Hogwarts Slytherin

In his ear, Hilde spoke again, interrupting Reggie's thoughts.

"By the way, Mr. Duke, I want to ask you something." Hilde asked, "Actually, I didn't prepare a dress for the ball this time..."

"So, could you please Mr. Duke to accompany me to Diagon Alley to pick out a dress?"

Diagon Alley?Reggie raised his eyebrows, "Hogwarts is usually under closed management and you can only leave during holidays. Now is a special period. You can customize your dress from the newspapers."

"But I don't know and have never subscribed to the British clothing press."

"Do you think I will order it?" Reggie looked surprised.

Hilde suddenly smiled, and her cold temperament became much softer and more lively: "For some reason, I just believe that Mr. Duco's aesthetics must be unconventional."

Even though Reggie was wary of her, he had to admit that what she said was very reasonable.

The blood-red robe outlined her figure very gracefully. Reggie visually measured the size of the other party, "I believe that if the person is Miss Hilde, any dress will never fall into the cliché."

******

Time always passes quickly in everyone's anticipation. When the ceiling of the auditorium is once again filled with mistletoe, the Christmas that everyone has been anticipating is finally coming.

In addition to the Slug Club's Yule Ball, Hogwarts itself also holds the annual Senior Yule Ball, referred to as the British Sub-Adult Wizarding Matchmaking Convention.

There are many young wizards from ordinary families and Muggle families in other colleges, and many of them have not learned ballroom dancing.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the deans of Hogwarts need to provide relevant dance teaching to the students of their own houses in the week before Christmas every year.

Therefore, Dean Slughorn, who was always used to bringing in private goods, simply brought the club's junior students to study together.

"Children, come, follow me!" Professor Slughorn took the hand of Principal Ilvermorny, "Take the hand of your dance partner."

Reggie saw Vivian's figure in the crowd not far away, and his dance partner was the seventh-grade transfer student whom he had rejected in the lounge before - Lelian Hamilton.

"How did the two of them get together?" His eyes stayed on the two of them for a long time, and then he immediately felt the cold air coming from Hilde's body.

Reggie immediately withdrew his gaze and stared at other girls in front of his dance partner. It was indeed a very ungentlemanly behavior.

All students, under the guidance of Professor Slughorn, took the hands of their female partners and posed.

The music is ringing.

At the same time, other colleges also have different situations.

The Ravenclaw students were dancing and discussing whether the anti-A state could stop Muggle bullets.

The Gryffindor band turned into the "Naughty Elf" group's singing and dancing at some point.

Hufflepuff is under the command of Dean Sprout, and receives one-on-one guidance.

When James learned that Lily's dance partner was Snape, he was furious on the spot. He grabbed his wand and wanted to teach this despicable person a lesson.

Lupine struggled to hug him around the waist, trying to reason with him and calm down the angry lion.

Sirius just said lightly: "Let him go, Remus. Evans will not be angry about this and just throw himself into his arms."

Potter, who had been struggling just now, was immediately discouraged when he heard this.

The entire raiders were making suggestions for his "Pursuit of Evans". They bought a large number of newspapers and periodicals such as "The Cold Witch Falls in Love with Me", "Twelve Ways to Conquer Witches", and "The Secret to Conquering Witches" etc.

Among them, the first one is: Don’t do things to make the other party angry.

And right now, there's no doubt about it.

Beating Snape would obviously make Lily very, very angry.

What's more, Sirius glanced at his brother who had fallen silent.

He held back another unspoken sentence: "Brother, you may not be able to beat that little poisonous snake."

******

Professor Slughorn is, in a sense, a very fair teacher. He always treats his favorite students equally.

Even in the sensitive moment, as the Dean of Slytherin, he will not deny the talents of students because of their different houses. Therefore, even Gryffindor has many outstanding students who have received invitations from the Slug Club. Christmas party invitation.

Boys' dress selection is relatively simple. Most of them choose black suits. They just try to show their uniqueness in some small details.

For example, cuffs made by goblins, rings owned by Ravenclaw himself, brooches passed down by great-great-great-grandfather, etc.

Girls have already begun to order a large number of beauty potions, hair potions, and review various spells to make them look more beautiful in order to have the perfect body for the prom.

The cold wind blew through the silent corridor, and the entire corridor was whimpering and whispering, as if telling secrets buried deep under the stone slabs.

"That's why I prefer Slytherin students." Professor Slughorn waved his wand and placed the expensive bottle of honey hazelnut wine on the top of his cupboard.

"Rigi, this is too expensive! Don't give it away next time. You will definitely do great things. These Ravenclaw bookworms, they always say that I favor the students of my own college. Hey, I I think they should really learn how to read people's hearts."

Slughorn opened several gifts in succession, all of which were books given by Ravenclaw students. After a glance, he casually put the trees into the bottom cabinet.

Reggie smiled brightly and shook his head: "I didn't buy it intentionally. I just saw it and thought you would like it. You know, you have helped me a lot, I mean in every aspect."

Bookworm?Ha, my dean's words are still too tactful.

"Nerd" is how the students at Hogwarts describe Ravenclaw.

Read people's hearts!It's just a matter of following one's own preferences.

Hobbies that can be solved with gold galleons are already the easiest ones for a wizard of Professor Slughorn's level.

Furthermore... Reggie lowered his eyes slightly and thought to himself: "Ravenclaws are not nerds. People who are not familiar with them don't know that Rita Skeeter and Gilderoy Lockhart are just human beings." They are as good as each other. Besides, I’m afraid there are only a few people who don’t know about Professor Slughorn’s hobbies. They don’t care, they just don’t want to.”

On the contrary, Reggie felt very comfortable getting along with Professor Slughorn. Very early on, he had learned not to have too high expectations of anyone.The so-called good relationship, whether it is a teacher-student relationship, is nothing more than a mutually beneficial relationship. Only when everyone is a vested interest can a relationship become more long-term and reliable.

These thoughts passed away in a flash. He didn't need feelings without benefits, let alone trust them.

After hearing what he said, Professor Slughorn's smile on his face became even brighter, "Of course, the main reason is because you are very good and smart yourself, Reggie. I always advise Albus and others to give you such a little kid." Wizards receive more preferential treatment, but he believes that all young wizards should be treated equally."

Reggie nodded in agreement: "Principal Dumbledore is a great wizard, but in my opinion, Professor, you are not only powerful but also far-sighted. If you run for the principalship of Hogwarts, I will give my full support."

"Oh! Reggie, I don't want to get into trouble."

Slughorn's smile grew brighter, and the flesh on his belly trembled.

Ruiji was a little helpless.

It seemed that his words greatly pleased his dean, and even Reggie couldn't bear to look at his reaction.

In no mood?

Is that what you don’t want to do?

She said she didn't want to, but her body was still very honest.

Basically, whenever Reggie asked, Professor Slughorn would give him a note of approval for the restricted area.

Today he came to the dean's office, again for approval of the restricted book section, and took advantage of the opportunity to personally deliver Christmas gifts.

As always, Professor Slughorn almost didn't ask him what books he needed to read in the restricted area. In addition, for so long, Reggie was obviously a very reassuring good student and had never caused any trouble.

Of course, in Professor Slughorn's eyes, fights and the like were obviously not troubles, but just "little jokes" between classmates.

So, I don’t know if it was because of the honey hazelnut wine, but this time Professor Slughorn gave him five approval notes with a stroke of his pen.

Professor Slughorn handed him the approval note and joked: "Take it, kid, although I am happy to see you in the office, we cannot let our geniuses delay the pursuit of knowledge because of such trivial matters. .”

After Reggie got the approval slip, he didn't rush to the library, but started studying the magic pattern circuit on the stairs of the castle.

It's just that these are too profound, and they can't be cracked so easily.

When his plan failed, he began to wander around the castle again, tapping at some blank walls from time to time.

No one dares to say that they have discovered all the secrets of Hogwarts Castle. There may be some secret passages that have never been discovered.

Many of the portraits in the castle also knew him, and they all commented on his strange behavior.

The portrait saw Reggie suddenly stopping in front of a wall, as if he had discovered something.

Sir Cadogan craned his neck, wishing he could slip out of the frame.

Reggie tapped with his wand again.

"Hey, boy! What are you looking at!" Sir Cadogan shouted urgently, waving his troll-core wand.

Reggie was thinking slightly, stood up and walked to Sir Cadogan's portrait: "Sir, do you know which portrait has a secret passage behind it?"

Sir Cadogan, who was still shouting just now, ran back to the pony wearing armor as if he was being strangled. After struggling to climb up, he waved his hand to Reggie: "Damn brat, you can't Ask me that question and Sir Ben won't tell you."

"Well, to hear it from former students, if there's anyone who knows the most about Hogwarts Castle, it's Sir Cadogan."

Sir Cadogan puffed up his chest proudly: "Of course, for example, the wall you just stood on -"

Just as he was about to get a clue, a strangely dressed ghost suddenly appeared above the corridor, and soon he noticed Reggie.

"Oh oh oh ~ Slytherin's bad brat!" He flew around Reggie, "What bad idea did you come here to do?!"

With a malicious smile, he glanced at the portrait opposite: "Silly Cadogan! Let me step on you, the evil-hearted kid is cheating Silly Cadogan again! He wants to get from Silly Cadogan Where are you going to cheat?"

Peeves flew upside down, his body stuck in the wall above his head, and hanging above Reggie's head.

He deliberately made a long voice and made a corner, then moved some distance away, and suddenly took out something from behind and threw it towards Reggie.

"Wadi Wasi!"

The object thrown by Peeves quickly turned around and flew into his mouth. Peeves' laughter suddenly stopped, he pointed at Reggie tremblingly, and then suddenly shrank into the wall and disappeared. figure.

When he turned around, Sir Cadogan in the portrait and the pony under his crotch were gone.

I don’t know if he was so angry that he went to chase Peeves to a duel.

******

The day came for the dance.

The dance will be held in the evening, but mistletoe can be seen everywhere not only in the auditorium, but also outside the castle.

Before they even stepped into the auditorium, Reggie and the others had already heard the faint singing inside.

Silentnight, holynight,

Alliscalm, allisbright

roundyonvirginmotherandchild,

Holyinfantsotenderandmild

……

What you see when you go in is the chorus of fiery red and dividends.

This song is a Muggle song.

Gryffindor has many little Muggle wizards, and the beautiful country of Ilvermorny is due to the environment. The wizards there have deep exchanges with Muggles, and their magical world has even been infiltrated by Muggles.

The dance only started at seven o'clock in the evening, but starting from noon, the boys were sensitive to the fact that there were many fewer female classmates, especially the senior female classmates.

Girls always spend a lot of time dressing up, regardless of whether they are wizards or muggles.

They seemed to have disappeared from the castle, and they were all busy making the most elaborate preparations for the most perfect image in the dormitory.

But this has nothing to do with Regis. The Yule Ball at the Slug Club is an hour later than the Yule Ball at Hogwarts.

This means they have more time to prepare.

Slytherin dormitory.

"The dance won't start until half an hour, why are you starting to change clothes now?" Anthony, who was sitting at the table watching "Poisonous Magic", turned to look at Reggie and said.

At this moment, Reggie had already changed into tonight's dress, and the whole process only took less than 10 minutes.

He was wearing a simple Italian shirt underneath, with the cuffs slightly rolled up, and a pocket watch hanging outside the coat. The finishing touch was the earrings with a faint green light on his ears.

It makes him look low-key, luxurious and aura.

While Anthony was asking questions, Reggie was styling his hair with a comb that was constantly waving through his hair.

He gave Anthony a disdainful look: "Come on, Anthony, don't say such stupid things again. It will reveal that you have never dated a girl. Everyone knows that you should pick up a girl half an hour in advance."

It's a pity that this wave of Ruigi is just trying to wink at a blind man, so he's working in vain.

Anthony didn't listen to what he was saying at all, but stared at the comb above his head as if he had discovered a new world: "Wait! What is this? Can you lend me this thing? No - teach me what spell to use. , why didn’t you tell me such a good thing earlier!”

Anthony has longer hair and he fights a fierce battle with it every morning.

Reggie: "..."

Some people are destined to live alone.