Chapter 340 Before the Holiday

In December, it was rainy.

A fine drizzle enveloped the entire castle, but it didn't fall continuously. It rained for two or three hours every day, regardless of day or night, which was very annoying.

Filled with moisture, the castle was enveloped, and the old wooden cabinets began to emit a faint musty smell. Even Peeves hiding in the cabinets became less scary.

The little wizards had not run wildly on the grass for several days, and there was a faint itching in the gaps between bones.

Loren and others removed the burden from their mouths and began to point their wands at their hearts every morning and evening to recite the Animagus spell. The continuous drizzle made everyone nervous, fearing that a thunder would suddenly sound and their hearts would be destroyed. The secret medicine failed before it was brewed.

Wednesday afternoon, Animagus teaching class.

"Hurry up, we can only sit in the last row..."

"Who told you to lose track of time while reading a book?"

"And he said, shouldn't you remind me?"

Luo Lun replied confidently: "I am sleeping, how can I remind you?"

"Stop talking, stop talking, let's go in quickly!"

Holding the illustrated magazine and notebook in one hand and tugging on Loren's sleeve with the other, Hermione hurried into the Transfiguration classroom.

Just as Hermione said, the front row of the classroom was already occupied by other young wizards who came early, and the two of them had to find a seat in the back right to sit down.

Hermione greeted Lupine politely: "Professor Lupin, good afternoon."

"good afternoon."

Loren said with a smile: "Classmate Lu Ping, here comes the teaching assistant again..."

Lupine smiled helplessly.

Before he could joke more, Professor McGonagall had already started giving a lecture. Loren looked at Professor McGonagall on the podium, and the corners of his eyes drooped.

It’s all content that has already been discussed once, it’s a bit boring…

Loren actually didn't want to come to this class. In order to take care of the members who joined later, Professor McGonagall only taught the content that he had learned before. For Loren, this kind of class sounded a bit boring.

In particular, Professor McGonagall will also point people to answer questions. The chance of a veteran student being selected is quite high, so he cannot just lie down and sleep.

Lupine's smile was a little forced, his eyes were complicated, and his expression was subtle.

Unexpectedly, nearly twenty years after graduation, he would once again become Professor McGonagall's student, except that the classmates around him had changed.

Although Professor McGonagall claimed that he was a teaching assistant in the Animagus teaching class, Loren and Hermione guessed his purpose in the first class, which led to the scene before the class started.

"ah……"

Lupine looked at Loren, who was yawning beside him, and then at his notebook, which was full of memories, and his mood became more complicated.

After listening listlessly for half of the class, it was almost time for Professor McGonagall to ask questions. Loren yawned and cheered up a little.

Professor McGonagall on the stage knocked on the blackboard: "I have finished talking about the correspondence between the human torso and the deformed animal torso. Can anyone tell me, for birds, four-legged beasts, and fish? Class, what is the correspondence between their torso and the human body?”

Neville and Percy answered the correspondence between birds and beasts one after another. Professor McGonagall praised them a few words, then asked if anyone had answered the correspondence between fish, while scanning the whole class with dangerous eyes.

Loren turned his head and looked to the side. The little witch raised her right hand high, her fair and tender face tensed together. Her face was filled with impatient words, and she couldn't wait to stand up from the chair.

Professor McGonagall looked around and found that the people raising their hands were still those old acquaintances. His eyes slowly fell on Loren. Loren's face tightened, and he secretly cried out that he was unlucky and was ready to be picked on. .

However, Professor McGonagall's eyes changed and she noticed Lupine next to her: "Since no one has answered, Professor Luping, come and review the correspondence between fish and human torso."

On this day, Lupine once again recalled being dominated by the professor...

Not afraid, even a little nostalgic.

Lupine cleared his throat calmly and replied calmly: "Good professor, the point that you need to pay attention to when fish deform is the limbs. Compared with the obvious correspondences between other animal forms, fish are more secretive. Fish The fins correspond to the arms, the fish tail..."

Fortunately, there were no questions for the remaining half of the class, and Loren slept peacefully for half of the class. After class, while there was still some time before dinner, some of the little wizards stayed in the classroom to do homework. Professor Lupine left the classroom with Professor McGonagall.

Loren, Harry and Ron completed their homework faster than Hermione. Loren glanced at Hermione's homework from behind. After pondering for a moment, he asked aloud: "What kind of homework is this?"

"Ancient runes," Hermione replied without looking back.

"Oh, ancient runes..." Loren paused for a few seconds, then asked, "What about ancient runes-"

boom!

Hermione dropped her elbow without looking back, and the world suddenly became clear.

Loren rubbed his arms and kept mumbling: "If you don't say it, why don't you say it? Why hit people..."

Harry completely ignored the two men and asked, "Ron, are you coming home for Christmas?"

"It's not clear yet. Mom and dad are at home during the holidays. Percy, George and Fred also decided to go back. I should go back..." Ron saw Harry's eyes gradually dimming. After thinking about it, he hugged Harry "But I couldn't stand spending the whole holiday with Percy, so I decided to stay!"

Harry's eyes lit up again, shining with gratitude, and he knew that Ron stayed to keep him company.

Hermione suddenly stopped her quill, raised her head and asked, "What about Ginny? Does Ginny want to go back?"

"Of course!" Ron replied loudly, "If Ginny chooses to stay in school, then my parents will come to school for Christmas!"

…

On the other side, after Lupine exchanged some Animagus content with Professor McGonagall, he returned to his office. Before his chair was warm, he received an unexpected guest.

"Professor Snape?" Lupine opened the door and said in surprise, "What brought you to my office?"

A faint sarcastic smile appeared on Snape's lips: "As a professor, shouldn't I be invited in first when a colleague comes to visit? Or do you plan to just talk to me about things like this?"

"Sorry Professor Snape, I was so surprised that I was rude."

Lupine opened the door sideways, welcomed Snape in, and made him hot tea with newly bought tea leaves. While pouring the tea, Lupine asked: "So, does Mr. Snape have anything to do with me?"

Snape sniffed the tea, then slowly put down the tea cup and waited for the tea to cool down: "I heard that you have started studying at Hogwarts again. I wonder how the transfer student Lupine is feeling. Can he keep up with the teaching progress? "

"Thank you for your concern. I think it's okay. After all, I was also a prefect of Gryffindor when I was studying." Lupine sat behind the desk, sipping expensive new tea leaves, and continued, "And Professor McGonagall is A gentle professor, unlike other professors, she will not deliberately embarrass students. What do you think, Professor Snape?"

Hearing something in his words, Snape looked a little ugly, and then sneered: "I don't care how well you learn. I'm here to inform you that I will brew this month's wolfsbane potion."

Lu Ping was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "Where is Loren?"

Snape's smile became even more proud: "He is going home for Christmas, and more importantly, you are about to start the Animagus ritual at this full moon. In order to ensure that the magic of Wolfsbane Potion will not affect When you get to Mandrake, I have to make some improvements to the Wolfsbane potion tailored for you."

Lupine took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Really...I'm sorry to trouble you, Professor Snape."

"Don't worry, Loren's previous feedback on the potion has been recorded here. Rafflesia, leopard skin flower, corpse odor konjac... I assure you, this month's wolfsbane potion will definitely meet your needs... "Snape's smile was very bright.

Lu Ping felt vague regret in his heart, if he had known that he would not understand him just now.

…

Time flies and before I know it, it’s one week before the holiday.

That night, a cold wind blew through, and the Whomping Willow, whose leaves had completely changed color, shook its branches, shook off all the leaves, and became bare.

The night passed and it was morning.

A sleepy-eyed Loren got out of the quilt, groped with his right hand on the bedside, touched the wand and then retracted it under the quilt.

The soft and thick quilt was chrysalis for a while, and a big bulge arched out from the middle. The voice of muttering came out through the bulge: "Amado, Animo, Animado, Animagus."

After reciting the spell, Loren calmed down and felt it carefully, but still couldn't hear the second heartbeat from the heartbeat.

After completing the Animagus ritual, Loren was completely awake, got out of bed, pulled on his slippers and came to the window.

I opened the small window of my bedroom a crack and looked outside against the cold wind blowing through the crack. The weather that had been gloomy for more than a month suddenly cleared up and the sky turned into a bright and dazzling protein color.

It's a good weather to go to Hogsmeade.

Looking down, Loren suddenly noticed that the muddy ground outside the castle was covered with a layer of crystal white frost, a thin layer that was slightly reflective.

"It's starting to snow..."

Loren smiled and opened the window suddenly, letting the cold air rush in without any obstruction.

Harry and the others, who were attacked by the cold, let out sharp screams and retracted their hands and feet into the quilt, condemning Loren through the quilt for his behavior that was harmful to others and not self-interested.

Loren pulled their quilts next to each other: "Get up quickly, don't forget to go to Hogsmeade today!"

Ten minutes later, Hermione, who was waiting in the common room, saw a group of boys putting their cold hands on each other's necks and chasing each other down the stairs.

Loren emerged from the noisy crowd and stood in front of Hermione, staring brightly at her slender white neck.

Hermione knew what he was thinking without having to guess. She rolled her eyes and took out a scarf in Gryffindor's classic color from the pendant to protect her neck.

Loren couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he still put his hand into her scarf, and it warmed up after a while.

The group came to the auditorium and found that some Christmas decorations had been added to the walls of the castle. Professor Flitwick had arranged colorful lights. When you touch the lights with your wand, they will turn into fairies and flutter. With shining wings.

After breakfast, the little wizards wrapped in scarves and cloaks followed Professor McGonagall's footsteps and walked all the way to the village of Hogsmeade.

The snow last night formed a thin layer of ice on the road, and it would slip if you weren't careful. The little wizards accelerated and ran on such ice, then suddenly stopped and slid out a certain distance under the influence of inertia, enjoying it endlessly. .

There are also those who lose their balance and fall after stopping, which often makes people nearby laugh.

Arriving at the village of Hogsmeade, he saw bright Christmas ribbons on the streets from a distance. Harry squinted at them for a while and said in surprise: "Great, those nasty dementors are gone, they are finally gone!" "

"Have you already learned the Patronus Charm? Why do you still care about Dementors?" Loren put his hand on the back of Hermione's scarf and pushed her forward, changing places from time to time. The scarf contained the girl's body temperature, which was very warm.

"I don't want to see Dementors even if I can deal with them. The weather is already cold enough." Harry muttered.

"Then you may be disappointed, look at this." Hermione put her hands in her pockets, leaned back slightly, and used resistance to signal the pushing hands to stop. She raised her chin to let others pay attention to the candy store. Notice at the door.

Loren put his head on Hermione's shoulder and looked at the notice with Harry and Ron.

[Ministry of Magic Order:

Patrons please note that until further notice, dementors patrol the streets of Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley every day after sunset. This measure is to protect the safety of residents in several places and will not be lifted until Bellatrix Lestrange is arrested. Therefore, all customers in the above places are requested to finish shopping before sunset.

Merry Christmas! 】

"I can guarantee it!" Ron said loudly, "Hogsmeade was added extra. That despicable Minister of Magic did not want to protect Hogsmeade, he just wanted to monitor Hogwarts."

Harry nodded in agreement: "Needless to say, the biggest danger here is the dementors."

They complained for a while in front of the sign, and then, tempted by the sweet aroma of candies, they staggered into Honeydukes Candy Store.

Large pieces of creamy almond candy, sparkling coconut sorbet, hundreds of neatly arranged chocolates... and a variety of magic candies, such as Chuibao Super Bubble Gum, Pepper Little Urchin, and Squeaky Ice Mouse. , Exploding Sandwich Gummies...

Without the restriction of mandrake blades, Loren and the others filled their bellies at the candy store and even bought several boxes to take home. Harry and Ron also bought several boxes, planning to use them during the Christmas holidays. Enjoy when.

The weather was too cold and they were not in the mood to go shopping, so they quickly reached a consensus - to go to the Three Broomsticks for something hot to drink.