"That evil, lying, perverted old monster!" Hermione finally erupted after half an hour.

In fact, it's scary, and it's rare for Hermione to be in such a situation, desperately abusing the teacher?

I don't think there's a teacher who would make Hermione look like this, even our favorite Sybil, and Hermione just said she was an old liar.

"What do you think she looks like? It's her half-hybrids again—she's trying to portray Hagrid as if he's stupid, just because he has a giant mother—oh, that's not fair, it's really not a bad lesson—I mean, okay, maybe it's going to have a devastating ending, but Nightqi is still good—in fact, they're really good for Hagrid!"

"But, Umbridge says they're dangerous," Ron said.

"Well, like Hagrid said, they take care of themselves," Hermione said impatiently, "I don't think a teacher like Grabley-Purne would show us them very often before a normal wizard test, but, well, they're very interesting, aren't they? Some people can see them and some people can't! I wish I could." ”

"Can you?" asked Harry quietly.

Hermione's expression was suddenly horrified. "Oh, Harry- I'm sorry- no, of course I can't- that's a stupid statement. ”

"It's okay," he said quickly, "don't worry. ”

"I'm amazed at how many people can see them," Ron said. "There are four ...... in one class"

"Yes, Weasley, we were weird just now," a vicious voice came from the quiet side of the snow, Malfoy, Kra, and Goyle were behind their right. "Do you think if you see someone dead, can you see the Quaffle more clearly?"

Then he, Carat, and Goyle laughed maniacally as they walked to the castle, and a chorus was heard, "Weasley is our trump card." ”

Ron's face turned blood-red with a single brush.

"Ignore them, just treat them as if they don't exist," said Van Lin tirelessly, "and they're just ignorant." ”

With that, Van Lin pulled out his wand and cast a spell to warm the air again, so that he could make an easier path from here to the greenhouse from the seemingly unchanged snow.

In fact, it only allowed Hermione to divert her attention slightly.

In fact, Hagrid's class wasn't that bad, and Yaqi was a very docile creature, much stronger than Hippogriff, and if it was Buckbeak's ugly temper, Umbridge's paws would be a little sorry for her.

However, this is not destined to change anything, and Umbridge will judge all the professors, at least, within the purview given to her by the Ministry of Magic.

Compared to Hermione's anger and Hagrid's thoughts, Van Lin was now more looking forward to what Dumbledore was going to do, or how Umbridge was going to get Dumbledore out?

......

December arrived, bringing with it more snow and a pile of homework big enough to crash fifth grade.

With Christmas approaching, Ron and Hermione's prefect responsibilities are even more onerous, in fact, the president of the student council of Van Lin is really enough to be idle, which is also the instruction of Umbridge, it seems that she directly skipped the link of Van Lin, anyway, there is also a female student council president.

When Ron and Hermione were called in to oversee the decoration of the castle, Van Lin showed his face and put the work out, which was what Umbridge wanted to see, it was like a power struggle, but it didn't seem appropriate to put a set of the Ministry of Magic at Hogwarts.

Instead of tending to the first and second graders who had to spend their free time indoors due to the painful cold, Ron and Fraser took turns patrolling the corridors, and Fraser suspected that the holiday atmosphere would be represented by a wizard's duel.

In Ron's words, this prefect's head is literally full of poop......

Okay, that's insulting, but one day fantasizing about a wizard duel, maybe something really went wrong with my brain.

They were so busy that Hermione had even stopped knitting elven hats, and she was annoyed because she only had the last three left.

"All the poor elves who have not yet been liberated by me must stay here for Christmas, for there are not enough hats!"

Without the guts to tell Hermione that Dobby had secretly taken everything she had made up, Harry bent even lower to his history of magic.

Anyway, he didn't want to think about Christmas.

For the first time in Harry's school life, he was very much tempted to spend his holidays away from Hogwarts. In the midst of his Quidditch ban and his worries about whether Hagrid would be fired, he was very unhappy with the place at the moment.

The only thing he looked forward to was the DA meeting, and like Van Lin, he devoted most of his energy to the DA meeting because of his free time.

But very badly, they have to stop practicing during the holidays, and almost everyone in the DA will be on vacation with their family.

Hermione was going skiing with her parents, and Mrs. Granger had extended an invitation to Verlin, in fact, it was a sport that Ron found ridiculous, he had never heard of Muggles sliding down a mountain with narrow strips tied to their feet.

A broken arm and leg seemed to Ron nothing short of clear, and neither Harry nor Verlin had lost the idea of explaining it to Ron.

Ron is now planning to go home. Harry held back a few days of envy before Ron told Harry, and when Harry asked Ron how he was going to get home for Christmas, Ron replied, "But you're here too! Didn't I say? A few weeks ago, Mom wrote to me to tell me to invite you!"

It was almost a sure thing, in fact, there was no doubt that Harry was going to Sirius for Christmas, but Harry had never been, and besides, the Weasleys had almost all lived in Sirius's house, which made it easier for the Order of the Phoenix to operate.

But Harry's emotions were stirring: the idea of spending Christmas in Sirius was really pleasant, but he felt a little sorry that Sirius hadn't been told in person.

He wondered if he could convince Mrs. Weasley to allow Sirius to contact him a little more, even if he doubted that Dumbledore would allow Sirius to do so, which was too dangerous, to be watched by Umbridge?

Sirius hadn't contacted Harry since his last appearance in the fire, and although Harry knew that it would be imprudent to try to contact him due to Umbridge's constant surveillance, he didn't want Sirius to be alone in his mother's old house, even with Kreacher's company, but no one would find it a pleasant thing to do.

Contacting him was exactly what Umbridge was looking forward to.

In fact, this is what Van Lin told him, and it can be said that the two of them are the focus of observation, especially when there is such a thing as secret contact, which Umbridge would definitely characterize as a rebellion.

Although it was not a fatal thing, it was not what Harry wanted to see when it caused trouble for Dumbledore, and as time went on, Harry became more and more reluctant to get involved with Dumbledore.

But Van Lin is very strange about Voldemort's calm, as if there is nothing but Umbridge now, Voldemort, vampires, and the historical legacy that Van Lin has always had a headache with?

Anyway, it's a little weird to be quiet, including Dumbledore, and Van Lin hasn't received a message from the Order of the Phoenix for a long time, useful information.

......

In fact, Harry arrived at the Room of Requirement early for the last DA meeting before the holiday, and was glad he did, because when the torches were lit, he saw that Dobby was already decorating for Christmas.

He could tell the elves had done this, because no one else hung a string of hundreds of golden trinkets on the ceiling, each with a picture of Harry's face and a slogan, Have a very happy Christmas!

Before the door opened with the sound of a tumbling and Luna walked in like a dream as usual, Harry was only coping with taking down the last signs.

"Hello," she said vaguely, looking around for the rest of the ornaments.

"These are beautiful, did you hang them up?"

"No," said Harry, "it was Dobby, the house-elf."

"Parasitism," Luna said dreamily, pointing to the large bunch of white oars that had almost been placed on Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.

"Very good idea," Luna said very seriously. "Elves often live on it. ”

Harry was still busy cleaning up, as it was a bit of a shame, but Harry found that after Van Lin came in, the photos had magically transformed into Van Lin's pictures.

This was Dobby's preparation, though, only for the two of them, one master, one of the most admired.

But it's a bit ...... to put it in front of so many people

The arrival of Angelina, Attila and Aliyah frees Harry from asking what the elves need. All three of them were out of breath and looked very cold.

"Uh," Angelina said sullenly, taking off her cloak and throwing it into a corner, "we've replaced you." ”

"Replaced me?" Harry said blankly.

"You and Fred and George," she said impatiently. "We've got another Hunter!"

"Who?" Harry said quickly.

"Ginny Weasley," Van Lin said without hesitation, and then he placed his clothes on the stool beside him.

Harry opened his mouth wide and looked at Van Lin dumbfounded, in fact, Ginny was excellent, but Harry never thought that he would be replaced one day.

"Yes, I know," Angelina said, pulling out her wand and moving her arm, "but she's actually pretty good. Of course, not above you," Angelina said, throwing him a complaining look, "but when we can't have you......"

Harry pressed back the retort he was so eager to make: had she ever thought that even for a second, he would regret being expelled from the team a hundred times more than she would regret it?

"What about the others?" He asked, trying to keep his voice calm.

"The same old age," Liia said without interest, "compared to Fred and George." None of them are outstanding, but they are ...... compared to the idiots that appear on other teams."

The arrival of Ron, Hermione, and Ginny ended the dreary discussion.

In fact, Angelina is like a dynamite on this issue, and there are only four people left in a team......

"All right," Van Rim said in a loud voice, quieting everyone down. "Tonight I think we should just repeat the mantra we've learned so far, because it's the last meeting before the holidays, and there's no point in learning anything new before the three-week break-"

"We don't learn new things?" Zamas said, whispering unhappily, loud enough to cross the room.

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have come......"

"Well, we're all sad that Van Lin didn't tell you. Fred scoffed loudly. Some snickered.

Harry saw Cho's smile and felt the familiar sensation of a sudden drop in his stomach, as if he had missed a step as he descended the stairs.

"- We practice in pairs," Van Lin said. "We're going to practice the Disarming Charm first, and after ten minutes, we can take out the mat and try the Levitation Charm again. ”

All obey and divide into pairs.

As usual, Harry was teamed up with Neville. The room was soon filled with intermittent shouts of "Remove your weapons!" As people stood still for a minute or so, their buddies would watch the other groups around the room aimlessly as they practiced, and then they would come back to their senses and take turns casting spells in turn.

In fact, Neville has progressed beyond anyone's imagination. After a while, when Harry had undone the spell on him three times in a row, he asked Neville to join Van Lin and Hermione's group once more so that he could walk around the room and see how the others were doing.

In fact, it was the liberation of two people at the same time, and Van Lin and Harry continued to patrol as usual.

And as Harry passed by the autumn, she smiled at him; Time and time again, Harry resisted the temptation to walk in front of her.

After another ten minutes of going up, they placed the mat on the floor and began to practice the levitation spell again. Because of the space constraints, it was impossible for all of them to practice together, half of them watched the other half practice for a while, and then exchanged exercises.

Van Lin looked at them all, feeling his pride swell.

It's true that Neville did make Angelina faint instead of his target, Colin, but it was already closer to success than usual, and everyone else showed great improvement.

This was a good start, a prototype of the protective power of the Hogwarts students, and most of them had basically lived up to Van Lin's expectations and were able to successfully cast spells instead of their previous ......

Flip your wand indiscriminately?

Towards the end of an hour, Van Lin made a stop.

"You're getting better and better now," he said, smiling happily at them. "When we come back from the holidays, we can start doing something big – maybe even a Patronus charm or something. ”

There was a whisper of excitement in the room. People began to leave the room in twos and threes; Most people left wishing Vanlin and Harry "Merry Christmas". Feeling happy, Harry, several people gathered the mats together and piled them up neatly.

Ron and Neville left together, while Hermione and Van Lin didn't bother, leaving before Harry, after all, no one was blind.

Harry hesitated a little, as Autumn was still there, and Harry wanted to receive her "Merry Christmas" wishes.

"No, you go first," he heard her say to her friend Merita, and Harry's heart pounded as if it was about to jump out of his throat. He pretended to straighten the pile of mats. He was fairly sure that there were only the two of them left, and he waited for her to speak.

Instead, he heard a heavy inhalation.