HP meets at Hogwarts

On the night before Christmas, Fanny was a little depressed all day long. When Ann asked Fanny, she said she was fine.

Hope tomorrow's Christmas presents will make Fanny happier, Ann thought as she ate her dinner.Ann looked back at the Gryffindor table from time to time. The three of them were having dinner and whispering to each other from time to time.

Ann was very hesitant, she didn't know whether to invite Hermione, she wanted to pay back the cold medicine that Hermione gave her last time, and she knew that Hermione would definitely give her a gift at Christmas, and she would definitely pay back the Christmas gift , she doesn't want to owe favors.She thought, just inviting Hermione to tomorrow's party probably wouldn't be drawn into any action, would it?It shouldn't matter if I contact her alone?

"Ann, what are you doing peeking at the Gryffindor table?" Fanny's voice was not loud, but it startled Ann.

The spoon in her hand almost fell off, Ann squeezed it tightly, her head was slightly tilted to Fanny's side, "Fanny, you said that I want to invite Hermione to the party I told you about tomorrow morning, will you not?" Great?"

Fanny thought for a moment and asked, "...are you worried that it would mind if you invited one or two other friends?"

"Um...it's not because of that..." Let's not say that they are not my friends, and I don't owe them anything, not to mention that if I invite the two of them to participate, the protagonist trio and I will really be confused. Although there are some signs of it now, but only playing with one person is like getting in touch with all three of them. In the end, too many exchanges will involve future adventures... Bah, bah, bah, thinking too much..

"Then what do you want to do? I still haven't figured out why you asked me to go to the small room next to the kitchen at eight o'clock tomorrow? And, can you really get up at eight o'clock?"

"Well, all in all, it's still a secret. I want to repay the last time Hermione sent me cold medicine..." Ann felt a little weird when she said this, and she changed her words, "It's not exactly like that... oops How should I put it..." Ann found that the more he explained, the more troublesome it became, or should he buy a new gift for Hermione?The cold medicine thing will be repaid another day?But those things have already been made for three people!

Fanny asked Ann strangely, "But isn't it all small things among friends?"

That's the definition you gave us, okay?We are the most, the most, count.... wait... count what?Ann suddenly got stuck thinking about the relationship between the former community of interests (the dragon thing)?People you know?But seriously, Hermione doesn't seem to count, after all, she's been kind to me, and I've always borrowed my Transfiguration Notes, cold medicine...

Then we are classmates?It doesn't seem right... friend?As soon as this idea came up, An spurned herself in her heart, and clearly said that she would not be friends with the protagonists, right or wrong...

But then another voice popped up in Ann's mind, it was a sentence that Fanny had said to Ann: Ann, no matter what you say, but your actions do regard them as friends.

Bah, bah, bah... There are reasons for my actions. We are a community of interests in the matter of dragons. I found the Sorcerer's Stone because of Fanny's threat, and I helped Ron get slugs out of a whim to test my Potions technology.Yes, there are reasons for it. I used to occasionally see children encounter problems on the road of life. As a person who has experienced it, I can be forgiven for being a good teacher.

However, it is even more necessary to separate the relationship with the protagonist trio, so let's take tomorrow as an opportunity.I will pay back Hermione's favor tomorrow, and next time they come to me, they will not say anything. Over time, the trio will have no time to talk to themselves because of other things.

After confirming the purpose of the action, Ann looked at the Gryffindor table and cheered himself up, "Yes, it's just a trivial matter, I can definitely handle it..."

Since Ann and Fanny kept their eyes on the Gryffindor trio during the conversation, all three noticed Ann's gaze, and when Ann looked at them, they looked at Ann.

The three of them suddenly panicked.

After the eyes of the trio noticed her, Ann didn't hide anymore. She asked Fanny, "Have you eaten yet?" After receiving Fanny's affirmative answer, she got up and walked directly to the Gryffindor table. Fanny Quickly got up and followed behind Ann.

Seeing that An was getting closer and closer to them, the three of them were very nervous, because An's little face was twitched tightly, as if she had made up her mind.

An went to stand in front of the trio, and all three of them stopped what they were doing and stared at An in a daze.

Thinking of tomorrow's invitation and the things to do, Ann felt much better, and her good mood was naturally reflected in her expression, but she hadn't talked to Hermione for a long time, and for a while, Ann didn't know how to start talking.And all three of them were there, the conversation with the three of them was not pleasant last time, so she had to start with the omnipotent greeting, "Hi...good evening..."

The three thought that Ann was looking for trouble because of Fanny's affairs, but they didn't expect that what Ann said was this, and they were stunned for a while, only Ron subconsciously replied, "Hi..."

Ann touched her neck in embarrassment, she turned her gaze to Hermione and said, "I have something to tell you, Hermione..."

Ron and Harry looked at each other, stood up immediately, and left the table, they said, "Talk slowly..." "Yes, Hermione, we'll wait for you outside first..."

Before they left, the two gave Hermione an encouraging look and left in a hurry.Hermione glared at them, and looked at Ann very puzzled. Fanny, who was standing behind Ann, gave Hermione a reassuring smile.

"I just want to ask if you have time tomorrow morning. I want to invite you to the small room next to the kitchen on the basement floor at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. There is a note on the small room that says Pantry." Ann said in a breath Finished, heaved a sigh of relief.

Hermione was overjoyed and said, "Of course, I'd be more than happy to go."

"Great, Hermione," Fanny said behind Ann, "Just now Ann struggled for a long time, and I was embarrassed to invite you, but I just said you would be happy to come..."

"I'm not embarrassed..." Ann wanted to explain, but Fanny immediately replied, "Then what were you struggling with just now..."

"I…."

Hermione giggled, and Fanny looked at the embarrassed Ann with raised eyebrows.

But this atmosphere didn't last long. Hermione noticed that there was no gauze on Ann's left hand, but there was a pink scar about 2 inches long on the back of her hand. She still remembered how embarrassed Anne was that day, and asked, "Ann, what about your left hand?" What's wrong?"

"Oh. You said this," An raised her left hand to look at the wound, and said indifferently, "I was unlucky to be scratched by a tree branch two days ago, and there was some blood, but it's all right now. Madam Pomfrey applied some The ointment said it will be fine in two days."

There were not many people in the restaurant, and there were even fewer people when they finished speaking.Thinking it was getting late, Ann said, "By the way, remember not to eat breakfast. I'm leaving first. Harry and Ron are still waiting for you...see you tomorrow..."

"Yes." Hermione replied.

Harry and Ron stood at the entrance of the restaurant and discussed in low voice what Ann would say to Hermione. After that, An and Fanny walked out of the restaurant. The four of them said hello to each other and then parted. Well, Harry and Hermione who followed Fanny out of the restaurant also walked towards the lounge. Of course, Harry and Ron were curious about what Ann and Hermione said on the way. Hermione reassured them that Fanny's matter was not discovered. , and briefly talked about Ann's invitation to her.

The next day was Christmas, Ann got up at dawn, and Fanny secretly dressed and left the dormitory without waking her up.When Fanny woke up naturally at 07:30, she was very surprised that Ann had disappeared, and at the same time she was even more curious about the invitation at eight o'clock.

Fanny tidied herself briefly, and then walked to the kitchen on the first basement floor. Although the Slytherin common room is also located underground, it is located on both sides of Hogwarts from the kitchen, which means that Fanny has to Go upstairs to the first floor of Hogwarts, through several corridors, and then down the stairs.On the way down the last corridor to the kitchen, she met Hermione.

"Good morning, Hermione!" Fanny waved her hand and greeted Hermione, and quickly walked two steps to keep up with Hermione.

"Good morning, Fanny, where's Ann?" Hermione glanced behind Fanny.

They walked side by side, and Fanny said, "I haven't seen her since I got up in the morning. It's so rare that she can get up so early in such a cold day!"

"You put it that way, I'm looking forward to the invitation later," said Hermione,

"I am looking forward too."

Walking in the underground passage leading to the kitchen, there are large white candles on both sides for lighting, which is much warmer than walking through the airy corridor.Fanny and Hermione stopped at a wooden door, and Hermione said, "This is it, right? Ann said it says pantry."

In front of him was a low wooden door, on which a few thick words were written directly on the door in black ink: Food Room, written crookedly in the middle of the door.

"This doesn't look like a good place to invite," said Fanny.

An excited voice came from the direction of the kitchen door, "Are you here? Just right." Ann was holding a rectangular wooden plate, on which was a porcelain soup pot with a lid.

"What's this?" Fanny and Hermione asked in unison.

Ann flashed a mysterious smile, "I can't tell you now, you will know soon. You can open the door first and go in."

Fanny looked at the wooden door, but there was not even a handle on the wooden door.She glanced at Ann in embarrassment.

"Ahem, this door is so simple, you just push it open without a handle."

Hermione pushed the door open.Different from the impression of the simple door, there is a big space inside the door. There is a wooden table and three chairs in the center of the room. The table is covered with a clean patterned checkered tablecloth. Tableware and candles are placed in place, and the arrangement looks warm and unique.

The two turned their heads to look at Ann. An passed them and put the things in their hands on the table, opened the two chairs beside the table, and bowed mischievously to the two, "Please take a seat, two ladies."

Both Fanny and Hermione laughed softly, and Fanny walked towards her seat and said, "Ann, this is your invitation, shall we have a breakfast here?"

Hermione sat down, glanced at the tableware, and fixed her gaze on the glowing plant in the middle of the table, "What is this?"

"That's Yingsuzhi, a luminous plant, I borrowed it." While speaking, An waved his magic wand, and music sounded from a corner of the room. The music contained the sound of running water in the forest and the sounds of birds and insects. , and an instrument sound that Hermione and Fanny hadn't heard before.

Ann stood with a slightly excited tone, "I promise, this is different from the usual morning you eat. This meal is very Chinese. Christmas is as important to you as Chinese New Year is to Chinese people. Aren't you curious about what they will eat during the New Year?"

Hermione picked up two chopsticks and asked, "That's why there are these. These are called chopsticks, right?"

Ann said pleasantly, "That's right, they are chopsticks, but I know the two of you must not be used to them, so I also prepared knives and forks for you."

Fanny glanced at the neatly placed knives and forks on the table, then looked curiously at the soup pot in the middle of the table, and asked, "Is this the food that Chinese people eat during the New Year?"

Ann shook her head and replied, "Not all of them, of course I have prepared more for you." Ann snapped his fingers and whispered a spell silently, and a lot of things appeared on the empty side of the table as in the entrance banquet.

"What are these?" Fanny asked, and Hermione looked on curiously.

An went to the side where no one was there, opened the top layer of the steamer, and the heat rose instantly.An picked up the small steamer on the first floor and put it next to the porcelain soup pot in the center of the table, and introduced, "This is a dumpling that must be eaten during the Chinese New Year. The stuffing inside is chopped shrimp and corn, shrimp emperor dumpling."

Both Fanny and Hermione looked at the three crystal clear dumplings in the small steamer. Hermione sniffed them closely and said, "It really smells like corn."

"Hee hee, don't worry, there's something else, this is another flavor, stuffed with beef and carrots." An took another steamer from the pile of steamers and placed it on the table.

"There are also dumplings stuffed with cabbage, shiitake and mushrooms, seafood dumplings, Xiaolongbao, red bean paste and longevity peach buns, milk steamed buns, small custard buns, beef balls..." When An finished speaking, the table was full of small dumplings. steamer.

Each small steamer exudes heat, and the aroma brought by the food greatly stimulated the two people who had not eaten breakfast. Fanny swallowed lightly, raised her head and asked eagerly, "Can I eat?"

Hermione also looked at Ann, and An replied as she walked back to her place, "Of course, please feel free."

Fanny picked up the knife and fork, but after looking around, she found that she couldn't do anything. She said to Ann, who was sitting, "Ann, all these foods look good. I don't think it's good to hold a fork or a spoon..." Hermione, who was holding a knife and fork at the other end of the table, also nodded seriously.

An, who was holding the chopsticks to make dumplings for herself, picked up a shrimp dumpling for Fanny with a twist of the chopsticks, and said briskly, "Haha, then I'll give you the cloth dishes. This is also a kind of Chinese culture."

"Hermione, what do you want to eat?" Ann asked Hermione after pinching Fanny's head. Hermione looked at the food in the steamer, and each steamer exuded a good smell of food. She struggled and said, "Every time One looks delicious, I will choose this one first..”

Ann took a small steamed bun for Hermione, and said, "This one is quite hot, you have to blow it first..."

Fanny finished a shrimp dumpling with a spoon and said with satisfaction, "This is delicious, really good. Ann, I want to eat that green dumpling. Why is it green?"

Ann handed it to Fanny, explaining, "Tea leaves are added to the dumpling wrappers..." After making the dumpling wrappers, she picked another one for Hermione.After setting out the dishes for a while, Hermione and Fanny were a little embarrassed that Ann didn't eat, but they ate a lot by themselves, so they learned from An how to use chopsticks. After all, it is not easy to use a fork to fork dumplings and buns.Of course Ann was happy, and taught them both. Hermione learned quickly, but in the end Fanny could only use a spoon so-so.

Eating and saying that the food in the steamer was almost finished, An finally opened the soup can, and there were more than twenty round, snow-white balls floating in the soup can.

"This is the last food for today. Tangyuan is a traditional food at the end of the Chinese New Year. Usually its filling is sesame, but the filling I put is not sesame but another delicious thing." Ann After finishing speaking, she winked at Fanny with a smile, "It can be eaten with a spoon, Fanny..."

Hermione laughed, and Fanny pouted aggrievedly.Ann took some from Hermione's bowl, and some from Fanny's.

Hermione was not in a hurry to eat, she took the bowl and used a spoon to turn the glutinous rice balls in the bowl, and said, "This one is soft and nice..."

An watched the two of them fiddle with the glutinous rice balls with a spoon, and explained, "The white outer layer of the glutinous rice balls is made of glutinous rice, and it tastes very soft...but it's very hot, so be careful..." After speaking, he blew into his spoon After the glutinous rice balls were no longer hot, I swallowed them in one gulp.

The entrance is very slippery, the aroma of glutinous rice breaks the soft and glutinous outer layer, and the inside of the glutinous rice balls is a soft fruit-like thing. After biting down, a fruity aroma permeates the mouth instantly, the juice splashes on the tongue, and the taste buds are immediately excited. At first glance, this is a compound fruit taste, sweet but not greasy, without the slightly astringent or slightly sour taste of ordinary fruits. After two more bites, the taste of the fruit turns from jelly to silky chocolate. In turn, it wraps the soft glutinous rice outer layer.The slightly tough outer layer is wrapped in a soft fruity aroma, and every bite of glutinous rice and fruity aroma blends more perfectly.The soft and glutinous glutinous rice balls are surprisingly delicious with the fruit inside.

An noticed that when she swallowed, she didn't have the feeling of choking on glutinous rice balls in her previous life, but it naturally slid down her throat and down the esophagus, but there was still a lingering fragrance in her mouth.Ann squinted her eyes in enjoyment after eating. The glutinous rice balls she made this time were perfect.

Fanny and Hermione imitated Ann and swallowed one at a time. After taking two bites, their eyes lit up, and they seemed to enjoy the food in their mouths very much.

An took the lead to finish eating the glutinous rice balls, and Zabazui put down the spoon contentedly, then relaxed and leaned back on the chair.Fanny and Hermione put down their bowls after a while.

"Awesome! The glutinous rice balls are delicious, and the previous ones are also delicious.. only the glutinous rice balls are even better!" Fanny said after wiping her mouth with a napkin.

Hermione agreed with Fanny's point of view very much. She asked Ann happily, "Ann, what kind of fruit is in the glutinous rice balls? I feel that there are more than one kind of fruit, but I can't tell..."

Ann replied happily, "It's a compound fruit flavor. I call it multi-flavored fruit. I have eaten it a few times and it feels great. Because the taste is very good, I combined it with glutinous rice balls. I didn't expect it to be delicious." It worked so well. Leaving that aside, what did you guys think of your breakfast this morning?"

"Very well, Ann, and I daresay it was the richest and best morning I ever ate!" said Fanny.

Hermione said cheerfully, "Me too, Ann."

"That's good. Since the eating project is almost done, I have two small Christmas presents for you."

Ann walked to a shelf in the room. It was very dark without candles near the shelf. When Ann returned to the bright place, she had two more pots of plants in her hand.Ann handed them a pot for each of them.

Hermione took the flowerpot and looked at the plant in the pot. It was a plant with green leaves and small leaves. She asked, "What kind of plant is this?"

Ann said, "I'll tell you the name later, you can touch its leaves first..."

With doubts, Hermione reached out and touched the leaves of the plant lightly, and the tiny leaves of the plant closed immediately after being touched.

"Wow, it moved and closed the leaves by itself. Is this some magic plant? Ann?" Fanny's excited voice sounded.

Ann shook his head and explained, "It's not a magic plant. Its name is Mimosa, which means that it will be shy when touched. Because it is a tropical plant, it is rare for you who have lived in the temperate zone of the UK since childhood. .It’s a very interesting plant, I think you will like it, I raised two pots as a Christmas gift for you.”

Fanny stretched out her hand and touched it again, having fun, and nodded, "I like it very much."

Hermione asked in surprise, "Ann, if it's not a magic plant, it means I can take it home to raise it, right?"

Ann replied, "Of course, you can take it to travel around if you want... However, it has high temperature requirements. It likes a warm and humid environment. You may have to keep it by the fireplace in this kind of weather."

Hermione nodded seriously after listening, "Maybe I can go to the library to look up information on how to raise it better."

After hearing what Hermione said, Ann reminded with a smile, "Hermione, maybe you can take a look at your flowerpot again."

Fanny and Hermione held up the flowerpot. The flowerpot was made of pottery without any patterns. When you looked closely, you could find some words engraved on it: My name is Mimosa, and I was born in America a long time ago. I like warm and humid places. It is not easy to take care of me.I have to drink water once a day and I like places above 10 degrees.I'm shy every time you bump into me, but I'm a grass with a personality, and if you want to eat me, I'm poisonous!Every night I go to sleep, and that's when you'll see me close the leaves.Also, although I am a grass, I can bloom. As for the color of the flowers, haha, it depends on how well you take care of me.

"Wow, Ann, how did you come up with this idea...it's awesome..." Fanny held the flowerpot in both hands like a treasure.

Hermione was as surprised and happy as Fanny. She took the flower pot and looked at it over and over again.

Ann walked to the door, opened it, and joked, "Ladies, please stop praising me, I think if you stay any longer, you will miss the wonderful Christmas morning. I only borrow The right to use this room for one morning."

Fanny and Hermione looked at each other and walked out of the room with a smile.

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Eating Chinese New Year's food at Christmas is also a cultural fusion...