Chapter 102: Christmas Banquet (Edited)

"Minerva~" ?●ω●?

As soon as he arrived in the Great Dining Hall, Fish pounced on Professor McGonagall, who grabbed him with open arms, gave him a few kisses on the head, and then cupped his cheeks and ears before placing him in the seat next to her.

In addition to Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore and other teachers from other classes were seated at the teachers' table, and there were also a few teachers who had opted to leave the school over the Christmas break and were not in the Great Dining Hall, such as Professor Quirrell, whom Fish did not like.

"Merry Christmas everyone!" ?(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish jumped up on a chair and greeted everyone in the Great Dining Hall in a loud voice.

Everyone laughed and replied, "Merry Christmas, Fish."

After the greeting, Fish resumed his seat, it wasn't the first time he had eaten at the teachers' table, and he was about to grab the food from the table when he was stopped by Professor McGonagall.

"Don't worry, Fish, the banquet hasn't started yet." Professor McGonagall handed him a colorful bag of firecrackers. "Come and play with these first."

Fish used to play with colorful firecrackers when he was at home and knew that they could explode many interesting things.

So he lowered the ears to the cat on his head as he grabbed the firecrackers and tossed them sideways.

With a pop, a cloud of blue smoke exploded from the firecrackers, enveloping Fish's figure.

Waving his arms to disperse the smoke, Fish saw a slingshot in front of him, with a pair of wings on either side, now fluttering, making it float up and down in front of him.

Fish reached out and grabbed the winged wave, but it didn't dodge him at all, but fell obediently into Fish's palm.

"It's boring, meow" ?ω?

Throwing the winged sling on the table in disgust, Fish pouted with a sneer.

A thing he couldn't even dodge, what a waste of his wings!

He threw a few more bags of colored firecrackers, and what came out was what Fish already had, or wasn't interested in, so he soon stopped opening the bags of colored firecrackers, but tugged on Professor McGonagall's sleeve next to his.

"Minerva, when can we eat, meow?"

"When everyone is here, we can officially begin," Dumbledore, who was sitting in the main seat smiled and stroked his beard, replying to Fish, "You can have a few drinks first, or how about we sing a song together?"

After he finished speaking, he sang a carol to himself, and all the teachers, except Snape, joined in, one by one, to the beat, and Fish, amused, sang along, but he was unfamiliar with the song, so he stumbled over it.

Then the students joined in and, after one song, all clapped and cheered merrily, whereupon the excited Dumbledore began to sing a second song ...

In this lively atmosphere, the last remaining student in the school entered the Great Dining Hall with a confused look on his face, and Dumbledore led the crowd through the song before rising from his seat and gesturing for the confused student to sit down.

"Merry Christmas! Everyone..." he called out to everyone, as Fish had done earlier, and waved his hand, "Eat all you want!"

"Dinner's ready, meow!" ?(●?ω?●)?

Fish, who couldn't wait, grabbed a roast turkey on the plate in front of him and neatly tore off both wings.

"Minerva, take meow!"

Fish handed one wing to Professor McGonagall, who was standing next to him, then popped the other into his mouth.

Professor McGonagall took the turkey wing with a look of relief, not bothering to question Fish's behavior.

It was an unspoken agreement between mother and son that Fish could eat without silverware during the feast.

While Fish ate roast turkey, others enjoyed the Christmas feast.

The professor and older students ate and exchanged drinks with familiar friends, and Dumbledore sang a song when he felt like it, but this time everyone was too busy eating and drinking to sing along, but he still sang several songs at the top of his lungs.

The younger students ate and chatted, and occasionally opened firecrackers to lighten the mood.

Once Fish had finished eating, he became a tabby cat running around the tables, and everyone got used to this behavior, smiling and waving as he passed, or grabbing some food to feed him.

When everyone was almost full, the turkey, roast beef and sausages were cleared from the table by the house elves, and then everyone had a dessert in front of them, a fiery red Christmas pudding, with some coins hidden in it.

Fish had a golden galleon, either because of his luck or because the house elves had specially arranged it.

At the end of the feast, everyone left the Great Dining Hall one by one, grabbing the items they had opened from the packets of firecrackers, and Fish left after saying goodbye to Professor McGonagall, only he had left all the items he had opened on the table, with no intention of taking them with him.

In the afternoon, the twins organized another snowball fight, in which Fish was not very interested, but still participated in the snowball fight under the twins' insistence. Having learned from the last time, they all put their best to fight Fish, which gave Fish a good time....

Then, Fish used his reflexes and speed to his advantage and made his way through the group of people all by himself.

"Meow hahahahaha Fish is awesome!". ?(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish stood on a tall pile of snow and laughed triumphantly, with his defeated men buried under his feet.

By the time they all emerged from the snow pile, they were soaked to the bone and had to return to the dormitory to light the fire.

In the Common Room, the twins gathered to work on their new product, while Harry and Ron played magical chess, with Percy at Harry's side to give him advice.

Fish wasn't interested in a game that wouldn't rely on speed and reflexes, so he turned into a tabby cat and fell asleep by the fire.

He slept until nightfall, when Harry and the others woke Fish, and he went to the Great Dining Room to attend Christmas dinner.

The dinner meal had changed again, the main meal being turkey sandwich, toast, jam pudding and Christmas cake for last.

Although the meat was a little sparse, Fish had a good time.

After eating and drinking, everyone was a bit sleepy and did no more activities, so they all went back to their rooms and went to sleep.

It was around nine o'clock at night when Fish, awakened by his biological clock, opened his eyes under the covers.

It was...

It was time to roam the territory!

Fish got out of his bed, stretched, stepped on the pillow and smoothed his messy fur with his tongue before jumping out of his bed and heading for Harry's.

Fish had intended to borrow the invisibility cloak to deal with Fluffy's big, brainless dog, but had been sidetracked by Redhead No. 4, and then had forgotten about it until now, when he'd been eating and drinking.

But when Fish jumped on Harry's bed, he found it empty.

"Meow?" ⊙ω⊙