Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

After breakfast the next day, Zhang Xu came to Snape's office.

After greeting Snape, Zhang Xu sat at Snape's desk.

Snape pushed a piece of parchment forward, stared into Zhang Xu's eyes, and said, "I hope you can promise me one thing."

"Is it okay to protect Harry?" Zhang Xu replied.

Snape was slightly taken aback, then nodded, and then pushed the parchment in front of Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu secretly complained about Snape's arrogance while looking at the parchment.

Written on the parchment are the incantations of "Shenfengwuying" and their solution.

"This gift is a bit expensive." Zhang Xu said in his heart, "It seems that Snape has spent all his money for Harry."

After hearing what Zhang Xu said to Harry last night, Snape had a new understanding of the danger Harry was facing, so he wanted to find a new ally for Harry.

Zhang Xu saw Snape's plan, anyway, it would be easy for him to agree to Snape's protection of Harry, so naturally he readily agreed.

Last year, Zhang Xu found Snape's old potions textbook through various excuses, and he also taught himself the magic sharpness on it.In terms of power, it would be good to use this spell to chop wood when the family went out for a picnic during the summer vacation.

When Zhang Xu saw Snape's "Shenfeng Wuying" on the parchment today, he didn't know how many improved versions it was. It was easier to cast spells and more powerful.

After Zhang Xu asked Snape a few questions about the Shadowless Magic Curse, he used the Transfiguration technique to conjure a wooden stake, and then cast a Shadowless Shadow on the stake.

The spell hit the stake, and it really penetrated three points.

After Zhang Xu asked Snape for advice, he left the office, went straight to the Room of Requirement, and began to practice.

When Zhang Xu felt hungry and came to the cafeteria, he found that lunch time had just ended.

Zhang Xu, who was hungry, had no choice but to go to the kitchen, asked the house elf for a piece of lamb leg, frozen it with magic, and cut it into thin slices.

Then boil the noodles and put them in a bowl.

Then put the sliced ​​raw lamb, coriander, green onion, pepper, ginger, salt, pepper, pepper powder and sour cabbage into the bowl.

Finally, scoop out a scoop of hot mutton bone soup from the pot and pour it into a bowl, cover it and simmer for a while, and a bowl of fragrant mutton noodles is ready.

Don't ask why the Hogwarts kitchen has green onions, cilantro, noodles, and sour cabbage, and now there are bean sprouts growing in a corner of the kitchen.

After eating the mutton noodles, Zhang Xu just walked out of the kitchen when he heard a few passing students from the Badger Academy talking about the attack on Colin last night, and then he received a letter from someone asking him to go to the crime scene last night.

As soon as he arrived at the crime scene, Zhang Xu saw a large group of people gathered there. Besides the students, there were also Professor McGonagall and two adult wizards whom he had never seen before.

After Zhang Xu asked the students he knew well, he learned that the two wizards he had never seen before were sent by the Ministry of Magic.

Zhang Xu was a little surprised by the reaction speed of the Ministry of Magic.

But looking back, many students in the "after school afternoon tea time" wrote letters to their families asking about the secret room, which made the story of the secret room spread in the circle of parents in the school.Now that something happened to a student, and a group of powerful parents exerted pressure, the Ministry of Magic couldn't sit still.

The students present were basically members of the "after school tea time", and everyone was restoring the scene of Colin's attack.

hit the scene.

A first-year student about Colin's stature plays Colin's role and is tossed about by a group of older students.

After greeting Professor McGonagall, Zhang Xu took out the bunch of grapes from last night and put them where they dropped last night.

"Last night, Colin came out with this bunch of grapes, and later this bunch of grapes fell here. Professor McGonagall and I found it was still there when we came over last night, so we put it away first." Zhang Xu said to those The students who were discussing said.

Then a group of students began to study around the bunch of grapes.

The wisdom of the masses is infinite. Just because the bunch of grapes was basically unharmed except for a little damage when it fell on the ground and Zhang Xu ate two of them, everyone ruled out a lot of powerful magic and limited the magic to similar grapes. Amongst magic like the sound of the mandrake and the fabled gaze of Medusa.

After handing the bunch of grapes that completed the mission into Harry's hands, Zhang Xu began to study with everyone what Colin saw last night.

Soon, everyone came to the same conclusion as Zhang Xu last night. Colin picked up the camera only after he stood on the stairs and saw the shadow cast from the other side of the corner of the opposite corridor.

So, under the surprised eyes of the two Ministry of Magic staff, the students closed all the windows around the corridor and the stairs, lit the lamps, and simulated the environment of last night.

The first thing to be excluded was the magic item, because the shadow of the person holding the magic item obviously wouldn't scare people, so Colin was surprised to pick up the camera to take pictures.

Then the only remaining answer is a magical monster.

Everyone followed the original selected magic monsters, and used the transformation technique to make entities according to the illustrations in the book, and then experimented with their shadows.

The result is that their shadows are quite scary.

The investigation couldn't go any further at this point, and everyone dispersed after talking for a while, leaving only the smug Professor McGonagall and two stunned Ministry of Magic staff.

Next, Zhang Xu walked out of the castle by himself and walked towards the greenhouse.

On the way, he saw the three of Harry walking towards Hagrid's hut, presumably they wanted to comfort Hagrid whose past had been dug out.

Now that Hogwarts is rich, in addition to growing herbs in the newly built greenhouse, two greenhouses have been opened to grow vegetables.And these greenhouses are all blessed by magic, no matter how cold and snowy it is outside, the indoor temperature is above [-] degrees Celsius.

When Zhang Xu was in the kitchen just now, he found that there were not many cilantro, so he had to plant a batch now, otherwise there would be no cilantro to eat when he came back from the Christmas holiday.

Think about being able to drink a bowl of hot yam and mutton soup with coriander floating in the cold winter night, and the whole person will be warmed up.

After Zhang Xu broke the shell of the coriander seeds, he put them into a basin, and then added water to the basin.Two days later, the water-absorbed seeds can be placed in wet sackcloth to germinate.

Walking out of the greenhouse, Zhang Xu saw Professor McGonagall walking towards Hagrid's cabin with the two Ministry of Magic staff.

Zhang Xu didn't care about them. Seeing that it was meal time, he went back to the cafeteria for dinner.

As a result, Zhang Xu didn't look for trouble, but things came to him.

After dinner, Zhang Xu played table tennis with Justin Fletcher of Badger Yard on the newly built table tennis table beside the ice and snow waterside garden.

Justin's parents, who came from a Muggle family, are also table tennis enthusiasts. Justin Fenriery also played table tennis since he was a child. Among the students in the same grade, he dared to be the second, but no one dared to be the third.

After Zhang Xu and Justin finished a round, Harry came to him and said he needed Zhang Xu's help.