On Christmas morning, the people in Maple's dormitory woke up early in the morning and found that there was an uninvited guest in their dormitory.

Dobby, a house-elf.

"Dobby, why are you here?" Maple said as she put on her clothes.

Dobby was wanting to live Harry Potter and Maple Merry Christmas, and also brought Dobby a gift to prepare. Harry Potter said that Dobby could come and see him at any time! Dobby said.

House-elves know where each student lives, but they should not enter a student's dormitory except for daily cleaning when the dormitory is unoccupied.

Unless you have the student's permission.

It was also the last time Harry went to the kitchen that he didn't refuse Dobby's request, and he was able to enter Harry's dormitory when it was occupied.

Dobby was overjoyed to learn that Harry and Maple were in the same dormitory, otherwise Dobby wouldn't have been able to go directly to the other dorm to give Maple a gift.

"Thanks, Dobby!" Maple said. He had robbed Harry of the task of saving Dobby, and now he had also saved Harry from a scare, this time when it was Maple's turn to be put on Dobby's face early in the morning.

If it weren't for knowing in advance what was going to happen in the future, it would be strange to open his eyes early in the morning and see something with two big, round green eyes staring at him almost with the tip of his nose touching the tip of his nose.

Dobby gives Maple a small package, and Maple opens it to see a pair of socks inside.

"Dobby knits it himself, sir!" The elf said happily, "He bought the yarn with his own wages, sir!" ”

The sock on the left foot is black with a pattern of a familiar person on it, and the right foot is white with a pattern of another familiar person in Maple.

"Dobby knew that Harry Potter liked Quidditch, so Dobby knitted a broomstick and a golden snitch," Dobby said, holding another package for Harry, "and Mr. Maple liked Miss Hermione Granger the most, so Dobby knitted your pattern, sir, did you like it?" ”

One black and one white, like the color of the clothes worn by both men and women when weddings are held in the West, Dobby really has a heart.

"I love it." After speaking, Maple stared blankly at the socks in his hand and was silent.

By this time, Dobby had already gone to shake Harry awake, and Harry woke up with a scream, waking everyone else up, and Maple quickly hid the socks in his hand.

Although they were dazed when they first woke up, Neville didn't have the heart to continue sleeping after waking up and seeing the gift at the foot of the bed.

Because of Harry's screams, Dobby stood a little nervously by his bedside, still genuinely terrified of disturbing him. His teapot thermos had a small Christmas souvenir tied to the top of the clasp.

"Can Dobby give his gift to Harry Potter?" He asked tentatively, screeching.

"Of course," said Harry, "well, I have something for you, too." ”

Harry didn't prepare a gift for Dobby, but he opened the box, pulled out a pair of socks and handed them to Dobby, saying a little apologetically, "I'm sorry, I forgot to wrap them... ”

But Dobby was already dancing with joy.

"Socks are Dobby's favorite thing, sir!" As he spoke, he took off the mismatched socks on his feet and replaced them with Uncle Vernon's, "I've got seven, sir." But sir," he pulled his socks up to the hem of his shorts, when his eyes widened and he said in astonishment, "the shop guys are mistaken, Harry Potter, they gave you two of the same!" ”

Because Dobby's gift stirred his mind, Maple forgot to give Dobby a gift in return. He also took out a pair of his own socks, originally wanted to use magic to conjure a gift box to wrap up, but he felt that it was not interesting to be insincere, and handed it directly to Dobby, just like Harry, and he was going to make amends next time, giving Dobby a real gift at Christmas the following year.

Dobby didn't seem to care about the wrapping of the gift and happily accepted it. Ron then gives Dobby a pair of socks and the dark fuchsia sweater that Mrs. Weasley sent him, and Dobby is overjoyed.

"Sir is so kind!" Dobby screamed, bowing deeply to Ron, his eyes filled with tears again, "Dobby knew that Mr. would definitely become a great wizard because he was Harry Potter and Maple Arribas' best friend, but Dobby didn't expect Mr. to be as generous, as noble, and as selfless as they were—"

"It's just a pair of socks." Ron said, his ears flushing slightly, but he still looked very happy.

"Wow, Harry," he said, opening Harry's gift to him, which was a Charlie Artillery hat, "that's cool! He put his hat on his head, and there was a violent clash between the hat and his hair.

At this time, Dobby gave Harry the socks he had knitted for Harry.

"Dobby knits it himself, sir!" Dobby happily repeated the phrase to Harry again, "He bought the yarn with his own wages, sir!" ”

The socks on the left foot are bright red with a broomstick pattern, and the right foot is green with a golden snitch.

"Really, really, really, great, thank you, Dobby." Harry put his socks on as he spoke, and Dobby burst into tears of joy once more.

Maple also changed into the socks that Dobby had given him, but he didn't let the rest of the dorm room see the pattern on the socks.

"Dobby must go, sir, we're already in the kitchen preparing for the Christmas feast!" Dobby hurried out of the dormitory, waving goodbye to all of them as he left the door.

After everyone else had opened the gifts, Maple opened one. He opened Hermione's snack and chewed it one bite at a time.

Harry received a magic pencil sharpener from Sirius, with magic that could open locks and knots, and while it wasn't necessarily able to open the door that Professor Flitwick had designed on the Philosopher's Stone Guardian, it was much more powerful than the Alajo Cave's unlocking spell.

At the very least, the offices of those who are in high positions of power in the Ministry of Magic but not very good at magic can be entered casually.

Every year, Mrs. Weasley gives all of her children, along with Maple, Harry, and Hermione, a self-knitted sweater, and this time Harry's new sweater is still green, but the motif on it is a fire dragon. Presumably Charlie had already told Mrs. Weasley about the first project, but I don't know if Hermione's sweater had also been replaced with a Hungarian tree peak.

Instead of directly not giving Hermione a gift, Maple gave her a blank notebook.

After eating Hermione's snack, Maple absentmindedly unwrapped all the other gifts, Ron gave dung eggs, Harry and Hagrid, and the Weasley brothers all sent food.

Mary, the orphanage's sister who Maple hadn't been in contact with for a long time, also gave him a box of chocolates, but after eating the snacks Hermione had delivered, Maple didn't move a bite of the food that the others had delivered.

Am I doing this right, is it worth it?

Maple left the dorm room alone and walked aimlessly around the campus, not even knowing when there were a few more glances behind him.

"He doesn't seem to have to eat a bite of your chocolate, it seems that the aphrodisiac you prepared is completely wasted."

"Shut up!"

"I told you, he didn't really break up with that mudblood, he still had her in mind, he just didn't want her to play in one last game, he didn't want her to be in danger!"

"Say no more! Say no more! ”

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There are no Christmas refreshments today because there is a feast at the ball. At seven o'clock in the evening, Harry and the others, who had been a day late, returned to their dorm to change into their tuxedo-robes.

When they returned, the fat lady sat in a frame with her friend, Violet downstairs, both dazed and drunk, with several empty boxes of chocolates thrown at the bottom of her portrait.

"Vivid light, yes, that's right!" She listened to their orders, giggled and turned forward, letting them in.

Harry, Ron, and Neville were all in the dorm room changing into their robes, and Maple wasn't there, I don't know if he hadn't come back yet, or if he had already changed into his robes and gone to find his dance partner.

When they went downstairs, the common room looked strange, and the people inside were no longer blue and black, but dressed in colorful robes. Parvati was waiting for Harry at the bottom of the stairs.

She looked very beautiful indeed, dressed in a piercing pink robe, her jet-black hair was braided with gold ribbons, and the gold bracelets on her wrists were shining. Harry was relieved to see that she hadn't giggled.

"You're — um— beautiful." He said unnaturally.

Since Celia wasn't a Gryffindor student, Ron met her in the foyer.

"Let's go down, shall we, Harry?" Parvati said.

"Okay." Harry said that Dean looked envious of Harry, who seemed to think Parvati was pretty, but Harry didn't have that awareness. He wished he could stay in the common room, but when Parvati spoke, he had to go out with her.

Harry bumped into Fred as he drilled through the hole in the portrait, and Fred winked mischievously at him.

The foyer was also crowded with students, all circling back and forth, waiting for eight o'clock when the doors of the auditorium would open. Some people want to meet up with their dance partners from other houses, so they squeeze sideways through the crowd, looking for each other.

"Hello!" Ron went out with Harry, where he finally waited for his dance partner, Celia Doraks.

Celia was dressed in a red robe, the color of which seemed to be a little dull, and the collar of the gown had some folds and lace.

Cut off from the original family, Celia, who was taken in by Dumbledore, has no financial resources, and Celia who lives on school relief can only use second-hand goods.

Although she also used second-hand goods, Celia did not have the same inferiority complex as Ron, but even wearing a robe that paled in comparison to the glamorous dresses of other girls could not hide Celia's amazing beauty.

With Dumbledore's help, Celia, whose curse was waning, was no longer sickly white, and her skin was becoming bloody, and she was no longer as unapproachable as before.

Although Celia also inherited the bloodline of the curse, she did not use the magic of the curse like her sister, so after Clear's failed transfer of her curse, she was able to recover slowly with the help of Dumbledore and Snape.

The Pandora family just refused to give up the power of the curse, so that the curse on their bodies could not be eradicated. There is a price to be paid for as much power as they get, and if they are willing to give up this ominous power, Clare will not need to poison her sister.

"You, you're so beautiful!" Ron said. Ron didn't expect Celia to wear a second-hand robe, but he didn't think that the robe made Celia's beauty much less colorful, but felt that she was more beautiful, and at the same time felt more kind, he also wore a second-hand robe, used a second-hand textbook, and used a second-hand wand.

"Thank you!" Celia said.

Ever since Celia arrived, there was nothing else in Ron's eyes. Many of the boys around them turned their eyes to Celia and looked at Ron with jealous expressions.

Except for the Slytherins, the men of the other houses did not show disdain for Celia's robes, but sympathized with them.

It was the first time that Ron was jealous of so many boys around him, but he enjoyed the feeling. But Celia steals the boys' attention, and Harry's dance partner Parvati is a little uncomfortable.

A group of Slytherin students descended the steps from their underground common room. At the front was Malfoy, dressed in a black velvet gown, Harry thought he resembled a parish priest. Pansy Parkinson wore a light pink robe full of frills, and she hung tightly on Malfoy's arm. Both Crabbe and Goyle were green, like two mossy rocks, and Harry was pleased to see that neither of them had been able to find a dance partner.

The oak front door was opened, and everyone turned to see Durmstrang's students walking in with Professor Karkaroff. Krum was at the front, next to a beautiful girl in a blue robe that Harry didn't know. Then there were Durmstrang's two Warrior substitutes and their dance partners, only to be completely ignored under the aura of Krum.

Above them, Harry saw that a lawn in front of the castle had been turned into a cavern with sparkling fairy lights - that meant hundreds of living fairies, either sitting in magically conjured roses or flapping their wings on statues that appeared to be Santa Claus and his reindeer.

At that moment, Professor McGonagall's voice rang out, "Warriors, please come over here!" ”

Parvati adjusted her bracelet and a big smile appeared on her face. She seemed to feel superior to Celia in terms of her partner, and she triumphantly pulled Harry forward, the chattering crowd flashing a passage for them to pass. Professor McGonagall wears a red tartan robe with an unsightly wreath of thistle flowers on the brim. She told them to stand by the door and wait, allowing the others to go in first. After the students were seated, they lined up and walked into the auditorium.

Fleur De Lacour and Roger Davis stood closest to the door. Davis couldn't believe he was so lucky to have a dance partner like Fleur that he couldn't take his eyes off her. The other two girls in Beauxbatons randomly chose a boy from their house as their dance partner.

Cedric Diggory and Akihari also stood next to Harry. Harry looked away so he didn't have to talk to them. His eyes fell on the girl beside Krum. Suddenly, his mouth opened in surprise.

It's Hermione.

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