Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 63 The Eve of Halloween

Thursday, October 10st, Halloween.

A sweet smell of roasted pumpkin wafted through the corridors of Hogwarts.

Floating in the dining room, there are many strangely shaped pumpkin lanterns, and smaller lanterns are also placed on the four long tables, and there are still unlit candles inside.

The walls are also scattered with all kinds of ghost masks. Unlike the Muggle world, these are all made of real monster images.

They are more like the first version of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", with bloody, dark, hideous and terrifying images.

——Designed to scare little wizards!

The whole of Hogwarts has become very festive.The little wizards played scary jokes with each other, discussing how to do some interesting magic jokes during Halloween to scare others.

(Halloween centuries ago, wizarding families frightened Muggles by walking the streets and casting harmless little spells that weren't easy for Muggles to spot, and it was the only time of year when they could do magic in front of Muggles.)
(It is said that Halloween is so popular in the Muggle world, which has a lot to do with the promotion of wizards with this kind of mind)

——Of course, the Muggle Protection Law hadn't been established at that time, and even the Ministry of Magic or other international joint organizations hadn't been formally established.

Halloween has been passed down to the present, and the Ministry of Magic of various countries has banned this practice, so now it has completely become a festival for little wizards in the wizarding world.

They thought of each other's scariest magical jokes, and they couldn't get enough of scaring the asses of their best friends out of each other.

Since the twin brothers came to Hogwarts, the annual Hogwarts most creative Halloween scare award has mostly belonged to the two of them.

If there is such an award!
But this festive atmosphere certainly does not belong to the isolated MacGuffin Albert.

Of course, he is not interested in this kind of jokes between little brats, and the main goal now is to improve his magic.

With the progress of the course and the mastery of the theoretical knowledge of various subjects, McGuffin gradually became more comfortable with homework. Even without the assistance of the sand sculpture system, it made him a little more relaxed.

Most importantly now, though, he faced a serious problem.

According to the development of the original plot - after the Halloween dinner is over halfway, the trio of "Tie Hanhans" will truly officially meet and complete the first achievement in their lives. They will face the first elite monster - "Halloween Troll".

After that, they will become friends, and the iron-headed Wan trio will start their daily life of fighting against Voldemort every year.

The three of Harry can work around with the iron halo on.

And now his relationship with several people will almost certainly be involved, McGuffin doesn't want to try whether his head is strong enough.

"Please, the last thing I need right now is attention!"

McGuffin is determined to stop Ron and Hermione from clashing.As for the iron triangle combination, I can slowly bring the three of them together in the days to come.

In the Charms class, Professor Flitwick announced that the students, in pairs, could start trying to float the feathers on the table.

Standing on top of the pile of books, he screamed the MacGuffin's name, "MacGuffin Albert! Come and show me your [Levitation Charm]."

It seems that Professor Flitwick still remembers the incident before he started school.

"Okay, let it take its course!"

McGuffin came to the left of the pile of books, next to Professor Flitwick.

And Hermione and Ron were assigned together by inertia in the plot. As expected, the relationship between the two is more tense now than in the original plot, and they are simply sworn enemies.

Anger that wanted to turn each other into ashes spewed out of each other's eyes.

It's hard to say who hates each other more.

Hermione couldn't understand that Ron was not punished for violating the school rules, but became a celebrity among the little wizards because of hosting the dueling club.

And Ron was naturally full of resentment towards this guy who found faults horizontally and vertically.

"Okay, let's see how McGuffin casts spells, and pay attention to his wrist movements—swipe and shake, and remember to cast spells accurately."

"Yingadim Leviosa!——Remember the lesson of Wizard Baruffio, I don't want to see you turn something into a cow standing on your chest."

"Pronounces every letter exactly! Especially the 'f'."

Professor Flitwick asked McGuffin to float many books next to him in the air, and while teaching other little wizards, he instructed him to cast a spell to move the books freely in the air.

This is an advanced application of this spell.Further, there is a high-order transformation application of this magic and constant on the broomstick, so it can fly into the sky and move quickly.It is even rumored that powerful wizards rely on this spell to fly independently in the sky.

Under the guidance of Professor Flitwick, the experience value of this skill in the sand sculpture system is frantically swiping the screen, and the skill experience value of [Levitation Curse] on the panel has greatly changed.

On the other hand, Hermione and Ron really hit it off.

"You did something wrong again, why didn't you listen to me?"

"Watch my hand movements!"

Hermione raised her head proudly, repeatedly admonishing Ron.

Ron's face looked like he had swallowed a toad alive, red turned green, blue turned purple, and he was in a bad mood.

"See it!" Hermione triumphantly lifted the feather into the sky.

"What's so great, look at McGuffin!" Ron mocked unconvinced.

After Professor Flitwick clapped his hands and praised Hermione for successfully casting the spell, the situation became more serious.

When the get out of class was over, the two of them had to have a "wizard duel" ahead of time at the same place to compete for life and death.

And McGuffin watched everything happen in the classroom, really powerless.

Because after Professor Flitwick instructed McGuffin to further demonstrate the advanced transformation application of [Levitation Curse], he happily kept him by his side to discuss the 'details of the duel contest' and his preparations for the opening duel with Malfoy.

Professor Flitwick talked about the various bad habits that appeared in the All-British Competition, as well as the preparations he made for it back then, and the dance spell he invented at the end.

MacGuffin had a hard time coping. Except for Snape's faultfinding, he barely taught MacGuffin about wizard duels, and he knew nothing about it.

He didn't take this duel competition seriously at all.

After accidentally slipping the tongue, after knowing that Professor Quirrell had no private teaching with him at all.

Professor Flitwick appeared very agitated, talking to himself and jumping a little bit.

"Too irresponsible! Too irresponsible! Even a student who only teaches for one year can't do this!"

——It seems that all the professors at Hogwarts probably know about Voldemort's curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

McGuffin thought to himself.

"It's such a glorious thing in the dueling competition...I absolutely don't allow such an unfair thing to happen in the opening match." Professor Flitwick rambled on, talking to himself.

Finally, an old notebook with a strange style was found from a large pile of books behind him.

"The dueling contest is such a glorious thing, I absolutely will not allow such an unfair thing to happen in the opening match." Professor Flitwick finally found an old notebook with a strange style from a large pile of books.

The notebook looks like the size of two palms.

The cover is like some kind of bark, rough and rich in texture, but when you look closely, it has a metallic luster, and it feels like some kind of leather, which is very strange.

Professor Flitwick stared at the notebook and fell into the previous memories, he stood there for a moment and finally lent it to McGuffin
"I hope you can prove your glory in the opening match of the wizard duel. The opening match is almost the most important part of the duel competition besides the final competition..." Professor Flitwick talked about the various rules and knowledge in the duel building.

It seems that he really loves wizard duels very much.

——This notebook is the record that Professor Flitwick made for the All-British Duel Tournament when he was young. It contains the various spells he often used to win the Duel Tournament, and even includes the experimental record when he created the new dance spell.

"Professor, this is too precious." McGuffin refused again and again after knowing it, and finally accepted it under Professor Flitwick's repeated requests.

"Thank you so much, Professor!"

——McGuffin is a little bit stuck now, can't he refuse Professor Flitwick on the spot, saying that he just wants to get by and doesn't care about this duel contest at all?
Seeing that Professor Flitwick attached so much importance to the honor of the dueling contest, he even lent him his notebook with precious memories.

This made McGuffin say that he didn't care about this duel anyway, so he could only thank him again and again and accepted the notebook, saying that he would make good use of the above knowledge.

After class, McGuffin hurriedly thanked Professor Flitwick and said goodbye, and then came to Hermione to try to mediate the conflict between her and Ron.

He didn't want to turn from two idiots fighting stupid giant monsters to three idiots wreaking havoc in the bathroom.

The corridor is crowded with people, and everyone is struggling to walk through.

Not far ahead, Ron kept complaining to Harry. He subconsciously wanted to pull Hermione away, but it was too late.

"She's a nightmare, I don't know how long the MacGuffin can take her!" Ron said to Harry.

Hermione's face changed drastically when she heard it, and she immediately walked forward, and bumped into Harry and Ron hard.

McGuffin had no time to say anything, only to see tears streaming down her face.

And it seemed that Ron knew it too, with a trace of uneasiness on his face.

McGuffin caught up and moved closer to the two of them.

"Hermione heard what you said, come with me and apologize to her! Ron!" McGuffin persuaded, "What you just said was a bit too much!"

"So what? I think she's noticed too, she doesn't have a friend except you." Although he was uneasy, Ron pretended to be indifferent.

McGuffin tried a few more words of persuasion, and saw that Hermione was leaving quickly, so he didn't say much, and hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)