Chapter 117
Finally, the first half of the semester is over.
A silence as thick as the snow on the ground enveloped the entire castle.
In the entire dormitory, only Karan chose to stay.
"Give."
Before leaving, Gespard handed a pile of light blue threads to Karan expressionlessly.
Behind his always shining glasses, there were two small black eye circles.
"This is a semi-finished product of the magic thread." He said, "Remember to write down your experience so that I can continue to make changes."
Karan nodded and said solemnly: "Take care."
Because of the incident in the alchemy workshop, Gaspard has not replied to his family for nearly half a year, and he doesn't know if he will come back alive this time.
"As long as there is a magic thread, it is enough." Gaspard acted very indifferent, even a little proud.
"Give."
This time, it was Steve who handed the invisibility cloak to Karan, which Karan requested.
"What about Wolf?" Karan asked.
Since Wolf left the Forbidden Forest, it has lived in Steve's suitcase for a long time and been fed every day.
In order to completely retain Wolf, Steve would go to the kitchen and ask for various delicacies whenever he had time. By the way, he also brought Karan and Gaspard's breakfast with him.
"I don't plan to tell my parents yet." Steve said mysteriously: "But there is a high probability that I will tell my aunt. She always knows what I am thinking."
"Give."
This time the person who handed over the items became Lily, who also planned to go home during the holidays to share her experience at Hogwarts with her family.
"what is this"
Karan looked at the roll of parchment in his hand. There were many things related to potions written on it, including ingredients and various equipment, all of which he did not buy when preparing the potion preparation room.
"The improvement of the formula has reached a critical stage." Lily said bluntly: "But there are still many missing things. These are the items needed when preparing high-level potions, and you need to be responsible for them."
What Lily said was somewhat reasonable. After spending so long together in the potion preparation room, she was no longer limited to whether ingredients would be wasted, but focused on improving the formula.
Potions was more interesting than she imagined.
But Lily quickly added: "Of course, if it's too much, I can help you share some of it. If it doesn't work, I'll pay you back later."
After a pause, she whispered again: "But it will have to wait until I graduate and find a job, otherwise all my Christmas gifts in the next few years will have to be spent on this."
Karan couldn't help laughing when he saw her sudden show of weakness.
"Then we can use Balian to pay off the debt."
Karan said, taking another deep breath of Balian in his arms, and magically took out a licorice wand to tease it.
"That's not okay," Lily screamed immediately, but she soon realized that this was Karan making fun of her, and she couldn't help but slap him angrily.
"It hurts, it hurts." Karan avoided it repeatedly, and he asked casually: "Why didn't Snape come and tell me about this?"
"Silph..." Lily hesitated, and finally whispered: "He won't tell. Even the ingredients he uses now are very careful. Unless he has deduced it many times in advance, otherwise Xiph He doesn't try things randomly."
"I think he doesn't want to owe you too much. After all, this potion preparation room was built for him in the beginning."
Karan raised his eyebrows, but he didn't say anything, just nodded silently.
The potion preparation room behind the mirror on the fifth floor.
Next to the cooling cauldron, Snape sat alone in front of the long table. On the side of his hand lay Advanced Potion Making, The Book of Potions, Thousands of Magical Herbs and Mushrooms and other books related to potions.
He kept flipping through these books back and forth, and at the same time recorded something on the parchment in front of him, and then kept crossing out and recording again and again.
"Oh, you are here, you are still working so hard during the holidays."
Snape didn't need to look back to know who was coming. Now that Lily had gone home, there was only one person left who knew about this secret passage except himself.
"Aren't you here too?" Snape said without raising his head.
But at this moment, the parchment and books in front of him all floated up automatically, and together with the quill in his hand, they fell neatly aside.
"What are you doing?" Snape asked with a frown. He had just had a good idea, but was forcibly interrupted.
However, when he turned around, he was suddenly stunned.
A package wrapped in colored paper floated quietly in front of his eyes.
"A Christmas present for you."
Karan walked over slowly and said with a smile: "Although Christmas is tomorrow, it doesn't seem to make any difference to deliver it early."
Snape was silent. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he received a gift.
"Thank you," he whispered.
"Take it apart and take a look." Karan suggested.
Snape looked up at Callan, and the gift automatically fell into his hands.
After hesitating for a while, he carefully opened the colored paper on the surface with his long and thin fingers, deliberately avoiding places that were easily damaged.
Finally, a huge box appeared in front of him.
"Gobstone"
Before Snape could react, Karan pretended to be surprised and said: "It's actually a Gobstone, cool."
Snape gave him a strange look. Of course he knew what Gobstone was. It was a marble game. When one team lost points, the stones would spray a foul-smelling liquid into the face of the loser. .
Although this game is not very popular at Hogwarts, there are some fans.His roommate Avery, for example, has a set of pure gold Gobstones.
Even though he never played it once.
"Let's play two games," Karan suddenly suggested, and he raised his eyebrows provocatively, looking like he didn't deserve a beating.
This reminded Snape of that annoying guy James Potter.
Lily never liked him.
"I hope you brought a thick enough towel." Snape said sarcastically.
The two immediately placed the set of high cloth stones on the vacant table and competed with each other.
But it didn't take long for Snape to stop playing.
"You cheated"
He wiped the smelly liquid from his long hair on the side of his face with a towel, and accused angrily: "You are definitely cheating."
"I didn't." Karan immediately retorted: "I just won ten games in a row. Why do you say I cheated?"
"That pebble, that pebble." Snape looked in disbelief. He pointed at Karan with his finger, and even started shaking with anger: "The pebble stopped in the air, and you still said you didn't cheat. "
"This is a Gobstone. It can stop whenever it wants. It's none of my business." Karan continued to insist: "At worst, play another game to see if I cheated."
Snape's eyes widened, once again shocked by Callan's shamelessness.
"If I play with you again, if I play with you again, I will..."
His lips moved, but he didn't say anything harsh.
Not many people were willing to play Gobstone with him.
At least there was no one in the same dormitory as him.
They looked down upon him.
"Forget it." When Karan saw his appearance, he suddenly became a little uninterested: "Then let's play wizard chess next time. There's no way to cheat."
Snape pursed his lips tightly, and finally he couldn't help but mocked: "Unless you don't threaten the opposite chess piece."
Karan smiled and said no more.
Snape silently put away the set of Gobstones carefully. He looked at the colored paper used for packaging, and then glanced at Callan secretly, and found that he was replacing the candles that were too short.
Snape quickly folded the colored papers carefully and put them in his backpack together with the Gobstone, and then continued to try to deduce the potion formula.
After Karan put away the candles, he began to fill the empty glass bottles with blue bellflower flames.Without these things, this secret passage would not be able to accommodate anyone, and they would be too cold to do anything.
For a moment, the atmosphere here suddenly became silent again.
The scene of that encounter appeared inexplicably before Snape's eyes, as well as the dark magic book hidden in his arms.
This was the first time the two of them were alone together since the accident.
Snape shook his head vigorously to disperse those messy thoughts and forced himself to focus on the formula improvement in front of him.
However, at this time, Karan's voice sounded again.
"So, black magic"
"Right"