Harry Potter: Glory Bows to Me

She continued to dismantle it.

Under Karina's gift was a red cardboard box tied with straw rope.

There was a greeting card stuck to it.

This greeting card came from an orphanage. In addition to the first sentence of congratulations from Director Ossena, there were many scattered graffiti and blessings from the children on the back.

The children in the orphanage only knew that Amanta was admitted to a faraway and excellent school.

Amanta looked at the children's clumsy notes on it and shook her head helplessly, but still carefully put it together with several other letters in the Sage's Ring.

After she opened the cardboard box, she was surprised to find a pair of brand new lambskin shoes inside.

But when she tried them on, she found they were a little small.

It seems that Dean Osenna has not yet kept up with her pace—

But this cannot be blamed on Dean Osena. After all, girls at this age are growing the fastest, and it is very likely that their size will change significantly.

It doesn't matter, Amanta pulled out her wand and tried to use a Transfiguration spell on it to change the size of the shoes.

This is when magic comes in handy.

She made the shoe a few centimeters larger, tried it again - it was a little too big, so she tried making it smaller.

After a few tries, Amanta had it turned into the perfect size.

Amanta was quite emotional. Even though she had temporarily left the orphanage, Dean Osena, like Karina, was always thinking about her and often asked about her situation here.

Next down was Harry's package.

He hadn't written a letter or a card, but that didn't surprise Amanta.

After all, they saw each other every day, so they naturally said whatever they had to say at the time, so there was naturally nothing to say in the letter.

Harry gave her a candy gift box with colorful red and green packaging and exaggerated cursive text. Just one look was enough to attract everyone's attention.

She glanced at the words on the gift box.

The general meaning on the packaging is: Honeydukes has specially launched a Christmas candy gift box for Christmas, which contains a variety of Honeydukes classic candies and Christmas special candies.

"..."

Amanta didn't know whether to say it was a coincidence.

Because the gift she gave to Harry happened to be this set of Honeydukes Christmas candy gift box.

When she saw the advertisement for Honeydukes in the Daily Prophet, she fell in love with it at first sight. She bet that Harry would definitely like it, so she decisively placed an owl order for it.

I didn't expect Harry to...

But she had always liked Honeydukes' candies, and she did want to try some of this gift box.

Especially some of Honeydukes' Christmas special candy.

Amanta unwrapped the gift box, took out a portion, unwrapped it and put it in her mouth.

"The candy wand tastes average, the chocolate gingerbread man is pretty good, but a little too sweet. The honey Santa is delicious, but a little too sweet—"

She commented to herself after tasting a portion.

Next to Harry's candy gift box was a small but exquisitely wrapped black jewelry box - it was a gift from Draco.

If it weren't for the light-colored carpet, she would have almost overlooked it.

She opened the jewelry box, and inside was a diamond hairpin that was shaped a bit like a crescent moon. It sparkled extremely brightly under the sunlight outside.

Unlike ordinary Muggle products, it sparkles with a gleaming luster like flowing water, and it is obvious at first glance that it is of great value.

Draco had chosen her.

It also happened to be what she was missing... decorations.

In her impression, Draco always had a special liking for these sparkling accessories.

It’s hard to imagine that after studying at Hogwarts for a few years, under Draco’s subtle influence, they might become as… flashy as Draco or Lucius.

Amanta thought about the scene and couldn't help shuddering.

In addition, Draco also gave her a set of wizard chess.

She unpacked the chess pieces and looked at them, feeling an indescribable sense of weirdness.

This set of chess pieces seemed different from any wizard or Muggle chess set she had seen before.

It looks like... it was bought from Knockturn Alley.

Not only are the chess pieces black and dark red, but each character on the chess piece has long, sharp fangs, red eyes, and is dressed in gorgeous and solemn costumes.

She flipped through the outer packaging and found that it was, as expected, a special edition of wizard chess for the Vampire Kingdom.

The gifts Draco gave her all seemed to reflect his personal taste - of course, Draco had always been quite confident about this, even to the point of being a little conceited.

After opening Draco's presents, only the last two gifts were left.

She turned her eyes to the inconspicuous little paper bag on top.

——To Amanta’s surprise, the Flamels also gave her a gift.

They didn't write a letter or attach any small cards. They just simply wrote two letters on the package in ordinary ink - "N·F". This was the only information.

Amanta searched for information in her mind, but did not find anyone she knew at school whose name had this abbreviation. However, she expanded her search and thought carefully.

This happens to be the abbreviation of the first letters of Nicolas Flamel's name.

But she couldn't be sure just based on this.

After opening it, there was a small manual inside that looked extremely old, or rather... it looked like an antique.

She opened it carefully so as not to crease the fragile paper.

There were some extremely difficult-to-understand letters and symbols written on it, and because it was so old, the writing was a little blurry. Some places even had some dark stains, some of which looked like faded bloodstains.

Amanta glanced through it briefly.

Although she did not understand the almost garbled letters and numbers on it, judging from the drawings on it, she guessed that this was probably Flamel's manuscript on the Philosopher's Stone.

Unexpectedly, Mr. and Mrs. Flamel not only gave her the Philosopher's Stone, but also gave her their life's work - the manuscript of making the Philosopher's Stone.

It's a pity that at her current level, she can't understand it at all...

After she had unpacked almost all the packages, there was only one gift left.

This gift is also the biggest.

From the outside, it looked like a huge, carefully packed dark green gift box. It was placed at the bottom of all the gifts, but it was not deformed at all.

Amanta had intended to move it closer to her so she could sit on the ground and unpack it.

But when she reached out to hug the gift box, she realized something was wrong.

She tried again…and could barely dislodge it from the ground.

Oh my God - Amanta exclaimed, although this gift is indeed a bit big, it shouldn’t be so heavy that she can hardly lift it... What on earth is in it, and why is it so heavy?

She stood up from the ground doubtfully, stretched out her hand again, and tried to pick up the gift box.

This time she had to use all her strength to pick it up from the ground.

But after picking it up, she quickly gave up because this thing... was too heavy.

She simply sat down on the carpet and prepared to open it.

There was a card inserted on the top of the gift box:

-Dear Amanta:

-This is a little gift from Lucius and I, I hope you like it.

-Lucius and Narcissa.

"So...what is this?"

Amanta muttered to herself as she untied the green ribbon on the gift box.

They gave her a complete set of detailed textbooks on Advanced Transfiguration, Advanced Charms, and Advanced Potions. Each set consisted of more than ten books thicker than bricks. The packaging of the set also said: "From entry to mastery, the only way to become a master--".

Of course, this was probably one of Amanta's favorite gifts.

but……

Amanta couldn't help but start pondering a question.

The Malfoys actually... gave her so many books...

It seemed that Draco and Dobby always secretly brought some books for her to read from the Malfoy family library - perhaps the Malfoys already knew about it.

I've just been turning a blind eye.

Just as she was about to put the gifts away, there was a knock on the door of her house.

She heard Harry's voice yelling in surprise outside the door.

"Amanta, Draco, come over here and take a look at what this is."

His voice was loud and clear, enough to show his joy and surprise.

"...?"

Amanta couldn't help but feel confused as to what had happened to Harry that was such a pleasant surprise.

But she soon remembered something.

Oh, and speaking of Harry's first-year Christmas present...

If she remembered correctly, Harry received a very special and extremely rare thing this time - the Invisibility Cloak.

According to legend, the invisibility cloak is one of the three deathly hallows. Legend has it that as long as you collect all three deathly hallows, you can become the master of death.

Of course, this is just a legend.

According to Dumbledore's research, the three Peverell brothers were probably the makers of the Deathly Hallows, and one of their descendants, the Potter family, inherited the invisibility cloak.

Although the Invisibility Cloak originally belonged to Harry's father, for unknown reasons, after James' death, the Cloak was kept by Dumbledore until Harry came to Hogwarts to study, when Dumbledore returned it to Harry at Christmas.

When she walked out and took a look, she couldn't help being surprised.

Harry - no, it should be said that there was only one Harry's head floating in the air.

Even though she was mentally prepared, she couldn't help but be stunned when she suddenly saw such a horrifying scene.

"Oh my god..."

Draco, who was awakened by Harry's fuss just now, just complained and pushed open the door, and then he was frightened.

"Merlin!! Harry!!! You...what the hell are you now! - Did you forget to bring your body with you like Professor Binns?!!"

Draco looked like a cat with its fur standing on end.

Harry laughed his ass off.

"Hahahaha...Draco, why didn't I notice before? Why are you so timid?"

"Oh... shit!" Draco shook his head and rubbed his eyes sleepily, "Wait... I just realized, you're wearing an invisibility cloak!"

Harry's eyes widened at his words and he looked down at his body.

"Do you know what this is? I think it's the invisibility cloak you mentioned, but I don't know who gave it to me."

Harry lifted the Invisibility Cloak - and immediately they saw the pajamas Harry was wearing underneath.

He held out his hand and handed them a piece of paper.

- Your father left this thing to me when he was alive.

- It should be returned to you now.

- Use it well.

- Also, I sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas.

Unlike other Christmas gift cards or letters, there was no signature below, not even the initials of the name.

“Who on earth could have sent this?”

Harry stared at the paper in a daze. The handwriting on it was a strange, elongated, circle-like font.

As much as Amanda wanted to tell him that it was Dumbledore's handwriting, she obviously couldn't do it.

Draco asked, "Harry, think about it, do you know who your father knows?"

"Uh... let me think, Hagrid? Snape? It doesn't seem like it could be them..."

Harry said dejectedly.

"I thought about it carefully, but I couldn't think of any friends my father had..." He thought about it carefully again and added, "But I suddenly remembered that when you were talking to me about Snape before, you seemed to say that my father had many friends who often bullied Snape..."

Obviously, this was not a pleasant memory for Harry, and the direction of their speculation was clearly off.

Amanta shrugged and said, "Who cares? Since this originally belonged to your father, it certainly belongs to you too. It's just that this person is only returning it to you now. Just use it well, as he wrote."

"Besides, if this person doesn't want us to know who he is, it's useless for us to find him out. If he wants us to know, he will come out directly when the time comes."

Her reasoning seemed to convince Harry.

Harry nodded, not quite understanding.

Draco, half envious and half confused, stretched out his hand to grab where Harry should be. His hand just paused - Amanta thought he should have touched where Harry was.

He exclaimed in amazement: "Oh! Merlin - what a wonderful touch, Amanta, come and try it too."

Harry chuckled at his actions.

"Draco, be gentle."

"cough."

Amanta followed his example and stretched out her hand in Harry's direction.

Soon, she felt her fingertips touching something cold, which felt extremely smooth, even smoother than Draco's silk robe.

However, the touch in her hand was a little strange, like flowing water, and it gave her the illusion that she couldn't grasp it.