Chapter 81: The Cowardly Lizard and the Sudden Death of the Knight

Hepzibah Smith,

As a pure-blood descendant of the Hufflepuff family, he not only inherited Helga Hufflepuff's golden cup, but also received the frame with a portrait of her and the house elves.

But decades ago, Hepzibah Smith was killed by Tom Riddle... The old house and her collection were packaged and sold to Borgin and Burke's by her great-niece.

This is a normal thing. After all, Hepzibah Smith is a famous antique home, and her collection is worth a lot of money.

But the problem is that the Borgin-Bock store is also an antique store. The store buys various items from ancient families and sells them at high prices.

It's like... Burke bought Slytherin's locket from Voldemort's mother Merope for the bargain price of ten galleons, and then sold it to Hepzibah Smith at a high price.

In the same way, Smith's items purchased by the Borkin-Bock store cannot remain in their hands forever, and may have been sold long ago.

Once it is sold, trying to get it back is like finding a needle in a haystack, and it is extremely difficult.

Rolf sighed slightly. He thought that the whole matter of finding Smith's old house would be simple, but he didn't expect that it would suddenly become complicated because of Tom Riddle.

The boy stared at the newspapers and asked curiously: "Where did you two get these?"

A newspaper that is almost fifty years old can be found here?

Shirley smiled and narrowed her eyes, like two crescent moons, and said, "It's on the rightmost shelf of the library."

"There were all the Daily Prophets there, and Shirley and I looked through all the old newspapers." Hermione raised her pointed chin.

Luo Fu was touched for a moment. He calmed down his disappointed look and said seriously: "Thank you both."

Shirley didn't say any polite words, she just smiled, as beautiful as the first plum blossoms on the branches after winter.

"You're welcome." Hermione grinned, showing her two front teeth and said, "You have to give me an extra Christmas gift."

"Okay." Luo Fu laughed and said teasingly: "But you still owe me the bet, can we be willing to admit defeat? It has been delayed for half a year."

Hermione deliberately looked left and right, but not at Rove. She asked in confusion: "Bet, what bet? Why don't I remember it?"

Luofu stretched out his hand and gently pressed the girl's disheveled head to prevent her from shaking it.

Hermione slapped his paws off and said scornfully: "If I had known I wouldn't have found information for you, you stingy guy!"

Rolf laughed angrily: "You only have one Christmas gift left!"

Hermione glared at him and asked softly, "Are you both going home for the Christmas holidays?"

Shirley shook her head and said, "I won't go back to the monastery."

"I'm not going home either." Luofu said softly.

This Christmas, he won’t be going back to the Fire Dragon Sanctuary in Romania, or to Scamander’s old home in Dorset, England.

There is no one in either house, why go back?

Both parents are in the United States, and Newt even took Tina to the virgin forests of Brazil to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Obviously, he did not want his grandson to disturb his old life.

Rolf, who is homeless, can only stay in Hogwarts this holiday.

Hermione hesitated. When she saw that neither of them was leaving, she whispered, "Then I won't go back either!"

"Didn't you say you wanted to go skiing with your parents for Christmas?" Luofu raised his eyebrows.

"Skiing may not be suitable for me." Hermione blushed and shook her head:

"I'd better stay at Hogwarts and review my homework seriously. My parents want me to do well in the exam, and they will understand me."<

"It's only Christmas."

"Yes, there are only six months left until the final exam, so you have to be nervous!" Hermione looked triumphant, pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper from her pocket, and explained:

"This is my Christmas review plan, down to the second."

The girl stretched and said with full energy: "Let's stay in the library on Christmas and study hard!

I will definitely take the top three spots in next year’s final exam! "

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Before the Christmas break, Slytherin and Ravenclaw played their last Quidditch match of the semester.

But what is surprising is that Ravenclaw, who has been winless for many years, actually won, taking a crucial game from Slytherin!

Their new Seeker, student Qiu Zhang, caught the Golden Snitch right under Malfoy's nose and sealed the final victory.

Qiu Zhang suddenly became a celebrity at Hogwarts. Even Cedric praised her for flying well and wanted to have an in-depth exchange of skills with her.

Being deducted a point by the "fish belly" who was looked down upon before the game really hurt morale. Malfoy was also nicknamed a timid lizard because of the way he cowered to avoid the Bludger.

Captain Flint was hit by a Bludger in the first two minutes and had to be dismissed...also known as the Death Knight.

Of course, the key to Ravenclaw's victory were off-field factors that occurred.

I don’t know who secretly took the photo, and then it immediately circulated throughout Hogwarts, causing an uproar:

It turned out that Terrence Higgins, the former Seeker who had been robbed of his position, punched Malfoy so hard during team training that he almost went into shock.

The internal strife in Slytherin is good news. After all, they are well-equipped and have no off-field factors. It is really hard to stop them from defending their title.

Terrence Higgins is also widely suspected of being a pure undercover...must have been bribed by the Gryffindor Quidditch team!

Slytherin put his hat on Gryffindor's head, and the little lion didn't tolerate the other party. The two sides had several conflicts before the Christmas holiday.

Professor Snape deducted points from Gryffindor crazily, and Professor McGonagall was no less... The scores of the two colleges were falling.

Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw inexplicably came to the top two, and happiness came too fast.

As the Christmas holiday approached, the whole Hogwarts was redecorated.

The hall looked magnificent, with not only more than a dozen Christmas trees covered with silver frost, but also thick ribbons made of mistletoe and holly.

After a grand dinner, the last statutory holiday of this year, Christmas, finally arrived.

There was no so-called adjustment, and no need to leave school unless necessary. Everyone will have a holiday of about two weeks.

In the past Christmas, many students stayed, especially those fifth and seventh grade students who were preparing for exams and exams. Few people would go home.

But this year, almost all the students left.

There was no other way. After several attacks, even Lockhart was transferred to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Wizardry. The little wizards were too scared.

When Neville saw that Rolf, Shirley and Hermione were staying, he wanted to stay too.

But Hannah invited him to visit Professor Lockhart at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Wizardry during the holidays. The two had a whole day to spend time together in London.

That night, Neville vowed to carry out Hermione's review plan at Hogwarts, but changed his mind the next morning... He left quite decisively!

The whole change took less than three minutes.

But before leaving, Neville's Laifu stayed to accompany Rolf.

The pregnant rooster finally laid eggs, and Rolf needed Laifu to help hatch them.

The basilisk egg was Rolf's Christmas gift to Laifu, a basilisk son he picked up for free... Laifu should just be happy if he is fine.

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(Thanks to "book friends", "just love to walk on the water" and "book friends" for their rewards.

There is still one chapter that is a little slow... maybe it will take about an hour, no rush.)