#52 - Christmas Dinner

Sirius, seeing Anduin's great interest, even gifted him "Application of Connection Runes" as a Christmas present. The Floo Network's construction had many techniques that could be found in the book. Anduin felt like he had discovered a treasure after reading it. Recently, Anduin had been studying ancient runes, and this book offered a lot of content for him to practice and learn.

"So this is Snape?" Anduin was flipping through one of Sirius's photo albums. Inside was a group photo from his year, not quite like a graduation photo, but more like one taken at some sort of event.

"That's right, this was taken at Professor Slughorn's Slug Club. See, this is Avery, this is Dolohov, and this, is Snape. You need to remember what they look like, and be careful in case you run into them later," Sirius explained the people in the photo to Anduin in detail.

Anduin was most concerned about Snape. He had a sixth-year potions textbook with the signature 'The Half-Blood Prince.' When he discovered the 'Sectumsempra' curse in it, Anduin was basically certain that 'The Half-Blood Prince' was Snape. Moreover, judging from the notes in the book, Snape's potion skills must have been very strong.

The Snape in the photo was very young, with black hair slightly longer than Anduin's current length, and his eyes were melancholic with a hint of calmness. It was hard to imagine what such a person would look like smiling.

The next day, it was time for the Christmas dinner. Anduin wore light gray slim-fitting trousers, a French dark blue shirt, and a silver-gray short velvet waistcoat. He wore a narrow tie with bright silver and black stripes at the collar, and a similarly light gray tight-fitting long velvet coat. He also carefully styled his hair. The whole person looked energetic. If you ignored his height of about 1.5 meters, he looked like a refined young gentleman.

On the other side, Sirius was also wearing a formal dress, but without a tie. Instead, he unbuttoned the collar, making him look like a handsome rogue uncle.

"So you're telling me that going to the party involves riding on your broken motorcycle?" Anduin originally thought that he would visit the Potter's house with Sirius through Apparition or the Floo Network, but when he saw him ostentatiously pushing out his motorcycle, he knew he was wrong.

"Haha, I have to let Potter and Lupin see my little baby. Don't worry, this sidecar has an Undetectable Extension Charm, it can hold all your gifts," Sirius laughed and stroked his precious motorcycle, making Anduin feel disgusted.

Anduin could only helplessly sit in the sidecar, muttering in his heart: "I finally styled my hair, it doesn't matter if you are disheveled, but if you mess up my hairstyle, I won't forgive you."

And so, Sirius carried Anduin, flew into the sky, and headed towards Godric's Hollow. In the air, Anduin kept using the Shield Charm in front of him to resist the cold wind and protect his hair at the same time.

Godric's Hollow is located in the southwest of England and is a semi-wizard settlement. There are many such semi-wizard settlements inhabited by wizards in England, but in England, there is only one wizard village entirely composed of wizards, Hogsmeade. Although many wizards live here, they still cannot openly use magic in front of other muggle residents.

Sirius drove the motorcycle carrying Anduin and landed on a street in front of a large house, then released the car's concealing magic and parked the car in the open space next to the house with a smile.

However, Anduin couldn't laugh at this time. Although he tried his best to protect it along the way, the cold wind still inevitably messed up his neatly combed hairstyle. Now he could only try his best to smooth his hair back with his hands, resulting in his previous shoulder-length hairstyle again.

Anduin stared at Sirius with resentment, Sirius just shrugged indifferently, and said with a smile: "Don't fix your hair anymore, don't you think this style looks pretty good, like me, unrestrained and suave."

I just don't want to look like you, that's why I specially... forget it, never mind, the more I say, the more tears I shed.

Sirius brought Anduin to knock on the door of the Potter's house. The door opened, and Lily appeared in front of the two with a head of dark red hair. As soon as they met, she smiled and said to the two: "Welcome, Sirius, Anduin, you are late, everyone else has arrived."

Of course, if Sirius hadn't insisted on riding his broken car, it wouldn't have taken so long on the road, Anduin couldn't help but glance at Sirius with resentment.

"Haha, it's the same whether you arrive early or late, long time no see Lily, you are getting more and more beautiful," Sirius said nonchalantly.

And Anduin also replied politely: "Merry Christmas, Senior Lily, thank you for inviting me to your dinner party."

Lily looked at Anduin with a gentle smile and said, "Just call me Lily. I felt very close to you the first time I met you. Besides, you saved Sirius, so naturally you are our friend. Come in and warm yourself by the fire, it's extremely cold outside now."

"Stop saying that this kid saved me, if this kid hadn't suddenly appeared, I would have beaten those two idiots long ago," Sirius said with slight dissatisfaction.

Lily didn't refute when she heard this, just smiled at Anduin, and then led the two into the house.

The Potter's house was decorated very warmly. Under the illumination of unique magic candles and oil lamps, the house was very bright. A group of people was already sitting in the living room, including James Potter, whom he had met before. Beside him sat a young man in old-fashioned formal dress and a short, fat young man.

Opposite them sat a couple who looked like husband and wife. One was Frank Longbottom, whom Anduin had met before. He used to be responsible for sending him to the Leaky Cauldron in Knockturn Alley. Anduin remembered that he was an Auror, so the one next to him must be his wife.

"James, Remus, Peter, haha, Merry Christmas," As soon as Sirius came in, he spread his arms and went forward to hug and greet his friends one by one.

"Frank, and Alice, I didn't expect you to come too, it's really lively today," Sirius was also very happy to greet the Longbottoms.

After seeing Sirius, the Longbottoms also happily got up and shook hands with Sirius. Frank Longbottom then said: "Dumbledore suggested that our two families spend this Christmas together, and Harry and Neville were born only one day apart, so it's good to let the two little guys play together. Alice and my mother also thought this was a great suggestion, so we came together."