Chapter 42: It's Too Difficult to Author (This is the Text)
Dudley swallowed and said, "Rock pie." ”
Vernon tossed the rest of the pie into his mouth, chewing on it while staring at the rest of the crust pie on the table, "This... This one... Do you eat?"
Harry hurriedly picked up the rock skin pie stacked on the table and put it in Vernon's hand, he couldn't imagine that a human tooth could bite Hagrid's pie, and he said, "Uncle, if you like to eat it, you can eat it." ”
Vernon was smiling happily while holding the pie, and Penny finally waited for the time to fight back, and she said in a low voice, "Eat, you know how to eat, why don't you come over and help make breakfast." ”
Vernon shuddered, and the rock skin pie he was holding in his arms almost fell to the ground, and he laughed and said, "Here, here it is." ”
Vernon, Dudley, and Harry glanced at each other, and it seemed that Penny was the real master of the house.
"What is this?" Harry saw a small note where the cloak had fallen.
A few words were written on the note in a long, thin font - this thing your father left behind before he died, I think it should be returned to you now. I sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas.
"This is my father's legacy?" Harry wondered, taking the cloak from Dudley, "who is going to give this to me?"
"Professor Dumbledore," Dudley said, thinking for a moment before saying, "I saw it in Professor Dumbledore's office, and he wrote it himself. ”
Harry draped the cloak over his shoulders, and then the part below his neck was gone, and he took off the cloak that was on his shoulders, and then put it back on, repeating it a few times, and after repeating it a few times, he wondered, "What's the use of this cloak? ”
Dudley covered his eyes, he couldn't look any further, it seemed that he was really going to make a potion for Harry, "You put it back on!"
"And then?" asked Harry, bewildered as he put his cloak back on.
Dudley sighed, and then he said, "Look at your body." ”
Harry lowered his head, he felt strange now, he could still feel the body existing, but his body was invisible in his eyes, and he exclaimed, "Wow!
Harry's voice drew Penny and Vernon in.
"Bang!" sounded, and the pot in Penny's hand fell directly to the ground. If Vernon hadn't helped her, she would have fallen to the ground. She stammered, "This... What's going on?"
Harry was so overwhelmed that he didn't even react when he let go of his cloak with both hands. The cloak slipped directly from his shoulder, and his body slowly revealed.
Dudley ran over and helped Vernon help Penny to rest on the couch, saying, "It's okay, it's just an invisibility cloak." With that, he picked up the cloak from the ground and tested it on them several times.
"It scared the hell out of me, I thought something had happened to Harry!" Penny patted her chest and gasped, and after a while she laughed again, "Now that I think about it, Harry's expression was so funny. ”
She stood up with her legs propped up and said, "You guys play, I'll continue to cook for you, it's a pity that the fried eggs fell on the ground just now." ”
Dudley grabbed Penny and said, "You can rest for a while, I'll just get it." ”
In the end, it was Penny who finished the day's breakfast, and according to her words, Dudley would be good at eating, and she didn't have to think about cooking. But this is a mistake for Dudley, in fact, Dudley can really cook.
After breakfast, Harry dragged Dudley into the courtyard to have a snowball fight, and although the two of them didn't play as well as the school bunch of people, they still had a crazy time, and at last they were so cold that they came back to the house panting, and they rubbed their hands together and baked the stove.
In the afternoon, Dudley and Harry began to play wizarding chess, playing several games in a row, Dudley won the first game, and then lost the next few games very badly.
Dudley would lose badly, mainly because Vernon was watching from the sidelines and found it very interesting, and he kept giving Dudley ideas on how to play chess.
"Watching chess is silent, true gentleman. Dudley said, rolling his eyes.
But Vernon didn't understand what this sentence meant, he said: "Do you know that your father was invincible all over the world back then!"
Dudley now wants to beat up the person who designed the wizard's chess, what kind of thing is this design, he is a chess player, but Vernon can command the chess pieces, so it's strange not to lose.
Dudley, who had already lost and didn't want to play again, gave up his place to Vernon, and he didn't win a game until the Christmas dinner.
During this period, Vernon used his chess skills to make Harry miserable, Harry had a shadow of playing wizard chess, and even Vernon's chess pieces protested: "You can't send me to this point, or I'll die again, I've already died a dozen times!"
"Disobedient pawns like you should be rebuilt. Vernon said angrily, and then he commanded the pawn to walk over, to which he said very firmly, "Trust me, I will lead you to victory." ”
The final outcome is self-evident, as far as Vernon dares to say that he is invincible in the world, then there must be no one in the world.
Dudley found it much more interesting to watch others play chess than to play it himself.
"Come and eat!" Petunia shouted happily.
"I'll throw in the towel, let's eat, I'm going to starve. With that, Harry raced to the table and sat down, he couldn't get any more, it was so painful.
Vernon followed, patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "How can you admit defeat, the chessboard is still there, we'll continue when we're done eating." ”
Seeing Harry look constipated, Dudley burst out laughing.
Penny's Christmas dinner was a sumptuous one, with a large fat roast turkey, several plates of different kinds of roasted meats, a large plate of delicious sausages, a bowl of buttered peas, a plate of thick and thick meat marinade and lingonberry sauce, and even potatoes in several ways to eat them - boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, french fries, potato grids and potato and cheese bisque, pudding with various flavors and a Christmas cake.
A family Christmas dinner lasted almost three hours while everyone ate and talked.
"Father, this is for you. Dudley pulled out a magic razor and handed it to Vernon, saying, "You have to tell it exactly what you want before you use it, or it might shave your hair clean." ”
Vernon spread out his hand gripping the razor and said, "I need to shave my beard." ”
The razor shook in his hand a few times, then slowly floated towards Vernon, hovering over Vernon's chin and shaving.
In a few moments Vernon's beard was shaved clean, including the beard on his upper lip that had been on his upper lip for a long time, and he said with a sad face, "Oh my God!
Penny pointed at Vernon and laughed loudly, "The upper lip beard is also within the range of the beard you said. My son has told you that you need to make it clear what effect you want, but you look quite new like this, and you are more than ten years younger. ”
Vernon listened to Penny's compliment, and he smiled all over his face, "Great gift, it makes me feel smoother and more comfortable than ever." ”
Harry gave Vernon a belt that could be worn automatically, with its own voice recognition function, and it would automatically fly over and wrap around the user's waist without any extra operation.
Dudley and Harry were going to give Penny the necessities that a woman was going to use, and Dudley was giving a tube of a beauty potion of about 100 milliliters, which could make the person who took it beautiful. Harry's gift is a quick-smoothing hair potion, which is a great way to care for the user's hair.
I have to say that selling women's products is really profitable, and Dudley and Harry spent two hundred and fifty gold gallons on these two potions. Now Dudley has gloriously become a negative equity, at first Harry said that he would pay for these potions, but Dudley was unwilling, if he wanted to use it, forget it, but this was to buy a gift to his mother, so Dudley owed Harry 200 gold Galleons.
After listening to Dudley's description of the potion's function, Penny couldn't wait to drink the beauty potion, and she felt her cheeks gradually burn, and in a few moments she became radiant.
Vernon looked at the transformed Penny and couldn't help but kiss Penny on the cheek, and Penny blushed suddenly.
"You said that people who don't have magic can refine these magic potions?" Petunia asked, looking at Dudley.
Dudley was stunned for a moment, then nodded randomly and said, "Yes." He didn't expect Penny to want to learn how to make potions, which coincided with his original idea.
"If you want to learn how to refine potions, I'll take you to Diagon Alley tomorrow. Dudley said, suddenly patting his head, "I almost forgot." ”
Dudley ran upstairs and took down dozens of pieces of parchment, which he handed to Penny and Vernon, "Look at the story. ”
The parchment was written on "Frozen", which was only cartoons in his previous life, and he polished the story and wrote it into a short story, which looked like a hundred thousand words.
After about half an hour, Penny was the first to put down the parchment in her hand, she rubbed her eyes and said, "Very nice story, very touching." ”
Vernon said, "You can't write it, do you?" The writing is very good, and the plot is so smooth that people can't help but look down. ”
Dudley smiled and nodded, "You say, what if we print this into a book and sell it?"
They then discussed some issues, but the Dursleys had never done it, and Dudley found that writing a book was not something that ordinary people could do, it was too tiring, and he did not plan to write a book for a long time in the future. In the end, this "Frozen" was handed over to the major booksellers, who had printing houses and sales channels, saving time and effort.