Hogwarts: The Book of Magic

Chapter 235 Christmas

In the evening, in the dining room of Granger's house, the four of them were sitting at a table enjoying the luxurious dinner that took Mrs. Granger half a day to prepare.

It was a four-seater dining table, with the Grangers on one side and Rian and Hermione in a row.And even more coincidentally, Mr. Granger was opposite Lean, and Mrs. Granger was opposite Hermione.

"Thank God, this semester finally gave us a slightly normal Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. If this professor is still the same as the previous two years, I am really worried about what will happen to the fifth grade OWLs."

Hermione sat at the dining table, cut a piece of turkey and put it on her own plate, and kept sharing what happened in school with her parents and Lean.

"However, Professor Lupine disappears for a few days every month, which is very strange. During the time when Professor Lupine disappeared, Professor Snape came back to take over as a substitute teacher. He must be very happy, after all, he has wanted to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts for a long time gone."

"But Professor Snape seems to have some conflicts with the new Professor Lupine. No matter what we have learned in class, he always jumps and talks."

At this time, the Grangers would smile and listen to Hermione's story.They also want to know more about Hermione's school, and they are also curious about magic.

"Did Professor Snape talk about werewolves?" Lean asked with a smile.

"Huh? How do you know?" Hermione raised her head and turned to look at Rin, her wide eyes were full of disbelief.

"Oh, I see, Beaver and Kex told you?" Then, Hermione suddenly realized.

Lian shook his head. In fact, only the students of Hogwarts knew about these things, so it is not a secret.It's just that Snape is now a professor at Hogwarts and a master of potions, so it's not fruitful to spread Snape's dark history outside.

So the big guys seem to have collectively forgotten about that matter, and no one mentioned it.

"There's something hidden about this matter. I'll tell you about it in a few days. Let me rest during this period. Traveling for half a year is really tiring."

Lien shook his head, took a chicken leg and put it on his dinner plate.The chicken legs made by Mrs. Granger are really delicious. It seems that they have been fried first, and the outer skin is very crispy.After one bite, there was a "creak" sound, and then a smell of chicken mixed with cumin and pepper spread on the tip of the tongue instantly.

"Rin, Rin, tell me about what happened in the past six months. In your letters, you always write unclearly."

Hermione sat beside her, looked at Lean, and said with some longing.She also wants to start her own journey one day.

"Actually, I don't have much to say. I've had a pretty good time during this time." Lien said.

"What about your food? What about the bad weather?" Mr. Granger asked, it was obvious that he also had a lot of interest in these things.

"I have a non-marking stretch bag, so I can store more food. And I have mastered apparition. If I am tired from eating dry food, I can go to the surrounding towns to eat some hot food. As for bad weather, insulation spells, waterproof spells, etc. Yes, all of these can be resolved.”

Lean said indifferently that after so many years, he has long been used to using magic to make his daily life more convenient.

Mr. Granger shrugged. What Ryan said had shattered his view of travel.

In his cognition, traveling in the wilderness is the kind of carrying a bag, finding a place to set up a camp wherever he goes, and then looking for water sources to boil water and eat dry food.

Maybe sometimes you will encounter wild animals, and have an exciting chasing battle with them.

Hearing Mr. Granger's description, Hermione gave him a blank look.

"Dad, how could this be possible? Not to mention anything else, you can use spells when you encounter wild animals, such as knockback spells, Muggle shielding spells, etc., and you can use the levitation spell to float yourself to the tree to hide Get up."

Mr. Granger touched the back of his head in embarrassment, and laughed twice.During the annual winter and summer vacations, Hermione never released any magic at home, which made Mr. Granger have not yet converted.

"Well, I've never seen you cast magic, so I almost forgot about it."

"The Ministry of Magic doesn't allow little wizards to cast magic at home because..."

"Hermione, come and try this chicken nugget I fried up, I just learned it from a book, but I added some lemon juice."

Mrs. Granger quickly interrupted Hermione's words, forked a chicken nugget and put it on Hermione's dinner plate.

"Actually speaking of beasts, it's not uncommon. To be honest, the magic world is not as safe as the world of ordinary people." Lien said slowly.

When the Granger family heard what Ryan said, they all quietly raised their ears.

"Oh, by the way, Hermione, where's the little fox I gave you?"

Lean suddenly remembered that he should have given Hermione the ice blue fox.

"Damn! I forgot!" Hermione yelled, and ran down the table to her suitcase.

Opening the box, Hermione took out two small cages.This is a pet cage launched by the Yilala Owl Store. It is airtight all around, but the cage is equipped with a magic spell for life support, which allows the owner to stuff the pet into the box instead of carrying it on the hand.

After releasing the two pets from their cages, Hermione sat on the dining table with the ice blue fox in her arms.The remaining cat walked slowly to Hermione's feet, and then lay down quietly, looking very docile.

But Lean knew that this cat looked very docile, but in fact it was very lively and active.

"This is a cat I bought in a pet store. It has been in the pet store for a long time, but no one wants it."

Hermione bent down, picked up Crookshanks, and held him in front of Lean.

"Ah, by the way, its name is Crookshanks. I heard from the clerk that it seems to have the blood of some cats and raccoons, but since I haven't asked about it for a long time, I sold it to me at the price of an ordinary cat. Dad said You're going on a trip, and I'm going to be a bit lonely going to school alone, so I bought this cat for me."

When Hermione said this, her little face was already a little rosy.

Lean looked at Mr. Granger, and Mr. Granger smiled at him.

Good father-in-law!Lian secretly praised Mr. Granger in his heart.

"Hey!"

A cry suddenly appeared in the room.

"Ah! You're still so cute." Mrs. Granger hugged the little blue fox in her arms, then picked up a chicken nugget, and brought it to the little fox's mouth.

The little fox holds the chicken nugget with its two front paws, and then slowly eats it all up, the whole process is extremely healing.

"Hmph, since you brought the fox here, my mother likes it very much."

"What's its name."

"Anqier, I only found out after I checked the book that this is a female fox."

"As long as you like it, you may not believe it if you tell me. This fox got into my arms when I was camping on the snow mountain, although it may just be greedy for me to eat the leftover barbecue."

Lean shrugged, and then prepared to feed Crookshanks with a piece of fried meat.

"Stop, don't feed the cat these things, I bought cat food for it."

Hermione stopped Rin's movements, and Rin glanced at Crookshanks apologetically, and then stuffed the fried meat into his mouth.

"Okay, let's try this bottle of red wine. Today is a good day, everyone can have some." Mr. Granger took out the bottle of red wine that Rean brought.

The bottle of red wine has now been uncorked, probably by Mr. Granger before eating, and he has almost woken up by now.

Mrs. Granger rarely refuted, but turned around and took out four goblets from the cabinet.

However, Mr. Granger didn't pour much money into Lian and Hermione, only a shallow layer.

"Okay, let's have a toast on this reunion day."

Mr. Granger raised his glass, and the other three also raised their glasses, clinked together, and then took a little sip.

"You need to wake up for a while before it tastes good." Mr. Granger slowly shook the red wine in the goblet, smacked his lips, and said with some regret.

Lien put down his wine glass after drinking. He couldn't tell the taste of things like wine at all.He has only two perceptions of wine: good and bad.

But Lean didn't say it out of nowhere.

After Hermione finished drinking, her little face turned even redder.The little head is moving little by little, and it seems that it can fall asleep at any time.

But thinking about it, I took the train all afternoon, and then I didn't rest after I came back, so I ate a big meal directly.Drink some more wine now, and naturally feel sleepy.

Seeing Hermione who was forcibly cheering up, Lean and the Grangers both consciously sped up the progress of the Christmas dinner - the few people who ate the last bit of noodles in tomato sauce considered it as the end of today's dinner.

"Rin, let's rest here tonight. There are still many rooms at home. I will take you out for fun tomorrow. It's a rare vacation. It's not bad for everyone to go out for a stroll together."

Mr. Granger patted Ryan on the shoulder and said.

Lien thought for a while, then nodded and agreed.

The next morning, Ryan woke up from the room.This room was brought in by Mr. Granger yesterday, but judging from the decoration of the room, a lot of effort should have been put into it.

When they came to the bathroom of Granger's house, there was already a tooth cup beside the washbasin, with a toothbrush inserted in it.There was also an extra towel next to the place where the towel was hung, and Li En's name was written on it with a label to prevent Li En from admitting his mistake.

Lien laughed, then quickly finished washing, and came to the restaurant.

Mr. Granger was already sitting in his seat, reading this morning's newspaper.

"Ha, the newspaper office is really passing by. Today's newspapers are all about the Queen's speech. Is it true that they have nothing to write?"

Mr. Granger said helplessly, and then flipped through two more pages. After finding that there were still various speeches, he reluctantly put the newspaper down.

"How did you sleep?"

"Same as home."

"Good morning."

Hermione appeared at the door of the restaurant. The little girl was wearing milky white pajamas, with sleepy eyes, and yawned.

"Good morning, my daughter. Go wash up, a delicious breakfast is coming."

"Good morning, Hermione."

Hermione rubbed her eyes, turned around and went to the bathroom to wash up.

After breakfast, everyone gathered under the Christmas tree in the living room, preparing to unwrap presents.

It's just a little embarrassing that there were only three gifts from Rian, from Mr. Granger, Mrs. Granger, and Hermione.

"I think the presents should be under that Christmas tree at my house."

As soon as Lean finished speaking, Pais appeared outside the window.

"Dump" Pais tapped the glass with his beak.

"Don't worry, we'll be here soon." Mrs. Granger trotted over and opened the window for Pais.

Pais spun around in the air before landing on the Christmas tree.A faint light flashed on the ankle ring, and many gifts appeared under the tree immediately.

The Grangers breathed a sigh of relief. They were afraid that Rian had received three gifts.

The next step is to open the gift, which is similar to opening a blind box, and the pleasure of actually being able to open something is really addictive.

Beaver sent a small bottle of potion, which was said to be obtained from the ruins; what Kex sent was still a magic book, but this magic book involved human anatomy.

The others are gifts from my subordinates, which are common but represent my heart.

Mr. Granger gave Rin a pen, Mrs. Granger gave Rin a pocket watch inlaid with gold, and Hermione gave Rin a brand new scarf with many patterns woven on it.

It's just that after Lean took out the scarf, the little girl's face immediately turned red, and she suddenly realized that this was still at home.

Mr. Granger's eyes immediately turned into lemon shapes, and he was so sour right now.

Lean gave Hermione a book of spells and gave each of the Grangers a bottle of youth potion.After hearing the effects of the potion, the Grangers laughed from ear to ear.

Especially Mrs. Granger, this miraculous potion is the most suitable for her to use.

After packing up the presents, the four of them drove to the commercial street.

There are a lot of people on the commercial street today, and there are far more small vendors on the street than usual, pushing small carts and selling various snacks.

"Okay, any plans?" Mr. Granger turned around and asked after parking the car.

Lian shook his head. He spent a lot of money just the day before yesterday, and now he has nothing missing at all.

"I need to buy a new coat, a new pair of gloves, and a few more T-shirts." Hermione counted them one by one on her fingers.

Mrs. Granger also needs to replenish some ingredients and various consumables.

"So let's go shopping for clothes first, then go to the restaurant for a meal, go to the zoo in the afternoon, and finally buy the ingredients and go back, how about it?"

Mr. Granger quickly made plans for today.

(End of this chapter)