Chapter 9 There was a crackling sound in the hallway
At breakfast the next day, Zhang Xu sat at the table in the Hogwarts dining hall, stirring the milk cereal in the bowl with a spoon in one hand, and stuffing a sandwich into his mouth in the other.
Zhang Xu had to finish breakfast as soon as possible every day, otherwise he would have no appetite for breakfast after the owl who delivered the letter arrived.
When Zhang Xu finished the last bite of milk cereal, the owl rain came.
Today is Saturday, the agreed day when Zhang Xu received a letter from Huaxia.
The letters exchanged between Zhang Xu and Huaxia naturally could not be sent directly by the owl from Huaxia, and at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, it is estimated that the owl should be buried in the ground when it flies down.
Now Zhang Xu's letters are forwarded through the embassy in the UK, and after the letters are sent from Huaxia to the embassy through diplomatic channels, the relevant staff in the embassy will forward the letters to Hogwarts through an owl. The same is true of Zhang Xu's letter sent back to Huaxia.
Today's letter to Zhang Xu suddenly became the focus of the Hogwarts cafeteria.
In addition to the letters of Zhang Xu, his family, classmates and Zhao Lao, in addition to the letters of Zhang Xu, his family, classmates and Zhao Lao, there were newspapers and magazines such as "People's Daily", "Reference News" and "Weapon Knowledge".
And today, seven or eight owls flew towards Zhang Xu with a huge suitcase.
Zhang Xu's hand shook after he popped out his wand, and a gust of wind blew out from the tip of the wand, steadily catching the suitcase thrown by the owls, and the suitcase gently landed on the dining table in front of Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu opened the suitcase and saw that the box that had been expanded by a spell was full of things.
Zhang Xu first picked up a box placed in the most conspicuous position and found that it was a box of moon cakes.
Zhang Xu then remembered that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon.
Handing the moon cake in his hand to Zhang Qiu, who was sitting aside, Zhang Xu continued to check the contents of the box. After finding that there was no problem, he left the large cafeteria with the box.
Zhang Xu checked the box in the big cafeteria for Dumbledore who was sitting on it, saying that the things in my box were all normal things, and I wouldn't take some strange things to Hogwarts to make trouble.
Zhang Xu took the box back to the dormitory and took out his personal belongings, and then took the box to the room on the top of another tower of Hogwarts Castle.
Zhang Xu handed over the application report for converting his dormitory into a reading room to Dumbledore early in the morning.
The application was quickly approved, and Dumbledore agreed to the establishment of the reading room, but rejected the suggestion that the reading room should be located in Zhang Xu's dormitory, and instead assigned an empty room that occupied the entire top of the tower to Zhang Xu for the reading room.
"Xiao Xu, where are you going?" As soon as Zhang Xu walked to the common room, he met Zhang Qiu, who had just come out of the stairs of the girls' dormitory.
Zhang Xu patted the box floating beside him and replied, "I'm going to set up the reading room." "Zhang Xu asked Zhang Qiu about the reading room before.
In the corridor, Zhang Xu and Zhang Qiu chatted about the Mid-Autumn Festival the next day, dragging their boxes.
As soon as the two turned a corner, they noticed three students walking towards them.
The leading blonde student was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhang Xu, and then lowered his head and led the other two students to hurriedly walk past Zhang Xu and the two.
"It's Malfoy and his two henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle, and Malfoy seems to be afraid of you?" After Malfoy and the others walked away, Zhang Qiu asked Zhang Xu curiously.
"Probably Malfoy's father told him something, and Lao Ma's years in Huaxia were not pleasant." Zhang Xu told Zhang Qiu about the causes and consequences of the old Malfoy being caught planting sugarcane on a labor camp, and Zhang Qiu was shocked when he heard it.
Maybe it was because they didn't look at the yellow calendar when they went out today, and the two had just walked a flight of stairs into a corridor, and they met two more acquaintances.
"Ahh Zhang, are you dating? A red-haired student shouted.
"You're still carrying luggage, are you going to elope?" Another red-haired student who looked exactly the same shouted.
Zhang Xu glared at the twins angrily, and with a wave of his wand, the twins' hair ignited a half-meter-high red flame.
The twins scurried down the hallway with their heads in their hands, like two running candles, and screaming as they ran out of nightmares.
Suddenly, one of the twins fell in front of Zhang Xu and the others, and the other twin suddenly pounced, picking up the brother who fell to the ground with one hand, and grabbing the other's hand with the other.
"George...... Ahem...... George ......" cried out weakly as one of the twins fell to the ground.
"Fred! Hold on! Fred! You'll be fine soon! ”
"George, I know I can't do it anymore." As if to fulfill Fred Weasley's claim, the flames on his head were slowly waning.
"Nope! Fred! ”
"George, please help me tell our father, mother, brother, and sister that I love them."
"Nope! You'll be fine, Fred! I want you to tell them yourself when you're well! George cried out with tears in his face.
"George...... Ahem...... I finally ...... And finally, one more wish...... cough cough cough cough ...... Please ...... me Bury me under a big tree by the pool in our garden. Fred closed his eyes and the flame on his head was extinguished.
When the flames were extinguished, a puff of white smoke came out, and the white smoke condensed in the air into Fred's appearance.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! ”
There was a round of applause in the hallway.
The twin brothers on the ground stood up and saluted the audience next to them.
"Very good performance." Professor Flitwick, who had been passing by the twins at the beginning of their performance, applauded and said, "It's a beautiful pseudo-fire spell that looks just like a real flame. ”
"Have a great weekend everyone." With that, Professor Flitwick took out his wand and pointed a little at the twins, dusting them off and leaving.
On the way to the library, Harry, Hermione, and Ron were found in the firelight, and Harry and Hermione had not recovered from the shock just now, and if Professor Flitvier hadn't grabbed them first, they would have rushed up. And Ron, who knew what the twins were like since he was a child, saw the strangeness at a glance and chose to eat melons and watch the play on the side.
"I'm going to write back to my father to plant a big tree next to the pond, and hopefully it's still too late. You love everyone in your family, but you just don't love me? Ron said with a bit of resentment.
"Whoever cares about the details is stupid, my dear brother." Fred, who had lifted the spell on his head, said.
"Asahi, Filch recently had a crystal ball that can identify magical items, I heard that you gave it to him?" George said.
Zhang Xu watched the performance of the twins just now, and felt a little emotional, because he knew that in the "plot", Fred was killed in the battle with the Death Eaters.
"When the time comes, you can help, we are all friends." Zhang Xu thought.
"The crystal ball was bought from me and rationed to Mr. Filch." Zhang Xu said to the twins, "If you want, wait and help me set up the reading room, and I'll give you one each." ”
"No problem!" The twins replied in unison.
"Zhang, what kind of reading room is it?" Hermione asked.
"It was Professor Dumbledore who agreed to my request to use the magic books I brought from China to set up a reading room at Hogwarts, open to all professors and students in the school." Zhang Xu explained briefly.
The eyes of the three brothers, Hermione and Weasley, lit up at this.
Hermione was pure and loved to read.
The Weasley brothers came from a wizarding family and knew the importance of magic books in the wizarding world.
Harry on the sidelines was silly and amused.