Chapter 25 Halloween Dinner

Having found a way to do it, Harry's speed picked up. After an hour and a half, Harry had peeled all the beans. Snape was in the middle of grading his homework, and judging by the crease in his brow, it was obvious that none of it was of very good quality.

"Professor Snape, I'm done!"Harry reported.

Snape waved his hand without looking up, signaling Harry to get lost. Harry gave a polite salute before leaving the cellar and heading for his quarters.

"What was the name of the wizard who invented LSD?"Harry looked at the question floating on the wall and answered, "Nolan Ferrigno."A doorway began to emerge from the wall, and Harry stepped through it into the common room. The Feynman brothers and Vincent, were not far away, doing their homework on top of a table. Or to be more accurate, William was doing his homework, Richard was talking to a girl, and Vincent was dozing off.

"Harry," several people rushed around when they saw Harry return, "What? Snape didn't give you a hard time, did he?"

"No, just made me peel a bucket of jumping beans."Harry answered honestly.

"Oh, that's okay!"A few people obviously hadn't thought about the difficulty of it, and really thought it was as easy as peeling regular beans, and thought Snape had been merciful, saying that they'd have to wait until they encountered it themselves later to realize how difficult it was.

"What are you guys talking about?"Harry asked Richard.

"By the way," Richard spoke up, "I'd like to introduce you to Susan Weaving, a second year, our schoolmate. We were just talking about, dressing up for Halloween dinner."

"Halloween dinner?"Harry wondered, in the past, in the world of ordinary people, his favorite was Halloween, because it was probably the day he had the most candy in a year, even though Dally often robbed him of his candy. And now that there was such a thing as a Halloween dinner in the wizarding world, it sounded like a lot of fun.

"It's the first time you guys are attending the Halloween dinner this year," the schoolmate named Susan looked very gentle and quiet, even speaking in a soft kind of voice. "There may be a lot of things that are not very clear. On the day of Halloween, the school will organize a grand celebration. At the dinner, everyone can dress up as they like, and I dressed up as an elf last year."She smiled slightly as she said that.

"That's so fun! It's going to be hilarious then."Vincent had a look of longing on his face, imagining what he could dress up as to shock the crowd.

Harry was interested as well, and a few more people let Susan give them some more specifics before they happily dispersed.

Time soon came to the day of Halloween, and as soon as they entered the lobby auditorium, a few of Harry's people noticed something noticeably different. The thousands of candles that were originally floating in the air above were all replaced by a single pumpkin light. And a single bat, constantly hovering back and forth in mid-air, was just like a mass of dark clouds. Even the tableware dinner plates on the table were styled into monsters and such to fit the festive mood.

After only half a day of classes, everyone was sent back. It seemed that the school side was still very humane, knowing that even if they were forced to stay, the students' minds were not on the lessons.

Harry and the others ran back to their dormitories, took out the props and costumes they had already prepared, and dressed up. The costume Harry chose was simple, just a normal vampire. This is also very easy, put on a neat robe, and then put on two fangs in the mouth, take a transparent cup, fill some tomato juice, all done. A vampire with fangs, from time to time the blood in the cup of the vampire came out.

The little fat man's costume is a bit more troublesome, he wants to pretend to be a dragon. But with two extra wings on his clothes, it was really inconvenient. In the end, Harry couldn't look at him anymore, so he went up to help him get dressed.

The two, who were ready, walked out together, only to find that the Feynman brothers, had been waiting for them in the common room for quite some time. Richard was actually dressed as an angel, while William was dressed as a little devil. The two brothers, putting together a combination of angel and devil, were very eye-catching.

Then, the foursome of angel, devil, vampire plus the dragon, how it looked, set off together on their way to the hall for the dinner. Harry noticed that the campus had changed a lot more than it had in the morning. The characters in the paintings had changed their looks to monster disguises, while some had simply become outright monsters. The stone statues, which were originally majestic and upright, had all become strange and bizarre as well. Even the torches on the walls had turned into demonic heads.

A little over half an hour after a few people had arrived in the hall, the dinner had officially begun. After Dumbledore stood up and announced the official start of the Halloween dinner. The apparitions arrived in full force, giving their performances and adding to the Halloween atmosphere. Everyone was overjoyed, and Harry saw the three, Hermione, Ron, and Neville, mucking around with the redheaded twins. Hermione was dressed as a flower fairy, Ron was dressed as a lion, and Neville had the most awkward look, actually looking like his pet, the football-sized toad, which left Harry speechless.

I don't know who discovered that bats flying above their heads would turn into candy after being shot down. At this, the entire auditorium burst into flames. Everyone drew their wands and attacked the bats above them. Then there was a crackling rain of candy, and everyone of Harry and the others were busy picking up the candy that fell from the floor or attacking the bats overhead. Even the Slytherins, who were usually the most standoffish of the bunch, were having so much fun that they didn't even bother with their noble manners.

"With a loud bang, Sherry said in his heart, "It's coming!"

The originally closed door of the auditorium was violently pushed open. Professor Chilo, who was wearing a black robe with a ring of bandana wrapped around his head, rushed in, and everyone instantly fell silent. "There ... are ... trolls, right in the cellar, and I ... I thought you .. you know."After saying this, he rolled both eyes, dryly slumped forward, and fainted.

Sherry secretly skimmed the corner of his mouth, "This acting is also too pompous, if you have the ability to have the back of your head down, ruthlessly kowtow to me on the ground, I respect you as a man."Of course this was a joke, give Chilo ten guts, he wouldn't dare to show the slightest disrespect to Voldemort.

"Ah!""Ah!"The auditorium was quiet for a split second before screams erupted. Everyone knew the danger of trolls, and at first hearing that there was a troll just a short distance away from them. The reaction was the same as hearing that there was a man-eating tiger roaming around outside, and their hearts instantly hung in the air.

"Quiet!"At the critical moment, Dumbledore's shout calmed everyone down. "All the level heads, immediately organize manpower, count the number of people in their own colleges, see if there are still students out there, and report the results as soon as possible. Then everyone, stay where you are and don't move. When the crisis is lifted, then inform all the students to go back to the academy they belong to."After saying that, Dumbledore took Prof. McGonagall and Prof. Freeway and hurriedly left, without having to think about it, he knew that he was going to search for the troll's whereabouts and then solve it. Leaving such a time bomb in the school was really too much of a threat to the students.

Harry was jittery in his heart but was calmed down by the thought that his teacher was right beside him and he was confident that Sherry would protect him. Not long after Dumbledore left, Professor Chilo, who had been placed in a chair by the crowd, struggled to wake up, almost a little scared but still full of determination, he went out of the door, ready to support Dumbledore and the others.

Everyone was touched by this spirit of his and apologized for mocking his accent and the smell of his body in the past. Harry heard, however, his teacher let out a loud sneer, full of disdain.

"What's wrong, teacher?"Harry asked.

"Harry, you remember to stay away from this Professor Chilo from now on."Sherry admonished, "It's best not to have any alone time with this person, it's best not to even make eye contact."Sherry remembered that Harry, in the plot, was almost then thrown off his broom and fell to his death by Chilo on top of the Quidditch match. If it wasn't for Snape's constant protection, coupled with Hermione unintentionally pushing him down, he was afraid that he would really have gotten away with it.

Now, the world had long since departed from the original plot, but to his surprise, Chilo had used the same trick to distract the professors, while he himself took the opportunity to travel to the hiding place of the Sorcerer's Stone.

"Harry, I have to leave for a while now for something important, you have to be good and stay here, I'll explain it to you when I come back."Harry only felt a coldness on his wrist, the gauntlet had disappeared. There wasn't much he could do, he could only obediently stay here and watch the students around him all mingle in panic.

Sherry transformed himself into a ball of darkness and rushed out along the doorway, just in time to see Chilo turn the corner of the corridor, he hurriedly chased after him. Along the shadows of the wall, Sherry moved forward like a snake and soon caught up with Chilo. Sure enough, Chilo, who had left the gaze of the crowd, was no longer cowering, his eyes averted, and looking like he was afraid to meet people. Instead, his face was calm, and his feet moved forward towards a tower.

Soon, Chilo arrived at his destination. But to one's surprise, at this moment, there was someone who had already waited here. He stood on top of the steps, condescendingly looking at Chilo with sarcasm in his eyes, "Professor Chilo is awake?"

The moment he saw Snape, Chilo became the cowering, hunched over stuttering professor again. He stammered and explained, "S ... Professor Snape, I was ... just ... just searching for trolls. "

"Aren't the trolls in the cellar? This is still Professor Chilo's own news, how come Professor Chilo came to the tower in the opposite direction instead?"Snape played with the wand in his hand, his eyes roving over Chilo as if looking for Chilo's weakness.

The moment he saw Snape, Sherry knew that Chilo was not going to get it today. Voldemort's residual soul plus Chilo may be able to defeat Snape, but it will definitely alert Dumbledore, and then he will definitely not be able to run away, Voldemort is not so stupid. Sherry then turned around and wandered in the direction of the hall. (Continued)