The streets of London at Christmas are in a festive atmosphere, with many business signs hanging holly wreaths and small gold and silver bells, which will "jingle bells" when the wind blows, and passers-by will raise their heads and smile.

Hermione and Ning'an walked down the street, the Muggles were enjoying their Christmas holidays, Hermione was no stranger to the Muggle world, her parents were Muggles, and she probably knew more about this than Harry, who was locked in a cupboard all year round.

"Where are we going?"

Her hand was held tightly by Ning An, and she looked around with some unease, leaving Hogwarts with a phantom? Oh my God, they would be in bad luck if they were found out by the Ministry of Magic, although Ning An probably didn't care......

"You just used the Apparition Apparition?" She whispered in Ning An's ear: "Underage wizards are not allowed to use magic outside of school, and it would be bad if they were discovered by the Ministry of Magic......"

"Actually, they can't find out—" Ning An shrugged, patted Hermione on the shoulder, and said with a smile:

"Hey, take it easy, Jane, don't worry, this law doesn't apply to me, how about the first extracurricular activity?"

Hermione barely said anything, but there was concern in her expression.

"Come, let's go in and see—"

Ning An dragged Hermione into a store.

"This is ......"

The colorful cartoon carpet was filled with all kinds of game consoles, adults and children, and young people in twos and threes, music, cheers, screams and laughter, and of course, all kinds of funny and amusing sound effects from the game consoles, and the two came to a game hall.

"Aha, I've wanted to come here for a long time."

Ning An said with a smile, Hermione looked around in surprise, a little boy with ice cream in his hand had just passed by her pants and almost hit her, smearing the cone on her pants.

"If you think it's terrible here, it's really bad—" Ning An looked at Hermione, who couldn't move, and her expression became apprehensive.

"No...... I was just...... Never been here......"

"Really? Hermione? ”

Ning An looked at her in disbelief, Hermione muttered, her eyes resting on a machine that was catching dolls, and slowly walked over.

"Hmm......" She tried to push the joystick a few times, but when the arm didn't respond, she looked at the whole machine in a similar way

"We ...... How do I get started......

Ning An held back a smile and pointed to the coin slot and said, "Oh, first we need to put coins into it—"

He reached into his pocket as he spoke, and the expression on his face stiffened, and he realized that he had only some gold Galleons and silver sico with him, and Muggles probably wouldn't take such coins.

"What's wrong?" Hermione noticed Ning'an's eccentricity.

"Nothing...... I'm going to get some coins, and you're waiting for me here. He turned to leave, but was stopped by Hermione.

"Did you really bring pounds?"

Hermione looked at Ning An scrutinically, she was keenly aware that something was wrong with her boyfriend, Ning An scratched her head in embarrassment, and she didn't intend to quibble about anything

"We're wizards, Hermione—"

"But under the International Wizarding Secrecy Act, we can't use magic in front of Muggles anymore—"

"I won't be found out by them, you know my wandless magic is also excellent."

Hermione looked at him, sighed, still shook her head stubbornly, Ning An lowered her head a little discouragedly, and secretly complained about her carelessness, he didn't come to London on a spur of the moment, he just felt that there was really no good place to date around Hogwarts, but maybe he had been in the wizarding world for too long, and he almost forgot that the money used by Muggles was different from his own.

"No-" A £10 note suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and he ****** looked at Ning An with a smile.

He looked up, a little surprised

"Hermione, how can you have ......"

"Pocket money, you know my parents are dentists-" In fact, this was a bit of a non-answer, but Hermione didn't want to say that she had been preparing for today's date for a long time, so she deliberately carried a handbag that she never used, and the handbag contained a lot of things, most of which were softeners to keep her hair soft, and she planned to quietly wipe it on while Ning An was leaving, but she didn't expect that the change that she had been leaving would only be useful when she went home, and it came in handy first.

"Wow, that's amazing-" Ning An flipped through the ordinary ten-pound bill and looked at Charles printed on the back? Dickens's head, gesturing to kiss it.

"I love Dickens haha—wait for me, Hermione." He said as he disappeared into the crowd.

Hermione stood in front of the crane machine, took out a small handbag from the pocket of her coat, and took out a small bottle of fabric softener and applied it to the ends of her hair that were beginning to curl.

*****

"Phew, guess what I saw?" After a while, Ning An ran back with a small bag of shiny coins, handed the bag to Hermione, who tried not to look so curious, and said with a smile:

"A magician, there's a magician over there performing a magic trick...... You know what magic is, right? ”

Hermione gave him a slight wink, "Of course I do. ”

As she spoke, she threw a coin into the claw machine, and with a "jingle bell", a very beautiful music sounded, and at this time the joystick became operable, Hermione was a little excited to manipulate the joystick, looking for an opportunity, pressing the button, and the mechanical claws dangled towards a blonde humanoid doll.

"Ahh Hermione patted the glass of the machine's window in frustration, and the paw only touched the doll softly, but was powerless to pick it up.

Ning An smiled secretly on the side, occasionally seeing Hermione so bad at something, it was also quite interesting.

"Do you want that doll?"

Ning An pointed to the blonde doll, except for the hair, the doll's nose and eyes were somewhat similar to Hermione's.

"Hmmm......"

Hermione nodded slightly, if it were someone else, she might have turned her head and left, she never wanted to make a mess here, but in front of Ning An, she felt that everything was so natural, there was nothing to hide, she just hadn't been to the game hall, and she was never good at catching dolls, so what?

"Look at me" Ning An leaned forward and manipulated the joystick behind Hermione.

Ten minutes later.

"Hmm...... This game is still very difficult. ”

Ning An looked at the missing half of the coins in his hand, and then looked at the doll that had moved a few centimeters slightly in the crane machine, and his face was very embarrassed.

He thought it looked like a simple game, but it was really difficult to operate, and he secretly scolded that it must be the merchant's tricks and feet, so that this machine is soft every time he catches it, looking at Hermione snickering next to him, Ning An gritted his teeth.

Looking left and right, seeing that no one was looking at him, he pretended to grasp the joystick, but his fingers pointed into the machine, and with a slight pick, the blonde puppet floated silently.

"Ning'an ......!" Hermione pinched Ning An's arm slightly, blinking her big eyes as if to tell him that it was not right to do so.

But soon there was a "poof" sound from the machine, and the doll had fallen into the passage that had slipped out, and Ning An squatted down/Shenzi took out the doll and stuffed it into Hermione's arms with a pouting mouth.

"Well, it's the Muggles' fault, they deliberately put the handle so loose, isn't that a lie?"

Hermione reluctantly accepted Ning An's explanation, she was actually a little unhappy that she had been pitted with so many coins, so she quickly smiled and picked up the doll, she was not a person who liked dolls, but this doll now has a special meaning, this is the first doll Ning An gave her.

"Hey, don't cheat—"

"There's no cheating,"

"You're using magic to control the trajectory of the ball!"

“……”

In the following time, the two played table hockey again, played whackles, and found a shooting machine in a corner that no one was playing, and Ning An finally defeated Hermione by a huge margin of twenty points, which won him a roll of the eyes of Hermione.

Holding the last few remaining coins, the two came to the coin pusher, Hermione stared at Ning An, and that gaze seemed to say: No magic.

Ning An naturally smiled, they had already had a good time, he casually threw the remaining few coins into it in one go, Hermione was still clenching her fists, watching the coins "jingle" all the way down to the smooth metal plate, and then the coin pusher came like a forklift, and her expression became nervous.

Ning An smiled secretly, it is impossible to win the jackpot with such a few coins, unless you use magic, but there is no need for that, today is already a perfect date, consume the last few tokens and go back.

However, the corners of his clothes were pulled suddenly, and a soft body suddenly threw himself into his arms, Ning An subconsciously hugged it, and the faint fragrance penetrated into his nostrils, making him a little dazed for a moment.

"Great, Ning'an! Did you see that! We've won the lottery! ”

Hermione hugged Ning An excitedly and shouted, pointing to the coin pusher, Ning An saw a bundle of rolling paper with "CHANCE" written on it sliding down into the pitch-black exit box along with several coins, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed helplessly, he didn't expect that luck was really so good, even if he didn't use magic, he could win the jackpot.

****

"What are we going to change?"

In the end, the bonds won from the coin pusher can be exchanged for a lot of prizes in the game hall, from large dolls, to some bizarre children's toys, and even stationery and books, but after all, they are only Muggle things, compared to the magical magic items of wizards, it is still far inferior.

"How's that?"

Hermione pointed to a remote-controlled race car and looked at Ning An with a big smile, and after Ning An grabbed her to her side, she hurriedly pointed to the next thing, Ning An looked up, but saw that it was a plush doll.

"Huh? You don't really want that doll. Hermione saw that Ning An suddenly stopped moving, and shook her fingers in front of him with some curiosity.

"It's not—" Ning An said slowly, "Why don't we just ask for that!" ”

He reached out to a small box next to the stuffed doll, and Hermione looked intently at it, and inside the box was something like a couple ring, it wasn't a toy, it seemed to be some kind of metal forged, or something from a TV show or movie.

Oh my God, the ring, Hermione felt her heart flutter, no matter what the circumstances, the ring will always have a profound meaning.

"A status symbol."

Ning An had already exchanged the two silver rings at the stall where he spoke, and the waiter took down the small box and placed it on the glass counter in front of them, the silver rings forged from unknown metal were shining, and two identical roses were condensed on them.

"It looks good, but the pattern is a little bad."

Ning An took the ring in her hand and turned around, Hermione followed and turned, she didn't know what Ning An was going to do.

I saw Ning An's thumb gently glide over the silver surface of the ring, sliding over the rose, so lightly, the next moment, the rose was gone, replaced by a majestic lion, the lion stood halfway, Hermione was familiar with this pattern, this was clearly a Gryffindor lion, and the lion had a big letter "H" written on its body

"It's your—"

Ning An handed the ring to Hermione, who was still stunned, and then wiped it on another ring.

The rose vanished, this time into a large entrenched serpent, hissing and spitting letters, with a large letter "A" on top of its head

Ning An put it on his index finger, right next to the resurrection ring on his middle finger.

"Look at these two rings, how's that?"

He put Hermione's ring on for her, and then the fingers of the two people came together, Hermione's face was already red as an apple, she felt that she had probably not been so shy in her life as she had been in the past two days, it was really because she was living in a dream during this time, this was her first love!

"It's beautiful...... she murmured softly, looking at the two rings and the two letters that had merged together.

***

"Crackle"

Two crackling sounds like gunshots rang out in the Forbidden Forest, and two figures suddenly appeared under the fir tree, and the transformation spell on Hermione and Ning An's clothes was lifted, and they put on their black robes again, but Hermione had an extra cute little puppet in her hand.

"That's all for today, then." Ning An looked at the girl and said softly.

"Hmm......" Hermione nodded, but didn't immediately turn away, but looked at Ning An, her heartbeat "thumping" faster, as if she was expecting something.

I've heard that couples say goodbye with a kiss after dating, right?

Ning An had already walked over slowly, and the distance between the two was originally only half a step, but Hermione felt as if half a century had passed, and then a breath that dazzled her eyes and ears came to her face, and she knew that it was Ning An's breath.

Subconsciously closed his eyes.

Once again, the lips were wrapped in warmth and softness, and for a long time, the lips parted.

"Then I'm leaving......"

Hermione broke out of Ning An's arms, and this time she looked directly at Ning An without dodging, her eyes full of joy and happiness.

"Go for it......"

Ning An reluctantly let go of Hermione's hand, and after a day of playing, she really wanted this happiness to last.

"Ah, yes—I thought of it," Ning An said suddenly.

"What?"

"I think I have a clue about Harry's golden egg."

Hermione looked at him in amazement, and they barely talked about it as they played, and she naturally talked about Harry's recent troubles with holding a golden egg.

"Maybe that egg has something to do with water, maybe he should try to put the golden egg in the water."