The book company's publicity may not take his own opinions into account, maybe it's just the result of the publishing company's operation. "

Ron had just spat out half of what he said without thinking, when Hermione glared at him until his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally changed his words reluctantly.

When Hermione saw him take back the words, she didn't intend to pursue it any further, but turned the topic back to their previous plan.

"Anyway, the investigation we should do is still to be done." Hermione whispered, "The compound decoction is ready, we will start tonight."

"More?" The two were hesitant. "Since the professor has a clue..."

"Didn't you say it too, that's probably just a propaganda method of the Publishing House." Hermione could see the two's willingness to back down, but she still firmly carried out her will.

"In any case, the professor is investigating this matter. If we can get the news directly from the Slytherin common room, it will definitely help the professor a lot, and even if it doesn't help, it can also enrich some details. ...Oh, Ginny, are you down too? Why are you so pale? Did you have a nightmare again last night?"

"No, I'm fine." Ginny forced a smile to herself, "It's already a holiday anyway, I think I'll probably be much better after two days of rest."

"That's also... have you received a gift from Professor Lockhart?"

Ginny hesitated for a moment: "Yes, it's a beautiful golden quill pen. After writing 10,000 words with it, it can imitate your language style and write automatically... How about you?"

"A lilac-colored magic umbrella!" Hermione said beamingly, "Not only can it fly up and open when it rains, but it can also block hundreds of curses..."

"And that Christmas card—" Ron added, "—and allow me to use it in my place, to protect Miss Granger in the days when I can't be with her'"

"If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb." Hermione stared fiercely.

he replied.

Harry shrugged aside—the gift Lockhart gave him was a winged, Snitch-like sphere, but with what looked like an eyeball at the front.

- After reading the manual, he found out that this thing is called the "third eye" - it can share vision with the wizard, and just like Sniff, no matter where it is, as long as there is a slit, it can burrow into it.

It seemed to work well, but Harry couldn't figure out how to use it for a while.

What Ron got was a gentleman's monocular, the kind with a gold chain. The lenses were coated with a special layer of ink, which allowed him to see the concentration of magic power within a certain range.

He experimented a little and found that a first grader had a green outline on the lens, a third grader was yellow-green, a fifth grader was yellow, a seventh grader was orange, and Professor McGonagall came to the public break When the room read out the Christmas arrangements, all Ron saw from her was a thick red, even a little purple.

Ron is momentarily curious) J sneaks a peek at the Headmaster with those glasses when he meets Dumbledore in the hallway.

Then he was almost blinded by the dazzling blue-white light flashing on the lens, and he had to wait for a while to let his eyes rest.

While he knew it wasn't the lens's responsibility, for a short time he was no matter what

I don't want to wear it anymore Chapter 78 Strong action is the characteristic of the lion

Christmas Eve finally came, and all the little wizards who were still staying at the school came to the auditorium to have Christmas dinner with all the teachers and students of the school.

This year, because there were too few people left, everyone didn't sit at the academy table for dinner. Dumbledore directly cast magic and pushed all the long tables to the side, and then turned into a round table, and everyone surrounded the round table. Have a Christmas dinner together.

As the annual dinner at Hogwarts, the house-elves have been busy with it since the morning, and their preparations are not inadequate.

Although due to various accidents this year, Ron was able to grab a big chicken leg and eat it with one hand, but the tender mutton pie, the juicy roast beef and pork leg perfectly made up for this. , With the British Christmas Eve essential roast goose and a wide variety of fruit, even the most discerning gourmet can not protest that dinner is not rich enough.

Although Lockhart has to keep in shape at all times, he can't help eating more after seeing this kind of battle, but tomorrow morning he will run an extra 5 kilometers around the lake.

Unlike other classmates who could eat as much as they could, after the Savior trio had eaten half of it, Hermione dragged the reluctant Harry and Ron out of the auditorium, as if they were about to make a big move.

Seeing the three of them leave, Dumbledore glanced at Snape while eating his favorite sweets, which probably meant it was time for you to go.

Snape stood up quietly and said goodbye to his colleagues who were still eating.

Because he has always been alone, everyone has no doubts. In addition, most of the people present have been drinking, so no one noticed his actions.

Not long after walking out of the auditorium, Snape took out his wand, seeing that there was no one around.

"Superinvista_lslaturus!

As the unusual spell was uttered, Snape's figure disappeared into the air.

The original Illusionary Charm only made people transparent. If you observe carefully, it is not impossible to find traces, but the effect of Snape's Illusory Charm is far better than normal.

It wasn't because Snape developed any new spells, but because Lockhart improved the Disillusionment spell.

Whether it is polarized light or light transmission 7, this is just a method to deceive people's visual perception. The reason why the invisibility cloak is more difficult to see through is because it also covers up part of the breathing sound and odor, so my improved "excellent invisibility" not only optimizes the boundary effect of polarized light, but also adds the effect of noise reduction and odor isolation. I'm trying to add a little Confusion Charm effect to it. As long as this is finally completed, unless it is a magic master who always maintains the "true knowledge, state", no one can have teeth...

Snape remembered laughing at the guy at the time, saying that it was totally unnecessary for him to spend so much time on these little tricks, but in the end he didn't know what was going on, he still put the "improved" long and tongue-in-cheek spell. Note it down.

However, after using it, Snape realized that the effect was really good, because after using this spell, he found that even the sound of walking was blocked.

He curled his lips secretly, then walked quickly to Myrtle's girls' bathroom

He had just walked out of the bathroom when the voice from inside drifted:

"...I put ordinary sleeping pills in it, from the Muggle side, even Snape can't find it, then just let Crabbe and Goyle see these two chocolate cakes, they will definitely eat..."

Sleeping pills on the Muggle side... well, probably wouldn't have found it, but now I know. Snape said heartily.

"After they pass out, we pluck out a few of their hairs, then throw them in the broom closet, and then we throw these ingredients into the boiled decoction oo"

"Hermione, I don't think—

"That could be a big mistake

"It's all here, and you're still talking like that. If you don't add their hair, the compound decoction won't work!" Hermione taught her two eldest children, "You're the one who wanted to ask Malfoy. , right? Since you all think he's the most suspect... If we don't stun them, what if they break in while we're questioning Malfoy?

The room was silent for a while before Harry and Ron's voices came out again.

Make up...

"Then we pretend to be Crabbe and Goyle... how about you?"

"Daphne o Greengrass." Hermione was prepared.

"Who is that?" Harry looked puzzled.

But after hearing the man's last name, Ron understood which A Hermione was talking about.

"Slytherin, our girls of the same grade, don't remember?" Ron told Harry.

"To be honest, there's nothing like it."

"Because she belongs to the Greengrass family, women in their family have a blood curse on them, and they will die when they give birth, so people in their family have always been in poor health and rarely come to class."

It's 28 pure blood anyway, and of course Ron knows something Harry doesn't.

"Yes, after a while you will become Crabbe and Goll and then support me, saying that we met by chance, worried that my body may not be able to return to the common room, no one will doubt it, and she herself It's home for Christmas, I just need to say I'm back early." Hermione looked confident.

Ron was a little curious: "Strange, Hermione, you're Muggle-born... how did you know her?"

"Fool! Both my surnames and hers start with letters, and we share them in the exam! I bet you were in a daze during the exam, and you didn't even say hello to the person next to you?"

"Uh, I mean, how did you get her hair?"

"Last semester, before the last few doors of the final exam, I was in the library to help her review, and she took a card out of her hair and gave it to me, with her hair on it... Got it

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"Understood."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's do it!"

Snape covered his face in pain after listening to their plan quietly outside the door.

What's the plan for these furry kids? Just utterly wrong.

It turned out that he had been making compound decoction for more than a month just to interrogate Malfoy? What a waste of my African tree snake skin.

It's enough to stun Goyle and the others directly, but you didn't think about it, after they come out of the broom closet, as long as they have a little bit of a caliber with Malfoy, wouldn't you be exposed? And Miss Greenglass, isn't it the same?

Watching Harry and Ron hurry past him with chocolate cake in their hands, Snape felt a little tired.

Looks like I'll have to take care of the beginning and end... No wonder Dumbledore keeps me staring.

Chapter 79 Everyone is playing

Snape thought that such a nonsense plan would never succeed, but some people were more cooperative than he thought.

After Hermione's anxious wait, Harry and Ron finally returned victorious with what Hermione wanted.

"Here, the brown one's Crabbe and the yellow one's Cyr."

They gave Hermione the thing with an inviting expression: "You can't imagine how stupid they are! They didn't feel abrupt at the chocolate cake that appeared there, and just ate it..."

That's because I put a Confusion Charm on them - added Snape, invisible behind them.

We stuffed them into the broom closet and nobody noticed. The shoes were also brought, because we felt that the original shoes would not fit our feet after drinking the decoction. "

Yeah, no one found out, and that included Crabbe and Goyle himself?

Snape's heart was broken at this moment - if I hadn't put an oblivion spell on them to make them think they had eaten their stomachs and fainted, I'm afraid they would have realized that they had been plotted as soon as they woke up. .

When I go back, I must tell the principal that the savior is obviously a brain-dead, completely unable to shoulder the task of defeating the Dark Lord, or let him live a lively and happy life like a normal mentally retarded child.

Of course, Harry and the others couldn't hear Snape's heart, so they were still immersed in the joy called completion, ready to make a big fight.

Hermione swiftly divided the compound decoction in T Ganjing into three parts, and then

The hair in the hands of the two of them was collected, and together with what they collected, they were put into three cups.

The black liquid that had been tumbling in the three cups suddenly changed, and they became the same color as the hair that Hermione put in.

"This is yours, yours, this is mine." Hermione quickly dispensed the decoction and put on makeup. Don't talk nonsense, the two of you go to the next cubicle to drink medicine...

Just as Harry and Ron came out with the potion, Snape sidled up to them and took a close look at the cups in their hands, twitching their noses.

Hmm... Although the materials are not well prepared, at least the ingredients in the formula are correct, and they should have the desired effect, but the effect may not last for an hour.

But no matter what, drinking it shouldn't kill anyone.

After confirming the safety of the decoction, Snape retreated a little, letting these daring little wizards drink the compound decoction.

Snape was a little desperate - after these little guys drank the potion, they would definitely cause a lot of troubles: and all these troubles would require Snape to wipe his ass.

Why did the **** old bees leave me alone in charge of them? Isn't he still there? What about the Lockharts? Isn't he the best at dealing with little kids like this?

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Of course Lockhart wouldn't be sent by the Headmaster, because they were doing something Snape would be mad at if he knew.

After the last dessert was withdrawn, Lockhart was full of energy: with the help of the Christmas decoration in the auditorium, he organized a Christmas entertainment game of the Dueling Club.

At this time, in the middle of the duel arena is the Christmas tree that Hagrid cut down hard.

Now it has been decorated by Professor Flitwick with wands, music boxes, gold stars, ruby ​​balls, phalaenopsis and the like.

"I'll cast a spell on the Christmas tree in a moment,

every so often it goes to the venue

Throwing candy in the sky, you are not allowed to use magic,

Only use Christmas stockings to pick up. candy falling

It will disappear directly after the ground and go back to the Christmas tree,

So you don't have to worry about wasting it.

The last one who receives the most candies can choose your gifts from the Christmas tree first..."

Halfway through his speech, he suddenly found himself unable to speak.

Because Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Babelin and others also came to the sidelines and picked up a Christmas stocking.

"Uh... this sock is a contestant's prop, Headmaster," Lockhart added with a fluke.

But the principal waved his socks and smiled like a 00-year-old.

"Of course we knew it was a contestant's prop, but I looked at the rules and it didn't seem like there was a ban on anyone."

"But the prizes are just a few...gold-foiled chocolate stars, licorice wands, cake music boxes, and strawberry custard balls," Lockhart had to add.

But he regretted it right away—how could he forget that old bee's sweet tooth?

"Fantastic!" Dumbledore cheered. "I want it all."

"You're going to grab candy with the kids?" Lockhart was desperate.

"Actually, it's a little embarrassing to say that, but I have to admit that my mother didn't buy me sweets when I was a child, which made me like them all the time... I think Mrs. Lockhart was very fond of you when you were a child, right?" Deng Bridore asked back.

"It is."

"Look, you've already eaten too many sweets, so you don't like them much now. And me? It's just to make up for what you didn't eat before." Dumbledore asked.