Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

The dawn of Christmas has arrived.

The weather was cold, and there was a piece of white all around.

The three "Reserve Grand Arcana" all slept in the Huberian last night, and they were awakened by Elena early in the morning.

She looked extremely excited. The heavy and obstructive wizard robes had long been replaced, replaced by the close-fitting, golden-red Huberian "Valkyria" battle suit. She was holding the other three new clothes in her arms, as well as Christmas gifts prepared by the little wings.

"Wake up." Elena admiring the sleeping position of the little wings on the bed, while pulling the curtains open.

There was a deep blue silence outside.

The winter sun shone from a very high place, and a little gleam was reflected outside the window.

Occasionally, I can see a few big herrings or other creatures swimming in the distance.

"Elena-are we under the black lake of the school?" Hannah yawned, rubbed her eyes, and looked around.

"Well, didn't you say it last night. The Huberian entered the submarine mode at midnight as planned..."

Elena nodded, explaining, and threw Hannah's clothes and gifts to her.

"Merry Christmas, our lovely naive children. The officials of the Ministry of Magic should arrive in the school auditorium. When the final round of inspections and assignments are completed, today's hunting activities will begin. Hurry up and change your clothes to welcome you. Let’s have a holiday celebration this afternoon."

Hermione sat up, completely awake all at once.

"Wait, do we have to wear this?"

"It must be worn."

Elena said, she lifted Hermione's quilt casually, and said condescendingly while sitting on the head of the bed.

"If we meet the basilisk head-on, I hope you can at least have armor protection—and Valkyria can prevent you from looking directly at the basilisk, but even so, it’s best not to look at each other indirectly. Of course this is just Insurance measures."

Unlike conventional magic armor, the visor part of Valkyria's "Valkyrie" armor uses magical imaging techniques.

It seems to be a holographic image that can automatically switch the angle of view spiral. The Valkyrie in the "magic mecha" can freely choose the angle of view that is presented in front of her: for example, overhead view, first-person view, third-person view, horizontal zoom Extend wide angle and so on.

At this moment, Luna also got up from the pillow in a daze.

"Good morning, Elena," her eyes didn't seem to be able to focus, and her voice floated, "have you received my gift?"

Unlike Hermione's sobriety and alertness, Luna had no resistance to the Huberian one-piece tight-fitting combat suit.

On the contrary, she quite likes the design of the "valkyrie" combat uniform, at least unlike other clothes that have many scattered components.

"Uh, your gift...may not be able to receive for the time being—"

Elena shrugged, glanced at the lake bottom scenery outside the window, and said with a smile.

"Not to mention that the Huberian will block the real name coordinates. Even if the owls can find our location, they can't swim."

"Come and take a look at your gifts, I have helped you prepare your Christmas gifts in advance this year!"

this year?

Hermione raised her brows and glanced at Elena thoughtfully.

So that's it, is this white-haired dumpling last year really a little guy with no conscience? !

As for those expensive and rich gifts, most of them were prepared by Grindelwald and Dumbledore for their help?

She had thought that those serious gifts did not look like Elena’s handwriting, and Luna was also suspicious when she returned to school later, and it confirmed Hermione’s guess from the side, but no matter how they tortured, Irene Na is quite cautious in this regard.

Compared to last year's expensive and formal gifts that were only chosen by elders, this year looks much stranger.

In other words, this is Elena's "normal" Christmas gift?

What Hermione received was a small and exquisite magic music box.

Just a few turns, the piano music played by Elena will sound in the music box.

The name of the piano piece is "Hedway Variations". Hermione decided to start learning piano after Christmas, starting with this piece of music first;

Hannah got a handwritten pamphlet called "Kaslana Cooking Notes".

It is filled with the recipes and smoothness of various delicious dishes, all of which are Hannah's favorite dishes.

In this way, even when returning to the Broken Cauldron Tavern, or occasionally greedy, Hannah can follow the steps above to make dishes that meet her taste, which even records that many Hogwarts kitchens did not , "Kaslana" exclusive private kitchen;

The gift Luna received was a little special, and at first glance it looked like an atlas.

However, most of the content is mostly gray outlines and blank pages.

According to Elena, its official name is "Fantastic Animals Guide 0.98". When Luna discovers a new magical animal, or a magical animal that he doesn't know, just use it to record it, and you can get the corresponding illustrated book that lights up in it.

If you encounter a magical animal that has not been registered in the "Fantastic Animals Guide", a prompt and a new page will appear.

And on the low table in the captain’s lounge not far away, the steaming custard cereal for four nights still exudes a charming aroma.

The rich custard aroma mixed with the unique fragrance of cereals gradually awakened the hunger of Hermione, Luna, and Hannah who slept all night.

The bacon and egg froth are placed on a pure white plate, next to the crispy yellow potato wedges, tomato ketchup, blueberry jam, strawberry jam, and butter are lined up in a small saucer next to each other, a few pieces of raisin cake and chocolate cake The dessert rack on the low table looks very attractive.

"Sorry, we cannot appear at Hogwarts Castle today because there are many outsiders."

Elena scratched her cheek, looked at the wings who were still changing clothes, and explained with some embarrassment.

"If nothing else, the Christmas dinner may only be spent around the castle or on the Huberian, and the Hogwarts kitchen can't deliver the dishes to the ship. Anyway, it's just a moment, you guys. If you feel bored, you can stroll around on the boat..."

The Hermione trio noticed that at the other end of the Huberian captain's room, there was a small empty room.

Through the gap in the doorway, you can vaguely see what seems to be an ultra-small simple kitchen.

At this time, a white apron was hanging on the door handle.

"So today's breakfast is..."

Hermione raised her eyebrows and moved her eyes from the apron to the side of the low table not far away.

Ever since the Hogwarts house elves became proficient, Elena, as the chef, seldom cooks by herself.

If Hermione remembers correctly, the last time I ate breakfast that Elena made by herself was last semester.

She lowered her head and looked at the tinkling magic music box in her hand, and then at the recipe book in Hannah's hand and the illustrated book next to Luna's pillow, a warm comfort suddenly surged in her heart. Even if Elena became the fairy queen of Gringotts and the Miss Fool of Arcana, the distance between this white-haired ball and them has not become alienated, but has become closer and sincere. .

"Yes, I did it all by myself-no waste!"

Elena nodded triumphantly, and the little dull hair on top of her head shook arrogantly, and said fiercely.

"In short, you are all under house arrest on the Huberian. Before today is over, your scope of activities is limited to the hull of the Huberian. Your main task today is to study and observe the Destiny Group and Hogwar. The coordinated operation of Civic and Gringotts."

"...Well, don't worry, Elena. We know the importance of this operation."

Luna closed the strange "Fantastic Animals Guide" in her hand, suddenly turned her head, and looked at Elena seriously.

"But you have to answer me a question first—"

"Huh? What's the problem?"

"In the battle plan of the Huberian, there is a ‘top’ mobile combat unit..."

Luna stood up, pulled up the zipper of the tight-fitting battle suit with some effort, her silver-gray eyes fixed on Elena's face.

"When the basilisk loses control and the defensive network has a loophole, the Huberian will first make a round of repositioning strikes. Then the mobile combat unit mentioned in it will be... you, right? Sister Elena? Did the other members of the Arcana communicate in advance?"

"It's just an emergency plan outside of the plan. It's just a contingency plan—"

Elena shrugged, holding Luna's small face in her hands, and squeezed towards the center angrily.

"I have a sense of measure. It would be better to do this kind of thing cheaply, understand?! Okay, don't be so fussy, breakfast is almost cold!"

...

At the same time, the Hogwarts School Auditorium.

The hearty breakfast made everyone feel pretty good, including the wizards of the Ministry of Magic who were about to encircle the basilisk.

It is true that in the magic world, the legend about the basilisk may sound quite scary.

However, considering the luxurious lineup of the "Basilisk Hunting", in general, most of the Ministry of Magic employees are still very relaxed.

After all, there are Albus Dumbledore and Newt Scamander on the front, these two top wizard leaders; the castle area has two monster-level alchemists, Nicole LeMay and Otto Apocalis Sit down, even if the Sphinx's lair is underneath, it will be served in a pot.

In the eyes of the members of the Ministry of Magic and the Hogwarts Board of Trustees, this action is more like a large-scale political gilding.

In fact, Cornelius Fudge even contacted several media outlets in advance, but did not tell them the specific reasons.

When the good news from Hogwarts arrives, he will set off with the reporters on call, arrive at the school as soon as possible, and launch a series of propaganda work-in the peaceful age, so heavyweight political capital can Said it is something that every politician dreams of.

Save the magic world from the dark conspiracy, solve the werewolf problem vigorously, and clear out the monsters at Hogwarts...

With so much political feats, even without Dumbledore’s support in the follow-up, Cornelius Fudge is confident that he will secure his position as minister.

If he is lucky, he may still have the opportunity to challenge the record of the longest term Minister of Magic.

After Dumbledore passed away, even the post of chief wizard of the International Wizarding Federation was not completely hopeless.

After all, in the eyes of many people, he can be regarded as a half-line successor supported by Dumbledore. Even if the relationship between Umbridge and Hogwarts was a bit strained some time ago, as long as he can succeed in Put a nail in the school and it will be considered a success.

However, Dumbledore and Newt's expressions have always been a little serious compared to the casualness of the Ministry of Magic officials.

If there is no "prophecy" of Elena, who has the talent of "Sight", they don't even know the specific location of the secret room and the type of monsters that may exist in it, but even so, the specific information about the secret room is still there. Quite limited.

You know, Hogwarts Castle originally belonged to the Slytherin family.

As Salazar Slytherin left behind in the castle, no one knows how many mechanisms and magic traps there are in the secret room.

More importantly, if the two of them fail to keep the big snake in the secret room, once it has a chance to start fleeing outside Hogwarts, it may cause too many problems-just Those magicians on the Huberian are a big trouble.

Of course, fortunately, their preparations and staffing are quite luxurious.

Even if the basilisk can escape from the secret room by chance, it is impossible to leave the Hogwarts range alive.

After the last pudding on the dining table in the auditorium disappeared from the plate, Dumbledore stood up and led the crowd out of the auditorium to the entrance to the secret room they had previously explored. The plan was officially started and it took a few months to finalize the negotiation. "Winter hunting" operation.

...

The Crying Myrtle bathroom on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle.

This was originally an ordinary girls' bathroom, and many girls would go to the toilet here after leaving the auditorium.

But since Myrtle Elizabeth Warren was killed here when the secret room was opened decades ago, UU read www.uukanshu.com and turned into a ghost to wander here for a long time, it has been in a semi-abandoned state. From the beginning of this semester, it was directly listed as one of the new restricted areas.

However, today is obviously a very special day.

Dozens of officials from the Ministry of Magic, Professor Dumbledore, and Newt Scamander all appeared in this bathroom.

The noisy and sensitive Myrtle in the past hides in the toilet cubicle with some fear, and looks nervously at the adult wizards outside. She vaguely saw this scene once before, when her body suddenly became light and fluffy decades ago. , It was also lively here.

As for the reasons why these big figures are here again, she naturally couldn't be more clear.

The Hogwarts Secret Chamber was finally discovered, and the beast who once took her life can finally get what it deserves.

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Great!