Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way - Chapter 413

c397 Yo, Hermione, are you blushing? Let me be healthy

Harley didn’t pay too much attention to Graup’s subsequent treatment. Anyway, she did everything she could.

To be honest, Harry was used to Hagrid’s behavior of not doing anything but his brain.

She just hoped that Hagrid would never have a trance and ask his students to study giants after teaching Grawp English.

Hagrid’s return also brought quite a shock to Hogwarts. The students were both happy and sad.

On the one hand, it’s because Christmas is coming soon, and when thinking about this year’s Halloween decorations, everyone is thankful that Hagrid has returned in time;

On the other hand, the current substitute professor, Professor Graplan, is leaving, and the Care of Magical Creatures class will be taken over by Hagrid.

Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class… I can only say that I understand it all, but I have never done it online.

And Hagrid lived up to expectations in his first class after returning.

Obviously Professor Grapeland had left the syllabus and told him the animals that often appeared in the O.W.L.S exam.

Considering the scope of magical animals in this syllabus, Hagrid only taught sniffers and unicorns in the past two years, and most of them were not mentioned.

Therefore, during the substitute teaching period, Professor Graplan speeded up the process and solved nearly half of the required knowledge points.

He is just a temporary worker, but he has already reached this level, which can be said to be very interesting. Hagrid himself only needs to follow the steps.

However, he felt that this kind of course was too boring and needed to be modified “slightly”, and he successfully gave the students a big job——

In the first class after returning, Hagrid brought over the group of Thestrals who were responsible for pulling the carriage for the school.

To be honest, even with all his Sequence 2 thinking ability, Harry couldn’t figure out why Hagrid would show a living Thestral to this group of students who didn’t understand death and therefore couldn’t see the Thestral.

Give a live demonstration to a group of students who can’t see the Thestrals…will it be effective? Does it make sense? I’m afraid only Hagrid can do it!

It can only be said that fortunately Umbridge applied for indefinite leave due to both physical and mental injuries.

Harry seriously doubted that if Hagrid met Umbridge, he would receive a detention notice within ten days.

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November flies by, December follows, and Christmas is finally here.

The snowflakes began to spin and dance outside the window again, constantly beating on the frozen windowsill.

Hagrid is no good at teaching, but he never disappoints when it comes to supplying holiday decorations.

He selected twelve tall pine trees from the Forbidden Forest as Christmas trees and placed them in every corner of the auditorium. Professor Flitwick carefully made large snowflakes that would not melt, small sparkling icicles and various shapes on them. Plant colorful ribbons as ornaments.

The stairs and railings of the castle have been covered with holly and tinfoil of various colors for some time, and there are small bells tied to them, which will make a crisp sound when touched.

There were long candles flickering in the helmets of the armors in the corridor, and a large bunch of mistletoe hung above each suit of armor.

Everyone is excited and looking forward to the upcoming Christmas.

In addition to the usual Christmas dinner, there is another event that people are looking forward to this year, and that is the Christmas party that Professor Slughorn is going to host.

As early as two weeks before Christmas, Professor Slughorn had spread rumors around the school.

He is going to hold a Christmas party alone in his office and will only invite outstanding students.

According to Professor Slughorn, many successful people outside the school will appear at the party, which undoubtedly makes the little wizards yearn for this party even more.

It’s a pity that most students have not received invitations, so they can only count on those who have received invitations to be willing to take them along——

Professor Slughorn allowed each young wizard who was invited to bring a companion.

There was no doubt that both Harry and Hermione had received invitations from the professor, but they digested it internally and simply chose to go together, so they no longer had to think about the invitation.

This made other students sigh.

At the Christmas ball during the Six Wizards Tournament last year, it could be said that Harry invited Hermione because there was no one he liked.

As a result, it happened again this year, and anyone who is not blind can see the difference.

Are you really going to completely follow the national conditions of Great Britain and stage cabbage over cabbage?

Why are resources consumed internally? Heartache!

Others’ heartache is heartache, but Harley will definitely ignore it. You can’t give in to your sexual orientation for the sake of others, right?

At a small level, this is torturing yourself and making yourself unhappy. At a large level, what should you do if something goes wrong during the performance and you lose control?

Therefore, Harley’s behavior is really just. It is to prevent her heart from being broken and her extraordinary characteristics to go out of control and cause harm to the common people!

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The day of the Christmas party, 7pm.

In the Gryffindor dormitory, Hermione was helping Harry arrange her waist-length hair.

Harry could obviously use his extraordinary abilities to straighten his long hair.

But she deliberately concealed this, enjoying the comfortable feeling of Hermione gently brushing the ends of her hair with her hands as she combed her hair.

“Is what you’re wearing a little too… formal?” While applying hair care products to her hair, Hermione looked at Harry’s clothes.

Harry was wearing a moon-white silk shirt tonight, and the high-waisted white gauze skirt was inlaid with countless colored diamonds, embellishing it like stars in the sky.

She also wore a lot of decorations, uncharacteristically, with a pale gold necklace hanging around her neck, and at the end of the necklace was a bright silver gemstone.

The gem gives people a hazy feeling, as if the solid shell contains silver gauze and invisible flowing water.

Harley has also put on white silk gloves on her hands, and a black gemstone ring is firmly placed on the middle finger of Harley’s left hand.

Whenever Hermione saw this ring, her face would turn red involuntarily, thinking that Harry was hinting at something to her.

“Really? Are you okay?” Harry didn’t notice Hermione’s expression, but admired her own dress in the mirror.

“I think this outfit is quite suitable for tonight. After all, there is a very important party tonight.”

“Professor Slughorn’s Christmas party is so important in your heart?” Hermione carefully braided her hair into a princess braid and sounded a little surprised at the same time.

“Professor Slughorn is hosting a lot of club dinners this term.”

“But I remember that you have never been there once, and you always used the excuse of conducting magic research with me as an excuse.”

Harley smiled and did not answer directly, but changed the topic:

“Aren’t you wearing similar clothes to me? The clothes I picked myself look good, right?”

Hermione was wearing a navy blue one-shoulder V-neck dress tonight. There were not too many decorations on the dress, except for a belt tied around the waist. The lace at the bottom of the dress was dotted with stars.

The messy hair was also carefully arranged by Harry and fixed with a bright silver hairpin. Now it lay softly and snugly against Hermione’s back.

“Aren’t I dressed like this just to suit you?” Hermione thought of the previous dressing scene, and her face suddenly turned redder.

“Also, it’s obviously you who insisted on letting me wear this long dress!”

Harry couldn’t help but laugh. When dressing up, Hermione was reluctant at first, thinking that dressing up was too much of a waste of time.

It’s just an ordinary Christmas party, why bother with all this?

But she was just talking about her lack of integrity. When Harry actually approached Hermione with clothes in hand and a “y smile” on her face, Hermione didn’t even put up a symbolic resistance, and just stretched her body obediently and let it go. Harley is at the mercy.

“Okay, dress up.” Hermione took two steps back, admiring her results with satisfaction.

“My beloved concubine, help me get up.” Harley lazily raised a hand.

Hermione was indifferent to this and just gave Harry a roll of her eyes:

“Stand up by yourself? I don’t believe that if I hadn’t helped you, would you never have been able to get up?”

“You actually don’t object to the title of concubine, tsk tsk tsk.”

Harley packed away the various cosmetics on the table in front of her, and pulled the chair back with two silk threads, forming an armrest out of thin air.

Hermione had already calmed down, but her face suddenly turned red again.

Without thinking, she screamed and rushed forward: “Ah, ah, damn witch, I will fight with you!”

Unfortunately, her attack had no deterrent effect, and it just made Harley feel like a kitten was acting coquettishly towards her.

Harry just smiled and opened his arms while gently pushing with his left foot the chair Hermione had been sitting on while combing her hair.

Hermione didn’t pay attention to her steps and tripped over the chair. When she came to her senses, she was already being hugged by Princess Harley.

“My beloved, do you really want me to hold you?” Harley couldn’t help teasing, “Actually, I don’t mind going to the Christmas party just like this.”

“Wait, are you blushing? Do you want me to be okay?”

Before she could finish her words, Hermione forcibly blocked her.

After a while, Hermione panted and unsealed Harry: “Put me down quickly! If you don’t start, you will be late!”

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Although it was already on vacation, few students were willing to leave.

After all, the Christmas ball a year ago left a very deep impression on everyone and left people with endless memories.

Many students were wandering around Professor Slughorn’s office, hoping to meet some young wizard who had received Professor Slughorn’s invitation but did not bring a companion, so that they could have a chance to sneak in.

When Harry and Hermione appeared at the top of the stairs, there was an exclamation of exclamation around them.

Many little witches feel their hearts twisting. How are we inferior to Hermione? Sister, come and see me, give me a hug!

The two of them turned a blind eye to the noise around them, quickly moved along the road where the crowd voluntarily gave way, and entered Professor Slughorn’s office.

This office has been cast with a traceless stretching spell, so it is much larger than ordinary offices and appears to be unusually spacious.

There are bright red, emerald green, sky blue and earthy yellow curtains hanging on the ceiling and walls of the room, like a big tent.

The curtains are also painted with the representative animals of each college, so that all attendees can feel a sense of belonging.

There were golden lanterns hanging from the ceiling, illuminating the whole room brightly. In the lanterns, elves the size of fingernails were flashing, and each elf was a bright point of light.

Melodious singing came from various corners of the room, as if someone was using mandala bells to accompany the party, but when looking along the sound, there was no one there.

Several wizards who were having a great conversation were holding pipes and puffing away smoke while chatting. Their heads were covered with bursts of green smoke.

The house elves moved quickly through the crowd, dragging heavy silver trays with various drinks on them, like moving dining tables.

It was freezing cold outside, but there were too many wizards in the room at this time, and it even felt crowded and stuffy.

“Oh, Harley, my dear child!” As soon as Harley stepped through the door, Professor Slughorn shouted like a bell,

“And Hermione, welcome! Come in, come in quickly, there are so many people for you to meet!”

Professor Slughorn wore a white smoking shirt and a rich velvet hat decorated with various ornaments.

There were several middle-aged people surrounding him, and Harry also saw some familiar people.

“Good evening, Professor.” Harry first said hello to Professor Slughorn, and then said hello to the middle-aged wizards around him one by one.

“Mr. Damocles, long time no see! Ms. Jones, I miss you so much after seeing you last…”

Harry greeted these wizards skillfully, and the adult wizards outside the school responded with smiles.

Occasionally, when he meets someone he doesn’t know, Professor Slughorn will take the initiative to introduce them to both parties, and point out the other person’s identity intentionally or unintentionally.

Although Harley is very young and is at least one generation younger than the group of wizards in front of her, everyone’s attitude is very friendly.

Many of them had been exchanging letters with Harry for two or three years, and had discussed magic knowledge for so long, and they were already old acquaintances.

And for those who don’t know Harley yet, who would reject such a talented girl with a promising future?

“Oh, by the way, Harry.” Professor Slughorn suddenly remembered something.

“I originally invited the old Toulouse, but he has been too busy recently and cannot come from France.”

Toulouse is the name of Fleur’s father, Mr. Delacour.

“That’s really a pity.” Harley’s expression changed slightly to match,

“I obviously want to discuss the improvements to Polyjuice Potion we discussed last time with Mr. Delacour offline again.”

“That’s indeed a pity.” Professor Slughorn chuckled, “But someone came here instead of old Toulouse.”

Before she had time to appreciate the meaning of this sentence, Harley suddenly felt a heavy weight on her back.

“Harley~!” A wave of warmth caressed Harley’s ears, “Have you missed me?”

The smile on Harley’s face suddenly froze for a moment.

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