Christmas is just around the corner. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts School woke up from a dream to find that it was covered with several feet of snow and that the lake was covered with hard ice. The Weasley twins were punished for enchanting several snowballs and causing them to chase Quirrell around and smash them behind his turban.

Seeing this, Ryan admired the Weasley twins' heroic act of slapping Voldemort in the face.

In this proximity to the holidays, some classes can be a bit unbearable. Take Professor Snape's Potions class, for example. Since the classrooms are underground and don't have any heating, a single mouth can be blown out of the room. Not to mention the poisonous tongue of Professor Snape, who had to endure the cold and numb hands and feet when his hands and feet were numb from the cold.

"I really feel sorry for those people," Draco Malfoy defiantly said during a Potions class, "and they had to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas because the family didn't want them." ”

But Harry seemed unmoved, even a little happy. He felt that it was so exciting to be able to spend Christmas without going back to the Desleys, and Malfoy's words did not spoil his good mood in the slightest.

When Professor McGonagall registered her students to stay on campus last week, Harry and the Weasley brothers chose to stay. Harry stayed to get rid of the Dursleys, while the Weasley brothers were on their way to visit Charlie in Romania.

Hermione and Ryan chose to go home for Christmas, after all, it was the first time they had been away from home for that long. Of course, Ryan also told Harry and Ron, who stayed in school, that they would prepare gifts for them and would look forward to their gifts.

Although for the past two weeks, they have searched a bunch of books and have not found who Nicol Lemay is. But that doesn't dampen their anticipation for Christmas.

Ten days before Christmas, it's time for the holidays. After breakfast, Ryan picked up his schoolbag and went to Hogsmeade's station with his classmates who were going home.

After walking for ten minutes out of the wrought-iron gates decorated with winged boars on both sides of the school, they arrived at the platform of Hogsmeade Station, where the Hogwarts Express was already waiting.

There weren't as many people in the car as they came, so Ryan and Hermione found an empty box, and after a while, Longbottom sat in.

Ryan wanted to relax, but Hermione took out her homework and started writing. This made Ryan and Neville, who played wizard chess, not finish a game, so they consciously put away their chess pieces and took out their homework to start writing.

After a day of driving, the train arrived at King's Cross Station. In the square in front of the station, they meet Neville's grandmother.

Mrs. Longbottom was grateful to Ryan and Hermione for helping Neville at school, which made them feel a little embarrassed.

After saying goodbye to Longbottom's grandchildren, Ryan and Hermione also took taxis home. Before saying goodbye, Hermione repeatedly told Ryan to ask his father about Nicolame's provenance. If you find it, you can call her to let her know.

When he got home, Ryan opened the door and found that his parents had prepared dinner and waited for him, which made Ryan feel the warmth of family that he had not felt for a long time.

After meals and all the way to bedtime, Ryan talks to his parents about his life at school and what's going on at home lately. The good news is that Dad Mr. Lambert's new novel has been selling well lately, so the days leading up to Christmas are likely to be busy, with some book signing events.

After reading a book for a while after dinner, Ryan chose to go to bed early, after all, a day on the train is also very tiring.

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After that, it was a happy Christmas holiday, except for writing homework every day and spending seven or eight minutes on the phone with Hermione to talk about the day's homework. The rest of the time Ryan had a great time, when his parents were busy and not at home. Ryan began to practice with the various mechanical objects in the house one by one, as a way to improve his proficiency in the "Winter House Industrial Handbook".

Of course, the most fortunate thing for Ryan is that practicing magic in the world of the Ten Thousand Worlds Grocery Store will not be discovered by the people of the Ministry of Magic through the heald, so he has a lot more time to practice.

As Christmas approaches, Ryan heads to the community library to meet with Hermione. Because during the phone call the day before, Ryan told Hermione that he had found the news about Nicolame.

After all, it's not difficult to find a reasonable proof process when you already know the answer.

Knowing that Nicolemel was a French medieval alchemist, it is not so difficult to find him in a large pile of information.

Ryan hadn't been waiting for a few minutes in the library when Hermione walked in in a blue down jacket. Then she sat down across from Ryan and asked, "You said you had found the answer, how did you do that?"

"I came home and asked my father, and he told me that he had found the name when he was writing a fantasy novel about the Middle Ages, but couldn't remember the specifics for a while," Ryan said. So I looked through the materials my father had collected while writing that novel and found these. ”

After saying that, Ryan took off the schoolbag on his back and took out a pile of materials from it. Turn a page, point to the words on it, and read word by word:

Nicolas Flamel, Frenchman, a famous alchemist of the 14th century. Its most famous contribution is that it is said to have created the philosopher's stone, the alchemist's philosopher's stone, and used it to successfully turn mercury into gold. At the same time, according to legend, he gained immortality. Until 1929, he was seen continuously. In addition, although public information proves that he died in his hometown in 1427, greedy people have robbed his and his wife's grave and found it empty. This is another proof that he has achieved immortality. ”

And this, Ryan pulled out another map after speaking, and Hermione stepped forward and found that it was a map of Paris.

"What's on this map?" asked Hermione.

"Look at this. Ryan pointed to a circled spot on the map. "51 rue de Montmorenci, House Nicolamet, this place used to be Nicolame's house. So this shows that Nicolemel was an alchemist who lived in Paris, France in the Middle Ages. ”

"It occurred to me that there must be a Philosopher's Stone hidden in there. Hermione exclaimed quietly. "Because when we were looking in the library that day, Harry told me that he suspected that the day he went to Diagon Alley, Hagrid had taken out a small bag from that vault in the deepest part of Gringotts was something that had been hidden under the trapdoor. Therefore, judging by the size and other available information, it is very likely that the hidden thing is a philosopher's stone. ”