Chapter 571
Celebration Party
Chapter 571 Celebration Party
The bronze eagle knocker made a pleasant sound:
“I am silent, yet I bring kings to their knees;
I am invisible, but sharper than a sword;
I am heavier than gold, yet lighter than a feather;
The wise crave me, the foolish waste me.
—What am I?
It was a simple riddle, and Vader answered without hesitation: "Time."
"correct answer."
The knocker whispered, and then the boards opened, pouring in warm fire and candlelight and a bustling din.
"Ved is back!"
Someone shouted, and the person standing at the door quickly pulled him in, then raised Vader's arm and shouted, "Our warrior!"
"Oh oh oh oh……"
Everyone in the lounge started screaming. Wade had never thought there were so many Ravenclaw students.
The wooden board at the entrance remained open for a few seconds before slowly closing. A series of faint footprints appeared on the carpet moistened by butterbeer.
The footprints avoided the crowd with great difficulty and came to a relatively quiet corner next to the bookshelf. Two girls who were eating cake in this place seemed to suddenly feel the enthusiasm of the celebration, dropped the cake and rushed towards the crowd.
The younger students crowded in front of Vader, waving homemade flags with ravens and golden flames painted on them; some older students stood a little further away, smiling with approval, and applauded.
The fourth graders were the most excited. Terry opened several bottles of butterbeer and stuffed them into everyone's hands.
Anthony rushed to the front, put his arms around Wade's neck and shouted, "I knew it! I knew it had to be you!"
"Come on, we all know it!" Class leader Ikemo said loudly with a smile on his face, raised the bottle and said, "Let's congratulate Wade for being selected as a warrior to participate in the competition!"
"cheers!"
Everyone raised their glasses together, even the little wizard who couldn't drink alcohol stretched out his arms and raised his glass of juice.
Michael frowned slightly and was about to replace the beer in Wade's hand, when he saw him holding up the bottle with a normal expression and said loudly: "Cheers!"
Then he raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp!
"Oh oh oh-"
Another round of noise broke out in the lounge, and the crowd moved closer to Wade. A new bottle of beer was immediately stuffed into his hand, and some people urgently wanted him to sign for them.
"Wade, will the spell study session continue?" someone asked with concern.
"Of course." Wade took a big sip of beer and said with a smile, "As long as you want to participate, the spell study will always be there!"
"What's the first project? What can we do to help you?" Lisa screamed, as if she couldn't wait to become the warrior's assistant.
"The details of the game are confidential... Oh, it's not that I want to keep it secret from you, but the referee didn't tell me!" Wade said, "I think we will know the details only before the game."
In fact, he suspected that these people didn't listen to what he said seriously, and soon Wade's hands were stuffed with more food.
"Have a piece of cake, Vader, or would you like a mince pie?"
"Thank you, I'm not hungry."
Amid the chaos, Wade was always surrounded by the crowd. He handled it with ease, and empty bottles soon piled up on the table and the floor. "You should come to our banquets more often!" Someone shouted, "Wade, you are born for this!"
Vader just smiled and said nothing.
Laughter and talking sounds hit the curved dome, beer foam sprayed everywhere, and someone used magic to make empty bottles collide gently back and forth in front of the fireplace, creating a fairly pleasant melody.
Then some students began to dance in the open space in the middle, their skirts flying, their dance steps cheerful, and their laughter spreading out.
Michael did not participate. He looked at Wade in the center of the crowd with confusion, and then observed his surroundings in silence.
He saw Luna, wearing a foxy hairpin and a pair of thick glasses, walking towards a chair in the corner, but suddenly as if she bumped into something, she turned in another direction and sat on another chair next to her.
Michael raised his eyebrows and walked towards the corner. Before he got close, he heard Luna say:
"Why not join? Are you worried that someone will put fox eggs in your wine glass? My father said that stuff can actually help digestion."
"I'm not worried about that." Vader's voice came from the empty chair nearby. "And my digestion is fine."
Michael breathed a sigh of relief, walked over and said, "I just felt something was odd - who is the guy drinking over there in your place?"
"My puppet." Vader, who had used the Disillusionment Charm to turn invisible, said lazily, "Can it be mistaken for the real thing?"
"Indeed," Michael glanced over there again and said, "I almost didn't recognize it...Luna, how did you find it?"
"Oh, I just noticed that there are some harassment flies here." Luna said casually: "The center of the carnival, invisible and conspicuous, is it more interesting than the noisy crowd?"
Michael knew every girl in Ravenclaw, including Luna, who was known as the "crazy girl", and knew that when her words were incomprehensible, the easiest thing to do was to ignore her.
If I ask further, my thoughts will become as absurd as if I were dragged into another dimension by her.
He picked up a hazelnut from the table and threw it into his mouth, then asked Wade vaguely, "If you don't want to deal with it, why don't you just go back to the dormitory?"
"How should I put it?" Wade propped up his chin and said, "I want to be alone, but I also miss the happy atmosphere of the party. Why not just be a quiet background and enjoy this happy atmosphere."
Michael smiled knowingly: "Well, this place is your viewing throne, I'm going to dance!"
He put down his wine glass, walked over to a black-haired girl who was standing alone next to a bookshelf with her arms folded, bowed, and soon pulled her into the dance floor.
Luna looked at Vader thoughtfully and said, "I heard there is a kind of quiet dew. After drinking it, even if you are in the middle of a busy city, you will feel like you are in a forest. I think you need this."
"Forget it." Wade smiled and said, "When I want to experience the forest, I will go directly to the Forbidden Forest."
He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Recently... do you still throw away your things?"
"Ah..." Luna blinked slowly, then said, "No one hides my books and clothes anymore, and my shoes stay on the floor instead of wandering around."
"I think I heard someone else calling you that nickname?"
"Crazy girl?" Luna shook her head nonchalantly, a layer of silver powder falling from her coquettish hair. She said, "They think I'm weird, but it doesn't matter. I just feel sorry for them."
She looked at the crowd and shrugged: "It's not their fault that they can't see a more wonderful world."
Vader smiled.
Sometimes he was also very curious, is the world that Luna sees the same as what he sees?
But this question is destined to have no answer - not even the Polyjuice Potion can make him think like others.
(End of this chapter)