[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Harry was clearly caught off guard by Ron's question.He froze for a moment, and then stammered his excuse: "Didn't Professor Bubaji say that you need to stare at the target when breaking the curse, maybe Professor Snape's purpose is to save my life, because... Professor Snape is a professor at the school, when I went to his office for labor services, I thought he was pretty good at answering my questions, and..."

Thinking of Aunt Jody's exhortation not to reveal anything about her, Harry suddenly had an idea. "And, my father, and my godfather, is Sirius Black, he said that he and Professor Snape are... very good friends, they were in the same class at Hogwarts."

Hermione and Ron showed puzzled and dazed expressions.Although both Hermione and Ron felt that something was wrong, seeing Harry's appearance, they decided to accept this explanation.

And Harry secretly prayed in his heart that the godfather and Professor Snape would never know his lie.He is very clear that these two people clearly regard each other as the most annoying existence, and they will never like this statement.

...Maybe his aunt can talk to him then... Harry thought optimistically.

"Okay," Ron shrugged, took a bite of the biscuit, and accepted Harry's explanation. "Hey, tell me, can we still go to Professor Bubaji's to eat in the future... Uh, ask something about the corridor on the fourth floor? She mentioned a person named Nicole Flamel, this is a clue .”

"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Hermione had a lot of contact with Professor Bubbaji, and she knew that if she asked more questions, it would be difficult to hide the fact that they had sneaked into the restricted area on the fourth floor.At that time, they would definitely get more points deducted - although Professor Bubaji concealed what Hermione did from Professor Snape, she was not ambiguous in deducting points.

"Maybe... we can ask Hagrid." Harry thought of Hagrid, and he believed that Hagrid, who was able to get the small bag, should know a lot.And, he was glad now that his friends didn't keep whispering that Professor Snape wanted to kill him.But Harry knew very well that Professor Snape's "crime" of wanting to enter the restricted area on the fourth floor had not been cleared.Harry still didn't think that the gentleman he respected was a thief, which gave him even more motivation to investigate what was hidden in that secret passage.

Aunt Jody's letter came late, and by the time Harry got it, Snape was no longer limping.In the letter, Aunt Jody simply said that she had left the UK for a short time to do some business, so she did not receive the letter, and said that she did not know that Professor Snape was injured, and had already written to him to inquire. The situation is gone.

After reading his aunt's reply, Harry worried that Professor Snape would be angry at him for revealing his injury.However, Professor Snape's attitude towards Harry and other Gryffindors has not changed, and he still favors Malfoy and Slytherin as always, which actually makes Harry breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this made Hermione and Ron feel worse about Snape, except that they stopped advocating that Snape was a thief in front of Harry.

Hagrid did provide a little clue. The scary three-headed dog in the restricted area originally belonged to Hagrid.That dog had a name like Lu Wei, and Hagrid obviously kept it as a pet.But it didn't help them find Nico Flamel, Hagrid immediately became alert and refused to say anything when they asked about the name.

In order to find out the origin of the name, the three of them spent almost every day in the library.If it hadn't been for a letter from Aunt Jody telling him to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas because she was out of England for Christmas, Harry would have forgotten that Christmas was coming soon.

"I'll stay at Hogwarts, too." Ron was delighted to know that Harry wouldn't be home for the holidays. "My parents are going to visit Charlie in Romania, where he studies dragons."

"That's cool." Harry said enviously.This job sounds interesting.

"It's also quite dangerous." Ron said a little proudly and a little worried. "I really don't understand why Charlie doesn't become a Quidditch player. He can fly very well."

"The profession of Quidditch players is also very dangerous, remember what it said in "The Origin of Quidditch"?" Hermione raised her head from the pile of books and said. "The sport is brutal."

Now all three of them had stacks of books piled up in front of them, and Hermione across the table couldn't see Harry and Ron's faces unless they looked up.Harry suspected that maybe the content about Nicole Flamel was in the restricted section, but students couldn't check out the collection there without the professor's signature.

"That's exciting!" Ron whispered in Harry's ear, "Of course I remember, I wish I could keep borrowing that book and never return it - it hit that slick Malfoy head! "

Ron had also had to spend more time with his studies since becoming friends with Hermione.Since both Harry and Hermione have good grades, it's impossible for you to waste time alone while your two friends are concentrating on their studies.Percy seemed satisfied with Ron's performance, but the twins often joked that Ron might become the next Percy of the Weasleys, which made Ron sulk for two days.

"I'm going home for Christmas." Hermione was always the first of the three to finish her homework. As soon as she finished her homework, she moved the pile of books in front of her and continued to look for Nicole Flamel's name. "Since you've stayed, don't forget to continue. If you find it, send me an owl, will you?"

"Of course." Harry nodded.

But on the morning of the holiday, after Harry and Ron sent Hermione, who was about to go home, to the foyer, they went straight back to the Gryffindor Tower.

The common room is almost empty during the holidays, and they can easily occupy the most comfortable armchairs for a long time.Ron refused to turn over books since he was on vacation, but Harry insisted on flipping through a book every day to look up Nicole Flamel's name, but he still spent a lot of time playing wizard chess with Ron.In this regard, Ron has an extraordinary talent, which is one of the reasons why he never tires of it.But Harry is also willing to play chess with Ron, although his chess skills are not as good as Ron's.

Now they were free to cook all kinds of food by the fire in the common room, and chat about how to get Malfoy fired, which Hermione would definitely dismiss as unrealistic.Although Hermione was their friend now, they had to admit that Hermione made them feel uncomfortable sometimes.Now they can finally relax a little bit.

"I finally understand why Hermione always forbids me to eat more sweets." After Ron found out from Harry what the profession of a dentist is, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion while eating fried jam doughnuts—he He ate three at a time, and he usually only ate one if Hermione was around.

Harry laughed and got himself another donut.Although he couldn't go back to the cupboard apartment for the holidays this year, Harry was also looking forward to Christmas at Hogwarts.Hagrid arranged 12 tall fir trees in the auditorium, and Professor Flitwick hung strings of golden bubbles and little stars on the fir trees to make them look beautiful.

Christmas morning finally arrived. Before Harry woke up, he was woken up by Ron: "Harry, get up and open the presents! You have received a lot of presents."

"Morning!" Harry sat up in a daze, and saw the hill-like pile of presents at the foot of the bed. "Merry Christmas, Ron."

"Merry Christmas." Ron said, unwrapping Harry's present. "Ah! This looks great!"

Harry gave Ron a new copy of "The Origin of Quidditch", and he said with some regret on purpose: "It's a pity that it didn't knock Malfoy on the head."

"But it's been great, thank you."

Harry received a handmade flute from Hagrid, fudge and a handmade sweater from Mrs. Weasley, a box of various types of prank toys from Sirius (they were wrapped in a big thick schoolbag about magical knowledge) together, the card inside reveals that it was a gift from Aunt Jody and Professor Snape).The Dursleys also sent Harry a present - a fiftypence coin.

But after unwrapping the present, Ron looked unhappy, "Oh..."

"what happened?"

"I didn't get a gift from James." Ron said listlessly. "Remember? I told you about my best friend before school, James Evans. He hasn't written to me in half a year, and now he doesn't even have a Christmas present..."

Harry was too guilty to look into Ron's eyes.It never occurred to him to use that fake identity to write to Ron again, but now that he thought about it, maybe Mrs. Weasley had prepared gifts and sweaters for "James" as usual.It's a good thing these things weren't sent directly to Hogwarts.

He tried to divert Ron's attention, so he picked up the last unopened package at the foot of the bed: "Look at this, Ron, there's no name on it..."

Harry opened the package, and the contents immediately slid to his feet like liquid.It was a long silver-gray cloak that looked like water.

"Oh, my God!" Ron threw the unhappiness just now behind his head, he jumped off the bed excitedly, rushed to Harry, and carefully touched the liquid-like thing in Harry's hand, " I've heard of this, it's an invisibility cloak!"

Sure enough, as soon as Harry put it on his body, he found that his body had become transparent.

"This card says it belongs to my dad?" Harry looked at the circled letters on the card and said in surprise.

"Oh, this is awesome, I mean, it's very rare!" Ron looked at the Invisibility Cloak greedily: "Harry, can I try it later?"

Their conversation was interrupted by the sudden entry of the Weasley twins, and the big Christmas dinner afterwards left Harry no time to think about the magical present in his bedroom.It was the first time that professors and students sat at a large table to eat together.Professor Snape sat next to Professor Bubbaji, making Ron give Professor Bubbaji a few more sympathetic glances.But he was grateful to Professor Bubbaji, otherwise Harry would have sat with Snape.

——Although Ron no longer insisted on it, he still had some doubts in his heart that Snape planned to harm Harry.

If Harry knew that Ron was worried about him, maybe he wouldn't be so comfortable trying to use this precious gift alone for the first time.

The Christmas dinner left everyone well fed, and Ron's snoring sounded early in the bedroom.But for some reason, Harry didn't feel sleepy.He touched the magical invisibility cloak, and suddenly had a bold idea in his heart: no one can see him, he can appear in any place in Hogwarts at night...he can also go to the restricted area to find Facts about Nick Flamel...

The idea was too tempting for him, so Harry quietly got up from the bed, put on the Invisibility Cloak, and tiptoed out of Gryffindor Tower.

But when Harry heard Professor Snape talking to Filch, he immediately regretted it.Although he was wearing an invisibility cloak, he was not confident that he could hide from the vigilant Professor Snape.He didn't expect that the professor in charge of inspection tonight happened to be Professor Snape.If he was found... Seeing that Professor Snape was about to walk to his side, Harry looked left and right, found an open door, and immediately got in.

This seems to be an abandoned classroom. There is a large, ancient, ornate mirror in the middle of the classroom, and some abandoned tables and chairs are placed around it.

Harry walked slowly to the front of the mirror, approaching nervously.A group of figures suddenly appeared in the mirror, which startled him.Can this mirror reflect all those who wear the invisibility cloak?He immediately turned his head back quickly, and slowly stretched out his hand to fumble around.

But he didn't touch anything.The room was quiet, as if he was the only one there.Confused, Harry stretched out his hand to feel around again, but all he felt was air.Harry turned his head to look in the mirror again in doubt, and this time he saw who the people standing around him in the mirror were: his father, mother, godfather, Aunt Jody, Mr. Snape...

James stood beside his wife with his arms around her shoulders, Lily held a small baby in her arms, and on the other side Mr Snape had his arms around the shoulders of Aunt Jody, who also had a small baby in her arms.Harry stood between Lily and Jody, with the tall Sirius standing behind him.All of them had smiles on their faces, even Mr. Snape.

Harry looked greedily at his loved ones in the mirror, never thinking he could see them standing together like this.This made him reluctant to leave the mirror for a long time, until he heard Professor Snape's familiar footsteps in the corridor again before he hurried away.

Snape, who cast the Disillusionment Charm on himself, was actually guarding the door all the time. He watched the door of that classroom being opened and closed. He waited for a long time, probably after Harry had already left the corridor, before approaching the classroom. "It seems that Mr. Harry Potter's vigilance needs to be improved. I think we should remind him this holiday that wizards can't only be invisible with the invisibility cloak."

Jody's voice came from under the Invisibility Cloak, "Yeah, but the Invisibility Cloak is definitely more convenient than the Disillusionment Charm, especially for a wizard of Harry's age, isn't it?"