Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

In the closed coffee shop, Hood had just finished cleaning. Hood, Nelson, Wales and Ryan were sitting lazily at the bar chatting. At this time, the door was opened, and Rodney, who had got off work from Hogwarts, walked in.

"You just came back after taking a shower again?" Hood, who was scratching Ginger, looked at Rodney who had just walked past her. Hood smelled the scent of shower gel and shampoo that had not yet dissipated from her body.

"The Professor's Bathroom at Hogwarts is indeed worthy of its reputation. It's really just like the legend." Rodney walked behind the bar to prepare a nightcap for himself. "Just because of that bathroom, working there is really worth it."

"I heard you talk so much about that bathroom, I want to see it too." Nelson, who was holding only half a glass of wine, saw that his sister had prepared a large glass of cocoa milk for him, and then asked: "Are you here again?" Aren't you afraid of getting fat if you drink such a high-calorie drink before going to bed? Then we will have to call you 'Rod Oil'."

Rodney poured a little whiskey into the cocoa milk and said, "It doesn't matter. You will not gain weight if you do strenuous exercise at Hogwarts during this period."

"Huh?"×4

Several people heard the interesting content and sat up quickly.

"What kind of strenuous exercise made you have to take a shower after exercise before coming back?" Hood asked, "Could it be with him..."

Everyone here naturally knows who "he" Hood is talking about, and they also know the other person's character, but this does not prevent them from teasing Rodney about Zhang.

"Of course it's with him." Rodney said after putting down his half-filled drink. "We exercised very intensely."

"etc!"

Hood grabbed Rodney's hand that had just picked up the cup, and then pulled up her sleeve. Several bruises were clearly visible from her wrists to her elbows.

Nelson then pulled up the sleeve of Rodney's other hand. There was also a bruise on the arm under the sleeve.

"Hiss~" Hood took a breath, "Maybe he likes this kind of tone, I can't tell."

Then Hood looked at Rodney up and down for a while, and then said: "Do you also like this tone? I really didn't expect it!"

"So you are doing such strenuous exercise in the bathroom?" Nelson looked at Rodney, who had been playing since he was a child, with the eyes of a stranger.

"Would you believe me if I said no?" Rodney looked helplessly at the guys who were about to race again.

Since the topic involved Zhang, Ryan on the side was not very familiar with him, so he did not join the conversation. He just watched quietly with a smile.

And Wales also didn't speak, sitting there wondering what he was thinking.

"Come on, let me help you check other places."

"Go play with your cat...ah..."

…

At night when people are about to go to sleep after a tiring day, there are still many people working at their posts.

In the Essex town of Chelmsford, the light from a streetlight shines on a large tree on the roadside, casting a connected shadow behind the tree. A black figure walks quietly in the shadows. From other places, this black figure merges with the shadows. If you don't look carefully, you can't see the existence of the black shadow at all.

Shadow Stealth is a very practical spell recorded in the "Invisibility Book of Invisibility", which allows the user to hide and walk in the shadows.

After Brian Braddock was admitted as an Auror and underwent a short-term training, he followed the instructor's advice and dug out the labeled "Invisibility Book of Invisibility" from the bookshelf at home. Come learn, Shadow Sneaking is one of the several invisibility spells he learned from the book.

As the Auror responsible for the town's security, Brian Braddock's task tonight is to patrol this neighborhood. If you find traces of Death Eaters during patrols, report them to the Auror Command Center in charge of the town. If you find Muggles doing evil, report them to the Muggle police.

A cool breeze blew by, and the night breeze with a temperature only slightly above zero made him shrink back.

At this time, he thought of the robe worn by Mr. Zhang in Hogwarts. It was said that the robe had a heating function, which made him envious. What makes him even more envious is that in winter, many girls stick to Zhang's side to rub the heater.

Around the last Christmas, similar clothes were launched at the Hogsmeade fair, but he missed it because he was on duty. When his sister went to buy it, she found that the clothes had been sold out.

Thinking of this, Braddock couldn't help but patted a vest under his clothes. It was an Iron Curse vest produced by the newly established Weasley Dark Magic Armor Company.

As the war escalated, the Weasley twin brothers split off the original Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes into a Weasley Dark Magic Armor Company that specialized in developing and producing dark magic protective equipment. The Auror had previously helped them solve the technical problem of the dark magic armor not allowing dark wizards to use it.

Perhaps he could write to Fred and the others and ask them to add charms to their vests to keep them warm in winter and cool in summer, Braddock thought.

However, he believed that even if the Weasley brothers added such a function to their vests, the Ministry of Magic would not let them use it. These vests will undergo an iterative upgrade of their spells based on the latest research results every one or two weeks, but that will all cost the Ministry of Magic. He did not think that the Minister would use gold coins from the Ministry of Magic's tight funds to make these trivial improvements.

When he thought about the money issue, Braddock on patrol couldn't help but sigh. Now he finally understood what Zhang meant when he said in Muggle Studies class that "war means spending a lot of money."

For example, the price of the Iron Curse Vest he wears is not cheap. Even though the Weasley brothers have kept profits very low, the price is still high because of its high cost, not to mention the additional cost of each iteration upgrade. Spend money. Then he calculated the number of Aurors in the Ministry of Magic now, and the final amount made him a little dizzy.

In addition to standard equipment, Braddock also spent a lot of money on protective equipment he purchased privately. When there was a basilisk attack in Hogwarts, he bought a dozen armored amulets from Zhang, and he still has half of them left. After he became an Auror, his sister gave him her share. There are also Zhang’s newly sold iron armor amulets and various potions, as well as the space expansion leather bag to store these things. Like other Aurors, he spent a lot of money on these. After all, these things can save lives at critical moments. .

Time always flies when you are thinking about things. It will be three o'clock in the morning in about ten minutes, and Braddock's patrol mission tonight will soon be over. So after walking the last bit of the distance, he turned to another road and walked towards the Auror Command Center in the town.

Just as he was about to walk to the Auror command center, he suddenly noticed movement not far away.

Although it was probably his colleagues who were patrolling other places who had returned, he still hid himself in the shadows and slowly walked towards the place where the noise came from.

The place where the noise came from was very close to the Auror headquarters in the town. When Braddock approached, he found several people tinkering with something there.

The next moment, a loud "boom" spread throughout the night sky.

The house that was hidden by magic and served as the Auror headquarters jumped out of the night.

Then, more and more black figures appeared around the headquarters, and then launched an attack on the house.

The Aurors in the house also began to fight back after realizing they were under attack.

Hidden in the shadows, Braddock suppressed his urge to take action. He knew that the attacking Death Eaters had not discovered him yet, and that the headquarters was not so easy to break through. Therefore, when the battle reaches a stalemate, he must be the key force to deliver a fatal blow to the Death Eaters from behind.