The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 2): Accumulated sign-ins and bonuses are completed

Reward obtained: Entangled Fate × 1

Additional reward: Entangled Fate × 10]

Tom stood on the observatory of the astronomy tower and signed in for the last time.

September and October passed in the blink of an eye, and the second act of the system’s fifth anniversary celebration had come to an end. The second act of the anniversary celebration is not unique. It is simple and unpretentious. Tom is given a monthly card at the beginning. If you check in at a specific location every day, you can get some magic stones and entangled bonds as rewards.

To be specific, from Monday to Saturday, you can sign in to get a total of 210 Magic Stones. On Sunday, you will get a Fate of Entanglement and an additional reward. In the fourth week, the additional reward is ten draws in a row. The remaining three weeks are all some knowledge. And spells and stuff like that.

For example, the anti-theft charm was given in the first week, a few tips on alchemy in the second week, and the magic potion formula and production points of the vitality tonic in the third week, which are all good gadgets.

The anti-theft spell is a very practical little spell. You only need to cast a spell on a room and an item, so that the room will trigger an alarm when someone steps into it - the item will instantly make a bang and then explode. Vitality tonic is a potion that can make the user full of energy - that is, a genuine energy potion.

After four weeks of signing in, Tom received a total of 840 magic stones and 14 entangled edges. At the same time, there are 90 magic stones in monthly cards and 40 magic stones in daily tasks. By the end of October, Tom had harvested a total of 5860 magic stones and 14 entangled edges. The number of magic stones on the book has returned to 5970, and there are 22 entangled edges.

If all of them were converted into magic stones, Tom's magic stone reserves would be close to five figures.

After the second act of Anniversary ends, the third and fourth acts begin.

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 3) Content: Horror Halloween

Content description: Halloween is coming, Professor McGonagall is decorating the school decorations, as a member of the school professors, of course you have the obligation to assist her, go find Professor McGonagall!

Mission reward: Professor McGonagall’s notes]

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Content: Total War - The Witcher

Content description: Professor Flitwick of Ravenclaw has improved a new type of "Wizard Chess" called "Total War-The Witcher", and he wants to promote it to everyone during Halloween. "Total War - The Witcher"? Very interesting look! Travelers, go check it out~

Mission reward: Professor Flitwick’s notes]

A gust of cold wind blew through, and Tom shuddered.

The weather at Hogwarts in October is generally damp and cold. The air here seems to have magic attached to it, directly penetrating through the outer robes and underwear. A gust of wind can make people doubt their lives.

This kind of ghost weather reaches its peak at the end of October - it will snow directly after that, and it will be much better at that time. First, due to the well-known "snow does not get cold, snow becomes cold", water turns into ice and releases water. It's hot, so when it snows it's not the coldest time. Secondly, all the water vapor in the air that can cause "magic damage" turns into snowflakes and falls. Without magic damage, the little wizards can still resist physical damage. .

But Tom thought: How embarrassing! It’s okay for Muggles to be destroyed by “magic damage”. We are wizards. Shouldn’t wizards have magic resistance and magic defense? Why are you as afraid of the cold as Muggles? What a shame!

So Tom decided to solve this small problem so that he would not be cold in late October.

There are three paths before him now: The first path is to change the climate of the Scottish Highlands to make it like spring all year round like that of southern France. Unfortunately, Tom encountered some minor technical problems and was unable to achieve it. The second way is to prepare a magic potion to keep the body warm at all times. This is not difficult. Professor Snape probably has the formula, but it needs to be taken every day. It is a consumable and not practical. There was only one last way left: to modify the wizard's robe so that it had a stronger cold-proof function.

Then it's very simple, you just need to solidify a "thermostatic spell" on the wizard's robe. Since there is such a simple and clear method, but a large number of young wizards are still shivering from the cold, it can only mean one thing: this method has not become popular.

The reason is also very simple: expensive.

If an ordinary wizard's robe costs one galleon, the wizard's robe with the constant temperature spell solidified will cost at least ten galleons, and the spell solidified on it will easily become ineffective.

Tom quickened his pace and breathed a sigh of relief when he returned to the office, which was burning with a roaring fire and as warm as spring. He took out a bottle of butterbeer and a sausage from his desk drawer. Just as Tom was cutting the sausage into thin slices using a cutting spell, someone knocked on his office door.

As soon as the door was opened, a damp cold air rolled in, and Hermione, whose nose was red from the cold, came in with the cold air. After entering the office, she quickly closed the door and stood by the fireplace for a while before she recovered.

"It's obviously not snowing, but it's still so cold!" Hermione took off her woolen gloves and Ravenclaw scarf, and took off her wizard's robe as well, and put it on the back of the chair, revealing the gray underneath. sweater.

"If you wear a sweater, you won't be able to block the cold air." Tom took out a small glass and poured a bottle of butterbeer from Three Broomsticks into it.

"Flame protection!" A small circle of blue flames immediately appeared on the outside of the cup, heating the wine in the cup. Tom repeated his old trick and used the flame protection to fry the thinly sliced ​​sausages in a small dish. The sausages were fried sizzling, a layer of oil appeared on the surface, and a rich aroma of bacon emerged.

The power of Tom's [Fire Bodyguard] is slightly weaker than that displayed by Grindelwald. He cannot swallow more than a dozen Aurors at once like Grindelwald, and almost burn down half of Paris - as for why half Paris? Of course, it's not that the French have a "powerful" firefighting team, but because the city of Paris is divided into two parts by the Seine River, Grindelwald's flames can only selectively burn one side.

Although the power is insufficient, the control is still there. For example, it can be used as a temporary gas stove to grill sausages or warm a glass of wine.

Tom handed Hermione the roasted sausage and warm butterbeer. But before handing out the butterbeer, Tom took out a small bottle and poured a drop of vitality tonic into it.

"Hey! Are you drugging me in front of me?" Hermione patted the table, "Mr. Yoder, you're a bad student! You started drugging underage witches just two months after the school started!"

Although her words were shocking, Hermione always had a smile in her eyes when she spoke.

"It's an energy tonic. It can help you relieve fatigue." Tom was also convinced, and he was really kind-hearted. He saw the thick dark circles on Hermione's face, which seemed like she had been overworked recently, so he decided to give her some tonic to replenish her energy.

Energy potions in the magic world are a good thing. They are more refreshing than coffee. Some are similar to sports drinks and can effectively relieve fatigue. Some pharmacists will also make improvements so that energy tonics can supplement nutrients. Just add a few drops to supplement them. It can be said to be a great drink for energy and nutrition, and more importantly, it has no addiction or attenuation of effect.

Coffee, a drink used by Muggles to refresh themselves, is actually slightly addictive, but it is ignored because the symptoms are not strong and the side effects are not serious. Symptoms of coffee addiction include headache and upset after not drinking coffee for more than 24 hours. But don't worry, it's very easy to quit coffee. Just reduce the amount of coffee you drink every day, and you won't have headaches if you stop taking it after a week or two.

The stronger the coffee, the more addictive it is and the more severe the reaction will be after you stop taking it. There is a black coffee from Arabia that is the strongest coffee I have ever tasted. Generally speaking, all the powdered ingredients of instant coffee will be dissolved in hot water after brewing, but that Arabic coffee actually has residual coffee grounds after brewing. These grounds can even be used for the second and third rounds of brewing. After getting used to that kind of coffee, other coffees no longer have any bitterness to me - of course, some are just plain unpleasant to drink, such as a certain cup of coffee.

Once you are used to drinking coffee, its refreshing effect is almost zero. Some are even suitable as a bedtime drink. A cup of it will warm you up and make you have a good sleep.

"Vitality tonic?" Hermione's eyes became sharp: So are you serious?

"It's not Dumbledore's kind of tonic!" Hermione blinked, and Tom knew what she was thinking. He felt that he was about to die on the road to Feng Ping's murder, so he resolutely Lifted Dumbledore out.

Tom carefully explained to Hermione what Vitality Tonic was and its effects. Hermione was a little surprised: "This is a potion that only fifth-year students can prepare? Can you actually make it now?"

"It's not difficult," Tom took out his notebook, "Here is its configuration process and key points. After reading it, you will be able to configure it."

Hermione looked at Tom's notes while sipping her butterbeer. Butterbeer was the best-tasting drink she'd ever had, and it warmed her from the inside out. She had just finished her Herbology class with her Ravenclaw classmates, and was tormented by the harsh weather outside. The cold seemed to have invaded her internal organs. In this case, it is really a great pleasure to drink a warm cup of butterbeer around the fire.

Hermione could also feel that in addition to the warmth, the fatigue accumulated in her body over the past few days was also being cleared away bit by bit, and the vitality tonic in the butterbeer was gradually taking effect.

Hermione couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"Are you tired lately?" Tom asked. Hermione raised her head and glanced at him with some resentment, "If you didn't assign so many homework, then I might be able to relax a little bit."

Tom was a little embarrassed and complained to himself: "I have assigned less homework than Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape!"

"But there are still group projects," Hermione counted on her fingers. "I read three books this week. Counting those from the past few weeks, I still have six reference books to read..."

Tom:…

If you are so serious, it will put great pressure on teachers who want to take advantage of it!

"Actually, it's just a simple investigation report..." Tom wanted Hermione to lower her requirements for him a little. No need to think about it, Hermione rejected him righteously - learning is for myself, not to get high scores, and so on.

But Tom was sure that Hermione was just saying this. If she really gave her a low score, he would not think about a clean day in the next five years at Hogwarts.

"Then let me see what books you used as sources of information." Tom gave up trying to persuade her and asked Hermione for her book list: a total of seventeen books! The number of these books is almost equal to the total reference books of everyone else in the class.

Tom's eyes darkened: he felt that he could postpone the submission date of the paper a little - the professor who approved the paper also needed time to read the reference materials!

Now he is extremely lucky that his English proficiency is equivalent to that of a native speaker, and he does not have to open Google Translate while chewing papers. As for books written in Latin or even runes, of course the Hogwarts library has them, but little wizards won't be too lazy to use them as reference materials.

"By the way," looking at Hermione's rosy face again, Tom suddenly remembered something, "I can try to modify your robe to protect it from the cold."

He picked up Hermione's robes which were draped over the back of the chair.

The robe is an ordinary plain wizard robe that is standard for Hogwarts students. The outer layer is a little damp, but there is still a trace of warmth and fragrance inside.

"Clean it up!" Hermione took out her wand and pointed at the robe, cleaning off all the moisture and moisture on its surface. Tom took out his wand and carved runes on it out of thin air.

This is the little trick he learned: carve the magic power in the form of lines on the carrier to build the set of runes. The advantage of this is that you don't need to find metal or wood, and you don't need a small carving knife. You can just use the wand. The disadvantage is that the set of carved runes is not stable enough. After a while, it will malfunction due to wear and tear and cannot continue to operate.

Since the wizard's robe is obviously not a medium for storing magic power, this time Tom also embedded a piece of magic silver on the robe as a power supply center. He turned the magic silver into the Ravenclaw emblem and pinned it on the chest of Hermione's robes.

"Input, output, call, heat..." The tip of Tom's staff trembled slightly, and in less than half an hour, under Hermione's watch, four sets of runes were carved on it: one set was for calling magic power, the second set was for heating, The third set is to transmit heat to all corners of the robe, and the last is charging runes.

[Winter wizard robe (two stars): This heart-warming wizard robe has a one-month shelf life, lifetime maintenance, and free repairs. In summer, one star is at the bottom of the box, in winter, it is rated five stars, and the star rating rises as the temperature drops. 】

"Try it!" Tom handed the modified robe to Hermione. Hermione put it on and went out for a walk. When she came back, she excitedly told him: She couldn't feel the cold air outside at all!

Obviously, Tom's alchemical creation was a great success.

Hermione and Tom chatted some more, then got dressed and left the office.

Although Tom made the cold no longer a problem by modifying the wizard's robe, this kind of private modification is obviously a "little benefit", and other little wizards cannot reap this benefit. So when the cold wave reached its peak, influenza broke out among the staff and students of Hogwarts, leaving the head nurse, Madam Pomfrey, scrambling.

In her busy schedule, she also sent Dumbledore a soup to prevent colds, and watched him drink it in one go before leaving. Dumbledore's inexplicable cold really scared her: she couldn't find the cause. No matter how powerful Dumbledore is, he is still a hundred years old. Time is not forgiving. A cold can do what Grindelwald and Voldemort did not achieve.

The effects of Madam Pomfrey's potion were immediate. Basically, the students who go to her can be cured by drinking a potion. For patients, Madam Pomfrey also specially prepared some refreshing potions. Those who drank this potion would have steam coming out of their ears for several hours, as if the water in their brains had been drained.

After the steam is gone, everyone will feel refreshed. Victoria Brown has been in a state of depression recently, suffering from hair loss, memory loss, and lack of energy. She fell asleep several times in class and was punished with solitary confinement. She was forced by her roommate to drink some stimulant to cheer up a little.

In late October, apart from the wet and cold wind, it was raining continuously in Scotland. Bullet-sized raindrops slapped on the windows of the castle, and they continued to rain for several days without stopping.

Tom was glad that he didn't have to go to Quidditch training now, because the autumn rain and time had washed away the haze caused by the secret room attack, but they could not take away the enthusiasm of the captains of the Quidditch teams of the four major colleges - in fact, for them, As long as the rebels don't attack Hogwarts Castle, nothing can stop the Quidditch League.

In fact, if you just observe the enthusiasm of the captains, you may come to the conclusion that it is not rain but oil. You can often see teammates on the Quidditch team returning to the castle one night, soaked and covered in mud.

But what does this have to do with professors and ordinary students?

Everyone's attention has been attracted by the upcoming Halloween party. According to the established customs, theoretically there will be a holiday on Halloween. However, Hogwarts will not be closed. Hogwarts will have Halloween classes as usual... But this year is slightly different. :

October 30, 1992 was a Friday, Saturday was Halloween, and Sunday was Halloween - see the problem? Halloween is on Sunday!

Isn't this a coincidence? Now we can take a break from Halloween.

Like much of the UK, there is no Halloween holiday at Hogwarts. For this New Year's festival, which originated from the ancient Celtic people and is closely related to wizards, Hogwarts just held a party.

But in fact, many European countries still have Halloween holidays. For example, France will have a holiday on the last Monday in October that lasts until November 1. The French call this holiday "Vacances de Toussaint", which is the longest holiday before Christmas in the second half of the school year. After this holiday, midterm exams will be scheduled.

The word "Toussaint" for All Saints' Day (Halloween) in French is quite interesting. "Tous" means "all" and "Saint" means "holy". It really means Halloween.

However, Hogwarts is not a school like Beauxbatons. Hogwarts does not have holidays. In other words, Hogwarts follows the style of most British schools and has fewer holidays. So if one day you receive admission notices from Hogwarts and Beauxbatons at the same time, and you happen to speak French, it is still recommended to apply for Beauxbatons - they have more holidays and more girls.

How many school holidays are there in France? It feels like there is a holiday every now and then... There is a week of All Saints' Day, a two-week holiday of Christmas, and of course there is no need to mention the winter and summer vacations. There is also a week-long winter break in early March every year, and then there is spring break at the end of April. It’s also on sale for a week, and it can be combined with Labor Day on May 1st.

In addition, there are Ascension Day, Easter, Pentecost and 1945 Victory Day (?) - the French chose May 8th for this holiday, not to mention whether France is qualified to celebrate it The victory of World War II, the correct end time of World War II is September 2, 1945.

However, the French are very stupid and played a word game. Instead of saying this is Victory Day in World War II, they call it "Victoire 1945". We are celebrating the victory in 1945 - choose a date. The day Germany surrendered was just a coincidence.

There are 11 days of holidays in France throughout the year, and the paid holidays stipulated by government law are 5 weeks. Including weekends, the French have about 150 days off throughout the year, and students have more days off - of course, on normal days Even taking classes can exhaust you to death.

The only holiday that the French have shorter than other places is Easter, which they only have for one day.

What’s even more outrageous is that the French have something called “bridging”. That is, if there is a day off on Tuesday in a certain week, the French will conveniently treat Monday as a holiday - without adjusting the day off, they will simply regard Monday as a holiday and let it go.

So Beauxbatons has a lot more holidays than Hogwarts.

On Friday, Tom gave the students his last lesson before Halloween.

"Okay, students, that's it for today's class. I wish you all a happy Halloween in advance. I need to remind you that after Halloween comes back, I will bring you a new classroom quiz——"

At this time, the classroom was enveloped by the wails of the little wizards, but Tom's heart was like a stone: he had to take several classroom quizzes to check everyone's learning status, and use these data as daily scores. He took care of himself. Zi said: "And I want to remind everyone that you should start preparing the first draft of your group's paper - if you don't have a first draft, you must at least make an outline. There will be a midterm exam before Christmas, and you must submit it after the holiday. thesis."

"get out of class is over!" Tom left the classroom, leaving the students sighing in the classroom. Tom went to find Professor McGonagall and work with her to decorate the school auditorium. The third act of his anniversary celebration had to be opened through her.

In fact, Tom is more inclined to go to Professor Flitwick to play his "Total War - The Witcher" first, but it is obvious that Professor McGonagall's mission is a limited time mission - if you miss Halloween, it will be over, but Flitwick The difference between professors can wait a little longer.

Things have priorities, so naturally the most urgent tasks should be given priority. Tom met Professor McGonagall in the auditorium, and coincidentally, Professor Flitwick was also nearby.