemoth the size of a horse pulling a cart, eight eyes, eight legs, black, and hairy rushed out of the Forbidden Forest, and Professor Sprout, who was in charge of this direction, was frightened by the appearance of the eight-eyed giant spider, and for a moment he forgot to react, but fortunately, Snappe next to her threw a spell and blew the guy into powder.

"All on alert!" Professor McGonagall shouted, and all the professors clenched their wands, concentrating on the exit of the Forbidden Forest, which they were responsible for.

"Click...... As they were ready, the second eight-eyed spider rushed out from in front of Lockhart, and with a quick turn of his wand and a white light he swung, the eight-eyed spider stopped, froze for a moment, and turned and ran back to the Forbidden Forest.

Lockhart immediately turned his head to look at the other professors triumphantly, and showed his shiny eight teeth, Snape and Professor McGonagall rolled their eyes directly into the sky, but the two of them were far away, Lockhart didn't see it, Professor Sprout was busy scattering seeds in the grass around her, only the good-natured Professor Flitwick pointed at the Forbidden Forest in front of Lockhart with his wand.

Lockhart turned his gaze back, and immediately saw the eight-eyed giant spider just now rolling out, followed by three eight-eyed giant spiders smaller than him, Lockhart turned around and ran without hesitation, and the eight-eyed giant spiders immediately chased after him.

Suddenly, a sharp sound of breaking the air sounded above him, and Lockhart threw himself forward, and then he heard a loud "pop" behind him, and as soon as he turned around, he saw four eight-eyed giant spiders chasing him, slapped into four sticky green mud by a thick branch.

Following the branch, Lockhart saw the Beater Willow that was getting up to attack him, and he hurriedly crawled out of its range, while the Beater Willow filled his position, swinging its branches to slap the invading spiders one by one.

Seeing this, Lockhart immediately used his only oblivion spell to drive the eight-eyed giant spider that was not attacked back to the territory of the beating willow tree, and for a while, the two "people" cooperated very tacitly, and the four deans also showed their specialties one after another.

Professor McGonagall poured fire oil on the Forbidden Forest, turned the heavy snow on the grass into ice, cleared a passage and ignited a raging flame, and the eight-eyed spiders who rushed out of the Forbidden Forest always rushed into the fire as soon as they saw the danger and were scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, and those who had the strength to break out of the wall of fire were even more depressed to find that rows of stone statues were waiting for them.

Professor Flitwick used a magic array to lay out a huge, invisible and tangible, transparent labyrinth with entrance and no exit, and also placed a large number of bewilderment-type items in the labyrinth, and the eight-eyed giant spider who rushed out of the Forbidden Forest was dizzy by this maze, while he himself stood on the roof of Hagrid's hut, using the Crushing Charm and the Splitting Charm to carry out targeted sniping.

The seeds that Professor Sprout sown were magically created into a large colorful garden, and she even emptied all the greenhouses and threw all the plants she had been raising into them, and the eight-eyed spider who rushed out of the Forbidden Forest thought that he was still in the forest, and as she ran, she tripped up, pulled away, and even swallowed by the inconspicuous plants next to her.

Snape's territory looked the most "clean", there seemed to be no defense, but the grass was full of potholes, the air was full of strangely colored gases, and the eight-eyed spiders that broke out of the Forbidden Forest always ran slower and slower, and finally collapsed on the ground completely, or rolled into the lake and drowned, while he only added a vanishing charm to the corpses that stood in his way.

It proceeded in an orderly manner until a spider the size of a small elephant suddenly burst out of the Forbidden Forest, its body and legs black and gray, and every eye on its ugly head with large claws covered with a layer of white puffs, it was blind.

"Aragog, rush to that slap!" A clattering roar rang out in the Forbidden Forest, followed by a large spider that was slightly smaller than the previous one, but with eight very bright eyes.

"Follow me, Mosag!" The blinded eight-eyed spider, angrily fiddling with its claws, rushed towards the beating willow tree, and Lockhart turned around and rushed to the castle in fright at the sight of their size.

"I'm coming!" Snape let out a sound that resounded through the sky, and then threw all the medicine bottles on his body to the grass he was responsible for, and the grass was suddenly shrouded in a terrifying smoke, and when Snape ran away, eight huge tentacles also stretched out from the lake, blocking the path of the grass to the castle.

At the same time, the two professors next to the beating willow tree also turned their "gun heads" together: Professor Flitwick quickly shot various spells at the two large eight-eyed giant spiders, but only knocked them slightly off course; Professor Sprout threw all sorts of magical plants in their path, but there was nothing he could do to slow them down.

Snape had just run up the hill when the two large spiders, called "Aragog" and "Mosag", had passed on either side of the beating willow, and Lockhart was already banging on the castle gates.

"What should I do?" Biss Demeter looked at Kenshout and Catherine, the foyer right within range of their patrol.

"Can't open the door! That's too dangerous! Kenshaut grabbed his wand and said sternly, "What's more, the dean has already arrived!" ”

"When the dean arrived, Lockhart was also caught by them, not to mention that the windows on both sides couldn't stop them at all, so open the door!" Catherine smiled confidently, "I have a way to deal with them. ”

"Are you sure?" Demeter's tone was very cold.

"You just need to prepare the Clear Water Charm and the Fire Charm!" Catherine waved her wand, the oak door slowly opened, and Lockhart rushed in and ran behind her.

With a loud bang, Aragog slammed open the oak door that was not yet fully open and rushed into the foyer, Kenshott and Demeter had already taken refuge behind the two doors, Lockhart immediately ran up the marble staircase, only Catherine only slowly retreated.

"Condensation!" Catherine made a soft sound, and the snowflakes that poured into the foyer from the north wind flew toward the tip of her staff, quickly converging into a three-foot-long ice pick, and piercing into the center of Aragog's head with lightning speed.

"Click!" Aragog let out a terrible scream, "You bastard! It brandished two large claws and rushed at Catherine.

"Be careful!" Mosag rushed after him, and when he saw Catherine, he let out a startled voice, "Impossible, you-"