Chapter 313 Birthday Banquet
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 313 Birthday Banquet
"Everyone!"
Harry felt a little sour in his nose.
He was speechless.
Seeing all this, the touch and joy in Harry's heart can hardly be described in words.
"Don't be dazed! Harry!"
"Hurry up and go!"
"We'd better take advantage of the [Leaky Cauldron Bar] not being busy right now, and only after asking Old Tom's permission can we use the bar hall as a banquet place to celebrate your birthday. There will be more people in a while, but it will be troublesome..."
Hermione took Harry's arm and brought him in front of everyone, that is, in front of the birthday cake.
The cake is stacked in three layers.
The first two floors are brown and black chocolate swimming pools and waterfall fountains.
The bottom surface is in the shape of a square swimming pool, surrounded by baked burnt yellow noodles, and inside is viscous and flowing chocolate pool water. ,
In the middle is a fountain made of dark chocolate, and the chocolate flows out to the lower floor.
From time to time, half-finger-sized chocolate frogs can be seen jumping around inside, splashing black sticky juice.
On the top floor floats a Quidditch pitch made of white cream. Soups of various colors flow slowly in mid-air, burning like flames, forming the number 13 years old.
Around them are black, red, and gold three kinds of jelly beans (Quaffle, Bludger, and Snitch) flying randomly across the court.
"Blow it! Harry..."
said Mr. Weasley, smiling.
Harry approached somewhat awkwardly, looked at the gentle eyes of everyone around him, took a deep breath, and blew towards those writings floating in mid-air that looked like burning flame soup.
13 years old!
After the word was blown out by Harry, it slowly landed on the white cream and flowed into the words—Happy Birthday to Harry Potter.
clap clap clap!
"Harry! Happy birthday!"
Everyone in front of them clapped their hands again, and smiled at Harry.
Watching all this, Harry froze in place and did not move until Mrs. Weasley called out to the twins Fred and George to stop him, which made him react from the joyous emotion.
Only then did he realize that cream and chocolate had been smeared on his face.
--what!
Harry felt something jump in his hair and stroked it, only to realize that someone had stuffed a chocolate frog into his hair just now.
I don't know when, everyone started to congratulate Harry one by one, and personally sent their own birthday presents.
Hagrid: "Did you like that birthday present of yours, Harry?"
"This was suggested by Ron and McGuffin. They said they would give you a surprise. After knowing that you live in [The Leaky Cauldron], they informed me this morning to see if I could come over early. If I had known earlier, I would not have sent you the book first... I could surprise you in person..."
"No,...no need, that's fine." Harry said hastily, his eyes widening.
Surprise, not fright!
Harry shuddered thinking about Hagrid handing him the "Monster Book of Monsters" with his own hands.
That scene... must have been a mess.
After Hagrid left, Hermione handed him a heavy object from the long table beside her, "Harry, this is your birthday present!"
Harry tore open the wrapping paper—it was a slender black leather box with a line of silver letters printed on it: Broomstick Maintenance Kit.
"Whoa, Hermione!" he exclaimed in delight.
"This is the latest model from [Global Light Wheel Company]. It contains both the care tools for your original [Night Wheel 2000] and the type invented by MacGuffin. What is the [Night Wheel 3000S] broom care method..."
Hermione said slightly proudly.
Harry unzipped it to reveal a large jar of [Fleetwood Brand] polish, a pair of shiny silver broom detailing shears, a fluffy glove, a set of small wrenches, a brass compass, a box of metal motor oil, and a Broomstick Care Handbook.
Ron's gift was a pocket looking glass that kept spinning like a small spinning top.
His gift from Egypt.
Said to be able to discern what people around you can not trust.
McGuffin said the thing has been spinning non-stop since he bought it.
"Maybe it's because George and Fred are here?"
He joked and handed Harry a thin envelope.
"This is?"
"Have a look? I guarantee that my gift is what you want most..."
Harry tore open the outer skin and pulled out the few parchments inside.
"It looks like..."
"The consent form of Hogsmeade village, I worked so hard to get your uncle Vernon Dursley to agree to sign and write his name..."
"When I got this letter, and heard from Mr. Weasley that you were blowing up your aunt, I knew you couldn't get this consent form...so I printed my own copy..."
Harry looked at a parchment that agreed to be signed, and couldn't imagine how McGuffin did everything.
But it really is the perfect gift.
"Thanks, MacGuffin!"
The birthday party, as Hermione said earlier, did not last long.
After everyone ate the magic cake separately (this cake was bought by McGuffin, and the rest bought it together), the appearance in [The Leaky Cauldron] began to restore to its original state.
At this time, the number of wizards flowing in [The Leaky Cauldron] also began to increase rapidly.
It seems that the disturbance at the [Quidditch Boutique] in Diagon Alley has been completely stopped.
Harry and the rest (McGuffin, Ron, Hermione... all of the Weasleys) gathered at a three-table table and started preparing for lunch.
(Hagrid greeted Harry, took a sip of tea, and hurriedly left here through the fireplace, as if he had something to do urgently.)
Old Tom commanded the grilled steak, mutton, fried chicken legs, baked bread, and salad on the dinner plates to fly over the restaurant one by one like a Frisbee, and landed in front of several people...
After he arranged everything, he took out a stack of wanted notices for [Sirius Black], and started waving his magic wand to paste them on the pillars and walls of the room.
After taking a sip of milk and fruit puree, Harry looked at the familiar photo of Sirius and asked old Tom next to him, "Hasn't the Ministry of Magic caught him yet?"
"No. If there were, I wouldn't have sent me so many [Wanted Warrants] every day, and I had to post them... Otherwise, I would be fined! Thanks to your birthday party today, I was able to deal with some of the old ones..."
"But look... there are so many, where do I post them, can it be used as wallpaper for painting walls? Those officials in the Ministry of Magic are absolutely incompetent..."
"Maybe you can use it as toilet paper and stick it in the toilet, that's what Muggles do..." Ron joked, since he went to the Muggle airport and Egypt, this guy has started to call himself a Muggle expert.
"Don't talk nonsense, Ron!" Mr. Weasley looked at Ron with an extremely serious expression, but Harry quickly looked at him as if he was staring at himself.
"Sirius Black is an extremely dangerous dark wizard. He once destroyed a Muggle street with a single spell, killing dozens of people..."
"The sooner the guards and Aurors of Azkaban catch him, the better for everyone..."
"Tom, stop complaining... The Ministry of Magic is indeed doing something wrong, but the Ministry is also doing it to catch Black, which is good for everyone... I shudder when I think that someone can escape from a place like [Azkaban]!"
Mr. Weasley's expression looked extremely tense.
Even Harry could see this.
His words silenced everyone, and the atmosphere froze a little.
It was Percy who broke the silence first, making the atmosphere a little looser.
only……
"Harry, I hear you blew up your Muggle aunt, that's not good! Even if you..."
He was acting like he was the Minister of Magic.
With his performance, almost all the little wizards had smiles on their faces.
Percy had been acting like this ever since he received the news that he was head of the Hogwarts Boys' Representative, and he had been putting on airs and keeping his tone throughout his trip to Egypt.
Harry suppressed a laugh and responded hastily.
"Yeah, you're right."
"By the way, I remembered, Harry, you did a good job!" Fred had a 'suddenly realized' expression at this moment, he hurriedly stood up from the chair, and then bowed deeply. "We are truly honored by what you have done..."
"It's wonderful, it's wonderful! Harry!"
George even came running over to shake Harry's hand, nodding and bending over, like a parody of Percy's encounter with the Minister of Magic.
Looks are almost the same.
Percy slammed the table and stood up with a growl, looking as if he was going to fight right away.
"Enough!" said Mrs. Weasley.
McGuffin explained to Harry that the two of them had formed a big bond now.
The twins have kept reminding Percy of the [Golden Scarab Soup] that Percy had eaten since that incident.
And changed Percy's [male representative] badge into the words 'Eat S's big head'.
"I said, that's enough." Mrs. Weasley's face was full of anger and fatigue, obviously it took a lot of energy to suppress the two days of quarrel between their brothers.
"You have to set a good example for your sister!" Mrs. Weasley obviously looked directly at the twins.
"If anyone is making trouble for me, go back to [The Burrow] from now on!"
Ron said next to him, "My dad was sent by the Ministry of Magic to work in [The Leaky Cauldron], and there are three free rooms available this week... So our family is temporarily living in [The Leaky Cauldron]... Strangely, my mother also agreed."
Mr. Weasley looked a little flustered. After he winked at Mrs. Weasley, he said hastily, "It's nothing, just come to guard against Sirius... You know Harry, the past two years have been unlucky, and the things that happened have made people panic. Every week, employees from the Ministry of Magic are sent to [The Leaky Cauldron] to appease people..."
"Harry, you should have seen it too! The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, was the first official of the Ministry of Magic to implement this new rule!"
Harry must have felt as if Mr. Weasley was explaining all this to him specifically.
However, Ron, George... He was even more excited that they could stay here with him for the rest of the time before school started.
Everyone had a great time at lunch that day.
After eating, Mrs. Weasley took them to Diagon Alley to buy books, clothes, and school supplies.
Ron wanted to see how Scabbers was doing.
It hadn't been right since dinner, after Tom had put up those wanted posters for Sirius.
Trembling all over, the hair on his body fell out in a short time.
One bald patch, unable to look directly at.
The exposed skin was also pale and pale, and it looked like the old mouse was about to die.
Along the way, Harry discussed what happened to Ron's rat Scabbers?
Of course the MacGuffin knew what was wrong with it?
He was responsible for all of this...but for the smooth progress of the plot, to find the damn [Nagia]...he must ensure that the plot of this semester goes smoothly.
McGuffin looked at Scabbers, the mouse seemed to have become more frightened and frightened following Harry's discussion, and now it was trembling in Ron's hands almost like a Nokia vibrator, trembling non-stop.
It can't go on like this, if this guy is scared away, it will be a bad thing.
McGuffin had no choice but to change the subject and talked about Harry's special 'status' in the wizarding world.
The incident after Harry blew up his aunt.
"I didn't mean to do it," said Harry, and Ron couldn't help but laugh. "I just lost control, and Connery Fudge, the Minister for Magic, admits that!"
"Seriously, Harry! That's you, the famous Harry Potter or something! What if I blew up my aunt? Let alone the Ministry of Magic, my mum would just snap me in half, along with my wand!" Ron giggled, finally turning his attention away from Scabbers.
"There's nothing funny about it, Ron," said Hermione sharply. "If you let the Daily Prophet know about it, Harry, you'll be blamed by everyone, especially DeLS Malfoy and his family!"
When it comes to Malfoy, Hermione is a little hysterical and in a bad mood.
It is conceivable that the two of them have a "deep hatred" at Hogwarts!
At this time, McGuffin and Harry looked at each other the same way, they thought of the current changed reality and the memory of the previous 'truth' together.
Harry asked tentatively, "Do you know what DeLS Malfoy looks like?"
"What, she is an annoying bitch, a Slytherin pure-blood supremacist...Harry, you don't feel sympathy for that little basilisk because of the [Chamber of Secrets incident]?"
"Speaking of which, after she was petrified, you and McGuffin felt strange."
"I'm telling you, if you become friends with her... we will break up!"
Hermione frowned and said firmly.
"No, nothing, why do you think so...Harry, Ron, you are going to [Magical Pet Store], right? I have something to do when I go to [Olivan's Wand Shop]?"
"Then let's part here, shall we? See you at [The Leaky Cauldron] later!"
Seeing that Hermione's aura became more and more 'powerful' and 'dangerous', McGuffin panicked and left Harry without a friend, letting him face Hermione's 'death stare' alone.
(End of this chapter)
"Everyone!"
Harry felt a little sour in his nose.
He was speechless.
Seeing all this, the touch and joy in Harry's heart can hardly be described in words.
"Don't be dazed! Harry!"
"Hurry up and go!"
"We'd better take advantage of the [Leaky Cauldron Bar] not being busy right now, and only after asking Old Tom's permission can we use the bar hall as a banquet place to celebrate your birthday. There will be more people in a while, but it will be troublesome..."
Hermione took Harry's arm and brought him in front of everyone, that is, in front of the birthday cake.
The cake is stacked in three layers.
The first two floors are brown and black chocolate swimming pools and waterfall fountains.
The bottom surface is in the shape of a square swimming pool, surrounded by baked burnt yellow noodles, and inside is viscous and flowing chocolate pool water. ,
In the middle is a fountain made of dark chocolate, and the chocolate flows out to the lower floor.
From time to time, half-finger-sized chocolate frogs can be seen jumping around inside, splashing black sticky juice.
On the top floor floats a Quidditch pitch made of white cream. Soups of various colors flow slowly in mid-air, burning like flames, forming the number 13 years old.
Around them are black, red, and gold three kinds of jelly beans (Quaffle, Bludger, and Snitch) flying randomly across the court.
"Blow it! Harry..."
said Mr. Weasley, smiling.
Harry approached somewhat awkwardly, looked at the gentle eyes of everyone around him, took a deep breath, and blew towards those writings floating in mid-air that looked like burning flame soup.
13 years old!
After the word was blown out by Harry, it slowly landed on the white cream and flowed into the words—Happy Birthday to Harry Potter.
clap clap clap!
"Harry! Happy birthday!"
Everyone in front of them clapped their hands again, and smiled at Harry.
Watching all this, Harry froze in place and did not move until Mrs. Weasley called out to the twins Fred and George to stop him, which made him react from the joyous emotion.
Only then did he realize that cream and chocolate had been smeared on his face.
--what!
Harry felt something jump in his hair and stroked it, only to realize that someone had stuffed a chocolate frog into his hair just now.
I don't know when, everyone started to congratulate Harry one by one, and personally sent their own birthday presents.
Hagrid: "Did you like that birthday present of yours, Harry?"
"This was suggested by Ron and McGuffin. They said they would give you a surprise. After knowing that you live in [The Leaky Cauldron], they informed me this morning to see if I could come over early. If I had known earlier, I would not have sent you the book first... I could surprise you in person..."
"No,...no need, that's fine." Harry said hastily, his eyes widening.
Surprise, not fright!
Harry shuddered thinking about Hagrid handing him the "Monster Book of Monsters" with his own hands.
That scene... must have been a mess.
After Hagrid left, Hermione handed him a heavy object from the long table beside her, "Harry, this is your birthday present!"
Harry tore open the wrapping paper—it was a slender black leather box with a line of silver letters printed on it: Broomstick Maintenance Kit.
"Whoa, Hermione!" he exclaimed in delight.
"This is the latest model from [Global Light Wheel Company]. It contains both the care tools for your original [Night Wheel 2000] and the type invented by MacGuffin. What is the [Night Wheel 3000S] broom care method..."
Hermione said slightly proudly.
Harry unzipped it to reveal a large jar of [Fleetwood Brand] polish, a pair of shiny silver broom detailing shears, a fluffy glove, a set of small wrenches, a brass compass, a box of metal motor oil, and a Broomstick Care Handbook.
Ron's gift was a pocket looking glass that kept spinning like a small spinning top.
His gift from Egypt.
Said to be able to discern what people around you can not trust.
McGuffin said the thing has been spinning non-stop since he bought it.
"Maybe it's because George and Fred are here?"
He joked and handed Harry a thin envelope.
"This is?"
"Have a look? I guarantee that my gift is what you want most..."
Harry tore open the outer skin and pulled out the few parchments inside.
"It looks like..."
"The consent form of Hogsmeade village, I worked so hard to get your uncle Vernon Dursley to agree to sign and write his name..."
"When I got this letter, and heard from Mr. Weasley that you were blowing up your aunt, I knew you couldn't get this consent form...so I printed my own copy..."
Harry looked at a parchment that agreed to be signed, and couldn't imagine how McGuffin did everything.
But it really is the perfect gift.
"Thanks, MacGuffin!"
The birthday party, as Hermione said earlier, did not last long.
After everyone ate the magic cake separately (this cake was bought by McGuffin, and the rest bought it together), the appearance in [The Leaky Cauldron] began to restore to its original state.
At this time, the number of wizards flowing in [The Leaky Cauldron] also began to increase rapidly.
It seems that the disturbance at the [Quidditch Boutique] in Diagon Alley has been completely stopped.
Harry and the rest (McGuffin, Ron, Hermione... all of the Weasleys) gathered at a three-table table and started preparing for lunch.
(Hagrid greeted Harry, took a sip of tea, and hurriedly left here through the fireplace, as if he had something to do urgently.)
Old Tom commanded the grilled steak, mutton, fried chicken legs, baked bread, and salad on the dinner plates to fly over the restaurant one by one like a Frisbee, and landed in front of several people...
After he arranged everything, he took out a stack of wanted notices for [Sirius Black], and started waving his magic wand to paste them on the pillars and walls of the room.
After taking a sip of milk and fruit puree, Harry looked at the familiar photo of Sirius and asked old Tom next to him, "Hasn't the Ministry of Magic caught him yet?"
"No. If there were, I wouldn't have sent me so many [Wanted Warrants] every day, and I had to post them... Otherwise, I would be fined! Thanks to your birthday party today, I was able to deal with some of the old ones..."
"But look... there are so many, where do I post them, can it be used as wallpaper for painting walls? Those officials in the Ministry of Magic are absolutely incompetent..."
"Maybe you can use it as toilet paper and stick it in the toilet, that's what Muggles do..." Ron joked, since he went to the Muggle airport and Egypt, this guy has started to call himself a Muggle expert.
"Don't talk nonsense, Ron!" Mr. Weasley looked at Ron with an extremely serious expression, but Harry quickly looked at him as if he was staring at himself.
"Sirius Black is an extremely dangerous dark wizard. He once destroyed a Muggle street with a single spell, killing dozens of people..."
"The sooner the guards and Aurors of Azkaban catch him, the better for everyone..."
"Tom, stop complaining... The Ministry of Magic is indeed doing something wrong, but the Ministry is also doing it to catch Black, which is good for everyone... I shudder when I think that someone can escape from a place like [Azkaban]!"
Mr. Weasley's expression looked extremely tense.
Even Harry could see this.
His words silenced everyone, and the atmosphere froze a little.
It was Percy who broke the silence first, making the atmosphere a little looser.
only……
"Harry, I hear you blew up your Muggle aunt, that's not good! Even if you..."
He was acting like he was the Minister of Magic.
With his performance, almost all the little wizards had smiles on their faces.
Percy had been acting like this ever since he received the news that he was head of the Hogwarts Boys' Representative, and he had been putting on airs and keeping his tone throughout his trip to Egypt.
Harry suppressed a laugh and responded hastily.
"Yeah, you're right."
"By the way, I remembered, Harry, you did a good job!" Fred had a 'suddenly realized' expression at this moment, he hurriedly stood up from the chair, and then bowed deeply. "We are truly honored by what you have done..."
"It's wonderful, it's wonderful! Harry!"
George even came running over to shake Harry's hand, nodding and bending over, like a parody of Percy's encounter with the Minister of Magic.
Looks are almost the same.
Percy slammed the table and stood up with a growl, looking as if he was going to fight right away.
"Enough!" said Mrs. Weasley.
McGuffin explained to Harry that the two of them had formed a big bond now.
The twins have kept reminding Percy of the [Golden Scarab Soup] that Percy had eaten since that incident.
And changed Percy's [male representative] badge into the words 'Eat S's big head'.
"I said, that's enough." Mrs. Weasley's face was full of anger and fatigue, obviously it took a lot of energy to suppress the two days of quarrel between their brothers.
"You have to set a good example for your sister!" Mrs. Weasley obviously looked directly at the twins.
"If anyone is making trouble for me, go back to [The Burrow] from now on!"
Ron said next to him, "My dad was sent by the Ministry of Magic to work in [The Leaky Cauldron], and there are three free rooms available this week... So our family is temporarily living in [The Leaky Cauldron]... Strangely, my mother also agreed."
Mr. Weasley looked a little flustered. After he winked at Mrs. Weasley, he said hastily, "It's nothing, just come to guard against Sirius... You know Harry, the past two years have been unlucky, and the things that happened have made people panic. Every week, employees from the Ministry of Magic are sent to [The Leaky Cauldron] to appease people..."
"Harry, you should have seen it too! The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, was the first official of the Ministry of Magic to implement this new rule!"
Harry must have felt as if Mr. Weasley was explaining all this to him specifically.
However, Ron, George... He was even more excited that they could stay here with him for the rest of the time before school started.
Everyone had a great time at lunch that day.
After eating, Mrs. Weasley took them to Diagon Alley to buy books, clothes, and school supplies.
Ron wanted to see how Scabbers was doing.
It hadn't been right since dinner, after Tom had put up those wanted posters for Sirius.
Trembling all over, the hair on his body fell out in a short time.
One bald patch, unable to look directly at.
The exposed skin was also pale and pale, and it looked like the old mouse was about to die.
Along the way, Harry discussed what happened to Ron's rat Scabbers?
Of course the MacGuffin knew what was wrong with it?
He was responsible for all of this...but for the smooth progress of the plot, to find the damn [Nagia]...he must ensure that the plot of this semester goes smoothly.
McGuffin looked at Scabbers, the mouse seemed to have become more frightened and frightened following Harry's discussion, and now it was trembling in Ron's hands almost like a Nokia vibrator, trembling non-stop.
It can't go on like this, if this guy is scared away, it will be a bad thing.
McGuffin had no choice but to change the subject and talked about Harry's special 'status' in the wizarding world.
The incident after Harry blew up his aunt.
"I didn't mean to do it," said Harry, and Ron couldn't help but laugh. "I just lost control, and Connery Fudge, the Minister for Magic, admits that!"
"Seriously, Harry! That's you, the famous Harry Potter or something! What if I blew up my aunt? Let alone the Ministry of Magic, my mum would just snap me in half, along with my wand!" Ron giggled, finally turning his attention away from Scabbers.
"There's nothing funny about it, Ron," said Hermione sharply. "If you let the Daily Prophet know about it, Harry, you'll be blamed by everyone, especially DeLS Malfoy and his family!"
When it comes to Malfoy, Hermione is a little hysterical and in a bad mood.
It is conceivable that the two of them have a "deep hatred" at Hogwarts!
At this time, McGuffin and Harry looked at each other the same way, they thought of the current changed reality and the memory of the previous 'truth' together.
Harry asked tentatively, "Do you know what DeLS Malfoy looks like?"
"What, she is an annoying bitch, a Slytherin pure-blood supremacist...Harry, you don't feel sympathy for that little basilisk because of the [Chamber of Secrets incident]?"
"Speaking of which, after she was petrified, you and McGuffin felt strange."
"I'm telling you, if you become friends with her... we will break up!"
Hermione frowned and said firmly.
"No, nothing, why do you think so...Harry, Ron, you are going to [Magical Pet Store], right? I have something to do when I go to [Olivan's Wand Shop]?"
"Then let's part here, shall we? See you at [The Leaky Cauldron] later!"
Seeing that Hermione's aura became more and more 'powerful' and 'dangerous', McGuffin panicked and left Harry without a friend, letting him face Hermione's 'death stare' alone.
(End of this chapter)
