Chapter 162： 2 things before the holiday

If you say anything is the most depressing, it is almost.

However, sometimes, it's almost a lot worse.

In the end, Ravenclaw College still failed to find out, and it was still ranked second in the College Cup by five points until the day of the year-end banquet. It must be false to say that the Ravenclaw students are not depressed.

That night, Albert and his roommates went to the auditorium for the year-end banquet.

The auditorium has been finely decorated with red and gold representing Gryffindor, and a huge banner painted with a Gryffindor lion hangs on the wall behind the main guest seat.

The students in Gryffindor were all speaking loudly, their words filled with the joy and confidence of winning the College Cup.

Compared with Gryffindor, the students of their next-door neighbor Slytherin were less happy. It's no wonder they couldn't be happy. Slytherin Academy won the Academy Cup for four consecutive years. It was... it was broken like this, and it was still lost to Gryffindor, which he hated the most. It's only strange to be in a good mood.

Ravenclaw’s students are estimated to have the most complicated mood and the most depressed, they are only a few points away from the championship. No one misses it to make Ravenclaws regretful, but they are also happy to see Slytherin. The fiasco.

As for the Hufflepuff students, they haven't won the Academy Cup for a long time, and they didn't care much about it. Anyway, seeing Slytherin, who doesn't like fair competition, is a cause for celebration.

Not long after, Dumbledore arrived in a hurry. He stood on the podium and raised his hand to signal everyone to keep quiet. The noise in the auditorium gradually subsided.

"Another year has passed!" Dumbledore said cheerfully, "Before you enjoy the delicious food, you certainly don't like listening to my old nonsense. However, we still need to carry out the Academy Cup award ceremony. The specifics of each college The scores are as follows: fourth place, Slytherin, two hundred and fifty points; third place, Hufflepuff, 395 points; second place, Ravenclaw, 439 points, third place One, Gryffindor, 444 points."

At this moment, there was a thunderous cheering from Gryffindor's dining table, the voice was deafening, and some students shouted hoarse with excitement.

Fred, George, and Lee Jordan followed the crowd and stood up to applaud and applaud. Albert also clapped vigorously, pretending to be excited. He couldn't help muttering in his mind, "What an unlucky score."

While cheering, Lee Jordan stabbed Albert with his elbow and raised his finger to his neighbor next door. The Slytherin students had ugly expressions on their faces, as if they had just been punched in the nose.

In the auditorium, except for the Slytherin students, everyone was applauding, whether it was celebrating Gryffindor's victory or celebrating Slytherin's fiasco.

Professor McGonagall in the main guest seat also stood up and shook hands with Professor Snape, with a cheerful smile on his face.

During the dinner, Fred and George invited Albert to visit their home during the summer vacation.

Unfortunately, this invitation was declined by Albert because their family already had their own summer vacation plan. Herb wrote a while ago to tell Albert that the family was going to France for summer vacation.

Fred and George felt sorry for this. They always wanted to thank Albert for saving them. The Weasleys obviously had similar ideas.

At the dinner, everyone was full, except Fred and George.

After all, it’s easy to get sleepy after eating enough and drinking enough. If they missed tonight's revenge action, they would never have a chance to retaliate against Filch this semester. This is obviously not the situation that the Weasley brothers would like to see.

It's hard to bear with Gryffindor getting the Academy Cup, and finally you don't need to worry about anything anymore, how can you give up?

After twelve o'clock, Fred and George began to act. With the help of Albert's illusion curse, they first made some movement in the castle and attracted Filch, who was about to rest, to the armor corridor on the fourth floor of the castle.

Then, George took the opportunity to sneak into Filch’s office and smeared the bottle of garlic-flavored beeswax on the corner of Filch’s office. Not to mention, the smell is really choking, and the effect is more amazing than the big dung egg .

After all, you can still see the source of the smell in the big dung egg, but once beeswax is applied in the corner, you can't even find it, let alone remove the source of the smell. In just a moment, the whole office plus Filch's bedroom It was filled with a choking garlic smell.

After Fred found George returning to the Gryffindor common room through the live spot map, he immediately withdrew, leaving Filch, who was still struggling to find their whereabouts on the fourth floor.

After knowing that he was being tricked, Filch deserves to go back to the dorm to rest annoyingly.

When Filch opened the wooden door of the office, he was immediately shivered by the strong smell of garlic. He rushed into his office angrily, trying to find the source of the smell.

For a moment, Filch's angry roar echoed in the administrator's office. As for his wife, Mrs. Lorice, he avoided the administrator's office full of garlic.

"You said, will this matter be a bit loud!" George listened to Filch's roar, turning his head to Fred.

"If I were you, I would get rid of the smell of garlic first, so that no one would suspect it on your heads." Albert appeared silently in the lounge, reminding the two who were discussing.

"Oh, you're right!" George also smelled the garlic on his hands and hurried to wash his hands.

The next morning, the story of Filch's revenge spread in the castle, and everyone was wondering which fierce man made Filch's office smell like garlic.

However, no one sympathized with the administrator, more gloating.

Albert and his party also pretended not to know this. In fact, they are more focused on the final exam results.

Hogwarts will announce the students' final exam results on the last day.

"Look, you really are the first in this class." Fred stabbed Albert with his elbow and said with a smile.

"Your grades are also very good."

Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all passed the exam with high scores.

"I guessed you would be number one." Shanna smiled and walked over to talk to Albert. "But I think Katrina must be angry."

Albert smiled and shrugged his shoulders, saying that he couldn't help it.

He himself has no feeling about winning the first place. This student is just that person. The first place does not seem to be proud of. His goal is to complete the panel task. Fortunately, "in the name of genius" and "all aspects" The tasks of "rolling" have been completed.

Although Katrina said she wanted to compare herself with someone who had better results, and was finally rejected by Albert, the competition seemed to be effective, at least in the panel's judgment.

Katrina won the second place this year, and it is also all excellent, but in terms of scores, it is still a little bit behind Albert.

At this moment, Katrina, who was also standing in the crowd checking her results, was staring at Albert with extremely annoyed eyes.

She was angry, mad at herself, mad at losing to the guy who didn't study well in the final exam.

While everyone was enthusiastically discussing the exam results, Professor McGonagall showed up with a bunch of notices.

She asked the freshmen to sign a letter of undertaking in the past, promising that they would abide by the "Reasonable Restraint of Minor Wizards" outside the school.

After signing, I will send you a notice and warn you not to use magic during holidays.

"I wish they had forgotten to send this to us." Fred Weasley regretfully shook the notice on his hand. Not being able to use magic during the holidays was a pain.

"You don't have to worry at all. In the wizard's family, the Ministry of Magic can't figure out who is using magic, so even if you use magic at home, you won't be warned by the Ministry." Albert said with a curled mouth. . "As long as you use magic in a place where there are so many wizards like Diagon Alley, the Ministry of Magic cannot be sure if you are using magic, because Zongsi can only locate and monitor whether someone is using magic in a certain area around you."

"You know that?" Shanna was a little surprised that Albert actually knew these things.

"Of course he knows it." Lee Jordan couldn't help but laugh. "After all, someone has been cheated by him."

"Someone?"

"Truman of Hufflepuff," Fred reminded kindly, "So, as long as we stay at home, we can use magic without any scruples?"

"Yes, as long as you are at home, students born with pure-blood wizards can only rely on their families to consciously supervise." Albert said disdainfully, feeling slightly dissatisfied with his inability to use magic during the summer vacation.

"According to you, the Ministry of Magic relies on the traces to determine whether we use magic, but when did they..." Shanna asked suspiciously, "for us to use traces secretly?"

"Secretly used?" Albert's expression was a little weird, "No."

"nothing much?"

"Didn't you just sign it? Magic contract." Albert reminded.

"You mean...that letter of commitment?" Not only Shanna, but everyone else understood what was going on.

"According to the information I got from Professor Broad, the letter of undertaking we just signed belongs to the magic contract, which is the so-called trace silk. Of course, there are loopholes in that thing."

"Why didn't you say it earlier, you would not sign if you knew it." Lee Jordan was depressed.

"No sign?" Albert repeated softly, "Can you not sign?"

"What if you ruin the date?" Fred asked curiously.

"The Ministry of Magic will know immediately and send an owl to warn you."

"What is the loophole?" George was even more curious about it.

"It can't figure out who used magic." Albert gave a simple example. "If you live in a community full of Muggles, when people around you use magic, the Ministry of Magic , Will think you are using magic.

"In the beginning, Truman was pitted by you in this way?" Fred asked curiously.

"Yes, this is the loophole I'm talking about. The Ministry of Magic can monitor your location through traces. When you are in Diagon Alley or at home, and there are people around you using magic, the Ministry of Magic cannot tell who is using it. Magic, because the wizards and your family in Diagon Alley may use magic."

"Great, so we don't have to worry about using magic to be discovered by the Ministry of Magic." Fred and George high-five to celebrate.

"But you need to worry about being known by your family." Lee Jordan said badly.

Everyone returned to the dormitory to pack their things, only to find that their closet was empty and everything was packed in their suitcases.

"It should be the house elves who helped clean up." Fred explained to everyone.

"Guessed," Albert said, "Go, don't miss the train."

When everyone was dragging their luggage to the hall, Filch suddenly jumped out of the hidden corridor, staring at Albert and the others with red eyes, and said hoarsely: "You did it, right!"

The four of them looked at each other, all pretending "I don't know what you are talking about".

"Don't think I don't know, you definitely did it, the smell of garlic in my office."

"We don't understand what you are talking about!" the twins said in unison.

"We went to bed early last night." Li Qiaodan coughed lightly and defended. I don't know if the Weasley brothers are included in our package.

Albert spread his hands helplessly, saying that he didn't know anything about it.

"You grow garlic!" Filch's eyes flashed with anger.

"You said that!" Fred said with a smile that was originally like this: "Last time, Albert made garlic scrambled eggs. It tastes good."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask the house elves." George added, "That dish is fried by the house elves."

The four of them passed by Filch, who was shocked, resisting to laugh, and boarded the carriage to the Hogwarts Express.

Along the way, several people were talking about Filch, predicting whether the other party would trouble them in the next semester, and how they should deal with it.

In fact, only Fred and George would have such troubles.

When the train drove through Muggle towns, they were eating Bibi Duo beans provided by Lee Jordan, to see who had the worse luck.

When the train stopped at Platform 9 and 3/4 at Kings Cross Station, they took off their wizard robes and put on the jackets and blouses often worn by Muggles.

There was an old guard guarding the ticket gate, and only two or three people were allowed to pass at a time. It took Albert a long time before he lined up to get out of the platform.

"HereAlbert, we are here!"

As soon as he walked out of the platform, Albert saw Nia waving at him.

"Niya has become a lady." Albert smiled and praised his sister.

"I have always been a lady." Niya complained dissatisfied.

"What about Tom?" Albert asked.

"Where is Grandpa Luke who is keeping you temporarily." Herb reached out and took Albert's luggage, and casually explained: "You know, we are going to France for a summer vacation, and we don't have time to take care of it. Your owl will also be temporarily fostered. Where is Grandpa Luke."

"Oh, my God, I must write to Grandma Sansa to tell her not to feed Tom too much food." Albert couldn't help covering his cheek with his palm. He seemed to foresee that he would see Tom again. At the time, it had been fed into a fat cat.

"There is nothing wrong with a fat cat," Daisy comforted. "I think it's cute"