Chapter 17: Christmas Eve

November passed quietly, and with a heavy snowfall covering the entire school, Ike's illusion spell finally succeeded.

This was Ike's longest spell to date, and by the time he reached Lv1, Ike finally understood what the Illusion Charm was all about.

Unlike other spells, although the spell is mostly cast on the caster himself, the effect of the spell is on anyone other than the caster, and when others look at the person or object who has cast the spell, they cannot see it, but they are actually disturbed by the magic of the spell.

In other words, the spell will work on both the target and the person looking at it.

The former is no different from other spells, but the latter is difficult, which requires a high level of mana.

Because of the existence of the waste notepad system, although Ike has many spells to the extent of casting spells without a battle and casting spells silently, in fact, it depends on the effect of the spell level in the system, and Ike's own control of magic power is not so strong.

Again, the existence of the system makes Ike's foundation not enough to support his spell level.

If the foundation is not strong and the house is built too high, there will definitely be problems.

"It's hard to be quick for success."

Ike learns his lesson and reopens Standard Spells and Theory of Magic.

Reviewing the old and learning the new, reading the book a hundred times to see its righteousness, in this regard, the wisdom of the ancestors is absolutely correct.

Not to mention, with the help of the "Magic Affinity" talent, Ike can clearly feel that the control of the magic in his body is constantly strengthening.

As Professor McGonagall did in Santa Maria in front of her first meeting, it wasn't the spell that made the pen fly in mid-air, but Ike's own magic.

Now, Ike just picked it up again and kept practicing.

By the time it was shortly before Christmas, Ike was able to control nine pens at the same time to fly quickly within two meters of him, and change his trajectory at any time.

It is undoubtedly quite difficult to do this by magic alone.

Unfortunately, Ike can't get the number of controls to reach double digits, which means that nine pens is already the current limit.

In the second week of December, Ike asked Professor Flitwick to take a leave of absence. Ike had already explained this to Julianne through the school's owl. Julianne regrets that Ike can't spend Christmas with her and the children of St. Mary, but she respects Ike's decision. In addition, a brand new sweater was delivered.

This is a tradition of St. Mary, and every Christmas the children in the orphanage receive one, which is donated by a local factory in Gloucester.

As for the style, it can only be said that it is very festive.

Ike was glad that Stuart and Terry had already left school when he received the sweater, and he didn't want to try it.

For the students who stayed on campus, the Christmas holidays were not as relaxing as they imagined.

Professors tend to assign a lot of homework before the holidays, which already take up a large part of the vacation time. In addition, the prefect will also decorate the entire castle, and a young wizard like Ike who has achieved excellent results is undoubtedly a good helper.

Moreover, the students who stayed on campus were in the minority, and it was undoubtedly more convenient for the prefects and professors to take care of them, and the additional patrols due to Filch's strong request were not as easy as they would normally be in class.

Using the Levitation Charm to help Professor Flitwick hang the decorations on the tree, Ike is finally able to relax.

Only three Ravenclaw first-year students remained, Ike, Padma, and Morag.

In the face of Morag and Padma, Ike has no desire to communicate at all, or rather, people don't want to talk to Ike at all.

Half a semester has passed, and Ike has managed to make himself the weirdest one in Ravenclauri, who is the weirdest one in the "weirdos", except for Stewart and Terry, even Michael and Anthony, who rarely talk to Ike, let alone Morag.

Of course, this consequence is more due to Ike, who let him be okay and scare others with "Snape's gaze".

You can't live if you do your own iniquity.

On Christmas Day, when Ike woke up, he received only a pitiful five gifts. Professor McGonagall gave a whole year's Transfiguration Today, and folded up all the articles she thought were worth reading; Professor Flitwick gave him a pair of delicate glasses, which were magically cast and slowly changed color when put on.

Stewart sent a brand new notebook that matched Terry's new quill pen. As for Hermione, it was an old book, "Curses and Anti-Curses", which can only be said to be a very Hermione gift.

Ike put on the Christmas sweater Julianne had sent him, put on a winter robe, and put on his nose the light-changing glasses given by Professor Flitwick, and walked towards the Great Hall.

The Great Hall on Christmas Day is bustling with activity, and the young wizards who stay at the school basically spend the day here. Ike saw Harry and Ron playing wizarding chess at the Gryffindor table, and Padma, the Parvati sisters, and Morag didn't know what they were talking about.

At the professor's long table, Dumbledore was recommending a cockroach pile to Snape, as if he couldn't see that Snape's face had grown long. Even Trelawney, who rarely appears, snorted her glass and enjoyed it.

Ike smiled and declined Roger's invitation, sat down at the edge of the Ravenclaw table, and ate a mango pudding in his hand.

If nothing else, he will continue to eat until the end of the dinner.

Compared to usual, the Christmas dinner was much more sumptuous. In addition to the usual roast beef, steak, mashed potatoes, and roast chicken, there are also a hundred fat roast turkeys. Judging from the color alone, it is undoubtedly tempting.

Unfortunately, Ike has never been interested in turkey as a food, and it tastes really bad.

In the midst of the noisy crowd, Ike had a very comfortable Christmas. Walking to the dormitory with a full burp, at least I felt satisfied.

The common room is very lively, like a party. Roger constantly distributes his specially prepared magic fireworks to others, the fireworks purchased from Jokowi's magic joke shop, which conjure up all kinds of animals and put all kinds of hats on people. Roger wandered around the lounge in a certain gorgeous top hat, and behind the hat there was a four-legged magic fight, which was very funny.

Smiled and took the fireworks handed by Roger, turned it on and released colorful sparks, and then a lazy Ying short stretched his waist, and then lay on Ike's head, which matched Roger's fireworks bucket very well.

Seeing Roger run to the side to deliver fireworks to others, Ike quietly returned to the dormitory. Lying on the bed, I picked up the copy of "Curses and Anti-Curses" that Hermione had given, and started the time boringly.

When the wall clock on the wall pointed to twelve, Ike put down the book, expertly put on the illusion charm and silence, and quietly left the Ravenclaw Tower.

Target: Forbidden Books!