The Admiral of Hogwarts

Perhaps because the Christmas holidays were approaching, the road was a little congested. So, it took them longer to get back home than usual, to the point that the sun was almost setting when they arrived.

As soon as Hugo opened the door, he smelled a rich aroma of butter and nuts. "Ha, Mom actually made butter-nut marron cake today!" He and his sister exchanged a look, seeing surprise in each other's eyes, because this was their favorite dessert. Unfortunately, because their mother was usually busy with work and this cake took a relatively long time to make, they could only eat it once or twice a year.

"It's not just the cake. Knowing you'd be back for the holidays, your mother started busying herself this morning," Mr. Granger, who came in last, said to Hugo and his sister after closing the door. "Alright, go wash your hands quickly. Besides the cake, she also made a lot of things you like to eat."

Sure enough, the dishes on the table were very lavish. Although the variety couldn't compare to Hogwarts, which had hundreds of house-elves, there was a unique sense of warmth that belonged to a family. After all, Christmas, like the New Year in Hugo's previous life, was a holiday for family reunions.

During the meal, Mr. and Mrs. Granger asked about their children's lives and studies at school. As parents who didn't understand the magical world at all, they always had various concerns about their children leaving their side and going to school in a completely unfamiliar place.

Hugo and Hermione naturally saw their parents' worries, so they only talked about interesting things that happened at school and avoided the problems they encountered as much as possible. After they finished introducing their lives at school, Mr. Granger also talked about their experiences during this time.

"I've started to slowly shift my work focus," Mr. Granger said, looking somewhat excited. "I really didn't expect the market for dentures in that ancient country in the East to be so big, especially in terms of porcelain teeth, which is almost a blank slate—"

"Alright, your children just got back, they don't need to hear about these things," Mrs. Granger interrupted him, seeing Mr. Granger starting to talk non-stop. "You can talk about these things at another time. Now, let them finish this meal properly."

In short, Hugo and Hermione finished dinner in an extremely warm atmosphere. Then, after they cleaned up the table, they took out the dessert from the kitchen and started eating it. At the same time, they took this opportunity to talk about everyone's lives over the past few months.

According to his father, his business in China had been booming recently. Therefore, he planned to gradually shift his work focus from the dental clinic at home to this multinational business with Mrs. Granger.

The most important factor in his decision was that he had recently successfully used his previous savings and a bank loan to buy a porcelain teeth factory and moved it to China's special zone, preparing to produce locally, upgrading from a simple middleman to a manufacturer.

Hearing that his parents' careers were starting to develop, Hugo felt that this was something worth celebrating. As a result, because everyone hadn't seen each other for a long time, the post-dinner chat took a little longer, so it was already very late when everyone finished their conversation and went back to their rooms to sleep. So, he simply washed up and went to bed immediately.

Hugo didn't have many plans for this holiday. Besides summoning a few more ship girls to expand his power, his main goal was to rest for a while. After all, he had experienced quite a few things at school in the first half of the semester, and the second half of the semester was likely to bring even more troublesome things. So, he should take advantage of this free time to recharge his batteries.

According to his idea, after this half of the school year, Hood and the others should have taken root in the ordinary human world. He only needed to find Hood and summon some new ship girls together using the ship girls' catalysts. But what he didn't expect was that everything done by the ship girls, whose restrictions he had loosened at the beginning of the semester, far exceeded his imagination.

When Hugo opened his eyes the next day, he saw that it was snowing outside the window. Because everyone had gone to bed a little late yesterday, the whole family woke up later than usual today. After Hugo went downstairs, he found Mr. and Mrs. Granger preparing breakfast in the kitchen, while Hermione was helping to put cutlery on the table.

Seeing this, Hugo took off his coat from the nearby hanger and put it on, then opened the door and walked through the thin layer of snow on the ground towards the mailbox outside the lawn. After opening the mailbox, he found that this small box was filled with all kinds of printed materials and letters.

"Supermarket flyers, store flyers, and various service lists." Looking at the large pile of beautifully printed materials in his hand, Hugo realized that even in an era without smartphones, all kinds of advertising information were still flying everywhere. It's just that the cost was much higher than sending junk text messages.

For example, the cost of each beautifully printed Christmas advertisement like this would not be low, so it would only be sent to middle-class communities like the one Hugo was in now, which might have purchasing power. In terms of coverage, it was far less than a simple network link in the smartphone era of later generations.

And at the bottom of this pile of advertisements was today's "The Times." After taking this pile of things into the warm living room, Hugo first helped Hermione clean up the dining room, and then took out the newspaper and started reading it. As a result, he exclaimed in surprise in less than five minutes.

"What's wrong?" Hermione, who was also reading the newspaper next to him, turned her head and asked, "What's the news in the newspaper that's worth such a surprise? Could it be that it's raining candy in downtown London today?"

"I saw an acquaintance in the newspaper, so I was surprised." Hugo said, putting the newspaper in his hand in front of Hermione, and then pointed to a palm-sized photo on it, which was a beautiful girl with a braid. "This person is Hood's cousin. Veneto has seen her photo before."

"What, let me see." Hermione was also very surprised that someone around her could be on a mainstream newspaper like "The Times", so she also leaned over to read the newspaper. As a result, when Mr. Granger walked out of the kitchen with a plate of bacon and poached eggs, he saw that his children were actually concentrating on reading newspapers that they basically never touched before.

"Children, it's time to eat." Mr. Granger put down the plate in his hand and called out, then he walked over to Hugo and Hermione and asked. "I remember you used to say that "The Times" was very boring, why are you reading it here today?"

"Because an acquaintance is on the newspaper today." Hermione said, pointing to the article. "This person is Miss Hood's cousin, who has been the number one best-selling novel in the United States for four consecutive weeks."

"What?" After hearing his daughter's words, Mr. Granger curiously took the newspaper and read in a low voice, "Belfast O'Brien, a fourth-year student at Queen's University Belfast, has caused a sensation in the United States with her novel 'Twilight', and has even become the most popular novel among young people in the United States now—"