The auditorium was filled with a strong festive atmosphere. In addition to the common pumpkin lanterns and bat decorations, there were also some very local decorations, such as some ghost models. Sugar skulls, blood-filled candies and candies also appeared on the dining table.
Specialty snacks such as tombstone biscuits.
"Isn't it Halloween tomorrow? Why does it feel like it's a holiday today?" Ryan asked a little strangely. Several classmates around him also showed puzzled expressions.
Hermione next to her heard the question and replied: "It's different from our habits here in the UK. Halloween is celebrated here in South America from October 31st to November 2nd, a total of three days."
It seems that wizards in South America have longer holidays just like Muggles, but this can be considered a good thing for Ryan. After all, everyone likes holidays. At least from a dietary perspective, Castro Bleu
The food during the festival is much richer than the daily food.
However, Ryan's good mood did not last long. He received several letters early on the next day, Halloween. There were letters from the Weasley twins, Percy, and even Colin and Lin, who usually didn't have much contact.
Ron's letters, these letters told Ryan that a terrible thing happened in the school: Sirius Black broke into the school somehow, and even destroyed the portrait of the Fat Lady of Gryffindor with a knife.
When Ryan came to the common room with these letters, he found that most people were waiting here, and everyone had one or two letters in their hands. However, Ryan had not yet gotten the news from other people.
The news is true. For example, a Hufflepuff student next to him swore that Black broke into the Gryffindor common room and fought with a group of students for hundreds of rounds before being forced to escape.
While everyone was standing in the room uneasily exchanging the news they had obtained, Professor Sprout walked into the room and roughly counted the number of people and said to everyone: "Okay, you are all here now. I have something to do."
I want to say something. Many of you may have received letters from friends in school about what happened at Hogwarts last night. In order to avoid the spread of rumors, I will tell you the formal notice now."
"First, Sirius Black did enter Hogwarts Castle last night and destroyed the Fat Lady's portrait without being able to enter the Gryffindor common room. Second, there were no casualties in the process. I hope
Please don't spread rumors. In the end, it's a pity that we didn't catch Sirius, so I hope you can also advise your friends to cooperate with the school at this time and not to cause trouble." After finishing speaking, Professor Sprout continued to read.
He glanced at Ryan.
It seemed that the Weasley twins were notorious in the school, so Ryan could only respond with an awkward but polite smile to express his understanding.
After Professor Sprout finished speaking, everyone dispersed. On the way to class, Ryan kept wondering about the defense of Hogwarts Castle. In his previous life, many fans he read said that the principal could monitor the entire school.
Of course, this is not difficult from a technical point of view. After all, Harry Potter's father can do this. It is not difficult to have the same monitoring system in Hogwarts School.
But if it was possible to achieve the kind of real-time monitoring mentioned in some fans, why didn't Dumbledore take action and catch Black directly?
Of course, Ryan does not agree with the Dumbledore conspiracy theory mentioned by many fans. After all, as the leader of the White Wizard, Dumbledore should not be able to indulge criminals. Of course, under this premise, Dumbledore would do more
There is no such thing as knowing that one of his subordinates was wrongly accused and still having his subordinates squat in Azkaban for more than ten years.
It seems that the most likely explanation is that the surveillance system of Hogwarts can only show who is where, but all this requires people to watch at all times, and there is no automatic alarm function. As a principal, Dumbledore
, how could he be staring at the monitor all day long like a security guard?
In this case, Ryan felt that he would be more confident in doing things inside Hogwarts Castle in the future, as long as his luck was not too bad and he could avoid those portraits and ghosts.
Naturally, in this case, everyone couldn't help but discuss how Blake broke through the dementors' blockade and sneaked into the school, but most people thought that he should have entered the school through some secret passage.
Because everyone is in Brazil now, things about Hogwarts are a bit far away from them after all. So after discussing it for a long time, everyone put this matter behind them. But that night, everyone gave Hogwarts
When friends write letters, they can't help but express a few words of comfort.
But the situation at Hogwarts did not improve because of this incident. Just when everyone had almost forgotten the previous incident, a new unfortunate thing happened at Hogwarts.
That day happened to be in the middle of November. Ryan came back from dinner and found everyone in the common room discussing the upcoming house competition at Hogwarts. Especially the Ravenclaw students were very nervous about this year's competition. After all, because of Zhang
Qiu participated in this exchange event, and Ravenclaw had to find substitute players to play the game.
Although Ryan was not very interested in Quidditch, he still joined the discussion circle for social purposes, and occasionally said a few words to pretend that he was not a rookie.
Just as everyone was discussing in full swing, Hermione suddenly opened the door and walked into the common room, holding an open letter in her hand.
"Ryan, something happened at Hogwarts. The Dementors lost control and broke into the Quidditch pitch. Harry fell directly from the sky."
As soon as Hermione finished speaking, there was a loud bang in the common room. Everyone began to ask Hermione about what happened. As Hermione read the letter, the details of what happened were slowly revealed.
Everyone constructed it. It can be summed up in one sentence: The excitement and happiness of everyone on the Quidditch pitch made the hungry dementors lose control. Harry passed out because he was too close to them. Fortunately, Dumbledore took action to drive them away.
The dementors saved Harry.
"I really don't know why you want dementors to protect the school."
"This filthy thing should have been eradicated long ago."
"What is the Ministry of Magic thinking? What's the difference between Hogwarts and Azkaban?"
While everyone in the common room was discussing the matter passionately, Ryan and Hermione returned to their carriage.
"This letter was written by Ginny at Harry's bedside. She said that Harry was in very bad condition when he was taken to the hospital. His face was pale and his whole body was shaking. So she wanted to ask Harry this question.
How to solve it?" Hermione asked as she handed the letter in her hand to Ryan.
"As far as I know, there is only one solution that Harry can use right now," Ryan said.