Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 487 Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, before the dance, the students dressed more youthfully and beautifully than usual.

Ginny, wearing a golden-red dress, looked more lively and lovely than usual.

Harry beside her was wearing a crimson high-necked evening gown that Black had helped buy.
Harry felt like a priest, and what was even more depressing was that he almost wore the same clothes as Malfoy.

The two looked at each other and suddenly realized that the words used to complain about each other's dresses could also be used to complain about themselves, so they chose to keep quiet.

But it was a bit surprising that Malfoy's dance partner was not Pansy.

There was a sudden commotion in the hallway, and Fleur and Erica came down the stairs hand in hand.

One of them was wearing a blue star-like dress, and the other was wearing a blood-red dress that danced like flames. Fleur's long silver hair and Erica's silver-white hair were both combed in front of them. The French students almost sang "La Marseillaise" when they saw it.

Everyone thought that Furong's dance partner would be Charles, and no one expected that it would be another girl. Everyone was shocked.

Professor Delacour was even more surprised, and for a moment he didn't understand what was going on with his daughter.

The two walked to the hallway, and Krum said to Erica, "I didn't expect you to be so beautiful after dressing up. You are only half as beautiful as Miss Delacour."

As a top athlete, he has experienced countless occasions such as dances and knows exactly what to say and when.

Fleur smiled and said, "Viktor, you will make your partner angry if you say that."

Hermione sensed something amiss in the way the two addressed each other, and her intuition told her that there was something hidden, but now was not the time to think too much.

She smiled and responded to Furong: "How can I compare with you."

Furong pointed to the side with her eyes, shook her head slightly and said, "Who said that? Look, there are boys staring at you."

Hermione turned around and saw Ron staring at her in a daze.

Romilda Vane, a second-year girl who came to the dance to join in the fun next to Ron, also looked stunned. She could not believe that Hermione, who almost parasitized on books in the past, could be so beautiful.

But Ron's attention was soon drawn to someone else. Seamus came, and his dance partner also had red hair.

No one expected that Seamus' dance partner would be Mafalda Prewett, a first-year Slytherin girl.

Not long after, Cedric and Qiu Zhang also came to the hallway.

The two Hogwarts warriors plus their dancing partners make up a total of four people, covering four colleges, which is very politically correct for the school.

Seamus walked over to Fleur and Krum, looking around as he went, and asked, "Have you seen Charles? We were taking bets on who he was going to dance with."

Furong pretended to be calm and said, "His partner may still be putting on makeup."

Seamus could tell that her tone was a little uneasy, so he didn't continue the topic and said to Hermione, "You look unexpectedly beautiful today."

Hermione smiled and said with some pride: "Thank you, you are very handsome too."

Seamus added regretfully, "If only Charles could see you like this."

Mafalda hit him in the ribs with her hand.

At this time, Cedric and Qiu Zhang also came over and heard the conversation between Seamus and Hermione.

Qiu Zhang said to Xi Mo angrily: "You said that as if the old father died and couldn't see his daughter get married."

"Well, why are you reacting like this?"

After she finished speaking, she noticed that several other people were nodding.

Cedric told her, "Seamus is right."

Hermione didn't stand a chance against them, at the moment she wanted to find Charles more than anyone else.

She dressed up and put on makeup today just to let Charles know that she can be beautiful even without cat ears!
However, Charles did not appear until they entered the cafeteria.

The cafeteria of Hogwarts Castle was decorated tonight. The walls were decorated with glittering silver frost, and hundreds of mistletoe branches and ivy wreaths were hung under the starry sky on the ceiling. The four house tables were replaced by hundreds of small tables with lanterns, with a dozen people sitting at each table.

The students filed in, and the warriors and their dance partners waited by the gate and went in last.

At the same time, the trap door on the floor of Honeydukes' cellar opened, and a man in a black cloak had been waiting inside for a long time. Jack subconsciously looked around to see if there were any boxes that could be opened.

There was not much time left, so the Death Eaters and the contact person didn't say much, and they walked down the stairs.

At the end of the more than 200 steps is a downhill road. The passage starting from the bottom of the slope is narrow and low, covered with mud on all sides, and it twists and turns like a rabbit hole.

Jack was a little confused. This was different from the secret passage he had taken before. There he could collect Hoklapp juice, but here there was only mud.

He wondered if that road was too troublesome and dangerous, requiring a lot of ups and downs, so it was abandoned and the current road was opened.

At the end of the passage was a hall where a large cage-like elevator was welcoming everyone.

Jack felt a little nostalgic because he had repaired the elevator himself.

Oh, by the way, I was helping Gareth Weasley steal... no... some Billywig Stings from Honeydukes' warehouse.

In front of the statue of the hunchbacked one-eyed witch, Charles stood in the corridor in a suit, looking quietly at the dark corridor.

He found that there seemed to be a ghost peeking at him.

The wall behind the statue opened again, and a group of men in black poured out and surrounded Charles.

Then Voldemort walked out, and Charles finally understood why the diary referred to it as a "two-hole socket".

Charles recalled the contents of the diary and decided to ease the atmosphere. He smiled and said to Voldemort: "Long time no see, Professor. Do I have a Christmas present this year?"

The Death Eaters around were horrified. The Dark Lord actually gave Charles a Christmas present? !
The Dark Lord gave rewards to the Death Eaters, but there were no Christmas presents.

It seems that the credibility of a certain rumor has been deepened.

Voldemort, not knowing that he knew about what he did to the back of Quirrell's head, asked, "You knew?"

Charles smiled and replied, "I knew it from the beginning."

The Death Eaters looked at each other, it seemed that the rumor was a fact.

At this time, a Death Eater came out with Jack, and the statue accidentally rubbed off the hood of his cloak.

"Lucius...how are you..."

Narcissa couldn't understand why her husband had grown a pair of cat ears when she had only been undercover at Hogwarts for a few months.

"It's quite cute." Charles' eyes were drawn to it. "Can I touch it?"

Lucius opened his eyes as wide as bells, rejecting her with his gaze.

Unexpectedly, Voldemort said: "You can touch it once and tell me how it feels."

In fact, he had wanted to touch it for a long time. This was a rare case.

Then Jack said, "He still has a tail."

Charles' eyes brightened.

The Death Eaters around him were speechless, thinking, you two just dote on him like this, right?

Lucius said immediately: "Time is running out."

Voldemort nodded and said to Charles, "Let's go. You can touch them on the way."

Voldemort remembered that Charles was a person who would only respond to soft words and not hard ones. Now the key to the whole operation lies in him, and he needs to coax him before achieving his goal.

Lucius's cat ears drooped, and he thought to himself that the world was doomed.

If he knew what his family was going through at the moment, it would be more than just drooping ears.

In the mountains outside Loch Ness, elite soldiers from Farbatten Castle discovered a magical singularity.

Mos Jeff, an expert in magic cracking, inspected the singularity here and said confidently: "The magic is strong, but the structure is quite ancient. It will be easy to crack it!"

(End of this chapter)