Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

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Near noon, a sudden heavy rainstorm accompanied by lightning and thunder struck Hogwarts.

Zhang Xu, like other students playing by the lake, found something nearby and turned it into an umbrella, then ran towards the castle holding the umbrella.

It was time to prepare for lunch, so a group of students simply went to the cafeteria to wait for lunch to be prepared.

During lunch, Zhang Xu discovered that classmate Xiao Ma did not appear in the cafeteria.

After finishing lunch in a hurry, Zhang Xu left the cafeteria, cast a disembodiment spell on himself in the deserted corridor, and walked to Myrtle's bathroom.

While in the corridor, Zhang Xu had already taken a look at the Marauder's Map when no one was around, and found Xiao Ma alone in the girls' bathroom.

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Zhang Xu, who leaned his ear against the bathroom door, vaguely heard a boy's voice crying inside. After listening carefully, he found that the person crying inside was Malfoy.

At this moment, Zhang Xu's heart suddenly moved, and he immediately raised his wand and pointed to his side.

(?ω?)っ—·Reveal quickly·—o(·_·)

Zhang Xu didn't expect that there would be someone next to him who would use the Illusion Charm to eavesdrop on the movements in the girls' bathroom. If he hadn't felt the breeze brought by the other person's walking, Zhang Xu wouldn't have been able to spot him.

And he didn't expect that the other party would use the same silent revealing spell on the other party as he did.

When the two people in front of the door saw each other clearly, the scene fell into extreme embarrassment.

Zhang Xu: What should I do if the principal discovers me outside the girls’ bathroom door after being invisible? Waiting online, urgent!

After Zhang Xu and Lao Deng stared at each other for a while, they unanimously chose to cast the Illusion Curse on themselves again to become invisible.

As for Xiaoma’s classmate in the bathroom,

He didn't know that he was being watched secretly.

With Lao Deng here, sneaking into the bathroom silently is a piece of cake.

The situation in the bathroom now is very suitable for use as a reading comprehension test in the Chinese language class test paper.

The rain was blown into the bathroom from the window by the storm, and fell on Malfoy who was curled up on the ground. Malfoy's sobs seemed so small under the accompaniment of thunder.

According to the problem-solving method of reading comprehension, this scene describes Malfoy's inner weakness and helplessness.

The current actual situation is also the same. Now Malfoy is only one step away from crying and fainting in the bathroom.

Although Zhang Xu was not sure whether Malfoy had received the task from Voldemort to assassinate Dumbledore or even himself, after all, Lucius Malfoy was not captured this time, and Voldemort had no reason to let Pony take action.

But judging from the current situation where he is overwhelmed by pressure, Voldemort's mission is 90% similar to that in the "plot".

Thinking about it, it was not surprising that he was overwhelmed by such successive events as the basically impossible task of assassinating Dumbledore, and then his home was burned down and his parents disappeared.

And what surprised Zhang Xu the most was why Malfoy would still stay in Hogwarts at this time.

In the past few years at Hogwarts, Zhang Xu knew that when something happened to a student's family or a relative died, the school would give students a vacation to go home and deal with household chores.

But now Malfoy has not come home to visit, and the pony's identity is very special. It is a tacit secret that his father is one of the Death Eaters, so his actions can't help but make people suspicious.

Perhaps Lao Deng was confused about this, so he came to follow Xiao Ma.

However, the results of this tracking operation were almost zero. Apart from almost fainting from tears, Xiao Ma did nothing else.

Resisting the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to shoot Legilimency to Pony, Zhang Xu left the bathroom.

If the pony has fainted from crying, then there is no problem in using Legilimency on him. If you use it on him when he is still a little sane, you might be discovered.

After leaving Myrtle's territory, Zhang Xu went back to his dormitory to freshen up and prepare to attend the award ceremony held at the Ministry of Magic tonight.

As a man, Zhang Xu dressed up like that. After washing his face, combing his hair, and changing into decent clothes, he was basically done.

Today, Zhang Xu is wearing the same blue robe that he wore at the Christmas dinner of the Triwizard Tournament two years ago. After some slight adjustments, it fits him again.

After checking the time, it was still a long time before we finally gathered in the principal's office, so Zhang Xu began to take care of the flowers and plants in the dormitory.

After Professor Bubaji came back, Zhang Xu immediately moved all the flowers and plants that were originally placed in the Muggle Studies office back to the dormitory. Now, except for a few pots on the balcony, Professor Sprout failed to cultivate them and could only use them. In addition to ornamental peas, other non-offensive plants are arranged in the living room.

When there was still a quarter of an hour before the gathering time, someone opened the door of Zhang Xu's dormitory and looked at Zhang Xu angrily as he was loosening soil and watering flowers and plants like a retired cadre.

After seeing the person coming, Zhang Xu realized that the time to set off was approaching.

"Are you planning to fly there by yourself?"

Scarlet said speechlessly to Zhang Xu, who was holding a small shovel to loosen the soil of the marigolds on the windowsill.

"Uh... I forgot to set the alarm clock. Let's go now." Zhang Xu said to Scarlet embarrassedly.

According to the agreed plan, Zhang Xu should have gone to her dormitory to find her fifteen minutes ago, and then went to Lao Deng's office together.

Zhang Xu put the shovel in his hand next to the marigold pot, drained the soil from his hands, and left with Scarlet.

After Zhang Xu worked hard for two or three days, Scarlet finally refused the invitation to attend the Medal of Merlin award night as his partner.

Only that day did Zhang Xu find out that she had also received an invitation letter, so she had to attend the awards party as a family representative.

And according to other sources, Scrimgeour added a deeper meaning to the awards show.

So Scarlet must first consider this matter from the family's standpoint.

According to Zhang Xu's analysis, Scrimgeour will most likely organize this awards show into a party where all forces will take sides. When the time comes, those who support him will stand aside, those who support Voldemort will be sent "out of the country" first, and finally everyone will see the real deal.

Zhang Xu knew that Scarlet's family had been planning to return to the UK in the past few years, so he left it to her.

As for a partner, if you don’t have one, you won’t have one. Anyway, don’t force it. If it weren't for the restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Magic, Zhang would have really wanted to imitate the behavior of Gut Blobel, the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine, who brought 49 people to the Nobel Prize Gala at once.

Although the two are not friends, they are still a comprehensive strategic partnership at the awards night, so sometimes they have to make some consistent moves to show others.

This is what a social evening party is, and you need to express your position through language and behavior.

Sometimes during the communication between the middlemen, the representatives of the two families clink glasses and take a sip of wine, which means that the two families give the middleman face and begin to ease the relationship. Sometimes a few words of ridicule from one person to others means that he is telling everyone that the war between them is about to begin, and everyone should quickly choose a side. Sometimes people from two factions stand together and chat and laugh, and advance and retreat together when talking to others, which is to tell others that we have joined forces and everyone who wants to make a fortune together comes and has a drink.

Various parties are a platform for these people to express and imply various information to the outside world.

It can be predicted that tonight's party will be another place for everyone to drink and negotiate together.

I just don’t know what kind of message Scrimgeour would send out on such an occasion.

As for those protagonists on the Internet who feel that such a party is hypocritical and useless, it is just that their level is not high enough to understand the function of such a party.