From Kamal Taj to Hogwarts

Amidst Professor Bierley's passionate introduction, melodious music sounded on the stage.

A senior witch wearing a classical dress stood on the side of the stage, directing an alternative "classical band" with a wand to make them play beautiful music.

This band has no musicians except the conductor, only violins and harps that float in the air and play independently, French horns that blow out of thin air, and a piano that moves its keys freely on the ground.

However, I don't know if it was an illusion, but there seemed to be some messy quarrels mixed in with the melodious music.

"Is anyone quarreling here?" Xiwen frowned and asked softly. "Why did I hear some messy noises?"

"Really?" Professor Kettleburn listened for a while, then nodded in approval. "Really, the sound of the quarrel seems to be coming from the background."

Having said this, he glanced at Professor Bierley at the edge of the stage worriedly.

"Drama is Herbert's favorite thing after herbal medicine. Don't let anything go wrong with the drama program he leads on Christmas Eve."

Beside the stage, Professor Bierley seemed to have heard the quarrel backstage. His expression changed, and then he hurried to where the actors were waiting.

"It's time to go on stage, what are you doing!" Professor Bierley's somewhat angry voice came faintly from the background.

Fortunately, the professor's reprimand still had some effect.

The backstage fell silent, and the actors who played the roles of the three witches looking for the fountain of good luck - Asha, Amata, and Altida - came out one after another from the backstage.

The three actors are all senior witches. After a semester of rehearsal, their acting skills are quite good. Except for Asha and Amata, who didn't give each other a good look, their performances in other situations were perfect.

The plot progressed smoothly, and Professor Bierley's expression beside the stage seemed to relax, and he was no longer as nervous as before.

As the plot of "The Fountain of Good Luck" develops, three witches meet an unlucky knight.

The unlucky knight was played by a tall and handsome senior wizard. After he came on the stage, he glanced at Amata and saw her standing expressionless, so he naturally walked to Asha's side.

"I remember that Amata brought the Unlucky Knight into the garden at the foot of the Fountain of Good Luck Mountain. Why didn't Amata make any moves?" Professor Slughorn looked at the Unlucky Knight's movements in confusion and muttered in a low voice.

Xiwen had also read the story "Fountain of Good Luck" several times, and he vaguely remembered that the unlucky knight was brought into the garden through the crack in the wall behind the vines because of Amata's carelessness.

However, on the stage, Amata seemed to have completely ignored the unlucky knight and stood there coldly. Instead, the witch playing Asha took the arm of the unlucky knight affectionately and gave Amata a demonstration.

eyes.

"Um, does "Fountain of Good Luck" have such a plot?" Xiwen asked in surprise.

"I guess there is something wrong between them..." Professor Slughorn said inexplicably with the corner of his mouth twitching.

Xiwen couldn't help but glance at Professor Bierley beside the stage, and found that his face was so dark that ink dripped from his face...

The plot on the stage is still going on. No matter what troubles arise between Asha, Amata and the unlucky knight, the other witch Altida is still very dedicated.

She acted with intense anger and read out her lines:

"Only one can bathe in the Fountain of Good Luck! It's hard enough to pick just one among us, now there's another one!"

The unlucky knight immediately made a fearful expression and said his line: "Are you all witches?"

"Okay, I don't know magic, I don't have superb skills in fighting or sword dancing, and I don't have any talents that can make non-magic people outstanding. In any case, I can't compare with you, so I choose to quit!"

His superb acting skills allowed him to vividly display his inferiority and cowardice, but Asha's action of holding his arm made these lines lose their credibility.

Seeing the unlucky knight performing so hard, Amata finally looked at him and read out her lines fiercely——

"Cowardly!" she scolded. "Draw your sword, knight, and help us reach our destination!"

Afterwards, the three of them walked around the stage peacefully, and the scenery on the stage also changed under the control of Professor Kettleburn.

Three witches and the poor knight boldly walked into the magic garden.

However, a huge white earthworm coiled under the hill. It was blind and had a bloated body.

As the four actors approached, it turned a dirty face toward them and uttered the following words: "Show me your pain."

This giant "Earthworm" has a thin body, is gray-white all over, and has red eyes. The words spoken by "Earthworm" are dubbed by Professor Kettleburn off the stage.

"No wonder the professor was so excited about this drama performance and asked me to stay and watch his performance." Xiwen suddenly realized and said with a smile. "It turns out that he is not only a props team, but also has a line!"

However, Professor Slughorn beside him had no intention of responding to Xiwen. He just looked at the gray "Earthworm" with a solemn expression.

And Professor Bierley at the side of the stage even cried out: "Is this the Ash Snake? Waterfalk, Sylvanus Kettleburn, what kind of earthworm did you create for me?!"

At the same time, something happened to the actors on the stage!

The next moment "Earthworm" appeared, Amata suddenly pulled out the wand from the inside of the costume, and quickly issued a magic spell to Asha -

“Furnunculus!”

Asha fell to the ground in response, and ugly pimples appeared one after another on her face.

The unlucky knight watched the female companion who was holding his arm being knocked down by someone else's curse. He couldn't help his rising anger and shouted loudly: "You madman, look what you did!"

"What's wrong? Now you know how distressed you are?" Amata asked fiercely. "Do you still remember that I was the one who made you feel distressed like this before?!"

"Do you know that I prepared a Christmas gift for you carefully and wanted to give you a surprise. However, when I came to the auditorium, I saw you and her kissing under the mistletoe!"

"Do you know that when I saw that scene, that feeling can really be called distressed!"

"You're crazy!" The unfortunate knight also pulled out his wand and pointed at Amata face to face. "These are not the reasons for you to attack her at all!"

"It's useless to talk more." Amata said without any sign of weakness, and even used lines from the drama. "Cowardice! Use your spell, knight, and let me see how your spellcasting level changes after you leave me.

How’s it going!”

The two soon started a fierce duel.

Another actor who played Eltida stood awkwardly next to the three of them. She also took out her wand, but didn't know how to break up the fight. So when the two were fighting, she quietly took out Asha's actor

He hugged him off the stage and wanted to find medical staff to remove his curse.

"That's enough!" Professor Bierley shouted angrily, and then rushed onto the stage, preparing to forcefully end the duel between the two.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

The red light in the gray-white "Earthworm"'s eyes suddenly bloomed!

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－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

I wish everyone a happy 520! I hope you will not encounter such changes as the three actors of "The Fountain of Good Luck"...