Chapter 122 Christmas
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Liu Yue Zhi Yuan Fei
After the signing session is over.
Douglas secretly rubbed his already stiff face from laughing.
Then explain to Percy about his going to the Burrow that night.
Rita Skeeter rushed to Douglas immediately.
This kind of behavior disgusted other reporters, but they didn't want to have more contact with Rita Skeeter.
Had to surround Slane.
Rita glanced at Percy in disgust, and then said to Douglas:
"Professor Holmes, can we have a chat alone? It won't take up too much of your time."
Douglas gave Percy a wink, and then the two found a quiet corner of the bookstore, but there was no one around at a glance.
Rita Skeeter asked cautiously: "Professor Holmes, I want to ask... I want to ask..."
Douglas said with a faint smile:
"How can there be something that your poisonous tongue can't say?"
Rita Skeeter said nothing, but looked at Douglas in a way I didn't say you should understand.
Douglas sneered, and didn't make any false claims with her, and said directly:
"As long as it doesn't appear on the market, I don't think I have time to write about the adventures of the little beetle. Do you understand what I mean?"
Rita Skeeter nodded quickly, then took out the notebook from her handbag with great interest, and erased the contents written in the quill pen with one click of magic.
Then he helped his jewel-encrusted glasses, looked around first, and asked cautiously:
"Professor Holmes is okay?"
Looking at her skillful movements, Douglas couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this is a smart woman, with an indifferent sense of morality, she has been active in the wizarding world for so long, so she naturally has extraordinary survival wisdom.
"Mark my words! After all, I don't want you, a big reporter, to be able to read my works in Azkaban.
Of course, I hope Azkaban can provide these. "
Rita's face was ashen, and she asked with a cold snort:
"I'm curious, how did you know about this..."
Douglas said in a tone of regret:
"Oh, I thought you were going to sneak up on me and dig slowly to find out the truth?
For this reason, I also researched a kind of insecticide specifically for beetles, lemon flavor, are you interested in trying it? "
Rita shook her head quickly, and at the same time, she was very grateful that she had asked one more question, otherwise she would not know if she had been tricked for no reason.
Douglas snorted coldly, and then stopped talking to her.
Walked straight towards Slane and chatted with other journalists and writers.
In the following time, Douglas shuttled around Diagon Alley and the shops in the Muggle world to purchase some Christmas gifts.
By the way, I went to the post office and sent some gifts and letters to the Muggle friends I had known over the years.
Then I went to the orphanage and prepared a batch of gifts for the children.
Finally, before dark, I hurried back to Hogsmeade Village and came to the Hogsmeade Post Office, where there were two to three hundred owls of different species, from great gray owls to horned owls.
Douglas picked some owls and sent out the Christmas presents and letters he had prepared one by one.
A considerable part of it was sent to the Hogwarts professor, and then some wizard friends from all over the world that I had known in the past few years, and told them that if they needed to contact themselves, they could send the letter to Percy Weasley.
Slane was complaining to him again today that since Douglas announced his identity, those wizard friends who couldn't contact Douglas would send letters to him, and he would have to spend time sending these letters to Percy for him to pass on. Too much trouble.
Even if it's Christmas, he still chooses to continue to hide his name with magic, he doesn't like the scene of owls flying over the sky.
On the way back to the office, Douglas had another whim and turned around to Professor McGonagall's office.
"Good evening, Professor. I have a little matter to discuss with you..."
Half an hour later, Douglas and Professor McGonagall went to find other professors respectively.
Christmas.
Douglas woke up in the morning to find a pile of presents by the door.
Most of them are desserts and greeting cards sent by students.
There were even love letters from a few courageous girls in grades [-] and [-].
This reminded Douglas of the year.
Therefore, Douglas destroyed most of the food gifts, after remembering who gave what, and directly destroyed the corpses.
What he didn't expect was that Hermione's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granger, also sent him a gift, thanking him for taking care of Hermione at school.
Turning to the bottom, he noticed that there was a book without any notes or signatures - "Advanced Potion Making" author: Libasio Pollach.
Douglas gritted his teeth, he was sure that the book was definitely sent by Snape.
He swore that if it wasn't for the fact that it was the first Christmas gift from the other party, the book would have fallen into the fireplace by accident.
The point is to give it away as soon as it is given away, but what I was given was a new textbook. Do you think that I, Douglas, are not worthy of reading the Notes of the Half-Blood Prince?
Inside the Potions office in the basement of Hogwarts.
Snape saw an unsigned notebook among the presents at a glance.
(Poor Professor Snape, not many Christmas presents.)
Open it after carefully observing that there are no traces of magic on it.
【Various recipes of hot pot bottom ingredients:
Normal base materials: clear soup pot, butter pot, spicy pot, tomato pot, mushroom soup pot
Potion base: Joy Pot, Nagging Pot, Refreshing Pot...]
"Snapped!"
Before Snape finished reading it, he slammed the notebook on the table, gritted his teeth and growled:
"Douglas!"
He prepared the normal base in the house elf in the kitchen.
The potion base was obviously developed on the basis of some potions.
Douglas did this when he was in school. In a potion class for brewing a euphoria, Douglas finally took out a piece of beef from nowhere and put it in the euphoria, causing the cauldron to explode... ..
From then on, Snape thought that Douglas had given up on that damned idea, but he didn't expect that he hadn't given up after all these years.
Looking at the formula of the potion base, with the eyes of a potion master, he can tell at a glance that the other party has really succeeded in the experiment. The hot pot base retains some of the original potion's effects, and after other substances enter, it does not There will be other reactions.
Finally Snape thought about it, and put the notebook in the bottom shelf of his bookshelf, out of sight and out of mind.
Students are much happier waking up to a small pile of gift wrap next to their bed than adults unwrapping presents.
When George and Fred woke up, there was an official Hogwarts letter on top of a small pile of gift wrap.
"Hey, George, Hogwarts is going to send us Christmas presents this year. What do you think will be in the envelope? A Galleon?"
Speaking of which, Fred was going to get the envelope.
George seemed to think of something, and quickly shouted:
"No, I think I guessed what it was?"
Fred shrank his hands in fright, then thought of something, and looked at George in horror:
"They never did that, did they?"
George shook his head and whispered:
"I knew that if I didn't get my grades the day before the holiday, it's not a good omen."
Fred also sighed:
"This time, the professors didn't let the class representatives to mark the papers. We didn't know how much we took."
George suddenly said cheerfully:
"Hey bro, think of something good. Thank goodness we didn't go home and the report card didn't get to Mom."
Fred also looked at his brother in surprise, and quickly opened the envelope.
As expected, it turned out to be the report card of the five-course exam.
When they saw the report card, the two suddenly regretted not going home.
Transfiguration: Good.
Charms: Excellent.
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Excellent.
Astronomy: Pass.
Potions: Pass.
"Snape is too biased, I think I can definitely get a good grade in Potions!"
This scene didn't just happen to the two of them.
All Hogwarts students below the fifth grade have received this test result notification.
Some people are happy, and others are naturally miserable.
Especially those students who failed the exam and returned home.
Came to the auditorium at breakfast time.
A dozen frost-covered Christmas trees had been arranged, and the ceiling was thickly friezes of mistletoe and holly.
And magic was cast on the ceiling, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers gently fell down.
There are about a hundred roast turkeys on the table, and they are not roasted in one way. Traditional onions and sage are used, as well as various roast chicken seasonings that Douglas referenced.
In addition to turkey, there are also various barbecues and sausages.
In addition to the boiled potatoes that are often eaten in life, the kitchen is also equipped with some pancakes...
It's almost a big dinner with a fusion of East and West.
The meal didn't come just this Christmas, after Douglas had his own place in the kitchen.
Almost every year, some meals that are not available in traditional Christmas are added.
In addition to food, there are piles of wizard color bags and firecrackers.
When someone draws those color bags, there will be a bang like a cannon bombing, and they will be engulfed in various colored smoke, and various hats will jump out of it, and maybe even some small mice...
When some students saw that it was a little mouse, they smiled and said:
"Fortunately, it wasn't Professor Holmes' test paper, it scared me to death!"
Before he finished speaking, another student said in pain:
"Oh my god, it's Christmas, why did the gift I burst out was a test paper, five feet long..."
The other students laughed and prayed that they would not get the test paper.
When Douglas came to the faculty seat, he heard Professor Flitwick telling jokes to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore wears a lady's hat decorated with flowers.
When he noticed that Douglas was looking at his hat, he took it off his head with great joy:
"Merry Christmas, Douglas. You like this hat? Come and let me put it on for you, you're welcome, I've got plenty more..."
Will Douglas refuse what the leader sends?
Obviously, no matter how repulsive he was, he still put on his hat with a smile.
But then he drew his wand, and said with a smile:
"Since it's a holiday, I'm totally different.
When I was traveling, I went to the Muggle world in the East, where they enshrined a god called the God of Wealth..."
After speaking, Douglas's hat and clothes began to change, and then everyone saw a man with yellow hair and green eyes, wearing a prime minister's gauze hat, and wearing a red robe and gold belt, looking very festive.
Douglas' look appeals to some wizards, especially Dumbledore.
"Although I don't know how to describe it, Douglas, your outfit is really festive. It reminds me of Santa Claus in the Muggle world, but his clothes are not as delicate as yours."
Speaking of Dumbledore dressing himself up as Santa Claus, the surrounding professors laughed.
Those who were unpacking the gift boxes and saw two people in red suddenly appearing on the teaching staff turned their heads and looked over.
Seeing the students below looking at them, Douglas waved his wand in the air.
Those snowflakes that were falling suddenly turned into gold coins and fell one after another.
(Gold Gallon cannot be transformed directly by Polymorph.)
The students scrambled to grab those gold coins, until they discovered that it wasn't real currency.
Dumbledore was also very happy: "Aha, nice Transfiguration Curse!"
After speaking, he also waved his magic wand, and all kinds of socks suddenly appeared in the middle of the auditorium, and those socks opened their mouths directly, and put the fallen gold coins into them, before they fell to the ground.
Professor McGonagall seemed interested too.
She also waved her magic wand, and the dozen or so Christmas trees suddenly opened their mouths to sing Christmas carols, and the silver frost hanging on her body also turned into little butterflies, flying around the trees.
The students were stunned. The last time they saw this scene was at the Halloween party.
Douglas was also very satisfied with this scene, he felt that it would have the feeling of a festival in the wizarding world.
Douglas secretly rubbed his already stiff face from laughing.
Then explain to Percy about his going to the Burrow that night.
Rita Skeeter rushed to Douglas immediately.
This kind of behavior disgusted other reporters, but they didn't want to have more contact with Rita Skeeter.
Had to surround Slane.
Rita glanced at Percy in disgust, and then said to Douglas:
"Professor Holmes, can we have a chat alone? It won't take up too much of your time."
Douglas gave Percy a wink, and then the two found a quiet corner of the bookstore, but there was no one around at a glance.
Rita Skeeter asked cautiously: "Professor Holmes, I want to ask... I want to ask..."
Douglas said with a faint smile:
"How can there be something that your poisonous tongue can't say?"
Rita Skeeter said nothing, but looked at Douglas in a way I didn't say you should understand.
Douglas sneered, and didn't make any false claims with her, and said directly:
"As long as it doesn't appear on the market, I don't think I have time to write about the adventures of the little beetle. Do you understand what I mean?"
Rita Skeeter nodded quickly, then took out the notebook from her handbag with great interest, and erased the contents written in the quill pen with one click of magic.
Then he helped his jewel-encrusted glasses, looked around first, and asked cautiously:
"Professor Holmes is okay?"
Looking at her skillful movements, Douglas couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this is a smart woman, with an indifferent sense of morality, she has been active in the wizarding world for so long, so she naturally has extraordinary survival wisdom.
"Mark my words! After all, I don't want you, a big reporter, to be able to read my works in Azkaban.
Of course, I hope Azkaban can provide these. "
Rita's face was ashen, and she asked with a cold snort:
"I'm curious, how did you know about this..."
Douglas said in a tone of regret:
"Oh, I thought you were going to sneak up on me and dig slowly to find out the truth?
For this reason, I also researched a kind of insecticide specifically for beetles, lemon flavor, are you interested in trying it? "
Rita shook her head quickly, and at the same time, she was very grateful that she had asked one more question, otherwise she would not know if she had been tricked for no reason.
Douglas snorted coldly, and then stopped talking to her.
Walked straight towards Slane and chatted with other journalists and writers.
In the following time, Douglas shuttled around Diagon Alley and the shops in the Muggle world to purchase some Christmas gifts.
By the way, I went to the post office and sent some gifts and letters to the Muggle friends I had known over the years.
Then I went to the orphanage and prepared a batch of gifts for the children.
Finally, before dark, I hurried back to Hogsmeade Village and came to the Hogsmeade Post Office, where there were two to three hundred owls of different species, from great gray owls to horned owls.
Douglas picked some owls and sent out the Christmas presents and letters he had prepared one by one.
A considerable part of it was sent to the Hogwarts professor, and then some wizard friends from all over the world that I had known in the past few years, and told them that if they needed to contact themselves, they could send the letter to Percy Weasley.
Slane was complaining to him again today that since Douglas announced his identity, those wizard friends who couldn't contact Douglas would send letters to him, and he would have to spend time sending these letters to Percy for him to pass on. Too much trouble.
Even if it's Christmas, he still chooses to continue to hide his name with magic, he doesn't like the scene of owls flying over the sky.
On the way back to the office, Douglas had another whim and turned around to Professor McGonagall's office.
"Good evening, Professor. I have a little matter to discuss with you..."
Half an hour later, Douglas and Professor McGonagall went to find other professors respectively.
Christmas.
Douglas woke up in the morning to find a pile of presents by the door.
Most of them are desserts and greeting cards sent by students.
There were even love letters from a few courageous girls in grades [-] and [-].
This reminded Douglas of the year.
Therefore, Douglas destroyed most of the food gifts, after remembering who gave what, and directly destroyed the corpses.
What he didn't expect was that Hermione's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granger, also sent him a gift, thanking him for taking care of Hermione at school.
Turning to the bottom, he noticed that there was a book without any notes or signatures - "Advanced Potion Making" author: Libasio Pollach.
Douglas gritted his teeth, he was sure that the book was definitely sent by Snape.
He swore that if it wasn't for the fact that it was the first Christmas gift from the other party, the book would have fallen into the fireplace by accident.
The point is to give it away as soon as it is given away, but what I was given was a new textbook. Do you think that I, Douglas, are not worthy of reading the Notes of the Half-Blood Prince?
Inside the Potions office in the basement of Hogwarts.
Snape saw an unsigned notebook among the presents at a glance.
(Poor Professor Snape, not many Christmas presents.)
Open it after carefully observing that there are no traces of magic on it.
【Various recipes of hot pot bottom ingredients:
Normal base materials: clear soup pot, butter pot, spicy pot, tomato pot, mushroom soup pot
Potion base: Joy Pot, Nagging Pot, Refreshing Pot...]
"Snapped!"
Before Snape finished reading it, he slammed the notebook on the table, gritted his teeth and growled:
"Douglas!"
He prepared the normal base in the house elf in the kitchen.
The potion base was obviously developed on the basis of some potions.
Douglas did this when he was in school. In a potion class for brewing a euphoria, Douglas finally took out a piece of beef from nowhere and put it in the euphoria, causing the cauldron to explode... ..
From then on, Snape thought that Douglas had given up on that damned idea, but he didn't expect that he hadn't given up after all these years.
Looking at the formula of the potion base, with the eyes of a potion master, he can tell at a glance that the other party has really succeeded in the experiment. The hot pot base retains some of the original potion's effects, and after other substances enter, it does not There will be other reactions.
Finally Snape thought about it, and put the notebook in the bottom shelf of his bookshelf, out of sight and out of mind.
Students are much happier waking up to a small pile of gift wrap next to their bed than adults unwrapping presents.
When George and Fred woke up, there was an official Hogwarts letter on top of a small pile of gift wrap.
"Hey, George, Hogwarts is going to send us Christmas presents this year. What do you think will be in the envelope? A Galleon?"
Speaking of which, Fred was going to get the envelope.
George seemed to think of something, and quickly shouted:
"No, I think I guessed what it was?"
Fred shrank his hands in fright, then thought of something, and looked at George in horror:
"They never did that, did they?"
George shook his head and whispered:
"I knew that if I didn't get my grades the day before the holiday, it's not a good omen."
Fred also sighed:
"This time, the professors didn't let the class representatives to mark the papers. We didn't know how much we took."
George suddenly said cheerfully:
"Hey bro, think of something good. Thank goodness we didn't go home and the report card didn't get to Mom."
Fred also looked at his brother in surprise, and quickly opened the envelope.
As expected, it turned out to be the report card of the five-course exam.
When they saw the report card, the two suddenly regretted not going home.
Transfiguration: Good.
Charms: Excellent.
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Excellent.
Astronomy: Pass.
Potions: Pass.
"Snape is too biased, I think I can definitely get a good grade in Potions!"
This scene didn't just happen to the two of them.
All Hogwarts students below the fifth grade have received this test result notification.
Some people are happy, and others are naturally miserable.
Especially those students who failed the exam and returned home.
Came to the auditorium at breakfast time.
A dozen frost-covered Christmas trees had been arranged, and the ceiling was thickly friezes of mistletoe and holly.
And magic was cast on the ceiling, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers gently fell down.
There are about a hundred roast turkeys on the table, and they are not roasted in one way. Traditional onions and sage are used, as well as various roast chicken seasonings that Douglas referenced.
In addition to turkey, there are also various barbecues and sausages.
In addition to the boiled potatoes that are often eaten in life, the kitchen is also equipped with some pancakes...
It's almost a big dinner with a fusion of East and West.
The meal didn't come just this Christmas, after Douglas had his own place in the kitchen.
Almost every year, some meals that are not available in traditional Christmas are added.
In addition to food, there are piles of wizard color bags and firecrackers.
When someone draws those color bags, there will be a bang like a cannon bombing, and they will be engulfed in various colored smoke, and various hats will jump out of it, and maybe even some small mice...
When some students saw that it was a little mouse, they smiled and said:
"Fortunately, it wasn't Professor Holmes' test paper, it scared me to death!"
Before he finished speaking, another student said in pain:
"Oh my god, it's Christmas, why did the gift I burst out was a test paper, five feet long..."
The other students laughed and prayed that they would not get the test paper.
When Douglas came to the faculty seat, he heard Professor Flitwick telling jokes to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore wears a lady's hat decorated with flowers.
When he noticed that Douglas was looking at his hat, he took it off his head with great joy:
"Merry Christmas, Douglas. You like this hat? Come and let me put it on for you, you're welcome, I've got plenty more..."
Will Douglas refuse what the leader sends?
Obviously, no matter how repulsive he was, he still put on his hat with a smile.
But then he drew his wand, and said with a smile:
"Since it's a holiday, I'm totally different.
When I was traveling, I went to the Muggle world in the East, where they enshrined a god called the God of Wealth..."
After speaking, Douglas's hat and clothes began to change, and then everyone saw a man with yellow hair and green eyes, wearing a prime minister's gauze hat, and wearing a red robe and gold belt, looking very festive.
Douglas' look appeals to some wizards, especially Dumbledore.
"Although I don't know how to describe it, Douglas, your outfit is really festive. It reminds me of Santa Claus in the Muggle world, but his clothes are not as delicate as yours."
Speaking of Dumbledore dressing himself up as Santa Claus, the surrounding professors laughed.
Those who were unpacking the gift boxes and saw two people in red suddenly appearing on the teaching staff turned their heads and looked over.
Seeing the students below looking at them, Douglas waved his wand in the air.
Those snowflakes that were falling suddenly turned into gold coins and fell one after another.
(Gold Gallon cannot be transformed directly by Polymorph.)
The students scrambled to grab those gold coins, until they discovered that it wasn't real currency.
Dumbledore was also very happy: "Aha, nice Transfiguration Curse!"
After speaking, he also waved his magic wand, and all kinds of socks suddenly appeared in the middle of the auditorium, and those socks opened their mouths directly, and put the fallen gold coins into them, before they fell to the ground.
Professor McGonagall seemed interested too.
She also waved her magic wand, and the dozen or so Christmas trees suddenly opened their mouths to sing Christmas carols, and the silver frost hanging on her body also turned into little butterflies, flying around the trees.
The students were stunned. The last time they saw this scene was at the Halloween party.
Douglas was also very satisfied with this scene, he felt that it would have the feeling of a festival in the wizarding world.
