The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

"Merry Chrismas!"

After exchanging greetings, the three of them sat down and began their meal.

“You’ve all seen it, haven’t you!” Angelina said, “Beauxbatons’ Christmas decorations!”

Fred took a sip of hot soup and nodded in response, "I see, they really don't mind the trouble."

"So, doesn't anyone have any thoughts?" Angelina looked at everyone present.

Fred looked up. "What are you thinking? Should we envy them?"

“That’s not what I meant!” Angelina gave him an unhappy look.

Kacchini turned to her and asked, "Do you want to decorate our tower?"

“That’s right.” Angelina took Kacchini’s hand and looked at Fred. “It seems Kacchini and I are more compatible!”

Fred blinked. "What's the point of decorating the tower?"

"Of course, it's to showcase the brilliance of Hogwarts and not be outdone by those wretched Frenchmen," Angelina said matter-of-factly.

Her statement immediately garnered approval from some people, especially the girls.

In short, ever since Scott's competition points were deducted, everyone at Hogwarts has had a problem with the Frenchmen.

“But this tower is only a part of Hogwarts.” Fred gestured a small distance between his thumb and forefinger. “A small part.”

"So what? We can't lose!" Kacchini said.

Angelina glared at Fred. "Or are you saying you don't want to support my proposal?"

“No.” Fred’s expression changed instantly. “You’ve come up with a great idea, Angelina! The Christmas ball doesn’t start until tonight, and we’ll have nothing to do then!”

The boys present all stared at him expressionlessly.

But the shameless Fred didn't care. Instead, he put on an arrogant and irritating expression. "What's wrong? Am I wrong? Get moving, boys, this is what the girls want!"

Although the boys all wanted to give Fred a good beating, they all gave in to the girls' pleading looks.

In short...

After breakfast, the work of "decorating the best tower and defeating the nasty Frenchmen" officially began.

"Great, everyone, let's get moving!" Angelina said excitedly.

Then the girls huddled together, chattering away about how to decorate the tower more ornately.

The boys looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

Unable to stand by any longer, Scott stepped forward. "Alright, before we take action, we must come up with a plan that satisfies everyone. Once the plan is finalized, we can then assign tasks to each person."

As everyone looked over, Scott drew his wand and waved it gently, chanting a spell that transformed the empty long table into a tower as tall as a person.

Of course, it looks exactly like the tower they live in.

"Let's test the decoration scheme on this model first, and then take real action once it's finalized," he said.

"Oh Scott, that's a great idea!"

The girls got excited and started circling around the tower model.

Soon, several people skilled in shapeshifting were selected and used the twigs they had collected to create various decorations.

The others discussed decorating ideas, striving to make the tower a stunning sight for all the Frenchmen.

On a whim, while using Transfiguration to create decorations, Scott also came up with some interesting ideas.

Time flew by, and they kept scrapping and starting over until, two hours later, they had decorated the tower model to everyone's satisfaction and finalized the design.

"awesome!"

They'll be absolutely shocked!

"Jaw-dropping!"

The girls were extremely excited to see their results.

"Alright, let's start assigning tasks now." Scott clapped his hands.

“No, I think there are still big problems.” Ethan pointed to the ornate tower model. “Where are we going to find the real ones for these decorations?”

In an instant, everyone calmed down.

Ethan added, "Hmm... even if we use transfiguration to make it, we'll still need materials of roughly the same size. Are we going to cut down trees?"

“Scott can use spells on transfiguration artifacts!” Fred raised his hand. “A single Inflation Charm can solve this problem!”

Everyone looked at Scott.

Scott immediately had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, Angelina said happily, "Really? It seems we don't need to assign tasks anymore. Scott just needs to enlarge all the decorations on the model!"

Scott was about to speak when the crowd interrupted him with their chatter.

"Great!"

"Let's get moving, Scott!"

"The most difficult task is now entrusted to you!"

"You are our warrior!"

“Of course…no problem.” Scott laughed. “But you guys aren’t exactly idle either.”

He waved his wand, making the model float up, and then walked out of the tower.

"First of all, students from each college's Quidditch team, it's up to you to install the decorations."

"We didn't bring flying brooms!" Fred shouted.

"It's ok."

Scott stopped in front of the tower, placed the tower model in the snow, and then waved his wand again.

"Flocks of birds!"

"Gah...gagga..."

He summoned a flock of crows, which cawed merrily.

"Grow bigger quickly!"

"Grow bigger quickly!"

……

Scott used several Inflation Charms in succession to make the crows enormous, then pointed at them and said, "These will be your flying mounts!"

"Wow! Cool!" Fred's eyes lit up, eager to try it out.

"I've never tried riding a raven before," Roger said, seemingly quite interested.

“No, I absolutely refuse to fly around on a crow!” Angelina shouted.

Scott shrugged. "Of course, how you allocate the tasks is your business."

He turned around and used a teleportation spell to remove all the decorations from the tower model and neatly arrange them.

"Alright, you must pick these things up and fly to the appropriate places so that I can transform them into the right size."

Several boys picked up the decorations and climbed onto the crow's back.

As the only female Quidditch player, Angelina was spared by them.

Scott said to the "pilots," "These crows are trained and can understand simple commands, such as up, down, left, and right. Very good, take off!"

"Gah gah... gah..."

The crows cawed excitedly and soon took flight.

"Oh hoo!"

"cool!"

The "pilots" also joined in with excited shouts.

Soon, they all flew to their respective locations.

What should we do next?

Fred shouted from above.

"Wait."

Scott instantly transformed into a peregrine falcon and soared into the sky. When he reached the top of the tower, next to Fred, he transformed back into human form.

At the same time, his cloak billowed up, allowing him to float in the air for a short period of time.

“Oh Scott, you’re such a sly little devil,” Fred said disapprovingly. “All you ever do is show off.”

"Enough with the nonsense!"

Scott waved his wand and cast an expansion charm on the golden star in Fred's hand.

"Wait!" Fred yelled. "I'm going to put it on top of the tower! Damn it! How am I going to secure it?!"

Scott then waved his wand and cast a Permanent Adhesion Charm.

“Oh… a permanent sticker?” Fred blinked. “How will I remove it later?”

Scott said, "Maybe... it's the Curse of Annihilation?"

"Okay, whatever."

Fred waved to Dumbledore, who was standing in the room at the top of the tower.

Dumbledore opened the window and said to them with a cheerful smile, "Well done, lads."

"Understood, Professor Dumbledore!"

Fred gave a strange bow.

Scott transformed into a peregrine falcon once more, flew to Cedric's location, and then reverted to human form.

"I'm thinking about a problem."

Cedric said to Scott.