The Hogwarts Express departs at 6pm and arrives at King's Cross Station at 12pm.

The timing of the train was not very good, because the young wizards did not have time to have a good dinner at school, and they were often sleepy and hungry when they arrived at their destination.

However, there are historical reasons for this arrangement.

It is said that the Hogwarts Express departed at 11 a.m. on the 24th of December, the day before Christmas. It's the same departure schedule as the one at the beginning of the school year.

However, it takes about six or seven hours for the train to reach King's Cross station in London, and it is already late in the evening.

With the families of the young wizards spread across the globe, many Muggle families, as well as those who were not good at apparition, had to return home in the Muggle way. So many families farther away from London are likely to miss the Christmas Eve dinner.

As a result, many parents complained to Hogwarts that they insisted that the train depart the night before. In this way, even if they arrived at the station late, they left a whole day for the young wizards to hurry home, and did not give them the opportunity to miss the Christmas Eve feast.

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The night sky was exceptionally clear after the heavy snowfall, and Hogwarts was already full of stars when it arrived at King's Cross Station.

Xiwen said goodbye to his three roommates and left the carriage.

With no luggage to bear, he easily jumped out of the train door and walked to the platform.

Through the special stone brick wall with the words "Platform Nine and Three-Quarters", Sven finally made his way to the inside of King's Cross Station.

It can only be said that King's Cross Station is one of the railway stations with the largest passenger traffic in the country, and even in the middle of the night, it is still full of people coming and going.

Siwen searched through the crowd and soon spotted Sandrine.

It has to be said that Sandrine is too recognizable in the crowd. Dressed in a fuchsia trench coat, she stood gracefully by a wall, not squinting. The aristocratic demeanor was unobstructed, and even though she was dressed in Muggle clothes, she still felt out of place with her surroundings.

Passers-by nearby had a hard time resisting not paying attention to her, which made her frown impatiently.

Xiwen walked forward quickly, smiled and waved his hand.

Sandrine stretched her eyebrows and walked over to hug Xiwen.

"Why are you wearing so thin? Is it cold or not? As soon as they met, Sandrine began to shush and ask for warmth.

"It's not cold." Xiwen looked at his thick sweater and cotton jacket, and didn't feel that there was anything thin in his clothes.

"If you wear it so thinly, you will freeze if you are not careful." Sandrine, however, did not believe that what he said was cold, and said to herself. "Let's hurry home, you're still young, don't get cold!"

Reluctantly, Sven was dragged out of the station by Sandrine and found a hidden alley to walk over.

In this deserted alley, the house-elf Millie Ran appeared and said respectfully in a sharp voice: "Dear Young Master Xiwen, it's a pleasure to see you again!" ”

Because of the young house-elf Millie and the fact that Shivin and Sandrine are kind to her, her skin is not as rough and wrinkled as most house-elves, but rather very smooth. In addition, her appearance is quite smart, so it looks quite cute.

"Hello Millie!" Shiwen smiled and nodded, choking Millie with excitement.

"Alright, Millie. Hurry up and take us home. Sandrine was afraid that Xiwen would catch a cold, so she said quickly.

"Millie obeys your orders, ma'am!" Millie replied immediately.

Then she grabbed one of Shivin and Sandrine's hands in her left and right hands, and with a "bang", the three disappeared in place.

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The Rozier family's estate, like other purebloods, has an anti-apparition charm for safety. So Sandrine couldn't bring the Shewin Apparition back home by herself, so she had to let the house-elf Millie do it for her.

As soon as he got home, Xiwen collapsed relaxed and collapsed on the soft wool carpet, feeling lazy and uncomfortable.

Sure enough, no matter how good the living conditions are outside, when you return home, you will feel that all the burdens have been lifted, and it is extremely relaxing!

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A good night's sleep.

The next day, Xiwen spent a few more hours finishing the unfinished alchemy products, and then stuffed them into different gift boxes.

After all, he didn't have been learning alchemy for a long time, so the gifts he made were all relatively simple alchemy products, most of which were to add some ancient runiwen to the purchased objects to form some simple magic circuits, so that they had a small part of the characteristics of alchemy products.

He originally wanted to make a traceless stretching space container for his roommates, but after thinking about it, it was illegal to use the traceless stretching spell without permission, and his limited ability was not good enough to control this container, so he still dispelled this idea.

After thinking about it, he prepared a delicate silver wristband for each of his three roommates, which was engraved with the same runiwen circuit, which would glow green when activated with magic power, which was very beautiful.

Imagine that several young wizards in a dormitory are out at night when they activate their wristbands to glow green. Neat and tidy is the same dormitory person! …… Of course, Xiwen won't admit that he's just too lazy to think of more gift varieties.

As for Elciona's gift, it was a custom-made landscape ball. The transparent glass ball is filled with a crystalline liquid, and among the liquid is a miniature Hogwarts castle standing.

Shivin himself burned a runiwen circuit for the gift, and when the magic was activated, countless points of light would fall from the top of the glass ball until they fell above the castle and disappeared.

In addition, Xiwen playfully gave Miranda a delicate and beautiful metal glasses, and he felt that Miranda could completely get rid of the black-rimmed glasses that made her look dull.

As for the gift to Dumbledore, Sevan hesitated for a long time between books and sweets, and then he came up with a creative one - a blind box for sweets! That is, put different flavors of candy in it and shake it, and you will get a random candy when you open the box. Sven thinks this is a good fit for Dumbledore!

As for Professor Slughorn's gift, Xiwen didn't bother to think about it, and directly asked Sandrine to help open a certificate of 50% off the family's shareholding store, and then asked the owl to send it.

In order to give away the many Christmas presents, Jabi and a few other owls at home are very busy, and as soon as they get home, they have to make another trip. This caused them to cooin in dissatisfaction.

Xiwen chatted pleasantly with Sandrine, a calm smile on his face.

The annual Christmas is coming tomorrow!

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