Chapter 25: The Christmas Holidays
The failure of the Animagus Transfiguration and Patronus Charm didn't hit the dialect much, he knew his weight very well, and never overestimated himself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info dialect understands that he is still only an eleven-year-old child, and he has only been exposed to magic for more than a year, even if he has the adult mind of his previous life and his progress in learning magic far exceeds that of his peers, but this does not make him feel anything to be proud of. So, after the setback, the dialect buried itself in the library again, returning to the rules of life in the front time. This time, though, he was looking through all the information about Transfiguration and the Patronus Charm.
It has to be said that although the materials in the Hogwarts library are rare books in the outside world, they are far from the books in the forbidden area. That's where the library as a whole, and even Hogwarts as a whole, is the most valuable. When Fang Yan reads books in the library, he often looks at the forbidden book area in front of him. Unfortunately, the forbidden book area is very well guarded, except for the guard magic at the entrance, and even the magic spell is applied to each book, which is absolutely impossible to read without permission.
Fang Yan didn't think about the idea of hitting the forbidden book area, he guessed that the Hogwarts magic secret he wanted to find should be in the forbidden book area. But when he didn't find a hole to drill into after researching for a long time, he had to dispel his mind and put his hope on the invisibility cloak of the savior next year.
Soon, the winter holidays arrived. It was a thick snowfall that was very face-saving, and the whole castle was shrouded in snow. Instead of staying at school, Fang Yan returned to the Leaky Cauldron Bar, where he still had a loved one who could care for him.
Cho Chang was a little grumpy, her parents had returned to Hong Kong this year, and she had to choose to stay in school, becoming one of the few students in Ravenclaw, and suddenly felt lonely. Fang Yan had to comfort her that he would write to her during the holidays, so that the girl could feel a little better.
After the start of the holiday, Fang Yan did not let go of the work at hand, especially the practice of the Patronus Charm. Still, he found a lot of time to spend with old Tom.
As mentioned earlier, dialects had made a lot of money in the Muggle world, and he didn't choose to sit back and eat. In addition to investing in several companies in the Muggle world that were extremely well-known in his previous life and are still unknown now, he also purchased a number of properties in the wizarding world. He spent a large sum of money on Galleon to buy a potion shop in Diagon Alley, and for convenience, Fang Yan did not hire a new store manager, but took out some dry shares and invited the former store manager Vic Ammon to stay in the potion shop as the store manager. It just so happened that Vic Ammon, who was already a little reluctant to work hard for many years, happily agreed to the invitation of the dialect, and everyone was happy.
The dialect didn't make any changes to the Potion Shop, except for telling Vic Ammon to keep things going as usual, he just turned the lounge behind the Potion Shop into his own magic lab. During the holidays, except for spending most of his time in the Cauldron with Tom Sr., he spent most of his time in the laboratory, conducting various magical research. As for the problem of not being able to cast magic outside the school and the traces in the wand, a second-hand wand can easily solve it. Dialects can now proudly say that problems that can be solved with money are not problems.
Until Christmas Eve, Fang Yan was busy in the laboratory until the early hours of the next morning, before returning to the Leaky Cauldron to rest, and then regained his spirit after only two hours of sleep with the help of energy potions and recovery potions. When he got up, he saw a small pile of gift packages at the foot of his bed.
"Oh! It's Christmas! Fang Yan was stunned for a moment before reacting. In his previous life, as an Oriental, he was full of expectations for the Spring Festival, but he was really indifferent to Christmas. In fact, he wondered why the wizards had to celebrate Christmas, they believed in Merlin and not God, so why did they celebrate God's birthday. However, the locals followed the customs, and the dialect had to go with the flow.
It's rude not to give a gift at Christmas. Fang Yan quickly made up for it, anyway, he has a lot of potions, books, and some magic items he made, so the gifts are not too watery.
There are not many friends in dialects, and there are only a few to count. He sent Cho notes on his thoughts on potions and spells, which Cho would surely enjoy as a Ravenclaw. He sent Penelope a magical trinket of his own making, with a defense charm and a regeneration charm attached to it. I sent Alice a bottle of beauty potion that she had just made, and I didn't want to lose it. As for the few friends who the Ravenclaws knew well, he sent them all a magic book as a gift, and I think they would like it too. And his earliest friends, George and Fred, who had been sent by Dialect a number of pranks, and he could already foresee Filch's anger after the holidays.
In addition to this, several Hogwarts professors have not forgotten dialects. He sent Snape a rare potion material. Send Professor Flitwick a magic frisbee with a levitation function, and as long as you stand on it, you can freely control it to levitate without consuming mana. Fang Yan didn't know what Professor McGonagall would like, so he sent her a relatively rare Transfiguration book, which was quite decent. What was sent to Professor Sprout was Old Tom's secret pastry, and the dialect had long heard Alice say that Professor Sprout was very fond of desserts. Finally, it was Dumbledore, Fang Yan thought about it, and still sent him a pair of wool socks, as for what he would think, Fang Yan shrugged.
Ah yes, and Old Tom, of course the dialect has not forgotten, a set of magic tools that can clean and clean automatically, I hope Old Tom can usually be more relaxed.
After he was done, Fang Yan opened his gift. After reading it, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly. It seems that he is a little too passionate about knowledge in school, and basically the gifts he gives him are books. However, there were a few of them that really surprised him.
Snape gave Dialect a copy of his compiled Potions notes, and Alice gave him a copy of the Abbott family's treasured tomes, the most valuable of them all. Although the books given by others are also good, the rich dialects have already been bought, just to keep as a souvenir. Of course, not everyone was given books, Fred and George sent them a lot of funny props in dialects, and they were geniuses in that regard, as they already had the prototype of a future Weasley joke merchandise.
Downstairs, Fang Yan noticed that the Leaky Cauldron Bar was also decorated with a festive atmosphere, the walls of the hall on the first floor were covered with streamers, and a tall Christmas was erected in front of the fireplace, full of shiny pendants and small candles.
It's just that if it weren't for the uninvited guest sitting at the bar, the mood of the dialect might be even better.