Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 100 Christmas and the Invisibility Cloak

That afternoon, McGuffin went through ninety-nine, eighty-one, ten thousand and eighty-one thousand miles, and worked so hard to break out of the encirclement from all kinds of demons and ghosts...

Ok!

He just fired a firework with his wand, climbed up a tree and waited for rescue.

Met Hagrid before the eight-eyed spider, or who knows what else the hell came along!
——Thanks to Qi Luo and his eight generations of ancestors!

After all, McGuffin returned to Hogwarts Castle safely.

I want to emphasize again, he, McGuffin, must kill Quirrell, the grandson of the turtle, in advance!

However, before that, he wants to find a way to figure out the [Blood Curse] on his body, or quickly complete the task to accumulate talent points to eliminate this hidden danger.

……

On Christmas Eve, McGuffin didn't sleep well, and when he closed his eyes, he dreamed that the garlic-scented purple scarf was entangled with him constantly with its mouth open.

Or maybe he seemed to have entered the classic scene in the movie "The Shining" - he was standing in the white corridor, and his blood was like sea water, rushing over from the passages on both sides of the front.

The last scene in the dream was - a Quirrell double-skin-faced egg floating in the air, chasing McGuffins and running around Hogwarts in the night.

Although at that time he had already realized that he was having a nightmare, but he couldn't escape, the uncontrollable fear in his heart drove him to run aimlessly.

"McGuffin!..."

"McGuffin!" A vague voice came from afar, waking him up.

It was the voice of Ron and Harry!
"Fortunately! Fortunately, I still have such two friends..."

McGuffin finally awoke from the bed with a start.

He rubbed his head to relieve the dizziness and pain caused by the nightmare and not sleeping well.

"McGuffin!?"

"Got it, what's the matter..."

The MacGuffin looked up—

"--Ah ah ah ah ah?"

He couldn't suppress a series of screams in his throat,
If anyone is in the situation of a McGuffin - having a nightmare of being chased by a nutty head all night, waking up to see two heads hanging in the air in front of him, greeting him with a smile.

In this situation, such a reaction should be very normal!
"Hey! What evildoer?"

McGuffin subconsciously threw the pillow behind him directly at Harry and Ron's heads.

In fact, he had already reacted when he threw it.

This is the effect of the invisibility cloak.

"Is it so scary? ... Is it too much?"

Seeing that McGuffin was trembling and sweating, Harry took the Invisibility Cloak off his body in embarrassment, and came to McGuffin's side.

"McGuffin, I was sorry just now! I wanted to show you the Christmas present Harry received, but I didn't expect..." Ron apologized repeatedly.

McGuffin said it didn't matter, and after getting Harry's permission, he touched one of the famous three sacred objects in the original book.

Of course, his cool system did not show the specific parameters of this 'equipment' like other people's thoughtful systems.

But the MacGuffin couldn't help thinking of something else as he touched the silvery fabric.

"Harry, can I borrow your invisibility tonight..." Just as he hesitated to say.

The door of the dormitory was pushed open suddenly.

"Who, who is calling? What happened?"

George Fred and the two of them rushed in, wearing the two black gas masks that McGuffin sent.

Harry quickly hid the Invisibility Cloak under McGuffin's quilt, and it seemed that he didn't want others to know this and kept it a secret.

"Merry Christmas!"

"Look - Harry, you've got a Weasley hand-knitted sweater, too!"

"McGuffin, why don't you wake up—it's Christmas! Hurry up and unwrap your presents, I'm sure you've also received a handmade sweater, maybe there's an 'M' on it."

Sure enough, McGuffin got an orange-red sweater from Mrs. Weasley, which also came with a box of fudge.

He was about to unwrap the Christmas present from home, but in the middle of unwrapping it, a book fell from his hands. Fortunately, Ron caught it quickly.

"Is your sister the Dark Lord?... Such a thick book for Christmas! What kind of text..." Ron looked at the thick book in his hand, which according to McGuffin was a Christmas present from his sister.

Even in the Hogwarts library, such a strange book could not be found, with characters that Ron did not understand on it.
——English-Chinese dictionary.

"Ah, I didn't expect that she would remember to give me a Christmas present this year... Emily's EQ seems to have improved!" McGuffin looked at the dictionary in Ron's hand dumbfounded.

"Ha, is there a note in it?"

Ron Harry and the others flipped through the English-Chinese dictionary, wanting to see what was written in it, but they didn't expect a note to float down.

- It's a Christmas present this year!

In addition, if you don’t use it, please send it back with an owl. I am planning to try to learn Chinese and travel to that ancient oriental country next year.

"..." McGuffin was speechless, as expected, he still shouldn't have any hope for Emily's EQ.

Gifts from other members of the Albert family were undoubtedly much more normal. For example, McGuffin's father and mother gave him a golden pocket watch, and of course there was also a long envelope, which was full of reprimands and dissatisfaction for his sudden cancellation of the plan to go home...

The gift that surprised MacGuffin the most was undoubtedly Hermione's - she gave a little house.

——Mini wooden houses, just like those little houses where Muggle girls pretend to be housewine.

It was written in Hermione's letter that this was the home for Gallon and Sickle.

There are three rooms in the house, two small and one large are covered with straw, hung with all kinds of shiny decorations - golden chains, small transparent crystal balls, and even some kind of glowing magic small square sequins...

McGuffin slipped the two little guys into the door of the small house, and they couldn't wait to rush in, rolling all over the floor, jumping up and down, very unhappy.

--Forehead!

"Stop pulling...you two..."

Fortunately!It seems that Hermione is very familiar with this little house that she bought from nowhere, and the shiny things on it didn't pull the next one no matter how much the two little guys tossed about.

The two little guys finally had a place to rest, and now McGuffin was able to breathe a sigh of relief. He didn't want to take the two little guys to the restaurant again. The last time was a nightmare.

——Two little guys were running around on the long table in Gryffindor, trying to pull something off those shiny golden plates, forks or goblets, making a mess, McGuffin could only apologize to the others, and ran away with a few food in his hand.

"What are you guys doing? Gathering around?" Percy was wearing his 'P' Weasley sweater, and as soon as he entered the dormitory, he saw everyone staring around something.

In the end, while the twin brothers were playing around Percy, McGuffin still didn't say that he wanted to borrow Harry's Invisibility Cloak, and could only wait for another opportunity at night.

……

The Christmas feast is very nice and beautiful.

If there is one more word to describe it, it is delicious and delicious.

A hundred plates of shiny, bulging turkeys, baked potatoes full of spices, sliced ​​baked ham automatically, exquisite fruit arrangements... placed on the four college long tables.

The aroma of the food is mixed together, making the mouth salivate uncontrollably,
Of course, in addition to eating, there are also things to play.

Every few steps on the long table, there will be a lot of colorful firecrackers gathered together. This is the wizard's bag of firecrackers.

Every time it goes off it's like some kind of cannon goes off and a big cloud of blue smoke envelops them, and when the smoke clears, people always find some surprise and unexpected gift inside.

Harry couldn't put it down for this game, and when he finally left, he got a wizard light bulb that didn't light up, a few white mice, and a brand new pair of wizard chess pieces.

Two unlucky brothers, McGuffin and Ron, one got three wizard pointed long hats one after another, and the other almost mixed and matched a pair of women's clothes from inside (women's long hats of various colors, scarves, gloves). Watching Harry's harvest made them more and more discouraged, and turned their attention to rich food.

People are very happy in this atmosphere, both professors and students.

Only McGuffin looked at Quirrell's position on the rostrum with a sad face, which was empty.

Quirrell was now a pustule in McGuffin's heart, which he could neither pick off nor let go.

——At the end of the day, he must quickly resolve the matter of the blood curse, so as not to be so passively controlled by others.

After the banquet, their stomachs were full, and when they walked, their stomachs were almost filled with every step.

So when the twin brothers proposed to take a walk outside the castle, they all agreed, and soon wandered around the corridor of the square courtyard.

"Or let's have a snowball fight!" Fred suddenly suggested.

"No, the prefects still have work to do..." Percy puffed out his chest, showing off his...

"...Where's my prefect badge?" Without thinking about it, Percy immediately raised his head angrily to look for the two culprits.

Unexpectedly, a snowball hit him head-on, covering his face.

George Fred didn't know when he had already run into the square courtyard, holding the snowball, 'ammunition' kept flying towards several people.

Percy immediately ran inside, pinched the snowball, and returned the favor.

A snowball fight came out of nowhere.

The few people had so much fun that even McGuffin temporarily forgot about borrowing Harry's Invisibility Cloak tonight and going to the restricted section of the library to find out about the blood curse.

Holding a snowball, Percy chased the twins all over the place, trying to find out from them where his prefect badge was.

It's a pity that he is alone. "Under normal circumstances, Big Snowball" can't deal with two like-minded twins anyway.

So he cast a spell to make Snowball run around the field chasing the twins.

"Say! Where did the two of you hide my prefect badge?"

Percy swung his wand and directed the snowball over the twins' heads, 'bombing' back and forth.

"Percy, how can you play like this, it's not interesting... Ah!..." George pulled out his wand angrily as a snowball fell into his neck.

George and Fred teamed up to use magic to cast a few snowballs like Percy, so that the snowballs started chasing Percy and smashing around.

Not to be outdone, Percy turned a snowball into a big snowball with a diameter of half a meter and ran after the two of them, but it turned out that McGuffin and the three of them suffered tragically and were involved.

In the end, this magical version of the snowball fight ended with the ancient magic cast by McGuffin—the ancient magic method that Quirrell taught in the past two days. According to his thoughts, he used snow to transform into a baseball server similar to the one in his previous life.

He even tried to cast an activation spell on this thing, allowing it to automatically collect snow and make snowballs.

So the most terrifying snowball machine started, ending this 'magic version' of snowball fights.

"Tut-chug-chug-chug!"

The 'Automatic Gatling Gun-Snowball Maker-Ball Launcher' is continuously spewing fist-sized snowballs in the direction of Percy and the twin brothers at a speed of 10 balls per second.

Without their bells and whistles, there are no snowballs flying around, no half-meter big snowballs.

There are only speed, quantity, and continuous...

"Tug-chug-chug-chug!"

Ron and Harry stood there dumbfounded, watching the three of Percy in a panic trying to use spells to stop the snowball machine from shooting back and forth.

"McGuffin, stop quickly, stop, don't hit..." Before the twin brothers could finish speaking, they were—

'Tut-chug chug chug! ' was interrupted.

Moreover, this 'Gatling' was designed to attack several people's buttocks.

Seeing that the situation was a little out of control, the three of McGuffin wanted to stop the machine, but they didn't expect the 'gun muzzle' to turn towards 'our own people'.

"I—chug chug..."

Several people clutched their buttocks and fled in despair.

The magical version of the snowball fight ended hastily like this.And this 'snowball trigger' then sprayed a sort of 'chrysanthemum bomb' at everyone passing by.

It lasted for most of the afternoon, until the McGuffin's magic power was exhausted and the machine turned into a pile of snow, this matter was considered over.

Afterwards, they were shivering and their clothes were wet (especially around the hips of their trousers)
Huddled by the fire to keep warm, smoking clothes.

More serious, completely unwearable clothes, such as Percy, simply went back to the dormitory and changed into a pair of pants.

"McGuffin, who did you learn from? This magic is really cool!" Fred sat in the seat closest to the fire.

"It's so cool!" said George, sitting down in the armchair next to the McGuffin.

"How cool! It's really terrible! It's extremely dangerous...McGuffin, why do you think it's a bit like...that kind of ancient magic that is easy to get out of control..." Percy walked over and looked at McGuffin suspiciously and said.

He had just finished changing his trousers and was carefully cleaning his prefect badge with a piece of purple velvet
(Percy finally asks the twins where the badge is hidden).

"This is the magic that Professor Quirrell taught me in the last two days..." McGuffin said vaguely. He knew that the Ministry of Magic or Hogwarts itself did not encourage students to learn these dangerous ancient magics, especially the lower grades. "Harry, do you want to try the new wizard chess piece you got today?...Didn't you say that Seamus's chess set was always noisy and always lost to Ron?"

After speaking, McGuffin tapped the teacup on the small round table next to him with his wand.

Immediately, refreshments consisting of sandwiches, pancakes, cakes, and puddings appeared on the top, steaming hot and full of aroma.

McGuffin wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and finally turned the attention of the group of people to the food and the wizard chess battle.

While eating tea, Harry confidently started a wizard chess battle with Ron, but under Percy's blind command, he lost miserably!
At the end of the day, McGuffin almost forgot about the blood curse for the first time, and he hasn't been so relaxed and happy for a long time.

After eating and drinking, the heavy sleepiness continued to increase on the eyelids, and several people said goodbye and returned to their dormitories.

Ron fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed, and even snored.

This is a good time.

If Ron knew that he would definitely propose a night trip to the school together, it would likely disrupt McGuffin's plan to go to the library to find information.

So McGuffin asked Harry if he could borrow his invisibility cloak while feeding Gallon and Sickle some food.

　Reworked near the end of the chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)