The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Tom and Hermione returned to Hogwarts the day before school started. Like a miracle, they finished all their homework.

"I can finally take a rest." Tom leaned on the armchair in the common room, feeling the warm fire beside him, which was extremely comfortable.

Hermione sat across from him, giving her homework a final check. Perhaps because all her homework was finished, Hermione seemed to be in a particularly good mood. She was humming a song while correcting errors and omissions in her paper with Tom's quill.

"This is really useful," her eyes curled into crescents, and she crossed out several unreasonable sentences in the paper. At this time, Richie, the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, found Tom, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to lend a step to speak.

"I hope you have a fulfilling and happy Christmas." Richie politely said.

Tom raised his eyebrows, he had more than just spent this Christmas.

Richie looked around and saw no one around, so he leaned against the wall and said in a low voice: "When I came to Hogwarts today, I got three pieces of news. One is that the Dementors near Hogwarts have been killed." All evacuated.”

Naturally, as soon as Operation "Tornado" started, Tom evacuated all the dementors still stranded around Hogwarts, and now they are all on rotation in White Dolphin Prison.

Mr. Bogin told Tom in his letter that White Dolphin Prison now has nearly a thousand serious prisoners and is starting to operate normally. The prisoners inside fell in love with labor. The guards asked them to go back to the rest area, but they were not happy. There was even a conflict, but as soon as it started, Peter severely suppressed it. The leader likes to mention the seven-day confinement package - he will be confined to his single cell for a whole week, and his qualifications to work in the factory area will also be revoked, and he will have to queue up again when the confinement is over. According to the current popularity of the factory area, he will be lucky to be ranked in a position in a month.

As soon as the deadly weapon of confinement was used, all the prisoners became more honest. If you are obedient, you can go to the cafeteria to take a good rest three times a day; if you dare to be a thorn, you will be locked up for a whole week. Moreover, there is a strange rumor circulating in the prison: there is an invisible monster monitoring everyone in the rest area all the time. No one can commit suicide here, and no one can escape here. The management here seems to be very loose, but in fact it is the most difficult prison to escape in the world.

In order to compete for job quotas in the prison factory, the prisoners also got involved in each other, forming a crazy competition between quality and output. Only prisoners who work quickly and well can continue to work in the factory. Working in a factory comes with a meager salary. Inmates will choose to pour all their wages into the commissary.

It is also located in the work area. As long as they spend money, they can stay there for a while. Their daily salary allows them to find a seat in the canteen and sit there for a while after finishing their work. The hunchback owner of the canteen has a dark heart. In his canteen, just sitting in a daze costs money!

Prisoners were paid £1 an hour for an eight-hour day, while seats in the commissary cost £10 an hour, starting at half an hour. This means that a prisoner can only sit in the canteen for half an hour during a working day.

As for the remaining three pounds, Bojin also helped the prisoners plan it. He very patiently launched a tea set: a cup of black tea or coffee and a biscuit cost three pounds, which can be used as snacks for the prisoners during their breaks.

After work, relaxing in the tuck shop is a paradise. The premise of all this is that they can grab a seat.

The canteen has limited space and can only accommodate a dozen people. Prison guards also strictly prohibited prisoners from gathering and queuing outside the canteen. Therefore, the prisoners after work either rely on their extraordinary luck and become the lucky ones to grab a seat, or they have to spend money to buy the right to use the seat from those who arrived first.

Prisoners who have gained a windfall can buy other snacks from the canteen and bring them back to the rest area - chocolate and beer from the canteen are hot sellers because they provide some relief from the severe cold in the rest area. A thumb-sized piece of chocolate costs ten pounds, as does a small glass of beer.

Among the nearly a thousand prisoners, the happiest ones are Villanelle and Ames. The two of them became permanent employees of the canteen, and they had to go to work in the canteen on time every day, making other prisoners extremely envious. But this is not the biggest advantage. The two of them successfully monopolized the vodka supply channel in the prison. The vodka you get from the cafeteria lady can effectively numb your brain, making despair less real. It would be better if you could get drunk before going back. After you get drunk, you won't feel the despair caused by the dementors.

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The departure of the Dementors was huge good news for Gryffindor, as they didn't have to worry about their team's Seeker falling from the sky midway through the match. After that match in the heavy rain, Gryffindor House had some doubts about its own house's Seeker.

They weren't worried about Harry's level at all, they were worried about his resistance to dementors. In a hard-power duel on the court, Gryffindor believed that none of the other three houses could beat them, but the Dementors were obviously off-court factors. Some people even thought that Harry should be replaced.

After learning that the dementors had evacuated, this voice disappeared - Slytherin was very disappointed.

After talking about the Dementors, Richie's expression became solemn: "I heard a news. It is said that Harry received a Firebolt, a real, guaranteed Firebolt... This The news is absolutely reliable..."

Firebolts are enough to separate themselves from other broomsticks. The Gryffindor Quidditch team with Firebolts is like the Air Force with fourth-generation fighters. It has a huge advantage over the other three colleges that are generally equipped with third-generation and third-and-a-half-generation fighters.

After Richie heard the news, he couldn't sleep well. When he heard that Tom had returned to school, he hurriedly came to see him. He hopes that Tom can make a complete comeback, lock in the absolute advantage over the chaser, and try to open up a huge point difference to win. As for letting his college's Seeker find the Golden Snitch before Harry did, Richie felt that anyone with such an idea should wash their face with cold water.

Tom's expression became strange, "Firebolt? I just received one during Christmas."

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