Chapter 173: Hogwarts Observations
On Christmas Day, the entire Hogwarts castle is filled with festive atmosphere.
In the common rooms of the four colleges, the decoration is rare and uniform, each room has a Christmas tree of Hagrid's own choice, the fireplace, the four walls, the sofas, the floor, and the dome are adorned with hanging ribbons of holly and parasites, stars of different sizes, and shiny Xiaoice pillars.
And for those who stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas, surprises were quietly prepared before they even woke up.
The house-elves at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as in previous years, start working before dawn.
Today, though, their job is a bit special, and they need to finish Santa's unfinished business.
One by one, they sneaked into the common rooms of the four colleges with a large number of gifts, and then sorted the gifts into the dormitories of the students who still lived in them according to the names on the gifts, and quietly placed the gifts at the foot of the students' beds.
"Merry Christmas!"
In the Gryffindor common room, Harry rubbed his eyes that were not yet fully awake and got out of bed, put on a coat, and said to Ron, who had just woken up.
Although unpleasant things happened to the two before, even to the point of a cold war. As the saying goes, two children have a trouble with a toy today, and they go their separate ways, and after a few days, when the anger of both parties is gone, they will become good friends again.
In this dormitory, he and Ron are the only two, and if they don't ease their relationship, the rest of the holiday will be very awkward.
Although Gryffindor House also has other students staying on campus, such as the Wesley Twins. But these students are all upperclassmen and won't play with first-year Harry. The only person his age was Ron, and Harry didn't want to spend this holiday alone.
"Merry Christmas, Harry!"
Ron was shocked when he heard Harry's blessing, and then smiled excitedly, smiling at Harry as he lay on the bed and responded.
In fact, Ron began to regret it after arguing with Harry that day, a few days later. But because of his character, he couldn't let go of his son and took the initiative to apologize to Harry, so the awkward relationship between the two has been maintained until now.
"Wow, Christmas presents! Ron, do you want to come with me to see what my gifts are?" Harry said.
"Wait, I'll get out of bed now." Ron replied, quickly uncovering the covers and jumping out of bed, at which point he also saw his own gifts, much more than Harry's.
Harry, on the other hand, didn't have a problem with the number of gifts. He picked up the gift box on top. On the thick vellum was written Hagrid to Harry.
Harry's face was overjoyed, and he opened the package excitedly. A crudely made flute appeared in his field of vision. Harry guessed that it must have been made by Hagrid, so he picked up the flute and blew it a few times, like the call of an owl at night.
After carefully putting the flute away, Harry opened it and picked up the second package, which was very small. When Harry opened it, he found that there was a letter inside, a very polite reply from Aunt Vernon and Aunt Penny.
Harry flipped the letter to the back, and a fifty pence coin was taped tightly to the letter. ….
"It's okay," Harry whispered, at least the two of them hadn't forgotten to give him a present at Christmas.
And Ron, who was sitting on the sidelines, saw the fifty pence in Harry's hand, his eyes flashed with starlight, it was the first time he had seen a penny.
"It's weird! Is this the money in the Muggle world?" Ron leaned over to Harry's side and asked, confused, and Harry caught the look in his eager eyes and expectant tone.
"Here you go, then. If you don't mind, this is the Christmas present I made up for you."
Harry handed Ron the penny in his hand and said embarrassedly.
"Haha, it's okay. I love this Christmas present!"
Ron was ecstatic to take the penny and held it up in the light as if it were a treasure.
"I've already received gifts from Hagrid and my aunt and uncle, who gave the rest?" Looking at the rest of the gifts, Harry said excitedly
。 As far as he can remember, this Christmas was the one he received the most gifts.
"Uh... This must have been given to you by my mother!"
Ron glanced at Harry's remaining present and saw that Harry was about to pick up the nearest package to him, and the wrapping of this package was very familiar to Ron. The little face was red, and there was a feeling of social death.
"Wow, what a pretty sweater. I love it!"
Harry ripped open the package and saw a thick bright green sweater and a large box of lactose, and said happily to Ron.
"If you like, she knits us a Wesley sweater every year..."
Ron covered his face, then pointed to his pile of gifts, and said again, "Look! I also have one. I don't even have to open it to know what's inside."
Harry unfolded his sweater all the way and looked at the big "H" on his chest, and he excitedly stood up and put the sweater on his body.
Receiving new clothes for the first time in his life touched Harry. At the same time, he began to blame himself for why he quarreled with Ron, why didn't he reconcile with him earlier...
"Don't look at me like that. What is this gift? His packaging is the most beautiful I've ever seen!"
Harry's eyes made Ron a little ashamed, the two had only reconciled today, and he was also responsible, but he was not brave enough. Dodging Harry's gaze, Ron pointed to a very beautiful black gift box that had been crushed by his mother's gift.
"Arthur gave it to me!"
Harry picked up the black box, looked at Arthur's blessing on it, and said with a smile. And Ron, who was beside him, heard that it was a gift from Arthur to Harry, and the curiosity on his face just now instantly decreased a little.
"It's a book! Hogwarts Sights? Is it new to him this time?"
Curious, Harry opened the Hogwarts Records and found that they had recorded their school events this year, including Quidditch matches, Forbidden Forest trips, pranks, Halloween dinners, ghost Halloween, and fun stories from the students' daily lives.
What surprised Harry the most was that there were moving photos in the book, such as himself training in flying lessons...
"He must have added fuel to his characterization of the Slytherin students as great—" Ron said in a sour tone. ….
"No! Ron, he writes very objectively, like a recorder, recording everything that happens to us every day. You see, there is also a record of you trying to help Neville and Malfoy in their conflict, and it is written very objectively and does not favor Malfoy."
Harry pointed to the contents of the book and said to Ron.
"Damn, the professors don't know about this. When this book comes out, if it is seen by the professor. Am I going to be punished?!!
Ron's face changed and he said loudly.
"If that's going to be punished, Arthur will be punished too. You see, he actually wrote about turning a senior student into a rat in the bathroom!"
Harry pointed to the contents of another page and said to Ron.
"Merlin's beard! Is he crazy? Wrong! At that time, it was only a month after the start of school, and he could actually turn people into rats! Liar, huh?!"
Compared to Arthur's self-debunking of his own mistakes, Ron was even more surprised that Arthur could turn people into animals after only learning Transfiguration for a month. Recalling that in his first month of school, in the Transfiguration class, not even a mouse could turn into a cup, Ron felt a little jealous and envious.
"Ron! You also received a gift from Arthur. Open it up, I bet! It's also the Hogwarts Chronicles!"
Harry suddenly caught a glimpse of a black gift box identical to Ron in the pile of gifts behind him, and pointed his finger at it.
"I have it too?! He even gave me a Christmas present?!"
When Ron heard this, he couldn't imagine it. He remembered that he hadn't spoken a few words to Arthur in the past four months of his life at Hogwarts. Even Neville communicates more than he communicates with Arthur.
Confused, Ron walked over to his pile of gifts, and under Harry's guidance, he actually saw the black gift box.
Look at the small card on it, "Arthur Pendragon". Ron had mixed feelings.
At Harry's reminder, he opened the box. Harry guessed correctly, it was indeed a book called Hogwarts Sights and Stories.
"Merlin's beard! That missing Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart is actually a Death Eater?!"
Just as Ron was about to open the Hogwarts Lookouts, Harry's exclamations caught his attention.
"Which page?" Ron approached Harry with the book and asked urgently.
Gilderoy Lockhart is the most famous home in the wizarding world. Ron remembers that when his mother found out that Gilderoy Lockhart had become a professor of dark arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she wrote to him asking him to listen to Professor Gildero.
During that time, Ron hated going to Gildero's Defence Against the Dark Arts class the most.
"Page 8!" Harry responded.
"How did Arthur know about such a thing? He even wrote in detail how Headmaster Dumbledore killed Gilderoy Lockhart..."
"I don't understand—" Ron chimed in, shaking his head.
"Damn Malfoy! I'll just tell you why Filch has been looking at me with fierce eyes for the past few days, because he made Mrs. Loris diarrhea, and then blamed me on the head!" ….
"No! I'm going to tell the professor about it, and he can punish Malfoy!" With that, Ron picked up the book and prepared to go to Professor McGonagall!
"Ron, wait a minute! Didn't you see the last page?"
"Hogwarts Observations" is a record of what happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the past six months, and it is not a book, so Harry picked on what he was interested in, and inadvertently turned to the last page, looking at the bold large print on it.
The worry in his heart finally disappeared.
"If you write these things in a book, will it make those people dissatisfied? Especially when professors find out that there are students who have done so many things that violate the school rules without their knowledge?"
[I have known an old book friend for ten years to recommend to me to chase books,
I appear before you......
After Pansy read what Dumbledore wrote, her mood could not be calmed down for a long time, she never expected that Dumbledore would also be involved in the creation process of this book.
When she came back to her senses, Pansy took the book upside down with curiosity, only to see that what had just been Dumbledore's message had now become a headline in large letters.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a professor's little secret that students don't know!"
Oh, my God! How could Professor Snape agree to someone else writing his little secret in a book???
The first professor that popped up in Pansy's mind was their dean, Professor Snape, who had never smiled and kept a straight face.
"Why is Headmaster Albus Dumbledore so obsessed with Weird Beans?"
"Why doesn't Professor Binns want to go home?"
"Professor McGonagall's tea time..."
"The Unknown Side of Professor Felwick"
"Professor Snape's Mystical Suitor"
「......」
"Merlin's beard, this is crazy! How did Arthur convince the professors to allow him to write these things into the book?!"
A Hogwarts student returning home exclaimed as he held the Hogwarts Record.
"It's crazy, I didn't expect Dumbledore to like pranks when he was in school!"
"No! He also likes to play pranks now, otherwise how could he have asked Arthur to write this book!"
The Wesley Twins, who sat in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room, sighed as they looked at the professors' secrets described in the book.
On Christmas Day 1991, all the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were shocked by Arthur's gift.
In particular, the interesting stories about the professors in the book made them reacquaint themselves with the professors who made them feel afraid and awe, and they still had a "cute" side.
The author of "Hogwarts Observations" is sitting in Headmaster Dumbledore's office, and Dumbledore is demanding the publication fee for these books.
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