(((ˊˋ ) Everyone's Having a Snowball Fight
Hogwarts Castle looked especially majestic in the winter twilight. The world was blanketed in white, every inch of land, every fir and pine tree covered in thick snow, as if some terrifying wizard had cast a permanent Freezing Charm over the whole world.
And now, on the open grounds outside the castle, an unprecedented magical duel was underway.
The main participants in this duel weren't students, but ice-and-snow warriors—or "snowman" monsters—created by a group of students using Transfiguration spells.
On one side of the "snowmen" stood a little girl dressed in a red Gryffindor robe. She was none other than Annie Bonnie of Gryffindor!
At that moment, her eyes glittered with amusement and excitement. She gave her wand a gentle wave, and the huge pile of snow in front of her immediately began to churn and writhe violently. In no time, it had taken the shape of a lifelike female warrior clad in silver armor and wielding a massive ice sword.
A hundred meters away, on the other side of the "battlefield," stood a group of Slytherin House students, all armed with wands. Most of them were in sixth or seventh year, and there were more than a dozen in all.
They were just as determined not to be outdone. One after another, they used their wands to cast Transfiguration spells, shaping the snow around them into all sorts of creatures.
There were enormous serpents coiling and twisting, their scales and fangs gleaming with a sinister, dangerous blue in the sunlight; dragons beating their wings as if ready to take flight, breathing out bone-chilling frost; clumsy but immensely strong snowmen swinging massive hammers made from chunks of ice; and, of course, Trolls, waving enormous ice-crystal clubs with their hulking bodies and rough hands,