The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

John had no idea what was going on in Malfoy Manor.

After dealing with the Acromantula venom and unicorn tail hair, he took the Dreamless Sleeping Potion and went to bed early.

When he woke up the next day, his bed was already filled with various packages wrapped in colored paper.

These were Christmas gifts for him.

John was quite surprised by this.

After all, John felt that his popularity was not particularly good, and he did not specialize in managing any connections.

In the entire Hogwarts, he felt that he had a good relationship with him, and the only people who might give him gifts were Professor McGonagall, Michelle and Draco.

Oh, and the Harry trio might get him a gift, too.

After all, judging from what Michelle learned, these three people have particularly strong brainstorming abilities.

I seem to be a particularly good friend in their impression.

As for Professor Snape.

Unfortunately, John couldn't imagine him hiding in the underground office secretly wrapping gifts in colored paper.

This scene was so weird that John didn't think the other party would give him any gift.

But in fact, John still underestimated his popularity.

The number of gifts before him now far exceeded his expectations.

John only did a cursory search inside and discovered to his surprise that almost the entire first-year Slytherin students had given him gifts.

And mixed in it were gifts from several Slytherin prefects.

Most of the first-year students sent him greeting cards written by themselves. Only Draco gave him a whole set of brand-new potion refining tools, from cauldrons to dragon-skin gloves. They were all high-end custom-made and were worth a lot of money. Fei.

The prefects sent some trinkets and handmade macarons - John knew without guessing that these must be from the female prefect.

In addition, Michelle and others also sent gifts.

Ron also gave a greeting card, Hermione gave Plato's "The Republic", Harry gave a model of the Golden Snitch, and Professor McGonagall gave a book "Intermediate Transfiguration" with detailed annotations.

As for Michelle, as expected, she gave John a surprise - a pocket full of cockroaches.

This magic candy made into a cockroach made John very sick.

You can see the thoughts of these people from these gifts.

Ron was poor and could only send greeting cards, but Harry relied on himself and gave John something he loved.

Hermione still remembered that John had talked to him about Muggle famous quotes before, so she gave him a copy of Muggle famous books.

Professor McGonagall was as considerate as ever.

She probably doesn't know much about John's current financial situation.

So I gave him a Transfiguration textbook that will be used by third, fourth, and fifth grade students.

In this way, John won't have to spend money to buy it when the time comes.

Of course, there may also be an intention for John to learn the art of transfiguration.

After all, although John's Transfiguration is not bad, compared with his amazing attainments in Charms and Potions, it is indeed not good.

As for Michelle, don’t mention it.

John was completely speechless with her.

What surprised John the most was that Snape actually gave him a gift.

That's a magic material storage box.

It looks like an ordinary black suitcase.

There are [Invisible Stretch Curse], [Silent Breathless Curse], [Water and Fire Invulnerability Curse] and [Anti-Alajo Cave Opening Curse] cast inside it.

As a result, its internal space has been expanded to 4 cubic meters, with constant temperature and humidity, effective sound insulation and anti-theft functions.

There are many of these things in Snape's material storage room. Because they can effectively preserve the effects and properties of magical materials, they are usually used to store precious or easily perishable materials.

But the one in front of John was obviously customized by Snape.

Because its size and capacity are smaller than those in Snape's storage room, it has enhanced portability and anti-theft functions.

John estimated that Snape specially gave it to him because he saw him handling Acromantula venom in the office last time.

With it, John no longer needs to hurriedly enhance the durability of biological materials such as Acromantula venom every time he gets it. He can just put it directly into the storage box.

After carefully transferring the various materials to the storage box, John sighed with emotion.

Snape is such a good professor!

But John felt that he was also a good student who respected his teachers.

Because he also gave Snape a Christmas present.

That was a shampoo he prepared independently without using the Potter family's formula!

With such a bottle of shampoo, Snape should be able to take care of his hair and strive to be single as soon as possible and give birth to a little Snape.

After silently blessing dear Professor Snape in his heart, John went out.

Today was Christmas and he needed to relax.

For example, go to Michelle and the others to play wizard chess.

The chess pieces in that thing can talk, and they can also scold the chess player for his poor skills.

John's favorite thing is to have strange and strange exchanges with those chess pieces.

It was interesting to see how the chess pieces got so angry afterwards because they couldn't scold him.

However, just as he reached the foyer, John's footsteps stopped subconsciously.

Because he saw a rather amazing scene.

Twin brothers George and Fred were having a snowball fight outside.

But this was not a fight in the conventional sense, but the two of them chasing Professor Quirrell with snowballs.

Those snowballs seemed to have some kind of magic spell attached to them. They could always be accurately positioned and hit Quirrell hard on the back of the head, where Voldemort was leaning.

I remember that one of the twin brothers seemed to have died in the finale.

John felt that this might be directly related to the fact that they were now using snowballs to hit Voldemort in the face.

Speaking of which, John remembered that he seemed to have used [Upside Down Golden Bell] to make Quirrell hit the back of his head not long ago.

But that should be fine, right?

After all, he was hiding in the crowd at that time, standing on the commanding heights, under the sun, Quirrell had no idea who cast the spell on him.

With this in mind, John simply didn't leave, and just stood happily in the hall, watching Quirrell and Voldemort being beaten - this kind of opportunity is rare!

He had only been watching for a while when Quirrell and the Weasley brothers also spotted him.

George and Fred made a silent gesture to John, then snickered and ran to the hunting ground.

Quirrell, who was finally freed, panted and ran to John's side, forced out a slightly stiff and awkward smile and stammered:

"Sha...Shafiq, thank you..."

John waved and interrupted with a smile:

"You're welcome, Professor Quirrell, you are a professor, maybe you can deduct George and Fred's credits.

He didn't have the slightest mental burden to deceive the Weasley brothers.

Because these two guys would always cheat him in normal transactions.

"Yes! Credits! S... Slytherin plus... 20 points!" Quirrell seemed to have misunderstood something, and clapped his hands as if he suddenly understood, "In addition, Sha... Shafiq, I also have... a thank you gift. Come here. Well, please come with me to...the office, I'll keep that thing...in the office."

As soon as he said this, the expression on John's face instantly became serious.