The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

v4 Chapter 12: Departure, destination Ferret Mountain (

"Honey, please help me deliver the prepared dishes to the table, okay?" Molly ordered, she tapped the potatoes in the sink with her magic wand, and the potatoes obediently flew to the top of the trash can, automatically Peeled off.

"No problem, is there anything else I can help you with?"

Mrs. Weasley shook her head. Wizards are different from Muggles. Wizards only need to move their wands to complete operations in Muggle kitchens that do not have any technical content and are just energy-consuming operations. This is also the difference between wizarding families and Muggle families.

In a Muggle family, the child and the non-cooking parent are tasked with repetitive tasks such as peeling potatoes, choosing vegetables, washing rice and, of course, the sinful dish-washing. In the wizarding world, none of these jobs need to be done!

All kinds of life magic have been developed very maturely. There are things in the kitchen that cannot be solved without a magic wand. The help of children is not enough to add to the chaos.

Mrs. Weasley clicked her wand, and the drawer of the kitchen stove popped open, and several knives flew out, cutting the peeled potatoes into pieces. At the same time, the two chickens that had been killed on the chopping board stood up staggeringly, walked to the faucet and rinsed themselves like a shower.

After the blood was washed away, a bone cutter floated over, and cut the two whole chickens from the joints into pieces. After cutting the chicken, the bone chopping knife rinsed itself again, and continued to cut other meat.

Mrs. Weasley did not focus on the processing of ingredients. She was making Basque cakes. Under her command, butter, milk, sugar, eggs, and flour were mixed together in an orderly manner. They were quickly stirred and formed, and sent to the In a mold lined with oiled paper. After the mold was filled, it flew into the oven on its own initiative.

"After it's baked in a while, you can help me take it to the table outside, be careful of it being hot." Mrs. Weasley reminded Tom, and then continued cooking. But this time, she tapped her wand a little too hard. When the kitchen knife split the ox's tail, it was also deeply embedded in the chopping board, and it couldn't be pulled out.

"My God!" Mrs. Weasley tapped her wand on the stove angrily. As a result, the kitchen knife popped out of the cutting board, stuck in the ceiling again, and threw the cutting board to the floor.

Mrs. Weasley was in a worse mood.

"Huh!" She quickly restored everything to the original state, and couldn't help complaining, "These two guys! They don't have any ambitions, just like this **** kitchen knife, they cause trouble for me every day, don't they two A little bit ambitious?

Both Tom and Hermione knew she was referring to Fred and George.

She threw a brass saucepan onto the stove, poured some oil into it, and turned the heat to maximum.

"The two of them are very smart...but they don't want to use their intelligence to study..." Mrs. Shu Slai complained angrily. Tom and Hermione huddled quietly in the corner of the room, serving as background boards. Tom really hoped that he was the one who received the task of picking up the knives and forks, so that he could escape from this kitchen.

I bet they're going to have bad luck if it goes on like this, the owls that fly in to complain to them from Hogwarts are better than the others

That's more than all the people put together..." Mrs Weasley added some rosemary and garlic to the hot oil, and poured the beef cubes into it.

Mrs. Weasley finally put down her wand and produced several bottles of steaming drink from a cabinet. She put the drink on the counter and snatched her wand from the table.

"It's been so many years, and dozens of guarantee letters have been written. Is it useful? Whoops! It's a fake magic wand again!"

The wand screamed and turned into a rubber mouse.

"Interesting." Tom thought to himself, because he had just discovered that there was no fake wand on the kitchen table, which meant that this wand came by itself.

But looking at the thick smoke coming out of the brass pot, Tom felt that the kitchen was too dangerous now.

"Let's go, Bill and the others need our help." Tom picked up the drinks on the table and hurried out of the kitchen with Hermione.

The two rushed into the garden through the back door in a hurry, leaving Mrs. Weasley alone in the kitchen. As soon as they entered the garden, a potato-like thing covered with mud ran past them, followed closely by a **** figure.

In the end, the "potato" plunged headlong into a hole in the ground, and Crookshanks could only scrape the dirt outside in vain, with a displeased look on his face. After confirming his safety, there was a burst of crazy laughter from the cave.

Tom recognized at a glance that it was a goblin that Crookshanks had been chasing just now. Unlike the setting in Muggle fantasy works, wizarding goblins are too stupid to invent magical props - in fact, they are not much smarter than voles.

Goblins are a species that often appear in wizarding gardens, somewhat like cockroaches in Muggle homes. Unlike cockroaches, however, many wizards believe that having gnomes in a garden is a blessing. Xenophilius-Lovegood even believed that goblin saliva had many unusual benefits, such as suddenly increasing one's creativity. Tom is skeptical: this thing looks stupid, how can it increase intelligence?

In the garden, Bill and Charlie were manipulating the table to fight, and other members of the Weasley family were watching from the sidelines—except Percy, who was still rushing to report, and the Minister of Magic of Bulgaria was also coming to the World Cup finals. The Ministry of Magic has increased its workload a lot.

Ministerial-level visits are extremely rare and will bring up a host of issues that will need to be dealt with by the Division for International Magical Cooperation.

Mrs Weasley managed to prepare a sumptuous dinner before dark, despite all the distractions. When the last dish fell on the table, the old table creaked under the weight, and finally it was only with Charlie's strengthening spell that the table was stabilized

Chicken stews, roasts, stews, pies, chilled drinks, and delicious Basque cakes!

There is enough to satisfy everyone with this meal.

In the beginning, everyone was busy cooking, but after their stomachs were filled a little, everyone started chatting about topics they were interested in.

Percy really wanted to discuss some details of receiving the Bulgarians with Mr. Weasley, but Mr. Weasley's attention was obviously not on his son, he echoed casually, and his attitude was extremely perfunctory. After Percy finished speaking, he couldn't wait to ask the Grangers beside him about some matters in the Muggle world, such as their mode of transportation, types of currency, and telephones.

After hitting a soft nail on his father, Percy closed his mouth resentfully, and buried himself in destroying the chicken stewed with potatoes on the plate. Fred and George came back to life—the two of them were almost invincible minions, and no matter what setbacks they suffered, they quickly recovered from the slump. Now they are discussing the World Cup final with Charlie and Ron in full swing. As for Harry, he watched eagerly, unwilling to miss a word. He has been guarding Privet Drive during the summer vacation, and Privet Drive is completely isolated from the magical world, so all the news of the magical world is unknown to him.

He is now mortified at the thought that he almost missed the entire World Cup. How happy it would be to sit around the TV, eat snacks and watch the World Cup with friends!

Thinking of the TV, Harry suddenly realized that it seemed unrealistic for several friends to watch the live broadcast together, because there was no TV in the wizarding world, only radio. I am afraid

"I admit that Krum is very strong, but the overall strength of the Bulgarian team is too hip. Except for the Seeker, the Irish team can basically crush the Bulgarian team." Charlie ate baked potatoes while playing against his brothers.

"But Krum

"Nothing, but the point of victory between the two sides is whether Krum can catch the Snitch before the Bulgarian team is 150 points behind. The strength of the Bulgarian team, in fact, can't even make it to the semi-finals." Charlie said. Swallowed the potatoes inside, and said solemnly.

"What's going on? What about the British team?" Harry asked eagerly. Quidditch was Harry's most concerned entertainment. He wanted to know everything about Quidditch.

"The Wales team was eliminated by Uganda, the Scotland team was defeated by the Luxembourg team, and the England team was defeated by the Transylvania team." Charlie said sadly.

"Sorry, t...t what?" Harry searched the name of this country in his mind, but found that he had no memory of this strangely named country at all.

"Transylvania. It is located in the central and western part of Romania. It is not a country, but a region. There seems to be some sayings in history." Charlie popularized what Transylvania is for Harry.

Most of the participating teams in the Magic World Cup do not participate in the form of countries, but in the name of regions. The more classic ones are the British team divided into three teams from England, Scotland and Wales, and Romania has Romania and Transiva. The Nia team, Flanders representing the Netherlands, and so on.

This situation is mainly because wizards are isolated from Muggles, and in many cases they do not divide themselves according to the administrative regions of Muggles. For example, Flanders, which is a historical place name in Western Europe, generally refers to the southern part of the Netherlands in Western Europe, and its geographical scope includes Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

If wizards draw a map of the world, it will definitely be very different from the map of Muggles. The "Secrecy Act" interrupts the contact between Muggles and wizards, and also hinders the change of political regions. The Buddha just mentioned Both Landes and Transylvania were once vassal states. They died out in the non-magical world, but they still exist in the magical world.

Bill finally got rid of Mrs. Weasley's harassment - she wanted Bill to take off his earrings and cut his hair short, which was unacceptable to Bill. He and Ginny switched places and sat next to Tom.

"Tom, what did you experience in the desert?" Bill held a plate full of food in one hand and a spoon in the other, looking like a crowd of melons.

Tom:?

"Why do you think of asking this?"

"The desire to explore is one of the necessary qualities for a curse-breaker." Bill smiled a little embarrassedly. "Treasures are not placed in the open space for people to pick up. You know, I am a curse-breaker. Employees also have performance needs.”

Tom took a long swig of the iced blueberry juice in the glass.

Desire to explore? Then you should be a qualified group destruction engine. As we all know, in the ancient ruins, those curious babies are the easiest to get lunch or advance the development of the plot. The desire to explore is an essential quality for a curse-breaker, but only those who can restrain the desire to explore are good spell-breakers.

Tom didn't really want to announce the news about Menis - although the boss said that it would be nice to have someone to play with him, but it depends on the situation. If Tom turns his family's mausoleum into a tourist attraction, he might be punished by Menis.

Menis is just being polite, don't take it seriously. Besides, Tom thought about it now, and felt that the hidden area in the ancient city was too dangerous, and it was not suitable for the curse breaker to take risks.

"A relic left from the ancient Egyptian era is very dangerous." Tom told Bill about his experience in the ancient city.

As for the hanging pyramid, he didn't mention it at all. He just said that the team was attacked by Voldebats and escaped from the ruins of the ancient city after a narrow escape.

"I remember that the guild organized by Professor Dumbledore seems to have issued an investigation mission? Is there any news at the end?"

Bill shook his head, "People from the guild have checked it out. It is a dangerous ruin, and there may be treasures inside. Some of my colleagues are unwilling to give up and want to go in and search for it. The people from the guild are not professional spellbreakers. May be missing something.'

"Good luck." Tom said indifferently.

Eating, drinking and talking, the moon gradually rose into the night sky, and everyone was full.

"My God, is this already the point?" Mrs. Weasley pushed her husband, interrupting his conversation with Mr. Granger.

"You have to get up early tomorrow morning to watch the game! Go to bed!" Mrs. Weasley drove everyone back to their respective bedrooms in an unquestionable tone.

After Tom washed up, he felt woken up by Mrs. Weasley as soon as he hit the pillow. Because you have to go to the door key delivery point on foot, and the door key has a fixed time, so everyone has to get up early.

When the three of Tom were woken up, it was still dark outside!

Mr. Weasley was chatting with Mr. Granger when everyone entered the kitchen. Last night, one of the two wanted to know about the wizarding world, and the other wanted to know about Muggles, so they talked about everything. If it wasn't so convenient, Mr. Arthur would have liked to sleep in Mr. Granger's bedroom at night.

"Look, how do I dress up? We're going to hide our identity when we go, so I matched myself with a suit." Mr. Weasley asked eagerly.

He had chosen the outfit himself, without consulting Mr. Granger. For him, this is like an exam, dressing independently and dressing with the help of Muggles are two different things. You can't ask the teacher for answers in the exam, and neither can you wear it.

Tom stared at Mr. Weasley with sleepy eyes. He was wearing a fat T-shirt on his upper body, a pair of worn-out jeans on his lower body, and a wide belt around his waist. Not to mention, the clothes look like American rednecks.

After getting Harry's affirmative answer, Mr. Weasley showed a happy smile.

Tom's sleepiness dissipated when Hermione appeared. Today she was wearing a very slim pale pink sweater, covered with a small beige suit jacket, and skinny jeans perfectly showed her slender thighs. This suit perfectly outlines the girl's youthful and beautiful body.

If there is no one else in the living room~lightnovelpub.net~ Tom will definitely blow a whistle as a compliment, but now there are so many people here, he can only take a sip of cold water to calm himself down

The team that set out early in the morning was huge, and only Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Charlie and Percy didn't have to get up early in the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley didn't go to the match, and the remaining three would Apparate.

During breakfast, Mr. Weasley introduced the magical spell of Apparition to Harry and Mr. Granger in detail.

Before departure, there was another episode: Mrs. Weasley discovered the fat tongue taffy hidden by Fred and George. This is a sad story.

Mrs. Weasley used her Summoning Charm to find all the sweets. Fred and George's plans go bankrupt.

This change made the atmosphere before departure very tense. At least when Mr. Weasley yelled: "Go, aim for Ferret Mountain!", Fred and George's faces were stern.

Goo! 4.6k big chapter, long and hard!

515 broke out yesterday, I seem to be one of the rare Harry Potter fans who wrote 5,000 words? So proud, eh~