It was a dark day in mid-December, and the gray whooping willows stood on the white snow, and the branches were covered with frosted silver bars.The steep mountain walls near the castle were shrouded in clouds and mist, the visibility was extremely low, and there was no light source in the abandoned classroom. I could only light a candle alone.

The light from the candle wasn't too strong, but it was enough for me to see Scabbers clearly: it was leaning against the smooth jar, its hind feet were sliding on the tabletop, and it kept kicking to get away from me.I sighed, shook my head, pinned it in a corner, and reached for my wand.

"I know you're scared." I approached it slowly and opened the jar a little bit. "But it's all for you and Ron, don't you want to give him a Christmas surprise?"

I raised my wand to aim at Scabbers, and uttered a series of incantations from my mouth familiarly. Seeing that the beam of golden light leaking from the tip of the wand was about to hit Scabbers, unexpectedly it squeezed through the gap of the jar with its head down. come out!I dodged my spell in a blink of an eye, trying to escape through the door.

"No! Banban!" I panicked and chased after it and shouted, "There are many obstacles! There are many obstacles! Everything is petrified!"

I couldn't have left Scabbers without surprising Ron!That was a real Christmas fright.At this critical moment, I recalled quite a few spells. Seeing Banban being blocked by me in the corner of the classroom, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and vigilantly called out the second pet grooming spell today at him. .

"Miss Morris!" Professor Snape's voice came from behind me. I was startled and turned around immediately, seeing him staring at me with gloomy eyes: "It seems that Miss Morris's school life is not good. Not enough, and time for undeclared extracurricular activities.”

I was petrified and swallowed in horror.I can't figure out how to explain to Professor Snape that I just wanted to surprise my friend by casting a spell on his pet in an empty classroom?

But my mind wasn't there at the moment, I noticed Professor Snape's gaze fixed on behind me, and I heard Scabbers screaming in pain.

Oh no, did my spell fail?How did I recite the mantra just now?Or is my action wrong?

I looked back tremblingly, only to find that Banban gradually swelled from a fat and hairy mouse until it turned into a fat and hairless adult man in a few minutes!

What the hell!I screamed, and Professor Snape limped forward and stopped me behind him.

The usually annoying and irritable figure became my life-saving driftwood at this time. As soon as my legs gave way, I bumped into his back and grabbed him tightly.

It doesn't matter if his clothes are not clean or he's been pulling me down, I can hear the little man's wailing in pain, and he's trying to keep rushing towards us, there's no way I'll let him go Professor Nepe's!

"Peter Pedillo..." I heard Professor Snape muttering to himself, and he petrified the man with his quick reflexes.

I poked my head out from the edge of his robe, and saw that Pediru kept struggling and fell to the ground petrified. His hair was very thin and almost bald, and I could still see the appearance of a mottled mouse on his face. , but very ferocious, staring at us with hatred eyes.

"Miss Morris." Professor Snape interrupted my scrutiny, and raised his hand to flick his black robe to cover my sight.

I looked up along his sleeve and saw his pale face and angry expression, and couldn't help shivering. "Now, go back to your lounge, I'll take care of this."

"But..." I said timidly, "That's Ron's pet... No, I mean... how should I tell Ron..."

"You can't tell anyone but the two of us." Professor Snape began to get impatient, he always had no patience with us students outside of Slytherin, "I'll take him to see Professor Dumbledore , now, please leave."

I was directly sent back outside the Gryffindor lounge. On my way back, I saw Professor McGonagall anxiously skipping me to the headmaster's office.

I know she must have been notified, but I, the first witness, and even the fuse are not allowed to watch!

I went back to the lounge sullenly, Ron and Harry were sitting by the fire playing chess happily, Hermione was writing beside me, and Dean and Seamus walked out beside me.

"Hello, Kelly!" Ron looked like he had won a few rounds, and he smiled and waved to me.Both Harry and Hermione turned their heads to look at me, and Hermione stood up and helped me to the stove to warm up: "What's wrong with you? Why are you so pale?"

"Uh." I smiled dryly, "I think it's frozen, I think." After I finished speaking, I glanced at Ron with a very guilty look: "Well, Ron... about Scabbers... it came out Something happened."

Ron's smiling face froze. He rushed over and looked around me, but he didn't see the little mouse. He was so anxious that he yelled at me, "Where did you leave Scabbers? What happened to him!"

Harry also followed and stopped Ron. While persuading Ron to calm down, he looked at me with the same puzzled eyes.

I feel terribly guilty, I don't know where my spell went wrong and turned Scabbers into a grown man, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist to the knowledge I have, and Professor Snape just I was also expressly forbidden to tell anyone.

"It seems to have reached the end of its lifespan." I could only lie more guiltyly, "I took it for a long time, and it looked very tired, and it couldn't wake up no matter how much it barked. I sent it to Pomfer Madam Lei, she said she would let Banban stay there for a while."

Ron breathed a sigh of relief: "Banban is at Madam Pomfrey's? Harry, let's go and see it in a while!" "No!" I hurriedly stopped him, "Madam Pomfrey said, Banban needs a quiet environment, I put After sending it over, she won't let me approach it any more. Wait until it's a little bit more energetic, then go."

Ron and Harry looked at each other dubiously, and had no choice but to agree.I rushed into the dormitory under Hermione's suspicious gaze, but she followed me in as well.

"Wait a minute, Kelly!" Hermione saw me sitting on the bed, and I showed a very resistant expression, so she asked instead, "Do you know who Nico Flamel is?"

What I was about to say was instantly blocked, and I couldn't remember who it was for a while.

"It's so familiar." I blinked my eyes and searched for the memory of this person in my memory. I remembered where I heard about it, but I couldn't remember it.

Hermione grabbed my shoulder eagerly and said, "If you remember, please send me a letter, please?"

"Or you can come to see me during the holidays." Hermione seemed to remember that we all live near London.

"Oh, maybe not." I said regretfully. "We're going to spend Christmas with my grandparents this year. Their house is near the village of Ottery-St. Mary. I can't even go to London."

"Okay, okay." Hermione replied regretfully and a little bit disappointed, but when I pouted and packed my clothes, she changed the subject, "I hope Ron won't be too sad after losing Scabbers."

"Yeah, but I plan to buy another one for Ron before school starts..." I was stunned, and the thick sweater in my hand fell into the suitcase. When I turned around suddenly, I found that Hermione was really a Not exactly what I expected.

"Smart Miss Know-it-all!" I couldn't help but scolded her with a smile, but I was also relieved that at least this secret wouldn't be kept in my heart for the whole Christmas holiday.

Hermione doesn't care about the nickname now, and I told her about Scabbers turning into a man, and told her what Professor Snape didn't want me to say.

"You did the right thing." Hermione's expression became serious, but she became worried, "But do you really think Professor Snape is trustworthy? He really handed that man over to Headmaster Dumbledore ?"

"And the spell you used...you invented it yourself? How could the pet grooming spell turn a pet into a human being? This doesn't conform to the basic law of the spell at all."

I felt that Hermione was about to fall into the vicious circle of knowledge, so I quickly grabbed her arms and shook her: "Calm down! Hermione, I don't think Professor Snape will lie to me. I saw it on the way back." Professor McGonagall was also notified to go to the principal's office!"

"Then you don't know what Professor Snape has done!" She answered me irritably, but she refused to continue, just muttering that the less people know about it, the better, and in her schedule A few notes on it, "Listen, Kelly. You are so genius that you can invent your own spells! But your spells don't seem safe or complete at the moment, you need to practice more .”

What!I still have to practice?Facing the horrific scene of a mouse turning into a human was enough to kill any thoughts I had.

In the morning of the next day, the students who went home for Christmas all left the school with big bags.I stood at the door saying goodbye to Harry, who wanted to spend Christmas at Hogwarts, and Ron, who had to stay at school because his parents had gone to Romania.

"I'll send you Christmas presents." I hugged them emotionally, Harry a little shy and Ron struggling to complain that I wasn't gone for good.

A group of Malfoy passing by looked at us and laughed, especially Draco Malfoy, who satirized Harry in a weird tone: "Look, this is a poor man who is not welcomed by his family. Poor guy at school for the holidays."

And my return for that was a big round snowball, which slammed into his light-blond hair.Without waiting for him to get angry, I immediately slipped away with my suitcase, laughing and waving to Harry and the others. I went around the door and looked at my Professor McGonagall with serious eyes, and Filch who was standing beside me, On the train.

Good, happy, Christmas holiday is coming?

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