The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Tom couldn't interfere with the intrigues in London. He could only wait for good news and then send the dementors over.

He returned to his busy daily study life, and the days passed quickly. At the end of November, Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff, and now they are getting closer and closer to the Quidditch House Cup.

There are two semesters in the Hogwarts academic year. The first semester is from September to Christmas, and the second semester is from January to the end of June.

There are only two weeks left until the end of the first semester, and the school is already full of festive atmosphere. Professor Flitwick placed many colorful lights in the Charms classroom, which turned into fairies flapping their wings when the students got close. Professor Sprout and his students made a Christmas tree using various magical plants. Tom can guarantee that this Christmas tree will be the most dangerous Christmas tree in history - there are even many devil's nets wrapped around the trunk!

Even Professor Trelawney's classroom has some Christmas elements. For example, Tom saw a crystal ball with heavy snow inside and a faint sleigh flying inside.

The only ones who were not infected by this atmosphere were probably Snape and Professor McGonagall.

"Tom, where do you want to go for Christmas?" Hermione came to Tom excitedly like every year and asked him about his Christmas plans.

Tom understood what she meant, but Hermione still politely invited him to her house to spend Christmas with her. Tom wanted to go. Christmas is a holiday for reunions. For Tom, the Granger family is becoming more and more like his own home. It’s just right to go home for Christmas!

"It's not like I have anywhere else to go - if it doesn't bother you, I'll spend Christmas at your house again."

"It's a deal! You will always be welcome in my home."

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Hogsmeade is open again. This is also the last Hogsmeade open day before Christmas.

Harry wrapped himself in his cloak and scarf, said goodbye to Ron, and then climbed the marble stairs alone, preparing to go back to Gryffindor Tower to spend this boring time.

So many students made their way to Hogsmeade that the entire castle fell silent.

Suddenly, Harry is caught by brothers Fred and George, who take him to an empty classroom.

By the time they left, Harry had an extra roll of parchment in his robes. His heart was pounding as if he had just experienced a sport, and his cheeks were flushed with excitement: he could go to Hogsmeade. Got it!

This was thanks to the scroll called the "Marauder's Map" given to him by the Weasley twins. It was a good thing, with many secret passages in Hogwarts marked on it. Several of them can help him get to Hogsmeade.

He couldn't wait to put on the invisibility cloak and walked into the secret passage behind the one-eyed witch marked on the map.

Hogsmeade looks like a Christmas postcard today, with a thin layer of snow covering the roofs of the huts and the shop signs. Wreaths of holly hung on the doors of every house. The dementors patrolling outside the village did not dampen people's enthusiasm, and everyone celebrated freely in the village.

When Tom and Hermione arrived at Hogsmeade, they saw a group of owls squatting on the bushes by the roadside. These little guys are very smart and know that there are many tourists today, so they have been waiting for food by the roadside.

This is naturally a business opportunity. There was a vendor standing on the roadside with a red and white pushcart selling owl food, a kind of weird-tasting biscuit.

As soon as the student in front of them stood in front of the vendor's car, the owls gathered around them turned their heads and stared at him quietly.

Owls are very magical things. They can turn their heads in a wide circle. Sometimes their backs are turned to you, but they can turn around and stare at you. Indescribably weird.

It’s no wonder that people in the Middle Ages associated owls with wizards and omens.

"These owls look a bit fierce..." Hermione looked at the owls sitting on the branches, feeling a little scared.

"Fortunately, although they are birds of prey, they have been tamed by wizards a long time ago. They just want to get a few bites of food." Tom said.

Sure enough, after the vendor handed the owl cookies to the little wizard, a large group of owls flew over and surrounded him.

I don’t know how the vendor did it. There were dozens of times the rations in the box in his hand, but the owls were unmoved and only stared at the little food in the little wizard’s hand.

They gathered around the little wizard, flapping their wings from time to time and looking at him eagerly.

Under the gaze of so many round eyes, the little wizard gave in and scattered the cat (eagle) food in the bag on the ground, attracting countless owls to flap their wings and eat all the biscuits on the ground.

After the remaining value of the little wizard was drained, the owls dispersed and ignored this "poor man" again. Of course, if he buys another pack of eagle food, he will still be the owls' forever friend.

"Would you like a pack?" Hermione rubbed her hands and puffed out a puff of steam, eager to try. Although I felt like I was being taken advantage of, being surrounded by so many cute little guys didn’t seem too bad.

"Hey!" Tom bought two bags of owl food and enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by stars.

"Let me touch it?" Tom tentatively stretched out his hand towards a silver-gray owl, wanting to touch its furry chest, but was stopped by the owl's eyes.

He was very sure that if he moved forward, he would probably be criticized.

"Cheapskate." Tom complained, but he didn't bother to argue with the owl.

There were little snowflakes floating in the sky.

"Follow me." After feeding the owl, Hermione pulled Tom towards a small hill on the edge of the village. Soon, they came to a dilapidated fence, the wires on the fence were rusty.

Behind the fence, an abandoned house stood alone on the wasteland.

"The Screaming Shack, this is the scariest haunted house in Britain," Hermione said, looking at the house, "Did I mention that to you?"

"I mentioned it several times when I came here before." Tom searched his memory and remembered that Hermione had wanted to come here a long time ago.

But Hermione obviously didn't care about this. She looked at Tom and asked softly: "Closer?"

Tom blinked and moved next to Hermione, the two of them almost touching each other.

"I mean the Shrieking Shack." Hermione was amused by him, but she didn't drive him away, but took the initiative to hold his arm.

She looked at Tom, waiting for his answer.

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