Chapter 163 A Different Kind of Christmas
"Hey, what do I think this is?"
"a piece of cake!"
"..."
The simple little Hufflepuff wizards don't know that they have become a shield for Rolf to hide his identity. They only know that by doing some easy things, they can get Rolf's interesting gadgets with a clear conscience. Do!
Although they don't know why this new classmate said that transfer students will be excluded, they all agree that it is their responsibility to help classmates in the same college.
Hufflepuff's little badger won't let his own people be ostracized!
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So, there was an unfamiliar face in the first-grade class the next day——
"If there is no problem with my memory, then I don't seem to have any impression of you. The classmate sitting in the last row..."
A light, greasy voice squeezed out of the thin lips word by word.
In the Potions classroom, which was filled with many animal specimens and looked very cold overall, Snape looked condescendingly at the little wizard in front of him, whom he had never seen before, with a gloomy expression on his face.
"Professor, I have actually been taking classes here, but because I have no sense of presence, I have been ignored by you." Luo Fe opened his innocent eyes and blinked at the sallow-faced professor.
The loyal Hufflepuff wizards nearby also expressed their approval.
"That's right, Professor, Rolf is the first-year student who came to Hogwarts on the boat with us!"
"Yes, Professor. You must have been neglecting him during this period!"
"Scamander has always been too low-key, so it is normal that he was not discovered by you."
"..."
The little Hufflepuff wizards were talking in a flurry, but they didn't see the little Ravenclaw wizards with blue collars in the same classroom looking at them as if they were mentally retarded.
"laugh--"
A cold sneer escaped Snape's throat.
He glanced sideways around the entire classroom, and the originally noisy Potions classroom immediately became quiet.
Under the threat of Snape's long-term notoriety, the little wizards of Hufflepuff also shuddered and subconsciously closed their mouths.
"Mr. Rolf Scamander, right?" Snape looked at Rolf with his deep black eyes and said slowly.
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"That's right, Professor." Luo Fe also felt the pressure at this time.
He didn't expect to meet such a difficult professor in the first class, and it seemed that he immediately noticed his deceptive behavior.
"Oh...it turns out to be a Scamander." Snape raised the corners of his mouth with a cold smile on his face, "If your brain has not been filled with the excrement of those magical animals, you and your A few friends with troll brains should take a look at how the seats are arranged in the classroom."
The troll's head is said to be no bigger than a walnut, which is a classic humiliating metaphor in the wizarding world.
After hearing Snape mocking them for having troll heads, the little Hufflepuff wizards all glared at Snape angrily, and then cowardly when the Potions Professor stared back. Withdrew their respective gazes...
Luofu subconsciously paid more attention to the layout of the potions classroom. He looked at the cauldron placed between every two young wizards, and his eyes suddenly widened.
He slapped himself on the forehead violently, knowing that this time he was completely exposed.
Why is the Potions class at Hogwarts taught in pairs? If just one more person is added to the class, wouldn't it be obvious that the odd or even number of people in the classroom has changed?
No wonder I was suddenly suspected...
"It seems that you are not as stupid as your friends...although you are not smart at all." Snape sneered, "Oh, please, please, this guy who hasn't cleaned up the turds of the Moon Crazy Beast in his head." Mr. Kamander, go back to where you belong."
"Um...Professor, I can actually explain it." Luofu still said stubbornly, "I sit in the corner and take every Potions class by myself. Because I didn't find a suitable deskmate, that's why I wasn't You found out.”
Snape's face fell.
"You will pay for your folly, Mr. Scamander," he said coldly.
"Five points from Hufflepuff for deceiving the professor!"
"No, Professor, you can't do this!" The Hufflepuff wizards were shocked and retorted one after another.
"For disrupting classroom discipline, Hufflepuff will deduct another five points." Snape looked at the students indifferently and said lightly.
The angry words of the Hufflepuff wizards were stuck in their throats.
Just when the atmosphere was completely awkward and the whole classroom was silent, a voice with an erratic tone suddenly broke the silence.
"Can't you find your deskmate? What a coincidence, I can't find one either. I can be your deskmate!"
Rolf turned his gaze to the place where the sound came from in surprise, and saw a little witch with messy dirty blond hair that reached her waist.
The little witch has a pair of gray eyes that look vague and bulge outwards, and her eyebrows are pale in color. Her whole person exudes a crazy temperament, and she seems not to take the Potions Professor's words to heart at all.
"Miss Lovegood, this is not a question of whether we can find a tablemate." Snape's face darkened again, "This Mr. Scamander doesn't belong here at all. In fact, I would rather suggest that he come back." Go to my grandfather’s box..."
I don't know why, but this terrifying Potions professor seemed to know all the details about him just by looking at each other.
"But I happen to be missing a deskmate. Isn't it just right for him to come?" the little witch named Luna Lovegood said in a brisk tone, "otherwise I will not be able to complete the class tasks assigned by you, the professor." .”
Because Luna is crazy, her popularity in Ravenclaw has never been very good.
The number of students in this classroom happened to be an odd number before. Luna, who was excluded, occupied a table by herself and took classes in the potions classroom for almost a semester.
However, Professor Snape likes to assign cooperative tasks that require two people to complete reluctantly. Luna has not completed a class task in the Potions class for a long time.
"Yes, Professor, I can take classes with this young lady." Roof said to Snape quickly, as if grasping a life-saving straw.
As he spoke, he moved quickly, carrying the cooking pot that he had used as a crucible and the textbook that he had temporarily copied with a copying spell, and ran to the seat on the Ravenclaw side, sitting directly next to Luna. .
After sitting there, he immediately showed a well-behaved expression and looked at Snape eagerly.
"You should be lucky that someone is willing to help you, Mr. Scamander." Snape said in a cold voice, "Now, stay in your seat and don't do anything to disrupt this class. You do you understand?"
Luofu nodded quickly.
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As soon as get out of class was over, Snape strode up to the Hogwarts principal's office on the eighth floor, dragging his long black cloak behind him with steps that he didn't recognize.
As soon as he saw the old man with white hair, he said coldly and in a protracted tone:
"Principal, I think you need to give me an explanation."
"Explanation?" Dumbledore put the water glass in his hand on the table, showing an expression of fake surprise, "I'm not sure what explanation you want, Severus."
"You can't be unclear!" Snape said through gritted teeth, "Or do you think that I would believe that a student who shouldn't be here suddenly appeared in Hogwarts without the principal's knowledge? "
"Oh! It turns out you were talking about Little Rolph." Dumbledore pretended to have a look of realization again, "Oh, that was actually a gadget I made decades ago to make Newt Teleported Rolf into Hogwarts."
Dumbledore seemed to have known about Rove's arrival for a long time, but his attitude towards Rove seemed a little strange.
"Let me say something, Headmaster, this Mr. Rolf Scamander is not a student of Hogwarts at all." Snape said coldly, "I personally think that you should treat Scamander at this time. Send Mr. De back to where he belongs.”
"Oh, Severus, you don't have to be so serious." Dumbledore said with a smile, "I think that little guy Rolf is very happy at Hogwarts and has no intention of going back, so we can There’s no need to send him back so rigidly.”
"Also, I heard that Rolf is filling in for a duo in your Potions class, right?"
Snape's mouth twitched.
He finally understood that Dumbledore, a cunning guy, had been paying attention to his old friend's grandson since he came to Hogwarts, and this attention was quite intense, even including a section on potions. I secretly listened to the class.
"I hope you won't be asked for help by the principal of Yin Farmoni, Mr. Principal!"
Snape's expression was not very good. He tossed his sleeves coldly and left the principal's office.
Dumbledore picked up the tea cup with a smile and took a sip, showing a satisfied look.
After putting down the tea cup again, he hesitated for a moment, but still notified Hufflepuff's Headmaster, Professor Sprout, and Vice-Principal, Professor McGonagall, preparing to secretly inform them so that they could be prepared to teach Rove.
Just when Dumbledore informed the two professors but before they arrived at the principal's office, a not-so-pleasant voice suddenly sounded.
"Are you going to let that little wizard stay at Hufflepuff, Dumbledore?"
The Sorting Hat, which had been cleaned once but became a little dirty after a year, asked, "Don't you need me to sort him into a house?"
"No need to go to such trouble, Rolf's grandfather is a representative figure of Hufflepuff!" Dumbledore said with a smile, "If Rolf is assigned to other houses besides Hufflepuff, Pomona will definitely Not happy."
"But his behavior... doesn't look like a Hufflepuff at all!" the Sorting Hat questioned, and by the way, he listed all the deeds Rolf had done within one day of coming here——
"You also showed me what Rolf Scamander did before...I won't talk about borrowing magical animals to climb over the wall. His grandfather often did this kind of thing, and It can be regarded as a kind of redirected use of magic, and there is no controversy.”
"But after entering Hogwarts, this little wizard lied everywhere, telling lies without drafting... In the end, he actually got a bed in the Hufflepuff dormitory. It's really not easy..."
"If you say he deceived his classmates, forget it. The key point is that he still wants to attend classes at Hogwarts, and he actually wants to deceive the professors... Dumbledore, do you really think this is a Hufflepuff? ?”
Dumbledore looked at the Sorting Hat on the stool with a smile on his face.
"Why, your hands are itchy after not moving for a few months. Do you want to sort the little wizard into another school?" he asked teasingly.
"Of course my hands are itchy!" the Sorting Hat shouted loudly, and was so angry that several portraits of the principal who were resting slashed it. "It's the only sorting ceremony a year, and I only have time to sing one song. How can there be enough?"
"Let's forget about the sorting. I don't think it's necessary to impose such rigid rules on Rolf. He hasn't transferred to Hogwarts yet!" Dumbledore said with a smile, "Besides, I think Rolf's character is , you really may not be sorted into Hufflepuff."
It turns out that you still know this fact, so you still let him stay in the Hufflepuff common room. Aren't you afraid that the simple little badger will be led astray...
The Sorting Hat had a thousand things to say in his heart, but in the end he didn't say anything out of respect for Dumbledore.
"Actually, let me tell you, you don't need to care so much about the sorting." Dumbledore waved his hand to the sorting hat, "After all these years, I always feel that the habit of sorting has made the students in the whole school become somewhat divided. .”
"What's more, we can definitely see that Rolf's feelings for Hufflepuff are no less shallow than others!"
"And this... isn't it enough?"
Dumbledore had a smile on his face, and his sharp blue eyes sparkled in the candlelight...
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From then on, Rolf could attend classes at Hogwarts openly.
As a result, this second-year wizard from Yinfamorny completely integrated into the first-year team of Hufflepuff and participated in various courses that were very different from Yinfamorny.
Rove was very excited about the teaching model at Hogwarts and was full of praise for the teaching level of the professors.
Even the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts, which others have always criticized as unreliable, Rove thinks is surprisingly good.
Assistant Professor Riddle gave a good lecture. Unfortunately, as the only Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Dracula who lasted until the second session without being replaced, it was a pity that Rolf didn't see him.
Rolf unknowingly fell in love with the various courses at Hogwarts and felt that these teaching methods were much better than those in Yinfalmon.
Of course, there are two courses that are exceptions in Rove's mind -
One course is History of Magic taught by Professor Binns.
Legend has it that Professor Cuthbert Binns worked as a professor of History of Magic for many years before his death. Until one day, as an old man, he stood up to go to class and accidentally left his body in front of the fire in the staff room. in an armchair, and then turned into a ghost.
Poor Professor Binns devoted his whole life to the education of the history of magic, both during his lifetime and after his death.
However, as a ghost, Professor Binns is very stubborn and has difficulty communicating with the students. The format of his classes remains unchanged, and he always follows the instructions in great detail. He speaks in a breathy, drawl-like voice, which makes it difficult to concentrate and will soon fall into a deep drowsiness.
Therefore, this class is recognized as the most boring class at Hogwarts.
Rolf confidently skipped all of his History of Magic classes.
Anyway, Professor Binns's name was never on the roll call, and it didn't matter whether he was in this class or not.
As for the other course, it was Professor Snape's Potions class.
Snape never seemed to like Rolf, a student who did not belong to Hogwarts. He always found fault with him, and his verbal cynicism was not uncommon.
If it was the old Luo Fe, he might have been angered by this bad professor.
However, today's Rove has not missed even one Potions class, and even often arrives at the classroom earlier than usual.
He did this for his new friend Luna. This crazy little witch unexpectedly took a liking to him, and the two soon became close friends.
Of course, what interested Rolf the most was never the various courses, the sumptuous meals in the auditorium, the quaint and majestic castle and the spacious Quidditch pitch...
What really interested Luo Fu was the Forbidden Forest where students were prohibited from entering and where there were many dangerous magical animals, as well as the small islands in the center of the Black Lake where many magical animals lived.
This is what Yinfa Mouni really doesn't have, and it is also the biggest bargaining chip that attracts future magizoologists like Rove!
Almost every day, Rolf would take his Hufflepuff classmates who still abide by school rules and regulations to go into the forbidden forest, visit the lake island, and play with magical animals. He lived a very comfortable life.
Because of this, he also wrote a letter to his grandmother and mother, which meant that he wanted to transfer from Yinfumani to Hogwarts to go to school. Therefore, Tina thought it was Newt. An honest man’s idea…
In this way, more than a month passed quickly. Luofu was very happy here, and it could be said that he couldn't care less about his childhood.
But his happiness came to an abrupt end a few days before Christmas. This incident also made Hogwarts experience a different kind of Christmas...
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