Chapter 72 Firecrackers with Too Much Gold
Planning to learn the date of Neville’s birthday from the first-year Gryffindor, Andrew started preparations for a new day - he had never experienced an authentic Christmas. Be prepared to have a good feel and gather some possible inspiration.
Working behind closed doors will only make the story too impetuous. The story must be close to life, especially for such a large-scale festival. It is too easy to make a joke just by relying on imagination.
But it was obvious that no one was in the lounge when he got up, but after he came back from his customary run, there was already a figure in front of the fireplace in the lounge - obviously, the appeal of Christmas gifts was not small.
"Morning, Andrew, happy holidays - how about a game of wizard's chess?"
A first-year student who stayed at the school greeted Andrew enthusiastically. It was unclear whether he was a chess addict or showing off his new chess pieces - anyway, this set of marble chess pieces looked really good.
It’s just that… my chess skills are a bit poor.
It took less than a quarter of an hour, and under the watchful eyes of several onlookers, Andrew happily used the upgraded soldiers to kill the king on the opposite side.
"You stupid guy!"
The king who was knocked down used the harshest words among Ravenclaws to attack the loser, which made everyone watching laugh quite wildly.
"It was because it was too noisy and messed up my train of thought. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to upgrade that soldier!"
The brand-new chess piece was held down by its head, and then stuffed into the box upside down, "Let's try it with the old chess pieces!"
Ten minutes later, a smile appeared on his face, "I said it was its problem. Of course, Andrew played chess well."
Andrew kept a smile on his face - he didn't intend to bully the children too much because of the big festival. So he simply gave up his seat and prepared to go to each dormitory to see what everyone was busy with.
It’s the holiday season anyway, so just say Merry Christmas and it’s very convenient to communicate.
But half an hour later, a disappointed Andrew decided to go to eat - except for the presence of magic items, it was just like anywhere else.
Although there are not many people who live on campus during the New Year, you can refer to the students who stayed on campus during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
However, the breakfast was the same as usual, except that the auditorium was simply decorated - obviously, the official event would have to wait until noon or evening.
If I had to say what has changed the most, it is probably the relationship between the two remaining students of Gryffindor and Slytherin - the two houses who have not had a good look at each other since the holidays finally stopped talking today. He cursed softly.
However, after returning to the lounge, Andrew was caught by the prefects to do some activities - the prefects who usually don't take care of things were particularly active today, creating a bunch of banned boxes of tricky curses, and then if you are in After opening the box and failing to answer the questions in the box within the stipulated time, you will be attacked by a curse in public.
The most common jinx is the tarantella dance, and sometimes there are small jinxes such as making people laugh wildly or changing the color of their hair. If you answer the questions, you can get a few packs of snacks from the box. If you don't succeed, you will get a lot of attention. The laughter of the crowd.
All in all, this activity was quite successful. Andrew managed to get three snacks at the cost of one dance (due to History of Magic) - until everyone was tired and laughing crazy, the prefect happily announced the end of the activity and asked them to go to the cafeteria. Attend a lunch party.
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“I knew it…”
Andrew muttered under his breath.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I think of Peeves -" Andrew restrained his emotions, "I don't know what means the school used to control him, but he didn't cause trouble at this banquet."
Of course it has nothing to do with Peeves - Andrew was just a little unhappy to see Percy smiling brightly. At this moment, Percy didn't look like a patient who had just been discharged from the hospital. He was happily chatting with his three highly recognizable people. The red-haired brothers chatted together at the Gryffindor table.
However, after considering that he was the driving force behind sending him to the hospital, Andrew could only focus on the magic firecrackers on the table.
To be precise, they are colorful firecrackers, usually with some low-quality gifts inside.
Andrew picked up two of them and handed them to the Ravenclaw classmates next to him. "The school actually prepared this for us - the school is really considerate."
"Hmm, interesting stuff."
The other party pulled away, and with a bang, smoke flew, and a beautiful smoke enveloped the young man. Then, a beautiful colorful hat appeared in the other party's hand.
"Wow, that's really cool."
Andrew's admiration came from afar.
This thing actually explodes things, instead of sticking ribbons or stars on your face. In addition to making the sound a little louder, it actually doesn't have any holes like changing the color of the hair or installing a clown nose.
"It's really cool."
The other person put the hat on his head, and then happily pulled away the other one. It was louder this time, but what appeared was a bag of balloon-like things.
After he took the lead, the rest of the Ravenclaw students also began to reach for the firecrackers on the table. Andrew was no exception - but he still had it in his hand, waiting for others to try it.
The sample is too small, please wait.
However, this behavior quickly attracted the attention of the classmates who had been chatting with him earlier.
"Okay, you actually used me to test it."
This isn't fun anymore - after only a few people have woken up, it's time to find someone stupid...
A loud firecracker exploded in Andrew's ears in retaliation for being discovered in the experiment - surprisingly, this time a few white mice exploded...
'What the hell...what kind of transfiguration application is this? Is there such a waste? ’
Andrew even had some plans to use a wand to dismantle one, but he didn't know if it had any protection against disassembly.
‘I can only take apart a few more and try. By the way, I went back and looked for the purchase order. I think it should be among the recent documents. This kind of purchase order should be unlocked for me. ’
The magic content of this thing is actually very high - living creature transfiguration, traceless expansion spell, and the balance of the curse or spell must be fixed on a thin line.
And it transforms the collapse phenomenon when the spell is destroyed into entertainment explosions and smoke... This is simply a luxurious firecracker.
However, most students in the lower grades did not notice its power, and the upper grades seemed to have adapted to it.
For a while, Andrew couldn't find anyone with whom he could discuss related things. He could only secretly add an imitation bubble head charm to himself, and then take apart the firecrackers as slowly as possible.
But, no clue.
But other rewards were quite abundant - but he pretended to drive it for others and gave it away. He just needs to set off firecrackers and give things to anyone.
This caused the number of firecrackers he opened to increase rapidly, especially the junior students who had not mastered the bubble head charm. They almost teamed up to bring their firecrackers and asked Andrew to help them (there was a small pile in each seated area, It is basically divided by default).
‘I guessed a few more possible spells… How much does this thing cost? ’
Andrew, who was really confused, finally determined that there was no point to observe and happily started the ruthless firecracker destruction mode, which became very popular.
(End of chapter)