v3 Chapter 169： Restless Wand

Update: Hermione pursed her lips and thumped Tom twice. At the same time, he glanced at Hagrid with a guilty conscience, but fortunately he was crying so hard that he didn't hear Tom's words.

Finally, after shedding a lot of tears, Hagrid finally pulled himself together. He took out his handkerchief again and blew his nose, "You're right, I want to cheer up. Sorry, I haven't been normal lately..."

"It's alright, Hagrid, I'll help you, and Tom will too--isn't it?" Hermione looked Tom in the eyes, trying to force him to speak.

"Well, ah, yes." Tom looked away.

But he didn't lie, he did intend to help Hagrid.

"We can start with the various files..." Hermione thought about it, jumped up from her seat, and left quickly.

"Hermione is a good girl," Hagrid rubbed his red and swollen eyes. "I'll go back and settle Buckbeak first. I can't leave it alone in the snow for Christmas."

Then Hagrid left too.

Tom stayed where he was, tidying up the desk they had messed up. When he was almost finished, Hermione came back with the half-human-height file.

"These are the files that Mrs. Pince recommended us to read." She put the dusty pile of files on the table, splashing a lot of dust.

"Ahie! Clean it up! Ahhh!" Tom's nose was itchy from the dust, and he sneezed several times.

"So these are the files you want to check?" he asked looking at the files with some fear.

"certainly!"

"What about the homework? What about the paper? What about the group project?" Tom was even more terrified.

"We can go to bed a little later and get up a little earlier." Hermione stared at Tom. "We can save a life with a little effort."

Tom couldn't say no while looking Hermione in the eyes, so he tried to turn his head away, but Hermione grabbed him by the face, knocked him down on the table, and smashed his face a little bit hard. Yes, forcing him to look at himself.

"Help me, I need your help, I want to help Hagrid win this lawsuit."

Tom: I want to say no but I can't!

"This is not a matter of a simple lawsuit... Trust me, I will rule out the off-site factors - don't read the dossier?"

"Really? Did you really find a solution?" Hermione looked at Tom suspiciously. "You're not fooling me, are you?"

"Of course not, how dare I! Get up quickly!"

Hearing Tom say this, Hermione let go of Tom and got up from the table. She tidied up her wrinkled robe a little, "That's great, I'm relieved to hear you say that—and the position of your wand is weird, you just poked me."

"The wand won't poke you if you don't put me on the table!" Tom sat in his chair and turned his back to Hermione.

Hermione: ?

"So let's go to dinner?" Hermione hugged Tom from behind, rubbing her cheek against his ear, "I'm hungry."

There was a soft touch on Tom's back, Hermione's hot breath beside his ears, and Tom's ears were visibly red.

"Wait...wait me two minutes!"

...

Huck was a little hungry, and when he and Dumbledore sat down, the plates on the table were still empty.

Maybe it's not time to serve? He wondered what lunch at Hogwarts was like, he thought.

Before dinner, the professors were chatting casually.

"Not a single student stayed this year," Professor Flitwick sighed after looking around at the people sitting around, "Then what are we doing here, why don't we go home."

"Because the food is in charge here?" Professor McGonagall thought for a while and thought it would be better to stay on campus. Not only her, but the deans present here are all alone. Rather than go home and spend Christmas alone, come to Hogwarts and spend Christmas with old colleagues.

The professors were silent. They think what Professor McGonagall said really makes sense! What are you doing at home? It's really hard to cook by yourself. You have to do all the dishes and dishes yourself. It's better to enjoy the ready-made service at Hogwarts.

As for why the students didn't stay... Maybe it's because I heard that too many students are going home? Think about it, if a student stays, he's going to have lunch with the principal, the teachers, his own dean. I can't eat this meal!

"Speaking of which, why didn't Professor Scamander go home for the Christmas break?" Professor Sprout looked at Newt, who was listening silently, with some curiosity.

Newt was a little surprised, he didn't expect the conversation to suddenly turn to himself.

"Ah, it's mainly because there are too many animals worth studying in the Forbidden Forest. I'm really reluctant to go back." Newt said this, but he had another answer in his heart: his grandson has recently returned home. The child is very noisy, and he will definitely be entangled by him when he goes back. It is better to come out to avoid the limelight and find a little clean.

At this time, Tom and Hermione also appeared at the entrance of the auditorium.

"It's great, come here!" Dumbledore greeted them happily, he snapped his fingers, and a lot of Christmas colorful firecrackers appeared on the table, "Firecrackers! Christmas holidays are incomplete without firecrackers! "

Apparently, even though the Christmas Eve dinner had already taken down the firecrackers, Dumbledore was still enjoying it.

Huck, who was on the side, was not surprised. He was just a little emotional: I didn't expect wizards to do this too. Firecrackers are one of his fondest memories of Christmas as a child. It's a pity that when he grew up, he naturally lost interest in those little plastic toys and poor quality paper hats.

But looking at the firecrackers at Hogwarts, he moved again and again, and the fond memories of childhood seemed to be hooked up.

He picked up a firecracker and pulled the firecracker away together with Dumbledore. As a result, there was no muffled sound, but a sound like a cannon bombing, and a burst of sound. A plume of blue smoke startled Huck. Inside the firecrackers exploded a hat decorated with flowers and several small hamsters with chubby flesh.

Huck took the hamster and watched Dumbledore happily put on the hat.

Tom and Hermione found two empty seats and sat down, Dumbledore stroked his white beard, pointed to the firecrackers on the table and said, "Everyone has a share!"

Dumbledore was so positive that he couldn't help but suspect that he had a backlog of firecrackers and needed to clear his inventory.

Tom and Hermione opened firecrackers and got a bag of glitter balloons, a troll statue, and a wizard chess set. As for those living creatures, they were all created by magic, and disappeared after a while.

The Toms were not the last to be seated, and shortly after they sat down, Mrs. Pince and Professor Trelawney also appeared.

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