Chapter 101: Halloween (National Day special 6K chapter)
[Anniversary Celebration (Act 2): Accumulated sign-ins and bonuses are completed
Reward: Entangled Fate × 1
Additional reward: Entangled Fate × 10]
Tom stood on the observatory of the astronomy tower and completed his last sign-in.
September and October passed in the blink of an eye, and the second act of the system's fifth anniversary celebration has come to an end. The second act of the anniversary celebration is not unique, it is just simple and unpretentious. It opened with Tom
With a monthly card, you can get some magic stones and entangled bonds as rewards by checking in at a specific location every day.
To be specific, from Monday to Saturday, you can sign in to get a total of 210 Magic Stones. On Sunday, you will be given a Fate of Entanglement and an additional reward. In the fourth week, the additional reward is ten draws in a row. The remaining three weeks are all some knowledge.
and spells and the like.
For example, the anti-theft charm was given in the first week, a few tips on alchemy in the second week, and the magic potion formula and production points of the vitality tonic in the third week, which are all good gadgets.
The anti-theft spell is a very practical little spell. You only need to cast a spell on a room and an item, so that the room can trigger an alarm when someone else steps into it - the item will instantly make a bang and then explode. Vitality tonic
A potion is a potion that can make the user full of energy - that is, a genuine energy potion.
After four weeks of signing in, Tom received a total of 840 magic stones and 14 entangled edges. At the same time, the monthly card was 90 magic stones and the daily tasks were 40 magic stones. By the end of October, Tom had received a total of 5860 magic stones and 14 entangled edges.
The number of magic stones in the book has returned to 5970, and there are still 22 entangled bonds.
If all of them were converted into magic stones, Tom's magic stone reserves would be close to five digits.
After the second act of Anniversary ends, the third and fourth acts also begin.
Content description: Halloween is coming, and Professor McGonagall is decorating the school. As a member of the school professors, of course you have the obligation to assist her. Go find Professor McGonagall!
Mission reward: Professor McGonagall’s notes]
[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Content: Total War - The Witcher
Content description: Professor Flitwick of Ravenclaw has improved a new type of "Wizard Chess" called "Total War-The Witcher", and he wants to promote it to everyone during Halloween.
"Total War - The Witcher"? It looks very interesting! Travelers, go check it out~
Mission reward: Professor Flitwick’s notes]
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Tom shivered.
The weather at Hogwarts in October is generally damp and cold. The air here seems to have magic attached to it, directly penetrating through the outer robes and underwear. A gust of wind can make people doubt their lives.
This kind of ghost weather reaches its peak at the end of October - it will snow directly after that. It will be much better at that time. First, because of the well-known "snow does not get cold but snow becomes cold", water turns into ice and releases water.
It is hot, so when it snows it is not the coldest time. Secondly, because all the water vapor in the air that can cause "magic damage" has turned into snowflakes and fallen. Without magic damage, the little wizards can still resist physical damage.
.
But Tom thought: It’s so embarrassing! Muggles are just beaten to death by “magic damage”. We are wizards. Shouldn’t wizards have magic resistance and magic defense? Why are they as cold as Muggles? What a shame!
So Tom decided to solve this small problem so that he would no longer be cold in the late October autumn.
There are three paths before him now: the first path is to change the climate of the Scottish Highlands and make it spring-like all year round like that of southern France. Unfortunately, there are some minor technical problems that prevent Tom from realizing it. The second path is to prepare the food.
A magic potion that keeps the body warm at all times. This is not difficult. Professor Snape probably has the formula, but it needs to be taken every day. It is a consumable item and is not practical. The only way left is to modify the wizard's robe.
Modification to make the robe more effective in preventing cold.
Then it's very simple. You only need to solidify a "constant temperature spell" on the wizard's robe. Since there is such a simple and clear method, but a large number of young wizards are still shivering from the cold, it can only mean one thing:
This method has not become popular.
The reason is also very simple: expensive.
If an ordinary wizard's robe costs one galleung, a wizard's robe with a constant temperature spell solidified will cost at least ten galleons, and the spell solidified on it can easily become ineffective.
Tom quickened his pace and returned to the warm office with a roaring fire and breathed a sigh of relief. He took out a bottle of butterbeer and a Russian sausage from the desk drawer. Just as Tom put the sausage
While using the cutting spell to cut into thin slices, someone knocked on his office door.
As soon as she opened the door, a damp cold air rolled in, and Hermione, whose nose was red from the cold, came in with the cold air. After entering the office, she quickly closed the door and stood by the fireplace for a while.
Slowed down.
"It's obviously not snowing, but it's still so cold!" Hermione took off her woolen gloves and Ravenclaw scarf, and took off her wizard's robe and put it on the back of the chair, revealing the gray underneath.
sweater.
"If you wear a sweater, you won't be able to block the cold air." Tom took out a small glass and poured a bottle of butterbeer from Three Broomsticks into it.
"Flame Guard!" A small circle of blue flames immediately appeared on the outside of the cup, heating the wine in the cup. Tom repeated the same trick, using the Flame Guard to fry the sliced sausages in a small dish.
Cooked. The sausage is fried sizzling, a layer of oil appears on the surface, and a rich aroma of bacon emerges.
The power of Tom's [Fire Bodyguard] is slightly weaker than that displayed by Grindelwald. He cannot swallow more than a dozen Aurors at once like Grindelwald, and almost burn down half of Paris - as for why half Paris?
, of course it’s not that the French have a “powerful” firefighting team, but because the city of Paris is divided into two parts by the Seine River, Grindelwald’s flames can only selectively burn one side.
Although the power is insufficient, the control is still there. For example, it can be used as a temporary gas stove to grill sausages or warm a glass of wine.
Tom handed Hermione the roasted sausage and warm butterbeer. But before passing the butterbeer, Tom took out a small bottle and dropped a drop of vitality tonic into it.
"Hey! Are you drugging me in front of me?" Hermione patted the table, "Mr. Yodel, you're a bad student! You started drugging underage witches just two months after the school started!"
Although her words were shocking, Hermione always had a smile in her eyes when she spoke.
"It's an energy tonic. It can help you relieve fatigue." Tom was also convinced, and he was really kind. He saw the thick dark circles on Hermione's face, and it seemed that she had been overworked recently, so she
I decided to give her some tonic to replenish her energy.
Energy potions in the magic world are a good thing. They are more refreshing than coffee. Some are similar to sports drinks and can effectively relieve fatigue. Some pharmacists will also make improvements so that energy tonics can supplement nutrients. Just add a few drops to supplement them.
It can be said to be a great drink for energy and nutrition, and more importantly, it has no addiction or attenuation of effect.
Coffee, a drink used by Muggles to refresh themselves, is actually slightly addictive, but it is ignored because the symptoms are not strong and the side effects are not serious. Symptoms of coffee addiction are headaches and upsets if you do not drink coffee for more than 24 hours.
But don’t worry, it’s very easy to quit coffee. Just reduce the amount of coffee you drink every day, and you won’t have headaches if you stop taking it after a week or two.
The stronger the coffee, the stronger the addiction, and the more severe the reaction after stopping taking it. There is a kind of black coffee from Arabia that is the strongest coffee I have ever drunk. Generally speaking, all the powder ingredients of instant coffee will be
It dissolves in hot water, but the Arabic coffee actually has residual coffee grounds after brewing. These grounds can even be brewed for the second and third rounds. After getting used to that kind of coffee, other coffees are no longer suitable for me.
There is no bitterness at all - of course, some are just plain unpleasant to drink, such as a certain Chaojiu product.
Once you are used to drinking coffee, its refreshing effect is almost zero. Some are even suitable as a bedtime drink. A cup of coffee will warm you up and make you have a good sleep.
"Vitality tonic?" Hermione's eyes became sharp: So are you serious?
"It's not Dumbledore's kind of tonic!" Hermione blinked, and Tom knew what she was thinking. He felt that he was about to be killed on the road to never return, so he resolutely
Lifted Dumbledore out.
Tom carefully explained to Hermione what a vitality tonic was and its effects. Hermione was a little surprised: "This is a potion that only fifth-year students can prepare? Can you actually make it now?"
"It's not difficult," Tom took out his notebook, "Here is its configuration process and key points. After reading it, you will be able to configure it."
Hermione sipped butterbeer while looking at Tom's notes. Butterbeer was the best-tasting drink she had ever tasted, and it warmed her from the inside out. She had just met her Ravenclaw classmates.
After her herbal medicine class, she was tortured by the harsh weather outside, and the cold seemed to invade her internal organs. Under such circumstances, it was really a great pleasure to drink a warm cup of butterbeer around the fire.
Hermione could also feel that in addition to the warmth, the fatigue accumulated in her body over the past few days was also being cleared away bit by bit, and the vitality tonic in the butterbeer was gradually taking effect.
Hermione couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Are you tired lately?" Tom asked, and Hermione raised her head and glanced at him with some resentment, "If you didn't assign so many homework, then I might be able to relax a little bit."
Tom was a little embarrassed and complained to himself: "I have assigned less homework than Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape!"
"But there are still group projects," Hermione counted on her fingers. "I read three books this week. Counting those from the past few weeks, I still have six reference materials to read..."
Tom:……
Your seriousness will put great pressure on teachers who want to take advantage of it!
"Actually, it's just a simple investigation report..." Tom wanted Hermione to lower her requirements for him a little bit. Needless to say, Hermione rejected him righteously - I study for myself, not to get high scores.
, so on.
But Tom was sure that Hermione was just saying this, and if he really gave her a low grade, he would not think about having a clean life in the next five years at Hogwarts.
"Then let me see what books you use as sources of information." Tom gave up trying to persuade her and asked Hermione for her book list: a total of seventeen books! The number of these books is almost equal to
The total number of reference books for other people’s papers in the class.
Tom's eyes darkened: He felt that he could postpone the submission date of the paper a little - the professor who approved the paper also needed time to read the reference materials!
Now he is extremely lucky that his English proficiency is equivalent to that of a native speaker, and he does not have to turn on Google Translate while chewing papers. As for books written in Latin and even runes, of course the Hogwarts library has them, but the little wizard
We won't be too lazy to use them as reference materials.
"By the way," looking at Hermione's rosy face again, Tom suddenly remembered something, "I can try to modify your robe to protect it from the cold."
He picked up Hermione's robes which were draped over the back of the chair.
The robe is an ordinary plain wizard robe that is standard for Hogwarts students. The outer layer is a little damp, but there is still a trace of warmth and fragrance inside.
"Clean it up!" Hermione took out her wand and pointed at the robe, cleaning off all the moisture on its surface. Tom took out his wand and carved runes on it out of thin air.
This is the little trick he learned: carve the magic power on the carrier in the form of lines to build a set of runes. The advantage of this is that you don’t need to find metal or wood, or a small carving knife, just use a wand.
The disadvantage is that the set of engraved runes is not stable enough and will break down due to wear and tear after a while and cannot continue to operate.
Since the wizard's robe is obviously not a medium for storing magic power, this time Tom also embedded a piece of magic silver on the robe as a power supply center. He turned the magic silver into the Ravenclaw emblem and pinned it to Hermione's robe.
The position of the chest.
"Input, output, call, heat..." The tip of Tom's staff trembled slightly, and in less than half an hour, under Hermione's watch, four sets of runes were carved on it: one set was for invoking magic, the second set was for heating,
The third set is to transmit heat to all corners of the robe, and the last is charging runes.
[Winter wizard robe (two stars): A heart-warming wizard robe with a one-month shelf life, lifetime maintenance, and free repairs. One star is at the bottom of the box in summer, and five stars are given in winter. The star rating rises as the temperature drops. 】
"Try it!" Tom handed the modified robe to Hermione. Hermione put it on and went for a walk. When she came back, she excitedly told him: She couldn't feel the cold air outside at all!
Obviously, Tom's alchemical creation was a great success this time.
Hermione and Tom chatted for a few more words, then got dressed and left the office.
Although Tom made the cold no longer a problem by modifying the wizard's robe, this kind of private modification was obviously a "little benefit", and other little wizards could not reap this benefit. So when the cold wave reached its peak, Huo Huo
An influenza outbreak breaks out among Gwarts' staff and students, leaving the head nurse, Madam Pomfrey, scrambling.
In the midst of her busy schedule, she also sent Dumbledore a decoction to prevent colds, and watched him drink it in one gulp before leaving. Dumbledore's inexplicable cold before really scared her: because she
The cause of the disease cannot be found. No matter how powerful Dumbledore is, he is still a hundred years old. Time is not forgiving. A cold can do what Grindelwald and Voldemort did not achieve.
The effect of Madam Pomfrey's potion is immediate. Basically, the students who go to her place can be cured by drinking just one dose of the potion. For the patients, Madam Pomfrey also specially prepared some refreshing potions. After drinking this potion, several people in succession
When I was young, steam would come out of my ears, as if the water in my brain was being drained.
After the steam is gone, the whole person will feel refreshed. Victoria Brown has been depressed recently, losing her hair, memory loss, lack of energy, falling asleep in class several times, and was punished with solitary confinement.
My roommate was forced to drink some stimulant to cheer up a little.
In late October, in addition to the cold and wet wind, it was raining continuously in Scotland. Raindrops as big as bullets slapped on the windows of the castle, and it continued to rain for several days without stopping.
Tom was glad that he didn't have to go to Quidditch training now, because the autumn rain and time had washed away the haze caused by the secret room attack, but they could not take away the enthusiasm of the captains of the Quidditch teams of the four major colleges - in fact, for them,
As long as there are no rebels attacking Hogwarts Castle, nothing can stop the Quidditch League from proceeding.
In fact, if you just observe the enthusiasm of the captains, you may come to the conclusion that it is not rain, but oil. You can often see that on a certain night, the teammates of the Quidditch team are covered in sweat.
Soaked and covered in mud, we returned to the castle.
But what does this have to do with professors and ordinary students?
Everyone's attention has been attracted by the upcoming Halloween. According to the established customs, Halloween is a holiday, but this year there was a little accident...
October 30, 1992 is a Friday, Saturday is Halloween, and Sunday is Halloween - do you see the problem? Halloween and Sunday are the same!
This is simply bad news and a huge loss!
Like most parts of the UK, Hogwarts does not have a Halloween holiday. For this New Year's festival, which originated from the ancient Celtic people and is closely related to wizards, Hogwarts only holds a party.
But in fact, many European countries still have a holiday for Halloween. For example, France will start the holiday on the last Monday in October and continue until November 1. The French call this holiday "Vacances de Toussaint" for All Saints' Day.
, is the longest holiday before Christmas in the second half of the school year. After this holiday, midterm exams will be arranged.
The word "Toussaint" for All Saints' Day (Halloween) in French is quite interesting. "Tous" means "all" and "Saint" means "holy". It really means Halloween.
However, Hogwarts is not a school like Beauxbatons. Hogwarts does not have holidays. In other words, Hogwarts has inherited the style of most British schools and has fewer holidays. So if one day I receive Hogwarts at the same time
If you have an admission letter from Beauxbatons, and you happen to speak French, it is recommended to apply to Beauxbatons - they have many holidays, and there are many girls.
How many school holidays are there in France? It feels like there is a holiday every now and then... There is a week of All Saints' Day, a two-week holiday of Christmas, needless to say winter and summer vacations, and a week-long holiday in early March every year.
There is winter break, and then there is spring break at the end of April, which is also a week off and can be combined with Labor Day on May 1st.
In addition, there are Ascension Day, Easter, Whitsunday and 1945 Victory Day (?) - the French chose May 8th for this holiday, not to mention whether France is qualified to celebrate it
The victory of World War II, the correct end time of World War II is September 2, 1945.
However, the French are very stupid and played a word game. Instead of saying this is Victory Day in World War II, they call it "Victoire 1945". We are celebrating the victory in 1945 - choose a date.
The day Germany surrendered was just a coincidence.
There are 11 days of holidays in France throughout the year, and the paid holidays stipulated by government law are 5 weeks. Including weekends, the French have about 150 days off throughout the year, and students have even more days off. Of course, on normal days
Even starting a class can exhaust you to death.
The only holiday that the French have shorter than other places is Easter, which they only have for one day.
What's even more outrageous is that the French have something called "bridging". That is, if Tuesday is a day off in a certain week, the French will conveniently treat Monday as a holiday as well - there is no compensation, just a simple holiday.
Monday was conveniently dismissed as a holiday.
So Beauxbatons has many more holidays than Hogwarts.
On Friday, Tom gave the students the last lesson before Halloween.
"Okay, students, that's it for today's class. I wish you all a happy Halloween in advance. I need to remind you that after Halloween comes back, I will bring you a new classroom quiz——"
At this time, the classroom was enveloped by the wails of the little wizards, but Tom's heart was like a stone: he had to take several classroom quizzes to check everyone's learning status, and use these data as daily scores. He took care of himself
Zi said: "And I want to remind everyone that you should start preparing the first draft of your group's paper - if you don't have a first draft, you must at least make an outline. There will be a midterm exam before Christmas, and you must submit it after the holiday.
thesis."
"get out of class is over!" Tom left the classroom, leaving the students sighing in the classroom. Tom went to find Professor McGonagall and work with her to decorate the school auditorium. The third act of his anniversary celebration had to be opened through her.
In fact, Tom is more inclined to go to Professor Flitwick to play his "Total War - The Witcher" first, but it is obvious that Professor McGonagall's mission is a limited time mission - if you miss Halloween, it will be over, but Flitwick
Depending on the professor, we can wait a little longer.
Things have priorities, so naturally the most urgent tasks should be given priority. Tom met Professor McGonagall in the auditorium, and coincidentally, Professor Flitwick was also nearby.