For the Christmas banquet, the auditorium looked magnificent.
A dozen Christmas trees covered in silver frost complemented the thick friezes of mistletoe and holly that crossed on the ceiling. The sky above the auditorium was enchanted, and warm and dry snow flakes gently fell from the ceiling.
All the people ate with relish, and when Ivan and Harry had just finished their third serving of pudding, Hermione led them out of the auditorium to realize their plans for the night.
The first thing to do is Crabbe and Gore, which is not too difficult.
As long as there are two cakes with sleeping potions, these two tall guys are at their mercy.
Ivan and Harry took a lot of effort to hide them in the cabinet at the other end of the hall to ensure that they would not be discovered, pulled out a few more hairs, and brought out their shoes, because Crabbe and Goyle's big feet couldn't fit in their own shoes.
The trouble is here with Hermione, Ivan insists that the black hair she is holding in her hand is not Millicent Burst's hair, but a cat hair.
"Impossible, Ivan!" Hermione said stubbornly, "I got this from Millicent's clothes at the fighting club."
"But she also has a cat, and the hair in your hand is almost exactly the same as the fur on that cat, we better be careful."
In the end, under Aiwen's insistence, the three had to return to the auditorium to look for opportunities.
They wandered around the Slytherin table for a long time, and when they saw Pansy Parkinson standing up and walking towards Snape, Hermione hurried up and hit her hard, and pulled it off her head before the other party was about to get angry. a hair.
When Hermione apologized to Pansy, Ivan and Harry saw Snape looking at them with a malicious sneer, making both of them stand on their heads.
They hurried back to the bathroom, which took a lot of time.
"I think Snape seems to have discovered something?" Harry said uncertainly, "Maybe we should look for another chance."
"No, tonight is the best chance. After Christmas, students will start returning to school."
Hermione took out the prepared Polyjuice Potion and nervously went to the stained page of "Power Potion".
"It looks just like the books say, and after we drink it, we can have a full hour to turn back into ourselves. My plan is perfect, Snape won't find us, he sees only Crabbe, Goose Hall and Parkinson."
She scooped up large globs of soup with a long-handled spoon and poured them into three glasses.
Then, with trembling hands, she poured Parkinson's hair from the bottle into the first glass.
The soup made a loud noise, like a pot of boiling water, frothing vigorously. After a second, it turns an ugly brown-black color.
"It's your turn to add things in," said Hermione.
Harry hurriedly threw Goyle's hair into the middle cup, and Ivan put Crabbe's hair into the last cup.
Both glasses were hissing and bubbling. Goyle's turned a tanky khaki, and Crabbe's a dark, dark brown.
"Well, what do we do now?" Harry asked.
"It goes without saying, of course I drink it." Hermione said nervously.
"I hope the taste is not too bad, cheers." Ivan picked up the last cup of soup, swallowed it with his head up, turned and ran to the nearest compartment.
The compound soup tasted like overcooked cabbage. Ai Wen had just swallowed it. A burning sensation spread from his stomach to his fingers and toes. He felt like he was melting.
It was as if all his skin was bubbling like hot wax, and it made him prostrate and gasp; he watched as his hands began to grow, fingers thicker, nails wider, knuckles bulging like bolts stand out.
Alvin's shoulders began to stretch, causing him excruciating pain.
Needle-like pain in his forehead told him that the hair was creeping towards his brow; In a size four shoe, I was in excruciating pain.
Things come suddenly and go quickly. All of a sudden, everything stopped.
Although I have read it countless times in the book, this is what it feels like to be Crabbe. Ivan took off his school uniform that was several sizes too small, and put on Crabbe's clothes. Then he heard a shout from outside, it was Goyle's voice.
"Are you two okay?"
"It's okay!" Ivan replied in Crabbe's voice.
He walked out, and in the mirror he looked exactly like Crabbe, with short pot-bottom hair, long gorilla-like arms, and only slightly paler face.
Harry and Hermione also turned into Goyle and Parkinson, because Hermione was going to be Millicent, and now she's Pansy, and her clothes are a lot wider.
"Okay, you two stop watching, five minutes of precious time have passed!" Hermione said, "We'd better hurry to the Slytherin common room, and hope Malfoy can stay there honestly."
They opened the bathroom door carefully, checked that no one was around, and set off.
They imitated Crabbe, Goyle, and Parkinson as they descended the marble stairs.
Led by Hermione, the three entered the entrance of the underground classroom one by one. But they stopped immediately, and Ivan saw Snape standing in front of them with a half-smile on his face, as if he was waiting for them here.
"Good evening, Parkinson, Goyle, Crabbe," Snape asked in his slow, soft, deep voice. "What are you doing here?"
"I, we..."
Ivan and Harry looked at each other, not knowing how to answer, the ghost knows what Goyle and Crabbe would say when they met Snape.
But normal Goyle and Crabbe seemed to be like this. After Snape glanced at them, he didn't look at the two of them again, and stared at Hermione standing in the front with interest.
"Professor, we have to go back to the common room." Hermione said cautiously.
"Oh, is that so?!" Snape said softly, "Miss Parkinson, please come to my office before that. I think it is necessary to have an in-depth discussion on the topic at the banquet just now."
"But, Professor..." Harry broke down immediately, and he had no reason to stop Snape from taking 'Pansy Parkinson'.
What's more, Hermione has been gesturing behind her, telling the two of them to leave her alone.
In this way, Ivan and Harry watched Hermione being taken away by Snape.
"This is also called foolproof?!" Harry said anxiously, "Snape must have discovered something, I wonder what will happen to Hermione?"
"I think we'd better act according to the original plan, wait until Malfoy is finished asking, and then find a way to save Hermione." Ivan said.
"Easy to say, do you know where the Slytherin lounge is?"
Ai Wen shook his head before he realized the problem.
The empty underground corridor was like a maze, and the two of them walked around like headless chickens, looking at their watches constantly, calculating how much time they had left. After a full quarter of an hour they found themselves back where they had come from.
This is a fork with three roads, leading up to the auditorium on the first floor of the school. There is a large mirror facing the foyer.
The corridor to the right of the mirror is Snape's office and potions classroom, where Nearly Headless Nick held his birthday party last time; to the left is a wide stone corridor, which Harry and Ivan have never been to , but Ivan saw a painting of a silver bowl full of fruit on it, which should be the secret passage leading to the Hogwarts kitchen, and further ahead is the entrance to the Hufflepuff common room.
"Not here, I remember this mirror, we saw it just now." Harry said uncertainly, "Maybe we should go to the left."
"No, that leads to the Hufflepuff common room."
Just when the two began to rush to despair, they saw Draco Malfoy walking towards them leisurely, and for the first time in his life, Ivan was very happy to see him.
"What are you two doing standing here? I thought you would have gone back long ago."
Ivan and Harry nodded silly, and Malfoy led them to the right and stopped beside an empty, wet stone wall.
"What's the new password?" he said to Harry.
"Huh?" Harry hesitated.
"Oh, yes, it's a purebred!" Malfoy said to himself.
As soon as the words fell, a stone door hidden in the stone wall slowly opened, and Malfoy strode in, followed by Ivan and Harry.