Tom and Hermione returned to Hogwarts the day before school started. Like a miracle, they finished all their homework.
"Finally, I can take a rest." Tom leaned on the armchair in the common room, feeling the warm fire beside him, very comfortable.
Hermione was sitting across from him, giving the homework a final check. Perhaps because all the homework had been written, Hermione seemed to be in a particularly good mood, humming a song while holding Tom's quill to correct mistakes in the paper.
"This is really useful," her eyes were crescents, and she crossed out several unreasonable sentences in the paper. At this time, the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, Richie, found Tom, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to take a step to speak.
"I hope you have a fulfilling and happy Christmas." Richie politely said.
Tom raised his eyebrows. He had more than a fulfilling Christmas this year.
Richie looked around and saw that there was no one around, he leaned against the wall and said in a low voice, "I got three news when I came to Hogwarts today, one is that the Dementors near Hogwarts have All evacuated."
Naturally, the first time after the "Whirlwind" operation started, Tom removed all the dementors that were still stranded around Hogwarts. Now they are all on duty in the White Dolphin Prison.
Mr. Bogin told Tom in the letter that the White Dolphin Prison now has nearly 1,000 felons and is operating normally. The prisoners inside fell in love with labor, and the guards let them go back to the rest area, but they were not happy. There was even a conflict, but it was severely suppressed by Peter as soon as it appeared. The leader likes to mention the seven-day confinement package - being confined in his own cell for a whole week, and his qualification to work in the factory area has also been revoked, and he has to wait until the confinement is over to re-queue. According to the current popularity of the factory area, he is lucky to be able to rank in the position in a month.
As soon as the big killer of confinement was brought out, all the prisoners became honest. Be obedient, you can go to the cafeteria to rest three times a day; if you dare to be a thorn, you will be locked up for a whole week. And there is a strange rumor circulating in the prison: there are invisible monsters watching 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 lax, but it is actually the most difficult prison in the world to escape.
In order to compete for jobs in the prison factory, the prisoners also turned inward, forming a frantic competition between quality and output. Only the inmates who do it fast and well can continue to work in the factory. Working in a factory is paid meager wages. Prisoners would choose to pour all of these salaries into the commissary.
It is also located in the working area. As long as you spend money, you can stay there for a while. Their one-day salary allows them to find a seat in the canteen after a day's labor and sit beautifully for a while. The hunchback boss in the canteen has a black heart. In his canteen, just sitting in a daze costs money!
Prisoners were paid one pound an hour and worked eight hours a day, while commissary seats cost ten pounds an hour, starting from half an hour. That is to say, a prisoner can only sit in the canteen for half an hour a day.
As for the remaining three pounds, Borgin also helped the prisoners to plan, and he very patiently introduced a refreshment set: a cup of black tea or coffee with a piece of biscuits cost three pounds, just enough to serve as a snack for the prisoners when they were resting.
After work, it is a heavenly experience to relax in the canteen. The premise of all this is if they can grab the seat.
The commissary has limited space and can only accommodate a dozen people. Prison guards also strictly prohibited inmates from gathering and queuing outside the canteen. Therefore, the prisoners after work either rely on extraordinary luck and become the lucky ones to grab the seat, or they have to spend money to buy the right to use the seat from the first person.
Prisoners who have made a fortune can buy other snacks from the commissary and bring them back to the rest area—chocolate and beer in the commissary are hot sellers because they provide some relief from the freezing cold in the rest area. A thumb-sized piece of chocolate is worth ten pounds, as is a small beer.
Among the nearly 1,000 prisoners, Villanell and Ames are the happiest. The two of them became resident employees of the canteen, and they had to go to the canteen on time every day to go to work, which made other prisoners envious. But this is not the biggest advantage. The two of them successfully monopolized the vodka supply channel in the prison. The vodka obtained from the cafeteria aunt can effectively numb your brain and make despair not so real. If you can get drunk before going back, that's even better, and you won't feel the despair brought by the dementors after you get drunk.
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The departure of the Dementors is hugely good news for Gryffindors, because they don't have to worry about their team's Seeker game falling from the sky midway through. After that rainstorm game, Gryffindor House had some doubts about its Seekers.
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 thought that none of the other three academies could play, but the Dementor was obviously an off-field factor. There are even people who feel that they need to find a replacement for Harry After learning that the Dementors have withdrawn, this kind of voice will disappear - Slytherin is very disappointed,
After talking about the Dementors, Richie's expression became solemn: "I heard a news, it is said that Harry has received a Firebolt, a real, fake Firebolt... this The news is absolutely reliable..."
The Firebolt is enough to make a difference with other brooms. The Gryffindor Quidditch team with Firebolts is like an air force with four generations of fighters. It has a huge advantage in the face of the other three colleges that are generally equipped with three generations and three and a half generations of fighters.
After hearing the news, Richie couldn't sleep well. He heard that Tom came to him in a hurry after he returned to school. He hopes that Tom can make a complete comeback, lock in the absolute advantage of the Chaser, and try to open a huge point difference to win. As for letting the Seekers in his own house find the Snitch ahead of Harry, Ritchie felt that anyone who wanted to do so should wash their faces with cold water.
Tom's expression became strange, "Firebolt? I just received one during Christmas."
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