The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Tom was blocked by Padma on his way back to the dormitory. The cute girl was holding a cup of hot milk tea. How could you say no? So Tom expressed his gratitude again and again. This is what he should do. , while picking up the cup.

The milk tea in the cup was steaming and the fragrance of milk overflowed. It seemed that the milk tea was well-deserved, but Tom always had a bad feeling. He couldn't figure out the reason for a while. But Padma was looking at him expectantly, and he could only take a sip of the caramel-colored milk tea in the cup. Don’t tell me, it tastes really good!

"Wow, it tastes really good!" Tom praised, and then drank all the tea in the cup. When the tea cup reached the bottom, he also found the reason for his uneasiness: Today seems to be Halloween? It seems like a troll will sneak into the castle, right? Then as long as you keep an eye on Hermione and don't let her be alone, then there will be no problem. After Tom figured out this joint, his suspicion disappeared, he chatted with Padma for a few words and then left.

In the afternoon, Ravenclaw will have another class on Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration, and then it will be the Halloween dinner that everyone is looking forward to. But when Tom walked out of the Transfiguration classroom, his face looked a little strange. He said to Hermione next to him: "You go to the auditorium first, and I'll go to the toilet."

Hermione didn't take it to heart, and the colorful Halloween decorations in the auditorium caught her eye, making her temporarily put Tom in the back of her mind.

The staff at Hogwarts put a lot of thought into Halloween. They decorated the entire auditorium as much as possible with Halloween features: thousands of bats flying on the walls and ceiling, and thousands of bats flying around. Low dark clouds were hovering above the dining table, and the gusts of wind they brought along made the candles in the jack-o-lanterns flicker. The candles in the entire auditorium were enchanted and turned blue, with the exception of the jack-o-lantern. The armor in the castle has also been enchanted by Professor McGonagall. When passers-by pass by, they will randomly emit eerie howls.

And why is there so little Peeves in this kind of festival? It either hides in the lantern and waits for the little wizards to suddenly pop out of it to scare them when they pass by, or it controls the armor and makes it pounce on passers-by while letting out an intrusive howl. Of course, the worst one was when it extinguished all the candles in the classroom and locked a lone student in the classroom, while hiding beside him and playing tricks on him. By the time his friend found him, the unfortunate man had fainted from shock.

The dishes at the Halloween dinner were quite sumptuous, and they appeared and disappeared suddenly as always. Hermione was watching and eating with gusto, but when she was halfway through the banquet, she waited around and didn't see Tom's. When the figure appeared, she was a little panicked.

"It looks like he's not just having a stomachache," Hermione thought, "I'd better pack him some food." Just as Hermione was trying to put a piece of barbecue steak in a piece of bread, Professor Quirrell looked horrified. Rushing into the dining room, his turban was crooked and his face was pale. He stumbled to Dumbledore's chair and stammered: "Troll, in the underground classroom - I thought you knew -" After conveying After hearing the news, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

The entire auditorium was in an uproar, but Professor Dumbledore quickly controlled the situation. He ordered the prefects to bring the students from their respective houses back to the lounge. Then he and the professors split up to find the troll and drive it away - or kill it. die.

The prefects all looked very experienced. They gathered the students from their own colleges in an orderly manner. Each prefect was responsible for a grade and left the auditorium one by one.

Hermione didn't see Tom's shadow until the team set off. She squeezed to the front of the team and said to the prefect in charge of them: "Senior! Tom is missing, he may be in the toilet!"

The prefect frowned, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I will take you to the lounge now, and then I will find a way to notify Professor Flitwick."

At this time, the prefect cannot stop and wait for Tom, nor can he leave these little wizards to find the professor, nor can he line up people to contact the professor. There are people everywhere now. If they are scattered, they will not be collected again. Not coming back. At this time, it would be great if he knew Professor Flitwick's paper crane magic, but it's a pity that this prefect doesn't. He could only bite the bullet and rush to the dormitory, and then planned to settle down his junior students before going out to find the professor.

Hermione's face turned pale after hearing such an answer. She slowed down her pace in a daze and allowed her classmates to pass her one by one. She was entangled in her heart: either abandon Tom at this time, or go and go in violation of discipline. Find Tom.

In Hermione's heart, it can be said that heaven and man are at war now. A voice told her: The castle is so big, Tom may not encounter a troll, not to mention that she has no evidence that he was in the toilet. Maybe he went back to the dormitory because of an uncomfortable stomach? Furthermore, Professor Flitwick would definitely be very angry if he left the team at this time, right? Professor Dumbledore emphasized that students must follow their prefects back to the lounge. If he violates school rules at this time, he may be expelled, right? Thinking of being expelled, Hermione trembled and took a few steps to catch up with the tail of the team.

but……

There was no one in the corridor on the first floor. Because the candles turned into blue flames, it looked extremely eerie. This scene would not be out of place in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 30 years later. Hermione didn't know why she was here.

She had obviously decided to go back to the lounge, but her feet still brought her to the first floor unconsciously, as a way to repay Tom's favor on the first day of school, she thought in her heart.

Looking at the blue light around her and her long shadow on the wall, Hermione shivered and couldn't help but quicken her pace. She rushed into the boys' bathroom on the first floor. It was dark and quiet inside, with the only sound of water dripping in the sink.

There was no one inside.

Hermione shouted tremblingly: "Tom! Are you there? Where are you? There is a troll in the castle. Professor Dumbledore asked us to go back to the dormitory!"

There was no answer, only her own reply.

At this moment, Hermione felt that she was really stupid, but she was a little relieved. She ran upstairs quickly with all her strength - since Tom was not in the toilet closest to the Transfiguration classroom, he must have gone back to the dormitory.

She ran very fast, from the first floor to the second floor, and then at the corner of the stairs on the second floor, a figure appeared in front of her. Hermione didn't stop the car, and hit him with a bang, and they both fell to the ground. superior.