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Cold is just one word, I only say it once.

You know I'm only going to use shaking.

Last night, Peeves spent the whole night opening all the windows in the hallways of the castle.

A howling cold wind broke through the windows into the castle and through every corridor.

Worst of all, Peeves also opened the doors and windows of almost every classroom, and the fires in the classroom fireplaces were blown out by the cold wind, making the entire classroom as cold as an ice hole.

Of all the classrooms, only the Potions classroom in the basement is in a better situation, because it is not very ventilated in the basement, which only ensures that the students in the classroom will not be poisoned by carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

The hardest hit was in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom. Half of Lupin's textbooks froze to death, and only the few next to the fireplace were able to hold on to the heat of the fireplace for a while, where they shivered when Lupin arrived.

Then there was the classroom for the herbology class, and many of the tropical herbs that Professor Sprout had kept in it were finished, and only a few pots of hardy ones were fine.

Even the Muggle Studies classroom had been murdered, and by the time Zhang Xu arrived, his blue hummingbird, which had been with him for several years, had frozen to the ground.

Many students were also recruited, and when they walked from the warm common room to the hallway, the huge temperature difference made many people sneeze.

At breakfast, sneezes followed. When it comes to lunchtime, many people simply go to the school clinic to get their medicine before going to the cafeteria to eat.

However, for many first-year students, drinking the cold medicine that steam out of both ears in the school infirmary is an extremely interesting experience, and many Muggle-born students even plan to buy a few bottles as Christmas presents. There is a trend of not giving gifts during the holidays this year, and only giving cold medicine as gifts.

Compared to the students who recovered after drinking the medicine, some students were not so lucky. They had to take leave to lie in the hospital room of the school infirmary, take a potion from Madam Pomfrey that could imprint the smell into their souls, and pinch their noses to suffocate it in one gulp.

"The more unpleasant the taste of the potion, the better, so that the patient can appreciate the value of health." Madam Pomfrey said to the Harry trio as they finished their pills.

"Do you still have the appetite for dinner?" Zhang Xu, who came with Ginny to bring dinner to the three patients, asked.

The Harry trio shook their heads, the smell of the potent cold potion was so unpleasant that they hadn't recovered yet.

"Then I'll put dinner here first, you can eat it when you have an appetite, I still have something to do." Zhang Xu placed a large plate of sandwiches on the table at the head of Harry's bed, and then prepared to turn and leave.

"Are you going to Hogsmeade again?" Ron asked, speaking in a thick, nasal voice because of the cold.

"Yes, I've been busy for the past two days, and I've been caught doing coolies, or the kind that doesn't get paid, and I almost don't have time to change my homework." Zhang Xu complained, "But this is not a bad thing, you should pay attention to the "Prophet Daily" these days." ”

"By the way, has Peeves been caught?" Harry asked in a hoarse voice.

"He's hiding in a blocked secret passage." Zhang Xu said unwillingly, "Otherwise, I will give him a good education." ”

Zhang Xu left after saying that, and when he walked out of the door of the hospital room for two minutes, the Harry trio on the hospital bed were all relieved.

"It seems he didn't see it." Harry said, "Ginny, did you bring the map of the living spots?" ”

"Give." Ginny pulled the map out of her pocket and handed it to Harry.

Just then, the door to the ward opened, and Harry hurriedly stuffed the map into the quilt.

Madam Pomfrey first looked at Harry suspiciously, and then she saw Ginny, who was also a little nervous, and said to Harry with a funny face, "I'm going to leave for a while, and call me again if there's something." Note that this is a hospital room, and there are other people on the bed next to it, so don't disturb their rest. ”

Madam Pomfrey closed the door and left, and Harry, who was blushing, took out the map and put it on the hospital bed, and then Hermione and Ron, who looked unpleasant, hurriedly jumped out of the bed and walked over, and Ginny, who was also blushing, ran to the door to wind them up.

"He went to the Room of Requirement." Harry said, pointing to Zhang Xu's name on the map of the living spot.

"As I expected, he wouldn't have made it to Hogsmeade in such a snowstorm." Hermione said, "He's going to be lazy in the secret passages." ”

"Can you really get out of Hogwarts through that secret passage?" Ron asked, he'd heard that the secret passages were all magical.

"The evacuation plan includes a plan for students to evacuate to Hogsmeade through this secret passage." Hermione replied, "Yesterday, I asked Professor McGonagall about this, and the professor told me that it would be fine without the spell inside, as long as you overcome the fear of the spell inside. ”

As the president of the student council, Hermione was entitled to know a little bit about the secret passage. Coupled with her image as a good student over the years, Professor McGonagall didn't mind letting her know more.

At this time, Zhang Xu's name on the map had entered the secret passage, and Harry saw that Zhang Xu had indeed gone out of the secret passage, and a stone in his heart finally landed.

"Next, let's go ahead with the plan." Harry said, "Now let's have dinner." ”

Night divides the line at night

The hour hand on the watch had come between (2) and (3), and almost all the people in Hogwarts Castle were asleep.

In the girls' dormitory at Hogwarts, there was a person who couldn't sleep after tossing and turning.

Another girl in the dormitory was woken up by this sound, and after identifying the direction, she could only helplessly pull over the quilt and cover her head and continue to sleep.

Ever since her mother was kidnapped, Ginny has been making a little noise every night because of nightmares, and her roommates have become accustomed to it.

However, tonight's Ginny tossed and turned like a pancake and couldn't fall asleep, not because she had just had a nightmare, but because she was worried about something else.

The Harry trio were making trouble again, and the events they had planned this time were enough to make everyone involved jump and want to hit someone.

Due to the failure of his last attempt to rescue Mrs. Weasley, Ron decided to quietly leave Hogwarts on his own to find clues. His plan was discovered when he borrowed the Cloak of Invisibility from Harry, and the two hit it off with a common idea. Later, when the two were plotting, Hermione accidentally learned about it, and Hermione could only join them after her persuasion failed.

When the Harry trio were plotting, they decided not to bring Zhang into the matter, and Zhang was still able to grasp the principle in this regard. Ginny, on the other hand, once again took on the role of reporting their actions to the professors afterwards.

At this time, Harry's trio worked on the map in one hand and the invisibility cloak in the other, and after avoiding the patrolling Filch, they came to the Room of Requirement without any danger and came to the secret passage leading to the pig's head bar.

Each of the three Harry held a lit candle as a lighting tool, and a wave of fear rose in their hearts as they looked at the bottomless secret passage.

"Did you decide you really want to do it?" Hermione asked Harry and Ron.

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then nodded solemnly.

"From the moment we walked into the secret passage, there was no turning back." Hermione said, "We may make it, but we may also die outside. ”

"I'm ready."

"Let's go."

With that, Harry and Ron turned and walked into the secret passage.

Hermione sighed as she watched their backs disappear into the secret passage, then followed with a candle in hand.

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