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Chapter 4092 4094 [Christmas Holiday]

The defeat in the first game plunged Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff houses into sadness.

The Slytherin students, however, were all very proud and walked with a rustling sound.

In this regard, Xiang Nan could only say that although you may have fun today, be careful of being put on the list in the future.

Many of them were Death Eater backups. When Voldemort was defeated in the future, almost all of them would be sent to Azkaban and guarded by Dementors.

Then let’s see how they can be happy.

……

Time soon came to December, and the school began to compile a list of students who would stay on campus for the holidays, and Xiang Nan signed the list.

He didn't plan to go home for Christmas. On the one hand, there were still so many books he hadn't read. He had spent three months reading less than 10% of the books in the library, and there were still thousands of books waiting for him.

The holiday was from mid-December to early January, almost half a month, which was really too long and enough for him to read more than a dozen books.

On the one hand, although his relationship with his parents has eased, Christmas in the Snape family is still destined to be a mess.

Moreover, he has not figured out how to legitimately and openly help his parents get out of poverty. He has many ways to help his parents make money, but the key is that he has no suitable reason.

"Severus, are you really going to stay at school during the Christmas holidays?" Lily asked with concern.

"Yeah, if I go home I'll just watch my parents quarreling, so I might as well stay in school and read more books." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "Do you want to go home?"

"Yeah." Lily nodded with a smile. She entered the school in September and hasn't seen her parents and sister for more than three months. She really misses them.

"I'll give you some advice. When you get home, try to talk about the bad things about the school and less about its good points." Xiang Nan said immediately, "especially in front of your sister."

"Why?" Lily asked puzzled.

  "Because she will be jealous." Xiang Nan curled his lips and said, "Hogwarts has good food, good accommodation, and you can learn magic and ride a flying broom. Do you know how attractive this is to Muggles?

Your sister is jealous of your talent, and you're stabbing her in the heart by telling her how great Hogwarts is."

After hearing this, Lily suddenly realized, "Then what should I say? I really can't think of any disadvantages of school."

"You can tell them that magic is dangerous. In potions class, you need to deal with toad eggs and caterpillar mucus. In herbology class, you need to be careful of thorn grass and explosive mushrooms. In spells class, you may accidentally hurt yourself. In flying class, you often fall down...

For example, the school janitor has a bad temper and punishes students at every turn. Senior students will bully freshmen, taunt them, and even cast evil spells on them. "Xiang Nan suggested to her.

Everything he said was true, without any fabrication or exaggeration. Hogwarts looked beautiful, but it was actually full of dangers.

  In the Charms class, if you accidentally cast the wrong spell, you may hurt yourself. For example, when Neville was practicing the Conversion Spell, he transformed his ears onto a cactus.

In the Herbal Medicine class, you can easily be killed by herbs and poisonous fungi. For example, the cry of the Mandrake can kill people. Thorn grass, explosive mushrooms, and Babo tubers are also dangerous.

In the Care of Magical Creatures class, you might get hurt by a magical creature. For example, Hagrid's Exploding Skrewt injured many students, and the key point is that he hadn't used it yet.

Moreover, there are werewolves, basilisks, boggarts, eight-eyed giant spiders and other dark magical creatures in Hogwarts, which may harm people at any time.

Not to mention the bullying of freshmen by senior students. And it's not just Slytherin students, but also students from other colleges.

The original book clearly mentioned that the Marauders, composed of James and Sirius, often cast spells on students they disliked in the corridors. Luna Lovegood was also bullied by her Ravenclaw classmates because she was too eccentric. Not only was she nicknamed "crazy girl", but her shoes were often hidden from her.

The professors at the school turned a blind eye to these things and let them go. So according to modern educational standards, Hogwarts is obviously failing.

When Lily heard this, she suddenly understood, smiled and nodded.

"But you should speak differently to different people, and don't be so harsh to your parents. Otherwise, if they get scared and don't let you come back to class, you'll end up making things worse." Xiang Nan reminded again.

Lily nodded quickly again, "Don't worry, I know everything."

……

On December 20th, the school officially closed for vacation.

Lily, Joey, Benjamin, Gregory and others decided to go home for the holidays.

They would take the Hogwarts Express back to London and then go home.

Xiang Nan had already sent an owl letter home in advance, telling his parents that he would not be going back during the Christmas holiday.

Although Irene Prince expressed regret, she also expressed understanding. In the letter, she specifically told her son to take good care of himself.

On December 24th, Christmas Eve, Slughorn held a grand Christmas party in his office and invited Xiang Nan again.

Xiang Nan gladly accepted his invitation and attended the party.

Just like last time, they were eating, drinking, and socializing. However, Xiang Nan noticed that neither James Potter nor Sirius Black came this time.

It was not known whether Slughorn had not invited them or the two of them had not accepted the invitation.

At the banquet, the topic that everyone talked about most was the current affairs in the wizarding world.

Ever since the Death Eaters under Voldemort committed a murder on the eve of last Halloween, his reputation and influence in the wizarding world have been growing.

On the one hand, the timid people were intimidated by him, and for the sake of self-preservation, they did not dare to go against him rashly; on the other hand, Voldemort's brutal behavior won him the support of conservatives.

In the wizarding world, conservative forces are quite powerful. They are mostly composed of pure-blood families, such as the Avery family, the Malfoy family, the Black family, the Lestrange family, etc. in the Holy 28 families.

They originally belonged to the upper class of the wizarding world, with a very high status and power. However, in recent years, half-blood wizards and Muggle-born wizards have accounted for an increasing proportion of the wizarding world, and their power has also been growing.

For example, the last Minister of Magic was the Muggle-born wizard Nobby Ritchie, who died of a mysterious illness. It is said that Lucius Malfoy's father, Abraxas, was involved in his murder.

The new Minister of Magic, Eugenia Jenkins, who succeeded him, also had a tough attitude towards pure-blood wizards. In 1968, during the Squib Parade in the Wizarding World, some pure-blood wizards mixed in and sabotaged the parade, but she suppressed them with tough measures.

This further aroused the dissatisfaction of the pure-blood wizards. So even though Voldemort killed so many people, in the eyes of the pure-blood families, not only was he not wrong, but it was a show of courage, and the support for him became even stronger.

(End of this chapter)