The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 177 Our brother is so brave!

The thousand-year-old castle in Scotland should sound eerie, just like the famous haunted castles in the UK. But Hogwarts is filled with a cheerful atmosphere. Today, there is no distinction between professors and students. Everyone is celebrating the festival and spreading their own happiness.

The tall Hagrid drank one glass after another, and soon his face turned red. He blushed and kissed Professor McGonagall on the cheek, but Professor McGonagall just blushed and giggled.

This scene really shocked Ada, who was just watching the show. Rubeus Hagrid was indeed from Gryffindor. Ada now finally understood why Hagrid dared to keep those little cuties of his. He was a real warrior.

Compared to Hagrid, the mastermind Quirrell and the human-faced serpent Snape are simply weaklings.

From today on, Hagrid is Ada’s idol. Although this brother is not handsome enough, has an unshaven beard, and his cooking is terrible, our brother is super brave!
From now on, Ida can say to others: Our brother dares to raise a giant spider and a three-headed dog, does your brother dare? Our brother dares to kiss Professor McGonagall, does your brother dare?

Let me ask you, who wouldn’t love a brother like this?
Tomorrow Ida will publish an article in the Daily Prophet, titled "I want the whole world to know how good Hagrid is". It doesn't matter whether the whole world knows it or not, what matters is that Hagrid must know it and build a good relationship with his idol. If Hagrid can give her a bottle of Acromantula venom as a fan benefit, it will be even more perfect!

Ada and her friends returned to the common room with a bunch of wizard lottery bags and firecrackers. Ada put the red hat on the dog Garlon's head.

After sitting in the dormitory for a while, Ada heard the twins calling her name loudly from below. The boys, who were restless, wanted to go outside to play snowball fights, so Ada asked Fred to take Garlon out with him, while she herself lay down on the bed, with no intention of going out at all.

In this way, Ada slept quietly in the warm dormitory, while the boys played wildly outside for the whole afternoon, and the dog Garlon also ran outside for the whole afternoon.

When they came back, they happened to meet Ada who had just finished her sleep. Rubbing her eyes, Ada looked at the five wet people in front of her. If she hadn't known in advance that they were going to play snowballs, Ada would have thought that they had just gone to the Black Lake for a winter swim, and they were swimming in their clothes.

The five boys stood in a row in front of the fireplace, using the warmth of the flames to dispel their coldness. Ida sat in an armchair next to the fireplace, flipping through a book on alchemy.

Both wizards and Muggles were studying alchemy, and Ada even remembered that some Muggle scientists were also obsessed with alchemy. Ada certainly didn't watch these to learn alchemy, she just wanted to know how the Philosopher's Stone could turn stone into gold.

People still have to have dreams, what if they come true?

Ada viewed the Philosopher's Stone like buying a lottery ticket. She had no expectations but also had a tiny bit of hope. Besides, writing a book seemed quite interesting, so reading it to kill time was a good choice.

However, the other five people present, except Percy, would not agree with her idea. Hermione, who was reunited at home at the moment, should agree with her.

When you are in school, you will find that time passes very slowly, and the first thing you do when you open your eyes every day is to go to class. When you are on vacation, you will suddenly find that time passes very quickly, as if you just closed your eyes last night and opened them the next day to go to school.

After Christmas, Professor McGonagall and Snape gave Ada a few days to rest, and these relaxing and pleasant days passed in a flash.

Students returned to school one after another, and Ada, who had not had enough rest, had to plunge into her busy study life again.

During this busy and fulfilling holiday, Ada forgot about Dumbledore's arrangements. She had no time to care whether Quirrell deliberately approached Harry, nor whether Harry would get closer to Quirrell. She didn't have her own private time until Christmas.

It was during these few days of private time that Ada discovered that Harry might have inherited Gryffindor's glorious tradition of touring the castle at night.

Because Ada found that Harry always looked sleepy during the day, and he had obvious dark circles under his eyes, as if he had been punched by someone.

Harry has been like this for several days, looking like he is addicted to night walks.

But a few days later, Harry's dark circles disappeared, and he became very energetic during the day, as if his exploration of the castle had come to an end. If Ada had stared at the Marauder's Map, she would have discovered the truth, and would have seen that Harry, who had not left the common room, appeared in the empty classroom where the Mirror of Erised was placed.

But Ada didn't. Not only did she not use it, the twins hadn't used the Marauder's Map for a long time, and they didn't need it much now.

These three people are probably more familiar with the castle than Filch, and they no longer need external help to avoid the school administrators.

After getting his father's invisibility cloak, Harry couldn't wait to put it on and leave the common room that night. He could see Ada and the twins sitting by the fireplace talking about Quirrell through the invisibility cloak, but the three of them couldn't see him at all.

Harry, wearing an invisible cloak, wandered around the castle and accidentally discovered an empty classroom where the Mirror of Erised was kept. He was attracted by the magical power of the mirror and saw his parents and relatives in it.

So, Harry would come here every night wearing the invisibility cloak and sit here all night long, which is why he has dark circles under his eyes.

Harry also met Dumbledore here. Under his advice, Harry stopped coming here to "visit his family", which is why his dark circles disappeared later.

Ada didn't know all this and she was still worried about her own excellence.

Ada thought that after school started, without the selfless care of the two professors, she would be able to live a more relaxed life. Unfortunately, the opposite happened. Instead of feeling relaxed, she became even busier.

Under Snape's command, in addition to completing the ordered potions in both quality and quantity, Ada also had to make three additional highly toxic potions and two fireproof potions with completely different raw materials.

Especially the two fireproof potions, which were very difficult to make, and the timing and temperature could not be wrong. Ada was also very nervous during the process of making them, fearing that she would accidentally burn her robe.

It was also during Snape's private tutoring that Ada received the news that he would be the referee for the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch match.

Ada looked at Snape jokingly. He must be worried that something might happen to Harry, so he became the referee. Snape turned his back to avoid Ada's gaze, and then kicked Ada out of the office. He couldn't bear to look at those curious eyes.

What news could be more explosive than this? What news could be more annoying to a Gryffindor than this?
Almost nothing, so when Ada told Oliver Wood the news, the Gryffindor Quidditch captain suffered from sleepless nights.

Even the captain couldn't sleep well, let alone the team members. Everyone agreed that Snape had bad intentions because this game was very important to Gryffindor. Only by winning could they compete with Slytherin for the Quidditch Cup.

Everyone knew that Snape was biased, so it was natural for everyone to think that he was refereeing this match just to make Gryffindor lose.

Facing the other two teams is better than facing Gryffindor.

Fred and George also thought so, even though they knew Snape was not a villain, they also knew that Snape had protected Harry during the game.

But Snape's past "evil deeds" made it hard for them to believe that Snape was simply trying to protect Harry and had no plans for his own college.

Under such unfavorable circumstances, Wood could only intensify the training with his players. Even the heavy snow and continuous rainy weather could not stop him from leading his players to practice.

And all this had nothing to do with Ada who tipped off the student, because she had received a message from Dumbledore telling her that she was going to receive private instruction from the headmaster.

(End of this chapter)