At night, Harry finally walked out of the bedroom.

At this moment, Hogwarts has been enveloped by a happy atmosphere.

Professor Flitwick has led the students to dot the entire Hogwarts castle with ribbons, colored **** and various decorations, and even the stone statues and armors that used to be stern and solemn in the corridors have been destroyed. Wearing a Christmas hat, she looks much cuter.

Today is Christmas Eve.

On this happy day, even the careful Filch wouldn't keep an eye on the students who violated the rules, so everyone had no scruples.

The students in the lower grades were running around in the hallway and fighting, while the older ones gathered together in twos and threes, chatting happily, and from time to time put on a few fireworks.

Although there are not many students and professors who choose to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, they still spread laughter to every corner of Hogwarts Castle.

In this happy atmosphere, Harry kept his head down, his body filled with confusion and overwhelm, and he looked lost.

Right now, the space anchor given to him by the French wizard named Gerard is hidden in his chest.

He spent the whole afternoon struggling with the ravings in his mind, and thinking about whether he should follow Gerrard's plan or not.

This high-intensity thinking and mental confrontation made him look dazed. He only remembered that he had an agreement with Snape to go to Professor Slughorn's Christmas party at the Slug Club to share dinner .

He walked crookedly and staggered all the way. Fortunately, the surrounding classmates still rejected him, almost to the point of avoiding him when they saw him. Unhindered' arrived on the fifth floor of Hogwarts.

Here is the meeting point that Professor Slughorn gave him.

Harry actually couldn't understand, why wasn't the Christmas dinner held in the previous Potions classroom?

Slughorn had obviously dressed up that classroom very well, and it was almost the best banquet venue he had ever seen other than Hogwarts Hall.

Is there anything more beautiful on the fifth floor of Hogwarts than the Potions Professor?

With doubts, Link pushed open the door of an abandoned classroom.

Then he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The classroom that was supposed to be full of dust inside the door has now become a new look. Two long tables covered with white cloths are placed on both sides of the center of the classroom. In the classroom, or the innermost side of the banquet hall, the There is a huge Christmas tree, which is almost covered with Christmas decorations such as ribbons, candy canes, colored **** and light strips. The surrounding is even more magical, and there will be snowflakes from time to time. Fall slowly.

The golden light emanating from the Christmas tree is connected with several giant chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, making the whole banquet hall splendid!

Harry, who was standing at the door, was almost stunned by this scene.

"Harry! You're finally here, come in quickly, don't stay in a daze at the door!"

Slughorn's voice suddenly sounded, pulling Harry back from his sluggish state.

It was only then that he realized that he was not the only guest arriving in this huge banquet hall.

In addition to him, Professor Slughorn and several other members of the Slug Club are also there, including the rest - Link!

This made him panic a little, and said to Slughorn:

"Ah, professor, I'm sorry I didn't notice you."

"It doesn't matter, it's completely understandable. After all, this banquet hall is indeed quite amazing, right? I still remember the first time I went to the banquet at the senior's house. It was a member of the Burst family. The Burst family was still at the time. It's a heyday, so their family's banquet was very good, that scene, tsk tsk, I was just like you now, I was almost terrified!"

Hearing what Slughorn said, Harry finally relaxed a little bit, but it was only a little bit, the tension was still buried deep in his heart, and it was sent to every part of the body through the blood vessels through the heartbeat and blood flow. corners, causing his muscles to remain tense.

The only thing he's happy about now is that Link and Emily are both entangled by the rest of the Slug Club members who want to flatter.

Otherwise, if Link came up to greet him, he felt that he might faint from nervousness.

On the other side, Slughorn saw that Harry didn't reply for a long time, and said with some dissatisfaction:

"Hey, Harry, what's the matter with you today? It's so rude, I'm still waiting for you to ask questions about this banquet hall! Can't you satisfy my old man's vanity?"

Harry was taken aback by the sound, and he almost subconsciously followed Slughorn's words and said:

"Then... how did this banquet hall come to be?"

"It's very simple, you just need to use some relationships."

A smug smile appeared on Slughorn's face, "The first is the venue. I got the right to use this abandoned classroom through Link's relationship. You should also understand this, Dumbledore. He is simply a cheapskate, even if it is just an abandoned classroom, if you ask him to apply for it, it will definitely not succeed.

Then there is the cleaning and renovation of the interior of the classroom.

I leave most of this work to the house-elves. These cute little guys were ecstatic to hear I was giving them new jobs. However, I was personally responsible for the placement of the Traceless Stretch Spell here.

Of course, manpower alone is not enough.

Most of the materials for the renovation were sponsored by other members of the Slug Club, such as these chandeliers, which were sent by Buck Leighton. This guy is a very famous magic lamp businessman who has risen recently. He sent the lamps through another Slug Club member and attempted to join the Slug Club. And these tables and chairs…”

Slughorn gave Harry a detailed introduction to every object in the banquet hall.

After this operation, Harry's mouth opened wider and wider, and finally reached a state of sluggishness that could hardly be closed.

He didn't really understand the grand words that Slughorn said.

The only thing he could understand was that, except for the Traceless Stretching Charm in the banquet hall, almost every piece of furniture and manpower here was bought by Slughorn for free.

In Harry's opinion, this can be described as incredible.

At the same time, he also has a new and complete understanding of the network of the Slug Club.

There are not many members of the slug club.

But these people are in various industries in the magic world, and they generally hold high positions.

Through these people, Slughorn can connect with countless other peripheral personnel, and through these people, he can accomplish his purpose with great speed.

This cobweb-like interpersonal relationship can be described as omnipotent!

Harry was not very popular since he was a child, and Sirius, who was in close contact with him later, was also a loner, so this was the first time he saw the power of interpersonal relationships, and was deeply shocked by this power.

Slughorn was very pleased with Harry's expression.

He could see that Harry was really stunned.

This kind of performance satisfied his vanity more than hypocritical flattery, and it also made him laugh out loud.

At this moment, the door of the banquet hall was opened again.

Harry's old acquaintance Ernie walked in comfortably, heading straight for Slughorn and Harry.

Gu Gao</span> "Look, Professor Slughorn, and Harry, you guys are so bright today, so handsome!"

As Ernie spoke, he opened his arms and gave Slughorn and Harry a big hug, "It's great to see you, oh yes, Professor Slughorn, I'm still for you I brought a present, I hope you will accept it!"

Ernie took out a large gift box wrapped in Christmas confetti.

This is actually a Christmas present.

But it's a bit embarrassing for the younger generation to give Christmas gifts to the elders, so giving it on Christmas Eve is a barely feasible method.

"Really? This is for me?"

Slughorn was a little flattered. He took the gift box and opened it while talking.

The next thing that appeared in front of Harry and the others was a set of potion making tools.

These included a small cauldron, a pair of dragon leather gloves, and a whole set of knives for handling materials.

"These are all made of mithril alloy. No matter what kind of potions are used to make them, they will hardly suffer any wear or corrosion. The most important thing is that this tool is the potion master of two hundred years ago. Kun Used by Reese!"

Ernie tilted his head slightly and introduced with some smugness.

Slughorn was also very face-saving, he took a breath and said:

"Quinris? I'm his fan! Ernie, I really like your gift, thank you!"

"No, as long as you like it."

The two continued to chat for a while before Ernie went to Link's side again.

It can be seen that he actually wanted to meet Link for a long time, but he reluctantly stayed here because of Professor Slughorn's face.

Fortunately, Slughorn saw this clearly, so it didn't delay him for too long.

At this time, Harry felt a little uncomfortable.

Now that Ernie gave a gift and he didn't, it was so embarrassing.

This made him restless and wanted to find a gift to give.

It's a pity that he had been in a trance all afternoon before, and now he doesn't even have a traceless stretching spell bag on him except the space anchor given by Gerald.

And Professor Slughorn seemed to see Harry's embarrassment.

He smiled slightly and said:

"Harry, you don't have to. I'm not very interested in things like gifts. These are unnecessary, and you don't need to be embarrassed."

Harry pouted when he heard this.

Professor Slughorn's reputation for petty greed has long spread throughout Hogwarts.

I heard that even if you gave him a bag of durians as a gift, he would happily accept it, but now he says he doesn't like gifts anymore?

Who would believe this nonsense?

Harry felt that Slughorn was displeased with him because he didn't give him a present.

Slughorn also knew that Harry didn't believe it, so he raised the potion tool with a smile and said:

"Do you think this is of any use to me?"

Harry shook his head decisively this time.

Having learned NWET-level potions from Slughorn for so long, he is quite familiar with potions.

So it is also clear that almost every senior potionist has a set of tools that they are used to, and only when they use that set of tools can their strength be fully displayed.

Precious potion tools are really not that important to senior potions, and the tool that best suits them is perfect.

"So you should understand that this thing is not of high value to me, so why should I choose to accept it?"

Slughorn asked himself again and answered, "It's very simple, because this is Ernie's will. If I don't accept it, then Ernie will not only be unhappy, but will be very frightened, thinking that something offends me. .And now that I accept it, he is considered a concern. At the same time, I will give him a gift in return, although that gift will not be too precious either.

But you help me, I help you, you give me something, and I give you a gift in return. This is a relationship between people.

The so-called interpersonal relationships are constructed through such exchanges.

So you may just think that I just accepted Ernie's gift, but what you don't see is that I actually gave Ernie an opportunity to establish a personal relationship with me.

This is the science of being a man, Harry, you have a lot to learn. "

Harry nodded thoughtfully.

This is the first time he has received a similar education, and it feels very novel.

At the same time, he also felt that this was a very useful knowledge. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

After all, Slughorn had just shown him the full experience of prostituting a banquet hall for free by exploiting personal relationships.

Harry thought maybe he should find something for Slughorn as well.

In the other party's words, this is called building a relationship opportunity.

In this way, he can be considered to be able to integrate into Slughorn's personal relationship.

And just when he was thinking so, he suddenly remembered a cold voice behind him and said:

"Professor Slughorn, don't misunderstand your children, especially Harry. Your system can't do anything except make people good at business, and it's just tasteless."

Harry was startled, and turned his head suddenly to find that Snape had been standing behind him at some point.

Slughorn was also a little angry when he heard the words, he shook his head and said:

"Being good at business is also an ability. The past Ministers of Magic were all good at business. According to you, are they all villains?"

"Sophistry!"

Snape sneered, "But I'm too lazy to argue with you, as long as you don't instill that trick on my students. Especially Pote, whose brain the size of a walnut can't stand you. That's cheating."

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