Catherine opened it and found that it was a notebook that recorded Lupin's adventures over the years.

"Thank you so much!" Catherine cheered happily, "I love this thing so much." ”

"I knew that something with words would be more appealing to you than a broom." Lupin said with a smile.

Catherine smiled embarrassedly, but she didn't even bother to lift her head, and threw herself into her notes.

"Catherine! Come down! Harry's exclamation suddenly came from downstairs, and the red-haired girl and Lupin looked at each other and rushed downstairs, only to see the dark-haired boy and Sirius standing in the doorway of the living room unscathed.

"What's wrong?" Catherine asked, puzzled.

Neither Harry nor Sirius answered, but both reached out to the living room, and Catherine and Lupin walked to the door and looked inside, only to realize that the problem was there.

The living room was already full of Christmas decorations, Sirius even got a small Christmas tree to put in the corner, but now it is not the most conspicuous thing, the most conspicuous thing is the gift hill next to it, which is half as tall as it is, completely occupying a corner of the living room, and what is even more terrifying is that from time to time there are also owls flying in and out to help increase the height of the hill.

"Oh! I just gave Christmas gifts to everyone I spoke. Catherine is no stranger to this scene, she appeared once in the first grade, and although she did not encounter owl rain after the second year lived in the prefect's dormitory, by the time she found her gift, a hill higher than this had been piled up, and this year she sent more people, presumably there will be owls coming all day today.

"Is it necessary to send so much?" Harry asked in surprise, Sirius and Lupin were too shocked to speak.

"It's the most basic human interaction." Catherine smiled and patted Harry on the shoulder and pointed, "Give a gift to someone you know during the New Year's holidays, so that the other party can understand that you have put the other person in your heart, so that if you need to borrow the other party's strength in case you have something, the other party will be willing to help you." ”

"Well said!" The portrait of the elders of the Black family in the living room couldn't help but praise it. "It's been years since I've seen Christmas like this." "Walburga had a good eye."

Hearing the words of the portraits, Sirius remembered that when he was a child, his family was so lively every Christmas, and there were so many gifts that the whole family had to work together to complete them.

"Don't look at it, go to breakfast first, and it's not too late to dismantle it after eating, otherwise when the demolition is finished, I'm afraid that the lunch time will be over." Catherine dragged Harry out of the living room door, having gone hungry to open a present, and she didn't want to come a second time. What's more, she hasn't even changed her pajamas now.

"You really have to eat first!" Thinking of the fact that when he was a child, the five cousins and brothers were collectively hungry on Christmas morning, Sirius couldn't help but laugh and put his arm around Lupin's shoulders and went to the kitchen together.

But Harry couldn't help but look back at the living room, it was the first time he had seen so many presents at Christmas! So after eating breakfast absentmindedly, he immediately rushed back to the living room, at that time the gift hill was already bigger than what he had just seen, and the gifts of the four were completely mixed, and for a while it was impossible to tell whose it was, but it was certain that Catherine had the most.

"Don't be stupid! Hurry up and help. I can't tear it down that much by myself. Not long after Harry left the dining room, Catherine hastily finished breakfast and went back to her room to change her clothes, but when she came to the living room again, she saw the black-haired boy standing stupidly by the hill. He looked like he didn't know what to do.

By the time Lupin and Sirius had finished their breakfast and arrived in the living room, Catherine was already sitting on the floor with a lot of dismantled gifts piled up behind her, and the pile behind Harry was even bigger, because many of the red-haired girl's gifts were too much for her to use. So she basically gave it to Harry.

"Thank you so much for sending the hairpins, I love it so much! I didn't expect you to give me a gift, I didn't prepare it in a hurry. Hope you won't mind. Harry read the greeting card boredly, a similar word he'd read many times, "Catherine! Why do you send something exactly what they want? Although the content of the greeting card was old-fashioned, the black-haired boy could tell from his handwriting that the person writing the letter was very excited.

"Observation, as long as you observe carefully, you can naturally find out what a person is missing?" Catherine opened a gift box at random, and seeing that the contents were useless to her, she put her hand behind Harry, "Remember, don't bring the things I transferred to you to school, otherwise they may attract resentment." ”

"It can't be so exaggerated!" Harry was frightened and moved forward, putting some distance between himself and the pile of gifts behind him.

"Don't feel strange, since what I give is in line with the other party's heart, then the other party's return gift, even if it can't be guaranteed to be applicable to me, it must be deliberately chosen, so if you show off at school, if you meet a broad-minded person, it's okay to laugh, but if it's narrow-minded, they will definitely blame me, and may even secretly stumble on you or something." Catherine commanded earnestly.

"Then I'd better not take it." Harry hurriedly tried to return the gift to Catherine, but she stopped him.

"Don't worry, I've carefully selected everything I can give you, and I won't get into trouble, just a reminder for you just now, don't be stupid to take out everything to show off." Catherine asked Dobby to get a box and put all the gifts that she didn't fit and couldn't give Harry, "Don't touch the box in it, be careful of getting into trouble." ”

Harry shook his head in fright, the portrait on the wall nodded repeatedly, Sirius and Lupin looked at each other, and suddenly felt that the two of them were unqualified as elders.

"Sirius! Your gift is over there! Catherine gestured to the couch on her left, where a small pile of gift boxes was already piled up.

"Why are there so many?" Sirius asked in surprise, he really didn't expect so many people to remember to give him Christmas presents.

"I guess I know the news from the newspaper that you have cleared your name!" Catherine replied casually, "A lot of the handwriting is female. ”

"Uh-huh!" Lupin snorted meaningfully, and Harry and Catherine looked over in bewilderment, and then they both noticed Sirius' face was unusually embarrassed.

"Yan Fu is not shallow!" Lupin patted his friend on the shoulder and smiled, Sirius's face turned red, he opened his mouth to say something, but after seeing the eyes of the two children, he still didn't say anything, Harry couldn't help but snicker and turned his head when he saw this, Catherine did point thoughtfully to the sofa to his right.

"Lupin, your gift is over there." Alone on the couch lay two gift boxes.

"There are actually two?" Lupin couldn't help but walk over in surprise, because in previous years he had almost no place to receive Christmas presents.

"Of course there are more than two." Catherine pointed to the hill of gifts and said, "I, Harry, and Sirius are still buried inside!" ”

Lupin was even more surprised, he picked up the two boxes, only to find that one had been given by Dumbledore and the other was Professor McGonagall.

"There's more!" Harry handed the one to Lupin, "It's the Tonks." ”

Lupin was dumbfounded, but the surprises continued, and the members of the SG group all sent him gifts, as well as some other students, especially in the seventh grade, because Lupin's tutoring helped them figure out how to better revise the DA class, so many of them sent thank-you gifts.

At the end of the count, everyone found that it was Harry who received the least gifts, but he also received the most, as the youngest child, Sirius and Lupin would give it to him as long as they thought he could use it, thanks to Catherine's strict control, Harry was not allowed to get something that should not be taken, as for what even she couldn't grasp, naturally the elders of the Black family helped to palm, seeing that the red-haired girl hurriedly took out all the gifts she had received in the past two years, and asked the portraits to help figure out some items of unknown origin, Also send out things that are suitable for the other three.

After all this tossing, the four of them did not pack up all their Christmas presents until almost five o'clock, and lunch had to be eaten together with dinner, but fortunately Dobby and Kechelli prepared an unusually rich Christmas feast, which was enough to fill the stomachs of the four who were overly hungry.

As soon as Christmas passed, Narcissa went to the door to go through the handover formalities with Catherine, and Sirius learned that his goddaughter had accepted the affairs of the Black family, and at the same time he was relieved to help.

Harry originally just wanted to see the excitement and then go to play, but Catherine said that since he was close to the seventh order, he had to start to get acquainted with the affairs of the Potter family, so the black-haired boy could only obediently follow to make rounds.

Lupin went with him when he had nothing to do, but Catherine had an open and honest chat with him that night, hoping that he could handle the affairs of the two families for them while he was at school, before Harry took over as patriarch.

Lupin, who had already decided to resign at the end of the school year, naturally agreed to help, but was unwilling to take a salary, because after many years of wandering, he was extremely satisfied with the life of having food and shelter now, and there was no need to worry about the night of the full moon, and he would make more demands, not to mention the money of the two juniors.

However, Catherine insisted that even her own brothers should settle accounts, and immediately opened an account in Gringotts for Lupin, and asked the elves to help transfer Lupin's salary from her and Harry's coffers every month.

Seeing that Harry also signed the employment document drawn up by Catherine, Lupin had to reluctantly hand over the vault key, but he didn't know that Catherine took two blank pieces of paper and asked Harry to sign his full name before writing the article, in order to avoid the embarrassment of the black-haired boy, and the portraits who knew about it could only be glad that the red-haired girl did not deliberately make it bad, otherwise they would not have asked Harry for an autograph in front of them, you must know that the house of the ancient wizard family has "eyes and ears" everywhere. (To be continued......)