A week before Christmas, it started to snow in most places in the UK.
In his free time, Jon would occasionally go to Hagrid's place to sit, holding black tea, eating biscuits, and looking at the snowy scene outside the carriage.
But most of the other time I still study in the car.
His progress in learning Occlumency has exceeded Slughorn's original expectations, and even before Christmas, a simple "wall" has been built in his mind.
Although it is not yet enough to construct false memories outside the "wall" to achieve the most perfect level of Occlumency, it has already satisfied Slughorn's initial teaching requirements for him.
Regarding the learning of ring casting methods, Slughorn had no intention of starting early before Christmas. Instead, he gave Jon a week's leave so that he would not be so busy with time, even if it was again
To be diligent and hardworking, you must also know how to combine work and rest.
Of course Jon himself knows this.
So this week, he had been chatting or playing chess with Neville and the others in the lounge after dinner. The entertainment activities for wizards were really expensive, especially on the carriage.
Since Diqi couldn't hold it, the students had no choice but to have fun on their own.
The so-called wizard's chess is actually a chess game that comes alive and can listen to human verbal commands to act. After playing a few games, Jon felt that it was boring, so he asked Hagrid to help find a lot of hardness on the road while the carriage was driving.
He found a suitable stone, and then went to find Professor Flitwick to help use the most skilled crushing spell to cut the stone into squares of the same size. Finally, Jon carved cylinders and long strips on the squares according to the patterns in his memory.
And the English numbers from one to one hundred thousand, etc., to make a simple mahjong.
Of course, it is actually more convenient to directly use the transformation spell to create a mahjong, but it is impossible for Jon to remember the tricks of each mahjong piece so clearly, and after all, there is a time limit for maintaining the transformation spell, so he can only spend three days of effort.
I just made a mahjong set and I don’t know if the number of pieces is complete.
The rules of mahjong are very simple. In fact, there are many mahjong enthusiasts in the UK and they will hold a few games from time to time. However, the rules are slightly different from those in China.
But this is only limited to the Muggle society. Of course, mahjong has not been introduced in the wizarding world. The game Jon has made now is estimated to be the first mahjong game for British wizards.
After explaining the rules to Neville Ron and the others while playing for a few rounds, they basically understood how to play this kind of square card.
Then the five freshmen gave up wizard chess completely and indulged in playing square cards in the lounge after class every day.
"Two barrels."
In the warm lounge, Lavender hesitated for a long time before tapping one of the cards in front of him with his wand and using the levitation spell to make it fly to the center of the table.
And the moment she finished speaking, Ron flicked his wand with excitement and pushed all the cards in front of him.
"Aha! I'm crazy!"
Justin's face immediately showed a happy expression. Even if he didn't win, he didn't lose much.
Neville looked at Ron's cards tangledly, and he was only one card short of making a mistake.
Lavender looked frustrated. Even if they were just playing casually when they were bored, there was no bet at all. She was still unhappy that she kept losing today.
After teaching them, Jon, who had basically been watching the battle with great interest, guided Lavender.
"You all still rely on luck to win now, but when playing this kind of card, you can't rely entirely on luck. You have to guess his operational ideas through the cards played by others."
In fact, he talks a lot about theories, but his actual poker skills are extremely bad. In his previous life, he only played with his college roommates in the dormitory a few times. The reason why he pretends to be incomprehensible and doesn't play anymore is because he has self-awareness.
As Neville and the others became more and more skilled as they played, I couldn't defeat them anymore and didn't want to break the founder's undefeated legacy.
"Shuffle! Shuffle!"
Just as Ron was yelling, the door to the lounge was suddenly pushed open by someone from the outside.
Filch's old face full of wrinkles and age spots looked extremely ugly and glared at Ron, who jumped away, and then shouted to everyone in the lounge with a sharp voice.
"Everyone, come out and gather in the restaurant!"
After saying that, he turned around and left angrily, as if to inform other students who were still in the dormitory.
Not only Jon and the others, every student in the lounge looked at each other, wondering what was going on.
"Let's go, let's go to the restaurant first."
Jon took the lead and walked towards the restaurant, and Neville and the others followed him to the restaurant. Most of the students had already gathered here, and McGonagall stood in front of the students with a serious face.
But after seeing McGonagall, Jon knew very well that this was definitely not a small problem, because it could only be a major event that would make the vice principal come forward.
Only after Filch gathered all the students on the carriage did Jon and the others understand what had happened.
Someone broke into the locked room without a sign again!
This time the intruder was very clever and didn't show any flaws, but after what happened last time, Filch asked Flitwick to cast a spell on every door that did not allow students to enter privately.
A small spell will leave traces on the door as long as it is opened.
Now Filch apparently found traces of being opened on a certain door, and he reported the matter directly to Mag without hesitation.
This is not a trivial matter. Those rooms that do not allow students to enter privately either contain some dangerous magical animals or plants, such as thestrals, or some dangerous animals brought from Hogwarts Castle are stored there.
But there are also valuable magic items.
Now that these rooms have been broken into silently twice in a row, they must be traced to the end.
Looking at all the students present with a frown, Mag's stern voice sounded in the restaurant.
"I believe this may be an unintentional act by some people. He didn't want to steal anything, but just broke in accidentally. Now, as long as this person comes forward and admits his mistake, I will not impose any strict punishment on him."
Mag has always been very dignified among the students, and no one would doubt what she said.
But the students present looked at each other, and no one wanted to stand up and take responsibility for this incident.
Seeing this scene, Mag's frown deepened.
"Filch, please make another trip and help me bring Filius over."