"Come and have a look!"

Fred leaned in front of the bedroom window and shouted at Scott and Roger.

Scott and Roger walked up to him and looked out through the closed glass window.

Beauxbatons' ornate architecture has been completely transformed, and now it resembles a crystal clear ice castle.

On the huge fountain square in front of the castle, there are countless ice sculptures of different shapes, large and small, and even the statue of the Lemay couple in the center of the fountain is dressed in ice and snow.

Looking at the snowflakes falling like feathers from a distance, everything in front of you is full of a dreamlike atmosphere.

"Wow."

Roger and Scott let out an exclamation at the same time.

"Beauxbatons is a big deal." "The French love to exaggerate everything," Roger said. ”

Then you haven't seen Madame Maxim's dreamy girlish office in the hanging garden.

Scott snorted.

"Quick, change your clothes, let's go have a look."

Fred turned and ran back to the bed and began to change clothes.

Scott went to the bathroom first, then changed out of his pajamas, put on a thick cloak, and went to the first-floor hall with his two roommates.

Everyone was enjoying breakfast at this time.

"Merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas!"

After greeting each other, the three of them sat down and began to eat.

"You've all seen it!" Angelina said, "Beauxbatons Christmas dress-up! ”

Fred took a sip of the hot soup and nodded in response, "See, they're really not too troublesome." ”

"I said, don't you have any ideas?" Angelina looked at everyone present.

Fred looked up, "What thoughts?" Should we envy them? ”

"That's not what I meant!" Angelina glanced at him unhappily.

Caccini turned to her and asked, "You want to decorate our tower?" ”

"That's right." Angelina took Caccini's hand and looked at Fred, "It seems that Caccini and I have a better understanding!" ”

Fred blinked, "Decorating the tower, what's the point?" ”

"To show off our Hogwarts style, of course, and not to be compared to those hateful French." Angelina said rightly.

Her statement was immediately echoed by some people, especially the girls.

In short, ever since Scott's game points were deducted, everyone at Hogwarts has had an opinion about the French.

"But this tower is only a part of our Hogwarts." Fred gestured a small distance with his thumb and forefinger, "A small part." ”

"So what, we can't afford to lose!" Caccini said.

Angelina glared at Fred, "Or do you not want to support my proposal?" ”

"Nope." Fred's face changed instantly, "You've got a great idea, Angelina!" The Christmas Ball doesn't start until the evening, and we just have nothing to do! ”

The boys in the audience all looked at him with blank expressions.

But the cheeky Fred didn't care, but changed his face to a bad beating, "What's the matter, am I not right?" Get moving, boys, it's the girls' wish! ”

Although the boys all seem to beat Fred hard, they are also defeated by the pleading eyes of the girls.

In a word......

After breakfast, the work of "decorating the best tower and defeating the hateful Frenchman" began.

"Very well, let's all do it." Angelina said with some excitement.

Then the girls gathered together and chattered about how to decorate the tower more ornately.

And the boys looked at each other, not knowing for a moment what to do.

Scott, who couldn't stand it, stood up, "Okay, before we do it, we must make a plan that everyone is satisfied with, and after the plan is determined, we will assign tasks to each of you." ”

As everyone looked at him, Scott drew his wand and waved it lightly, chanting a spell that turned the empty table into a one-man tower.

Of course, the exterior is exactly the same as the tower they live in.

"Let's experiment with the decoration scheme on this model first, and then let's get into action when it's decided." He said.

"Oh Scott, that's a good idea!"

The girls got excited and began to circle around the model of the tower.

Soon, several people who were good at transfiguration were singled out, and various ornaments were conjured from the picked up branches.

Others negotiated decoration schemes with each other to make the tower stunning to all the French.

On a whim, Scott came up with some interesting ideas while using Transfiguration to create ornaments.

Time passed quickly, and they kept overturning and starting over, and finally after two hours, the model of the tower was decorated to everyone's satisfaction, and the final plan was finalized.

"Great!"

"They're going to be amazed!"

"Jaw dropped!"

Looking at their results, the girls were very excited.

"Alright, let's start assigning tasks." Scott clapped his hands.

"No, I think there's still a big problem." Ethan pointed to the ornate model of the tower, "These ornaments, where are we going to find the real thing?" ”

In an instant, everyone became calm.

Ethan said, "Hmm...... Even if it's made with Transfiguration, we need materials of about the same size, so are we going to cut down trees? ”

"Scott can cast spells on Transfiguration products!" Fred raised his hand, "A Dilation Charm will solve this puzzle!" ”

Everyone looked at Scott.

Scott suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, Angelina happily said, "Really, it seems that we don't need to assign tasks, as long as Scott enlarges all the decorations on the model!" ”

Scott was about to speak, but the crowd interrupted him.

"Great!"

"Let's do it, Scott!"

"The hardest task is up to you!"

"You're our warrior!"

"Of course...... No problem. Scott laughed, "But you're not doing nothing." ”

He waved his wand to make the model float and walked out of the tower.

"First of all, the students of the Quidditch teams of the various houses, I will leave the work of installing the decorations to you."

"We didn't bring broomsticks!" Fred exclaimed.

"It's okay."

Scott stands in front of the tower, places the model in the snow, and waves his wand again.

"A flock of birds!"

"Gaga...... Quack ......"

A flock of crows was summoned by him and chirped cheerfully.

"Grow faster!"

"Grow faster!"

……

Scott used several expansion charms in quick succession, making several crows huge, and then pointed at them and said, "This is your flying mount!" ”

"Oh! Cruel! Fred's eyes lit up and he was eager to try.

"I haven't tried riding a raven yet." Roger was also intrigued.

"No, I'm definitely not going to fly around on a crow!" Angelina loudly refused.

Scott shrugged his shoulders, "Of course, how you assign tasks is your business. ”

He turned around and used a moving charm to remove all the ornaments from the tower model and put them in order.

"Okay, you'll have to pick up these things and fly them to the right place so I can get them to the right size."

Several of the boys picked up the ornaments and climbed onto the crow's back.

As the only female Quidditch player, Angelina was let go by them.

Scott said to the pilots, "These crows are trained to understand simple commands like up, down, left, right, and so on, and so on, so let's take off!" ”

"Quack...... Ga ......"

The crows chirped excitedly and soon flew up.

"Oh roar!"

"Cool!"

The "pilots" also let out shouts of excitement.

Soon, they all flew to the corresponding positions.

"What's next?"

Fred shouted in the air.

"Wait."

Scott instantly transforms into a peregrine falcon and soars into the sky, returning to his human form when he reaches the top of the tower, next to Fred.

At the same time, his cloak fluttered, allowing him to float in the air for a short period of time.

"Oh Scott, you're such a slippery little head." Fred said dissatisfiedly, "I only care about being handsome." ”

"Less nonsense!"

With a wave of his wand, Scott cast an expansion charm on the golden star in Fred's hand.

"Wait!" Fred yelled, "I'm going to put it on top of the tower!" Damn it! How do I fix it! ”

Scott waved his wand again and used a permanent paste charm.

"Oh...... Permanent Paste Spell? Fred blinked, "How do you take it off then?" ”

"Maybe," Scott said...... Using all spells is the end of it? ”

"Okay, no matter."

Fred waved at Dumbledore, who was standing in the room at the top of the tower.

Dumbledore pushed open the window and said to them cheerfully, "Oh, do a good job, boys. ”

"Roger, Professor Dumbledore!"

Fred gave a strange salute.

Scott transforms into a peregrine falcon again, flies to Cedric's location, and transforms back into human form.

"I'm thinking about a problem."

Cedric said to Scott.

"What?" Scott asked.

"You don't need us at all, you can still use movement charms on them." Cedric said.

"Shh Scott made a silent gesture and laughed, "That's fun, isn't it?" ”

"Hmm...... You're right. Cedric thought for a moment and laughed.

Scott winked at him, and once again turned into a peregrine falcon and flew to the other side.

After more than an hour of busyness, they finally finished the general work.

Of course, the part of the first floor of the tower was done by other students other than the "pilots".

When the work was done, Scott turned the crows back to their original size, and everyone ran to the edge of the meadow to see from afar the success of their labor.

But they quickly gave a more subtle assessment of their work.

"Hmmm......"

"I don't know why ......"

"It looks like a giant Christmas tree."

Isn't the pointed tower with all its decorations like a giant Christmas tree?

Scott had expected this.

But he thought it was funny, so he didn't say anything just now.

"Why didn't you think it when you looked at the model just now?" Angelina's tone was full of confusion.

"There's nothing wrong with a Christmas tree." Fred hurriedly said, "At least, it's bigger than all the Christmas trees in Beauxbatons!" ”

Angelina added, "Oh, maybe we need to install some little sparkling lights so that the evening will look good." ”

Hearing her advice, the girls' eyes lit up again.

Scott immediately spoke, "I can leave the work of making small lanterns to Fred, he is the best at making interesting knick-knacks." ”

"That's right!"

"Over to you, Fred!"

"That's what you do best!"

"It's just a magic lamp, it shouldn't be difficult for you!"

The boys quickly echoed Scott's words and entrusted Fred with the glorious and difficult task.

"You can't worry about the installation either."

Scott pulls his broomstick from the shapeshifting lizard's leather pouch and hands it to Fred.

"I'll lend you my broomstick!"

Fred looked at Scott in disbelief.

"Good!"

Seeing that Fred didn't move, Angelina reached out to take Scott's broomstick and patted Fred on the back hard.

"Quick! Fast! Get moving, Fred! ”

"No, you're mistaken." Fred frowned and said, "It's George ...... who makes gadgets."

"Less wordy!"

Angelina glared at him again.

Fred also wanted to drag Scott into the water, "Scott ......"

But the moment he looked into his eyes, Scott immediately turned around.

"Let's go! Let's go to the lake and get some ice and make some ice sculptures too! ”

With that, he turned and walked away.

"Great idea!"

The other boys were all hula and all following him.

At this moment, Scott seemed to hear Fred's heartbreak.

But he didn't look back, but took a big step and walked away mercilessly.

A group of people ran to the lake and couldn't help but laugh, causing the Durmstrang students in the ghost ship to poke their heads out of the cabin.

Scott smiled and said, "It's true that it's not difficult to make magic lamps, but think about it, how many magic lamps does Fred need to make if he wants to decorate the entire tower?" ”

"Obviously, there are countless answers, and we can't use the Copy Charm on the magic lamp." Cedric shook his head.

Roger said, "Oh poor Fred, I'm afraid he won't be able to attend tonight's Ball!" ”

It's easy to figure it out, but girls are sometimes reluctant to be reasonable.

In short, before Angelina really realizes the reality, poor Fred can only work hard.

"Look at these ice ......"

Scott took a few steps forward and tried to cast a cutting spell on the ice.

Unfortunately, his cutting spell failed to break the thick ice, leaving only a few deep white marks on the ice.

"Broken bones!"

Roger uses a more destructive crushing charm.

The ice that had been destroyed by Scott exploded in an instant, turning into flying debris, and everyone hurriedly cursed and dodged.

"Doesn't seem to work?"

Roger smiled and put away his wand.

"I'll try again."

Scott once again transforms into a peregrine falcon and flies to the center of the lake, then transforms back into his human form in the air.

Temporarily floating in the air with the help of his cloak, he drew his wand and waved it downward.

"Thunderbolt Explosion!"

At the moment of the spell, he flew higher in the form of a peregrine falcon.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang below.

Click, click......

Cracks in the ice began to spread.

When all the movement stopped, Scott landed on the unspoiled part of the ice and waved at the crowd on the shore.

His classmates soon ran over.

Scott pointed to the largest piece of the split ice, "Let's use the Movement Charm together and bring it back." ”

The crowd pulled out their wands and cast spells on the ice.

Under the combined effect of the spell of the crowd, a huge block of ice slowly rose and floated in the air.

"Let's go, let's take it back first!"

Scott commanded the group and brought the massive block of ice to the tower.

The girls all ran out of the tower, and of course, Fred ran faster than everyone else.

"Oh my god, that's a big piece of ice!" His expression was very pompous, "Do you need my help?" ”

No one paid attention to him.

Cedric patted Scott on the shoulder, "I think it's going to be your performance next." ”

Hearing his words, everyone else took a few steps back and handed the field to Scott.

Scott didn't shirk either, he thought about it, and the idea quickly came to his mind.

He stepped forward with the spell in his hand, reciting the spell slowly in his mouth, waving his wand firmly, and finally pressing the tip of the wand directly against the ice.

Soon, the ice, which had been very hard, softened and flowed like soft mud.

At the same time, strings of ancient magic texts, centered on the tip of Scott's wand, began to spread across the surface of the ice.

The flowing ice was elongated and then moved, winding upwards around the tower's surface and then quickly shaped into shapes out of thin air.

When the ice hardened again, Scott's transformation magic came to an end.

The ice cube was transformed into four crystal clear animals by him.

At the top of the tower is a vigorous eagle, the eagle claws grasp the top of the tower, its wings spread, and it is about to fly.

The body of the tower is a sinuous snake, the body of the long snake is wrapped around the body of the tower, and the huge mouth is open, like a hunt.

On the side of the tower is a majestic lion, the male lion is lying on one side of the tower on all fours, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and his expression is lazy.

In front of the tower is a cute badger, the honey badger's forelimbs are on the steps of the gate, looking back, alert and smart.

Although the bodies of the four huge animals are made of ice, they are full of detail and lifelike.

Scott looked at his work, estimated his remaining magic again, and was satisfied.

If he had performed such a large-scale transformation before drinking the magic potion, he would have had little magic left, but now he was at ease, and he could even cast it once.

Everyone looked up for a while before commenting.

"Well done, Scott."

"I have to say, the tower is much better looking now than it was just now."

"Excellent! Majestic and beautiful! ”

They soon quarreled with each other again.

"I like that eagle the most."

"No, it's still the snake that is more majestic."

"If you want me to say, the lion is the most powerful!"

Cedric didn't fight for the prestige of the badger representing Hufflepuff, but asked Scott curiously, "I noticed that you also engraved the magic circuit at the same time, does it do anything?" ”

"Nothing else." Scott laughed and said, "It's just going to glow." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the four crystal clear animals all emitted different colors of light in their bodies.

Against the backdrop of these lights, the ice sculpture suddenly becomes brilliant and gorgeous.

"Wow......"

Seeing such a change, everyone let out an exclamation in unison.

Scott nodded in satisfaction, "It's daytime, so it's not too obvious, and it should look better at night." ”

"Great!" Fred cheered loudly, "I don't have to do those goddamn magic lamps anymore!" ”

He looked overjoyed.

But at the same time, he also ushered in Angelina's "death sight".

"Tell me, Fred." Angelina said, "What do you mean by 'those damn magic lamps'?" ”

Fred immediately changed his tune, "Oh, you heard me wrong, Angelina. I'm talking about 'those pretty magic lights'. ”

"You're too perfunctory, aren't you?" Angelina hammered him, "My ears are not deaf!" 'Damn' and 'pretty' don't sound like each other at all! ”

Fred hurriedly dodged her iron fist.

"It's my mouth fetish, I generally like to use 'damn' instead of 'pretty' to be cool!"

"How did I not know you had such a mouth fetish!"

"You didn't notice."

"yes, then you think I'm pretty? Come and praise me with 'damn it'! ”

"Oh Angelina, you're so damn pretty today!"

"You...... Forget it, well, I'll let you go for now. ”

Angelina was satisfied, and Fred escaped.

This made Scott, who was onlookers, very regretful.

What they were expecting was obviously a one-sided beating, why did it suddenly turn into flirting?

Is this reasonable?

The exaggerated shape of Hogwarts' towers quickly attracted onlookers.

Both Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students were amazed by their results.

Scott also heard several of Durmstrang's students offer to decorate their ghost ship as well, but most of Durmstrong's students rejected their offer.

Scott felt that their decision was clearly wise.

The shape of that ship is weird, and the temperament is underworld, no matter how much it is decorated, it probably won't help.

It doesn't fit in with the Christmas spirit, but it blends perfectly into the Halloween festive spirit without any decorations.

The Christmas Ball on this day starts at seven o'clock in the evening.

After dinner, everyone in the Hogwarts tower was busy taking care of their personal appearance.

Several girls were gathered in the common room, they were all busy with their skin, applying each other's makeup, and taking care of their hair with a magic potion of the Protector, and bursting into a cheerful laugh from time to time.

Scott and the others also returned to the dormitory, trying to make their hair look more handsome, and then changed into their respective dresses.

Scott cast a drying spell and used his wand as a hair dryer to blow his slightly curly hair a little neater.

After getting his hair done, he sprayed on the styling potion again.

The styling potion was prepared by Roger, and ended up being used up by Scott and Fred for more than half of it.

After that, Scott finds out the dress that is ready.

His gown had been custom-made before coming to Beauxbatons, at the Wizarding Costume Store in Hogwarts Village.

The first is a well-fitting trousers, a white shirt with a black tie, and a black vest.

Then a dark blue satin robe.

The satin of the robe is embroidered with silver patterns that are usually inconspicuous but sparkle in the light, fitting the atmosphere of the ball.

Scott put on his robes, straightened them in front of the mirror, and finally pinned a Hogwarts badge to the placket of his chest.

"Are you all dressed?"

He looked back at the other two.

Roger and Fred's gowns were also newly bought.

Roger was dressed in a quiet black, while Fred was dressed in a dazzling red.

"You're not exaggerating?" Roger said to Fred, "Your robes and hair have come together, oh, and the red freckles on your face, and it's a disaster." ”

Fred himself was satisfied.

He straightened his tie in the mirror, lifted his chin and said, "This is exactly what I wanted, I inquired, and the dress that Angelina prepared was also red." ”

Roger disagreed, saying, "I think your red hair is good enough to match her red dress, and you should wear a black dress to flatter her skin, which is obviously more ingenious." ”

"No!" Fred didn't accept his opinion, "I just want to shine so that everyone can see at a glance that Angelina and I are a couple!" ”

"If that's the case, you're going to be successful." Roger looked away.

After the three of them took care of it, they were about to leave the dormitory when the [Magic Mirror] that Scott had placed on the table suddenly lit up.

Fred walked over to connect to the communication, and George's face appeared in the mirror.

"Oh my God." George stared at his twin brother with wide eyes, "Fred, you're like a red roaring letter!" ”

"That's right, I just want to attract the attention of the audience like a roaring letter!" Fred's self-confidence is undiminished.

George nodded, "Obviously, when you put this on, it doesn't take much effort to do that. ”

"Thank you for the compliment, George." Fred said, "But I don't have time to say more to you, we're going to the prom." ”

"Go ahead, remember to bring [the magic mirror]." "We're all curious about what you're going to be like at the Ball," George said. ”

"No, I don't have time for anything like that today." Fred refused.

George immediately said, "Then we should talk about the fact that you have embezzled the common funds of our store to buy this red roaring letter skin." ”

"I'm not going to care about that." Fred waved his hand, "It's Christmas, I'm going to the prom with the girl I like, and no one wants me to be stupid enough to hold up a mirror and broadcast it to you!" ”

With that, he hung up the newsletter directly.

"Let's go, it's time for us to get out."

He said to Scott and Roger.

Scott turned his head to look at the [Magic Mirror] on the table.

"Leave it alone." Fred nudged him back, "At most, when the ball is over, we'll show them the tower we decorate, oh, if they haven't slept by then." ”

It's really inconvenient to "live" today, so Scott didn't say anything.

The three of them walked out of the dormitory and returned to the common room.

By this time, the boys had already taken care of themselves and sat down on the couch, but the girls had not yet appeared.

"Do we need to wait here?" Roger asked, "Except for the guy whose dance partner is his own, can we go first, after all, we can't let the girl wait there." ”

"Oh Roger, can't you wait to meet your Katrin?"

Dressed in a long white dress, Caccini descended the stairs.

She didn't listen to Roger and put on the wig, but after putting on makeup and jewelry, although her hair was short, she no longer looked like a boy.

"Oh Caccini, thank goodness." Roger glanced at her, "I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief for Krum when I saw you, he finally won't be suspected of sexual orientation." ”

Caccini glared at him, "It's not convenient for me to lecture you now, but I'll remember." ”

Just then, Dumbledore came down from the upper floor.

"Are you all ready?" He asked aloud.

"Ready!"

The girls hurriedly ran out of the dormitory, each of them dressed up beautifully.

"Very well, then let's go together."

Dumbledore headed downstairs again.

"Good evening, Angelina."

Fred took the initiative to walk up to Angelina, who was dressed in red.

"Oh...... You ......"

Angelina looked at Fred in amazement.

Fred straightened his chest and asked her with a smile, "How's it going, does it match your outfit?" ”

"Yes......"

Angelina covered her mouth and laughed.

"Alright, now the howling letter is two." Roger muttered next to Scott.

As they walked out of the tower, they couldn't help but stop and admire their work in the night.

At this time, the four animals representing the four major houses of Hogwarts were all shining brightly, which was very bright.

"Oh Scott, you should be at Hogwarts like this." Dumbledore said with a smile.

When they arrived at the square in front of Beauxbatons Castle, they noticed that the ice sculptures here were of a different style up close.

It seems to have become a forest carved of snow, full of magical animals of different shapes, and of course, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants.

Walking into this snow forest, they were like walking into a pure white world, all they saw were pure white colors, and the ground was rising with a hazy white mist, and there were fine stars twinkling in the fog.

Walking through the forest, they walked into the castle covered in ice.

Beauxbatons' huge ballroom has once again changed its style.

Snow and ice are flying, Christmas trees are lined up with diamond-like ice sculptures, starlight adorns the dance floor, and mistletoe, ivy and golden bells hang everywhere...... All of this makes for a dreamy and beautiful picture.

Accompanied by upbeat music, students from all three schools slowly walked into the banquet hall in gorgeous dresses.

At this moment, Madame Maxime, also dressed in fine clothes, walked to the edge of the dance floor.

"Warriors, please bring your dance partners here." Her deep voice rang out.

Scott walked up to her and joined Fleur in a powder blue dress, and soon Krum and Caccini also walked over.

"Please take a seat."

Madame Maxim said to the others.

Everyone sat down.

Dumbledore and the members of the jury stepped up to the front seats.

Madame Maxim clapped her hands and happily announced, "Next, let's invite the choir of the mountain fairies!" ”

The banquet hall immediately burst into applause.

Obviously, the Beauxbatons students looked very happy to hear the news.