The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

On Christmas Day, when Link woke up from his sleep, the entire Forlì Castle and a large green area around it were decorated in a Christmas atmosphere.

It was the result of an entire night's work by Buttonkit, along with his fellow house elves.

They even built a huge ice crystal Christmas tree in the castle hall.

Reinforced by the special magic of the house elves, this ice crystal Christmas tree still showed no sign of melting, even though the castle was warm as spring by the fireplace.

However, Link believes that the most Christmassy thing in the entire castle is the gifts piled beside his bed.

Perhaps due to his acquaintance with a large group of members of Sir Merlin at the investiture ceremony yesterday, Link received particularly many gifts this Christmas. It took Link a whole morning just to open the gift boxes.

Although most of these gifts were just polite things and took a lot of energy, Link was still very happy with the whole process of opening the gifts.

After all, opening gifts is basically equivalent to free prostitution for Link who doesn't need to think about returning gifts, and free prostitution can inspire the most primitive happiness in human beings.

Of course, there are still some Christmas gifts that are really thoughtful.

It's like the magic snow globe sent by Cedric, which contains a Hufflepuff Quidditch player riding a broomstick, circling in the snow and chasing the golden snitch. There will also be a strip of light behind the butt, which is very beautiful.

According to the letter accompanying the gift, Cedric had recently been studying alchemy, and this magical snow globe was the first finished product he had made with his own hands.

A memorable gift.

Hermione gave Link two pairs of signed football shoes. Unfortunately, Link didn't know much about football, and the signatures on them were so colorful that Link didn't recognize whose shoes these were.

But this did not prevent him from keeping Mr. Granger in a specially made transparent display cabinet in the room after a few seconds of silence.

Mrs. Foley, uncharacteristically, did not prepare any expensive gifts this year, but gave her a beige scarf.

To be honest, this scarf is not very pretty, there is no pattern on it at all, and the stitching is not very dense.

But Link happily wore it around his neck after receiving it.

Because according to the little button informant, this scarf was knitted by Mrs. Foley herself without using magic. For this reason, Mrs. Foley, who was not very skilled, even had a few extra needle holes in her hands.

Link was very moved by this, of course, this was when he deliberately ignored the comment about Mrs. Foley poking her finger in the second half of the small button.

After all, Link is not a shady guy. He still knows what kind of needles are used to knit scarves.

And let’s talk about what Link looks forward to most among all the gifts.

That must be Snape's gift.

After all, as Snape is the master of potions, everything he sends should be very practical.

For example, last year he gave Link a bottle of Elixir of Fortune, which directly allowed Link to make a comeback in the final battle in the Forbidden Forest.

If possible, Link even hoped that Snape would be more generous and directly give him ten or eight research notebooks so that he could gain experience in potions.

However, when Link actually opened the gray gift box with a strong Snape temperament, he was disappointed.

Because there is still a bottle of blessing elixir placed inside.

"Oh! How perfunctory!"

Link groaned and complained.

At the same time, he hung the full bottle of high-quality elixir around his neck.

Link's behavior of constantly hanging things around his neck also aroused the dissatisfaction of the curling-winged demon yo-yo. While it screamed, it stretched out its two small paws, trying to pull the scarf and The two things that occupied its territory, Fuling Elixir, were pushed away.

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"Be good, Yo-Yo, don't make trouble."

Link gently rubbed the soft flesh of the Winged Demon Yo-Yo as Newt taught him before, and it took a while before it calmed down.

Then Link rummaged around in the gray cardboard box with some reluctance, and gave up when he saw that there was really nothing else.

At this moment, Link really hoped that Snape could learn more about him and give him something more practical.

For example, Link's gifts to Snape this year were "The Guide to Quick Love" written by the famous journalist Rita Skeeter and "How to Make Your Smile More Charming" written by Gilderoy Lockhart.

Although the guys who wrote these two books have some involvement in that, the contents in the books are not very reliable.

But Link feels that even a book of this level can still be of great help to a guy with zero basic knowledge like Snape.

Especially the latter, it was really time for Snape to learn how to smile.

Thinking like this, Link automatically thought of Snape's wonderful expression when he received this gift.

This made Link laugh out loud.

After laughing for a while, Link finally calmed down and happily walked out of the room wearing a scarf.

Compared to usual, Forlì Castle was quite lively today.

Because in addition to Mrs. Foley and Link, Old Kled and other house elves in the castle were also invited to appear in the hall to celebrate this annual festival.

Old Kled and the house elves were extremely happy about this. After all, not only did Link not go home for Christmas last year, but Mrs. Foley also went to her hometown in Germany, and the castle was extremely deserted.

Of course, the reason why they are so excited is because of the bonus gifts.

Among them, Old Clay's gift was a large bottle of precious Salamander Citrus Rum, and the house elves received a basket full of candies.

After the carnival, Mrs. Foley and Link finally found peace.

They sat around the fireplace and warmed themselves up quietly. From time to time they found some topics to talk about, but most of the time they were just in a daze or taking a nap with their eyes closed.

This way of leisure seems boring at first, but both Link and Mrs. Foley feel very comfortable and warm.

These two people are usually in a very high-pressure environment. Being able to spend a whole day in such a comfortable environment is actually a very luxurious and decompressing thing.

Even more so for Mrs. Foley.

Since Link started going to school, they have been together less and more apart, so although Mrs. Foley's burden is slightly lighter, her heart is empty.

If possible, Mrs. Foley even hoped that this kind of time could go on forever.

However, this must be a luxury hope.

Because on the morning of the second day of Christmas, Link put on his Hogwarts uniform and stood in front of the fireplace.