The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 30 Christmas

Christmas is coming.One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke up from a dream to find that the surrounding area was covered with several feet of snow and the lake was covered with hard ice.The Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs, making them chase Quirrell around and smash into the back of his hood.

Seeing this scene, Ryan expressed admiration from the bottom of his heart for the heroic act of slapping Voldemort in the face for the Weasley twins.

With this approaching the holidays, some classes were a bit overwhelming.For example, Professor Snape's Potions class.Since the classroom is underground and without any heating measures, white gas can come out of one's mouth in it.Not to mention that when his hands and feet were numb from the cold, he had to endure the venomous tongue of Professor Snape, who was colder than the temperature in the classroom.

"I really feel sorry for those people," Draco Malfoy defiantly said during a Potions class, "who had to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas because they weren't wanted by the family."

But Harry looked unmoved, even a little happy.He found it very exciting not to be back at the Dursleys for Christmas, and Malfoy's words did nothing to spoil his good mood.

When Professor McGonagall registered the remaining students last week, Harry and the Weasley brothers all chose to stay.Harry stayed to get rid of the Dursleys, and the Weasleys stayed because their parents were visiting Charlie in Romania.

Hermione and Ryan chose to go home for Christmas, since this was the first time they had been away from home for so long.Of course, Ryan and the others also told Harry and Ron who stayed at school that they would prepare gifts for them and look forward to their gifts.

Although they searched a bunch of books in the past two weeks, they couldn't find who Nicolas May was.But this does not affect their expectations for Christmas in the slightest.

Ten days before Christmas, the time for holidays arrives.After breakfast, Ryan picked up his schoolbag and went to Hogsmeade station with his classmates who were going home.

After leaving the wrought iron gate decorated with winged boars on both sides of the school, after walking for more than ten minutes, they came to the platform of Hogsmeade Station, where the Hogwarts Express was already waiting.

There were not many people in the car, so Ryan and Hermione found an empty box, and after a while, Longbottom also sat in.

Ryan wanted to relax, but Hermione took out her homework and started writing.This made Ryan and Neville, who played wizard chess, consciously put away the chess pieces and took out their homework before finishing a game.

After a day's travel, the train arrived at King's Cross Station.In the square in front of the station, they met Neville's grandmother.

Mrs. Longbottom was very grateful to Ryan and Hermione for their help with Neville at school, which made them feel a little embarrassed.

After saying goodbye to Longbottom's grandparents, Ryan and Hermione also took taxis home.Before saying goodbye, Hermione repeatedly told Ryan to consult his father about Nicolas May's provenance.If you find it, call her and let her know.

When he got home, Ryan opened the door and found that his parents had prepared dinner and waited for him, which made Ryan feel the long-lost family warmth.

After dinner and right before bed, Ryan talks to his parents about life at school and what's going on at home lately.The good news is that Mr. Lambert's new novel has been selling well recently, so the few days before Christmas may be relatively busy, with some book signing activities.

After reading for a while after dinner, Ryan chose to go to bed early. After all, it was very tiring to take the train all day.

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After that, it was a pleasant Christmas holiday, except that I did my homework every day and then spent seven or eight minutes on the phone with Hermione to discuss the day's homework.I spent the rest of the time in Ryan very happily, when my parents were busy with other things and were not at home.Ryan began to practice one by one with various things with mechanical structures at home, so as to improve his proficiency in the "Winter House Industrial Manual".

Of course, the luckiest thing for Ryan is that he will not be discovered by the Ministry of Magic through healds when practicing magic in the world of the Ten Thousand Worlds grocery store, which gives him a lot of practice time.

As Christmas approached, Ryan went to the community library to meet Hermione.Because in the call the day before, Ryan told Hermione that he had found news about Nicolas May.

After all, for finding things, if you already know the answer, it is not difficult to find a reasonable proof process.

On the premise of knowing that Nicolas May was a French medieval alchemist, it is not so difficult to find him in a large amount of information.

Ryan didn't wait for a few minutes in the library when he saw Hermione walking in wearing a blue down jacket.Then she sat across from Ryan and asked, "You say you've found the answer, how did you do it?"

Lane said: "I asked my dad when I got home and he told me he'd looked it up when he was writing a medieval fantasy novel, but couldn't remember what it was. So I looked at what my dad was writing about. I found these from the materials I collected when writing this novel.”

After speaking, Ryan took off the schoolbag on his back and took out a stack of materials from it.Turn over a page, point to the words on it, and read word by word:
"Nicolas Flamel, a Frenchman, a famous alchemist in the 14th century. His most famous contribution is that he is said to have created the Philosopher's Stone, the alchemist's Philosopher's Stone, and used it to successfully turn mercury into gold. At the same time, according to the legend, he gained longevity. Until 1929, people kept witnessing him. In addition, although the public information proved that he died in his hometown in 1427, when greedy people robbed his and his wife's cemetery , and found that it was empty inside. This also proves that he has obtained immortality from another aspect."

And this, after Ryan finished speaking, he took out another map. Hermione leaned forward and found that it was a map of Paris.

"What's on this map?" Hermione asked.

"Look here." Ryan pointed to a circled place on the map. "No. 51, Rue Montmorency, House of Nicolault, this place used to be Nicolault's house. So this shows that Nicolault was an alchemist who lived in Paris, France in the Middle Ages."

"I figured it out, there should be the Philosopher's Stone hidden there." Hermione exclaimed in a low voice. "Because when we were searching in the library that day, Harry told me that he suspected that the day he went to Diagon Alley, a small bag that Hagrid took out of the vault in the deepest part of Gringotts was hidden under the trapdoor. So judging from the size and other existing data, the hidden thing is very likely to be the Sorcerer's Stone."

(End of this chapter)