When Neil politely stretched out and got out of bed, the genius outside was just dawning. The clouds in the distance under the rendering of the night are a true portrayal of his mood at the moment.

Now that everyone in the dorm had gone home for Christmas, he no longer pretended that he needed a healthy amount of sleep, and had been working all night to renovate his living environment for the past few nights.

He built a tiny broomstick shed in the corner behind the door, tucking Matt into it with his freshly finished dream girl, a thick layer of dark gray matte paint on the outside, almost completely blending into the surrounding shadows, and if you don't look closely, you might even ignore its presence.

It's part of the employee benefits to reward Matt, the model employee of the month who is conscientious, hard-working, and never speaks ill of his boss in front of guests, and makes a great pun on Matt's stay in a "matt" broom shed.

Another big change was the window that had been smashed by the grumpy eagle postman - Michael Corner thought Neil had replaced it with a new glass with a fine carving at his own expense out of sheer guilt.

The flower pattern on it was actually a secret door, the size of which could only be passed by one hand, and it was specially prepared for the cobalt blue glass eagle. As with the Slytherin Silver Serpent and Gryffindor's Lion Pendant, Neil did not sell the best one, deciding to keep it for himself until he found a worthy owner.

The little guy is very well-behaved, and has now replaced the dog that was banned for causing bloodshed, and has become the new mascot of the shop. Whenever he saw it perched on top of a tent to comb its feathers, the Ravenclaw students working in the common room would smile knowingly. So far, no one has raised the question of how to groom the feathers of glassware, and Hogwarts is a great place to be romantic and humanistic.

But now it's time to improve its treatment. Neil made another hole in the window next to the secret door and inserted a turquoise perch in it, so that the eaglet could stand on it and enjoy the scenery outside the window while deciding where to fly for a walk today.

The birdhouse, made of stained glass panels, hung by him behind the opaque curtains, also looks very inconspicuous, and only a closer look can be found between the dark blue velvet curtains. Like many Orientals, Neil loved this looming arrangement, which, to quote a poet, is "another village of bright flowers."

As for the fact that this poem was originally taught to him by the third elder when he took the time to peek at the widow in the gap between the window and the bath, there is no need to write a big book.

The only victim of this beautification campaign may have been Mr. Kona, for the ten-inch-long perch was facing the head of his bed, and it was a little disturbing in height, as if it might hit his head together. Fortunately, Neil had been prepared for this for a long time - instead of taking any measures to ensure safety, he took the opportunity of Christmas to send a heavy gift to the other party and gag him first. In this way, even if Michael, who returned to school after the holidays, was really dissatisfied with this modification, he probably wouldn't be embarrassed to say it, after all, he didn't even send a Christmas card himself.

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Speaking of Christmas gifts, in order to respect the local traditions, he deliberately lay down on the bed before dawn last night and pretended to sleep for a while, only to find a small pile of gifts at the foot of the bed this morning.

The crooked oil-paper bag at the top was Hagrid's, and contained a necklace strung from the shell of an unknown animal. The sudden drop in temperature has taken a toll on his plans to breed a new species of fire crab, and the first individuals to survive their juvenile years have just been transferred from the heat-filled ashes of the Heavenly Fire to the ashes, and almost all of them have frozen to death. Hagrid buried them with a heavy heart, but kept the molt and made some of it into rough jewelry to give to the person who helped him the most in the breeding process, as a sign of his remorse and remorse for his poor care.

However, in Neil's opinion, the twisted carapace looked very ugly, not at all like the original fire crab, and he was worried about what the hell Hagrid had brought, and maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing if they were wiped out in the cold. However, based on what he knew about Hagrid, it would most likely be a minor setback, and that terrifying creatures that he had already imagined would one day appear in the world.

Harry and Ron, the two big-wiggled boys, had no idea of giving a gift to someone else, but Hermione gave him a hardcover copy of Wuthering Heights, which was Neil's happiest gift of the year, and the only one that could compete with it was the Jane Eyre given by Penelope - it was a good thing to have friends who could understand their preferences, even though he had read both books.

Pollack Verguel hasn't forgotten the Christmas present, a detailed report on the efficacy and side effects of unicorn blood and its products on fifteen pieces of parchment, accompanied by a greeting card that reads "Die." Under the influence of Ravenclaw's perfectionist thinking, he took a lot longer than Neil expected, but fortunately he didn't miss anything important. Neil was going to take the time to read it through.

Professor Sprout also sent a greeting card, saying that she had planned to give him a pot of mandrake seedlings that had awakened their wisdom and would no longer scream, but there was no guarantee of safety at the moment, so she had to give up, and promised to be the first to share this joy with him once it was successfully cultivated. Also a mad biologist under the guise of Hogwarts, Neil sincerely hopes that Hagrid will learn from her rigorous attitude.

Surprisingly, despite Ron himself appearing unemotionally unintelligent, there was a gift from the Weasleys. Ron's mother, Mrs. Jasmine Weasley, sent him a large packet of gummies to thank him for the fertilizer he had donated for improving the family farm. Inside the package is a magical photo of a chubby woman smiling and waving to the camera, holding a tomato the size of a human head in the crook of her arm.

The caption on the back of the photo shows that the person who took the photo and the producer of the tomato is the same person, and Neil wisely did not think deeply about it.

The last gift actually came from the headmaster Albus Dumbledore, and it was also a book, but it was not a literary work, but a monograph called "Nikolai's Testament", the full title of which was "Explaining the incomprehensible symbols engraved by Nicolas Lemay on the arch wall of the fourth burial chamber of the Holy Innocents Cemetery in Paris", without any other postscript, which was a tacit acquiescence to Nicol Lemay's relationship with the current chaos at Hogwarts.

It seems that Professor Snape did like to protest to him half-talked.

"Well, I'll admit, it doesn't feel as bad as it seems." Neil crossed his waist and looked around at the gifts he had spread out on the bed, and nodded to himself, "Maybe there is still a need for some pure kindness in life - well, the kindness contained in a few or two things may not be so pure - compared to me, giving gifts to others with utilitarian thoughts seems a little too dirty...... Why are you nodding at such times, Matt? If you have any comments about the polishing wax I sent you, you can return it. ”

Matt hurried back to his new home, closed the door, and was no longer heard.

Neil stared at the broomstick shed for a long time, then he sighed as if he hated iron, turned around and sat down on the bed, picked up Pollack's report and "Nikolai's Testament", and prepared to read it again, hoping to find out Quirrell's true purpose - damn it, who said that Dumbledore got rid of his bad habit of liking Tibetan language? I'm sure you won't be able to delay even thirty seconds if you explain this to everyone!