Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 1044: Ice Christmas
“Goodbye!”
“Aren’t you really going to take the train with us?”
“I have a more convenient way.”
“Well, it’s really like what you would do, keep in touch at any time.” Lee Jordan dragged his suitcase towards the carriage, preparing to take a Thestral carriage to the train station with a few acquaintances.
“We don’t leave school by train?”
After seeing off several of her friends, Katrina followed Albert into the castle.
Now, most of the students have gone to the train station in carriages, and the originally lively castle has become dead silent.
“No, Dobby will send us away.”
Albert took Katrina to the appointed empty classroom, where Dobby the house elf was already waiting for their arrival.
Katrina guessed what was going on when she saw the familiar suitcase, she looked at Albert sideways, and asked puzzledly: “You seem to like to let the house elves take Apparation ?”
“Because it is safer, house-elves can Apparate to areas that wizards cannot Apparate, such as an area that has been banned from Apparating, which means that other wizards cannot track their tracks.” Albert Walking into the suitcase, he explained to Katrina, “Also, even the Ministry of Magic will not pay attention to the traces of a house-elf. They, not wizards, always look down on these hardworking little guys.”
“Just say you’re afraid of death!” Katrina could understand, she just wasn’t used to Albert’s excessive vigilance.
“Yes, I really don’t want to die very much.” Albert said solemnly, leaving Katrina next to him speechless.
The two waited at the entrance, as the trip was shorter than expected, and the house-elf moved through several areas that had been banned from Apparating.
Then, arrive at their temporary new home: Nicole Flamay’s safe house in Devon.
The lives of the two old people were about to come to an end, so they gave Albert the safe house they stayed in England.
“This…”
Katrina looked at the open space ahead, and there was nothing there, so she guessed what was going on, turned her head to look at Albert, and asked tentatively, “Curse of Loyalty?”
“Yes. This is somewhere in Devon, where Nicole Flamel and his wife used to live.” Albert took out a piece of paper and handed it to Katrina.
The latter took the piece of paper, glanced at the content on the piece of paper, and after thinking silently in his heart, he found an old house with a strong French style suddenly appeared in front of him.
“Don’t be dazed, go in!”
After Albert burned the piece of paper, he took the suitcase from Katrina and walked towards the entrance of the house.
Here, the Fidelity Curse has been cast, and the secret keeper is naturally Dumbledore.
In fact, Dumbledore is the secret keeper of the safe house of Nicole Flamel and his wife, which is one of the reasons why he gave the safe house to Albert.
Even if you don’t give it away, only a few acquaintances can get in in the end. This is the bad thing about being protected by the Fidelity Curse. This spell can’t be lifted, it can only be inherited, or completely forgotten by people.
“I heard you don’t want to come here for Christmas?”
Isobel came out of the hall when he heard the door open, stared at Katrina with his hands on his hips, his face was full of my displeasure.
“You know, if you want to get good grades in the final exam, you’d better stay in school and prepare for the exam.” Katrina argued stubbornly.
“Staying here, you can also review, and there are others who can teach you, and don’t you want to spend the Christmas holiday with your mother?” Isobel stared at Katrina: “Or, you don’t want to spend the holiday with us? “
“No, no, I…”
“That’s good, come and help decorate the hall!” Isobel dragged Katrina to the hall, and did not forget to turn around and say to Albert: “Come here too, I can’t do it alone.”
“Here we come.”
“Dobby, help put the suitcase back in the room.”
“Good sir.”
Whether wizards or Muggles like to use a lot of holly, mistletoe and gold and silver ribbons as Christmas decorations, there is a Christmas tree by the fireplace, and Isobel is decorating it with ribbons and ornaments , making it more Christmas-like.
“Are these packages real?”
Katrina is arranging the Christmas presents on the table under the Christmas tree.
“It’s true, Albert receives a bunch of Christmas presents every year, and these are actually relatively few.” Isobel used his magic wand to create many shiny snowflakes, and hung them on the tree.
“What an exaggeration.”
“If you give an exaggerated amount of gifts every year, you will naturally receive a lot of gifts in return.” Isobel helped prepare the Christmas gifts that Albert sent out every year.
“We’re going to spend the Christmas holidays here this year?”
Katrina looked into the fireplace and asked suspiciously: “I’ve been curious about the smell since just now?”
“It should have something to do with the wood that was burned. The wood here is left by Mr. Nico, and some of it will have a special smell when burned.” Albert turned on the record player, played a brisk tune, and began to help Decorate the hall.
“That’s about it.”
The three of them sat and rested in the hall, enjoying the French dessert and black tea brought by the house elves, and Muggle Merry Christmas was playing in the hall.
“Why not let the house elves help with the decorations?” Katrina has been wanting to ask this since just now.
“Find something for you to do, so that you won’t be too idle, and decorating yourself will make you feel more festive.” Isobel said with a smile, swallowing words.
“I already helped decorate the castle when I was in school.” Katrina didn’t want to talk, and tasted the food silently. Compared with the Hogwarts meals, Albert was always particular about food.
She secretly looked at Isobel’s figure, and didn’t find any signs of him gaining weight. On the contrary, she was even more attractive than before, which is incredible.
“What’s wrong?” Isobel raised his head and asked.
“You eat so well at home?”
Katrina ate another piece of freshly baked meat muffin, drank lipstick tea, and lay lazily on the leather sofa.
“Because I insist on exercising every day.” Isobel said proudly.
“It’s really enviable, how is the research on beauty potions?” Katrina asked.
“Have you thought about opening a beauty shop?” Albert asked with a smile.
“No, just ask.”
Katrina is indeed a little confused. She probably won’t be able to work after graduation, because according to Albert, the first two years after graduation coincide with the most dangerous time in the magic world.
“By the way, I recently learned their healing magic from Firenze, maybe you can use it.” Albert took out a notebook from the deformed lizard leather bag and handed it to Isobel.
“Is this a Christmas present?” Isobel took the notebook and asked with a smile and kissed Albert’s cheek.
“Yes.”
“What’s the matter?” Isobel noticed Katrina’s expression and asked puzzledly.
“Firenze is a centaur from the Forbidden Forest, and he is now serving as the new divination professor at Hogwarts.” Katrina looked away from Albert and reminded, “The magic of the centaur must be Unlike us.”
“Their healing magic is more of a combination of herbs and magic.” Albert introduced.
“Wizards can use it too.”
“I tried and it worked.”
“It’s incredible.”
Facts have proved that wizards cannot successfully use healing magic just by using white fresh branches like the centaur, and the success rate of using magic wands is also extremely low. It was successful, and all three tried in turn, and only Mrs. McDougall succeeded in the end.
So, under Isobel’s resentful gaze, Mrs. McDougall took the notebook.
It took Albert a lot of time to comfort his girlfriend that night.
Christmas is here in the blink of an eye.
Albert and Isobel woke up very late. After enjoying a sumptuous Christmas lunch, the McDougal sisters, at the invitation of Albert, built a snowman in the yard and made a room for three I feel like drinking tea in the wind and snow in a human snow house.
They don’t have to worry about Christmas dinner anyway, the house-elves will prepare everything.
In the afternoon, Albert took out the “The Tales of Beedle the Poet” given by Dumbledore and read it with Isobel, discussing the comments Dumbledore left on it, while Katrina went back to her room , probably because he didn’t want to stay and eat dog food.
Mrs. McDougal was very busy at work, and she had to work overtime on Christmas, so she didn’t come back in a hurry until eight o’clock in the evening.
Fortunately, they didn’t bother with roasting the turkey, otherwise it would be harder than a rock when it cooled.
After enjoying the freshly baked international cuisine and drinking a glass of eggnog with a Christmas atmosphere, everyone sat on the sofa in the lobby and chatted. At first, we talked about Albert and Isobel’s wedding. After all, Albert’s family was not in the UK, but after confirming that the wedding of the two had been prepared, Mrs. McDougal looked a little regretful, but also seemed to be happy. She was relieved, because with the list of guests that Albert needed to invite, she alone didn’t know how to deal with it.
Later, the topic was brought to the healing magic of the centaur. The effect of healing trauma is really good, but the wizards don’t really need it, because most wizards can’t use it at all, and the white fresh essence can actually achieve similar effect.
Of course, if you can study it in depth, you may find new discoveries, but the difficulty of using it also limits its upper limit, so Isobel successfully got back the notebook.
“Oh, by the way, your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seems to have encountered some trouble.” Mrs. McGonagall changed the topic and talked about what happened to Hogwarts today: “She seems to have drunk too much alcohol.” Toad’s compound medicine.”
“Compound potion?” Katrina blinked curiously. Of course, she had seen a toad before. She thought it was some kind of transformation curse, but unexpectedly it was caused by compound potion.
“Did you tell her about it?” Albert was not surprised that Mrs. McDougall saw the toad.
“No, Madam Pomfrey said it was a skin disease, I think there may be some reason.” Madam McGregor shook her head and said, “Besides, Umbridge is unwilling to go to St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Injuries and Wounds.” It’s weird in itself to receive more formal treatment here.”
“Well, because Umbridge did too much in school, the teachers and students in the school hated her, and she was retaliated against.” Albert explained with a smile.
“You made someone do it?” Katrina asked suspiciously.
“Harry Potter did it.”
Albert decisively dumped the blame, and it was indeed Harry Potter and his friends who did it.
“It seems that Umbridge has indeed done a lot of bad things.” Isobel raised his eyebrows.
“Yeah, the school’s education order is almost broken.” Katrina complained, and she briefly described the bad things Umbridge has done recently.
“She actually used Veritaserum on the students?” Mrs. McDougal was very surprised by Umbridge’s audacity. Once Veritaserum was used in excess, it may cause irreversible damage to the user. She suddenly understood why Umbridge became like that. No wonder Madam Pomfrey hated her so much. She was really hated for the **** things she did at school.
“It’s actually not that bad.” Albert passed a plate of fried shrimp dumplings among the crowd and said with a smile, “Although Umbridge did make Hogwarts a little bit bad, she also It brought a lot of joy and laughter to everyone.”
“She is almost becoming a laughingstock at school by you now.” Katrina dared to say that those things were definitely related to Albert, “When are you going to drive her away?”
“I’ve never done anything to her, it’s all other people taking revenge on her.” Albert shrugged and changed the subject: “I heard that Arthur Weasley was injured and hospitalized a while ago .”
“Oh, you said Arthur Weasley, he was bitten by a poisonous snake, and his life is not in danger, but we haven’t found an antidote, and we can’t make the wound heal completely.” Mrs. McDougall recalled : “Why are you asking this? He is also your friend?”
“A few days ago, two of my friends were called away in the middle of the night. I think it was because of this.” Albert suddenly said, “Phoenix’s tears are actually the best antidote.”
“That thing is too precious ~IndoMTL.com~ And there is no phoenix in St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries to provide tears.”
Albert took out a small medicine bottle from the deformed lizard skin bag and placed it in front of Mrs. McDougal, “If you can’t find the antidote, use this thing for him.”
“This is?”
Mrs. McDougal picked up the medicine bottle and looked up and down at the pitifully small transparent liquid inside, and seemed to guess what it was.
“Tears of the Phoenix.”
“Where did you get it?” Mrs. McDougal was surprised.
“Professor Dumbledore asked me to pass it on to you.” Albert explained, “He is in a bad situation now. If he comes forward, it may cause Arthur Weasley to be fired by Fudge. Time, you can’t find the antidote, so use this thing. Well, this thing is actually an antidote.”
“It seems that this matter is more complicated than I expected.” Mrs. McDougall put away the crystal bottle, and did not delve into the meaning of this matter.