Hogwarts' First Spring Festival

After the Quidditch game, the students of Hogwarts were plunged into a long stretch of uneventful study time.

Every day was filled with monotonous classes, no Quidditch matches, no festivals, at least for most of the students.

"Sigh~"

Adam let out his third sigh of the day.

"Adam, what's wrong?"

Klon leaned over with a worried look, and the other roommates also turned their attention to the commotion.

"Nothing..."

Adam blurted out, only to be met with four pairs of disbelieving and disapproving eyes.

"What do you mean nothing? You've never been this down before!"

Klon put his hands on Adam's shoulders from behind and shook him:

"You're the Adam who can decisively deal with cockroaches in the bathroom! Cheer up! You can tell us anything!"

"While I appreciate your concern, that prefix was really unnecessary..."

Recalling that day's experience, Adam's face was full of black lines.

Who would have thought that even Eugene, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, was afraid of cockroaches, and such a small one at that... But then again, they're quite rare in Britain, I didn't expect to find them in Hogwarts.

Snapping out of the memory of his roommates screaming and chaos, Adam sighed again:

"Okay, the truth is, it's almost New Year, but I can't go back."

Hogwarts doesn't seem to have a leave system, and it's not easy to travel back and forth.

"New Year?"

A question mark popped up above Klon's head.

"Wasn't January 1st a long time ago? It's almost February."

"I'm talking about the Chinese festival - Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year."

As he said that, Adam sighed wistfully again:

"The whole family cooking together, eating together, putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns..."

"Hmm... sounds pretty much the same as Christmas."

Adam immediately turned his head to retort:

"There's a big difference!"

"Okay, okay, a big difference."

Klon turned Adam's head back, "Is this festival very special to you?"

"It's probably the most important festival of the year."

"I see..."

Klon turned to look at his roommates behind him:

"Then how about... we celebrate... Spring Festival ourselves at Hogwarts?"

"Huh?"

Adam blinked, it sounds like... a possibility?

Since it was a Chinese festival, Adam didn't plan to involve anyone else, just celebrating it in the dormitory would be enough. According to Klon and the others, they could be considered family.

Yellow and black had always been the main colors of the Hufflepuff dormitory, but on this day, they were replaced by red. Red round lanterns hung from the ceiling like a string of persimmons, and folded red paper cut into the character "福" (fortune), which, when unfolded, turned into a long string stretching from one end of the dormitory to the other.

Adam even caught Kero and Suppi and dressed them in lion dance costumes.

"Okay, go play~"

After helping the two little ones get their wings out of the openings in their clothes, Adam patted their butts and let them down from his lap.

"Adam, should this one be pasted upside down too?"

Adam glanced at the character "寿" (longevity) in Uther's hand and quickly said:

"No, no! Only the 'fortune' character should be pasted upside down!"

When it came to pasting the Spring Festival couplets, Adam was stumped by the red paper in front of him. Should he paste couplets with Hogwarts characteristics at Hogwarts?

But what to write...

Upper line: Albus Dumbledore

Lower line: Gellert Grindelwald

Horizontal inscription: A hundred years of harmony?

Um... I don't know if the old headmaster can understand Chinese, so it's better not to do something like that.

After thinking for a while, Adam picked up his pen and wrote:

The great dragon hatches, birds and snakes break through their silver shells, bidding farewell to the old year.

Phoenix Nirvana sniffs and presents gold to welcome the New Year.

Blessed with both fortune and prosperity.

Couldn't think of anything better for the moment, so let's stick with these for now.

"Eugene, help me paste this outside the door. I've marked where it goes."

"Okay."

There were still classes on New Year's Eve, so most of the preparations had been done in advance. Plus, many things at Hogwarts had to be simplified, so the highly anticipated New Year's Eve dinner arrived quickly.

"Wow~"

Klon, already skilled with chopsticks, picked up a pair and swallowed.

"Isn't there a bit too much food on this table—can we even finish it?"

Adam had made a whole table full of dishes, with things that fly, run on the ground, and swim in the water. There were four kinds of staple food alone. Even he, with his insatiable appetite, felt that finishing this meal was a bit impossible.

"This table is supposed to last until tomorrow. It's better to make too much than too little."

Actually, Adam also realized that he seemed to have made a bit too much, but it wasn't a big deal.

"Oh, right, Eugene, one of these two fish is for tomorrow. Don't eat them both in one day."

"Okay."

Eugene's eyes lit up when he saw the two Squirrel Fish.

He still wasn't very good at picking out fish bones, and this kind of fish, where only the head and tail weren't edible, was practically tailor-made for him.

As it turned out, Klon had underestimated the fighting power of boys their age. The five of them ate the New Year's Eve dinner from dinner until after midnight, and there wasn't much left besides the Squirrel Fish that they had intentionally saved.

"What? You guys secretly celebrated without inviting us?!"

The next day, the Hufflepuffs gradually noticed the red paper pasted on the door of Adam's dorm, and after asking out of curiosity, they were immediately devastated.

"That's the Chinese festival, Spring Festival. You guys don't celebrate it."

"It doesn't matter, we can eat... oh, no, we can celebrate it!"

Ernie clutched his chest, looking like he'd missed out on a fortune.

After Adam's popularization, how many people at Hogwarts didn't know that Chinese festivals equaled delicious food?

"Is there any left?"

Cedric was very concise and went straight to the point.

"Nope, the last Squirrel Fish was eaten for breakfast this morning."

Klon spread his hands.

"Okay..."

"Are you guys so interested in Chinese festivals?"

Adam stroked his chin.

"Yeah, yeah!"

A group of people nodded one after another.

"There are indeed a few more Chinese festivals later..."

There were more festivals in the first half of the year, but...

Amidst the expectant gazes, Adam uttered incredibly cold words:

"But, do you still remember the end-of-year exams that aren't far away from us?"

Yes, as students, they obviously had one hurdle they couldn't escape, and that was exams.

Although Hogwarts only had exams once a year, it was precisely because of this that many young wizards realized at this time that they didn't seem to have learned much throughout the year.

There were also many young wizards who found that they had been learning and forgetting all year long, and when they reviewed, they realized that the knowledge they were once familiar with was now so unfamiliar.

This was when the caring professors stepped in, using homework to forcibly cram knowledge points into the minds of the young wizards.

"Ahhhhhh I'm not going to make it—"

The feather pen in Klon's hand was moving so fast it was almost flying, and his face was on the verge of collapse.

"Eugene! Bernard! Uther! Help!"

Why not Adam? Because Adam's homework was different from theirs.

"I told you there was a lot of homework this time, and not to leave it until the last day."

Uther helplessly put the three people's homework in front of him.

"You didn't say that this 'a lot' was twice as much as last weekend, waaaaaa QAQ"

"You should hurry up and write instead of wasting time complaining."

Adam reminded him, taking out the letter he had received during dinner from his satchel.

It was sent by his grandmother... and it was also his grandmother's first reply after he wrote to her asking about Nicolas Flamel.