Perhaps Matthew Wakefield will never have the opportunity to get an answer to this question again.

Because after that, whether it was Transfiguration or Defence Against the Dark Arts class, he would never again find a chance to talk to Professor Troka alone.

However, Matthew did not forget Professor Troca's warning.

Since even Professor Troka thinks that Hogwarts is dangerous now.

Naturally, then, Matthew should be more cautious.

For some time afterward, he rarely left the Slytherin common room except for meals and classes, and he avoided walking alone in the castle corridors as much as possible.

Despite the whole of Hogwarts Castle, this time was peaceful.

All things are safe.

......

The weather was getting colder, and the clothes on them were getting more and thicker.

Because December, it's coming.

This winter, it seems to be very cold.

Although the common rooms, classrooms, and auditoriums were warm with vicious bonfires, the glass of the classrooms still crackled in the cold wind. The hallways were also bitterly cold, especially on the way from the basement to the castle, and a white mist would form when they breathed a sigh.

It also gives Matthew Wakefield more reason not to leave the common room.

When they woke up from their sleep one morning in mid-December, they were surprised to find that the castle was covered with almost several feet of snow.

And the surface of the Black Lake is also covered with a layer of hard ice.

Professor Kettleburn would dig a hole in the ice of the Black Lake every morning and evening, and then put some Grey Snake eggshell powder into the lake to prevent the precious fish in the Black Lake from freezing to death during the season.

Naturally, everyone is happy because it means they can have a snowball fight......

Draco Malfoy was punished for trying to sneak a snowball into Harry Evans' collar when Professor Sinista saw the process.

Immediately afterwards, the students, who were happily playing in the snow outside the castle, were all driven back to the castle by Mr. Pringer in a rage, and then they left countless footprints at the gate.

Mr. Tang sat by the oak gate with a languid face, and he didn't seem to have much intention to stop the students who violated the school rules.

Since the Ronald Weasley attack, the previously energetic golden retriever has become decadent...... Even if Mr. Pringer had commissioned Professor Slughorn to make a potion or two, it didn't seem to work.

In each of the first graders' classes, the teacher assigned a lot of homework...... One of the most numerous courses was undoubtedly Professor Rozier's Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

Yes, Professor Rozier is back in school, and her body is all recovered, just a week before the Christmas break.

Of course, everyone was disappointed with the news. There is no doubt that they all prefer that Professor Rozier's illness recover "a week late".

And Matthew also noticed that just a few days before Professor Rozier's return, President Grindelwald, who used to appear on the guest of honor every day, also disappeared again...... This further validates Hermione Granger's original point.

But all this can't stop everyone, eager for a holiday.

That's right, the semester is coming to an end and the Christmas holidays are just around the corner.

......

There is also bad news, though.

That is, with the advent of the Christmas holidays, the number of remaining students at Hogwarts began to decrease and decrease.

Even in the wizarding world, Christmas is the most important holiday of the year, although they celebrate it for a different purpose than Muggles (why wizards celebrate Christmas, I explained in detail in chapter 30 of my last book, "The Legend of Harry Potter: The Scholar", interested readers can check it out).

However, they are still very concerned about family reunion on this holiday.

And due to the impact of previous attacks, there is still a bit of panic at Hogwarts.

The students were almost scrambling to book seats on the Hogwarts Express, hoping to go home for the holidays.

And Matthew, young wizards from Muggle families, were in a state of homelessness.

So, they had to stay at Hogwarts, which was getting deserted more and more.

This is especially true at Slytherin House. Because of Slytherin's admissions standards, there are very few students from Muggle families here.

And during the Christmas holidays, it's almost the same as that there won't be a few students left here.

......

On the first day of the Christmas break, when Matthew left his dorm room (Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Noether had all gone home) and went to the Slytherin common room again—

Unexpectedly, there were only three students left in the huge college, and now there were only three students left.

One of them, a seventh-grade girl, was reading a book by the fireplace in preparation for the N.E.W.TS exam in a few months.

The other is Agnes Lestrange, who is in the same grade as Matthew.

"Why did you stay?" Matthew found her with some curiosity and asked, "Why don't you go back and reunite with your family?"

Lestrange looked up, a look of disgust on her face.

"I don't have any family!" she said coldly, before leaving the common room.

But before she walked out the door, she turned around and reminded, "You'd better look at the bulletin board!"

......

"Bulletin board?" Matthew came to the bulletin board in surprise.

In addition to the new password written on it during the Christmas holidays, there is also a notice.

The content of this notice is to inform everyone that during the Christmas holidays, the passage between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade Village will always be open, and the students will be able to enter and leave freely.

Hogsmeade is said to be the only village in England that is full of wizards and Muggles, and is also a famous place in the wizarding world.

"What does this have to do with me. Matthew spread his hands and said to himself, "Isn't Hogsmeade only for students from the third grade and above?"

Wrong...... Just as Matthew was about to turn away, he suddenly realized something.

He hurriedly lowered his head and read the notice again from beginning to end.

In the entire notice, there is not a single mention of the free entry and exit of students from the third grade and above.

"That's not bad!" Matthew grinned.

At the same time, he also touched his pocket, which contained dozens of gold coins.

These Galleons were also given to him by Draco Malfoy when he left school.