Chapter 70: Experts have a pole, and novices set up street stalls
It snowed heavily at Hogwarts before the Christmas break.
The entire castle was covered with thick snow, turning into a world of glazed glass, and even the surface of the Black Lake was covered with thick ice, becoming a ski resort for little wizards.
On weekdays, the giant squid, who likes to float on the water and spray water, had to dive into the bottom of the water, lie on the ceiling of the Slytherin common room, and tap hard with its tentacles, beckoning them to help dig the ice.
The little wizards in Slytherin were very scared when they saw the big squid, worrying that it would smash the glass in the ceiling and cause the black lake to flood the entire lounge.
The students of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw also have their own troubles. The snow scene on the tower is really beautiful, but it can't be eaten as a meal.
They have to leave the warm lounge every day, endure the biting cold wind, walk from the eighth floor to the auditorium, and fight wits with the moving stairs every day.
After breakfast, the chicks were frozen to death.
The Hufflepuff lounge is different, with plenty of sunlight and close proximity to the kitchen, so you can enjoy a hot meal without leaving your home.
What is the superiority of the common room? ! (Tactical back)
Hufflepuff College looks inconspicuous and unremarkable on weekdays, but it actually has the most comfortable lounge among the four colleges.
The Gryffindor tower, with a good view and scenery, and the Slytherin Black Lake lake view room where you can watch fish... It’s useless, the truth is that it’s close to the kitchen.
Therefore, a good college, just like choosing a university, the first thing to consider is the dormitory... that's where you'll spend most of your time in the next few years!
The heavy snow all over the sky turned the earth into a vast expanse of whiteness, and it still refused to stop pouring down, which also brought problems to commuting.
The stone steps were covered with thick snow, and Filch didn't have time to clean it up, and the road was flooded again soon.
The Weasley twins and Peeves put the trap under the snow, and if you step on it accidentally, you will slip.
Many students were recruited, and even Professor Snape fell twice. Harry and Ron accidentally passed by, and Snape identified them as trap-setters and deducted seven points from Gryffindor.
It's not that Snape doesn't want to deduct more, but with his unremitting efforts, Gryffindor's house points have bottomed out, only eight points... One point is reserved for Professor McGonagall, after all, a school, Look down and see you.
As the semester draws to a close, professors are lecturing less.
Professor Flitwick showed everyone the duel championship trophy he won when he was young, and asked a few young wizards to compete with him using the magic they learned this semester.
Although it was just a performance, the students also found it very interesting.
Professor McGonagall taught the little wizard how to make the snowman move. She also made a bunch of snowmen and let them attack each other.
McGonagall, who didn't have the "Shidun dispatch", could only enjoy the snowman dispatch.
No one wanted to take Snape's class, because he didn't even burn a fireplace, and the classroom was as cold as a morgue, and the students could only huddle around the cauldron, relying on the hot soup to keep warm.
In Professor Sprout's herbal medicine class, she teaches students to pick a magical plant called hot pepper, which will warm the whole body after eating it.
But the sequelae are also obvious. The next day, I will become a person with anal fissure, and my buttocks will be hot and painful, as if I have hemorrhoids.
With the last day of term, the decoration in the castle has changed again:
The walls of the Great Hall were hung with holly and mistletoe festoons, and there were a dozen towering Christmas trees all over the room, with tiny icicles and flickering candles hanging from them.
All the students huddled in the warm lounge, waiting for the dinner to start, and then took the train home the next day.
Hermione took a list and searched for magic books in the library. This was a small pastime for her to go home during the holidays. After Rove and the others helped her find the books, they also had nothing to do.
Rove proposed to go fishing in Black Lake.
As the saying goes, fishing without making nests is tantamount to busy work.
Rove rubbed the prepared bait for making nests vigorously in a basin, added a handful of snow water from time to time, and finally took out a bottle of potion with a strong fishy smell and poured it into the bait.
Neville carried the ice chisel brought from the greenhouse, and laboriously carved a big hole in the ice, and Rove poured all the bait for the nest into the lake.
Shirley and Hermione brought a pile of firewood from a distance, and lit a bonfire on the thick ice, which can be used to keep warm and grill fish by the way.
After making the nest, Rove took out four fishing rods, and took out the bait made by the sadworm. After hooking the bait, he began to cast the rods for fishing.
The other three were novices, so they could only learn from others. The last four sat around the big hole, enjoying the fire while fishing, and by the way...chatting.
"Shirley, come to my house for Christmas, you are the only one in the castle." Hermione invited.
Of the four of them, only Shirley did not go back for the Christmas holidays and remained at Hogwarts.
"Hermione, let's go later, let's forget it this time." Shirley shook her head and declined politely: "Don't worry about me, Professor McGonagall has a house in Hogsmeade Village, it's very close anyway, I can go She's a guest."
Neville stared at the fishing rod, and Rifle hid in his scarf. He didn't know if it was too cold, or if his ADHD had indeed been cured by Rove, and he didn't like to move much recently.
Neville threw and lifted the pole several times, but it was empty. He scratched his hair and asked:
"Rove, there is no problem with my method, is it the problem with the fishing rod?"
Here comes the classic strange fishing rod... As a veteran, Luo Fu smiled and comforted him: "A master has a rod, and a novice sets up a street stall. Fishing requires patience."
Rove continued to teach Neville his fishing experience. Although he hadn't caught a single fish until now, he was so confident.
"Is Rovey going back to the Romanian Fire Dragon Reserve on vacation?" Hermione asked curiously.
"I'm going to Albania, my grandfather is still there." Rove shook his head and said.
Newt had been in the Albanian forest for half a year, and Rove had to go and see what he was doing.
But this is also Newt's style. Rove heard from grandma Tina that Newt went to the Brazilian rainforest just a week after the two of them got married and stayed for more than half a year before returning.
"Then how should I send you your Christmas present?" Shirley looked up and asked softly. "I remember you said that the admission letter was never received."
"You can send it to Fox, and let Fox give it to me." Rove was already prepared, and he reminded: "By the way, make sure to write clearly that it is for me, otherwise Fox will think it is a gift for it."
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"Oh, I got the bait!" Rove suddenly felt the fishing rod sink, and he said excitedly, "This time it must be a big fish, struggling hard. Neville, get the stick ready!"
Rove pulled back vigorously, Shirley and Hermione grabbed the corner of the boy's clothes, and the three of them pulled back together.
The fish was dragged to the surface, Hermione and Shirley fell backwards into the snow, and Rove fell on top of the two little girls.
But it was not a big fish that took the bait, but a mermaid, with long, unkempt dark green hair and pebbles strung together with thick ropes around its neck.
One blow from Neville's stick knocked the mermaid unconscious.
Several people looked at each other, Rove checked that the mermaid was still breathing, then hurriedly threw it back to the Black Lake, shouting:
"Run!"
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(Thanks to the bigwigs "Human Ripper", "April Misu" and "Huangyan Jiuyou" for their rewards.)