days at Hogwarts

Chapter 82 Back to Hogwarts
In the Hogwarts headmaster's office late at night, the portraits of past headmasters hanging on the wall have fallen asleep.Two figures, one old and one young, appeared out of thin air, and the warm yellow lights in the office gradually turned on.

"You go back first, I'll take care of it first." Dumbledore took off the hat that didn't fit well, and put it on the table with the brim up.

"Goodbye principal!" Loren couldn't wait to take a good bath, he was suffocated these days in Albania.

Nagini was sleeping in the hat with the gemstone on his pillow. Fox leaned his head over and took a look, suddenly became alert, and cursed at Dumbledore: "Squeak!"

It seems to be talking about you, a guy who likes the new and hates the old.

While avoiding Fox's pecking, Dumbledore combed its feathers and comforted it with a smile: "Okay, okay...".

Paid for some snacks and took some time for Fox to cool down.Dumbledore slowly took out a book with a white cover that looked old from the bookshelf, opened it, and there was a portrait of a character on each page.

After turning over an unknown number of pages, I stopped at a portrait of a thin man with silver hair.

Dumbledore waited for a while, and the figure gradually became more vivid, colors began to appear, and the portrait came to life.

"Albus?"

"Nico."

The two chatted, and Dumbledore told the experience of the Albanian party, and asked Nicole if there was a way to save the blood-cursed orc.

"I can't help it, but the Philosopher's Stone might..."

In Nicole's narration, the effect of the Philosopher's Stone on each person's hand is different from person to person.

"In my hands, it is turning stone into gold and refining the elixir of life, but Loren may have other choices."

"Judging from his demands, it might be a biological refinement that restores the snake to a human and fixes the werewolf in a human form."

Nico's voice came out of the book through magic, like an old man telling a fairy tale, "Reveal the mysteries of life, this is not a smooth road..."

It seems that there is no reproductive isolation for magical creatures. Before that, a large number of wizards bred strange creatures for various purposes, causing many disasters.

The most famous is Helbo the Vile, who bred basilisks by hatching male eggs from toads.

Some people are out of curiosity, some are out of profit, and some have malicious intentions. The contents of many Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks are artificially created by wizards.

Until 1965, Newt Scamander's "Prohibiting the Feeding of Magical Animals for Experimental Purposes" was passed. This ban effectively curbed the prevalence of creating new untamable animals in Britain.

The Ministry of Magic Aurors have spent a lot of energy chasing down wizards who are illegally breeding dangerous creatures.In the following years, other ministries of magic introduced similar bans.

This is just refining on magical animals. What Loren will involve is the human body. Anyone who hears about such behavior will think that Loren is a dark wizard.

If Loren wants to take the path of biological refinement, even if the outside world does not know about the Sorcerer's Stone, the biological refinement itself is enough to attract the attention of all kinds of people, whether it is the Ministry of Magic or the Dark Wizard.

"When he found the snake in the Albanian forest, he pulled it out of the abyss of despair." Nico talked about the prerequisites for using the Philosopher's Stone.

"Cough cough cough."

His voice sounded weak, "Maybe we don't need to rush to destroy the Sorcerer's Stone. After what you have to do, let Loren try it with my Sorcerer's Stone."

Dumbledore sat on a chair and looked at the portrait in the book, "Are you ready to face death?"

Hearing this question, Nico smiled on his old face, "Albus, you already know that death is not the end, but a greater adventure."

"I still have some medicine in stock, and when I'm done with some things, I'll go back to Paris with Perenelle."

"Let's go in summer. There's another opera in spring. I'll leave after watching this one."

"I won't say goodbye to you then."

"Cough cough, goodbye."

Hearing the word goodbye, Dumbledore's wrinkles stretched out and he smiled, "Goodbye, I wish you a pleasant journey."

After speaking, Nico's portrait gradually faded and remained motionless.

Loren carried his small suitcase and ran towards the Gryffindor lounge.

Back at Hogwarts, whether it was the dusty stone pillars, the polished armor, or the moving stairs, Loren felt a sense of familiarity and security at home.

At least there won't be any Dark wizards to rob here, except for Voldemort.

In the Gryffindor common room.

The four young wizards of the Weasley family were all playing chess around the table, the twins and Percy three against Ron.

The twins were still able to withstand Ron's attack, but after a few moves in the middle they believed Percy's words, they were defeated like a mountain.

On the chessboard, the knight on horseback scolded as he walked: "Are you two monsters? Why do you listen to others?"

Percy blushed a little, and looked away, pretending not to hear.

When he saw Loren who had just come in from the outside, his eyes lit up, "Look, Loren is back."

George and Fred also raised their heads, taking advantage of Ron's inattention to overturn the chessboard, each of them shouted in surprise:

"Our savior, Loren is back!"

"We don't have to play chess with Ron anymore!"

Finally, the two raised their hands and shouted together: "Long live Loren!"

It can be seen that during the few days when Loren was not here, several people were really tortured by Ron.

The twins ran around the table to Loren, Fred took his small suitcase, George pulled Loren to Ron and pressed him on the seat, "It's all up to you!"

Loren tried to struggle, "I haven't showered yet."

"We'll wash it later. We made an appointment that if we can beat Ron tonight, he will never play chess with us again."

"But I can't beat Ron in wizard chess," Loren said.

Ron raised his chin with a very stinky expression on his face, "I can beat you in backgammon."

When Loren first taught Ron how to play backgammon, he almost overturned with the mentality of coping.Ron resumed the original game of Go after being influenced by Go. He thought he had already surpassed Loren and was full of confidence.

so arrogant?

Loren looked at the other Weasleys, "Did you break his head during my absence?"

George recalled the experience of the past few days, and said, "I want to break his head."

Fred nodded aside, "But he really seems to be very powerful."

After Loren taught Ron how to play Go, he has been playing Go with himself for the past few days. Ron does have a talent for playing Go, and both computing power and layout have improved a lot.

Knowing everything, when playing other chess, Ron naturally brought into the thinking of Go, taking a step to look at several moves, and analyzing the chess game from the overall situation, a stalemate will open up another battlefield.

Sometimes before the stalemate begins, Ron can foresee the stalemate and lay the groundwork in another place in advance.

The move was unrestrained, and the twins couldn't stand it at all, so they brought in Percy, and they lost even faster.

If it was said that Ron played chess purely by talent before, now with the help of Loren, he seems to have found a way to explore a way to go further.

"Then play backgammon, I'll take a shower first." Loren didn't refuse, he wanted to see if Ron was swollen.

Loren washed it carefully, and if possible, he would like to soak it for a few hours.When he came out, Ron was playing backgammon with three people.

"Get off here." Percy pointed.

"You're still a prefect."

"If you go there, you will lose."

Although George and Fred had learned a lesson long ago and stopped listening to slander, they were finally defeated.

The corner of Ron's mouth couldn't suppress a smile, and he pretended to be calm, "Let's change to Loren."

Seeing this stinky fart made Loren's hands itch, wanting to give him a little shock.

The rules of backgammon itself are not complete, and regular backgammon games generally have forbidden hands, so that both sides are on the same starting line.In the case of no forbidden hands, there are many kinds of sure-win openings.

For example, Katsuki-style.Loren used to rely on this skill, and he has never met an opponent since he was a child.Now, it's time to teach this Ron a lesson.

In the opening few moves, neither side thought much, one attack and one block.

As there were more and more pieces on the chessboard, Ron's original relaxed expression gradually disappeared.

As a result, from the beginning of the game, Ron has been unable to get the initiative.The more moves, the clearer the board.

Finally, Ron couldn't hold back anymore, and was pointed at four and three to end the battle.

"Oh, that's it." Loren said casually, imitating Ron's indifferent look before.

Ron turned pale when he heard that.

The twins cheered, "Finally, I don't have to play chess with Ron anymore."

Ron ignored the cheers of several people, stared at the chessboard with wide eyes, and said in disbelief, "How is it possible?"

He turned over every move in his mind and recalled a little bit, and gradually realized that Loren's layout was very clear from the beginning.

"That kind of start..."

Ron didn't indulge in the disappointment of losing chess, his eyes became brighter and brighter.His fingers kept dropping several chess pieces that had the same start as Loren on the chessboard.

The first few moves were played over and over again, deriving non-stop. In just a short while, Ron seemed to be about to launch Huayue's formula.

Loren's mind was no longer on the chessboard. After returning from the forest all the way, he felt empty in his stomach after taking a bath.

The first reaction was to go to the kitchen to find something to eat, but when he went to the kitchen, he would meet wheat. Loren felt uncomfortable when he thought about the scene last time.

Watching the hilarious twins, Ron engrossed in the chessboard, the fire in the fireplace lit Loren's eyes.

"It's the last day of the year, let's do something special."

The twins stopped and looked at Loren expectantly:

"Want an exciting adventure?"

"How about a night tour, go to the Forbidden Forest!"

Hearing this, Loren shook his head violently. I just started the engine, and you stepped on the accelerator to death.If you say you violated the school rules, you two are still majors.

"How about a barbecue over the fire in the fireplace?"

George and Fred were a little disappointed, but they were also very interested in the barbecue, and they went to the kitchen to move things with ease.

Percy hesitated, but didn't stop the twins.

Soon, all kinds of meat were brought into the living room by the twins with a levitating spell, which is not allowed to be cast in the corridor, who called them George and Fred.

The house elves cut beef, mutton, and pork into small pieces, and the little wizards poked them up with the extended table forks of Transfiguration and roasted them in the fireplace.Their grilling technique is not good, but the fat still emits a craving aroma under the smoke of the flame.

Ron burnt the bread, ate it and said it was delicious.

The twins laughed so hard they wanted to bake two more loaves of brown bread for Ron...

Their laughter changed to wacky tunes, and the words they sang changed and changed until they simply repeated Happy New Year and Happy New Year.

Many of the Gryffindors who were staying at the castle for the holidays also came out of their dormitories to join in.

This kind of banquet is far from being as rich as Christmas, without gorgeous decorations, and even the food is not so delicious.But on the last day of 1991, the fire in the fireplace of the Gryffindor common room burned in everyone's heart.

Many years later, they still remember this warm feeling.

While having breakfast the next morning, Loren received a letter from Hermione.

[Mr. Morgan:
I hope you are well by the time you get this letter and have a Happy New Year!

I still can't understand why you forget to write to me. Hanhan will appear at the window on time every morning. He is such a dedicated postman. You probably don't know that Hanhan likes to eat mice the most.

My family likes Hanhan very much.My father always tried to talk to owls, he didn't know where to look, he thought owls could talk.My mother tried to make Han Han hoot, so that he could know the owl hooting when King Duncan died in Shakespeare's Macbeth, but I don't think Shakespeare was writing about a spectacled owl.

Our family went camping in the Forest of Dean during the holidays, and Hanhan seemed to like it very much.The mist, like a cloud, hid the trees and the camp.When the bonfire is lit, it is like the sun passing through the clouds.I really want you to see this scene too, maybe it should be better in summer, it's a bit too cold now.

……

How about Hogwarts over the Christmas break, I hope you don't get jam on the common room seats.

Give my regards to Ron and look forward to hearing from you.

Hermione Granger]

Very ordinary letters, ordinary complaints about Loren's behavior, telling anecdotes about the family, and ending with ordinary greetings.

From these ordinary things, Loren noticed some extraordinary things.

[Dear Hermione:

Seeing the letter is like seeing each other, happy new year.

When I got the letter, I fed Hanhan the cheese and bread I was eating, and he seemed to like it too.

The Christmas banquet at Hogwarts is very rich, with hundreds of roast turkeys, and the Christmas trees you see when you leave are all bursting with flames, and the candles hang on the trees like stars...

Dumbledore and I went to the forest in Albania, where we saw the bright light.I'll talk about the specific situation when you come back...

I think you might want to greet Lu Wei more, but don't worry, everything is fine.

sincere regards

Loren Morgan]

After writing the letter to Hermione, Loren also wrote a letter to Grandpa Bates, using the Hogwarts owl.

Greetings to Grandpa Bates on how the new year is going and where the journey is going.At the end, I asked if I could eat his roast lamb when I went back during the summer vacation.

After several days, Loren walked in Hogwarts Castle again, enjoying the atmosphere here.

Walking on the road, I received fruits frozen by the little Hufflepuff wizards one after another, various kinds of frozen apples, frozen yellow peaches...

Loren felt that after eating these frozen fruits alone, he would probably go into the school infirmary to be scolded by Madam Pomfrey. For a pleasant holiday experience, he shared these things with a few friends he knew well.

In the lounge, there were three chessboards in front of Ron, one for Wizard Chess, one for Backgammon, and one for Go, and he was immersed in his own world.

Loren put the fruit next to him and sighed.

Probably because Harry wasn't here, he was too bored, and when Harry came back, Ron should walk out of the chessboard.

At the same time, I hope that Harry's return to school can promote Nagini's redemption and allow him to cure Grandpa Bates as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)