As they spoke, the two came to the edge of the school's black lake.

The winter of 1939 was really cold, the temperature was only about minus 20 degrees, so cold that Hoffa even missed the future greenhouse climate.

At this moment, the black lake has completely frozen, and the ice surface is as indestructible as quenched steel.

Standing on the edge of the frozen lake, Hoffa could see the bright white moon in the mountains in the distance. The whole world took on a dull gray color under this white moon.

In his previous life, he didn't feel it, but after coming to reality, Hoffa felt the vastness of this lake, which was at least a few tens of kilometers in radius.

"Where are the ancients buried?" asked Hoffa, tilting his head.

"Island in the middle of the lake. Ossivia pointed to a barely visible dot in the distance and asked, "Do you know how to skate?"

"What?"

Hoffa was shocked.

"We can slide through. ”

Ossivia said calmly, "It's too slow to walk through. ”

"Rollerblading will. ”

Hoffa said dryly.

Osvia's toes tread on the ice, and suddenly a sharp skate blade appeared under her black leather boots. This made her already tall even higher.

Seeing the skate, Hoffa held his forehead.

"Well, I won't. ”

"I'll teach you, and if you learn it, we'll be a lot faster. ”

Ossivia crouched down without saying a word, and her wand tapped at Hoffa's foot.

Ice blades appeared under Hoffa's feet, and he immediately grew about a centimeter taller.

With another wave of his wand, Ossivia scattered the snow on the lake, leaking out of the smooth ice.

She stepped on the ice and said to Hoffa.

"Come on. ”

Seeing that she walked so easily, Hoffa thought that it should not be difficult, so he stepped onto the ice.

However, in the next second, he fell to the ground solidly, and his ass pushed his face and slid to Osivia's feet, like soap when he ran wild in a bathhouse.

Osivia's lips twitched, and she suppressed it, "As a person of Eastern blood, your balance is also too poor. ”

"I'm not Russian. ”

Hoffa sat on the ground and angrily grabbed a snowball and threw it at it.

"Russia?"

Ossivia slid to the left, dodging the snowball with ease. "What are you talking about. If strictly speaking, I am Ukrainian. ”

"Is there a difference?" Hoffa climbed, "it's all the Soviet Union." ”

He staggered, stepping on his skate blade and taking a cautious step forward.

This time he swayed again, his whole body lost his balance, and his legs were about to fall over, but Osivia's eyes quickly floated over and grabbed Hoffa's arm.

"You don't seem to be good at anything other than transfiguration. ”

She looked at Hoffa with scrutinizing eyes.

"Shut up. ”

Hoffa struggled to push Ossivia away: "Say it like you can learn it the first time you skate......"

Boom!!

Hoffa, who took two steps, made a resounding fall.

Ten minutes later, after falling more than a dozen times in a row, Hoffa, covered in snow, finally barely stood up, bent over, with his hands outstretched, walking on the ice without any aesthetic feeling.

Ossivia, on the other hand, kicked her legs beside him, swan-like marks on the ice, long black hair brushing slowly behind her head, white snow spreading under her feet.

She seemed to be in a good mood today, maybe because she found a clue, maybe it was fun to watch Hoffa wrestle, and she talked a little more than usual.

"Do you want me to help you?" she said, "and I'll hold you a lot faster." ”

Hoffa: "You're helping me if you don't speak." ”

"I have a younger brother, and you look a lot like him. ”

Ossivia said suddenly.

"Wow, what an honor. Hoffa said.

"Stubborn, arrogant, but not bad in nature. Ossivia said.

"Is he in Durmstrang?" asked Hoffa staggering.

"He's dead. ”

Hoffa almost fell and moved.

"I'm sorry. Hoffa said.

"It's okay, it's been a long time, I've almost forgotten what he looks like. ”

Osivia's voice lowered, returning to her usual cold, serious look.

The two of them skated forward for another time, and Hoffa gradually became familiar with a little ice skating technique, and the speed was a little faster. He could barely straighten his waist a bit.

"What about your family?"

Seeing that Ossivia did not speak, Hoffa asked again, "Except for his father and brother." ”

"And a couple of distant uncles. ”

As they spoke, the two moved away from the shore, and the outline of the Hogwarts tower blurred.

"What about your mother, is she relieved that you are coming to England?"

"When you die, when you give birth to my brother, don't ask irrelevant questions. ”

"Hmm. ”

Hoffa's jerky skating skills have gradually become proficient, and he can almost walk normally on the lake. But the corner of his eye remained fixed on Osvia's face.

Aware of his gaze.

"Concentrate on your work. Ossivia emphasized.

At this moment, a bright light flashed behind him, and a few seconds later, there was a faint explosion.

Hoffa turned his head and found that it was Hogwarts Castle that had begun to set off Christmas fireworks, and some colorful colors exploded in distant places, adding some color to this white-gray world.

Hoffa thought for a moment, pointed behind him and said, "Look, firework in the shape of a snake. ”

Ossivia looked back and did not find the so-called serpentine fireworks. These fireworks are all ordinary spherical in shape.

She said, "What's the ...... Not. ”

As soon as he turned his head, he saw that Hoffa suddenly grabbed the ice and pasted it on his face. He smiled, "Merry Christmas, Senpai." ”

Osivia, whose face was covered with snowflakes, froze in place, and became a big flower face, and even her entire bun was kneaded and scattered from her forehead by Hoffa.

Her expression twitched a few times, and then, the fluttering fine snow gathered into a ball in her hand, and she smashed a snowball back on Hoffa's face, and said calmly, "Call me Professor." ”

Hoffa touched the snow slag on his face, took a deep breath, and the spiritual force field controlled the surrounding snow to turn into a snowball, floating beside him.

"No, only the most brilliant can be called a professor. ”

With that, he snapped his fingers, and dozens of snowballs flew towards Ossivia like lightning.

Ossivia kicked on the ice and moved more than twenty meters sideways, dodging the snowball.

But Hoffa's mental force field still manipulated the snowball, and chased after it like a homing missile.

Ossivia smiled and shook her head, "It's too weak." ”

As she spoke, all the snowballs exploded in mid-air, turning into snowflakes.

Hoffa's mental force field was blocked by her, and then, the fluttering snowflakes quickly turned into a huge snowball under her manipulation.

"Uh......"

Hoffa looked at the formed snowball in the air, stumbled back a few steps, and entered a meditative state.

The snow around him suddenly shivered and spread, gathering in front of him, forming a thick wall of snow in the blink of an eye.

Rumble!!

A huge snowball with a diameter of nearly two meters crashed into the snow wall, forming an almost avalanche-like oversized snowdrift.

Hofa laughed, and the snowdrift seemed to come to life, turning into a fat snowman six meters high, and running towards Osivia.

Ossivia narrowed her eyes, and the legs of the big running snowman suddenly snapped, and she tumbled to the ground and began to fall apart, and she blocked Hoffa's transfiguration once again.

As soon as Hoffa's palms were closed, the snowmen scattered on the ground soon turned into small snowmen the size of house-elves, and there were dozens of them.

One by one, they rolled up snowballs and threw them at Osivia.

However, the snowballs struck Osivia's body and passed through without hindrance.

It's just an illusion.

"Ahh ”

Hoffa, who found out that he had hit the illusion, ran away, and the real Ossivia rushed from the other side.

Hoffa made a sharp turn and stumbled to escape on the ice. At first, Hoffa's speed was barely enough to keep Ossivia's distance, but soon, he was overtaken by the extremely fast Ossivia.

As she skated at high speed, she held Hoffa's shoulders steadily. Standing on one leg and kicking Hoffa in the shin with the other, Hoffa stumbled and fell to the ground, and Osylvia raised an eyebrow and let go of his hand.

But Hoffa's eyes quickly clasped her forearm.

Osivia's face changed.

Hoffa laughed, fell to the ground and dragged her to the ground, and the two of them rolled on the ice several times in a row before they could stop on the frozen lake.

Hoffa was crushed into the snow.

Ossivia straightened up suddenly, covered in snow, panting and snorting at the white mist, and pressed Hoffa's shoulder to straighten up, "You'll have to call me Professor." ”

"That's not going to work, Senpai. Hoffa laughed, you just won the skate, not the shapeshift. ”

At this moment, Osivia's black hair fell messily on Hoffa's face, and she shook her head and said, "I didn't use all my strength. ”

"Neither do I, and besides, I'm six years younger than you. ”

Hoffa tilted his head, "Were you better than me when you were twelve?"

Ossivia was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head: "I am Animagus who learned at the age of thirteen. ”

"Hah, that's it. ”

Hoffa sneezed, "By the way, your hair got into my nostrils." ”

"But that's ......"

Ossivia stroked her hair and stared at Hoffa, the pear vortex on her face fading.

"Merry Christmas, Hoffa Bach. ”

"To put it nicely, you always look depressed. ”

After a moment of silence, Ossivia straightened up, knelt on the snow, looked into the distance and asked, "Do you believe in ghosts?"

"Ghosts, you mean, ghosts? There are a lot of ...... in the school."

"The last year. "Ossivia interrupted Hoffa,

"When I think about my family again. I sometimes even think that they are actually exempt from a lot of things. Wars, intrigues, killings, sometimes I'm glad. There was no pain when they left....."

"Ahem. Hoffa didn't know how to pick up the stubble, and he could only cough twice.

"Uh...... I think...... Or concentrate on work....."

Click.

In my ears, a strange clicking sound came.

Let Hoffa look sideways, and the ice on the side of his face has somehow cracked a tiny line.

Eh......

Hoffa was stunned.

Immediately after, the lines became two, two into four, and four into eight, and the clicking sound was incessant, and the cracks spread out like cobwebs at an extremely fast speed.

The spiritual force field was swept away, and Hoffa lay on the ice, looking back at Ossivia in a daze:

"Senior sister, do you know how to swim?"

"What?"

Hoffa said with a pale face, "This piece of ice is only five centimeters thick. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the ice behind him suddenly shattered completely.

Hoffa's whole body instantly fell into the dark water below.

The raging waves engulfed his body in an instant, and he couldn't swim, so he fell straight down to the surface of the lake. It felt more terrifying than ever.