Chinese students at Hogwarts.

Chapter 176 Christmas (2 in 1)

The semester was over, and a silence as thick as snow on the ground enveloped the entire castle.

The little wizards who went home for Christmas left the castle on the Hogwarts train the night before.

The whole school became much quieter, and even became empty.

Zhang Xiao didn't feel dull, but rather peaceful.

Because of the attack, the number of students who chose to stay at Hogwarts was particularly small.

Although Fred and George decided to stay in school, they stayed in Hogsmeade during the day except for coming back to sleep at night. Their experiment seemed to have reached a critical point.

Although Mrs. Weasley was very worried about Ginny, as the mandrake in the herb greenhouse gradually matured.

Her mood also calmed down a lot, because Professor Sprout told her that in a few months, Ginny would be able to come back to life unscathed.

Zhang Xiao thinks that if ordinary people know this technology, they will be crazy, and there will be no mature freezing technology until 2023.

Those who are seriously ill can find a chance to have a loving gaze with the basilisk through the mirror.

It is safe and painless, and the technology is guaranteed, just like time freezes, very easy to use.

Perhaps Ginny's petrification touched the emotions of the Weasleys, who decided to visit Bill and Charlie in Egypt and Romania.

One of the two worked as a curse breaker in Gringotts, responsible for the goblins to unravel the curse left by the pharaoh in the pyramid and obtain the treasure.

Of course, all the treasures belong to the goblins.

This is because the Ministry of Magic of Egypt is too weak. They were ridden on their heads by goblins and shitted, and they couldn't do anything about their ancestors' graves being dug up.

It can be seen that although the goblins were defeated, they were still strong.

They are digging people's ancestral graves all over the world, except Huaxia.

Another Charlie raises dragons in Romania.

They are all high-risk occupations, the kind that often receive casualty notices.

After all, the concept of family in the West is too different from that in the East. Bill and Charlie are both proper high-income people.

But relatively independent, he has his own life after work.

If it were released to Huaxia, there would be so many younger brothers and sisters, and the two older brothers would definitely have to subsidize the family. It would never happen that the two older brothers earn 50 yuan a year, and the younger brother still uses second-hand things.

As far as Zhang Xiao knew in his previous life, there were quite a few elder brothers who immediately took the initiative to carry their families on their shoulders after they came out.

The two concepts cannot be said to be better or worse, only that the cultures are different.

Percy stayed, too, and told them pompously that he stayed for Christmas only because, as a straight A student, it was his duty to support teachers during this tumultuous time.

Everyone scoffed at this, because almost everyone in the school knew that Percy stayed for the convenience of dating Penello.

Penelope's home is not far from Hogwarts, and the two have long agreed to visit Hogsmeade together during this holiday, to experience what Christmas is like when they are alone.

By the way, when the two hid in the unoccupied classroom and talked about their plans while kissing, the entire small dueling club hid and eavesdropped.

The dawn of Christmas came, and Hogwarts seemed to be thrown into the refrigerator, and there was a cold air everywhere, and there was thick snow outside.

Only Zhang Xiao and Malfoy were left in the dormitory.

Malfoy felt as if he had been cast with a bone-releasing spell, lying limp under the warm blanket without any strength.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened a gap in the curtain, through which cold air came in.

Malfoy shivered for a moment, and immediately shrank back under the quilt, shouting loudly:
"Zhang, shouldn't it be better if we just sleep until lunch?"

Zhang Xiao woke up a long time ago, but he is also staying in bed. The air conditioner in summer and the quilt in winter all have a fatal attraction for human beings.

"I can do it!"

It was Malfoy's first Christmas at school, and the novelty eventually prevailed.

Gritting his teeth, he crawled out of the bed, put on his clothes as quickly as possible, and muttered:

"I'd better get up, Weasley and Potter bragged to me long ago that the school hall would be decorated like—"

Swallowing the second half of the sentence, Malfoy looked at the gifts that almost filled the entire dormitory, and called out directly:

"Bloody hell! Why are there so many presents?"

To be honest, as the top rich second generation in the wizarding world, Malfoy received absolutely no less gifts every year.

That is to say, Zhang Xiao taught him to get rid of vulgar tastes, otherwise he would definitely use the number of gifts to mock Weasley and Potter.

But the amount in front of him was too exaggerated, after a cursory glance, Malfoy felt that the pile of presents in front of him added up to at least 300!

The pile of presents, about eighty or ninety pieces, was obviously missing more than half, which should be his own.

Because it was about the same amount he used to receive every year.

Zhang Xiao lazily stretched out her head from the curtain, glanced at it, and yawned long:

"It seems to be a little more than last year."

Zhang Xiao took out his wand and shook it, summoning the clothes on the hanger. Malfoy got up, and he was too embarrassed to stay in bed.

He vaguely felt that it didn't have to be so troublesome to put on his own clothes before blocking his cognition.

But I can't remember exactly what I did, and this feeling is very uncomfortable.

After a while, when I was about to put on my sweater, I suddenly remembered something, and quickly jumped off the bed.

After searching for a while in the gift 'mountain', he found a gift from Mrs. Weasley.

After unpacking the gift, there was still the Weasley family's traditional thick sweater and a large box of Mrs. Molly's homemade fudge.

Although it is not very expensive, but the heart is very rare.

Malfoy looked at Zhang Xiao putting on the Slytherin green sweater, with a 'Z' embroidered with silver wool on the chest.

He said slowly: "What is this? Why do I feel as if I have seen it somewhere.

Seems like it's on Weasley? "

Zhang Xiao unpacked the soft candy, stuffed one in his mouth, and said vaguely:

"Well, I have one every year, and it's quite warm."

Mrs. Weasley's craftsmanship is still as superb as ever. The fudge is not very sweet, but has a rich milky aroma, and it seems that a little mint has been added.

Malfoy curled his lips, didn't say anything cheap, but picked up a candy box that Zhang Xiao handed over.

I was going to criticize Mrs. Weasley's craftsmanship, and show off how delicious my mother's candies were by the way.

It's just that Malfoy tasted it for a long time, seeing that the candy box was almost empty, he couldn't say anything useful.

He could only turn his head and start counting his presents.

And Zhang Xiao had already started to do this, thanks to several times of limelight this semester, especially the duel with Professor Flitwick in the Dueling Club, his popularity has risen to a higher level.

As a result, the number of gifts increased further, Zhang Xiao counted them, reaching an astonishing 322 pieces!
This meant gifts from Mrs. Weasley and courtesy gifts from pure-blood families in addition to the professor.

Almost half of the school gave themselves Christmas presents?

So the gift will have to be unwrapped for a day, right?

Zhang Xiao felt that her scalp was a little numb, so she could only pick out gifts from friends who were close to her.

What Harry gave was a pair of two minifigures, which were very beautifully packaged.

On the box it says 'Wizard Duel Classic Reprint! '

After a quick glance at the instruction manual, these two villains have been included in the 100 recognized classic duels in the past 10 years.

As long as you shout out the year and the event, the two villains will completely reenact that classic duel.

Of course, the magic shot is all light and shadow effects, and has no actual lethality.

It can only be said that it is definitely not cheap.

Malfoy over there stretched his head to look, and said indifferently:

"Duelman? The normal version? I have several collections at home, including the limited edition in pajamas. The normal version can be bought for only a few dozen Galleons."

This look is exactly like the Versailles face of the Krypton guy in the previous life group - Yelan is quite strong, full of energy and energy, and I spent 25 648 to come out.

Pooh!
"Did Harry get you a present?"

"Potter will give me a present? How is that possible?"

Malfoy raised his face, showing that iconic contemptuous smile:

"While I gave him a fitting gift, it was out of good character, and I didn't expect Potter—"

Suddenly Malfoy was silent, Zhang Xiao stretched out his head to look, and the gift box in his hand said 'Harry Potter'.

Malfoy's face turned red in an instant, and he coughed hastily, with a stern face not to let himself laugh, he said slowly:

"Well, surprisingly—"

Pull it down, Draco, Zhang Xiao curled his lips, you are so happy that you are almost singing.

After Malfoy quickly opened the gift, he fell silent for an instant. He turned out the box in his hand with staring eyes. It was also a customized villain.

It's just that he looks exactly the same as Malfoy, a Q version. There seems to be something wrong with the villain's head, and he never lowers his head. Everyone looks up, and the expression on his face is very beating.

The villain wears Slytherin's school robes and walks on the table with his hands behind his back.

Occasionally, he would take out his wand and point to the sky, displaying a sentence:

"A Malfoy who can't speak is a good Malfoy!"

I can't say they are similar, I can only say that they are exactly the same!
Zhang Xiao almost laughed out loud, Malfoy stared at himself on the table, pulled out his wand and wanted to rip it apart, but finally gave up on the idea.

He just roughly stuffed the villain back into the box and put it in the small satchel.

Judging by his appearance, he is probably already thinking about what gift to give for Christmas next year.

In fact, the presents were similar to last year's. Hagrid still gave some cherished magical animal materials, as well as thanks.

Because of Zhang Xiao's idea, the Protection of Fantastic Beasts class has become one of the favorite classes of little wizards.

Hagrid's popularity has also increased significantly because of this, every time he heard the little wizards shouting 'Professor Hagrid'.

This naive big man almost narrowed his eyes into a slit when he smiled, and he became more and more grateful to Zhang Xiao.

It can only be said that Hagrid is indeed generous. It would be nonsense to say that he doesn't know the price of goods. As a person who often goes to Knockturn Alley to buy things, how could he not know the value of the things in his hand.

Hermione still gave books, maybe because both of them had studied in Muggle society, she actually gave a set of Encyclopedia Britannica, which was quite expensive.

The selling price alone is over $1000!I don't know how Hermione persuaded her parents to pay so much money.

But considering that Mr. Granger has his own dental clinic, it can only be said that the little rich woman is not short of this money.

This set of books has more than 4000 million words even in very condensed Chinese characters. One can imagine how big the original English version is.

Malfoy was taken aback by this set of dozens of books, "Is Granger crazy? There are so many books, who can read them all?"

Bah, the stupid son of the landlord's family, this thing is used as a search engine by people in this day and age, quite practical.

Putting this set of encyclopedias into his Qiankun bag, Zhang Xiao continued to unwrap the presents.

Ron's gift was relatively simple. It was still a card, but this time it was a star card from the Quidditch team.

Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall and several other professors were all books, and Professor Snape sent "Memory Magic-Controlling Your Mind".

Finally came the highlight, Zhang Xiao picked up a small package, on which was written in beautiful cursive characters:

"Albus Dumbledore"

The mansion of the Malfoy family in Wiltshire, northern England.

According to past practice, this place should have been decorated long ago, ready to celebrate Christmas.

But at this time, the sky above the mansion was covered with thick fog, which was a sign that the mansion's defensive magic was fully activated.

The exquisite iron door that was cast with a powerful spell fluttered from time to time, and people wearing cloaks with their faces covered by apparition apparated to the door.

After vigilantly looking around, he notified the owner of the mansion with a specific visitor spell.

There are already many people in the magnificent hall. They are sitting in front of the exquisite oak table. The tea in front of them has already lost its temperature, but no one touches it.

Some people twisted their bodies uncomfortably, while others pretended to be calm, but their fingers unconsciously tapped on the armrest, revealing the tension in their hearts.

There was silence in the spacious living room, as if no one wanted to speak, but just waited quietly.

Lucius, the owner of the mansion, was not among them.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Narcissa clung to Lucius, suppressed her anger, and whispered:
"Lucius, are you crazy? Life is safe and sound now, and the cooperation with Dongfang has also made you a lot of money, why do you want to—"

Her jaw dropped a little, and the direction happened to be the living room.

"Even on this day, don't you know how much I miss my kids?"

Lucius' complexion was a little pale, he gritted his teeth, and said in an anxious and painful tone:
"No, you don't understand, Narcissa, I have to protect you and Draco!

Damn it - he counted it when he handed that thing over to me!

I don't know how he predicted the future. I'm afraid it was the prophecy in the legend that made him take precautions. "

Narcissa's face suddenly became paler than her husband's, and she held his hand tightly, even her joints were a little blue.

"You mean——the mysterious man has long expected that he might fail, and then gave you a key thing?"

Lucius swallowed, his eyes full of fear:
"Narcissa, I can't tell you more, it's not good to know too much, but—"

He pointed in the direction of the living room:
"No one wants him back, but equally -- no one ... can afford to find himself a traitor when he returns."

He looked at his beloved wife and repeated it again:
"nobody!"

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　3 people are still lying down, I am going crazy. Buying vegetables, cooking and feeding the baby with medicine
　　
　
(End of this chapter)