Chapter 40 Christmas

In Diagon Alley or Knockturn Alley, Ivan would not go there unless he brewed polyjuice potion or improved his strength.

It would be too dangerous for a first-year wizard to go there alone.

Ivan turned around and left. Before leaving, he bought a bottle of deodorant to eliminate body odor. After throwing twelve silver coins to Old Rick, Ivan left here without any regrets.

He knew one place where there must be boneweed and hemolyticweed, and that was in Snape's potion storage room.

Although this is very risky, Ivan has no other option now.

Returning along the original path, thankfully the boss of Honeydukes was entertaining guests, so Ivan was able to pass through the cellar smoothly.

Coming out of the secret passage, Ivan immediately went to the Room of Requirement.

"I want a place to refine potions." Ivan said.

The next moment, Ivan opened the door to the Room of Requirement and came into a strange space surrounded by many bottles and cans, as well as a large number of equipment for brewing potions.

The only thing that makes Ivan regretful is that the cabinets and bottles used to store potions are empty, and there are not even the most basic herbs.

"The Room of Requirement, indeed, there are restrictions." Ivan said disappointedly. Originally, he wanted to try if he could get some potion ingredients for free.

Ivan found a cabinet and stored all the purchased materials in it so that he could take them directly when brewing the potion in the future, leaving only the deodorant that could eliminate his own smell.

After doing all this, Ivan turned around and left without hesitation. On the way, the sharp-eyed Ivan happened to see Quirrell wandering on the fourth floor with a somewhat sneaky figure.

Ivan's heart moved, and he took out the Marauder's Map to confirm the location of Snape and other professors and principals. A plan suddenly emerged in Ivan's mind.

In the next few weeks, Ivan kept an eye on Snape's movements on the Marauder's Map, and occasionally looked at Quirrell's. Before he knew it, time had arrived at Christmas.

Entering December, the weather has become colder and colder. There was a heavy snowfall a few nights before Christmas. When Ivan woke up in the morning, he found that the outside was covered with a thick layer of snow. Harry and Ron was shivering from the cold and had to add a few more sweaters to his large wizard robe.

Ivan took the two of them to the fireplace in the lounge to warm up the fire. He also used the transformation spell to create transparent windshields and blocked the ventilation openings, so that the entire lounge could be warmer.

But this was a pain for the owls who delivered the letters. Several of them hit the windshield directly on the side. A large number of envelopes were scattered on the floor. Ivan walked to the window and removed the windshield.

Outside the window, poor Quirrell was being beaten by a bunch of magic snowballs. Ivan even saw one of the snowballs, which looked very strong, hit the back of Quirrell's head very accurately. This made Ivan can't help but Sweating for the Weasley brothers.

I guess these two guys are the only ones who dare to prank Quirrell like this. I wonder if this is the peak of their lives.

In the afternoon, Ivan, Harry and others finished the last Potions class together. The whole Hogwarts was in excitement, because starting tomorrow is their long-awaited vacation, and more importantly, they can finally Go home!

However, Ivan was not happy at all, because he didn't want to go back at all. At least until he figured out his memory, it was better to stay in school to be safer.

So when Professor McGonagall came to register the list of students staying at the school, Ivan signed it without hesitation, and Harry also did the same.

"Ivan, aren't you going back either?" Harry asked strangely.

"Well, I'm not as comfortable at home as at school." Ivan replied with a smile.

Harry seemed to have found a resonance and expressed his bitterness to Ivan. He even wanted to stay in Hogwarts forever instead of going back to his so-called uncle's house.

What made Harry even more happy was that brothers Ron and Weasley would also stay because their parents were going to Romania to visit Charlie this year.

The only thing that made Harry feel a little sad was that Hermione had to go home, otherwise this Christmas would be perfect.

After Ivan, Harry and Ron signed the stay-at-school agreement, they were blocked by Malfoy on their way back.

"Huh? Look what I found? A few kids that no one wants to keep in school," Malfoy looked at Harry and shouted exaggeratedly, and then turned to Ron.

"And Weasley, your mother must have thought there were too many children, so she didn't want you anymore."

"Malfoy!" Ron angrily rushed forward and punched Malfoy. Malfoy pulled out his wand and tried to cast a spell to counterattack. His two followers, Crabbe and Goyle, also surrounded him.

Faster than them, Ivan directly took away Malfoy's wand with a disarming spell. The remaining two idiots who could only use fists, Ivan's two leg-locking spells made them fall down. on the ground.

Malfoy, who lost the ability to resist, had to take Ron's right hook head-on.

Ron wanted to continue to attack, but an invisible barrier appeared in front of Malfoy, blocking Ron's fist.

Snape walked down the stairs with a straight face, casually waved his wand to remove the magic from Crabbe and Goyle, and then looked at Ivan and others.

"He beat his classmates on campus and abused magic wantonly. Ten points were deducted from Gryffindor!"

"Professor, it's obviously Malfoy," Harry wanted to argue, but unexpectedly Snape spoke again.

"Now it's a fifteen point deduction!"

Ivan stopped Harry and Ron who were about to continue talking. Judging from the fact that Snape lifted his magic with a wave of his wand, the three of them together were not enough.

Since he can't beat him, and Snape is a professor, no matter how much he says, he will be at a disadvantage.

Snape did not make things difficult for Ivan and others anymore. After looking at Malfoy with a slightly disappointed look, he turned and left.

Malfoy got up from the ground angrily, glared at Crabbe and Goyle, who were easily eliminated by Ivan, followed Snape, and walked past the three of them proudly, but his face was a little swollen.

"Snape is simply deliberately trying to make things difficult for us. If you ask me to tell you that the last time Harry had a problem with your broom, it was definitely Snape who did it!" Ron said dissatisfied.

"After this semester, Snape has deducted nearly 100 points from our Gryffindor." Harry also nodded, agreeing with Ron's statement. Compared with Professor Quirrell, who is harmless to humans and animals, Snape is still Nap is more likely.

Ivan did not help Snape explain this time, because Snape was so capable of attracting hatred that even he was a little dissatisfied with Snape.

But that’s okay. Ivan was still a little reluctant about sneaking into Snape’s potion storage room and stealing the Boneweed, but now he no longer thinks about it so much.

All that is missing is an opportunity.