Perhaps Matthew Wakefield will never have the chance to get an answer to this question again.

Because after that, he could find another opportunity to talk to Professor Troca, whether in the Transformation Class or the Dark Magic Defense Class.

However, Matthew did not forget Professor Troca's warning at that time.

Since even Professor Troca believes that Hogwarts is now very dangerous.

Then, Matthew naturally had to be more cautious.

For some time afterwards, he rarely left the Slytherin's communal lounge except for meals and classes; at the same time, he also avoided walking alone in the corridors of the castle as much as possible.

Despite the entire Hogwarts Castle, it was still peaceful during this period.

Everything is safe.

...

The weather became colder and they were wearing more and more clothes and thicker.

Because December is here.

This winter seems very cold.

Although fierce bonfires were burning in the public lounge, classroom and auditorium, the glass of the classroom was still clattered by the bitter cold wind. The corridor was also biting cold, especially on the way from the basement to the castle, they would form a white mist in one breath.

This also gave Matthew Wakefield more reasons not to leave the common room.

One morning in mid-December, when they woke up from their sleep, they were surprised to find that the castle was covered with almost several feet of snow.

And there is also a layer of hard ice on the surface of Black Lake.

Professor Kettleborne goes to the ice surface of Black Lake every morning and evening to make a hole, and then puts some egg-shell powder of the fire grey snake into the lake to prevent the precious fish in the Black Lake from freezing to death this season.

Naturally everyone is very happy because it means they can have a snowball fight happily...

Draco Malfoy was punished for trying to quietly stuff a snowball into Harry Evans' collar, and the process was seen by Professor Sinista.

Immediately afterwards, the students who were happily playing with snow outside the castle were also rushed back to the castle by Mr. Pringer, and then they left countless footprints at the gate.

Mr. Tang sat at the oak gate with a look of sluggish expression. He seemed to have no intention to stop those students who violated the school rules.

Since the Ronald Weasley attack, the originally energetic golden retriever has become decadent... Even if Mr. Pringer commissioned Professor Slughorn to give him a dose of potion or two, it seems to be of no use for it.

The teacher assigned a lot of homework for every course of the first grade students... The most common course is undoubtedly the Black Magic Defense class taught by Professor Rozier.

Yes, Professor Rozier returned to school and her body was fully recovered, just a week after the Christmas holiday arrived.

Of course, everyone was disappointed with this news. There is no doubt that they all hope that Professor Rozier's illness would be better to recover by one week later.

Matthew also noticed that just a few days before Professor Rozier's return, Principal Grindelwald, who had appeared in the guest seat every day, disappeared again... This further verified Hermione Granger's original view.

However, all this cannot stop everyone from eager to have a holiday.

Yes, the semester is coming soon and the Christmas holiday is coming soon.

...

However, there is also bad news.

That was when the Christmas holiday came, the number of students left in Hogwarts began to decrease.

Even in the world of wizards, Christmas is the most important festival of the year. Although their purpose of celebrating this festival is different from that of Muggles (Why do wizards celebrate Christmas? I have a detailed explanation of the 30th chapter of the book "The Legend of Harry Potter" and interested readers can go and take a look).

But they still care about family reunion on this festival.

Moreover, due to the impact of several previous attacks, Hogwarts still has a little panic atmosphere.

The students were almost scrambling to book seats on the Hogwarts Express, hoping to go home during the holidays.

And young wizards from Muggle families, Matthew and others, are in a homeless state.

So, they had to stay in the increasingly deserted Hogwarts.

This situation is even more obvious, especially at Slytherin College. Because of the admission standards of Slytherin College, there are almost no students from Muggle families here.

And during the Christmas holiday, this is almost equivalent to not having a few students left here.

...

When Matthew left his own dormitory (Malfoy, Crabb, Gole and Nott all went home) and came to Slytherin's common room again-

As expected, he found that in such a large academy, there are only three students left in him.

One of them is a seventh-grade girl who is reading a book at the fireplace, preparing for the S exam a few months later.

Another one is Agnes Lesterlanch, who is in the same grade as Matthew.

"Why did you stay?" Matthew found her curiously and asked, "Don't you go back and reunite with your family?"

Lestrang looked up and showed a disgust on his face.

"I don't have family!" she said coldly, then left the common room.

But before walking out of the gate, she turned around and reminded: "You'd better look at the bulletin board!"

...

"Notice board?" Matthew came to the notice board with some surprise.

In addition to the new password for the Christmas holiday, there is also a notice.

The content of this notice tells everyone that during the Christmas holiday, the passage between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade Village will be open and students can enter and exit freely.

Hogsmeade is said to be the only village in Britain that is full of wizards and without Muggles, and is also a famous place in the wizard world.

"What does this have to do with me?" Matthew spread his hands and said to himself: "Can't Hogsmeade only students in third grade or above can get through?"

No…Just as Matthew was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly realized something.

He quickly lowered his head and read the notice from beginning to end.

In the entire notice, there is no mention of the matters that only students above the third grade are allowed to enter and exit freely.

"This is not bad!" Matthew grinned and smiled.

At the same time, he also touched his pocket, which contained dozens of gold coins.

These Garons were also what Draco Malfoy had to give to him when he left school.
Chapter completed!