Chapter 456 After Christmas

The next morning, the students who were exhausted by the frequent accidents did not get up until nearly noon. Then they were surprised to find that the hourglasses used for scoring in each college had become empty.

There was no other way. When Professor Snape went crazy, he was discovered by Professor Moody who was inspecting to see if there were any abnormalities.

He usually looked down upon Snape, the former Death Eater, but last night he was so happy watching him deduct points from Gryffindor that he simply grabbed Slytherin and started deducting points like crazy.

Obviously, even with the help of off-site help from falling snowflakes in the sky, Professor Snape's search ability is not as high as that of Professor Moody - Moody has been an Auror all his life, not to mention, he is also equipped with the magic eye, which is almost It's a sure thing.

If it weren't for the limited number of couples on campus, there might be no points left to deduct from the scoring hourglasses of the four colleges at this moment.

But because the scores were so low, everyone soon stopped caring about this issue—they were all the same low anyway, so it was time to reopen the school.

Not to mention that there are more serious issues waiting for them to deal with now.

"It's so simple. First, I didn't know who secretly used the revealing potion, and then the professors chased me!"

At the dining table, the students complained angrily, and then secretly looked at the Gryffindor table.

Although there is no evidence, judging from the past experience of living in Hogwarts, once this kind of weird thing happens, it will most likely have something to do with the Weasley brothers.

If there was no evidence, they would definitely block the pair of red-haired boys in the corridor.

Weird - who did it? Why is there no news at all?

Forget about them, even Ginny was staring closely at her brother at the Gryffindor table - she spent more than an hour dressing herself up yesterday, and she was looking forward to taking pictures after the ball. A nice photo, but ruined!

She even blamed the initiator for her resentment for seeing Harry and Qiu going out.

"You ran away from the dance last night. What did you do?"

"That's none of your business, Ginny."

Fred raised his eyebrows.

"Not even old enough to go to prom, not even—"

Just as George was about to finish off the attack, he saw Ginny's brows were furrowed like Mrs. Weasley's, and she quickly gave up her intention to continue taunting her.

“We are planning for our future and we have developed an incredible new product!”

"What you call a new product -" Hermione continued without any emotion, "does it mean that it silently removes all magical effects?"

If it were the twins from the past, they would definitely notice something was wrong.

But not today - not to mention that they are still intoxicated with the joy of success, their brains that have not been well rested make them unable to respond to the crisis at hand.

They had no choice but to get inspired yesterday while dancing. They hurried to the secret base of the Room of Requirement to conduct experiments all night. After they succeeded, they barely slept in the Room of Requirement until dawn. If they hadn't woken up from hunger, they would have probably still Get some more sleep.

"How can it be silent!"

When talking about his own products, Fred became more energetic, "You still have to eat the other half of the candy - a universal antidote has troubled us for a long time, especially the cost must be low enough, safe and reliable. "

"Based on our test results, it can be used to cancel all the illusions of illness currently caused by potions. It can almost effectively remove most of the negative effects caused by magic..."

As he spoke, he felt something was wrong - a person's desire to kill cannot be concealed.

"Hey, it's just a quick skipping candy, skipping classes! You have never experienced OWLs, so you have no idea how difficult it is to skip a class reasonably!"

"Pull out your wand and let's duel, Fred you bastard."

Before Fred could finish speaking, a familiar voice came from behind - it was Angelina, his dance partner last night.

"I explained it, Angelina, good girl, we are really here to do research!"

Fred was so panicked that he didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, a student who ran into the auditorium saved him.

"There is a new announcement! The professor said that the snow yesterday was due to some problems with the formula when cooking the necessary potion, which caused the snow that should have been normal to have the effect of making the magic disappear. In order to make up for everyone, tomorrow afternoon Professor William will start a class to teach this magic spell of making snow!”

"Eh?"

"real or fake?"

"Professor did it?"

"I'll just say it's a special scenery arranged by the school!"

As the news spread, the students who were still complaining began to divide decisively into four groups - those who were caught by Snape and scolded Snape, those who were caught by Moody and scolded Moody, and those who were not arrested but had their makeup removed complained and scolded William, and the rest of the people watching the theater who were not affected.

But not many people scolded William - firstly, the snow was indeed amazingly beautiful, secondly, it was after the dance that the snow fell, and many people were already ready to go back and take off their makeup. Thirdly, and most importantly, The group of students who paid the most attention to makeup were basically caught red-handed by Snape and Moody, and their firepower was concentrated there.

Moreover, if it’s uncomfortable, it’s uncomfortable. Using magic to make snow fall sounds cool. Everyone has a high desire to learn, and the demand is here, so naturally it’s not easy to scold him too harshly.

The twins, who were wandering around on the edge of being beaten, sighed - they finally survived.

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"That announcement of yours made Professor McGonagall very angry."

In the big office, Moody happily said to William, "Let me tell you, Professor William, Professor McGonagall spent a lot of time comforting those children that day..."

"The result is not bad - at least Professor McGonagall didn't spend any time on her makeup..."

William smiled bitterly, "The revealing potion can remove most disguises, but I didn't expect it to be so effective at removing makeup..."

Even in a place like Azkaban, there would be no such trivial knowledge.

But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense - if those things are applied well enough, wouldn't they be able to create a camouflage-like effect, and it would be natural for them to be washed away.

"But let's not talk about each other. You and Professor Snape almost emptied the scoring hourglass. Isn't the professor angry?"

But as soon as he said this, William himself vetoed it - judging from Professor Snape's past performance, if he was the only one who deducted points, then Slytherin would definitely have higher scores.

Seeing the smile on William's face, Moody grinned his incomplete mouth and laughed.

"Professor Lupine, what do you think?"

Lupine was lying on the table, pretending that nothing had happened - he woke up after taking half the antidote to the love potion yesterday, and so far he was still in the state of pretending to be dead without saying a word.

After Moody asked kindly again, he happily walked away on his wooden legs.

William didn't want to shame him any more, so he began to prepare the lesson plan for tomorrow's class - the difficulty of the spell is actually not low, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for students to master it.

But once the words have been said, it’s up to them whether they can do it or not.

Anyway, if you are idle during the holidays, you should be investigating how quickly students have mastered content other than schoolwork. It is not a big problem.

After a long while, he stopped what he was doing and said to Lupine, who was pretending to be dead, "I'm going to see Hagrid. I hope the reckless snow yesterday didn't affect his date..." See you, Professor Lupin."

He waved his hand and said goodbye to Lupine.

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"At once,"

Hagrid sniffed and downed a glass of wine as big as a keg in one gulp, "If you don't admit it, just say I slandered her!"

There was confusion and grievance in his voice.

"It's been so many years since I met the same thing..."

Hagrid completely lost his former boldness, and carried a completely different grievance from Lupine.

"She thinks I'm slandering her!"

He poured himself another small bucket, "She is simply..."

'What's going on this year...'

William thought about this problem while refilling it for him.

‘Is the Dark Lord controlling everything with his invisible giant hand? ’

But the Dark Lord couldn't let Madame Maxime become the principal more than ten years in advance, and he couldn't find out that Lupine was affected by the love potion.

He couldn't figure it out for a while, and simply gave up thinking - just keep an eye on the potion, and keep a close eye on the teachers and students in the school. If the Dark Lord can find an opportunity, then he can only change the method and He did it.

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"The Christmas party is finally over, let's start working on the golden eggs."

When the warriors met again, everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the dance.

The main reason is that the scores of everyone's college have been severely deducted, and it really makes people unhappy to talk about it.

Especially Harry and Montague—Professor Moody was born in Gryffindor, and Professor Snape was the Dean of Slytherin. They felt a little guilty for no reason when facing the other warriors.

Especially when Harry and Montague saw each other being captured, that was really not a good topic...

"I have tried many kinds, and I must get it today."

The notebook was taken out again and placed on the table, "The second project will start on February 24th. We'd better deal with all the problems before January comes."

But today everyone’s condition doesn’t seem to be very good.

In a panic, Meng Tai was even hit by the incoming curse because he failed to defend himself well, and kept spitting bubbles.

"I can still... hold on... Gudu... it's okay... let's continue..."

Meng Tai said intermittently, with an expression as if he was slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire.

"All right."

Cedric looked at him worriedly, and then decisively started the next crack.

"The next item is submersion."

He looked at the designed steps and said, "Everyone, prepare your protection. I'm going to get the water out."

Harry and the others hurriedly prepared themselves for defense. Then, Cedric summoned a spring of water from a distance and controlled it with transfiguration to turn it into a water ball.

After improving their own defenses, Harry and Nancy applied protection to Cedric. Originally, Montague should have taken Harry's place and let Harry be responsible for observing, but now this can only be the case.

"Be careful, I'm about to open it!"

Cedric patiently controlled the water flow and let it carefully try to break open the golden egg.

"Strengthen protection!"

He noticed something was wrong - the opening process this time was so smooth that it was unbelievable.

However, neither the expected curse nor the attack came.

Bubbles appeared in the water, and as it exploded, a sound came out intermittently.

"In a dark place without light, in a place where it's hard to breathe..."

"I'm...Gulu...recording!"

Montague was jotting down notes quickly as he spoke, and the intermittent voice continued.

"A brutal fight is going on somewhere no one knows..."

"Dear warrior, please choose your opponent well..."

"Please hurry up, hurry up..."

"The winner will naturally receive honor, and the loser may not be unable to bear the glory..."

"Wisdom is as important as courage, and luck is essential..."

"Go, warriors, go there, conquer there, and we will sing for you..."

The voice gradually became lower, and after a not-so-clear sound, the golden egg closed again.

"Is this the secret of the golden egg?"

The group of people looked at me and I looked at you - they recorded countless curses during their exploration and planned to deduce secrets from the curses, but it actually sang in the water?

"What is that...Gulu... pitch black, no light, hard to breathe?"

Montague's curse was much better as he said.

"It's underwater!"

Nancy glanced at Meng Tai, "You will make bubbles when you talk in the water! If the water is deep enough, it will indeed be dark!"

The song was too clear, and the question wasn't even as profound as the knocker's question.

"A fight should be a duel - an underwater duel?"

"What about us?"

Montague managed to say the words without hiccups.

"Probably fish people - they live under the water." Cedric added.

Their analysis was very lively, but Harry couldn't get in a word - compared to the senior students, his knowledge reserve was too little.

'I'm afraid Hermione can barely keep up...'

While he was thinking, Nancy made another guess.

“Choose your opponent – ​​who is our opponent?”

"It's probably not one of our own, so the duel partner is either a warrior from another academy or some magical creature."

"The beast's portion is bigger - doesn't it say in the lyrics? Come faster because some are particularly difficult, so..."

"No, it could also be that whoever arrives first picks the opponent."

"That's to be determined."

Two possibilities were circled on the parchment.

"So, now it seems that what we have to face is underwater combat, and then it should be a one-on-one duel, but it may also be a collective fight against an underwater monster."

There was silence for a while - although no one said anything, Harry knew very well that he was holding back the duel...

"So," Nancy raised her head, "Which of you has ever learned to cast spells underwater?"

She looked at the other three and didn't have much hope. They hadn't studied in seventh grade.

"I...I will."

Harry was stunned for a while and then raised his hands.

"I have learned how to escape in water, hide in water, attack in water..."