It is obvious that Elena's wings began to "knot" long before she was promoted to the Reserve Major Arcana.
It is true that in the beginning, even if Hermione, Hannah, and Luna worked together, they were often unable to resist Elena's power.
But as time goes by, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna, whether it is magic, skills, intelligence, or physical strength, starting from this semester, the three of them can barely suppress Elena. Of course, the prerequisites
It's Elena who has to choose to be a talent.
However, this loose "anti-Baimao Tuanzi" alliance is often fragile and lacks tacit understanding.
After realizing that Hermione and Luna took the initiative to start a team, Elena chose to take action directly without hesitation.
While Hannah didn't react, with overwhelming strength, Hermione was caught by Elena before she could run away. She turned her over and pressed her down on the soft sofa, and slapped her hard several times.
, as punishment for her taking the initiative to launch an "involution" attack.
"A good try, but remember to explain clearly next time, or communicate with your allies in advance."
Elena let go of Hermione, letting the little beaver quickly shrink to the other end of the sofa with a red face, covering her butt and glaring at her.
It was only then that Hannah, who was still eating the roast goose, understood from Luna's explanation in a low voice, and belatedly protected Miss Lovegood from being attacked by revenge, with a vigilant look on her face.
Keep an eye on Elena in case Elena uses her strange power to rush over and bully Luna.
"Okay, don't look at me with that look. I'm not a bad person. Just leave the pile of approvals there. Later, they will be sent to the principal's office through the Floo network, so that the 'Tower' and the 'Pope' can
'Just do it... let's consider it as compensation for them cheating us."
In fact, even if Hannah didn't take the initiative to ask for help, she would help Hanhan solve those tasks later.
Due to the "Secret Room Hunting" plan, Hannah, Luna, and Hermione no longer have the opportunity to spend the holidays with their families as usual. Under such circumstances, Elena is not so perverted as to force her with a whip.
Watching them work overtime on Christmas to approve documents and so on.
Of course, if it were Dumbledore and Grindelwald, it wouldn't matter.
Anyway, those two idle old wizards celebrate every day.
A few minutes later, Luna, Hannah and others returned to the Hufflepuff lounge, with excitement shining on everyone's faces.
Under Elena's instigation, they put the approval documents and even homework for the next few days in the principal's office, and also left a note of "explanation" arrogantly on the desk. This was what they had done before.
Things that I dare not even think about.
However, as Hannah appeared from the bedroom holding a pile of gifts, the happiness in Hermione and Luna's hearts quickly slipped away like a popped balloon.
Since there are many adult wizards in the castle at this time, and there may even be some of their servants, so at least today, their scope of activities is limited to the common room of Hufflepuff House and the Hogwarts kitchen.
Between the three places of the principal's office.
Except for these three places where two-way "local area floo networks" are set up, they can't go anywhere.
There are too many secrets in Hogwarts today, and the appearance of the three of them is undoubtedly the biggest doubt and trouble. In order to prevent prying eyes from outside the school, Dumbledore and others even used their privileges to lock down various colleges in advance.
Entrance:
The Fat Lady of Gryffindor House went out for a visit;
Ravenclaw's Eagle Ring question is temporarily locked at proving the four-color theorem;
A magic barrier was placed on the Slytherin stone wall to prevent the basilisk from escaping into the dormitory.
As for Hufflepuff, which is closest to the kitchen, it has also set up the same magic barrier as Slytherin. After all, these two colleges are both located in the basement of the main castle of Hogwarts. If the basilisk has a chance to escape upwards,
The lounges of both houses are potential hiding places.
This also means...
The Christmas gifts that Hermione and Luna had prepared could not be given out for the time being.
The house elves at Hogwarts brought them all the gifts from other friends, but among them there were no gifts prepared for Hannah and Elena. The house elves did not dare to look through wizards' things casually. This was also
There is no way around it.
"There shouldn't be a curfew tonight, right? How about we go upstairs quickly after those wizards leave?"
Hermione said, closing the singing storybook Hannah gave her, and turned her head to look at Elena with pleading eyes.
"Just a little while, at least you can open the gifts I gave you on Christmas Day instead of waiting until the next day."
"Well, I can also cast illusion magic." Luna also stared at Elena with her silver-grey eyes.
"It's not difficult to go out. After all, we can go out from the kitchen, but we still can't enter the common room of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor." Elena shrugged helplessly for the third time.
Or explained for the fourth time, "These are not things I can decide. The power to seal the lounge comes from the principal's order. This must be unlocked by Professor Dumbledore, but at least tonight..."
"oh."
"All right."
After one last try, Hermione and Luna sat down with some disappointment.
In fact, during this time, Elena also explained other possible reasons.
For example, referring to the original counter-exposure operation of "Secret Arrest of Quirrell", the reporters who arrived at Hogwarts Castle today had too many employees from the Ministry of Magic. After the banquet, they might even do some sightseeing in the school.
Take a stroll.
They tried their best not to move around randomly before completely clearing away the "eavesdropping" magic that might remain in the castle.
"Sorry, I didn't think before...this Christmas might be a bit boring..."
After looking at the disappointed Hermione and Luna, Elena said a little uneasily and tightened her clothes rather irritably.
Compared with being able to navigate various big plans, she obviously spends much less time on festivals and playing. Last year, if Dumbledore and Grindelwald hadn't helped fill the vacancies, she wouldn't even have remembered the Christmas gifts.
Go give it to friends.
Although there has been some progress this year, I just remembered to prepare the gift as a gift and did not take into account Hermione and Luna's thoughts.
The upper limit of Slytherin's remaining basilisk threat in the Chamber of Secrets is too high.
Even in the original work, this is just a simple copy of Harry with one sword and Phoenix Fox alone.
But when the reality is before Elena's eyes, she will not hope that the world line that has been adjusted to her shape will work. If there is an unintentional change in the indirect gazes in the original work, it will be a life.
She didn't intend to give Death any chance.
Obviously, this can be said to be the place where the butterfly effect is most likely to occur, eventually leading to unexpected deaths.
Therefore, before the basilisk was completely dead, Elena's nerves were almost always tense with the full firepower of the Hyperion. It was not just talk. If the basilisk showed more lethality than expected, Elena
You can even directly destroy the Black Lake just to kill it.
And the consequences of such attention are...
She barely considered how boring Christmas would be for the other Wings if all went well.
"I mean, we have been on the Hyperion since last night to prepare a battle plan. We spent most of the day submerged in the water. At night, we couldn't move anywhere else, nor could we go to the auditorium or go home.
Have a normal Christmas...sorry..."
Elena twisted her fingers around the silver hair hanging on her shoulders and said a little dejectedly.
As Miss Fool, all she can do is admit her mistakes. After all, the future of too many people is at stake.
"Eh?! How could it be boring? What are you talking about? This is more interesting than going home for Christmas."
Before Elena could finish speaking, Hannah interrupted with a weird look on her face, grabbed the scarf, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on Elena's head.
"As you know, the Leaky Cauldron is our family's business. Christmas can be said to be the busiest time. Many homeless wizards, aliens, and foreign tourists temporarily stranded in the UK will all come here on this day.
When we come to the Leaky Cauldron, our whole family has to help. Not to mention the drinks, turkey, pies, cakes, and other ingredients, we also have to help them clean up their resting place and watch them not to cause trouble."
Hannah hugged the pillow and lay on the soft big bed, lazily rolling around on it, recalling the previous Christmas.
"Such a busy scene will last at least until the afternoon of the next day. As for the Christmas banquet and so on, it seems that we just spent it in the store with the guests. It's scary to think about it. You know, I was almost embarrassed last time I went back.
After death, the walls are full of my photos..."
As if recalling some bad things again, Hannah buried her head in the pillow and arched her head, as if she was planning to suffocate herself to death.
After she worked as a full-time commentator, model, and copywriter on A Bite of Hogwarts and The Quibbler, every time she returned to the Leaky Cauldron to help out, there was no exception that she would not
The thought of breaking down the walls of her own house, especially when her uncle occasionally got angry, would pick up the "Food Review Manuscript" signed by her and read it once, shaking her head, and even encourage her to stand on the table and recite it.
However, the only consolation is...
Since when she was extremely angry and irritable, she smashed the wine table with one punch and threw the drunken brawler out of the tavern. The old guests in the Leaky Cauldron did not dare to tease her too harshly. If she was beaten down by little Hannah,
, that would be something that would be laughed at by drinking friends for months.
"Are you so busy? But why don't you choose to take a break on Christmas?"
Hermione looked at Hannah rolling around on the bed and asked in confusion.
"Mum said the Leaky Cauldron was one of the few places in the UK still open on Christmas Day"
Hannah raised her head from the pillow, recalled what her mother had said before, and looked at Hermione as she explained seriously.
"As long as we are still here, those homeless wizards and people traveling abroad will always be able to find a place to stay. No matter how unlucky they are during the year, they will at least have a place to stay at the end of the year.
A warm and happy ending.”
"Of course, sometimes it's not so warm and happy."
Hannah's face fell, and she looked unbearable, "For example, there was often air leakage at the door, and the guests would cry when they drank too much. I remember one time we even got into a fight in the pub, and in the end more than a dozen people were killed.
The coma spell was put down, and the corridor outside the guest room was full of people sleeping."
"What about you? Hermione, what is Christmas like in the non-magical world?"
“Actually, it’s not much better.”
Hermione shrugged helplessly, spread her hands and explained half-complainingly, half-resignedly.
"You may not know that my parents are both dentists. Although they can rest on Christmas, they have to go to work the next morning. During Christmas, dental patients can be scheduled from early morning to late. So we usually have a simple meal.
meal, and then went to bed early..."
In fact, before coming to Hogwarts to study, she spent every Christmas holiday daytime alone.
Perhaps because he has been living on campus for a long time, after returning home last summer, Mr. Granger made an unprecedented plan to arrange a family hiking trip next year. As for the trip location, it is temporarily set in France, but that will have to wait until the end of this school year and the next holiday.
That’s it.
"Luna, where is your family? You..."
"We haven't spent Christmas at home for several years. Dad has been writing manuscripts these past few years."
Luna hugged her golden unicorn doll, whispered in an erratic voice, and stared at the burning fireplace in trance.
When she was a child, long before her old father joined the Major Arcana, "The Quibbler" would be off from December to January, let alone during the Christmas period. According to Mr. Lovegood
Anyway, during the holidays, no one will push for manuscripts, so if you cut them, they will be separated.
And every time at this time, my mother would always try to make a sumptuous Christmas dinner and coax my father to save some manuscripts.
This is almost a regular part of Christmas in the Lovegood family every year.
Until, later...
Luna's eyes dimmed a little.
Since the past two years, they have not celebrated Christmas every time.
Xenophilius Lovegood never mentioned asking for leave again. Christmas seemed to have disappeared from the Lovegood family, replaced by a depressing and somewhat silent December 25th.
No, Luna never took the initiative to say anything.
"Well"
As the topic starter, Hannah blinked her eyes, glanced at Hermione and Luna who became even more depressed, and looked at Elena with a look of help.
Even though her reaction is usually slower, Han Na can still sense the emotions of her friends. Did she say something wrong again?
"Well, let's talk about it, when I was in the orphanage, Christmas was still..."
Elena was about to help Hannah try to restore the atmosphere, but in the middle of her words, she suddenly froze.