A magical fireworks show that spreads in all directions, and the brilliance of Ambilight disappears in an instant, blooming in the Gryffindor common room. And when the last beam of Ambilight like a swimming dragon rushed out of the doorway, including the portraits in the corridor on the eighth floor, many people firmly engraved that colorful picture in their hearts.

In fact, at the end of last school year, many students were wondering why Fred and George, who were always mischievous, would be honest until the last minute after the exam.

Now they know that the Weasley twins, who were the initiators, were still able to leave their last glory and commotion here, even if they had successfully graduated and left Hogwarts.

Of course, Fred and George had already graduated, and even Dumbledore's resurrection would not have been able to take care of them. However, those two naughty ghosts can't be rectified, but there is still Ron, the troublemaker who opened it?

By now, Neville was back in his bedroom, but he looked at the rather empty room, and his face was still a little confused.

In this dormitory, Ron, Harry, Dean and Seamus were all arrested by the professor for questioning, and the unpreparedness of the commotion would probably bring them an impressive punishment.

Coincidentally, Neville Longbottom didn't have anything to do, because the portrait of the fat lady opposite him casually proved that he had never even entered the doorway of the common room.

Neville, who had been confused by tonight's unexpected, stood in his dorm room alone, scratching his head blankly.

Fortunately, an honest person like him, who is relatively simple-minded, will not think much about it. Since he was not taken away by the professor, it was naturally a good thing, at least this could avoid punishment. As for Harry and Ron, they ...... He wasn't too worried, after all, Hogwarts didn't have any serious punishments now.

However, it is always a little deserted to be alone in the dormitory. On weekdays, Gryffindor's dormitory would often be very lively, but now that it calms down, even Neville, who has always been silent, is a little uncomfortable.

After hastily sorting out the parchment, pen and ink for his homework, he looked around the room, but in a daze, he put down his schoolbag and ran to open the window.

"Uh...... What am I doing when I suddenly come running open the window? Neville was a little puzzled himself, but he felt like he should do it, "Well, forget it, whatever!" ”

While feeling the breeze outside the window, he let go of the handle on the window, then ran back to pick up his school bag and prepare to go to the common room to finish his homework.

Somehow tonight, he feels that he is in an unusually good state, and he guesses that he can complete his homework smoothly in a while, right?

But as he passed Ron's bed and walked to the door, he caught a glimpse of the package on the desk out of the corner of his eye. He remembered that Ron seemed to have said that it was probably a sweet gift from Lavender, and that anyone who wanted to eat it could get it themselves.

That's right, Neville has loved sweet things since he was a child. It's just that the conditions at home don't allow it, and he has a particularly strict grandmother, so he is always hungry but rarely able to eat enough.

"Hmm...... If it's candy or something......" he muttered as he looked at the package, "it looks like a lot...... Just one ...... No, two! Just take two! ”

It's no surprise that in the dorm room, most of the snacks are shared. Especially the little tyrant Harry, although he is not very diligent in buying, he will bring a lot of snacks to everyone to eat at the beginning of school every year. Although Ron and Neville are not wealthy, they occasionally use the copper they have saved to add to this shared friendship.

After deciding to take only two, Neville turned around with his bag and walked over to the desk next to him.

He threw the schoolbag to his feet again, and then there was a loud sound of unpacking, and a heart-shaped chocolate tin box was suddenly revealed inside. The meaning of the red heart-shaped iron box was so obvious that even Neville, who was more wooden about it, quickly understood the meaning.

"Chocolate again?" He said, "Still...... Still not quite right? ”

Neville glanced at the parchment on which the wrap had been wrapped, the name "Lavender Brown" was a little blurry in the unlit bedroom, but it was still recognizable by the moonlight outside the window.

"No, it's just chocolate......" He thought for a moment, then shook his head, "Well, that's it, Harry seems to have fruit gummies over there." ”

From two chocolates to one, Neville's awkwardness was suddenly reduced by half, and it was indeed much more comfortable. He didn't think much about it this time, and raised his hand to open the lid of the box of chocolates, but at that moment, he inexplicably felt a void in his heart.

It was an uneasiness for no apparent reason, as if something was wrong, and Neville immediately stopped what he was doing. And in the next second, he turned around with a full of doubts, and took a light step so habitually......

No, in fact, he only took half a step before he tripped over the schoolbag he had left at his feet.

With a stagger, Neville flicked his hands in a hurry, trying to realign his center of gravity on his feet. Immediately afterwards, he finally pulled out the foot that was blocked by the schoolbag, and barely allowed himself to stand firm again. But then he was stunned to find that the heart-shaped chocolate tin box crossed a graceful arc in mid-air and flew perfectly out of the window.

Neville looked at the open window, then looked down at his hands, dumbfounded for a moment. Tonight there was a big incident that alarmed the professors, and at this time, he didn't have the courage to go down and pick it up.

……

Let's move forward a bit, just as Neville was entering the dormitory, something was going on behind Hagrid's hunting cabin...... Well, it's not too big of a deal.

“…… Hagrid...... Professor Hagrid, the man brought. ”

It was Filch who spoke, and listening to his tone, it was clear that he had not been very reluctant to call Hagrid "Professor" until now. Because in his heart, a student like Hagrid, who was expelled back then, should have a status similar to that of him, a squib janitor.

"Got it, you can go back."

As for Filch, who was always rude to his students, Hagrid also disliked him. After waving his hand casually, he picked up the lantern in his hand and shone it behind Filch.

"I've got word from Professor McGonagall, but...... Just you? ”

As Hagrid asked, the light of the lantern extended not far behind Filch, where there was only one man, the hapless Ron.

"Oh...... Yes," Ron said helplessly, "Hagrid, good evening...... As you can see, I'm the only one. ”

"Harry, what about them? Didn't they get punished? Hagrid asked.

"Harry, they—"

Ron shrugged his shoulders and was about to elaborate on Hagrid, but was interrupted by Filch, who had not yet left.

"Ron Weasley," Filch said loudly in his raspy voice, "Professor McGonagall asked me to bring you here, not for you to talk—you should be punished!" ”

"Filch!" Hagrid glared at him angrily, "How and when to punish is my business, you should go back to the castle!" ”

Filch looked at Hagrid's massive body and arms and legs thicker than his own before wriggling his mouth and grunting back. Soon, Ron's voice rang out behind him, seemingly explaining something about what he had been going through in the Headmaster's Office.

"The little devils who are never restless, and the stupid big ones who cover them!"

Filch muttered indignantly, his shadow swaying on the grass of the vestibule as the flickering lantern shone for a short time.

However, just as he was about to patrol the castle and try his luck to see if he could catch a few more students who had escaped out for a night out, a dark shadow suddenly fell from the sky and landed on the lawn below the Gryffindor Tower.

The silence of the night made the sound of the landing sound very clear, even though the Gryffindor Tower was still some distance away from Filch, but he could still hear it clearly.

"What's that?"

Filch first looked in the direction from which the voice had come from, and when the cat named "Lady Loris" leaped off his shoulder, the man immediately ran over it.

The moonlight was bright tonight, and with Lady Loris to guide him, it wasn't long before he found something that had fallen on the ground.

It appeared to be a broken tin box, apparently falling from the tower, and its contents were scattered all over the place. Filch picked one of them up and looked at it in the moonlight, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and a faint fragrance immediately penetrated his nostrils.

It was undoubtedly a charming smell that Filch put in his mouth and chewed without hesitation.

"Hmm...... Is it chocolate? Filch chewed on his jagged yellow teeth with a look of great enjoyment, "Which little bastard threw it down?" Hum...... Throwing things out of the window...... Tasted good......"

It wasn't long before a rickety figure picked up the chocolates in the moonlight, put them all in his pocket, and then slowly returned to the castle with the broken heart-shaped tin box.

That night, Filch, the gatekeeper, had the rich chocolate in his mouth.