Harry Potter: Glory Bows to Me

With our busy lives, Christmas Eve arrives incredibly quickly.

On this day, Malfoy Manor was extremely lively.

From morning on, the flame in the fireplace in the front hall of the mansion would turn green from time to time, and then guests would come out from the fireplace one after another.

They must have used Floo powder, which allowed them to walk into the fireplace, sprinkle some Floo powder, and read out the place they wanted to go loudly and clearly, and they would quickly reach their destination.

Of course, there is a requirement for the fireplace - it must be connected to the "Floo Network".

Some guests also arrived here in carriages, but like Draco's Thestral carriage, almost none of these carriages were pulled by real horses.

According to what Amanta saw, there were flying stags, leopards, elephants... The most outrageous thing was that she even saw frogs and spiders that were cast under a magnifying spell, a reindeer sleigh that imitated Santa Claus, and a little girl flying over sitting on a Christmas tree.

According to Draco, most of those riding in the Thestrals' carriages were ministers and elites from various departments of the Ministry of Magic.

The others who looked a little more normal were mostly from ancient pure-blood families like them. Finally, those who were too weird were mostly elites and masters in various fields.

After a day of watching so many strange and bizarre appearances, Amanta and Harry were almost used to it.

Especially near dusk, guests dressed in various styles streamed in from the main entrance.

Most of them were dressed gorgeously, wearing robes of various colors, with exquisite makeup on their faces and a variety of wizard hats on their heads.

Occasionally there are some guests dressed in strange costumes, such as the little girl sitting by the Christmas tree in the morning. She was dressed like Santa Claus's red-nosed reindeer and had two big carrot earrings on her ears.

As she passed by Amanta, she gave her a sweet smile.

There were a very small number of guests dressed in Muggle attire, but the most obvious way to tell their Muggle identity was that they all drove here.

Obviously, most wizards, especially those here, have more or less contempt for Muggle items.

So there was no way they were travelling in a Muggle car.

Amanta thought, these must be the Muggle politicians Lucius was talking about.

Among these guests, they also saw quite a few familiar faces - mostly Slytherin students, and a small number of students from other Hogwarts colleges, almost all of whom came with their parents.

For example, Blaise Zabini, along with his mother, his mother was, as rumored, a stunningly beautiful lady.

And Crabbe and Goyle—

Their father looked exactly like them, tall and strong, with a simple smile on his face from time to time.

"Amanta, I thought Draco was scaring me earlier."

As soon as Harry saw them, he whispered angrily to Amanta.

"Crabbe and Goyle's current body shapes - they have their own reasons, but it's clear that their genes are definitely at work."

"Well..." Amanta nodded in agreement. "It's okay. Don't worry about this, Harry. I've been developing a beauty potion that has a slimming effect."

"Really?" Harry's eyes lit up.

"Although you are not in a good condition to use it now, if the time comes when you really need it, I can give you a friendly price."

"..." Harry looked at her resentfully.

In order to receive these guests, all the house-elves in Malfoy Manor were dispatched.

Today all the house-elves wore a new and beautiful teacup cover.

Dobby screamed with joy for a long time early in the morning about this.

"Although this is not a real dress, it is new and beautiful. Dobby likes it very much! Dobby likes it very much! Dobby likes it very much!"

In addition to Dobby, there were also some house-elves who stayed in the kitchen - they needed to prepare the meal for tonight's dinner.

The rest of the house-elves came out to greet the guests.

They are responsible for checking the invitations and identities of all guests, then leading them to the assigned seats, promptly refilling their waiting snacks, desserts and hot tea, guiding guests who want to go to the toilet and are lost in the mansion, or soothing noisy babies, and preparing a souvenir for each guest.

If there are guests who need to stay overnight here, corresponding guest rooms must be prepared for them.

In the past, Narcissa was almost always in charge of Christmas affairs.

But this year, Draco claimed that he was old enough to take charge of many aspects of the family banquet.

But of course, the main reason was that Draco just felt sorry for his mother and was worried that she would exhaust herself from taking care of all these trivial matters.

Lucius obviously thought so too.

So he naturally handed these things over to Draco... Fortunately, Draco did a good job.

Draco was not wearing robes today, but a silver-blue suit that they had never seen before.

The silver-blue fabric shone so brightly that his whole body seemed to be glowing, and he put more pomade on his head, which made his platinum skull shine brighter than ever.

In addition, Draco also pinned a snowflake brooch on his chest, and even his bow tie was a unique silver snowflake shape inlaid with light blue diamonds.

According to him, this was to echo the ice and snow theme of today's dance party.

Harry wore his black tuxedo with an emerald green satin leg-of-mutton sleeve shirt. To match the Christmas theme, he also wore a dark red bow tie, a golden bell on his chest, and - a wizard hat in the style of a Santa hat.

Amanta put on the long dress that had just been delivered from Tofan Clothing Store. They had already tailored it to her exact size.

But when she put it on, she always felt like something was missing.

"Dobby thinks... Dobby can help Miss Merlin with her makeup and do her hair."

Dobby suggested in a shrill voice.

And this took them by surprise.

"Dobby, can you put on makeup? ... and do your hair?" Amanta asked uncertainly.

"Of course! There's no house-elf that wouldn't do that - Miss Merlin, you can trust Dobby completely."

Dobby patted his chest on his brand new tea set.

"Dobby has served the owners of this manor and their ladies for hundreds of years, and there has never been a lady who was not satisfied with Dobby's craftsmanship."

Originally, Amanta was very skeptical about Dobby's ability to put on makeup, but when Draco went to borrow cosmetics from Narcissa - Narcissa also gave him a few pieces of jewelry.

Dobby skillfully used the cosmetics to give her a look similar to the ones she saw on the exquisite ladies and noblewomen in the morning.

Amanta looked in the large gilded mirror in the room and could hardly recognize herself.

Then, to her even greater surprise, Dobby gave her an extremely elaborate hairstyle.

After tying her hair, Dobby dotted Amanta's hair with diamonds, which made her light golden hair shine brightly.

When she felt that it was completely enough, Dobby took out the jewelry that Narcissa had chosen for her - a huge necklace with bright opal and long silver earrings.

Dobby put it on for her - it was the finishing touch.

In short, after Dobby's busy schedule, she no longer looked like her usual self.

The self in the mirror…rosy cheeks, rosy and plump lips, and a hint of doubt in the proud eyes - no matter how you look at it, she looks like a spoiled young lady from a noble family.

When she and Dobby came out of the room, Draco and Harry looked at her in surprise.

"Oh my God? Who is this? ...Excuse me, young lady, why are you in Amanta's room?"

Harry looked back at Draco in surprise.

"Draco, will there be two people staying in your guest room at the same time?"

Amanta rolled her eyes at Harry.

Although she almost didn't recognize herself, it shouldn't be that exaggerated.

And Draco... ever since Amanta walked out the door, he had been staring at her blankly, not moving at all.

Only after being patted by Harry did he react, a blush appearing on his cheeks.

"Amanta...you look beautiful today."

"What's beautiful? It must be the most beautiful!" Harry said exaggeratedly, "I can guarantee that once Amanta appears, she will be the brightest star of the entire ball."

Amanta raised an eyebrow at Harry.

"Well, Harry, in return for what you said, I forgive you for the offense just now."

"Ahem." Draco coughed twice quickly, as if trying to cover up something. "Well, Harry is right. This dress is a good choice. It suits your skin tone and is in line with the theme of today's ball. The most important thing is... Amanta, you have a very good foundation..."

He then mumbled a bunch of things, which was completely different from his usual arrogant and eloquent manner.

But just as Draco was saying these words, Amanta noticed that -

In fact, even Draco wore light makeup today.

This made his eyebrows and eyes appear more delicate and profound, and his pair of blue-gray eyes were surprisingly light.

If you look at him for a long time, you can vaguely see through his facial features - how handsome he will be when he grows up. No wonder many witches today turned their heads to secretly look at Draco when passing by him, and some guests even whispered to them from time to time.

After glancing at them a few times, Harry apparently discovered something.

He continued to look at them with a new perspective, and soon he seemed to have discovered a key point.

He immediately grabbed Dobby's thin arm.

"Dobby...I want to put on makeup too, please."

He looked at Dobby pleadingly.

"Oh no! Dear Mr. Potter, you don't have to be so polite... Dobby heard that you also want to put on makeup? Oh... Of course, today is a dinner party, let Dobby see what kind of dress is suitable for you."

"Thank you so much, Dobby!"

Harry grinned widely and eagerly dragged Dobby into the room.

After a long time, Harry and Dobby finally opened the door.

"Dobby felt that Mr. Potter did not like clothes that were too conspicuous or complicated, so... he changed into a new outfit that Dobby thought was suitable."

Dobby stood at Harry's feet and introduced proudly.

Dobby removed Harry's terrible Christmas-style wizard hat - Amanta had always thought he looked a little funny in it, but out of respect for Harry's taste, she didn't mention it in front of him.

In addition, Dobby took off Harry's dark red bow tie and bells and replaced them with a retro dark green silver-rimmed ribbon bow tie with a huge emerald pendant in the middle, and a snake-shaped brooch with a silver chain on his chest.

Although it lost the Christmas style that Harry specially matched, it looks much more harmonious than before.

Harry smiled shyly.

Dobby removed his large, round glasses and used magic to restore his vision - but only temporarily.

Without the worn-out glasses that were as thick as the bottom of a bottle, Harry's delicate features were fully revealed.

His bright green eyes, with long, curled, thick eyelashes, made it hard to believe that they were actually a pair of boys' eyes. No wonder Snape and other people of the same age always kept thinking about Harry's eyes, saying that his eyes were the same as his mother Lily's.

But Harry's high nose bridge and thick and sharp eyebrows neutralize those overly delicate eyes.

This makes him look more handsome than his peers.

Combined with the light makeup that Dobby put on for him.

Harry did have the capital to be conceited, as he was handsome enough among his peers.

It was even enough to make those ladies older than him never forget him.

"Harry, this outfit is perfect, you look handsome."

Amanta exclaimed.

Even the picky Draco, after carefully examining Harry, reluctantly said: "Well, there is really nothing wrong with it."

"Dobby, thank you so much."

Amanta gave Dobby a grateful smile.

"Oh...it's nothing. This is what Dobby should do."

"As long as the young master is happy - that's fine. After all, this is Dobby's duty."

Dobby actually felt a little sad as he spoke.

Amanta said nothing, but just squatted down and rubbed Dobby's big round head.

Even though Amanta wanted to tell Dobby their plan.

But she must not reveal their plans to Dobby ahead of time.

Otherwise, if Dobby suddenly felt sorry for the Malfoy family at some point, and talked about their plan while banging his head on the ground guiltily - that would be the end of it.