Chapter 214 Two Parties

Night soon fell. After Harry flushed the candy sent by Snape and Lockhart into the toilet, he took his friend Ron and went to Nick's Deathday party instead of attending the Halloween dinner.

After struggling for a long time, Hermione still didn't go with them...

Although she was very interested in the mysterious ghost Deathday party, it was more important to stay with the cat.

"I don't know why I want to go to Nick's Deathday party with you."

When passing by the Great Hall and seeing the scene of lights and decorations inside, Ron couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "A party celebrating the day of death, I feel it's unlucky... It is said that Dumbledore also invited a skeleton dance troupe!"

In fact, Harry also regretted it a little, because as they walked down, the temperature around them was dropping rapidly. And beside the aisle leading to the banquet venue, there were countless black candles with blue flames, which looked eerie and uncomfortable.

"Well... at least we avoided Lockhart, didn't we?"

Harry tried to comfort Ron who was willing to come with him, but he couldn't say more after just a few words of comfort.

Because in the underground classroom where the party was held in front, there were waves of sounds like a thousand nails scraping on a huge blackboard, and he actually heard a weird rhythm in this creepy sound?

The two looked at each other and continued to move forward.

It's unnecessary to turn around and leave now that we've come here. At worst, we can just find an excuse to leave earlier.

Just as Harry and Ron were attending the Deathday party, the Halloween banquet in the Great Hall began.

Thousands of bats were decorated on the ceiling of the Great Hall. They flew around in the sky with Halloween decorations. The huge pumpkins planted by Hagrid were carved into lanterns, large enough to accommodate three people sitting inside.

The Skeleton Dance Troupe invited by Dumbledore also appeared in the center of the hall and started a weird but interesting dance, which made the atmosphere in the whole hall lively all of a sudden.

The so-called Skeleton Dance Troupe is not really a group of skeletons with their own consciousness like ghosts, but a kind of existence similar to puppetry. The dancing skeletons are actually controlled by wizards with magic.

Of course, this is not important to the students attending the banquet. They just need to give the Skeleton Dance Troupe warm applause and cheers and enjoy their dance.

In such a lively time, the little cat Fish would naturally not be missing. He cheered and turned into a cat and rushed into the Skeleton Dance Troupe.

"Meow~"

(=｀=)

The little tabby cat got in and out among a pile of bone racks and gently pawed them from time to time.

Professor McGonagall, who wanted to step forward to stop Fish, was stopped by Dumbledore on the side.

"It's a rare festival, let Fish have some fun, Minerva."

Dumbledore said cheerfully: "Besides, Sandro and the others don't have any objections, right?"

Sandro was one of the wizards responsible for controlling the skeletons. As Dumbledore said, they did not stop the performance because of Fish's sudden joining. Instead, they controlled the skeletons to change the dance and began to dance around Fish.

At this moment, the auditorium became more lively. Everyone cheered and applauded loudly for the dance troupe and Fish.

In such a scene that attracted everyone's attention, it was obviously impossible for Lockhart to stay aside and watch obediently. He wore the vampire costume he wore during the day and joined the skeleton dance troupe.

Compared with Fish's random jumping, Lockhart's dance seemed much more organized, and his dancing posture was indeed not bad. In addition, Fish was jumping around aimlessly, so Lockhart soon replaced Fish's position and became the center of the skeleton dance troupe.

Sandro and the others were not aware of the situation in Hogwarts. Although they thought it was more fun to cooperate with the cute little cat, when Lockhart, a more "professional" dancer, joined in, they still controlled the skeletons to cooperate and danced in an elegant style.

Then they soon discovered that the enthusiasm of the faculty and students around them faded a lot in an instant. In addition to not liking Lockhart, a group of skeletons and elegant dances did not match in style.

But with Lockhart's temperament, he obviously would not care about others. He just wanted to be the most beautiful cub in the audience.

So he continued to dance while reaching out from his pocket to take out a handful of colorful beads, and then threw them into the air.

These beads all exploded suddenly when they flew into the air, scaring the bats on the ceiling to run around.

Countless shining ghosts flew out from the exploded beads, with crackling sparks flashing on their bodies, running around in the entire auditorium.

These were portable Halloween magic fireworks that Lockhart had specially ordered from the Hopping and Playing Magic Joke Shop.

Originally, he wanted to use magical creatures like fairies to build momentum for himself, but when he thought of Fish's weird affinity, Lockhart chose these magic fireworks because they were...

uncontrollable,

including Lockhart.

So after Lockhart threw these fireworks, these sparking ghosts scared away the bats on the ceiling, ignited the ribbons and flags hanging in the hall, and blew up the dishes in front of everyone, instantly making a mess of the banquet.

"ah--!"

Several little witches with burnt hair screamed loudly, pulled out their wands and fired spells at the ghost fireworks flying everywhere. As a result, these spells not only failed to destroy the fireworks, but made them more active in the auditorium. Running around.

"Put down the wand! Stay calm!"

Fortunately, other professors quickly stood up. Professor McGonagall waved her wand to eliminate the fireworks and ghosts flying everywhere, and shouted loudly with a livid face, but the little wizards who were in chaos gradually became quiet.

Soon, with the joint efforts of several professors, all the fireworks sent by Lockhart were wiped out, and order was restored in the auditorium.

"Ahem... I didn't expect that the fireworks sold by the Jumping Magic Joke Shop also contain fake and inferior products. I must write a letter to complain to them!"

When he discovered that the fireworks were running wild out of his control, Lockhart immediately hid. After everything settled, he immediately jumped out and blamed the merchant, completely ignoring that he had not watched and Instructions for use come with the fireworks.

"Meow?"

Fish, who was the only one enjoying it just now, looked around, turned into a catman and rushed to Professor McGonagall.

"Minerva Minerva~ Where are those pumpkin lanterns and ghosts with sparks just now? Fish still wants to play with them~"

(●ω●)

"there is none left!"

Professor McGonagall glared at Lockhart angrily, then used food to distract Fish.

"The show is over, it's time to eat."

"Yes, yes! I just performed the dance for everyone for so long, and I'm already starving!"

Lockhart faced the disgusted looks of a group of professors, sat down at the teacher's table, and started eating by himself.

Not only the professors and students, but also Sandro and others from the Skeleton Dance Troupe, looked at Lockhart with something strange in their eyes - this was the first time they had seen such a strange character while performing everywhere.

However, the cat-eared boy attracted their attention more, so after giving Lockhart a few sidelong glances, Sandro and the others began to inquire about Fish's background from Dumbledore.

This group of people planned to recruit Fei Xu into their dance troupe after he graduated...

Then of course he was rejected by Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

Although there was a slight glitch because of Lockhart, the Halloween party soon resumed. Everyone enjoyed the various delicacies prepared by the house elves and had a great time.

But on the other side, Harry and Ron who attended the death anniversary party were not so lucky.

Who would have thought that the things these ghosts eat are rotten meat, cheese covered with green hair, and mutton tripe filled with maggots, which are foods that living people cannot swallow at all!

No... Actually, if you think about it carefully, they should be able to guess it. After all, the ghosts are dead, so how could they still prepare normal food at the death anniversary party...

Harry regretted it so much now. If he had known this would happen, he would rather go to the Great Hall to face Lockhart, where he could have a full meal at least.

After finally surviving the arrival of the Headless Hunters, Harry said to Sir Patrick "Nick is particularly scary" as he promised to Nick, and then impatiently and Ron wanted to leave the underground classroom and hurry up. Go to the auditorium.

"Oh ha! Do you want to leave, Harry?"

Peeves suddenly appeared from the side. He walked around the two of them and shouted loudly, causing the ghosts around them to look towards them.

"You must be dissatisfied with Nick's death anniversary party, right? Yes, there is indeed nothing interesting here."

Peeves had a malicious smile on his ugly face, and he did it on purpose, because there was nothing he could do about Fish, so he could only take it out on Harry and Ron, who were familiar with Fish.

Nearly headless Nick floated over, "Is that so, Harry? You didn't like my death anniversary party?"

Nick was already depressed because he failed to join the Headless Hunters and was robbed of the limelight by them. Now that he saw Harry and Ron leaving, he looked even more sad that he was about to cry.

Coupled with the characteristics of the ghost itself, Nick was surrounded by a sinister atmosphere at this time, making Harry unable to say goodbye at all.

"No, that's not the case!" Harry said bravely: "I just... need to pee! Yes, I just want to go to the toilet."

"As for the toilet, there is one at the side door of this classroom!"

Peeves shouted again, pointing in the completely opposite direction to the way he left, killing Harry and Ron's thoughts of escaping.

"……Thanks!"

After gritting their teeth and thanking Peeves, Harry and Ron could only stay, cold and hungry, waiting for the next opportunity to sneak out.

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It's a pity that Halloween is not in two days, otherwise the timing would be perfect.

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