vncnus Chapter 155: The Big Dormitory in the Auditorium
Chapter 155: The Big Dormitory in the Auditorium
Lupin didn't take her words seriously. There was no Merlin here, so there was no miracle. Harry looked at Afro and Lupin playing a riddle, and shook her sleeves with a little jealousy.
"You're here." Snape floated up from the stairs as if he could fly, holding in his hand the potion that Aphrodite had worked so hard to prepare yesterday.
Lupin took the crystal bottle and put it in his coat pocket. Harry looked at the pocket curiously and Lupin patted it with a smile.
"Professor Snape very enthusiastically brewed a potion for me." Lupin leaned close to Harry's ear and continued in a voice that only two people could hear, "I feel a little unwell, please don't tell other students?"
Harry nodded, but his curiosity was still not dispelled. Why would Snape prepare potions for Lupin? Their relationship didn't seem to be very good.
However, Snape probably had a bad relationship with everyone.
"My grades in Potions were terrible, thank you Professor Snape."
"You'd better drink it now!" Snape's expressionless eyes wandered between him and Harry, and even lingered on Aphrodite and Harry's clasped hands for a moment.
Harry soon forgot about the little incident at the door as Ron and Hermione returned to the hall with bags, followed by several teenagers dressed in the same way.
"Hey, this is Gryffindor."
"I know." Draco put down what he was holding without a care in the world. He ignored Ron's reminder and sat down next to Avro, taking out a lot of candies in pink packaging from a large paper bag.
"Afro, pick which one you like?"
"And these!" Blaise reached out and pushed Harry, who was sitting on the other side of Avro, hard, then squeezed in between them and occupied the seat on the girl's right.
He also opened the parchment bag, revealing the sweet and fragrant strawberry cream cake. The sweet smell was exposed to the air and flowed into the girl's nose along with the small molecules.
"Wow, it looks like there are a lot of delicious food in Hogsmeade." The girl thanked the two boys and took out many snacks to share with the little wizards present.
"I bought it for you, why are you giving it to him!" Draco stopped Avro from giving Harry candy, snatched the candy and stuffed it back into the package.
"Why are you so stingy~"
"I'm not stingy. You can give it to anyone except Pot!"
"Honeydukes is great, but it's a pity it can't compare to Zonko's Joke Shop." Fred and George came over with a wooden box. Fred turned his back to the table, leaned his elbows on the edge of the table, and opened his mouth to bite off half of the cake in Aphrodite's hand.
Harry picked up the box containing the Black Pepper Urchins and looked at Aphrodite who was picking through the bag. Her curious and cute look made the corners of his mouth rise unconsciously.
"Harry, you'd better not eat it." Ron's reminder came a little late, and Harry had already thrown the candy into his mouth.
A second later, Harry's two ears seemed to have turned into the chimneys of a train, emitting white smoke, and his mouth emitted white mist as if he was talking outdoors in winter.
His fair cheeks suddenly turned red, and Harry lowered his head, embarrassedly avoiding the teasing looks of his friends.
"We have to go back and get ready. We have a dinner tonight." Hermione looked at her watch, reminding them that time was running out.
Draco was reluctantly pushed to the door of the auditorium by Avro, and then dragged out of the hall by Blaise and Theodore.
Afro and the others walked along the usual route towards the Gryffindor Tower, but when they arrived in front of the Fat Lady's portrait, the smooth road became crowded, and a group of young wizards huddled in front.
"What happened?" Hermione stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck, trying to see what was happening in the front.
"Could it be that Neville has forgotten the password again?" Ron put one hand in his pocket and muttered as if he was used to it.
"Hey, I'm here!" Neville stood behind them and defended himself. "I've memorized the password."
He pulled out a palm-sized notebook from the lining of his robe, which was filled with the passwords to pass the portrait.
"Please let me through, I'm the President of the Male Student Union." Percy squeezed up the stairs from the other side, showing his importance to the bustling crowd.
"Back off! Back off!"
Percy carefully asked the twins to take Aphrodite away from the crowded crowd, while squeezing forward to examine the portrait of the Fat Lady.
There was silence for about a minute before Percy's sharp voice echoed throughout the corridor.
"Hurry up, someone go get Professor Dumbledore!"
Afro listened to the discussion coming from the crowd in front and clenched her hands nervously, her fingers feeling slightly cold. She already knew that Sirius had entered the castle and that she was partly responsible for the Fat Lady's injury.
"Don't worry, Dumbledore will take care of it." Fred saw that Afro's face didn't look very good, and thought she was scared. He held the cool little hand with his broad hand and squeezed it soothingly.
Dumbledore arrived soon after, glancing towards the portrait as Gryffindor students struggled to make way in the crowded corridor.
He lifted the corner of his robe, and his slender hand like a dead branch brushed across the torn portrait. Dumbledore paused for a moment, turned around with a gloomy look, and told the professors who followed him to find the Fat Lady.
Filch held Mrs. Norris in his arms, trembling as he pointed in another direction. "The Fat Lady is there."
Everyone turned in the direction he pointed, and saw a fat woman with a grass wreath on her head in a painting of the African savannah style.
The Fat Lady hid behind a wild boar and carefully revealed a panicked face, "He's here! In the castle, Headmaster, it's him! Ahhh~"
The Fat Lady was frightened and her speech was incoherent and full of fear. In the end, there was only a series of screams, and the Fat Lady hid herself again.
Dumbledore brought all the Gryffindor students back to the Great Hall. Ten minutes later, students from the remaining three colleges were also brought in. Each of them had a look of confusion on their faces.
"Can everyone sleep here tonight? I need the head boy and girl student union presidents to maintain order." He instructed Percy, who felt extremely proud and important. He straightened the badge on his chest and nodded solemnly.
Dumbledore drew out his wand and waved it in the air. The four long tables in the hall immediately disappeared, and many purple sleeping bags appeared on the open space.
"Good night, children!" Dumbledore closed the door with a serious look on his face.
Before Afro could go forward to get the sleeping bag, Fred and George came towards her with three sleeping bags, smiling.
(I also remembered that one summer when I was camping on Mount Hua with my friends, the tent was almost blown away when I woke up. I never wanted to carry a tent and sleeping bag to climb the mountain again (T＿T). I remember that I also carried three boxes of self-heating rice at that time...)