Chapter 447 This is an illusion! What are you covering up?!
On Halloween Eve, Elena woke up early as always.
As the head chef of Hogwarts, while having enviable privileges, she also shoulders important responsibilities second only to Albus Dumbledore. She is especially busy around such important festivals.
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"Ha~ braised meat, shoes."
Elena sat up, yawned slightly, and shook her feet to tease the three little puppies sleeping beside the bed.
Feeling the little master's awakening, Xiao Luwei shook his head and opened his eyes, spat out a few blue sparks, and immediately reacted quickly, skillfully picking up the shoes that Elena had kicked by the bedside, and kicked them.
Run to Elena's feet and lie down.
After more than a month of running-in, Xiao Luwei has fully accepted his new form, and has successfully transformed from a mighty and ferocious giant dog into a cute, super-obedient three-headed little licking dog.
"Is it already Halloween..."
Elena put on her clothes and shoes, glanced at the calendar that turned automatically on the dressing table, and whispered thoughtfully.
"I hope everything goes well today and some ugly guys better not come out to cause trouble."
Halloween at Hogwarts seems to be a cursed day.
If Elena remembers it correctly, during the seven years of J.K. Rowling's original work, some unusual events would happen on this day every year - when Harry was in first grade, a troll broke into the girls' toilet, and when Harry was in grade two,
The first basilisk attack occurred in the third grade. A big black dog came to the castle and tore the Fat Lady apart. The fourth grade was slightly better and started the Triwizard Tournament. In the fifth grade, a large-scale lion and snake outbreak broke out.
Fight...
But thankfully, with the ripples Elena stirred up in Hogwarts Castle, the plot has already changed beyond recognition.
The three-headed dog Luwei, who was originally used to guard the Sorcerer's Stone level, has turned into a little milk dog that hums every day to eat and drink among the girls. Naturally, Dumbledore also set up new magic levels to fill the gap.
This vacancy - if Elena guessed correctly, Hagrid's missing level should be filled by an enthusiastic "castle administrator".
Under the influence of Elena, although Hermione is still a little too proud, her character has improved a lot compared to the beginning of the original work. At least no one will deliberately isolate and exclude her.
Coupled with Hermione's outstanding performance in tit-for-tat with Elena in class, and her unintentional behavior of helping other students with their homework after class, Hermione Granger is now in Hogwarts.
Her popularity among her classmates is extremely high, even vaguely surpassing Hannah's, and she has become the "second sister" in people's private discussions.
Under such circumstances, it is too difficult to recreate the classic scenes in the original Philosopher's Stone.
Therefore, after carefully thinking about the changes in all aspects, Elena felt a lot more at ease. She paid less attention to [Synthetic Beast: Quirrell-Voldemort] and focused on the layout and arrangement of the Halloween banquet.
superior.
Whether Voldemort can survive successfully and whether he can steal the Philosopher's Stone and make a comeback are issues that Dumbledore needs to worry about and consider. She and Grindelwald are not in the mood to pay attention to these small things for the time being.
In the face of the huge changes that will happen a month later that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, affect every corner of the world, and will inevitably affect the future destiny of both worlds, the little thoughts of a certain tool demon are really insignificant.
In order to ensure that Professor Quirrell would not take the initiative to cause trouble, Elena even secretly ordered the house elf to provide the poor professor with a snack after dinner, so as to prevent him from being mentally unbalanced due to being exploited by the unscrupulous demon king for a long time.
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I have to admit that without any conflict of interest, Professor Quirrell can actually be considered a simple person - he just wants to get through this semester quickly, get the Philosopher's Stone, and then quickly resign and leave this increasingly weird and unfamiliar Hogg.
Watts.
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By the time the little wizards woke up one after another, the sweet and tempting smell of roasted pumpkin was already wafting in the corridor.
Since it’s Halloween, pumpkin-related dishes are naturally a must.
Days in advance of the holiday, a large number of pumpkins and apples have been harvested in the Hogwarts vegetable garden, ready for use in decorations and kitchen cooking today and tomorrow - pumpkin pie, roasted pumpkin seeds, toffee apples, etc.
Hot apple cider…
In addition, Elena also specially purchased a batch of candies from Hogsmeade Village to enhance the festive atmosphere.
The original intention of Halloween is actually to praise the autumn festival. Hundreds of years before sects in the non-magical world designated this day as "Saints' Day", wizards had the traditional custom of celebrating this day.
The druids, the wizards of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, believed that on that night their great god of death, Saman, would come to the world, and along with the return of the god of death would be those evil spirits who had gone to another world.
So they lit huge bonfires and kept a close watch on these evil spirits.
This is how the saying that there are witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween began.
For Professor Sprout, this festival has another special meaning. The ancient Roman wizards called this day Pomona, which is the "Festival of the God of Fruit Trees", which heralds the prosperity of all fruit trees.
Life and death, harvest and failure.
Therefore, although I know that all this is just a beautiful vision of my parents when they chose the name.
But whenever this day comes, Ms. Pomona Sprout is still quite happy. She appears in the auditorium early in the morning and helps the house elves decorate the school's Halloween decorations.
All the lampshades have been replaced by huge pumpkin shells, dazzling candlelight flickers in the belly of the pumpkin, and gold, purple, and silver ribbons decorate the edges of the corridors and windows. Everyone is in a good mood.
In fact, after telling Hermione not to run around after class, Elena's worries subsided a lot again.
Although the content of Gryffindor's first-year Charms class today is still the Levitation Charm, this is just a normal course arrangement and cannot explain the strange phenomenon of "World Line Convergence".
Moreover, for Elena today, it may be a bit difficult to fight Voldemort head-on, but with full firepower, there is still no big problem in dealing with a clumsy giant monster.
You know, when Rubeus Hagrid was a child, he went to fight trolls in the Forbidden Forest.
Faced with this big guy who has obvious shortcomings in intelligence, physical strength, and defense, even if Quirrell really lost his mind and let a giant monster enter Hogwarts like in the original work, Elena felt that she needed
The more important thing to consider is how to hold back some of your strength so as not to kill it by accident.
However, just when Elena focused most of her attention on how to deal with Professor Quirrell who might be "troublesome"...
An unexpected trouble suddenly found her.
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After breakfast, Hogwarts Transfiguration Classroom.
As time goes by, the difficulty of the Transfiguration courses gradually begins to increase.
Different from the simple transformation between dead objects in the previous lessons, starting from this lesson, Professor McGonagall asked the first-year students to try to use the transformation spell on living animals - today's content is to transform snails into
Become glass beads.
As usual, Elena skillfully used the self-created "binary rewind magic to transform the structure"...or the "blindness method", and quickly completed the learning content assigned by Professor McGonagall in the first time, and then began to be in a daze.
Ever since she learned some knowledge about ancient alchemy, Elena had long given up on the idea of mastering the art of transformation.
The modern scientific concepts imprinted in the soul of her previous life, as well as her understanding of the microscopic world, made it almost as difficult as a squib when performing this type of unreasonable "black box magic".
According to her own speculation, if she can successfully perform the transformation technique one day, there are only two possibilities:
First, an extremely powerful wizard cast a forgetting spell on her, erasing her memory of modern science;
Second, like those ancient alchemists, she carried out the entire process of understanding, decomposing, and reorganizing matter.
Under such circumstances, even though Professor McGonagall's transfiguration seemed interesting, Elena simply chose to rely on visual magic to get through.
After all, it was difficult for her to explain to Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall what fusion reactions and fission reactions were.
And...why her transfiguration could burn Hogwarts to the ground if she's not careful.
"Elena Kaslana, perfect change, plus five points for Hufflepuff."
Professor McGonagall took a look at the smooth and round colored glass bead on Elena's desk, raised her eyebrows, nodded with satisfaction, and gave high praise and bonus points without hesitation.
Although this situation repeats itself in every class, as an impartial professor, Professor McGonagall insists that as long as she completes her course requirements perfectly, she must be given extra points - even if Elena looks like
It didn't seem like much energy was expended, and the whole person seemed to be in a lazy daze.
Slytherin and Hufflepuff students are already not surprised by Elena's extraordinary speed in mastering magic.
Ever since the little silver-haired witch unexpectedly fainted and returned from the first class, no matter how complicated the transformation technique was, Elena could perfectly reproduce it immediately after Professor McGonagall completed the demonstration, as if she had already mastered it.
However, except for Elena, most students felt that the difficulty of this classwork suddenly increased.
Unlike transforming dead objects into another form, even just turning an invertebrate snail into a glass bead is already an extremely difficult task for most students.
Until the morning's Transfiguration class was about to end, not many students had successfully completed the transformation.
Even for those who barely succeeded, most of their glass beads still had some traces of snails on them, or some of the snail's abdomen and legs remained unchanged.
"Elena, please teach me."
After Hannah failed a dozen times in a row, she poked the disobedient snail in front of her with a frustrated look, turned her head to look at the white-haired dumpling next to her who was about to fall asleep, and sighed gloomily.
"It's really difficult to turn them into snails. If you want to turn them into cheese-baked snails, I have no problem at all now."
"Don't be discouraged, just practice more. My method is not suitable for you."
Elena yawned absentmindedly, stretched out her fingers to pluck the "glass bead" in front of her, and naturally separated Hannah's left hand that wanted to touch the "glass bead".
It's not that she doesn't want to teach Hannah the techniques of transfiguration, the point is that she herself got through by cheating, and is really not qualified to help others. Considering Hannah's future magic learning, at this time, it is better to follow Professor McGonagall's traditional method.
It's better to come.
"Speaking of which, Elena, is this your new magic?"
Hannah, who was rejected again, had no annoyance on her face. Instead, she looked at Elena's fingers with some curiosity, her eyes full of envy and wonder - I don't know when, that beautiful glass bead had already
It was wrapped around the tip of Elena's finger, as if it was glued to it. There was no point of support, but it stopped firmly on the girl's fingertip.
"Magic?" Elena blinked and suddenly came back to her senses.
Following Hannah's gaze and looking at her fingertips, she discovered that the snail that had been "turned into" a glass bead had woken up at some point and was slowly crawling up her finger.
Of course, in the eyes of others, it is the glass beads that are rolling upward on their own in defiance of gravity.
"Um, this isn't magic..." A trace of embarrassment appeared on Elena's face, and she subconsciously flicked the "glass beads" in her hand onto the table, then placed them on the table again with a snap.
It neither rolled around nor jumped up, but stopped silently on the smooth wooden table.
Um?!
Hannah tilted her head, the confusion on her face becoming more and more obvious.
It looks so weird...
I always feel like something is wrong...
just like……
"Wait...there seems to be something wrong with you, glass bead?"
Before little Hannah could figure out the hazy confusion in her mind, a serious female voice suddenly came into the ears of the two of them.
"Huh? Huh?! Professor McGonagall..."
The expression on Elena's face suddenly changed and she turned around quickly.
Professor McGonagall looked at her gloomily, her eyes falling on the slightly trembling "glass bead", her sharp eyes narrowed slightly, the expression on her face gradually became serious, and she slowly stretched out her hand forward.
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"Miss Kaslana, if possible, could you hand me the glass bead to see?"
The next moment, as the transfiguration professor's finger touched the "glass bead", the witch's expression instantly became extremely complicated.
Ruined……
It seems like I'm about to suffer...
Seeing Professor McGonagall's face, Elena subconsciously shuddered...
Sure enough, Professor McGonagall took a deep look at the flawless colored glass bead in her hand, felt the clear touch on the tip of her finger, took a deep breath, and her voice seemed to be trembling with anger.