The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 31 The Coming Christmas
The three of Ada looked at the parchment blankly. They really couldn't figure out what the magical function of this piece of paper was.Fred and George turned the parchment over and over and looked at it several times, but the parchment was still parchment, nothing had changed.

"Let's take a look, maybe you can come up with a solution?" George handed the parchment to Ada.

After receiving the parchment, Ada looked at it carefully for a while, but found nothing.She put the parchment on the table, drew out her wand and pointed it at the parchment, "Reveal your original form!"

The parchment remained unresponsive, retaining its tattered appearance.

"Hurry up!" The spell didn't take effect, as if it was just a piece of paper, and there was no secret on it.

Ada tapped the parchment several times with her wand, and continued to chant the spell about appearance, but it also didn't have the slightest effect. The old parchment still looked impenetrable.

Ada spread her hands, expressing that she was also helpless.

In desperation, George had to put away the parchment.He said: "It seems that we have to spend a lot of time to find out its secrets."

"I hope that the time and energy we put in are worthwhile. This parchment can give me a different surprise." Fred said.

"I hope so, I hope it can live up to its 'extremely dangerous' evaluation." Ada also said.

After the three sleepy people said good night to each other, they went back to the dormitory to rest. There is still a lot of "work" waiting for them tomorrow.

The next day, everyone quickly figured out why the Gryffindor score decreased again.For the twin brothers who were deducting points again, everyone didn't do anything drastic. The Gryffindors just decided to let the brothers hang out and let them do their own thing.

Deducted and snubbed, the twins took Filch's punishment for the evening by cleaning the boys' bathroom.Professor McGonagall did not allow the two brothers to use magic, and the [cleaning spell] that the twins had just learned was useless, which made Fred and George miserable.

When the two brothers returned to the common room with a strange smell all over their bodies, Ada was sitting in the common room and writing a book, which was rare.The double homework caused Ada a lot of trouble and wasted a lot of her practice time.

From time to time, the three of them would get together to discuss that precious parchment, but they couldn't find a clue and couldn't start.

Hogwarts is getting colder in December, and Christmas and the holidays are just around the corner.

A week before the holiday, the twins finally finished their punishment of cleaning the boys' bathroom, and Ada was relieved from double homework.During this period of time, Ada's hand speed has been greatly improved, and she thinks she can consider writing homework after class to earn some extra money.

Earn every Galleon through your own hard work.

The snow covering the campus was getting thicker and thicker, and the surface of the Black Lake was also covered with hard ice. The students huddled with their friends and had a tense and exciting snowball fight in the school.

Ada, Angelina and Alia, plus Lee Jordan, faced the twin brothers in a four-on-two battle of varying strengths.

From the very beginning of this snowball fight, the outnumbered Ada and the four fell into a hard fight.The twin brothers firmly hold the upper hand with their unparalleled tacit understanding.Angelina and Alia were no match for the twins, and they were beaten back by George, leaving Ada, Lee Jordan and the twins behind.

Ada, who was hit by snowballs continuously, finally became "angry from embarrassment", and she decided to show these children what a real snowball fight is.Throwing a few snowballs at each other and raising a large snowflake can this also be called a snowball fight?

Obviously not!

Under Ada's command, Angelina and Alia finally plucked up the courage to start a frantic confrontation with George, attracting his attention and pulling the line of defense.

Ada and Lee Jordan braved Fred's "battle of bullets" and rushed in front of him. Together they overturned the most ferocious Fred to the ground and buried him in the snowdrift.Immediately afterwards, she and Lee Jordan did the same thing, burying George on the side.

"You two can't stand up...haha..." Lee Jordan looked down at the twins lying in the snowdrift, and said while laughing.

It's just that before he finished speaking, he was thrown to the ground by three girls, and he ended up in the same fate as the twins. The "complacent" Qiao never noticed the three girls behind him who kept exchanging glances. He was buried in the snowdrift because of his own carelessness, and he couldn't blame others.

The twins saw the girls' conspiracy, but how could they tell Lee Jordan?
After bringing down Lee Jordan, Ada also planned to step forward to ridicule, but she did not make the same mistake as Lee Jordan.

Ada first glanced back at Angelina and Alia, and saw that the two were cleaning the snow off their bodies, and then began to laugh at each other in relief: "You three... ah!"

Before Ada fired the map cannon, Angelina and Alia buried her as well. They were just pretending to clean up the clothes before, but they were actually paralyzing Ada and making her relax her guard.

The two girls who succeeded in the sneak attack celebrated with high fives, and the three losers, the twins and Lee Jordan, laughed loudly at the fourth loser, Ada.Ada, who taught the apprentice to starve to death of the master, lay in the snowdrift and asked the sky speechless: Every snowball fight requires intrigue, and the world may not be better...

Seeing that Angelina was still celebrating the victory with Alia, Ada, who was not reconciled, made a provocation. She said, "Only the one standing at the end is the only winner!"

After the two little girls heard her words, they became wary of each other, and neither of them wanted to be taken advantage of by the other.The four people who fell on the ground stood up again, and in the end, what was supposed to be a four-on-two battle of strength and weakness turned into a six-person melee.

The six people who had a great time went back to the common room wet to change their clothes. Rather than dry clothes, what they might need more is a glass of nine-nine-nine to refresh themselves.

This way of snowball fights was also inherited and carried forward by other Gryffindor students in the days that followed.As long as there is snow on the school playground, you can see "little snowdrifts" one after another. People who don't know may think they have walked into a cemetery.

When the students gathered in the auditorium for dinner, Professor McGonagall began to count the list of students who stayed in school for the holidays. Ada's friends all left school to go home for the holidays, and she chose to stay in school alone.

Fred and George had invited Ada to spend Christmas at the Weasleys' house, but Ada refused.Ada has already made arrangements for this Christmas, and she thinks it is better for the family to get together at Christmas, so that she doesn't have to mess around with someone with a foreign surname.

When Professor McGonagall walked over, Ada signed the retention list without hesitation. If Snape didn't stay at school this Christmas, it would be perfect.

In the last few days before the Christmas holiday, Fred and George would always appear near Hagrid, warmly greet Hagrid, and try their best to help Hagrid, although Hagrid didn't need their help at all.

The reason why the two brothers did this was that apart from wanting to get some more information about the Forbidden Forest from Hagrid, they also felt guilty about deceiving Hagrid.

The walls of the Great Hall were hung with holly and mistletoe festoons, and all around stood a dozen towering Christmas trees, some with tiny icicles and others with hundreds of candles.

These arrangements were completed by Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick. The two worked together to decorate the auditorium with a festive atmosphere, which made the students look forward to the upcoming holiday even more.

In this way, in the long-awaited, Christmas holiday has finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)