Chapter 81 The Cowardly Lizard and the Violent Knight
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Hepzibah Smith,
As a pure-blood descendant of the Hufflepuff family, he not only inherited Helga Hufflepuff's golden cup, but also received the frame with a portrait of her and the house elves.
But decades ago, Hepzibah Smith was killed by Tom Riddle... The old house and her collection were packaged and sold to Borgin and Burke's by her niece.
This is a normal thing. After all, Hepzibah Smith is a famous antique home, and her collection is worth a lot of money.
But the problem is that the Borgin-Bock store is also an antique store. The store buys various items from ancient families and sells them at high prices.
It's like... Burke bought Slytherin's locket from Voldemort's mother Merope for the bargain price of ten galleons, and then sold it to Hepzibah Smith at a high price.
In the same way, if Smith's items were acquired by the Borkin-Bock store, it is impossible to keep them in their hands forever, and they may have been sold long ago.
Once it is sold, trying to get it back is like finding a needle in a haystack, and it is extremely difficult.
Rolf sighed slightly. He thought that the whole matter of finding Smith's old house would be easy, but he didn't expect that it would suddenly become complicated because of Tom Riddle.
The boy stared at the newspapers and asked curiously: "Where did you two get these?"
A newspaper that is almost fifty years old can be found here?
Shirley smiled and narrowed her eyes, like two crescent moons, and said, "It's on the rightmost shelf in the library."
"There are all the Daily Prophets there, and Shirley and I looked through all the old newspapers." Hermione raised her pointed chin.
Luo Fu was touched for a moment. He calmed down his disappointed look and said seriously: "Thank you both."
Shirley didn't say any polite words, she just smiled as brightly as the first plum blossoms on the branches after winter, so beautiful.
"You're welcome." Hermione grinned, showing her two front teeth and said, "You have to give me an extra Christmas gift."
"Okay." Luo Fu laughed and said teasingly: "But you still owe me the bet, can we be willing to admit defeat? It has been delayed for half a year."
Hermione deliberately looked left and right, but not at Rove. She asked in confusion: "Bet, what bet? Why don't I remember it?"
Luofu stretched out his hand and gently pressed the girl's disheveled head to prevent her from shaking it.
Hermione slapped his claws off and said scornfully: "If I had known I wouldn't have found information for you, you stingy guy!"
Rolf laughed angrily: "You only have one Christmas gift left!"
Hermione glared at him and asked softly: "Are you both going home for the Christmas holidays?"
Shirley shook her head and said, "I won't go back to the monastery."
"I'm not going home either." Luofu said softly.
This Christmas, he will not go back to the Fire Dragon Sanctuary in Romania, nor to the old Scamander House in Dorset, England.
There is no one in either house, why go back?
Both parents are in the United States, and Newt even took Tina to the virgin forests of Brazil to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Obviously, he did not want his grandson to disturb his old life.
Rolf, who is homeless, can only stay at Hogwarts this holiday.
Hermione hesitated, and when she saw that neither of them was leaving, she whispered: "Then I won't go back either!"
"Didn't you say you wanted to go skiing with your parents for Christmas?" Luofu raised his eyebrows.
"Skiing may not be suitable for me." Hermione blushed, shook her head and said:
"I'd better stay at Hogwarts and review my homework seriously. My parents hope that I will do well in the exam, and they will understand me."
"It's only Christmas."
"Yeah, there are only six months left until the final exam, so you have to be nervous!" Hermione looked triumphant, pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper from her pocket, and explained:
"This is my Christmas review plan, almost accurate to the second."
The girl stretched and said with full energy: "Let's stay in the library on Christmas and study hard!
I will definitely take the top three spots in next year’s final exam!”
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Before the Christmas break, Slytherin and Ravenclaw played the last Quidditch match of the semester.
But what is shocking is that Ravenclaw, who has been winless for many years, actually won, taking a crucial game from Slytherin!
Their new Seeker, student Qiu Zhang, caught the Golden Snitch right under Malfoy's nose and sealed the final victory.
Cho Chang instantly became a celebrity at Hogwarts. Even Cedric praised her for flying well and wanted to have an in-depth exchange of skills with her.
Being deducted a point by the "fish belly" who was looked down upon before the game really hurt morale. The way Malfoy cowered to avoid the Bludger was also nicknamed the Cowardly Lizard.
Captain Flint was hit by a Bludger in the first two minutes and had to go off... He was also known as the Death Knight.
Of course, the key to Ravenclaw's victory was off-field factors.
I don’t know who secretly took the photo, and then it immediately spread throughout Hogwarts, causing an uproar:
It turned out that Terrence Higgins, the former Seeker who had been robbed of his position, punched Malfoy so hard during team training that he almost went into shock.
The internal strife in Slytherin is good news. After all, they are well-equipped and have no off-field factors. It is really hard to stop them from defending their title.
Terrence Higgins is also widely suspected to be a pure undercover...must have been bribed by the Gryffindor Quidditch team!
Slytherin put his hat on Gryffindor, and the little lion didn't like each other. The two sides had several conflicts before the Christmas holiday.
Professor Snape deducted points from Gryffindor like crazy, and Professor McGonagall didn't give in too much...the house points of the two houses dropped steadily.
Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were in the top two spots for no apparent reason. I can only say that happiness came too quickly.
As the Christmas holidays approach, the entire Hogwarts is decorated again.
The auditorium looked majestic, with not only a dozen Christmas trees covered with silver frost, but also thick criss-crossing ribbons composed of mistletoe and holly.
After a grand dinner, the last legal holiday of the year - Christmas was finally ushered in.
There is no such thing as time off, and there is no need to go out of school unless necessary. Everyone will have a vacation of about two weeks.
On a usual Christmas day, there are a lot of students left behind, especially those fifth and seventh grade students who are preparing for the .ls. exam and the .
But this year almost all the students left.
There was no way, after several attacks, even Lockhart was transferred to St. Mungo's Hospital of Magic. The little wizards were too scared.
Neville saw that Rolf, Shirley and Hermione were all staying, and he originally wanted to stay too.
But Hannah invited him to visit Professor Lockhart at St. Mungo's Hospital for Witchcraft and Wizardry during the holidays, and the two spent a whole day together in London.
Neville vowed to carry out Hermione's review plan at Hogwarts that night, but changed his mind the next morning... quite simply!
The entire change took less than three minutes.
But before leaving, Neville's rifle stayed with Rolf.
The pregnant rooster finally laid eggs, and Rolf needed Laifu to help hatch them.
The basilisk egg was a Christmas gift from Luofu to Laifu. The basilisk son he picked up for free... Laifu can just enjoy it secretly.
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(Thanks to "book friends", "just love to wade in the water" and "book friends" for their rewards.
There is also a chapter that is a little slow... maybe a little longer to take it easy.)
