Chapter 114 Christmas!
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Wo Bu Geng Xin
One morning in mid-December, Luke woke up to no sunlight.
Looking through the window to the top of the Black Lake, he saw a vast expanse of whiteness.
Snowing.
And when Luke walked into the auditorium, he saw the cheerful twins.
The two of them were telling Luke how they'd bewitched some snowballs to hit Quirrell in the back of the head.
Of course, they've done it as stealthily as possible.No more people were told the news.
Things like Luke made Luke sigh the correction power of the original plot while lamenting the boldness of the twins.This is true. I thought the twins had already realized the danger of Quirrell, but they didn't expect that they would do this kind of thing.
But yes, if they dare not do this kind of thing, they are not twins.
After all, Quirrell was said to be dangerous, but the twins still hadn't seen his danger.Quirrell has repeatedly lost those confrontations that existed in the dark, and now he is almost at the end of his rope.
He wasn't crazy yet, and he didn't break the boat immediately. In Luke's view, he was already too calm.But when exactly will it be pushed to the point of a last stand?Luke himself didn't know, so he could only be prepared to turn his face and take a step forward.
"Tomorrow will be released, Luke, will you stay in school?"
George asked with some expectation.
"We can't go home this holiday. Mom, Dad, and Ginny are going to see Charlie."
Fred smiled and said that he couldn't go home, but he didn't seem to be unhappy at all, but a little bit excited.
After all, it's pretty cool for kids that age to be separated from their parents like a big kid.
As far as they know, Luke should have no more relatives, so the two of them expect that Luke should also stay at school and spend this Christmas holiday with them.
They have even thought of entertainment projects such as 'Jungle Adventure', 'Deep Castle', 'Late Night Kitchen' and so on.
But things don't always go as planned.
Luke slowly shook his head in the expectant eyes of the two and said: "I'm sorry, although I really want to spend a wonderful Christmas holiday with everyone. But... I still have a little something to deal with during this holiday."
"I have received banquet invitations from several pure-blood families. Of course, I don't plan to contact them now. But the Lance family's industry accepts that I want to have a look, and I have some other private matters, and I want to stay in the school Will not work."
Regret was written all over Luke's face.
He has been in this world for so many years, and it is the first time to spend Christmas with people, but he did not expect that a lively Christmas holiday will be ruined again.
As for whether he will still be alone this year... Luke himself is not sure.
But no matter what, he will accept it calmly.
I've been alone for so long, and it's not like I can't adapt to loneliness just because I spend two more days with everyone.
In other words, he still enjoys solitude.
The disappointment on the faces of George and Fred was palpable, but they adjusted their mentality after a while.
"It's okay! You're busy and it's business."
But after finishing speaking, Luke frowned as if suddenly thinking of something, and asked after a while: "Do you two want to go with me? Go and see your future storefront. And I remember you two There should be a lot of small things by now. Are some of them ready to be put into production?"
In fact, Luke almost forgot about this money-making business.
Even Gemini didn't pay too much attention to this matter.Because they haven't used up the preliminary research funds given by Luke.They also finally realized one day what it means to be rich and powerful.
The two people who felt that they were not short of money for the first time subconsciously put aside the matter of opening a store.I didn't forget it, but I wasn't in such a hurry.
George and Fred look at each other again
"We're not in a hurry, Luke." Fred straightened his thoughts and said, "Although we have a little stuff, it's not a lot, and we can't support a store."
"If we were short of money, maybe we would buy currency and sell our own things at the same time." George added, "But now we are not short of money, and you don't expect this to make money, so we think more Invent something so that the entire store only sells our own stuff!"
What George said was very imposing, and it did sound a little bit ambitious.
But all of this is based on the fact that the two of them are not short of money at all.Of course, it's not a waste of money. In fact, although the living expenses given by parents are still tight, as long as the two of them don't invent, plus the money they got from various ways, the two of them can still live. It's very moisturizing.
It is temporarily impossible to feed back the family, but they can do it without involving too much experience in the family, and they can even do it well.
And all of this would not be possible without the help of the young man in front of him.
Gemini looked at Luke with burning eyes.
They have feelings for Luke.Truly grateful.
"In this case, it's fine. Anyway, the store is reserved for you."
It doesn't matter to Luke, since Gemini made such a choice, he will not refuse it.After all, these insignificant things are not worth his persuasion.
Weasley family short of money?Lack of money is better.He wished that Mr. Weasley would come to him directly to borrow money, or just ask for money.
As long as the Weasleys can be included in their camp, that's enough.
Even on the surface, there are enough benefits.
"Okay, then I won't say much, you just have to make a decision. I still have something to do here, so I'll go get busy first."
After finishing speaking, Luke walked towards the auditorium without talking nonsense.
Walking in, he saw Harry, Ron, Hermione, Tyler, and Malfoy all in the auditorium, helping Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick know the Christmas decorations.
And Hagrid was putting the fir tree he was dragging into the corner.
I don't know what others think, but when Luke saw that not-so-small fir tree, Hagrid dragged it easily to the corner of the auditorium with one hand, then picked it up with both hands, and stood it on the When I was in the corner, I still couldn't help but sigh.
Humans really have limits.
Also, instead of one Christmas tree in the auditorium, there are 12 of them... there were none of these last night...
"Luke! Don't be idle when you come, and decorate that tree over there with the same decoration as the other trees!"
Professor McGonagall has seen Luke sharp-eyed, so of course he won't let Luke idle. Such a labor force is not in vain.In terms of work, Professor McGonagall no longer regards Luke as the same students as the few around him.
Luke didn't refuse, nodded and walked towards Hagrid, and took out his wand.
"Hi Luke, how did you sleep last night?"
Seeing Luke coming over, Hagrid enthusiastically started the non-nutritive small talk.
This is also normal, although the relationship between the two is not bad, but after all, it has not reached the level of mutual trust between Hagrid and Harry.
He and Hagrid would occasionally patrol the Forbidden Forest together.In a sense, each takes what they need, but there is no greater emotional connection.
Now Luke and Hagrid are acquaintances and friends.But that's all.
"Not bad, how about you? Are you still patrolling the forest intensively these days?"
This semester, the Forbidden Forest has basically never stopped.
Hagrid found the remains of some magical animals who had apparently died of abnormal causes almost every day when he patrolled the forest.
The crazy contraction of the centaur is not normal at all.After all, it is impossible for the professors to stare at the Forbidden Forest all the time.Seeing that the unknown thing never left the Forbidden Forest to cause damage, the professors withdrew their energies from the Forbidden Forest.
Of course, this does not mean giving up the defense of the Forbidden Forest.
On the contrary, Hagrid's patrolling intensity has been further increased, which has brought Hagrid's research on the hybridization of magical animals to a certain level of stagnation, but he is not unhappy.Because patrolling the Forbidden Forest itself is also a very happy and fulfilling job.
He thought so himself.
And Luke never stopped getting news, from Hagrid and from Runeweed Snake.
The unicorns hide well, but it's not a solution after all.The other party's search is obviously very organized, but the pattern is difficult to grasp.So it can be said that it is only a matter of time before the unicorns are found.
All Luke and the Rune Snake could do was to delay this time.
If it really can't be delayed, neither of these two guys will take the initiative to show up to protect the unicorn.
Because it's not worth it.
By really driving Voldemort into a rut, Luke himself would be facing a level of danger beyond normal circumstances.This is not what they want.Not to mention Luke himself, the Rune snake would not agree.
"The intensity is still high, but there are still no more clues."
Hagrid sighed helplessly.However, the other party obviously did not follow the goal of destroying the ecology of magical animals in the Forbidden Forest.
Although the situation in front of him was tricky, it was within Hagrid's acceptance range.
Because there are still more giant eight-eyed spiders who died.
Hagrid wasn't a fool either. If the acromant spider group was not restrained, it would really get out of control. The current situation might not be a bad thing for the entire Forbidden Forest.
"It doesn't matter, things will calm down. If the other party is really too much, the professors will not look at it. After all, the Forbidden Forest is also an important property of the school."
Luke pointed at the Christmas tree with his wand, looked carefully at the decorated tree over there, and then waved his wand lightly.
There was a little halo emerging from the tip of the wand, and Hagrid saw the needles turn into ice cubes, and merged at a super fast speed into beautifully shaped small icicles before.
There are also some ice crystals fused in the past, turning into Q-version images of various magical animals.
When he saw the Q-version image of the fire dragon, apart from admiration, Hagrid also felt his heart skip a beat.
If you can raise a fire dragon, it would be a wonderful thing!
As he imagined, he gave Luke a thumbs up.
When Luke finished deforming the Q-version image of the last phoenix, he could feel the consumption of his mental power.But still within the acceptable range.
Turning around, she saw Taylor and Hermione.
"Luke, are you going to be here for Christmas?"
Hermione didn't talk nonsense, and asked straightforwardly.
"I have something to deal with. Gemma and I will go outside together."
Luke didn't hide from the two people in front of him.
Although they knew that these two people must be doing business when they went out, but for some reason, both Taylor and Hermione felt a little bit tasteful.
"Senior Gemma going with you?"
Taylor asked puzzled.
Luke nodded and said, "The Lance family is about to hand over the property. I'm not good at this, so I let Senior Gemma be in charge of it. This is what I said at the beginning."
In this way, it is even more difficult for the two of them to say something.
"What about you? Going home?"
Feeling the dull atmosphere, Luke picked up the topic very calmly.
Hermione nodded and said, "Going home, my parents also want to ask me about my life in school. They are still very curious about the life of wizards."
Luke nodded, this situation was not expected.
"I have to go home too, to spend Christmas with grandma."
Of course, Taylor didn't finish her sentence, so she gave Luke a meaningful look, and Luke naturally understood.When Taylor returned home, he still had to tell his grandma what Luke looked like.
Originally, they all planned to reject Hogwarts' admission, but grandma still let her come, just to see if Luke was worth relying on.
From now on, Luke rarely hides anything in front of Taylor, so Luke's advantages and disadvantages have basically been presented in front of Taylor.Although this is not all, it is enough for people to make a certain judgment.
Luke nodded, and after thinking about it, he still took two pine needles from the Christmas tree behind him, and then they turned into two notes, which he handed to the two girls in front of him.
"Although it is not recommended, if there is anything during the holiday, you can send the letter here. I can reply in time as long as I am at home."
The two girls also nodded, and put the note into their pockets.
Then Hermione took out a pen and paper from her other pocket, and after writing her address, she handed it to Taylor, but Taylor didn't answer it.Instead, he fumbled out an inconspicuous ball from his pocket.
Handing both the ball and the address to Luke, Taylor said: "I will use this directly when I contact you. I don't know the address of my home now. I have to ask my grandma."
Not knowing is of course an excuse, not being able to say is the truth.
But such a small matter, depending on the relationship with Taylor and the ability of which grandmother, Luke is willing to accept it.
"no problem."
After speaking, he put the things in his belt.
And just when they were about to chat about some trivial matters, Malfoy also ran over.
"Luke! My dad invited you to our house for Christmas dinner!"
Looking through the window to the top of the Black Lake, he saw a vast expanse of whiteness.
Snowing.
And when Luke walked into the auditorium, he saw the cheerful twins.
The two of them were telling Luke how they'd bewitched some snowballs to hit Quirrell in the back of the head.
Of course, they've done it as stealthily as possible.No more people were told the news.
Things like Luke made Luke sigh the correction power of the original plot while lamenting the boldness of the twins.This is true. I thought the twins had already realized the danger of Quirrell, but they didn't expect that they would do this kind of thing.
But yes, if they dare not do this kind of thing, they are not twins.
After all, Quirrell was said to be dangerous, but the twins still hadn't seen his danger.Quirrell has repeatedly lost those confrontations that existed in the dark, and now he is almost at the end of his rope.
He wasn't crazy yet, and he didn't break the boat immediately. In Luke's view, he was already too calm.But when exactly will it be pushed to the point of a last stand?Luke himself didn't know, so he could only be prepared to turn his face and take a step forward.
"Tomorrow will be released, Luke, will you stay in school?"
George asked with some expectation.
"We can't go home this holiday. Mom, Dad, and Ginny are going to see Charlie."
Fred smiled and said that he couldn't go home, but he didn't seem to be unhappy at all, but a little bit excited.
After all, it's pretty cool for kids that age to be separated from their parents like a big kid.
As far as they know, Luke should have no more relatives, so the two of them expect that Luke should also stay at school and spend this Christmas holiday with them.
They have even thought of entertainment projects such as 'Jungle Adventure', 'Deep Castle', 'Late Night Kitchen' and so on.
But things don't always go as planned.
Luke slowly shook his head in the expectant eyes of the two and said: "I'm sorry, although I really want to spend a wonderful Christmas holiday with everyone. But... I still have a little something to deal with during this holiday."
"I have received banquet invitations from several pure-blood families. Of course, I don't plan to contact them now. But the Lance family's industry accepts that I want to have a look, and I have some other private matters, and I want to stay in the school Will not work."
Regret was written all over Luke's face.
He has been in this world for so many years, and it is the first time to spend Christmas with people, but he did not expect that a lively Christmas holiday will be ruined again.
As for whether he will still be alone this year... Luke himself is not sure.
But no matter what, he will accept it calmly.
I've been alone for so long, and it's not like I can't adapt to loneliness just because I spend two more days with everyone.
In other words, he still enjoys solitude.
The disappointment on the faces of George and Fred was palpable, but they adjusted their mentality after a while.
"It's okay! You're busy and it's business."
But after finishing speaking, Luke frowned as if suddenly thinking of something, and asked after a while: "Do you two want to go with me? Go and see your future storefront. And I remember you two There should be a lot of small things by now. Are some of them ready to be put into production?"
In fact, Luke almost forgot about this money-making business.
Even Gemini didn't pay too much attention to this matter.Because they haven't used up the preliminary research funds given by Luke.They also finally realized one day what it means to be rich and powerful.
The two people who felt that they were not short of money for the first time subconsciously put aside the matter of opening a store.I didn't forget it, but I wasn't in such a hurry.
George and Fred look at each other again
"We're not in a hurry, Luke." Fred straightened his thoughts and said, "Although we have a little stuff, it's not a lot, and we can't support a store."
"If we were short of money, maybe we would buy currency and sell our own things at the same time." George added, "But now we are not short of money, and you don't expect this to make money, so we think more Invent something so that the entire store only sells our own stuff!"
What George said was very imposing, and it did sound a little bit ambitious.
But all of this is based on the fact that the two of them are not short of money at all.Of course, it's not a waste of money. In fact, although the living expenses given by parents are still tight, as long as the two of them don't invent, plus the money they got from various ways, the two of them can still live. It's very moisturizing.
It is temporarily impossible to feed back the family, but they can do it without involving too much experience in the family, and they can even do it well.
And all of this would not be possible without the help of the young man in front of him.
Gemini looked at Luke with burning eyes.
They have feelings for Luke.Truly grateful.
"In this case, it's fine. Anyway, the store is reserved for you."
It doesn't matter to Luke, since Gemini made such a choice, he will not refuse it.After all, these insignificant things are not worth his persuasion.
Weasley family short of money?Lack of money is better.He wished that Mr. Weasley would come to him directly to borrow money, or just ask for money.
As long as the Weasleys can be included in their camp, that's enough.
Even on the surface, there are enough benefits.
"Okay, then I won't say much, you just have to make a decision. I still have something to do here, so I'll go get busy first."
After finishing speaking, Luke walked towards the auditorium without talking nonsense.
Walking in, he saw Harry, Ron, Hermione, Tyler, and Malfoy all in the auditorium, helping Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick know the Christmas decorations.
And Hagrid was putting the fir tree he was dragging into the corner.
I don't know what others think, but when Luke saw that not-so-small fir tree, Hagrid dragged it easily to the corner of the auditorium with one hand, then picked it up with both hands, and stood it on the When I was in the corner, I still couldn't help but sigh.
Humans really have limits.
Also, instead of one Christmas tree in the auditorium, there are 12 of them... there were none of these last night...
"Luke! Don't be idle when you come, and decorate that tree over there with the same decoration as the other trees!"
Professor McGonagall has seen Luke sharp-eyed, so of course he won't let Luke idle. Such a labor force is not in vain.In terms of work, Professor McGonagall no longer regards Luke as the same students as the few around him.
Luke didn't refuse, nodded and walked towards Hagrid, and took out his wand.
"Hi Luke, how did you sleep last night?"
Seeing Luke coming over, Hagrid enthusiastically started the non-nutritive small talk.
This is also normal, although the relationship between the two is not bad, but after all, it has not reached the level of mutual trust between Hagrid and Harry.
He and Hagrid would occasionally patrol the Forbidden Forest together.In a sense, each takes what they need, but there is no greater emotional connection.
Now Luke and Hagrid are acquaintances and friends.But that's all.
"Not bad, how about you? Are you still patrolling the forest intensively these days?"
This semester, the Forbidden Forest has basically never stopped.
Hagrid found the remains of some magical animals who had apparently died of abnormal causes almost every day when he patrolled the forest.
The crazy contraction of the centaur is not normal at all.After all, it is impossible for the professors to stare at the Forbidden Forest all the time.Seeing that the unknown thing never left the Forbidden Forest to cause damage, the professors withdrew their energies from the Forbidden Forest.
Of course, this does not mean giving up the defense of the Forbidden Forest.
On the contrary, Hagrid's patrolling intensity has been further increased, which has brought Hagrid's research on the hybridization of magical animals to a certain level of stagnation, but he is not unhappy.Because patrolling the Forbidden Forest itself is also a very happy and fulfilling job.
He thought so himself.
And Luke never stopped getting news, from Hagrid and from Runeweed Snake.
The unicorns hide well, but it's not a solution after all.The other party's search is obviously very organized, but the pattern is difficult to grasp.So it can be said that it is only a matter of time before the unicorns are found.
All Luke and the Rune Snake could do was to delay this time.
If it really can't be delayed, neither of these two guys will take the initiative to show up to protect the unicorn.
Because it's not worth it.
By really driving Voldemort into a rut, Luke himself would be facing a level of danger beyond normal circumstances.This is not what they want.Not to mention Luke himself, the Rune snake would not agree.
"The intensity is still high, but there are still no more clues."
Hagrid sighed helplessly.However, the other party obviously did not follow the goal of destroying the ecology of magical animals in the Forbidden Forest.
Although the situation in front of him was tricky, it was within Hagrid's acceptance range.
Because there are still more giant eight-eyed spiders who died.
Hagrid wasn't a fool either. If the acromant spider group was not restrained, it would really get out of control. The current situation might not be a bad thing for the entire Forbidden Forest.
"It doesn't matter, things will calm down. If the other party is really too much, the professors will not look at it. After all, the Forbidden Forest is also an important property of the school."
Luke pointed at the Christmas tree with his wand, looked carefully at the decorated tree over there, and then waved his wand lightly.
There was a little halo emerging from the tip of the wand, and Hagrid saw the needles turn into ice cubes, and merged at a super fast speed into beautifully shaped small icicles before.
There are also some ice crystals fused in the past, turning into Q-version images of various magical animals.
When he saw the Q-version image of the fire dragon, apart from admiration, Hagrid also felt his heart skip a beat.
If you can raise a fire dragon, it would be a wonderful thing!
As he imagined, he gave Luke a thumbs up.
When Luke finished deforming the Q-version image of the last phoenix, he could feel the consumption of his mental power.But still within the acceptable range.
Turning around, she saw Taylor and Hermione.
"Luke, are you going to be here for Christmas?"
Hermione didn't talk nonsense, and asked straightforwardly.
"I have something to deal with. Gemma and I will go outside together."
Luke didn't hide from the two people in front of him.
Although they knew that these two people must be doing business when they went out, but for some reason, both Taylor and Hermione felt a little bit tasteful.
"Senior Gemma going with you?"
Taylor asked puzzled.
Luke nodded and said, "The Lance family is about to hand over the property. I'm not good at this, so I let Senior Gemma be in charge of it. This is what I said at the beginning."
In this way, it is even more difficult for the two of them to say something.
"What about you? Going home?"
Feeling the dull atmosphere, Luke picked up the topic very calmly.
Hermione nodded and said, "Going home, my parents also want to ask me about my life in school. They are still very curious about the life of wizards."
Luke nodded, this situation was not expected.
"I have to go home too, to spend Christmas with grandma."
Of course, Taylor didn't finish her sentence, so she gave Luke a meaningful look, and Luke naturally understood.When Taylor returned home, he still had to tell his grandma what Luke looked like.
Originally, they all planned to reject Hogwarts' admission, but grandma still let her come, just to see if Luke was worth relying on.
From now on, Luke rarely hides anything in front of Taylor, so Luke's advantages and disadvantages have basically been presented in front of Taylor.Although this is not all, it is enough for people to make a certain judgment.
Luke nodded, and after thinking about it, he still took two pine needles from the Christmas tree behind him, and then they turned into two notes, which he handed to the two girls in front of him.
"Although it is not recommended, if there is anything during the holiday, you can send the letter here. I can reply in time as long as I am at home."
The two girls also nodded, and put the note into their pockets.
Then Hermione took out a pen and paper from her other pocket, and after writing her address, she handed it to Taylor, but Taylor didn't answer it.Instead, he fumbled out an inconspicuous ball from his pocket.
Handing both the ball and the address to Luke, Taylor said: "I will use this directly when I contact you. I don't know the address of my home now. I have to ask my grandma."
Not knowing is of course an excuse, not being able to say is the truth.
But such a small matter, depending on the relationship with Taylor and the ability of which grandmother, Luke is willing to accept it.
"no problem."
After speaking, he put the things in his belt.
And just when they were about to chat about some trivial matters, Malfoy also ran over.
"Luke! My dad invited you to our house for Christmas dinner!"
