Ios and Lillian parted ways and returned to their dorm, but instead of studying the heavy tome as usual, he sat on his bed thinking about something.

"Christmas, should I go back..."Ios was a little undecided, feeling that no matter what he chose, it was a little out of place.

If he returned, his research plan would be disrupted, but he was ready to seize every minute to improve his magical knowledge, so that he could build his own magical theory system in a few years.

If you don't go back... Thinking about the old bodies of the two, he didn't know how long he could live, which made him finally decide that it was better to go back. Anyway, the knowledge of magic can't run, so just spend more time.

Since you have decided to go back for Christmas, you must prepare your gifts in advance, so you can't just buy one after you arrive, right?

However, Ios scratched his head, he was not good at choosing gifts. Do you want to send reading glasses and crutches? That's too perfunctory!

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have any ideas that satisfied him, so he stood up and prepared to go out to find inspiration. At this point, he knocked down the chess pieces that had been placed on the table, which gave him an idea.

That's right! I can give Old John a set of magic chess, he is so interested in the affairs of the wizarding world, this gift will definitely satisfy him. As for Jane, she could also give something that didn't exist in the Muggle world.

Inspired by this, Ios found everything much simpler. Jane is a housewife, so you can't go wrong with a gift for housework or kitchen utensils!

I remember she liked to drink black tea? So, how about a tea set? A teapot that keeps the liquid in the teapot at a constant temperature is good.

However, the money is not enough... After estimating how much the two gifts would cost, Ios became distressed.

He has 5 gold galleons a month in pocket money, which seems like a lot, but he spends most of it on some experiments, and the rest has to buy gifts for other classmates who are more familiar, and there are other expenses.

So, the money is really not enough!

Or do it yourself? As long as I have the relevant knowledge, it's not like I can't make these magic items by myself, so I can save a lot of money.

The first thing to do is to find a way to make permanent magic items, which can be found in the library, so don't worry about it; Secondly, you need raw materials, magic chess can use this chess game, if you keep a teapot warm, what kind of teapot should you buy?

Solving the problem that plagued him, Ios slept beautifully, and ran to the library early the next morning, and the librarian was too lazy to say anything, and the kid couldn't listen anyway.

However, she soon found out that the kid had not run to the pile of advanced theory books this time, but had gone to other areas. Sure enough, give up! I said that the freshman should not be too ambitious, he just didn't listen to me, and now he is not retreating.

After a while, she put on her reading glasses and read the newspaper today, no longer paying attention to Ios's affairs.

Ios didn't know what she was going through, and after spending a lot of time learning how to make magic props and what to do, he left the library, and to his surprise, Mrs. Pince, who had always been unkind to him, smiled at him for the first time.

Back in the dormitory, Ios picked up a black chess piece, looked at the simple shape, and shook his head, how to do wizard chess like this? You'll still have to use Transfiguration Charms to make them look more refined first.

After casting the Transfiguration Charm on all the black and white pieces one by one, the most crucial step came--

"Revive Life!" Ios shouted at the king's pawn in the center, only to see it tremble slightly, and... No response!

Feed! If you succeed, you can make a move, what kind of trouble are you going to make? Seeing that the king with a crown on his head and a sword did not react, Ios couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive, success or failure.

I can't help it, just keep doing it. After staring at it for a long time and noticing any movement from it, Ios had to bypass it and continue.

After all the pieces were magical, Ios arranged them neatly according to the rules of chess, ready to experiment, and the pieces were completely motionless, so it could not be that none of them succeeded.

'Animate life' is a kind of magic that gives inanimate things false lives, and perhaps it shouldn't be life, but artificial intelligence would be easier to understand.

In the process of giving 'life', the caster can incidentally give the item the rules to follow, so that it becomes what the caster intended.

For example, when Ios made wizard chess pieces, he imprinted the rules of wizard chess into their core, and made them act according to the rules of wizard chess, otherwise they would just be a bunch of moving figures.

The difficulty of this magic lies in the fact that it requires strong concentration and subtle control of magic, which is a relatively difficult magic, and many adult wizards may not be able to perform it, so Ios is very worried about whether he will succeed.

Incidentally, this magic is applied to the armor placed in Hogwarts. Of course, those armors are for combat, and Ios's wizard chess can't compare to them, but the essence is the same.

Ios commanded the pieces, and those that didn't move at all were failures, and the magic needed to be recast, and after a little time to check it, the wizard's chess was completed.

Oh wait! Looking at those chess pieces that were a little damaged after the battle, he had a new idea, if he left them damaged, the chess pieces would be completely scrapped sooner or later if they were used too many times, so he needed to add something.

He has a constant 'fix for a new one' spell on the board, and as soon as the game is over, the pieces will be slowly repaired on it, as long as the broken pieces are not lost.

Okay, so the Wizard Chess is done! Clapping his hands and looking at his work, Ios felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Then he spent a lot of effort to make a thermostatic teapot, and this time the gifts for the Sovars were ready, and the gifts from other acquaintances could be bought at will.

The holidays are approaching day by day, and the school is preparing for it, and Christmas decorations are being arranged everywhere, after all, the teachers and some of the students who stayed at the school still have to spend Christmas at Hogwarts.

There are more than a dozen tall Christmas trees in the hall, and the walls are covered with holly branches and mistletoe flowers, and it is clear that this is not done yet.

But none of this is Ios' business, he's going home for Christmas.

On the day of the holiday, he got on the Hogwarts Express, which they needed to take to King's Cross Station and figure it out to get home. Looking at the scenery flashing by the window, Ios felt calm and went home.