The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

The twelve Christmas trees in the auditorium are arranged symmetrically at equal distances, and each pair is decorated differently.

Professor Flitwick was standing in the corner, blowing out a string of glittering golden bubbles with his wand, and levitating them to hang from the tree Hagrid had just moved.

The other tree that is symmetrical to it also has many small animal ice sculptures with sharp edges and corners. It is presumed that the same decoration will be used here later.

"There's only one day left before the holiday, Ron, Harry, we should hurry up and go to the library." Hermione whispered.

"It's time for dinner, and you guys still have to go to the library?" Hagrid was a little surprised.

"We're trying to figure out who Nicole Flamel really is."

"If you'd just tell us, Hagrid, we wouldn't have to look so hard."

"No, I absolutely can't say it again." Hagrid planned to hold the last bottom line.

"Sissy, have you heard of this name?"

"I haven't heard of it." She pretended to be clueless and smiled awkwardly. "I read books that are biased. I have almost never read the history of characters. You should ask Hermione for advice."

Let them find it by themselves, she thought, and it would be a good thing to be able to flip through books that they might never read in their entire lives.

Hermione took out a folded piece of parchment from her inner pocket, and when she unfolded it, she could see that there were a bunch of book titles densely listed on it, all of which she guessed might be related to it.

"Hey, when I'm away during the holidays, you can search for the above ones first, and if you haven't found them after you've searched, then go to the nearby bookshelves to look for others."

"so much……"

Just reading the title gives me a headache.

"You guys have a whole vacation, don't just play around." Hermione stuffed the paper into Harry's hands, and said seriously, "I hope you've searched all the books on it when I come back , if you're lucky, you might be able to find his name."

Harry looked at Ron helplessly. He felt that this Christmas holiday might be ruined.

"Hagrid, as long as you can..." He turned his head to look at the last straw.

"No, it's impossible, forget about it," Hagrid was afraid he couldn't hold it any longer, "I have to go, you know, I have to help move things, ahem, there are many things waiting for me. "

"Hey, it's up to us." Harry folded the paper in frustration and put it in his pocket.

"Sissy, can you please not tell Snape we're looking for this?"

"Huh? No problem, I won't say it—I wish you all the best." Sissy agreed without hesitation. There was really no need for her to report this matter to the professor, since everything was just Dumbledore's plan anyway.

Harry and Ron were urged to the library by Hermione.

"Professor Flitwick," Sissy stepped forward happily.

"Oh, Eugenie, you are here, help me see how it is hanging at this height, and whether you want to go higher."

Sissy looked up, "I think this looks pretty good, Professor Flitwick, don't worry about letting me help? My spell will last for a while."

"Of course, come on, take this string and hang it diagonally."

Sissy took the golden bubbles and weighed them. This large string doesn't add up to much weight, and the sphere is unexpectedly a little elastic, and the light looks quite dazzling at close range.

"Is it okay to just leave it here?"

"No problem, well done." Flitvier raised his head and watched the bubble fall gently and smoothly, very satisfied, "Excellent control."

Sissy hadn't heard such compliments for a long time, and she couldn't hold back her little excitement.

"I'm glad you didn't neglect the training of spells there, I think you are now capable enough to learn more advanced spells." Flitwick said with relief, "To be honest, I've always been a little worried that you would be biased. .”

"Don't worry, I've been practicing the Fire Charm recently." Sissy looked excited, and turned into a small ball of tumbling flames, which was different from Hermione's, and she wanted to show her hand a long time ago.

"It's very interesting." Flitwick let the flame float in front of him, looked at it carefully for a while, and almost got too close and burned his beard.

"How did you make the bubbles? If you have time, you can teach me. I want to hang a few in the room."

It may be because she is a little shorter than herself, Sissy looked at Professor Flitwick and always felt that she could say whatever she wanted.

"You want to hang this in Snape's office, haha, he really wouldn't mind?"

"Probably... no, I don't know." Sissy thought for a while, she really hoped to hang them on both sides of the fireplace, "If it doesn't work, I'll just make a few in my room."

Although it was supposed to be Professor Snape's study room, and he didn't remove the books in it, he only occasionally came in to pick one up to read, but after staying for a long time, she felt that the ownership of the room had changed hands.

Flitwick looked at her with a smile, recalling that when he was robbing people in the principal's office, Eugenie seemed a little bit coerced, so he didn't want Severus to take her away.

But now it seems that they can rest assured that Ravenclaw's students have always been able to go no matter where they go, and their talents will not be obliterated.

"The mantra is divided into two sentences, one to form bubbles, and one to add golden light. It's completely okay to like other colors, just modify it a little."

Hey, if this is the case, then we must have a bunch of colorful ones hanging on the door.

Sissy was secretly delighted, and practiced step by step following Professor Flitwick's movements.

"The gesture is like this, making a small spiral, like a conch shell, slowly retracting, yes, that's it."

"Oh, this one is too big, swing it faster and it will get smaller."

Sissy tried a few times, but the trajectory was a gradually smaller spiral, and it might be difficult to make bubbles of uniform size.

"Well... I'd better practice it later, Professor Flitwick, thank you."

She was really embarrassed to delay for too long, except for those who came to see the excitement, the figures in the auditorium were busy hanging decorations everywhere.

"Oh, oh, I really forgot." Seeing that she learned so quickly, Flitwick grinned happily before it was too late, and the business of arranging the Christmas tree was put on hold instead.

Sissy picked up two strings of bubbles and compared them. If there is no comparison, there will be no harm. The bubbles created by Flitwick are obviously more shiny.

"Uh... I'll be responsible for hanging them up." Sissy stuck out her tongue and quietly eliminated her practice items.