Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

In the cafeteria, Harry was telling stories to his classmates, Malfoy lowered his head and concentrated on eating without talking, while Zhang Xu finished his breakfast in twos and took one back to the dormitory.

After browsing last night's newspaper on the sofa in the living room, Zhang Xu threw the newspaper on the coffee table and went into the bedroom to catch up on his sleep.

Today's newspaper devoted half its page to last night's attack. Except for one page that reported on the award ceremony, the remaining pages covered all aspects of the explosion and the subsequent rescue situation.

At that time, in the auditorium of the Ministry of Magic, after the podium exploded and blew Zhang Xu away, many decorations, tableware and even candles in the auditorium turned into bombs, and they were quite powerful.

The wizards in the auditorium were caught off guard and were attacked, causing heavy casualties on site.

At that time, Dumbledore did not notice anything unusual about the explosives and suffered a setback from the beginning. However, he also protected some people around him and stopped the last fifth of the suspicious items from exploding.

Among the few who unfortunately died on the spot, there was a young man who had had some interaction with Zhang Xu.

After Zhang Xu and the others entered the auditorium, a young man not much older than Zhang Xu walked up to Zhang Xu and stopped them.

Then the young man chattered a lot to Zhang Xu, and his attitude when speaking was extremely arrogant, which caused Malfoy behind Zhang Xu to feel uncomfortable.

It's just that with Lao Deng around today, it's not easy for Xiao Ma to play with his young master's temper.

Moreover, none of Zhang Xu and the others could understand the Indian English he spoke, including Lao Deng, who lived for more than a hundred years and could chat with the fishmen on the shore...

This also makes Xiaoma, who wants to step on others, not know where to start.

After several people looked at each other for a while, Zhang Xu could only say to the other party in standard Oxford-accented English: "I'm sorry, can you please speak English? We can't understand Hindi."

As a result, the young man was so angry that his face turned as red as the turban on his head.

Then he was pulled away by another middle-aged Indian wizard who also wore a red turban. The middle-aged wizard apologized to Dumbledore. ..

But judging from Lao Deng's expression, he didn't understand what the other person was saying.

In today's newspaper, when this young man picked up a teacup to drink tea, the teacup exploded and he died on the spot.

When Zhang Xu saw this, he could only sigh deeply and lament the impermanence of fate.

The other unfortunate victims included VIPs invited by the Ministry of Magic and waiters at the party.

In a report in the newspaper, it was reported that all the Aurors present were not seriously injured, with only minor injuries at most. This was all thanks to a series of dark magic purchased by the Auror Office from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. defensive items.

It can be expected that after this soft article is published, the business of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes will be even more prosperous.

As for the Ministry of Magic, the best news in today's newspapers is that Rita Skeeter was injured on the spot and fell into a coma, and is now lying in St. Mungo's. Otherwise, Scrimgeour would have lost fifty more hairs today. percentage point.

In addition to the explosion in the Ministry of Magic Auditorium, the news last night also mentioned the golden light emerging from the Peak District National Park.

However, the report only mentioned the golden light phenomenon, and the causes and consequences are "still under investigation."

Precisely because there was not much valuable news in the newspaper, Zhang Xu went to catch up on his sleep after browsing.

After Harry, who had been instructed before, half-truthfully explained to his classmates what they had experienced after escaping that night, the other students stopped asking Zhang Xu what happened that night.

Then Hogwarts returned to its usual state,

Those preparing for the college entrance examination are busy answering questions every day, those who practice magic assiduously shed their youthful sweat in the Room of Requirement every night, and those preparing for conspiracy are waiting in the dark for opportunities.

Outside Hogwarts, the latest news is that wizards have discovered that the number of dementors has suddenly decreased significantly. Rita Skeeter, who was being treated at St. Mungo's, has been repeatedly ill and cannot be discharged from the hospital in the short term. Weasley The line of wizards queuing up in front of Wizarding Wheezes to buy items for defense against the dark arts ended in front of Weasley's broomstick shop, and the Malfoys who were traveling to America to commemorate their tenth wedding anniversary returned home to see their house burned down. Later, he severely criticized the Ministry of Magic for failing to protect the safety of wizards.

There have been so many bad things in the news recently that Zhang Xu didn’t know where to start.

But seeing a bunch of souvenirs from America that Lao Ma later sent to Xiao Ma, it seemed that the couple had really traveled to America.

Zhang Xu, on the other hand, has done nothing but complain about these things. His main task now is to prepare for the college entrance examination in the name of recovering from his injuries. Anyway, Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic will be there to support him if the sky falls.

However, Zhang Xu didn't look for trouble, but trouble came to Zhang Xu.

In so many years at Hogwarts, Zhang Xu had only met Professor Sprout in two places: the greenhouse and the staff lounge.

It was the first time for Zhang Xu in so many years to be called into her office by Professor Sprout.

The style of Professor Sprout's office is somewhat similar to when Zhang Xu used the Muggle Studies professor's office. There are flower pots with various plants placed in many places in the office.

However, the types of plants in their offices are very different.

The plants planted in Zhang Xu's office are in line with those of retired cadres, and are mainly ornamental and recreational plants. When you walk into the office, those plants can make you feel relaxed and happy.

Professor Sprout is different. The plants planted in her office were all moved to the office to facilitate her observation and research at any time. After walking into her office, the smell of flower fertilizer emanating from the flower pots would definitely not make most people feel comfortable.

After all, one of them is a person who yearns for the life of a retired veteran cadre, while the other is a person who does this.

Today, Professor Sprout laid out a large piece of blueprint on the floor in her office, with several quills floating on it, writing and drawing on the paper from time to time.

Zhang Xu walked over and found that the drawing on the ground was actually the floor plan of Hogwarts.

"Have you been feeling well recently?" Professor Sprout asked.

"It's better than before. Thank you for your concern, Professor." Zhang Xu replied.

"That's good." Professor Sprout said to Zhang Xu, "Although I don't really want to disturb you, there is something I think you still need to pay attention to."

"And you were the one who started this matter."

Hearing what Professor Sprout said, Zhang Xu started to break into a cold sweat.

Over the years, when Professor Sprout talked about the things that Zhang Xu took the lead, it was basically not a good thing. After all, under Zhang Xu's leadership, places such as greenhouses and medicinal fields were seriously harmed. Professor Sprout would talk to Zhang Xu like this almost every time when he was settling accounts with Zhang Xu.

So this time, Zhang Xu thought that Professor Sprout had to settle the score himself first, so he couldn't help but become nervous and began to carefully recall whether he had done any latest tricks recently.

After Professor Sprout saw Zhang Xu's expression, he naturally guessed what he was thinking, so he stopped talking for a while and let Zhang Xu scare himself for a while.