At night, Harry finally walked out of the dormitory.

Hogwarts was now shrouded in a joyful atmosphere.

Professor Flevy led the students to fill the entire Hogwarts Castle with ribbons, colorful balls and various decorations. Even the hideous and serious stone statues and armors on the corridor were worn with Christmas hats, making them look much more cute.

Today is Christmas Eve.

On this happy day, even the petty Felch would not keep a close eye on the students who violated the rules, so everyone was scruples.

The lower-grade students ran and quarreled in the corridor, while the older ones gathered together in groups of three or three, chatting, and occasionally setting off a few Kuili fireworks.

Although there were not many students and professors who chose to stay in Hogwarts for Christmas, they still spread laughter to every corner of Hogwarts Castle.

But in this joyful atmosphere, Harry always lowered his head, and his body was filled with a confused and at a loss, looking lost.

The space anchor given to him by the French wizard named Gerald is now hidden in his chest.

He spent the whole afternoon fighting the murmur in his mind and thinking about whether he should follow Gerald's plan.

This high-intensity thinking and mental confrontation made him look dazed, and he only remembered that he had an agreement with Snape to go to Professor Slughorn's Slughorn Club to share dinner.

He walked swaying all the way, but fortunately, his classmates were still repelling him, almost at the point where he had to bypass him when he saw him, so he avoided the ending of colliding with others and arrived at the fifth floor of Hogwarts "unobstructed".

This is the meeting place given to him by Professor Slughorn.

Harry actually couldn't understand why the Christmas dinner was not held in the previous Potions classroom?

It was obvious that the classroom was dressed very well by Slughorn, and it was almost the best banquet venue he had ever seen except for the Hogwarts Auditorium.

Is there any place on the fifth floor of Hogwarts that is more beautiful than a professor of potions?

With doubt, Link pushed open the door to an abandoned classroom.

Then he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The classroom, which should have been covered with dust in the door, has now become a brand new look. Two long tables covered with white cloth are placed on both sides of the center of the classroom. In the classroom, or the innermost side of the banquet hall, there is a huge Christmas tree, which is almost covered with ribbons, candies, colorful balls and light strips, etc., and magic is even performed around it. From time to time, the phantom of snowflakes will slowly fall.

The golden light emitted from the Christmas tree is connected with several giant chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, illuminating the entire banquet hall!

Harry, who was standing at the door, was almost stunned by this scene.

"Harry! You're finally here. Come in quickly, don't be dazed at the door!"

Slughorn's voice suddenly rang, pulling Harry back from his stagnant state.

It was not until this time that he suddenly realized that he was not the only guest to arrive in this huge banquet hall.

In addition to him, Professor Slughorn and several other members of the Slug Club were also there, including Link!

This made him panic and said to Slughorn:

"Ah, professor, I'm sorry I didn't notice you."

"It's okay, it's totally understandable. After all, this banquet hall is indeed quite amazing, right? I still remember the first time I went to a banquet at the senior's family. It was a member of the Bosted family. The Bosted family was still in its prime at that time, so their banquet was very good. That scene, tsk, I was just like you now, almost frightened!"

After hearing what Slughorn said, Harry finally relaxed a little, but it was just a little bit. His nervousness was still buried deep in his heart, and was transported through his blood vessels to every corner of his body through his heartbeat and blood flow, causing his muscles to remain tense.

The only thing he is glad that Link and Emily are both entangled by the rest of the Slug Club members who want to flatter.

Otherwise, if Link came up to say hello to him, he felt that he might faint nervously.

Slughorn on the other side said with some dissatisfaction when he saw Harry hadn't replied for a long time:

"Hey, Harry, what's wrong with you today? It's so rude. I'm still waiting for you to ask about this banquet hall! Can't you satisfy my old man's vanity?"

Harry was startled by the sound, and he almost subconsciously followed Slughorn's words:

"Then...what did this banquet hall come from?"

"It's very simple, you just need to use some relationships."

Slughorn showed a proud smile on his face, "First of all, the venue, the right to use this abandoned classroom itself was obtained through Link's relationship. You should understand this. Dumbledore is simply a stingy guy. Even if he is just an abandoned classroom, he will definitely not succeed if he asks him to apply.

Then there is the cleaning and renovation of the interior of the classroom.

I handed over most of this work to the house elves. These cute little guys were so happy when they heard that I was going to give them a new job. However, I was still personally responsible for the setting of the traceless stretching spell here.

Of course, human resources alone are not enough.

Most of the materials for the renovation were sponsored by other members of the Slug Club, such as these chandeliers, sent by Buck Leighton. This guy is a very famous magic lamp merchant who has risen recently. He sent the lamps over through the channels of another Slug Club member and attempted to join the Slug Club. In addition, there are these tables and chairs..."

Slughorn gave Harry a detailed introduction to every object in the banquet hall.

After this operation, Harry's mouth widened and he finally reached a state of stagnation that could hardly be closed.

He didn't understand the high-end words Slughorn said deeply.

The only thing he could understand was that except for the traceless stretching spell in the banquet hall, almost every furniture and manpower here was free from Slughorn.

This can be described as incredible to Harry.

At the same time, he also gained a new and complete understanding of the Slug Club's network.

There are actually not many members of the Slug Club.

But these people are divided into various industries in the magic world and generally hold high positions.

Through these people, Slughorn can contact countless other peripheral personnel and achieve his goals at an extremely fast speed through these people.

This set of interpersonal relationships that look like a spider web can be described as omnipotent!

Harry was not very popular since he was a child. Later, Sirius, who was in close contact, was also a loner. Therefore, this was the first time he had seen the power of interpersonal relationships and was deeply shocked by this power.

Slughorn was very satisfied with Harry's expression.

He could tell that Harry was really shocked.

This performance could satisfy his vanity more than hypocritical flattery, and it also made him laugh out loud.

And at this moment, the door of the banquet hall was opened again.

Harry's old acquaintance Ernie walked in with a familiarity and headed straight for Slughorn and Harry.

"Look, Professor Slughorn, and Harry, you guys are so handsome today!"

Ernie opened his arms and gave Slughorn and Harry a big hug, "It's great to see you, oh yes, Professor Slughorn, I also brought you a gift, I hope you can accept it!"

Ernie took out a big gift box wrapped in Christmas colored paper.

This is actually a Christmas gift.

But it is somewhat embarrassing to give Christmas gifts to elders, so giving them on Christmas Eve is a barely feasible method.

"Really? This is for me?"

Slughorn was a little flattered. He accepted the gift box while talking and opened it.

Then what appeared in front of Harry and others was a complete set of potion making tools.

This includes a small crucible, a pair of dragon leather gloves, and a whole set of tools used to handle the materials.

"These are all made of Mithril alloy. No matter how magic potion is used to make, they will hardly suffer any wear or corrosion. The most important thing is that this set of tools was used by the potion master, Kunris, two hundred years ago!"

Ernie raised his head slightly and introduced with some smugness.

Slughorn was also very proud of his face and took a breath and said:

"Qunris? I'm his fan! Ernie, I really like your gift, thank you!"

"No, just like it."

The two continued to greet for a while, and Ernie then went to Link again.

It can be seen that he had actually wanted to meet with Link for a long time, but he could only stay here due to Professor Slughorn's face.

Fortunately, Slughorn also saw this clearly, so he did not delay him for too long.

And at this time Harry felt a little uncomfortable.

Now Ernie has given the gift, but he hasn't given it. This is really embarrassing.

This made him restless and wanted to find some gift to give it.

Unfortunately, he had been in a trance all afternoon, but now he didn't even bring a scarless stretching spell bag except the space anchor given by Gerald.

Professor Slughorn also seemed to see Harry's embarrassment.

He smiled slightly and said:

"Harry, you don't have to do this. I'm not very interested in gifts and things. These are unnecessary and you don't need to make things difficult for you."

Harry curled his lips when he heard this.

Professor Slughorn's reputation for being greedy for small gains has long been spread throughout Hogwarts.

I heard that even if you give him a bag of durian as a gift, he would happily take it away. Now he actually says that he doesn’t love gifts anymore?

Who would believe this nonsense?

Harry felt that Slughorn was dissatisfied with him because he did not give him a gift.

Slughorn also knew that Harry didn't believe it, and then smiled and raised the set of potion tools and said:

"Do you think this is useful to me?"
To be continued...