Chapter 22: Before Christmas

In fact, Harry had just asked casually, not expecting Neville to actually give the answer. So when Neville said "I know" with certainty, Harry was speechless.

"Albus Dumbledore, the current Headmaster of Hogwarts, is widely regarded as the greatest wizard of our time......"

Neville read a passage from his notebook, which was familiar to many people, because they had all eaten chocolate babies, and there would be a wizard card in it. A lot of people took pleasure collecting these cards, for example, Ron collected more than five hundred, and Harry only had one, which happened to be Dumbledore, and that card was used as a bookmark by him.

“...... He and his partner Nick Lemay are very effective in alchemy, and they love ......" At this point, Neville paused, looked at his surprised friends, and asked with some puzzlement, "Haven't you seen the Dumbledore card that comes with the chocolate baby?"

"Of course I did, but ......" Ron rolled his eyes and pointed to Neville's notebook, "Who would write down all of this stuff like you do." ”

Neville put away his notebook and said, "I just thought it might be useful, and if I hadn't just returned from Headmaster Dumbledore, I wouldn't have thought about it so quickly." ”

"It seems like we're lucky. Harry was excited, things were much smoother than he thought, "Then all you need to do is find this person's information, it sounds like this is a celebrity, and it should be related to alchemy, the library should have his information......"

Holding the pumpkin juice in small sips, Neville listened to Harry and the others discuss how to find out the details of Nicol Lemay, according to their plan, they will probably have to read books in the library for a long time in the future.

None of this had anything to do with Neville, everyone knew he was going to help Hagrid repair the tower, and that wasn't going to be easy. In comparison, staying in the warm library and reading a book leisurely is obviously so high that I don't know where to go.

Harry and Ron were a little proud of this, but Neville didn't feel anything, and did whatever he had to do.

Building the tower wasn't a particularly troublesome task, especially since Hagrid had almost taken care of it, and every time Neville had time to help, he found that it seemed like the tower could be repaired quickly without himself.

This is also a normal thing, after all, taking care of his studies, Neville is not there all day to repair the tower, it is good to be able to spare three or four hours a day.

Hagrid took good care of Neville, saying more than once that he could just sit there and watch him work and talk to him.

Neville obviously wouldn't agree, it's one thing to help how much he can help, it's another thing to help or not.

"Give me that plank, not the long one, but the short one next to it. Taking the board from Neville, Hagrid took a small hammer and nailed it on, turned his back to Neville, and said, "Will you be home for Christmas?"

"Hmm. "Before school started, my grandmother told me I was going back for Christmas. ”

"Go home, that's good. ”

Hagrid patted the area he had just reinforced, and after making sure it was strong enough, he slowly got down from the ladder, threw the hammer aside, found a clean place to sit down, and said to Neville, who was still standing, "Okay, it's time to rest, don't stand there stupidly, sit down and drink saliva." ”

"Well, it looks like we just rested ten minutes ago. ”

Neville looked at the tower, which was almost restored to its former appearance, and felt that he could work harder to complete it sooner.

"You said that once ten minutes ago. Hagrid said helplessly, "It's almost finished, you don't need to be in such a hurry to catch up with the schedule, in short, it will definitely not delay you going home." ”

Shaking his head, Neville said seriously, "If it can be fixed sooner, you can make a fire in the house...... It's better to be in the house on such a cold day. ”

Hagrid really had nothing to say, and of course, it was undeniable that he was quite comfortable in his heart.

After thinking about it for a while, it seems that with Neville's body, there is really no need to rest so often. Even if you do work all day, I'm afraid that after a good night's sleep, you can still see Neville practicing in the Quidditch pitch the next morning.

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but Hagrid himself feels like he's really old every time he sees Neville, and if he counts his age, he's actually sixty-two years old, and if it weren't for the half-giant blood, I'm afraid he'd be old, a bad old man.

It's good to be young!

"Okay, okay, let's move on. ”

Hagrid stood up, took the small hammer from Neville's hand, and climbed the ladder......

In this way, without deliberate delay, it took another day and a half for the tower to be completely repaired.

Hagrid and Neville made their way to the stands at the top of the tower, where it was windier than below, and even though it was a rare day since the beginning of winter, and the sun was warm, the others would not be able to stay here for even a minute.

"Hagrid, can't spells fix towers?" Neville asked a question suddenly, "I accidentally broke the cup before, and Uncle Algie used the spell to fix it...... But when you were building the tower, why didn't I see you use a spell?"

“......”

Hagrid didn't seem to hear Neville's question, and asked Neville, "Harry, have they been looking for information about Nick Lemay lately?"

Neville nodded, and suddenly laughed, Harry and Ron had been choked by Hermione enough these days, and they had almost lived in the library.

"I knew it. Hagrid pouted, "They don't need to worry about this at all, Dumbledore will take care of it." ”

"I think so too. Neville nodded, his tone mixed with confusion and incomprehension, "And I can't figure out why they didn't go and tell the headmaster." ”

Hagrid looked confused, but instead of giving an answer, he asked, "Why didn't you go talk to Dumbledore?"

"Because they won't let me say. Neville said sullenly, "I mentioned it once, and they wouldn't let me sue the principal. ”

"But you sued me. ”

"Hmm......" Neville frowned, then said relievedly, "It's okay, they didn't say they can't sue you anyway." But who is Nicol Lemay, Harry, they've been looking for him for almost a month, but they haven't found any information about him. ”

Schadenfreude smiled, and Hagrid said happily, "Oh, that couldn't be better." ”

Neville couldn't help but roll his eyes......

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Time flies, and Christmas is just around the corner.

The day before the holiday, Neville went out for a morning exercise, and because of the heavy snow for several days, it was covered with several feet of snow, and the lake was covered with hard ice. The snow was still falling after a short time of stopping, and occasionally a cold wind whistled and snowflakes danced in the air, chasing each other.

Last week, Professor McGonagall came over to register the list of students who were staying at school for the holidays, and Neville was naturally going home, but Harry and Ron stayed.

"It's finally time to go home. ”

Neville muttered to himself, a series of footprints behind him that began at the castle, lengthening little by little as he walked.

Compared to other students who had already planned what they were going to do for the Christmas holidays, Neville didn't think about anything other than knowing that he was going home for the holidays.

St. Mungo's Hospital is definitely going to be a visit, I haven't seen my parents for more than four months, I don't know how they are doing......

A qiē will be fine.

Neville has always believed in this and has never changed.