Chapter 95 Hogsmeade

Heavy snow had been falling all night. Looking out the window, Hogwarts and the distant mountains were dotted with white. Everything looked like a fairy tale world.

It's just that there is no evil queen and kind Snow White in this world, only a noseless old man and a scar-headed boy.

While Ada was still having breakfast with the twins in the auditorium, many senior students had already gathered in the school foyer. After they lined up and passed the inspection, they could go to the white-covered Hogsmeade village.

Putting down the warm vegetable soup in their hands, Ada and the twins also walked out. The students in the hall were chattering and discussing for a while whether to go to the Three Broomsticks for a drink first or to hang out first.

The queue was slowly moving forward, and Ada could already see the tall Professor McGonagall, who was wearing an emerald green wizard robe and was carefully checking the students' signatures.

The twins greeted Ada on the stairs, and Ada followed the twins upstairs without looking any further. The three people came to the fourth floor corridor halfway, where there was a statue of a one-eyed witch.

George took a look at the Marauder's Map, and then nodded to Fred. Fred took out his wand and knocked on the one-eyed witch statue, and whispered: "Separate left and right!"

The statue's hunchback opened, revealing a hole that could accommodate a thinner person. Fred took the lead and got in, followed closely by Ada. George took one last look at the map, then kicked it into place and got into the hole as well.

The three people slid down the stone stairs for a long time, and then fell to a piece of dirt. The cold and moist air surrounded them instantly. Ada wrapped her thickened cloak tightly and held on to the red earmuffs. These red earmuffs were a birthday gift from Mrs. Weasley and were very warm.

The three people who had sorted themselves out continued to move forward. After passing through a passage that looked like a giant rabbit nest, they came to the bottom of a dilapidated stone staircase. They walked up and saw a trap door. They arrived.

Fred pushed open the trap door and carefully observed the cellar outside. Honeydukes boss Ambrosio Froome was carrying goods and did not notice the opened trap door.

After Froome left, Ada and the other three also left the cellar and mingled with the people who came to buy candies.

Honeydukes Candy Shop sells chocolates and other kinds of magical candies. It is loved by teachers and students of Hogwarts. The air here is filled with the sweet smell of candy. Ada feels that this must be Dumbledore's paradise. .

Ada took some chocolates and candies off the merchandise shelves while Froome, a broad, balding man, was paying her check. Looking at his lifeless head, Ada thought of Mr. Weasley. Remember that Mr. Weasley was also bald?

Great Britain has its own national conditions here, and Ada couldn't help but start to worry about the fiery red hair on the twins' heads.

Leaving Lord Bee, Ada and the twins walked on the road to Hogsmeade. The picturesque little village consisting of huts and shops becomes even more beautiful after the snow, covered in silver.

There are many people visiting Hogsmeade on weekdays, and today students from Hogwarts were added to the mix, so the streets became crowded.

There were not many people in the Literary Quill Shop, and in the twins' opinion, any place in Hogsmeade was more interesting than here. Ada spent a long time selecting on the shelf before ruthlessly buying two quills, for which she paid fourteen silver sikores.

When leaving the Literary Residence, the twins' footsteps became brisk, but Ada noticed that there was always a jingling sound when the two people moved.

Ada walked in front, and the twins followed her with shopping bags. They passed Mrs. Puddifu's Teahouse. Couples were entering this small and cramped teahouse. A sweet smell came from the occasionally opened door. outgoing. The tacky lace curtains made Ada have no idea of ​​going in and taking a look.

The listless twins didn't come back to life until they entered Zuko's joke shop. They were wandering from shelf to shelf, carefully calculating how they could buy as many joke products as possible with the money in their hands.

Ada was not interested in things like dung bombs, but she was interested in frog egg soap and nose-biting teacups. It would be interesting to give Snape soap and a teacup, but I wonder if the teacup can bite Snape's nose after seeing him.

The twins bought a lot of things, which together were more than Ada's, and they walked out of Zuko's Joke Shop satisfied.

"Would you like to go to the Three Broomsticks to warm up?" Ada suggested.

The Three Broomsticks is a small bar often visited by teachers and students at Hogwarts. It is a warm and comfortable place where you can drink butterbeer. A woman with a distinctive appearance and graceful curves was standing at the door, and she didn't know who she was waiting for.

This woman is Mrs. Rosmerta, the owner of the Three Broomsticks. Compared with Tom from the Leaky Cauldron, the two owners are as good as the other.

Her beautiful appearance and curvy figure all attract the attention of young people. Running a tavern seems to have a lot of stories, and it greatly increases the thickness of the character, making Mrs. Rosmerta no longer a vase.

Women like Mrs. Rosmerta are the dream lovers of many Hogwarts teenagers who are just starting to fall in love. Such women are far beyond the reach of young bean sprouts who are still studying.

Although she is a little older, there are still many boys who go to Three Broomsticks just to say a word to her when ordering and checking out. In the minds of boys, Mrs. Rosmerta is probably a kind-hearted aunt, or an experienced friend of their mother.

"No." The twins rejected Ada's proposal, shaking their heads like a rattle.

Ada felt that the twins had quite good taste. Just as she was about to praise them, she heard Fred say: "It's okay to go see Mrs. Rosmerta next time. This time we will go to another place. "

"Let's go to the Pig's Head Bar. I heard there's everyone there." George whispered, but his eyes were still on Mrs. Rosmerta.

Ada had no choice but to take the lead towards the Pig's Head Bar.

Walking along the main road, they passed the post office of Hogsmeade. Every once in a while, some owls would fly out of it, and then they turned into a side road, and there was a small bar at the intersection.

The Pig Head Bar, as its name suggests, has a tattered wooden sign hanging on a rusty bracket on the door, with a severed wild boar head drawn on it, and blood stains soaked into the white cloth wrapping it. The sign creaked in the wind as they approached.

"Are you sure you want to come here?" Ada asked uncertainly, "I still like Mrs. Rosmerta's Three Broomsticks."

"We're pretty sure, Hagrid said there are a lot of fun guys here." Fred opened the door and walked in first.

The interior of the Hog's Head Bar was small and dark, and the room was so dirty that Ada didn't even know where to stay. The windows were covered with thick dirt and the sun couldn't shine in. The only source of light in the room was the candle on the wooden table.

The people drinking here cover their faces one by one. Everyone's appearance is very strange, and they don't look like good people at first glance.

The bar owner was standing at the bar, wiping the wine glass with a dirty rag. The wine glass became dirtier and dirtier as he wiped it. He had a lot of long gray hair and a beard, was tall and thin, and didn't look like he was going to be easy to get along with.

"What do you want?" The bar owner's attitude was not very friendly, and he didn't look like a businessman.

"Excuse me, three bottles of Butterbeer," said Fred, who was standing in front of the bar.

The bar owner took out three dusty bottles from the counter. Ada paid six silver coins for the drinks, but she had trouble getting them again. The bottles were too dirty and she had nowhere to go.

Ada pinched the bottle cap with her thumb and forefinger in disgust, picked up the beer, walked to a table in the corner that wasn't too dirty, and sat down.

"It's really dirty!" Ada whispered. It was not polite to say such things in other people's stores, but she couldn't help it.

"So we prepared in advance!" Fred said with a raised brow.

"Look, what is this?" George took out the things they had prepared in advance from his robe like a treasure.