A week before Christmas, it starts to snow in most places in the UK.
In his free time, Jon would occasionally go to Hagrid's place to sit, holding black tea, eating biscuits, and looking at the snowy scene outside the carriage.
But most of the other time I still study in the carriage.
His progress in learning Occlumency has exceeded Slughorn's original expectations, and even before Christmas, a simple "wall" has been built in his mind.
Although it is not yet enough to construct false memories outside the "wall" to achieve the most perfect level of Occlumency, it has already satisfied Slughorn's initial teaching requirements for him.
As for learning how to cast the ring, Slughorn had no intention of starting before Christmas. Instead, he gave Jon a week's holiday so that he wouldn't be so busy with time. To be diligent and hardworking, you must also know how to combine work and rest.
Of course Jon himself knows this.
So this week, he has been chatting or playing chess with Neville and the others in the lounge after dinner. There is really a lack of entertainment activities for wizards, especially on the carriage, even the most famous ball game in the wizarding world, Quidditch. With no way to organize it, the students had to have fun on their own.
The so-called wizard's chess is actually a chess game that comes alive and can listen to human verbal commands to act. After playing a few games, Jon felt that it was boring, so he asked Hagrid to help find a lot of hardness on the road while the carriage was driving. Then he went to Professor Flitwick to help cut the stone into squares of the same size with the most skilled crushing spell. Finally, Jon carved cylinders, strips and One to one hundred thousand in English, etc., to make a simple mahjong.
Of course, it is actually more convenient to directly use the transformation spell to create a mahjong, but it is impossible for Jon to remember the tricks of each mahjong card so clearly at once, and after all, there is a time limit for maintaining the transformation spell, so he can only spend three days of effort. I just made a mahjong set and I don’t know how many pieces it has, but whether it’s complete or not.
The rules of mahjong are very simple. In fact, there are many mahjong enthusiasts in the UK, and they will hold a few games from time to time, but the rules are slightly different from those in China.
But this is only limited to the Muggle society. Of course, mahjong has not been introduced in the magical world. The game Jon has made now is estimated to be the first mahjong game for British wizards.
Just by explaining the rules to Neville Ron and the others and playing a few rounds, they basically figured out how to play this kind of square card.
Then the five freshmen gave up wizard chess completely and indulged in playing square cards in the lounge every day after class.
"Two barrels."
In the warm lounge, Lavender hesitated for a long time before tapping one of the cards in front of him with his wand and using the levitation spell to make it fly to the center of the table.
The moment she finished speaking, Ron flicked his wand with excitement and pushed all the cards in front of him.
"Aha! I'm crazy!"
Justin's face immediately showed a happy expression. Even if he didn't win, he didn't lose much.
Neville looked at Ron's cards tangledly, and he was only one away from playing.
Lavender looked frustrated. Even if they were just having fun when they were bored, there was no bet at all. She was still unhappy that she kept losing today.
After teaching them, Jon, who had basically been watching the battle with great interest, guided Lavender.
"You all still rely on luck to win, but when playing this kind of card, you can't rely entirely on luck. You have to guess his operational ideas based on the cards played by others."
In fact, he talks a lot about theories, but his actual poker skills are extremely bad. In his previous life, he only played with his college roommates in the dormitory a few times. The reason why he pretends to be inscrutable and doesn't play anymore now is simply because he has self-knowledge. As Neville and the others became more and more skilled as they played, he could no longer defeat them and did not want to break the founder's undefeated streak.
"Shuffle! Shuffle!"
Just as Ron was yelling, the door to the lounge was suddenly pushed open forcefully from the outside.
Filch's old face full of wrinkles and age spots looked extremely ugly and glared at Ron who jumped away, and then shouted to everyone in the lounge with a sharp voice.
"Everyone, come out and gather in the restaurant!"
After saying that, he turned around and left angrily, as if to inform other students who were still in the dormitory.
Not only Jon and the others, every student in the lounge looked at each other, wondering what was going on.
"Let's go and have a look at the restaurant first."
Jon led the way towards the restaurant, and Neville and the others followed him to the restaurant. Most of the students had already gathered here, and McGonagall stood in front of the students with a serious face.
But after seeing Mag, Jon knew very well that this was definitely not a small problem, because the only thing that could make the vice principal come forward was a major event.
Only after Filch gathered all the students on the carriage did Jon and the others understand what happened.
Someone broke into the locked room without a sign again!
This time the intruder was very clever and did not reveal any flaws, but after what happened last time, Filch asked Flitwick to cast a spell on every door that did not allow students to enter privately. A small spell will leave traces on the door as long as it is opened.
Now Filch apparently found traces of being opened on a certain door, and he reported the matter directly to Mag without hesitation.
This is not a trivial matter. Those rooms that do not allow students to enter privately either contain some dangerous magical animals or plants, such as thestrals, or some dangerous animals brought from Hogwarts Castle are stored there. But there are also valuable magic items.
Now that these rooms have been broken into silently twice in a row, they must be traced to the end.
Looking at all the students present with a frown, Mag's stern voice sounded in the restaurant.
"I believe this may be an unintentional act by some people. He did not want to steal anything, but just accidentally broke in. Now, as long as this person comes forward and admits his mistake, I will not impose any strict punishment on him."
Mag has always been very dignified among the students, and no one would doubt what she said.
But the students present looked at each other, and no one wanted to stand up and take responsibility for this incident.
Seeing this scene, Mag's brows furrowed even deeper.
"Filch, please make another trip and help me bring Filius over."
