94 Diagon Alley

    ! I love you too, Garrick! Merry Christmas! "

    "Merry Christmas, now let's see what gifts your friends have sent? I'm always curious about the choices of young people."

    Gwen and the old man were sitting on the only bench in the wand shop unwrapping gifts. Katie gave her a pack of Honey Duke's oversized chocolates, and even Mr. Ollivander broke a piece and ate it with a smile. Cormac gave a bottle of ink. Qiu Zhang sent a few feathers from a mysterious creature from the East, and Gwen asked her if she could help find it, perhaps as a wand core. When the old man saw the feather, he didn't open the gift at all, and took it directly into the house for research.

    Gwen opened the last gift, which should have come from the twins, and found it to be a thin book - "The Lazy Man Makes Society Progress: The Collision of Muggle Invention and Magic", There is also a card inside.

    "Dear Miss Wand:

    The road to developing new products is a tortuous and long one, and since none of us have any new inspiration, we turned to this book at home yesterday. Hope Dad doesn't find out, this is the book he didn't get back from the Ministry of Magic.

    In addition, no matter what Christmas gift you give us, we are going to give it to Ron to try, he is going to Hogwarts next year and needs some help from seniors and seniors '. I think he will thank you too.

    Merry Christmas!

    Fred and George Weasley”

    Gwen flipped through the book in surprise, and there was a chapter on Muggle elevators. She looked at the card carefully again, and although the twins were usually almost identical, their fonts were very different. George's font is round, and Fred's is as varied as his mischief. She sympathized with their little brother Ron for a second, and immediately sat back at the counter to read.

    After the Christmas break, Gwen runs into the Weasley twins on the return train, and she pulls Katie and sits with them in a box, eager to share what she has learned over the holiday.

    "I've read that book, so our previous idea was right. The moving spell is superimposed on a propulsion spell, but it just needs a lot of debugging, and maybe some protective magic. Going upstairs alone is not the same as giving away a mouse," Gwen said cheerfully.

    Fred pretended to shake, "Oh, I really feel sorry for the mice at Hogwarts. They survived hard under the clutches of Mrs. Norris, and in the end, they died for Austria. Miss Levander's invention career was sacrificed."

    Katie giggled, grabbed Gwen's new pet and slapped it all over.

    "Look," George chewed his tongue in his brother's ear, "she also brought a new 'weapon' to exterminate school rats? Should we take Percy's Scabbers? hide."

    "Don't say that about my dog, George." Gwen also stroked the little white cat's head, "it's still too young to catch mice."

    "You actually named a cat Dog??" The twins hugged each other with a loud growl, "Isn't this an insult to cats, terrible witch."

    The cat in Katie's arms seemed to think it was too noisy. She raised her head and glanced at the two men who were entangled in the opposite side, and called out, "Wow".

    There was a moment of silence in the carriage, Katie smiled and bent over, the dog was squeezed out of her arms, Fred simply rolled under the seat, George coughed and picked up his brother, Only Gwen helplessly grabbed the little white cat who was about to run out the door.

    "Don't ask, even the lady at Wonder Zoo doesn't know why it's only barking."

    I named it the jumping machine

    After returning to school for Christmas, Gwen felt suddenly busy. The history of magic and potions classes were filled with homework, and it seemed that the professors felt they were no longer freshmen once the new year came. On top of that, she accompanies Katie to Gryffindor's Quidditch training every Wednesday, and her good friend makes up his mind that he must be on the team in the second year. Gwen's Magic Elevator research is also proceeding step by step, and after instigating the twins to ask Professor Flitwick a few questions about mixing spells after class, they have now succeeded in making a relatively stable one with propelling and moving spells. launcher. According to George, Professor Flitwick was so moved by their studious spirit that he turned to Professor McGonagall's office for some reason.

    Obviously because he's a Ravenclaw, he's witty to find out that you have bad intentions. Gwen thought to herself, but didn't dare to say it out loud.

    "Seriously, Gwen." Fred stretched his legs to keep warm in front of the fireplace. "If you don't make this thing soon, the rats in the tower will be extinct."

    Gwen stayed up late yesterday to finish writing the long dissertation in the Transfiguration class, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting. "There are a lot of rats in the basement. To be honest, there are rats all over Hogwarts except Professor Snape's office and the Potions classroom."

    "Don't worry, Fred. We only have real experiments left. Little Sister Gwen, we promise to send you to the medical wing as soon as possible." George closed the book and urged Take his brother and Gwen back to rest.

    The next evening, three figures, two tall and one short, sneakily carried a chair to the most secret stairwell of the tower.

    "Genius!" Gwen exclaimed sincerely, "I haven't noticed a small staircase leading to the eighth floor for a year!"

    "Of course, no one knows the secret passages of Hogwarts better than us." Fred and George bumped shoulders.

    Gwen took a deep breath, reconfirmed that they would send her to Madam Pomfrey in time if there was a situation, and then sat on the chair with dignity.

    "As soon as it flew", with a bang, the chair took Gwen up to the eighth floor, and Fred was already waiting for her upstairs. The twins also dragged a thick old rug from Filch's office. Gwen got up and stepped over, standing firmly on the eighth floor. The two cheered happily.

    "Then I'm ready to go, wish me success!" Gwen took another deep breath and sat back in the chair as if going to the execution ground.

     "It's gone."

    The situation gets a little more complicated. Although their spells are very successful in teleporting, they are always a bit fast. Gwen didn't feel anything when she went upstairs, but the weightlessness of jumping off the building made her dizzy, as if her heart was about to jump out of her stomach. When she was two meters off the ground, she saw George's terrified face, and then slipped her hand without grabbing the chair, and fell crookedly.

    The speed was too fast, she didn't have time to cast the spell, she just prayed that she would break two bones, otherwise she might get a P in the final exam if she missed too many classes.

    Pop, "uh--" with a muffled sound, Gwen realized that he didn't fall on the hard wooden floor, and underneath was George who was breathing in pain. He caught himself at the last second. The boy was growing tall and thin. She plunged in and hit his nose. Now two nosebleeds were dripping onto George's robe.

    Poof.

    "Hahahahahaha".

    I don't know who couldn't help laughing, Gwen quickly wiped the nosebleed with his sleeve, and took the wand to clean up the poor Mr. Pad.

    Fred's melodious greeting came from a distance: "Are you still alive—"

    "I live well—" George rolled his eyes and shouted. "Okay, miss, get up from me. I'm glad you're not too fat, otherwise my rib will be broken today."

    "Sorry sorry, George." Gwen rubbed her nose embarrassedly, "Thank you for catching me, I will definitely give you a big gift this April Fools..."

    "What, is it a miracle that Gwen didn't break his leg?" Fred, who ran downstairs, asked from a distance.

    "…must be twice as big as Fred's gift," Gwen said through gritted teeth.

    "I'm looking forward to it." George also rubbed his chest, which just hurt by Miss Wand's nose, "Before that, we'd better ask Lee Jordan, Muggle What's the seat belt?"

    Until she lay back on the bed, Gwen's nose was still a little sore. She didn't dare to treat herself indiscriminately, so she could only freeze an ice cube. Half-dreaming and half-awake, she seemed to smell that smell again in her swollen nose, the smell of washing powder sold by wizard families, the mellow smell of butter at dinner, the malicious sweet smell of burp sugar, and a hint of ignition powder.

    Before the end of the term, Gwen's invention was finally complete. The twins even cast an Invisibility Charm and Ignore Charm on the seat, and no one but the three could see that there was such a magic item in the corner of the tower. Gwen had to sigh that the twins showed amazing talent and perseverance, and they went farther than anyone else on the road to mischief.

    Li Jordan repeatedly expressed that he provided the inspiration for the seat belt, but he couldn't try it. After getting Gwen's consent, the twins took him for a ride. Li Jordan, who got off the chair, knelt down and asked Gwen shiveringly what it was, which was not the same as an elevator.

    "I named it the jumping machine." Miss Ollivander smiled harmlessly.

    With her beloved jumping machine, Gwen had a good first exam season at Hogwarts, getting an extra twenty minutes of sleep a day. At the end of the term, in addition to the evil exam, there is also bad news, Gryffindor lost the Quidditch match to Slytherin this year. Professor McGonagall had been gloomy for two weeks, and Gwen noticed that she was avoiding Professor Snape. And the corners of the latter's eyes and brows have a bit of reserved pleasure.

    So in addition to accompanying Katie every day for half an hour scolding Slytherin's Sharktooth Flint (because he knocked Angelina off the broom), Gwen also went to the common room to comfort Wayne The Sly twins. Gryffindor's ace Seeker Charlie is said to be graduating soon, and the academy hasn't even been able to find him at his level