Fir trees can be directly used as Christmas trees. The place used to celebrate Christmas must have been carefully selected by Hagrid.
There are more than sixty teachers and students in their school, which is not too many, but not too few.
If you celebrate in a crowded place, it will attract people's attention even in Muggle society, so you can only choose a quiet and uninhabited place.
It is hard to find a place that has good scenery, no people, and is suitable for celebrating Christmas.
Immediately after getting off the carriage, Flitwick drew a circle around the area where the students could move freely, and also cast the Muggle Expelling Curse. Even if there were Muggles who accidentally came to the area, they would be
Because I suddenly remembered that I had other urgent things to attend to, I left immediately.
The little wizards started playing in the snow. Today is a rare time for them to be active.
At this time, the professors began to busy decorate the Christmas decorations. Of course, celebrating the holidays is not just about having a big meal. The more we are homeless, the more important it is to have rituals.
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Ron, Justin and Lavender went to find Wes and the twins to have a snowball fight. Jon and Neville found a small frozen lake in the corner of the open space. There were several seniors there.
The girl is carefully skating on it.
They seemed to be playing this kind of sport for the first time. They only dared to jog two steps on the ice and then skate forward a few meters. The brightly colored scarves were floating behind them. Just doing this made the girls laugh happily.
"It would be great if there were still flying lessons in school." Neville looked at the girls, as if thinking of something, "In the past, Hogwarts had flying lessons that taught students how to fly on broomsticks, but now
Because we are in a horse-drawn carriage, we have no way to get in touch with this sport."
"Because the space is restricted, we can't fly on the carriage, and the professors can't stop the carriage frequently for a class. That would be too dangerous. Or maybe we can't buy a broomstick?"
Jon's last question had some profound meaning, but Neville didn't hear it. He thought for a while and answered.
"It's unlikely that you can't buy a broom. In fact, flying broomsticks don't have high technical content. There are many magic transportation companies that can make them, although the prices are certainly not cheap."
Jon suddenly asked as he watched senior students helping to move the rich ingredients out of the carriage under the command of Professor McGonagall.
"You said that we eat, drink, and clothe ourselves all day long, which is a lot for fifty or sixty people, and our quality of life is not bad. How did these things come from? It can't be snatched from the hands of Muggles through magic.
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Neville shook his head subconsciously and said.
"Of course it's impossible! Professors wouldn't do that kind of thing. Everything we use in our daily lives must be bought with money."
"Then the professors usually teach us, and we don't need to pay tuition when we come to school. Where do they get the money to buy it?" Jon said softly.
Neville was stunned by Jon's question, because few students would think about this aspect. They usually have food, drink, clothing, study, and everything they need. Naturally, no one would think about what these things are.
how come.
But now that the entire Hogwarts is homeless and the purchase of wands is controlled, the school's financial resources will definitely be restricted. Where do they get the money for their daily lives?
It can't be that the professors teach them during the day and go out to do odd jobs at night to earn it, right?
Neville was stunned by this question. He struggled to think about it for a long time before he came up with a guess that could barely be explained.
"Hogwarts is definitely not the only one who resists the Dark Lord. There is also the Order of the Phoenix, a wizarding organization with Professor Dumbledore as its core, and several pure-blood wizarding families. We should have spent all the money on the school.
They must have funded it."
Jon nodded.
"Well, maybe that's the case."
But in fact, he knew very well that Neville's statement made no sense at all. Since Voldemort had taken control of the entire British wizarding world, he would inevitably suppress Dumbledore's forces in an all-round way.
At this time, the Order of the Phoenix will definitely need a large amount of wealth to maintain the operation of the organization. Even if the members are wizards with faith and perseverance, they regard money as dirt and do not need salary as long as they maintain a basic life.
Then they have to spend money to buy potions when they are injured, right? To collect intelligence and data, you need to spend money to buy connections, right? Someone sacrifices to provide pension to his family, at least to ensure that life can continue? These are all huge expenses.
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As for the several pure-blood families who support Dumbledore, including the Wesla family and the Longbottom family, even if they are not poor, they cannot be said to be wealthy families, and since they have clearly chosen to stand
On Dumbledore's side, their assets in the wizarding world are bound to be suppressed. Being self-sufficient is already great, and it is basically impossible to provide any major support to Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix.
Of course, with Dumbledore's international reputation, he might be able to gain support from other wizarding forces outside the UK, but if that was the case, why did he still have to stay in the UK?
The carriage carrying Hogwarts runs non-stop every day, but it has never left the British border.
Jon has no information channels to understand the current international situation in the wizarding world around the world, but the situation is certainly not optimistic for Dumbledore, otherwise the entire Hogwarts would not have fallen to this.
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This question actually already has a reasonable answer in Jon's mind.
It's just that he didn't tell Neville this answer, because judging from what happened in the carriage during this period, some people with malicious intentions came here just for this answer.
He can naturally trust Neville, but it is impossible to trust everyone on the carriage. From the current point of view, it is better to leave such matters to the professor.
Jon is not a brainless fool. He is very self-aware and knows that no one in this world is smarter than anyone else. What he can think of, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall can naturally think of.
Compared with the professor who is very powerful and has experienced countless battles, he is a freshman who has just learned a few simple spells and does not need to worry so much.
Just as he was thinking, a snowball suddenly hit his head, causing his brain to be stunned for a moment.
"I didn't mean to smash it! Jon! It was Ron! He used a spell to change the trajectory of my snowball!" Justin explained hurriedly.
Ron was shouting from the side: "He did it on purpose! I saw it! Lavender can also testify!"
Lavender covered her face with her cotton-gloved hands, and her hat with pom-poms swayed as her head moved.
"I didn't see anything."
With a dark face, Jon grabbed two balls of snow from the ground and kneaded them into balls.
"No matter who it is, just one of you can do it."
Justin and Ron yelled and ran away. Neville also excitedly grabbed a snowball from the ground and followed Jon in the direction where Ron and the others fled.
"Let me help you!"
This clearing in the woods was full of laughter, and the students at Hogwarts were really happy today, just as the professors had blessed them.