From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

Chapter 175 The Christmas Banquet

The Christmas dinner was held as scheduled the next day.

This is the first time Xiwen has truly felt the Christmas atmosphere of Hogwarts - the walls of the castle are covered with torches of various colors, illuminating the corridors with colorful lights; the floors, walls and even ceilings have been cleaned spotlessly, and the entire building The castle looked as clean as if it had been scrubbed by the university.

The open space outside the castle was covered with snow. Because there were not many students staying at the school, there were only sparse footprints on the snow and a few snowmen built by everyone. The little wizards put on Santa hats and snowman capes and other costumes on the snowman, which looked very cute.

The place with the strongest Christmas atmosphere is the Great Hall of Hogwarts.

Many mistletoes were planted in the auditorium, and they were enchanted to float everywhere in the air.

This plant is often believed to have the magical power to create new life and impart fertility in China. Xiwen accidentally saw several senior couples kissing under the mistletoe, completely ignoring the eyes of others around them.

In addition to the mistletoe, there were twelve Christmas trees placed in the auditorium, which Professor Kettleburn cut down with his saw.

The Christmas tree is wrapped with circles of glittering ribbons, and some small gift boxes are hung on the ribbons. They are Christmas gifts prepared by the faculty and staff for the little wizards!

Because there were relatively few students staying on campus, the tradition of four dean tables was not continued at the Christmas banquet. Instead, a smaller table was prepared and placed in the center of the auditorium so that all teachers and students could sit together and mingle.

There was also a large bag of wizard firecrackers placed on the dining table. Professor Mellors kindly stood next to it and lit it. Then many hats, wizard chess and even lively little whites exploded from the firecrackers. rabbit. The little white rabbit is the transformation product of Professor McGonagall and will not harm the real little rabbit.

Oddly enough, most of the younger professors at Hogwarts had family backgrounds and chose to go home for Christmas. But Principal Dippet and the four deans are mostly single. They treat Hogwarts more like home and stay in the castle all year round.

However, as the wizarding world's flag against Grindelwald, Dumbledore did not make it to this year's Christmas party.

Grindelwald made a public appearance at the Polish Ministry of Magic during the day, and Dumbledore was urgently called over to support him.

Of course, in Sivan's opinion, Grindelwald definitely meant to let Dumbledore spend Christmas with him...

When Sivan came to the dining table, Professor Slughorn kindly pulled him to sit next to him and kept asking him questions.

While talking with the professor, Xiven found that Riddle was sitting on the professor's right side. However, he was not surprised, because according to his status as someone who was born in the Riddle Orphanage, it was not surprising that he chose to stay in school for Christmas.

"You haven't gone home either, Rozier?" Seeing Xiwen's figure, Riddle was very surprised and asked first.

"Professor Kettleburn invited me to watch the play they were rehearsing, so I stayed." Sivan smiled and said to Riddle.

Hearing the word drama, an inexplicable flash of guilt flashed through Riddle's eyes. Although it was fleeting, it was still captured by Sivan.

"What's wrong, don't you like watching dramas?" Xiwen was not sure what kind of look flashed in Riddle's eyes, so he asked with some confusion.

"It's normal for little Tom not to like drama." Professor Slughorn said beside him: "I don't like this form of performance very much either. I really don't understand why Herbert has so much enthusiasm and performs every year A few dramas are coming out.”

"It's not that I don't like it." Riddle quickly adjusted his mood, put on a gentle and polite smile, and said to Xiwen and the professor, "I'm just a little curious about drama."

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At eight o'clock in the evening, as all the professors and students took their seats, the Christmas dinner officially began!

On the table where everyone was sitting around, the wizard's lottery packets and firecrackers were removed, and then countless large and small plates and dishes appeared out of thin air, and an extremely sumptuous banquet soon emerged from these plates -

A hundred plump roast turkeys, mountains of roasted meats and boiled potatoes, large plates of sausages, bowls of buttered peas, plates of rich and thick meat marinade and cranberry sauce emerged. A cup of flaming Christmas pudding emerged in front of each wizard.

"Before you start the banquet, you can check your flame Christmas pudding." After all, it is the most grand festival of the year. Principal Dippet rarely maintains his usual serious appearance, but instead smiles relaxedly and says to everyone.

"There is a silver coin hidden in each of the three cups of pudding. It is said that whoever gets this coin will get good luck in the future!"

Xiwen picked up a fork and poked his pudding. After finding that there was no silver pudding hidden in it, he nodded with satisfaction. He didn't want the coins that had passed through the hands of so many people to appear in his food.

To Xiwen, the value of a Siko is nothing, but to many other young wizards, a silver Siko is worth a lot of money.

Everyone happily poked at their puddings over and over again, hoping that Yin Xike would appear in a corner that they didn't notice. After eating the pudding without finding anything, they started asking the students around them, wanting to know which three lucky people got the three silver coins.

Beside Sivan, Professor Slughorn poked his pudding with the same interest.

"It seems that I am not the kind of lucky person." The professor said with a smile without any displeasure. With his chubby cheeks and two strands of beard above his mouth, he smiled like a walrus.

At this moment, there was a clear sound of metal collision from Professor Slughorn's right side.

The professor and Xiwen both turned their heads to look at Riddle. It was the fork in Riddle's hand that poked into the pudding, making the sound of metal collision.

"Good luck, Tom!" Professor Slughorn said excitedly, as if he had gotten the coin. "Hurry up and let us take a look."

Riddle nodded slightly, then took out his wand and cast a flying spell on the coins in the pudding. The silver coin flew out of the pudding and fell into his hand.

Riddle used another cleaning spell to clean the coin, and then showed it to Professor Slughorn and Sivan.

Professor Slughorn exaggeratedly praised Riddle's luck and his ability to cast spells.

After a while, the ownership of the other two Silver Sickles was also revealed. They were Charlus Potter, a sixth-year Gryffindor student, and an unimportant third-year Hufflepuff wizard.

Principal Dippet personally took the lead in picking up the drinks and celebrated with everyone that the three lucky people got the coins.

With such a lively start to the dinner, the rest of the banquet was filled with laughter.

Of course, the little wizards of Ravenclaw House were a little unhappy because their house didn't get any Silver Sickle...

However, a little bit of unhappiness did not affect everyone's happy atmosphere at all.

Amidst the chatter and chatter, Professor Bierley walked up to the temporary stage in front of the auditorium with full energy and bowed to the audience.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy the dramatic performance presented by the Hogwarts Drama Club - "The Fountain of Good Luck"!"

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