Chapter 28 Christmas Holidays on the Streets of London

In what follows, Harry sees something different. He found that Merlin seemed to have been looking for a transformation method that would not cause harm to wizards and magical animals as much as possible. If the bloodline transformation is successful, the training time of Animagus can be greatly shortened.

However, this experiment was not successful in the end.

Harry didn't know what an Animagus was - that wasn't covered in Transfiguration this term. But he already understood that this was just a relatively dangerous research by Merlin, and he always adhered to the original bottom line.

At the end of the book, Harry saw a narrative about Hogwarts, where Merlin also went to school, and was a student of Slytherin College! This part made Harry decide, at least tomorrow night, to do it again.

The next morning, the snow hadn't melted yet.

Want to play chess? Ron asked, The chess set Maca gave me is awesome, much more exciting than ordinary wizard chess, and the fire dragon on it is really powerful!

In no mood.

Why don't we go down and see Hagrid?

No...you go.

Harry, said Ron, looking at him suddenly, do you still want to go tonight? Listen to me, don't go.

Why? Harry looked up.

The books in the restricted section don't give me a good feeling, said Ron seriously, and, you met Filch last time, and when we came back last night we saw him poking his head out again. Check the library with your head out. What if he sees you? What if he bumps into you?

You really sound like Hermione when you talk now! Harry forced a smile.

I'm not kidding, Harry, really don't go. Ron did seem to be feeling bad.

Okay! Seeing that Ron was serious, Harry nodded hesitantly.

But that night, when he was lying in bed, he remembered the contents of that book again. The stories held his attention like myths and legends—he was still a child, after all. And Aunt Petunia, who didn't like him since he was a child, would never waste money on buying him fairy tale books.

Go again! Just the last time! Harry secretly made up his mind.

Immediately afterwards, he wrapped his invisibility cloak again, left the dormitory quickly while Ron was fast asleep, and headed for the library quickly.

Oh! He went anyway?

Harry ran so fast that he bumped into the coat rack by the door as he left. After he left, a coat that was hanging from it slipped off, waking Ron up.

Ron turned his head and saw that Harry was no longer on the bed.

Leaving aside Ron's affairs, Harry was about to arrive at the library at this time.

Just as he took out the big book again and was about to continue reading, he inadvertently discovered that there was a person leaning against the next bookshelf!

Ah! Harry almost threw the book out in fright, Oh——Deng, Professor Dumbledore? I'm sorry, I didn't see you.

It's strange how short-sighted you are after being invisible, said Dumbledore, and Harry was relieved to see the smile on his face.

So, said Dumbledore, walking over slowly, and sitting on the floor with Harry, you have read the little autobiography written by Merlin himself in the Book of Jazz?

Uh, I think so. Harry was a little nervous, after all, visiting Hogwarts at night was against school rules.

How about it? Do you think it's very interesting? Dumbledore said slowly, I've also seen that part, King Arthur pulled out the 'Sword in the Stone', but was killed in a duel with King Bolinor In the end, Merlin took him to a lake, and the goddess in the lake gave him a sword. .”

...Merlin likes Muggles very much, doesn't he? Even the 'Sir Merlin' founded by him,

At first, it only existed to advocate the protection of Muggles by law and safeguard the rights and interests of Muggles. Only later, for some reason, it became an organization used to commend great magical achievements.

After all, Dumbledore sighed, and then said seriously: Okay, you have finished listening to the story, don't come here again in the future. You, and Ron, don't just run into the restricted area again, The books here are dangerous.

How do you know—

I don't need an invisibility cloak to be invisible, said Dumbledore gently. Please also remember that you haven't reached the time when you can read books on black magic at any time.

Harry pursed his lips, and finally nodded dejectedly. But just as he was about to stand up, he remembered something—he turned his head to look at the silver-gray magic book.

Harry didn't ask Dumbledore why Maca came here, and he wrote a note in the book. But with Dumbledore's keenness, he had already noticed Harry's gaze.

Dumbledore shook his head slightly, he didn't know if he did the right thing this time. Will that extremely clever and lovable child become something like Tom?

His intuition told him no, but this is not something that can be judged by intuition.

He had already missed an opportunity to save his student, and that child was on a road of no return; he didn't want Maca to get lost in the fork in his life because of his inaction.

So this time, Dumbledore has been carefully observing Maca, and he wants to guide him in time when Maca has problems.

Harry had already gone back under Dumbledore's watch, but Dumbledore himself was lost in thought.

However, when Harry returned to the dormitory, he saw Ron sitting restlessly on the edge of the bed. When he was surprised, Ron pulled him over.

Harry, I'm telling you—

Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have gone without telling you. Harry apologized immediately.

Ron shook his head immediately.

No, let's get that out of the way, he said, I was going to sneak out to get you, you know, we've been out without the cloak—I mean, I was on my way to the library just now When I was there, guess what I saw?

What? Harry asked suspiciously.

I saw Snape! He pinned Quirrell against the wall and said, 'Have you figured out how to subdue Hagrid's monster' or something? It looked scary!

He didn't notice you, did you? Harry asked hastily.

No, no, I didn't dare to stay too long, I'll be back soon.

Afterwards, Harry lay in bed thinking for a long time, but couldn't fall asleep anyway.

The next day, Harry decided to follow Dumbledore's lead. He folded the invisibility cloak at the bottom of the box, and he didn't touch it once for the rest of the Christmas break.

Harry's turmoil during the Christmas holiday is basically over here, but for Maca, it can only be regarded as the beginning!

……what is that?

In the past few days, Luna has asked this sentence many times, but Maca took the trouble to introduce all kinds of things in the Muggle world to her. Although Luna is still in a trance, it can be seen that she is very curious about everything around her.

Maca didn't take Luna too far, because she still had to go home every night. Although Xenophilius was very relieved of them, he was not so relieved that he let Luna spend the night outside casually.

But even so, walking around London already made Luna a little dizzy.

Christmas has just passed, but the festive atmosphere is even stronger. Outside Covent Garden, a huge reindeer stands in the middle of the street, wearing a Santa hat on its head, a red and white plush scarf around its neck, and flickering lights all over its body, looking particularly festive.

The garden is lined with rows of small stalls, where you can buy a variety of warm drinks and small desserts at very cheap prices. Maca was very fortunate that he had left some spare pounds when he exchanged them for Galleons, which could be useful this time.

He bought a lot of delicious and fun things, and there was a strong Christmas atmosphere on all kinds of small gifts. It seemed that because there were too many people inside, Luna took the initiative to hold Maca's hand.

Maca looked at her and smiled, he knew very well that Luna simply didn't want to get separated. For this pure and spiritual little girl, everything is so pure.

Maca carried a lot of things, and pulled Luna to the rest area outside the street for tourists to settle down.

Try this, Maca smiled and handed a cream dessert to Luna. This is a special dessert for Christmas. It looks very good!

Luna took the dessert and looked at it curiously. In her hand, there are many different kinds of Christmas decorations, which she especially likes.

Maca.

Luna carefully placed the two bites of dessert on the table, stuck out her tongue and licked her upper lip, and her eyes fell on the Christmas tree not far away.

What's wrong? Maca responded.

Aren't you going home? Luna asked, blinking her wide eyes as she inspected the Christmas tree decorations.

Maca thought she was asking about the Christmas tree—couldn't she just watch people talk.

Well, no reply. In front of Luna, Maca would always subconsciously avoid topics about his family, although he didn't know why.

Luna turned her head and glanced at him, and said as if dreaming: Family is the only place in the world that hides people's shortcomings and failures, and is also the only place that exposes people's shortcomings and failures.

After speaking, she turned her attention to the trinkets in front of her, as if she forgot what she said in a blink of an eye.

Maca stared blankly at her for a while, then cast his gaze to the street in the distance.

Christmas in the UK is always so leisurely. Everyone takes to the streets, looks left and right, and enjoys the wonderful time of the long Christmas holiday. In the crowd, it is obvious which ones are couples and which ones are parents and children. But no matter what the combination is, there is a happy smile on the face

After a long time, Maca came back to his senses. He smiled wryly to himself, unexpectedly he would sometimes envy others.

Just when he looked at the table in front of him again, planning to pick a dessert for himself, he found that there was an abnormal commotion in the crowd around him.