Chapter 404: Albus, You Bastard

Fast forward to the week before Christmas, and the deans of the four colleges are starting to gather lists of stay-at-home orders for this year's Christmas.

Because of the Christmas ball, there are a lot of students staying at Hogwarts this year.

Even the younger students who were not old enough to participate in the dance party, and even those who were not invited by the upper-class students as dance partners, still had a large number of people left.

After all, the Christmas ball is too attractive for them.

And, who said you can't go to a dance without being invited?

Dancing is not a dangerous thing, and professors will definitely turn a blind eye to it.

As for the remaining ones who might block people at the entrance of the auditorium, it was Filch, the castle keeper who was guilty in the eyes of the students.

But the dance lasted so long, and Filch was still a squib. If they couldn't break through Filch's block, then they would go home as soon as possible and feel at ease as ordinary people, and learn hammer magic.

Heavy snow fell on the castle and grounds, Beauxbatons' light blue carriage looked like a frosted pumpkin in winter, and the icing gingerbread little house next to it was Hagrid's cabin .

The sides of Durmstrang's ship were covered with ice, smooth and translucent, and the rigging was stained with hoarfrost.

The students woke up on Christmas morning to find that the entire castle had been decorated in Christmas style.

In the past, even if it was Christmas, an important festival equivalent to the Eastern New Year, Hogwarts only decorated the auditorium, and at most hung some Christmas-style decorations in the foyer.

But this year, Hogwarts seems to be trying to impress the guests of the other two schools enough to go to great lengths.

At breakfast, Kyle looked at the decorations in the auditorium and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Dad Albus is also true, it seems that people from the other two schools will go to other places in the castle except the auditorium. of."

Due to language barriers, students from the Bubbaston and Durmstrang delegations did not attend classes with the Hogwarts students.

It's not that everyone in Europe speaks English. There are more people in the other two schools who don't understand English.

Therefore, during the entire semester they stayed at Hogwarts, they could only ask their headmaster to help them in classes, so as not to cause their studies to fall behind.

Fortunately, the two schools have long known about the age line, and most of the delegations they sent are seventh graders.

There were only a few students in the fifth and sixth grades, and only Fleur Delacour's sister Gabriel was under the fifth grade.

In this way, the workload of the two principals has been greatly reduced. Otherwise, they would have to teach seven grades alone, and the 007 work system may not be able to be busy.

If you do this, it is estimated that you will not live to the end of the Triwizard Tournament and die suddenly at work.

Ahem, off topic, off topic.

Students from the other two schools basically don't set foot anywhere other than the Great Hall because they don't attend classes with Hogwarts students.

In fact, there are not many places to visit in Hogwarts. They have basically visited all the places that should be visited when they first arrived at Hogwarts.

So, Dumbledore ordered the house elf to carefully arrange the entire castle...

No need, really no need, it's too extravagant and wasteful.

What Kyle didn't know was that since Dumbledore was expelled from Hogwarts by the school board in his second year, Hogwarts has no longer relied on funding from the school board.

After the school board, a group of tool people who only give money, lost the only role of giving money,

has already been banned.

In the era of the original Big Four, there was no such thing as a school board at Hogwarts.

Dumbledore is now restoring the old system of the Big Four era, and no one dares to say anything, as long as he can guarantee the funds for Hogwarts.

Isn't it a question of funding? Can this be hard to beat Dumbledore?

Don't look at who Dumbledore's old lover is?

Grindelwald! Secretly the richest man in Europe!

Now Hogwarts' funds are basically provided by the Grindelwald family. If Kyle knows that his father Albus is spending so much with his family's money, I'm afraid he won't be angry.

...

Although the professors gave Hogwarts students a fair amount of homework ahead of the Christmas break.

But this did not affect the good mood of the students at all, no, it still slightly affected the mood of some people.

For example, Kyle, he used to copy Hannah and Hermione's homework.

There is neither Dr. Zhai nor Lu Lei's two daughters in the magical world who exist like two young dragons and phoenixes.

Therefore, Hogwarts homework is not checked.

All he had to do was make a copy of the homework from Hannah or Hermione with the Copy Charm, and then change it to the professors.

Despite the obvious plagiarism, the professors turned a blind eye to Kyle's behavior.

But now Hannah and Hermione have become warriors at Hogwarts. In addition to being allowed by the professors to not participate in the assessment at the end of the term, even the homework has been exempted.

Although Kyle is an on-court referee and has no less work than the Warriors, he is not a Warrior after all, and he didn't get the benefits of the Warriors at all.

With Hermione and Hannah not planning to do their homework, Kyle was left on his own.

Well, relying on his reputation at Hogwarts, he just asked another student of the same level to borrow his homework to copy.

Abbreviation - "On Yourself".

For now, let's put the homework aside for now.

After all, even if you have to copy your homework, it's not a time like Christmas.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, Filch began to drive away the students who were still in the auditorium.

The auditorium will be reconfigured from the original canteen into a ballroom.

As the time approached, the students' emotions became more and more excited.

In the evening, Xiao Nan took Hermione back to the girls' dormitory of Gryffindor Academy, saying that she was going to start preparing for the dance tonight.

Kyle looked at his watch, it would be at least three hours before the dance started.

Getting ready for the dance so early?

Well, considering how troublesome girls are to dress up, it's normal to spend three hours.

For boys, the preparation is simpler. As soon as the dress is changed, the hair gel is swiped on the head, and it will be ready in less than five minutes.

Fortunately, Kyle is not the only one suffering this pain.

When a bored Kyle wanders outside the castle, he encounters a group of troubled brothers who have the same experience.

Including but not limited to Cedric, George, Fred, Harry...