Chapter 24

The provisional selection test ended with an unexpected ending, and Maka successfully became one of the youngest players in the history of Hufflepuff and even Hogwarts.

According to his strength, the title has to add the word "strongest" to be more accurate.

As Maka expected, his study time has really shrunk significantly. But the training plan was very substantial. While Maka became more familiar with various formation coordination, Darren designed new actual combat tactics. This is the strongest time for Hufflepuff over the years, so they also had the idea of winning the Diqi cup!

This new tactic is the latest winning strategy arranged around the basic score. It can be said that the addition of Maka makes everyone eager for the Quidditch cup, which rarely appears in the low-key little badgers.

For this reason, the team members unanimously said that they would not outflow about Maka's joining the team. In the next duel with Slytherin college, Maka will appear as a strange soldier. She has to beat the little snakes who always like to do little moves!

As a result, Maka was particularly busy in the next days. Either in the library or at the Quidditch stadium, when Maka starts practicing, there are always several senior students of Hufflepuff walking around the stadium. It seems that this strange soldier plan is really carried out quite thoroughly by these industrious, focused and low-key little badgers.

Unconsciously, Christmas is coming.

On a particularly cold morning, everyone found that Hogwarts had been covered with a thick layer of snow. The beautiful white scenery outside the window is telling you that the first snow in Hogwarts this year has been unknowingly sent to the ground in your sleep.

The lake behind the castle was covered with hard ice, which made the students happy. The ice sledges stacked in the sundry room can finally be used. We don't have to take the rickety boat during the Christmas holiday!

The Weasley twins were recently punished because they enchanted several snowballs and made them chase Chilo everywhere. Fortunately, they accidentally hit the back of his head wrapped in layers of headscarves.

At that time, Marca happened to pass by a window upstairs. He was happy to see the scene. Voldemort was unlucky!

Several owls delivered mail in the windy and snowy night. After thousands of hardships, they even lost a lot of feathers. They must rest under Hagrid's care for some time before they can continue their work.

Maka's Owl MafA seems to be very curious about the snow, perhaps because it can never see this ice and snow in its hometown, Sumatra island!

Maka watched it hover high in the sky, sometimes flapping its wings to climb high, and sometimes swooping low. From a distance, no one would think it was just an owl.

Recently, Maka has been wandering in the forbidden book area, and her understanding of black magic has gradually deepened. But he still had no plans to study the most dangerous banned books. He thought the time had not come and there was no need to ask for trouble.

So, while accumulating his experience in preparing magic potions, he began to work harder with deformation. To be exact, this is a long and endless road to fight with all kinds of biological and non biological materials.

Since there is no shortcut, we have to learn from Hermione. At least, the research and memory of various materials can also help the progress of magic potions to a certain extent.

Speaking of, Christmas is a holiday.

Professor sprott came to register the list of students who stayed in school for the holidays last week. Maka hesitated and signed it. He plans to take advantage of the holiday to see Luna. He has been busy since the beginning of school. It is also a good choice to go out and relax at Christmas.

Moreover, he found that he had missed Luna since he practiced the patron saint curse. He felt that he should have a sister like emotion for Luna!

It's impossible to say that he's actually a Laurie?

"No, no, no, it's absolutely impossible." Maka shook her head and laughed at her idea.

At the moment, Marca is on his way to the potion class classroom. He has a few questions to ask Snape.

But when he quickly turned the corner of the corridor, he found Hagrid, who was a huge man, holding a fir tree bigger than him.

The originally spacious corridor was blocked by him and couldn't get through at all.

"Hey, Hagrid, can I help you?" in the gap between the branches, a head came from the opposite side. It seemed to be Ron.

"No, I can do it. Thank you, Ron." - it's Ron.

"Can you get out of the way?" Marca suddenly heard Malfoy's cold, dragging voice behind the fir tree.

"Do you want to earn some pocket money, Weasley? I was thinking, you probably want to guard the hunting ground after graduation from Hogwarts? Hagrid's cabin must look like a palace compared with your original home!"

Ron's head immediately retracted from the branches, and Malfoy's sarcasm obviously angered him.

"Weasley!" Marca heard Snape's voice.

"Someone provoked him first, Professor Snape," said Hagrid, sticking out his Big Shaggy head from behind the tree. "Malfoy just insulted his family."

"Anyway, it's against the rules of Hogwarts to hit people, Hagrid." snape said in a smooth tone. "It's wise to take the initiative like McClain. Gryffindor was deducted five points. Weasley, you should be glad I didn't punish you to wipe the trophy. Well, let's go, all of you."

When Malfoy heard the surname "McLean", he immediately showed a gnashing of teeth. It seems that he hates Maka very much.

He saw Marka when he pushed past the tree with Crabbe and Goyle deliberately and rudely, knocked the needle off the ground, and walked forward with anger on his face.

Malfoy immediately removed his anger from his face and pretended not to see it and walked across the corridor. But his deliberate act of staying away from Maka exposed the timidity in his heart.

"It seems that the effect of punishment still exists."

Maka looked back, but she just ran into Malfoy's hate eyes. When he saw Maka looking over, he immediately turned his head back.

"... but maybe not enough." Maka smiled and walked on.

"Excuse me, Professor Snape," Marca said, stopping Snape as he was walking to the restaurant. "I wonder if you have time to help me answer some questions about magic medicine."

Snape turned and still gave Marca a a cold look. Then he raised his chin and signaled him to ask quickly.

"Oh, here's the thing --"

At the stall where Marca asked, Ron couldn't help whispering to Harry, "I really admire Marca for asking questions normally under Snape's freezing eyes..."

"Let me see, Snape's best attitude is when Marca goes to him to ask questions," Harry took time to look at Snape's expression, and then continued, "it doesn't seem any better."

"Marca's progress in potion class is even unclear to me," Hermione said regretfully. "Although I often go to him to discuss some topics, I can't understand what he wrote in his notebook recently."

In fact, as far as the recent situation is concerned, although Maka said to ask Snape questions, it will basically become a discussion between the two on a potion theory. While Maka gained a lot, Snape also got some more novel inspiration in the topic.

Of course, the potion master's knowledge is not funny. In most cases, the discussion will end with Snape's correction of Marka.

But I have to mention that in Snape's deep buried heart, there seems to be the shadow of Maka, a student. Because in many discussions, he was keenly aware that Maka had almost the same idea of magic research as him - ignoring all good and evil standards in order to achieve his goal.

In their hearts, there is no substantive distinction between black magic and white magic, which can be used. The difference lies only in the user's code of ethics, that's all.

Perhaps even Maka didn't realize this, but Snape, who had been trapped in a more terrible darkness, noticed it.

After unraveling the doubts encountered in the study, Marca said goodbye to Snape and came to the Harry trio waiting for him. Behind him, Snape stared at his back without expression for a while. Then he suddenly turned and walked to the restaurant.

I'm afraid only Dumbledore really understood what Snape was thinking.

When Marka came to Hermione, they were talking to Hagrid about something.

"Oh! You've finally asked. Come with me to the restaurant! It's wonderful!" Hagrid laughed happily, and the fir tree in his arms was shaking with his laughter, dropping more needles.

"Let me help you, Hagrid, you're shaking all the needles out of it!" Maka pulled out her wand, cast a floating spell, let the fir tree float over the people's heads, and followed him.

"Oh - not really, I mean, thank you," said Hagrid shyly.

So Harry, Ron and Hermione followed Hagrid and his fir tree to the auditorium with Marca. Professor McGonagall and Professor flavy are there, busy decorating Christmas decorations.

"Aha! That's a good floating spell, Mr. McLean," said Professor flavy happily. "Put it there - in that corner, will you? This is the last one."