"Hey, Elena, you also received a sweater from the Weasleys?!"

Just then, the Weasley twins, who had just shaken off the snow by the door, walked over, glanced at the bright red hand-knitted sweater that Elena was wearing, and reached out to pull out the white-haired balls buried in the pile of gifts.

"So, it's true! I didn't pay attention to ...... just now."

Ron looked at Elena's clothes in amazement, and saw that the girl had a large letter "A" printed on her chest, which was exactly the same as the dark fuchsia sweater he was wearing at this time, both in terms of style and stitching.

Not only that, but Elena stood up and looked around, and everyone in the Gryffindor common room now seemed to be wearing a sweater knitted by Mrs. Weasley herself, which looked like a family reunion.

Fred and George were blue, and thanks to the large yellow letters "F" and "G" on their clothes, they were able to temporarily identify them, Percy, who was sitting in the corner reading a book, was wearing a sweater with the letter "P" on it, although he was silent, and even Harry was now wearing a bright green sweater.

Fred touched the corner of Elena's clothes, pursed his lips, and said with a sad expression.

"Elena's sweater is noticeably better than ours, and now the girl is cuter in Mom's eyes. ”

"Don't say it's a girl, you see Harry's is more elaborate than ours. ”

George Weasley chimed in half-truthfully, letting out a strange scream.

"No, I ......," Harry explained, a little awkwardly.

But before he could finish speaking, George Weasley had already turned his head to look at Elena and asked with some curiosity.

"But when it comes to it, why did my mother knit a sweater for Elena? ”

"Because I wrote to my mother that Elena has really taken extra care of you all this time...... Well, us. ”

Percy Weasley, who was sitting in the corner, closed the book, shrugged his shoulders and explained with a smile.

"Elena, Mom said thank you for taking care of us in your submission to 'The New Singer', and that if the two of them broke the school rules, they should be on Mr. Filch's monthly list without having to open up to them—you don't necessarily need more gifts, so Mom knitted this sweater for you. ”

"Well, I received a Christmas card from Mrs. Weasley. ”

Elena nodded sweetly, raised her hand and touched the beautiful and warm sweater on her body, her eyes narrowing happily like a cat - the only fly in the ointment was that the letter A on her chest made her mood a little complicated.

Although she knew that it was actually her initials, there was always a sense that something was hinted at in the dark.

"Actually, I'm just setting up a platform, and I've explained to Mrs. Weasley that the magazine chooses to publish your manuscript and pay you only because of your talent, and nothing else. ”

Elena added with a smile.

During this period of time, as the actual operator of "New Singing and Singing", she still has a lot of intersections with the four boys of the Weasleys, and under her deliberate care, the approval rate of Percy and others is significantly higher than that of other students, and the remuneration is also as much as possible within a reasonable range.

However, these behind-the-scenes things, Elena doesn't plan to use them to get anything - for her, she just wants to make this kind and warm family happier than in the original book within her own ability.

As Percy Weasley took the initiative to join the discussion, the Gryffindor common room gradually became lively.

Ron also put the chessboard away, giving up two armchairs near the fireplace for the brothers George and Fred.

A few of the children who stayed at the school gathered around the warm fireplace, eating the various snacks and desserts that Elena had brought and the baked sausage bread brought from the kitchen, and chatted without saying a word.

"By the way, Elena, Harry, I have a question. ”

Percy picked up a Ferrero chocolate set in a Christmas box, studied the text on the outside of the package (he had thought it was some kind of spell at first), and then looked at Harry and Elena with some curiosity.

"Muggles in the non-wizarding world are said to have this holiday as well?"

"Eh, you mean Christmas...... Isn't this a festival derived from the feasts of the Holy See, if I remember correctly, a festival to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Son of God in Christianity. I've always thought it was because of the incomplete merging of the customs of the two worlds hundreds of years ago......"

Elena blinked in confusion, as an "uncertified" trainee nun, although she was not particularly interested in this holiday, she still knew a little about the origin of Christmas, whether it was past or present.

So, for so many days, she had never thought about it.

After all, for Elena, this is just a customary holiday celebration in the Western world, but shouldn't everyone who lives here happily decorate the shiny Christmas tree, cook turkey and potatoes, and then put a big sock next to the bed or in front of the tree, waiting for the white-bearded and red-hated grandfather to come and deliver gifts?

"Of course not, how could wizards go to celebrate the holiday of the Muggle Holy See. ”

Percy Weasley glanced at Elena rather strangely, and shook the large book she was reading in her hand.

Elena then noticed that the cover of the book read "The Origin of Magical Celebrations and Sacrifices".

"Christmas, as you say, may be considered a Christian holiday in the non-magical world, but long before the Muggle religion was in its infancy, the wizarding world was celebrating the holiday with Christmas tree decorations and various awareness-raising. ”

Looking around at the curious little wizards around him, Percy Weasley subconsciously cleared his throat, opened the tome in his hand, and pointed to a large paragraph of text on the yellowed parchment.

"Mithras, these are the few illusory gods of the wizarding world during the solar calendar. It does not exist as a real entity, but is simply a uniform and concrete description of certain phenomena and abilities by wizards, similar to the Grim Reaper. Christmas, on the other hand, is a celebration of the god Mithra. ”

In some ancient languages, such as Sanskrit and Avista, "mitra-" can be interpreted as "contract" or "companion", so Mithras originally meant the god of contract, but later became known as the god of light and the sun...... Even the God of War, but his nature as a contract god has not disappeared. ”

After a slight pause, Percy glanced at Elena and the others, and said in a somewhat mysterious low voice......

"The following is something that only a true wizard can see. ”

(Wizard readers are invited to click here and recite the manifestation spell [Apareciym])

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