[HP] Spring Mountain is Sleeping

The atmosphere of this Muggle restaurant seemed to return to the Muggle town in the Alps three years ago.

Two gentlemen - Tom and Severus - took the last empty table.From the map, there were no wizards living in this town, and the nearest wizard settlement was 50 miles away, but they still used Polyjuice Potion sparingly.

Improved compound decoctions with added botanical ingredients worked well.After many attempts, the new formula not only prolongs the deformation time a lot, but also does not cause abdominal pain when drinking it.Tom was already very satisfied with this, and Severus, who was never satisfied with potions, seemed to want to try to make this potion pass through the magic waterfall like Gringotts without losing efficacy.

"Can't we have Christmas dinner at Hogwarts? There aren't many people in school during Christmas." Severus sat down and started a new round of complaints.They walked a long way for today's meal and wasted half a day, "Is there anything special about this restaurant? Walking such a long way just for a meal?"

"No, dear. You have to go to Lucius' for Christmas." Tom pointed at Severus with his fork. "He's put his head in the fireplace and said several times that if you don't doubt me."

Luxurious Christmas dinner at Malfoy Manor - this is already a common practice between the two of them, Lucius would ask him to go to the manor for a vacation every Christmas before, and Severus was never afraid to spend dinner and dinner there Gift.But in fact Lucius's harvest was more lucrative, because Severus usually gave back some rare potions to the platinum nobles at the end of the holiday - but the potion master had nothing to say about the reasons Tom just said.

That is the truth.But it was only this year that he didn't want to go to Malfoy Manor so much.

At the same time, under the strong invitation of the golden trio, Severus allowed Paddy to go back to the Burrow for Christmas, and he himself refused to go to the place full of Gryffindors.

So he and Tom had to have an early Christmas dinner.The atmosphere of the meal was a bit depressing. They cut grilled lamb chops, paired with red wine, and occasionally chatted about boring topics.When there was only the last of the red wine left, Tom filled both glasses again.

"Cheers!" The black-haired devil raised his glass, "We won't go to a small hotel drunk today. We'll find a place to buy Christmas gifts later."

Severus frowned, remembering that he seemed to have forgotten to prepare a Christmas present.He had thought the Christmas present was just Tom talking.

"Oh, it doesn't matter, you have a lot of things in the refining room, any one is the best gift. I owe you gifts for many years. Anyway, it's your money." Tom saw through his mind , pulled him out.No sooner had he reached the empty alley than Tom disapparated by grabbing him.

After apparating a few times, they were now in what looked like a wizarding settlement.Severus hadn't been here before, but he soon knew why Tom had brought him here, and Tom didn't let go of the hand holding him, the other pointing forward.

"Over there, in front."

Tom pulled him up the steps of a herbal medicine store, and Severus looked up and saw the bright lights reflecting the sign of "Looking for Herbal Medicine Store"-this is also a famous herbal medicine store, which is similar to the magical medicine store in Diagon Alley Equally famous, but Severus never had the chance to visit.

"Tom?" Severus stopped in surprise, "You really want to go in?"

"Oh, dear, don't you want to go in? I know you've wanted to come here for a long time, but unfortunately I've given you too many tasks in the past, so you don't have time to come here." Tom took his hand tightly and put He pulled into the spacious store.

This place seems to be bigger than a magical medicine store, and there are several long rows of shelves that can't be seen at a glance. When Severus was busy looking at all kinds of potion ingredients in the store, Tom let him go and picked up a belt from the door. The shopping basket of the floating spell.

"Have you been here before?" It seemed that Tom was familiar with this place.

"Been here twice, my little snake. I know it's not the same variety as Diagon Alley, but the quality is just as good, and I guarantee you'll be satisfied. And there's more rare material here, so you don't have to run over Alley those deceitful shops."

After speaking, Tom beckoned to a clerk, asked him to come over, and asked him to lead the way to inspect the goods.

The venom of the giant eight-eyed spider.Buds and shoots of light tree.Scales and coccyx of Mireosaurus.The beak of a dire crane.Translucent glass chalk.A deep-sea branchworm imported from the Indian peninsula.The feather of a lyrewing bird native to southern Africa.

Severus, who fell behind them, felt like he couldn't get a word in, as if he had just come to accompany Tom shopping.He lowered his head, allowing his gaze to pass from the whole Romanian dragon hide, complete with horns and scales, hanging high above the beams, to Tom's basket.

This place does have more rarer materials - yes, it's all materials that are not readily available in his research agenda, and Tom has paid special attention to those categories that are not easily available in London.During the whole process, Tom didn't take out any list of records, and he memorized all the materials by heart, and even calculated the weight for him.