Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 44 Snowball fight

Garion and Lila didn't stay in the common room for long, and were ready to leave after about half an hour.

Didn't even go to the Christmas party at Hogwarts with him.

"We've made an appointment with Pomona to go to the Three Broomsticks." Lila showed an expectant look. "I can't wait...Madam Rosmerta's special pumpkin blossom mead."

Looking at her appearance and her hurried steps as she left the Gryffindor common room, Xiren had to think seriously about something she had just said.

"...I came to visit a friend and came to see you."

Xi Lun had reason to suspect that this was probably the truth.

After Garion and Lila left, Siren went to the auditorium with the others.

"Your parents are really interesting." Fred walked over to Xiren. "How did they get in?"

"Probably through Professor Sprout," said Siren.

The fact that they knew the Hufflepuff Headmaster did not surprise Ciren.

There aren't many wizards in the UK who study magical plants, and even fewer who have published professional papers. With so few people around, they're certainly familiar with each other.

However, after hearing Xiren's answer, a hint of disappointment flashed across Fred's face.

At first he thought the two had come in through the Hogsmeade secret passage.

The students' parents broke the rules and sneaked into the castle. What a familiar style, exactly the same as them.

And they just happened to have a magical map that clearly marked several secret passages that could lead from Hogsmeade into the castle.

So when they saw the two adult wizards in the common room just now, Fred and George even wondered if they might be the makers of the map - two of Padfoot, Prongs, Moony, and Wormtail.

They discussed it in whispers for a long time, trying to reasonably assign those nicknames to the two of them.

Unexpectedly, they turned out to be the law-abiding people who came in through the main gate in a serious manner.

It was quite disappointing... Well, at least the specially made air-dried bubble pod balls were fun.

As they walked into the auditorium, they were greeted by the rich aroma of roasted chicken. Even though there were only a few students staying on campus for the holiday, a mountain of delicious barbecue, fried potatoes, and sausages still formed.

Every few steps along the dining table, you can see piles of wizard lottery bags and firecrackers, which can contain all kinds of interesting gadgets. If you are lucky, you may even get the latest flying broom.

Of course, the existence of a flying broom is just a legend, and no one has ever actually flown one.

Xi Lun opened a few of them at random and got a feather pen that didn't produce ink, a brooch, a pack of glitter balloons, three biting tea coasters, and... a dried puffer fish?
Xi Lun didn't understand why there was such a thing in the colorful firecrackers.

Cat snacks?

He tried knocking the dried fish on the table, and it made a bang-bang sound, just like Hagrid's rock cakes.

Well, it's not useless. At least it can hit someone's head and make a big bump when thrown out.

The Christmas banquet began. All students, regardless of their college, sat at the same table. Xi Lun was not very interested in holiday foods such as roast turkey, but the roast meat sandwiches and wine jam pudding were still very good.

In the afternoon, Fred suggested that everyone go to the playground outside to have a snowball fight. Harry and Ron were the first to respond. Percy, the oldest, thought it was childish and was reluctant to join in at first, but he half-dragged and half-pushed himself out of the castle after being half-dragged by the twins.

Xi Lun watched Hagrid and several professors leave the school together, thought about it, and joined them.

Several people played in the snow for an entire afternoon, and no one used magic. It was fun, but the result was that when they ran back to the common room panting, their clothes were all wet, and they could only lean against the fire to keep warm.

"Wait, where's Siren?" Harry, who was playing wizard chess with Ron, looked around and suddenly realized that they seemed to be missing someone. "I don't know." Fred also looked around.

"Is he here this afternoon too?"

"Yes!" said Ron, with a firm tone, rubbing his shoulders. "I remember clearly that the snowball he threw at me had a stone in it!"

He was probably the only one who was injured during the snowball fight. He was almost hit on the head by a flying snowball. Fortunately, he slipped at that time and the snowball fell on his shoulder.

"Xiron definitely didn't mean it." Harry said in a low voice, but his tone was very firm.

"how do you know."

"Because I actually made that snowball." Harry suddenly felt guilty, and then immediately explained: "You never mentioned it, so I thought it was okay, but I really didn't know there would be stones there."

Ron stared at him for a moment, then sighed softly, "Never mind."

"If you are talking about the first-year student, he went to find the game keeper." At this time, Percy on the side suddenly spoke up.

"you know?"

"I saw him," said Percy. "About an hour ago, after the professors came back from Hogsmeade, I saw him speak to the gamekeeper and then they left together."

"The gamekeeper...that's Hagrid," said Harry.

"Yes, Rubeus Hagrid, that's the name." Percy nodded.

"Strange, what does he want with Hagrid?"

"What else could it be? It has to do with wand-making. He loves it," Ron said confidently.

"But it's Christmas," Fred said, puzzled. "Everyone wants to have fun all day."

"Cialon wouldn't," said Ron. "He's obsessed with wand making. He doesn't even take weekends or holidays off. Anyway, I rarely see him outside the dormitory on weekends."

Fred and George looked at each other.

Is it so hard to make a wand? No time off?
They thought of the book "A Guide to Wand Making and Using" that they had just borrowed from the library some time ago. Somehow, they suddenly didn't want to read it anymore.

……

It must be said that this time Ron guessed right. Siren was indeed making a wand, but he didn't feel tired at all.

In the wooden house at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid sat by the fire, drinking hot tea while watching Xi Lun sitting there fiddling with a white "hemp rope" as thick as a finger.

Hagrid pursed his lips tightly.

Every time he saw this scene, he felt incredible from the bottom of his heart.

Because a month ago, this "hemp rope" was a two-foot-long bone as thick as a bowl.

Over the past month, he had witnessed with his own eyes how the giant's spine gradually changed into its current form.

How did Xiren do it?
Hagrid asked this question more than once, and Siren did not hide it and told him that this was the key step in turning the material into the core of the wand, called the Core Fusion Spell, but Hagrid did not understand it, even after seeing the whole process with his own eyes.

He had always thought that making a wand was just about fitting unicorn hair into a rounded stick.

(End of this chapter)