Chapter 616
Canary Cookies
Chapter 616 Canary Cookies
In the umbrella house, the fire in the fireplace crackled, illuminating the whole house with warmth and brightness.
Wade is writing down the teaching plan for the next spell workshop - since Antoine plans to publish a book, the content of his teaching cannot be too casual and still needs to be carefully prepared.
Michael finished writing a paper, dropped his quill, rubbed his wrist, and turned to ask, "Ved, I heard that you invited Natalia? The girl from Kodos Doris?"
Wade continued writing without looking up, and asked casually, "It's only been a short time, how did you know?"
"It's spread all over the school!" Michael: "Two warriors become dance partners, you may be the only couple!"
Vader: “…”
If everyone could spend half of the time they spend on spreading gossip on studying, their spell level would at least double, right?
Michael turned to Harry again: "Hey, Harry, did you find a partner?"
Harry slumped over the table in a sullen manner, like a mushroom, and said dryly, "I hate Cedric!"
Theo immediately looked up from his book and asked nervously, "Did you have a fight? Why?"
"No." Harry sighed and said sadly: "I just invited Qiu Zhang to go with me, and she told me...she has already promised Cedric."
Vader turned his head and sighed softly.
It seemed that even though he had warned Harry in advance, he still missed the opportunity.
Or did Qiu Zhang have a crush on Cedric? After all, that guy was really handsome.
The nervousness on Theo's face disappeared immediately, and he laughed dryly: "Uh... take it easy, there are still many good girls in school!"
Harry buried his face in his arms, not wanting to talk.
Just like before, when he confided to his godfather how difficult it was to invite a dance partner, Sirius said in surprise: "A dance partner...does it still need an invitation?"
At this time, the door was pushed open, and Hermione and Padma walked in with books in their arms. Harry mustered up his courage, suddenly stood up and asked, "Hermione, can I invite you to be my dance partner?"
Hermione's face flushed instantly, and Padma rolled her eyes beside her: "What's wrong with you Gryffindors? Do you have to wait until you bang your head against the wall before you open your eyes and realize there's such a good girl around you? It's too late!"
"What do you mean?" Harry asked blankly.
"Neville and Ron just invited Hermione too!" Padma said bluntly, "But no, Hermione has already promised someone else!"
Harry's eyes widened in surprise and he asked, "Who is it?"
"I can't tell you that." Padma winked slyly. "You'll know on the day of the Christmas party. By the way, who's the girl who's dancing the opening dance with you?"
"No one yet. I've been rejected - twice." Harry lamented and asked casually: "Padma, do you have a dance partner?"
The room suddenly became quiet, and the people who were pretending to read all pricked up their ears.
“Hmm…” Padma’s eyes moved around, as if she was looking at someone, or she seemed to be just squinting and smiling: “No.”
"Great..." Harry breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly said: "Oh, I mean...can I invite you? I don't want to go alone..."
He looked at the girl with pitiful and pleading eyes.
In an instant, the atmosphere in the entire activity room became subtle. Michael suddenly stopped arranging the parchment, and even Wade raised his head, looking back and forth between the few people.
Only Harry was oblivious to the change in atmosphere, his mind filled only with the desire to avoid embarrassing himself on the stage.
Padma raised her lips slightly and agreed readily: "Okay!" Harry felt relieved: "Thank you...really, you saved my life."
Perhaps it was because he was acting like a kid who had skipped his homework, but Padma couldn't help but giggle.
Michael silently crumpled up the parchment with a long ink mark accidentally drawn on it and stuffed it into the drawer.
……
In the blink of an eye, the semester is over.
Because all the students above the fourth grade chose to stay in school and most of the lower grade students did not go home, Hogwarts was much more lively than usual during this Christmas holiday.
It was the first time that Wade stayed at school during Christmas. He habitually decided to finish all his holiday homework first, and was the first one to arrive at the Umbrella House to do his homework every day.
Although Wade had not asked for it, others followed suit, and Michael complained while writing furiously.
"Really, what's wrong with going out for a couple of days?" He wailed, slamming his face on his Transfiguration textbook. "We've been studying for a whole semester, can't we take a break?"
"Of course." Wade said as he flipped through the book, "Aren't there a lot of people queuing up over there in the maze? You can ask a few people to go with you."
"That's the problem!" Michael stood up suddenly, slammed the table and said indignantly, "How can I have a clear conscience while you sit here and study hard? Can't you also neglect your studies for a few days for the sake of our mental health?"
Neville nodded in secret agreement, looking at the two men longingly.
Wade finally raised his eyes from between the pages of the book, looked at Michael in disbelief, and said speechlessly: "Speak some sense, Michael... Listen to yourself, are you speaking human language?"
Michael: “…”
He turned around and hugged Neville, pretending to wail: "I want to break up with this learning machine! Break up!"
Neville patted him on the back and said, "Okay, okay, it's almost time for lunch, shall we go eat together?"
……
The auditorium was as lively as usual, and the SSC members were still sitting together.
After a while, Harry came for Quidditch training - although there was no house cup this year, several teams still maintained the habit of daily training.
Afterwards, Hermione and Padma, who were said to be learning makeup from a senior schoolmate, came, Theo and Ryan, who were helping Professor Sprout transplant plants, also came, and the always lively Fred and George also sat next to them.
The originally empty corner of the long table suddenly became the most lively place.
At this moment, Wade had just eaten a piece of egg custard biscuit, and suddenly felt a strange swelling feeling -
"puff!"
Ryan almost fell off his seat. He bit his spoon in astonishment and looked at the place where Wade suddenly disappeared. He saw that there was only a big canary left there, with his eyes wide open, as if he was completely unable to react.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The Weasley twins burst out laughing and Harry quickly threw a biscuit away.
In less than a minute, the beautiful feathers on the canary began to fall off. When all the feathers fell off, Wade changed back with a "bang".
He was not annoyed, but just picked up a feather from his seat with a thoughtful expression.
(End of this chapter)