In the week leading up to Christmas, a sense of joy permeated the school. In this situation, the Weasley Twins' joke product ordering business has grown a lot. Quite a few owls bring them a large number of orders every day.

"We now have two hemp wizards as staff so we can juggle our studies and business. One day, Fred said to Ryan next to him while writing a purchase order in the common room. "We learned when we hired that most of the shops on Diagon Alley even secretly claimed that they didn't need hemp wizards, but from what we've observed, there is no difference between hemp wizards and pure-blood wizards in this kind of work. ”

"Yes, after we wrote to my father about the situation. The father told us that it was disgusting discrimination and that as his son he would never allow us to do it. George, who was checking the list next to him, said.

"Our father believed that the true nobility of a pure-blood wizard was the level of magic and the noble qualities. The kind of guy who obviously has a family inheritance, but can't even compare to the level of magic and dealing with people, and insists on relying on the status and bloodline of the family to find a good position when applying for a job, it's really bad. If this continues, sooner or later the wizarding world will pill. For example, he thinks that old Crabbe and Goyle, who are now in the Ministry of Magic, are two rice buckets, and there is nothing to praise except for not wasting food at banquets. ”

"Of course, we think that our father is a little extreme, and there are talents in those pure-blood families. But my father was right in the general direction, the pure-blood family took advantage of it and didn't leave a way for any half-blood and hemp wizards to ascend was terrible. Especially when Hogwarts has cultivated more and more excellent hemp and half-blood wizards in the past few decades. ”

"Therefore, in the future, our stores will give priority to character and ability, after all, even from the perspective of pure interests, this approach is better than recruiting people according to blood, and this is also in line with the development trend of the world. Besides, those purebloods don't look down on a small shop like ours. ”

It seems that pure-blood wizards are not unresponsive to changes in the world, but only a group of marginalized pure-blood wizards like the Weasleys are determined to adapt to the trend of the times. And the purebloods who dominate the wizarding world just want to keep it that way.

Ryan suddenly thought of one thing at this time: Voldemort was just a half-blood orphan back then, and the pure-blood families would not be fooled by a simple Slytherin descendant, after all, if the Slytherin descendants really had great majesty in pureblood, the Gaunt family would not have lived so badly.

Now that I think about it, it should be that the purebloods who ruled the European wizarding world were just using Voldemort as a cover, after all, after Grindelwald's defeat, the ministries of magic relaxed the restrictions of secrecy laws. In this case, the number of hybrid and hemp wizards in the wizarding world has risen sharply, and the purebloods naturally want to clean up these guys who are competing with them for resources. So it was normal to support a Voldemort to cleanse these wizards directly from the flesh.

It's just that the pureblood didn't expect Voldemort to rely on enough strength and charm to tempt the younger generation of various pure-blood families, and then use various methods to kill the pure-bloods of his own generation. In the end, he became a pawn of the master rather than the pure-blood family. For example, Malfoy's grandfather died of dragon pox, but as we all know, people with dragon pox can easily distinguish from their appearance, and Malfoy's grandfather can no longer be defenseless when facing such an acute infectious disease patient, so the cause of death is more suspicious.

It is no wonder that the Weasleys have historically been one of the biggest beneficiaries after the war, and it is true that having a head of the family like Mr. Weasley, who is sober and can understand the development trend of history, as the head of the family, can indeed avoid many wrong paths.

"Ryan, Ryan, are you alright?" Ryan was thinking about all this mess when he felt someone shake him, and he came back to his senses to find the Weasley twins staring at him nervously. "Just now we were talking, and you suddenly started in a daze, and we thought something was wrong with you. ”

"It's okay, it's just that I've been a little tired because I've been doing a lot lately. With that, Ryan pulled out two bronze defense bracelets and handed them to the twins. "Every night I have to think about restocking the store, so I have to sleep late every night. ”

"You're so busy remembering this. George took the two bracelets with an excited face. "I thought you wouldn't have time to do that when you became a Warrior this year. By the way, you won't be able to get in the way of your game, will you?"

"No, don't worry. Ryan swore yes. "I can also change my mind while making these bracelets, which is equivalent to resting. ”

After chatting with the twins for a while, Ryan went upstairs to get his textbooks. Because the next class was Professor McGonagall's, she wouldn't give anyone face if she was late.

Heavy snow fell on the castle and grounds. Beauxbatons' light blue carriage looked like a large pumpkin in the winter, and the little gingerbread house with frosting next to it was Hagrid's cabin, and the sides of the Durmstrang were smooth and shiny with ice, and the sail ropes were stained with hoarfrost.

There were a lot of hot stews and sweet puddings in all kinds of flavors for dinner that night, and I have to say that the house-elves at Hogwarts Castle do have two brushes when it comes to cooking. It's just that the British don't like spicy food very much, so Ryan didn't see a cold-warming food like Hu spicy soup.

Durmstrang and Hogwarts students were delighted by the food, especially the Durmstrang students, who were raving about the high-calorie foods, probably because they were from a cold place. It is no wonder that they are relatively burly, both men and women, and when they stand in the snow with fur cloaks, they look like brown bears standing upright from a distance.

Only the French are still dissatisfied with these foods, after all, for them, neither taste nor warmth is more important than grace. They would rather be cold than get slightly fatter.

On Christmas morning, Ryan woke up early. After counting the gifts, he went out to exercise as usual. Everything else was normal this year, with the only thing that changed was that Hermione's gift was no longer an obscure book, but a bottle of men's perfume that didn't look cheap.

"Fortunately, I didn't have straight men this year, so I gave away another book. As he ran around the castle, Ryan thought with some amusement. On the way, he met a group of Durmstrang boys running laps in the snow wearing only tank tops and shorts, and sure enough, not all wizards don't pay attention to physical exercise.

Christmas dinner is usually a bunch of turkeys, although until now Ryan has not figured out why Hogwarts, which has a long history, eats turkey on Christmas like the Americans in the New World, instead of eating the traditional roast goose.

In the afternoon, all Gryffindor members basically went to the playground to have a snowball fight, and at this time, Ryan naturally couldn't help but fit in. However, after the Weasley twins used magic to direct snowballs to smash people, only to be directly made by Ryan with an alchemy array and almost turned into snowmen, it was forbidden to use magic to throw snowballs on the playground.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Hermione dragged Ginny upstairs with the girls, saying that she was going to get dressed. It seems that no matter what kind of world it is, whether it is a man or a woman, as long as you dress up seriously, it is definitely a big project.

"What, you guys need three hours?" Ron exclaimed in the direction Hermione and Ginny had left. Ryan and Harry looked at each other after seeing this and shook their heads helplessly.

This year, because of the prom, there was no Christmas tea party. Ryan had a good afternoon of fun, and it was not until seven o'clock in the afternoon that he and the others went upstairs to prepare for the ball.