Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

I don’t know how long it took...

In the auditorium, the young wizards from the four major colleges had gathered together, sat down at their respective long tables, and began to enjoy the sumptuous meals specially prepared for them.

The skin of the roasted chicken is brushed bright and shiny with the sauce mixed with honey. After the fat is baked, the skin overflows and becomes crispy. At the same time, it is also soaked with French spices, red wine, lemon juice and rosemary.

The smell of the marinated and tender chicken suddenly spread in the air, filling the entire auditorium.

The steak is grilled to lock in the full juices. After cutting it, just squeeze it slightly with a table knife to make it flow out freely.

In addition, there are French fries baked until golden brown, cream cakes dotted with red cherries, mashed potatoes covered with thick cheese, as well as fresh and sweet juices and cheeses, etc...

However, facing the dazzling array of delicious food in front of her, Hermione couldn't work up her appetite at the moment.

She turned her head subconsciously and glanced at the empty seat next to her - this was where Ron originally sat.

For some reason, the annoying voice that kept nagging in her ears every meal actually disappeared, making her feel uncomfortable again.

Immediately, Hermione raised her head again, looking across the tables of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, towards Slytherin who was farthest away.

Sure enough, the seats where Harry and Draco used to sit most often were still empty.

Among the neatly arranged little wizards, the two adjacent empty seats looked particularly obvious, and she could easily find them without much effort...

Just when Hermione saw that all her familiar friends were gone, she felt a little empty for a moment. Suddenly, from beside her, her roommate who was also in the same dormitory suddenly called her.

"Hermione...are you okay?"

Seemingly noticing Hermione's strange behavior at the moment, Parvati Patil put down the cake in her hand, cast a concerned look at her, and asked softly.

"ah……"

Hermione was startled by the sudden voice, and quickly brought her thoughts back to her eyes, turning to look at Parvati beside her.

"No... I just don't have any appetite."

She forced a smile and didn't say anything, but simply answered.

"Uh-huh...well, if anything happens, you can call me."

Parvati raised her eyebrows, returned the smile, and then returned her attention to her eyes, no longer paying attention to Hermione beside her, and began to enjoy the delicious food.

Hermione, who had lost her appetite, did not stay at the table for too long. After casually eating a few bites of the mashed potatoes and salad in front of her to fill her stomach, she stood up silently and took a few pieces with her for the three of them.

The prepared cake left the seats and walked out of the auditorium door silently.

The little wizards who were in a lively atmosphere naturally didn't notice when one of them left them. Everyone was still eating, playing, making noise, and enjoying the little time left for Halloween.

However, from the seat directly above the auditorium, Dumbledore saw the little girl's leaving movements clearly.

But he didn't say anything, just smiled slightly, then continued to lower his eyelids, and began to do his best to deal with the steak in front of him...

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"I guess the auditorium must be very lively now..."

With a "choking" sound, Ron, who had no strength, threw the tools in his hands aside casually. While breathing heavily, he wiped his sweaty cheeks with his rolled up sleeves.

At this time, the original robes on their bodies had been taken off. When they were sweating profusely, they could only hang them in a relatively clean place and no longer care about anything else.

Seeing that the cleaning was almost done, Draco also put down the tools in his hand and took a deep breath after listening to Ron's resentful complaints.

He lowered his head and looked at the stains on his originally neat trousers, and then at his red palms. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Among the three people, only Harry had not changed much from the beginning. He had obviously been doing the cleaning work for so long, but his breathing was still as steady as usual, and he didn't even shed a few drops of sweat.

"Thank you for your hard work, please rest for a while and leave the rest to me."

Seeing that both Draco and Ron had stopped due to exhaustion, he just smiled, and while talking relaxedly, he continued to skillfully operate the mop to handle the remaining work.

"Oh my god...Harry, aren't you tired? Stop and take a rest, it won't be long after this!"

Ron leaned against the clean wall, his eyelids trembled, and he said in amazement.

Even Draco cast a questioning look and couldn't help but nodded, which was a rare sign of agreement with what Ron said.

"Ha...Actually, I'm used to it when I'm at home. The current workload is actually pretty good for me, and it's not particularly tiring."

After hearing Ron's obstruction, Harry stopped, supported the top of the broom handle with his arm, touched his nose, and said a little embarrassedly.

"Did you make all these things at home?"

There was an incredible look in Draco's eyes... As a child of the Malfoy family, he really couldn't imagine what kind of family could make a child "accustomed" to such a heavy workload.

Immediately, he subconsciously glanced at Ron next to him. After seeing Ron's expression of being speechless, Draco was really sure that this was indeed not a normal phenomenon.

"Well... when I was still at my uncle's and aunt's house, I would get up early every day to clean the house, and sometimes I would prepare lunch or dinner for them..."

"You never told us how your aunt and uncle treated you so badly!"

Ron suddenly became energetic, stood up suddenly, stared, and even clenched his fists, as if to express his anger on Harry's behalf...

However, Harry shook his head. Just when he was about to explain something to the two of them, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was suddenly interrupted by a "boom" on the ground.

"boom--"

The tremors and sounds seemed to come from a place not far away, and the propagation through the corridor seemed a bit hollow... but it still did not stop. It seemed to be following a special rhythm, one after another, continuously.

"boom--"

"boom--"

"What sound?"

Draco first glanced at the water ripples in the sink that were trembling slightly, and then turned towards the outside of the toilet and towards the corridor.

I saw that the corridor was still dark... only a few candlelights that were not bright were emitting full light. However, these alone could not penetrate the darkness of the corridor, nor could they make them see.

Qing, what exactly is making such a sound?

"That sound seems to be getting closer - is it footsteps!?"

Harry also seemed to notice something. He stared at the darkness at the other end of the corridor and swallowed.

"Don't scare me...what could make such a sound when walking, Hagrid?!"

Ron looked around and saw that the expressions of Draco and Harry beside him became more and more nervous and serious, and his heart could not help but beat faster.

"boom--"

"boom--"

Sure enough, the footsteps became clearer and clearer. By this time, the vibration had become extremely obvious, with a great sense of oppression, slowly approaching in the direction of the three of them.

"Get your wand!"

Draco said, the fatigue in his eyes instantly disappeared, he took out the wand from his pocket, and his whole demeanor changed.

After listening to his words, the two people who were a little frightened finally came to their senses, hurriedly went back and took out their respective wands from the coats they had just taken off, and held them firmly in their hands.

After a few more steps... a vague figure finally appeared in the dark corridor.

Its head almost reached the ceiling, its body was strong, its arms were long and thick, and it was holding a vaguely shaped stick...

"It's a troll!!!"

The moment he revealed his figure, Ron was the first to recognize the other person's identity. His eyes widened, his legs trembled violently, and then he couldn't help but let out a shrill cry.

"Dammit! Shut up Ron!!!"

Draco felt his heart being grasped hard by a big invisible hand, and it suddenly tightened.

He hurriedly gathered it up and covered Ron's mouth tightly while opening his mouth and cursing secretly.

The only time he really saw a troll was when his uncle visited Malfoy Manor to rest.

Uncle Blake practiced his superb transformation skills and turned a peacock raised in the manor into the appearance of a troll in front of him.

At that time, the image of the huge monster that was ferocious, ugly and rushed towards him with a stench was deeply imprinted in the depths of his mind.

However, he never thought that the second time he encountered a real troll would be in school!!!

He is stronger than the giant monster his uncle transformed!!

This was the only thought in Draco's mind at this moment.

However, even if Draco covered Ron's mouth immediately, there was no doubt that the movement here still attracted his attention.

On the other side of the corridor, the huge giant monster stopped and paused.

Then the next second, as if he had determined a target, he let out a loud and violent roar.

"roar!!!!"

Immediately, he took steps as he did in the Forbidden Forest, waving a huge wooden stick and ran, heading straight for the toilet where the three of them were.

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"roar!!!!!!!"

The monster's roar was like thunder, exploding in the Hogwarts castle.

For a moment, even the surrounding portraits couldn't help showing a look of fear, and they quickly followed the frame and moved to a safe place to avoid being affected by the terrifying wooden stick in his hand...

"Um?"

Outside the auditorium, Hermione, who had just left the noisy and crowded crowd, and returned to calm outside the door, seemed to faintly hear something.

She held three pieces of cake in her hand and looked to the side with some doubts. But after seeing the silence around her, she couldn't help but start to wonder if she had heard wrongly.

…………

“serpensortia!!!(Oolong)”

Facing a sudden crisis, Draco's reaction was after all faster than that of ordinary young wizards of the same age.

I saw his wand trembling rapidly in his hand. With the burst of smoke, it immediately transformed into two pitch black pythons. He straightened up without fear, opened his mouth, and shouted at the approaching troll.

Roaring and roaring, he quickly moved in his direction.

It has to be said that in just half a year, Draco has become more and more proficient in mastering the spell that Professor Charlie gave him. Not only can it ensure the success rate of use, it can even summon the two black magic spells that were originally summoned by the transformation spell.

The size of the long snake has more than doubled!

However, when faced with a giant monster with rough skin and thick flesh that did not refuse its fangs, the progress Draco made was immediately useless.

"Whoops!!"

Facing the offensive of the two pythons, the giant monster will naturally not make any concessions or compromises.

A heavy breath blew out from his nostrils, and he weighed the wooden stick in his hand twice, as if he was looking for the right feel.

The next moment, there was only a sound of "Boom!!!" - the wooden stick was raised high to his shoulder, and then he suddenly exerted force, cut through the air, and swept diagonally towards the obstacle in front of him.

"Pfft..."

There was a sound like a wooden stick smashing flesh and blood, and in the blink of an eye, only a section of the tail of the two pythons was left. The remaining heads and most of the body were turned into flesh in an instant and disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, it also gives a good warning to the three people who have not yet had a head-on confrontation with him: if he is hit by him, then I am afraid that I will not be much better...

The dead python quickly gathered again in the smoke, retracted into Draco's wand and turned into the tip of the wand again.

"Gudong...run!!!"

After swallowing the saliva in his mouth, without any hesitation, Draco grabbed a person with one hand, turned around and rushed towards the toilet, hoping to effectively prevent the movement of the huge body in the narrow and closed space.

After all, if they really want to escape, in the spacious corridor, the speed at which the giant monster just crossed the corridor and approached them will undoubtedly be unmatched by the three of them... Rather than die so easily, it is better to escape in what seems to be the most dangerous environment.

Below, find a way to break the situation.

Taking a deep breath, he managed to calm down his spirit and calm his beating heart. He turned his head and looked at Harry and Ron, who were already confused on both sides... It seemed that they had both been killed by the troll.

The python was frightened by that blow.

"Wake up!!"

Time was running out, and he couldn't help but think too much. He could only shake the two of them awake, holding them tightly by their collars while giving orders word by word.

"Now...if you don't want to die, you two had better be more energetic!"