Chapter 447: It's an Illusion! What Are You Hiding For?!
On Halloween's Eve, Elena woke up early, as always.
As the head chef of Hogwarts, she has the enviable privilege of being second only to Albus Dumbledore, especially around such important holidays.
"Ha ~ lo-mei, shoes. ”
Elena sat up, yawned softly, and shook her feet to tease the three little milk dogs sleeping by the bed.
Feeling the awakening of the little master, Xiao Luwei shook his head and opened his eyes, spit out a few blue sparks, and immediately reacted quickly, skillfully picked up Elena's shoes that were kicked by the bed, and ran to Elena's feet to lie down.
After more than a month of running-in, Xiao Lo Wei has completely accepted his new form, and has successfully transformed from a mighty and fierce giant dog to a cute and obedient three-headed little licking dog.
"Is it already Halloween Eve......
Elena got dressed, shoe and socks, her eyes swept over the calendar that had flipped through on the dresser, and muttered thoughtfully.
"Hopefully everything will go well today, and some ugly guys better not come out and misbehave. ”
Halloween at Hogwarts seems to be a cursed day.
If Elena remembers correctly, in the seven years of JK Rowling's original book, there have been some unusual events on this day every year - Harry's first year troll broke into the girls' bathroom, the second year had the first basilisk attack, the third year castle came to a big black dog and tore the fat lady, the fourth year started the Triwizard Tournament a little better, and the fifth year was a massive lion and snake brawl......
Thankfully, however, with the waves that Elena stirs up in Hogwarts Castle, the plot has long since become unrecognizable.
The three-headed dog Louwi, who was originally used to guard the Philosopher's Stone level, has become a little milk dog who hums and cheats among the girls every day, and Dumbledore naturally sets up a new magic level to fill this gap - if Elena guessed correctly, Hagrid's missing link should be filled by some enthusiastic "castle keeper".
Under Elena's influence, although Hermione still has some unacceptable pride, her personality is much better than at the beginning of the original book, at least no one will deliberately isolate and reject her.
Coupled with Hermione's brilliant performance in the-for-tat confrontation with Elena in class, as well as her unintentional behavior of helping other students solve their homework after class, Hermione Granger is now extremely popular in the first year of Hogwarts, and even vaguely surpasses Hannah and becomes the "second sister" in people's private discussions.
In such a situation, it is too difficult to reproduce the classic scene in the original Philosopher's Stone.
Therefore, after carefully thinking about the changes in all aspects, Elena still felt a lot more at ease, and paid less attention to [Synth: Quirrell Voldemort] and focused on the layout and arrangement of the Halloween banquet.
Whether Voldemort can succeed in his life, whether he can steal the Philosopher's Stone and make a comeback, is a question that Dumbledore needs to worry about and consider, and she and Grindelwald are not in the mood to pay attention to these small things for the time being.
A month later, in the face of the huge changes that involved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, covered every corner of the world, and were bound to affect the future fate of the two worlds, the careful thinking of a certain tool demon was too insignificant.
In order to make sure that Professor Quirrell would not take the initiative to run out and cause trouble, Elena even secretly instructed the house-elf to provide the poor professor with a separate after-dinner meal, so that he would not be mentally unbalanced due to the long-term exploitation of the unscrupulous demon king's predecessors.
I have to admit that in the absence of a conflict of interest, Professor Quirrell is actually a simple person - he just wants to get through the semester quickly, get the Philosopher's Stone, and then quickly resign and leave this increasingly strange and strange Hogwarts.
......
By the time the little wizards woke up, the hallway was already wafting with the smell of sweet and enticing roasted pumpkins.
Since it's Halloween, pumpkin-related dishes are naturally essential.
A few days before the festival, the Hogwarts garden has already harvested a large number of pumpkins and apples to be used in the decoration and kitchen cooking for this day and tomorrow - pumpkin pie, baked pumpkin seeds, toffee apples, hot apple sedane......
In addition, Elena also purchased a batch of sweets from Hogsmeade Village to set up the festive atmosphere.
Halloween is actually a celebration of autumn, and wizards have traditionally celebrated this day hundreds of years before the non-magical world denominations designated it as "Saints' Day".
The ancient wizards of Gaul, Britain and Ireland - the druids believed that Samani, their great god of death, would come to earth that night, and that the evil spirits who had gone to the other world would be accompanied by the god of death, so they lit bonfires and kept a close watch on these evil spirits.
This is how the myth that there are witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween began.
For Professor Sprout, the festival has a special meaning, as the ancient Roman wizards called this day the Feast of Pomona, the "festival of the god of fruit trees", which heralds the life and death, harvest and failure of all fruit trees.
So, though knowing all this is just a beautiful vision when the parents chose the name.
But when the day came, Ms. Pomona Sprout was still quite happy, and showed up in the auditorium early in the morning to help the house-elves decorate the school's Halloween decorations.
All the lampshades had been replaced by giant pumpkin shells, the dazzling candles flickered in the pumpkin's belly, and gold, purple, and silver ribbons adorned the corridors and window edges, and everyone was in a pretty good mood.
In fact, after a little reminder to Hermione not to run around after class, Elena's worries have subsided a lot again.
Although the content of today's Gryffindor first-year Charms class is still a levitation charm, this is just a normal course progression arrangement, and it does not explain any strange phenomenon of "world line closure".
Besides, for Elena today, it may be a little difficult to fight Voldemort head-on, but it is not too much of a problem to clean up a clumsy troll when she is in full firepower.
You know, when Rubeus Hagrid was a child, he went to the Forbidden Forest to fight trolls.
In the face of this kind of big man with obvious shortcomings in terms of intelligence, physical strength, and defense, even if Quirrell really lost his mind and let a troll into Hogwarts as in the original book, Elena felt that she needed to think more about how to rein in her strength and not accidentally kill it.
However, just as Elena was focusing most of her attention on how to deal with Professor Quirrell, who might be "mischievous......
An unexpected trouble suddenly found her.
............
After breakfast, Hogwarts Transfiguration Classroom.
As time progressed, the Transfiguration course began to become more difficult.
Instead of the simple transformation between dead objects in previous lessons, Professor McGonagall began this lesson with her first-year students trying to apply Transfiguration to living creatures—this time, turning snails into glass beads.
As always, Elena expertly uses her self-created "binary rewinding architecture magic...... Or "blindfolding", quickly completed the learning content assigned by Professor McGonagall in the first time, and then began to be in a daze.
Ever since learning a little about ancient alchemy, Elena had long since given up on the idea of mastering Transfiguration.
The modern scientific concepts imprinted in the soul of her previous life, as well as the understanding of the microcosm in that part, made her almost as difficult as a squib when she cast this kind of unreasonable "black box magic".
According to her own speculation, if she did succeed in performing Transfiguration one day, there were only two possibilities:
1. An extremely powerful wizard cast an amnesia spell on her, erasing her memory of modern science;
Second, like those ancient alchemists, she has comprehended, decomposed, and reorganized the whole process of matter.
In such a situation, even though Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration seemed interesting, Elena chose to rely on visual magic to fool around.
After all, it was hard for her to explain to Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall what fusion and fission were called.
And...... Why is it that if she is not careful, her Transfiguration can lead to the razing of Hogwarts to the ground.
"Elena Kaslana, perfect change, Hufflepuff plus five. ”
Professor McGonagall glanced at the sleek and rounded stained glass bead on Elena's desk, raised her eyebrows, nodded in satisfaction, and gave a very high evaluation and bonus points without hesitation.
Although this situation is repeated every class, as an impartial professor, Professor McGonagall insists that as long as she completes her course requirements perfectly, she must be given extra points - even though Elena does not seem to have spent much energy, she has always been a bit lazy and in a daze.
The Slytherin and Hufflepuff students were no stranger to Elena's extraordinary mastery of magic.
Ever since the silver-haired witch returned from an unexpected fainting in the first lesson, no matter how complex the Transfiguration technique was, Elena had been able to reproduce it perfectly as soon as Professor McGonagall had completed her demonstration, as if she had already mastered it.
It's just that, except for Elena, most of the students felt the sudden increase in the difficulty of the classwork.
Unlike transforming a dead object into something else, even just turning a snail into a glass bead, it is an extremely difficult task for most students.
By the end of the morning Transfiguration class, few students had succeeded in completing the Transfiguration.
Even those who barely succeeded, most of their glass beads still have some traces of snails on them, or there is still a little snail's gastropod that has not changed.
"Elena, you teach me. ”
After failing more than a dozen times in a row, Hannah poked the disobedient snail in front of her with a frustrated face, turned her head to look at the white-haired dumpling next to her who was about to fall asleep, and sighed sullenly.
"It's so hard to turn into snails, and if I were to turn them into cheese baked snails, I wouldn't have a problem at all. ”
"Don't be discouraged, just practice more. My method doesn't work for you. ”
Elena yawned absentmindedly and stretched out her finger to flick the "glass bead" in front of her, separating Hannah's left hand from touching the "glass bead" very naturally.
It's not that she doesn't want to teach Hannah Transfiguration techniques, the point is that she herself relies on cheating, and she is really not qualified to help others, considering Hannah's future magic learning, it is better to follow Professor McGonagall's traditional way at this time.
"Speaking of which, Elena, is this your newly learned magic?"
Hannah, who was rejected again, did not have annoyance on her face, but looked at Elena's finger with some curiosity, her eyes were full of envy and amazement - I don't know when, the beautiful glass bead has been wrapped around the tip of Elena's finger, as if it was glued to it, obviously there is no support point, but it stops firmly on the girl's fingertip.
"Magic?" Elena blinked, snapping back to her senses.
Shun Hannah's gaze looked at his fingertips, only to realize that the snail that had been "turned into" the glass bead had woken up at some point and was slowly climbing up his fingers.
Of course, in the eyes of others, it is the glass beads that defy gravity and are rolling up on their own.
"Well, it's not some magic ......" A touch of embarrassment appeared on Elena's face, and she subconsciously flicked the "glass bead" in her hand onto the tabletop, and reattached it to the table with a snap.
Neither rolling nor jumping, but silently stopped on the smooth wooden table.
Well?!
Hannah tilted her head, the confusion on her face becoming more apparent.
It looks so weird......
I always feel that something is wrong......
It's like......
"Wait...... There seems to be something wrong with your glass beads?"
Before little Hannah could understand the hazy confusion in her mind, a serious female voice suddenly came into the ears of the two.
"Uh-huh, Professors McGonagall......"
The expression on Elena's face changed suddenly, and she quickly turned away.
I saw Professor McGonagall looking at her with a gloomy face, her eyes fell on the slightly trembling "glass bead", her sharp eyes narrowed slightly, the expression on her face gradually became solemn, and she slowly stretched out her hand forward.
"Miss Kaslana, if you may, can you show me the glass bead?"
The next moment, as the Transfiguration Professor's finger touched the "glass bead", the witch's expression instantly became extremely complicated.
It's over......
As if ......
Seeing Professor McGonagall's face, Elena subconsciously trembled......
Sure enough, Professor McGonagall took a deep look at the flawless stained glass bead in her hand, felt the clear touch of the tips of her fingers, and took a deep breath, her voice seemed to tremble with anger.
"Sure enough!"
"It's an illusion! What are you hiding?!"