On the Ravenclaw table, Eddie looked at the owl sitting in front of Joel with curiosity, "What did you buy?"
"No, I sent a letter." Joel removed the letter from the owl's right talon. The owl put its head into Joel's glass and took two sips of milk, then flapped its wings and flew away.
Eddie wondered, who was Joel sending the letter to? Isn't he an orphan?
Sergey saw the letter in Joel's hand and remembered the place he had mentioned before to collect the book. He leaned towards Joel, but Eddie was between him and Joel, so he couldn't see the content of the letter at all.
"Eddie, let's change places?" Joel noticed this problem and quickly called to Eddie.
Eddie was confused but still gave up his seat. Watching Sergey and Joel reading the letter with their heads crossed, he asked Allen: "When did they get on so good terms?"
Allen shook his head, took a piece of ham and stuffed it into his mouth.
Marietta suddenly appeared. She was not afraid of the cold. She put on the pleated skirt in the school robe suit. It could be seen that her blond hair had been carefully taken care of. She combed a ponytail behind her head and deliberately made herself as slender as
The swan's neck was exposed.
This outfit can only be called cute on 11-year-old Marietta, and it has nothing to do with sexy.
"Alan?" She greeted Alan, "Long time no see."
"...Well, long time no see, Marietta." Allen still couldn't change his habit of being shy when meeting girls.
"Can we go sit by the Black Lake this afternoon?" Marietta's voice was very soft, "Just the two of us?"
Allen glanced at Sergey. He was concentrating on discussing something with Joel and had no time to talk to him.
He pondered for two seconds and then nodded, "...Okay."
He agreed, and Marietta just smiled and said, "Then we'll meet at 4 p.m."
She happily waved her hands and went to find her good friend Qiu Zhang.
Under Sergey's gaze, Joel opened the envelope with the stamp of Boginbok Store, took out the letter paper inside, opened it, and read it with Sergey.
"To Mr. Joel Taylor:
I have received your previous letter, and I am very interested in the two sets of "Chadwick's Magic" signed by Chadwick Butt himself.
However, after Mr. Chadwick's death, more and more fake signed copies of "Chadwick's Magic" remained on the market, even to the point where they looked like the real thing.
Therefore, before acquiring it, I had to personally verify that the two signatures were signed by Chadwick himself, which is crucial to the value of the collection.
If you decide you want to sell these two sets of books, you are always welcome to visit Knockturn Alley Boggin's Bock store."
The letter was not long, and Boginbock's message was very clear: if you want to sell the book, you must bring the volume to his store and let him confirm whether it is authentic.
"How about it, sell it?" Joel looked at Sergey.
"...Sell it, he won't cheat people, right?" Sergey hesitated for a moment but nodded.
"Probably not," Joel said. "After all, he has his own store. You can't do such dirty things openly, otherwise it will ruin your reputation, but lowering the price is inevitable."
"That's ok, the two of us can go together when we get back?"
Joel thought for a moment, the nearest holiday to them is Christmas, which is still two months away...
He didn't want to wait that long. He had to get the first pot of gold quickly and start his own money-making business. Otherwise, he would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to redeem the source of magic power.
"I can't wait that long. I plan to go this weekend."
"Weekend?" Sergey frowned, "How do you leave campus?"
"I have my own way, do you want to come with me?"
Sergey stared at Joel, feeling that he could not see through this roommate more and more.
"Okay, call me when you want to take action." He nodded and responded.
After breakfast, Joel followed everyone to the underground Potions classroom, where he once again endured Professor Snape's sarcasm like a storm.
And after catching Joel twice, Snape became more and more keen to get close to Joel and take advantage of him.
"I think your head is comparable to that of a giant monster with splendens, Mr. Taylor." Professor Snape said coldly. Joel lowered his head and looked at the ball of paste in the crucible in front of him and remained silent.
.
In order not to arouse Snape's suspicion of his magic power, Joel deliberately did not make any mistakes in the fusion step this time. He simply added the porcupine quills that should have been placed last in the process of making the potion, completely making the pot of rejuvenation potion completely
Became waste.
"Five points from Ravenclaw." After deducting points from the academy, Snape left Joel proudly.
"Don't be sad," Eddie cried and comforted the expressionless Joel after class, "Snape is like that, he grabs other people's pain points and won't let them go."
He was also Snape's key target, and he would also be deducted several points by Snape in every class.
The four people in the dormitory were walking together in the dark underground corridor of the castle. At the stairs leading to the auditorium, they saw Prefect Caitlin standing there with her arms folded. She wore a high brown ponytail as always and looked serious.
"Mr. Taylor and Mr. Carmichael, I want to talk to you two." She called the names of Joel and Eddie.
The two people followed Caitlin out of the auditorium and onto the lawn outside Hogwarts Castle. The first-year Slytherin and Gryffindor students had just finished flying lessons and followed Mrs. Hooch in with brooms.
into the auditorium.
"Boy," Caitlin pursed her lips tightly, her expression very much like Professor McGonagall, "can you explain to me about potions?"
"Three weeks into the school year, you two deducted 56 points from Ravenclaw for just one course, Potions. This is not a small number."
"You must know that our Quidditch team is not strong, which puts us at a disadvantage in the competition for the College Cup, so we attach great importance to the points earned in daily classes," she explained to the two, "If we let
If you continue to buckle down, not only will we not win the Academy Cup this school year, we will also be at the bottom among the four academies."
"It's not all our fault!" Eddie shouted, "Obviously Snape was too strict with us, how could he deduct points from students like that? I heard that he never deducted points from students in Slytherin House!
"
"It's Professor Snape, Mr. Carmichael," Caitlin emphasized. "I know that Professor Snape is more... partial to Slytherin students." She thought for a moment to find an appropriate word to describe Professor Snape.
behavior.
"But we can't change Professor Snape, so why not change ourselves?" Caitlin said, "First-year Potions is not difficult, right?"